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Now I want to cry. Born Dublin 1955. I remember demanding my mother take me up Nielson’s Column, which she did bless her and about 3 days later it was blown up. I remember being taken shopping somewhere on Grafton street to a ladies shop on the first floor and being very bored but enjoying sitting on the big window ledge watching people in the street. I remember being quite young in the back of the car and the huge hulk of a Garda, I was little, directing traffic around O’Connell street and he winked at me and I winked back. He stopped the traffic and came over to the car, mum wondering what she had done wrong, and he told her that he had winked and I had winked back at which point I did a wolf whistle. 😂😂😂 I remember my pops bringing home fresh cherry buns from Bewleys. Thank you for the memories brought back to me. ❤
Wow I'm sitting here crying like a baby, my mother used to sing this song all the time , and other well know Dublin classic's form that time, she lived in crummlin, her dad had a clothes shop on Henry street diffneys it is still around, but she sadly is not, she died when I was 11 so I only have a few treasured memories of her, and this rather sad and lonely song is one of them.
Hi, that's a sad story and i can relate to it as being from Crumlin and living in Kenya now.. But i try to get back once in a while and walk around Crumlin and get some of the feelings back..i wish you well wherever you are.. 🤣
I grew up in the Rare Auld Times..Born in the Rotunda .City Centre 1948 left in 1967 for a better career & away from the Gombeens running Ireland I still love Dublin & come home regularly..But very happy with my Family & Life after 55 years in London & Buckinghamshire
I grew up in Dublin in the rare old times...came over to Boston in early '63. Plenty of work in Boston back them. Married an American girl...have grandchildren now and am retired. I get over to Dublin now and again. It certainly is'nt like it was in the "Rare "Ole Times" but I still like to get over for a visit now and then.
I am not from Dublin - I have worked there and visited many times - I was brought up just outside London - to me, Dublin is a great city - a city of fine people, writers, singers, actors, and art
@malicant123 And now sadly I have to agree with you. I attended the march in dublin yesterday, and it was an embarrassment. I'd guess a max crowd of 500. I travelled from London to March for my heritage and for the young Irish people. Unfortunately, they don't really see what's coming or just don't care. I'm so glad I lived through the 60,70,80,90 ties in Ireland. The troubles was bad but only child's play to what's coming. God save Ireland 🇮🇪
Dublin in the rare old times!! I love looking at the videos. It brings back such lovely memories. Dancing in the Nr 5 Club and The Rouge. Walking home from town to Glasnevin together with friends not having a worry in the world! I'm so glad I grew up in those times. People were nice. Key could be left in the hall door without worry. Life was good!! ❤
😂Dublin in the rare old times!! Indeed, remember when Dublin had native indigenous Irish people living in Dublin. Remember when Dublin used to be an Irish city. The 26 Roman Catholic counties of the REPUBLIC of Ireland are occupied by Europe and are no longer Irish but European. Dublin NOW IN 2024 is a rare place indeed. Full of illegal immigrants, foreigners and Muslims!! I remember Dublin in the rare auld times!! 😡😡
I remember jumping on the old open back bus in the 70s going to music lessons and the bus fare was 3p. Also CIE had boat service down where the east link bridge is,that cost 10p to cross the liffey, and the Guinness boats lined up along the Quays. Happy memories 😊
I was only telling the wife about how Stevo used to deliver the fruit and veg from the market, to my mam and the rest of the traders on Moore St by horse and cart, and there he is in the video... Brilliant... Thanks.
Definitely the US Embassy in Ballsbridge. Back in 1969 I made a special trip there from Baldoyle with a school mate so we could see a piece of Apollo moon rock they had put on display in the foyer For an 11 year old Northsider like me, a trip to Ballsbridge was almost as great a journey as a trip to the moon..
Lots of horses and carts were still around in the 1960s. The vegetable man, the coal man, the rag and bone man, the egg man, all with horses and carts. There used to be a travelling knife-sharpener who turned his specially adapted bicycle upside down to get the wheel sharpener going. There was the Swastika laundry van, that would collect and deliver laundry. The chemist shop and butchers would deliver by bicycle messenger. You could buy a bag of broken biscuits or a bag of broken cooking chocolate. At Dollymount beach, you could get a pot of tea from the tea van, but you had to leave a shoe as a deposit for the teapot. There were many odd characters roaming the streets too, Johnny Forty-Coats, and a guy called 'Bang Bang, who used to get on the buses near Nelson's Pillar and pretend to shoot passengers with an imaginary gun.
Yep, the past is a different country as they say, certainly has become the case for Dublin, has lost it's soul, it's character, replaced with a modern multicultural facade
Yes I have all the same memories. Dublin City centre was beautiful. Replacing old buildings ruined the beautiful city. It was dirty and needed a bit of restoring, but the soul of the city has been wiped out
That brought back some memories 😁... thank you... I was brought up in the seventies. eighties nineties.. in Dublin Edenmore... I live in Australia now...✌️
Such a beautiful song, though I've never been to Ireland one day who knows maybe I'll get a chance to go, my grandfather was from Cork, anyway I shut my eyes & I'm there I find it calling me
In the late 70ties into the late 80 ties I used to love getting the bus from Blessington on a Saturday and walking the streets of Dublin, especially Grafton st then going for a few pints and chatting to anyone and having a laugh 😊. Little did I know 30 years later, I'd be marching in dublin on the 13th of July 24 to try and save our irishness and cultures. ❤
As someone who lives in this beautiful historic city, I can confirm it has definitely not been destroyed. Many of the places from this video still stand and are still filled with people enjoying them. Hope this puts your mind at ease!
Josephine Mackey,brings back such happy memories, of my childhood in Dublin, I remember that horse and cart delivering the vegs. sad to think it's so different now,
Thanks for the nice visit to Dublin. My first time there was 1964. I remember how we once were able to watch planes take off like that and also walk out on to the tarmac & up the stairs.
I had a great time there....late 70s × early 80s...little money but owned my own house...now an overpriced Neo Con run kip....lived there for 1 year several years ago...horrid.
Born in Dalkey (yes I know) in 64 left in mid 80s for work in London I'll be 60 in April and going to take a road trip and visit the old town, mixed feelings
Anyone see your man that use to take your photo for a small fee😂👍he was on o Connell bridge in the film, well that man made a bomb from something he loved ☘📸📸📸📸😂😂👍
Arthur Fields was the man on the bridge. There's a film about him from 2014. 'Man on Bridge' IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt4483566/ A Jewish Ukrainian, he worked until the early 1980s, I remember him well, coming and going to school across O'Connell Bridge.
South Anne St. It closed in 1991 and a more typical Grafton St area restaurant replaced it. I used to hang out there in 1989/1990 and my parents did in the 60s and early 70s.
I started sneaking into town in 1987, Clive's of Hill Street was the order of the day 🤠 He had been there since 1978, then moved to Crown Ally in 1991 and renamed his shop Skate City. He is still there today.
Remember Murph's on Bachelors Walk? The 'pig man' would come by & buy the stuff scraped off the plates into the bin. The pigs got a Murph's dinner every night.
@@zaidaahida1868 John I don't know what you have against the native Irish but this is the second time you have slandered someone here in these comments. I suspect you hold a very intolerant idea of Irish people and most likely are self loathing. Get some help.
Hi Liam, at last I got back to you. I am writing a book about my parents. My Mam was Irish and my Dad English, Liverpool. They died very young and lived together in Dublin. They both were soldiers and after WW11, they worked for Guinness's. Your video is beautiful, a time of wonderful days. Thank you.
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A poor city in poor times. But a happier place. Since the "Celtic Tiger", it's full of cheaply built apartments. The centre has been hollowed out of retail premises, clubs, and cinemas, and the markets and street traders have nearly all gone. What would bring you into the centre anymore ? And if you did go into the centre, would you be safe ? So now it's a dump without any of the character of previous times. Lots of cities have had similar journeys. But I think Dublin had one of the best chances to build on a fantastic architectural heritage. But instead we got either terrible mock Georgian apartment blocks or cheaply designed and built steel and glass office blocks. There's no architectural coherence. And *still* a capital city with no metro. Indeed a city with no effective public transport at all. It's a kip. But it's out kip. I love it so much I haven't lived there for 20 years. Don't @ me people. You know I speak truth.
Lived in Dublin for a year in 1986. I remember it as being very grim and depressing and a backwater. The city usually died at 11 pm so people could get the last bus home. Very few decent live music venues. Hated it. Temple bar was an exotic warren of low rent bookshops and eccentric bric a brac. Even wit the huge traffic and rent problems now, it's a much more improved and European city with a better life and more energy in the air. Have mixed feelings with what they did to Temple Bar but at least it's not a giant bus station and it keeps all the stag and hen nights confined to the one place so you can avoid them.
1979 or 1980 I went to Captain America’s on a Sunday night to eat with a buddy from college. For us to go there at the time was a big deal because we had very little money or much to eat during the week. I had 20 pounds a week to live on 12 went to pay the “digs” I was staying in. The remaining 8 pounds was split on cigarettes and beer. Anyway, when it came to pay the bill we walked up to the register which was at the top of the stairs where you went into the restaurant. Who ever was on the register had stepped away for a minute. Without any warning my buddy decided to do a runner and bolted down the stairs……….. I only had enough money to pay for myself and had to make a split second decision and did the same thing. I felt like shit for doing it and told my friend if he ever did something like that again I would kick his ass. Needless to say, I never had the balls to go back there again. I left Ireland in 1984 for New York. I don’t think Captain America’s is still around. If it is …… I will stop in and pay my bill next time I am in Dublin 😂
To be fair that goes on here in Britain where I am as I am sure it does elsewhere as well as in Ireland these days-it seems to be all part of progress really and truly somehow too?!
Donald that's the American embassy on Elgin road as seen from Pembrook road. This is what it looks like now: www.google.ie/maps/@53.330524,-6.233313,3a,75y,221.57h,87.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-HacrUTJy1wT-FBxScdR6Q!2e0!6m1!1e1
Hi Rob, Kath here from Wild Pictures - we'd love to feature some of this footage in a documentary we're making. Please drop me a message if you'd be interested in discussing this further? Thanks - K-
Don't let rose-tinted glasses blur your view: It was a time when the church had enormous power and they abused their position in society. It was the time of the Artane Industrial school, Golden Bridge and Magdalen Laundries.. There was great unemployment and emigration. There are still problems (such as the housing crisis) but by and large, the city is better - the people are better educated and church power has largely gone.
K Doc True! My mother was born illegitimate in 1935 and grew up in Golden Bridge orphanage - her mother married a man and had more children - my mother stayed with them in the holidays but she had to pretend her mother was her aunty so no one would know her mother had an child out of wedlock - we migrated to Australia when I was 11 and when I was 12 my mother told me that "Aunty May" who I thought was my great aunt was really my grandmother!
yeah, I'm not a fan of the rosy view of the city…poverty, illness and fascistic religion were rife. The city and country still have major issues to deal with, as in poverty, corruption, crime, native and immigrant social welfare dependency… but things are better now imo. Unless you're from Sheriffer and places like that. Extraordinary how those areas never saw any real benefits from the economic uplift in the early 60s and then the Celtic Tiger. Generations of deprivation and unemployment, due to the void left by Monto, the mechanisation of the docks in the 70s, the introduction of heroin and then organised crime. But I still think I would prefer the city we have now to that from the "rare auld times" when the Church and State were brutally interlinked and good prospects only came to a small percentage of the privileged population.
Just to let you know the Roman Catholic Church Hijacked the True Christian Movement a cpl thousand years ago , it's pure Demonic out in the open these days , But Jesus is was & always will be God in the Flesh , forget Catholisim get a 1611 Kjv version print of the Bible & form a Relationship with God yourself as there is only Heaven & Hell no inbetween & all them so called pedo priests/Nuns & that Dope will be going there! As will hundreds of millions of Catholics who have been decived by there , teachings such as worshipping statues idols of Mary ) dead saints, confession to a priest when the only Mediator between you & God should be Jesus his Son, no female pastors, also most definitely no Gay marriages etc.....! 🕵️🙏
