Imagine the stories from those old guys in the 1960's clips. The Easter Rising, Dublin IRA, the Civil War. Now no one takes their faces out of their cell phones. Sad.
What an incredible piece of history! Emotional almost mythical, reminiscing for us Irish who now live abroad but used to frequent those pubs. I can't thank you enough for posting. I'll be back in those places this summer please god.
@@framurray5282 last time I was there 12 years ago and the price of a pint didn't seem that expensive and I even drank Beamish when I found it,,,so when did it change ?
I used to work in an electric retail shop on geroges street in the 90s loved going to the long hall with good friends after work for creamy pints of Guinness, great times and memories. My favourite pub in Dublin is the long hall it's like stepping back in time when you enter.
I'm from Glasgow and worked on the railway in Dublin 1980. The Guinness was like thick cream!! Now it's just not the same!! You have to have a pint in the brewery suite to taste perfection 😊😊!
My wife and I are heading over for two weeks in October. Our fourth time over. We’ll be 8 of 12 nights in the small villages (Athenry, Athlone, Donegal, Trim). All in search of the perfect non-commercialized pub. This film is magic!
@@hector7187 Correctomundo! Lesson learned. Left this morning after two quite nice weeks over there. And, yes: Athlone surprised us for its size, doubly so for Donegal, though that’s in reference mostly to the sheer size of the county!
Notice how the streets had smoother paving in those days. That's because we've had to go through 25 years of telecoms companies digging up the streets and not repairing them afterwards.
No they didn't. I used to cycle to school through the centre of Dublin, from Rathmines, to Great Denmark Street, and there were cobblestones on a lot of streets, old unused tramtracks and in wet weather, potholes Cavan would have been proud of. Smooth my aµ$€! The Corpo were not very quick to make repairs and when they did, they didn't mark the trenches they opened very well and the resurfacing was mediocre at best. You are viewing Dublin of the sixties through rose tinted glasses. If you cycled up Gardiner Street Seán McDermott Street or Summerhill, you could smell the poverty, unwashed bodies, boiled cabbage and potatoes. There was litter everywhere. It wasn't called Dear Old Dirty Dublin for nothing.
First clip of The Long Hall where the two chaps are having a pint in front of the three black taps is the exact same spot Phil Lynnot sat in the Old Town video
An English friend of mine went to a small pub on the West coast of Ireland . He asked for a half pint. The bar owner looked at him for a moment then said , 'well you can drink the half but you'll have to pay for the whole pint.' true.
Aah yes, back in a time when the only wine we had in the country was Blue Nun and black tower, and no real coffee at all. I remember taking a sip of the Blue Nun my ma used to buy at Christmas and thinking, "how do French people drink wine? Jesus its piss".
As an Irish man I remember getting in trouble for not locking my bike when I was younger ...I grew up innocent and thought nobody would steal it ...they never did ....first thing I seen in this video ...
Nice choice re. audio, it fitted well! Usually it's some hackneyed diddely-eye shite in the background - which wrecks the overall impact of the visuals.
My moms uncle John would have owned the pub back then, I did have the pleasure of visiting the pub some time back, such a fantastic atmosphere compared to pubs in UK, I was told Tom Cruise used the pub regularly whilst filming the far and away movie.
I love how if I accidently time travelled back to this time and I didnt know, I could walk into the pub and I wouldn't question it cause it looks the same as it is now
Ireland wasn’t any better then under the boot of the Catholic Church with their Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, wide spread abuse etc and governments that turned a blind eye and let them at it.
I'd sacrifice all modern technology we have today in order to go back to a time when dublin had its own character and we had our own culture before it was turned into a jokr
Me Da’s old boozer got on there for a second or two, The Canal Bar.....its closed down now but it was located about 100 yards from where he was born and bred, Marrowbone Lane Flats in the Liberties. He ended up working in the Brewery most of his life and the whole family are steeped in Liberties tradition. It’s so sad to see how our beautiful city used to be, people had respect for each other and there’d often be fights outside pubs but at the end of it they’d pick each other up and go back in and have another pint! “Thank you for the days” Dublin
Looks like Gills on NCR/Jones Road judging by the windows. Lest we forget, this is probably where Brendan behan got his taste for porter from. His granny sending him over for the ‘jug’ n all..
@@corkboy4523 The clergy was only one section of 'high society' involved with organized child abuse. It still goes on today amongst the elite, famous, political class, entertainment industry etc.
Pints of porter served at room temperature, a very acquired taste indeed. But I remember being in a Dublin pub, it wasa Sunday, I was going to the all Ireland football final. It was about 12:30 , and sitting ina corner was a well dressed wee man , I guess he was mid to late 70s. It was an old pub , nothing chic , but nice. He was sitting very content looking , reading a Sunday paper , pint of Guinness and smoking a pipe. The next day, the Republic would ban smoking in pubs. I often think of that seen , it was picture of contentment, and wondered about how that wee man would cope next Sunday without his pipe. No more old style pub culture 😢
My grandfather worked in 2 Hotels in omagh as a bar man and 2 Hotels in Belfast also as a bar man till one day he had enough money and he opened his own bar it was a very popular bar in 2008 he sold it for 200k it broke my heart but i understand why he was 65 at the time well anyway after he sold the pub he bought land built a big house and a medium sized farm and we live in this house till this day also all the hotel ls he worked in were demolished but thankfully his old pub is still here
Terrific clip, a lot of good pubs missing though, Abbey Mooney, Madigans, The Oval, to name but a few.. I drank in many of them, and must do so again! I really like the social life in Dublin City centre and tbh almost never see any mither in there, ya just need to know where to avoid, like any big city!!
The very last place the lad comes out and the cattle are coming down the street has to be that James gill pub on the the corner of the north circular and jones road near croke park isint it? The front is so unusual looking with the brick and small glass panels it has to be it
I love this and my dad had a pub on Sir John Rogersons Quay. However when I hear the claptrap about "good old days" it makes me puke. Born on the docks, the violence both domestic and on the streets was shocking also the slums were unbelievable. I am very proud of where I lived and even now the docks is a magnet every time I come home. But this crap about " Dublin in the rare old times " is pure bollocks! Daddy's pub was called Kellks.
Things look so easy and fun back then no phones in pubs just chat chat chat phones have ruined pubs these days nobody whats to talk just whats going on isntagram or facebook or tictok its horrible and im a young man born in the 90s i remember being a kid it was the best these days its shit
I lived in rathmines in the nineties some off the od pubs and characters were still there only during the day but was nice and dublin people the salt off the earth im from Tipperary and they made me welcome would give you a he shirt off your back
Everyone of them depressed and in for a cure. It was the norm and gives an insight into the state of mind of men in 1960/70’s simple but hard times where men went to the pub to escape their problems at home and life in general.
Good video. Please make another because the way prices are rising a lot of pubs won't be around cause the working people and OAPs can't afford it anymore.
Hard times but honest times. No mobiles or tv in the pub. You could have a great chat ect. Notice how there’s no woman sitting at the bar,,,different times back then.
It's so sad. My country has been by my reckoning sterilised by the importation, in spirit and in flesh, of the foreign. These old pubs have been lost, or turned into swill serving tourist traps. They were the soul of the Irishmans culture. Where we gathered to talk, tell jokes, and spin tales. To sing, and play music. To write our plays, to organise our rebellions, to find work. To sit and wait the few long minutes it took to hand pull the perfect pint of plain, and to sip it dry in the company of our fellow Irishmen. These places were decorated with an Irish sensibility. Paintings adorned the walls, there were plenty of places to sit, and every patron had their favourite spot. The soundtrack was provided by a live band, or an old regular sitting at the bar. Nowadays, we have neon lit sports bars, with their walls covered in flat panel televisions. The music is that of the mainstream, the top 100 charts hits being played at a volume disallowing any conversation of any real substance to occur. It's very sad.
Plenty of old and genuine pubs are still there, where people can go spend money they don't have on a substance that's bad for them, don't really understand what the sadness is about.
Pubs like these remain in Dublin rather because of tourism. Tourist want to see the old style bars, the music and humor. It's us Irish that have changed and rather be in cosmopolitan style set ups to match modern citys. I much prefer a old style pub myself, with Abit of music. It's just that since we had become a somewhat wealtheir nation, it has changed us considerably.
Gerard Byrne well this is the same all over the world.. do u think Florence, Paris, New York, Cancun , Bangkok,Bali, Havana, etc are now what they were 45 years ago?.. what the hell kind of mentality do I have ?
You can't get the same atmosphere anymore be ause the pc crowd won out and you can't smoke in the boozers anymore... It was the smell of stale tobacco and beer,, NOT A TV IN SIGHT... I'm 50 and the very few times you were brought into the pub as a child my memories are just like this... You would be given a packet of crisps and a bottle of TK lemonade and didn't open your mouth.. But I would look at all the aul fellas every one a character... Those days are long gone unfortunately and things are not the better for it......
I wasn't a great drinker but I was in loads of Dublin pub's back in the day. A game of pool a large bottle of Bulmers and a J especially summer time. Going to the pub is expensive these day's, a arm and a leg. No wonder people stay in and order in. these days I remember it 60 pence a pint. How can they justify the price of alcohol in Dublin, rip of and shameful. What do the punters get for 6,7 euro a pint, nothing. I'm a Dub.
Brilliant, pull up on your bike, lean it against the wall and head in for a session...no hassle or aggravation, and you could take your best friend with you to in those days, not uncommon to see old men and their dogs, just sitting there enjoying each other's company and a quiet pint, in front of an open fire sometimes....now those days are gone and lost forever...the EU/Celtic Tiger ruined our country!
There was no tiger. It was a false economy based on banks crediting themselves with money they didn't have, and then giving inflated loans to people who couldn't pay them back. It was more like an ostrich burying it's head in the sand.
I remember Conway pub when the working man could afford his pint unlike the rip off prices of todays dublin love to see more pubs going to the wall coz their too expensive
while in Ireland with my father I said how could my grandparents leave such a beautiful place his response was you can't eat the view
My pal from Ireland said exactly the same
haha very gud and so true...pity
Yea it's a pretty common saying.
Food for your soul though.
What I would give to go back in time and talk to the fellas in this video. Their life stories are fascinating to me. Simpler times!!
Nowadays some knackbag would have lifted the bike before he got in the door
retalivity lmao
I don't go to the pubs anymore in Dublin to many Dublin Jack's taking coke in the toilet and then starting trouble with anyone.
Gramsey Gamer that’s sad I hope you enjoyed em when you did
@@michaelwest6238 Used to be great now people are afraid to go into the toilets.
Gramsey Gamer very sad it’s the same all over
Imagine the stories from those old guys in the 1960's clips. The Easter Rising, Dublin IRA, the Civil War. Now no one takes their faces out of their cell phones. Sad.
I agree, old charterers like them you'll not see the like of again, God bless them all.
There’s still old people that can talk about historical events you know
I don't agree with the faces in cell phone bit but I must say if you did go talking to some one in pub in town now you be told to fuck off.
matthew mcconaughey
There is a pub in Cork were mobile/smart phones are not allowed.
What an incredible piece of history! Emotional almost mythical, reminiscing for us Irish who now live abroad but used to frequent those pubs. I can't thank you enough for posting. I'll be back in those places this summer please god.
Good stuff.Have a great time
God willing you see these places, update us with the good news mate!
I just want to go back in time and have a pint in Dublin.
Next time your in Dublin go to the gravediggers in glasnevin
make sure u bring a big wallet..........
Yep now it's full of foreigners, culchies, greedy landlords, liberals, etc.
@@xxPanteraxxx
So nothing really changes then?
@@framurray5282 last time I was there 12 years ago and the price of a pint didn't seem that expensive and I even drank Beamish when I found it,,,so when did it change ?
I used to work in an electric retail shop on geroges street in the 90s loved going to the long hall with good friends after work for creamy pints of Guinness, great times and memories. My favourite pub in Dublin is the long hall it's like stepping back in time when you enter.
I'm from Glasgow and worked on the railway in Dublin 1980. The Guinness was like thick cream!! Now it's just not the same!! You have to have a pint in the brewery suite to taste perfection 😊😊!
No you don't there are plenty of pubs in Dublin serving Guinness just as good as the Gravity Bar.
Beautiful piece of music to accompany this fantastic film
My wife and I are heading over for two weeks in October. Our fourth time over. We’ll be 8 of 12 nights in the small villages (Athenry, Athlone, Donegal, Trim). All in search of the perfect non-commercialized pub.
This film is magic!
Wouldn't call them small villages! Athlone has a population of about 20,000..
@@hector7187 Correctomundo! Lesson learned. Left this morning after two quite nice weeks over there. And, yes: Athlone surprised us for its size, doubly so for Donegal, though that’s in reference mostly to the sheer size of the county!
Beautifully composed. Brilliant. Thank you for this upload.
The Long Hall still keeps it's old spirit even today. Still frequented mainly by Irish people. Hidden gem of the city centre.
Notice how the streets had smoother paving in those days. That's because we've had to go through 25 years of telecoms companies digging up the streets and not repairing them afterwards.
And a deceitful government giving all our money to the EC
Include the rest of the country in that comment!!
No they didn't. I used to cycle to school through the centre of Dublin, from Rathmines, to Great Denmark Street, and there were cobblestones on a lot of streets, old unused tramtracks and in wet weather, potholes Cavan would have been proud of.
Smooth my aµ$€!
The Corpo were not very quick to make repairs and when they did, they didn't mark the trenches they opened very well and the resurfacing was mediocre at best.
You are viewing Dublin of the sixties through rose tinted glasses.
If you cycled up Gardiner Street Seán McDermott Street or Summerhill, you could smell the poverty, unwashed bodies, boiled cabbage and potatoes.
There was litter everywhere. It wasn't called Dear Old Dirty Dublin for nothing.
Paddy Diskin Ireland was in extreme poverty
@@aislingsibeallyons3416
Don't worry Aisling...
The workmanship of your father still live in the streets of Dublin
God bless him
Fantastic shots of the aul lads smoking sweetaftons and supping on pints of plain... DEADLY..
First clip of The Long Hall where the two chaps are having a pint in front of the three black taps is the exact same spot Phil Lynnot sat in the Old Town video
Great footage!! I especially liked the old taps in Gills! 👌
I know! I got a few of the pubs wrong when I made this a few years ago.
An English friend of mine went to a small pub on the West coast of Ireland . He asked for a half pint. The bar owner looked at him for a moment then said , 'well you can drink the half but you'll have to pay for the whole pint.' true.
It's depressing seeing what Dublin used to be and seeing what it is now.
sobbyhasselhoff - isn’t it just. Our cultural and traditions are quickly fading into the dark. God help us
what? Dublin was full of poverty, slums and deprivation. some nice "golden age" thinking there
Dublin was a complete kip back in the day
Give it 20 years. Won't even recognise the place.
Blame the government, they let the drugs into the country. There getting backhanded left and right to keep quiet.
Back when People were talking with each other and having a laugh with their friends. Not like today of Course!
The music lends to reflection of times and people no longer with us.
Aah yes, back in a time when the only wine we had in the country was Blue Nun and black tower, and no real coffee at all. I remember taking a sip of the Blue Nun my ma used to buy at Christmas and thinking, "how do French people drink wine? Jesus its piss".
Mixed feelings watching this.
John F do you feel oppressed now?
As an Irish man I remember getting in trouble for not locking my bike when I was younger ...I grew up innocent and thought nobody would steal it ...they never did ....first thing I seen in this video ...
I miss this Ireland of tradition and simplicity.
Me too
And alcoholism....
And paedo priests.
@@Jungleland33 don't be bad
Dave me too
Im looking at this on lockdown im going to get two cans of stout and drink them by the liffey
Ah, you just can’t beat those old Pavlovian instincts.....
Fair play
Nice choice re. audio, it fitted well! Usually it's some hackneyed diddely-eye shite in the background - which wrecks the overall impact of the visuals.
Wonderful footage!
Worked at The Norseman in Temple Bar back in 1998 on a working holiday from South Africa..great atmosphere and fond memories
My moms uncle John would have owned the pub back then, I did have the pleasure of visiting the pub some time back, such a fantastic atmosphere compared to pubs in UK, I was told Tom Cruise used the pub regularly whilst filming the far and away movie.
Fantastic footage thanks for sharing.
I love how if I accidently time travelled back to this time and I didnt know, I could walk into the pub and I wouldn't question it cause it looks the same as it is now
absolutely brilliant video!
If these men could see what Dublin and Ireland has become today
Ireland wasn’t any better then under the boot of the Catholic Church with their Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, wide spread abuse etc and governments that turned a blind eye and let them at it.
Coulda shoulda, far better state of affairs now than the third world country ireland was back then
now these where the days i bet a lot of people wish we could go back to these times
I'd sacrifice all modern technology we have today in order to go back to a time when dublin had its own character and we had our own culture before it was turned into a jokr
Me Da’s old boozer got on there for a second or two, The Canal Bar.....its closed down now but it was located about 100 yards from where he was born and bred, Marrowbone Lane Flats in the Liberties. He ended up working in the Brewery most of his life and the whole family are steeped in Liberties tradition. It’s so sad to see how our beautiful city used to be, people had respect for each other and there’d often be fights outside pubs but at the end of it they’d pick each other up and go back in and have another pint! “Thank you for the days” Dublin
The pints look gorgeous 😍
jesus the old fella in the gills was thirsty
Them were the days. Look at the state of Ireland now with all our new residents 😔
And they are more than welcome.
Residents…indeed…flipping invaders.
The long hall is still frequently visited by myself
What a spot
Every man dressed in a suit. No women. No kids. No food getting pushed. Topic of conversation any work going. And lovely lookin pints .
Thank god for women in the work place so that wages were halved and now noone can afford pints
No lager or ManU tops as well
@@samuelspoons3553 while singing republican songs
The good old days
Looks like Gills on NCR/Jones Road judging by the windows. Lest we forget, this is probably where Brendan behan got his taste for porter from. His granny sending him over for the ‘jug’ n all..
In Covid lockdown this is depressing. A few pint’s in the Long hall right now would be amazing🥰...someday soon Dublin pubs, someday soon..
It is a strange trait, or strength of the Irish. They can drink all night, sleep for 3 hours, and get up next morning to build the world. How???
Do you work for Hollywood?
3 hours? That's a long night's sleep for most of us Irish!
Low IQ
@@lkelly5136 explain how
Schkullin piiiints
Ireland was a better place back . Today we are a nation of smart phones
I miss the poverty as well. Not
But at least our kids aren’t being raped by the clergy
That can be said of the whole world not just Ireland
@@sarahwalsh7255
Have we eradicated poverty then?
@@corkboy4523
The clergy was only one section of 'high society' involved with organized child abuse. It still goes on today amongst the elite, famous, political class, entertainment industry etc.
that bit at 19 seconds in was gold... hands him a pint.. not good enough.... puts more in.... big smile on his face, now its good HAHAHAHA
The old man In gills swamping the pint is my mams uncle
Can you tell me about him? What did he do, when did he pass on? Did he have a good life? I get lost in these old videos and the souls they bring back.
@@20fknyrs39 I'm sorry for whatever happened to you that made you such an angry and bitter individual. I hope life gets better for you.
I bet he said he was going to buy milk and would be back later... :D ?
@@mike8631 he passed on about five minutes after sculling the pint....
@@mediolanumhibernicus3353 haha
Sadly the way Ireland is going having a pint in a pub will only be a story we tell our grandchildren.
This has the feeling of an Adam Curtis documentary
Them days have gone forever
I miss the pub.
Just parking your bike without locking it up, eh?
Good luck doing that in Europe these days.
Pints of porter served at room temperature, a very acquired taste indeed. But I remember being in a Dublin pub, it wasa Sunday, I was going to the all Ireland football final. It was about 12:30 , and sitting ina corner was a well dressed wee man , I guess he was mid to late 70s. It was an old pub , nothing chic , but nice. He was sitting very content looking , reading a Sunday paper , pint of Guinness and smoking a pipe. The next day, the Republic would ban smoking in pubs. I often think of that seen , it was picture of contentment, and wondered about how that wee man would cope next Sunday without his pipe. No more old style pub culture 😢
thank's for your subscription chris nice video some gone but not forgotton
Fear not, there'll always be a good variety of watering holes, and beer, marvelous beer!
My grandfather worked in 2 Hotels in omagh as a bar man and 2 Hotels in Belfast also as a bar man till one day he had enough money and he opened his own bar it was a very popular bar in 2008 he sold it for 200k it broke my heart but i understand why he was 65 at the time well anyway after he sold the pub he bought land built a big house and a medium sized farm and we live in this house till this day also all the hotel ls he worked in were demolished but thankfully his old pub is still here
Terrific clip, a lot of good pubs missing though, Abbey Mooney, Madigans, The Oval, to name but a few.. I drank in many of them, and must do so again! I really like the social life in Dublin City centre and tbh almost never see any mither in there, ya just need to know where to avoid, like any big city!!
The very last place the lad comes out and the cattle are coming down the street has to be that James gill pub on the the corner of the north circular and jones road near croke park isint it? The front is so unusual looking with the brick and small glass panels it has to be it
Beautiful old pubs. Shame there's not many left now.
Plenty around
@@coolkevo Really...
@@thescrutineer7022 here and there
I love this and my dad had a pub on Sir John Rogersons Quay. However when I hear the claptrap about "good old days" it makes me puke. Born on the docks, the violence both domestic and on the streets was shocking also the slums were unbelievable. I am very proud of where I lived and even now the docks is a magnet every time I come home. But this crap about " Dublin in the rare old times " is pure bollocks! Daddy's pub was called Kellks.
you ain't lying. Dublin was a rough spot in the seventies
You're talking bollocks! It was different then, it was tough but in a different way. People had nothing but they were honest and decent.
While nowadays you can whistle down any street day or night in complete safety. Sure no one needs to commit any crimes we're all loaded.
Sold news papers down that side of the dock's when i was a kid , and you are right about the poverty ,it was everywhere
A good few of them are still there, with a name change for two or three 😊
Where we’ve been... why more interesting than where we’re goin.
So elegant back then..
Crazy that these scenes and the grateful dead being a band co existed
Noticable how everyone is so slim and trim.
There is not a single chubby, porky or overweight person.
Nothing like a depressant to chase the blues away.
These types of pubs can still be found.
The Wind Jammer, lol, I've had a few hairy early mornings in there...
Townsend street? never knew that was an early house. slatterys for me
Great footage but the music made the whole thing so tragic 😅
Its wonderful to see these clips bur sad also because a lot have left us.
Ghosts from the past
Things look so easy and fun back then no phones in pubs just chat chat chat phones have ruined pubs these days nobody whats to talk just whats going on isntagram or facebook or tictok its horrible and im a young man born in the 90s i remember being a kid it was the best these days its shit
I lived in rathmines in the nineties some off the od pubs and characters were still there only during the day but was nice and dublin people the salt off the earth im from Tipperary and they made me welcome would give you a he shirt off your back
Everyone of them depressed and in for a cure. It was the norm and gives an insight into the state of mind of men in 1960/70’s simple but hard times where men went to the pub to escape their problems at home and life in general.
Or maybe they just enjoyed a pint like anyone else?
The Long Hall. Still a proper pub of an afternoon
Back in the day you could've gotten pissed on a 5er,,,now the pubs wouldn't give u a glass of water for a 5er
And there is still herds of old cows still running through Dublin in 2021
Did they close the Knackers Inn?
Good video. Please make another because the way prices are rising a lot of pubs won't be around cause the working people and OAPs can't afford it anymore.
Brilliant!
Great historical footage. Does anybody know the eerie soundtrack's title or name of this music author please?
The look that Michael kane had at 3.25 u think travellers just walked into he's pub🤣🤣
And now they've all kicked the bucket...
Hard times but honest times. No mobiles or tv in the pub. You could have a great chat ect. Notice how there’s no woman sitting at the bar,,,different times back then.
I believe I recognise an ex RSM of the 2Bn. Cathal Brugha Bks late 1958/9 known Jamser. It's class Vickers Machine gunner? Anybody agree?
Gills is in Russell Street, not Prussia Street.
Those days things were so proper. We must usher back conservatism and sensibility.
No Brazilians everywhere, delightful!
Those were the day's....✨✨👍👍
Lovely
The long Hall is still the same, weird choice of music though.
It's so sad. My country has been by my reckoning sterilised by the importation, in spirit and in flesh, of the foreign. These old pubs have been lost, or turned into swill serving tourist traps.
They were the soul of the Irishmans culture. Where we gathered to talk, tell jokes, and spin tales. To sing, and play music. To write our plays, to organise our rebellions, to find work. To sit and wait the few long minutes it took to hand pull the perfect pint of plain, and to sip it dry in the company of our fellow Irishmen.
These places were decorated with an Irish sensibility. Paintings adorned the walls, there were plenty of places to sit, and every patron had their favourite spot. The soundtrack was provided by a live band, or an old regular sitting at the bar.
Nowadays, we have neon lit sports bars, with their walls covered in flat panel televisions. The music is that of the mainstream, the top 100 charts hits being played at a volume disallowing any conversation of any real substance to occur.
It's very sad.
Plenty of old and genuine pubs are still there, where people can go spend money they don't have on a substance that's bad for them, don't really understand what the sadness is about.
@@user-zb8ss9xb1b Gerard speaks of slowly losing our identity ...... it being diluted and that's to be lamented.
Pubs like these remain in Dublin rather because of tourism. Tourist want to see the old style bars, the music and humor. It's us Irish that have changed and rather be in cosmopolitan style set ups to match modern citys. I much prefer a old style pub myself, with Abit of music. It's just that since we had become a somewhat wealtheir nation, it has changed us considerably.
Gerard Byrne well this is the same all over the world.. do u think Florence, Paris, New York, Cancun , Bangkok,Bali, Havana, etc are now what they were 45 years ago?.. what the hell kind of mentality do I have ?
@@user-zb8ss9xb1b
Our culture is still being eroded. It won't exist soon enough.
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You can't get the same atmosphere anymore be ause the pc crowd won out and you can't smoke in the boozers anymore... It was the smell of stale tobacco and beer,, NOT A TV IN SIGHT... I'm 50 and the very few times you were brought into the pub as a child my memories are just like this... You would be given a packet of crisps and a bottle of TK lemonade and didn't open your mouth.. But I would look at all the aul fellas every one a character... Those days are long gone unfortunately and things are not the better for it......
I wasn't a great drinker but I was in loads of Dublin pub's back in the day. A game of pool a large bottle of Bulmers and a J especially summer time. Going to the pub is expensive these day's, a arm and a leg. No wonder people stay in and order in. these days I remember it 60 pence a pint. How can they justify the price of alcohol in Dublin, rip of and shameful. What do the punters get for 6,7 euro a pint, nothing. I'm a Dub.
Loved old eire dublins black land now poor eire
Brilliant, pull up on your bike, lean it against the wall and head in for a session...no hassle or aggravation, and you could take your best friend with you to in those days, not uncommon to see old men and their dogs, just sitting there enjoying each other's company and a quiet pint, in front of an open fire sometimes....now those days are gone and lost forever...the EU/Celtic Tiger ruined our country!
There was no tiger. It was a false economy based on banks crediting themselves with money they didn't have, and then giving inflated loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
It was more like an ostrich burying it's head in the sand.
Could anyone tell me the name of the music playing please
I bet it’s the music that’s making everyone depressed in these comments
I am surprised the person didn’t lock his bike, nowadays even with 3 locks it could be stolen.
Gills was down as "Prussia Street"...was it not the North Circular Road???
I remember Conway pub when the working man could afford his pint unlike the rip off prices of todays dublin love to see more pubs going to the wall coz their too expensive