As a 61 yr old, I watched the video and didn't notice anything strange but then I read a lot of comments about the kids on the elephant. Back in those days, your safety was your own responsibility, even from an early age. If you fell into an unmarked hole in the pavement, your mother would slap you and tell you to watch where you're going, but mothers today would blame whoever dug the hole and didn't put signs and fences all around it. Society has changed
@JGrowl-er9md2 жыл бұрын
Yep. And people live longer, with less debilitating injury and illness.
@slowkr4v8902 жыл бұрын
You are so right. There is so much nonsense everywhere you look today. Everything is upsidedown. People are offended by others opinions and everybody sues one another. One person is given rights and at the same time another one is stripped of theirs. We've chosen the wrong path as society. We need to toughen up and learn to ignore things instead of fighting everything that doesn't suit us.
@malicant1232 жыл бұрын
Agreed 100%. I'm only 35, and I remember that even in the 90s, people were not so infantalised.
@Dabhach12 жыл бұрын
@@JGrowl-er9md What are you talking about? Where have you been for the last two years, the Orion Belt?
@garyhynes2 жыл бұрын
@@JGrowl-er9md Go in to old Irish graveyards and look at the amount of people who died at a young age compared to today's average life expectancy.
@dedwin89304 ай бұрын
Was in Dublin in !965. I was 19 yrs old. From the US. Best trip have ever taken!! Wish I knew how to share my old slide photos!!!
@zyxw202412 күн бұрын
That would be nice. Perhaps someone, such as an archivist, at the library could assist you with that endeavor. 😊
@shughy15 жыл бұрын
The city and people looked so much more respectful back then, less signage, less clutter, less cars. It was beautiful.
@geraldneary19484 жыл бұрын
Good on you for knowing those things.
@iseegoodandbad6758 Жыл бұрын
Less cars as Ireland was dirt poor even by European standards.
@alastairstaunton7081 Жыл бұрын
Very empty streets. Perhaps a Sunday?
@shughy1 Жыл бұрын
@@iseegoodandbad6758 less pollution is a good thing, money isn't everything.
@iseegoodandbad6758 Жыл бұрын
@@shughy1 yes the irish grew very tall and attractive as a result!!! Same with Russians who weren't very rich either!!!
@johnprice73037 жыл бұрын
I remember in the late 1950's when the highlight of the year was a 2 week holiday with my Auntie in Dublin...to me it was the most exciting place on earth. Every year I climbed Nelsons column, visited the Zoo, spent at least 2 days plane spotting at the Airport, walked up and down Moore St. and spent hours gazing at the toy soldiers in Woolworths. Best of all was the fish 'n' chip shop near my Aunties...food for the Gods served in that days newspapers!
@simonholyoak88693 жыл бұрын
Didn't the IRA blow that up around this time?
@johnstaf2 жыл бұрын
@@simonholyoak8869 1966
@jdoyle6821 Жыл бұрын
@@simonholyoak8869 Thank jaysus,what a dildo,NELSON on his pillar watching his world collapse.💣
@brianmackle9555 ай бұрын
@@simonholyoak8869 On the 8th day of March 1966. . . .”at one thirty in the morning, without a bit of warning” 🎶. Nelson had to be gone before the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. 🤪
@Parasmunt5 жыл бұрын
People were much poorer than today but damned if they weren't more elegant and better dressed.
@Paul55205 жыл бұрын
And most likely happier...it’s nothing compared to the Dublin of today. The Long hall is still doing great business thou👌🏻☘️
@Thomas-ou2sp4 жыл бұрын
Not one scumbag wearing nike tracksuit bottoms poxy looking air max and a north face hoddie in sight! What a time to have lived in.
@shanef87283 жыл бұрын
@@Thomas-ou2sp spot on! People dressed with a bit of style and class back then unlike todays skangers with their nike hoodies and tracksuits!
@Clodaghbob3 жыл бұрын
Parasmunt Life was so tough for ordinary people. It was not uncommon for a working week to be Mon to Fri plus half day Sat. So people put on their Sunday best when going on an excursion anywhere. Incidentally, a trip to Dublin Zoo was a big deal. It cost money to get in ... and to buy ice creams ... for everyone.
@ropaul80063 жыл бұрын
How poor though??? They could afford a house on one wage. They had better family and community support..so they probably couldn't afford a lot of rubbish but they had food on the table
@robertkeating18685 жыл бұрын
Shocked when the guy just left his bike outside with no lock, these days stolen in a sec by a junkie..
@TheFrosstitute5 жыл бұрын
was just thinking that haha, I couldn't believe he just left it outside, it'd be gone in a second these days
@lvl99hundolin175 жыл бұрын
A junkie would fold in two if he tried to cycle a bike. The "junkies" you're referring to are nothing more than disrespectful little c*nts that do fek all other than collect their dole and try to rip society off all their lives.
@ringeradam45755 жыл бұрын
I thought that! I left my bike outside St. Patrick's Park on the 19th of May and when I came back, not a trace of it.
@sd-vu5up5 жыл бұрын
Why do you presume his bike was still there when he got back?
@yoyoholck5 жыл бұрын
s j because people were respectful back then and the community was a lot more linked, people looked out for each other. People avoid each other now. I’m guilty of doing it too, society now makes you nervous and it’s hard to take part in.
@itsyourgalkiera Жыл бұрын
We were poor but we had way more fun, values and morals in the old days. Wish we could go back.
@malicant1232 жыл бұрын
Look how tidy and un crowded the city looks. O'Connell Street looks like a nice place for a stroll instead of what it is now.
@malahammerАй бұрын
because so many could not afford to go into the city centre and made more of their lives where they actually lived.
Love the way that guy just left his bike unlocked. Today even with 3 locks it would be gone within minutes 😂
@BD90..5 жыл бұрын
Not always
@devally24325 жыл бұрын
Or maybe seconds!
@Devin7Eleven Жыл бұрын
Gee I wonder who would do such a thing?
@sir243_simr5 жыл бұрын
We will never get this back... People were simpler yet happier..
@geraldneary19484 жыл бұрын
Will take the best from back then will god help we will put it in the future.
@fionamccudden97423 жыл бұрын
The common denominator was that they were mostly spiritual. People had morals, values, a code for life. Life was simple, kindness prevailed to neighbours and strangers alike.
@georgeorbinks83203 жыл бұрын
Happier? Not sure lol, tell that to novelists, playwrites, mixed-race children and most importantly women of the era. No sex education, no uncensored film releases, banned books and the intense stranglehold of the Catholic Church: religion and state should be kept separate. There are bad things about modern society, every iteration of human society will always have its flaws, but I think the pros of this era far outweigh those of the past, especially when many of the pros of '60's living were things that people should be able to take for granted anyway, like being able to comfortably afford a house in your twenties, being able to freely marry whomever you please, continue to work after having a child and live equally among each other regardless of gender.
@thetechbox91225 жыл бұрын
God damn, 2:18 really struck shivers down my spine. What an amazing quality vid for the mid 60s, the cinematography and sense of how to make a video feel like a community of peace and safety is present! Amazing! I’m 23 this year and remember when my parents used to bring me to the Dublin zoo and we’d sit around Phoenix park close to that spot on 2:18, there a family ate and chatted some 50 years ago and I have as a child 15 years ago and as I most likely will with my family in perhaps another 15 years and another family again in 50 years! Gives me a weird feeling! Them children in the video are now about 57-58!
@patricklamshear18063 жыл бұрын
In 1965 I was 12 years old and I remember all of these scenes. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@longday36075 жыл бұрын
No traffic, roads in perfect condition (as in no pot holes), people dressed very respectable,
@raymondwalsh75205 жыл бұрын
It's strange looking at this footage. I get some kind aching nostalgia yet i wasn't born nor lived in Dublin and I wasn't born until 72. It's amazing footage. It seems life was a lot simpler. You can't help but wonder if we are worse of today in some ways despite all the technological advancements, secularization and 'improved living standards'. Improved is very debatable. The M50 is a car park in the mornings and evening with many people spending 3 -4 hours a day in their cars commuting in and around Dublin. The more I think of it, it's not an aching nostalgia I'm feeling, it's more a realization that I'm perhaps suffering from a sense of anomie and dislocation living in postmodern times. We've lost a deeper sense of connection and sense of community that this footage seems to portray better. I think that i experienced more of this sense of connection from growing up as a child in the 80's.
@geraldneary19484 жыл бұрын
Top quality Raymond.
@frankharrington85282 жыл бұрын
It's self evident, Dublin people/indigenous lrish were among their ow.
@johnwalsh7806 Жыл бұрын
What surprised me was the number of kids each family had. There seemed to be 5 or 6 in each family and the parents were quite young. Is it the same now?
@Discover-Ireland5 жыл бұрын
It looked lovely back then..great summers cleaner air....times might have been tuff but the people were more honest and happier☘️
I remember as a kid being brought into town was a great treat, interesting shops, a sense of community, feeling safe. Now i dread going into town, full of undesirables, dirty rundown streets, and chain stores you can see in any city in europe.
@maryrosed84756 жыл бұрын
Remember going in at Christmas to visit Santa in Pimms in George Street. Magic! Clery's window at Christmas...
@369jones65 жыл бұрын
I'm writing this in 2018 and it's worse it's getting. Thugs paradise.
@fastfacts7275 жыл бұрын
Wish I could have grown up back then :/
@fastfacts7275 жыл бұрын
@laser325 I hope youre right. Sometimes it just feels so overwhelming you know? You gotta ask what the point of it all is
@raymondlang5 жыл бұрын
Same everywhere ro eng..I am not from Ireland but Harworth near Doncaster, S. Yorkshire. It too is bad just like other villages all over the UK. Used to be incredible here back in the 50s, 60s 70s. All factories gone, mainly the coal mine where I worked, so now we have housing estates being thrown up on every bit of spare land there is..but still no more jobs to go to here, for school leavers.
@katiefullful5 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my grandmother from the Liberties. She's in hospital today aged 93, on Christmas Day 💔
@CDash1625 жыл бұрын
Hope your grandmother is ok.
@clarehill23754 жыл бұрын
My Family lived in the liberties 🙏
@jayfreeman45214 жыл бұрын
Awh God bless her I hope she still alive
@martinsavage68385 жыл бұрын
Many things have improved, but so much has been lost too. The thing that struck me in that film was the number of Irish families.
@Elle_Gowing5 жыл бұрын
Families with 5 and 6 children probably able to live on one wage living in a house in Dublin. 1. The average family can't afford 5 children now. 2. Most people can't afford to live in Dublin now. 3. It takes 2 wages for a family to love now and that's often with just 2 children living in commuterland.
@SirRandom3 жыл бұрын
This was long before contraception was legal in Ireland.
@guitarmaniac0042 жыл бұрын
@@Elle_Gowing It's the downside of letting massive companies set up huge apartment buildings for extortionate prices. There's little to no regulation on them. Dublin looks like hell now, and gets more expensive every year. You're better off avoiding living in it altogether.
@artur46132 жыл бұрын
@@guitarmaniac004 corporate cartel of American retirement funds together with bankers are draining the juice out of this island.
@jimmymcjimmyvich90522 жыл бұрын
Yes. None of those foreign surnames))
@mjakes2011 жыл бұрын
It's amazing seeing the quays past the custom house so different, the large families in the park, and the amount of people in the park in general!
@JimmyJamesonJnr9 жыл бұрын
My dad drove one of the fork lifts for Guinness, where he worked from the tender age of 12 years old, until his retirement. great video.
@memorybliss9 жыл бұрын
JimmyJamesonJnr Thanks Jimmy - I hope he didn't start on the fork lifts at 12!
@090462088 жыл бұрын
What is in the grey Guinness containers been loaded onto the ship? Kegs? Bottles? Thanks
@anthonydowling33566 жыл бұрын
Guinness ,what else ;-)
@dralangalloglyfranzcp18873 жыл бұрын
@@09046208 Harp larger....
@sidewindersid41803 жыл бұрын
@@anthonydowling3356 i thought it was gluten free craft beer.
@motokrack6 жыл бұрын
its surprisingly very good quality video
@B0Sajwah5 жыл бұрын
Maybe because it’s edited to be. They forgot to put all the crime and alcoholics. Dublin is a much safer city now, something many right wingers will never want to believe even though it’s a fact.
@normalguy84995 жыл бұрын
Doubt you lived in ireland back then you probably only came here in the last 20 years saj
@ULYSSES-314 жыл бұрын
Shot on 35mm film.
@ULYSSES-314 жыл бұрын
@@B0Sajwah Talking about the quality of the image, not the content, Saj.
@user-qf8ij7dn4h3 жыл бұрын
@@B0Sajwah Oh the alcoholics have been traded for less alcoholics, more homeless, and now heroin, benzo and crack addicts. Lovely
@madnuts12310 жыл бұрын
The video quality is second to none, Great find, great video :-)
@memorybliss10 жыл бұрын
Thanks Declan, glad you like it.
@treasav26393 жыл бұрын
Sara the elephant and Komali the baby (with the First Communicants riding on him (her?). The "azoo" was a favorite with everyone. And Phoenix Park a wonderful asset for Dublin City.
@alanoconnor182410 жыл бұрын
Haha. Love the little girl at the end on the elephant in her holy communion rig out
@liamkeyes22608 жыл бұрын
I left Dublin in early 1964(just after Christmas '63) for Boston. Plenty of Jobs back then. I was in the US Army during the height of the Vietnam War. I have four children, three grandchildren and counting. I'm glad that I came over. I;m retired now but worked for the Electrical Company for 35 years. C'mon the Dubs!!!!
@frankstein76315 жыл бұрын
logan Walker You are no addition to anywhere either.
@markrayne53825 жыл бұрын
you are a traitor to this great country.
@markrayne53825 жыл бұрын
@@bfc3057 Liam is a traitor to Ireland
@markrayne53825 жыл бұрын
@@bfc3057 I wasn't born until the 90's he is a traitor because he left behind Ireland(his home country).
@markrayne53825 жыл бұрын
@@bfc3057 famine is understandable, but people emigrating from a country in my eyes are traitors, it's ok to emigrate but don't claim or display any patriotism or nationalism towards a country you left behind years ago, left for a better life? yes arguably but to a true Irishman or true countryman of any country home is home. When you need to seek success from another country in my opinion you are selling out.
@damirapevec62035 жыл бұрын
How much nicer than today..
@daverennix32459 жыл бұрын
Great video. Dublin was like a different planet in them days compared to wot it is now
@paddymuppy6 жыл бұрын
Dave Rennix Yes. It was backwards religiously oppressed shithole.
@dotsfrazer5 жыл бұрын
@@paddymuppy i would rather that than the souless multicultural shithole we have now
@dhalsim-15 жыл бұрын
@@paddymuppy I'd gladly take those days over the PC liberal shit-fest we have now.
@paddymuppy5 жыл бұрын
@Ford Prefect They weren't healthier and didn't have the life expectancy of today's people.
@marclord2015 жыл бұрын
@Ford Prefect When I walked through Stephen's Green this summer it looked the same, the people just wore different clothes and enjoyed themselves.
@ronaldobrien68705 жыл бұрын
Look at how undeveloped Dublin Docklands was @ 1.00. Just warehouses and that huge gasometer (long since demolished) and the two chimneys at Poolbeg hadn't even been built yet
@TT_12213 жыл бұрын
I noticed that metal bridge on the quays that traffic goes under is still there, around where the convention center is today .. :)
@ceannasai57315 жыл бұрын
My mother was 5 years old ...!!! amazing and great to look back.... Dublin in the rare auld times 💙 Thank you so much and nice one for uploading 👍
@edmundpower12502 жыл бұрын
She had you at 5??
@bluechip29711 жыл бұрын
Obesity wasn't a problem back in 1960s Ireland.
@anthonyhoare75443 жыл бұрын
Yes because there were no fast(junk)food shops them times.People ate what Mother made for dinner and if you didnt like it then youl have to wait till tomorrows dinner.
@MandNsvideos6653 жыл бұрын
Poverty was tho
@colwynboy72793 жыл бұрын
The food industry was different then. There have been vast changes over the years & the majority are not for the better.
@sidewindersid41802 жыл бұрын
@@MandNsvideos665 and there is no poverty today???
@MandNsvideos6652 жыл бұрын
@@sidewindersid4180 it's nothing compared to back then
@littlebopeep21905 жыл бұрын
The couple with arms around each other i haven't seen that in a long time
@donny23273 жыл бұрын
yes, was lovely
@hilltopviewer8204 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant cine reels or cassettes. A nice treasure! I could not get over the look of the docks and what it is today, the difference is mad. Lovely and humorous at the end with the children on the elephant! I also like to take 8mm & 16mm of Dublin, but it can be pricey with developing and scanning 25ft rolls or 100ft rolls. Thanks for the upload!
@CDash1625 жыл бұрын
Jesus did I just see two kids riding on a baby elephant. Lol. That really was Dublin In the 60s. You'd never see the like of that now. This is wonderful footage. Thanks so much for posting.
@phillipmcdonough1347 Жыл бұрын
..and a little girl on her way into the zoo wth her fi shng net!!!!
@martinmcdonald4207 Жыл бұрын
Happy old days when life was simple and easy!
@josephinemonahan915 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this vid.....people commenting about the elephant rides.....it was a different time....and may I say the elephants were treated kindly by one and all...nowadays thugs think that animals are fair game....also the fact that people dressed properly...even going to the local shop....a lot of people go out nowadays as if they’re ready for bed...the man casually parking his bike outside the pub...no lock...you could put 10 locks on your bike now and it would still be stolen...I’ll finish now before I become totally depressed 🤩
@Idontno307 Жыл бұрын
Wow it was so beautiful back then
@malahammerАй бұрын
It's a different beauty now
@tomgreene22823 жыл бұрын
Great memories and hops in the Leinster...dances in the Television Club and the Olympic.... who's.left from back then?!
@Jen-lg4hp Жыл бұрын
Watching this because the city centre is too depressing to visit these days-feel like a foreigner in my own country- not one word of English or native Paddy to be seen!
@CG_CAKE6 жыл бұрын
that was dublin in the rare old time
@whaleoilbeefhookedmain76725 жыл бұрын
I remember Dublin City in the rare auld times. 👍
@whaleoilbeefhookedmain76725 жыл бұрын
Wow Great video for the era! the aul one kicking the ball was deadly,people looked so Close, not a care in the world.unlike nowadays, Everyone with text neck..The pheeno looks exactly the same as it did only yesterday. 👍 (Not a mobile phone in sight) 😀 good times I'd say...
@thestandingwanderer82154 жыл бұрын
It's amazingly clear quality film for 1965
@valobrien95965 жыл бұрын
No tracksuit wearing scumbags, junkies and thugs. Unique, individual family run shops instead of the characterless, sterile chain stores you see in every town in Ireland now (and beyond). Less of the aggressive and near pornagraphic advertising. You could just leave your bike unlocked and most likely find it still there when you returned. Less crowded, cleaner and tidier looking. And, despite the church's grip, more of a relaxed vibe than nowadays. It is sad what has become of Dublin since then, what an extreme downward slide. It has been torn apart by drugs, criminality and aggression and has lost all of that character now, forever. Personally, I think it was ruined by a) the pc brigade completely doing away with the discipline of the youth by parents, teachers, police etc, which has resulted in the most unruly, greedy generation of youth ever witnessed, and b) the aforementioned drug culture, which has spawned several wars and a lot of killing and grieving, and which has made some extremely nasty people very rich. All very sad.
@johnjock19485 жыл бұрын
Used to live in Ballyfermot. Every Saturday I'd visit my two aunts - Pearse House and Boyne Street. A lovely stew in both places and they'd also give me a few bob. Blow the money in Fun palace then get the 78 to home where I'd have another stew waiting for me ! I used to make up scramblers and race them in the California Hills ( The Calliers ). Crime ? If you call nicking an orchard or going on the hop from school a crime, well I apologize. Thanks for reading this.
@memorybliss5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday. :)
@johnjock19485 жыл бұрын
@@memorybliss Thank you memorybliss. Yes those were the days of innocence, still wet behind the ears and a slap of a leather glove across the face from LUGS ! When you got that you NEVER wanted to get arrested.
@evegibney20645 жыл бұрын
A simpler time. I wasn't born for another fifteen years but I have fond memories of being a kid in the 80s.
@marianlindsay17373 ай бұрын
I am 70, in fact in the 60s the economy began to improve and people were generally optimistic about their and their childrens' future. I am from a working ckass bacground from a family that suffered chronic unemployment in the 50s. My dad found permanent employment at the beginning of the 60s when he was in his late 40s. I remember my parents being optimistic about our future. In 1967 free secondary education was introduced of which I was a beneficiary. Couples wirking in factories were abke to buy a house with a council loan I knew of many of them , also council housing estates were built in the 60s whic took a lot of people out of tenements, although they were still in use until he 89s.
@karhukiviАй бұрын
Me too! back then, all my friends with ordinary "manual" jobs could buy cars in the late 60s, and one man's salary plus half his wife's income (if she had one) could get a mortgage for a 3-bedroom house. Most of my neighbours had 3 children, the husband worked and the wife minded the children. Doctors made house calls, we repaired our own cars, workers were paid in cash (nobody had bank accounts) and there few people with mental health issues. A journalist, Terry Prone wrote a book about murders in Ireland, a thin paperback. Now it would be ten times thicker.
@charlottedowling22414 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s great film I wonder have the people who are in it seen this .it would bring back lots of memories to them or there family’s .the girl and boy making there communion on the elephant that would be special for them to see .it should have been longer film .
@Art-is-craft10 ай бұрын
Image being able leave a bike outside a pub.
@annfrancoole342 ай бұрын
Now they would rob it while you were still cycling it.
@fuzzydunlop19885 жыл бұрын
You could leave your bike outside unlocked and unattended with a smile on your face back then. Those days are long gone.
@df2893 жыл бұрын
I think we lost something.The more I experience overwhelming multikuti the less I like it.
@pauldunneska11 жыл бұрын
I remember using the original entrance to the zoo in the 70's, now just for show beside modern entrance. 7/10/2013.Irish time 16:56.Monday.
@waynefarrellvoiceovers4 жыл бұрын
Noticed how nearly all the men are wearing suits and ties. What happened to us?
@nick-her92753 жыл бұрын
We threw away any moral values we ever had
@waynefarrellvoiceovers3 жыл бұрын
@@nick-her9275 Indeed!
@Jake-jr2zh Жыл бұрын
@@nick-her9275 Clothes has nothing to do with morals and values.
@nick-her9275 Жыл бұрын
@@Jake-jr2zh it shows how ireland has become nothing but a land of degenerates
@raymondwalsh75205 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading. Great footage. Amazing stuff.
@LD-hs9iv5 жыл бұрын
Damn Dublin looks so different I grew up in the early 2000s (won't say what year because privacy) but I sorta wish I grew up in the old Dublin, where things seemed more simple
@John_Wood_5 жыл бұрын
Oh go on, we are desperate to know what year... And learn how to write properly. More simple? You are simple.
@speakertreatz6 ай бұрын
there was good and bad to it, I can't speak for the mid-60s but to me the best decade (objectively) in my lifetime was the 90s especially as the decade went on, the country became more prosperous, the dereliction of the city centre had been replaced with new developments that were still cheap and attractive to live in, we were opening up to the outside world with the first immigration of mainly Nigerian and then East European people bringing life and colour to Dublin, we were becoming more tolerant and open minded, the 60s might look idyllic but we were still in a theocracy, absolutely ruled by the Catholic Church. Culturally we opened up, from a monoculture of U2 style stadium rock and trad/folk to a boom in pop music, the rave and dance phenomenon, hip-hop and rnb (again brought in, in some cases, by immigrant people). Third level education became free. Arts and culture were funded properly. I could go on and on, even avoiding the obvious stuff like rent and house prices before they were grossly inflated
@speakertreatz6 ай бұрын
prick@@John_Wood_
@lizdoyle71583 жыл бұрын
When Dublin💚 was charming Beautiful 💚easy going yeah it all vanished for the celtic tiger🐯 and the european union 🗼 I remember dublin city in the rare ould times ⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚
@Jake-jr2zh Жыл бұрын
Yes and the stink from the river river Liffey . Tenements not filmed.
@sarahmurphy97815 жыл бұрын
This is the most serene video i've ever seen
@whocares41995 жыл бұрын
How do we get back to a time where a bus driver can safely go about his daily business. Oh yes round up the big drug dealers that have garda protection would be a start.
@29brendus3 жыл бұрын
Oh, you're not wrong there! But the Gards are now bullyboys against ordinary folks.
@kendoolin4 ай бұрын
I was thinking... the bus driver looks like a young version of my grandad. Then I remembered - aparently he drove buses for CIE for years. I am nearly certain it must be him! Incredible. Does anyone know where this footage is from?
@brianbanfield53974 ай бұрын
If you mean specifically the footage of the bus departing, that is definitely from Busáras in the city centre. You can tell from the angle of view of Liberty Hall in the background. And the Custom House would be on the left of this scene but this is not shown in the video. Later you can see the bus travelling up what I think is Talbot Street. You can see Guineys shop on the left and Nelson’s Pillar straight ahead. All regional buses departed (and still do) from Busáras which is the main bus station in Dublin city centre.
@flea16835 жыл бұрын
In 100 years time Japan will be there with it's culture intact for Japanese children, Pakistan will be there with its culture intact for Pakistani children Nigeria will be there with it's culture intact for Nigerian children obviously I can go on like this but ask yourselves will Ireland still have it's own culture for Irish children?It's not about racism, every race is entitled to their homelands and culture. If every country on Earth dropped it's borders and all had free movement so a piece of clay was just a piece of clay then it wouldn't matter who lived on it but it is unfair for that just to apply to white countries. Call me a racist for my opinion if you like I don't care what you think of me.
@marynadononeill2 жыл бұрын
You are exactly right! There's only one Ireland. When its gone its gone.
@jamesleo85335 жыл бұрын
No phones just people livin in the moment
@pmacc3557 Жыл бұрын
Looks clean
@FAngus-ly8lk5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video and a great bit of music to go with it.
@johnclancy91885 жыл бұрын
Nobody wore jeans then- everyone looked smartly
@lj61094 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with wearing jeans. Fashion is always changing.
@hugostiglitz69145 жыл бұрын
@3.10 two kids just wandering around with their very own elephant!!😂 Isn't it lucky we have all those Euro H&S Rules these days!
@TheSeanm1027 жыл бұрын
great quality thanks for the upload
@aucourant99988 ай бұрын
Interesting looking at the size of the families, most seemed to have had at least three or four children back then.
@peterhopqk3 жыл бұрын
The music is River by Enya. Also used in the movie Green Card.
@gerrymac65111 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1965,but that bus and the cars,the way people dressed etc,are strong in my memory.I think things didnt change as quickly until the 70s.I wouldnt agree that Ireland was very repressed back then,although things where stricter,but the people in general where used to that,it was like that worldwide,and the Catholic church was no different to other institutions,the abusive priests where a minority,as many where absolute saints.
@geraldneary19484 жыл бұрын
Gerry Mack your quality thanks for telling the truth.
@ecclesiaxxi62102 жыл бұрын
exactly,... the Church wasn't that strict, and it guided people for a better society and happier life, some people might not like it, but it's good for the majority, and that's what makes a society and nation function. I personally think things started going down when the churches grip/influence lessened and they became less assertive... oh and 1958 Vatican, the real church and pope were Pius XII and that's where it changed after.
@markdevlin38385 жыл бұрын
Murder rate in Ireland then was non existent. Irish people living happily in there own culture no Multiculturalism . yes they where poor but they knew there neighbours and looked after eachother . Today you can live beside someone for years and not know them
@crazyfishmonster4595 жыл бұрын
I don't think the baby boomers will ever realise what they threw away. What future generations will never enjoy because of their selfishness and divisive behaviour. This was paradise, and it was snatched and snuffed out.
@speakertreatz6 ай бұрын
We didn't have baby boomers in Ireland. We were neutral in WW2 so there was no post-war population explosion similar to the 'baby boom' in America. But if you're referring to people in Ireland born in the late 40s and early 50s, all I have to say to you is they did their best and they were never selfish or divisive and they didn't 'snatch paradise' from anywhere. Ireland in the 60s was not paradise. Maybe in the U.S. you might accuse your own people of that.
@tomculhane735327 күн бұрын
@@speakertreatzwell said
@peter2385 Жыл бұрын
Ah the good old days, I remember them well and not a junkie zombie in sight.
@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Жыл бұрын
England was pretty much the same. One culture all living happily together (well except Protestants and Catholics). Women in skirts and dresses. Fewer tattoes and piercings, and no-one staring at cellphones.
@ivandinsmore6217 Жыл бұрын
Back when Ireland was an independent country.
@Jake-jr2zh Жыл бұрын
Still is . Back then there was lots of poverty , people living in tenements . Unemployment was high . Don’t fool yourself looking at the nice side of Dublin.
@dn58033 жыл бұрын
Going to a pub was far more affordable back then.😋
@pictureposie3 жыл бұрын
I was born that year in Dublin. That video really brings me back to my childhood.
@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Жыл бұрын
So was everything else.
@Jake-jr2zh Жыл бұрын
Not for everyone.
@TylerHansenVideo4 жыл бұрын
Makes me nostalgic for an era I've never even lived in.
@irishtexan8995 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you could park your bike outside a pub without a lock on it
@stuartwilliams98689 жыл бұрын
Loved the freedom we children had back then. For example, look at the two young ones riding unsupervised on the baby elephant as it strolls through the zoo. What an awesome First Holy Communion day out....brilliant! I remember the Kiddies Corner there where we could play amongst all the young animals....sadly, that's all stopped years ago.
@johnb.98065 жыл бұрын
The petting zoo.
@Alter-Ego19955 жыл бұрын
The poor elephants there who probably died with horrible back pain because of the amount of people that rode on their backs over the years
@Golgeddon3 жыл бұрын
@@johnb.9806 Pet’s Corner if I remember correctly.
@andreaparsons21205 жыл бұрын
This is a really nice video but the comments here are really mean and unnecessary.
@LaughingMan445 жыл бұрын
By 2050 the Irish will be a minority in Dublin. Another 100 the Irish will be a minority in their own country. How is it racist to want your people to inherit your own country, for your people to not become extinct?
@amoniousbt11105 жыл бұрын
Bíddu Baradóttir so love for ones own people is hate now? Is it hate to want the only white countries on the planet to remain that way?
@amoniousbt11105 жыл бұрын
StealthyMonk look at the demographics. Importing foreign races with 3rd world birthrates into your first world country (with a declining first world birthrate)
@amoniousbt11105 жыл бұрын
"it doesnt matter really why does it matter" This nihilism makes me sick. What gives you the right to give away your children's future? Do you honestly think that if whites become a minority, in our own lands, that we will be treated fairly? Look at south Africa. This is our homeland, not an international hotel. When you say you don't care about demographics, you are saying you don't give a shit what happens to white people. Not one place on the planet where we can live in peace by ourselves.
@amoniousbt11105 жыл бұрын
"your talking like other races are not even human beings" They are human beings, doesn't mean all human beings are the same or even equal. That's the harsh reality of our world. Nobody deserves to suffer because of what they were born as. "If we did get rid of all other races" I never said that. Why does me wanting to protect my country, family and culture, make me a war monger?
@me_meyou_youus_us5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful video, my father has told me about those times, apparently everybody was quite poor, his family would only eat meat once of meat week. And he himself had to emigrate. But my God doesn't look so good there in the pictures,I can't imagine the Dublin with that little amount of cars, must have been amazing!
@sean.furlong19893 жыл бұрын
Meat was typically saved for Sundays and the leftovers were made into other meals throughout the week. Always fish on Fridays.
@donalcasey36125 жыл бұрын
Things seemed more simple then i was born in 69 so i rember the 70s
@memorybliss5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Donal
@seanbonella4 ай бұрын
when life was better.... no illeagals no woke no harm being human
@douglaskelly91703 жыл бұрын
A unlocked bike outside a pub nowadays not a chance
@tubephobia5 жыл бұрын
In my memory, I will always see The town that I have loved so well. Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane. Those were happy days in so many, many ways In the town I loved so well
@maryosborne64069 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. Thanks
@memorybliss9 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mary.
@Dessienewshoes5 жыл бұрын
Dublin is still a wonderful place. People saying foreigners have ruined should remember the Irish history of emigration.
@andreaparsons21205 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. :)
@magzsara98925 жыл бұрын
Yes it was the Irish who called for more immigration,(because of their history) especially into the UK. Now many are complaining because they are being asked to practice what they preach. And all of a sudden many are anti immigration.
@niamhnidhalaigh58615 жыл бұрын
Magz Sara no it wasn't the Irish who asked for it, it was imposed on us by a global agenda
@magzsara98925 жыл бұрын
@@niamhnidhalaigh5861 The Irish demanded that England should welcome immigrants, now the Irish are being called upon to welcome immigrants themselves and you are saying someone else imposed it? No Neeve you don'r demand someone else do it while not bothering to do it yourselves... .
@Parasmunt5 жыл бұрын
It is up to each country to let in whoever they want, if people of the past let Irish in - their choice. If we decide we don't want to let masses of people in today, our choice. The two are not connected.
@selinor57826 жыл бұрын
Lol, 3:07 two very young kids on top of an elephant just wander by unattended.
@coventryirishsociety42216 жыл бұрын
Hello, we are making a film about the Irish in Coventry and was wondering if we could use this footage? Ciaran Davis
@sunnivaoflynn4 жыл бұрын
Check out the British Pathe website for info on how to license this footage. Probably shot on 35mm film by professional camera-people hence the lovely sharp quality, excellent vantage points and clever selection of images.
@davisoneill5 жыл бұрын
Heartbreaking to think what has been done to this once lovely city by greedy scum who hate Ireland.
@morbidsearch5 жыл бұрын
Shroich na Sasanaigh roimh na seascaidí
@DarrenBonJovi6 жыл бұрын
fantastic archive footage
@michaelorafferty37233 жыл бұрын
Where did it all go wrong ?
@Devin7Eleven Жыл бұрын
Back when Europe was magical
@davidowen6977 Жыл бұрын
Fleeting beauty, well chosen music 💚
@TeleChannel6 жыл бұрын
Great video, footage like this is gold - thanks for sharing
@declansilvine93785 жыл бұрын
Where are all the tracksuits?
@morbidsearch5 жыл бұрын
Tá siad an chompordach, ceart go leor?
@regalsmartie115 жыл бұрын
Good ol days. And everyone dressed so well..
@roeng13686 жыл бұрын
Sadly dublin has been hollowed out, every suburb now has a large shopping centre, leaving the centre of dublin full of tacky tattoo parlours, sex shops, and charity shops. The dreadful boring apartment blocks built during the boom have also scarred a city that was noted for its Georgian buildings.
@geraldneary19484 жыл бұрын
Most people prefer Castle type housing rather than factory looking housing.but Georgian houses have been alot over rated.
@speakertreatz6 ай бұрын
the areas where apartment blocks went up were noted for being disused industrial areas falling to bits
@andrewchaston503 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@hbrowne134 жыл бұрын
Hi, great footage. I am making a video about how re-vision O'Connell Street. Wondering where you got this old footage and if I could get a copy? Thanks.
@bernadettekelly8165 Жыл бұрын
This generation has deteriorated beyond recognition. 2 Timothy 3:1:5....
@nwoerad38062 жыл бұрын
That's utopia,now look at the place.
@Jake-jr2zh Жыл бұрын
Funny they didn’t film the tenements.
@TheFrosstitute5 жыл бұрын
Pretty insane to see how Dublin used to be, honestly I think the biggest thing we lost was our sense of community, this looks like a utopia you'd see in a movie compared to dublin now. look at everyone in the park, everybody is connecting and smiling and playing, now everyone sits as far apart as possible and looks at their phone. couldn't believe when the guy left his bike outside too, these days a junkie would rob it straight away. so sad
@kateSullivan39275 жыл бұрын
But don't you think that's a function of technology more than anything? You can't really fault Dublin for it...and in fairness every city changes dramatically after 50 odd years. People are on their phones EVERYWHERE. Try going to any major city for a month-there isn't one "connected" anywhere. Every single person stares at their phone all day long.
@TheFrosstitute5 жыл бұрын
@@kateSullivan3927 Yeah my comment wasn't really exclusive to Dublin since times have changed everywhere. it's still a shame to see how disconnected we've become though