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Texts: “Modern development. Ireland”
Grammar: THE COMPOUND SENTENCE AND THE COMPLEX SENTENCE
Communicative practice: “All about money”
Text:
“Modern development. Ireland”
Most of the tower blocks in Northern Ireland are in Belfast. All of Belfast's flat complexes were built by Belfast Corporation as part of Belfast slum clearances and to solve the housing problem. The Ballymun Flats were built between 1966 and 1969 consisting of seven 15-storey towers, nineteen 8 storey blocks and ten 4 storey blocks. Inner Dublin flat complexs include Sheriff Street (demolished), Fatima Mansions (demolished and redeveloped), St. Joseph's Gardens (demolished; replaced by Killarney Court flat complex), St. Teresa's Gardens, Dolphin House, Liberty House, St. Michael's Estate and O'Devaney Gardens and a lot more mainly throughout the North and South Inner City of Dublin. Suburban flat complexes were built exclusively on the northside of the city in Ballymun, Coolock and Kilbarrack. These flats were badly affected by a heroin epidemic that hit working-class areas of Dublin in the 1980s and early 90s.
Over the last five years the largest cities such as Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway have witnessed new large apartment building. Some large towns such as Navan, Drogheda, Dundalk and Mullingar have also witnessed lots of modern apartments being built.
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