Gardiner Street Dublin 1979 (Extended Edition)

[@bigmartin]

Born on Summerhill 1966 so these are my old play grounds. I was also lucky enough to had had a few night's in Murrays Bar on Sean Mac Street. Great clip and a great track to go along with it, thank you

[@patosullivan8391]

I was 20 in 1966 from fairview been living in London for 50 years now sad to see Dublin

[@patosullivan8391]

❤️

[@anneliamohara2842]

Lived in number 3 Gardiner street played in Mountjoy Square living in New Jersey now my Ma was Summer Hill and me Da Ballybough

[@anneliamohara2842]

Sorry few missed spelling there 😀

[@anneliamohara2842]

@@patosullivan8391 ok pat fair play sad the way Dublin is now . Haven’t being back in 3 years since the Mother died

[@johnboylan3591]

Thank you for summerhill.

[@sheilamurray6939]

Brilliant great watch

[@cathalholland402]

Fantastic to see the old town before it became"inner city"

[@Marlondurran]

The days when we were all alive..

[@EricIrl]

It's all right feeling nostalgic for these times - but I remember walking along those streets back then being worried about what might happen to me. It wasn't perferct back then either.

[@esthergester236]

EricIrl you're dead right. Dublin was a depressing kip then.

[@cadetmouse]

progress always happens, everywhere. This film shows a real insight into a dilapidated and run down part of Dublin. As much as some of it could have been preserved the money wasnt there....it'd be another 20 years till we joined Europe and another 40 till real money finally came into Dublin. Back then they just needed to clear it, it was mostly run down and neglected...

[@shamrockshore6308]

@@cadetmouse This was filmed in 1979, not 1953.

[@randommandem9801]

Your right then the 80 and 90 hit drugs all over the place.

[@jasbarsoph]

It looks bleak in the video, But It wasn’t always hardship.

[@corradoronchi20]

I've been in Dublin in August 1979, I knew Colm O'Laoghaire (Telefis Eireann) and his wife Nora. They picked up me while hitch-hiking from Galway, to Dublin. Good days! A great hallo to their sons and doughters from Italy.

[@tlindsay1819]

Very good, Bring back good memories.

[@sarty88]

And moved them out to Finglas and Cabra and the likes. ..It was the ruination of those areas.

[@declanmcardle]

Let me guess, lots of Georgian houses, but all torn down in the name of "progress".

[@bettyprice6316]

I lived in the beautiful city of Dublin in the 70's and moved to England in the 80's. I went back down my old haunts and I was shocked when I saw Moor Street and how it looks now. I loved shopping there, it was always a laugh and happy; full of Irish characters. What on earth happened? The whole of the UK and Ireland are being invaded, and everywhere has been demolished.

[@geoffreycasey875]

Shame indeed.. Spot the white man, and it will only get worse unless people start to speak out. .., 🍀🇮🇪👍

[@greatone7314]

London is a class city, Dublin is a shithole

[@shamrockshore6308]

+Betty Price Why did you move to Britain in the '80's? Why didn't you stay in Dublin?

[@bettyprice6316]

@@shamrockshore6308 Life happened xxx

[@shamrockshore6308]

@@bettyprice6316 Please expand.

[@ikm64]

Funny yesterday doesn't seem as long ago, as I thought it was...

[@jameshyland4923]

I believe this piece old 8mm belongs to me and my late brother....it contains footage many if not all of our family.....hijacked by macaroonllee, actually before its completion....but thanks anyway

[@RaulMeatFactory1975]

That's a bit of a shit buzz James, you'd think these other uploader's would give you and your Family the credit where it's due. Thankyou for this piece of footage of Old Dublin.

[@markhayes4149]

Beautiful

[@lorrainemartin4702]

Love this video..

[@AndersonTückmantel]

I was robbed on that street in 2016 hahaha I will always remember Gardiner Street 😃

[@misterpink808]

Haha, nice! Glad you can laugh about it now. Bet it wasn't funny a the time!

[@TF80s]

Robbed or long term borrowed from? Drugs don't come cheap, ya know..be nice. 😜

[@AndersonTückmantel]

@antopio101 At that time, I was walking from work to Talbot St to get a bus back home as I was living in Swords.

[@Signaman-z9d]

I palled down there all round down to sherrif st when i was a young i was a rambler as a kid.There was si much to do in terms of exploring because of the deraliction.The city was in bits, gray run down but great for kids.Everyone was in poverty back then in the early seventies. Played football in the dimond✌️☘️

[@RaulMeatFactory1975]

I was sick in Temple Street hospital (just around the corner and up the road) with Osteomyelitis in early summer that same year, there would be a lot more demolition of old Dublin in the following years 😐

[@colmpierce3456]

Shot on Super8?

[@artcoffey]

Any idea where the film came from? My uncle lived in Sean McDermot Street and had a cine camera, this looks very much like his work...

[@bernicewade9796]

Simon Hyland is the name of the man who recorded this. I think his family came from Gardenier St? His brother James Hyland shared the video.

[@cassidymcgurk]

That's where my grandparents grew up

[@lilli9822]

very few cars

[@1992ravefan]

At the time when the heroin epidemic first began all across the city centre. So much of a different place from today and plus everybody was IRISH and so were all the people who were working in shops, pubs, supermarkets, fruit markets etc.... unlike today there is little or nothing left of us apart from foreigners infesting the place everyday.

[@cassidymcgurk]

I see the blue shirts are still hanging around though

[@jonathandowling7311]

Diolun, the new houses they moved into were very high quality compared to the kips they used to have. You're forgetting that Dublin used to have the worst slums in Europe at the time.

[@wc6220]

Great little film, shows how Dublin had declined into a slum laden mess like London through the seventies. Before the invasion of foreigners when you could still enjoy a stroll down O'Connell Street......... 😭😭😱😱😱😱

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

You can still have a stroll down O'Connell St. Just watch out for the Junkies... And they're not foreigners either...

[@wc6220]

Hard to spot an Irish person in the city centre these days. Agree its a no go area now with all the junkies and muggers - needs some policing....

[@EricIrl]

@@wc6220 It was much nicer being mugged by a "native". Ah - the good old days.

[@davidr5964]

I was born in the second house on the right here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZPEXoCLgbJrq6s - We had just moved out when this video was taken.

[@1992ravefan]

At the time when the heroin epidemic first began all across the city centre. So much of a different place from today and plus everybody was IRISH and so were all the people who were working in shops, pubs, supermarkets, fruit markets etc.... unlike today there is little or nothing left of us apart from foreigners infesting the place everyday.

[@saywaugottasay]

1992ravefan so true and so sad

[@Shtillmatic]

Yeah, not as if the Irish ever had to move abroad , get jobs and live in less well off areas! We seem to have a short memory in Ireland when it comes to emigration/immigration, although I think your more annoyed that they aren’t white, am I right?

[@1992ravefan]

@@Shtillmatic They're also one of the main reasons emigration is still happening and that's why we have a homeless crisis due to high numbers of foreigners getting homes and roofs over their heads over us hence the death of some poor unfortunates on the streets and to add insult to injury the media avoid reporting the alarming numbers because they don't want to look bad. And no it isn't because they're not white because when you have someone working in a shop for example and they don't have the most basic command of the English language and still are allowed to work. Since when the phrase "Must be fluent in English" go out the window? I simply have the right to be understood in my own country. I'm currently preparing to emigrate to the U.S. myself it's that's overwhelming of what modern Ireland is gone to today. It's called the graveyard.

[@bernicewade9796]

@@1992ravefan It's the greedy landlords who are causing the housing crisis not immigration. There are 200,000 empty properties around the country and 10,000 homeless so who and what is the problem exactly?

[@DonRoc3]

Bernice it's the government that has caused the homeless crisis not landlords. If landlords were as greedy as you claim they are, there would not be over 200000 empty properties. Surely they'd all be rented out so the landlords would make more money. Your comment makes no sense. There's no money to be made in a vacant property.