That was smashing. It was nice to see Nelsons Pillar, I always though it was shame it was blown up. My Great Grandad sold his newspapers at the pillar.
@Calvin Minster Except for all the Dubs who supported Dev! There would never have been agreement. The ensuing argument would have opened up the civil war all over again and the Irish government would have been forced to blow up the pillar itself to keep the peace. 😂🤣😂🤣
that made tonight in calgary a bit easier,fantastic to see MY TOWN.a few of us here had to reach for the whiskey glass.the marino waltz or dublin can be heaven would've been a lovely accompanyment but wel done great stuff.these things make us proud to be Dubs wherever we are.up da dubs up da bohs!!!!
Many thanks for the excellent Vid. The trams really only stopped running in Dublin in 1949, so I suspect that the clips showing only busses may be from the early-mid 1950s
One of his favourite stories! Hope you didn't believe it. The first beetle assembled in Dublin was 1955. You certainly would not risk your car on such a stunt, until it was ready to give up the ghost.
@@thomasburke2683 It's a great story. Always taken with a pinch of salt. But I think you're wrong with your dates - Beetles have been assembled in Ireland since 1950 although a larger factory was opened in 1955. Never underestimate what a drunken rugby player is capable of doing.
That was my Mother in the white coat walking down the the penny farthing bridge seriously. Long gone to meet her maker but she was looking great then thanks for the memory
Isn't life strange.....to think how long ago this film was made. Capturing life at the moment which we now observe in 2012......wow...very nice! thanks for posting
Houses of the Georgian type started being built in Dublin in the 1740s. Georgian architecture had strict rules for the size and proportions of the houses. The doors were the feature of the house which the inhabitants could make their own. So you see so many different doorcases and all the different colours. The houses are very similar in style whereas, generally speaking, it would be hard to find 2 doors exactly the same. A nice book is Peter Pearson's "Decorative Dublin". Not only about doors but also about the beautiful buildings and decorative work, which despite terrible losses through the 1970s and 1980s, we still have in Dublin today.
Lovely - just looking for videos to show my mum Dubliner 90 now but remembers eveything at her youth so this is perfect for her - thank you love the music by the way
Jameson James I'm doing the same thing too for my Dad! He remembers going to see the Eucharistic Congress on his Father's shoulders when he was very little - I think that was the early 30's!
I definitely agree with your last point I was born in the 70s and vividly remember growing up in Finglas, Dublin in the 1980s experiencing many. many hardships that are still a long way off in comparison to present day.
What a lovely comment sir and to think of all the modernization and regeneration that accompanied the Celtic tiger so much of this still stands. Trinity college, bank of Ireland, O'connell bridge, butt bridge, ha'penny bridge, the view of o'connell st. (minus the monument). A city so rich in culture, heritage, history and characters. Up the dubs, although as a proud shamrock rovers man well agree to disagree. Best of luck
The song comes from the golden age of the British Dance band - the singer is Al Bowlly - one of the greatest voices ever produced and needs to be remembered - so I place his name here - he did not survive the war - killed by a Parashoot bomb - some say landmine in London April 17th, 1941 - I believe he appeared in Dublin at least twice - once c-1930 and later c-1937.
These are great images of Dublin, i was wondering if it is possible to find out where i could possibly find them, i am a student and doing a short doc on an Artist living in Dublin in the thirties,early forties. thanks Mgt
A lot of views that are still recognisable. It's just a shame that the IRA blew up Nelson's Pillar and ended the chances of there being Pearce's Pillar instead of that spire.
I don't know where you get that from. England's oldest overseas colony, long before Union was Ireland. In the mid 12th century the pope at the time gave Henry II authority of the Island and authority to invade if required. The high king Of Leinster asked him for protection and hence paved way for the first norman invaders/settlers and the infamous Strongbow in 1170. This was many years before Gascony and hundreds of years before roanoake, jamestown and popham in North America
Anyone have any info re Dublin August 20th,1937. My father won Irish Lightweight title that day, I was wondering about old newspapers or news reels. Be Well! Up Tipperary!!!!! Up Dublin!!!!!
Paula Shields Hi paula. No, I don't own this footage. I found some of it here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ybxu9TMNQOM.html and here ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KRWQ1BFNqg8.html ..
Fair play, I concede that one, technically speaking Mann is abroad. Due to it's size I didn't consider or know it to be a colony although I know it is a small isle of importance i.e. Celtic culture, tynwald, tax haven etc. So AFTER Mann Ireland was the first overseas territory of significant importance to be colonized by England of whose fallout we are still feeling to present day - do we agree?
the isle of man is overseas. its nearest neighbour is scotland. england colonised the I.O.M. before she colonized ireland. but england's very, very, very first colony was cornwall, followed by wales, then the isle of man, then ireland, then scotland. next stop was the rest of the world (allmost)> so, overseas speaking, the isle of man is england's oldest colony. near home, cornwall is the oldest colony.
Cornwall is not a colony of England, it's a county in England. It was never an English Empire but a British Empire because Scotland played an integral part in creating the Empire. What about Scotland's plantation of Ulster?
The virnush and welsh were part if the british celts who inhabited the island apart from scotland. I assume thst either the saxons failed to conquer wales and cornwall or a lot of the britons were pushed to the edge of the island.
oh, and tony blair IS a hundred percent celt. his father was scottish. his mum was from ballyshannon in county donegal. and he himself was born in scotland. THAT MAKES HIM A CELT AND PROUD OF IT.
i DID say the isle of man, or i.o.m, which IS overseas from GB. and cornwall is not in the bottom west of england. IT IS SITUATED IN THE SOUTH WEST OF BRITAIN, not england but BRITAIN.
At 1.17 a truck powered by a gas converter passed. Sometime during the war. The film is of different periods, some show the trams, which finally finished 1949, other show the tram overhead wires but no trams, while other bits are after the wires were removed. Copper wire, being valuable, would have been taken down quickly lest criminals got it first, although there was less crime in those days. Crime didn't pay then - plenty of hard labour if you got caught.
Refreshing, as well, to see the Union Jack long gone from the scene, except apparently at TCD on VE day (or was it VJ day), where a riot of some sort nearly broke out!
100 yrs later more technologically advanced but has a huge migrant population now and losing its identity together with huge housing problem, drugs and gangs.
i understand, ger, a t.c.d. student was SHOT DEAD on that day for putting up the union jack flag on top of trinity. someone,apparently, had a gun on him in the crowd outside and pumped the poor man. english, i think he was. or british. dunno. but he was studying medicine or something. anyway, sad. bless everyoone connected with this incident.
i would call it english rather than british. and when queen lizzie the first opened it, she was queen of england and a few colonies, but not queen of britain. scotland had yet to join the union. bythe way, we are england's FOURTH oldest colony. guess what the earlier ones were. and what was the fifth colony? THIS IS A PUB QUIZ!!
why can't they re-introduce two-way car trafficing on every street? look at all the space they could save? how many celtic states are there? what is ireland's nearest neighbour? what is our oldest city? how many cities have we got? what is our population? what is our oldest province? what is our biggest lake and river? tony blair was ONE HUNDRED PER CENT CELT ... True of false???????????????
Everyone thought Dublin was a tiny social experiment caught in a maze of catholic morality and governmental backwardism back "in dem days".If you wanna find out how wrong that assumption would be talk to JP Dunleavy,or read one of his books.You will be pleasantlly surprised.Dublin was a hive of bohemian activity,and I dont just mean the football team.
What makes you think they were going to build a subway system here? Where's Manchester's subway?The British government always maintained a hands-off approach to railway development anyway.
no, i don't agree. as a celtic nationalist i regard cornwall as the oldest english colony. there was never a british empire, of course, just an ENGLISH empire1 now that we have established that, if you don't believe me, check out celtic nationalism on wikipedia. by the way, the IOM was once colonized by scotland, then ireland threatened war with the scots in an attempt to colonise it, england crept in and took the IOM for herself.!! check it all out on wikipedia. start now. go on!
Listen I don't think it's going into your head man. Cornwall IS NOT I REPEAT NOT overseas or abroad from England it is the peninsula that juts out at the bottom west of England. I said OVERSEAS COLONY and you keep giving me cornwall, wales and scotland for fuck sake. And listen if you need wikipedia to educate yourself things are bad. Good luck
It’s incongruous. Too happy and luxurious. This was the hungry thirties in Dublin. Just around the corner from these scenes (to the left and right of Nelson’s Pillar) were some of the most appalling slums in Ireland.
