moore st to the four courts

dublin past.

[@denisomeara6140]

I worked one block from the Four Courts in the 70s and as a Tipperary man I felt the Dublin people in that area were the essence of what it meant to be Irish.They knew who they were and were proud of it. I have traveled quite a bit in the last 40 years and have not experienced kind of pride for community and tradition since.I feel people in small towns crave that sense of community. What Dublin people had took several hundred years.

[@lucycolgan3362]

Great kind words priceless memories Denis O Meara

[@freedomunltd]

And what’s being done to the Irish people by the Irish Government courtesy of the tyrannical EU and the WEF, is criminal

[@johnstaf]

When I was a child in the '70s, these parts of Dublin had a magical atmosphere. Even then, I had a feeling that it wouldn't last. For me the saddest part is what happened to Smithfield and the surrounding area. It was the very essence of Dublin.

[@patkearney9320]

Me too my friend fine times.

[@patricknoonan6480]

Moore Street once the heart of Dublin where i used to buy bangers from the sellers, is now full of mobile phone and African hair shops

[@Mark.R_]

Bangers and Rockets get your Bangers and Rockets. As the old wan had quick look around, before she fished when out from her under garments.

[@adriankelly17]

"BACCO...BACCO"

[@patkearney9320]

@@Mark.R_And you’d feel you where carrying Semtex.

[@patkearney9320]

I remember my Gran an old dub bring me to moor street and a kind soul with big blue lips would kiss me and I loved her I seen nothing strange in this beautiful old Dublin legend. We have loosed much and gained little in kindness.

[@richardmcmahon7466]

The great city of Dublin in the years 1940 to the mid 1970 was a super place . We had cinemas ,parks etc. and were able to access these places safely. From my own point of view, from the age of eight I could travel from one side of the city to the other ,could go to any cinema or any other place I wanted and always felt safe. I am now in my Eighties and I now hate what Dublin has become.

[@raymonddixon7603]

I think it is rose tinted glasses. We had tremendous poverty and an iron fist rule by the Catholic Church. Behind the scenes they are were abusing our women and children. No way do I wish to return to those days.

[@richardmcmahon7466]

Yes there was poverty , and as children growing up we were not aware of any iron fist.As far as abusing women and children , the respect shown by the church to women and children in my area was manifest by the huge volumne of work carried out by them.@@raymonddixon7603

[@raymonddixon7603]

@@richardmcmahon7466 Must have been an exception to the rule. Where I came from we were always threatened with being sent to Artane or Letterfrack when we were kids for being bold. Subsequent discoveries have laid the Church bare. One only has to look at the Tuam situation as a disgraceful example. Eventually I can see the Catholic Church being banned in countries and about time.

[@richardmcmahon7466]

Artane , Jack The Ripper,Bogie Man ,The Gauards all used by parents as a mild rerpremand. @@raymonddixon7603

[@richardmcmahon7466]

Sorry for the bad spelling repremand

[@michaelkilcourse6071]

I remembrr going to Moore Street every week with my mam to get our fruit and veg for the week, now it's full of foreign phone shops, so sad,

[@murrayeldred3563]

Delightful programme. Delightful people. Times now gone.

[@neilcarrollMeganJamieForever]

Eamon Mac Thomais- What an absolute legend. I love watching his videos!!

[@Marie-yx5ie]

Definitely, brilliant Story Teller he is 👍

[@johnmcevoy9322]

As a Dub who lived his teenage and early 20s in the 80s its very sad to see what my city has LOST and it definitely has lost a lot of its charms... No thanks to the politicians of today... I blame them for much of the things in the city that are gone now... But I'm still a proud Dub and hope to live long enough to see it rise from the ashes... UP THE DUBS....

[@Doontrusk]

Dublin City the greatest City on the World Headed there from the West of Ireland 1965 to 1988 it was so good to me headed back West 1988. Now Retired to Spain but i still visit this City every year to catch up with old comrades. Up the Dubs.

[@Dyer6245]

Matt Talbot was a proper scumbag ... he robbed a fiddle from a blind man , which you can be sure he used to peddle a few bob to live on , Talbot would have spent many yrs in Prison back then for such a heartless crime , he should have handed himself in to face justice , but no he was a born coward , he was lucky there was no eye witness to the crime , the blind man wasnt sure what time his fiddle was taken ... the lowest of the low wouldnt do what Talbot did .

[@TrueBlueEG8]

@@Dyer6245 He paid his penance though, he really repented while he was alive, so many dont.

[@lucycolgan3362]

Yes John I too I can recall growing up.cherish memories I

[@patkearney9320]

Go on yer boy yea.

[@gerryan7199]

This was absolutely fantastic. Eamonn was a great storyteller and someone who was obviously proud of his city.

[@boyoboyo704]

It was far from perfect but I loved it. Can't say that for present neo liberal cosmopolitan shell.

[@hughmungus6838]

This guy knows his stuff, i dont even know my next door neighbours name

[@sulichnalednosandok8862]

This is superb. I can't believe how much history is in this corner of Dublin. Moor Street is historical treasure. Ground 0 to Irish independence Place where Ireland was born.Needs to be cherish.

[@waynefarrellvoiceovers]

Thomas thank you so much for posting this. I remember all of these streets and shops from when I was around 7 or 8. My elderly parents will cry with joy when they see it!

[@florafauna5883]

I swear I love the Irish. God Bless Eire! PS. an Italian man.

[@SinfeinersCubanDevilera]

God bless 🙏 the real Dubs.

[@patriciabracken7546]

Those days are long gone. Lost in the mist of time. Sad.

[@AD-mw5mv]

the grim grinding poverty is gone too, a good thing.. romanticism and nostalgia doesn't fill a belly...

[@bernarddover1442]

MIDST ... YOU MORON

[@tundrawomansays5067]

Ben Dover No, Mr. Dover. “Mist” is the correct usage here, sir.

[@user-im9xq7fp5r]

There are many ways to relate stories, folklores or historic events, but this is by far the most spirited infused with conviction. Absolutely poignant and insightful yet succinct. Thanks !! I learned today.

[@seanredmond3112]

I'd love to see the Clearys santy from this time.O'Connell street and Henry street were magical at christmas.

[@Dyer6245]

@Sean Redmond ... you love Santa i see , same as here , lots of ppl now days dont believe in him anymore , mores the pity , them ppl wont get in to Toy Town when they die , Santa watches everything ... he even knows when you are sleeping & he knows when your awake so you guys better watch out you better watch out cause Santa Clause is coming to town ... Oh yeah & soon .. Merry Christmas Sean i hope Santa brings you something nice .. you deserve it ....

[@patkearney9320]

Clearlys clock where many a man met his wife, while others stood like spare pricks for hours.

[@MandNsvideos665]

I think he must of been aware of how precious those times were. It's like he got a time travelling machine, he was so excited with what would have been a very normal dublin day

[@SirRandom]

Gone are the days of innocence, when you learned about life through experience and interaction with your peers. Social media has created a new type of society throughout the Western world, and there's no going back.

[@Paul5520]

Beautiful balmy days of sunshine around Dublin. I haven’t seen one of them in a good while. Everything is so hectic now, this video is like a world away but it’s not.

[@CDash162]

I haven't been in the city in many years but I distinctly remember "GET YOUR WRAPPIN PAPER FIVE FOR 50."

[@speakertreatz]

Lol I can tell you it's not 5 for 50 any more, more like 2 for a e5

[@CDash162]

@@speakertreatzyes I would say so lol. I'm definately going to town again once this Covid is over.

[@VickersV]

I miss dublin, im called a jackin now. Ireland isnd the same anymore, god bless.

[@ianclausen29]

Great video ..I was in moore street just this week all the stalls were empty just two fruit and veg dealers , a real shame .

[@irishbiota6793]

The wit on that young one!!!! 'I'll never be short of a bottle of stout' 🤣 Just wonderful. I hope for Mark Breens sake that he was wise enough to keep hold of that young lady.

[@waynemolloy4250]

Old dublin is gone forever life was a lot more simple back then people hadn't got as much but they wer happier

[@joshuashow8897]

Ormond square what a great place it was back then lived there until I was 10 it was my whole world 😀Anto Sweeney

[@johnnycarey1254]

The square is still a great place it's not the Ormond square we played in but some of us are still here

[@danielkelly5112]

Eamonn you're a wealth of knowledge. I'm glad I remember Moore Street the way it was. . If ya don't want dem don't mall dem!

[@annhopkins3626]

Ah what a great video looking at my granny kavanagh always remembered her sitting at her window great time back then 👏

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Not a single person burried in stupid phones. People actually talking to their friends. Good bye good times and amazing Dublin

[@speakertreatz]

people are 'actually talking to their friends'. that's what they're doing on the phone

[@speakertreatz]

@ska¡¡a ¡¡a i hear you, but yer man up there isn't getting it. what does he think people are doing on the phones? they're communicating with their friends. maybe they can't see them in person for one reason or another. but they're not just staring into the screen like he seems to think. they're using the phone to talk to their friends.

[@europa2000man]

I agree. Times when you could actually talk to an actual human being and they listened to you and communicated with you. I'm nearly 20 years old, but i'm not one of these young people who is buried on a phone. In fact, if it wasn't for my family forcing me to use a mobile phone, I wouldn't have one at all. At the very most, I would just have a button mobile phone just to make calls on (ideally I would use a phone box, but they are dissappearing a a fast pace). I feel so lonely in the world i'm living in. Even my parents don't listen to me when I speak to them. They ignore me because they are buried in a phone all the time. That's part of the reason why I am severely depressed and feeling suicidal, because of the way the world is. If only I could go to a time I would fit in

[@Fatfrogsrock]

@@speakertreatz probably on Instagram with their 'friends'

[@pete4188]

Been gone from Ireland for the last 9years and have to say growing up in Dublin I never appreciated it. It’s only when you’re so far from home and family you realise how much you took for granted.

[@peterfitzgerald7734]

Don't come back, your in for a terrible shock

[@Fatfrogsrock]

It honestly resembles London more now than the Dublin in this video.

[@elizabethconnolly8958]

I've been gone for 46 years now I remember Moore st since the 40s ..my madin name was Moore

[@joshuashow8897]

The famous Ormand square great times ,haven't seen this in 30 years .anto sweeney

[@pauloshea3741]

Ah, jaesus. Ya wouldt'nt regonize deh place now, me oul flower!

[@amandacolleysutcliffe6523]

Good ole Dublin city love you up the dubs 🥰💙

[@jerribaglio2739]

37 years ago I left Dublin yet Dublin never left me

[@Dyer6245]

@Jerri Baglio ...What do you mean Dublin never left you ??? thats as strange a comment as i've ever read to be honest , enlighten me please , Cheers & have a great day pal ...

[@jerribaglio2739]

Sorry just saw this now. What i meant by that is no matter how long ago i left Dublin how much my life has changed my heart has remained there. If that make any sense . I will always love Ireland💞

[@tekken278]

i never knew thast were pearse Surrendered..dont think ll ever forget now either..great clip :)

[@chrismckee5569]

Loved the Gate. Two rows of seats for 1 shilling each so fabulous plays and acting available to everyone. RIP Micheàl and Hilton.

Loved Saturdays going in to town with me ma as a child,if you were good and lucky ,you got fruit in a brown paper bag for the bus home ❤

[@gudlisner501]

Moving Jarvis St Hospital out to Beaumont took so much out of the local economy.

[@user-sp2le5kx9f]

Good man Thomas god be with you and your lovely son you both gave us so much.❤

[@mystify25dee33]

very relevant in 2016

[@eileenstafford9366]

A great video by a great man, very educational, there is always a lot to learn about our Dublin and Country.

[@zenden6584]

Brilliant 🙌🏻❤️

[@alandowney173]

Parsnups

[@leatherman9924]

those dealers were very mean people you could spend a fortune at them and they still would never give you a plastic bag to carry them

[@vanmarko6654]

Sad individual enjoy your sad life....

[@DAVe-pd1ut]

I grew up going to this part of Dublin in the 1980’s - you could feel the Dublin of 1916 and before all around and imagine you were there but there was decay and poverty but many of the communities of “real” Dubs were lovely proud people and the essence of the City - I think that Dublin is gone now for better and worse - my initial reaction is that Dublin City Council permitted extensive demolition of areas in the North Inner City that have robbed the area of much of its character and soul but in reality much of it was crumbling and beyond saving anyway.

[@speakertreatz]

In most cases that's WHY they gave the go-ahead to demolish areas like North Lotts, those building couldn't be used for anything. The apartment blocks that went up in their place, on either side of Lotts Lane allowed people to rent a new, safe apartment right in the city centre. I was one of them. I lived in Liffey Walk developments in 2003. More people living in town meant more spending in town. When you weigh that up against the romantic appeal of looking at useless condemned buildings there's no comparison. I think in this day and age I'd like to believe DCC would insist on more sympathetic redevelopments. The irony is so many of the new developments in that area are named after the original industrial buildings and exploit their heritage. The test for DCC will be the 'Dublin Central' development at the Carlton end of O'Connell Street.

[@008overrated]

James Joyce would be sickened if he walked Capel st today. It was full of men clothes shops for sure..but today it is known as queer st and not a car is allowed to travel it and no Irish Man would allow himself to be seen walking it.

[@imjasonennis3624]

You sound fragile, I walk down it often.

[@Ggggggggfddxv]

Great footage just magical 😀 not a foreigner in sight gone are those days

[@speakertreatz]

2:20

[@lkelly5136]

Ireland as we knew it is dead!!

[@AD-mw5mv]

thanks to be jazus!

[@esthergester236]

That's not a bad thing

[@owenkilleen]

Why 'thanks be to jazus?' why "that's not a bad thing"

[@clareomalley5644]

Great history ......

[@Paul-te8mz]

It appears that this was originally shot in 1983, almost 40 years ago.

[@krizzy__]

I feel sad watching this because our most famous Irish Street is totally changed and only a quarter of the street is left, they don't call out anymore and it's just not Irish anymore, I used to love Moore Street now I don't bother it's unrecognisable now so sad!!

[@speakertreatz]

I don't know what you mean by 'only a quarter of the street is left', the street runs from Henry St to Parnell St like it always did. If you mean the traders have less room to set up, that's nothing new, they haven't had the whole street to trade in since the 70s when their lockers took up the area that is now buildings before Parnell St road was widened. The fruit and veg was overpriced, the traders would do their best to sell you the mouldy gone-off product and they didn't like you picking out your own stuff and now supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi have exposed them. And if by 'it's not Irish anymore' you're referring to all the multicultural shops, that's nothing new either. When the original Dublin Central development in the late 90s intended on flattening as much of Moore Lane and Moore St as possible all those shops went on short, cheaper leases to keep some money coming in before the whole lot was demolished. The were available to any Irish business owner but the Nigerian community just arrived jumped at the chance. They were actually being exploited because there was no future in these shops beyond the Dublin Central plan. Then that plan collapsed when it ran out of money. This was 1999.

[@user-bu2fg6yq1q]

Im a brummy my mom born corporation buildings north inner city 1938 my dad born in the coomb south inner city,1935, came to england 1960' thay had 11boys 1daughter over 50 grandchildren and great grandchildren, proud DUBLINERS ,the names. BROGAN, UP THE BRUMMIE DUBS

[@saywaugottasay]

what year is this?

[@itsmyireland]

Suge Knight it's around 83 or 84 .You can see Return of the Jedi advertised on the Ambassador

[@seanredmond3112]

+itsmyireland well spotted,I remember queuing with me dad to see return of the Jedi there.God bless the dubs,an tiománt do cúig.

[@akbeautyrose7775]

I asked the same thing then I saw the Roman numerals at the end of the film, then I deleted my question. Lol

[@krizzy__]

I was only 5 yrs old when this video was made, it's sad how much it's changed 😥

[@pauldunneska]

The Roman numbers at the end MCMLXXXIII means 1983.

[@conor0044]

Not a dirty junkie in sight

[@speakertreatz]

Were you around in 1988 to see how much heroin addiction there was in the city centre? I was.

[@pauldunneska]

This was from 1983 and their were junkies.

[@speakertreatz]

@@pauldunneska Sorry Paul I meant to type 1983

[@veronatamcdermott350]

Ah go on grandda

[@brocksamson4245]

He'd be rolling in his grave the state of it now, an absolute crime Dublin city Council haven't done a tap to keep it alive or any kind've incentive to help trader families keep it alive

[@josephryan5949]

There's no doubt about it, Eamonn was a mine of information !

[@michaelberry1793]

I rode most of the old ones

[@pauldunneska]

This was made in 1983.

[@michaelkilcourse1517]

Full of foreign phone shops, oh how far we have fallen, Michael Collins would turn in his grave

[@EireFirst2024]

I'd 2 aunts that were street dealers, proper salt. 💚

[@jj356]

Not many fat people back in the 80s

[@colmoconnor1357]

THINK IT'S WONDERFUL BUT THINK NO FOREIGNERS IS VERY UNFAIR. REMEMBER WE FLED TO ENGLAND OR AMERICA WHEN THERE WAS NO WORK. OUR FOREIGNERS HAVE COME FROM WAR TORN COUNTRIES. LIKE OURSELVES WE ALL WANT TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES .DON'T BE JUDGEMENTAL. WE ALL DO WHAT WE CAN. BE UNDERSTANDING. IT WAS A WONDERFUL TIME. PEOPLE LOOKED AFTER ONE ANOTHER..

[@Fatfrogsrock]

Most people's problem is not with individual foreigners who are trying to improve their life, its with government policies, theres no end game with this, its a constant flood of immigrants since the mid 90s and it will likely never end until homogeneous Irish are a vast majority in their own country. This is quite evil when you think it's done on purpose by a small amount of politicians for eother ideological or financial reasons, they should never have been given the power to change the country so rapidly in a short space of time.

[@speakertreatz]

Politicians of all parties have used their power to change the country rapidly since the 1960s at the least. Why are you singling out todays crowd as if this is some ominous new developement. It was worse in the 60s/70s/80s/90s where politicians could be 'influenced' easily to make planning decisions@@Fatfrogsrock

[@Fatfrogsrock]

@@speakertreatz I realise the seeds were being sown then, but most of the changes made pre 90s were reverseable and recoverable from, you can't reverse being a minority in your own country without extreme measures. And remember despite being one of the last countries in Europe to open our borders we are set to the the first to have a minority homogenous population in the whole of Europe, even outdoing Sweden. People are so naive to the negative realities of what living in a country like that would be, indeed there are widespread purposeful attempts to hide the negative relaties of living in Ireland today by politicians and journalists and that is why more and more people are becoming angry and resentful. They realise they are being gaslighted. If you look to history hiding the truth usually isn't a great idea.

[@speakertreatz]

Neither is trying to whip people up into a racist frenzy with rhetoric. I don't agree with most of what you just said but you've made your point and I've made mine.@@Fatfrogsrock

[@Fatfrogsrock]

Racist rhetoric/What is factually happening, whatever you want to call it. I predict your world view will be severely tested in the next decade @@speakertreatz

[@CradaOC]

The part at 14:20 with the youngwans is gas.....

[@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446]

He'd die if he was to see Moore st now , Romanian central and black phone shops , what happened to my lovely little country(

[@speakertreatz]

your lovely little Irish developers had a plan to flatten everything behind the Carlton, anything that wasn't a protected structure. All those shops were offered to rent cheaply with short leases of 18 months, the expected time left before they were demolished. Lovely little Irish business people avoided these unfair terms so they were available to the Nigerian community, who took them. And when the plan for Dublin Central ran out of money the project was halted and the leases kept rolling. The lovely little developers had no respect for your romantic view of Dublin, they were planning on ripping down everything they could between O'Connell St and Moore St. So you can complain to them, not the foreign business people they were happy to exploit.

[@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446]

@@speakertreatz foreign business people my boloks ,there all over the country left rite and centre,it's nothing to do with short term leases your away with the birds

[@speakertreatz]

Were you living in Dublin from 1998 - 2003?@@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446

[@dandonovan11]

@@speakertreatzA combination of global capital, cheap money, housing bubbles, and the mass migration of cheap labour and you get the soul, sense of community, and pride of place ripped from Dublin, and places like it, as people become commodified along with everything else around them. Mere cogs in the brutal, fast-paced, and oppressive capitalist machine.