The footage was part of a CIE Dublin Bus training video shot in 1965 Watch 'Dublin Town 1965' on this channel which includes the edited bits from this film with music.
A good driver. I was 9 on holidays , up from Galway. My uncle Pat took me all over the city. Still remember his favorite pipe tabacco shop. Tabacco was pure back then. He lived to 99.
The footage of the hill at Christchurch Cathedral at 23 to 46 seconds reminds me of being in the backseat of my Aunt Gertie's new Morris Mini 850 as she drove up the hill in 1964 when I was aged eight. My family didn't have a car and I thought that that hill must be the highest and steepest in the world! Sometime after that she drove us out to see the new Stillorgan Shopping Centre - the wonder of the age. The only 'supermarket' I had ever seen up to then was our local shop on Ballymun Ave into which the owner, Mr Campbell, had put three rows of shelving and a walkway between them to let you wander up and down picking what you wanted to buy. At 6 minutes 10 seconds in there is a nice view of Rowan's Seeds (beside the bank of ireland on Westmorland Street). It always had the most brilliant flower and shrub display in tubs at the side of the shop. In the late 1960s/early 1970s I recall the owner being interviewed on the radio (or wireless as we called it then) and accusing Bank of Ireland of closing him down so they could get the shop site. Thank you for loading up the film. Karl Martin
Omg l wish l could go back in time in a machine and live in this beautiful harmonious clean delightful vibrant capital city pure cultural heaven! This truly is a momentous precious video of rebellious Dublin in the rare old times!
This is my Dublin City when I owned it in 1965 when I was nineteen and I held the lofty position of Cashier in the Carlton Cinema. As cinema workers we were entitled to free passes to all the new shows in town, so we spent our days off going from from one cinema to another and we also had free entry to the Metropole Dance on monday nights, those were the days! eh. You will notice from the footage that the mini skirt, and the jeans had'nt arrived yet, we all wore what our mother's wore, then what a shock to our parents when Mary Quant put us girls in " half a skirt", as my mother would say. [ Rare ol times]...................
I was looking for myself if this was a Wednesday afternoon when off from School I used to frequent most of the area in the film.....I did notice a "Teddy Boy" haircut on a chap crossing near the Irish Times offices, neat. The brother may have danced with you as he was a regular at the Metropole Dances. Happy Days!
Mavis, i might have given you my admission money! I used to go to the Carlton Cinema every new picture as I live only 10 minutes away on City Quay! But I was only 16, too young for yeh! :))
Gerard Callaghan I remember you Mavis always at the back row with a new lad, some people have all the look, I was born in 1971 so I'm only joking you look ravishing 🍻📸📸📸📸☘👍
I doubt it was the bus driver. Probably a project executed by the National Museum or other cultural body and done with the cooperation of Dublin Bus (or whatever the bus authority was called at the time).
That was 1965 Most kids of my generation started their working life, that was expected to help the family finances. Very few kids got to go further in their education. That was just excepted.
Born in the Coombe Hosp 1 Jan 1951. Live in Garden Lane off Francis Street in a tenement. Moved to Ballyfermot in 1956 first time I ever saw grass. We live in pure heaven toilet indoors,proper fireplace, a kitchen and a parlour. Love it growing up in Ballyer. Great memories.
@@JssyN, eff off you moron, child molesters become priests, priests don't become child molesters. Peedos will join any walk of life which gives them access to vunerable kids, you don't need to join the priesthood for that, you sad sack.
Born in England but my family moved back to Dublin when I was 10 years old in 1964. I had a hard time fighting everyday at school because I was a Brit, but once I was accepted after only a few weeks I loved my time there, although picking up the Dub accent helped. Been back and forth over the water throughout my adult life, but Ireland isn't the same anymore, yes there is more disposable income, but when was the last time you heard a happy go lucky feller walking in any Dublin street whistling? You might as well be in London or Chicago today!
Jeez how terrible Dublin has become a Liberal and modern city... Weren't these the days when thousands of boys were being raped by priests, thousands of women locked in slave labour camps run by nuns, thousands of babies sold to America against the mother's wishes, thousands of babies killed and burried in mass graves, 1 in 2 people having to leave to find work, a declining population, 100 people sharing tenements designed to house 10 people. People so poor they fled to America with just the clothes in their back and small suitcase. A country ruled by religious laws. Women that are raped shunned by parents if pregnant. Unwed women shunned for having a baby. Gay men and women in the closet by the hundreds of thousands living sad lives. But at least there were drunk Irish men whistling Irish jigs on the streets... Aww those were the days. I can happily tell you my generation are very happy with our liberal, progressive, secular and happy diverse country with more wealth. You can use your nostalgia to make it sound better than today but to was a dump the Ireland of the 20th century. Proof being most Irish left it. Today we are one of the most appealing counties in the world. Ill take being like Chicago or London over a poor Christian dictatorship
@@shanehughes3511 here we go with more nonsense. Absolutely exaggerating the horrors of those years and sugar coating the horrors of globalism today. Property prices stop us from having families, apartments changed our way of life and now it’s almost impossible to end up with a one bed flat. No wonder suicide is so prominent nowadays. But yea it’s great ✊🏿 at least we have wonder cuisine on our doorstep and our city is like every other shithole in Europe or The US. Great stuff
I still whistle casually everywhere; less common now as you note; not always accepted abroad; pulled up by employers in Greece for it, but continued whistling everywhere day & night. Love Dublin, working there in the 80s.
Your annus horribilis. 'But wherefore should our feelings overflow, / Where but to feel is in itself deep woe? / And mine, alas! all merge in one emotion, As seas are lost in the abyss of Ocean!', 'Light of the Liberties' James Clarence Mangan.
I love looking at pictures and video footage of the old dublin these where the times my parents and grandparents spent in dublin i get a better feel of their memories when i hear the stories and stuff and i sort of live a little in that time just by looking and watching
Butch Moore-walking in the streets in the rain, Dickie Rock & the Miami showband-every step of the way were two hits from this year so I think it would be fitting.
@@captain007x : Again, to say I'm 'on drugs' is pretty hypocritical. Alcohol is one of the worst drugs, and other drugs are pretty common in society, from caffeine to pharmaceuticals... everyone takes some sort of drug, including you. Furthermore, marijuana is far safer for the individual and society than alcohol. Just because alcohol is legally and sociably acceptable, especially in Ireland, doesn't mean it's better than 'drugs'. Inform yourself...
I got dragged to Dublin in '63 - reckless pedestrians and death defying cyclists were everywhere. I've downloaded the vid - i'm going to write some music for this. Big thanks to the uploader.
10:15 The film "Ship of Fools" is playing in the Metropole cinema. This would date the video as sometime between 18 January 1966 to 9 February 1966. Thanks for the upload!
i'm brazilian guy and i lived there last year , i went to dublin to learning english and i really loved the city. one day i will go there again just wait and see.
Ainda não amigo mas eu prometi para mim mesmo voltar um dia em Dublin. Pretendo ir no mês de setembro porquê é o unico mês que tem sol quase todos os dias.
Remember visiting Dublin in the mid 1960's. One of the things I remember clearly was the forest of massive tv aeriels on very long poles that were used to pick up tv signals from the UK as Irish tv at the time was very limited and they only had one channel.
@@crossman20 Good few Austin/Morris Mini cars as well. Didn't see any of the Hillman Imp deathtraps though. Rear-engined and were very hard to drive on wet roads etc. The local doctor's wife had one.
Great video! The Morris Minor seemed to be the car of choice. Notice how they put the bus back in service for the rush hour. That stop at the end in Westmoreland street was outside Kinahan's and was either a 3 or an 11.
Very nostalgic vid of Dublin 40 yrs a free country, the cars, morris minors, volkwagons, the bike still used a lot, the women in head scarves, the shops b4 the big global brands, tylers shop , the old buses, cops directing traffic , used to visit town as we called the city centre frequently with mum and visit our cousins in Pembroke row, mum loved Woolworth where u cud buy anything and everything and us kids for the great restaurant upstairs with huge sausages and lovely chips with beans, wish i was back there now.
Dublin was not carpet bombed in the 1940s. This was accomplished in the 1960s-today by architects. Sam Stephenson was to Dublin as Bomber Harris was to Berlin.
@Cathal, I wasn't aware Sam Stephenson was responsible for so many ugly buildings around Dublin. He should have been sent to jail for knocking down those beautiful Georgian houses on Fitzwilliam St to make make way for that hideous ESB head office. I had to Google him to see if his mits were all over that other monstrosity, Liberty Hall.
Spotted Advertisements for things that I remember growing up in the 60's/70's (Born 1962); IMCO Dry Cleaners - Swastika Launderette Vans - Esso Blue (which I think was Paraffin because it burned a Blue flame) - Dunn's (Sausages) - 'Players Please' (Players Cigarettes) - Kelly Jewellers (Family Friends) - ...and The Wind Jammer Pub is still there!
It is an amazing piece of footage, and so little has changed really. I was a teenager then and so much looks familiar. But 1966? Nelson's Pillar appears in the view of O'Connell Street and it was demolished in March, 1966.
I'm not sure when Dublin in the rare old times really was. But I'm 55 now, and was born, bread and buttered in Phibsboro. For me, these were the rare old times. I understand when the song was written, the rare old times were probably the few decades previous to the 1960s. Anyway...
The mini car came out in 1959. Also the movie has to be pre 1966 as Nelson's pillar is visible in the final frames. This was blown up in 1966 by the I.R.A during the 50th anniversay of the 1916 uprising.
Absolutely fascinating. I would have been 5 at the time this was made. What is very striking is the general absence of traffic lights, relative absence of one-way streets and, of course, the smaller number of cars on the roads. Another highlight is the traffic on streets that are now pedestrianised, and notably Grafton Street (although Grafton Street still had traffic in the late 70s).
Memories of Cabra, 1960,s. I remember Cabra and the "Hills"over the back garden wall where our gang played. There was Frank and Jim Hickey, the twins, and Joxer Sullivan, brilled creamed hair all slicked back. Now Theresa Reddin, Whacker sister fancied Frank Hickey no end, but my heart belonged to Jim. When we played 'spin the bottle' and Jim sat opposite me on the cold damp grass of the hills, in his knee high breeches, his kiss was the first for me. Of course there was Olive, Cora, and Marie, who laughed and giggled constantly, when the bottle stopped at them. All summer long we roamed the hills where cattle often grazed. Whacker thought he'd 'round em up', just like Roy Rogers did, but " Ye Ha" did'nt work on Cabra cattle, you see they didn't understand Texas lingo, and instead of been rounded up would charge! When frank kissed Theresa, the rest of us let out a yell! but some years later those childhood sweethearts listened for the bell, and tied the knot in that Hallowed spot The Chapel on the Hill. There was a kiosk at the end of Carnlough Rd, where your precious pennies went, there Mr Mac sold penny Black Jacks, and single Players Wills. We never saw inside that shop, we never got the chance, from the opening space you could just see his face and his blind mans glasses, that was all.. We tried it every way we could from a tanner to a bob, but Mr Mac was no ones fool, he knew half a crown from a dud, blind, black specs and all.! And what about those" Follow Uppers", the sunday morning ten o'clock Mass when Fr; Farrell, the children's man, left every kid glued to their seats, he left us all a-gasp, waiting for next week,- would Moses ever descend the Mount, would Noah's Ark sink,! Looking back we had it made, Fr Farrell was a gem, but when it came to confession, Fr Flash was your only man. Now Fr Kavanagh, known as' Flash', would go through a six deep pew of sinners in a wink. The slide flew back and you just had time for a 'Bless me father", and you got no further for the hatch flew shut again, and vaguely you heard "say three Hail Mary's that's what you got every single week. We had few heroes to boast about in those hazy days gone by, but one chap put Cabra on the map is still a star to-day. When Dickie you were proud to say "he's one of us , we know him well, hasn't he come far, from The Candy Store On The Corner ' to the big time on the hill "...... How clear my memories are of those happy days, when innocence was real, a score of happy friendly faces I can almost touch and feel.! If only I could turn back the clock, I'd race up that road again, and swing on the lamp!, and stay out till its dark, waiting for Mammy to call me in.....................
@John Wickes This piece is an excerpt from 'Pen To Paper' a book of short stories and poetry published by the Creative Writer's Group, of which I was a member, perhaps you came across it, the piece is original and every word is from my personal memory of childhood in Cabra... MMCG.
I've never known a beautiful Dublin city, just watch your back and your pockets! The roads look better then than they do now, traffic flowed nicely too now it's a disaster with too many one way roads and bus lanes
Hardly any road markings. Every man for himself 😀 Everyone would queue nicely for the bus, and then when it came there was always a big mill to get on.
This is great footage, the streets look very clean and tidy, not nearly as many cars on the road as these days. Also it was in a time before Health and Safety became an industry, you wouldn't be allowed to stand up front beside the bus driver now and film the journey. No more hop on hop off busses Health and Safety issues there , Also the butcher boys delivering on bikes no helmets or hi vis jackets, I suppose Health and safety wouldn't permit the delivery of meat on a bicycle these days. No mobile phone zombies wandering in front of traffic and pedestrians. I don't see any homeless or beggers. Not a lot of tourists.
I was 2 years old then born in England my mother is a dub 94years old now, moved us back to Dublin my father a Londoner had no choice but to follow my grandmother Mrs Smith had a grocery store off arran street long gone now
at 5:43 there's a car with a reg which looks like KZH ... or WZH ... which dates this video to some time after November 1964 or May 1965 respectively when those plates were issued originally.
and you could park anywhere and not pay a penny....and no pedestrians walking in front of cars whilst yappin on their mobiles .....and drive your motorbike without a helmet !! a much less frenetic lifestyle ...bring it back i say ...
Car ownership must have grown rapidly in the early 1960s. Note the lack of older models. Cortinas Anglias Minis Austin 1100s abound. Freewheeling messenger boys wrote their own traffic rules of course.
IMDB doesnt say what month in 1966 so it may have been Feb or Jan. people are in their heavy coats, it has been raining, and shadows are dim (though the footage could be over a few days). I have living abroad since 1983 but one of the things that amazes about Irish pedestrians is how they run out in front of traffic. THis video proves that - running out in front of those old buses
I've never seen the Wood Quay site before it was all demolished, the video is a classic just for that, if not for the rest of the beautiful quality views.
A good driver. I was 9 on holidays , up from Galway. My uncle Pat took me all over the city. Still remember his favorite pipe tabacco shop. Tabacco was pure back then. He lived to 99.
Born in Arbour Hill in 1959, and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1976. These videos bring a tear to my eye, they really do. Thank you OP.
The Dublin I grew up in. What a joy to see this...!
Thank you, a lovely reminder of Dublin City. I was a student nurse in. Dr. Steven's hospital.
The footage of the hill at Christchurch Cathedral at 23 to 46 seconds reminds me of being in the backseat of my Aunt Gertie's new Morris Mini 850 as she drove up the hill in 1964 when I was aged eight. My family didn't have a car and I thought that that hill must be the highest and steepest in the world! Sometime after that she drove us out to see the new Stillorgan Shopping Centre - the wonder of the age. The only 'supermarket' I had ever seen up to then was our local shop on Ballymun Ave into which the owner, Mr Campbell, had put three rows of shelving and a walkway between them to let you wander up and down picking what you wanted to buy.
At 6 minutes 10 seconds in there is a nice view of Rowan's Seeds (beside the bank of ireland on Westmorland Street). It always had the most brilliant flower and shrub display in tubs at the side of the shop. In the late 1960s/early 1970s I recall the owner being interviewed on the radio (or wireless as we called it then) and accusing Bank of Ireland of closing him down so they could get the shop site.
Thank you for loading up the film. Karl Martin
This is the world I remember. I went to college in Munich in1966 and the streets were gray and safe and orderly. What a difference now.
Omg l wish l could go back in time in a machine and live in this beautiful harmonious clean delightful vibrant capital city pure cultural heaven! This truly is a momentous precious video of rebellious Dublin in the rare old times!
The year O'Connell Street lost Nelson's Pillar and Parnell Square gained the Garden of Remembrance.
The city of my birth in the year of my birth. It's great to see how much has changed and how much has remained the same.
Changed for the worst.😪😪😪
Better quality than some dash cams these days.
No colour tho
This is my Dublin City when I owned it in 1965 when I was nineteen and I held the lofty position of Cashier in the Carlton Cinema. As cinema workers we were entitled to free passes to all the new shows in town, so we spent our days off going from from one cinema to another and we also had free entry to the Metropole Dance on monday nights, those were the days! eh. You will notice from the footage that the mini skirt, and the jeans had'nt arrived yet, we all wore what our mother's wore, then what a shock to our parents when Mary Quant put us girls in " half a skirt", as my mother would say. [ Rare ol times]...................
I was looking for myself if this was a Wednesday afternoon when off from School I used to frequent most of the area in the film.....I did notice a "Teddy Boy" haircut on a chap crossing near the Irish Times offices, neat. The brother may have danced with you as he was a regular at the Metropole Dances. Happy Days!
Mavis, i might have given you my admission money! I used to go to the Carlton Cinema every new picture as I live only 10 minutes away on City Quay! But I was only 16, too young for yeh! :))
Gerard Callaghan I remember you Mavis always at the back row with a new lad, some people have all the look, I was born in 1971 so I'm only joking you look ravishing 🍻📸📸📸📸☘👍
Mary Quant a Jewess...figures
Hi Mavis, my godmother Sally Folan worked in the Carlton for years, I wonder did you know her?
Such a great little slice of Dublin footage, so glad this was shared.
Great video and an important record of the time.
This video is pure magic. Thank you for uploading it.
Ireland is.
I wasn't born until 1976 but would love to hop into the Tardis and see Dublin at this time it looks so lovely..barely any cars!
I was 8 then..... fantastic video... better times back then.... the world now is on fast forward....
Thank you you guys brought back a lot of memories to my grandad I never seen him so happy
Wow bus driver making a film while on his rounds. I wonder what made him do that? But I'm so glad he did. Thank you for sharing this beautiful city.
I doubt it was the bus driver. Probably a project executed by the National Museum or other cultural body and done with the cooperation of Dublin Bus (or whatever the bus authority was called at the time).
it was a training film for CIE
It was filmed from inside the passenger saloon.
I was fourteen and working in Tara Street train Station. I also cycle a bicycle to and from work to Ballyfermot. Love my Dublin.
Gosh, you were working at fourteen.
That was 1965 Most kids of my generation started their working life, that was expected to help the family finances. Very few kids got to go further in their education. That was just excepted.
Born in the Coombe Hosp 1 Jan 1951. Live in Garden Lane off Francis Street in a tenement. Moved to Ballyfermot in 1956 first time I ever saw grass. We live in pure heaven toilet indoors,proper fireplace, a kitchen and a parlour. Love it growing up in Ballyer. Great memories.
@@goonertrooper *accepted
Dublin was great craic back then,sad how it changed,wouldn’t feel safe in the city nowadays,such a pity.
I was 12 in 1965. I remember the Donnelly's sausages neon sign on the roof of the building on the corner of O'Connell street.
streets look so clean and no knackers!
no knackers but i`d bet there were plenty of child molesters
@@paddyminceir what does that mean
@@Prince-gu8or Clerical abuse was rampant then.
@@JssyN, eff off you moron, child molesters become priests, priests don't become child molesters. Peedos will join any walk of life which gives them access to vunerable kids, you don't need to join the priesthood for that, you sad sack.
@@emmams5THIS in incorrect. Priests in a lot of cases become sex abusers!
Anyone else notice much much wider roads back then?
Streets were. Templemore is a prime example, go look for yourself if you like. The roads weren't.
Great piece of footage...nice to have it.
Born in England but my family moved back to Dublin when I was 10 years old in 1964. I had a hard time fighting everyday at school because I was a Brit, but once I was accepted after only a few weeks I loved my time there, although picking up the Dub accent helped. Been back and forth over the water throughout my adult life, but Ireland isn't the same anymore, yes there is more disposable income, but when was the last time you heard a happy go lucky feller walking in any Dublin street whistling? You might as well be in London or Chicago today!
Jeez how terrible Dublin has become a Liberal and modern city... Weren't these the days when thousands of boys were being raped by priests, thousands of women locked in slave labour camps run by nuns, thousands of babies sold to America against the mother's wishes, thousands of babies killed and burried in mass graves, 1 in 2 people having to leave to find work, a declining population, 100 people sharing tenements designed to house 10 people. People so poor they fled to America with just the clothes in their back and small suitcase. A country ruled by religious laws. Women that are raped shunned by parents if pregnant. Unwed women shunned for having a baby. Gay men and women in the closet by the hundreds of thousands living sad lives.
But at least there were drunk Irish men whistling Irish jigs on the streets... Aww those were the days.
I can happily tell you my generation are very happy with our liberal, progressive, secular and happy diverse country with more wealth.
You can use your nostalgia to make it sound better than today but to was a dump the Ireland of the 20th century. Proof being most Irish left it.
Today we are one of the most appealing counties in the world. Ill take being like Chicago or London over a poor Christian dictatorship
Sad but true mate the soul has been ripped out of it by traitors in government...
What city hasn't changed since the sixties? Including people's behaviour.
@@shanehughes3511 here we go with more nonsense. Absolutely exaggerating the horrors of those years and sugar coating the horrors of globalism today. Property prices stop us from having families, apartments changed our way of life and now it’s almost impossible to end up with a one bed flat. No wonder suicide is so prominent nowadays.
But yea it’s great ✊🏿 at least we have wonder cuisine on our doorstep and our city is like every other shithole in Europe or The US. Great stuff
I still whistle casually everywhere; less common now as you note; not always accepted abroad; pulled up by employers in Greece for it, but continued whistling everywhere day & night. Love Dublin, working there in the 80s.
I actually remember the bus's going down Grafton Street.....*sigh* :(
Looking much better Then now
*Than
Fabulous, born in 50's loved Dublin. Great memories.
*50s
I was 13 in May of that year. My mam died that year.
Ah ye poor thing. That was tough on you.
Your annus horribilis. 'But wherefore should our feelings overflow, / Where but to feel is in itself deep woe? / And mine, alas! all merge in one emotion, As seas are lost in the abyss of Ocean!', 'Light of the Liberties' James Clarence Mangan.
I LOVE THIS. PASSES BY DOHERTYS COAL WHERE I WORKED UNTIL IT CLOSED> MANY MEMORIES>THANK YOU FOR IMAGE.
The Dublin of my childhood
Thanks. Incredible footage.
Great to look back and even better to have survived till now .
The lack of pedestrian crossings or anything of the sort is actually amazing, love the old buses too!
No need for pedestrian crossings, I learned at 8 years old just to step out!
I could watch hours of this...it fascinating, the year I was born.
I love looking at pictures and video footage of the old dublin these where the times my parents and grandparents spent in dublin i get a better feel of their memories when i hear the stories and stuff and i sort of live a little in that time just by looking and watching
Moi aussi. They did a terrible job of teaching us Irish, but not a bad one teaching us French.
Butch Moore-walking in the streets in the rain, Dickie Rock & the Miami showband-every step of the way were two hits from this year so I think it would be fitting.
thanks very much for uploading
I was born in Dublin in 1965, thanks for posting this.
@@conscientiousobjector9555 Yes , The Rotunda :)
Me too 😅
I was born 64 in the rhotunda
No Japanese cars, no parking meters, everybody would say hello to each other. No pot smokers, drug pushers or the like. Dublin could be heaven.
Well, I smoke pot and drive a Japanese car..... you're just a judgemental goofball.
@@martinmartini5357 I'm talking about how times have changed. Your the one on drugs so whose the goof all?
@@captain007x : Again, to say I'm 'on drugs' is pretty hypocritical. Alcohol is one of the worst drugs, and other drugs are pretty common in society, from caffeine to pharmaceuticals... everyone takes some sort of drug, including you. Furthermore, marijuana is far safer for the individual and society than alcohol. Just because alcohol is legally and sociably acceptable, especially in Ireland, doesn't mean it's better than 'drugs'. Inform yourself...
It is. All of Ireland.❤
I got dragged to Dublin in '63 - reckless pedestrians and death defying cyclists were everywhere. I've downloaded the vid - i'm going to write some music for this. Big thanks to the uploader.
10:15 The film "Ship of Fools" is playing in the Metropole cinema.
This would date the video as sometime between 18 January 1966 to 9 February 1966.
Thanks for the upload!
i'm brazilian guy and i lived there last year , i went to dublin to learning english and i really loved the city. one day i will go there again just wait and see.
10 years ago you wrote that , have you returned?
Ainda não amigo mas eu prometi para mim mesmo voltar um dia em Dublin. Pretendo ir no mês de setembro porquê é o unico mês que tem sol quase todos os dias.
The last year of Nelson's Pillar being a landmark!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video!
Thanks. Enjoyed that. I live away now; but i miss my old town.
Remember visiting Dublin in the mid 1960's. One of the things I remember clearly was the forest of massive tv aeriels on very long poles that were used to pick up tv signals from the UK as Irish tv at the time was very limited and they only had one channel.
Watching this makes me happy and sad.....
well the people of Dublin certainly liked Ford Cortinas
Those Anglia's and Morris Minors were fairly plentiful too....
@@crossman20 Good few Austin/Morris Mini cars as well. Didn't see any of the Hillman Imp deathtraps though. Rear-engined and were very hard to drive on wet roads etc. The local doctor's wife had one.
My uncle In law had one 😁
Great video! The Morris Minor seemed to be the car of choice. Notice how they put the bus back in service for the rush hour. That stop at the end in Westmoreland street was outside Kinahan's and was either a 3 or an 11.
And in the latter case the bus conductor might have been Memory Lane Immortal, nickname, 'Funny'.
That is awesome. What a great old city it was.
Very nostalgic vid of Dublin 40 yrs a free country, the cars, morris minors, volkwagons, the bike still used a lot, the women in head scarves, the shops b4 the big global brands, tylers shop , the old buses, cops directing traffic , used to visit town as we called the city centre frequently with mum and visit our cousins in Pembroke row, mum loved Woolworth where u cud buy anything and everything and us kids for the great restaurant upstairs with huge sausages and lovely chips with beans, wish i was back there now.
Congratulations fantastic 👏👍👋.
Amazing clean & tidy and soo beautifull
It's not. That's a typical dirty Dublin day with mud and muck on the cars.
Dublin was not carpet bombed in the 1940s. This was accomplished in the 1960s-today by architects. Sam Stephenson was to Dublin as Bomber Harris was to Berlin.
The Celtic tiger ruined the character too with all the inner city apartments.
@Cathal, I wasn't aware Sam Stephenson was responsible for so many ugly buildings around Dublin. He should have been sent to jail for knocking down those beautiful Georgian houses on Fitzwilliam St to make make way for that hideous ESB head office. I had to Google him to see if his mits were all over that other monstrosity, Liberty Hall.
Not true
Spotted Advertisements for things that I remember growing up in the 60's/70's (Born 1962); IMCO Dry Cleaners - Swastika Launderette Vans - Esso Blue (which I think was Paraffin because it burned a Blue flame) - Dunn's (Sausages) - 'Players Please' (Players Cigarettes) - Kelly Jewellers (Family Friends) - ...and The Wind Jammer Pub is still there!
It is an amazing piece of footage, and so little has changed really. I was a teenager then and so much looks familiar. But 1966? Nelson's Pillar appears in the view of O'Connell Street and it was demolished in March, 1966.
It was at least 1962, as most of the buses are in the new livery. However I didn't notice many cars significantly newer than 62, so I suspect 1963-64.
Amazing to have captured this ...history of every day life of every day people is most interesting.
incredible stuff, do you have any more like this?
I'm not sure when Dublin in the rare old times really was. But I'm 55 now, and was born, bread and buttered in Phibsboro. For me, these were the rare old times. I understand when the song was written, the rare old times were probably the few decades previous to the 1960s. Anyway...
No central bank monstrosity. Driving on Grafton st. Nelson's column in Dublin. How things change.
All for the worst.😿😿
The mini car came out in 1959. Also the movie has to be pre 1966 as Nelson's pillar is visible in the final frames. This was blown up in 1966 by the I.R.A during the 50th anniversay of the 1916 uprising.
Absolutely fascinating. I would have been 5 at the time this was made. What is very striking is the general absence of traffic lights, relative absence of one-way streets and, of course, the smaller number of cars on the roads. Another highlight is the traffic on streets that are now pedestrianised, and notably Grafton Street (although Grafton Street still had traffic in the late 70s).
great footage of dublin the year before i was born.I'm amazed to see so many gardai on the street directing traffic.
this is fantastic thanks for the upload
Love how smooth roads r, not a pothole in sight🐾🐾
My fave city of all, my second home...love it!!!
Really enjoyed that thank you ... My birth year !
7:49 Look at how smartly all of the people dressed up. Nowadays you see nackers walking up and down in scruffy tracksuits
Zamond true
Fascinating. At 2:55 you can see the Irish times clock on Westmorland st. The same clock now is part of new offices on Tara st!
Memories of Cabra, 1960,s.
I remember Cabra and the "Hills"over the back garden wall where our gang played.
There was Frank and Jim Hickey, the twins, and Joxer Sullivan, brilled creamed hair all slicked back.
Now Theresa Reddin, Whacker sister fancied Frank Hickey no end, but my heart belonged to Jim.
When we played 'spin the bottle' and Jim sat opposite me on the cold damp grass of the hills, in his knee high breeches, his kiss was the first for me.
Of course there was Olive, Cora, and Marie, who laughed and giggled constantly, when the bottle stopped at them.
All summer long we roamed the hills where cattle often grazed. Whacker thought he'd 'round em up', just like Roy Rogers did, but " Ye Ha" did'nt work on Cabra cattle, you see they didn't understand Texas lingo, and instead of been rounded up would charge!
When frank kissed Theresa, the rest of us let out a yell! but some years later those childhood sweethearts listened for the bell, and tied the knot in that Hallowed spot The Chapel on the Hill.
There was a kiosk at the end of Carnlough Rd, where your precious pennies went, there Mr Mac sold penny Black Jacks, and single Players Wills. We never saw inside that shop, we never got the chance, from the opening space you could just see his face and his blind mans glasses, that was all.. We tried it every way we could from a tanner to a bob, but Mr Mac was no ones fool, he knew half a crown from a dud, blind, black specs and all.!
And what about those" Follow Uppers", the sunday morning ten o'clock Mass when Fr; Farrell, the children's man, left every kid glued to their seats, he left us all a-gasp, waiting for next week,- would Moses ever descend the Mount, would Noah's Ark sink,! Looking back we had it made, Fr Farrell was a gem, but when it came to confession, Fr Flash was your only man. Now Fr Kavanagh, known as' Flash', would go through a six deep pew of sinners in a wink. The slide flew back and you just had time for a 'Bless me father", and you got no further for the hatch flew shut again, and vaguely you heard "say three Hail Mary's that's what you got every single week.
We had few heroes to boast about in those hazy days gone by, but one chap put Cabra on the map is still a star to-day. When Dickie you were proud to say "he's one of us , we know him well, hasn't he come far, from The Candy Store On The Corner ' to the big time on the hill "......
How clear my memories are of those happy days, when innocence was real, a score of happy friendly faces I can almost touch and feel.!
If only I could turn back the clock, I'd race up that road again, and swing on the lamp!, and stay out till its dark,
waiting for Mammy to call me in.....................
MMCG.
Lovely memories Mavis, well written.
@John Wickes This piece is an excerpt from 'Pen To Paper' a book of short stories and poetry published by the Creative Writer's Group, of which I was a member, perhaps you came across it, the piece is original and every word is from my personal memory of childhood in
Cabra...
MMCG.
When i saw the bridge man
i was just like Wow.. I have been over that a lot and still Its older than me
My god that little lad on the messenger bike would have won the uphill stage in the tour de france
Brilliant video
He probably don't cycle no more.
The year I was born,love it.
Thanks for the comments please watch the updated version with music 'Dublin Town 1965'
Would love to just have one day to ramble around!
You should. Its beautiful 😍
thanks for this
This have brought a tear to me eye them were the days see on U Tube Dublin Poetry Robbie Dunn
I've never known a beautiful Dublin city, just watch your back and your pockets! The roads look better then than they do now, traffic flowed nicely too now it's a disaster with too many one way roads and bus lanes
D'Oh! That's what I get for posting close to midnight. You're absolutely right. Why I got Pearse Street and Westland Row confused, I don't know.
Hardly any road markings. Every man for himself 😀 Everyone would queue nicely for the bus, and then when it came there was always a big mill to get on.
This is great footage, the streets look very clean and tidy, not nearly as many cars on the road as these days. Also it was in a time before Health and Safety became an industry, you wouldn't be allowed to stand up front beside the bus driver now and film the journey. No more hop on hop off busses Health and Safety issues there , Also the butcher boys delivering on bikes no helmets or hi vis jackets, I suppose Health and safety wouldn't permit the delivery of meat on a bicycle these days. No mobile phone zombies wandering in front of traffic and pedestrians. I don't see any homeless or beggers. Not a lot of tourists.
We love dublin😍
I was 2 years old then born in England my mother is a dub 94years old now, moved us back to Dublin my father a Londoner had no choice but to follow my grandmother Mrs Smith had a grocery store off arran street long gone now
Dublin is as beautiful nowadays as it was back in 65))
ok I was 6 when this was filmed
I love Dublin
A beautiful and sad-happy old city then.
People had materially so little. No gadgets. They were simpler times. We had nothing to rob so you could always leave you back door open.
Happy mostly 😅
Watching this with Luke singing Rare Auld times on another tab! Go h-iontach!
Listen to The Rare Auld Times by Luke Kelly during this. Very fitting!
at 5:43 there's a car with a reg which looks like KZH ... or WZH ... which dates this video to some time after November 1964 or May 1965 respectively when those plates were issued originally.
great vid, nelsons pillar wow
and you could park anywhere and not pay a penny....and no pedestrians walking in front of cars whilst yappin on their mobiles .....and drive your motorbike without a helmet !! a much less frenetic lifestyle ...bring it back i say ...
How?
Are you mad??😂
When and how???
Car ownership must have grown rapidly in the early 1960s. Note the lack of older models. Cortinas Anglias Minis Austin 1100s abound.
Freewheeling messenger boys wrote their own traffic rules of course.
1965. It is.
That was the year after I got married happy memories. 😁💕🌹
This is dead good. Thanks.
Brilliant isn't it 😅
Brilliant
Yes,
That's me on my way to Bolton Street.
Wow
IMDB doesnt say what month in 1966 so it may have been Feb or Jan. people are in their heavy coats, it has been raining, and shadows are dim (though the footage could be over a few days). I have living abroad since 1983 but one of the things that amazes about Irish pedestrians is how they run out in front of traffic. THis video proves that - running out in front of those old buses
Amazing quality, both original & the transfer. Was the original 16mm? How did you transfer it? Telecine or scanner?
Surprisingly little traffic then. A lot more in the mid 1970s when I lived there.
The Irish were the world Jaywalking champions in 65. Fun fact.
I've never seen the Wood Quay site before it was all demolished, the video is a classic just for that, if not for the rest of the beautiful quality views.