Yes Grafton St was a wonderland with magic in the air as our own late Pete St John wrote his famous song Dublin in the rare old times.

@patrickmccarthy3123

Жыл бұрын

@Pa Gall Yes known as Pete St John

Some years back I was managing a shop there and had accommodation upstairs. I had let a Christmas candle burn upstairs while I stocked the shop for the next days sales. Many hours later I finally went up to find that it had burned a hole in the table. Ten minutes more and grafton St would have been aflame as the roofs are old and dry and it would have spread like wildfire

Grafton St. Used to have such great character with very unique shops and old coffee/teahouses. They've ruined it. Now it's just like any other generic corporate high street in Europe. It's lost all character, just like the Dublin itself.

@Harveybeau

2 жыл бұрын

Same is happening to Cork City. It hurts To see it being destroyed by the planners.

@deejaykay1975

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@caracortage3270

Жыл бұрын

And what have you ruined today?

@joedirt3449

Жыл бұрын

ya mum..lol! takin' the piss!

@kevinindublin

Жыл бұрын

"They've ruined it"? Who exactly? Global free market capitalism changed it.

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the share. X

Love the videos. Keep up the great work

People whether it’s NYC or Dublin in the 20th century seem to have a composure, vocabulary & tone that we have lost & it’s a big loss. What’s happened to the world?

@Sonia76373

2 жыл бұрын

Woke, political incorrectness bullshit, left Liberal government...the list goes on

@Irish780

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommyoconnor1224 zionists

@gwim999

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommyoconnor1224 based?

@CELTIC-CROSS

2 жыл бұрын

socialism

@hugostiglitz6914

Жыл бұрын

The people who were interviewed were well vetted!

Great video. I miss that old thick Dublin accent, had a real quality and character to it. It seems to have evolved into a high pitched whiny accent now.

@IXLDGOLD

2 жыл бұрын

i find the old ''thick'' accent in the video is whiny as. clear british influence obviously had a major part in the accents in those days. dublin sounded more like Ireland when I grew up, nowadays its literally just american slang and uk roadman arse talk, no culture anymore

@brianmaughan1853

Жыл бұрын

&

@colinsweetman4570

Жыл бұрын

Same! It's a if people turn up the dial on their Dublin accent to sound 'hard'

@freebeerfordworkers

Жыл бұрын

A good flat Dublin accent the finest in the world - like music to my ears

@johnmc3862

19 күн бұрын

@@IXLDGOLD😅😅😅

It looked like a cool place to be at the time.

@user-rm4mn2zo3e

5 ай бұрын

It was awful!

@bahoonies

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-rm4mn2zo3eNonsense. Dublin had so much character then.

Love these old yins.

The Swastika is an ancient symbol still used in places like India and Nepal today obviously it's now most associated with the Nazi regime in Germany during the 1930s but it predates it by centuries.

@tireachan6178

2 жыл бұрын

Did you wander in accidentally from a Third Reich documentary?

@emmetpower3610

2 жыл бұрын

Ok…

@sean_d

2 жыл бұрын

He is referring to the vehicle at 1:08, from the Swastika Laundry, which used to have a tall brick chimney with a Swastika on it, and was well known. It pre-dated the Nazis and outlived them.

@oliviamartini9700

2 жыл бұрын

@@sean_d Many thanks, that desperately wanted context!

@oliviamartini9700

2 жыл бұрын

@@tireachan6178 weeping laughing

Everyone dressed so nicely back then. The autos were stylish as well, but of course their mechanicals were junk back then

Stephens Green is the exact same now as it was then. Its a pity you don't get that in the rest of Dublin

My father grew up in the Gardner st area in the 50's and 60's and still speaks very fondly of his experience. Sadly the local communities were decimated by unemployment and drug epidemics in the late 70's and 80's. Heroin especially absolutely wiped out whole communities in a shockingly short time. I found myself with time to kill in the city centre and queys recently and took a good long walk around - I still find it pleasent and full of youth and atmosphere. However the north city area around Summerhill, Ballybough and East Wall remains shamefully neglected, and the area around Abbey/Talbot/O'Connell st can still feel salty at times. The city still has plenty of potential, but more work needs to be done.

they are turning in their graves looking at Dublin destroyed today

@tiagopaes9524

Ай бұрын

Dublin has ALWAYS been destroyed actually

People who begged in Dublin back then we're genuinely poor not like most of the beggars today

@noon4545

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure they said the same then …. 🙄

@bahoonies

2 ай бұрын

​@@noon4545We weren't plagued with Roma begging gangs back then.

enjoying the birds......on the lake.....😄 02:06

Hey great footage! Im an editor working on a documentary and would love to use some of this! is that possible?

One good thing in short video is nobody is stuck looking at there Smartphone

@chrisclark1761

2 жыл бұрын

There was no KZread back then. Nothing much to look at.

@pagethreemodel

2 жыл бұрын

Their* 🙄🙄

@bahoonies

3 ай бұрын

​@@pagethreemodelRun for your lives. It's the grammar police.

Don't belive that the ole days were better for one moment. People had nothing and worked hard for the bit they had.Yes in general life was slower but alot of people had alot of worries.

@siloemascolo2769

2 жыл бұрын

the 60's was the best decade not only in Ireland but in every single country even my country was not a third world place at the time.

@michaelwalsh9145

2 жыл бұрын

Back then they had nothing and they had everything today people have everything and they have nothing.

@noon4545

2 жыл бұрын

@@siloemascolo2769 ah yes the mother and baby homes were a blast

@thet1375

2 жыл бұрын

@@noon4545 Know your real enemy! Today Ireland is ran by an atheistic communist anti Irish govt who are about to bring in hate speech laws against Irish people, also a new law is about to be introduced that will give the govt power to take our property from us and give it to refugees, and read yesterday that 'refugees' will not have to pay tax, that's just for the Irish! fun times ahead! Welcome to Ireland 2022 where Irish are hated by their own govt.

@patrickmccarthy3123

Жыл бұрын

They did not have a lot back then but they had respect,comradrie,and they were very witty as Dubs are.

Great

A Woman of African origin at 0:17, Now that had to be rare in Ireland 1965..

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

2 жыл бұрын

God bless your eyesight. I grew up in Dublin in the 70’s-80’s and the first black person I met was in the late 80’s. I’m sure if you were black in Ireland at the time people would have stopped and stared and I’m talking about the 70-80’s.

@Jen-lg4hp

Жыл бұрын

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Nowadays I stop and stare if I see a Native White Irish English speaker in Dublin- we've been bred and immigrated almost our of existence! The Native Irish are now a rare endangered species in our own country!

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

Жыл бұрын

@@Jen-lg4hp Totally Agree and Ireland has only started.

@hensonlaura

Жыл бұрын

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 and yet no one did.

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

Жыл бұрын

@@hensonlaura Actually they did. I repeated my Leaving Certificate in Ringsend Tech in 1988 and there was one black kid from the states. He loves being the celebrity black guy because there were so few black people in Ireland. He took it as a compliment that people actually said to him “Jaysus there’s a black fella” He knew people were not racist but genuinely surprised to see someone black amongst them.

The police man directing the traffic speeding past him 😮

I was born in 65

You won’t find a pub like a Dublin pub anywhere in the world!

0:55 - 0:58 - Beautiful Irish Lady.

@chrisclark1761

2 жыл бұрын

That was a 15 year old schoolboy.

@scottscott232

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisclark1761 You need help with your eyesight. YOU see what YOU want to see. Everyone else sees reality. Good luck with that.

@EpicAelflaed

4 ай бұрын

@@scottscott232 to be fare it was a he she but whatever floats your boat

even with the traffic Grafton st was special nice shops mostly Irish, now it like any street in uk as usual corpo involved in wrecking it, people well dressed as well.

And absolutely no seagulls

Nazi van at 1.07 must have been that old laundry

130ish years after the famine ended....we had come a long way...look at us now. 0rogress will always continue.

@frankgilligan7768

2 жыл бұрын

Progress

@michaelwalsh9145

2 жыл бұрын

Except the globalists want to end progress now but not for themselves of course.

@thet1375

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankgilligan7768 You call Ireland 2022 progress?????

Apparently we were a third world country back then. Looks so much better than nowadays. Dublin is a horrible city nowadays. Nothing to recommend it whatsoever

@OscarOSullivan

9 ай бұрын

You had a lot of dereliction and tenements existed until 1979

1:08 Swastika Laundry Ltd. Ballsbridge Pre WW2

No immigrants…

WTF was Molly doing at the bottom of Grafton Street😂

Its a shame what Dublin has turned into now in 2024, its changed for the worse. A city which no one feels pround of and a city council which has let it go to rack and ruin.

1:07... Swasitika Laundry???

@RobertK1993

10 ай бұрын

Hindu symbol got hijacked by Nazi's

@OscarOSullivan

9 ай бұрын

Was a laundry set up in the early 1900’s which used the Swastika which is a good luck symbol

@markjohnston8989

6 ай бұрын

God bless your eyes.

Didn't see myself

Naźi van at 1.08

@phucknuts.7065

2 жыл бұрын

Good spot, that was a swastika.

@notch4president

2 жыл бұрын

It was a laundry company from before world war 2

@notch4president

2 жыл бұрын

"The Swastika Laundry was an Irish business founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin. Due to its name and logo being associated with the Nazi Party in Germany, the name was changed in 1939 but their logo endured."

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

2 жыл бұрын

I remember the swastika on the channel money stack in Ballsbridge. It must have been the nineties or later before it was removed. Pathetic really.

@missingno88

2 жыл бұрын

nice

Everyone nicely dressed , very few overweight people

Entitled to your long hair 😃 .

Three Arrows German SPD German government. Yes won Germany Thomas. He good German politically he told Martin sellner Austrian the truth politically Austrian government his.

@arthurashton8389

4 ай бұрын

I was in Dublin in 1964 on holiday from Liverpool . I at to wait for a bus to travel to Port Marnick. I noticed the big houses opposite the bus stop. Stayed in a caravan of a house named Iona in Port marnick. I remember the family had 2 daughters one Bridget who I feel in love with after a day . Her dad looked after the local golf course. She showed me how. to play golf . And we went for walks along the beech . I went for a drink had. 2 pints and was drunk. The pub was more like a night club. Fell in love with the girl the people the place and culture and Dublin .Portmarnock . The music .and Ireland 🇮🇪

I see we had multiculturalism back then too🍷

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry they’ll be telling you in ten years that Ireland was always multicultural and without it you would never have the country you have today. They’re already rewriting history in the UK.

@samnicholson5051

2 жыл бұрын

10% of the student population in Ireland in the 1960s was African so yes, kind of. And there was quite a few Italian immigrants too.

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

2 жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 where do you get your facts? When I grew up in Ireland and anyone saw a black person we were shocked so to say there were any blacks in any numbers is nonsense.

@freespeechisneverwrong9351

2 жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 200% of them were dwarves. Now I can say that with conviction because of feelings. Now I can also say that’s not factual. Now please confirm the source of your feelings(?) BTW I grew up in Ireland in the 70’s and didn’t see a black person until the 80’s. And I’m talking singular here not plural. So come on tell where you got your feelings, sorry facts from.

@dublinthebest

2 жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 Not sure about that? I saw very few Africans in Dublin , in the 60's and 70's. Lots and lots of Spanish students in the 70's though.

Full of refugees now

@secondchance6603

3 ай бұрын

Refugees no, Illegal immigrant fifth columnist single males... yes.

Awful time in Ireland . Glad I wasn’t born after the war

@thet1375

2 жыл бұрын

Better time than today. Woke Ireland is a horrible place under a puppet govt to the EU and UN

Dubliners love to make drama... "they very nearly wouldn't let you in".... Who was stopping them 🙄

Those self entitled people at the end of this clip with their big long hair. What is this country coming to at all at all? The next thing they be walking around with hand bags and shopping. Dublin is going to rack and ruin.

That last lady sounded like Kathleen behan ?

Dublin was a kip. Now it’s a Wonderful city!