A Song For Ballymun

A Song for Ballymun is a concert with new songs about the community, written and performed by extraordinary voices across generations and communities.

Songwriter Tríona Sings and groups of all ages in the area have worked to capture thoughts and feelings about our home, Ballymun. We’ve looked at what we like, love, hate and fear. Together we’ve written new songs which reflect all our different feelings about this place.

In the first ever public performance of this new suite of songs, we celebrate our relationship with Ballymun – in all its varied glory. Songs are written and performed by the community with Tríona Sings supported by the Secret Singers band and by local harper Luke Webb.

A Song for Ballymun includes the 6th class students of St. Joseph’s Senior Primary School, students from Trinity Comprehensive Secondary School and members of The Lighthouse Project, together representing Guth an Óige – the voice of youth. An Guth Fásta, the grown up voice is represented by the Secret Singers band - a group of local musicians with Peadar Grange and Mark Byrne from Ballymun’s own band Dextra, Ecardo Baader and singers Tanya Ray, Aisling Hill and Tríona Sings. Guth an t-Áos Mhór, the voice of maturity, is proudly represented by Doloras Barry, Nicola Byrne and Joe Delaney, together holding decades of memories and stories.