Rag Week At University College Dublin, Ireland 1974
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- Fun activities and charity fundraisers for Rag Week at University College Dublin.
Students take the plunge into the icy waters of the UCD lake in the name of fun and charity.
Chairman of the Rag Week Committee Geoff Smyth says there is something for everybody during Rag Week including the usual impromptu student stunts, concerts, and many competitions.
For the men, there’s the hairiest legs competition and for the women, there’s a beauty pageant.
Despite some opposition to the idea of a beauty contest, Miss UCD 1974 Eimear McCooey sees the competition as a bit of fun and feels in no way exploited. A first year Arts student studying Philosophy, Psychology and English the new Miss UCD wins a trip for two to London.
Eimear McCooey is also one of the judges on the hairiest legs competition which is hosted by Gerry McNamara.
The aim of Miss UCD is to promote Rag Week.
Money raised from events throughout the week will be distributed among ten charities.
This episode of ‘Tangents’ was broadcast on 19 February 1974. The reporter is Doireann Ní Bhriain. - Розваги
I wonder what became of the Beauty Queen winner, she was a lovely girl
She'd be what...in her late 60's now?
The concerts were quite good as I recall and so was the reefer god be with the days ✌️😎💚
The reefer was good sorry!!!
Rag Week scene looked like great craic in video.
DIT rag week for me as a 17 year old in 2009 was just spent playing Pool and watching football over 3 quid pints in Bodkins with some Donegal lads. All the Dubs would moan about having to walk from Kevin St to Bolton St for pints, but we watched some good games there, had some quizzes and memorably enough were there the night after Thierry Henry's handball joking about how our studying French was a waste of a life. The bigger Irish 'university' colleges definitely have way too much ceremony. No discounted bar in DIT back then. No serious college societies unless you were just in it with a clan of your mates or wanted to fight the student princes to get into junior politics so you could get a handy Party or Union job after college; A college society was just a few stands and a few weirdos skimming college funds for pizza nights. I did gatecrash a few college dinners myself for 4 years straight until we were caught in the act at a huge uneaten buffet once, we still got away with our food but one experienced lad cottoned on to us in a 30 second confrontation so for once we didn't go back for seconds. Apparently some people also called these things at the start of each year 'Shag weeks' but when you have to commute from outside Dublin every single day you're more worried about getting drunk cheap and free sandwiches than the fine specimens like this lady in the video tbh. How fun it all is can probably be reflected in the fact that my happiest memories are the friendships I had then, all more or less bar 2 exceptions long since over now, and all the free shit I got away with stealing haha. In retrospect attending a party aged 17 from which several people including my commuting buddy caught swine flu without seeming to get sick myself is quite surreal given recent events-students definitely spread disease way too easily.
The girls looked great back then.
No fat birds or fat blokes. No sweet counters at the checkouts.
What you saw was what you got ! Now there’s a very good chance you wouldn’t even recognise your girlfriend without her makeup !!! Sad really,
Yep none of that body positivity crap or social media. People comfortable in their own skin.
Especially the bird at 1:34 !
What happened??🤣
The state of the hair style back then. Wow 😳 incredible footage to have though ! Thanks for sharing this love all of your videos so far
here the hairstyles arent much better now lol
People at least cared for theirs then.
I went to UCD from 2000 to 2003 and I've been back frequently doing adult education or alumni stuff and I'm shocked how recognisable the lake, the buildings and even the lecture halls look. They really don't change any more than they have to do they?
I was there from 1978 to 1982 and went back a few years ago. Yes, the original buildings we knew back then look the same but you would not recognize the rest of the campus. It’s like a small city in there with all the residential accommodations
@@Peter-gi3re True enough and that's something that changed even since my day.
I loved those beautiful 70's girls. All that bush. Sylvia Kristal style lovlies! All 🥰😍🤩in their 70's now!
all that bush.. aye aye
Red haired green eyed lasses
When the girls were proud to be girls...
Sylvia Krystal, hahaha that's brilliant !, I definitely miss bush, it was still quite common up until the mid 90's and then shaving took over.
Ms UCD was a cutie
The hair....
🤣🤣
No wonder we had a recession in the '80s....
we had one in 2008, we are in one today, plus €300 billion in debt
liberalism to bliss
Four hundred and seventy years ago.
At lest some went to a meaningful charity in Kilkenny I may be wrong but they opened the way for others in the 70s
They were all hipsters back then too minus the materialism
I wouldn't exaggerate about no materialism in Older Day's. Today greedy enough people have access to credit Cards which were almost inaccessible 40 or more years ago.
Hippies, big difference.
47 years ago
Rag week is just a piss up 😅 the wall.
You could smoke anywhere. Bell-bottoms, platforms long hair, and that was the lads 🤣
Lol
Bring back smoking! On balance it was for the best.
Jeff Smith looks like a reall wild man!!
Not a balmpot in sight. How times change
Young people these days.
Wow they were ahead of their time.
Where are the cans?
Glass ones only in pubs.
All those students are now OAP's
3:55 didnt know jack black attended ucd lol
In the words of Blackadder: ' ...ahh, a iniversity education ... nothing to beat it!
What's two beans plus two beans? 🤔
Women these days would do well to listen to what that young lady was speaking about, wise beyond her years
Jesus!
Not one person with their head down absorbed in their phone
but there wasn't any phones back in those days so how could anyone do that
@@eddyfitzgerald2518
No phones and we got on just fine without.
The world has been ruined by smart phones and social media - no doubt about it
Brian - how would you know if you never lived in those times?
@@mistresscatty1 yeah it is like a separate cult
And they are so "original" and "thought-provoking" and "deep"....
OMG that was hilarious lol I think stats were high on dept of Ag students ending up in the lake lol best craic came from the Ag block. I went to my locker one day in a shared locker space with Ag and they'd put a sheeps head in the top of a locker 🤢 funnily enough I don't remember much about rag week 🙈
“Something for everybody!”
I beg to differ.
The charity part got lost down throught the years. No need for it at all nowadays !
the girl at 02:03... well I would marry that woman :D
she's probably dead now in all fairness
or i doubt she would have a tooth in her head if she was alive and probably short grey hair now
She attended UCD so she is probably a purple haired lesbian cat woman by now .
She’s your grandmother
She sounds British. Why do so many Dublin and Irish people sound British
A weekend in Paris for one - Jesus what a completely shite prize option.
She is pretty
Bush Tucker Trial...
Does the winner of the beauty contest feel 'exploited'(!) asks the female reporter. Meanwhile by the end, there's a guy standing on a table being judged by a group of women while gettings his leg touched... Women take themselves way too seriously.
70s eh, be gorah!
I remember a guy who used to sell posters with long hair at UCD from Belfast back in the 90's. All the girls used to go mad for him because he looked liked Eddie Vedder lol
HE STOLE MY FKN GIRLFRIEND!!!
Bet you didn't that coming.
The good thing about girls back then , they werent mucked about with , with beauty procedures, nowadays it is every thing very artificial, orange toner, duck lips, false breasts, false lashes, etc. All thes aesthetic treatments - very bad.
the bomb-making course was oversubscribed every year at UCD
Southern Ireland, best country in the world
REPUBLIC of Ireland! Not "Southern Ireland!" Please get it right, otherwise it's quite upsetting. 😕
No rag week last year. It was sad walking through the campus of my former college UCC and seeing so few students around. The professors hiding at home from a flu.
Its a pandemic apparently, people are dropping like flies, hospitals are overrun, the staff have gone mad with fits of dancing. Perfectly healthy people have the flu this year, with absolutely no symptoms. Oh but stay safe, holdfirm, we are all in this together, think of granny, and all the other nauseating shit.
I’d say only rich kids went to college back then ……..
Not necessarily. I was there from 1978. I wasn’t rich and did manage to pay for 90% of my time in college. A lot of my friends were from working class homes around Dublin. Yes, there were plenty of kids from wealthy homes but you will get that in any university any where
I was there then. Lived in Bluebell. Got a grant. Studied and partied hard. Actually had a big education meeting upper class kids and discovering they were not all dick heads. I was fortunate to have a great time. Gas to see myself in that video.
she won a weekend in Paris for one ??
what's the point in that, seriously
Haha ……. Thought the same here. Times were tough ….. only get London for 2 😀
I went to UCD in 1978. Pints were 50 pence in the crappy UCD bar and it was hit and miss as to quality. Still it was a lot of fun there back at that time. Was back in Ireland last month and drove in around the place. It has changed so much ….. its like a small town now with so much student accommodation. Back then there was zero student accommodation on campus. I remember Rag week one year we had U2 playing in the Restaurant……. I was too drunk to make it to the concert
Tomas u know whats worse than 2 people talking shite, is 3 people talking shite
All the people became teachers, civil servants, politicans,they had various government jobs. They got paid very well, and have excellent pensions. They spend their time attending climate change rallies, but enjoy frequent plane journeys to their vacation spots around the world. Currently they are obsessed about getting vaccinated against corona virus, which is extremely mild to say the least. Survival rate 99.5%.
@@OndaBoosters No, i am not.
Stop shite talking.
Dunno about the climate change rallies... far too early .... maybe Greenpeace, Amnesty International.
@@johnbalance3989 You're welcome anytime.
Oh so posh
Good GOD that was AWFUL!!!!
all dead
Yet still alive.
Ahhh the start of all the liberal PC stuff. These people became the teachers that turned my generation into "woke" sensitive social justice warriors of today.
Yeah, as if that will save this world from it's inevitable crash and burn.
@@kingofthecatnap6246 oh no it will crash and burn.... but until then, I'd prefer not to have to tip toe around on egg shells incase I say something that is now considered a micro aggression by some blue haired, middle class, know it all.
lol what a grumpy eejit you sound like
@@atty877
With you on that.
@@conorburke1999 just stating facts.
Talk about small mindedness, from being isolationist for a long time because of church and state collusion. Keep them poor and thick.
About as funny as aids