Ballymun Flats
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The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun High-tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7
Joseph Plunkett tower with the Sillogue Road flats in the background.
A Ballymun street scene with some of the tower blocks visible in the distance, circa late-1990s.
The eight-storey flats contained two different designs, one where the lift was located opposite the stairwell (pictured right) and an alternative design where the lift was located on the same side as the stairwell, as seen here on Sillogue Road, the four-storey Sillogue Avenue can be seen in the middle.
Connolly tower.
Thomas James Clarke was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising. A proponent of armed struggle
Clarke in 1910
Clarke in 1899, a year after his release from prison
Clarke alongside fellow members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood John Daly and Seán Mac Diarmada
Tom's wife Kathleen continued to be a republican activist in politics for many decades after his death