I left school that summer and at Christmas '75 was working in Penney's in Mary Street, so would have walked those streets when they were filming this. Great memories - spending every lunch hour in Golden Discs in Liffey Street listening to Bohemian Rhapsody being played non-stop, going to the Elbow Inn after work to spend what little money I had on pints of Guinness and toasted cheese sandwiches (how DID they toast them in the cellophane??), getting on the 46a and sleeping all the way home. It was a miserable time in a way for an 18 year old boy, but in some ways I was happier than I would ever be again (you could say the same about the country). I emigrated the following May and have only spent one or two Christmases back in Dublin since then. The country has changed beyond recognition - it has become indistinguishable from a lot of other countries - such is the way of the world (whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion). Back then, Christmas of '75, there was a unique and wonderful atmosphere which sadly will never be rekindled.
@Roger_Ramjet Жыл бұрын
Well said brother. Where are you now. Mine is a similar story....
@philipdee14156 ай бұрын
Very well said indeed....agree 100%
@antadhg3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas CR, thanks for the videos helping us get through the year!
@rahan98862 жыл бұрын
🎅
@michaelwalsh91452 жыл бұрын
£50 on presents in 1975 was crazy spending
@animallover195813 жыл бұрын
A shopping trolley full of turkeys, minutes later I bet it was full of Xmas shopping. No sanitizing back then we were made of tough stuff. Merry Xmas and thanks for the memories. 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺🎅🎅🎅🎅
@Roger_Ramjet Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Dirty kip.
@seandelap62683 жыл бұрын
Harry Christmas CR and the wonderful uploads you do.
@bizzjoe2 жыл бұрын
Wow, look at all those Irish people
@seadrifter8975 Жыл бұрын
😅😅😅
@Roger_Ramjet Жыл бұрын
Skangers
@soldier229719 күн бұрын
We're all far right now. There is no such thing as Irish people. We have always been a land of immigrants. So we're told.
@huntermccoy76413 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas everyone
@LK_Ireland3 жыл бұрын
Sweet 😃 Thanks for all these great videos!
@BrianBoru55233 жыл бұрын
Whoever they are they're a national treasure.
@johnflavin16022 жыл бұрын
Great video, thank you.
@hugostiglitz69143 жыл бұрын
A time when it was socially acceptable to drink and drive. Half the drivers were driving on provisional licences and a good lot had no tax or insurance. I know one woman, shes 76 now and has never taken a driving test. She stopped driving last year and never had more than a provisional license. But she always had tax and insurance, so I suppose that's how she got away with it.
@Jen-lg4hp2 жыл бұрын
It's a money making racket now! My dad's driving test in the 50s was borrowing the local priest's car to drive to the pub for a stout and then driving home! Good times!
@Shane-zx4ps2 жыл бұрын
Nosy oul bit aren’t you, leave the poor woman alone.
@hugostiglitz69142 жыл бұрын
@@Shane-zx4ps 😂😂. I was just talking about her the other day and my wife informed me she stopped driving because she knocked some lad of his bicycle. He wasn't badly injured! 😂😂.
Ugh, I forgot about this one. The poor Turkey. I have to move on.
@dearg_doom3 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how many people survived winter in those days, no masks, no social distancing, just carefree fun and camaraderie - awful, wasn't it?
@animallover195813 жыл бұрын
Shocking static, 8 of us would be dead before the celebrations end. So Sad. 😥😥😥😪😪😪.
@TheBenzer93 жыл бұрын
Yea from gargle
@Dermot29272 жыл бұрын
Shocked by static electricity?
@melissa03863 жыл бұрын
Before the drugs
@Roger_Ramjet Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Just raging alcoholics
@audreyperrin32011 ай бұрын
When I was young my dad would bring me into town to see the lights he would park the car at the top of Henry street and we would walk down them days u could look into the shops that woman made me laugh spending 50 pounds I spent over 300 euros at Christmas
@davomccranko2 жыл бұрын
1:45 Father Ted sniffing a box
@Roger_Ramjet Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@scottblack92133 жыл бұрын
I used to think those were the good old days but by Jim .. it was ultimately an extremely grim experience trying to make ends meet in Ireland in 1975.
@dhalsim-13 жыл бұрын
It wasn't perfect but people were happier than they are today.
@maximoo98612 жыл бұрын
@@dhalsim-1 people said the same thing in 1975 about the 1930s
@dhalsim-12 жыл бұрын
@@maximoo9861 Fewer suicides and fewer people suffering from depression back then.
@maximoo98612 жыл бұрын
@@dhalsim-1 so much for the consumerist society we have now then
@dhalsim-12 жыл бұрын
@@maximoo9861 Just goes to show how much people crave artificial happiness
@EamonReillyartist2 жыл бұрын
It’s Christmas not ‘the festive season’.
@icturner232 жыл бұрын
They’re different things. New Year is part of the festive season. It isn’t part of Christmas.
@andrew-hd8do2 жыл бұрын
Most of those people being interviewed would be dead donkeys years now🤔
@Dermot29272 жыл бұрын
Hopefully the lovely ladies from 1:06 onwards are still with us.
@АндрейБогодухов-г5у2 жыл бұрын
У пожилых людей все зубы целы...🙃🙃🙃
@RebelofIreland2 жыл бұрын
Here we go again..."when I was young...we used to sit around and eat our own shit...and we were glad of it, and shur look, we were happy." It gets old