Back then when we were a poor country we were able to provide public housing at reasonable rent for working people who couldn't buy in the private market. So much for so-called progress!!!
At a time the government just begin to reap the benefits of international investment and trade within the next 10 years they soon realise they were not in it to Help the People but themselves and we know the story since then
The EU have their "red lines" free movement of cheap labour, sorry, "free movement of people" Why not include the red line, housing for young working people. Studio flats for people who are working would help take the stress and pressure off young people, especially those living and working in Dublin.
I can't believe I found this video of people moving to McKelvey (not McKinley) in 1964. I was 9 years old and full of beans and came there to 39 McKelvey Ave in 1965 and I was astonished to see my neigbours Carmel and Tommy Mills being interviewed, no older than myself. Also Mrs. Griffin. The cement mixer at the start was in our backgarden, can ye believe it? Makes me fill up with emotion, teary eyed.
@@waynemoro8650 The Mills house was sold in the late 1990s when the parents passed away. When Tommy grew up to his late teens early 20s, he went and travelled the world. Carmel married a local guy 5 doors away. I haven't seen or heard anything about the Mills since the mid-90s. If I find out more, Ill post here.
@@cs3105 66 years in Finglas now. I have worked all over the world and believe me there there are worse places, and it was rough when I was a kid. The simplicity, genuiness, modesty and manners of the people in the video brings a tear to my eye again. They were all so thankful and that included my parents. "we have every comfort you could wish for".
God bless those people. They were so happy with their move. The women talked of the practicalities the men looked proud and the kids were beaming and nobody was moaning .
God bless the people in this video. It is so nice to see how thankful and respectful they were for what they were given. They recognised the value of it all unlike today's 'entitled' society. Where did it all go wrong? 😢
Its amazing to see people dressed so well even dough they were so poor as today they are so rich with hardly any clothes! It’s sad to think all these beautiful salt of the earth people who tried there best to remain happy and content no longer exist
The people are well dressed, are standing up straight and can hold intelligent conversations. No slouching, no whinging, no fidgeting with hands in pockets. They are positive, hopeful and willing to put up without having everything for a short while. They dealt with huge hardships in the tenements and retained their dignity. What happened the people of Ireland? Was it unemployment, the EEC, inflation or fluoride in the water? Or more than likely illegal drugs and alcohol. Having said that working class people are not fools. They can see today's system has failed and does not benefit those who contribute to it but those who take from it.
Grew up in Finglas. Moved to America a long time ago. People on here are asking what happened to Finglas and Ireland in general? Very similar parallels to where I live now (in America). I heard one man on the radio the other day speak about the influx of drugs to his neighbourhood in the 1980's and how he warned every policeman and politician he could get his hands on at the time. No one listened. Says he has no friends left now - has buried 11 of them since 2004. All drug-related deaths. Amazing how we as people, be it in Ireland or in America, cannot stop the bad things in our communities. Something is wrong somewhere.
Wow so grateful they were 🙏 and how well they all dressed even though they had so little . No tracksuits and hoodys leggings lazy nowadays compared to those people .
I was born in 64 and Im glad I wasn't living like these people,such a hard life and yet the people are so grateful 💛 sure wish bus fare was 10 shillings now 😄
Ireland and the UK made good quality affordable housing a priority until Thatcher in the UK (not sure about the Republic) and it's been downhill ever since in these islands. I lived in Germany for 6 years recently and good housing is still within reach of everyone in most parts of the country (except Munich) due to their policies. The extremes of wealth in Ireland the UK and America are depressing and dangerous for our future.
Never though I'd ever hear or see "good quality" and 60s UK public housing being mentioned in the same sentence. It was a nightmare for the most part, still is. But the worst of it isn't even to be seen anymore, as it was so crappy it already had to be torn down in the 70s and 80s. LMAO
Until the 1960s even the poorest of the poor in Dublin were good, hard working people who spoke with solid Dublin accents but not the 'howiya' knackery you hear these days. Very different to those from deprived backgrounds today.
It’s an indication of the feverish activity of the housing section of Dublin Corporation. Go into Dublin City Council today it’s Sleepy Hollow there is more chance of coming across employees drinking cups of Cappuccino wandering around the atrium area there is not a single trades person working foreman clerk of works your more likely to see an elephant than tradespeople.
decekfrokfr3mdx But old people say howiya also so I don't know what your drinking BC their just saying" how are you" or cad é mar atá tú or conus atá tú everywhere in finglas today.
No heating, no electricity, cooking food on the fire and the man says: "I have every comfort you could need." A lesson to the self-entitled of these times, if they were capable of learning it.
When king henry 11 arrived in Dublin for a handover over power from strongbow aka richard De clare .every petty king and chieften in the country aknowlaged him as theor overlord except for the people of Dublin .so they were moved out to fingal to north bank also areas of clondalkin to the west. This is where the very forst Dublin suberbs came from. Good Aul Dubs
Very impressive grateful people. All of these people are working and keen to work and proud to pay for their rent. This is an attitude that feels like we're losing as a country. My little girls asked me why I work a lot when it makes me tired. I replied that it makes me proud that I pull in enough money to look after the 5 children in my house. I told them about some new work coming in(price work) that would mean I would have to work even more but it would mean their mum doesn't have to work and we would be able to get a house where they have some space and a garden. My eldest came home the other day. She said she relayed the story to a classmate and the reply was "my dad says if you're scared at work they will give you all of that and some money so your dad's a mug. Priceless 😂😂😂
Back in the days when children played outside, little boys loved exploring and birds nests were fair game for exploring. Obviously not during nesting season, but as the interviewer says it’s the “middle of winter”
Now we have native Irish people sleeping rough on the streets while foreign nationals are put up in hotels at the expense of the taxpayer. Not only that but they're actively working to make it illegal for you to complain about what's happening. Wake up people
Back then when we were a poor country we were able to provide public housing at reasonable rent for working people who couldn't buy in the private market. So much for so-called progress!!!
You're spot on Jim. . Things have gone backwards ever since
Neoliberal Capitalism, only the finest for the few.
At a time the government just begin to reap the benefits of international investment and trade within the next 10 years they soon realise they were not in it to Help the People but themselves and we know the story since then
Back then when we lived amongst our selfs , no bleeding foreigners
The EU have their "red lines" free movement of cheap labour, sorry, "free movement of people"
Why not include the red line, housing for young working people.
Studio flats for people who are working would help take the stress and pressure off young people, especially those living and working in Dublin.
I can't believe I found this video of people moving to McKelvey (not McKinley) in 1964. I was 9 years old and full of beans and came there to 39 McKelvey Ave in 1965 and I was astonished to see my neigbours Carmel and Tommy Mills being interviewed, no older than myself. Also Mrs. Griffin. The cement mixer at the start was in our backgarden, can ye believe it? Makes me fill up with emotion, teary eyed.
Do you know what happened to the kids in the video? Did they stay or move away?
@@waynemoro8650 The Mills house was sold in the late 1990s when the parents passed away. When Tommy grew up to his late teens early 20s, he went and travelled the world. Carmel married a local guy 5 doors away. I haven't seen or heard anything about the Mills since the mid-90s. If I find out more, Ill post here.
@@29brendus Thanks man......👍
How amazing to have a bit of your life caught on archive film like that. Finglas seemed like a nice place to be back in 1964
@@cs3105 66 years in Finglas now. I have worked all over the world and believe me there there are worse places, and it was rough when I was a kid. The simplicity, genuiness, modesty and manners of the people in the video brings a tear to my eye again. They were all so thankful and that included my parents. "we have every comfort you could wish for".
God bless those people. They were so happy with their move. The women talked of the practicalities the men looked proud and the kids were beaming and nobody was moaning .
Notice how grateful they are despite not yet being connected to gas and electricity supply_realistic and resilient people
God bless the people in this video. It is so nice to see how thankful and respectful they were for what they were given. They recognised the value of it all unlike today's 'entitled' society. Where did it all go wrong? 😢
Heroin and Ireland joining the E.E.C./ EU.
Thankful yes,only because they left abject poverty.
Its amazing to see people dressed so well even dough they were so poor as today they are so rich with hardly any clothes! It’s sad to think all these beautiful salt of the earth people who tried there best to remain happy and content no longer exist
Notice the people in this video actually work
Respect, gratefulness and hard working honest people forever gone, shame really
The people are well dressed, are standing up straight and can hold intelligent conversations. No slouching, no whinging, no fidgeting with hands in pockets. They are positive, hopeful and willing to put up without having everything for a short while. They dealt with huge hardships in the tenements and retained their dignity. What happened the people of Ireland? Was it unemployment, the EEC, inflation or fluoride in the water? Or more than likely illegal drugs and alcohol. Having said that working class people are not fools. They can see today's system has failed and does not benefit those who contribute to it but those who take from it.
Well said
I'm afraid it goes much deeper than you realise. Much, much deeper. And it leads back to the peedos of the EU and Westminster.
Grew up in Finglas. Moved to America a long time ago. People on here are asking what happened to Finglas and Ireland in general? Very similar parallels to where I live now (in America). I heard one man on the radio the other day speak about the influx of drugs to his neighbourhood in the 1980's and how he warned every policeman and politician he could get his hands on at the time. No one listened. Says he has no friends left now - has buried 11 of them since 2004. All drug-related deaths. Amazing how we as people, be it in Ireland or in America, cannot stop the bad things in our communities. Something is wrong somewhere.
Jesuits
doesn't help when the government imports drugs, and sells weapons to terrorists (U.S) or corrupt cops who let the stuff in (u.k ireland)
These will be great areas again when we push the drug dealers out.
Wow so grateful they were 🙏 and how well they all dressed even though they had so little . No tracksuits and hoodys leggings lazy nowadays compared to those people .
Really cool footage, thanks for upload
Wish Ireland was like that now, instead of the shite were living in now
I was born in 64 and Im glad I wasn't living like these people,such a hard life and yet the people are so grateful 💛 sure wish bus fare was 10 shillings now 😄
Finglas born and bred and love it just hop skip and a jump into town up on a hill so no flooding what's not to like
Cyclin' up the hill when you're comin' back from town and that north brezze skinnin' ya! LoL!
How nice people were back then. ❤
We moved to Finglas then, great to see it here. 😃
I like this upload "very much"
You know
@@suziemills5189 😁😁😁
So articulate and well spoken. Probably not the same in 2022.
stop paying off banks and build houses.
Finglas before the traveler's moved in, these are very decent people
I enjoyed this video "very much"
When you look at what made people happy then compared to what people today expect off the government 🤔
amazing video!!! i love it!!
Back then you could get a house if you worked.. nootva hope now
3:55 How sweet is that!
I like it very much!
Ireland and the UK made good quality affordable housing a priority until Thatcher in the UK (not sure about the Republic) and it's been downhill ever since in these islands. I lived in Germany for 6 years recently and good housing is still within reach of everyone in most parts of the country (except Munich) due to their policies. The extremes of wealth in Ireland the UK and America are depressing and dangerous for our future.
Never though I'd ever hear or see "good quality" and 60s UK public housing being mentioned in the same sentence.
It was a nightmare for the most part, still is. But the worst of it isn't even to be seen anymore, as it was so crappy it already had to be torn down in the 70s and 80s. LMAO
Until the 1960s even the poorest of the poor in Dublin were good, hard working people who spoke with solid Dublin accents but not the 'howiya' knackery you hear these days. Very different to those from deprived backgrounds today.
decekfrokfr3mdx explain what you mean knackery is it travellers your talking
It’s an indication of the feverish activity of the housing section of Dublin Corporation. Go into Dublin City Council today it’s Sleepy Hollow there is more chance of coming across employees drinking cups of Cappuccino wandering around the atrium area there is not a single trades person working foreman clerk of works your more likely to see an elephant than tradespeople.
interesting how the accent has changed
They're on telly clearly they're using their posher accent, same as if they were on the phone.
decekfrokfr3mdx But old people say howiya also so I don't know what your drinking BC their just saying" how are you" or cad é mar atá tú or conus atá tú everywhere in finglas today.
Well spoken and pronouncing all words. Where did that annoying "hows yis bude" and walking around with a hand down your pants come from in 40 years.
Inbreeding, I would say!
@@neilcarrollMeganJamieForever probably
Great not hearing "Em, Erm & my favourite "Basically"....
@@siobhanrose9515 basically🤣🤣🤣
All came from the television Ali G and programs and programs just like
No heating, no electricity, cooking food on the fire and the man says: "I have every comfort you could need." A lesson to the self-entitled of these times, if they were capable of learning it.
Great to see
Lovely see this I lived on mellows Ave and cappagh Ave
Now they can't wait to get out of it my sister ran to Australia years ago to get out
Decent people unlike the entitled ungrateful wasters of today.
When king henry 11 arrived in Dublin for a handover over power from strongbow aka richard De clare .every petty king and chieften in the country aknowlaged him as theor overlord except for the people of Dublin .so they were moved out to fingal to north bank also areas of clondalkin to the west. This is where the very forst Dublin suberbs came from. Good
Aul Dubs
A handsome man was Mister Griffin! Looks like a film star! And what a voice!!
Mrs Griffin & Family must of been a Relatations of Mine 😁👍
"Like, you know". Reminds me of my grandma. Belfast native.
Imagine being excited to go to finglas
skin19head69 start imagining..The Finglas Maypole Festival is going to shine a light on this great surburb.
I still live here and I am damned excited.
Up the dubs
Was that Mrs Brown there?
if only they knew what the future had in store.
Very impressive grateful people. All of these people are working and keen to work and proud to pay for their rent. This is an attitude that feels like we're losing as a country.
My little girls asked me why I work a lot when it makes me tired. I replied that it makes me proud that I pull in enough money to look after the 5 children in my house. I told them about some new work coming in(price work) that would mean I would have to work even more but it would mean their mum doesn't have to work and we would be able to get a house where they have some space and a garden.
My eldest came home the other day. She said she relayed the story to a classmate and the reply was "my dad says if you're scared at work they will give you all of that and some money so your dad's a mug. Priceless 😂😂😂
Of course they are grateful! they are getting somewhere to live probably a lot better than their previous.
its tommy mills as a child . he was in a band with my father james ward does anyone have a contact for him. please
Say "Y'know, like" one more time Mrs Griffin, I feckin' dare ya
Sounds like Michael Murphy.
Yuppp
Deliyrah wit da houses so dey are
an excira
I thought you were talking in a different language for a minute lol.
Tough times breed good strong people....easy times breed..........
How I would love to have been born in 1964 instead of 199
like you know :-)
It’s extraordinary how rich Ireland is today compared with back during this time.
Looks like we have always had the housing crisis
and look at these areas now...
Before the godless baby killers we have today
The Netherlands in the 50s
I would be delighted too if I got a free fucking house!
It’s not free, it’s a rental are you stupid
I wonder how much 10 shillings is todays money?
.50p Punt pence
€20 euro at least
According to inflation calculator just under 10 quid
He liked birds nests? hate to think what he did to them
Back in the days when children played outside, little boys loved exploring and birds nests were fair game for exploring. Obviously not during nesting season, but as the interviewer says it’s the “middle of winter”
Now we have native Irish people sleeping rough on the streets while foreign nationals are put up in hotels at the expense of the taxpayer. Not only that but they're actively working to make it illegal for you to complain about what's happening. Wake up people
no one was complaining. No one mentioned gangs or drugs. So much for poverty creating insufferable inhumane society.
😂😂😂😂😂
Shot at 6fps!
Kip
Itll now look like Mosney holiday camp i bet, just like ballbriggan.
Over run by foreigners
Take your racist dog whistling and shove it up your arse.
@@davidr5964 Prick, ill tell my african wife and mixed race kids what utter shite you chat. Fool
@@imnotavingthat6813 Your 'foreigner' family?
@@davidr5964 Indeed they are, and beautiful with it
They are not delighted they are Delira and exira