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  • @zachattack08112
    @zachattack08112 Год назад +17

    Those kids were lit 🤣

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 2 года назад +33

    Loved seeing the children dancing after having had to stand still for probably what seemed an eternity to them (if you pardon the pun).

  • @oxouk
    @oxouk 2 года назад +50

    I've played many a gig in my life time. I'd be happy to play for an audience like this. Those kids were having a blast.

    • @ltipst2962
      @ltipst2962 2 года назад +2

      Find them! They're out there for sure!

    • @ltipst2962
      @ltipst2962 2 года назад +2

      Never mind. I didn't expect that.

    • @ricarleite
      @ricarleite Год назад +1

      @@ltipst2962 Odds are 30% are dead by now.

    • @charliejdk
      @charliejdk 10 месяцев назад

      With that attitude, you are obviously a wonderful performer. I’ll bet your audiences always get your best. Keep that up & may you play many many gigs more.
      Love to see the spirit of R&R in the church social hall!

    • @matthewlovelock6928
      @matthewlovelock6928 10 месяцев назад

      Weren't they just

  • @alexandertroy9621
    @alexandertroy9621 2 года назад +36

    All of these kids were born around the same time as my mother. It's cool to see how they acted and what life was like for a child back then. I'm sure it's not too dissimilar to how she was.

  • @dev4911
    @dev4911 2 года назад +11

    Our moms and dads were great dancers 😄😄

  • @MiKeMiDNiTe-77
    @MiKeMiDNiTe-77 2 года назад +12

    The kids were adorable what a cool way too have fun after a long service on mostly I presume bleak cold days

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 2 года назад +26

    Sundays in Northern Ireland during this time was awful. So, people living in the border areas simply went into the Irish republic, where all bars, pubs, cafes and shops were open. People in Derry for example used to flock to Buncrana, County Donegal for the beach, pubs, cafes, bars, restaurants and shops, all open on a Sunday. Lough Swilly Buses provided a large Sunday service of buses to Buncrana.

    • @user-fh1rz1uq6c
      @user-fh1rz1uq6c 5 месяцев назад +1

      Was Derry city or Strabane as dead as Belfast on a Sunday back then? I'm surprised. In more isolated, rural areas of south county Derry Sundays were always the big day. Pubs were open (illegally) and I remember everybody went to places like the Castle in Dungiven for the biggest dance night of the week.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 5 месяцев назад

      @@user-fh1rz1uq6c My mum is from Derry and I can say 100% yes the city was dead on a Sunday. The only place open were churches and newsagents, and even the newsagents were closed by 1pm. No shops, cafes, bars, clubs, cinemas etc. So much so, that Lough Swilly Buses were jam packed with Derry people going over the border to the seaside town of Buncrana, less than 20 miles away in County Donegal. Buncrana made a fortune from Derry people at the weekend, especially Sunday. The Republic of Ireland didn't renew the 1938 act about Sunday trading when they became a republic in 1949 and so Sunday trading was allowed. All of Buncrana's shops, cafes, bars, restaurants were open, as were the one screen cinema house in the town. The town was packed with thousands of Derry people on a Sunday. So much so, that Lough Swilly Buses had to put on buses every 30 minutes from around 12pm to get people down there. Lough Swilly Buses made a fortune too.

  • @JasonDunlop247
    @JasonDunlop247 2 года назад +9

    Those kids were brilliant. They were so into it, loving it . 😍

  • @theeggtimertictic1136
    @theeggtimertictic1136 2 года назад +19

    Even down south in the 70s when I was a child there was very little open. It did leave Sunday to be a family day. It was a nice break in the week from consumerism.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 года назад

      Actually Sundays in the Republic of Ireland saw shops open, even for reduced hours. There was no law in stopping any shops, pubs etc opening up on a Sunday. Buncrana in County Donegal saw thousands of Derry City people come into their town on a Sunday to enjoy the shops, cafes, pubs etc, with Lough Swilly Buses providing an extended Sunday bus service. I have the archive timetable from 1965, and buses were provided from 10.40am until 10.30pm, with buses running hourly and then every 30 minutes from 2pm to 5pm. Big business on a Sunday for Lough Swilly Buses to Buncrana.

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 2 года назад

      @@johnking5174 I'm down in Wexford and most shops were shut down here on Sundays during the 70s... A petrol station and the odd shop was open ... That's all.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 года назад

      @@theeggtimertictic1136 Buncrana was the complete opposite according to my grandparents. Sundays saw the shops open from around 1.30pm until 6.00pm, along with the pubs, cafes etc. Maybe because Buncrana is a seaside town, it had more shops open. I also know Bundoran was mostly open on Sundays too.

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 2 года назад +1

      @@johnking5174 I bet that's because it was a business opportunity and they knew people would go across the border 😁.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 года назад

      @@theeggtimertictic1136 I wonder if border Irish towns such as Buncrana, Letterkenny, Bundoran, Dundalk, Cavan, Monaghan etc had their shops open, whereas the further you went down south away from the border, the less shops were open on a Sunday?

  • @suzi6509
    @suzi6509 2 года назад +6

    At the time of this report I was 9 years old, so same age as the kids shown. I can confirm the boredom of a Belfast Sunday. At the time I lived a few miles from this church in the Ballysillan area.
    The entrance to the Ballysillan park was chained along with the swings and the little kids round-about on a Sunday.
    Just for the hell of it, a friend and myself used to climb over the fence into the park and got chased by the park keeper, who threatened us with calling the "peelers" , strange to think it was once OK to call the cops to keep kids out of a park! 😎

    • @OlafProt
      @OlafProt 10 месяцев назад +3

      I’ll not lie, Sunday in England was pretty bloody dull back then too 😂 lucky kids letting loose like that!
      And yet now I’m in my 50s I’d be glad for a dull quiet Sunday with all the shops shut like that now 😂 funny how things move in circles

  • @Cristinact
    @Cristinact 2 года назад +16

    This is great! It truly reminded me of the Peanuts' gang Christmas dance :)

  • @Tim.Weaver
    @Tim.Weaver 2 года назад +8

    When this started, I was immediately taken back to the classic Hancock's Half Hour episode "Sunday Afternoon At Home", reflecting the stultifying boredom of the Sundays I experienced as a kid in the 1960s. But I certainly wasn't expecting what happened next!

  • @redbeki
    @redbeki 10 месяцев назад +1

    These kids are brilliant

  • @marymary5494
    @marymary5494 11 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent.

  • @truecrimeboozer
    @truecrimeboozer 2 года назад +18

    6:44 Something tells me the girl on the right *really* got into punk a decade and a bit later

  • @torgeirbrandsnes1916
    @torgeirbrandsnes1916 2 года назад +12

    Wow! What a great reportage from Belfast before hell came to their town. Those kids were great dancers! Holy cow! Give me more happy kids. I am born 1970 and all I remember from Belfast is war between IRA and the British troops, and ONE hotel that got bombed time and time again. Peace is brittle. Here is an old proverb: it takes one to declare war, but two to make peace. How many of these kids are living today? The youngest is 65. Have a peaceful sunday!

  • @mikeyoung7660
    @mikeyoung7660 Год назад +1

    I remember it well. Bored me to tears every week

  • @colshythecomedian
    @colshythecomedian 2 года назад +13

    Strange to think lots of those children are now collecting their pensions.

  • @gabrielleferris952
    @gabrielleferris952 10 месяцев назад +2

    Class!!😅😅😅 Belfast native

  • @adstewart5427
    @adstewart5427 2 года назад +12

    Wondering why they chose exterior shots of Protestant churches and church-goers when the subject was Catholic children. The church is Holy Cross at Ardoyne. Great to see those kids but given their age and what was about to happen in Northern Ireland, and that area of Belfast in particular, I can't help but wonder how many were harmed, or did harm to others, or had their lives cut short.

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 2 года назад +4

      I thought about that too. I'm a rather traditionalist Catholic (who, as always have Catholics and Protestants not of Irish descent everywhere in the world outside that island, views the conflict with completely detached puzzlement) and I could tell immediately who was who. I think the point was to show the extreme pervasiveness of the culture of piety shared by both communities back then. It was not so much about "Catholics in Northern Ireland" as it was about setting the stage with Northern Ireland in general, then delighting us with this surprise. It was a good choice to use footage of Protestants, if it had to be one, because otherwise it would have given the audience the impression that this austere Sunday piety was a feature of Belfast Catholics, not of Belfast. Sect was not important to the story.
      One might think that as religious observance (and the peace of a reflective Sunday) broke down, at least one good thing to come from it would be the decline of sectarianism. Never would've expected what would happen is a NI where no one went to church but became more hostilely entrenched as "Catholics" and "Protestants" than ever. Anyway now that at least the violence is over maybe hope will grow. Pray for NI!

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 2 года назад +5

      English film crew. Probably didn’t know the difference. Surprised they found NI on the map.

    • @olearyma57
      @olearyma57 Год назад

      Yes Ardoyne was on the cusp of Hell like nowhere else in northern Ireland.

  • @Seminal_Ideas
    @Seminal_Ideas 2 года назад +12

    I've watched this quite a few times and a sadness creeps over me. The genuine innocence of the children as they abandon the formalities of the church service. I'm of that generation and catholic background and understand. Within five years of this film of course, Belfast entered the very real jaws of hell. The religious bigotry and visceral hatreds engendered by the sectarian tribalism tore into those young lives.

  • @rgarlinyc
    @rgarlinyc 2 месяца назад

    Absolutely adorable and absolutely hilarious - I speak of course of the "fun 'n games" that starts after the old Church service is done and dusted, ☺😉

  • @douglasschaden3475
    @douglasschaden3475 Год назад +1

    Wicked good craic.

  • @broadcastmadnesss
    @broadcastmadnesss 2 года назад +2

    I did not see that coming.

  • @flywalll
    @flywalll 2 года назад +15

    In Switzerland everything is still closed Sundays. 😅

    • @garryleeks4848
      @garryleeks4848 2 года назад +9

      I’ll move to Switzerland

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 2 года назад

      🐱👍🏿

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 2 года назад +2

      That sounds lovely ... It's impossible to get away from consumerism otherwise and very hard to have a family day.

    • @garryleeks4848
      @garryleeks4848 2 года назад +1

      @@theeggtimertictic1136 I won’t go if it’s cold 🙄😬

    • @verali164
      @verali164 7 месяцев назад +1

      Switzerland is beautiful

  • @desmcharris
    @desmcharris Год назад +7

    I was one of those kids! We Catholic's have a very different view of Sunday. There was always the saying " Lisburn on a Sunday!" That was an extreme example of Calvinist living.

  • @sentimentaloldme
    @sentimentaloldme 5 месяцев назад

    I remember visiting Belfast on a Sunday in the 60's. You could not even get a cup of tea..It was like trying to hold hands and contact the living..Dublin on the other hand was not as quiet but most of the shops were still closed.

  • @stephenspence1192
    @stephenspence1192 2 года назад +11

    Lol! What did they put in the communion wine?

  • @catherinedorrian7548
    @catherinedorrian7548 5 месяцев назад +1

    I attended sunday school in the Holy Cross church. On a normal Sunday there wouldve been maybe 20 kids at the most. However that Sunday word got around the schools that a TV crew would be there to make a film hence the packed church. I was there that Sunday but unfortunately wasnt at the disco my ma wouldnt let me go.😢

  • @lesweizman388
    @lesweizman388 10 месяцев назад +1

    somewhere in that crowd is a 4 year old bono

  • @popmart3272
    @popmart3272 9 месяцев назад

    Although I no longer go to church today, I was there often as a child. 08:26 - I remember this song from my childhood. It was also sung in Polish churches ;-)

  • @TopOfThePopsFan
    @TopOfThePopsFan Год назад +2

    Classic.

  • @marine4lyfe85
    @marine4lyfe85 Год назад

    I love it! Reminds me of the part in Forrest Gump when young Elvis says to Forrest, "Hey kid, show me that crazy move you were doing last night."

    • @UTAB52
      @UTAB52 7 месяцев назад

      Was it the hippy, hippy sh*te?

  • @NunyaBiz7
    @NunyaBiz7 Месяц назад +1

    How things have changed. We're mostly heathen here in oul Ulster. Are we better for it? I don't think so. Families split up with no family time because one or perhaps both parents forced to work on Sundays. 😢

  • @helenfeldman5243
    @helenfeldman5243 Год назад +1

    Simply wonderful to see all the beautiful children use their God given energy. So delightful! I hope they were able to do it again.🤩

  • @fellspoint9364
    @fellspoint9364 2 года назад +2

    God surely approved of the hippie shake

  • @junkboxxxxxx
    @junkboxxxxxx 2 года назад +2

    Toronto was the same at the time

  • @Springamatul
    @Springamatul Год назад +1

    The Children must have been hungry and tired after all that energy.

  • @Nadia1989
    @Nadia1989 2 года назад +1

    I don't think any of my grandparents would've let my parents dance the hippy hippy shake. Saturday afternoon cartoons at the nearby high school, on the other hand...

  • @wingnut71
    @wingnut71 6 месяцев назад +1

    I hated being made to wear "sunday best" clothes to go to sunday school. Got whipped with a belt for refusing to go once. But was allowed to play, watch TV and the like.

  • @11UncleBooker22
    @11UncleBooker22 2 года назад +7

    My great uncle, my grandmother's brother on my father's side, used to say: "The only business open on Sunday is the church."

  • @ceilingsandfloors
    @ceilingsandfloors 4 месяца назад

    5:50 Those old guitars really were heavy!

  • @MartinaDowney-ql9rz
    @MartinaDowney-ql9rz 5 месяцев назад

    God bless them❤❤ rory gallagher was great too

  • @PeterLGଈ
    @PeterLGଈ Год назад

    Dang! I was 6. Seems like a lifetime ago 😂😢

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones 9 месяцев назад

    The swings in the park are chained and locked? Dang!

  • @bpfromowc
    @bpfromowc 2 года назад +2

    Whistling on a Sunday is still not tolerated. A guy was thrown to the mob (only last week) for whistling a Harry Styles ditty. Although he was probably lynched over his song choice.
    Boom boom 💥

  • @northernsnow6982
    @northernsnow6982 Год назад

    Look at all those shillings dance.

  • @garryleeks4848
    @garryleeks4848 2 года назад +6

    Now Sunday is another day .

    • @jasonayres
      @jasonayres 2 года назад +4

      I'm not always "glad all over" admittedly, but I am still glad for Sunday.
      For the record 💿these days, the "hippy hippy shake" normally means I'm off to the physiotherapist.

    • @jacqui9176
      @jacqui9176 5 месяцев назад

      Good

  • @NUSORCA
    @NUSORCA 2 года назад +1

    It’s gonna get a little weird
    Gonna get a little wild
    I ain’t from around here
    I’m from another dimension…
    It’s gonna get a little weird
    Gonna have a GOOD TIME

  • @paulwestwell7160
    @paulwestwell7160 Год назад

    @06m 25s…What the heck did Fr. O’Toole put in that communion wine😮

  • @shaundavies5779
    @shaundavies5779 10 месяцев назад +1

    All very well criticising both Northern Ireland and the Republic and their observance of Sunday - but what about the many people who actually enjoyed a day off work back home with their family. There were many people who did not want to work on a Sunday. People seem to forget that for them to have a "good time" many people have to work at, often, not very attractive jobs.

  • @jjeanniton
    @jjeanniton 6 месяцев назад

    In those days of Northern Ireland, the maxim of English common law that _DIES DOMINICUS NON EST JURIDICUS SED LITURGICUS_ was more strictly enforced than it is now.

  • @VivaLaBamm
    @VivaLaBamm 2 года назад +11

    I'm 50 seconds in and I can already tell life then was/is far better than now!! Far better times back then. Cleaner streets, people looked out for one another/helped each other, no litter, we had values. Unlike now. Selfish people, only care for themselves, social media obsessed.. have no basic life skills, are not street wise. Can't read a roadmap, paper a walk, change a fuse.. I'm 31 BTW. The world is going-well has went completely mad.

    • @VivaLaBamm
      @VivaLaBamm 2 года назад +2

      @Proper well I've showed this video to about 30 people in work all 50/60/70 years of age and every Single one if them are saying the same thing... It was better back then. Enjoying other peoples company, the disco's, community's were far far closer, everyone knew Everyone... Yes there was bad days but overall...

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 2 года назад

      You haven’t a clue. Poverty, malnourishment, gerrymandered elections, unemployment, rampant classism and religious bigotry. It was a nasty place and was on the verge of exploding in violence.

    • @VivaLaBamm
      @VivaLaBamm 2 года назад

      @@Dreyno same as now then.. only cleaner streets and people actually liked each other. Sweet.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 2 года назад

      @@VivaLaBamm You’re embarrassing yourself now. Clown.

    • @VivaLaBamm
      @VivaLaBamm 2 года назад

      @@Dreyno lol take yourself away tf lad. Ya dried shriveled up awl prune 😂😂

  • @paulowens6004
    @paulowens6004 4 месяца назад

    The Prods with Bibles in hand in their church at the start, then the Catholics in their church service followed by worldly pleasures on the Sabbath Day. Well I suppose in the end they got their way. Now it's Pubs, Clubs, bookies, shops, sports and supermarkets. Wonderful. 😢

  • @thomassmith7374
    @thomassmith7374 2 года назад +6

    Us Proddy kids never got to enjoy Sundays after church like the Catholics did,😁

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 2 года назад +1

      Pipe down. You got civil service jobs and disproportionate representation in parliament 😉

    • @thomassmith7374
      @thomassmith7374 2 года назад +3

      @@Dreyno Would ya listen to Mr Angry would ya 😁

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 2 года назад +3

      @@thomassmith7374 Note the winking smiley. It indicates a comment made in jest. Happy to help.

  • @NickMullet
    @NickMullet 10 месяцев назад

    I cannot believe the parents let their kids have fun like that! Everything seems so strict and rigid on Sundays then an hour later they’re all acting like the evangelical folks in America. Class.

  • @lf170
    @lf170 2 года назад +1

    Pack it up, pack it in. Let me begin...

  • @fairytaleworld777-v8
    @fairytaleworld777-v8 7 месяцев назад

    cute program

  • @hopegore5701
    @hopegore5701 2 года назад +1

    🥳

  • @seanocalaghan2225
    @seanocalaghan2225 9 месяцев назад +2

    people prattle on about ian Curtis and his shamanic dancing ffs every wee fein and gerser in Ireland were born dancing like that it just came naturally

    • @Tigerrfeet
      @Tigerrfeet 5 месяцев назад

      Ian Curtis left a great legacy.

  • @scottblack9213
    @scottblack9213 2 года назад

    Grim is an understatement

  • @roddymcniven8734
    @roddymcniven8734 9 месяцев назад

    Kids are like...ah!! Back to reality.

  • @krakowski-ruch-katolikow
    @krakowski-ruch-katolikow Год назад +2

    It's a common misconception, that Catholics believe that the soul goes to heaven. In reality it's all about the resurrection of the body when this world comes to an end, and there is New Heaven and New Earth.

  • @RandomnessTube.
    @RandomnessTube. 2 года назад +2

    60s kid are the greatest generation.

  • @Caambrinus
    @Caambrinus 3 месяца назад

    At 3:36, the hymn is _Soul of My Saviour_ . Pity the poor Protestant kids..............no disco for them!

    • @tar0286
      @tar0286 Месяц назад

      They are Catholic children

  • @scottishwildcat
    @scottishwildcat 2 года назад +6

    Ouch. I can feel the percussive brain damage happening just watching that.

  • @olearyma57
    @olearyma57 7 месяцев назад

    There is no community and no demographic in the UK that was object to violence, terror , conflict and oppresion it is these children. It is the community of Ardoyne 5 years before they become the cockpit of the modern troubles in NI.

  • @tablettwentytwo1750
    @tablettwentytwo1750 2 года назад +2

    Devils Music....
    Quin

  • @djmips
    @djmips 2 года назад +2

    Do the Harlem Shake.

  • @joegreen2750
    @joegreen2750 9 месяцев назад

    Where did they say punk rock was invented ? 😅

  • @fidelisfaber4961
    @fidelisfaber4961 2 года назад +1

    Oh yeah! Catholics really know how to have a good time! Wasn't our Lord's first miracle at a wedding party? Didn't King David dance the hippy hippy shake before the tabernacle? Isn't this a foretaste of heaven for these innocent ones whose lives were about to be blown apart?

  • @whym1014
    @whym1014 2 года назад

    What's going on with the singers voice? sounds like it's coming through a megaphone

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 2 года назад

      Overpowering the mic the film crew were using. Totally distorted. A standard mic wouldn’t have had the ability to deal
      With the extreme volume.

  • @atomicfairy9588
    @atomicfairy9588 Год назад +1

    For dinner blast em with the fear of God then straight on to Satan's music for desert.

    • @UTAB52
      @UTAB52 7 месяцев назад

      That's about it.

  • @UTAB52
    @UTAB52 7 месяцев назад

    Is dancing to jungle music the Catholic answer to Calvinism? I think not.

  • @seancurran6590
    @seancurran6590 9 месяцев назад

    This was carefully scripted (censored) to avoid stating that these Puritanical conditions were imposed on all religions by this 'Protestant state for a Protestant people' .

  • @sandpiper2012
    @sandpiper2012 2 года назад +3

    It was a truly awful day, glad this forced religion is over and we are not press ganged into Church and Sunday School.....

  • @ewanmacfarlane9195
    @ewanmacfarlane9195 2 года назад +2

    The contrast of the sheer joy in children dancing compared to the force feeding of nonsense superstition should be a comparison to banish religion

  • @PaulH-hl5hw
    @PaulH-hl5hw Год назад

    A video on social engineering

  • @TrueFilter
    @TrueFilter 2 года назад

    So dour and grim. Locked swingsffs

  • @tonyhancock3912
    @tonyhancock3912 Год назад +1

    Absolute disgrace

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  • @peasantsrevolt4780
    @peasantsrevolt4780 2 года назад +3

    Jesus is watching you little heathens !!!!

  • @DocReasonable
    @DocReasonable Год назад

    This is insane, funny and disturbing all at the same time!