These three half-hour episodes chart the history of the Dublin suburb from the mid 1900s, when it was a sleepy, rural village of three or four hundred people, through the Dublin Corporation housing schemes of the 50’s and 70’s, which saw the population explode to a peak of over 53,000 in 1979 and to the present day when, in a multicultural Finglas, one out of six inhabitants do not class themselves as Caucasian Irish.
The mini-series features interviews with notable Finglassians such as author and poet Dermot Bolger (pictured above) and RTE news presenter Samantha Libreri as well as a score written by Tony Barrett of the much loved Finglas bands “The Brilliant Trees” and “Sack”.
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