Hippy communes in Ireland

There is an organic collage in Dromcolligher Co Limerick that draws a fair amount of Hippies and Green Party types (D4 Hippies). I picked up one that was hitchhiking once and she proceeded to give me a lecture about the evils of car air fresheners. I don't mind genuine hippies, the D4 eco warrior/green party/art student types get on my nerves, they tend to be self righteous **** of the highest order.

Pandora2 wrote: »

Yup, knew a lot of them....later came the Silver Sisters who offered a back to your childhood schooling experience, My mum dressed up in a pinafore and Mop Cap to make a documentary about them. Her and six or seven other bored females!! I was in the UK at the time....they were looper's but I would love to see that documentary again, BBC I think....Me Ma had a wicked sense of humour (and a fair few sherries:)) and really got into the whole thing skipping and reciting her times tables....one of my brother's swore he would disown her, but she went ahead and did it anyway!!! He caved;) God I miss her:(:)

Would really love to see that documentary. Was it BBC NI? Seems like the Silver Sisters were into gaming too, after a fashion.

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Pandora2 wrote: »

Aaaw Pupito.....that makes them sound as if there was something a bit suspect going on:eek::eek: If there was it was amongst themselves, the BBC crew arrived and they had no 'students' so the crew went into Burtonport and asked a few of the locals would they do it for the Craic, a good meal and a few scoops.............it was the '80's everyone was broke and my Mother was wickedly humorous and so got together about 8 or so women and girls to do it...........we were well used to eccentric blow-in's up in Donegal.......there were more looper's in Donegal than you could shake a stick at in the '80's!!!!

Ha! Now I want to see it ven more, given that locals were involved.

There was a place down in Inisglas in Wexford that a cousin of mine lived for a while that had people living what some would call alternative lifestyles.

My cousin is a visual artist and there were other artists, practicioners of complementary medicine, organic farmers and musicians all living there in a big old farmhouse. Mostly English. One of John Bowman's kids lived there for a while I believe. It's no longer a 'commune' now though.

BTW-the term hippy commune is a bit outdated, the term mostly used now is 'Intentional Communities'.

I have to laugh at anyone saying these poeple are uneducated and smelly.

The ones I've met-and I've met quite a few because most of my friends would be working in the arts, including myself ...are more educated and intelligent than most people I know living conventional lives. Most have university degrees (one English guy I know has a history degree from Oxford), PhD's...
They mostly are the sons and daughters of the middle classes. As for smelly, can't say I've noticed

If I ever have the means I'd love to set one up actually. And I will have a farmhouse some day so it's a possibility. It'd be a dream to have a place like Christiania in Copenhagen here, though you'd need a lot of land.