Early House Pubs of Cork City, Ireland 1980

Customers availing of the early hour exemptions in a Cork pub are joined by singer Jimmy Crowley.
It is early morning along Union Quay in Cork and reporter Pat Butler pays a visit to a few of the city’s early houses. Early houses are an old tradition in the city providing a place for dockers to congregate for an early morning drink. Open from 7 am, Early houses are not specific to Cork and can be found throughout the country. Pat Butler meets some of the early morning customers and asks the question,
What are people doing in pubs drinking at that hour?
The pubs are packed with people from all walks of life with the stout flowing. Some in for a quick drink before they start the day while others are in for a pick me up after finishing a night shift.
Whether we like it or not, drink and drinking are part of the national character.
Cork folk singer Jimmy Crowley joins the men in the pub for a sing-along performing ‘Boozing’.
Boozing, bloody well boozing.
This episode of ‘Ireland’s Eye’ was broadcast on 14 October 1980. The presenter is Pat Butler.
‘Ireland’s Eye’ was a Tuesday-to-Friday series with human-interest stories and features from locations throughout Ireland. First broadcast on 7 October 1980, the programme ran until August 1983.

[@johncreedon7847]

" I never seen things so bad" yet there they are flooring pints at 8 in the morning...doesn't look too bad to me 🤣🤣🤣

[@janenothisrealname6789]

Ha ha!

[@eamondevalera3126]

😂😂😂

[@sidewindersid4180]

That's gets the comment gold medal of the month. Fucking brilliant 😂

[@gerthie]

Lots of them blokes weren’t around too long

[@dormerhouse1]

Imagine how much they would be drinking if things were good.😂😂

[@russell-di8js]

These early houses had a resurgence in the 1990s & early 2000s thanks to the "rave" scene when lads + lasses would pop in before heading home for a cuddle & an attempt at sleep!! Charlies Bar with the open fire =mighty craic.

[@StormKidification]

I'm Italian but I'm so glad I've stumbled upon this channel randomly, what a wonderful culture that i can access

[@chulainn32]

Welcome Italia. PS. Fuck Schillaci . 😁

[@ckpalmeiras1318]

Irish and Italians are usually very close and often intermarried in the US.

[@Rose_19911]

@@ckpalmeiras1318hi do you know why that is

[@ckpalmeiras1318]

@@Rose_19911 Both Catholic and tended to live in the same areas of north eastern cities

[@finolaomurchu8217]

The man singing and playing accordion was really talented. The man the chef, was bit down over lack of work. Jimmy Crowley gifted.

[@sentimentaloldme]

Jimmy Crowley is a well known Irish Folk Singer..

[@vonliz8223]

Chef cheered up towards the end haha 😂

[@billparrish9200]

I guarantee you "the chef" had just come off a night's work, cash in hand. Forklift, docks, whatever.

[@billybigtime2808]

The Life and soul a character in the pub but the next day skint and miserable around there family I’ve seen this growing up, good time people with a drink In them a pain in the arse without

[@Wunjo-Wunjo]

I love this clip. It's been a favourite of mine for a while. 👍

[@SebNutter]

Just a bunch of good blokes leading their best lives.

[@lmmmlful]

People turning to drinking when there are no jobs is the best life?

[@bnk777]

You can see the sadness/ sense of defeat in the Chef’s eyes.

[@79johnnykage]

Can’t beat a good ol’early hse for a dirty hangover cure 🇮🇪 ❤

[@Seansaighdeoir]

Went over to Dublin in the late 80's to watch England v Ireland and landed into town at 7.45am straight from Dunlaoire found one of these pubs open. Never seen nothing like it. A few of the lads had poppers and they spread around the bar and the place was rocking at 8.00 in the morning. Got chatting to a few of the locals who explained having to get up to come to the pub! Unbelievable day with a full 12 hours before the match. Great memories.

[@ArsonFire00]

Charlie's as the pub is called now, is a Cork gem. You'll still see Cillian Murphy stop in for a pint if he's home on St. Patrick's day.

[@DublinDriftR33]

wish there was cameras around the early houses and similar adventures so ppl could look back as im doing, these videos are an amazing time capsule , thanks for the uploads

[@Paul-sl9zm]

Look back at what? Smelly men sitting and drinking talking SHITE

[@andrewclavin7447]

This was recorded last Monday ! May as well have been

[@brianoc7926]

This should have way more views! Excellent stuff

[@barryjdwyer]

Paul McCartney quit Wings to try and make it as a chef in Cork in the 80's. Who knew? I guess the culinary worlds loss is the gain of the music world.

[@randyborstol2491]

I thought this was uploaded before? it is how I found your excellent channel.

[@martinoneill1644]

His getting lazy.

[@corvaxincork]

Yeah I defo seen this before. Quality channel this though

[@jamescornflake1542]

It's just another 1 for the road)))

[@FrankCalero-oi7tx]

If you work nights, this is the best place to go, nothing like having a cold beer at 7am great atmosphere boys !

[@kingseanp9267]

Well, I now have a theme song that I’ll hear in my head whenever I crack open a cold one at 7 in the morning. Bloody boozing!

[@DuderinoDeux]

Imagine! People talked, the gift of the gab and now it's smart this and smart that pushed by smart alecs!

[@liammalone7729]

Well said pal

[@russianbot1420]

Thanks CR 👍 from Wexford

[@eamondevalera3126]

I just came in too cure me head from last night😂😂😂

[@billparrish9200]

90% of these guys were coming off a night-shift (cash in hand, no questions asked) and claiming dole at the same time.

[@KingTrouser]

Right, you saw the look on the Chefs face when the reporter sat down. Anyone they don't know coming and asking questions, they were lucky to have that many answers!

[@Dessienewshoes]

The good old days of meeting a man in an early house about a job ❤

[@eugenemcgovern9703]

It was the black market that always kept this country running during a recession.

[@ropaul8006]

@@eugenemcgovern9703 that was basically the economy of every town till 20 years ago. The cash in hand job put clothes on most of our backs

[@chulainn32]

@@ropaul8006 Totally correct lads. Moving to cashless society only benefits those at the top. Cash in hand fed and clothed most of the country for many years. Was either that or emigration for a lot.

[@sullieking]

Haha go on the lads

[@eddieraffs5909]

You should see the pint of a pint in 2023 lads

[@alcoyne3333333333333]

Thanks

[@anthonyslevin1717]

You wouldn't have the late late toy show from 1984 with St Colmcilles Boys National school playing. I've been looking for it for years.

[@anthonykilgannon3443]

Be funny if the chef broke into helter skelter. "when you get to bottom you go back to the top.......... 😂😂

[@jasond869]

Anyone else here looking for their Father?

[@richiehoyt8487]

Shouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a few kids sat on the windowsill outside after doing exactly that; sent down by their mams to salvage the housekeeping before Mr. "Murphy" or Mr. "Beamish" get a~hold of it!

[@gbhgvhgbh]

Absolute chancers 😂

[@seriousstuff8887]

And not a phone in sight too .. There's alot to be said for meeting up in person and having a few jars and a sing song at 7am .

[@danbreen6946]

Couldn't beat it 😅

[@sentimentaloldme]

I doubt if the great Jimmy Crowley would be there normally at 7am. Jimmy was/is a famous professional Cork folk singer. He has loads of great ballads up here on KZbin..

[@seriousstuff8887]

@@sentimentaloldme I know I'm from cork .. they'd always start a sing song anyway. It was tradition then that's sadly lost .

[@MrTerrytod2]

Beautiful....such a fabulous way of life. Pints at 7am, fall around Patrick's St at 11am then home to terrorise the wife and kids pissed off me face. The sound of roaring "wheres me dinner bitch". Beautiful times

[@sidewindersid4180]

It wasn't that good...

[@MaryRose-d9x]

Couldn't agree more

[@jamescornflake1542]

Mighty Livers back then))

[@Biffoaussie85]

Best video on KZbin 😂😂😂

[@tess5378]

God them talking about the price of a pint and cost of living! So much has stayed the same!

[@mairesavage6815]

This video was uploaded previously on this channel @paddy Sullivan VHS 📼 Cork.

[@paidimusic]

1:53 Paul McCartney has nothing else to do since The Beatles broke up

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

Ha ha! Brilliant

[@richiehoyt8487]

They don't seem to make that model of geezer any more... kind of a shame. I remember when I was a student back around maybe '88, a few of my mates and myself thought it would be great sport to go down the 'early house' one morning, but every place we tried they put the block on us... Can't even say I blame them, I mean it's not even like we'd been 'On the Lash' all night, we just thought we'd go and gawp, like tourists -- only the joke would have been on us had we gotten served, we woulda come across like Kevin Zoolander in that scene where he mortifies his Old Man (John Voight) in his local workingmen's tavern!

[@Rose_19911]

hi, why weren’t you allowed in?

[@CharlieGeorge_]

Thought that was Paul McCartney on the thumbnail

[@ElleReekay]

this is how life should still be. Living how you want and not by a system.

[@johndoe-fd7rd]

My uncle used to own the limerick castle pup. Can you find any videos or photos then. Would of been 80’s and early 90’s.

[@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446]

Get real will ya ffs

[@ravenhill-the-hospitaller-1968]

back to simpler times. 😉

[@d23bw]

I'd love to hear some woke type attempting to explain themselves to someone from 1970's Ireland.

[@20alphabet]

@@d23bw Hard to explain anything to a drunk.

[@happy_camper]

@@shysonofficialbetter social skills? How so?

[@kevinhegney3813]

@@shysonofficial I'll like to no how u came up with that coz u are way off

[@df289]

That "chef" was hilarious.

[@noelodonovan8201]

fell on hard times after the beatles broke up

[@paddyo3841]

He could a made a fortune as McCartneys double

[@johntyrrell1549]

A few saying the "chef" looks like Paul McCartney and fewer still saying Ringo Starr, but personally I have to say Ringo Starr.

[@UsyksmashedFurytopieces]

Who knew paul McCartney used to frequent Cork pubs early in the morning looking for a job as a Chef!!!😂🤣

[@xpat73]

Do they still have early houses in Ireland?

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Yeah, there are still a few in Dublin and Drogheda anyway. They tend to be associated with port cities and people working nights.

[@andrewclavin7447]

Ah yes,chronic alcoholism!

[@Ellierua]

Soo depressing.. Their wives left to keep the house going while they do nothing..

[@danbreen6946]

Sure Elaine that's what the Good Lord put women on earth for 😂😂 x

[@citrix123]

Listen to what the men are saying also, men who feel purposefullness is a Dangerous mix, and they are together in drinking feeling connected therfore a sense of purpose hence the attraction, be wary of the purposefullness man as he will find any way to spend his time

[@shane7103]

Well they were living through an economic depression, the clue is in the name

[@megataurus7779]

Men have this gift of doing 'fuck all', I should know😅

[@sentimentaloldme]

I agree.. Alcohol is a drug that caused untold damage in homes all over Ireland..All these boys "great craic" in the pub .The next morning/ day it was a different story..Lots of my friends passed away early in life from heavy drinking.

[@robertmccarthy8467]

Price of the pint?? 😂😂 €7 now for a pint

[@corkboy4523]

Only one early house left in cork now.

[@themunwardy4182]

Paul mcartney

[@patmurphy6843]

now that you mention it , LOL

[@Percivaldurham]

He looks like Sgt. Pepper era McCartney.

[@anthonyhall4388]

Kieth Moon Rockin it at 6.30......paul McCartney bullshiting at the bar about Cheffing. Boycie in a lovely Adidas T proppin up the bar. What a singalong....... Never see the likes again....

[@johntyrrell1549]

Thought Boycie and Paul McCartney were the same fella?

[@eamondevlin143]

Unfortunately this Ireland doesn’t exist anymore

[@stevensalmon1318]

6:48 no room for domage in 1980...

[@lurchlocker89]

I'm fairly sure they're in present-day Charlie's but Jimmy Crowley looks like he's in the Welcome Inn.

[@michaelcollins237]

Before the Celtic Tiger ruined it all

[@jaymichaels5187]

2:00 Billy Shepherd's younger brother Aleister.

[@geraldwalsh6489]

Going to work half jarred....where was Health and Safety??

[@johngcahill9583]

Where are there now 42 years later...but the misery goes on.

[@frankkelleher1888]

Most of them are dead I wonder why gobshites

[@Crossdjinthemix]

Rip nob nov8th2012 sadly missed

[@gunz5628]

Fuck, i tought i had s problem for a minute, now i knows its bred inta me. problem solved' slainte!!!!

[@misterleary]

Hu, Paul McCartney in an irish pub ;-)

[@vetertee]

Would be great to subtitle this

[@JohnCambridge-gw3ox]

I think it was a sad sign of the economic recession of 1980s ireland

[@markcarolan5356]

Dad you rascal

[@darraghstewart8478]

I Wonder how all these people are in 2024, the order have diffently passed on

[@willmoore3790]

Jesus what a sad existence

[@seriousstuff8887]

Happy times

[@danbreen6946]

@@seriousstuff8887 Happy Days

[@Slash12121]

Same could be said today, staring into our screens.

[@randyborstol2491]

anyone i knew who grew up then says it was better then than now on so many levels. For me everything was better (sense of community, patriotism, socailizing, sport, tv, fashion, music, toys, games). Only technology and medicine is better today and cheap travel.

[@ropaul8006]

Good fun in your early 20s actually. Not so much in your 30s... used to love the early on a Sunady morning after a mad weekend

[@devanman7920]

Nobody seems drunk though?

[@gunz5628]

we dont get drunk, were Irish!!!

[@devanman7920]

@@gunz5628 I'm Irish and I can tell you irish people most definitely get drunk 😂

[@megataurus7779]

Give it another hour or so!

[@thebillryan]

Too early. They should have popped in with the cameras around 10. Things be heaten up.

[@devanman7920]

@@thebillryan ya that's a really obvious answer I didn't even consider at the time haha

[@nickbrennan3389]

Lads in the jacks doing fat lines, with their jaw all over the shop 😀

[@michaelmajor4450]

it looks more like 7 0 clock at night everyone is wide awake

[@billparrish9200]

To these guys, it was. They were all doing night work for cash and claiming dole at the same time.

[@sidewindersid4180]

​@@billparrish9200judge not lest ye be judged.

[@billparrish9200]

@@sidewindersid4180 No judging here. Just explaining the situation. A lot of these guys aren't with us anymore. I doubt they'd care forty years on.

[@88_garnet8]

The interviewer asks, "what are you doing here , this early." Of course they're thinking, "what do you mean by that? What are you insinuating? Get the hell out of here, that kind of half insult is the last thing I need, BBC or whoever he works for." Anyway, that's how people feel about it.

[@zortzsborgnine3983]

Fuck off you moron......your clearly not Irish let alone British and have no understanding whatsoever..... BBC LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!! IDIOT

[@frontleftfender]

That looks so depressing

[@johnsometimeswrong8742]

Ireland in the Eighties was great...you couldnt get a job" if" you wanted one..😂😂

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

The biys are boozing

[@anna-st2mh]

I love how the reporter says the place is full of people when it's wall to wall men. No nostalgia whatsoever from Irish women on the good old days of 80s economic depression. It was grim.

[@johnm001]

Some serious operators there, definitely worth a time travel

[@yupisaid]

The day they let women into the pubs was the day Ireland died

[@sm7baller435]

I’d be gawking

[@cxxxx685]

That was a time before dirty filty drugs

[@sherryrobinson7389]

Dang! 7 a.m.! By the way, i estmated , an Irish guy could drink about ten Genice beers, a full night! Sorry on the spelling, I uh forgot how to spell it!😀😀😀😆😆😆😮😄😄

[@johnhehir508]

With a name like sherry I can see why you have such a bad spelling of Guinness

[@sentimentaloldme]

The pub scene has completely changed..Over a third of pubs (mostly in rural parts of the country) have closed..The drinking culture is a thing of the past ...unless you visit Temple Bar, Dublin and see tourists paying in excess of 10Euro for a pint of beer.

[@AjarSensation]

@@sentimentaloldme they are using euros in Ireland?

[@sentimentaloldme]

@@AjarSensation Yes

[@AjarSensation]

@@sentimentaloldme never thought of that, thx for sorting that one out

[@johnilbehonest]

Not a women in the place, says alot!

[@sentimentaloldme]

Don't be putting bad thoughts into their heads..They have to get the kids ready for school and have a big fry up when the big man gets home from the pub.. That's the way it was in those days .Women weren't even allowed into pubs in times gone by . And did you know " there was no sex in Ireland before television"..so said a famous blue shirt politician in Dáil Éireann..

[@richiehoyt8487]

The couple at 6:51 - but I presume you're being rhetorical.

[@randyborstol2491]

see my other comment above. Women who went to the pub then were looked down upon as being loose. Many a true word in that. Women would hang out together at home, minding children, drinking tea and having a great time together. A break from their men. I still see South American communities doing this. it's seems frowned upon in the new modern trendy soulless West.

[@yupisaid]

@@randyborstol2491 well said

[@colincampbell4261]

Alcoholics all?

[@conorgrennan983]

She would know the consequences 😢

[@thelastdetail1]

"I came in to see a chap about a job..." Wouldn´t you go to the Job Centre for that? Chancer..

[@richiehoyt8487]

Chancer is right. Don't mind him, he's just putting on the poor mouth. In his 'day job' he's a musician, does quite well for himself, apparently; and his Missus (now late Missus) was some Yank from money, and she was bringing in a nice few bob herself doing dinners for vegetarians.

[@billparrish9200]

He HAD a job. They were all working night shifts for cash and claiming dole at the same time.

[@2prize]

my gosh they're hobbits

[@sullieking]

And not abit of charlie about 😢😜

[@danbreen6946]

How do you know 😤

[@sullieking]

@@danbreen6946 ara definitely not

[@sullieking]

@@johnbalance3989 seriously?

[@yupisaid]

Thank fuck

[@sullieking]

@@yupisaid aye your right

[@Bigtimecharlie1349]

Fekn thatcher 😅

[@King.Mark.]

and the kids will starve

[@JimmyDropout]

Roman Polanski at 1:29

[@jamescasey4643]

John Pa

[@ciaranoh]

better times

[@corkboy4523]

One guy literally said he’d never seen it so bad in his life!

[@20alphabet]

Lol, typical Irish. 😆

[@gard7662]

Lol typical fkn idiot

[@russianbot1420]

Dam right boy!.

[@martin4458]

Better than being a typical racist.

[@20alphabet]

@@garyhynes6574 Drunks or robots... either or?

[@finnmcginn9931]

@@garyhynes6574. Don't get Canadians started, they'll proudly ell you they burnt down the white house.

[@UsyksmashedFurytopieces]

Imagine the Guinness Guru was in a pub back then, sitting in a corner of the bar with his wee camera talking about domage and the temperature of the pint and what not. Me hole.

[@paul85439]

He wouldn't last a minute,can't do proper pub talk with men.Typical modern man.

[@danbreen6946]

@@paul85439 And he knows feck all about Guinness

[@UsyksmashedFurytopieces]

@@paul85439 Yeah. The oul boys up here in the pubs in Fermanagh are wild about the domage. They get the rulers out and measure the height of the domage as well as use thermometers to measure the temperature of the Guinness. Would they fuck, they’d drink motor oil if it was put in a glass in front of them…😂🤣😂🤣

[@LN_997]

Would be a funny scene. You wouldn't get a drop of Guinness down here at all though, Beamish and Murphy's is what we drink down in the real capital

[@yupisaid]

The fucking lads

[@nigefal]

The common thread from a lot of the men seems they had nothing to do to pass the time. Limited interests, limited education and limited outlets. Hard to know whether the early house was a good thing or bad thing for them.

[@HeyDoNotSubscribe]

What's the songs called

[@efa666]

Boozing by Jimmy Crowley