The City Life Of A Country Girl in Dublin City, Ireland 1967
The life of a Country Girl from Monaghan who has made the move to live and work in Dublin.
Frances McGuigan, from Castleblaney, County Monaghan describes her experience of moving to Dublin and talks about her life and work in the city.
Dublin, to a stranger from quieter parts: a grim place on a grey day and just as grim and as harsh on a bright day. The overpowering din of traffic, the geography of the city of the suburbs, there is so much to take in. So many unsmiling faces in a faceless crowd. And where to go? How to find places? For a quiet country girl unprepared for the bustle of city life that is her first problem.
Frances talks about her initial loneliness when she arrived in Dublin. She works as a clerk typist in a financial office and shares a basement one bedroom flat with two other girls. They each contribute one pound weekly to a kitty to buy basic groceries.
Earning about nine pounds a week it is often hard to make ends meet. Frances never saves and often receives financial support from her parents. She talks about missing her family but can not afford to visit them as often as she would like but she gets a lift home every second weekend.
Frances has a steady boyfriend and says that they go out about four nights a week to the theatre or the pictures. According to Frances, she wouldn’t have a social life was it not for her boyfriend due to the expense.
Frances would like to settle down eventually and raise a family in the south side suburbs of Dublin.
This ‘Newsbeat’ report was broadcast on 13 December 1967. The reporter is Michael Ryan.
‘Newsbeat’ was a half-hour feature programme presented by Frank Hall and ran for 7 years from September 1964 to June 1971.
‘Newsbeat’ went out from Monday to Friday on RTÉ television and reported on current affairs and issues of local interest from around Ireland. The final programme was broadcast on the 11 June 1971.
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I'm from long beach CA and I watch these videos because they're educational, humorous and interesting, I hope one day to visit...
@irishmade8136
2 жыл бұрын
A completely different Ireland these days. A life time ago when times were simple and people hadn't much, but what they had they shared. Well the ordinary working class people. But it's well worth a visit to the west coast 👍👍👍
@ENGABU1
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 67 and put up for adoption...these archives are such a rich source of social documentary. Ireland is still such a beautiful country.
@ufobattleship001
2 жыл бұрын
@@ENGABU1 yes such a very rich source of information that is difficult to find, it's KZread channel videos like this that make it worth it
@ufobattleship001
2 жыл бұрын
@@irishmade8136 thanks for taking the time to give me suggestive advice I will remember that...
@brianbadonde8700
2 жыл бұрын
Don't expect it to be very Irish or anything like these videos
Wow what an elegant well spoken country girl.Pure Class. She would be in her mid 70s now. I would love to meet her.
@brianbadonde8700
2 жыл бұрын
No you wouldn't she has dementia and incontinence
@Alex-gn2rb
2 жыл бұрын
similar age to my mam who like many many others played this role of country girl in Dublin , same era late 60s so it's great to watch.
@animallover19581
2 жыл бұрын
Not bothered really, hope shes doing good and healthy. Thanks for that assumption.
@citizen1163
2 жыл бұрын
There's always one like Laurence in comments sections, unfortunately.
@Patmofar
2 жыл бұрын
@Laurence O'Connor You really should learn to how to spell and use grammar properly before posting sneering childish comments. What you have posted just shows you for the ignoramus that you are. Idiots like you, thinking that they are so, so clever always amuse me.
I was born in 1967 in Ireland, I showed this to my kids recently as a bit of history and my son said ‘Mum you never told us you were born in black and white’ - he thinks he’s bloody hilarious.
She looks like a 1960’s fashion model
@iseegoodandbad6758
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of models are scouted from rural areas. All the fresh air and clean food does benefit the female body!!!
@lydialily846
2 жыл бұрын
She doesn’t have a castleblaney accent .. Wonda did she settle down in the suburbs of south Dublin.
Wow she's stunning 🥰
@KittySofttpaws
2 жыл бұрын
Was*
@ShineMedia1
Жыл бұрын
@@KittySofttpaws maybe she still is stunning ? Yes I know she's older, so what?
Beautiful soft voice and accent
She is gorgeous! I bet she wasn’t single long.
@tidningsboije5568
2 жыл бұрын
single? she said she had a boyfriend with whome she went out four days a week?
@khiggins8733
2 жыл бұрын
@@tidningsboije5568 Single means she is not married.
Thank you CR Video Vaults for preserving and giving us these wonderful rte, etc.archival presentations. I wonder where is lovely Francis these days.
@rubsey1
Жыл бұрын
She'd be in her late 70s now.
Love your content all the old videos of the people of our beautiful native Ireland. What would our old leaders think about dublin today. Smfh 😢
This girl's voice is borderline ASMR.
@khiggins8733
2 жыл бұрын
Had to Google it but yes. She is gorgeous
Its 2022 now and people who move to Dublin are suffering the same hardships! Except a lot wouldn't be able to afford to go out 4 nights a week!.
@tc6070
2 жыл бұрын
they would if they had a boyfriend who pays
Did anyone see the rising damp on the wall to the left of her legs as she’s looking through the photo album… so typical of England and Ireland. Wet, cold, damp constantly.
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052
2 жыл бұрын
I was distracted)))
Very pretty. Notice how country people from Ireland, Scotland norway etc perfectly fit Hollywood beauty ideals??
@markofsaltburn
2 жыл бұрын
No, but I did notice that a country girl is far more likely to have a camera pointed at her if she DOES perfectly fit Hollywood beauty ideals.
@Dreyno
2 жыл бұрын
@@markofsaltburn I think you may have cracked it 😄
@markofsaltburn
2 жыл бұрын
@@Dreyno Not all of us have, it seems 😉
Very nice 👌😁❤️,from india
Thanks🌴🛸
nostalgia , I wonder what she would think of Dublin now ?
my dear god PLEASE send me back to these days. PEOPLE WERE SO NORMAL.
Love the soundtrack.
Dublin was a different place back then.
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052
2 жыл бұрын
Wrong. It was Dublin.
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave....
Better times then, she speaks so politely not like today..
Such an innocent, sweet girl from a bygone era
@tc6070
2 жыл бұрын
there the ones you need to be careful of
@patrickglennon7058
Жыл бұрын
Indeed, now everybody knows everything
Going home every two weeks!,is hardly 'leaving home',and she had a lift home too! Four nights out a week,'on the tear',is hardly struggling, I'd say this woman was having the life of Reilly.When l left Ireland,and found meself in deepest Sussex,l could only afford to see me Ma and Da once a year,and sometimes more than a year went by without going back to see anybody.I thought people struggled in the sixties!? Mick Gaskell,(birthname O'Donovan.)
@joenavanodo3780
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Mick, Joe O’Donovan here. I left County Limerick in 1963 for New York, only went home twice. I live in California now. I guess we all make our own way somehow. Be well my friend.
@conormorgan6280
2 жыл бұрын
Why did your name change from ÓDonabhain to gaskel
@michaelgaskell7408
2 жыл бұрын
@@conormorgan6280 It was changed after Mr O'Donabhain left me Ma.She met somebody else,(Mr Gaskell,)this happened when l was very young.
@joenavanodo3780
2 жыл бұрын
@@conormorgan6280 . That I should hide behind the greater self than me
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052
2 жыл бұрын
Bond. James Magillicudy. )))))
Hopefully she’s living a better life now
In those days we did our washing up in the bog and it cost us 3 gnas.
I lived in Castleblayney for a couple of years. It's in Monaghan. Absolutely nothing there. Can't imagine what it must have been like in '67 😂
00:35 The first ever self driving Peopleshifter. Patrick Musk at the token wheel. The poor man drove straight over Banbas Crown in it earlier that year. Never to be seen again until he got rescued. He lives in Clones now. God rest him. We were blessed to have known his kind...
1:58 Can you see in the video who is the VERY famous Irish celebrity ! Clues are only for those who are backwards Cryptic !
@Ridersonthestorm8899
2 жыл бұрын
Can i say tonight k this is your life!!
@khiggins8733
2 жыл бұрын
@@Ridersonthestorm8899 GOOD ON YOU KELLY 😊 A cryptic answer as well !
Yes yes, we know...you know.
Kudos too her, A hard life but she was a tryer, Nowadays if you know what you are doing in Dublin you can live a very comfortable life on social welfare and never do a days work in your life..
@denisdowning4082
2 жыл бұрын
Do it so
@liamhackett513
2 жыл бұрын
See how far ye get on 200 euro a week. Life of reilly.
@darrenwodges2597
2 жыл бұрын
her parents were helping her and her boyfriend paid for her nights out. she also shared a flat with two other people. not like she was fully supporting herself.
@73reider
2 жыл бұрын
@@liamhackett513 Fuck off and rent allowance, A dole utopia..
i wonder if there are irish people in dublin today ?
Where is she now
@tonemc6047
2 жыл бұрын
I have just emailed a company in Castleblaney called McGuigans to see if they know ,it’s Ireland someone will know ! I will add a comment if they get back.
@leevancleef451
2 жыл бұрын
@@alanionlyeatbeansontoastmo8770 most people look good being filmed or pictures in black and white.. She's was probably a ginger moose in real life..
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052
2 жыл бұрын
Are ya serious?
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052
2 жыл бұрын
@@alanionlyeatbeansontoastmo8770 Binoculars?
@alanionlyeatbeansontoastmo8770
2 жыл бұрын
@@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Jimmy Mack when are you coming back ohhh Jimmy mackkk
From Castleblayney??? That's no Castleblayney accent 🤔
@MikeyJMJ
2 жыл бұрын
When a TV camera was thrown in your face back then, you'd make yourself sound as posh as possible
@KittySofttpaws
2 жыл бұрын
All these old videos of Irish women be it Dublin or elsewhere in the country speak with a very posh English lady type of accent. It was probably a thing at the time and now it's all muck savage country folks who spew 100 words in about 5 seconds and you'd have no clue what they said.
Boiled eggs that the one
I came here to see who's grandmother this is.
That's the poshest Irish accent I've heard in a long time. I bet it wasn't long before the boss in that office invited her out for the old How's your father.
67? Sure I wasn't even a glint in the milkman's eye. Mostly because he hadn't taken over the round in me ma's area yet & me da hadn't started night work yet either. But when they did........!
When Ireland belonged to the Irish.
@kelzuya
2 жыл бұрын
When Ireland belonged to the church.
@hercules_144
2 жыл бұрын
Who does it belong to now?
@kelzuya
2 жыл бұрын
@@hercules_144 Given that his profile says "Inmate @NWO Prison Ireland" he's probably some Jim Carr weirdo that thinks George Soros or space lizards run the place.
@emu9520
2 жыл бұрын
When Ireland treated women like shit you mean
@hellomynameisjames
2 жыл бұрын
@@hercules_144 Africans