A Rough Guide To Galway City, Ireland 1992

[@GodOfVictory501]

As a Galway lad, who would've been 8 or 9 years old when this was filmed, this is pure golden nostalgia. Thanks for uploading this.

[@stjbananas]

I love this video. I stayed at a youth hostel just past Monroes Pub New Years in 1992. I was a poor college student from America who fulfilled, at that point, my life-long dream of going to Ireland, home of my mother's ancestors. I bought a cheap student ticket and for nearly 3 weeks I bonded with that beautiful city, Galway, the people, made more friends than any journey I have taken since, and the hangovers, all of them, were worth it!!

[@rivolinho]

Weird how a decade can have such a distinct look and feel that it's instantly recognisable. This video pure, distilled early to mid 90s Ireland.

[@juliaschuit2025]

So nice to see my daughters and our shop from so long ago

[@ramarover]

Great video, went down to Galway from the north quite a few times in the early 90's and this brings back a lot of memories. As quite a few people have commented the freshness, beauty, creativity and coolness of the people and the time is sadly missing in the present age

[@Michael-hk6dj]

Loved the 90s Ireland. I'd genuinely go back in the morning....if only for a week

[@Jimbo2922]

I was born in 93 so unfortunately never got to experience the Galway city in this video but I still have happy memories from the 4 years I spent living in the city

[@soltierney535]

Stayed in the arch view in 94 worked in strawberry fields in 93 and was in Galway youth theatre in 1992/93, this vid was a nice trip down memory lane..

[@raygreen5926]

I remember Strawberry Fields too. They did a great American hot dog. Did you remember Jim who was the manager then in the Arch hostel ?

[@raygreen5926]

There was also a Strawberry Fields in Salthill 🎭🇮🇪🌻

[@soltierney535]

@@raygreen5926 lol yes I remember Jimmy, he's still about still lives there even though it got closed down a few years back, and yes I worked in both strawberry fields started in salthill but got a transfer into town, town one was far easier the one in salthill was nuts busy and it had a ridiculously large menu so working on a busy day with Just two staff was nuts, you weren't a waiter a cook or a coffee maker you did everything all at the same time in a constant state of panic..

[@raygreen5926]

@@soltierney535 wow ! That brings back memories. Jim still around still. He was as mad as a hyena when I met him. When he was drunk he would cause a bit of a stir in Monroe's tavern and Mick Taylor's pub. Also I remember in Strawberry Field's in Cross Street there was a blonde girl working there. And the owner used to drive a pink Volkswagen car that was often parked outside the diner. At least I think it was a Volkswagen 🎭🌻

[@bazmail]

Strawberry Fields I used to go there early 90s often for lunch. The omlettes and the freshly squeezed juice. *chefs kiss*. Thanks BTW.

[@raygreen5926]

In those years Galway was my San Francisco. Quay Street was my Haight-Ashbury. And it was there that I met Niall Rivers who was the coolest dude. Poor Niall sadly left us circa 2007. He was a bohemian and a womanizer. He made a movie with Mark Kennedy about the street folk on Galway's hallowed streets. Then there was Seamus' O' Flaherty's hostel on Prospect Hill. All sorts of fascinating folk from around the world. Those were good years in Galway when we were all fresh and young and life seemed like an adventure. But times moves along like the current of a river. The tapestry changes to be replaced by a new one. The young men and women move on into middle years and the joie de vivre is replaced by reflection that life is a funny old journey. " Life is a funny thing that happens to you on the way to the graveyard " said Quentin Crisp. But for a while Galway was our San Francisco on the Atlantic. And time makes ghosts of us all. Like a vanished and forgotten dream ☘🌻🇮🇪

[@neilgarvey2201]

Beautifully written.

[@finflwr]

It was a wonderful era. I was lucky enough, though a series of unlikely events, to drift into Galway from Norway about 1991, to spend my last teenage years and early twenties there. Forever blessed by beautiful memories :)

[@johntuohy1867]

Travelled to San Francisco in seventies and knew immediately it was the Galway of America. Still is.

[@spark5012]

@Ray Green You're a fine writer. I remember Quentin Crisp.

[@globalworks6184]

That video is on KZbin called Galway warriors if anyone is looking for it..

[@weedyganzalays]

Amazing footage as always. Oh the 90s! Thanks so much for sharing

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

Remember it well back then as getting bus from college Letterkenny to Galway frequently in the early to mid 90's around 9 pm on Fridays getting off at the 'Skeff' Hotel.

[@mitch2620]

Love and miss Galway so much.

[@COUNTYGAINS]

30 years ago damn i might do a rough guide to gawlay city 2022!!??

[@EannaWithAFada]

I'm seventeen born 2007 and Speedy gave my class at the Jes a course in photo editing and colourizing old photos, absolutely mad to see him in this video, I don't know him really but I instantly recognised him despite not meeting him until I was in school 30 years later I believe he's also good friends with my Guitar teacher, small world haha

[@BrendanSmithSpeedie]

Thanks Eanna! Amazed that you recognise me in that 1992 photo! 😁

[@scottblack9213]

Ireland in the 1990's was full of youthful exuberance, hope, excitement about culture, music, art, journalism, film, design & one of the most important things is that nobody cared about money, the accumulation of personal wealth at the expense of your neighbors. Young people were more concerned about self expression through the arts. Money wasn't the main driver ... Also, people were, I am sorry, cooler. They generally didn't care what anyone thought of them, they were too busy living life in the moment. I wonder, have we missed something?

[@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446]

I have to agree there , the exuberance of the non material is something that sadly is gone from our society, replaced by an endless stream of Facebook and Instagram posts..do you think any teenager would dream of wearing a blouse made from a duvet or a pair of sandles traced from a template of old wood ,nah not atall ,the 90s were a golden time that fills me with nostalgia tinged with a hint of sadness of a happier time.

[@mcguinnessqueen]

Late stage capitalism :(

[@mrmc2465]

Ahh the rose tinted glasses where everything was perfect 😂

[@Dreyno]

@@mrmc2465 He didn’t say it was perfect. He said it was better.

[@speakertreatz]

We were lucky, that's all. We could afford to express ourselves in art, music, culture because it was relatively cheap to hire a music venue, club, theatre, art space. Because rent and house prices were in line with the cost of living, you could rent a gaf, go out most nights to a club or gig (nursing the one pint all night) and if you got the inspiration, run one of your own. Your money went a long way if you were careful with it. Also, the world was younger. It's harder for people to make their mark in the arts and culture now, every trope and genre has been squeezed dry. We were lucky.

[@frankboal6975]

When everyone was busy just being themselves.

[@PKelly-sv3bb]

Growing up in Galway city in 1992 I was 6 or 7 years old

[@upncmnh11]

This is from Jo-Maxi in 1992

[@randyborstol2491]

I lost my virginity in Galway in August 1992 at a campsite near Salthill to a Swedish girl. Michael Caruth won gold same day and so did I.

[@paddymuppy]

She must of been traumatised.

[@randyborstol2491]

@Ryan Rafferty never saw one of them until 1998!

[@randyborstol2491]

@@paddymuppy it was 12 seconds I will never forget

[@jinxterx]

Randy by name, randy by nature!

[@edmundpower1250]

Was she blind?

[@lukeallan8876]

Those were the days

[@edmundpower1250]

Bishop Casey was still the Bishop of Galway when this was made... Very soon everybody is in for a big big shock😱😱

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

I remember being horrified reading about Bishop Casey in May 1992 and I left the Roman Catholic Church exactly a year after and become a born again Christian in Letterkenny.

[@user-cy4vw1qj9m]

Ah he was a man with sexual needs nobody ever talks about the 70 thousand he stole to me that was his biggest sin.

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

@@AnnetteMurphyger wasn't his woman Annie Murphy...is it you Annie

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

I became a hare krsna over thatcarry on

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

@@alllovingcowherdboy4475 no I am Annette Murphy by marriage I was McGrath in 1992.

[@jakej2256]

Galway truly is a beautiful city I've got to say.

[@MacCionnaith]

What is the film called? , I couldn't hear that dude cause he was bloody was mumbling!!. 5:25. It looks very interesting

[@MrEvanTea]

Where can I get my hands on "The Sleepwalkers" material...? 9:52

[@raygreen5926]

That was Pearl's of Wisdom on Quay Street. A great New Age shop then. So many of those characters gone now to be replaced by hipsters. But Galway will always have a magic by the Atlantic 🔮♥️🔮

[@DashDrones]

G.. G.. G.. Galway

[@niallphelan28]

Haha. That brings me back. The lads buying up all their singles perhaps?

[@RockyRoader]

@@niallphelan28 DJ Golliv!

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Hookers and the Spanish Arch.

[@seanmuldoon38]

Fat Freddy’s! Still there after all these years.

[@raygreen5926]

Yes, but I think Fat Freddy is long gone now. Even I can go back to the sixties when Supermacks on Eyre Square was Woolworths. But that's a hazy memory now like Kenny's bookshop and the American Hotel and those were the days when Micky Finn was a legendary drinker

[@speakertreatz]

No trip to Galway was complete without a visit to Fat Freddys

[@gandersneck]

Galway was a very different town/city then..

[@oakey44]

Another interesting video lad, thanks. I lived in Galway fr 2 years in the 2000s. Here looks fairly different but also the same if that makes sense.. Well, I might as well get in there early and say what must be said.....gosh just how lovely and natural all those beautiful Irish girls looked in Galway in 92!! Little/no makeup, beautiful, flowing Celtic hair, soft voices, happy smiles... It's no use living in the past...but to go back and visit for a day or two...I think it would be like a dream...🌊🇮🇪💚 Anyone around Galway that time? What was it like?

[@oakey44]

@@Eamonnmhac thanks for the reply Eamonn, very interesting. That sounds like what I heard happened when I lived there from people who were around from then. Wish I had listened more, but of course i was sceptical. Galway was still amazing in the 00s imho..I born in 86 so can't compare it myself. Still you're a lucky man to have lived it, I believe you that it probably was the peak. Any particular albums/music that really take you back to that time and place then? Would you say at least the Trad scene never dipped and is still as strong?

[@Dr-Stu]

@@Eamonnmhac Still a great spot but shame to hear it's changed that much, particularly if was to suit the horsey brigade. Total shitehawks.

[@Lisa-cs2wz]

@@Eamonnmhac I'm from Dublin but myself and my boyfriend used to hitch down to Galway frequently in the early 90's and stay with friends or camp in Salthill. We loved it, had a more relaxed, folksy feel than Dublin, I would've love to have moved there but life took us to Australia and England instead. I always remember all the hitchers on the way home to Dublin, never see them anymore

[@corribnews2219]

Fun fact: that's Ed Sheeran's uncle Bill at 54 seconds.

[@germyldon]

RIP Ger

[@daithi6826]

I shifted a rake of bueres at Spanish arch summer 2021. Better, more simpler times

[@garycasey3739]

😂😂

[@biryaniofbodyhair]

🤣

[@bigbrother1190]

Course u didn't u childish numpty🤣🤣🥱

[@thomasfurey00]

Cool video

[@hillmidget1326]

Being born in 94 and a galway city head all my life I kinda wish I'd been properly present for this time.

[@davidscanlon2538]

Ya only missed 2 years and were present for that time.✌

[@mrmc2465]

@@robertmoray988 the past is a foreign country and if you think it'll be like this video u r in for a shock

[@DanijeI]

Yeah it's actually disappointing you haven't been born earlier... Well done you little disappointment girl 🙄😒

[@bigbrother1190]

The REAL IRELAND 🇮🇪

[@rossmorebaz]

nothing like a few crustys in dunes stores jumpers .. this was all the rage in 90s galway

[@johntheball]

I cant watch this without the fafher Ted theme tune playing in my head.....😂 Did the guy at the end say his band was called "Fart Canal"

[@RockyRoader]

They were the Far Canals - one of the band was a New Zealander, and the name sounds good in a Kiwi accent, as does their album title - "If You See Kay". :)

[@GodOfVictory501]

Nothing remotely reminiscent of "fafher Ted" in this video.

[@CRyan71]

How naturally beautiful are all these women compared to the present painted clones. I'd give anything to go back to these days

[@dubliner1303]

What happened to real men …. Compared to etc etc.

[@MikeL-7]

Before the Celtic Tiger turned everything to shit.

[@aineodubhthaigh2055]

Who is this Celtic Tiger- if not the Irish themselves. Human nature, my friend.

[@bigbrother1190]

Mike78 well said my friend

[@DuderinoDeux]

With the help of those oh so caring globalists. Look at them lately!

[@conorsmith8551]

Yep corrupted a lot of people to think only in terms of money and bragging to your mates how much you are on rather than just being modest and enjoying what you have and earning a living .

[@speakertreatz]

I remember Galway being pretty much the same as 92 during the Celtic Tiger years. It didn't get corrupted like Dublin. I was back and forth to Galway from Dublin throughout the whole period.

[@TheGreat185]

Fozzy bear 🐻

[@ethanbarry789]

Two years before I was born

[@sgillespie13]

Reminds me alot of other art progs from the early 90s, but I can only think of Manhattan Cable and Get Stuffed...

[@mairedaly4926]

Jo Maxi was an RTE 'youth program'

[@ShineMedia1]

She introduces the video by saying she's going to ask someone who really knows what Galway is like ...and she asks an Englishman??? Feck sake woman, ask the Irish lady who's been there on shop street selling geansies for over a hundred years. She'll tell you

[@GodOfVictory501]

Massive invasion of English crusties in the 80s. They were refugees from Thatcher's Britain where they were cruelly expected to...you know, to work 😆

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

And her trousers are made from ‘linen _sh*t’?_

[@marcdavis4509]

This screams student production

[@Dreyno]

RTE recruit on a “who you know” basis.

[@alanbourke4069]

Who is the presenter ?

[@CRyan71]

Susan something. She's beautiful. I wonder where are all these people now...

[@germyldon]

Susan Kavanagh. Was a presenter on RTÉ's Jo Maxi and was a backing singer for rock band A-House in their day

[@CRyan71]

@@germyldon i don't remember her been on Jo Maxi. I remember Cliona, Gerri, Antoinette and Ray Darcy

[@alanbourke4069]

A great time, just beginning to really drag ourselves out from being pushed down by the church and state.

[@conorkieran8196]

Church was a great buzz back in the day

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

Exactly yes the Roman Catholic Church not all Christian churches.

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

@Irelands eye 🇮🇪 well the Catholic Church did a lot of damage to unmertied mothers and to orphans not all of course but some. Jesus was Jewish actually and didn't set up the Roman Catholic but the catholic/universal church nothing to do with Rome.

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

@Irelands eye 🇮🇪 unfortunately the crown did a lot of bad things but the Quackers and not the RCC helped Ireland during the Famine and they weren't Catholic.

[@aineodubhthaigh2055]

Вы ещё ниже спустились, чем тогда. Церковь своего не упустит)

[@brocky78]

Ask a Man who knows who really knows Galway speaks to an English Man who only there 10 yrs 😀

[@tomjohnston1220]

The sound is terrible, gave up.

[@tonybourke4946]

Jesus Christ is Lord for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life

[@jonathanmulryan4148]

Still full of crusty's, not much change.

[@judyforde8600]

Then mass imagination happened

[@trevaudio]

Nope, crusties happened, and destroyed the place

[@hector7187]

They were on the way out then.

[@mariafenelon3475]

Hate the place

[@GodOfVictory501]

Too sophisticated for you? 😆

[@nickbrennan3389]

Crusty central 🤣