วีดีโอ

Wow I just came across this today, I’m the guy that says Philo had more of an influence than Bono. I remember that night and Frank was a gent. I know I said a lot more! Do you have any more footage?

My Great grandad lived in this area. James mc Cormack was shot on holy Thursday 1916. He looked out the window to see the British army coming from Amien St train stationheading toward the GPO. He lived and died in the corporation buildings and was put in a mass grave in Glasnevin cemetery. No markings nothing. Dublin is steeped in history. But it's being eroded year on year.

Was born in a tenement. House. In Cuffe St we had a dairy Shop. Sold milk. Bread cakes. Etc. Poverty was. Everywhere. My aunt Chris And Katie. We’re in the woman’s. Army. The Coman Amon. And we’re arrested. And put in jail. The we’re involved in Stephens. Green. Resistance. Lucky not to b executed. I pray for these people. With. Ther energy fighting for Ireland. And now in 2024. We have a new plantation. E Trump needed in Ireland. 9:56

Great! Thanks for sharing.

How did they do feed all them kids .❤God bless them

You’ve done a good thing recording these book .Great treasures

Such great stories that need to be documented or they will be lost

Was he sober? I heard he actually was, occasionally.

“This Sporting Life”??? A documentary about Harris’s alcoholism and felony fist fights? How sporting is that?

I think if you look at John Ford's movie, "The Grapes of Wrath" about Oklahoma farmers put off their land by banks in the Great Depression, at the beginning you see a speech by a farmer that sums up the point of view of "The Field", something like, "It ain't a piece of paper that makes land yours. Is living on it, having babies on it, and dying on it and being buried in it that makes the land yours!" There's a little bit of Irish in Oklahoma, I think.

I was an extra in My Kingdom, filmed at Liverpool cathedral. It was fascinating watching Richard rehearse his lines sat off on his own in one of the pews. Each time different, then different again for the take, every one riveting. I sat there spellbound.

Lived in Dublin 2004-2010, hanging around Temple Bar, crossing the Liffey and walking O'Connell street late at night, smelling Guinness brewing near Kilmainham...

It's good to hear some of the people acknowledge that this was real poverty back then. So often nostalgia bias makes people think everything was better back then.

I grew up on sean mc myself through the early seventies ... hands up anyone remember what a grushie was ? Only real dubs would know this ....

You should talk to my Dad. He's 89, born and bred in Ballybough, mind still sharp as a razor. He remembers being carried by grandad near Ballybough bridge at Summerhill when the Nazis dropped a landmine at The 5 Lamps, and grandad was blown off his feet. The front of the houses on his street had been blown off, and one woman had been killed, the masonry that hit her cleaning removing her breasts according to grandad. Years and years later, there were still piles of bomb rubble around. As kids, they helped a man who was sorting bricks to be reused. One of his pals for a laugh put the odd broken brick into the barrow. The man told him to be more careful. He put another one in, and without saying anything, this man punched the 10 year friend full in the face and laid him out. You didn't get a second warning in those days. He remembers playing football on Ballybough Road during the war as there no cars ( there was no petrol, so grandad had stored there car for the duration up on blocks ). They saw the RAF plane in difficulty fly down Ballybough Road towards Fairview (still unreclaimed I think in those days), knocking down the chimney pots as it struggled to stay aloft. The next day, the plane was dismantled into fuselage and wings, put on trucks, and mysteriously found its way across the border I believe to rejoin the war effort (even though as a neurtral country, it should have been impounded).

A jumble of opposites. As fine a description of his poetry as any.

I was born in an old tenements in number twelve Summerhill. We lived for a time in nineteen and used to slide down the stairs on a bit of cardboard. In the winter you could slide from the Diamond bar over to Mary's mansions. Lot of happy memories

My Granny was born in St Joseph's Place. a single story tiny house

My father was born in foley street in 1946 James ward his mother Annie nee Murphy ward raised seven kids after her husband died in 46.the priest came the morning after the funeral for the three youngest she ran them from the door she was so strong to a little boy now a man telling stories of summer hill she passed in 1991

Community.

They would refuse drink all day

at least we have a great rugby team god bless Henrietta street

I was born Henrietta street great people harry Hughes

My dad was the late Ray Brady he grew up in the cottages ascross from St Lawerance OTool Church where he went to school. .Now long gone .He was a great story teller of the old Dublin.I remember Christmas visiting my grandmother and on in to the flats to visit my dad's sister flat. Lilly Farelly, and Boxer Jemmy Farelly rip along with their 7 children. We would have the best sing song.Some of her family still live there in Sherrif Street to day. Salt of the earth through a tough life. Thank you for sharing the wonderful memories.

I'm from the markets area. My family sold fruit and veg and fish in Moore St. Other's worked in the markets some on the docks. We had a huge family my nanny had 15 children they in turn had from 7 to 10. Hard time's and being soft didn't bode well. I'm a 60s baby. First up best dressed type of thing. They were mostly rough ard tough bad old day's. Violence was expected from children up. That was normal because we grew up watching it and feeling it. Those days there was abuse of every kind, sexual up there with the violence ✊☘️

We must not forget this time in Irish history.❤

This touches the heart -strings so deeply, especially this year!!!! What a PIANO MAn - so wonderful!!! -Thank you Sé, you always find and capture the magic and miracles of Christmas xxxx

Brill and thanks xx

Very good definitely all nutters sure sign of madness xxx

I would love to have these books but I can’t find them

We're dying off us Dubs. I live abroad but I was home lately. Different place altogether.

Thanks for recording our oral history and stories. It's so important in this age of globalization/modernization, where all this stuff is being lost.

At last I get to listen to Andy play a Guthrie song.....and a lovely arrangement it is. How about bringing that Woody Guthrie project to fruition Andy.......?

I always loved Woody Guthrie but I love Andy Irvine even more.

WoW. This is wonderful. Last lines: "If place can not be made precise, perhaps, neither can a person." Wonderful. 💚💚💚

Looking for the book, All around the diamond Has anyone got an idea Were I could buy it please 6:33 . Thank's in advance. 😊

Thanks loopline, a very well made film.

Wonderful. Is there somewhere to view the full film?

Made my morning. Well done. 👍

Worked the 80s there: Dubs are great people: witty, cultured, hospitable.

7:23 7:25

Great days me bollox..

❤

I did 5th year in Wesley college, the school year 1992/93. Impressive school campus for sure.

I think that whiz kid was Conor McGouran

My mother lived at 81c Corporation Buildings from 1934 to 1940 they were Kelly's

These people are being genicided....they are too stupid to see it today.....

Dominic Street Great

Great, thanks for making and thanks for posting.

Ah there she is ...The Dublin I remember....not the sh*thole it is today when you'd be hard pressed to find a fcuking Dub on OUR STREETS today....