I'm am originally from Ballyfermot and when I lived there I spent allot of time in town but as the years went by and I moved further away I hadn't gone into town much and when I did I found it hard to except the changes of the city. 

My Father became very ill last year and some people had recommended to me that I send my father to see John Sullivan. Father John Sullivan was a Jesuit priest from Dublin he did allot of good work for the sick and poor of Dublin. When he died he was buried in Clane and then he was ex summed and brought to the church on Gardiner Street. When he was ex summed they found his mothers cross and people believed it has healing power, so I brought my dad to get blessed by this cross and he's still alive with us today. 

I had to do a course and it was based in Dublin beside the church on Gardiner Street, I took this as a sign and I spent ten weeks travelling to town each day visiting the city and the church and I fell in love with Dublin once more. 

There is a pub on the corner of Gardiner Street called The Auld Triangle, it has the 12 men that died in the hunger strikes painted on the front wall, under Bobby Sands picture it has "revenge will be in our children's laughter" 

On the last day of my ten week course I wrote this song on the train coming home.

Gardiner Street

Rebelled is a protest song about marching against injustices conflicted on the working class people of Dublin and Ireland right from the eighties to present day.

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