Dermot Bolger grew up in Finglas and the village and area have influenced his writing.
Novelist, playwright and poet Dermot Bolger describes how the Finglas of his youth had two halves. One was a small rural village where an established community kept hens and grew their own vegetables. The other consisted of new housing estates, built by Dublin Corporation for the families who were moving out of the city centre.
A new community was being created, and Dermot Bolger describes this time as,
A nation in search of space.
Pockets of old Finglas still remain, and when viewed alongside modern developments, give a strong sense of a modern community connected to a history that stretches back centuries.
You have this feeling of lives heaped upon lives.
Dublin has changed and continues to change. Dermot Bolger believes people are what is important, regardless of whether they live in an old part of the city or a new suburb.
Dublin is about its people.
'Summer Express' broadcast on 28 May 1991. The reporter is Mary O'Sullivan.
'Summer Express' was an arts and entertainment series highlighting the events of Dublin's Year as European City of Culture in 1991. First broadcast on 14 May 1991, it featured as part of RTÉ Television's summer evening schedule.
Presenters were Dave Fanning and Bríd Óg Ní Bhuachalla, with reporters Mary O'Sullivan, Pat O'Mahony, Anne Marie Hourihan. The producer was Marion Creely.
