Limerick - A Changing City, Ireland 1974

[@Lar308]

I was a Garda in Limerick city (1983 - 1990) new recruit to Edward St and when it closed Roxboro. Loved it there - people were so friendly and even the people who "helped us with our enquires" had a basic honesty and goodness about them. Retired now but I drive by Edward St when I am in the city and reminese a little about the good times I had there.

[@peterquaid2241]

Different place now, Edward St, not so much!

[@rudithedog7534]

I lived very close to Edward street station and always appreciated the Gardi there, they were quite friendly and really well liked by the community, a particular fellow I remember was Tom Murphy, good days back then

[@mrbrian826]

I'd say you would have ran into a few of my uncles 😂. Although they would have been in their 30s so maybe not 🤔

[@damooriain]

You probably picked my father up a few times back then. lol

[@nevishogan7]

My Grandfather is in this clip 3.12 mins into the clip, wearing his coat & hat, the grandest of men.

[@fordford9133]

He like you very beautiful

[@markofsaltburn]

This has put me in a good mood for Saturday morning. It’s good to learn that my inconsequential town of 6,000 people has 2 more public toilets than Limerick did in 1974.

[@freebornjohn2687]

That's one of calibrating life - it sounds as good as any. Sounds like your town is very convenient.

[@peterquaid2241]

I'm sure we've only 2 now! Limerick is forgotten Ireland, but its home!

[@Kevin-cq3cl]

What a great piece of film. Two things said really touched me. "I love Limerick but Limerick doesn't love me" & "every Irishman has the right to make his bread and butter in Ireland". Tiocfaidh ár la.

[@Rinty145]

Worked in Shannon from 1974 to 1977, always loved going into Limerick at the weekends

[@animallover19581]

Imagine this, I was born 24 miles from Limerick City. 1974 I was 16 and I can safely say I would not have been to the city at all. Times have changed. Ironically I ended up working in the city for nearly 30 years. A great old spot indeed. Limerick Abu. 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬

[@Zorak1]

i hope your bed time drink works

[@fowleheidi482]

I LOVED living in Limerick! I'm American worked as a bartender at Nancy Blake's. The craic was mighty!! I could write a book on the daily experience. I have gone back to visit on a few occasions and my first trip back they acted like I'd never left except the last guy (Dominic) in for after hours drinks picked me up twirled me around and said WOW you have gained a stone! I called him a gobshite and we stayed all night. I forget I had no place to stay and my friend brought me home to his family's house, his Indian mom said I should stay as long as I wanted. I also loved in Dublin for years but truly Limerick feels like home. And I still get pissed when people call it Stab City.

[@hefellump1]

Filling up with various 3rd worlders now , shits falling apart

[@KevinDunne-qi7sg]

Well people call it Stab City for a reason. So get pissed at the people of Limerick for giving it a bad name.

[@MrYFlyer]

I went to Nancy Blakes for 30 years until a barmaid barred me claiming I was drunk. Finished work at UL.

[@tdot9140]

Thank you! Please keep them coming. ❤️

[@barrymac4431]

I lived in co, limerick in temperglantine and then moved to Abbey Feale for 7 years and then I moved back home from there to liverpool and it’s one of my regrets moving back to liverpool from there because I loved it there but I was young and got homesick lol. I’d go back to co, limerick at the click of the finger if I could.

[@williammcdonald3293]

My Dad worked in Krupps as a toolmaker. My old high school the Comp loved seeing that in the video. I Immigrated to America in 87, Lots of good Memories are flooding back watching this video last time I came home for a visit I hardly recognized the place. It's a case in point from my perspective looking at this video as limerick was a changing city in 74 to today in 2024 50 years later.

[@donfalcon1495]

Nice to see John Cleese conducting the band!

[@ThairishTimes]

Haha I was just thinking the same

[@DuderinoDeux]

And now for something COMPLETELY different!

[@naffer]

Sammy Benson . A limerick legend

[@James_BAlert]

He beat them up with a golf club soon after, as they failed him once to often!! 😄

[@uwabanimalooni3138]

@@naffer Yep an absolute legend that man.

[@55ablebof]

Lovely snapshot of Limerick 48 years ago.

[@michealbreathnach2928]

The accents are different from today. Odd, in such a short time but that's true of so many places, like New York, its accent changes every 20 years or so.

[@72mossy]

The school band was playing "It's only just begun" by The Carpenters. I was born in 72

[@seandelap6268]

I only live about 15 miles outside Limerick city in county Limerick thanks for posting this.

[@simmey2011]

Sean Burke was spot on!

[@naffer]

He was , Take DELL for example . He was dead right

[@michaelroche6181]

He said it out straight.

[@maureenbourke2375]

He was indeed.

[@YoutubeUser..]

Chap walks onto the bus with his cigarette 😂 Times sure have changed!!

[@DuderinoDeux]

Yup. One bad HABIT replaces another!

[@Alex-gn2rb]

A fella said to me before while smoking a cigarette, I have one of the e-cigarettes too but it's only for the bus. So times may not have changed for some.

[@fowleheidi482]

Teenagers could do same until mid 90's!

[@25pappy]

Don't worry the cigarette smoke will be nothing compared to the diesel fumes off the old bus.

[@tomgreene1843]

Ah the Glentworth ....often stayed in Limerick as a travelling worker....long fone by ...good memories.

[@SpiralMoss]

The Limerick city accent changed over the years....it was more refined back then.

[@SpiralMoss]

@Saoirse Eireann Culture boss 😂👍

[@Ma-fh9on]

How do manage to combine work and your house wife duties ha brilliant líne could you imagine saying that now

[@johnc6311]

Limerick & Proud ❤

[@neilmcmahon]

Even married women were allowed to work. How times have changed.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

You ask me What Do You Think of Limerick City, I have never been there but if they build that new toilet and I happen to visit that city I would heap praise on Limerick City. Flipping Heck I just noticed Sean Burke, you should know the story about Sean Burke and George Blake, a film should be made about their escape and it should be called Jailbreak after the most brilliant album by Phil Lynott/Thin Lizzy

[@COIcultist]

Just as a point of order, it is Sean Bourke. I've got broad shoulders, but it does grind at times those who can neither spell nor pronounce our surname!

[@maureenbourke2375]

The rights to his story was owned by Hitchcock's estate. The intention was to make a movie.

[@DuderinoDeux]

Phew! Thought he had a mobile phone there for a bit way back in '74!

[@thechosenone3197]

I thought exactly the same, the way he has the newspaper rolled up

[@dublinsfaircity]

68,000 people the man said back in 1974. That's very small for the south of Ireland's 3rd biggest city. I think it's approx 100,000 now which is similiar to Tallaght here in Dublin.

[@darrenmoloney2578]

None of the cities in Ireland are that big bar dublin cork Ireland second city is tiny

[@apjpisared]

The housing list for Limerick city in 1974 was 800 plus according to this report when the city's population was 68000 and the country had just under 3.2 million people. A quick Google shows Irish Examiner reports saying the housing list in 2021, 47 years later, was around 2'400 plus., with a population of circa 94'000 in the city itself and just under 5 million in the country. Three times as many people waiting for housing, a 300% plus increase and the city population only actually went up less than 40%. Ireland has always been an unequal hole of a country. It is also well known that Drogheda, South Louth and East Meath, the areas I am from, have it even worse than this with housing lists often going over 10 thousand since way back even before 2008-obviously because a major city gets more investment than the largest town and the neglected commuter belt, although clearly everywhere is massively underresourced. All of this is compounded by the fact that we have possibly the worst regulated rental market in Europe and definitely the most unfair one, with zero low cost high rise apartments, zero publicly owned public apartment or student dorm buildings, and the country has no legacy buildings like we do out here in Eastern Europe, so even if you can afford rent, all you get is a mouldy old death trap that you usually have to share with at least 2 other people to afford. This video was interesting but also depressing. Unless Sinn Fein build apartments like we have in Poland, Czechia and Ukraine and tackle the vested interests and landlord class, it'll be the same forever and ever and ever.

[@rudithedog7534]

Be responsible for yourselves, get a job and get off council waiting lists, don't have stuff you can't afford.

[@LeMerch]

@@rudithedog7534 Well said. Sick and tired of people who think we all owe them something. Go to South America, Africa and Asia and see how far that gets you! THOSE are proper hard working people unlike some of the self entitled moaning Irish!

[@jericho9653]

What are you talking about. Ireland is one of the greatest countrys in the world if your someone who doesn't want to work. All the benefits they get. Go to poland, czech republic or ukraine and not work and see how you get on there

[@James_BAlert]

Surely we as a people (the state) have to set standards in housing which we do via the law and inspections in private build, and via building public housing, if we leave it to the private sector we will end up with slum housing and appalling living conditions which leads to crime and ill health and the empowerment of reprehensible slumlords. So is British landlords bad, but lrish landlords(& international vulture funds under the permission of the lrish government) good? Surely it is good to set a ceiling(or floor) to rents, so as people have more disposable income to live a better life and to invest in the actual economy that employs people and leads to further business opportunities instead of the crony Capitalistic model we have today? 🤔

[@rudithedog7534]

@@James_BAlert the problem is the welfare state, the more you give to people the more they want. There are people who will live off welfare for years and never work for a living, the easier you make it for them the more they will take. Welfare is supposed to help you get to your next job not support you for life.

[@davidorourke4311]

Affluence depending on foreign Investment is something that is the same today as back in 1974. Interesting viewpoint on this from the return emigrant at the end of the video.

[@KJ_2020]

Even moreso since EU regulations killed a lot of traditional industry in the country.

[@cigh7445]

It's far more a thing today, Neoliberal market ideology is widespread and there are few protections for native industries. They have to compete with the multinational companies

[@donfalcon1495]

Ireland has the 2nd most globalised economy in the world and has gained massively from this fact! How people fail to see this self evident fact is beyond me.

[@KJ_2020]

@@donfalcon1495 In a way it seems like we don't want to govern ourselves, or maybe don't know how, so we constantly hand the reigns over to others. To be fair, we failed quite miserably for more than half a century so maybe it was best to let foreign companies run our economy and follow the EU/UK lead on other important issues.

[@donfalcon1495]

@@KJ_2020 in what way don’t we govern ourselves? What changes would you propose?

[@ainnothin9854]

Damn, that guy was dropping truth

[@cqk3578]

Are you black?

[@TomJerry-gs3fi]

Nice Memories of Limerick City during my Stay as Student❤

[@shanegriffin8682]

Limerick is such an underrated place in my opinion. It's by far the friendliest city in the country. It's the only Irish city with the streets arranged in that grid layout. It reminds me of Melbourne in that aspect albeit on a smaller scale.

[@RealLimerickman]

Of all the cities I have gone out in. Limerick was one of the safest cities. I never got into any trouble in the 25 years living here. You want to look for trouble to get into trouble in Limerick City (unfortunately many loudmouths do get into trouble and I have no pity for them), unless the gangs lands you into it with their war against each other. In Dublin, Cork and even Galway, Trouble came on top of me on those nights out. In fairness to Eyre Square in Galway, I was in Super macs 15 years ago, when A fellow hit me in the back of the head while I was in the queue, I turned around and he immediately half apologies. The brute was bigger than me and he immediately saw his target and rushed towards him. Other times I just stared at the trouble makers until they left, except a few, who wished they never landed themselves at me... Lets me just say, one or two landed into a squad car on top of a guard open windows or into the back seat or and another at another time in front of the squad car on the road. I Made it easy for the guards to deal with them, as I winded them before I threw them using their own weight as they attacked towards me, as I positioned myself to guide them into a new set of troubles. a few of the lads was drunk and the other was on drugs. I usually run interference or distraction on the gullible trouble makers without then realizing it until it is too late.

[@phatdoobz3884]

Great video

[@qasaaye23]

Insightful.

[@davidesimonetti8989]

Look up that writer, Sean Bourke on Wikipedia. It's a hell of a read! Lad helped another guy escaping prison, went to live in Moscow, came back and got probably poisoned to death by the KGB in Limerick... Crazy life.

[@brooklynbourke1326]

That guy is my great uncle and he was an amazing man and I’m proud to call him family

[@brooklynbourke1326]

That guy is my great uncle and he was an amazing man and I’m proud to call him family

[@kieran3237]

Greatest city in Ireland and the nicest people...sports mad is an understatement

[@shanegriffin8682]

Cork would give it a run for it's money though, but i tell you i much prefer Limerick to Dublin and the way overrated Galway. Limerick is a very real, genuine and authentic place, while Galway on the other hand is very fake, pretentious, touristy and artificial.

[@saoirse1184]

Born over 20 years after this was made, it's funny to see how things have changed, but some things never change 😂

[@damooriain]

Even from the 90s uts changed so much. Like mid 2000s hit and it just changed

[@briankelly8297]

Great stuff

[@E_O_S_]

Best city in Ireland the people are real

[@timmyhiggins5220]

Aggressive

[@72mossy]

What's the story Sham

[@venmxshadows]

Fucking kip it is what ye on about

[@FoMoCo123]

@@venmxshadows Your comment says more more about you than Limerick. Cheer up and have a nice day, from a concerned Limerick man

[@DuderinoDeux]

The only Irish Soviet back in the day.

[@Eoin933]

Yes and famous for it's progrom crimes committed against the Jewish community of Limerick - while De Valera and his cronies did nothing to help

[@John_Wood_]

2:36 whats this song anyone?

[@devanman7920]

Limerick is the city I know the least well out of any of out cities. What is is honestly like nowadays? Poor or doing well? Is it still quite rough or better? I really should head there for a few days.

[@annehebert510]

Limerick has changed more over the last 20 years than any other city in Ireland. (For the better for the most part)

[@patrickdelaney3961]

Can someone please tell me the poem at the beginning.

[@christineterry3079]

ver been to Ireland , might even have relatives here Cork and Dublin 🤔 my Grandparents from here .

[@BigBalls-jd5jf]

Happier times all the same

[@noelmaher4633]

1974/2022 Housing, not much has changed....

[@robertrobello738]

I think limejuice its a Nice city like other Eirish city, Robert

[@ellenfalveycarroll4489]

Ha like it tommy drennan a limerick man singing

[@raymondkinsella2484]

It’s a city that has never been able to sit itself up

[@PeterPeadar]

Who wrote the poem and what's its title?

[@josipmickovic2572]

9:00 onwards?

[@grahamwishart4832]

Now your man Sean Bourke was an interesting fella was he not...

[@maureenbourke2375]

He was.

[@EMGL33]

3:00 My Grand uncle Willie (WACK) Gleeson

[@ballygeale1]

I wonder who is the reporter

[@ntskl]

John Cleese @ 6:55

[@spmoran4703]

Oh look there it is Dunns stores.

[@davidhuff5676]

Very topical given the Lily Pharma announcement today. Good news for Limerick.

[@geraldinelynch6999]

Brilliant .. there are so many more on the housing list today on rehousing list. Not sure about progress..

[@tonywilliams7152]

I was born in limerick but haven't lived there for a long time, so forgive me but what is the lily pharma announcement?

[@this_username_is_taken7004]

@@tonywilliams7152 Eli Lily (a pharmaceutical company) announced that they are going to build a facility in the Raheen Industrial Estate, which is set to be completed in 2026

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

Just what we needed: Another multinational to exploit the workers of Limerick to the nth degree, charge American workers up the hole for lifesaving drugs like insulin, all while contributing as little as possible to the state coffers by taking advantage of our broken tax system, to enrich a handful of American oligarchs. Providing jobs is not good enough. Slavery provided jobs for people, unpaid jobs, but jobs nonetheless. Hell, at least the slave owners were obliged to provide room and board to their workers. Sadly, upon the abolition of slavery, many found their new found freedom included the freedom to starve, the freedom to be thrown out on the street, to be imprisoned, conscripted, and so on. I see this quote bandied about quite a bit, but rarely in it's proper context, so here it is: "With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891).

[@azam987654321]

Small detail but the guy was allowed to smoke on the bus back then

[@michael42158]

Great video. My people are from Co. Limerick

[@irishmade8136]

Just shows the housing crisis is still to as bad in Ireland. 🙄

[@DuderinoDeux]

Cue The Likely Lads theme-tune.

[@victorpatrick2812]

Did anne one no Mi Grandmother who live in Limerick her name was Betty ryan she live there in 1979 but passed a way in 80s she had two children mary & chris & her sister bridey dont no anne one can help thank you

[@SilverSquirrel]

It's a city most favored by truckers.....

[@Eoin933]

Shame on you Limerick - there is no excuse - and shame on Dev Valera and cronies for not letting the Saint Louis dock in Ireland and welcome people ... all totally shamefull - but blotted out of Irish history

[@shanksnag9359]

I'm from Limerick. In the 80's, it was a grand spot. Enter the 90's & it started to disintegrate. Then it became all tracksuits, nasal drawl & 'gimme a faaaag willaaahhhh'. My car was robbed, I was attacked on the street 3 times (I'm a woman). Was stuck in the middle of an armed robbery too. If I never saw the place again, I wouldn't care.

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

So unseemly attire (according to you), off-putting accents (again according to you), people asking for a fag, car robberies, and assaults never occurred in Limerick prior to the 90s? Where did you purchase your rose tinted glasses from? I'd like to buy a pair.

[@andyarmstrong1493]

OMG I was 19 when this was made.

[@39doddle]

Carefree times when no one gave a toss about anything. Life's too serious now!

[@Alex-gn2rb]

He gave the "married woman" a right grilling and that factory "even" employs other married woman. Remember until 1972 I think when a couple married , the new wife had to stop working and start breeding. I think teaching and nursing were except, but it was actual law thanks to Dev and his Catholic constitution.

[@robertryan2542]

Up 'the Boro!!!'

[@Eoin933]

Eoin933 Eoin933 0 seconds ago Yes and famous for it's progrom crimes committed against the Jewish community of Limerick - while De Valera and his cronies did nothing to help

[@ruaidhri9950]

Seán Bourke Laoch Luimnigh

[@kierno9468]

Still no public toilets in limerick

[@venmxshadows]

Might aswell just piss on the street sure the whole place is a shithole anyway

[@paralleloctagon7062]

thats limerick city

[@lewisticknor]

Great video, not sure about someone that thinks kids having shoes is artificial wealth...LOL.

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

Artificial wealth in the same sense that Americans with fancy houses and cars are wealthy, i.e., living on credit, under threat of having their assets stripped away from them at any moment should circumstance take a turn for the worse.

[@DIEGOGUTIERREZSAGASTEGUI]

🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽👌👌🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@fitzerelli1]

When limerick was limerick not a multi cultural mess.

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

No, it was a mono-cultural mess. Instead of poor foreigners doing all the jobs nobody wants to do, it was poor locals. Not exactly what I'd call an improvement, but not a step backwards either. One day socialism will eliminate the need for people to travel far from their loved ones to make a decent living. You'll probably still have to see people with more melanin in their skin though, as racism won't be tolerated in such a society.

[@petegallows5494]

Interesting video, but why is the reporter referring to the lady worker in the factory as a “housewife”, when she’s clearly employed there? Would he call his female colleagues at his work “housewives”? Did they call all married mothers housewives back then? Regardless whether they were employed or not?

[@paulmccarthy3547]

Calm down.

[@richiekennedy4514]

You should get a time machine and go back and have a go at him

[@juliawatkins7974]

@@paulmccarthy3547 noone can ask a question these days without being told theyre being aggressive or angry. Its a cheap tactic to undermine someones opinion or reasoning.

[@TheDavveponken]

@@juliawatkins7974 hear hear

[@stringplayer2992]

No one answered the question.😂

[@brianallen858]

Courdroy jacket, complaining about the public cottaging place 🤣🤣

[@OSTARAEB4]

Brian, that was good! 😅😂🤣🇮🇪☘️🇺🇸

[@72mossy]

EI Electronics still in Buisness and still married women working there, shocking carry on

[@anthonyduffy1278]

Making the best household fire alarms for GB market, number 1 seller. Keep them coming EI. Fitting one today in Wolverhampton. Always a joy to see “Made in Ireland “ on the box when I pick up supplies from the wholesaler! Well done EI. !!!!!!

[@72mossy]

@@anthonyduffy1278 Makes a change from "Made in China" ha ha

[@neilmcmahon]

Down with that sort of thing!

[@martinkeary8187]

Lunch hour break he said,you would be lucky to get 15 minutes these days,get out of the eu and you might see these days again.

[@eddiecaplan1908]

But you know, Dublin is soon to become the biggest city in europe!, . .....cos its Dublin every day!😀

[@Rog5446]

Who was that idiot who called the married woman working in the factory a Housewife? I suppose he would call a married man in the factory, a house husband? Alternately, he might call an unmarried girl working in a factory a house girl?

[@neilmcmahon]

That's the way things were 50 years ago. My parents met in that factory lol, EI

[@jasonfallon4968]

2022 still no public toilet….

[@glennmcloughlin1233]

The only real city in Ireland is Dublin

[@michaelahern6347]

And you can fecking keep it

[@davidpryle3935]

You forgot Belfast.

[@liamg1706]

Stab City

[@biliusmaximus9510]

Priest killers

[@iloveguiness86]

Thats original!!

[@liamg1706]

@@iloveguiness86 thanks

[@FoMoCo123]

Dublin= Junkie Central.

[@liamg1706]

@@FoMoCo123 everywhere is junkie central these days

[@johnnyjumpup859]

There is no way I would live in Limerick ...it's rubbish... but having said that it seems that foreign people like it...I much prefer south Dublin or Wicklow or south cork city ...

[@irishmade8136]

We don't want your type here, so you won't be missed.