Ireland In the Rare Old Times - Images from 1880 - 1900

A collection of old photographs showing how the rich and poor lived, worked and played in Victorian-era Ireland, 1880-1900.
#ireland #irish #oldphotos

[@mickeyh53]

Such a resilient nation..nothing but admiration for Ireland..I to come from good Irish convict stock..🇦🇺

[@BobbyJackShow]

Indeed they are. They need to call up that resilience now as they're being destroyed from the inside and out. :(

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Good on you cousin

[@MrKmoconne]

This is the time period when my great grandfather emigrated to the USA. He had a little book that we still have full of Irish songs and home remedies, all hand written by different people. The last song in the book was the national anthem of the USA, the Star Spangled Banner.

[@ndie8075]

😢 I am sorry for all that sorrow the irish people struggeld with.......a nation once again....Germany love you Ireland..❤

[@kelsogirl562]

Wow - wonderful set of photographs.

[@BobbyJackShow]

Thank you!

[@maureenmartin4730]

For a downtrodden people we were great to be as good as we were and as we are. Our own people dying during the famine and the very best of food being shipped over to the UK. Makes me want to cry. And when we emigrated to the UK treated like dirt most of the time and working like horses to build England. UK was good in lots of ways to the emigrants but...😢

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

And when we emigrated to The land of the native Americans we did exactly the same to them as was done to us...kicked them off the land, starved them into reservations, indoctrinated their children and restricted them in their religion of worship of the one Great Spirit..

[@MyPAUL71]

You think the peasants in England were having a good time of it in 1880? They were also living in hovels and half starved for most of the year, and those were the lucky ones who weren’t doing 16 hour shifts in the cotton mills or mines. Your ancestors do not have a monopoly on hardship and depravation.

[@KenneyCmusic]

@@alllovingcowherdboy4475 Really that was the British again though. Canada is still a common wealth country. The Queen is on our coins. I'm Cree myself, I appreciate your sentiment. Irish refugees were treated like pariahs when they got to the US. Americans were afraid they would take jobs away because they would work for lower wages. And they were catholic. They were treated like a minority as well.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

When I read your post it was like reading my own words and thoughts, what you said is completely true, The Irish people had unspeakable cruelty inflicted on them by their nearest and dearest neighbor England/UK. Ireland has suffered though one of the longest wars in history, with over 800 rears of being repeatedly invaded, attached, stolen from brutalizes, imprisoned, hung, shot, starved, shipped to other countries as slaves, and driven off their lands so a special invader could build a big house have all the land and live the high life got from harsh rents from the poor, This is where t he travelling people came from, forced to live on the side of the road under a bit of Hession in the hardest of weather conditions

[@mikekelly5869]

The separation of classes shown here is interesting. The signals in the clothing etc are a reminder of how important it was to people. Difficult times.

[@stevesyncox9893]

Nothing has changed. Nothing.

[@donalfinn4205]

Great pics!👏🇨🇮🇵🇸

[@annefox6552]

My Ancestor's on my father's side of the family were from Dublin and Limerick. My mother's family were also from Ireland, not sure what part of Ireland..They came to Newcastle and then settled in Gateshead on the opposite side of the Tyne..They must have left Ireland in about the 1830s..At that time the Irish people Certainly made Newcastle and Gateshead a much more Prosperous Place than it had been..The Irish People are renowned for being hard working reliable People..My Ancestor's started their own businesses..

[@johnoriordan7657]

Great people

[@patodwyer721]

Nice bit of history.

[@baynesstreetblues]

My take away impression is of a resilient people who were wedded to a life of hard graft.

[@garyhynes6574]

It's amazing that even before that time James hoban from co Kilkenny Ireland designed and built the White House in the USA... how amazing are the Irish to build the most important building in the world.

[@richardpcrowe]

My ancestors emigrated to Mexico about 1830. The Mexican government gave them land grants in what is now San Patricio County in the State of Texas. They eventually became Texans and Americans but, by a different route than most Irish.

[@BobbyJackShow]

The Mexicans hold the Irish in HIGH esteem. There's a deep respect for the Irish who came to fight against the Catholics in Mexico and turned to fought along side them with their usual fierceness and loyalty. It's a forgotten chapter in Irish (and Irish American) history.

[@johnoneal1234]

@@BobbyJackShow I wish replies were not blocked, I would like to know if their land grants were recognized after Texas became part of the USA.

[@RM-yf2lu]

My gggf left Ireland for the west Indies at that time

[@BobbyJackShow]

Did he live on his own or was he shipped over at chattel?

[@RM-yf2lu]

@@BobbyJackShow it's a mystery to me. All I know is the name of the sugar cane plantation where he worked.

[@Lionofjuda957]

Mother's family are from Co Cork. Father's family are from Co Donegal. My DNA states I'm 26% Irish. 26% Scottish 3% Scandinavian and the rest English & Western Europe...but anyway I have a bit of Green Blood...☘️

[@BobbyJackShow]

Donegal is one of the most beautiful counties in all Ireland.

[@dougwhiley4028]

I think my ancestors migrated to Australia to escape that music.

[@BobbyJackShow]

Lol only to succumb to the horrors of the didgeridoo.

[@dougwhiley4028]

@@BobbyJackShow yes. The didg is fascinating at first, but it doesn't take long to grind at your nerves.

[@johnryan7932]

I am interested in that clay pipe factory, anyone know more about it.

[@doloresaquines1529]

John. Still exists in Co. Roscommon. Small villages there.

[@johnryan7932]

@@doloresaquines1529 Thank you, I will do some research on it.

[@mikekelly5869]

That particular one was at Toome in Antrim

[@themadfarmer5207]

The clay pipes were made in different places but the village of Knockcrockery in Roscommon had a clay pipe industry up until 1922 when the Tans torched the whole village

[@doloresaquines1529]

@@themadfarmer5207 The Clay pipe industry is still in that village!!!

[@chrisclark1761]

Kriste. Not every video of Ireland needs leprechaun music.

[@ronanryan9472]

Wdym leprechaun music it's irish music for an irish video

[@chrisclark1761]

@@ronanryan9472 Exactly.

[@dukadarodear2176]

"Leath Chorpáin" as gaeilge.

[@corkboy4523]

It’s Irish traditional music and should be cherished

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

Well said

[@GaenorManyborn]

Good

[@BobbyJackShow]

Спасибо огромное

[@thecelticprince4949]

This was around the timeframe when my great great grandfather and his sister and their children left for the US and New Zealand respectively. They looked to be pretty bleak times. The better life they had in their new lands. And twisted Irish logic, I wound up with an American Gggf and uncle and Kiwi Ggm and g g aunt.

[@BobbyJackShow]

You could say they were bleak times right up until the mid-1990s. Ireland has gone through a huge cultural shift over the past generation, North and South.

[@thecelticprince4949]

@@BobbyJackShow They're going to improve. Because reunification is on the agenda. 1 Ireland, not a ppl divided.

[@BobbyJackShow]

@@thecelticprince4949 I agree, 1 Ireland, but sadly it's not in the cards. The EU could have stepped up and stepped in but that's not part of their overall agenda. The Republic has an illegal immigration problem like nothing you could imagine. There are homeless and needy Irish who are being ignored while hotels are being filled up with 'others'. It's very sad. Our ancestors are spinning in their graves. On the One Road has gone off a cliff.

[@thecelticprince4949]

@@BobbyJackShow Your right there Bobby. Europe is too busy looking after themselves. But Ireland's Son's and Daughters in the main didn't colonize Europe. They went out to the new World and the colonies. Along with the Scots. Like I said Reunification is on the agenda, itain't on Europe or England's agenda. But it most definitely "Is" on the agenda.

[@BobbyJackShow]

@@thecelticprince4949 Tiocfaidh ár lá

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

and sad photographs showing our forefathers for mothers brothers and sisters of long ago, the photo at 43 is extremely hurtful and sad to see grandmother, father and mother with their beautiful children standing outside the little shack covered with pieces of rags to help give some protection against the rains and cold weather, it is possible that this family had their own little home short time before but were driven out by gangsters and thugs who come to steal the little possessions that the head, at this time we can think of the people of Gaza Ukraine and many other parts of our world where war and conflict is being carried out by tyrants who have no mercy and are willing to kill thousands and millions of people just so they can stay in power, What answers will those brutes and murders have when they come to the golden gates and St Peter asks what good did you do for your fellowman.

[@eantbra]

The Rare Old Times in the title...... was it really

[@BobbyJackShow]

It doesn't say The Great Old Times.

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

poor child

[@johntuohy1867]

Scrap the annoying soundtrack...please.

[@BobbyJackShow]

It's what the people want. The people get.

[@rapier1954]

Just mute it that's what I do and those who like it can still listen.

[@BobbyJackShow]

@@rapier1954 I could've chosen Christy Moore for ya.

[@Lee-nh5bb]

​@@BobbyJackShow Ride on!