A few chery picked scenes domt relate the Dublin of the 70's i moved there in the late 80's and found it to be the most depressed run down city....like an Eastern block city half falling down and shuttered...much better now
Valerie Singleton did a great job on this. A far more impartial telling of the story than others I have seen before from the BBC and the likes. The music is the old recordings, that’s what happens to tape as it ages.
A great programme which I first saw when I was 9. I have the tie-in book which in more recent times inspired me to visit Kilmainham Jail, the National Museum of Ireland and Mulligan's Pub. I was in Mulligan's Pub on the day of the Scotland v Ireland Six Nations match in 2016, and mentioned to a few other Scotland supporters that the pub had once featured on Blue Peter. Very sad to learn that Bob Lynch committed suicide.
Thank you Mark Jenkins for unearthing this. Such a wonderful snapshot in time of Dublin from the perspective of 50 yrs ago!. I wonder if in the process of doing this did you manage to connect with Valerie Singleton?. I suspect she was quite emotionally moved by some of the content, even though she couldn't really express this on UK TV in 1974.
Good observation. I sensed that the BBC treated this production with reasonable openness & honesty regarding the 1916 rising. No hint of colonial condescension & not afraid to call out the harshness of the reaction of the British forces in suppressing the uprising & the execution of the rebels.
I literally just pointed this fact out to my partner who is Italian. In fact some pubs would not serve women at all in the lounge and this was up until around 2000. Times change.
I know things weren't great back then but I'd gladly swap it for the Dublin we have today. Baile Atha Cliath is actually in English, town of the hurdled ford. Dublin it the mixture of two Irish words Dubh and Linn, in English black and pool or Blackpool. Yea we like to complicate things.
@@philipmcdonagh1094 this was on nationwide a few weeks ago. Dublin is built out on a estuary. There were connecting mouths where it connected with the under city rivers and cans giving the name Dubh Linn. The Baile Átha Cliath part is further out near the sea and comes from where they used to hop across mounted connectors to get from one side to the other.
It was almost in tune ...but off enough to be annoying and not a great tone but in fairness twas hard to get a good guitar back then...or good strings!
I must admit my first crushes were Lesley Judd & Val Singleton on her Special Assessment's. This is very interesting to watch. Mum's cousins lived in Dalkey Co. Dublin & Dad proposed to her at Bullock Harbour I have very happy memories of Dublin from years ago. Pre Celtic Tiger it was rough in places but the last time I was there in 2017 & I didn't recognise it at all.
Back before all the engineers and doctors enriched the place. Never forget that until very recently, Ireland was almost 100% homogeneous, never forget who is behind the change
Hi, who can tune a guitar after a few pints of Guinness, don't knock the man who' was doing his best, Music illiterates don't allow for the delay in older programs, but oh, I forgot, there was a band who did well who couldn't tune an instrument drunk or sober, now, what was there name again, the dub....
What's unrecgnisable is that a nation that defined ourselves as welcoming and progressive is now apparently full of people who think being vocally racist makes them patriots, instead of pricks.
funny she says, I don't hear a lot of people speaking Irish in Dublin, lol, she never said the Brits were the reason for this, it was baned. Actually this whole video is a joke, made for Brits.
The British presenter being tone deaf as to why the Irish language wasn’t spoken widely anymore. Would that have been the British decimation of the Irish language?
Did Saturday night drinkers piss on O'Connell Street in 1974? .. did gangs of Albanians hang around at the corner of North Earl Street in 1974? Did gangs of Somalians hang around on North Frederick Street in 1974? Did hundreds of Irish people sleep in tents on Dublin streets in 1974, open drug selling everywhere, Junkies out of their heads everywhere in 1974? .. yeah Dublin is so much better now
Dublin has some majestic buildings like the Custom House, 99.9% of people believe these buildings were built by Irish or Irish / Anglo Irish labour/ capital, actually they were built by the Tartarian Civilisation, these majestic buildings are to be seen all over the world including New Zealand, the USA, China and India. Modern day architects don't know how to build these buildings, they build something like Liberty Hall!
Go away! You Tartarian nutters need to go and study architectural and engineering techniques of the 1800s. Yes, we knew how to build big, majestic buildings, and we did! No aliens, no global mudfloods ... just an internet nowadays that allows crazy people to feed each other!
It was Shamefull the ignorant way Dublin Corporation treated this National Monument. A different time and people .Militant nationalism running the city and running it into the ground literally.They didn't like to be associated with showing foreign Invaders in a good light. This is why the Corporation only used unskilled labour to excavate this site. Much was overlooked and lost , the good intentions of the workers to salvage something. Better they got something rather than nothing.This film has the patronising view of people who are not from Ireland and don't understand the sarcasm that's directed back.The Realisation, it only dawns on people later.Back than people believed everything they heard about Ireland as if it was gospel, one thing about It, it was top grade B,S ✌️☘️
It was originally recorded on tape. The speed of the tape is wavering which creates a flange effect which will make the music sound out of tune. This is a problem all tapes had. The tape would stretch which caused inconsistencies.
This is the Dublin I grew up in , born in 1965. The look of the city in this piece is ingrained in my memory .
Yes I know what you mean.
Now it's like Mumbai at night.
A few chery picked scenes domt relate the Dublin of the 70's i moved there in the late 80's and found it to be the most depressed run down city....like an Eastern block city half falling down and shuttered...much better now
@@johntheball It had identity. It no longer has that now. I have many friends living in Dublin and they hate it.
I totally agree, by the early 80s it was run down and depressing. It picked up again later. I left in 83
So much has changed. Mind blowing.
Good god that view 2:25 has changed beyond belief. Extraordinary to see James Brennan, I visited Kilmainham just last month.
I love all this warm fuzzy footage from the early 70’s..such a privilege to watch on YT 😊
Thank you Valerie for making this programme. God bless you. ❤🇮🇪❤
I remember Dublin city in the rare old times.❤
I remember seeing this at the time which was 50 years ago. Great to see this again.
A great piece of archive.
Valerie Singleton did a great job on this. A far more impartial telling of the story than others I have seen before from the BBC and the likes. The music is the old recordings, that’s what happens to tape as it ages.
A great programme which I first saw when I was 9. I have the tie-in book which in more recent times inspired me to visit Kilmainham Jail, the National Museum of Ireland and Mulligan's Pub. I was in Mulligan's Pub on the day of the Scotland v Ireland Six Nations match in 2016, and mentioned to a few other Scotland supporters that the pub had once featured on Blue Peter. Very sad to learn that Bob Lynch committed suicide.
Thank you Mark Jenkins for unearthing this. Such a wonderful snapshot in time of Dublin from the perspective of 50 yrs ago!. I wonder if in the process of doing this did you manage to connect with Valerie Singleton?. I suspect she was quite emotionally moved by some of the content, even though she couldn't really express this on UK TV in 1974.
Good observation. I sensed that the BBC treated this production with reasonable openness & honesty regarding the 1916 rising. No hint of colonial condescension & not afraid to call out the harshness of the reaction of the British forces in suppressing the uprising & the execution of the rebels.
1:36 Valerie gets a glass ( 1/2 pint of stout) . A woman at that time in some pubs would not be served a pint as it was seen as unladylike.
My Mother when out at family functions always starts off with a glass of Guiness!
I literally just pointed this fact out to my partner who is Italian. In fact some pubs would not serve women at all in the lounge and this was up until around 2000. Times change.
Rightly so 😂
I was born in Dublin in 1954. I remember Dublin 70's so well. Dublin was a great city.
Me too ! Happy 70th.
@raywalsh5414 Many Happy Returns
I know things weren't great back then but I'd gladly swap it for the Dublin we have today. Baile Atha Cliath is actually in English, town of the hurdled ford. Dublin it the mixture of two Irish words Dubh and Linn, in English black and pool or Blackpool. Yea we like to complicate things.
@@philipmcdonagh1094 this was on nationwide a few weeks ago. Dublin is built out on a estuary. There were connecting mouths where it connected with the under city rivers and cans giving the name Dubh Linn. The Baile Átha Cliath part is further out near the sea and comes from where they used to hop across mounted connectors to get from one side to the other.
Little gem, thanks. 2024
Brilliant 😊
Gosh. . . .your man Bob Lynch could have tuned his guitar ! 🎶 😱
It was almost in tune ...but off enough to be annoying and not a great tone but in fairness twas hard to get a good guitar back then...or good strings!
Only the Irish could take a beautiful thing like the guitar and make it sound like that.
it's the tape speeding up and slowing down not his tuning. Justice4Bob
@@speakertreatz 🤣
It’s the Audio tape not the guitar
After all these years, still giving me a Blue Peter!
My goodness. To see Valerie singleton on here is a lovely thing. I watched her on blue Peter when I was 9 I'm 58 now. She was Hella beaut . ❤🇮🇪❤
This was a decent documentary. To the point and not too Oirish, despite the obligatory pint of Guinness. Never saw it back in the day.
God bless ireland 🇮🇪
I could see some of the Croke Park pitch from my bedroom window on North Richmond Street
Brilliant
I must admit my first crushes were Lesley Judd & Val Singleton on her Special Assessment's. This is very interesting to watch. Mum's cousins lived in Dalkey Co. Dublin & Dad proposed to her at Bullock Harbour I have very happy memories of Dublin from years ago. Pre Celtic Tiger it was rough in places but the last time I was there in 2017 & I didn't recognise it at all.
I remember all the soot on the buildings. The removal of that is definitely an improvement .
So clean,
In 1974, I lived in Summerhill a 10 minute walk from Moore Street
Was that Valerie Singleton in the thumbnail?...
OMG!!!!
IT IS...
From Blue Peter to
The Alexandra Basin
6:41 it’s heartbreaking to see Moore St today
Is it ? I love the diversity .
Moo-er street.
@@anthonydowling3356 Is that you Ali? 😂
31:40 "I was disappointed. I didn't expect anything else but death"...
jesus christ, what a powerhouse of a man. Brave as fuck.
I knew Dublin well back then. I loved the city. Wouldn’t go near it now.
Stay away so.
Good old Valerie.
The best of times
How much has dublin changed. Traffic a problem in 65.... its even worse now
Where did your man get his banjo .
Nice to see Irish people in Dublin. Inside pubs and GAA matches are the only place it doesn't look like America in Dublin now.
I strongly disagree. It looks a lot more like Pakistan
Down town Mogadishu now😢
You're right.I was in the GPO,It was full of black and brown young men.I wax one of the few Irish people there.
someone once told me that 'DUBLIN' means 'BLACKPOOL' in Irish Gaelic. is this true?
@peterwhitaker4038 Yes it domes from a black pool that viking settlers moored their boats in at site of Dublin Castle
@@IrelandOldandNew thankyou for a reply. keep up the good work. respect
That's true. Dubh is the irish word for black and linn is the irish word for pool.
@@gearoid9835 thanks for this. all interesting stuff
@pm_ordinarychap one is the viking name in origin and the other is the Irish name
To be sovereign and indefeasible
That certainly isn’t the case anymore
Back before all the engineers and doctors enriched the place. Never forget that until very recently, Ireland was almost 100% homogeneous, never forget who is behind the change
I take it you dont like the 'change'' and would prefer a 'homogenous' Ireland? All white and catholic i'm guessing?
@@shadowmanNI 🥱
The fcuk you talking about?
👃
@@tmck2000 zzzz
Mozart turning in his grave lol
Talk about out of key 😮
Sad looking city now what our new Irish governments have done .
The past is a different country. I'm not sure if we've progressed or regressed. More money (debt) and more material things, but have we lost our soul?
Irish people never said 50/20/5/2/1 penny but pence!
A point of Guinness is good.
His guitar tuning is a bit manky.
@@joegreen2750 It’s the 50 year old audio soundtrack that’s distorted and not the guitar.
Jayus he needs to tune that auld guitar 😂
1:16 Jesus, tune the guitar bro!
It's the recording not the tuning
@@IrelandOldandNewonly one string is out of tune.
is that all about the Post Office? ah they do later
God rest these brave Irish patriots, I wish we had them today.
Their definitely spinning in their graves. And I wouldn't blame them. I feel a new rising coming on.
Taliban of the day.
Hi, who can tune a guitar after a few pints of Guinness, don't knock the man who' was doing his best,
Music illiterates don't allow for the
delay in older programs, but oh,
I forgot, there was a band who did well who couldn't tune an instrument drunk or sober, now, what was there name again, the dub....
The sound is awful.
Sound track is off.
Passable though.
Now it looks like a 3rd world outpost
Back when Dublin was Irish - unrecognisable today
Yawn
Scumbag
What's unrecgnisable is that a nation that defined ourselves as welcoming and progressive is now apparently full of people who think being vocally racist makes them patriots, instead of pricks.
@@stephenjohnston7630 Well said.
Perfectly put!
They made a real bollix of it executing the prisoners.
I say I say so posh.
funny she says, I don't hear a lot of people speaking Irish in Dublin, lol, she never said the Brits were the reason for this, it was baned. Actually this whole video is a joke, made for Brits.
The British presenter being tone deaf as to why the Irish language wasn’t spoken widely anymore. Would that have been the British decimation of the Irish language?
31:58 beautiful?? Hmmmmm
Dublin was not a great city in 1974: I’m 63 years old now and in my view it’s a better city now, irrespective of the issues we have.
Did Saturday night drinkers piss on O'Connell Street in 1974? .. did gangs of Albanians hang around at the corner of North Earl Street in 1974? Did gangs of Somalians hang around on North Frederick Street in 1974? Did hundreds of Irish people sleep in tents on Dublin streets in 1974, open drug selling everywhere, Junkies out of their heads everywhere in 1974? .. yeah Dublin is so much better now
Your man’s guitar is out of tune, the bottom string
It's the recording that is off not the musician!
Some of the worst wow-and-flutter I’ve heard 😣🙉
It has lost so much of it's charm .... or maybe I'm looking through rose tinted spectacles ....
Pity about Dublin now ! Overun with imported gangs !!
@@wittywoo9559 It’s hardly Mad Max. Chillax baby….
His guitar is out of tune
Also , he can’t sing ..
Dublin has some majestic buildings like the Custom House, 99.9% of people believe these buildings were built by Irish or Irish / Anglo Irish labour/ capital, actually they were built by the Tartarian Civilisation, these majestic buildings are to be seen all over the world including New Zealand, the USA, China and India. Modern day architects don't know how to build these buildings, they build something like Liberty Hall!
@@brianwhelan5382 Nonsense. Tartarian 🤣
Go away! You Tartarian nutters need to go and study architectural and engineering techniques of the 1800s. Yes, we knew how to build big, majestic buildings, and we did! No aliens, no global mudfloods ... just an internet nowadays that allows crazy people to feed each other!
stay off the weed
It was Shamefull the ignorant way Dublin Corporation treated this National Monument. A different time and people .Militant nationalism running the city and running it into the ground literally.They didn't like to be associated with showing foreign Invaders in a good light. This is why the Corporation only used unskilled labour to excavate this site. Much was overlooked and lost , the good intentions of the workers to salvage something. Better they got something rather than nothing.This film has the patronising view of people who are not from Ireland and don't understand the sarcasm that's directed back.The Realisation, it only dawns on people later.Back than people believed everything they heard about Ireland as if it was gospel, one thing about It, it was top grade B,S ✌️☘️
false!!
Tune that guitar man 😮
😂😂😂😂😂
Nothing to do with the chaps Guitar , But trouble with the sound track
It was originally recorded on tape. The speed of the tape is wavering which creates a flange effect which will make the music sound out of tune.
This is a problem all tapes had. The tape would stretch which caused inconsistencies.
@@ehughes8829 the other strings are in tune.
Good tour all the same