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Hippy communes in Ireland

  • 20-02-2012 4:01pm
    #1
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭


    Are there any hippy communes in Ireland?


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  • #2
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    Are there any hippy communes in Ireland?

    ...Galway, apparently. Used be a shower on some Island in the 70's somewhere as well.


  • #3
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Wanna join one huh? Funny, it's usually English people who do the hippie thing in Ireland.


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,057 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Not sure this is what you had in mind but http://thevillage.ie/

    There's a few others I know of but they're basically just family run permacultures


  • #5
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    No way man!


  • #6
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    for hippy read "new age traveller".



    Christ, I typed the "t" word......thread is fucked now.


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  • #7
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Some out in the West of Clare.


  • #8
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Theres an island of the coast of donegal that is one I think


  • #9
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    They all sold out to the man in the end, and became pillars of the community


  • #10
    Dancor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Are you going to sabotage them?
    It was I, you fools! The man you trusted wasn't Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time, I've been smoking harmless tobacco.


  • #11
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    I think there is a few in Leitrim


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  • #12
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Dame street.


  • #13
    Peetrik
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Theres an island of the coast of donegal that is one I think

    Just before all the insightful, constructive, friendly criticism of "hippies".

    These are people who would prefer to live on an island off the coldest, windiest, rainiest county with the least amount of daylight in our nation than have to deal with your bad vibes :)


  • #14
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    There was one in the 90's near where I live in south Galway.
    More of an hippy area than a commune.

    I remember the provincial town I'd used to go to secondary school in, would be full of hippies on dole day: think dreadlock haired army jacket clad characters supping "Johnny jump up" cider, walking the requisite collie/terrier cross breed with a baling twine leash.

    They used to have proper raves in a neighboring plot of land called "Kitty's Field".

    The area is a less colorful place in their absence.


  • #15
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    There is a farming commune with some 'unhygienic' ;) tendencies about a 5 minute drive from me. It was supposedly founded by some German doctor in the 30's or 40's.

    I've seen a few people their who I would certainly call hippies, from German lesbians walking around with no tops on, to Americans who ate seaweed.

    Used to spend a bit of time down there. It really was very hippy like.


  • #16
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    Are there any hippy communes in Ireland?

    there is one outside the central bank


  • #17
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCWkko6pva4


  • #18
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    lCWkko6pva4

    well done;)


  • #19
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    well done;)

    Hahaha I dident eat my weetabix this morning. :o


  • #20
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    My uncle lives in one, somewhere down in West Cork. They basically all live in mobile homes and live off the crops that they grow and the animals that they farm. They do of course also earn money through various (legitimate) means (you still have to pay for other stuff), but in the absence of any money coming in, they can all live quite happily on the food they've grown.


  • #21
    yermanoffthetv
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Some out in the West of Clare.

    Scariff is full of them. Often see a few flip flopping around Ennis doing a shop.


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  • #22
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Sindri wrote: »
    German lesbians walking around with no tops on

    Where is this place of which you speak?


  • #23
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Suas11 wrote: »
    Where is this place of which you speak?

    Kildare.


  • #24
    ciarang85
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭ciarang85


    some down in west kerry, they are all english


  • #25
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Theres two.
    One is called "Leitrim" and the other "Galway"


  • #26
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Sindri wrote: »
    There is a farming commune with some 'unhygienic' ;) tendencies about a 5 minute drive from me. It was supposedly founded by some German doctor in the 30's or 40's.

    I've seen a few people their who I would certainly call hippies, from German lesbians walking around with no tops on, to Americans who ate seaweed.

    Used to spend a bit of time down there. It really was very hippy like.


    Sure that wasn't irish men?


  • #27
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    There is an eco village in Cloughjordan.
    http://thevillage.ie/

    I wouldn't mind building an earthship there.


  • #28
    flanzer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭flanzer


    I'm open to correction, maybe it's urban myth, but I think Lambay Island is one. They live off the land and animals they farm (all organic too, I believe) while maintaining the island for the Baring family.


  • #29
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    yermanoffthetv wrote: »
    Scariff is full of them. Often see a few flip flopping around Ennis doing a shop.

    Wearing hand-knitted balaclavas and carrying eco-friendly sawn-off shotguns?:confused:


  • #30
    flanzer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭flanzer


    biko wrote: »
    There is an eco village in Cloughjordan.
    http://thevillage.ie/

    I wouldn't mind building an earthship there.

    That's look like the set of the Teletubbies!


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  • #31
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    ciarang85 wrote: »
    some down in west kerry, they are all english



    Down in West Cork, we had English/Dutch/Dainish/German/Finnish (and Irish from the city) hippys , was interesting how the children all fecked off as soon as they could.


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