Just realised that the gentleman seeing the schoolchildren across the road at the end of the recording was the ‘one and only’ Paddy Crosbie who starred in ‘School Around the Corner’ Enjoyed the programme for years. Now 81 years old and living in Western Australia. It’s brilliant to have these memories to look back on.
Worked in blackhall place 81 to 98, , nolans for the ham off the bone, Dalys for the pint on a Friday eve after work ( he was a narky FECKER), but w had great craic!!
I went to work in Dublin in 1960 and stayed with an aunt of mine who lived in Arbour Place. I did part-time work in the early hours of the morning as a clerk just up the road in the ‘Cattle Market’.
I'll tell you now that people didn't have much back then in town, but they were able to pay their way, keep a roof over their heads, maybe have a little holiday in Tramore, Wales or Blackpool, run a little car and put away a few quid just in case. I will absolutely stand by that people were pleasant to deal with and had a sense of civility. Times have changed certainly, for better or worse I don't know to be honest.
Things are generally better, but people are less happy. This was filmed just before the heroin epidemic took hold and ruined our society. In 1979, barely over a mile in either direction from Stoneybatter were hundreds of women in magdalene laundries, many having been stripped of their children and dignity. Around this time too, Willie Bermingham, a Dublin fireman, so moved by the suffering and squalor endured by the elderly felt compelled to found his charity ALONE, to provide services and housing to the isolated old people living amongst us who were suffering in silence, ignored and abandoned. 1979 was close to the Zenith of the child sexual abuse scandal, when predatory paedophiles were gifted immunity by a hegemonic church eager to avoid controversy. Prosecutions for sexual offences were rare. Infant mortality was far higher than now. Life expectancy was lower. Access to 3rd level education was a preserve of the wealthy. Unemployment, lack of employment protection laws, and strikes, were a feature. Emigration, economic stagnation, and political corruption, were the status quo. Contraception and family planning were stigmatised, and in some instances illegal. To suggest life was better then is to fool yourself with nostalgia. Dublin was crumbling. There are many new problems, and some old problems have been exacerbated. The pressure on young people to find and finance a home is a national disgrace. The inequality and financial slavery is breeding a mental health epidemic. There are so many issues to resolve. But it's still a better, more prosperous, more open society these days. Life's better for most. Except for priests, nuns, politicians, and paedophiles. Life's gotten a lot less privileged for some.
@@JGrowl-er9md you are both right in different ways, much of Dublin is gone now to Hotels and Homelessness. Feel like we are devolving backwards the last few years. Still sex offenders about and abusers, and less homes and affordability to live, country has and Dublin been run into the ground for cronyism. Dublin has lost itself to Vulture Funds and Tourists who havent a clue of what a great city it was. We peaked in the 1990s it seems.
@@JGrowl-er9md 100% Agree. The affect of nostalgia seems to cloud peoples judgements on how things were back then. People were also younger as well. Everybody reminisces on their teenage years or their twenties.
@@JGrowl-er9md Everything you have said is the truth. I like looking at archive footage of Ireland and Dublin from the 60s and 70s but it doesn't make me feel nostalgic for those times. Ireland was not a better place for a lot of people in those days. The poor, the young, women all these groups and more were marginalised by Irish society, a society run by feckless careless politicians and inhumane monstrous members of the clergy.
Eamonn Mac Thomais Was a true Dub. But more than that he was a true Irishman he loved the History of his native City But more than that he loved His Country even More. RIP Eamonn
If you think Dublin has changed. I was working as an engineering student in Berlin for the summer in 1985. Got a trip to Prague to collect some propellers. Arrived there very late in the evening. Charles Bridge and Wenceslas Square looked like something out of a spy movie. It was dark and foggy with a smokey smell and a distinct lack of colour. There wasn't a person on the streets. I go there now and the whole place is unrecognisable. In fact most of the ex communist countries have gone through similar changes.
I have been to Dublin many times and I must say the people of Dublin are wonderful people they love to talk they have great knowledge of their city that you wouldn't get in most cities around the world and they're down to earth and you get a fine pint of Guinness and a free conversation what more do you want we are all just passing through this planet and if you get an opportunity go to Dublin and have a pint of Guinness.
Lived there from '98 to 2002. There was still a bloke going round with a horse and cart selling logs. Nice bloke he was too. Think he might have given up though by the time I left
Its corrupt governments that destroy countries and wreak culture, history and heritage. My country today is a migrant shit hole and irish people allowed it to happen.
There is a friendliness about Dublin working class that you don't get in middle class areas, there is a sense of caring and humour about the people but is there any true blue left in any of those places now, of course you can't say anything or you're a raciest.
@@JGrowl-er9md well said our own Bertie Ahern so called dubliner sold us down the liffey, and was not the only one I feel like a stranger in my own town
So depressing to see what's become of Dublin nowadays. You'll be lucky to even see an Irish person walking down the streets. The EU and globalist policies has destroyed this island.
All of Europe and Britain is the same. Whole cultures of centuries down the pan. Gone forever, replaced by Turks and Middle Eastern ‘asylum seekers’. Never was a name so wrong as asylum seeker.
@Daniel Gallagher Nobody asked. You'll be coming back to this comment wishing you'd heeded my warning when the ethnic Irish no longer exist. This isn't the 19th century and our population has never recovered since the 'Famine', which was actually an orchestrated genocide against us. The last thing we need is further destruction. And regarding the Famine, when we emigrated, went and we built a developing continent founded and created as we know it by other White Europeans. We weren't some low IQ subhumans using North America as an economic hostel trying to breed everyone out of existence in a culture we were inherently incompatible with. Cop onto yourself if you actually want your kind to survive. If you don't, you're the problem.
@Daniel Gallagher irish were forced to leave, the above were not. Also the Irish built the countries they went to , didn't go and sign on. Also didn't rape, murder and pillage. Look up any newspaper any day, all "asylum seekers". No doubt you'll find this take offensive or disgusting . Don't care , slán leat
Oh how I hate what they have done to my city....I grew up around the corner from stoneybatter....going to Delaney's with me Da etc etc....we now live in a Dublin full of miserable foreigners who you can't say hello to in case you get accused of being a racist....no BLM here ..
Just realised that the gentleman seeing the schoolchildren across the road at the end of the recording was the ‘one and only’ Paddy Crosbie who starred in ‘School Around the Corner’ Enjoyed the programme for years. Now 81 years old and living in Western Australia. It’s brilliant to have these memories to look back on.
Great look backs , thanks for posting.
Worked in blackhall place 81 to 98, , nolans for the ham off the bone, Dalys for the pint on a Friday eve after work ( he was a narky FECKER), but w had great craic!!
I went to work in Dublin in 1960 and stayed with an aunt of mine who lived in Arbour Place. I did part-time work in the early hours of the morning as a clerk just up the road in the ‘Cattle Market’.
I was in 2nd class in the brunner in 1979..i vaguely remember this clip was the talk of the school...
Brunner,the worst years of my life.
The teachers were brutal at times!
They are lucky I never came across any of them in later years!
@@seamusmcshean260 👍 i feel your pain brother...mr ward was the bane of my life...
@@oldtimer5283 Brother Foran was a killer with his stick, the "bruntanas" as he used to call it.
I'll tell you now that people didn't have much back then in town, but they were able to pay their way, keep a roof over their heads, maybe have a little holiday in Tramore, Wales or Blackpool, run a little car and put away a few quid just in case. I will absolutely stand by that people were pleasant to deal with and had a sense of civility. Times have changed certainly, for better or worse I don't know to be honest.
Things are generally better, but people are less happy. This was filmed just before the heroin epidemic took hold and ruined our society.
In 1979, barely over a mile in either direction from Stoneybatter were hundreds of women in magdalene laundries, many having been stripped of their children and dignity.
Around this time too, Willie Bermingham, a Dublin fireman, so moved by the suffering and squalor endured by the elderly felt compelled to found his charity ALONE, to provide services and housing to the isolated old people living amongst us who were suffering in silence, ignored and abandoned.
1979 was close to the Zenith of the child sexual abuse scandal, when predatory paedophiles were gifted immunity by a hegemonic church eager to avoid controversy.
Prosecutions for sexual offences were rare.
Infant mortality was far higher than now.
Life expectancy was lower.
Access to 3rd level education was a preserve of the wealthy.
Unemployment, lack of employment protection laws, and strikes, were a feature.
Emigration, economic stagnation, and political corruption, were the status quo.
Contraception and family planning were stigmatised, and in some instances illegal.
To suggest life was better then is to fool yourself with nostalgia. Dublin was crumbling. There are many new problems, and some old problems have been exacerbated. The pressure on young people to find and finance a home is a national disgrace. The inequality and financial slavery is breeding a mental health epidemic. There are so many issues to resolve. But it's still a better, more prosperous, more open society these days. Life's better for most.
Except for priests, nuns, politicians, and paedophiles. Life's gotten a lot less privileged for some.
@@JGrowl-er9md you are both right in different ways, much of Dublin is gone now to Hotels and Homelessness. Feel like we are devolving backwards the last few years. Still sex offenders about and abusers, and less homes and affordability to live, country has and Dublin been run into the ground for cronyism. Dublin has lost itself to Vulture Funds and Tourists who havent a clue of what a great city it was. We peaked in the 1990s it seems.
Scott - you have just described REAL times
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@@JGrowl-er9md 100% Agree. The affect of nostalgia seems to cloud peoples judgements on how things were back then. People were also younger as well. Everybody reminisces on their teenage years or their twenties.
@@JGrowl-er9md Everything you have said is the truth. I like looking at archive footage of Ireland and Dublin from the 60s and 70s but it doesn't make me feel nostalgic for those times. Ireland was not a better place for a lot of people in those days. The poor, the young, women all these groups and more were marginalised by Irish society, a society run by feckless careless politicians and inhumane monstrous members of the clergy.
Eamonn Mac Thomais Was a true Dub. But more than that he was a true Irishman he loved the History of his native City But more than that he loved His Country even More. RIP Eamonn
I'm only finished working on Harold's Road putting in trees and flower beds lovely place lovely people
Beautiful footage - given the gentrification and the demographic changes, its pleasantly surprising how little the look of the place has changed.
*Up The Dubs*
This was a whopper throw back.
So different compared to today.
Loved the video, thanks.
Great 👍 time's in Dublin I worked over there the people are amazing 👏 the Area is special Greetings from a southsider
One of the oldest parts of Dublin - the streets have interesting Viking names
Brilliant we don’t know who we are supposed to be anymore 😳
If you think Dublin has changed. I was working as an engineering student in Berlin for the summer in 1985. Got a trip to Prague to collect some propellers. Arrived there very late in the evening.
Charles Bridge and Wenceslas Square looked like something out of a spy movie. It was dark and foggy with a smokey smell and a distinct lack of colour. There wasn't a person on the streets. I go there now and the whole place is unrecognisable. In fact most of the ex communist countries have gone through similar changes.
This video is about Dublin though.
Another brilliant clip
They didn’t have enough hotels in the city back then 👀
They didn't need them
I have been to Dublin many times and I must say the people of Dublin are wonderful people they love to talk they have great knowledge of their city that you wouldn't get in most cities around the world and they're down to earth and you get a fine pint of Guinness and a free conversation what more do you want we are all just passing through this planet and if you get an opportunity go to Dublin and have a pint of Guinness.
What are you farting about. There is no dublin people left in dublin. You were speaking to migrants
i live in Dublin, its full of scumbags, junkies, and drug dealers
Lived there from '98 to 2002. There was still a bloke going round with a horse and cart selling logs. Nice bloke he was too. Think he might have given up though by the time I left
Here Yong Wan .. would ya go down and get me twenty Carroll's and a box of matches
How times change.
Its corrupt governments that destroy countries and wreak culture, history and heritage. My country today is a migrant shit hole and irish people allowed it to happen.
There is a friendliness about Dublin working class that you don't get in middle class areas, there is a sense of caring and humour about the people but is there any true blue left in any of those places now, of course you can't say anything or you're a raciest.
use know people with little money but would give you their last penny. Everyone I knew was honest, nothing to hide. Real people and real men. no BS.
I hope fina fail are happy no dubs can afford to live there anymore, or any were else, who fight for it now 🇨🇮😣
@@JGrowl-er9md well said our own Bertie Ahern so called dubliner sold us down the liffey, and was not the only one I feel like a stranger in my own town
You used to flag of Ivory Coast ya dope
Irish flag = 🇮🇪
It's grand, they're happy to just cram seven Brazilians into a single room flat for 2000 a month. And the gobshites will pay it.
Probably delighted, might own a few rentals in that spot
@@ventine7398 I was drunk
I'd love to see one on crumlin
Irish Lives Matter
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Where is Harry lipman?
We might not be the sharpest but we enjoyed life back then
You kept it real and that's everything. 😉
Had a bit of a "night life" also.....If you tread the beat there in the 80/90s, you'll know..😉
What was the rate back then😉
who was the RTE guy with the hat who use interview the ladies of the night? Funny as all hell. 'I'm a prostitute'. 'Are you? How sad how sad'
Paddy Gorman
@@pmacc3557 That's the one. Thanks bud. He was enamoured with one lady. he couldn't believe she was on the game.
@@randyborstol2491 i seen that. He's a bit of a patronising f£££tard like the Duffy guy pretending to be a man of the people
It’s Nigeria now!
So sad and very true..what is happening to this country..
Ah jaysus
"Translate to English" fucking gas!
@@fobster2000 Hilarious
So depressing to see what's become of Dublin nowadays. You'll be lucky to even see an Irish person walking down the streets. The EU and globalist policies has destroyed this island.
Yeah WEF & Globalists have decimated the place...
All of Europe and Britain is the same. Whole cultures of centuries down the pan. Gone forever, replaced by Turks and Middle Eastern ‘asylum seekers’. Never was a name so wrong as asylum seeker.
@Daniel Gallagher Nobody asked.
You'll be coming back to this comment wishing you'd heeded my warning when the ethnic Irish no longer exist.
This isn't the 19th century and our population has never recovered since the 'Famine', which was actually an orchestrated genocide against us. The last thing we need is further destruction.
And regarding the Famine, when we emigrated, went and we built a developing continent founded and created as we know it by other White Europeans. We weren't some low IQ subhumans using North America as an economic hostel trying to breed everyone out of existence in a culture we were inherently incompatible with.
Cop onto yourself if you actually want your kind to survive. If you don't, you're the problem.
@Daniel Gallagher lrish people did get nothing for free in US, they were working hard. Btw l'm not Irish
@Daniel Gallagher irish were forced to leave, the above were not. Also the Irish built the countries they went to , didn't go and sign on. Also didn't rape, murder and pillage. Look up any newspaper any day, all "asylum seekers". No doubt you'll find this take offensive or disgusting . Don't care , slán leat
Before Google came to Dublin and made everything gay
Oh how I hate what they have done to my city....I grew up around the corner from stoneybatter....going to Delaney's with me Da etc etc....we now live in a Dublin full of miserable foreigners who you can't say hello to in case you get accused of being a racist....no BLM here ..