I was an apprentice in Dublin from 1964 to early 1966. You could go dancing 7 night a week for a few shillings entry. I was poor and hungry most of the time and lodged in a room with 6 others in single beds, all of us from the provinces. No washing or toilet facilities only an enamel bucket in the corner. The ground floor was a meat and spuds cafe and breakfast and tea were included in the lodgings which was 3.50 pounds per week. The pubs were fantastic and often it was a toss up between lunch or having a couple of pints. The pints often won. I used to love the News and Cartoon cinema in Grafton street. They showed clips of the Tokyo olympics which were on at the time. I remember the natives of Dublin looking down on us bog trotters, wrongly assuming we hailed from soggy farms far away. Not so. By 1966 I'd had enough and departed for greener pastures over the Irish sea. It was the best move I'd ever made.

@Kevin-rw4yw

Жыл бұрын

Well done Sir and all the best.

@chrisclark1761

Жыл бұрын

And so it goes. Ireland has always driven the natives away.

@goredgord

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, I'd love to know more, where are you now?

@sitaruim

Жыл бұрын

Great stories, cheers.

@almilhouse9059

Жыл бұрын

Sadly on the accomodations front it's near just as bad today....

A blast from the past when Dublin was Dublin

Excellent. God bless all the people filmed in 1966. Most of them are now dead. While Dublin always had more than enough gurriers, chancers, violence and criminality, most Dubliners in the 1960s were decent, hard working people, who looked after their neighbours.

@jakej2256

9 ай бұрын

Well those who were kids or young adults at the time would be still around, wonder if they ever watched these videos to see themselves in it.

I was 15 working in Dunlop laundry. Living in 2 bedroom house in 😂 Ballyfermot with 5 brothers and 4 sisters. Met my late beloved wife who was also from Ballyfermot we had 47 years of marriage. It’s miles different now.

I find myself dreading each and every visit to that city today.

@maurafleming8748

Жыл бұрын

Dread it myself. Pity it's gone so run down and flooded with all sorts.. half of them off their wall...

@LDuke-pc7kq

Жыл бұрын

Europe has been destroyed by Globalist POS policies, so sorry for y'all across the pond, you're in my prayers

@Analiffey1916

Жыл бұрын

Out of curiosity why?? I’m a dub, I haven’t lived at home for years but I’m interested in how others see what was the best city ever!!

@yonderorphan7499

Жыл бұрын

@@Analiffey1916 there are hardly any Irish people in the city centre. It's been transformed.

@paulie-Gualtieri.

Жыл бұрын

@@Analiffey1916 It's true, it's a nightmare of a place now, gangs of Africans everywhere. You share the same name as my Granny 👍

The year my French Canadian mother would have travelled to Ireland to meet her fiancé's family - I now own that family home. Dublin is always home-away-from-home for me. Thank you for sharing.

Definitely the City Centre was a better place to visit back then, just listen to that real Dublin accent from the street vendors, never to heard again

@anthonymullen6300

Жыл бұрын

Slavs and Nigerian now.

@arzumc3487

Жыл бұрын

Do you think loosing the Irish language is kinda loosing the identity? Every language keeps its own culture and when you learn another language, you also learn the way of life , as well... But I see , many people do not talk Irish Gealic or know a few things ( even I know ) Irish people had lots of hard times to have the freedom today , but the young generations ( like in many countries) do not realise the value of it ... Blessings to Ireland 🇮🇪 Beannachtaí ☘️

@siloemascolo2769

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonymullen6300 Slavs and Nigerians are gone only Indians and other Asians now.

That has to be Michael MacLiammoir at 2:24 time stamp. I lived in Dublin in the early 1970s. Great place!

Roots is a beautiful thing. Never forget them!

Very enjoyable, thank you very much.

Im a native dub and am now a minority in my own city. I got the bus to work the other morning and i was the only white irish person on the bus. Its a very strange feeling. I wont go into town anymore because its too depressing. Most of the shops on henry street closed, homeless people begging everywhere, gangs of roma gypsies hanging around the streets. Its horrible. Our politicians are bought and paid for. Do they seriously think they will all be looked after by those who are really in charge?

Ah, so wonderful...

Fantastic

The slums on Gardiner Street and Sean McDermott street were appalling in those times.

@Michael-bf1dt

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jennifer how are you. It’s interesting looking back at those times. I agree with you about the slums. Best wishes for a good week 😊🙏 Michael

Fantastic the great sixties showbands mini skirts . When Ireland was a far better place

Just saw a later film of Dublin. It's been colourised.

*Look up Mick McLouglan, he's a great Dublin busker* *He pulled himself out of homelessness by playing Irish songs*

No fat people at all.

It’s not too late you can get it back. Start departing start taking control of your beautiful city.

Herald or press

@patglennon9671

Жыл бұрын

And the motorbikes with the "carrier box" dropping them off all over the city, papers been sold on street corners, do they still do that.

@df289

Жыл бұрын

@@patglennon9671 The vespas ,are long gone.

@deniro800

Жыл бұрын

You mean "Herdaldipress"

@luddite2702

Жыл бұрын

It's not herald its herdeld

We fought for the right for Irish people for hundreds of years, to have our identity and our land and now if you see the city, its like it was all for nothing.

@soldier2297

Жыл бұрын

Yes. And if you whisper a word of this to the politicians you are branded racist.

@patricknaughton6821

Жыл бұрын

Rubbish

@madeinireland2383

Жыл бұрын

Our country has been sold out by the traitors in government, they made the cities too expensive for the natives to live in then moved in tens of thousands of third world immigrants.

@madeinireland2383

Жыл бұрын

@@patricknaughton6821 take a walk down O Connell Street with the hundreds of Roma gypsies who only last week smashed up the arcade just beside Flanagan's restaurant, its absolutely true our culture is playing second fiddle to third world immigrants, even our schools are teaching that the Irish are responsible for slavery .

@patricknaughton6821

Жыл бұрын

It’s not all down to the foreigners, lots of Young Irish involved in antisocial behaviour drugs and violence. Our culture has never been stronger of safer, all western societies need to be honest about their role and the benefits accrued from slavery. We can be proud of out country and culture without being petty and xenophobic. It’s in our nature to be open and generous, be Irish and stop taking your cues from the hard right, grow up.

Does anyone know the name of the lady playing the harp? I remember a few year back I came across an old black and white photo of a lady playing the harp(non alcoholic😉). It's the same lady at the beginning of the video. I like to know more about her thanks.

@carmelparakh1677

Жыл бұрын

Her name is Ruby Moriarty a lovely lady and she played outside the Gaiety Theatre . I know this because our families lived close to each other in York Street .

@grideffect1193

Жыл бұрын

@@carmelparakh1677 Thank you Carmel. I would have loved to here her play. Maybe I can find something online🤞

Not a junkie in sight so it was safe during the day.

@stephenkful

Жыл бұрын

I think it's still safe. Of course, you read or hear of stories but the junkies mostly just want either the change or tell your their woes but they're part of our city now for better or worse. The real evil is in the dealers or gangs but they have their own stories

@CAVALIERKNIGHT33

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenkful still safe! ! ! 🤣😅😁Try working in the city centre then tell me its safe! 🤯

@conorwalsh2429

Жыл бұрын

Unskilled workman could get a job that paid a living wage. One parent working was enough to run a home, incredible when you think about it now. Homeless and drug addiction are a symptom of a much larger issue. Breaks my heart going through Dublin everyday

@tom79013

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenkful the disenfranchisement of the people through the goverments, the EU and the debasement of money are the real issues at the heart of all our problems

My dad was 3

What is that piano music????

@brianbanfield5397

3 ай бұрын

I’m no music expert but according to the Shazam app the piece is called ‘Mazurka No. 20 in D-Flat, Op.30 No.3’. The pianist is Nikita Magaloff.

Walked through the city other day ,looked like a middle eastern city or African .Is there something going on???

@beeben5260

Жыл бұрын

The Irish are being replaced

@thet1375

Жыл бұрын

@@beeben5260 Fine Gael's Simon Coveney, who was a student of Peter Sutherland, said in 2017 : 'Over the next twenty to thirty years , Effectively we want to attempt to DOUBLE the size of all of the cities in population terms outside of Dublin . The population of Ireland will certainly grow by an extra million people . Linked to that estimate is that half of that number wont have been born in Ireland . I think that will be a really good thing for Irish Society but we have to manage it carefully so that we don't allow the politics of migration to play a big part in Irish Politics.' Coveney wants a non Irish Ireland. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We must start planning for being an island of 10 million including bringing people in as refugees in scale, not just 200 people but a larger number and managing it " - Green Party wants to double population of Ireland - Eamon Ryan November 2016

When Dublin was Irish.

The idea of Ireland is fabulous 🇨🇮but reality was a whole different story . 😪

we used to say nineteen clickity click. i was 13 in 6th class. world cup willie was englands mascot

For heavens sake, it’s full of, er, actual Irish people. Before the invasion.

Dublin has lost its heart and looks just like any other world city.

@paulfogarty7724

8 ай бұрын

..er no...its a lot worse ( unless you include 3rd world cities )

Fine Gaels Simon Coveney who was a student of Peter Sutherland, said in 2017 : 'Over the next twenty to thirty years , Effectively we want to attempt to DOUBLE the size of all of the cities in population terms outside of Dublin . The population of Ireland will certainly grow by an extra million people . Linked to that estimate is that half of that number wont have been born in Ireland . I think that will be a really good thing for Irish Society but we have to manage it carefully so that we don't allow the politics of migration to play a big part in Irish Politics.' Coveney wants a non Irish Ireland.

@johnmccormick334

Жыл бұрын

And you can always export your unemployed and unemployable to Northern Ireland or England. How to organise a ‘thriving economy’. Ha ha

@thet1375

Жыл бұрын

@@johnmccormick334 Why would I do that when I am Irish and I have worked in Ireland all my life? You're a fool

Dublin in its hay day. And some people say the city has improved since 🤮

Jesus, what's with all the far right commentary down here? That's a side of Dublin I wasn't aware of 😅

@OscarOSullivan

3 ай бұрын

People thinking Dublin was some utopia in the past

@ronaldobrien6870

15 күн бұрын

It's become a new thing with the far right posting on these nostalgia videos (happens in the UK too). 'Life was a utopia before the immigrants arrived' etc. They are inventing a rose tinted version of the past that never even existed. People's lives were often harsh and brutal back then.

Look how feminine people looked then. Less pollution, steroids and pesticides then so yeah!!!

@jamesdolan4042

Жыл бұрын

Do the men look feminine too? I thought that kind of androgyny didn't happen until the mid 1970s in the modern era.

@thomasburke2683

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, there was more pollution in Dublin then. Every home was heated by coal fires, the gas for cooking was produced from coal and some electricity was generated by coal fired stations. Similarly the Liffey was more polluted, as the song goes: "and the Liffey as it stank like hell". It was in the 1980s that natural gas took over, and buildings that were cleaned, started to stay clean.

@iseegoodandbad6758

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdolan4042 yes they did by default. Mens beards didn't grow as thick then!

We fought for the right for Irish people for hundreds of years, to have our identity and our land and now our culture will slowly die as the open border policy of our European overlords, with people been called racist for just noticing, and now with the asking of even a limit to immigration, you will be called a fascist or colonisers. Ora Se Do Bheatha Abhaile

Behind the idyllic scenes the RC Church continued to rule ...

@gindphace

Жыл бұрын

Cringe.

@yonderorphan7499

Жыл бұрын

Oh shut up you gobshite

@Winston.Smith101

Жыл бұрын

@@yonderorphan7499 just because you're annonymous, you enjoy bullying?

@conorbyrne3348

Жыл бұрын

Better than now

@gerrytyrrell1507

Жыл бұрын

Know church has had it's issues, that can't be condoned.look at Dublin 50 years later, filthy dirty,junkies,it's like an African city .Dublin like all major Western European countries are doomed.

No obese people.

*They would be shocked if they saw Dublin today* *If you want Ireland to be Irish again* *Vote The National Party🇮🇪*

@FlameFlickers

Жыл бұрын

Decent folk will be voting for the "Ruairi Is A Simpleton Gobshite Party"

@sitaruim

Жыл бұрын

Probably controlled opposition... Either that or they will allow them to exist as long as they are not a threat. You will never vote your way out of this mess.

@ruairi4901

Жыл бұрын

@@sitaruim *You're an idiot*

@patricknaughton6821

Жыл бұрын

No thanks

@brandonandtom941

Жыл бұрын

@@patricknaughton6821 do you hate Irish identity

And not a Muslim in sight!

No immigrants at all

@dooley-ch

Жыл бұрын

No we were all away being the immigrants, the country was so bloody poor.

@thet1375

Жыл бұрын

@@dooley-ch Better that the woke new Ireland of today. Ireland is destroyed

Now full of Varadkar's black n tans ,the new oppressors! Add the 15 year old refugees older than De Valera from Pakistan,with their grooming and super mosques.

All white!!

@michaelf4506

Жыл бұрын

Brown Thomas not black Thomas

@df289

Жыл бұрын

all gone!

@jamesdolan4042

Жыл бұрын

What did you expect in the Ireland of 1966, or what am I missing?

@vincentvanwyk5522

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdolan4042 are you telling me bbc and rte historical productions are wrong! Look again and you'll see people of colour TM in prominent roles. I say this black and white footage must be wrong.

@michaelf4506

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdolan4042 a few mini skirts maybe sure it was the swinging sixtys after all

Not a black face to be seen. First look like that anymore.

Vote Farage