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Now I want to cry. Born Dublin 1955. I remember demanding my mother take me up Nielson’s Column, which she did bless her and about 3 days later it was blown up. I remember being taken shopping somewhere on Grafton street to a ladies shop on the first floor and being very bored but enjoying sitting on the big window ledge watching people in the street. I remember being quite young in the back of the car and the huge hulk of a Garda, I was little, directing traffic around O’Connell street and he winked at me and I winked back. He stopped the traffic and came over to the car, mum wondering what she had done wrong, and he told her that he had winked and I had winked back at which point I did a wolf whistle. 😂😂😂 I remember my pops bringing home fresh cherry buns from Bewleys. Thank you for the memories brought back to me. ❤
Wow I'm sitting here crying like a baby, my mother used to sing this song all the time , and other well know Dublin classic's form that time, she lived in crummlin, her dad had a clothes shop on Henry street diffneys it is still around, but she sadly is not, she died when I was 11 so I only have a few treasured memories of her, and this rather sad and lonely song is one of them.
Hi, that's a sad story and i can relate to it as being from Crumlin and living in Kenya now.. But i try to get back once in a while and walk around Crumlin and get some of the feelings back..i wish you well wherever you are.. 🤣
I grew up in the Rare Auld Times..Born in the Rotunda .City Centre 1948 left in 1967 for a better career & away from the Gombeens running Ireland I still love Dublin & come home regularly..But very happy with my Family & Life after 55 years in London & Buckinghamshire
Dublin in the rare old times!! I love looking at the videos. It brings back such lovely memories. Dancing in the Nr 5 Club and The Rouge. Walking home from town to Glasnevin together with friends not having a worry in the world! I'm so glad I grew up in those times. People were nice. Key could be left in the hall door without worry. Life was good!! ❤
I grew up in Dublin in the rare old times...came over to Boston in early '63. Plenty of work in Boston back them. Married an American girl...have grandchildren now and am retired. I get over to Dublin now and again. It certainly is'nt like it was in the "Rare "Ole Times" but I still like to get over for a visit now and then.
As someone who lives in this beautiful historic city, I can confirm it has definitely not been destroyed. Many of the places from this video still stand and are still filled with people enjoying them. Hope this puts your mind at ease!
I am not from Dublin - I have worked there and visited many times - I was brought up just outside London - to me, Dublin is a great city - a city of fine people, writers, singers, actors, and art
Lots of horses and carts were still around in the 1960s. The vegetable man, the coal man, the rag and bone man, the egg man, all with horses and carts. There used to be a travelling knife-sharpener who turned his specially adapted bicycle upside down to get the wheel sharpener going. There was the Swastika laundry van, that would collect and deliver laundry. The chemist shop and butchers would deliver by bicycle messenger. You could buy a bag of broken biscuits or a bag of broken cooking chocolate. At Dollymount beach, you could get a pot of tea from the tea van, but you had to leave a shoe as a deposit for the teapot. There were many odd characters roaming the streets too, Johnny Forty-Coats, and a guy called 'Bang Bang, who used to get on the buses near Nelson's Pillar and pretend to shoot passengers with an imaginary gun.
Yep, the past is a different country as they say, certainly has become the case for Dublin, has lost it's soul, it's character, replaced with a modern multicultural facade
Yes I have all the same memories. Dublin City centre was beautiful. Replacing old buildings ruined the beautiful city. It was dirty and needed a bit of restoring, but the soul of the city has been wiped out
That brought back some memories 😁... thank you... I was brought up in the seventies. eighties nineties.. in Dublin Edenmore... I live in Australia now...✌️
I was only telling the wife about how Stevo used to deliver the fruit and veg from the market, to my mam and the rest of the traders on Moore St by horse and cart, and there he is in the video... Brilliant... Thanks.
I remember jumping on the old open back bus in the 70s going to music lessons and the bus fare was 3p. Also CIE had boat service down where the east link bridge is,that cost 10p to cross the liffey, and the Guinness boats lined up along the Quays. Happy memories 😊
Such a beautiful song, though I've never been to Ireland one day who knows maybe I'll get a chance to go, my grandfather was from Cork, anyway I shut my eyes & I'm there I find it calling me
Definitely the US Embassy in Ballsbridge. Back in 1969 I made a special trip there from Baldoyle with a school mate so we could see a piece of Apollo moon rock they had put on display in the foyer For an 11 year old Northsider like me, a trip to Ballsbridge was almost as great a journey as a trip to the moon..
Josephine Mackey,brings back such happy memories, of my childhood in Dublin, I remember that horse and cart delivering the vegs. sad to think it's so different now,
Thanks for the nice visit to Dublin. My first time there was 1964. I remember how we once were able to watch planes take off like that and also walk out on to the tarmac & up the stairs.
I had a great time there....late 70s × early 80s...little money but owned my own house...now an overpriced Neo Con run kip....lived there for 1 year several years ago...horrid.
Born in Dalkey (yes I know) in 64 left in mid 80s for work in London I'll be 60 in April and going to take a road trip and visit the old town, mixed feelings
Anyone see your man that use to take your photo for a small fee😂👍he was on o Connell bridge in the film, well that man made a bomb from something he loved ☘📸📸📸📸😂😂👍
Arthur Fields was the man on the bridge. There's a film about him from 2014. 'Man on Bridge' IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt4483566/ A Jewish Ukrainian, he worked until the early 1980s, I remember him well, coming and going to school across O'Connell Bridge.
South Anne St. It closed in 1991 and a more typical Grafton St area restaurant replaced it. I used to hang out there in 1989/1990 and my parents did in the 60s and early 70s.
I started sneaking into town in 1987, Clive's of Hill Street was the order of the day 🤠 He had been there since 1978, then moved to Crown Ally in 1991 and renamed his shop Skate City. He is still there today.
Remember Murph's on Bachelors Walk? The 'pig man' would come by & buy the stuff scraped off the plates into the bin. The pigs got a Murph's dinner every night.
@@zaidaahida1868 John I don't know what you have against the native Irish but this is the second time you have slandered someone here in these comments. I suspect you hold a very intolerant idea of Irish people and most likely are self loathing. Get some help.
Hi Liam, at last I got back to you. I am writing a book about my parents. My Mam was Irish and my Dad English, Liverpool. They died very young and lived together in Dublin. They both were soldiers and after WW11, they worked for Guinness's. Your video is beautiful, a time of wonderful days. Thank you.
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Lived in Dublin for a year in 1986. I remember it as being very grim and depressing and a backwater. The city usually died at 11 pm so people could get the last bus home. Very few decent live music venues. Hated it. Temple bar was an exotic warren of low rent bookshops and eccentric bric a brac. Even wit the huge traffic and rent problems now, it's a much more improved and European city with a better life and more energy in the air. Have mixed feelings with what they did to Temple Bar but at least it's not a giant bus station and it keeps all the stag and hen nights confined to the one place so you can avoid them.
To be fair that goes on here in Britain where I am as I am sure it does elsewhere as well as in Ireland these days-it seems to be all part of progress really and truly somehow too?!
1979 or 1980 I went to Captain America’s on a Sunday night to eat with a buddy from college. For us to go there at the time was a big deal because we had very little money or much to eat during the week. I had 20 pounds a week to live on 12 went to pay the “digs” I was staying in. The remaining 8 pounds was split on cigarettes and beer. Anyway, when it came to pay the bill we walked up to the register which was at the top of the stairs where you went into the restaurant. Who ever was on the register had stepped away for a minute. Without any warning my buddy decided to do a runner and bolted down the stairs……….. I only had enough money to pay for myself and had to make a split second decision and did the same thing. I felt like shit for doing it and told my friend if he ever did something like that again I would kick his ass. Needless to say, I never had the balls to go back there again. I left Ireland in 1984 for New York. I don’t think Captain America’s is still around. If it is …… I will stop in and pay my bill next time I am in Dublin 😂
Donald that's the American embassy on Elgin road as seen from Pembrook road. This is what it looks like now: www.google.ie/maps/@53.330524,-6.233313,3a,75y,221.57h,87.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-HacrUTJy1wT-FBxScdR6Q!2e0!6m1!1e1
Don't let rose-tinted glasses blur your view: It was a time when the church had enormous power and they abused their position in society. It was the time of the Artane Industrial school, Golden Bridge and Magdalen Laundries.. There was great unemployment and emigration. There are still problems (such as the housing crisis) but by and large, the city is better - the people are better educated and church power has largely gone.
K Doc True! My mother was born illegitimate in 1935 and grew up in Golden Bridge orphanage - her mother married a man and had more children - my mother stayed with them in the holidays but she had to pretend her mother was her aunty so no one would know her mother had an child out of wedlock - we migrated to Australia when I was 11 and when I was 12 my mother told me that "Aunty May" who I thought was my great aunt was really my grandmother!
yeah, I'm not a fan of the rosy view of the city…poverty, illness and fascistic religion were rife. The city and country still have major issues to deal with, as in poverty, corruption, crime, native and immigrant social welfare dependency… but things are better now imo. Unless you're from Sheriffer and places like that. Extraordinary how those areas never saw any real benefits from the economic uplift in the early 60s and then the Celtic Tiger. Generations of deprivation and unemployment, due to the void left by Monto, the mechanisation of the docks in the 70s, the introduction of heroin and then organised crime. But I still think I would prefer the city we have now to that from the "rare auld times" when the Church and State were brutally interlinked and good prospects only came to a small percentage of the privileged population.
Just to let you know the Roman Catholic Church Hijacked the True Christian Movement a cpl thousand years ago , it's pure Demonic out in the open these days , But Jesus is was & always will be God in the Flesh , forget Catholisim get a 1611 Kjv version print of the Bible & form a Relationship with God yourself as there is only Heaven & Hell no inbetween & all them so called pedo priests/Nuns & that Dope will be going there! As will hundreds of millions of Catholics who have been decived by there , teachings such as worshipping statues idols of Mary ) dead saints, confession to a priest when the only Mediator between you & God should be Jesus his Son, no female pastors, also most definitely no Gay marriages etc.....! 🕵️🙏
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Now I want to cry. Born Dublin 1955. I remember demanding my mother take me up Nielson’s Column, which she did bless her and about 3 days later it was blown up.
I remember being taken shopping somewhere on Grafton street to a ladies shop on the first floor and being very bored but enjoying sitting on the big window ledge watching people in the street.
I remember being quite young in the back of the car and the huge hulk of a Garda, I was little, directing traffic around O’Connell street and he winked at me and I winked back. He stopped the traffic and came over to the car, mum wondering what she had done wrong, and he told her that he had winked and I had winked back at which point I did a wolf whistle. 😂😂😂
I remember my pops bringing home fresh cherry buns from Bewleys.
Thank you for the memories brought back to me. ❤
What a Class act Luke Kelly was never will be forgotten 🇮🇪☘️
This video shows two things we lost , "old Dublin , and one of her greatest sons "Luke Kelly" rip to both
Wow I'm sitting here crying like a baby, my mother used to sing this song all the time , and other well know Dublin classic's form that time, she lived in crummlin, her dad had a clothes shop on Henry street diffneys it is still around, but she sadly is not, she died when I was 11 so I only have a few treasured memories of her, and this rather sad and lonely song is one of them.
Hi, that's a sad story and i can relate to it as being from Crumlin and living in Kenya now.. But i try to get back once in a while and walk around Crumlin and get some of the feelings back..i wish you well wherever you are.. 🤣
I grew up in the Rare Auld Times..Born in the Rotunda .City Centre 1948 left in 1967 for a better career & away from the Gombeens running Ireland
I still love Dublin & come home regularly..But very happy with my Family & Life after 55 years in London & Buckinghamshire
@@enviro5001 well done sir and may you and your family prosper in the future and I all they do.
@@Marlondurran I wish you the best of luck , friend.
@@sitluxetluxfuit4481 Thank you .. take care of yourself.
Dublin in the rare old times!! I love looking at the videos. It brings back such lovely memories. Dancing in the Nr 5 Club and The Rouge. Walking home from town to Glasnevin together with friends not having a worry in the world! I'm so glad I grew up in those times. People were nice. Key could be left in the hall door without worry. Life was good!! ❤
Catholics were Catholics then.
If you had a job and money then ,and lived in rather posh Glasnevin in a nice house you were made up .If not you were fuxked .Begorrah .
I grew up in Dublin in the rare old times...came over to Boston in early '63. Plenty of work in Boston back them. Married an American girl...have grandchildren now and am retired. I get over to Dublin now and again. It certainly is'nt like it was in the "Rare "Ole Times" but I still like to get over for a visit now and then.
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H'up oua'dat Liamo! Ger outa dat garden ;)
Well done sir
@Eire forever 🇮🇪 Well fairs fair mate, we got everywhere else.
@Irelands eye 🇮🇪 I’m sure that’s what the Americans thought too when all the ‘micks’ flooded the coast then.
Ahh the smell of Guinness brewery and Bewleys coffee, I still remember it. 😥
Such a shame that this beautiful historic city has been destroyed.
it hasnt actually, i visited the other day
@davidoffon i have, i'm playing dumb to show how idiotic the comment is.
100% it is destroyed I was the only Irish man on Moore Street the other day completely taken over very sad and will never be the same again.
As someone who lives in this beautiful historic city, I can confirm it has definitely not been destroyed. Many of the places from this video still stand and are still filled with people enjoying them. Hope this puts your mind at ease!
@@shadician so do I. It's in bits
I am not from Dublin - I have worked there and visited many times - I was brought up just outside London - to me, Dublin is a great city - a city of fine people, writers, singers, actors, and art
Very nice of you to say so Anthony. Fair play to you.
Luke Kelly makes my heart melt everytime that I hear his voice.
No
Luke Kelly's music is a national treasure 🇮🇪
My first visit to Dublin in 64,on works day trip from NI..had a great day.
what a lovely singer luke was my he had a lovely dublin accent and singing affect on people great video thank you from a culchie living in germany
Lots of horses and carts were still around in the 1960s. The vegetable man, the coal man, the rag and bone man, the egg man, all with horses and carts. There used to be a travelling knife-sharpener who turned his specially adapted bicycle upside down to get the wheel sharpener going. There was the Swastika laundry van, that would collect and deliver laundry. The chemist shop and butchers would deliver by bicycle messenger. You could buy a bag of broken biscuits or a bag of broken cooking chocolate. At Dollymount beach, you could get a pot of tea from the tea van, but you had to leave a shoe as a deposit for the teapot. There were many odd characters roaming the streets too, Johnny Forty-Coats, and a guy called 'Bang Bang, who used to get on the buses near Nelson's Pillar and pretend to shoot passengers with an imaginary gun.
Yep, the past is a different country as they say, certainly has become the case for Dublin, has lost it's soul, it's character, replaced with a modern multicultural facade
Poor aul Bang Bang. Not sure if anyone knew what was up with him. I suspect he suffered from shell shock (PTSD) from the war
Yes I have all the same memories. Dublin City centre was beautiful. Replacing old buildings ruined the beautiful city. It was dirty and needed a bit of restoring, but the soul of the city has been wiped out
We had a horse....we called him Sam 😅
That brought back some memories 😁... thank you... I was brought up in the seventies. eighties nineties.. in Dublin Edenmore... I live in Australia now...✌️
I was only telling the wife about how Stevo used to deliver the fruit and veg from the market, to my mam and the rest of the traders on Moore St by horse and cart, and there he is in the video... Brilliant... Thanks.
Ah that's great Dee.
Glad ya liked it!
The horses and carts were still around till the 80's.
I remember jumping on the old open back bus in the 70s going to music lessons and the bus fare was 3p. Also CIE had boat service down where the east link bridge is,that cost 10p to cross the liffey, and the Guinness boats lined up along the Quays. Happy memories 😊
Such a beautiful song, though I've never been to Ireland one day who knows maybe I'll get a chance to go, my grandfather was from Cork, anyway I shut my eyes & I'm there I find it calling me
Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, the Greens, SF and Labour have all ruined this city.
Lovely video, but also sad. That Dublin is gone forever :(
Definitely the US Embassy in Ballsbridge.
Back in 1969 I made a special trip there from Baldoyle with a school mate so we could see a piece of Apollo moon rock they had put on display in the foyer
For an 11 year old Northsider like me, a trip to Ballsbridge was almost as great a journey as a trip to the moon..
+EricIrl , great story!
Watching this from Australia, A clondalkin man missing the city he grew up in, Thank for sharing this
Love all of the scenes, wonderful nostalgia.
wow...My brother still has the field that them lads were in beside the big church in finglas for keeping his horses in...amazing video
Josephine Mackey,brings back such happy memories, of my childhood in Dublin, I remember that horse and cart delivering the vegs. sad to think it's so different now,
+mary mckinley , and they call it progress!
Absolutely brilliant video. Well done
Nostalgia...... its not what it used to be! I love my city, wish I could've seen it in the aul days! Thanks for the video Rob, priceless memories!
Thanks for the nice visit to Dublin. My first time there was 1964. I remember how we once were able to watch planes take off like that and also walk out on to the tarmac & up the stairs.
I am glad it brought back such good memories for you Mary.
I had a great time there....late 70s × early 80s...little money but owned my own house...now an overpriced Neo Con run kip....lived there for 1 year several years ago...horrid.
Born in Dalkey (yes I know) in 64 left in mid 80s for work in London I'll be 60 in April and going to take a road trip and visit the old town, mixed feelings
went to artane industrial school in 1964 to 1967 my first time in dublin i came from co meath
You poor sod , was it as bad as they said .................
fantastic thanks for the upload brings back some great memories
Great video and great song. Great memories :)
Anyone see your man that use to take your photo for a small fee😂👍he was on o Connell bridge in the film, well that man made a bomb from something he loved ☘📸📸📸📸😂😂👍
THE MAN ON THE BRIDGE I REMBER HIM
Ya i new him well he died bout 10 years ago
Arthur Fields was the man on the bridge. There's a film about him from 2014. 'Man on Bridge'
IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt4483566/
A Jewish Ukrainian, he worked until the early 1980s, I remember him well, coming and going to school across O'Connell Bridge.
YEAH, I REMBER HIM. I'M 73 AND I STILL HAVE SOME OF HIS PHOTOS
We done, him
Look at all that parking!!!
Ha ha ha ha. Only a car owner notices that
Does anyone remember the Coffee Inn? I think it was on one of those little streets off Grafton, back before Grafton street was closed to traffic.
I do!!
I do. I think it was in Anne St, between Grafton St and Dawson street.
South Anne St. It closed in 1991 and a more typical Grafton St area restaurant replaced it. I used to hang out there in 1989/1990 and my parents did in the 60s and early 70s.
I started sneaking into town in 1987, Clive's of Hill Street was the order of the day 🤠 He had been there since 1978, then moved to Crown Ally in 1991 and renamed his shop Skate City. He is still there today.
Well done
Was about Dublin town in early 90s great people.
Excellent
Cheers Michael!
Remember Murph's on Bachelors Walk? The 'pig man' would come by & buy the stuff scraped off the plates into the bin. The pigs got a Murph's dinner every night.
brilliant stuff man
Greg O Hare Cheers Greg!
'5 for a powand the rappin papar'
The photographer in the mackintosh snapped my parents at the GPO in 1955 & me & girlfriend Maura McDermott in 1980.
That was the 12” version of “The rare old times”!!.
Well spoted Alan.
It's funny diblin is now full of non Irish such as a very Irish famous st called Moore st!
You don't get to be Irish and racist ya twat!!
@@zaidaahida1868 John I don't know what you have against the native Irish but this is the second time you have slandered someone here in these comments. I suspect you hold a very intolerant idea of Irish people and most likely are self loathing. Get some help.
Dublin city the city that never sweeps
Beautiful! Thanks Rob. Will mention you in my book. A Big kiss!X
+Mary MC Mullen Glad you liked it!
What book is that Mary?
Hi Liam, at last I got back to you. I am writing a book about my parents. My Mam was Irish and my Dad English, Liverpool. They died very young and lived together in Dublin. They both were soldiers and after WW11, they worked for Guinness's. Your video is beautiful, a time of wonderful days. Thank you.
Looked better than now
You mean it looks better now , halfwit
Happy memerories
That must be the LP version of that song 😂
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Better times
It's a lot like Glasgow
Reminds me a lot of Glasgow
Memory lane times Son.
Wowwwwww
Ireland when it was Irish now the native Irish becoming a minority in their own land..
Another eejit
@@zaidaahida1868 watched a couple of these videos and she has comments the same bollox on each one pay no mind
where did you read that
I also remember a time before we were all forced to racists
86% isnt a minority, pay attention in school you dishrag
Lived in Dublin for a year in 1986. I remember it as being very grim and depressing and a backwater. The city usually died at 11 pm so people could get the last bus home. Very few decent live music venues. Hated it. Temple bar was an exotic warren of low rent bookshops and eccentric bric a brac. Even wit the huge traffic and rent problems now, it's a much more improved and European city with a better life and more energy in the air. Have mixed feelings with what they did to Temple Bar but at least it's not a giant bus station and it keeps all the stag and hen nights confined to the one place so you can avoid them.
A "fly by night", you mean. Means much more than that to those who were born and reared in the rare old times.
"European city" means we traded our nature to blend in with the boring continentals. The decline of Dublin is a national shame.
@@Ligerpride hated it in the 80s. Very provincial. Much improved now.
@@carlosflanders518 so long as you're happy then Carlos.
@@Ligerpride No intention of ever living there again
Sad to see our national airline in there that our Profit Before People goverment (FG/Labour) gave away and not even owned by our country anymore.
💖
A time before Polski shops and Litvania shops and Halal butchers.
Well at least there is sth to eat. Otherwise you would have only Tesco and Lidl.
To be fair that goes on here in Britain where I am as I am sure it does elsewhere as well as in Ireland these days-it seems to be all part of progress really and truly somehow too?!
I don't remember Burgerland. I remember Captain America's.
+Nancy Benefiel , Very posh Nancy!
+RobDeLott I'd go there whenever homesickness really got to me.
1979 or 1980 I went to Captain America’s on a Sunday night to eat with a buddy from college. For us to go there at the time was a big deal because we had very little money or much to eat during the week. I had 20 pounds a week to live on 12 went to pay the “digs” I was staying in. The remaining 8 pounds was split on cigarettes and beer.
Anyway, when it came to pay the bill we walked up to the register which was at the top of the stairs where you went into the restaurant. Who ever was on the register had stepped away for a minute.
Without any warning my buddy decided to do a runner and bolted down the stairs……….. I only had enough money to pay for myself and had to make a split second decision and did the same thing. I felt like shit for doing it and told my friend if he ever did something like that again I would kick his ass.
Needless to say, I never had the balls to go back there again.
I left Ireland in 1984 for New York. I don’t think Captain America’s is still around.
If it is …… I will stop in and pay my bill next time I am in Dublin 😂
That's where Chris de Burgh got his start, playing there. If I remember correctly
Where is this place at 6:05?
Donald that's the American embassy on Elgin road as seen from Pembrook road.
This is what it looks like now:
www.google.ie/maps/@53.330524,-6.233313,3a,75y,221.57h,87.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-HacrUTJy1wT-FBxScdR6Q!2e0!6m1!1e1
Thanks buddy!
RobDeLott By the Way, your video is great! I forgot to mention it.
Ah thanks Donald.
Donald, It looks like the US Embassy building in Ballsbridge (Dublin 4) .
Don't let rose-tinted glasses blur your view: It was a time when the church had enormous power and they abused their position in society. It was the time of the Artane Industrial school, Golden Bridge and Magdalen Laundries.. There was great unemployment and emigration. There are still problems (such as the housing crisis) but by and large, the city is better - the people are better educated and church power has largely gone.
K Doc True! My mother was born illegitimate in 1935 and grew up in Golden Bridge orphanage - her mother married a man and had more children - my mother stayed with them in the holidays but she had to pretend her mother was her aunty so no one would know her mother had an child out of wedlock - we migrated to Australia when I was 11 and when I was 12 my mother told me that "Aunty May" who I thought was my great aunt was really my grandmother!
yeah, I'm not a fan of the rosy view of the city…poverty, illness and fascistic religion were rife. The city and country still have major issues to deal with, as in poverty, corruption, crime, native and immigrant social welfare dependency… but things are better now imo. Unless you're from Sheriffer and places like that. Extraordinary how those areas never saw any real benefits from the economic uplift in the early 60s and then the Celtic Tiger. Generations of deprivation and unemployment, due to the void left by Monto, the mechanisation of the docks in the 70s, the introduction of heroin and then organised crime. But I still think I would prefer the city we have now to that from the "rare auld times" when the Church and State were brutally interlinked and good prospects only came to a small percentage of the privileged population.
Just to let you know the Roman Catholic Church Hijacked the True Christian Movement a cpl thousand years ago , it's pure Demonic out in the open these days , But Jesus is was & always will be God in the Flesh , forget Catholisim get a 1611 Kjv version print of the Bible & form a Relationship with God yourself as there is only Heaven & Hell no inbetween & all them so called pedo priests/Nuns & that Dope will be going there! As will hundreds of millions of Catholics who have been decived by there , teachings such as worshipping statues idols of Mary ) dead saints, confession to a priest when the only Mediator between you & God should be Jesus his Son, no female pastors, also most definitely no Gay marriages etc.....! 🕵️🙏
I am sure you are so right there in your views and the others on here then so too of course?!
Hi Rob, Kath here from Wild Pictures - we'd love to feature some of this footage in a documentary we're making. Please drop me a message if you'd be interested in discussing this further? Thanks - K-
Hi Kath you can e-mail me ....... robdelott@ymail.com
Turned off the music. I just wanted to see the images.