This is the Ireland my granda seen the most. He was a long distance lorry driver, from North to South. Hauling from quarries and mines around the country. When he wasn't doing that he was tinkering at home on his bikes or improving the family house that was loaned to them by the salt mine in Kilroot. Never met anyone like him since and I never will. That generation can't be matched, in skill, wit or resilience. They all had an appreciation for simpler things that my generation doesn't have. Their brains weren't rotted by modern tech.
@@siogbeagbideach I remember me and Colin Egan getting punched drunk by Alton Louise in boxing gloves at a birthday party of mine at mine when we we all kids. Giggled and dripped saliva at our heads getting knocked off. Only time I have ever (celebrated) or had a normalish birthday too.
I live in Kerry, South of Shannon, and work brought me to the tax concession area recently... It's really grim now, for all the world like a soviet bloc country with aging brutalist apartments, office blocks, and factories. I'm not sure what the economic health of the area is like, but it's a depressing location, unfortunately.
@@mozdickson the industrial estate and apartment block area in Shannon is pretty ugly (although the newer parts look fairly slick) but the grand scheme was the start of a policy that snowballed and paid off better than anybody could have imagined. We brought in 15bn euro of corporation tax from technology, finance and pharmaceuticals in 2021 up from 11bn the year before.
@@mozdickson Nothing to do with the EU, a lot of Ireland was bleak and depressing decades before Ireland joined the EU. Most, if not all, of Ireland's shortcomings today are solely due to the Irish government and Irish people.
@@johnfromwales6713 Ireland was beautiful in the 1990s when I grew up as soon as the Euro came in things changed for the worse, flooded with cheap currency low interest rates drove the economy over the cliff which we never really recovered from, next negative interest rates and ecb money printing overdrive gave us the appearance of been rich country but nothing behind it. Ugly wind farms destroying the countryside. Towns changed beyond recognition. Ireland has been destroyed by the EU and only survives because of low corporation tax.
@@16dya Absolutely not. FBPE remoantards like to paint a bleak picture because yo them there's no life outside the EU, but things are turning around after covid, cost of living and a global crisis caused by the Ukraine war. Finally brexit can move on unhindered. Leftwaffe remaontards won't like it when life is better outside EU 🤣🤣🤣
still a market there today in Galway same place as the 60s, Food home made products art odds and ends, still thatched cottages in the town and country side and Donkeys and carts . i came here for a weekend in the mid 80s im still here😀
Compared to the money Ireland is making now it was just the seeds of the real prosperity Ireland has now. Who would have thought then Ireland would become the 7 biggest investor in the United States by 2024.
“You’ll see an almost space age skyline sprouting out!” That’s a bunch of ugly industrial refineries, or whatever, matey. Give me the old castles and the silly leprechauns any day…
I love these isles, their beauty is unmatched anywhere but unfortunately in the modern era it is going due to certain reasons but all I can say is that God bless these Isles.🇬🇧🇮🇪
YES THE SIXTIES WERE GETTING GOOD IN IRELAND IN 1965 BUT I WORKED IN WILLIAM JONES PAWNBROKERS IN SHANDON STREET CORK CITY IRELAND IN 1963 AND I NEVER SAW ANY SMILES ON THE REGULAR CUSTOMERS FACES BUT I SAW PREMATURE AGEING ON THEIR FACES AND MISERY IN THEIR EYES 👀 AS THEY TRIED TO LIVE FROM DAY TO DAY ON VERY LITTLE SOME PEOPLE LOOK BACK THROUGH ROSE COLOURED GLASSES AND SENTIMENT I SAW AND LIVED THE REALITY I WAS NEVER AND STILL AM NOT A DISNEYLANDER I SAW THEN AND STILL DO SEE REALITY THERE WAS A SHIP LEAVING CORK CITY CALLED THE INNISFALLEN AND IT USED TO CARRY IRISH PEOPLE TO BRITAIN SEEKING WORK AND THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT MADE VERY WELCOME IN BRITAIN AT THE TIME SIGNS ON LODGING HOUSES READ NO IRISH NO DOGS NO BLACKS I WAS ON THAT SHIP IN1965 BUT I WAS FORTUNATE I WAS GOING TO LIVE WITH RELATIVES IN LONDON I GOT A JOB WITHIN A WEEK OF ARRIVING IN OLD STREET ISLINGTON NORTH LONDON IN THE SELMER MUSIC COMPANY I REALLY ENJOYED SWINGING LONDON IT WAS A NEW WORLD 🌎 TO ME 👍❤😎
@@ronangeoghegan3311 I WRITE IN CAPS SO PEOPLE WITH POOR SIGHT CAN READ MY POSTS EASIER JUST THINKING OF OTHERS THATS ALL NOT SHOUTING ANY PRINT CANNIT SPEAK OR SHOUT
EVER HEAR OF SOMETHING CALLED A PERIOD? IT'S A LITTLE DOT THAT SEPARATES SENTENCES. I JUST USED ONE RIGHT THERE. YOU SEE, IF YOU DON'T USE A PERIOD OR PROPER PUNCTUATION, THERE IS NO ORDER TO THE SENTENCES YOU WRITE ,AND YOU, IN FACT, END UP LOOKING LIKE A BLABBERING IDIOT.
Really? Paedo priests. Poverty. Early death rates sky-high. Every job gotten through who you know not your ability. The place was literally a dump (rubbish strewn in every lay-by)
Sean Lemass Taoiseach (Prime Minister) at the time the man mainly responsible for all that economic development, he's by far the greatest Taoiseach the country has ever had, non-one comes close to him in my opinion.
I love the way the narrator shreds patronizing stereotypes about the Irish in the opening monologue...in the sixties. Stereotyping and de-humanizing the Irish was fashionable in Britain well into the eighties when I was growing up - this was really ahead of its time.
We moved into our new house in 1965 when I was 6. Previously we lived in a house with no running water or toilets. My mother would have to go to a water pump at a nearby junction to get a bucket of water and the roof leaked on wet days.
@@Lar308 true but society as a whole and indeed the family unit were better off. This dystopia we are in at present, I'd gladly exchange for well water and a latrine.
Ireland was in a way blessed not to have industrialised too fast like America. In America meat was already brought irradiated and wrapped in 3 layers of plastic by the 1950s but in Ireland it was still brought in open air markets!!! No wonder irish women looked so healthy and pretty!!!
Once again there are a load of comments that are weird and creepy by the same know it all person with numbers after their name pretending to be lots of different stupid people .GROSS
My dad lived in the west of Ireland not long after this after moving from Dublin and I'll trust him when he says that the country has come on leaps and bounds. Postcard pictures and lilting paddywhackery wasn't showing the abject poverty, rampant Church abuse and heavy social stigma that we've mostly moved past.
@@gulag8735 he's sitting right next to me, we're having some fried Christmas pudding. Do you want me to ask him if people in 65 had it better than now?
@@j377yb33n how exactly is he/she spreading lies. With that sort sentence you're literally the only one lying. "Mess unvetted immigration" we're accepting thousands of immigrants from a large multitude of countries under emergency status because of the war in Ukraine and the Ukrainians who need emergency accomodation. Hotels, office blocks, even croke park is being used to house them. There's knife fights and general civil unrest on both sides. All of this thrown ontop of our already 11 thousand strong homeless men women and children. I don't know what country or reality you live in but it isn't the green isle of my beautiful county of Ireland and the quicker people like you stop genuinely spreading lies the sooner we can get our country on track again utilise the hundreds of millions of Euros worth of ghost estates to house our own people whove been left to rot, starve and freeze to death for years on end and then we absolutely can focus on helping immigrants we have enough extra resources for.
It wasn’t very diverse back then was it? Clearly what was missing was loads of foreign people with no respect or knowledge of Ireland’s wonderful and rich history.
Ireland isn’t and has never been in the British Isles. Me thinks you could do with a history lesson. The British Isles is not actually a tangible thing. It is not a recognised or accredited grouping. What it is though is a lazy throw back to Britain’s colonial past.
@@Conalgal wah wah wah wah. Ireland is in the British isles. British isles is certainly a tangible thing, otherwise how do we both know what the other means by the British isles? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It doesn't matter who recognises it, because people will still use it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with calling it the British isles. Britain is the largest island afterall. the problem you're having is you've decided that Britain is solely a political term to refer to the UK and the British empire, despite the fact that Great Britain as an island has been called Britain since Roman times. Great Britain is the largest island in the archipelago, so it makes perfect sense to call it the British isles.
@@pingu255 No, he's correct. It doesn't matter if it is a geographical term. It has been controversial for centuries, and it is embroiled in politics since the 20th century, especially with the historical grievances between Ireland and Britain. Not only that, but it's not a recognised term in Ireland, nor will you hear any Irish person use it and you'll be laughed at or told where to go if you did use it.
@@barryb90 It's only embroiled in politics on one side. See the thing is lad, the two countries in this archipelago have populations of about 65 million and 5 million respectively. It follows as simple logic that terms used in the larger will be more popular and widespread. It is not my problem that it's chosen to construe British Isles as a political tool. It doesn't matter who recognises it officially, because words and terms are about who uses them. In the same way that many people and many languages refer to the Netherlands as simply Holland. Indeed I was watching an old programme from TG4 the other day, No Béarla by Manchán Magan, and when posting a letter he refers to the Netherlands as Holland. How insulting to the Dutch people !!!!!!!! They should complain immediately about this gross cultural indecency and attack on their identity. Except you see what is the reality here, nobody cares. Nobody cares enough to whine and cry like people who complain about the British isles do. Millions of people refer to the whole UK as England. How insulting for me as a Northern Irishman!!!!!! I must complain at once, it's a diplomatic outrage!!! Anyone who calls the UK England must be put in their place at once and I'll "tell them where to go" if they come here and say it's England 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 people need to grow up and Stop being so dramatic. It's a name. A name you're not going to change. 65m trumps 5m. That's if you could even make everyone in Ireland care enough about it. British isles not officially recognised by either the British and Irish governments and yet neither provided an alternative. Both governments just refer to it as these isles. You talk of official recognition and yet not even the officials provide an alternative. So what officially do we use then? We tell the world yes, I live in the archipelago of "these isles". What a great name. All the proposed names people make are utterly terrible too. Anglo-celtic isles? What a mouthful. Atlantic archipelago? Boring and nondescript. British-Irish isles, long winded. These names are all garbage. Face reality, the British Isles is not going away. It doesn't matter how hard you protest, that won't change anything. By all means dislike it if you must. But you cannot force 65 million people and many around the world from calling it the British isles if that's how people say it. Reality is not interested in the sentiments of Irish nationalists, language is about who uses it. And a much larger number of people use the British isles than don't. It is sad that people get so hung up on such meagre issues. The very essence of the British government not using it as an official term in itself removes any possible official politicisation. British isles is used as a simple descriptor of the fact that in this archipelago it is Britain that is the largest island and has the most people. It's only logical to name it after that island then. The Andaman Islands are so called because it's the major island in the chain. The Falkland Islands are so called because the main islands are called east and west Falkland and then there are the smaller islands. The Pitcairn Islands are so called because Pitcairn Island is the main one. The English channel is so called in the UK, and in France it's La Manche. It's about the people who use the name and which is dominant. It's a simple reality that the UK is larger in sheer land area, much larger in population, and thus exerts a far greater world influence than Ireland. Both now and historically. If I went to a french person and called La Manche the English channel he would not be upset.....it is strange how no one cares about these names, and yet people get so worked up about the British isles
Really? We got home rule in the act of union..that was never repealed by the British government or monarchy. It's still a legal reality. Who owns the RDS? Who owns Iveagh estate in Dublin? Most of the country is still owned by the the crown or members of the peerage and aristocracy. When the royalty come over every few years for a visit why do you think they get such wonderful red carpet treatment? Why did the government want us all to honour the tans this last few years? The Irish presidency is not an Irish office, it never was. It's an office of the crown and as such isn't subject to the European GDPR act - because it's an English office. We all know the English had a massive part to play in the famine, why isn't it taught in schools...why do "our own" successive governments deny it to this day? You've a bit of reading and research to do a mac.
@@mixerD1- @mixerD1- Feck the RDS it's a crap-hole.... you can have it.. And as for the Famine it should be taught in English schools not Irish yeh Big Donut yeh. Who owns Kilburn in London who owns Celtic Park in Glasgow ... 😂 Yeh Big Cry ba. Republic of Ireland ..... Republic, Republic 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@Mr. Quality Your logic: Then wales must be in Ireland because it also shares the Irish sea, northern Ireland must be in Scotland because they share the North channel and France must be in England because they share the English Channel 🤦🏼♂️
Not sure about ironic... However, it is deeply satisfying.... The best revenge is to live longer, have a happy life and piss on your enemies' graves... Or as Bobby Sands put it; "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children!"
@@user39h2j8il OK, so you know NOTHING about the EU, or how it functions. Back in reality, the EU is the creation, and the creature, of ITS MEMBER STATES. The ultimate decision making body is the European Council. This is composed of the ELECTED Heads of State/Government of the EU's 27 member states. They make the final decisions, and they set the agenda. Ireland is no more a lapdog of the EU than Scotland is of Westminster..... Ooops! Really NOT a good analogy...
@@WakaWaka2468 No, Mr Terminally Stupid. Ireland has been TRANSFORMED by its EEC/EC/EU membership/ In reality, Ireland was NEARLY "...destroyed by..." England/Britain. Our EEC/EC/EU membership has done more for Ireland's economy, society, culture and general wellbeing in less than 50 years than our enforced relationship with the English/British ever managed in about 800....
When I look at videos of Old Ireland, as an Englishman, I always feel a sense of home in Ireland. The countryside is quite similar to England. What a shame it is that these small islands have become polluted by materialism, cosmopolitanism, capitalism and the degeneracy of the modern age. Modern Ireland spits on the cross, builds disgusting architecture and forgets who they are as a people. Much the same in England. Even the countryside is becoming polluted. This didn't happen internally; we didn't ask for this. There are external forces at work and they must be quashed.
Well said. The EU brought us cultural Marxism, abortion, no fault divorce, single mothers, the closing of Irish steel, Irish sugar, Irish fertiliser, Waterford crystal, cheap Chinese imports and the destruction of manufacturing. The list is endless
Oh what a lot of nonsense. Some people are sentimental about bare feet and magdalen laundries. We're well rid of those instituitions that were cruel and backward.
No, it most definitely was NOT "...a poorer but better [place back then..." Only a completely clueless eejit would make that claim. Ireland is a better off, and FAR better, place NOW.
Classic old age nostalgia I´m afraid. Better, unless you were struggling to feed yourself, or you were gay or a woman, or a kid in some hellhole of a Catholic-run care home, or really anyone not in lock-step with the Catholic Church.
@@Azog150 These were specific abuses that could (and should) have been dealt with without destroying the culture and identity of your society and selling out to the Neoliberal globalists of the EU. You have merely exchanged appalling (but limited) abuses for the wholesale destruction of your society.
@@Azog150 A church is just a group of people who worship their god together Everybody was the Catholic church because without a congregation it's just a building with a man in it and it's powerless People back then sincerely believed gay people and women pregnant outside of marriage were wrong Regular people sent women(their family) to nuns Nuns weren't just beamed down from space they were peoples daughters aunt's and Sisters Again priests and bishops were sons uncles brothers
Yee had a hatred for the original Irish people, THE IRISH TRAVELLERS..SO MUCH DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM TO THE TRUE PEOPLE OF THIS FAIR LAND OF SAINTS AND SCHOLARS. 😢😢
@@tommcdonagh-wy9oi Irish travellers began during the famine Ye are not the original if ye were why do we share the same surnames? Thinker propoghanda.
@@charananekibalijaun8837 Oh so any country invaded by another just magically makes it theirs right? I’m sure your so proud of you’re countries history of burning peoples houses and stealing everything they own.
As an Irishman living in the West Coast of Ireland, I must say that whilst we may be "better off" today financially ... But we have paid a very very high price for this increase in our standard of living. Our fishing industry is now decimated, and we are now to all intents and purposes no more than a vassal state of the EU, following every twist and turn of EU foreign policy with a slavish devotion as subservient to foreign interests, multinationals, and whatever Brussels dictates, as was ever the case under British rule. Ireland as we once knew it is fast disappearing I am very sorry to report.
The mainstream irish media WORSHIP the eu and the simpleton sheeple lap it all up. The politicians are also WORSHIP the eu cabal. My how we have fallen into servitude and Republic politicians and media are no more than slaves to their EU masters.
@@anthonygreenwood4486 no, I meant Ireland the country. You said Irish built this country. I was asking if you meant Ireland, because the Irish obviously built it. It’s Ireland.
That’s the funniest of things Irish people were oppressed like Black people but yet Irish hate them the white people didn’t want both of them when The Irish and black people went To America they faced horrible racism then when the Americans finally accepted them they became racist to the Italians who faced racism after the Irish when the Irish went to England they faced the same I don’t get it how Irish people can be racist to a race that was oppressed like them? But I guess hurt people hurt people Did you even know that when Irish were slaves a lot of them were in Jamaica hence why a lot of Jamaicans have Irish names if you want to be racist do it you have free will but wouldn’t it make more sense to be racist to the people that oppressed instead of people that didn’t? Anyway I want to hear your point of view
@@liamodriscoll3739 aye, that's why the head of the irexit party has gotten funding from British and Russian groups, worked with ukips brexit campaign and welcomed a former ni paratrooper into their ranks. And why the national party has been working with far right groups in Europe for more than 2 decades, and seems to be modelling themselves after the South African national party which was pro apartheid. But the funding is tooootally going to a great replacement thing
@@liamodriscoll3739 we are our own people, made up of those who came to this island in the past, and some of our own went to other lands to be part of those people. History isn't entirely neat
When did Bunratty become part of Co.Clare, according to this man in 1965 it was part of Limerick. Bet they are sorry now they didnt stay with Limerick. 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 Limerick Abu 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
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I love these type of culture and history videos
This is the Ireland my granda seen the most. He was a long distance lorry driver, from North to South. Hauling from quarries and mines around the country. When he wasn't doing that he was tinkering at home on his bikes or improving the family house that was loaned to them by the salt mine in Kilroot. Never met anyone like him since and I never will. That generation can't be matched, in skill, wit or resilience. They all had an appreciation for simpler things that my generation doesn't have. Their brains weren't rotted by modern tech.
Amen to that brother!
The youth of today have brain rot
It's been a long time since I've had the feet on the old sod . Great film 👍
Enjoyed this. Thanks
God... what a beautiful country!
And I'm glad to live here
You haven't seen a fraction of it yet, yes the famous can come and go unmolested,a very eclectic mix
Back then it was hasn’t been for some time now
Not anymore. It's a cesspool of foreigners and corruption
@@jorisbohnson2092 Ireland is still stunning
Remarkably clear film!
Likely 35mm film. It's why it looks clearer than and lot of stuff from later when they started using video tape.
My grandparents county was Kerry, always thought it was a beautiful and charming place.
Did yea see the 2nd seagull from the right ? He's still alive ! ....I saw him in me garden the other day ,,I recognised his face.... 🇮🇪 stay free.
Steven seagull?
@@geoffbeyer1873 Stephen Seagull 🤭😉
That's a ganat ya eget the seagull died a week before
Silly little country, forever in our shadow 🏴
@@vp5633 Hope you get the attention you're seeking
The school behind the market, in Galway city, is St. Patricks National school, I started there in September 1985, until 1990
Lovely primitive people the Irish.
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@josephyearwood1179 do you still have Punch magazine on subscription? Soo nineteenth century darling!!!!
@@siogbeagbideach I remember me and Colin Egan getting punched drunk by Alton Louise in boxing gloves at a birthday party of mine at mine when we we all kids. Giggled and dripped saliva at our heads getting knocked off. Only time I have ever (celebrated) or had a normalish birthday too.
This film is from 1965, and the school looks exactly the same today, the walls, gates and the colour, crazy.
Lovely place lovely time!
What a wonderful time, before, you know.
Great stuff Thanks 👌
Great video
I know it’s not Ireland. The sun is shining.
And the white people and no rainbow flags
Silly little country, forever in our shadow 🏴
I live in Kerry, South of Shannon, and work brought me to the tax concession area recently... It's really grim now, for all the world like a soviet bloc country with aging brutalist apartments, office blocks, and factories. I'm not sure what the economic health of the area is like, but it's a depressing location, unfortunately.
thanks for that update, I was wondering how such 'grand schemes' would play out once the EU got ground.
@@mozdickson the industrial estate and apartment block area in Shannon is pretty ugly (although the newer parts look fairly slick) but the grand scheme was the start of a policy that snowballed and paid off better than anybody could have imagined. We brought in 15bn euro of corporation tax from technology, finance and pharmaceuticals in 2021 up from 11bn the year before.
@@mozdickson Nothing to do with the EU, a lot of Ireland was bleak and depressing decades before Ireland joined the EU.
Most, if not all, of Ireland's shortcomings today are solely due to the Irish government and Irish people.
@@johnfromwales6713 Ireland was beautiful in the 1990s when I grew up as soon as the Euro came in things changed for the worse, flooded with cheap currency low interest rates drove the economy over the cliff which we never really recovered from, next negative interest rates and ecb money printing overdrive gave us the appearance of been rich country but nothing behind it. Ugly wind farms destroying the countryside. Towns changed beyond recognition. Ireland has been destroyed by the EU and only survives because of low corporation tax.
@@16dya
Absolutely not. FBPE remoantards like to paint a bleak picture because yo them there's no life outside the EU, but things are turning around after covid, cost of living and a global crisis caused by the Ukraine war.
Finally brexit can move on unhindered.
Leftwaffe remaontards won't like it when life is better outside EU 🤣🤣🤣
still a market there today in Galway same place as the 60s, Food home made products art odds and ends, still thatched cottages in the town and country side and Donkeys and carts . i came here for a weekend in the mid 80s im still here😀
Galway like every other county in the country is destroyed now by planters
This was probably the best prosperous time In Irelands country what a beautiful country and what a beautiful people.
Prosperous isn't a word I'd use for this period of Ireland, especially if you're looking at what amounts to a tourism advertisement
Tourist baiting claptrap. Most people were dirt poor and the heavy thumb of the Catholic Church on their throats.
It's 1960s. Sixty years ago.
Compared to the money Ireland is making now it was just the seeds of the real prosperity Ireland has now. Who would have thought then Ireland would become the 7 biggest investor in the United States by 2024.
Thank God (if there is one) British Pathe have kept these reels.
There is a God, and he wants to have a relationship with you! Jesus saves
Yes indeed, there is one mate.
Shannon, my hometown! Bit before my time though. Nice to see positive film about it
Ah Shannon a true international city to rival Dublin....NOT!!
Silly little country, forever in our shadow 🏴
My mum from Sligo
@@suzannewebb7913 shut up Suzanne
The music is great
“You’ll see an almost space age skyline sprouting out!”
That’s a bunch of ugly industrial refineries, or whatever, matey. Give me the old castles and the silly leprechauns any day…
It was hardly space age either 🤣🤣
hello...... is...anyone still here....
Yes
yes
I worked at Bunratty Folk Park in 1965 and the lady in the Shannon cottage by the fireside at4.30 is Mrs Jacques she was from Limerick.
I love these isles, their beauty is unmatched anywhere but unfortunately in the modern era it is going due to certain reasons but all I can say is that God bless these Isles.🇬🇧🇮🇪
but hey, at least priests can be held accountable for child abuse now.
@@j377yb33n unlike a certain prince
@@j377yb33n out with the Catholic priests and straight in with the Muslim grooming gangs 🤬🤬
@@gitzersmitzer4516 lad, applying the British islamaphobia to Ireland doesn't work.
@@j377yb33n silly lefty 😜 🤣🤣🤣
YES THE SIXTIES WERE GETTING GOOD IN IRELAND IN 1965 BUT I WORKED IN WILLIAM JONES PAWNBROKERS IN SHANDON STREET CORK CITY IRELAND IN 1963 AND I NEVER SAW ANY SMILES ON THE REGULAR CUSTOMERS FACES BUT I SAW PREMATURE AGEING ON THEIR FACES AND MISERY IN THEIR EYES 👀 AS THEY TRIED TO LIVE FROM DAY TO DAY ON VERY LITTLE SOME PEOPLE LOOK BACK THROUGH ROSE COLOURED GLASSES AND SENTIMENT I SAW AND LIVED THE REALITY I WAS NEVER AND STILL AM NOT A DISNEYLANDER I SAW THEN AND STILL DO SEE REALITY THERE WAS A SHIP LEAVING CORK CITY CALLED THE INNISFALLEN AND IT USED TO CARRY IRISH PEOPLE TO BRITAIN SEEKING WORK AND THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT MADE VERY WELCOME IN BRITAIN AT THE TIME SIGNS ON LODGING HOUSES READ NO IRISH NO DOGS NO BLACKS I WAS ON THAT SHIP IN1965 BUT I WAS FORTUNATE I WAS GOING TO LIVE WITH RELATIVES IN LONDON I GOT A JOB WITHIN A WEEK OF ARRIVING IN OLD STREET ISLINGTON NORTH LONDON IN THE SELMER MUSIC COMPANY I REALLY ENJOYED SWINGING LONDON IT WAS A NEW WORLD 🌎 TO ME 👍❤😎
And now we are living in 2022...
And NO-ONE under 60 has any experience of what you described.
Thankfully.
"how do i turn caps lock off?"
@@ronangeoghegan3311 I WRITE IN CAPS SO PEOPLE WITH POOR SIGHT CAN READ MY POSTS EASIER JUST THINKING OF OTHERS THATS ALL NOT SHOUTING ANY PRINT CANNIT SPEAK OR SHOUT
@@gloin10 THANK GOD IT WAS A DESPERATE TIME FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE IN IRELAND 🇮🇪 I AM GLAD PEOPLE ARE BETTER OFF NOW 🙏
EVER HEAR OF SOMETHING CALLED A PERIOD? IT'S A LITTLE DOT THAT SEPARATES SENTENCES. I JUST USED ONE RIGHT THERE.
YOU SEE, IF YOU DON'T USE A PERIOD OR PROPER PUNCTUATION, THERE IS NO ORDER TO THE SENTENCES YOU WRITE ,AND YOU, IN FACT, END UP LOOKING LIKE A BLABBERING IDIOT.
Stop Irish genocide 2023 !! Ireland for the Irish ☘️❤🇮🇪
Get the Far right out of Ireland
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You can't get more Irish than this nowadays
love these ancient videos
Ancient? WTF?
Definitely an American 😂😂
Feeling homesick for a world I’ve never known
Really? Paedo priests. Poverty. Early death rates sky-high. Every job gotten through who you know not your ability. The place was literally a dump (rubbish strewn in every lay-by)
@@norwegianzound you talking about London?
The good old days when we loved oil!
Sean Lemass Taoiseach (Prime Minister) at the time the man mainly responsible for all that economic development, he's by far the greatest Taoiseach the country has ever had, non-one comes close to him in my opinion.
He made Éamon de Valera look like an embarrassing relic.
Him and Cosgrave were a different class compared to the clowns around nowadays
dead right sean lemass probably did more for the country than anyone else
Silly little country, forever in our shadow 🏴
@@vp5633 sheepshaggers
I love the way the narrator shreds patronizing stereotypes about the Irish in the opening monologue...in the sixties. Stereotyping and de-humanizing the Irish was fashionable in Britain well into the eighties when I was growing up - this was really ahead of its time.
Great footage .
"Inch-perfect precision" 😄
😔 miss this
Are you not enjoying our new modern culture of anything goes ? Boys who think they are girls and girls who think they are boys 😅
@@Beanbag777 I would rather be in soviet Russia
We moved into our new house in 1965 when I was 6. Previously we lived in a house with no running water or toilets. My mother would have to go to a water pump at a nearby junction to get a bucket of water and the roof leaked on wet days.
Your point?
@@gulag8735 ... congratulations you've passed the test confirming your a dumb and inept idiot.
@@zortzsborgnine3983 triggered are you🤣
@@gulag8735 That thing were not all sweetness and light back then. A lot of poverty existed.
@@Lar308 true but society as a whole and indeed the family unit were better off.
This dystopia we are in at present, I'd gladly exchange for well water and a latrine.
When Ireland was still Ireland...
Yeah when thousands of Irish had immigrated elsewhere.
@@stephenmcpadden3770 And put up in 5* hotels. Yeah right, boss
@@LennonZA bleedin muppet. 5 star hotels???
@@stephenmcpadden3770 Find yourself a hobby, clown.
@@LennonZAstill is ya fool. This is when the priests had their way. Sick. You’re pig ignorant kid.
Hello............is anybody there !!!.....
Petre .W. No problem:)) Few of these videos have any comments on them at all.
***** Yeah ! I always try and leave something if I can !!...
yes
The good old days
The level of puns here is stratospheric. Glad we moved beyond that these days.
We need to go back.
Ireland was in a way blessed not to have industrialised too fast like America. In America meat was already brought irradiated and wrapped in 3 layers of plastic by the 1950s but in Ireland it was still brought in open air markets!!! No wonder irish women looked so healthy and pretty!!!
And then the rural idyll was destroyed in the space of a generation by the EU and corrupt Irish politicians.
@@neilsaunders6009 yes Ireland is becoming commercialised.
Once again there are a load of comments that are weird and creepy by the same know it all person with numbers after their name pretending to be lots of different stupid people .GROSS
Make Ireland Great again 👍
we can if we start deporting those who are undocumented and have no right being here in the first place
State of the country now. Looks like paradise back then
Leave if you're not happy. 👋👋
This is celt gold
I bet they never knew how good they had it…
Voted to join the eec for cheap cars
My dad lived in the west of Ireland not long after this after moving from Dublin and I'll trust him when he says that the country has come on leaps and bounds.
Postcard pictures and lilting paddywhackery wasn't showing the abject poverty, rampant Church abuse and heavy social stigma that we've mostly moved past.
@@j377yb33n rubbish.
@@gulag8735 he's sitting right next to me, we're having some fried Christmas pudding. Do you want me to ask him if people in 65 had it better than now?
@@j377yb33n I can tell you they had it better then. Better wages for one.
..that, er, sign of the cross by the curate when the priest hands him the blessing stick at 1:13 sums it up really
All them beautiful castles built by the Norman English.
The Norman English didn't lift a finger, they made the locals build them.
0:05 Ross castle for those interested
what county is it in
1:34 i thought that looked like its really fun to do. 1:47 then realised its quite dangerous those folk are crazy
Does anyone know what happened too the Ronson hotel in Galway as I was recommended to stay there.
Probably full of immigrants ?
I recognize that pigeon at 2.04 (third from the left). It used to be a cow. MAD!!!!!!!
Forgot your medication?
I was 7 then I recall well and miss the simplicity the life
This country is no more.
I’m Irish and it’s not a perfect country but it’s as close as it gets.
Apart from the housing crisis and weather, that is true.
@@pulchralutetia and mass unvetted immigration
@@missingno88 ah lovely, someone spreading lies
@@j377yb33n enlighten me how im spreading lies?
@@j377yb33n how exactly is he/she spreading lies. With that sort sentence you're literally the only one lying. "Mess unvetted immigration" we're accepting thousands of immigrants from a large multitude of countries under emergency status because of the war in Ukraine and the Ukrainians who need emergency accomodation. Hotels, office blocks, even croke park is being used to house them. There's knife fights and general civil unrest on both sides. All of this thrown ontop of our already 11 thousand strong homeless men women and children. I don't know what country or reality you live in but it isn't the green isle of my beautiful county of Ireland and the quicker people like you stop genuinely spreading lies the sooner we can get our country on track again utilise the hundreds of millions of Euros worth of ghost estates to house our own people whove been left to rot, starve and freeze to death for years on end and then we absolutely can focus on helping immigrants we have enough extra resources for.
1:35 damn took me a second to realize that was Killaloe/Ballina
Just noticed seagulls shown in the video are totally the same as seagulls today.
It wasn’t very diverse back then was it? Clearly what was missing was loads of foreign people with no respect or knowledge of Ireland’s wonderful and rich history.
Amazing how 1965 in West Ireland looked like 1948 everywhere else.
Lots of places in 1965 looked like 1948 away from the urban centres, and not just in Ireland.
🤣👍🏻
Ireland, the jewel in the British Isles!
Ireland isn’t and has never been in the British Isles. Me thinks you could do with a history lesson. The British Isles is not actually a tangible thing. It is not a recognised or accredited grouping. What it is though is a lazy throw back to Britain’s colonial past.
@@Conalgal The British Isles is factual because it's helps people collect the geography of these islands. Annnnnd always dropping the colonial card.
@@Conalgal wah wah wah wah. Ireland is in the British isles. British isles is certainly a tangible thing, otherwise how do we both know what the other means by the British isles? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It doesn't matter who recognises it, because people will still use it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with calling it the British isles. Britain is the largest island afterall. the problem you're having is you've decided that Britain is solely a political term to refer to the UK and the British empire, despite the fact that Great Britain as an island has been called Britain since Roman times. Great Britain is the largest island in the archipelago, so it makes perfect sense to call it the British isles.
@@pingu255 No, he's correct. It doesn't matter if it is a geographical term. It has been controversial for centuries, and it is embroiled in politics since the 20th century, especially with the historical grievances between Ireland and Britain.
Not only that, but it's not a recognised term in Ireland, nor will you hear any Irish person use it and you'll be laughed at or told where to go if you did use it.
@@barryb90 It's only embroiled in politics on one side. See the thing is lad, the two countries in this archipelago have populations of about 65 million and 5 million respectively. It follows as simple logic that terms used in the larger will be more popular and widespread. It is not my problem that it's chosen to construe British Isles as a political tool. It doesn't matter who recognises it officially, because words and terms are about who uses them. In the same way that many people and many languages refer to the Netherlands as simply Holland. Indeed I was watching an old programme from TG4 the other day, No Béarla by Manchán Magan, and when posting a letter he refers to the Netherlands as Holland. How insulting to the Dutch people !!!!!!!! They should complain immediately about this gross cultural indecency and attack on their identity. Except you see what is the reality here, nobody cares. Nobody cares enough to whine and cry like people who complain about the British isles do. Millions of people refer to the whole UK as England. How insulting for me as a Northern Irishman!!!!!! I must complain at once, it's a diplomatic outrage!!! Anyone who calls the UK England must be put in their place at once and I'll "tell them where to go" if they come here and say it's England 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 people need to grow up and Stop being so dramatic. It's a name. A name you're not going to change. 65m trumps 5m. That's if you could even make everyone in Ireland care enough about it. British isles not officially recognised by either the British and Irish governments and yet neither provided an alternative. Both governments just refer to it as these isles. You talk of official recognition and yet not even the officials provide an alternative. So what officially do we use then? We tell the world yes, I live in the archipelago of "these isles". What a great name. All the proposed names people make are utterly terrible too. Anglo-celtic isles? What a mouthful. Atlantic archipelago? Boring and nondescript. British-Irish isles, long winded. These names are all garbage. Face reality, the British Isles is not going away. It doesn't matter how hard you protest, that won't change anything. By all means dislike it if you must. But you cannot force 65 million people and many around the world from calling it the British isles if that's how people say it. Reality is not interested in the sentiments of Irish nationalists, language is about who uses it. And a much larger number of people use the British isles than don't.
It is sad that people get so hung up on such meagre issues. The very essence of the British government not using it as an official term in itself removes any possible official politicisation. British isles is used as a simple descriptor of the fact that in this archipelago it is Britain that is the largest island and has the most people. It's only logical to name it after that island then.
The Andaman Islands are so called because it's the major island in the chain. The Falkland Islands are so called because the main islands are called east and west Falkland and then there are the smaller islands. The Pitcairn Islands are so called because Pitcairn Island is the main one. The English channel is so called in the UK, and in France it's La Manche. It's about the people who use the name and which is dominant. It's a simple reality that the UK is larger in sheer land area, much larger in population, and thus exerts a far greater world influence than Ireland. Both now and historically. If I went to a french person and called La Manche the English channel he would not be upset.....it is strange how no one cares about these names, and yet people get so worked up about the British isles
How do you know when a ship was built in an irish shipyard? When they don't paint the keel until after it's launched and is underwater. ahem
Wow.
Now its getting just like anyehere else
Fish before they sold the grounds and fishing rights.
1:16 I guess it failed, thats why they didnt show it
weird how it's become worse
West Coast of Ireland isn't Cork.
And then we joined the EU and lost all of our industry.
For those that don't know .... Éire / Ireland is most definitely NOT part of Britian 👍🏼✅
Really?
We got home rule in the act of union..that was never repealed by the British government or monarchy. It's still a legal reality.
Who owns the RDS? Who owns Iveagh estate in Dublin? Most of the country is still owned by the the crown or members of the peerage and aristocracy.
When the royalty come over every few years for a visit why do you think they get such wonderful red carpet treatment?
Why did the government want us all to honour the tans this last few years?
The Irish presidency is not an Irish office, it never was. It's an office of the crown and as such isn't subject to the European GDPR act - because it's an English office.
We all know the English had a massive part to play in the famine, why isn't it taught in schools...why do "our own" successive governments deny it to this day?
You've a bit of reading and research to do a mac.
@@mixerD1- @mixerD1- Feck the RDS it's a crap-hole.... you can have it..
And as for the Famine it should be taught in English schools not Irish yeh Big Donut yeh.
Who owns Kilburn in London who owns Celtic Park in Glasgow ...
😂 Yeh Big Cry ba.
Republic of Ireland ..... Republic, Republic 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
But still part of the British Isles 👍🏻
@@TheTwoFingeredBullFrog Ireland surrounded by the Irish Sea 👍🏼✅
@Mr. Quality Your logic: Then wales must be in Ireland because it also shares the Irish sea, northern Ireland must be in Scotland because they share the North channel and France must be in England because they share the English Channel 🤦🏼♂️
Nowadays, tech firms have found a good home in Ireland. As a result, Ireland is leaving England in the dust. Damned ironic, isn't it?
Not sure about ironic...
However, it is deeply satisfying....
The best revenge is to live longer, have a happy life and piss on your enemies' graves...
Or as Bobby Sands put it; "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children!"
Ireland still is, however, Brussels lapdog along with all the other EU states.
Irexit
@@user39h2j8il
OK, so you know NOTHING about the EU, or how it functions.
Back in reality, the EU is the creation, and the creature, of ITS MEMBER STATES.
The ultimate decision making body is the European Council. This is composed of the ELECTED Heads of State/Government of the EU's 27 member states. They make the final decisions, and they set the agenda.
Ireland is no more a lapdog of the EU than Scotland is of Westminster.....
Ooops!
Really NOT a good analogy...
@@WakaWaka2468
No, Mr Terminally Stupid.
Ireland has been TRANSFORMED by its EEC/EC/EU membership/
In reality, Ireland was NEARLY "...destroyed by..." England/Britain.
Our EEC/EC/EU membership has done more for Ireland's economy, society, culture and general wellbeing in less than 50 years than our enforced relationship with the English/British ever managed in about 800....
When I look at videos of Old Ireland, as an Englishman, I always feel a sense of home in Ireland. The countryside is quite similar to England. What a shame it is that these small islands have become polluted by materialism, cosmopolitanism, capitalism and the degeneracy of the modern age. Modern Ireland spits on the cross, builds disgusting architecture and forgets who they are as a people. Much the same in England. Even the countryside is becoming polluted. This didn't happen internally; we didn't ask for this. There are external forces at work and they must be quashed.
Well said. The EU brought us cultural Marxism, abortion, no fault divorce, single mothers, the closing of Irish steel, Irish sugar, Irish fertiliser, Waterford crystal, cheap Chinese imports and the destruction of manufacturing. The list is endless
Very true
there's faster ways of implying antisemetism instead of dancing around capitalism.
Oh what a lot of nonsense. Some people are sentimental about bare feet and magdalen laundries. We're well rid of those instituitions that were cruel and backward.
The wesht shtill looks like that
No shortage of money in the Irish Catholic Church. Even though nobody else had very much at that time.
Ireland was a poorer but better place back then
No, it most definitely was NOT "...a poorer but better [place back then..."
Only a completely clueless eejit would make that claim.
Ireland is a better off, and FAR better, place NOW.
Classic old age nostalgia I´m afraid. Better, unless you were struggling to feed yourself, or you were gay or a woman, or a kid in some hellhole of a Catholic-run care home, or really anyone not in lock-step with the Catholic Church.
@@Azog150 These were specific abuses that could (and should) have been dealt with without destroying the culture and identity of your society and selling out to the Neoliberal globalists of the EU. You have merely exchanged appalling (but limited) abuses for the wholesale destruction of your society.
@@Azog150
A church is just a group of people who worship their god together
Everybody was the Catholic church because without a congregation it's just a building with a man in it and it's powerless
People back then sincerely believed gay people and women pregnant outside of marriage were wrong
Regular people sent women(their family) to nuns
Nuns weren't just beamed down from space they were peoples daughters aunt's and
Sisters
Again priests and bishops were sons
uncles brothers
@@smoutube1197 im well aware of that. Which makes it all the more insidious - and even less of a reason to look back with rose tinted glasses
Somebody tell that English man bunratty is in county clare
It's a pity that has changed all for the worse and they will never get it back
Wow ! How did they manage without immigrants ??
Yee had a hatred for the original Irish people, THE IRISH TRAVELLERS..SO MUCH DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM TO THE TRUE PEOPLE OF THIS FAIR LAND OF SAINTS AND SCHOLARS. 😢😢
@@tommcdonagh-wy9oi
Irish travellers began during the famine
Ye are not the original if ye were why do we share the same surnames?
Thinker propoghanda.
Because all yee are all related to the originals...us@@Geres-v3w
Which part of Ireland dpes the narrator comes from?
Ireland is Britain after all 😎
Not really, more like it was illegally invaded and occupied by unwanted brits.
@@BlazyBluntz Ireland = British isles
You're one and the same.
@@charananekibalijaun8837 Oh so any country invaded by another just magically makes it theirs right? I’m sure your so proud of you’re countries history of burning peoples houses and stealing everything they own.
@@charananekibalijaun8837 Ireland = Anglo Irish isles
you're very rude and ignorant. and that's ok
As an Irishman living in the West Coast of Ireland, I must say that whilst we may be "better off" today financially ... But we have paid a very very high price for this increase in our standard of living. Our fishing industry is now decimated, and we are now to all intents and purposes no more than a vassal state of the EU, following every twist and turn of EU foreign policy with a slavish devotion as subservient to foreign interests, multinationals, and whatever Brussels dictates, as was ever the case under British rule. Ireland as we once knew it is fast disappearing I am very sorry to report.
The mainstream irish media WORSHIP the eu and the simpleton sheeple lap it all up.
The politicians are also WORSHIP the eu cabal. My how we have fallen into servitude and Republic politicians and media are no more than slaves to their EU masters.
Irish built this country
Ireland?
Irish, as in the people?
Be weird if one country built another,
Same as nurses”the people”
Hold the NHS up?
@@anthonygreenwood4486 no, I meant Ireland the country. You said Irish built this country. I was asking if you meant Ireland, because the Irish obviously built it. It’s Ireland.
In GB we now hear stuff like 'Britain was built by immigrants', or 'is a nation of immigrants'; what seems obvious to you now may not always be so.
Before immigration.
Irelandistan
before Ireland was invaded
Vote national party
@@sloughlin721 good luck to ye ahaha
@@lenny578 why thank you
Ireland now africanized and islamized
Kalergi plan
That’s the funniest of things Irish people were oppressed like Black people but yet Irish hate them the white people didn’t want both of them when The Irish and black people went To America they faced horrible racism then when the Americans finally accepted them they became racist to the Italians who faced racism after the Irish when the Irish went to England they faced the same I don’t get it how Irish people can be racist to a race that was oppressed like them? But I guess hurt people hurt people
Did you even know that when Irish were slaves a lot of them were in Jamaica hence why a lot of Jamaicans have Irish names if you want to be racist do it you have free will but wouldn’t it make more sense to be racist to the people that oppressed instead of people that didn’t? Anyway I want to hear your point of view
Oh man
hahaha Give Shannon another 58 years then maybe
God bless beautiful free Ireland
There really is more to Oirland dan dis
Dan dat
Damit this place needs diversity
I believe they have it now, I hear its going great.
We are getting it in abundance. We’re all very happy with the latest plantation
@@sl_721 we were never asked
@@missingno88 that’s right. Our government are blessing us with the enrichment of unvetted migrants while our own people are dying on our streets
jaysus lad, you'd have been in the same crowd chanting for the irish to leave london if you had the chance.
Space Age Skyline my arse. Siberia more like
If this video highlights something, is that free trade and removing tariffs destroys countries.
The whole country of Ireland used to be part of the UK.
Until we took it back 🇮🇪
@@BlazyBluntz All it took was millions of starving potato /Viggers
@@urmum3773 clearly never went to school
..thons a quare Monstrance
wonder where they stole the gold from
Give Ireland back to the British
of course mr SS symbol profile picture
THE BRITS ARE PAYING FOR THEIR DIABOLICAL INVASIONS OF OTHER COUNTRIES NOW EIEANN ABU
@@liamodriscoll3739 aye, that's why the head of the irexit party has gotten funding from British and Russian groups, worked with ukips brexit campaign and welcomed a former ni paratrooper into their ranks.
And why the national party has been working with far right groups in Europe for more than 2 decades, and seems to be modelling themselves after the South African national party which was pro apartheid.
But the funding is tooootally going to a great replacement thing
@@j377yb33n IRELAND IS WAS AND ALWAYS BE IRELAND IRELAND UNFREE WILL NEVER BE AT REST EIREANN ABU
@@liamodriscoll3739 we are our own people, made up of those who came to this island in the past, and some of our own went to other lands to be part of those people. History isn't entirely neat
This comment section is almost exclusively Brexit gammon
brexit gammon and "look what they took from you" faux fash nostalgie
Not a sign of the 60's poverty I witnessed as a kid on this video.
Silly little country, forever in our shadow 🏴
Vp:
Thanks to the EU cabal Eire is much worse in 2023 than it was here in 1965.
When did Bunratty become part of Co.Clare, according to this man in 1965 it was part of Limerick. Bet they are sorry now they didnt stay with Limerick. 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
Limerick Abu 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
That's literally the Nigerian flag
Bunratty was always part of clare,limerick is the other side of the shannon
@@ghjfgnncvvffghvv1271 . Ha ha it's a green and white flag. Great Limerick colours. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Ireland had a lot of Pharmaceuticals - Pfizer was one.
"Ireland had a lot of Pharmaceuticals - Pfizer was one"?
Wrong tense.
The sentence should read "Ireland HAS a lot of Pharmaceuticals - Pfizer IS one."
@@gloin10 You make people tense
@@windingdriveway 😂😂😂
@@gloin10 Irish moment
Now they want to Africanize Ireland
And they're doing it.
And the weak Irishman is letting it happen . Pathetic. Talk about a 180 from the 70s and 80s
@@dangranet7621 Ik its so shameful. How did we become so weak?
Its the same here in the US since the 1950/60s.
They have done it for some strange reason
@@themadfarmer5207 They want to destroy the White man in every country he inhabits, globally.