Punks, Skinheads & Skaboys of Dublin City, Ireland 1980

Dublin teenagers identifying as punks, skinheads and rude boys describe their tribe. Punks, skinheads, mackintosh skinheads, ska boys, rude boys, nutty boys, mods, teds, road rockers, Vikings, greasers and gangsters. These are just some of the tribes influencing the young people who congregate around the Dandelion Market on St Stephen’s Green Dublin. The disparate youth tribes are frequently at loggerheads, “Everybody’s against everybody.“ Outside Advance Records on South King Street one teenager refuses to be labelled, “What am I? An individual.“ A skinhead explains, “We dress in a way we want to, it’s an image, we’re just following an image.“ A teenage girl defines herself as a punk, “It just means being different from everybody else.“ She may get a hard time from the skinheads and mods about her appearance, but is confident in her choice of tribe, Punk wants to change society fr