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  @jamescopen981713 күн бұрын

  came over in .81....went to the states in 85 and never looked back...now back in ireland and happy to have lived thru it all.....

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  @clangersspace26794 ай бұрын

  Yes thanks a lot. Did that programme they spoke about happen? I wish another CD could happen, demos & b-sides, Halo 45 ( b-side hasn't made it to YT).....what a version of Treasure! Very interesting alt. versions....yep, they were my fave Irish band too......fcuk, takes so long to catch up with stuff!

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  @jetway77775 ай бұрын

  Thanx for sharing this RARE GEM!

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  @liamwalsh55955 ай бұрын

  Ireland is still very backward place 2023 compared to UK an Europe, shitty infrastructure, no metro, most young people still want out of it.

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  @bouncer20056 ай бұрын

  RIP Cathal Coughlan

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  @jamescopen981713 күн бұрын

  what happened to him...

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  @renatovismara13626 ай бұрын

  A DREAM

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  @liamkeane91598 ай бұрын

  Can u still make money in the sites in London, are the Irish community gone from North London

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  @patrickwalsh68738 ай бұрын

  I don't know how this came onto my YT feed, but - the last voice, as soon as I heard it I thought that's Eamonn Igoe ! And there he is in the credits ! 'Igoe from Sligo' - if you ever read this, I knew you in Oxford, around '95 ish. Hope you're keeping well ! All the best !

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  @ozzie-sk9dh9 ай бұрын

  In 1986 I was out of work for nine months in Dublin with no hope. There was thousands of us leaving. I arrived in Finsbury Park in August 1986 and I got work the next day. I slept on a pal's sofa for four months before finding a bed. Once I had a few quid I didn’t look back. When you’re young you feel bullet proof and that nothing bad can happen, that’s how we were. It was tough and lonely sometimes for about a year but then I started to get more stable and had a steady job and a decent bed, and London became my new home. London was a lot of fun in Maggie's Britain of the 1980s and there was plenty of work. Eventually we all got married and had kids. Lived in Ireland for 22 years, and England for 39 years. London has changed a lot, not for the better in my opinion. We were lucky to land in the good times.

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  @greatest73914 ай бұрын

  London in the 80's was great, Maggies Britain was good

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  @thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw70109 ай бұрын

  What year ?

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  @Ste20239 ай бұрын

  2001 before 9/11 shit . Rotten corrupt city. Biggest money laundering city on earth

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  @FlemingDublin9 ай бұрын

  Dec 1987

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  @billymcgrath38929 ай бұрын

  Sadly drummer Hughie Friel passed away yesterday 10/10/2023 only a year after we lost keyboard player Chris Green RIP

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  @laetitialogan201710 ай бұрын

  87 to,97...not an easy start, but went to College and things went really well after that. Worked for some excellent companies, if you were prepared to work, great opportunities back then. However, Ireland and family is where the heart was..made my money and came home. Things had picked up, and with my experience from London, I could pick and choose my jobs, and pay..not bad for a girl from a cottage...oh...and the craic was truly brilliant there...great times

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  @qmacker11 ай бұрын

  Thanks SO MUCH for posting this, John! Goddam they were so bloody great live. Saw them twice. R.I.P. John Borrowman. Thanks for the memories.

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  @mikewatt8706 Жыл бұрын

  I arrived in london in 1989 aged 17 from meath. I took a bus from dublin to Victoria station. I had never wittnesd so many people rushing around in all directions. I stayed in woodgreen. I had no qualifications. Over the years i delivered pizzas. Did security. Was a white van man. Then my russian friend noticed i was quite mechanically minded and he got me a job doing building services maintenance. My wage was about 400 a week. I was loaded. Then my Russian mate got me another job maintaining tube trains in the northern line. 1100 a week. I hit the jackpot. I moved jobs quite often over the years. London has lots of opportunities but sometimes it's not what you know but who you know. London gave me the money to allow me to travel the world being that flights are nuch cheaper than flying from other airports. Todays london is a different place. Iv seen 1 room in a shared house in north london go for 300 a week. There are too many people on benefits sitting about all day in accommodation that the workforce need. Prices are rising by the minute. A single person needs to take home 1000 a week in london to make it worth it. And out of that if you cant save 400 there is no point.

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  Жыл бұрын

  We only wear one jacket at a time these days.

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  @UltanCowley Жыл бұрын

  Surprised so few younger commentators know of my work: The Men Who Built Britain, McAlpine's Men, and Voices of the men who built Britain (CD). kzread.info/dash/bejne/gIKmtNGjmt3OlLw.html

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  @simonyip5978 Жыл бұрын

  In the 19th century, the biggest immigrant community in the UK was Irish. In London, it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of the white English population has some Irish ancestry (or if not the majority, a large minority will have an Irish grandparent or great grandparent or great great grandparent, at least).

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  @andyf750 Жыл бұрын

  Brilliant, atmospheric film. How empty London looks compared to today.

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  @dickconroy3291 Жыл бұрын

  Fabulous John!

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  @colmokelly2854 Жыл бұрын

  Great band John is another missed Irish poet

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  @TheMightyAvonJnr Жыл бұрын

  Fantastic.

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  @facuromeo2 жыл бұрын

  still watching it, after 10 years man.

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  @wor53lg502 жыл бұрын

  Crazy, britain was having to import irish workers cuz the british was buggering off germany, as in auf wiedersehen pet, the way the cookie crumbles..

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  @TheHazelBowden2 жыл бұрын

  Thanks John.

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  @patrickbradley73602 жыл бұрын

  Landed in London 1986. Old school friends put me up for 3 months in Acton, worked in construction. All these stories so familiar. Went to Birmingham and been here since. I have had some great experiences and some bad ones

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  @deeppurple8832 жыл бұрын

  .

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  @seamusburke91012 жыл бұрын

  Got here in January 89, broken marriage at home, didnt know anyone but had loads of advantages. 33 years old, good work ethic, didnt drink or smoke and could drive and maintain anything that was put in front of me. A busy time here in London and not enough skilled operators. I took full advantage of it and managed to pay of the mortgage on the house at home in 10 months. Im 33 years here now still driving cranes, got my own gaf and a few pound behind me. Still in good health and doing good. Sorry I didnt leave ireland a lot sooner, I'd have had a great life.

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  @salubrious2 жыл бұрын

  Fair fucks, if you don't mind my language.

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  @adriangeraghty6626 Жыл бұрын

  Shamus were the English people nice to the Irish workers. In all the videos iv watched nobody really spoke about this . Well done to you for making a good go of it . Good luck. Adrian

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  @thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw70109 ай бұрын

  Still no better than anyone else.

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  @patrickwalsh68738 ай бұрын

  @@adriangeraghty6626 They were, in my experience. An English foreman on the sites was fairer than an Irish man. Plenty others thought so too.

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  @liamkeane91598 ай бұрын

  Did u come across Keane's demolition

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  @marymary54942 жыл бұрын

  Wouldn’t it be interesting to do a follow up film on these individuals.

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  @marymary54942 жыл бұрын

  Great this was documented in film. So many Irish who travelled over before this generation their stories are lost in time.

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  @Oscartherescuedog2 жыл бұрын

  I went over to London in January 1989 aged 17, worked on the building sites £25 a day and one job paid £30 a day - 7 days work and £210 pay I felt like a millionaire compared to what my buddies back home were earning stacking beans in Quinnsworth…..but I missed home and I’m glad I came home. Great video.

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  @salubrious2 жыл бұрын

  Actually the hourly wage working as a labourer around that time in London wasn't much higher really than what you'd get in Dunnes or Quinnsworth. The difference was the hours: nobody talked about zero hour contracts back in the late 80s but that's essentially what you had working in D. or Q. As a part-timer you'd be lucky to get anything over 10 hours a week. Working on the sites in London as you talk about you could work 7 days a week, 10/12 hours days so I definitely hear you about feeling like a millionaire! Still though, we worked for it.

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  @roadwarrior8560 Жыл бұрын

  You were on bad money, I was making a 100 day that time shuttering, shift and a half on Sat and Sundays, it would still be good money today even. Never understood the fellas living in squats, we had a nice house rented between 4 of us, good craic but the English were racist towards us but we didn't care, took all the money we could of them, we didn't like them either, moved on to America and loved it there, London was really a dump compared to the States.

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  @Oscartherescuedog Жыл бұрын

  @@roadwarrior8560 I forgot to say I was a labourer, unskilled - that was great money for a Labourer compared to what I’d have been on at home (for 17 year old me it felt great anyways!) 👍🏻

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  @simonyip5978 Жыл бұрын

  ​@@roadwarrior8560 do you think that the IRA and the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 70's to the 90's had a lot to do with the attitude of the English towards the Irish?

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  @greatest739111 ай бұрын

  @@simonyip5978 Very much so and hard to blame them.

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  @mikewatte44782 жыл бұрын

  If you can't make it in London you won't make it anywhere else. Those who want to go home should never have left the farm.

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  @mikewatte44782 жыл бұрын

  The car reg QPR

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  @mikewatte44782 жыл бұрын

  Lots of irish made fortunes in UK and sadly thousands drank themselves into and early grave

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  @keh.325 ай бұрын

  And what's the difference?

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  @mikewatte44782 жыл бұрын

  I spent 28 years in London. Great fucking base to earn lots of fast cash and head to the airports

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  @thornbird67682 жыл бұрын

  Brutalist architecture is a love hate thing !

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  @tinytonymaloney78323 жыл бұрын

  I loved these stories when I was I kid in the 70s. I remember sitting in the back of our family car and my mum would come out of the paper shop on a dark winter evening with our weekly comics. We had Beano, Dandy, Valiant & Lion, Cor. Real stories with proper characters, I feel sorry for the kids of today who just have bias politically correct brain washing shite with no real story. I wish a film could be made of Janus Stark or Dam Eterno. They were my favourite characters.

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  @FlemingDublin3 жыл бұрын

  Think you are right Tony. Nice childhood memories - thanks. There was a complex kaleidoscope of yarn and character in those comic yarns... The Potters of Poole Street, Tough of the Track and so on. Like you, I think Stark and Eterno could and should be reanimated for these dark modern days. West European 19th-century urban folkloric superheroes! In my reveries, I have thought of giving it a shot in the form of a novel. Who knows... one day... Thanks.

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  @carolineainenibhreithimh76523 жыл бұрын

  My uncles William Toland. Very proud he made it on this footage xo

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  @johnjudge66013 жыл бұрын

  And you are my sister 😁

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  @carolineainenibhreithimh76523 жыл бұрын

  @@johnjudge6601 would of never knowen 🤣💜

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  @thefurrybastard19643 жыл бұрын

  I used to devour these stories when I was a kid. Adam Eterno, Janus Stark, Kelly's Eye, the Spider, Spellbinder. Those were the days!

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  @evelynherron3843 жыл бұрын

  Great piece of film. I know a few of those good Buncrana heads! Eve Roe

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  @dylantierney64073 жыл бұрын

  The guy at 13:15 seems like a bit of an asshole tbh

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  @dylantierney64073 жыл бұрын

  Time to emigrate again

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  @hernan59403 жыл бұрын

  "It will become very inhospitable" it certainly did, I lived 15 years in London, I left already, although I miss it, the quality of life is truly shite

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  @Packyboy2 жыл бұрын

  I lived in London for over 25 years. It’s never the place it’s always the people” long live the London Irish”.👍☘️🕺

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  @hernan59402 жыл бұрын

  @@Packyboy So, are you taking the blame?

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  @Packyboy2 жыл бұрын

  @@hernan5940 if that makes you feel better.

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  @hernan59402 жыл бұрын

  @@Packyboy haha, if it's never the place and you still live there....

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  @hernan59403 жыл бұрын

  1980s craic epidemic....

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  @Peter-7333 жыл бұрын

  good doc

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  @MrFootballfu3 жыл бұрын

  It was exactly what I thought about it in the 80s, I could not find a job that could pay for a room, had to share with 6 in hotel, met some incredible friends there though, lost broke but who cares, heard people with some trades saying they were better off labouring. I. R. A. Bombs and all that, most of the original English were OK, some of them bitter, not surprised. Irish people were absolutely everywhere. I am older now, even drinking a whole pint of water makes me sick now. How can Irish people maintain thier mental health drinking even a fraction of what they drank. It's was a mad destructive culture. Irish people these days are different I think.

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  @mikewatte44782 жыл бұрын

  Nope We still drinking

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  @MattPearman-qr4sq9 ай бұрын

  Speak for yourself 😂😂

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  @sojnab14 жыл бұрын

  I just thought of this guy,typed in "Adam eterno" on youtube an'this came up.Great upload.by the way im from Cork myself born in 66 and love drawing

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  @FlemingDublin4 жыл бұрын

  Thanks - very kind! Yes - along with the yarns and the character and the world inhabited, the drawings were excellent. Adam Eterno - now there is another magnificent character. The Valiant really lit up Ireland in the early 1970s...

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  @FlemingDublin4 жыл бұрын

  You might like this: www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/an-irishman-s-diary-on-how-valiant-heroes-adam-eterno-and-janus-stark-met-their-fate-1.1790052

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  @johnnyfeen13474 жыл бұрын

  14:44 Cathal Coughlan of Microdisney (band from Cork)

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  @ambientfairchild2 жыл бұрын

  He just died yesterday sadly

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  @asakarrman4 жыл бұрын

  Brilliant! Here's a link to the final product: eamonndowd.bandcamp.com/track/cu-chulainns-lament

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  @johnjudge66014 жыл бұрын

  The man in the Merc is my Uncle, William Toland, great to see this video... Thanks for sharing

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  @FlemingDublin4 жыл бұрын

  Wow. The details of that day and the building site are a bit blurred in my mind by time but that's great he's your uncle. If I recall correctly, it is also his voice saying "You forget your change" to the lads at the bar at 23 mins 2 secs, for he poured the pint. And what a fine car!

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  @johnmurphy46014 жыл бұрын

  Where is he now , did he come back to Ireland or is he still in London

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  @jessiejoemurkin6593 жыл бұрын

  What part is he from

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  @carolineainenibhreithimh76523 жыл бұрын

  @@johnmurphy4601 he passed away 20 years ago sadly

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  @carolineainenibhreithimh76523 жыл бұрын

  He moved home with his kids x

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  @BlueKoyoteIreland4 жыл бұрын

  Great clip, looking forward to hearing the album.