It has the feel of early 70's but the credits at the end say this was made in 1978 - which would be correct given the particular models of new Opel Kadett's seen on the truck early in the film. LOve looking at the old cars in such films.
Now I know why I never liked cabbage. .. Cromwell and his soldiers came Started centuries of shame But they could not make us turn We are a river flowing We are a river flowing. Again again the soldiers came Burnt our houses stole our grain Shot the farmers in the fields Working for a living Working for a living Once upon a time there was Irish ways and Irish laws Villages of Irish blood Waking to the morning Waking to the morning
In 1650 the corporation men decided to put up a bridge. And so the bridge was put up. But the Ringsend fellas took the bridge down. And then the bridge went back up again. And then for some unknown reason the course of the river changed, and the bridge was over dry land. And of course the Ringsend people said that was Nature's way of punishing them
My uncle Paddy (Quinlan) used to take the St Patrick" boat in the back of his truck to the regatta in either Wexford or Wicklow to race against the Stella Maris", I used to sit under the boat on the way,great days :-)
Oliver Cromwell actually landed at Ringsend,l wonder exactly where and often imagine his army of Roundheads marching into Dublin town. History is a wonderful thing.
Looking for clarification here on beacting the johnie weasmore. Was thing a a formal swimming term back then that was common, particularly amongst swimmers in ringsend?
Mary Gregg was married to my uncle Martin Redmond and lived in St Patrick's villas. I grew up in Dun Laoghaire but my father was born in Beggars Bush. I loved coming into Ringsend every Sunday to visit the relatives and watching the skiff regattas. Oh the rivalry. Great days and a great area of Dublin.
Swimming at the boats as we called it before the tole bridge was built moved to rings end when I was 4 in 1981 but still not a ringsender after living there for 43 years oh to be a proper raytowner
Ring end the people are inner bead who would married they I work there for years the men still to this day the woman work and the man live in the pubs or they play cards its called nipped land dirt