Where Are You Going on Holiday? Ireland 1973

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  • Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
  • People on the streets of Dublin outline their holiday hopes and plans.
    People on Grafton Street and Camden Street recall previous vacations, holiday plans and the cost. France, Spain, Corfu, West Indies and Arklow are just some of the holiday destinations mentioned.
    This episode of ‘Agenda’ was broadcast on 1 August 1973. The reporter is Doireann Ní Bhriain.

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  • @cuibono6872
    @cuibono6872 2 года назад +30

    I was raised in London, our holiday was two weeks at the grandparents in Mohill, county Leitrim pitching hay, great crack.

    • @DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es
      @DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es 2 часа назад

      Craic ‘ believe it or not the word comes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 yep not many here know that ☘️✌️

  • @raygreen5926
    @raygreen5926 2 года назад +69

    49 years ago. Where are they now ? Many consigned to sweet oblivion. Life is all a fleeting dream, as my late mother would oft say when I was growing up. Time makes ghosts of us all 🎭☘🇮🇪

    • @vincentbyrne2394
      @vincentbyrne2394 Год назад +3

      Ah come on now, that's hardly an insightful observation...Time passes & people get old and pass on.

    • @spike6643
      @spike6643 Год назад +8

      Aahh come on.. we've a load of shites to do before we pop off.

    • @ljclark2177
      @ljclark2177 Год назад +2

      Your mum was very wise ❤

    • @DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es
      @DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es 6 месяцев назад

      I was only starting life in Dublin there in Crumlin then Ballyfermot then Clondalkin . Old Moore St. see how see said little‘Children “ chideren

  • @mrn13
    @mrn13 2 года назад +81

    For my holiday I would like to time travel to 1973 to the streets of this video. How beautiful it is

    • @pamelathomas847
      @pamelathomas847 2 года назад +18

      Absolutely, just seemed like simpler times

    • @exactsame
      @exactsame 2 года назад +17

      Couldn’t agree more Everyone seemed happier and content with life, unlike today

    • @seannolan8615
      @seannolan8615 2 года назад +3

      It would be a shock to the system, when you come back to 2022.

    • @thetwoboyos8366
      @thetwoboyos8366 Год назад

      Very black and white though😬🤔

    • @juicehammer
      @juicehammer Год назад +2

      What!? No double glazed windows, no polar tech coats, loud cars with no catalytic convertors or seat belts, limited food options....Ireland in the 70s was cold and dull I would imagine!

  • @philipodowd227
    @philipodowd227 Год назад +15

    Ireland was Ireland back then.

    • @spazzymacgee5648
      @spazzymacgee5648 2 месяца назад

      Aye because Ireland isn't Ireland anymore?? 😂😂 take your small minded mentally elsewhere. Scumbag

  • @jow6845
    @jow6845 Год назад +16

    The 79 year-old who’d like to go dancing….😔💗

  • @StumpyVandal
    @StumpyVandal 2 года назад +114

    “What did you do in the caravan?” “Play arowandt” love the Dub accent. 😂

    • @oliviamartini9700
      @oliviamartini9700 2 года назад +2

      He said, "Lay around."

    • @StumpyVandal
      @StumpyVandal 2 года назад +24

      @@oliviamartini9700 nah I listened to it a couple of times definitely “play around” and I’m from Dublin. When I was little my accent would’ve been a much less pronounced version of his.

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +3

      @@oliviamartini9700 I thought it was lay around as well but after listening to it again it’s definitely play around also it’s a girl.

    • @johnmcgowan7954
      @johnmcgowan7954 2 года назад

      I love the way the lady at 0.39 says children - there are about four syllables in it!

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +1

      @@johnmcgowan7954 she says chill-der -en, it’s the true dub accent unlike all the want to be posh Biddies back then trying to imitate the posh British accent.

  • @puurfectlysplendid
    @puurfectlysplendid Год назад +19

    When did we lose these beautiful speaking,classs and mannerism.

    • @rachelmacgowan86
      @rachelmacgowan86 5 месяцев назад +4

      Was thinking the exact same thing - so naturally charming, a lovely softness

  • @greenwater7508
    @greenwater7508 2 года назад +12

    West indies for a holiday in 73 now that is called stinking rich.

  • @McConnachy
    @McConnachy 2 года назад +49

    Growing up in Scotland we used to go to Ireland. Lovely friendly people who know how to enjoy life. They were always so nice to us as kids

    • @GWOAT
      @GWOAT Год назад +3

      I've been in Scotland(Stirling) twice this year for 1 month each visit and the people were so nice. But i couldn't believe the poverty and how much people struggle to pay bills and buy food and essentials. Yes in Finglas in Dublin where i live there is poverty but not on the scale i witnessed in Stirling. The benifits to supposedly help people on low incomes is sickening. It's a disgrace how Westminster treats Scotland financially. I do think its time for Scotland to leave GB as you have so many resources to be such a succesful independent country. I love the Scottish people and can't wait to go back hopefully in the new year. Blessings from Ireland mo chara 🇮🇪💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @McConnachy
      @McConnachy Год назад +2

      @@GWOAT Mo Charaid. Tapadh leibh! I really appreciate you comments. We just came back from our holiday from the north west of Scotland, the MacLeod, MacKay and MacKenzie lands of the north. I have never seen poverty like it. Most of the north suffered from famine and the clearances (land Lord evictions) between 1840 and 1940s, and the population has declined every year up to today. The old people there will tell you they had the Gaelic beaten out of them. Sad. And to think something like £12 Trillion in oil revenue alone has left Scottish seas, we received none, while they call us spongers. Well, if they take everything out of the country, then we will become spongers. I’m all for Indy. I would also like to see a closer Pan Celtic tie. I have fond memories of the Irish. A warm and sociable and lively people. I once spent a whole weekend in Foleys bar in Dublin, was meant to go to the Rugby but never made it. We sent some bottles to the bar staff as a thank you. I wish you all the best and can’t thank you enough for your support for Indy. We will see you soon in the EU, kind regards, Angus

    • @GWOAT
      @GWOAT Год назад +1

      @McConnachy Heya Angus im Ger. Go raibh maith agat a chara as do fhreagra. It's good read your own views as a Scottish native. I personally would love to see some Celtic brootherhood, hopefully Wales in the future too. We have very close connections with Scotland going back long before the english saw yous, and us, as 'just savages'. It's a disgrace how much resources that westminster has just stole from your resources. Calling you spongers as you say. You defo be better off in the EU and build up your infrastructures better too, Ireland benefitted well from the money we got from the EU to get going. And i don't undersand what the commonwealth is even about, a bunch of ex-colonies happy to stil recognise the head of the country that colonised them?! Oh yea in Stirling the William Wallace monument is amazing so is Stirling castle where young princess mary of scotland lived. It's a great museum. Like Ireland so rich in history, song, writers, poets, musicians it goes on and on. Its a lousy night here storms and gale winds but that be mild weather to you northern lads lol. Be safe my friend. Oh being Scottish you might like Johnny Cash, he's ancestors came from Scotland. He thought he was Irish but he wasn't they traced it back after he died. I run the longest running johnny cash group in facebook with his daughter Kathy if you'd like join. It's on FB as ' Cashaholic's ' Johnny Cash fan group. Keep safe bro. Oh i love square sausage btw lol. 🇮🇪💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @spike6643
      @spike6643 Год назад +1

      @@GWOAT I travel to celtic matches on a Stirling supporters club. Good people.. especially the Raploch!

    • @GWOAT
      @GWOAT Год назад +1

      @@spike6643 That sounds great craic. I stayed in a place called Cornton, but i did hear them mention Raploch a lot. Must be great going to Glasgow with the people from there. Amazing, funny, kind, lovely people who go out of their way to do anything for you. The lass i was staying with in Cornton was in the British Army and served in Lisburn in the North, but a big Celtic fan and we got on so well. I gave her a tricolor and she hung it on her wall proudly. I used always wear my Celtic jersey going out and about and no-one ever said anything in a bad way about it, even the Rangers fans. They would hear my accent and ask me all about Ireland. Only back since june and miss it so much already. Tc mo chara.👍 C'mon the Hoops! 🇮🇪🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @DubSun33
    @DubSun33 2 года назад +132

    If your parents were from the country, that's where you spent your summer

    • @__seeker__
      @__seeker__ 2 года назад +11

      Absolutely. When you’re from the country, you know there’s nothing better.

    • @icturner23
      @icturner23 2 года назад +6

      @@__seeker__ No one knows there’s nothing better unless they’ve been everywhere. It’s narrow-minded to think otherwise.

    • @mattjames88
      @mattjames88 2 года назад +1

      aint thst the trurh 😆

    • @Eduardo-yc4bq
      @Eduardo-yc4bq Год назад +2

      @@icturner23 nothing better then home, dont matter where u go

  • @GWOAT
    @GWOAT Год назад +19

    In 1979 i remember so fondly my Family went on holiday together to Butlins in Pwllheli(Wales) and we had the best time ever. 1st time ever on a Ferry only 5yrs old was like the greatest thing ever. I still remember that holiday as if it was yesterday. You can't buy such great childhood memories. 🇮🇪💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @Kim-mk7pb
      @Kim-mk7pb Год назад +2

      I went to Pwllheli about 4 years in a row when I was a kid! I'm gonna go look up videos of it now 😂😂

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 2 дня назад

      Childhood memories ❤❤❤

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo 2 года назад +154

    I'm amazed! I genuinely didn't realise that people went abroad on holiday in 1973 - other than some exceptionally rich people. I was born in 75 and people around me seemed to just holiday in the UK somewhere. I'm from Wales.

    • @shaunsteele8244
      @shaunsteele8244 2 года назад +12

      lol it was the 70s, not the dark ages. Of course people went abroad on holiday

    • @rahawa774
      @rahawa774 2 года назад +17

      Same - I was brought up in Australia and everyone I knew just drove to their country cousins. Only rich people went to Bali, and we didn't know many...

    • @brianmoran1196
      @brianmoran1196 2 года назад +11

      Me too, I'm sure if they went to Mayo they would not find so many holidaymakers.

    • @haroldofcardboard
      @haroldofcardboard 2 года назад +10

      these were the early years when people started going overseas for the first time. as trips to the mediteranean areas were becoming more accesible. prior to this people would travel to domestic seaside resorts. i was born in '64. my first overseas trip as a boy w family was to spain, early '70's

    • @elizabethconnolly8958
      @elizabethconnolly8958 2 года назад +16

      The only time I remember people going abroad was the fact they where emigrating and could not afford to come back home again

  • @thereunionparty
    @thereunionparty 2 года назад +142

    Lovely interviews. Everyone so full of character and good humour. I bet the two lads at the end knew how to have a good time on holiday.

    • @binboy4034
      @binboy4034 2 года назад +1

      Lovely interviews with ppl who obousily had no hardships, going on a foreign holiday back then? What about the families who couldn't afford a loaf of bread why didn't they get an interview? The working classes left to rot as per usual

    • @quill7889
      @quill7889 2 года назад +5

      @@binboy4034 How would you go interview someone about where they're going for the holiday if they are poor and cant anyway?

    • @joseffinat966
      @joseffinat966 2 года назад

      @@quill7889 je kunt hen vragen wat zij doen met hun vrije dagen,in die tijd ging men niet met zoveel kinderen ,wij hadden wel zwemkaart dus mooi weer zwemmen ,of naar de markt op maandagmiddag kregen wij kinderen elk een gebakje klinkt raar maar wij kwamen bij de bakker langs ,en bij de visboer in de etalage loeren naar een heel mooi zelfgemaakte draaimolen met figuurtjes alles bewoon vol lichtjes was mooi om te zien,op zich waren toen veel kinderen die niet weg gingen dus altijd wel een paar om mee te spelen ook een grote speeltuin in de buurt kan mij niet herinneren of wij ons hebben verveelt, oude kranten ophalen bij mensen om in te leveren per kilo paar centen met een onderstel van een kinderwagen hadden wij een plank en touw om te sturen en een om te duwen ging best hard en sturen was een kunst op zich dus nee wij hadden geen idee wat vakantie was alleen wisten wij dat een lange periode niet naar school hoefden en dat was alleen al een vakantie gevoel hele dag spelen en buiten zijn gaf kleur op je gezicht tegenwoordig is voor het kind nu wel afzien 6 weken bij huis met niemand om te spelen maar misschien is het in afzienbare tijd dat velen zich weer vermaken als toen maar speeltuin is er volgens mij er niet meer echt jammer dat in volksbuurten heel weinig te beleven valt voor deze kinderen

    • @narkovatis
      @narkovatis Год назад +1

      For sure!

    • @anthonydowling3356
      @anthonydowling3356 7 месяцев назад

      @@joseffinat966 Your Dutch .Where did you go on holiday in your youth ? Probably Scheveningen ?

  • @JohnSmith-fm1ht
    @JohnSmith-fm1ht Год назад +19

    Everything was so much nicer back then. And that is a fact.

  • @sopyleecrypt6899
    @sopyleecrypt6899 2 года назад +131

    Growing up in New Zealand in the 80s, middle class people went to Australia or the pacific islands (Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, mainly) if they went abroad for a holiday. Rich kids might get taken to the Disneyland in California. But ordinary people went camping somewhere in New Zealand. A lot of people (like me) never went overseas until their big “O.E.” (Overseas Experience) in their twenties, when they’d saved up enough money for the air fare. New Zealand is a long way from anywhere, so flights have always been expensive, and travelling by sea takes ages.

    • @limericksfinest4680
      @limericksfinest4680 2 года назад +8

      I went to NZ for a year when I was 21 in 2001 one of the best years of my life your country and it's people are fantastic

    • @brendansheehan7714
      @brendansheehan7714 2 года назад +14

      The thing with New Zealand is that it is blessed with so many climates: subtropical, temperate, Mediterranean, Alpine, fjords, arid plains, volcanic. It is an incredible country.

    • @john.premose
      @john.premose 2 года назад +8

      Youre still lucky because in the US this is not very common to travel so much to other countries...not among working class people. It seems to be very common everywhere else but not here because they make us work like dogs for the corporate overlords

    • @passionatesingle
      @passionatesingle 2 года назад

      @@brendansheehan7714 not sue about the Mediterranean part lol!!

    • @brendansheehan7714
      @brendansheehan7714 2 года назад +2

      @@passionatesingle Hastings/Napier has a Mediterranean climate. Where do you think all the wine comes from?

  • @paulofarrell6277
    @paulofarrell6277 Год назад +10

    It's hilarious the difference between the working-class Dubs and the Middle class. The old Dublin accent is adorable on little kids. Great videos these.

  • @spike6643
    @spike6643 Год назад +6

    In working class Scotland we got sent picking berries in the summer holidays then tatties in the autumn.
    I've seen old school records when they closed to help the farmers if the crop was late! Changed days indeed!!

  • @X2LR8
    @X2LR8 2 года назад +58

    The little lad at 2:00 made my day. I hope he's doing well now!

  • @finolaomurchu8217
    @finolaomurchu8217 2 года назад +26

    1.27 went on holidays "onceT". Beauriful weather, and child-her-en. Lovely Dublin🙋🏻‍♀️💚

  • @scottyk200
    @scottyk200 2 года назад +19

    “I went to Arklow. It was horrible.” 😂

  • @simonmccann1120
    @simonmccann1120 2 года назад +23

    I remember being sent to Cabinteely for summer holidays in the 80s. And I only lived in Shankill 😂

  • @missadda8890
    @missadda8890 2 года назад +45

    Born in 62 I only knew one person in primary school whose parents went abroad to Spain on their own no children then everything seemed to change around 77-79 people were going to Spain and Corfu my parents never ventured further than West Cork and Kerry my father had to have his Murphys stout and Irish food never one to try something new.Fond memories.

    • @TRAVELLINGCHANNEL1
      @TRAVELLINGCHANNEL1 2 года назад +1

      are you icelandic?

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +2

      The cost of flights back then was too prohibitive for many.

    • @Fezziekid
      @Fezziekid 2 года назад +2

      I thought the exact same, only a handful of people had money for foreign holidays.

  • @Belfastboi
    @Belfastboi 2 года назад +15

    Can’t get enough of these films

  • @johnathanryan2117
    @johnathanryan2117 2 года назад +14

    " before i got married..."
    Great line!

  • @rivolinho
    @rivolinho 2 года назад +13

    Didn't think anyone in Ireland went on holidays abroad til after 2000. The 80s and 90s seemed to be just long summers of time off school with English cousins visiting.
    Spose my social circle were all poor AF lol

  • @stevenlangdon-griffiths293
    @stevenlangdon-griffiths293 2 года назад +3

    The lady was asked are you going on holiday this year, she said that she would like to go on a holiday, but, with having small children to look after, she couldn’t.
    A good Mum.

  • @marcusskyfall
    @marcusskyfall 2 года назад +16

    The woman at 3:05 is someone that is grateful for even the smallest of blessings.

  • @gyorkshire257
    @gyorkshire257 2 года назад +10

    Same as ever, it's the rich what gets the gravy and the poor what gets the lump.

  • @mickosullivan3827
    @mickosullivan3827 2 года назад +17

    Ballybunion was as far as i went on holiday about 30 miles from where i lived.

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +1

      You were lucky.

    • @mickosullivan3827
      @mickosullivan3827 2 года назад +2

      It was only once mind ,most of my summers were spent in the bog footin turf.

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад

      @@mickosullivan3827 same here

    • @nia.d3356
      @nia.d3356 2 года назад

      @@mickosullivan3827 yous are better for it than my generation , gen z are all soft entitled pricks.

  • @eddieraffs5909
    @eddieraffs5909 Год назад +1

    One of my many trips to Ireland was in September 1973. I spent 2 weeks after landing at Shannon motoring around the country, drinking pints and enjoying the sweet aroma of turf fires from Clare to Donegal.

  • @73reider
    @73reider 2 года назад +28

    The little boy at 2:05 is breaking all hearts..

    • @SpiderPigggg
      @SpiderPigggg 2 года назад +5

      Dudes most likely to be in his 50s now

  • @zimegratisdemocritos
    @zimegratisdemocritos 2 года назад +13

    Old europe is really lovely 😍😍

  • @saberbo89
    @saberbo89 2 года назад +58

    Beautiful Ireland god bless irish people 🇮🇪🍀🙏✝️

    • @Roger_Ramjet
      @Roger_Ramjet Год назад

      God and the church were the ruination of Ireland the bastards

    • @dylantierney6407
      @dylantierney6407 Год назад

      Don’t give us your Catholic shit

  • @shamrockshore6308
    @shamrockshore6308 2 года назад +7

    Doireann Ní Bhriain is the interviewer, and 'Tangents' the programme.

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 2 года назад +12

    I am following Rory Gallagher's advise, I am going to my home town where people there will meet me with a hearty handshake, warm greeting and smiles on their faces, Yes I am, going to my hometown just as soon as I buy a new pair of leather shoes

  • @amdistant5547
    @amdistant5547 Год назад +9

    Simple times with genuine people. Not like today.

  • @bredaokeeffe4702
    @bredaokeeffe4702 2 года назад +8

    We went to mosney with our children and loved it às did our kids my self and my brotherin law sepretly saved 2 people from drowning that year a little girl àbout 4 or 5 dressed in a green mohair cardigan and black ànd whitè top and check black skirt wiĺl never forget that i think god saved her life that must be 44 years ago

    • @stephenirons1892
      @stephenirons1892 2 года назад

      Mosney was a brilliant holiday in those days plenty for us kids to do.

    • @helenmccann9084
      @helenmccann9084 3 месяца назад

      Thank God you were there

  • @akkor6835
    @akkor6835 Год назад +6

    cuánta gente inteligente, Viva Irlanda!! desde Argentina

  • @pamelathomas847
    @pamelathomas847 2 года назад +7

    I loved this video, some really genuine lovely people in it . Lovely to see

  • @dublinbred
    @dublinbred 4 месяца назад +1

    Derek is a true irishman who loves his country, give him your vote if you can.

  • @mikehalterman1615
    @mikehalterman1615 Год назад +2

    The lady in the babushka who said she'd even travel to LONDON was hilarious, bless

    • @irishcountrygirl78
      @irishcountrygirl78 6 месяцев назад +1

      Head scarf, you are saying grandmother in Russian 😂, irish wore head scarves to protect the hair ❤.

  • @bigears4014
    @bigears4014 2 года назад +11

    When you haven't got it what can you do , good answer

  • @notasstupidasilookprobably
    @notasstupidasilookprobably Год назад +2

    My family are northsiders, Finglas🫶. A day out on O'Connell st was like a mini holiday.

    • @helenmccann9084
      @helenmccann9084 Месяц назад +1

      @@notasstupidasilookprobably 🤣 you can’t beat a great day out

  • @SamBrickell
    @SamBrickell 2 года назад +10

    People all living within the same area sharing the same culture with each other is the ultimate.

  • @shelleygibbons1065
    @shelleygibbons1065 6 месяцев назад

    Beautiful people in this interview. Kind . Funny 😁 taking the time to talk

  • @MB-pe1dw
    @MB-pe1dw 2 года назад +27

    I grew up in England to Irish parents. We would go to Ireland Every summer and youngsters would wonder why I never had a sun tan after being there. One fella told me he found out Ireland is not a hot country like Spain. But many thought it was! They thought there was something foreign about the place.

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton 2 года назад +6

      I remember going to Ireland in think 83, not only it was boiling, but it was a Sunday in Dublin and we had to transfer trains to go to the West , near Galway, everything was closed, all the shops, then the shops in the station opened up and closed as trains arrived and departed. Also on the same trip the train from London to Fishguard somehow took the wrong route and took another 2 hours. We stayed on a farm where the nearest village was 5 miles if you went through the forest, 8 if you used the roads, the village was a arrange in a circle, it had 13 pubs, 1 grocery store and an undertaker and that was it :).
      the other thing was I went to a mainly Irish primary school in London and rather embarrassingly I met 2 of my teachers on the various trains in Ireland, I also remember that our Neighbours in London, found my family in the middle of nowhere by just asking around do you know where this family are staying.

    • @roymunson1
      @roymunson1 2 года назад +3

      the same. born in Ireland, grew up in London but we'd come home in the summers. it was like another world.

    • @thetwoboyos8366
      @thetwoboyos8366 Год назад

      @@davidrenton welcome to the twilight zone .. 🇮🇪

  • @netlove1121
    @netlove1121 2 года назад +6

    This video makes me sad a bit… although it’s a cute one… especially for the elderly ones in the video… hard working women… one of them said - 79 years of age - that she took only one day off the year before.

  • @PorkChopExpress86
    @PorkChopExpress86 2 года назад +3

    Never realized so many of our own were going so far afield in 73. Born few years after this, never went too far away

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад

      Very few did.

    • @margaretrutherford5548
      @margaretrutherford5548 Год назад +1

      I agree. I sent to Majorca on a family holiday in 1973 when I was five. I was the first child at my primary school to have flown in a plane.

  • @nooora5923
    @nooora5923 2 года назад +10

    I actually come to the UK for the holiday! I want to escape scorching heat of my country.

    • @six-gun
      @six-gun 2 года назад

      Agreed - I am in Spain. So many people come here at the very time of year I want to escape.

  • @antseanbheanbocht4993
    @antseanbheanbocht4993 2 года назад +9

    Sent to sunshine House balbriggan in the 80s, absolute hell hole, a week long royal rumble between the kids from the most deprived areas of Dublin.

    • @jlcleaning.7619
      @jlcleaning.7619 2 года назад +1

      Haha was there myself what a kip 😂.

    • @antseanbheanbocht4993
      @antseanbheanbocht4993 2 года назад +1

      @@jlcleaning.7619 Still have the scars, mental and physical. 😅

    • @マーシャルテレンス
      @マーシャルテレンス 2 года назад +1

      I grew up in a very strange part of Dublin. Tenements on the south side of Rathmines. Holy field buildings they were called. Actually, quite famous, or infamous for many reasons. Anyways, long story short, we would be sent to Sunshine House just to give me Ma a break there being 8 kids living in a two roomed flat. It was in Dublin 6. All around our tenements were houses you couldn't imagine. Doctors, lawyers, with massive houses. Orchards in their back gardens. We loved boxing the fox (taking the fruit from the trees that never seemed to be picked by the occupants of the houses)to sell to the neighbors in the tenements to make all sorts of fruit pies. The craic we had. Now I live in Japan where the heat is killing, and no craic. I want a time machine to take me back to the days when kids did anything to make a penny and knew every trick in the book without causing too much mischief 😂☘️🇮🇪Days today's kids can't even dream of🥴

    • @shane6115
      @shane6115 2 года назад +1

      @@マーシャルテレンス . Why did you settle in Japan, and did you know the general growing up as that was his turf

    • @マーシャルテレンス
      @マーシャルテレンス 2 года назад

      @@shane6115 I met a Japanese lady when I was 20. Got married at 22 and moved to Japan in 1985. The whole story is too long to put in a post . But suffice as to say, a lot has happened in the years since then.

  • @mrpotatohead6264
    @mrpotatohead6264 2 года назад +17

    I grew up in England in the 90s/00s and most of our holidays were staying with relatives in Wales and Southend, or camping/caravaning in the Isle of Wight with extended family. It was always a fun time.
    Went to Greece and Spain as an older child, thanks to affordable beach holidays.
    There was always that one posh little twat who went on cruises and luxury 5 star holidays outside of Europe and bragged about it till he got beaten up 🤣

    • @3xoticG4m3r
      @3xoticG4m3r Год назад

      I just absolutely love the word "posh". Using it all the time as an austrian 😂

    • @Србомбоница86
      @Србомбоница86 Год назад

      Lol ,serves him/her right lol

  • @hotdogtrainer5359
    @hotdogtrainer5359 2 года назад +1

    I love the Ibiza dude and the two fellas at the end are gorgeous.

  • @RichardT2112
    @RichardT2112 2 года назад +30

    Amazing when you think that this was almost half a century ago… I wonder how many people depicted in this video are still here with us.

    • @Elvisultimatefanchannel
      @Elvisultimatefanchannel 2 года назад +2

      Not many

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +4

      The 79 year old is definitely gone the young one in the caravan laying around is more than likely still around.

    • @michelles2299
      @michelles2299 2 года назад +1

      Probably quite a few it's not 100 years ago is it

    • @RichardT2112
      @RichardT2112 2 года назад +2

      @@michelles2299 True, but it is 50 years ago, and as most are 70+ time isn’t on our side. Hope you’re right though!

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +1

      @@michelles2299 yeah they were just interviewing babies in the video, it was only 50 years ago but you need to add their ages to that any of them in their 30’s would be into their 80’s now.

  • @moc7323
    @moc7323 2 года назад +35

    America for a holiday in 73
    Very well off ..

    • @UsyksmashedFurytopieces
      @UsyksmashedFurytopieces 2 года назад +9

      Yea, the plane journey alone back then was an arm and a leg.

    • @shaunsteele8244
      @shaunsteele8244 2 года назад

      Nixon's America was much more affordable than madman Biden's

    • @haroldofcardboard
      @haroldofcardboard 2 года назад +4

      @@UsyksmashedFurytopieces sexy air hostesses back then too

    • @davechristian7543
      @davechristian7543 2 года назад +3

      @@haroldofcardboard 100% they were, ill never forget my trip in 77 when i was 7 from sydney to Germany but stopping in a few places bc the plane had to re-fuel back then but anyway and i would wait until my mum was asleep n i would order from theses hotties so many cans of fizzy frink like lemonade n cola wat i wouldn't have been allowed but they brought me anything i wanted 'well apart from alcohol but i didn't want that anyway as i was happy just perving on them n getting fizzy soft drinkx haha but ya they wer5e stunning back then

  • @HOLLYHOCKFLOWERS
    @HOLLYHOCKFLOWERS 2 месяца назад

    Gosh they were lucky people, no holiday where i came from in the west. Our holidays were making the hay, and going to the bog! Now i think of those times with nostalgia.

    • @Art-is-craft
      @Art-is-craft Месяц назад

      Irish people did not know about how the Irish state was being held behind by economic policy. Poverty was the norm.

  • @nabeelrafique7166
    @nabeelrafique7166 Год назад +3

    0:04 She's beautiful ❤️
    No botox, no fillers, no surgery

  • @coolegarry
    @coolegarry 2 года назад +6

    the accents???? never heard that before, I wonder were they doing their telephone accents for the telly :) lovely video and I didn't know a single one who had foreign holidays in the 70's or 80's as a child.

    • @JustARandomSomething
      @JustARandomSomething 2 года назад +1

      It's a normal Irish accent

    • @ronancarr
      @ronancarr 2 года назад +2

      It's a mix of Dublin accents.

    • @mikehawk9156
      @mikehawk9156 2 года назад +1

      You expected them to be thick or something?

  • @limericksfinest4680
    @limericksfinest4680 2 года назад +7

    2:00
    Awe wasn't little Bertie adorable in his little raincoat and hat

  • @ResistorSynthwave
    @ResistorSynthwave 3 месяца назад

    Brilliant video.

  • @aidanobrien6704
    @aidanobrien6704 2 года назад +8

    Did the conversion from 200 pounds in 1973 today would be around 2591 euro.

    • @PedroGonzalez11111
      @PedroGonzalez11111 2 года назад

      Surely he’s playing the big man, obscene money back then

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад

      @@PedroGonzalez11111 the average wage in Ireland in 1973 was £38/week £200 would be almost a quarter of his yearly wage.the plane ticket alone would cost £200 back then.

    • @freebornjohn2687
      @freebornjohn2687 2 года назад +4

      I was 15 in 73 and only knew one kid at school who went abroad for a holiday. We went to the coast staying in B&Bs and my dad went to the races. I was very aware of how tight money was. When I was a bit older I started going on package holidays with my mates. Now much older I have little inclination to travel, the thought of the journey with the car parks, airports, buses and endless waiting puts me off.

    • @luisjorge110
      @luisjorge110 2 года назад

      @@michaelwalsh9145 He wasn't earning the average wage though probably

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад

      @@luisjorge110 probably, we’ll never know.

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland 2 года назад +16

    Great honest times thanks fir the memories

  • @COIcultist
    @COIcultist 2 года назад +9

    The JWT, Joe Walsh Tours office at the beginning. I can remember the adverts in the UK, was it radio TV or both with the strapline: "Join The JWT Set!"
    Jesus why an American guitarist would launch a travel agency is beyond me?

    • @tc6070
      @tc6070 2 года назад +3

      was Jesus an american guitarist? thats news to me

    • @michaelgaskell7408
      @michaelgaskell7408 2 года назад

      @@tc6070 And me!,Jesus!!

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 года назад +2

      @@tc6070 no but Joe Walsh was.

    • @eugeneoreilly9356
      @eugeneoreilly9356 7 месяцев назад

      Was good with the Eagles,but was British.

  • @travelwithtony5767
    @travelwithtony5767 2 года назад +4

    1:32 The Artful Dodger making a cameo appearance, lol.

  • @johngill7776
    @johngill7776 2 года назад +12

    The blonde one the West Indies.tell the truth a week in Co Longford.

  • @Del-Canada
    @Del-Canada 2 года назад +2

    Funny seeing B&W considering it was 1973. My first camera was a Polaroid instant and I had that in 1972 and it was color. Color first became popular/available in around 1968 I think it was. I've never taken a B&W photo. The first time I ever used B&W was when image editing software started to offer filters.

    • @andrewg.carvill4596
      @andrewg.carvill4596 2 года назад +1

      It wasn't still photography, it was a TV recording - probably RTE. Most RTE local news programming was still recorded in black and white back in 1973.

    • @Del-Canada
      @Del-Canada 2 года назад

      @@andrewg.carvill4596 Yes. I know it was film. Was just discussing something related.

  • @hannotn
    @hannotn 2 года назад +3

    It'd probably be a fairly accurate generalisation to say that if you did this in any country, the less broad the accent the more likely the person is to have holidays in another country.

  • @danielnewton7357
    @danielnewton7357 Год назад +1

    Foreign holidays were very common even back then!

  • @cuhulainsblood
    @cuhulainsblood 2 года назад +15

    The woman who had lots of little children but couldn’t afford to go on holidays was actually the richest person there.

    • @tytistheofficialantifachan7203
      @tytistheofficialantifachan7203 2 года назад +1

      Right. Maybe the others had lots of children AND money. You about that? No you did not my man!

    • @cuhulainsblood
      @cuhulainsblood 2 года назад

      @@tytistheofficialantifachan7203 Antifa and blm are the enemies of Western civilization.

  • @Thorlongus1175
    @Thorlongus1175 2 года назад +4

    A basket of goods and services that cost €200 in Mar 1973 would have cost €2197.10 in Feb 2022
    Source: Central Statistics Office

  • @thesatisfiedcustomer4869
    @thesatisfiedcustomer4869 2 года назад +13

    Very sophisticated crowd !
    Living in Australia now I need government permission to leave the country WTF.

  • @alelectric2767
    @alelectric2767 2 года назад +3

    I usually need a holiday from the holiday.

  • @edwardspearing5148
    @edwardspearing5148 2 года назад +3

    Jesus Wept... Can't help thinking that the fella at 2mins 45 secs is /was the late Martin Carney... If so... Martin.. You was one of the most decent skins I got to know. A true blue Dubliner

  • @chrisbruno96
    @chrisbruno96 2 года назад +3

    1:43 "id like to dance and sing" God this poor woman

  • @ainnothin9854
    @ainnothin9854 2 года назад +6

    I wish I could take an annual holiday

  • @patrickhayes606
    @patrickhayes606 2 года назад +24

    Is it me or do the people without Dublin accents sound a lot more British than Irish accents nowdays do

    • @caimin15221522
      @caimin15221522 2 года назад +6

      I've noticed this in a lot of these videos. I think it's probably to do with people watching/listening to RTE and the BBC back then when RP and RTE's equivalent were all you heard in the media. Just a guess though

    • @johnm2558
      @johnm2558 2 года назад +8

      @@caimin15221522 I’ve noticed that. Rte seemed plummier sounding back then. I wonder if elocution lessons played a part also.

    • @porcupineinapettingzoo
      @porcupineinapettingzoo 2 года назад +10

      I think it shows a level of shame in real accents, until pretty recently it was strange to hear a regional accent even on the BBC and look at films and film stars back in the 50s, no one really spoke like that

    • @fintonmainz7845
      @fintonmainz7845 2 года назад +11

      People had a "telephone voice" in those days.
      Normally they wouldn't speak like this.

    • @johnm2558
      @johnm2558 2 года назад +4

      @@porcupineinapettingzoo I've noticied also the popular depiction of cockney back in films back in the day never sounds convincing even to non-cockney me. All "Ah-louw maite, wot yoo hevvin'?" & whatnot :) Acting was a plummy profession, maybe. Bernard Breslaw is the only posh-sounding person who sounded (to me anyway) like a real cockney in the carry-on films.

  • @JuliaMoller
    @JuliaMoller 2 года назад +3

    3:27 I have a feeling that the reporter did not understand a single word from the first gentleman

  • @III-ur2oo
    @III-ur2oo 2 года назад +8

    £200 budget!! Today with this kinda budget you might just about make it from Belfast to Bangor and back on the same day with a modest lunch 😂

    • @TerMau01
      @TerMau01 2 года назад +1

      @Okumuş Amele around £2577 today according to Google

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад

      It would equate to about €12000 in today's money.

    • @mikehawk9156
      @mikehawk9156 2 года назад +1

      @Okumuş Amele Petrol was 50p a gallon in 73.Now its about 8 quid.So 16 times more.3200.

  • @paulbrown2532
    @paulbrown2532 4 дня назад

    I was born in 1973 feel old now

  • @marycahill6839
    @marycahill6839 Год назад

    Class distinction here at its greatest. Thankfully now all classes can go to US

  • @junerose-sommer5494
    @junerose-sommer5494 2 года назад +5

    Irish people were so nice back then!!

    • @Tomas-ml9nv
      @Tomas-ml9nv 2 года назад +5

      If only we could go back.

    • @florenceobrien2822
      @florenceobrien2822 2 года назад

      Still nice now

    • @andrewlyng4855
      @andrewlyng4855 Год назад +1

      @Nicky L like everywhere good and bad but back then people looked at you when speaking not like the self absorbed youth today

  • @PJP812
    @PJP812 2 года назад

    i grew up in Ireland in the 70`s and i never knew anyone at that time who went on a foreign holiday, it was only for the Rich - we went to a caravan - it was really only in the late 80s and especially the 90`s on that working class people went on foreign holidays

  • @hdhil3137
    @hdhil3137 2 года назад +2

    £200 for a holiday to spain,
    2022 £200 wont even pay for the petrol

  • @polly2020
    @polly2020 4 месяца назад

    Summer holidays all the cousins sent to one house giving the parents a break and us an adventure. From Drimnagh Ballyfermot to Coolock. And we thought it the norm how times change.

  • @stephenoneill7522
    @stephenoneill7522 Год назад

    The blonde at 4.25 likes the black pudding and not shy about it either...😅😂😂

  • @nitinkataria3474
    @nitinkataria3474 2 года назад +6

    Before I got married, nailed it

  • @josephhickey7829
    @josephhickey7829 Год назад

    Last time I went on holliday was 5 years ago to London i went to Germany recently on holliday i went over to visit my brother and my sisters in law and 2 niece's i had a ball of a time

  • @BuffOrpington7
    @BuffOrpington7 2 года назад +1

    You can really hear where the Liverpool accent came from in this clip.

  • @binboy4034
    @binboy4034 2 года назад +5

    How could these ppl afford foreign holidays? Must be middle class. Why didn't she go interview the working classes who couldn't afford a loaf of bread

    • @cathalodiubhain5739
      @cathalodiubhain5739 2 года назад +1

      You can tell by the accent from one or two.

    • @ninelivecat
      @ninelivecat 2 года назад +2

      They interviewed both

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад

      You can also spot whiny labrous socialist by their constant disdain of middle class people.

  • @HomerSparkle
    @HomerSparkle 2 месяца назад

    I was 16 when we had our first holiday. Two weeks in Cornwall. It was also our last.
    These days I have to choose between eating or paying the rent. The prospect of me ever having another holiday is basically zero.
    And no, I'm not unemployed. I work a full time job, on slave wages, and will need to continue doing so until I die, because the state pension will not be enough for me to live on, assuming it even still exists by the time I reach retirement age.
    Holidays?
    I will literally need to die to get a break.

    • @shane7103
      @shane7103 Месяц назад

      This isn't a therapy session and nobody cares for your 'woe is me' sob story.

  • @markalexwhite
    @markalexwhite 2 года назад +2

    How long since you had a holiday you really enjoyed? Before I got married! BOOM! !! 🙂

  • @CDash162
    @CDash162 2 года назад +4

    3:56 He's cute. I'd go on holiday with him lol.

  • @obsidianzarok2361
    @obsidianzarok2361 2 года назад +4

    Such an old fashioned thing to do when you think about it.

  • @NoLefTurnUnStoned.
    @NoLefTurnUnStoned. Год назад

    2:07
    What a stunning woman!

  • @feistyphysicist
    @feistyphysicist 2 года назад +2

    Ireland looks a bit different today! They've been blessed with cultural diversity.

  • @RanaVlogsMalaysia
    @RanaVlogsMalaysia 2 года назад +2

    Just Wow

  • @TaiwanLife2024
    @TaiwanLife2024 2 года назад +14

    When people used to speak in full sentences unlike nowadays

    • @joblogos2367
      @joblogos2367 2 года назад

      That's because they're focused on middle class in the city.

    • @exactsame
      @exactsame 2 года назад +1

      Very true We’ve been losing the basic art of conversation for too long now Such a loss

  • @travelwithtony5767
    @travelwithtony5767 2 года назад +1

    £200…nowadays that would only cover the cab fare to the airport and back, lol.

  • @richiec9077
    @richiec9077 2 года назад +1

    Absolutely mental you'd easily spend fifty pound on one item from one shop whilst on holiday or even more on a family meal for the evening and that's all they considered for a week or more of holiday spending money

    • @shanehorkin6426
      @shanehorkin6426 2 года назад +1

      Things cost less back then, 50 pounds would be like €650 today

    • @michaelbrownlee9497
      @michaelbrownlee9497 2 года назад +1

      @@shanehorkin6426 gas 25 cents a gallon, 24 of beer 4 dollars. A steak at a local greasy spoon 2 dollars, a round of golf 5 dollars. Pack of smokes 50 cents. A bus ticket 25 cents. Public toilet 10 cents.
      200 pounds, 400 american dollars would be having a real good time.

  • @johnhehir508
    @johnhehir508 2 года назад +3

    The invention of the package holiday 😂😂😂

    • @haroldofcardboard
      @haroldofcardboard 2 года назад +3

      go to spain. eat fish n chips and get drunk on watneys red barrel

  • @reigninblood123
    @reigninblood123 2 года назад +1

    That 79 year old would have been born in the year 1894.