Sights and Sounds of Cork City, Ireland 1975
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- An impressionistic film evokes the sights and sounds of Cork city.
Writing about the film ‘Images of the City of Cork’ in the RTÉ Guide, John Walsh said,
Cork is Cork, and there is nowhere like it.
The film made by Norris Davidson takes a view of Cork from an outsider’s perspective highlighting the places and buildings that the natives may take for granted.
Norris Davidson wanted the film to be,
A view of things in the city that strikes an outsider but are so familiar to the Corkonian that they may have become invisible to him.
There is no narration to this film which allows the images to speak for themselves. ‘Images of the City of Cork’ was shot in May and June 1974.
‘Images of the City of Cork’ was broadcast on 10 January 1975.
Love is rare , Life is strange,. Nothing lasts ,. And people change. W.B.YEATS. Thank You for this video. We have flown so high now, we are all afraid to look down . God Bless..🙏🇮🇪🙏
Ah yes! I would have been there then, having grown up in Cork in the 1960 and 1970s. No car back in those days: we walked everywhere. Maybe that's why I can still get around, lol.
Fascinating to watch this. I was born in Cork in 1975 but wasn’t there for long.
I’m still one of God’s people though on account of being born there 😂
7:15 price list 👀
What about it?
@@davidkavanagh189 they have one 🙃
Did the older women near the end (and in the thumbnail) go on to star as maurading fans of Eoin McLove in an episode of Fr Ted ?
When people were decent or at least tried to be
More laid back, the simple things in life, no material things. More freedom. We had the place to ourselves. Less state involvement in people lives.
PEOPLE DIDNT HAVE CARS AND HANDBAGS AYE
You couldn't be more wrong mate. Miserable time. Anyone who thinks the 1970s was a better time than now has a really really crap memory and/or lost the use of their brain....
@@davidkavanagh189you having a laugh lad
Theres absolutely nothing better about this fucking shit we see today
More Starbucks and shit while majority of irish businesses close
This was Ireland
Ireland has been destroyed with Internationalist Influences
A lot more church involvement though🤔
@@corkboy4523And not in a good way - a lot of things are out in the open now.
I shouldn’t have watched this while I was hungry. Seeing all that food at the English Market, and then the bowls of soup at the end has made me famished!
Your great for finding these old 📼 films thanks🎉
I was around back then and I know we have all our modern stuff we cant seem to do without today. But if you offered me a ticket back to 1975 I'd take it. At least you could afford to get married, buy a house have more than half a child.on one fairly basic wage. And I could rely settle for some tripe and onions certainly better than any crap food we put up with today.
The Irish are being replaced by islamints, afr1cans, Albanians etc etc and they have on average five children, so rest assured, many children will be born, they just won't be children of the 1rish.
...or a plate of crubeens??
Indeed and have a Patrick St without Junkies , sickening what' our city centre has become
I was too busy sitting my Leaving Cert when this was being filmed, but it brings back many fond memories.
The greatest change I see is how overweight Cork (& Irish ) people have got in the last 50 years.
A lot aren't Irish though
There are a lot less manual jobs which leads to a more sedentary lifestyle and much more processed foods and sugar available. It is a battle to keep the weight down or in my case to not lose all my muscle mass from sitting in an office all day!
I still have a couple of side plates from the 70's & they are literally tiny compared to todays plates & bowls. We ate a lot less back then & i think we were more active & a lot less greedy ( I'm not saying everyone is greedy now but some folks don't know when to stop)
I was crossing at the bus station as the train was crossing the bridge , I saw the camera man in the cab. John Flynn the late ticket checker in it.
Excellent look back of Ireland. Sadly, the Ireland of today is a shadow of this.
Ya mean way more comfortable and prosperous? Bad memory perhaps?
Oh bless……you’re not very bright are you? Let me guess….you hate foreigners 🙄
This is when there was proper old men and old women. There are no proper old people these days😅
I have been told by a reliable source that the people of Cork are the very finest you could wish to meet. Someday when I break free and my hard work is done of working on the chain ganger, I will pick up my few belongings, collect my exceedingly small amount of money from being locked in prison for 43 years for a crime I did not commit and head over to Cork fair city and enjoy myself for a little time until my savings run out
Was n Cork in d 70s great craic lovely people
I was born in 2003 and I was born far away from Ireland like 5000 km . But i feel that every people feel the same.
Doesn’t matter when they were born . Peace !
I see a lot of people here saying how bad things were back then. Do people forget that we are living in bad times now with no affordable housing, high inflation, rising fuel prices, wars, etc. The past had its own problems, some different and some similar to today’s problems. It doesn’t matter what era you live in. There is some good and some bad times no matter what time in history or the future humans will live in. Just remember that as long as humans exist on Earth, there’s always going to be hard times and good times.
You are so right there alas too.
Ah, for the 'good - old, bad - old days'! Maybe it's being a 'Gen - X~er' but has anyone else noticed that '80's footage has a (relatively) modern look about it, but the '70’s definitely have an "In me fadder's time' vibe about them! But yeah... When the English Market was, tbh, kind of a dump, and not the the chi~chi foodie hang~out it is today... Of course, that was before the fire, which many people didn't think it would come back from; not to mention it would be many years yet before the late Betty Windsor would be going there for her 'messages'! And when Cork City was a proper working port, ie 'The Docks'. ('Docklands'? _'Sextant Quarter'?!_ 🤮 Bleeurgh!!) They can be seen to very cinematic, and atmospheric, effect in the 'video' for 'A Million Miles Away' by the city's adopted son, the great Rory Gallagher, from his 'Irish Tour 1974'. Back then, the port was internationally famous - if only for its 'brassers'! (True - there's a Radharc/RTE documentary about it, though it doesn't seem to be online) Fwiw, in the '70's, even Belfast was still in the top 10 busiest ports in the World! I'd be very surprised if there's more than 1 or 2 of the World's 10 busiest ports these days that arent in China! Of course, in common with ports the World over, 99% of the shipping is now handled quite a ways downstream. Unfortunately, it's a bit like an Irish version of the old 'Dumb Yank Tourists' joke - "Gee - weren't they smart to build the (new) freight handling facilities _the wrong side of the harbour×_ from the railhead!" When I was a little kid, the same as many kids of that era still did, I would sometimes dream of running away to sea. Not that I had an unhappy childhood or anything, but what a way to see the World! Who would be a sailor nowadays though, when the port is invariably 15 miles away from where anything interesting is happening?! (Sorry Ringaskiddy, but 'Old Amsterdam', you're not!)
Finally, I had always thought (no less in the '70's than today) that it was an unwritten rule, given the importance placed on conversation in Irish hostelries 🙄😉, that there were only 4 types of literature allowed in a Cork boozer; in no special order - d'Ekko, The Sun, The Mirror and The Racing Post. I'd have thought, surely, some joker ostentatiously leaving _Kandinsky,_ (whoever _she_ is) title page up on the table would get themselves thrown out, if not actually beaten up; but then I remembered, like the surviving 'early houses' in the _'Docklands',_ that there are a number of premises with special exceptional licences in the environs of the University, and, as here, a mere spit away from the Opera House and Art Gallery *>`ahem‘
@richiehoyt
Informative and hilarious comments, in equal measure.
@@seanmcmichael2551 Thanks. Or "Never mind the quality, just feel the width..!"
it should still be like that today our country its very sad to see it like it is now things change but not for the good today our country is being held in bondage once again and its croppy lie down but we will never lie down again
held in bondage???😂😂😂speak for yourself...
Is there anything you won't play the victim over?
‘Twas lovely to see the train on the bridge near the City Hall. When we were lining up to go into the Eglantine baths, you would see that train pulling in further along that rail line into what was then a Cork Corporation work yard. Our neighbour in Capwell Mr. Heas used to work there and we’d see him in his overalls at work there. I think this was was the old Bandon rail line which used to pass at the back of our houses in Capwell Ave. and St Finbarrs across the ‘line’ as we used to call it.
went to school in Colaiste, along the Capwell Rd.
I say 90% of all the places and buildings in this haven't changed I was about to recognise all of them and I wasn't even born in 75
The echo man's taint..
Tripe and onion and a pint?
somebody tune that feckin piano
I was 5.
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Class
2 quid for a flagon
Traffic management was much better
Because no one could afford cars and there were less people. It's really not that difficult to understand. You might as well talk about the lack of traffic in 1901
Brill 🎉 thank you 😊 sights ‘n sounds of a past time ☘️
Diversity is our strength......
What went wrong ? Open borders.
Goway ya Langer. No such thing as 'open borders'
Fastest thing outta Cork in 1975, the Dublin train. Well its going into Cork but as we can see its empty.
Wrong line!
muppet
Jackeens were banned in cork lol 😂
Who would have thought that the Gael would soon become a second class citizen in his own land. That another plantation was not far off in the future.
I agree 100%! So sad!
Zzzzzz
Gobshite
@@jaws6869 ..what ngo do you work for shill?..
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