A Tour of Chapelizod Village, Dublin City, Ireland 1988
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Frank Harte shows Shay Healy around the Dublin village of Chapelizod.
A stroll through Chapelizod with architect, song collector and singer Frank Harte starts at Anna Livia Bridge over the river Liffey, renamed in 1982 in honour of the centenary of the birth of James Joyce.
James Joyce knew Chapelizod well, and it is the setting for the short story ‘A Painful Case’ from the book Dubliners. The nearby Mullingar House also features centrally in ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ in which publican Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker resides.
In Chapelizod Frank Harte points out derelict houses where families lived when he was growing up. The village is a stone’s throw from the Phoenix Park,
The area known as The Bank and New Row, was built to house distillery workers and their families.
Frank Harte’s father owned and ran ‘The Tap’ pub in the village, across the road from industrial buildings where in the seventeenth century flax and linen were processed. It then became a distillery and latterly a warehouse, before being destroyed by fire in recent years.
Another writer with Chapelizod connections is Gothic writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). The village and environs provided inspiration for his ghost stories, horror fiction and many novels, in particular, ‘The House of the Churchyard’,
In his descriptions of it, and the house, you know he was here.
Just off Main Street is Saint Laurence’s Church of Ireland with its distinctive fifteenth century square stone tower, which incorporates a section of a round tower. The site has for centuries been associated with the mediaeval tale of Tristan and Isolde.
It’s from Isolde that the village got its name.
This episode of ‘The Dublin Village’ was broadcast on 15 July 1988. The presenter is Shay Healy.
‘The Dublin Village’ was an eight-part series about the capital’s urban villages broadcast in Dublin’s Millennium Year of 1988. The presenters were Shay Healy and Ingrid Miley.
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In modern Ireland these videos are a treasure. Thank you for sharing.
@sheiladelahunt1989
11 ай бұрын
I Lived at 1 St Andrews Sarsfield rd Inchichore I would go for walks down chapolizod hill and imagine a different world to the one in the built up areas of Ballyfermot !it was a village with lovely little houses and flowers in the garden I would walk for hour's and talk to friendly people , Id bye a pear and an apple from a Tinker woman ,now known as travellers ,it was a special place for me ! Id lived in Canada and it was a change from the bustling city of Toronto !I was 13 years old when we went to Australia ,but Chapolizod remains one of the good memories of home !
I have fond memories as a child when my dad took us to watch the chaps rowing in the evening twilight on the Liffey
I love the old buildings of long ago how beautiful our lives were back then
Someone will be along now to tell us all how terrible life was back then and everything now is great.
@allisnotwhatitseems.
11 ай бұрын
Bring me back to then anyday. I hate what Ireland's becoming. I must be far right. If I am I'm bloody proud to be.
@6600richie
11 ай бұрын
I was in Dublin in the late 90's early 00's and you could think and do what you wanted so long as you didn't harm anyone else. I certainly don't remember anybody being beheaded for being gay or any random attacks on people walking home. As much as we are told that diversity is our strength etc it is the same people telling us this who seem to lack tolerance for any diversity of thought. They seem completely absent of enlightenment or even basic education. Shoving "European values" down our throats will have the opposite effect.
@hangedups2608
11 ай бұрын
ALL I SEE IS OPPOSITE COMMENTS ON HERE, BOSS
@jamesbradshaw3389
11 ай бұрын
I refuse to disagree with what you say
@johnmc3862
27 күн бұрын
Wrong twist.
Nicely put together. So many would take this for granted now.
Not gonna lie was expecting blue steel when he did that turn to the camera on the bridge
I love Chapelizod..the old phone box is still there ❤
FRANK WAS IN ANOTHER WORLD
Feels like it has been raining since 1988
@jamesbradshaw3389
11 ай бұрын
Cheer up, you are lucky that you do not live in parts of the world where everything is burning because of extreme heatwaves
@missingno88
11 ай бұрын
@@jamesbradshaw3389 or places where people are deliberately starting bush fires
Aha James Joice, my distant cousin, we often talk about James during family gatherings
And that row of houses as you enter the village from the town side is still derelict 😢
I went to school there 😊
Where the strawberry beds sweep down to the Liffey ………
0:08 Wake up Frank!
@hangedups2608
11 ай бұрын
HAHAH EXACTLY
That's quite a gem! Do you have the rest of it or anything else on Chapelizod?
😮 👌 👍
Often wondered where Chapelizod got its name from
@jodikirsh
10 ай бұрын
"Iselt's chapel". In Irish, "Séipéal Iosóid".
@Claggyt
5 ай бұрын
As a kid i thought Dubin had a chapel lizard