1980s ESB advert - Going home
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2008
- Those of you who are old enough should remember this. This is an ad broadcast in Ireland in the late 80s and early 90s. For some reason everyone always seems to remember it. Enjoy.
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If you grew up in Ireland in the 80s you are familiar with this song from the esb advertisement. Brings me back to a a happier time when life was simple. My parents were in good health & I was an innocent kid with no worries. This song always brings a tear to my eye . Life can be hard . Cherish it
amen to that
That oul one running round the gaff turning everything on just has a certain x factor to it.
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Life will get better, just vote harder!
It was all good until you left the immersion heater on. A different tune was sung then
I remember when I was 6 I thought the line "no more colouring books" was the most depressing thing ever!
Heart touching ad. I remember seeing this as a child on TV years ago but it's only now that I've emigrated I see it's true meaning. God, I miss my mammy :(
She has the whole fecking house on, every fecking thing
Don't be worried at all. Yer better off away from this kip.
same literally just watched it after a box for Christmas arrived here yesterday from home here in the states
@@rhythmsaint73 thanks for telling us that
Then running away to Dublin and seeing his puss and having to listen to thon laugh in the George. Feck it, I'll head on to London Town.
So lonesome remembering a time that was..R.I.P mom and dad ❤❤❤
Sorry for your losses. RIP
You'll see them again some day
Born in 85 but still remember this being on tv- really pulls on the heartstrings. Love it
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The reason the ESB would advertise is because they also ran a chain of ESB shops which sold all the things that 'mam' in the ad was using (immersion, electric blanket, hob, oven, cooker etc).
Still an emotional / nostalgic ad for those of us who left Ireland in the 80s often leaving behind heartbroken family and especially mothers.
It's only since I became a parent myself that I understand what she was going through.
Great shops you could pay a little extra on your bill for the items
Yes i remember the Esb shops. Much better to have a successful semi state single supplier not paying too much
I remember this, brings back memories of the 80's. No telephone boxes any more. Ireland has changed, not the same country I grew up in. Was more enjoyable then, people are always rushing and trying to out-do everyone else now, wish it was 1987 again.
So true
1987? I couldn't get out of the country fast enough that year. There was no work and no prospect of any. I wouldn't trade growing up in Ireland for anything but I never regretted leaving. No need for telephone boxes these days....
For people who know Wicklow, he gets collected at Rathdrum Train Station.... Then filming does a massive detour on the Sally Gap... Back down Rathdrum Main Street... Past the hall in Glenealy (Disco on, I was at it) The house he ends up at (home) is Ballyknockan House between Glenealy and Ashford... Home of Catherine Fulvio, the TV chef.
This ad breaks my heart so nostalgic
A lovely song by the great Mary Catherine Bernadette O'Brien aka Dusty Springfield. my friend and neighbour s mum also passed on went to school with Mary Catherine O'Brien ,her parents hailed from trallee in Kerry.
Probably one of the best adverts in the history of television. Brings back the fondest memories of being a kid.
Thanks for uploading it.
give the man or woman or group of people who devised this ad an Oscar. Back when ads were full of innocence and worked more effectively than what we are now subjected to.
They nailed it. Full of the feels. I reminds me of time as kid seeing this ad. I now have children of My own and seeing this now gave me a big whoosh of the way time passes and some things change but some are always the same.
It wasn't as feel good when the Electricity supply board bill arrived....
Jaysus it's great being Irish isn't it...lovin the ad nostalgic!
When the lrish owned their own country, before the forced invasion.
@@frankharrington8528 hopefully you left it anyway!
It is so touching ,a dear reminder of yester year ,now gone but not forgotten ,we sometimes have to look back at the way it used to be in order to go forward with treasured memories of a golden time gone by .
Great to see this on the telly again has to be the best ad ever! goosebumps galore
Such a sad song but a classic! I live in America now and only get home around once a year so this ad has a special meaning for me..
Same here brother! Merry Christmas!
Oh no! I used to find this ad moving when I was young and now it was in my recommendations. Bollox. What else does google know about me?!
This has to be the best tv advert ever made ! Been searching for it for ages! Thanks so much for putting it up ! Heading home for Christmas and this ad will be playing in my mind!
Anything advertising a Hamlet cigar was better than this
I remember watching it as a child, great feeling travelling home
she left the imersion on!!!
If so they'd have been filing for bankruptsy by New Years.
ESB subliminal messaging. Bastards.
@thomasking4791 😂😂😂😂😂
I remember this advert very well, this is a timeless classic! When I was a kid, I used to think they were advertising an Opel Omega/Vauxhall Carlton estate, then later realized it was for an electricity company lol!!!
It's like our 2 story house when I'd come home from NY in the late 80s and early 90s. My mother would pick me up and drop me to Shannon Airport.
This kind of brings tears to my eyes. Used to always go see my relatives in Northern Ireland and this commercial always stuck back into my head for some reason. Maybe its the music, and thinking about old times where we as family became really close around the holiday season. Now I live in Northern Ireland for 6 years. Wow how things changed people I loved passed before us. I miss both my grandparents very dearly. They were the ones that kept the family together.
really loved this ad when i was a kid!!! i think it was more for Dusty Springfield's voice more than anything!!!
What a great ad remember this song so vividly from when I was young I just commented on a RUclips video about Kerry gold doing good ads and thought of this ad where does the time go, old saying youth is wasted on the young ☺️
the legend of dusty springfield
The mammy in this ad is the old doll from Fr Ted episode where the whistle gets stolen. She meets Ted outside the shop and talks about Boyz in da Hood, murders, hooers and crack to keep the hooers under control. Lol!
Stephen Lewis How did I not cop that?!
Willie's are rounder at the top
Is it dubbed, or is it subtitled, Father?
Ahaha jasus ur right, never noticed.
When the mothers of 20 year olds looked 90 😂😂
I must have seen this ad a thousand times. I totally forgot all about it. Hadn't a clue what was going on all those years ago but I get it now.
I do remember this! Wow - that had been buried deep in my memory for a while.
Why the ESB, a state monopoly, needed to advertise is beyond me...
Haha good point
Reminds me of an Ireland that is long gone. Just turned 40 and I'm 15 years gone from Ireland, living in Canada, married to a Canadian with a young family. 1988 - start of 6th year and the leaving cert with a life ahead with endless possibilities.
What I'd give to be able to go home for mum's cooking, friends and family.
then why'd u leave ?
Same I was born in 73 . This ad is like yesterday
Same as that born in76
@@DaraGaming42 Better standard of living elsewhere. Many of my family emigrated also. Love going home to catch up with everyone. Love leaving after a week of being home.
The best ad every made this is a great song one of favs!
Oh to have a mammy to go home to
Probably the best ad ever made
When a song fits the ad to perfection.
Im 28 and I love this video and I don't care it's class this song has a lot of meaning today as it did back then a young Irish lad being collected from the airport and going back to see his Mum and Dad and friends his Mum getting things ready for him and all excited about her son's return call me sentimental I don't give a damn
I remember this being the ad of my childhood, sad i know. Love the song.
Not sad at all
@ajhleix I hear ya , im in Canada for 20 years now. These old ad's remind me of my childhood in Ireland.....Man I miss it!
great add. Brings back good memories
Loved this ad... Aww.
That's a fierce modern looking cooker for the late nineties (especially for those country types).
So great that this is back on our tellyboxes. Good work electricireland.
i seen this ad on tv yesterday for the first time since the 90s' i was like now nostalgia has kicked in.
Emigrated 13 years ago. Mother still at home, gotta go back when this virus fucks off!
Great ad. Makes me wish i was home this Christmas.
I would have been about 4 or 5 years old when this ad was on tv but for some reason even at that age I kinda associated it with coming home for christmas. still do
Reeling in the years comes to mind.
lovely add brings back memories :)
ahh laaads way to make me pure homesick like , love this ad , love ireland
I love this ad and especially the comments.
that house is a fucking fire hazard!
My grandad had an Opel exactly like that back in the early 90's
This was one of my two favourite advert memories in adult life.....the other being the " Pat the Baker" ad...with the song about " who tells the sun to rise , now pat is on his way". The good auld days
I haven't seen this ad in a long time, can remember it as a child. I think its the song that makes it stick out. Didn't even realise that it was Alan Hughes in it.
It's Alan Hughes before he was an arse bandit.
wow that takes me back
Pure art.
I love this advert!
Glenroe: The weekend is over.
ah i remember this advert and that song that goes along with it!!!
Kinda funny that I'm feeling nostalgic about an ad that was about nostalgia.
This is an incredibly sad ad.
We used to have fights in my house as to whether these were his parents or grandparents - the debate still continues - they are his PARENTS!
Great ad brings back god memories
Probably on during Glenroe ;)
Thanks Mikosyko,for this upload,this has nostlagia written all over,memories of childhood flood back when i here this.
Great auld times even if I hadn't a care in d world I was only a fart but didn't forget this ad if I were depressed den still better times than nw 2 much of everything wit a symptom n a cause n say sumting 2 sum 1 n they get d rope out gone 2 far this ad was a time of toughness but u got on wit it gone but nt forgotten
@swwiftyy
The artist was Dusty Springfield, a British pop singer known as the White Queen of Soul (1939 - 1999). But like so many English people, she had Irish roots - her real name was Mary O'Brien. The song is called, "Goin' Back". There's a black and white video of it featuring Dusty on RUclips.
god i remember that ad well. im starting to show my age now :P :D
The Legendary Alan Hughes.
thank you very much for this video and five stars for you
I remember the ad to can't beat the 80s
Great times
i could write a short story on this ad - but all I will say is that it is beautiful.
I love the fact they have every light and every appliance on in the gaff. obviously before people were told to be energy aware and think of the environment and global warming etc. It is actually all that alan hughes and his family's fault that we are in the state we are today!
I remember this ad on the tv, it used to be showing alot
I'm 37 ,had to look up this ad
theres electrical equipment in this video that i only started to see being put into houses in the late 90s
I remember when this add was on and I never for one second believed that the guy would have played hurling. Of course now I know that the only wood he is interested in dosen't come from an ash tree.
He came home again, became a property developer and now is in debt to nama. But they can't get him because he took off to the south of France.
The village shots are from Rathdrum in co wicklow . I spent a lot of time there at my grandmothers .
Thank u ... u cleared a big solution..Wicklow Rathdrum
I bet you the place wasn't lit up like a Christmas tree like tho one.....
Oh god ... Dusty !!
Mammy 😭😭😭
my fathers fave ad
This could so easily have turned into the next installment of that car safety ad in which the kid gets mangled to the strains of Louis Armstrong's 'What A Wonderful World"
Also, his Ma's taking the piss leaving all those lights on!
Wouldn't say Alan Hughes played much hurling as a young lad😂😂😂😂😂😂
By the way, thank you whoever posted this, you have done the world a great service!
When you're brought up in the same way as Alan Hughes, there's an endless list of opportunities.
Ó Braonáin I wonder what u mean by this...just curious?
@@karlbroderickmusic Panto!
If only life was nostalgic it would be great,but it ain't,life you live in the moment .
Well in this moment I'm living in that moment
This ad makes me sad miss my mam
Goin Back Dusty Springfield and a young Allan Hughes in it.
Every fecking light in the house on, if that was my father getting out of the car, he'd have moaned about the price of the ESB bill!
I think I’ve seen too many of those shocking PSAs, because the whole time I was dreading that something terrible would happen! This is such a good ad though ❤
Baaaaaaawwwwling crying!!
I used to say he was out on parole.
The Queen of British Soul
and the one and only alan hughes ,great add only noticing now it s alan.congratulations to alan on getting married.well done
david cassin Thank u...(from Alan's hubby...😊)
@@karlbroderickmusicare ye still together Karl
Reminds me of my nana every time I see it.
wonderful song sung by dusty springfield.
this advert is THEE most nostalgic thing from my childhood, remember comming home from school and my mum would always have RT1 on (cause Live At 3 was on) and this ad used to always be on, ahh good times :]
this is completly off subject bt does anyone remember the adverts about playing with powerlines, i think it was that, i think there was one with a wee girl playing with her kite and it getting stuck in a powerline and a wee boy helping her get it down, bt dies in the process?
I'm a bit late on this one (only 10 years lol) but yes, I remember that just about.