Actually, I think they pretty specifically explained what this place was. It was essentially government projects that had been essentially abandoned because of the feral children. There are "projects" all over the world. Some are not bad places to live and others are located squarely in dangerous ghettos. This looked like the latter and yes, even Ireland has low income dilapidated buildings. :P
Bam said the lady.
Yes it's specific what the place was, but not where it was. The only place name given is Edenstown, which I'm guessing is just a fictional place. There's no Edenstown in Ireland anyway, and as I already mentioned no one speaks with an Irish accent. The movie was also shot in Scotland.
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Citadel is set in Dublin but it doesn’t feel oppressively Irish as a story. Was this your intention?
"In my head I had always imagined it set in a fictitious council estate. Because this for me was a dark, gothic fairy tale of sorts, where different things represent different things. I didn’t want to say “this is set in this neighbourhood” because that’s generally sweeping everyone in that neighbourhood. So I had always seen it set in a fictitious neighbourhood. And because I’m from Dublin and always imagined making my first film here, I set it in some kind of weird parallel dimension to Dublin."
Well the film depicts extremes for the purposes of horror, but yes, there are spots in urban areas, usually council estates, where the kids are beyond hope and it's a no-go area for most people.
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