CORK IN THE LATE 90s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Some old miniDV footage from around Cork city in the years 1996-1997. Originally I made it for a friend in Italy as a memento of their trip. I knew next-to-nothing about camcorders at the time, borrowing the one used here off a friend to make this. My camera technique was really basic: just pick a spot, stand and point the camera. I had read somewhere you shouldn't do a lot of zooming or panning, but I think I took that advice to the extreme here :-)) so there's some very long static shots!
I uploaded it because it might be interesting for anyone who wants to see some of the changes in Cork over the years. Hard to believe this footage is over 25 years old now (2024) - time flies! - and was filmed about 10 years before the Cork main drainage scheme was started. It's fun to see buildings that have since disappeared, or changed purpose, or cars parked where you'd never see them now, and remember the layout of the city as it was 25 years ago.
There's also the faces, you might so yourself or someone you know! We can wonder what became of them? One or two I knew - both Big Issue sellers seen here were from Dublin. The first one, Charlie, was Dublin city, and the other lad outside the English Market was from Ballyfermot. Then there were the buskers - Cork has had some great buskers over the years. There's a little bit of surprise impromptu street performance towards the end, with some rather colourful language - pure Cork, boi!
When we was fab. God I miss the old Paul street , Gingerbread House , The Moderne and ROches Stores, Porters and Body Shop etc..how vibrant and alive and safe it was and the old cork .THis was the beginning of the End and we never knew it!!Don't go near the city anymore it breaks my heart.
When big issue sellers were Irish?
Between Scylla and Charybdis. Ireland stillborn. Now a dream of itself, forever. You missed your shot, no second chance. Welcome to Onerope.
I tiled the toilets in the Gingerbread House. Green and yellow! It used to take me an hour to get from one end of Patrick St to the other, stopping to talk to folk. Nowadays, I don't know a soul there. Fairly sure that mime artist/clown was called Colm and we all used to hang out in The Harlequin Cafe. Good times, the best of times. So many talented people, poets, musicians, actors, entertainers, woodcarvers, plasterers, sculptors.
Who did you work for back then ?
Great blast of nostalgia, thanks!
Much simpler times back then. No smart phones. No social media. People actually talked to each other. You had to actually approach a girl to get to know her rather than swipe right. Loved my city back then.
lol imagine thinking this pointless, fluff statement had any importance or value.
You're like the 400,000th person to say something like that on historic footage videos.
Fucking boring times 😅
The absence of smartphones actually did make a difference - people talked to each other a lot more. Recently I spotted four late teens / twenty somethings on a bus, they were together as a group, but each stuck in their own smartphone world for the duration of the trip, hardly a word exchanged between them. Better or worse? I won't comment, but certainly 'different'. Just one generation of a difference, but a big difference.
Brilliant thanks for shearing 👍🏻
Sheep !??
A cutting remark!
amazing footage
Thansk for uploading.
I'd like to make a 2024 snapshot to the 90s comparison version! Would it possible for me to get in contact with you for the original footage? I'm an American that has been living in Cork for two years and manage the International Society at UCC.
Yes of course, email me at fiardia@hotmail.com
Imagine we were able to around without the stupid wide skating rink footpaths and you could stop on Patrick st. I stay out of the place as much as possible now its dangerous and really nothing to take you into Town
Whereas then town was a brighter place . Cornmarket st still had traders on it. Game, hmv, Easons didn't sell tat, Merchants quay was flying.
I reckon this was sometime in 96 because the Queens old castle was probably still open but really on it last legs before Virgin and argos came along
It looks cleaner.
Loads less encroachment by shops stealing the footpaths for chairs in a desperate attempt to be cosmopolitan!! Does me head in having to squeeze & wait for ignorant ppl who never say thanks & the street only half full but no space!!
Colin the clown Mr Colin Lucey seeing him is a trip
Is he still with us?
@@Ogma3bandcamp the last time I saw him he was unicycling down barracks Street back in September 99 🍄
I knew he looked familiar. Didnt really know him, more to see. Spoke to him once or twice.
Orla 12:00
Pity no youth subcultures of the time shown-Daunt Square,Mc Carthys shoe shop
Sorry for the oversight! The main youth cultures of the time were grunge, emos, goths. There were a few neo-punks but they had mostly vanished by '96, their main hangout was the Liberty Pub. A lot of shiny shellsuits around, as always (plus ca change), the strains of Bob Marley could generally be heard in any fine weather in Bishop Lucey Park, along with a waft of weed. There was a small metal sub-culture as well.
Before the invasion 😬