Tallaght
When I was a kid Tallaght was a village, the last place you went through on your way into the mountains.
When I grew up Tallaght was still a village, with 100,000 people living in housing estates surrounding what was still a small country village.
Then came the Square, a great name for a giant shopping centre of no recogniseable shape.
And the square was followed by the Tiger and the trams.
So now Tallaght looks like this:
And I like the common sense that has Polish on signs.
And Tallaght looks like this:
I used to live over by those mountains. It’s where I painted this painting of the hill with the Hellfire Club
But all around it’s the same Tallaght I remember:
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