people delighted to move to Finglas 1964

[@jimcunningham5092]

Back then when we were a poor country we were able to provide public housing at reasonable rent for working people who couldn't buy in the private market. So much for so-called progress!!!

[@danielkelly5112]

You're spot on Jim. . Things have gone backwards ever since

[@thomasd9424]

Neoliberal Capitalism, only the finest for the few.

[@alwaysgood6200]

At a time the government just begin to reap the benefits of international investment and trade within the next 10 years they soon realise they were not in it to Help the People but themselves and we know the story since then

[@kingbrianboru7310]

Back then when we lived amongst our selfs , no bleeding foreigners

[@connoroleary591]

The EU have their "red lines" free movement of cheap labour, sorry, "free movement of people" Why not include the red line, housing for young working people. Studio flats for people who are working would help take the stress and pressure off young people, especially those living and working in Dublin.

[@29brendus]

I can't believe I found this video of people moving to McKelvey (not McKinley) in 1964. I was 9 years old and full of beans and came there to 39 McKelvey Ave in 1965 and I was astonished to see my neigbours Carmel and Tommy Mills being interviewed, no older than myself. Also Mrs. Griffin. The cement mixer at the start was in our backgarden, can ye believe it? Makes me fill up with emotion, teary eyed.

[@waynemoro8650]

Do you know what happened to the kids in the video? Did they stay or move away?

[@29brendus]

@@waynemoro8650 The Mills house was sold in the late 1990s when the parents passed away. When Tommy grew up to his late teens early 20s, he went and travelled the world. Carmel married a local guy 5 doors away. I haven't seen or heard anything about the Mills since the mid-90s. If I find out more, Ill post here.

[@waynemoro8650]

@@29brendus Thanks man......👍

[@cs3105]

How amazing to have a bit of your life caught on archive film like that. Finglas seemed like a nice place to be back in 1964

[@29brendus]

@@cs3105 66 years in Finglas now. I have worked all over the world and believe me there there are worse places, and it was rough when I was a kid. The simplicity, genuiness, modesty and manners of the people in the video brings a tear to my eye again. They were all so thankful and that included my parents. "we have every comfort you could wish for".

[@bernadetteodoherty8892]

Notice how grateful they are despite not yet being connected to gas and electricity supply_realistic and resilient people

[@veronicaelsegood5175]

God bless those people. They were so happy with their move. The women talked of the practicalities the men looked proud and the kids were beaming and nobody was moaning .

[@shaunagracek8178]

Its amazing to see people dressed so well even dough they were so poor as today they are so rich with hardly any clothes! It’s sad to think all these beautiful salt of the earth people who tried there best to remain happy and content no longer exist

[@500yamahaxt]

Respect, gratefulness and hard working honest people forever gone, shame really

[@keithp6699]

God bless the people in this video. It is so nice to see how thankful and respectful they were for what they were given. They recognised the value of it all unlike today's 'entitled' society. Where did it all go wrong? 😢

[@lauraswann5543]

Heroin and Ireland joining the E.E.C./ EU.

[@jameslarkin8494]

Thankful yes,only because they left abject poverty.

[@thinkofitthisway7804]

Grew up in Finglas. Moved to America a long time ago. People on here are asking what happened to Finglas and Ireland in general? Very similar parallels to where I live now (in America). I heard one man on the radio the other day speak about the influx of drugs to his neighbourhood in the 1980's and how he warned every policeman and politician he could get his hands on at the time. No one listened. Says he has no friends left now - has buried 11 of them since 2004. All drug-related deaths. Amazing how we as people, be it in Ireland or in America, cannot stop the bad things in our communities. Something is wrong somewhere.

[@hungsolow7090]

Jesuits

[@connorshaw-case6030]

doesn't help when the government imports drugs, and sells weapons to terrorists (U.S) or corrupt cops who let the stuff in (u.k ireland)

[@realhelathylifestyle]

These will be great areas again when we push the drug dealers out.

[@sunshine-bs2jx]

Wow so grateful they were 🙏 and how well they all dressed even though they had so little . No tracksuits and hoodys leggings lazy nowadays compared to those people .

[@ahutch4882]

Really cool footage, thanks for upload

[@Elle_Gowing]

The people are well dressed, are standing up straight and can hold intelligent conversations. No slouching, no whinging, no fidgeting with hands in pockets. They are positive, hopeful and willing to put up without having everything for a short while. They dealt with huge hardships in the tenements and retained their dignity. What happened the people of Ireland? Was it unemployment, the EEC, inflation or fluoride in the water? Or more than likely illegal drugs and alcohol. Having said that working class people are not fools. They can see today's system has failed and does not benefit those who contribute to it but those who take from it.

[@sunshine-bs2jx]

Well said

[@29brendus]

I'm afraid it goes much deeper than you realise. Much, much deeper. And it leads back to the peedos of the EU and Westminster.

[@junerose-sommer5494]

How nice people were back then. ❤

[@celticphilomena]

We moved to Finglas then, great to see it here. 😃

[@richardmurphy9006]

Finglas born and bred and love it just hop skip and a jump into town up on a hill so no flooding what's not to like

[@29brendus]

Cyclin' up the hill when you're comin' back from town and that north brezze skinnin' ya! LoL!

[@ianoconnell7256]

Notice the people in this video actually work

[@murrayeldred3563]

So articulate and well spoken. Probably not the same in 2022.

[@patscanlan2678]

I like this upload "very much"

[@suziemills5189]

You know

[@patscanlan2678]

@@suziemills5189 😁😁😁

[@andreawood8306]

I was born in 64 and Im glad I wasn't living like these people,such a hard life and yet the people are so grateful 💛 sure wish bus fare was 10 shillings now 😄

[@cathalodiubhain5739]

Wish Ireland was like that now, instead of the shite were living in now

[@realhelathylifestyle]

stop paying off banks and build houses.

[@Lar308]

We moved into our new council house near Tralee in 1965 when I was 6. It was the small detached three bedroomed bungalow built on land (nearly two acres) my Dad received free from friends of his. I can still smell the fresh cement and wood. None of it was painted and we had to do all that. It was a change from our old house that the roof leaked on wet days so there were buckets and basins all over the place to hold the water. I recall my little dog would stay at our old house thinking we still lived there for a while and I would have to go and get him and bring him to the new house which was not far away. I am still living in the same house today but my parents purchased it from the council in the 70's.

[@paulwolfe9099]

Back then you could get a house if you worked.. nootva hope now

[@martinkeane3628]

I like it very much!

[@CORRIGEEN71]

Finglas before the traveler's moved in, these are very decent people

[@davidr5964]

A handsome man was Mister Griffin! Looks like a film star! And what a voice!!

[@whocares4199]

Well spoken and pronouncing all words. Where did that annoying "hows yis bude" and walking around with a hand down your pants come from in 40 years.

[@neilcarrollMeganJamieForever]

Inbreeding, I would say!

[@whocares4199]

@@neilcarrollMeganJamieForever probably

[@siobhanrose9515]

Great not hearing "Em, Erm & my favourite "Basically"....

[@whocares4199]

@@siobhanrose9515 basically🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelmcnamara4409]

All came from the television Ali G and programs and programs just like

[@decekfrokfr3mdx]

Until the 1960s even the poorest of the poor in Dublin were good, hard working people who spoke with solid Dublin accents but not the 'howiya' knackery you hear these days. Very different to those from deprived backgrounds today.

[@barelnuckleboxing3149]

decekfrokfr3mdx explain what you mean knackery is it travellers your talking

[@robertbrowne4049]

It’s an indication of the feverish activity of the housing section of Dublin Corporation. Go into Dublin City Council today it’s Sleepy Hollow there is more chance of coming across employees drinking cups of Cappuccino wandering around the atrium area there is not a single trades person working foreman clerk of works your more likely to see an elephant than tradespeople.

[@pete4188]

interesting how the accent has changed

[@karlrambles]

They're on telly clearly they're using their posher accent, same as if they were on the phone.

[@daithio.7378]

decekfrokfr3mdx But old people say howiya also so I don't know what your drinking BC their just saying" how are you" or cad é mar atá tú or conus atá tú everywhere in finglas today.

[@richardgiles2484]

When you look at what made people happy then compared to what people today expect off the government 🤔

[@karlapolina5855]

3:55 How sweet is that!

[@Bongwater33]

Was that Mrs Brown there?

[@carolinewhite3435]

Now they can't wait to get out of it my sister ran to Australia years ago to get out

[@beautifulspirit7420]

Ireland and the UK made good quality affordable housing a priority until Thatcher in the UK (not sure about the Republic) and it's been downhill ever since in these islands. I lived in Germany for 6 years recently and good housing is still within reach of everyone in most parts of the country (except Munich) due to their policies. The extremes of wealth in Ireland the UK and America are depressing and dangerous for our future.

[@westelaudio943]

Never though I'd ever hear or see "good quality" and 60s UK public housing being mentioned in the same sentence. It was a nightmare for the most part, still is. But the worst of it isn't even to be seen anymore, as it was so crappy it already had to be torn down in the 70s and 80s. LMAO

[@pkel2003]

No heating, no electricity, cooking food on the fire and the man says: "I have every comfort you could need." A lesson to the self-entitled of these times, if they were capable of learning it.

[@TerminusEst1982]

"Like, you know". Reminds me of my grandma. Belfast native.

[@antonthemovie]

Great to see

[@Moondogg111]

Now we have native Irish people sleeping rough on the streets while foreign nationals are put up in hotels at the expense of the taxpayer. Not only that but they're actively working to make it illegal for you to complain about what's happening. Wake up people

[@marydarby4624]

Lovely see this I lived on mellows Ave and cappagh Ave

[@zumbaclare]

its tommy mills as a child . he was in a band with my father james ward does anyone have a contact for him. please

[@Rasher1974]

We moved to Finglas when there were only two roads Mellows Road and Mellows Avenue at the very beginning of the building of the estate, no church or school the there was a tin roofed church Had to go to Finglas Village to mass and school It was like living in the country. Played football and remember playing on an abandoned double decker bus at the bottom of Mellows road. Around 1954/5

[@finneire2081]

When king henry 11 arrived in Dublin for a handover over power from strongbow aka richard De clare .every petty king and chieften in the country aknowlaged him as theor overlord except for the people of Dublin .so they were moved out to fingal to north bank also areas of clondalkin to the west. This is where the very forst Dublin suberbs came from. Good Aul Dubs

[@elizabethtobin6894]

What a lovely decent family.

[@bartekmatelski8020]

amazing video!!! i love it!!

[@skinhead-ej8ff]

Imagine being excited to go to finglas

[@erniebeggs]

skin19head69 start imagining..The Finglas Maypole Festival is going to shine a light on this great surburb.

[@29brendus]

I still live here and I am damned excited.

[@vingriffin67]

Mrs Griffin & Family must of been a Relatations of Mine 😁👍

[@petertaylor6384]

Very impressive grateful people. All of these people are working and keen to work and proud to pay for their rent. This is an attitude that feels like we're losing as a country. My little girls asked me why I work a lot when it makes me tired. I replied that it makes me proud that I pull in enough money to look after the 5 children in my house. I told them about some new work coming in(price work) that would mean I would have to work even more but it would mean their mum doesn't have to work and we would be able to get a house where they have some space and a garden. My eldest came home the other day. She said she relayed the story to a classmate and the reply was "my dad says if you're scared at work they will give you all of that and some money so your dad's a mug. Priceless 😂😂😂

[@johnmc3862]

Of course they are grateful! they are getting somewhere to live probably a lot better than their previous.

[@sandradrumm5803]

Up the dubs

[@rosejacobs8529]

Decent people unlike the entitled ungrateful wasters of today.

[@hanzohattori2492]

if only they knew what the future had in store.

[@bonzobanzi1137]

Say "Y'know, like" one more time Mrs Griffin, I feckin' dare ya

[@ShredCo]

Deliyrah wit da houses so dey are

[@gazurtoids1]

an excira

[@CDash162]

I thought you were talking in a different language for a minute lol.

[@Degjoy]

It’s extraordinary how rich Ireland is today compared with back during this time.

[@declanmcardle]

Sounds like Michael Murphy.

[@roughanmacnamara147]

Tough times breed good strong people....easy times breed..........

[@Eltonlaleham]

How I would love to have been born in 1964 instead of 199

[@jayd7022]

Looks like we have always had the housing crisis

[@brennies24]

He liked birds nests? hate to think what he did to them

[@JulieWallis1963]

Back in the days when children played outside, little boys loved exploring and birds nests were fair game for exploring. Obviously not during nesting season, but as the interviewer says it’s the “middle of winter”

[@xcraig1961]

like you know :-)

[@Goldedguy]

and look at these areas now...

[@maxpower1337]

I wonder how much 10 shillings is todays money?

[@jetyn8]

.50p Punt pence

[@iersejounge]

€20 euro at least

[@johnm9845]

According to inflation calculator just under 10 quid

[@user-asfh2ubiv5dh]

Yuppp

[@73reider]

I would be delighted too if I got a free fucking house!

[@shane6115]

It’s not free, it’s a rental are you stupid

[@Ukie88]

The Netherlands in the 50s

[@joanofarc708]

Before the godless baby killers we have today

[@mr.crighton9491]

no one was complaining. No one mentioned gangs or drugs. So much for poverty creating insufferable inhumane society.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@colors6692]

Shot at 6fps!

[@sidmccarthy83]

Kip

[@imnotavingthat6813]

Itll now look like Mosney holiday camp i bet, just like ballbriggan. Over run by foreigners

[@davidr5964]

Take your racist dog whistling and shove it up your arse.

[@imnotavingthat6813]

@@davidr5964 Prick, ill tell my african wife and mixed race kids what utter shite you chat. Fool

[@davidr5964]

@@imnotavingthat6813 Your 'foreigner' family?

[@imnotavingthat6813]

@@davidr5964 Indeed they are, and beautiful with it

[@CradaOC]

They are not delighted they are Delira and exira