Brendan Shanahan – Song for Ballymun
Brendan Shanahan – Song for Ballymun
Ballymun is Brilliant provided a bursary for Ballymun based Artists. The bursary invited visual artists, writers, musicians, dancers, poets, theatre makers, spoken word artists etc who are from or live in Ballymun and open to creating a piece that responds to the themes of climate action and climate justice in Ballymun.
Jen Harrington was one of the recipients of the Ballymun is Brilliant Artist Bursary.
Brendan Shanahan
Brendan is singer songwriter and has produced a number of Albums; 2 of which are entitled Brendan’s Ireland Volumes 1 and 2. These albums consist of Brendan’s arrangements and interpretation of some well known Irish Ballads. Lead to the Water was written by Brendan and is a Christian Based Album. Recently Brendan has focused on other creative things. He has written a series of short stories in the context of his participation in the Ballymun Writer’s Group. In the recent past, he joined the Acting up Drama group in Ballymun College and wrote a short play “The Good Banshee” which was performed at the recent awards end of term ceremony. Another short play” Fuzzy Brain” was produced and shown at the Ballyfermot Community Centre 2022.
Project Details
Singer-songwriter Brendan wrote and recorded Song for Ballymun – a song about community, hope, and identity of place. Brendan has performed this song, emblematic of Ballymun pride, at multiple events including the opening of Seven Heroes Square, the launch of the IFI Ballymun Community Films archive and more. You can listen here:
