As an 80s teenager who grew up in Dublin, I find this to be a rather bittersweet video. Grateful to see it again, and yet so sad that such a wonderful era is now gone. And lovely to see the inimitable Thom McGinty who was such a kind and caring man. Used to bump into him on Botanic Road a lot when he was on his way into town.

@bannor216

11 ай бұрын

you should see it now. boyo. oh boy. no no no no no.

This is so nostalgic for me as I was 20 in 1986 and this is the Dublin I loved. Seeing Thom mcGinty the ‘Diceman’ again was sweet.

Politicians on the make, with multiple homes, inflated salaries, expenses state-paid 'perks'- but buskers cannot earn?!

Notice how impeccably dressed the Gardai are. Compared to the loafs of 2020s

@seamusburke9101

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, well dressed scrum

Used to love seeing the Diceman on Grafton Street as a kid. He's wink at you and you'd be laughing.

@bernadettequinlivan3385

Жыл бұрын

Loved the Diceman and the wink was so funny

Be kind to buskers. Not everyone is cut out to work the 9-5 treadmill of pain.

@BrayTube

2 жыл бұрын

Be kind to everyone - a treadmill of pain doesn't sound like much fun! ;¬)

@markc3258

Жыл бұрын

We can all pay our fair share of taxes no matter what hours you work or how you work .. Pay your share !!

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

Жыл бұрын

@@markc3258 taxation is theft

@littlered7820

Жыл бұрын

@@markc3258 Taxes ?.....oh you mean that legalized theft by government ?

what a gem.. I was busking in Ireland heard so much about the diceman.. now I was able to see his work... thank you and the young Little John... oh what a gem

Great times..... I remember all the buskers and street acts in the video. Use to be in Grafton St most Saturdays going to freebird records and sound celler just to flik through the records. Thanks for putting this video up really enjoyed a trip down memory lane.

People seem happier, even if they are moaning about trading

@roderickmcdonnell3725

3 жыл бұрын

The covid free days

@treborsirrah7916

3 жыл бұрын

@@roderickmcdonnell3725 I emigrated in 1982 country was broke ,abortion referendum main item in politics while the place was falling apart, up to 80,000 emigrated in a few years ,it took 8 weeks to get a phone line to your house,FF ,Chatholic Church and the GAA ran the place

@rosswynne2379

3 жыл бұрын

Bless

@ossian11

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I lived in Ireland in the 1980s. Massive unemployment and poverty, huge emigration and still lots of physical and sexual abuse of children by clerics and others. If people were happy they were probably on Valium (which was a common prescription drug back then).

@liam.4454

2 жыл бұрын

@@ossian11 you put a downer on me

A beautiful country and wonderful people, I lived in it for 6 years and I long to visit it again👍

@seamusburke9101

2 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't like it now I can tell ya.

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

@@seamusburke9101 Why ? >There is no Irish left says you

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonydowling3356 u pleb place is destroyed

@markc3258

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonydowling3356 why don’t you live in their country and see how they welcome you .. With your free house and free money .. 😂😂

@grimjim1599

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonydowling3356 European identity is being eroded/destroyed. All on behalf of an anti white/globalist agenda

I was in Cork in the early/mid 90s and there was a fantastic 3 piece band of kids (siblings I think) all about 11-12 years old. They were playing Beatles songs (Hofner bass and all) and they were brilliant. They had a crowd watching them on a sunny day and the atmosphere on the street was great. The guards came and ran them at the direction of a shop owner who’d called them. I heard multiple people saying they were going to go into that shop and that they now wouldn’t. I overheard a few say they’d never spend a red cent in that shop again. The fact that they were both talented and just kids that had the guards called on them annoyed people especially. The atmosphere draws people to an area. It’s incredibly shortsighted to try and get rid of buskers.

@seamusburke9101

2 жыл бұрын

Now David if I was making that comment I'd have named that shop so it would never be forgotten.

@RandomCommentHandle

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't shortsighted to get rid of buskers, it's a long game they were playing, all about removing joy until people forget.

Hats off to yezz for fighting for buskers, because of you their is a fabulous busking scene on Grafton & thereabouts in Dublin which is regularly filmed by Sean at "Dublin City Today" & Seamus Traynor at "Buskbeats"

Great video of a Dublin in the rare auld times, "Appils n rdinges, Appils n rdinges" ironic that a country so clebrated for it's contribution to the Arts was still using old British bylaws to ban the public playing of music and performance on the street but it was ok to dispose of rubbish anywhere you liked on that very street. I notice how cocky the cops were back then and wore uniforms that actually fitted them unlike today where it appears that a one size fits all has been introduced.

A great thing back then you could do... instead of paying 22 cent for a plastic bag, just stand in the wind and hold out your hand....

@Lee-nh5bb

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Beautiful city ❤️

Great video! The dreaded Grafton Street kerbs.. the amount of time I punted my toes into them..

Great video of old Dublin

Before the great replacement began.

@Czechbound

3 ай бұрын

please explain your comment

@sonnyirish3678

3 ай бұрын

Very simple.look at the "people" being allowed to pour into this country.@@Czechbound

@Czechbound

3 ай бұрын

@@sonnyirish3678 I still don't follow you. And why the word people in quotation marks ? You haven't explained yourself. I still have no idea what you mean about "the great replacement". Can you be more clear for me please ?

The Guards and the Black and Tans are one and the same.

Good old Dublin a once great city I don't go to Dublin no more too many memories for me

@tomasotreasaigh111

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, too many memories. If I went to Dublin now I would just be depressed at how many of the heads I used to call into are just not there anymore.

@rosswynne2379

3 жыл бұрын

Bless

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897

Жыл бұрын

Ur not missing anything it’s ruined

This is fantastic, wonderful.

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897

Жыл бұрын

Good auld days bro

really enjoyed that . yes my memory is right. clothes were awful in the 80s. ha ha. great to see some of the characters.

Wow 😃 I was busker on Grafton and Henry Street... For some years, nothing change, I was arrested, have a lot of problems, junkies problems, shit gardai problems and everyday I only try do my best to everyone. And I recorded everything I will download here on my channel Thanks very much for this video give me a lot of answers...

And poor Pat Tierney selling his poems on Grafton Street and the Diceman all drinking coffee ☕️ in Bewleys famous cafe and Hector Grey selling magical goods at the Halfpenny bridge. Then in January 1996 Pat Tierney succumbed in the grounds of a Drumcondra church on his 39th birthday and he bid farewell to this beautiful but cruel world. Time doth makes ghosts of us all 🌻🎩🌻

I'm glad to see this , theres not an awful lot of social capture from this time , a video camera was not in everyone's pocket. It took effort . And now people think what they had for lunch is valuable blog material, I'm glad someone was active , the problem is to everyone then , it seems pointless, I'd argue it's very much not now , I deffo appreciate it's there to access, so a long time coming but thanks 🙂

@dOlier

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Now the Guards stop everyone in Ireland from wondering more than 5 miles from their homes.

@IvanEarache

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the thought police. 😂😂😂

@mico6691

3 жыл бұрын

@@IvanEarache.. you got it

@alanbourke4069

3 жыл бұрын

And why's that, give us the benefit of your Facebook Medical Degree there.

@Del-yv1qy

2 жыл бұрын

I assume you are under nine years old.

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897

Жыл бұрын

Poor two lads in the comments haven’t a clue. Great comment

They arent vagrant they are musicians they have a skill and talents

Holy shit! The dice man!

No one in the video had a mobile phone back then!

@AkaidanTv

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Doyle the Good old days

@oldtimer5283

3 жыл бұрын

@@tearitloosetearitloose4670 only tosser here is you..forget to take your meds again did we luvey 😅😅😅

@ianrad5555

3 жыл бұрын

Its 1986 mate ya bearly had a house phone that time

@rayosullivan4398

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing good in 1986 all the smart people left

@oldtimer5283

3 жыл бұрын

@@dolier2802 move straight to the top of the class 👏👏👏👏

I remember Busking in Cork, had no probs. I was only there a few days thou' so maybe over time the dark blues maybe have shrouded me. Pity, of all places - Ireland to ban Buskers!! Crazy.

Even this is so far from me at that time we lived in Great USSR but as human as my Uzbek Muslim heart feels nostalgic time ....My best wishes for all human being...🙏🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬

Loved watching this.

Was that Michael Martin in the back, shouting out keep your 2 meters distance,

Good times ,fond memories

Big monopolies resent street traders.

Thanks for video keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco

i wonder if that lady is still around-great explanation byb her-gardai getting it wrong AGAIN.

@Ligerpride

2 жыл бұрын

Correct

God I miss Dublin as it used to be. I remember popping in to The Alchemists Head every Saturday to check out the comics. Remember the smell of Hops? Better days.

notuce how littered Grafton St was then-unreal

@rayosullivan4398

3 жыл бұрын

What a hole glad i left in 1985

@avigyavegashunyata1108

3 жыл бұрын

reminds me of streets of delhi. india, besides there is 1.3 billion people there

I was born in the 80's and now I busk in the city centre , Bray , Dun Laoghaire and my home town of Ballyfermot but I remember as a very young child seeing people in town doing street art and the buskers and street artists , Allie sherlock is probably the most famous busker in Dublin right now and Jacob Koopman...!! Mark G Ballyfermot Dublin Eíre !!

I wish I was there at 11.20 to give those great musicians a clap

I was in Dublin in 1986 and knew two brothers who were artists painting near the bridge...John and Dará...is this one of you guys in the video?

A totally different place today, and not a better one sadly 😥

Ah, I remember "The Dice man"

@seannolan8615

3 жыл бұрын

Ya, one time someone set him on fire.

35 years on there’s nothing on the streets!

@paulchedzey7276

3 жыл бұрын

KRAZEEIZATION it's madness ain't it, I'm 40 just and I'm thinking of the 'good old days' buts it all relative......maybe???

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897

Жыл бұрын

Nothing but foreigners

@speakertreatz

Жыл бұрын

What streets are you talking about because Grafton Street has more buskers than ever.

@KRAZEEIZATION

Жыл бұрын

@@speakertreatz it seemed quite back then, and this is probably during the “lockdown” malarkey.

@speakertreatz

Жыл бұрын

@@KRAZEEIZATION ah my apologies, I didn't make the connection with the date sorry.

I remember that aul one with the cross.. Used to frighten the life of me. Anyone know her name?

@dub_dub1504

2 жыл бұрын

There were 2 of them up by the floozy in the jacuzzi in the late 80s. A really old woman with a cross and another slightly younger woman that used to pace back and forwards preaching.

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

Holy Mary .

RIP The #Diceman what a great character sadly missed. Great video, you now need a license and audition to busk in Dublin, there were coordinated gangs (scangers) sending kids out taking the Mickey and just getting up and literally singing the same song all day, no other repertoire just to get people's money.

The bloody rubbish everywhere.

@davidwalters4906

3 жыл бұрын

Bee nice up the dubs

@zeppelinboys

3 жыл бұрын

no more dirty than any us city

@jackominty3633

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Irish and live in Geneva. Man, you could eat your dinner off the streets here. Unusual to see any litter, and if it does appear - it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow. As a result of living here for 30 years, I would rather sell my kids than drop trash on the street. It will stay in my hand, or pocket, until I find a bin.

@margaretmoore7034

3 жыл бұрын

Aye.. them were the days ! We could eat our fish n chips and crumple up the news paper and toss it gracefully into the side of the road.. Then we finished our last cigarette while stamping the box flat to the path with that satisfying crunch underfoot.. then flick the butt stylishly into the nearest alleyway.. Aye gone are the days when you could just drop your trousers and have a satisfying shite in the side streets after a good meal.. All this political correctness has ruined our happy and free lives, thats what I say !

I remember the smell of leather belts for sale in the Dandelion Market. The Diceman was a Saturday regular on Grafton Street ( usually up nearer the Green ). We were always kinda afraid of him. He was Other. Sad he died of AIDS. As in every high street in every country, Grafton street mainly has international chain stores. You see the same layouts and window displays in different countries. Who remembers traffic on Grafton Street ....

I LOVE that Bob Dylan song! Wish they'd come and serenade me. 🤭

Diceman was fab

what's the song at the end?

@dOlier

3 жыл бұрын

It was called "Loose Change". I think it must have been written by those guys playing guitar in Merchant's Arch.

the grim old days of the 1980s

Note how slow the guard approaches this women fear crowd might turn on them like people should total shower picking on innocent tallent

Great to see busking in grafton street now. Brings a great atmosphere to the city.

litter all over the street look

Loved Dublin back then.... When you weren't listening to 30 different languages as you walked along the pavements or when peopled walked along the pavements and nodded or said hello to each other instead of checking their phones every 2 or 3 minutes . Rare auld times these :)

@drumclaypete

3 жыл бұрын

God forbid you heard more than 2 languages. I’m sure it’s a very challenging thing to hear someone say “hola”. Really though, do you get up in the morning to be offended? Toughen up....

@kelloscully9632

3 жыл бұрын

@@drumclaypete Lol.... Looks who is being offended. .... Listen to what you're reading before you reply kid.

@drumclaypete

3 жыл бұрын

Kello Scully Getting annoyed about racism is very different than crying about a language you can’t understand.

@kelloscully9632

3 жыл бұрын

@@drumclaypete Who is being racist? Stop jumping to a conclusion based on you just wanting to bitch and disagree for the sake of it. Don't be a donut all your life. My statement was a fact on how it was then to how it is now. Nothing racist about that princess. Oh and for your blinded information I have a South American wife and I am well aware of what Hola means ... Y usted? Now I would stop there if I was you cos you have already made a twat out of your-self

@ceannasai5731

3 жыл бұрын

@@kelloscully9632 Nice one 👍

Ireland has always had a proud tradition of the arts. We’re known abroad for our love of music and culture & tourists seem to enjoy the buskers. This is something that should be celebrated rather than vilified due to out of date foreign laws. We didn’t realise what we had back then. Nowadays Dublin is over run with scumbag junkies.

@kevinruddy448

2 жыл бұрын

Junkies are vermin 🐀, 🤮, get them out of your area 💪👊💥!, legally or otherwise ✌️😉, good luck 🍀👍

@speakertreatz

Жыл бұрын

You must have been living somewhere else in 1986.

@johnmc3862

13 күн бұрын

​@@speakertreatzThere seems to be more now though.

This is brilliant, what a very fine player and talker that lady was, I also support the man with Charlie Chaplin walk, plus the female beetle, followed by all the other great street performers If I was given the full powers I would go out and arrest the police to harrassed the buskers, What we needed is more live music, plays and wild stunts played live out on the streets of every town all over the lands, Who is with me on this very important subject.

I think that's me finishing off(excuse the expression)Marilyn Monroe on the street

@paulgalligan1916

3 жыл бұрын

It either is or it isn't?

@larryoconnor7094

2 жыл бұрын

Ya bollix.

@Forde-Photos

Жыл бұрын

Yep that was you ken :)

10.45 >>> my old friend & colleague in Westbury Hotel, Martin Flood, a great GAA football player too. Great food, in the hotel Still Room end of shift 1 a.m. , eh Martin? Smoked salmon & egg sandwiches, desserts.

It's not a crime to be a survivor 😁, its a crime to be a quitter and a leech 🐛, it costs the taxpayers much more to jail 🏣a tryer than wish them well 💐😁👍

Population of the Republic of Ireland went down from approximately 4.2 million 1921 to 2.6 in 1961 the 80's and 70's generations never realised their full potential even with the small renaissance in music particularly who is writing the history of these lost generations or is it quick fast to the Digital Revolution?

@patdeVerse

Жыл бұрын

not exactly. There was no census in 1921 (for obvious reasons). First ever census of Irish Free State was in 1926 (pop.2.97 million). This fell to 2,8 million by 1955. It actually rose from 1965 onwards, reaching 3.2 million by 1975.

Ohh take me back plz fooking state of the city now traitors to Eire.

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

Жыл бұрын

I can't even go to the city it angers me to shit and I'm not even Irish, only lived here my entire adult life

Excellent video, I guess the powers that be had no interest In the real lawbreakers, always hounding the suppressed making them fight against the system.

@bid84

3 жыл бұрын

Are you Joe Wall of The Walls? Stunning?

Shocked to discover Rose West busked on Grafton Street in the 80s.

@dOlier

2 жыл бұрын

Who is Rose West ? and why are you shocked ?

@TheScientist43

2 жыл бұрын

@@dOlier Er..a prolific serial killer from UK. Just a joke mate. She was put away around 1995 I think. Google her

@larryoconnor7094

2 жыл бұрын

@@dOlier West is a notorious individual due to her being a British serial killer.

@dechannigan2980

2 жыл бұрын

That was her on the 'Squeeze box' near the end of the film..

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

@@dOlier You never heard of Rose West ? God you have lead a sheltered life .

7.33 a young and vibrant George Galloway.. embracing socialism...

You have to admit DCC street sweepers where far more entertaining than today 7.50

RIP the diceman.

your woman on the squeeze box at the start is still about , plays in the cobblestone.. am i right ?

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

She now plays regular in an expat bar in Pattaya .

An old English statute?! Now that IS oppression.

Thanks for this old gem. Does anyone know who the narrator is?

@lordsod69

3 жыл бұрын

@christopher brown I don't think so. Gay had a very distinctive voice and this is an amateur production (Dublin Resource Centre) not produced by RTE

@apathyintheuk265

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he'll be the fella who's voice you can hear over the film.

@lordsod69

3 жыл бұрын

@@apathyintheuk265 very observant indeed. Now do you have any idea who it actually is?

@davidwalters4906

3 жыл бұрын

@@lordsod69 and

@lordsod69

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidwalters4906 and?

10.46 >> Martin Savage, security guard Westbury-Mall . How's it goin' Martin?

Remember John Nee in Galway.

Bless

There's little john nee!

No mobile 📱 or Internet cafes . 😁

I can't be the only one mentally switching "busking" with "wanking" I'm 5 minutes and an interesting documentary is transformed into magnificent experience

is the banjo player playing never on a sunday at 14:00

@Lee-nh5bb

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like.

Its natural that Irish people or any culture love and remember seeing their town or country full of their own people its heritage but biodiversity helps when different cultures intergrate but u still see people not mixing

I was 2 and happy

L0Ve

The only criterion should be quality. None appears here and none appears now. Of all capital cities in Europe Dublin is the most squalid and it steals far too much from the rest of Ireland.

7.53/54 the father Ted mystery finally solved it's a very young Father Todd Umptious 👍👍🐈🇮🇪

just orian..it's Dublin Ireland

Aul dublin

2020

just orian..yes that's him

Little John Nee?

1986 much better

18:32 Ivan Yates hasn't changed much.

@dOlier

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan Yates ???

@royroyston8480

4 жыл бұрын

@@dOlier That's Thom McGinty. The Diceman. Famous Dublin street performer in the 80s and early 90s. Died of a HIV related illness in 1995.

@Crosshatch1212

2 жыл бұрын

@@royroyston8480 by use off azt he wld still be here very possible if he hadn't been put on that killer drug .

OMG THE HAIR

3 .85 for a cavery in bewleys nice ill have 2 please

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

Average wage then 20 punts a week .

Still no Irish flag on Trinity College .

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

Now full of Ukrainian ones .No room for Irish flags or people.

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897

Жыл бұрын

Ukraine 🇺🇦 flag probably

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

Жыл бұрын

It's a zionist institution why would they

The cops uniform has never changed in all that time lol

@anthonydowling3356

Жыл бұрын

It has you know .

That was Dublin in the time we didn’t have much but we kept going I was 19then and pregnant a sin back then

@dOlier

Жыл бұрын

That was 1986, so now your "baby" is about twice the age you were then. I wonder what s/he thinks. Most people commenting say things were better then.

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

Жыл бұрын

Nowadays pregnancy is even more of a sin because you're killing Mother Gaia and depriving Moloch of his lunch

At 10:26, was that Paul Young? 🤣

@siobhankennedy-perri6896

2 жыл бұрын

That was my mate and me, The Gruesome Twosome - happy days!!!

@AnnesleyPlaceDub70

2 жыл бұрын

@@siobhankennedy-perri6896 Brilliant, unfortunatley something we don't see anymore.

@siobhankennedy-perri6896

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 Well, im still gigging!! Different material tho. All the best!

@TheBenzer9

2 жыл бұрын

@@siobhankennedy-perri6896 where are you gigging now? Hopefully you are after all this covid shit

@siobhankennedy-perri6896

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBenzer9 check out Mack Fleetwood 🙂

It takes a certain kind of person to be a Guard...

@MisAnnThorpe

3 жыл бұрын

Regardless of the country!

@Andy-ig9ky

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you're right there.

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

Жыл бұрын

Lack of a soul and years of childhood abuse, yeah

Looks very white. I prefer that its brown now as a mixed Irish African person i finally feel i fit in.

That lads from Antrim hi