Programme 3 of 3 on Dublin Port
PROGRAMME 3 FRIDAY : DUBLIN PORT AND THE COMMUNITY
Presented by Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
Dublin Port is part of the social heritage of Dublin as traditionally generations of families from areas like East Wall and Ringsend would have worked at the port. Today the port continues to have close connections with local communities as they welcome over four thousand visitors a week to their new greenway. Through their community engagement programme the port also supports various clubs and community groups from Clontarf to Sandymount.
Right in the midst of the working port Bláthnaid meets people on the Construction Skills Course run by St Andrews Resource Centre. This has been one of the big community success stories and to date 2,500 people been trained to work as general operatives on building sites.
Inspired by real people and real stories from Dublin Port’s history, writer and theatre director Louise Lowe talks about some of her work she has produced and staged in the port itself including a play about an IRA unit of dock workers and a film about the women who worked at the Dublin Dockyard War Munitions Factory operating in the port during WW1.
Award winning Grafton Architects tell Bláthnaid about their vision to transform the former Odlums Mill and Silo buildings into artists studios and campus.
