As an 80s teenager who grew up in Dublin, I find this to be a rather bittersweet video. Grateful to see it again, and yet so sad that such a wonderful era is now gone. And lovely to see the inimitable Thom McGinty who was such a kind and caring man. Used to bump into him on Botanic Road a lot when he was on his way into town.
God I miss Dublin as it used to be. I remember popping in to The Alchemists Head every Saturday to check out the comics. Remember the smell of Hops? Better days.
Great times..... I remember all the buskers and street acts in the video. Use to be in Grafton St most Saturdays going to freebird records and sound celler just to flik through the records. Thanks for putting this video up really enjoyed a trip down memory lane.
what a gem.. I was busking in Ireland heard so much about the diceman.. now I was able to see his work... thank you and the young Little John... oh what a gem
Believe it or not but the man playing the banjo is the same man that use to play at the very end of dún laoighrie pier for many years. He played it beautifully and everyone enjoyed him, he gave alot of people nice memories for no charge. I heard him ring out amazing grace using tremelo pick probably with the same instrument one summers day about 22 yrs ago now on the pier, it was a moment i will never forget, thanks for the memories pal.
I was in Cork in the early/mid 90s and there was a fantastic 3 piece band of kids (siblings I think) all about 11-12 years old. They were playing Beatles songs (Hofner bass and all) and they were brilliant. They had a crowd watching them on a sunny day and the atmosphere on the street was great. The guards came and ran them at the direction of a shop owner who’d called them. I heard multiple people saying they were going to go into that shop and that they now wouldn’t. I overheard a few say they’d never spend a red cent in that shop again. The fact that they were both talented and just kids that had the guards called on them annoyed people especially. The atmosphere draws people to an area. It’s incredibly shortsighted to try and get rid of buskers.
Hats off to yezz for fighting for buskers, because of you their is a fabulous busking scene on Grafton & thereabouts in Dublin which is regularly filmed by Sean at "Dublin City Today" & Seamus Traynor at "Buskbeats"
I'm glad to see this , theres not an awful lot of social capture from this time , a video camera was not in everyone's pocket. It took effort . And now people think what they had for lunch is valuable blog material, I'm glad someone was active , the problem is to everyone then , it seems pointless, I'd argue it's very much not now , I deffo appreciate it's there to access, so a long time coming but thanks 🙂
@@roderickmcdonnell3725 I emigrated in 1982 country was broke ,abortion referendum main item in politics while the place was falling apart, up to 80,000 emigrated in a few years ,it took 8 weeks to get a phone line to your house,FF ,Chatholic Church and the GAA ran the place
Yes. I lived in Ireland in the 1980s. Massive unemployment and poverty, huge emigration and still lots of physical and sexual abuse of children by clerics and others. If people were happy they were probably on Valium (which was a common prescription drug back then).
Great video of a Dublin in the rare auld times, "Appils n rdinges, Appils n rdinges" ironic that a country so clebrated for it's contribution to the Arts was still using old British bylaws to ban the public playing of music and performance on the street but it was ok to dispose of rubbish anywhere you liked on that very street. I notice how cocky the cops were back then and wore uniforms that actually fitted them unlike today where it appears that a one size fits all has been introduced.
Wow 😃 I was busker on Grafton and Henry Street... For some years, nothing change, I was arrested, have a lot of problems, junkies problems, shit gardai problems and everyday I only try do my best to everyone. And I recorded everything I will download here on my channel Thanks very much for this video give me a lot of answers...
And poor Pat Tierney selling his poems on Grafton Street and the Diceman all drinking coffee ☕️ in Bewleys famous cafe and Hector Grey selling magical goods at the Halfpenny bridge. Then in January 1996 Pat Tierney succumbed in the grounds of a Drumcondra church on his 39th birthday and he bid farewell to this beautiful but cruel world. Time doth makes ghosts of us all 🌻🎩🌻
Same here, too many memories. If I went to Dublin now I would just be depressed at how many of the heads I used to call into are just not there anymore.
Even this is so far from me at that time we lived in Great USSR but as human as my Uzbek Muslim heart feels nostalgic time ....My best wishes for all human being...🙏🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬
I remember Busking in Cork, had no probs. I was only there a few days thou' so maybe over time the dark blues maybe have shrouded me. Pity, of all places - Ireland to ban Buskers!! Crazy.
I remember the smell of leather belts for sale in the Dandelion Market. The Diceman was a Saturday regular on Grafton Street ( usually up nearer the Green ). We were always kinda afraid of him. He was Other. Sad he died of AIDS. As in every high street in every country, Grafton street mainly has international chain stores. You see the same layouts and window displays in different countries. Who remembers traffic on Grafton Street ....
I was born in the 80's and now I busk in the city centre , Bray , Dun Laoghaire and my home town of Ballyfermot but I remember as a very young child seeing people in town doing street art and the buskers and street artists , Allie sherlock is probably the most famous busker in Dublin right now and Jacob Koopman...!! Mark G Ballyfermot Dublin Eíre !!
There were 2 of them up by the floozy in the jacuzzi in the late 80s. A really old woman with a cross and another slightly younger woman that used to pace back and forwards preaching.
I can't be the only one mentally switching "busking" with "wanking" I'm 5 minutes and an interesting documentary is transformed into magnificent experience
It's not a crime to be a survivor 😁, its a crime to be a quitter and a leech 🐛, it costs the taxpayers much more to jail 🏣a tryer than wish them well 💐😁👍
RIP The #Diceman what a great character sadly missed. Great video, you now need a license and audition to busk in Dublin, there were coordinated gangs (scangers) sending kids out taking the Mickey and just getting up and literally singing the same song all day, no other repertoire just to get people's money.
I'm Irish and live in Geneva. Man, you could eat your dinner off the streets here. Unusual to see any litter, and if it does appear - it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow. As a result of living here for 30 years, I would rather sell my kids than drop trash on the street. It will stay in my hand, or pocket, until I find a bin.
Aye.. them were the days ! We could eat our fish n chips and crumple up the news paper and toss it gracefully into the side of the road.. Then we finished our last cigarette while stamping the box flat to the path with that satisfying crunch underfoot.. then flick the butt stylishly into the nearest alleyway.. Aye gone are the days when you could just drop your trousers and have a satisfying shite in the side streets after a good meal.. All this political correctness has ruined our happy and free lives, thats what I say !
Population of the Republic of Ireland went down from approximately 4.2 million 1921 to 2.6 in 1961 the 80's and 70's generations never realised their full potential even with the small renaissance in music particularly who is writing the history of these lost generations or is it quick fast to the Digital Revolution?
not exactly. There was no census in 1921 (for obvious reasons). First ever census of Irish Free State was in 1926 (pop.2.97 million). This fell to 2,8 million by 1955. It actually rose from 1965 onwards, reaching 3.2 million by 1975.
Loved Dublin back then.... When you weren't listening to 30 different languages as you walked along the pavements or when peopled walked along the pavements and nodded or said hello to each other instead of checking their phones every 2 or 3 minutes . Rare auld times these :)
God forbid you heard more than 2 languages. I’m sure it’s a very challenging thing to hear someone say “hola”. Really though, do you get up in the morning to be offended? Toughen up....
@@drumclaypete Who is being racist? Stop jumping to a conclusion based on you just wanting to bitch and disagree for the sake of it. Don't be a donut all your life. My statement was a fact on how it was then to how it is now. Nothing racist about that princess. Oh and for your blinded information I have a South American wife and I am well aware of what Hola means ... Y usted? Now I would stop there if I was you cos you have already made a twat out of your-self
Ireland has always had a proud tradition of the arts. We’re known abroad for our love of music and culture & tourists seem to enjoy the buskers. This is something that should be celebrated rather than vilified due to out of date foreign laws. We didn’t realise what we had back then. Nowadays Dublin is over run with scumbag junkies.
I hate what the political parties have done to our country, multiculturalism has destroyed it, there's nothing wrong having the Chinese or Indian take away around but they've literally saturated us beyond recognition, every where I go in Dublin and elsewhere all I hear are foreign accents from God knows where
The only criterion should be quality. None appears here and none appears now. Of all capital cities in Europe Dublin is the most squalid and it steals far too much from the rest of Ireland.
10.45 >>> my old friend & colleague in Westbury Hotel, Martin Flood, a great GAA football player too. Great food, in the hotel Still Room end of shift 1 a.m. , eh Martin? Smoked salmon & egg sandwiches, desserts.
Excellent video, I guess the powers that be had no interest In the real lawbreakers, always hounding the suppressed making them fight against the system.
Go to Dublin City Centre today, play a game called 'Spot the Irishman' and every time you see one or hear English spoken, take a shot. I guarantee you'll return home as sober as a judge!
I do be in town all the time, I see lots of Irish people on the daily, sure there are different cultures now, but that's no excuse for racism, because Irish people still dominate the city.
Keep Ireland Irish ain't racist! Fools like you are why the Irish won't "dominate" the city for much longer. Keep allowing this deliberate invasion while bitching about the Brits down the pubs with you Shinner pals! None so blind as them who just won't see- we're being replaced!@@lobodesade6780
Dublin is gone, its now an anonymous place for the rest of the world, where the Irish walk around with mouth shut head down. Oconnwll st is not somewhere you wNt to walk, as its no longer sàfe or Irish
I remember commuting from drogheda to dublin city in 95 to work and being told daily i lived sticks lol they couldnt believe i travelled the now 30mins drive to work daily 😂
Its natural that Irish people or any culture love and remember seeing their town or country full of their own people its heritage but biodiversity helps when different cultures intergrate but u still see people not mixing
@@sonnyirish3678 I still don't follow you. And why the word people in quotation marks ? You haven't explained yourself. I still have no idea what you mean about "the great replacement". Can you be more clear for me please ?
As an 80s teenager who grew up in Dublin, I find this to be a rather bittersweet video.
Grateful to see it again, and yet so sad that such a wonderful era is now gone.
And lovely to see the inimitable Thom McGinty who was such a kind and caring man.
Used to bump into him on Botanic Road a lot when he was on his way into town.
you should see it now. boyo. oh boy. no no no no no.
This is so nostalgic for me as I was 20 in 1986 and this is the Dublin I loved. Seeing Thom mcGinty the ‘Diceman’ again was sweet.
Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉
I was 20 as well in 1986, lovely to watch this. I had forgotten about the 'Drinklink' 😀 Would love a time machine
God I miss Dublin as it used to be. I remember popping in to The Alchemists Head every Saturday to check out the comics. Remember the smell of Hops? Better days.
Great times..... I remember all the buskers and street acts in the video. Use to be in Grafton St most Saturdays going to freebird records and sound celler just to flik through the records. Thanks for putting this video up really enjoyed a trip down memory lane.
what a gem.. I was busking in Ireland heard so much about the diceman.. now I was able to see his work... thank you and the young Little John... oh what a gem
Believe it or not but the man playing the banjo is the same man that use to play at the very end of dún laoighrie pier for many years. He played it beautifully and everyone enjoyed him, he gave alot of people nice memories for no charge. I heard him ring out amazing grace using tremelo pick probably with the same instrument one summers day about 22 yrs ago now on the pier, it was a moment i will never forget, thanks for the memories pal.
Notice how impeccably dressed the Gardai are. Compared to the loafs of 2020s
Yeah, well dressed scrum
@JohnJKelly-of4dc true
It irritates me how nearly every Garda now sports a trendy little beard too. I wonder who allowed that? Sounds like something Varadkar is in to.
@@GhastlyCretin You're taking issue with...beards? Insane.
@@RickR69 Yup. It irritated me that the majority of them have little beards now.
Politicians on the make, with multiple homes, inflated salaries, expenses state-paid 'perks'- but buskers cannot earn?!
Be kind to buskers. Not everyone is cut out to work the 9-5 treadmill of pain.
Be kind to everyone - a treadmill of pain doesn't sound like much fun! ;¬)
We can all pay our fair share of taxes no matter what hours you work or how you work ..
Pay your share !!
@@markc3258 taxation is theft
@@markc3258 Taxes ?.....oh you mean that legalized theft by government ?
Used to love seeing the Diceman on Grafton Street as a kid.
He's wink at you and you'd be laughing.
Loved the Diceman and the wink was so funny
I was in Cork in the early/mid 90s and there was a fantastic 3 piece band of kids (siblings I think) all about 11-12 years old. They were playing Beatles songs (Hofner bass and all) and they were brilliant. They had a crowd watching them on a sunny day and the atmosphere on the street was great. The guards came and ran them at the direction of a shop owner who’d called them. I heard multiple people saying they were going to go into that shop and that they now wouldn’t. I overheard a few say they’d never spend a red cent in that shop again. The fact that they were both talented and just kids that had the guards called on them annoyed people especially.
The atmosphere draws people to an area. It’s incredibly shortsighted to try and get rid of buskers.
Now David if I was making that comment I'd have named that shop so it would never be forgotten.
It wasn't shortsighted to get rid of buskers, it's a long game they were playing, all about removing joy until people forget.
A beautiful country and wonderful people, I lived in it for 6 years and I long to visit it again👍
You wouldn't like it now I can tell ya.
@@seamusburke9101 Why ? >There is no Irish left says you
@@anthonydowling3356 u pleb place is destroyed
@@anthonydowling3356 why don’t you live in their country and see how they welcome you ..
With your free house and free money ..
😂😂
@@anthonydowling3356 European identity is being eroded/destroyed. All on behalf of an anti white/globalist agenda
Hats off to yezz for fighting for buskers, because of you their is a fabulous busking scene on Grafton & thereabouts in Dublin which is regularly filmed by Sean at "Dublin City Today" & Seamus Traynor at "Buskbeats"
A totally different place today, and not a better one sadly 😥
Great video! The dreaded Grafton Street kerbs.. the amount of time I punted my toes into them..
I'm glad to see this , theres not an awful lot of social capture from this time , a video camera was not in everyone's pocket. It took effort . And now people think what they had for lunch is valuable blog material, I'm glad someone was active , the problem is to everyone then , it seems pointless, I'd argue it's very much not now , I deffo appreciate it's there to access, so a long time coming but thanks 🙂
Thanks
People seem happier, even if they are moaning about trading
The covid free days
@@roderickmcdonnell3725 I emigrated in 1982 country was broke ,abortion referendum main item in politics while the place was falling apart, up to 80,000 emigrated in a few years ,it took 8 weeks to get a phone line to your house,FF ,Chatholic Church and the GAA ran the place
Bless
Yes. I lived in Ireland in the 1980s. Massive unemployment and poverty, huge emigration and still lots of physical and sexual abuse of children by clerics and others. If people were happy they were probably on Valium (which was a common prescription drug back then).
@@ossian11 you put a downer on me
Great video of a Dublin in the rare auld times, "Appils n rdinges, Appils n rdinges" ironic that a country so clebrated for it's contribution to the Arts was still using old British bylaws to ban the public playing of music and performance on the street but it was ok to dispose of rubbish anywhere you liked on that very street. I notice how cocky the cops were back then and wore uniforms that actually fitted them unlike today where it appears that a one size fits all has been introduced.
Makes me sad to see this version of Ireland i remember as a child. Dublin is full of different nationalities now, and we have lost our identity. 😢
Wow 😃 I was busker on Grafton and Henry Street... For some years, nothing change, I was arrested, have a lot of problems, junkies problems, shit gardai problems and everyday I only try do my best to everyone. And I recorded everything I will download here on my channel
Thanks very much for this video give me a lot of answers...
no google map no internet, people looks much happier and lives in the present.
Great video of old Dublin
Beautiful city ❤️
And poor Pat Tierney selling his poems on Grafton Street and the Diceman all drinking coffee ☕️ in Bewleys famous cafe and Hector Grey selling magical goods at the Halfpenny bridge. Then in January 1996 Pat Tierney succumbed in the grounds of a Drumcondra church on his 39th birthday and he bid farewell to this beautiful but cruel world. Time doth makes ghosts of us all 🌻🎩🌻
I can't even imagine Dublin without buskers, what a ridiculous idea to criminalise musicians and artists ffs.
Good old Dublin a once great city I don't go to Dublin no more too many memories for me
Same here, too many memories. If I went to Dublin now I would just be depressed at how many of the heads I used to call into are just not there anymore.
Bless
Ur not missing anything it’s ruined
Ohh take me back plz fooking state of the city now traitors to Eire.
I can't even go to the city it angers me to shit and I'm not even Irish, only lived here my entire adult life
Even this is so far from me at that time we lived in Great USSR but as human as my Uzbek Muslim heart feels nostalgic time ....My best wishes for all human being...🙏🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬
Thanks for video keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco
I remember Busking in Cork, had no probs. I was only there a few days thou' so maybe over time the dark blues maybe have shrouded me. Pity, of all places - Ireland to ban Buskers!! Crazy.
really enjoyed that . yes my memory is right. clothes were awful in the 80s. ha ha. great to see some of the characters.
Holy shit! The dice man!
Good times ,fond memories
No one in the video had a mobile phone back then!
Kevin Doyle the Good old days
@@tearitloosetearitloose4670 only tosser here is you..forget to take your meds again did we luvey 😅😅😅
Its 1986 mate ya bearly had a house phone that time
Nothing good in 1986 all the smart people left
@@dolier2802 move straight to the top of the class 👏👏👏👏
I remember the smell of leather belts for sale in the Dandelion Market. The Diceman was a Saturday regular on Grafton Street ( usually up nearer the Green ). We were always kinda afraid of him. He was Other. Sad he died of AIDS. As in every high street in every country, Grafton street mainly has international chain stores. You see the same layouts and window displays in different countries. Who remembers traffic on Grafton Street ....
i wonder if that lady is still around-great explanation byb her-gardai getting it wrong AGAIN.
Correct
I was born in the 80's and now I busk in the city centre , Bray , Dun Laoghaire and my home town of Ballyfermot but I remember as a very young child seeing people in town doing street art and the buskers and street artists , Allie sherlock is probably the most famous busker in Dublin right now and Jacob Koopman...!! Mark G Ballyfermot Dublin Eíre !!
I remember that aul one with the cross.. Used to frighten the life of me. Anyone know her name?
There were 2 of them up by the floozy in the jacuzzi in the late 80s.
A really old woman with a cross and another slightly younger woman that used to pace back and forwards preaching.
Holy Mary .
Hi paddypravda839. I think her name was Margaret O'Callaghan. I was 20 then too, when I worked in Dublin.
Was that Michael Martin in the back, shouting out keep your 2 meters distance,
notuce how littered Grafton St was then-unreal
What a hole glad i left in 1985
reminds me of streets of delhi. india, besides there is 1.3 billion people there
Now the Guards stop everyone in Ireland from wondering more than 5 miles from their homes.
Yeah the thought police. 😂😂😂
@@IvanEarache.. you got it
And why's that, give us the benefit of your Facebook Medical Degree there.
I assume you are under nine years old.
Poor two lads in the comments haven’t a clue. Great comment
I can't be the only one mentally switching "busking" with "wanking"
I'm 5 minutes and an interesting documentary is transformed into magnificent experience
They arent vagrant they are musicians they have a skill and talents
Loved watching this.
Big monopolies resent street traders.
It's not a crime to be a survivor 😁, its a crime to be a quitter and a leech 🐛, it costs the taxpayers much more to jail 🏣a tryer than wish them well 💐😁👍
Shocked to discover Rose West busked on Grafton Street in the 80s.
Who is Rose West ? and why are you shocked ?
@@dOlier Er..a prolific serial killer from UK.
Just a joke mate.
She was put away around 1995 I think. Google her
@@dOlier
West is a notorious individual due to her being a British serial killer.
That was her on the 'Squeeze box' near the end of the film..
@@dOlier You never heard of Rose West ? God you have lead a sheltered life .
RIP The #Diceman what a great character sadly missed. Great video, you now need a license and audition to busk in Dublin, there were coordinated gangs (scangers) sending kids out taking the Mickey and just getting up and literally singing the same song all day, no other repertoire just to get people's money.
I LOVE that Bob Dylan song! Wish they'd come and serenade me. 🤭
I wish I was there at 11.20 to give those great musicians a clap
The street art was brilliant and the girls on the guitars sounded great. Where are they now? Has Ireland lost it's soul since then?
The bloody rubbish everywhere.
Bee nice up the dubs
no more dirty than any us city
I'm Irish and live in Geneva. Man, you could eat your dinner off the streets here. Unusual to see any litter, and if it does appear - it won't be there when you wake up tomorrow. As a result of living here for 30 years, I would rather sell my kids than drop trash on the street. It will stay in my hand, or pocket, until I find a bin.
Aye.. them were the days ! We could eat our fish n chips and crumple up the news paper and toss it gracefully into the side of the road.. Then we finished our last cigarette while stamping the box flat to the path with that satisfying crunch underfoot.. then flick the butt stylishly into the nearest alleyway.. Aye gone are the days when you could just drop your trousers and have a satisfying shite in the side streets after a good meal.. All this political correctness has ruined our happy and free lives, thats what I say !
Now it's human rubbish. Not the Irish people either
Population of the Republic of Ireland went down from approximately 4.2 million 1921 to 2.6 in 1961 the 80's and 70's generations never realised their full potential even with the small renaissance in music particularly who is writing the history of these lost generations or is it quick fast to the Digital Revolution?
not exactly. There was no census in 1921 (for obvious reasons). First ever census of Irish Free State was in 1926 (pop.2.97 million). This fell to 2,8 million by 1955. It actually rose from 1965 onwards, reaching 3.2 million by 1975.
A great thing back then you could do... instead of paying 22 cent for a plastic bag, just stand in the wind and hold out your hand....
😂
I was in Dublin in 1986 and knew two brothers who were artists painting near the bridge...John and Dará...is this one of you guys in the video?
Loved Dublin back then.... When you weren't listening to 30 different languages as you walked along the pavements or when peopled walked along the pavements and nodded or said hello to each other instead of checking their phones every 2 or 3 minutes . Rare auld times these :)
God forbid you heard more than 2 languages. I’m sure it’s a very challenging thing to hear someone say “hola”.
Really though, do you get up in the morning to be offended? Toughen up....
@@drumclaypete Lol.... Looks who is being offended. .... Listen to what you're reading before you reply kid.
Kello Scully Getting annoyed about racism is very different than crying about a language you can’t understand.
@@drumclaypete Who is being racist? Stop jumping to a conclusion based on you just wanting to bitch and disagree for the sake of it. Don't be a donut all your life. My statement was a fact on how it was then to how it is now. Nothing racist about that princess. Oh and for your blinded information I have a South American wife and I am well aware of what Hola means ... Y usted? Now I would stop there if I was you cos you have already made a twat out of your-self
@@kelloscully9632 Nice one 👍
litter all over the street look
I think that's me finishing off(excuse the expression)Marilyn Monroe on the street
It either is or it isn't?
Ya bollix.
Yep that was you ken :)
Diceman was fab
Ireland has always had a proud tradition of the arts. We’re known abroad for our love of music and culture & tourists seem to enjoy the buskers. This is something that should be celebrated rather than vilified due to out of date foreign laws. We didn’t realise what we had back then. Nowadays Dublin is over run with scumbag junkies.
Junkies are vermin 🐀, 🤮, get them out of your area 💪👊💥!, legally or otherwise ✌️😉, good luck 🍀👍
You must have been living somewhere else in 1986.
@@speakertreatzThere seems to be more now though.
I hate what the political parties have done to our country, multiculturalism has destroyed it, there's nothing wrong having the Chinese or Indian take away around but they've literally saturated us beyond recognition, every where I go in Dublin and elsewhere all I hear are foreign accents from God knows where
Ah, I remember "The Dice man"
Ya, one time someone set him on fire.
the grim old days of the 1980s
The only criterion should be quality. None appears here and none appears now.
Of all capital cities in Europe Dublin is the most squalid and it steals far too much from the rest of Ireland.
10.45 >>> my old friend & colleague in Westbury Hotel, Martin Flood, a great GAA football player too. Great food, in the hotel Still Room end of shift 1 a.m. , eh Martin? Smoked salmon & egg sandwiches, desserts.
the buskers guild got what they asked for. Busking should always be illegal.
I busked on grafton street with friends for a while at weekends pints afterwards in Bruxelles ❤ or grogans ❤
your woman on the squeeze box at the start is still about , plays in the cobblestone.. am i right ?
She now plays regular in an expat bar in Pattaya .
Great to see busking in grafton street now. Brings a great atmosphere to the city.
nice vid old times , fuking great the 80s dublin , ya couldnt beat it witt a sticckk
An old English statute?! Now that IS oppression.
Excellent video, I guess the powers that be had no interest In the real lawbreakers, always hounding the suppressed making them fight against the system.
Are you Joe Wall of The Walls? Stunning?
Go to Dublin City Centre today, play a game called 'Spot the Irishman' and every time you see one or hear English spoken, take a shot. I guarantee you'll return home as sober as a judge!
🎤 drop
It's not even funny anymore, noone i know feels safe going Henry st shopping
I do be in town all the time, I see lots of Irish people on the daily, sure there are different cultures now, but that's no excuse for racism, because Irish people still dominate the city.
Keep Ireland Irish ain't racist! Fools like you are why the Irish won't "dominate" the city for much longer. Keep allowing this deliberate invasion while bitching about the Brits down the pubs with you Shinner pals! None so blind as them who just won't see- we're being replaced!@@lobodesade6780
35 years on there’s nothing on the streets!
KRAZEEIZATION it's madness ain't it, I'm 40 just and I'm thinking of the 'good old days' buts it all relative......maybe???
Nothing but foreigners
What streets are you talking about because Grafton Street has more buskers than ever.
@@speakertreatz it seemed quite back then, and this is probably during the “lockdown” malarkey.
@@KRAZEEIZATION ah my apologies, I didn't make the connection with the date sorry.
Dublin is gone, its now an anonymous place for the rest of the world, where the Irish walk around with mouth shut head down. Oconnwll st is not somewhere you wNt to walk, as its no longer sàfe or Irish
7.33 a young and vibrant George Galloway.. embracing socialism...
I would love to go back to Bewleys Cafe, Grafton Street , and see the characters who have now disappeared into the ether 💀
The 1980s were a bad time. Fashion was absolutely rubbish. Anyone who hadn’t emigrated was subjected to church types or crap discos.
Beautiful video
I remember commuting from drogheda to dublin city in 95 to work and being told daily i lived sticks lol they couldnt believe i travelled the now 30mins drive to work daily 😂
Well I bet that Mad Aul Wan with the Cross with the Rosary and Tricolour wrapped around it never got Arrested for Disturbing the Peace .
Beautiful not a migrant in sight
RIP the diceman.
Shocking to see the foreign numbers today compared to then
Why are you shocked?
The Diceman & Little John were foreigners.
It was a great place to go in the summer now its like a 👾 different city pure shame.
Its natural that Irish people or any culture love and remember seeing their town or country full of their own people its heritage but biodiversity helps when different cultures intergrate but u still see people not mixing
No mobile 📱 or Internet cafes . 😁
Before the great replacement began.
please explain your comment
Very simple.look at the "people" being allowed to pour into this country.@@Czechbound
@@sonnyirish3678 I still don't follow you. And why the word people in quotation marks ? You haven't explained yourself. I still have no idea what you mean about "the great replacement". Can you be more clear for me please ?
It would put a tear in your eye, and I’m 54
@@Czechboundyou know exactly what he bleeding means.
When Ireland was Ireland 🇮🇪 😢.
10.46 >> Martin Savage, security guard Westbury-Mall . How's it goin' Martin?
Remember John Nee in Galway.
is the banjo player playing never on a sunday at 14:00
Sounds like.
Thanks for this old gem. Does anyone know who the narrator is?
@christopher brown I don't think so. Gay had a very distinctive voice and this is an amateur production (Dublin Resource Centre) not produced by RTE
Yes, he'll be the fella who's voice you can hear over the film.
@@apathyintheuk265 very observant indeed. Now do you have any idea who it actually is?
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The Guards and the Black and Tans are one and the same.
I was 2 and happy
Where are the tents and the vibrant diversity that lives inside them? Ireland has gone
Aul dublin
7.53/54 the father Ted mystery finally solved it's a very young Father Todd Umptious 👍👍🐈🇮🇪
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4:02 Look out doggy you might get arrested for begging!