I have always been fascinated with Ireland and its wonderful, tough folk. I don't know of a tougher, more determined, resilient people in the world. No matter their circumstance, they never give up and they have genuine love in their hearts regardless of what's thrown on them. God Bless them!
@@smartandhandsome Does that make any sense in your addled brain? Think of all the Irish you have met, look at your immense knowledge of Irish history, then think again. I suppose you think the Japanese on the whole are sweet because you met a nice girl once?
Noticed the ties on the men. The little chaps were not in any way delinquent, just boys being boys. Children always ran a bit wild .. It was part of growing up. There was a strange acceptance of the chance that children would be killed by traffic or be drowned in the docks or canal😮😮. This documentary was about Dublin in the rare old times. It is awful to see what came after them with the drug scene there and in every town in Ireland😢
@EIRE4EVER no its not a race thing, ITS A CLASS THING always was and hopefully won't be forever but don't let policy makers, corporations, the media you consume, property developers etc, fool you into thinking that it is a race/immigrant thing. The root of the immigrant problem you identify with, lies with our government not taking care of us initually so we could even accommodate some immigrants that came here in search of a better life. See how the blame gets passed around but never on the the government? They will just sit back and watch us blame each other for taking our jobs haha its mad, I think they have fooled us all, especially ones who think the immigrants are the problem. Same reason the Irish public don't revolt against the 5% who hoard all of out resources. Shur do you not know about the humongous Irish diaspora due to our immigration!
@EIRE4EVER you're watching of footage of people living in squalid conditions before there were immigrants and now there is a bit more wealth in the country you blame those said immigrants. Top level brain you've got there. You need to be reminded to wipe your ass every time you take a dump?
@EIRE4EVER it's funny, I seem to remember the same sentiment towards the irish in the UK. Amazing how the people who were shit on all over the world are now shitting on others that are in the same situation.
@@lovefunnyflicks is say it is but I asked a lad who grew up with these lads and said its patsy hutch not Gerry. The hutches grew up on Buckingham Street not sheriff Street but I'm sure they walked all the streets.
Great archive, thanks for posting. I think the comments below are unfair. The interviewer was doing his best, he was sympathetic and critical of the situation. The report wouldn't wouldn't have been popular with the local bigwigs. This was early days of lightweight 16mm cameras, the people speak for themselves, not scripted as in the 'realistic' documentaries of the thirties and forties, Humphrey Jennings etc..
Dear Irish people, so dear to us,Argentines. One of our national heros, Admiral William Brown, commander of our navy during the war of independence, was born in Foxford, Ireland. When you speak ill of migrants, remember those born before You, who had to.migrate from Ireland, among other countries, to Argentina, where they became one more Argentine amongst all of us, as my forebears, from other parts of Europe, did. Poverty is not a crime.
I was so proud reading about admiral William Brown many Irishman back in the day went abroad and faught in the name of freedom for others majority of us Irishmen and women love all people until u do use or family or friends wrong or harm
For them, this urban life was normal. I lived in a house with a pond in front, and you couldn't see another house or structure from my house. I thank God for that childhood, exploring the lakes, the woods, the rivers and the fields.
Good hard-working people, doing their best in difficult times. The lads talking about being messenger boys could be Uber drivers/Grub Hub delivery in today's world.
I was happy to grow up in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s . It was a better time than now and I wish we could have it like that again. .........we used to go train spotting on Dublin Westland Row station .............. and once , as late as 1969 we were lucky enough to get a steam train from Belfast York Rd to Portrush when a Diesel engine failed
Kids wouldn’t do the things now they did back then when they were active and used their imagination those days are gone , nowadays it’s the internet and phones they are on , no train spotting! 😉
Loads of different Dublin accents, every four or five miles you go it's different. A lot are indulging in the west Brit accent now though, bettering themselves, lá tee dá.
@@mactoirdhealbhaigh4873 I think it's gone beyond a concept of bettering, onto it being in the blood now. It's an evolutionary thing. It's like the young kids you hear who have these bizarre mid Atlantic accents
This could have been filmed in any city it the U.K. or Europe at that time.. White Privilege??? .. It’s a cruel myth for the working classes of Europe..
Eh, that is a term used in he USA where there was a fairly recent history of slavery. Either you live there and are misappropriating talking points or else you're watching too UA-cam videos of butt-hurt right-whingers. As for the other ass-hat talking about blacks blaming the Irish for slavery - that is completely your feeble imagination.
Tougher for the Irish though after 800 years of occupation by a foreign invader (the UK) which resulted in huge emigration and death and set the country back decades until we finally won our independence.
White privilege does not mean you're excempt from poverty. It just means that, in comparison to Black people and poc you have it percentually easier. Nevermind that whiteness is a white people invention.
It is the 1960's - that is all we had to do, play around the streets or play in your bedroom. We went to the quarry - anyone of us could have drowned there. It was the same everywhere, there were no carnivals or clubs or anything else to do, just make your own fun - this is nothing different.
Ireland was a shit hole to grow up in for the poor. Yes the people made the best of it but the class discrimination the prejudice was rampant here. The poor were looked on like lepers. Remember this was all policy. Council chose to ignore and neglect these families and children.
Atleast the kids then seemed to want change, the lads now would choose drink and drugs over education and opportunity, they wouldn't take the chance if they were given it
@Never Unprepared Well if you have planter blood you can't be trusted but then alot of these inner city kids have planter surnames like Hutch,Proctor and so on,look at the prisoners in Mountjoy a large number of criminals have planter English surnames.
very hard to watch, lived in a room my parents rented in the area for a few months, thank fuck my father had the sense to get out fast, my heart goes out to these people, hard as nails and never given a hope, today, i'm not sure it has improved much at all.
great old film,but honestly if one of my kids had died from an accident like drowning,my kids would not be going out without me or a responsible adult,again until they were much older,that woman said two of hers fell out the balcony,i know it must have been really hard in thjose days no matter where you lived,but would you let you other kids near the balcony anymore,both parents at home too at the time,my grandmother lived in a barn,and i mean a small barn,not a fancy conversion,she had seven kids in there one was my mother,they ended up in that because after my mums real dad died when she was five and her sisters were 4 8 and 12,my grandma ran a boarding house she bought after my grandad died,he had been head of the waterworks in yorkshire so they lived in a lovely house with lovely gardens and were quite well off for the time,anyway one of the boaders was an irish sailor very handsome he was,my grandma fell for him,and they married,she had three more daughters but he became a really bad drinker he sold everything they owened and they all ended up in the gutter,and he was a very cruel man to my mum and her sisters and my grandma,he did stop drinking later in life, thats when i came along i only knew him as my lovely grandad,my mum never told my sister or i what kind of life she had really had until he died and we were older,bless her she let us have him as we knew him to be,loving and kind,it was the drink that did it,also he grew up on the streets of ireland after his mother died when he was 2 his sister litterally brought him up on the streets,sad times for people and very hard lives
As poor as these people were the children were so polite compared to the self entitled bunch we have now The woman at the end reminded me so much of father Ted's housekeeper,
Yep the interviewers hadn't a clue coming from university and asking why they didn't work he should have said should school kids go to school longer be being thrown out at 12 is keeping them poor or making thieves
Nicer one in the English speaking World. I'm from London, but my sister always loved a Dublin accent since her negihbours and my childhood friends were raised there in the 70s.
You won’t find another place that can keep their Halloween bonfire going for as long as Sheriff street. The phrase “keep ‘er lit” first started with them boys!
And council developments still have many of these issues. Safer at least for the most part but bad reputation stopping people from getting jobs and lack of amenities is still a problem
15:00 bigging up Ballymun, little did they know how fucked that place would get. They had the answer right there on their doorstep. Communities were already built but the corporation never maintained the flats, and left the kids to wander the streets. They did the same in Ballymun but the kids there has nowhere to ramble or walk to. Ad in drugs in both areas in the 80s and it was a decimation of the community with crime and death.
Absolutely sickening the way the council and state totally neglected these children to the extent that they died through accidents and dangerous environment. It just goes to show you how much they degraded these Irish citizens. You can bet the councils were full of the well off who didn't give a shit about the poor. The same old story and of course the Catholic Church did fuck all to help only take collections and moralise about contraception.
Jesus, has Sheriff Street ever had a break. I don't know that much about its history but I presume the various flat complexes like Laurences mansions were built to house the dockers? I assumed the deprivation really took hold in the 70s with the mechanisation of the docks, but it seems the places was accursed from long before that.
I was born and raised in these flat 83 /93,the best child hood ever,we use to scut the lorrys up to the five lamps.Kiss chasing spin the bottle drinking are woodies
thank god those flats and all the rest of that failed experiment are gone. Ballymun, Deveny, St. Michaels. I suppose they were a quick fix to the the Georgian slums at the time but once drugs came in, everything changed, and had to.
Both my parents are born in inner city Dublin, and moved to Birmingham in the 60s, im the first born outside of Dublin, but my childhood community in Birmingham was a very close knit Dublin community (not Irish but Dublin) and every adult I knew was a dub except for my teachers, and I think south/east inner city Birmingham during the 70s and 80s has more of the stereotypical Dublin culture than Dublin has now
Poor little divels , priests beating the shit out of then , not to mention the school master with his leather strap and cane talking out his aggression on the poor boys that had to take what was going.
Would like to know the ages of the children in the beginning of this video. They look as if the oldest of them is maybe 13 or 14. What was the school leaving age back then?
The community group who are seen chatting in their home with the reporter, are Jim and Peter Sheridan's parents. The younger, and leaner, gentleman with the dark hair is my cousin, author Hugh O'Donnell
Starting @6.40 the boy on the left looks like a young version of how Gerry -The Monk- Hutch would look as a kid of that age. Hes a dead ringer. I read down the comments a bit and its confirmed that this is indeed a Hutch, most prolly Gerry, but could be another brother. I shall stick with my first instinct, which is, after all, usually the right one.
I was around them days up further near the Dublin fruit Market. I knew some of these boys I knew Gerry. I played football on the Diamond summerhill. Boxed down there. Poverty in spades. Bleek until the 90s. So much has changed you wouldn't know the place now. But some of the same social issues pravail. ✌️☘️
One of those kids is ''famous'' currently. He's known as The Monk, and has turned out to be an ODC. He's the dark haired lad with the protruding ears. He's got a huge price on his head, circa 2016. The interview in the parlour towards the end of the docu shows mr. and mrs. Sheridan debating the issues. They are the parents of movie director, Jim Sheridan, and beside them, author Hugh O'Donnell.
Adrian, Its not Gerry Hutch, look further down the comments, another user posted saying it was her husband, Paddy Mitchell. He would also have been older then
...SE US here...seeing on this and at least one other doc similar, I ask anyone...what IS ‘the corporation’..?? Is this equivalent to something like ‘the Council’ in England??
Check out the Irish History Show for interviews and discussions on Irish History irishhistoryshow.ie/
My grandad was from here. Worked on the docks all his life. R.I.P Patrick Byrne 8yrs today
Hey my grandmother is Byrne and she was from Wexford
i spotted my late husband in this he was the boy who wanted a messenger boy job r.i.p.Paddhy x x
lived there while married to a man fron the street x
Did he get a job then.
no was a bank robber lol
he was a good auld stroker
sure was did you know him ??
I have always been fascinated with Ireland and its wonderful, tough folk. I don't know of a tougher, more determined, resilient people in the world. No matter their circumstance, they never give up and they have genuine love in their hearts regardless of what's thrown on them. God Bless them!
@@paul479 still a very tough place
Is that a euphemism for loud, stupid, violent, maudlin and drunk?
@@williamwilliam5066 Crazy projections from someone who clearly wasn't raised right
@@williamwilliam5066 There's your attention, by the way, we know your mother didn't give you any growing up haha
@@smartandhandsome Does that make any sense in your addled brain? Think of all the Irish you have met, look at your immense knowledge of Irish history, then think again. I suppose you think the Japanese on the whole are sweet because you met a nice girl once?
Brave, smart, motivated. That's all I hear when I hear them speak. They have more drive and savvy than most adults.
Noticed the ties on the men. The little chaps were not in any way delinquent, just boys being boys. Children always ran a bit wild
.. It was part of growing up. There was a strange acceptance of the chance that children would be killed by traffic or be drowned in the docks or canal😮😮.
This documentary was about Dublin in the rare old times.
It is awful to see what came after them with the drug scene there and in every town in Ireland😢
The salt of the earth. God bless them.
That poor mother and father who had 3 of their young children killed within 2,3 months...
People suffered so much 😭
I love the way a lot of people in the comments either know or are related to the people in this video
That's the Dublin I know and love
My dad (born 1958) grew up here with 9 brothers and 3 sisters in a 2 bedroom flat and its amazing how he could name basically everyone in this video
@EIRE4EVER no its not a race thing, ITS A CLASS THING always was and hopefully won't be forever but don't let policy makers, corporations, the media you consume, property developers etc, fool you into thinking that it is a race/immigrant thing. The root of the immigrant problem you identify with, lies with our government not taking care of us initually so we could even accommodate some immigrants that came here in search of a better life. See how the blame gets passed around but never on the the government? They will just sit back and watch us blame each other for taking our jobs haha its mad, I think they have fooled us all, especially ones who think the immigrants are the problem. Same reason the Irish public don't revolt against the 5% who hoard all of out resources.
Shur do you not know about the humongous Irish diaspora due to our immigration!
@EIRE4EVER you're watching of footage of people living in squalid conditions before there were immigrants and now there is a bit more wealth in the country you blame those said immigrants. Top level brain you've got there. You need to be reminded to wipe your ass every time you take a dump?
@EIRE4EVER 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@EIRE4EVER it's funny, I seem to remember the same sentiment towards the irish in the UK.
Amazing how the people who were shit on all over the world are now shitting on others that are in the same situation.
one of these lads I know went on to be a very successful property developer and he only went to afternoon school
And one of the lads interviewed looks like Hutch.
@@lovefunnyflicks is say it is but I asked a lad who grew up with these lads and said its patsy hutch not Gerry. The hutches grew up on Buckingham Street not sheriff Street but I'm sure they walked all the streets.
@@lovefunnyflicks I was just thinking that myself. Messenger boy indeed.
fair play
Colin, did he do anything for the community barr exclusive apartments, don't get me wrong fair play to him, but the unfairness...
Great archive, thanks for posting. I think the comments below are unfair. The interviewer was doing his best, he was sympathetic and critical of the situation. The report wouldn't wouldn't have been popular with the local bigwigs. This was early days of lightweight 16mm cameras, the people speak for themselves, not scripted as in the 'realistic' documentaries of the thirties and forties, Humphrey Jennings etc..
Dear Irish people, so dear to us,Argentines.
One of our national heros, Admiral William Brown, commander of our navy during the war of independence, was born in Foxford, Ireland.
When you speak ill of migrants, remember those born before You, who had to.migrate from Ireland, among other countries, to Argentina, where they became one more Argentine amongst all of us, as my forebears, from other parts of Europe, did.
Poverty is not a crime.
Have you heard the song by the wolfe tones called admiral William Brown.
@@martymartin2894 yes, I did, on UA-cam
I was so proud reading about admiral William Brown many Irishman back in the day went abroad and faught in the name of freedom for others majority of us Irishmen and women love all people until u do use or family or friends wrong or harm
Malvinos are Argentinian
Omg that poor woman lost 3 children in a few months.. RIP
they seemed to be minding themselves
@Seamus Burke ah seamus, great manly take on things. Wonder where the da was
Shocking stuff indeed and yet you have other people leaving their low brow comments blaming immigrants.
And she was still abandoned by the council.
For them, this urban life was normal. I lived in a house with a pond in front, and you couldn't see another house or structure from my house. I thank God for that childhood, exploring the lakes, the woods, the rivers and the fields.
Good hard-working people, doing their best in difficult times. The lads talking about being messenger boys could be Uber drivers/Grub Hub delivery in today's world.
No
I was happy to grow up in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s . It was a better time than now and I wish we could have it like that again. .........we used to go train spotting on Dublin Westland Row station .............. and once , as late as 1969 we were lucky enough to get a steam train from Belfast York Rd to Portrush when a Diesel engine failed
Kids wouldn’t do the things now they did back then when they were active and used their imagination those days are gone , nowadays it’s the internet and phones they are on , no train spotting! 😉
Yes, so lovely! Industrial Schools, Magdelenes, Asylums, Church bullying, mysogeny and poverty. Poverty of education is the worst of all. D
Wonderful video of the best city in the world; yes bad conditions, but the people make the city what it is.
They live in that filth because of who they are inside. Like anywhere else, like Africa.
What an amazing documentary . Flats never replaced the houses ..shocking ...
That social worker was wow and way ahead of her time
This is pure magic
Great video of sheriff street, as my Ma used to say sheriff st people are "salt of the earth"
One of the kids in the first group is the spitting image of the Monk!
Yeh that’s exactly what I thought it is at 0:46 on the stream,
It probably is him.
He’s to old to have been him . TheMonk wouldn’t have been born yet , but I’d say he could very well be related
I love the accents. The working class Dub accent has mutated a bit over the last 40-50 years. It doesn't lilt as much anymore. It's more nasal now.
Interesting observation
Loads of different Dublin accents, every four or five miles you go it's different. A lot are indulging in the west Brit accent now though, bettering themselves, lá tee dá.
@@mactoirdhealbhaigh4873 I think it's gone beyond a concept of bettering, onto it being in the blood now. It's an evolutionary thing. It's like the young kids you hear who have these bizarre mid Atlantic accents
@@mactoirdhealbhaigh4873 Jackeen accent is a british accent in essence.
@@greatone7314 Well if it's Jackeen that would make it of a French essence. The thick Drogheda accent has twinges of cockney in it.
The most beautiful children on Earth.
Jesus the amount of children that were dying in the city center in those days was disgraceful!
Nothing much has changed
@@zombievikinggaming4258 Things have changed. Now people are attacked and killed by the children.
i meet him once or twice i knew one of his younger brothers also his mother great inner city people
And now we have housed Nigeria and Karakas children in flats all over Dublin.
Amazing documentary brave Children
Wat a great city so proud to be a dub
My nanny cumiskey lived there all her life every sunday ma da brought us to see her there were a lot of lovely people in them flats
This could have been filmed in any city it the U.K. or Europe at that time.. White Privilege??? .. It’s a cruel myth for the working classes of Europe..
We have black kids going around Ireland and taking about slavery and how the Irish were responsible for it , The msm is responsible for this BS .
Eh, that is a term used in he USA where there was a fairly recent history of slavery. Either you live there and are misappropriating talking points or else you're watching too UA-cam videos of butt-hurt right-whingers.
As for the other ass-hat talking about blacks blaming the Irish for slavery - that is completely your feeble imagination.
I was thinking the same thing.
Tougher for the Irish though after 800 years of occupation by a foreign invader (the UK) which resulted in huge emigration and death and set the country back decades until we finally won our independence.
White privilege does not mean you're excempt from poverty. It just means that, in comparison to Black people and poc you have it percentually easier.
Nevermind that whiteness is a white people invention.
These kids have a lot of confidence.
That's why the Irish rule and take no shit.
It is the 1960's - that is all we had to do, play around the streets or play in your bedroom. We went to the quarry - anyone of us could have drowned there. It was the same everywhere, there were no carnivals or clubs or anything else to do, just make your own fun - this is nothing different.
why have 7 kids or 12?? when yur in poverty & its limited
At least you got to play I spent mine working in the fields and farm
Pat Keeler Catholicism was peak in Ireland so contraception was a no no
Good man.
Ireland was a shit hole to grow up in for the poor. Yes the people made the best of it but the class discrimination the prejudice was rampant here. The poor were looked on like lepers. Remember this was all policy. Council chose to ignore and neglect these families and children.
thank you
Its mad to think most of these kids are in their early 70's
Atleast the kids then seemed to want change, the lads now would choose drink and drugs over education and opportunity, they wouldn't take the chance if they were given it
BlackDolphin90 stop the bullshit,they got more opportunities than I did in my youth.
Taylor Cook 😏not all Dublin kids only want drugs u dumb fuck 😂
@Never Unprepared Well if you have planter blood you can't be trusted but then alot of these inner city kids have planter surnames like Hutch,Proctor and so on,look at the prisoners in Mountjoy a large number of criminals have planter English surnames.
very hard to watch, lived in a room my parents rented in the area for a few months, thank fuck my father had the sense to get out fast, my heart goes out to these people, hard as nails and never given a hope, today, i'm not sure it has improved much at all.
I hope Vera at 11:00 was presented with the mother of the year award.
Vera was a great one never let the kids out of her sight.
I lived in pappins green, we had hard times .
The ghetto is the same, all over the world. I’m of Irish decent who grew up in the ghetto of North Philadelphia. Thankfully that’s in the past
Giant families force you into poverty
great old film,but honestly if one of my kids had died from an accident like drowning,my kids would not be going out without me or a responsible adult,again until they were much older,that woman said two of hers fell out the balcony,i know it must have been really hard in thjose days no matter where you lived,but would you let you other kids near the balcony anymore,both parents at home too at the time,my grandmother lived in a barn,and i mean a small barn,not a fancy conversion,she had seven kids in there one was my mother,they ended up in that because after my mums real dad died when she was five and her sisters were 4 8 and 12,my grandma ran a boarding house she bought after my grandad died,he had been head of the waterworks in yorkshire so they lived in a lovely house with lovely gardens and were quite well off for the time,anyway one of the boaders was an irish sailor very handsome he was,my grandma fell for him,and they married,she had three more daughters but he became a really bad drinker he sold everything they owened and they all ended up in the gutter,and he was a very cruel man to my mum and her sisters and my grandma,he did stop drinking later in life, thats when i came along i only knew him as my lovely grandad,my mum never told my sister or i what kind of life she had really had until he died and we were older,bless her she let us have him as we knew him to be,loving and kind,it was the drink that did it,also he grew up on the streets of ireland after his mother died when he was 2 his sister litterally brought him up on the streets,sad times for people and very hard lives
Thanks for your story, hard times indeed.
I agree with the others here: the reporter is just some feckin' eejit. These little fellas would have told him that!
As poor as these people were the children were so polite compared to the self entitled bunch we have now
The woman at the end reminded me so much of father Ted's housekeeper,
0:53 poor kid never saw shampoo in his life
Simple comment 😏
I know family's don't think of toothpaste but they smoke!!
@@patkeeler6645 the comment coming from someone who was lucky in life, judging others by his own narrow views. Ah the internet.
2:55 to 3;19...24 seconds which tells you so much about about Dublin in the 1960s.
Typically, the underclass life has been reported so the overlying classes may be happy that they do not have to live in these circumstances.
Okay so called refugee
What are you on about you freak
So true
"It's your fault you are poor. Oh, hi there I am the self appointed moral arbiter of your life"
Yep the interviewers hadn't a clue coming from university and asking why they didn't work he should have said should school kids go to school longer be being thrown out at 12 is keeping them poor or making thieves
I think that the Dublin accent is probably the best accent in the whole of Ireland.
Nah, it grates on me ears, up limerick!
Couldn’t disagree more. It has to be the worst
Nicer one in the English speaking World. I'm from London, but my sister always loved a Dublin accent since her negihbours and my childhood friends were raised there in the 70s.
IMO the northern ones are the nicest. The Derry accent example is gorgeous
You won’t find another place that can keep their Halloween bonfire going for as long as Sheriff street. The phrase “keep ‘er lit” first started with them boys!
I loved this Dublin.
It's dead to me now,it's why I'm moving down to the bog.
the monk!!!!
that's what i thought ,is it him ,or his dad ?
has the monk been shot by the kinahans
@@deanwalsh9647 that's not the monk
And council developments still have many of these issues. Safer at least for the most part but bad reputation stopping people from getting jobs and lack of amenities is still a problem
I ask my father why he left Ireland. He said 60 people kicking one hall and poverty.
Gerry hutch was born in 1963.These boys are teenagers and were born in the 50s.
On the button
I worked down there for years. Tough oul neighbourhood true enough. But tight-knit though for sure
15:00 bigging up Ballymun, little did they know how fucked that place would get. They had the answer right there on their doorstep. Communities were already built but the corporation never maintained the flats, and left the kids to wander the streets. They did the same in Ballymun but the kids there has nowhere to ramble or walk to. Ad in drugs in both areas in the 80s and it was a decimation of the community with crime and death.
Where are this children now,love to know.
Absolutely sickening the way the council and state totally neglected these children to the extent that they died through accidents and dangerous environment. It just goes to show you how much they degraded these Irish citizens. You can bet the councils were full of the well off who didn't give a shit about the poor. The same old story and of course the Catholic Church did fuck all to help only take collections and moralise about contraception.
Jesus, has Sheriff Street ever had a break. I don't know that much about its history but I presume the various flat complexes like Laurences mansions were built to house the dockers? I assumed the deprivation really took hold in the 70s with the mechanisation of the docks, but it seems the places was accursed from long before that.
I was born and raised in these flat 83 /93,the best child hood ever,we use to scut the lorrys up to the five lamps.Kiss chasing spin the bottle drinking are woodies
Kick to the kerb.... once the coal hit the kerb it was legal/free to take it
What language is that?
@@lovefunnyflicks Theft and corruption keeps people poor.
Anybody remember Corky's alcoholic lemonade? Pure rock fuel. The Woodies only came in bottles I think.
Im amazed at how alot of what they say is still the same slang as today
Notice how RTE deleted frames showing the worst conditions of these neighborhoods.
Troll.
Tony Gregory always fought for them
To get himself elected
Tony done a lot for us.
Real irish kids Built around the pond🇺🇲 and in the 🏰 Republic🇮🇪🤍
thank god those flats and all the rest of that failed experiment are gone. Ballymun, Deveny, St. Michaels. I suppose they were a quick fix to the the Georgian slums at the time but once drugs came in, everything changed, and had to.
My Ma grew up in Sherriff street in the 60's
I think its so sad that the mothers let their very young kids out and they dont even watch them.
they were at home minding the 4 or 5 younger kids, sad but true.
the monk with the black hair
I think your right,as this image was used on a documentary before....
great documentary...loved the ancient banjo music....was the banjo brought to ireland by the ancient celts....we should be told
Celts never invaded Ireland go look it up! Made it to parts of Britain but not Ireland, only trade links can be found.
@@kizza802 please explain.
No, it was ancient cowboys, Nat King Cole toured when promoting Cat Ballou,, and bought his banjo with him.
oliver twist the fela who I think is the monk looks like the artful dodger
You could be spot on there..
Well he was from that area wasn’t he and would have been a child in the 60s.
My grandad lived in sheriff street a famous boxer john spike McCormack .
Both my parents are born in inner city Dublin, and moved to Birmingham in the 60s, im the first born outside of Dublin, but my childhood community in Birmingham was a very close knit Dublin community (not Irish but Dublin) and every adult I knew was a dub except for my teachers, and I think south/east inner city Birmingham during the 70s and 80s has more of the stereotypical Dublin culture than Dublin has now
Digbeth?
@@patrickglennon7058 just outside digbeth , small Heath/Bordesley Green/
@@theliamofella Peakey Blinders area?
@@mayogal yes , right next to it (I live bordesley green east and peakys is bordesley green
@@theliamofella yes. I was raised in Dublin, too travelled the world but it's in my bones. x
Bless em, why aren't you at school ( I SLEPT IT OUT) BRILL, LOL, FROM UK
what date was this broadcast ?
Poor little divels , priests beating the shit out of then , not to mention the school master with his leather strap and cane talking out his aggression on the poor boys that had to take what was going.
Wow - about 40 kids in a small van.
❤️
Would like to know the ages of the children in the beginning of this video. They look as if the oldest of them is maybe 13 or 14. What was the school leaving age back then?
tear away's i use to climb up on the back of trucks it's pure board dim
The community group who are seen chatting in their home with the reporter, are Jim and Peter Sheridan's parents. The younger, and leaner, gentleman with the dark hair is my cousin, author Hugh O'Donnell
Do you know Frank Gilsenan from Sherrif Street?
@@aileendoherty1567 A long, long time ago.
@@adriankelly17 I bet he was a character. Going by the stories he tells now, Dublin was some place to grow up in.
@@aileendoherty1567 And Seville Place was one of the best. My Mum was raised in 11 Emerald Street as were my cousins, the O'Donnell family.
Starting @6.40 the boy on the left looks like a young version of how Gerry -The Monk- Hutch would look as a kid of that age. Hes a dead ringer. I read down the comments a bit and its confirmed that this is indeed a Hutch, most prolly Gerry, but could be another brother. I shall stick with my first instinct, which is, after all, usually the right one.
There like lil'olfellas 😂
I could be mistaken is the 2nd last youngfella to be interviewed The Monk Gerry Hutch?.
Does anybody know if that's Gerry "The Monk" Hutch at the start saying he wants to be a messenger boy?
was thinking the same,thought i recognised him straight away
Does look a bit like him doesn't it. Is that where he's from..?
it does look like him
no it was my hubby
anita dillon was your hubbies name Gerry Hutch?
Cute little guys. Couldn’t understand a word they said but one looked like a baby Keith Richards ✌️
Luke damn!
I'm happy my ole man didn't grow up like that in Dublin.
Alot of the mothers back then had alot on their plate big family was a big job and even harder in areas such as sherifer
Is that Gerry Hutch ? (The monk) absolutely the image of him !!
He was only born in the 60s he would have been to you g
Young
I was around them days up further near the Dublin fruit Market. I knew some of these boys I knew Gerry. I played football on the Diamond summerhill. Boxed down there. Poverty in spades. Bleek until the 90s. So much has changed you wouldn't know the place now. But some of the same social issues pravail. ✌️☘️
very patronising commentator.
Thought that myself.
Its hard to watch. Those poor kids and they're so polite.
tarmonhill yep . Gobshit .treats them with no respect . Barking questions at them . Bastard
Just the style of the day
Sounds Anglo. Patronising dick heads.
Poor little kids
Why did you not go to school, because I slept it out , 😅🤣😂
Where these kids are now ?
I'd say they're retired and enjoying life hopefully.
One of those kids is ''famous'' currently. He's known as The Monk, and has turned out to be an ODC. He's the dark haired lad with the protruding ears. He's got a huge price on his head, circa 2016. The interview in the parlour towards the end of the docu shows mr. and mrs. Sheridan debating the issues. They are the parents of movie director, Jim Sheridan, and beside them, author Hugh O'Donnell.
Adrian, Its not Gerry Hutch, look further down the comments, another user posted saying it was her husband, Paddy Mitchell.
He would also have been older then
Perhaps all living in Spain now. lol They all deserve to be after living in a place like that.
Tallaght....that's why that kip is messed up.
Happy memories, pity we couldn’t go back! It’s not like this anymore, mores the pity!! The young fella wit the dark hair looks like Gerry Hutch??
I wonder where some of the kids in this documentary are now…?
Dead lead poisoning
@@PaddleDogC5 Omgosh Really? That's awful
...SE US here...seeing on this and at least one other doc similar, I ask anyone...what IS ‘the corporation’..?? Is this equivalent to something like ‘the Council’ in England??
Yes you are right, it’s the council but back in the day it used to be called the corporation or ‘the corpo’ as dubs called it.
18:05 That guy in the light colored top has the look of a Johnny Foreigner about him...for 1960s Ireland, that is. I wonder where he's really from.
Is that Gerry the monk Hutch looking for a job as a messenger boy at the beginning ?