Goths, Cureheads & Psychobillies of Dublin City, Ireland 1989

[@finolaomurchu8217]

I remember a lot of those faces from Bartley Dunns pub. Myself and two sisters would go in every Saturday. All the black and white potrait photos of legendary filmstars spotted the walls. Fantastic days.🧚‍♂️☘🇮🇪🙋🏻‍♀️

[@raygreen5926]

Ah, wish I could go back into Bewley's cafe in 1989 and have a coffee and a bun and see all those characters who used to go there. Where are they now ? I see one of them still around but time makes ghosts of us all

[@stuartkelly3106]

Bewleys is now filled with upper middle class woke people from Dublin 4 ordering pear salads, it's ruined, your vision of Bewleys is long gone. No Dublin people go there now, its now a sterile homogenous hole.

[@Jen-lg4hp]

Closing down Bewley's Westmoreland Street was absolutely criminal! No coffee shop or Starjunk franchise now has one millionth of the atmosphere that beautiful restaurant with its garden rooms had!!! As usual, the best monuments and institutions are always destroyed for quick profit in the city!

[@allgood3322]

That is a brilliant one, my da is in this when he was a youngfella street dancing for . im 20 and hes nearly my age in this. Got a proper shock when i seen him and laughed to myself, definitely sending it on to him. and I love going through this channel full of good stuff. Keep it up.

[@alanbourke4069]

That was me, once. And now they're the doctors and lawyers and business owners, and tutting at their kids for the mad stuff they're wearing, and so the world turns.

[@finolaomurchu8217]

My children are teens now, giving me guff. It's great. I was 30 getting married, so older having children. The clothes teens wore then were far more interesting. And yes, I have my Cure tickets for December 🤣🙋🏻‍♀️

[@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In]

This is all priceless. My grandparents left Galway in the 1920s, married in Chicago, and my first trip to Ireland was in 98. So this is just a wonderful bit of Irish history for me, and a great cross comparison to how people dressed with the same influences over here in the states.

[@petermurphy9968]

All of these middleclass kids will be pushing into mid mid fifties now. And a lot of them will be grandparents.

[@danielnewton7357]

I seem to keep coming back to this video. These kids look amazingly cool!!!!

[@iknowyoureright8564]

That girl is at the end is beautiful……or was beautiful, god knows what time has made of those young people now.

[@natashadandeli]

the way the cure heads look like robert smith mini-mes is too funny

[@luasdublin]

In 89 I would have gotten into metal just started growing out my hair and spent my time growing out my hair and wearing a West German ex Army shirt (via Army bargains) and Metallica T Shirt ... I'm always a bit grumpy that all the 'tribes of the 80s/90s' cover the middle class "cool kids" who were all goths and the like , and ignored us Rockers (there were dozens of us!! Dozens!!) .

[@speakertreatz]

I remember youz. There was a lot of crossover between Goth, Punk and Metal and some of the guys in my scene took elements from all three, it's a shame you've been overlooked in the late 90s Dublin, you were an integral part of the overall scene.

[@danielnewton7357]

Goths always denied being goths!

[@speakertreatz]

unless they were called Cureheads

[@danielnewton7357]

Irish girls were so beautiful.

[@bigword3744]

The last girl cute af

[@zenden6584]

Gas ❤️

[@stuartkelly3106]

This was before post modern wokeness when Dublin was punk. I hope the next generation will rebel against the orthodoxy the establishment and corporations are now imposing on us.