Irish Men Who Built Nuclear Power Stations, 1965

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

👍🏻 “the forgotten irish” is another good documentary..

[@thebomb78]

Great grafters. 💪🏻🇮🇪

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

No safety boots and helmets in those days, not a holiday camp yet far better than most Irish workers, a lot of those men sent their money home to their families in Ireland.All good solid hard-working men with rock solid opinions, note the man talking about family life at 5.45

[@russianbot1420]

Thanks for that CR,it brought a tear to my eye

[@Spookieham]

Just about every post war civil engineering project in the UK was built by Irish construction workers. My neighbour in Glasgow in the 70s was a tunneller from Donegal who worked all over the UK on hydro projects. Brought up 10 kids and retired back to Ireland to a big house and a big bank account.

[@Sarahmurray514]

And a broken back?

[@anthonydowling3356]

@@Sarahmurray514 and Tunnel vision lol

[@Dheuedbv]

@@anthonydowling3356it’s not funny

[@Dheuedbv]

@@anthonydowling3356wise up

[@noelmaher4633]

Recently watched BBC-three part documentary development of Hinkley Point C, plenty of Irish still building them, but designing and planning them now. Still don't get why we refuse to build same.

[@freespeechisneverwrong9351]

Ireland is too progressive and the UK is following in their tracks.

[@jameslarkin8494]

The Irish built England..

[@h7283]

Correct

[@dvrn86]

Built the colonies too.

[@Juniper-d5b]

​@@dvrn86 another nation forced to give servitude to the empire 🙏

[@hillbillyjohn230]

Paddy Power🇮🇪

[@CR-xr7xp]

Would be great to have the opportunity to work something like this and take your money home, rare

[@patricksmith9656]

And not a single statue to remember them by

[@timMaher-m3c]

Tim Maher Worked .I had a bad accident hear and still live with pain from it.

[@Jim54_]

Our rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity

[@seancaulfield5423]

Top o the morning to ya

[@tonylaff1007]

My Grandad and my great uncle are in that clip in the Cafeteria smiling at the Camera there from Donegal

[@Ruffbiker68]

I am so proud to have worked with the Irish plenty of " characters " long gone 😢

[@ilovegreeneggsnham.4376]

these guys forever live in this KZbin video .

[@laetitialogan2017]

Great hardworking men, hard lives

[@tommy123333]

Fascinating. We might need chaps like this in the future

[@anthonydowling3356]

The Irish have left that kind of work .The Poles took their place .

[@dvrn86]

McAlpine's fusiliers

[@McPookah]

Great video! It's a pity that the interviews with the men don't go on a bit longer. There's a great book called 'An Irish Navvy' by Donall MacAmhlaigh about this kinda thing that's worth checking out.

[@Juniper-d5b]

Go raibh maith agat 🙏

[@chrisT5259]

The Irish built the world!

[@freebornjohn2687]

I wonder what they would think of today's Ireland its far more materialistic and faster paced than back then.

[@masoodahmed2041]

Incredible people working so hard to help rebuild post war Britain, working and living in 2 homes. I salute the hard work of these invisible immigrants.

[@goldielocks2621]

Ps No fat people in those days, six packs were the norm not fashion.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

I don’t think they even had six packs. Just your regular lean belly.

[@larkop6504]

It's the same in Asia today, 73 year old man fit as a fiddle, lean muscle everywhere

[@ianhannigan7044]

Fascinating footage!

[@petersaupe7455]

I was the only English man in a gang of Irish ground workers in the late 1970s and a better bunch of work mates I never had.They were well read,knew poetry,could all sing, knew their forefathers and were honest to the bone.You would never come to harm whilst in there company. God bless Joe Caldwell, Martin Thorn and Barney Carney.

[@AdamGrimes-pb5ly]

Thank you from irish chippy I'm working in London 15yrs I did my apprenticeship guy from Liverpool George brown best chippy I've ever worked whit ❤

[@liamkeane9159]

Paddy in London

[@anthonydowling3356]

Far from London ,these guys were .

[@cheri238]

Love histories. Thank you❤️🌹Where are we now globally in 2022?

[@johnhehir508]

Britain was short of manpower after the war over 100,000 German prisoners of war ,who worked in the UK had just been sent back to Germany, Irish Labour was at a premium 🤔🤔

[@GallagherGeotecminning]

Dogging the steel,40mm bars,

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Good Presentation,

[@liamanderson1960]

They are all so well spoken . Fantastic men

[@89768]

Did that guy say his kids were 3 2 and 1? Jesus give Ur wife a rest pal

[@jgdooley2003]

The problem is that artificial forms of family planning were forbidden by law because of the overbearing influence of the RC Church. Indeed many Christian churches were also against family planning or artificial forms of family planning and women were not in a position to say no. Large families were common in the 1960's in Ireland and providing for all the children was a huge social problem at that time. A tragic combination of no sex education and early marriages and bans on married women working in public jobs also exacerbated the problem.

[@ggg-eg5pz]

@@jgdooley2003 I don't see the problem John. Ireland needed to greatly increase its population and it worked as we now have a very strong economy due to those large families. For once a government policy that worked.

[@donnasmyth45]

@@jgdooley2003 my father was born in 1950 (an only child) .. my mother was born in 1951 ( came from a family of 9 children) - both Catholic families. Some knew how to go about it ;) 😉

[@freespeechisneverwrong9351]

@@jgdooley2003 None of what you said was a problem. Large Irish families was the norm two generations ago. I was one of seven kids, my mother one of twelve. If you had no more than four kids then people though something was wrong. Large families are not a problem. Women’s (so called) equality in the workplace has made having a large family harder because you now need two wages to survive and the progressive look down on a women raising children.

[@padraig4530]

🎶If only we had DearOld Ireland over here🎶☘️v

[@darrinmcneill534]

Our boys ❤

[@johncallaghan4866]

😮

[@ospreybird]

:-)

[@goldielocks2621]

It's unfortunate that the Irishman has now got the same traits as the English man, private property, gun clubs, fishing rights, no trespassing ...

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Anything wrong with gun clubs