Early House Pubs of Cork City, Ireland 1980
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Customers availing of the early hour exemptions in a Cork pub are joined by singer Jimmy Crowley.
It is early morning along Union Quay in Cork and reporter Pat Butler pays a visit to a few of the city’s early houses. Early houses are an old tradition in the city providing a place for dockers to congregate for an early morning drink. Open from 7 am, Early houses are not specific to Cork and can be found throughout the country. Pat Butler meets some of the early morning customers and asks the question,
What are people doing in pubs drinking at that hour?
The pubs are packed with people from all walks of life with the stout flowing. Some in for a quick drink before they start the day while others are in for a pick me up after finishing a night shift.
Whether we like it or not, drink and drinking are part of the national character.
Cork folk singer Jimmy Crowley joins the men in the pub for a sing-along performing ‘Boozing’.
Boozing, bloody well boozing.
This episode of ‘Ireland’s Eye’ was broadcast on 14 October 1980. The presenter is Pat Butler.
‘Ireland’s Eye’ was a Tuesday-to-Friday series with human-interest stories and features from locations throughout Ireland. First broadcast on 7 October 1980, the programme ran until August 1983.
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" I never seen things so bad" yet there they are flooring pints at 8 in the morning...doesn't look too bad to me 🤣🤣🤣
@janenothisrealname6789
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha!
@eamondevalera3126
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@sidewindersid4180
11 ай бұрын
That's gets the comment gold medal of the month. Fucking brilliant 😂
@gerthie
8 ай бұрын
Lots of them blokes weren’t around too long
@dormerhouse1
8 ай бұрын
Imagine how much they would be drinking if things were good.😂😂
I'm Italian but I'm so glad I've stumbled upon this channel randomly, what a wonderful culture that i can access
@chulainn32
Жыл бұрын
Welcome Italia. PS. Fuck Schillaci . 😁
@ckpalmeiras1318
Жыл бұрын
Irish and Italians are usually very close and often intermarried in the US.
@TheCurtisdavies
6 ай бұрын
@@ckpalmeiras1318hi do you know why that is
@ckpalmeiras1318
6 ай бұрын
@@TheCurtisdavies Both Catholic and tended to live in the same areas of north eastern cities
These early houses had a resurgence in the 1990s & early 2000s thanks to the "rave" scene when lads + lasses would pop in before heading home for a cuddle & an attempt at sleep!! Charlies Bar with the open fire =mighty craic.
The man singing and playing accordion was really talented. The man the chef, was bit down over lack of work. Jimmy Crowley gifted.
@sentimentaloldme
Жыл бұрын
Jimmy Crowley is a well known Irish Folk Singer..
@vonliz8223
Жыл бұрын
Chef cheered up towards the end haha 😂
@billparrish9200
Жыл бұрын
I guarantee you "the chef" had just come off a night's work, cash in hand. Forklift, docks, whatever.
The Life and soul a character in the pub but the next day skint and miserable around there family I’ve seen this growing up, good time people with a drink In them a pain in the arse without
Just a bunch of good blokes leading their best lives.
I love this clip. It's been a favourite of mine for a while. 👍
This should have way more views! Excellent stuff
Went over to Dublin in the late 80's to watch England v Ireland and landed into town at 7.45am straight from Dunlaoire found one of these pubs open. Never seen nothing like it. A few of the lads had poppers and they spread around the bar and the place was rocking at 8.00 in the morning. Got chatting to a few of the locals who explained having to get up to come to the pub! Unbelievable day with a full 12 hours before the match. Great memories.
wish there was cameras around the early houses and similar adventures so ppl could look back as im doing, these videos are an amazing time capsule , thanks for the uploads
@Paul-sl9zm
Жыл бұрын
Look back at what? Smelly men sitting and drinking talking SHITE
@andrewclavin7447
Жыл бұрын
This was recorded last Monday ! May as well have been
Charlie's as the pub is called now, is a Cork gem. You'll still see Cillian Murphy stop in for a pint if he's home on St. Patrick's day.
Can’t beat a good ol’early hse for a dirty hangover cure 🇮🇪 ❤
You can see the sadness/ sense of defeat in the Chef’s eyes.
Thanks CR 👍 from Wexford
I thought this was uploaded before? it is how I found your excellent channel.
@martinoneill1644
Жыл бұрын
His getting lazy.
@corvaxincork
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I defo seen this before. Quality channel this though
@jamescornflake1542
Жыл бұрын
It's just another 1 for the road)))
Thanks
Imagine! People talked, the gift of the gab and now it's smart this and smart that pushed by smart alecs!
@liammalone7729
4 ай бұрын
Well said pal
I just came in too cure me head from last night😂😂😂
You wouldn't have the late late toy show from 1984 with St Colmcilles Boys National school playing. I've been looking for it for years.
Well, I now have a theme song that I’ll hear in my head whenever I crack open a cold one at 7 in the morning. Bloody boozing!
This video was uploaded previously on this channel @paddy Sullivan VHS 📼 Cork.
Haha go on the lads
Be funny if the chef broke into helter skelter. "when you get to bottom you go back to the top.......... 😂😂
Mighty Livers back then))
Best video on KZread 😂😂😂
God them talking about the price of a pint and cost of living! So much has stayed the same!
My uncle used to own the limerick castle pup. Can you find any videos or photos then. Would of been 80’s and early 90’s.
@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446
4 ай бұрын
Get real will ya ffs
You should see the pint of a pint in 2023 lads
Anyone else here looking for their Father?
@richiehoyt8487
Жыл бұрын
Shouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a few kids sat on the windowsill outside after doing exactly that; sent down by their mams to salvage the housekeeping before Mr. "Murphy" or Mr. "Beamish" get a~hold of it!
The good old days of meeting a man in an early house about a job ❤
@eugenemcgovern9703
Жыл бұрын
It was the black market that always kept this country running during a recession.
@ropaul8006
Жыл бұрын
@@eugenemcgovern9703 that was basically the economy of every town till 20 years ago. The cash in hand job put clothes on most of our backs
@chulainn32
Жыл бұрын
@@ropaul8006 Totally correct lads. Moving to cashless society only benefits those at the top. Cash in hand fed and clothed most of the country for many years. Was either that or emigration for a lot.
90% of these guys were coming off a night-shift (cash in hand, no questions asked) and claiming dole at the same time.
@KingTrouser
6 ай бұрын
Right, you saw the look on the Chefs face when the reporter sat down. Anyone they don't know coming and asking questions, they were lucky to have that many answers!
And not a phone in sight too .. There's alot to be said for meeting up in person and having a few jars and a sing song at 7am .
@danbreen6946
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't beat it 😅
@sentimentaloldme
Жыл бұрын
I doubt if the great Jimmy Crowley would be there normally at 7am. Jimmy was/is a famous professional Cork folk singer. He has loads of great ballads up here on KZread..
@seriousstuff8887
Жыл бұрын
@@sentimentaloldme I know I'm from cork .. they'd always start a sing song anyway. It was tradition then that's sadly lost .
Absolute chancers 😂
Beautiful....such a fabulous way of life. Pints at 7am, fall around Patrick's St at 11am then home to terrorise the wife and kids pissed off me face. The sound of roaring "wheres me dinner bitch". Beautiful times
@sidewindersid4180
11 ай бұрын
It wasn't that good...
@user-rb4ug9le2i
7 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more
this is how life should still be. Living how you want and not by a system.
They don't seem to make that model of geezer any more... kind of a shame. I remember when I was a student back around maybe '88, a few of my mates and myself thought it would be great sport to go down the 'early house' one morning, but every place we tried they put the block on us... Can't even say I blame them, I mean it's not even like we'd been 'On the Lash' all night, we just thought we'd go and gawp, like tourists -- only the joke would have been on us had we gotten served, we woulda come across like Kevin Zoolander in that scene where he mortifies his Old Man (John Voight) in his local workingmen's tavern!
@TheCurtisdavies
6 ай бұрын
hi, why weren’t you allowed in?
1:53 Paul McCartney has nothing else to do since The Beatles broke up
@kevinfitzsimons41
27 күн бұрын
Ha ha! Brilliant
Thought that was Paul McCartney on the thumbnail
Only one early house left in cork now.
That "chef" was hilarious.
@noelodonovan8201
Жыл бұрын
fell on hard times after the beatles broke up
@paddyo3841
7 ай бұрын
He could a made a fortune as McCartneys double
The common thread from a lot of the men seems they had nothing to do to pass the time. Limited interests, limited education and limited outlets. Hard to know whether the early house was a good thing or bad thing for them.
Do they still have early houses in Ireland?
@TheLastAngryMan01
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, there are still a few in Dublin and Drogheda anyway. They tend to be associated with port cities and people working nights.
Paul McCartney quit Wings to try and make it as a chef in Cork in the 80's. Who knew? I guess the culinary worlds loss is the gain of the music world.
back to simpler times. 😉
@d23bw
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to hear some woke type attempting to explain themselves to someone from 1970's Ireland.
@20alphabet
Жыл бұрын
@@d23bw Hard to explain anything to a drunk.
@happy_camper
Жыл бұрын
@@shysonofficialbetter social skills? How so?
@kevinhegney3813
Жыл бұрын
@@shysonofficial I'll like to no how u came up with that coz u are way off
I'm fairly sure they're in present-day Charlie's but Jimmy Crowley looks like he's in the Welcome Inn.
Who knew paul McCartney used to frequent Cork pubs early in the morning looking for a job as a Chef!!!😂🤣
2:00 Billy Shepherd's younger brother Aleister.
Where are there now 42 years later...but the misery goes on.
@frankkelleher1888
Жыл бұрын
Most of them are dead I wonder why gobshites
Ah yes,chronic alcoholism!
Paul mcartney
@patmurphy6843
Жыл бұрын
now that you mention it , LOL
@Percivaldurham
4 ай бұрын
He looks like Sgt. Pepper era McCartney.
Rip nob nov8th2012 sadly missed
6:48 no room for domage in 1980...
Hu, Paul McCartney in an irish pub ;-)
Would be great to subtitle this
Price of the pint?? 😂😂 €7 now for a pint
I’d be gawking
it looks more like 7 0 clock at night everyone is wide awake
@billparrish9200
Жыл бұрын
To these guys, it was. They were all doing night work for cash and claiming dole at the same time.
@sidewindersid4180
11 ай бұрын
@@billparrish9200judge not lest ye be judged.
@billparrish9200
11 ай бұрын
@@sidewindersid4180 No judging here. Just explaining the situation. A lot of these guys aren't with us anymore. I doubt they'd care forty years on.
Soo depressing.. Their wives left to keep the house going while they do nothing..
@danbreen6946
Жыл бұрын
Sure Elaine that's what the Good Lord put women on earth for 😂😂 x
@citrix123
Жыл бұрын
Listen to what the men are saying also, men who feel purposefullness is a Dangerous mix, and they are together in drinking feeling connected therfore a sense of purpose hence the attraction, be wary of the purposefullness man as he will find any way to spend his time
@shane7103
Жыл бұрын
Well they were living through an economic depression, the clue is in the name
@megataurus7779
Жыл бұрын
Men have this gift of doing 'fuck all', I should know😅
@sentimentaloldme
Жыл бұрын
I agree.. Alcohol is a drug that caused untold damage in homes all over Ireland..All these boys "great craic" in the pub .The next morning/ day it was a different story..Lots of my friends passed away early in life from heavy drinking.
Going to work half jarred....where was Health and Safety??
Dad you rascal
The biys are boozing
I think it was a sad sign of the economic recession of 1980s ireland
I Wonder how all these people are in 2024, the order have diffently passed on
Lads in the jacks doing fat lines, with their jaw all over the shop 😀
Ireland in the Eighties was great...you couldnt get a job" if" you wanted one..😂😂
The interviewer asks, "what are you doing here , this early." Of course they're thinking, "what do you mean by that? What are you insinuating? Get the hell out of here, that kind of half insult is the last thing I need, BBC or whoever he works for." Anyway, that's how people feel about it.
@zortzsborgnine3983
7 ай бұрын
Fuck off you moron......your clearly not Irish let alone British and have no understanding whatsoever..... BBC LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!! IDIOT
That looks so depressing
Unfortunately this Ireland doesn’t exist anymore
Jesus what a sad existence
@seriousstuff8887
Жыл бұрын
Happy times
@danbreen6946
Жыл бұрын
@@seriousstuff8887 Happy Days
@Slash12121
Жыл бұрын
Same could be said today, staring into our screens.
@randyborstol2491
Жыл бұрын
anyone i knew who grew up then says it was better then than now on so many levels. For me everything was better (sense of community, patriotism, socailizing, sport, tv, fashion, music, toys, games). Only technology and medicine is better today and cheap travel.
@ropaul8006
Жыл бұрын
Good fun in your early 20s actually. Not so much in your 30s... used to love the early on a Sunady morning after a mad weekend
Before the Celtic Tiger ruined it all
better times
@corkboy4523
6 ай бұрын
One guy literally said he’d never seen it so bad in his life!
Nobody seems drunk though?
@gunz5628
Жыл бұрын
we dont get drunk, were Irish!!!
@devanman7920
Жыл бұрын
@@gunz5628 I'm Irish and I can tell you irish people most definitely get drunk 😂
@megataurus7779
Жыл бұрын
Give it another hour or so!
@thebillryan
Жыл бұрын
Too early. They should have popped in with the cameras around 10. Things be heaten up.
@devanman7920
Жыл бұрын
@@thebillryan ya that's a really obvious answer I didn't even consider at the time haha
I love how the reporter says the place is full of people when it's wall to wall men. No nostalgia whatsoever from Irish women on the good old days of 80s economic depression. It was grim.
@johnm001
Жыл бұрын
Some serious operators there, definitely worth a time travel
@yupisaid
Жыл бұрын
The day they let women into the pubs was the day Ireland died
Fekn thatcher 😅
Alcoholics all?
Dang! 7 a.m.! By the way, i estmated , an Irish guy could drink about ten Genice beers, a full night! Sorry on the spelling, I uh forgot how to spell it!😀😀😀😆😆😆😮😄😄
@johnhehir508
Жыл бұрын
With a name like sherry I can see why you have such a bad spelling of Guinness
@sentimentaloldme
Жыл бұрын
The pub scene has completely changed..Over a third of pubs (mostly in rural parts of the country) have closed..The drinking culture is a thing of the past ...unless you visit Temple Bar, Dublin and see tourists paying in excess of 10Euro for a pint of beer.
@AjarSensation
Жыл бұрын
@@sentimentaloldme they are using euros in Ireland?
@sentimentaloldme
Жыл бұрын
@@AjarSensation Yes
@AjarSensation
Жыл бұрын
@@sentimentaloldme never thought of that, thx for sorting that one out
Roman Polanski at 1:29
Not a women in the place, says alot!
@sentimentaloldme
Жыл бұрын
Don't be putting bad thoughts into their heads..They have to get the kids ready for school and have a big fry up when the big man gets home from the pub.. That's the way it was in those days .Women weren't even allowed into pubs in times gone by . And did you know " there was no sex in Ireland before television"..so said a famous blue shirt politician in Dáil Éireann..
@richiehoyt8487
Жыл бұрын
The couple at 6:51 - but I presume you're being rhetorical.
@randyborstol2491
Жыл бұрын
see my other comment above. Women who went to the pub then were looked down upon as being loose. Many a true word in that. Women would hang out together at home, minding children, drinking tea and having a great time together. A break from their men. I still see South American communities doing this. it's seems frowned upon in the new modern trendy soulless West.
@yupisaid
Жыл бұрын
@@randyborstol2491 well said
"I came in to see a chap about a job..." Wouldn´t you go to the Job Centre for that? Chancer..
@richiehoyt8487
Жыл бұрын
Chancer is right. Don't mind him, he's just putting on the poor mouth. In his 'day job' he's a musician, does quite well for himself, apparently; and his Missus (now late Missus) was some Yank from money, and she was bringing in a nice few bob herself doing dinners for vegetarians.
@billparrish9200
Жыл бұрын
He HAD a job. They were all working night shifts for cash and claiming dole at the same time.
That was a time before dirty filty drugs
my gosh they're hobbits
and the kids will starve
And not abit of charlie about 😢😜
@danbreen6946
Жыл бұрын
How do you know 😤
@sullieking
Жыл бұрын
@@danbreen6946 ara definitely not
@sullieking
Жыл бұрын
@@johnbalance3989 seriously?
@yupisaid
Жыл бұрын
Thank fuck
@sullieking
Жыл бұрын
@@yupisaid aye your right
Lol, typical Irish. 😆
@gard7662
Жыл бұрын
Lol typical fkn idiot
@russianbot1420
Жыл бұрын
Dam right boy!.
@martin4458
Жыл бұрын
Better than being a typical racist.
@20alphabet
Жыл бұрын
@@garyhynes6574 Drunks or robots... either or?
@finnmcginn9931
Жыл бұрын
@@garyhynes6574. Don't get Canadians started, they'll proudly ell you they burnt down the white house.
Fuck, i tought i had s problem for a minute, now i knows its bred inta me. problem solved' slainte!!!!
Imagine the Guinness Guru was in a pub back then, sitting in a corner of the bar with his wee camera talking about domage and the temperature of the pint and what not. Me hole.
@paul85439
Жыл бұрын
He wouldn't last a minute,can't do proper pub talk with men.Typical modern man.
@danbreen6946
Жыл бұрын
@@paul85439 And he knows feck all about Guinness
@UsyksmashedFurytopieces
Жыл бұрын
@@paul85439 Yeah. The oul boys up here in the pubs in Fermanagh are wild about the domage. They get the rulers out and measure the height of the domage as well as use thermometers to measure the temperature of the Guinness. Would they fuck, they’d drink motor oil if it was put in a glass in front of them…😂🤣😂🤣
@LN_997
Жыл бұрын
Would be a funny scene. You wouldn't get a drop of Guinness down here at all though, Beamish and Murphy's is what we drink down in the real capital
The fucking lads