Galway Street Festival, Ireland 1984
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2024
- The sun shines and temperatures soar for the Galway street festival marking five hundred years of the city.
Perfect weather for a festival in Galway, which according to the Met Office is enjoying the hottest temperatures across Europe.
Galway Mayor Michael Leahy opened the Quay Street and High Street Festival. This is the first in a series of festivals to celebrate the Galway quincentenary.
Quay Street and High Street are the settings for a wide variety of entertainment.
The streets have been pedestrianised for the duration of the event and admission is free.
The festival is in full swing with street games for children, music, poetry, and an array of street stalls.
Jazz musician Louis Stewart will provide the night time entertainment at an open air concert. Among the other events planned for the week are a boxing tournament and lectures on folklore and folk songs.
There is a great sense of tradition amongst the shopkeepers of both streets from the care taken in preserving shop fronts.
At night the festival atmosphere is felt across the city’s public houses.
Pubs are more packed than Croke Park on All Ireland day.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 April 1984. The reporter is Tommie Gorman.
Wow I was visiting my aunt there about this time, she had a guest house there. Beautiful place, beautiful people, I would recommend everyone visit at least once in their lifetime..So so nice ❤️ from Leeds ☮️...So sad they past, love you Mick and Maura Mullins...!!
1984 was a great summer. We then had to wait till 1995 for a similar one. So rare enough.
In what way, if I may ask? Was the weather especially good?
I still remember the summer of 95. I spent a month at the beach.
Summer 1995 was the best summer I've experienced. I have photos taken in the west of Ireland where the entire landscape is scorched yellow from lack of rain. Everyday going to the beach my parents and siblings. Great pop music too - Pulp, Oasis, Edwin Collins, Supergrass, etc. Happy memories.
Yes the summer of 1995 is my favourite time. I lived in Galway in the summer of 1995. Best day's of my life. I shall return one day!
1984 was a fabulous hot summer. Was the year I dropped out of school and just chilled all that summer June 1984 up to August was amazing heat best year of my life... I was 16 that September.. 🌞🌞🌞
‘Are Sure that’s Grand to see Ireland in full pedigree.
These old clips remind me of Europe in bygone day’s, a treasure to behold, a Crock of Gold to be told and a tradition untainted by Baal.
You only need look over the water
to see what’s on its way,
A seed so fertile for conquest,
You’ll end up with nothing to say.
awesome back then Irish in Ireland ......and today poor old Ireland. infested with filth...,
Awesome to see the hometown back in the day
You can see Willie Green and Alec Finn towards the end. Both have passed on since RIP
1:43 The girl playing the violin is extremely beautiful.
Absolutely!
Must be around 63 years old now. “ gone alas like our youth too soon”
@@VileFemboy billy kelly on banjo from downpatrick god bless him.
@@boatman6865 still beautiful I’m sure
I love this sort of thing. I remember that scorching summer very well--such warm memories in every meaning of the word. --Kevin Whelan
""""It's more than music- where words fail - music speaks""--- BEAUTIFUL- go ráibh máith agát CR'S - VV...🙏🇮🇪☘️🌳🌾.........
But Ireland has changed dramatically since back then!
.What with the intro of the Euro(which has created greater prosperity -for certain counties!)
But do u think there is a chance that Ireland's Culture, character and sense of Traditionalism is being eroded and possibly threatened?(After all this is what gives it it's Spine!)
Wow, that fiddle player is a stunner!
May the Lord bless us one and all. RIP.
Nice video , the town has gone in different direction
In a good way or a bad way. I've not been in Galway since 1998
@@anthonycarney8445 not in a great way
@@anthonycarney8445 Alot of the raffish atmosphere of creativity from the 80s and 90s is gone. The city has taken on a more sterile, gentrified air. Also, like a lot of places, the city centre has been decimated by high rents and now covid. It's still Galway but something has been lost.
Galway a great place always woz and always will b . Iam 88 now . So seen lots
Hon the Tribesmen!!!!!
Good auld simple days, went to school in St. Pats around the corner about a year later, was living in the Rahoon Flats that year
My great great grandma is from Galway, Ireland Mary Mulryan she had 31 children
31!! That's insane
Funny how many people didn’t wear sunglasses back then
Shur the neighbours would be talking about ya
How is the tree that was planted doing?
That's it still there I think:
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@@GodOfVictory501 Jaysus....it must be bigger than that ..... that while area was a building site in the 90s
@@noelio67 no, I'm thinking that tree must be gone now. The two trees in front of Jury's Inn are placed quite symmetrically either side of the front door, so I'm guessing they were planted after the hotel was built. A photo of that area from the late 80s/early 90s will answer the question.
@@GodOfVictory501 No ways thats the original tree, if anything, they took it up and replanted it with a dedicated marker for its history and Leahy's name on it etc.... a lot of things found their way into the grounds of City Hall
@@noelio67 ah, I see. Interesting
I suppose it was from this that they got the idea to pedestrianize the street full time?
Good Video 👍
3:00 James May
3:00 Oh, hey, it's James May!
It's a testament to the city and the council that the streets shown here are still pretty much the same! Just permanently pedistrianised
Up Galway
DAMN, before the great replacement hit Ireland replacing indigenous peoples with non-native ones. Looks amazing!
Ah yeah Massive Unemployment, Pedophile Priests molesting children, Thousands Emigrating, Babies being Murdered in Mother and Baby homes by the Catholic Church.
The good old days.
I bet you’re not even Irish
No rip off Ireland then only perms punts and pints
Jazz Bucks
Seth Rogan and James May from top gear at 3.00
@Pure Salty Gammon That’s the late, great, Alec Finn, of DeDannan fame, RIP
Brendan Grace, Billy Connolly lookalikes 3:00 🤣
James May
🙏💚🌟👏👏👏
Gasp! An ethnostate! oh, the horror
A festival featuring lectures on folk ways and folk songs didn't attract the interest of all demographics of Irish society! Gasp!
For anyone who wants to listen to Irish music there is some great music other than the old traditional folk style, for example Rocstrong, Reggie Snow, Denise Chaila, Rusangano Family, Jafaris, Loah, Bray Side Boyz
@@sb8163 Calling those artists great is being very very very very very generous. But I understand, it will have to be shoved down our throats for another generation or two until its the norm.