Stephen Moran - Wild Cherry - November 2005 I heard the cranes on tracks singing to progress when they built their concrete house of cards. A hollow evicted became a hill. Cubitt Haden & Sisk raised seven giant mausoleums to seven system-built heroes. Spiral arms gerrymandered out across constituencies. Refugees fell in from the tumbling city. Now where hundred-foot lighting masts used to sway, the hill has been righted back to earth. Where only the odd sapling pined, a forest advances from Santry woods south. Listen to the singing of blackbird and robin in the branches now, and circling above in their changeless Dublin accent, the seagulls still crying, still laughing. (c) Jochen Gerz amaptocare 2006 - #286 - Commissioned by Ballymun Regeneration Limited

I've managed to get hold of the plaque layout for my wild cherry tree contribution to the public art project #Amaptocare by Johan Gerz. The tree itself is no more, but fear not, it made way for development with dozens of other trees. So "ave atque vale" my poor martyred wild cherry tree. #Ballymun