It's very fitting that this ends with an Aer Lingus Boeing blasting into the Irish skies, Aer Lingus was a source of national pride for the nation, a symbol of Ireland around the world and independence at home. Even to this day, as the aviation industry and Ireland as a whole has changed, many still look at Aer Lingus with pride.
@@G4KDXlive And, horrifyingly, a priest-ridden state that banned contraception and imprisoned young women in conditions of slave labour while selling their children for a market price.
It's an interesting mini-documentary on how Ireland saw itself in the 1960s. Not all positive, like the children pouring into the modern school - to learn about the different sorts of sinning - and what to do about it. Some people think Ireland should change its anthem, but this is a good tune. They shouldn't change it.
Are you kidding? This is one of the best anthems I’ve heard in a while! It’s beautiful, emotional and proud. And better yet: it’s sung properly, unlike the US anthem...
@@L_back I’m sorry but I have to laugh. “Sung properly”? Lmaoo have you ever heard anyone sing this anthem? Usually after the “Seantír ár sinsear feasta” line, people tend to break out into this mumbled humming as most people don’t know the rest of the song. Only for the last line do people start singing again. I’m only here to poke fun, no harm intended, but christ I wouldn’t describe Irish people singing this anthem as singing it properly. It’s a proper good anthem, but we can’t sing it to save our lives. I’m an adult and only now trying to learn the lyrics haha.
@@ropaul8006 as I said in my comment, I was only poking fun. Nobody’s having Irish beaten out of them nowadays so you could very easily learn the national anthem lyrics if you so wish.
Love this. I was a bit too young to remember seeing this (wonderful promotion of Ireland...love the industrial vibe). Musically, it beats many others for best national anthem.
Some years ago, I think I saw a documentary on Radio Teilifis (pronounced 'telefish' by the way) Eireann and someone once recalled how they watched telly until 'the plane took off' only in Eire did you get that. I'm not sure if RTE still used this closedown sequence (albeit an updated one) in the mid 70s but that didn't stop me using it in my first novel Runaway In The Night. Peter Finnegan, the main character, is from Cork hence the reason why I used it in a scene early on in the novel. I also remember seeing this clip elsewhere (but without the RTE ident seen here) and someone describing it as being a bit Stalinist. How fecking insulting is that to the Irish? Eire at the time WASN'T fecking Stalinist at all - it was just a different time when abortion was unheard of and unmarried young women (or those 'with child') were slung in the Magdalen Laundries. If I mentioned about Ireland being 'Stalinist' to my mum, she'd do her f****** pieces and why? Because SHE'S Irish.
+Bearraigh Lunt Ireland was very proud in the 1960s not to think of itself any more as a third world nation (though others might still have). Unlike the rest of Europe just after WW2 there was almost no development in the country for over a decade and a half so actually being able to do amazing things like give most people electricity or having working trains or jets and the like based in the country was considered something to be really proud about. Ireland kept being the sick man of western Europe until the plans for bringing businesses to the country with low taxation happened at the end of the 1980's. You shold see my own version of this movie I made for the 21st century, search for: What-If 21st Century RTÉ Closedown (Kieran Griffith) it also has the 1960's and 1970/80's closedowns before it. And of course they wouldnt need it now since all channels in Ireland run 24/7.
Eamon de Valera kept Ireland in the dark ages until Sean Lemass brought modernisation to Ireland. Lemass was Ireland's greatest Taoiseach. This video clip shows the results of his work.
And what would you say to those who thought that 1960s Ireland was very Stalinist? It's not MY view because, unlike Soviet Russia, Eire was (and still is) a democracy...except of course for those young women who were pregnant outside wedlock or wanted an abortion.
I remember seeing a different version of this. Not the 1980's one with pictures of nature. Around 10 years ago, I saw one like this, with a plane taking off at the end. However, it was in colour, and looked like it was recorded in the 70's or 80's (bad quality). Does anyone know which one I'm talking about?
@keith4291 Thats so true that money doesn't make you happy. Right now I am living on 600 dollars a month in USA (€444). And I am smiling all the time. Happiness is how connected you are to other souls
Question: Few ident exist for 1961 to 1978 for RTÉ was this the normal opening ident to all programmes, inlcuding the footage of the RTÉ tower followed by the logo?
@SuperJM9 I havent got a clue which one your talking about. From the 80's I remember only the luvy-duvy signing off movie with vids of beaches, flowers, streems and spider webs and sunsets. You can see that one on my channel as well as one I made myself ('Irish National Anthem Movie') for the 2010's (Not that Ireland needs it with channels going 24-7 now, but its nice and patriotic.). Wouldn't mind seeing the movie your talking about though.
@knockbridgeman If you like short patriotic movies with The Soldiers Song, I made the 21st Century equivalent of the 1960's RTÉ Signing-off National Anthem. You can find it on CZcams titled 'Irish National Anthem + Movie (Kieran Griffith)'.
Sorry if I sounded sensitive. I just am a scientist and have been studying a lot about futurism. You seemed to say that Ireland was a better place in the 1960's then it is today (The reality is that it has always been a great place since the famines.). Too many people think things were better in the past then they are today worldwide. People are living longer and healthier lives and all are far better off now then in the 60's also. Maybe I misunderstood you.
It's not only "Soviet states" which do something like this. Check the link for similar arrangement in New Zealand (albeit a longer and far more upbeat one): czcams.com/video/o-r_PutRulM/video.html
I wouldn't suggest this film was a founding template for the late night station sign off. Indeed, it reaches back to propaganda movies of the early Soviet and PRofC. But it is a very stirring bit of collage and you can't help but shed a bit of tear for the climactic take-off of the Aer Lingus 707. All of, sixty years ago this very evening. I have a small pang of regret though, which is my late father was part of the inaugural line-up and hosted a weekly show of live jazz music under the title of 'For Moderns'. He even debuted ahead of Gay Byrne. Alas, no video survives, or even a still shot of the broadcasts.
Surprised to see someone else see the Soviet connection. Obviously the USSR anthem had a little bit more emphasis on the industry and the military which were proud traditions of the nation. It's all propaganda, but is it really that bad to teach people to be proud of our nation? It's not like British nationalism or American nationalism were they are proud of blowing up innocent people and starving them. For me, it can only be beneficial.
Love the industrial vibe. Didn't play to the darby o gill nonsense of leprechauns and maidans dancing etc...just focused on economic progress which is something we should be very proud of.
Ireland is going through a rough patch now, but compared to all the other countries on the planet it is still the best one. I am still very proud to call myself Irish. Do you only think that Ireland is a good country when everyone has fat bank accounts? Ireland is a beautiful place with or without building sites. Also in the 1960s Ireland was a 3rd world country, poorest nation in Western Europe, low life expectency. Now its the 21st richest nation on Earth, above Germany, France and the UK.
@menapia1 It is pessimists who don't think Ireland is a wonderful and great nation that are the most dangerous thing for Ireland. Check out statistics over and over for things like national pride, crime rate, standard of living, average income etc. Relative to other nations were happiest nation on Earth still and what doesn't destroy Ireland makes us stronger. Watch my new patriotic movie IRISH NATIONAL ANTHEM + MOVIE on my channel and tell me what you think.
@SuperJM9 Making color movies out of black and white ones was not possible with available 1980's computer technology, and you need computer tech to do it on anything more detailed then a tom and jerry cartoon. So you must be talking about a different movie alright.
It is a myth that Ireland has become a third world nation again. Ireland was the fourth richest nation on Earth last decade but we have only dropped to 10th richest nation on Earth. That means were still ahead of nations like the UK, France, Holland and Italy not to mention over a hundred more, Overall Ireland is the greatest nation on Earth and always will be unless we get hit by a Haiti sized earthquake. Even then we would only stop being number one for about 10 years. Be more optimistic.
I made a movie that might change your mind, it starts showing the social/economical 1960s Closedown followed by the natural beauty 70's 80's closedown and ends with a hypothetical 21st century social/economical closedown I made myself. Ireland is better then ever thanks to globalism and almost the whole world improving technologically and socially. Look for 'What-If 21st Century RTÉ Closedown ' on my channel.
@@erickpaolod.santos3719No one calls it 'London'derry air. Even unionists know how dumb that name is, to name a city with a perfectly fine name after a corporation that exploited it, which itself was named after the city that presided over them
@knockbridgeman I didn't know that it had been stopped - that's terrible! I'm even less impressed that they still show the Angelus as a bit of lingering Catholic triumphalism.
[The clock goes back 30 years] And now, somewhere in England (Kilburn or Coventry maybe), the doors of the pub will be locked, the Soldier's Song played, and the green buckets handed round, all the better to fund bombs in Manchester or Warrington or Canary Wharf. As an English child brought up by an Irish stepfather, thank goodness that revolting filth is no more.
The Irish republic had nothing to do with the IRA attacks. The republics was brutally and deliberately attack by protestants - most notably, when attacked it was the bloodiest day of the troubles.
Its a myth that Ireland has become a third world country again. During the Celtic Tiger we were the fourth richest nation on Earth, it doesn't feel quite as extraordinary as it did during the last decade but we have only dropped to the 10 richest nation on Earth. Were still ahead of nations like the UK Germany and France. Do not be so pessimistic. Ireland is the greatest nation on Earth overall and will always be that way unless we get hit by a Haiti sized earthquake.
The whole thing is a myth for the people. A country with some obscenely rich individuals isn't necessarily a rich country. I would say Norway is a rich country, Ireland is a country robbed and run by rich bastards and their hired crooks. Up, Sinn Fein!
Ireland was the first country to get rid of the colonial empire and killer of the UK, this song is very inspiring undoubtedly Ireland is the inspiration for all of us! Hopefully next year Scotland can have the same happy ending like Ireland! ÉIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREETINGS FROM BRAZIL!!!!!!!! =D
You think that Scotland was oppressed in the UK? Who do you think started Britain's involvement in slavery? Whose soldiers committed the terrible atrocities? Proportional to the population of that pathetic country they have done a lot of really bad stuff. England isn't the most moral or pious or anything, but Scotland is plain despicable.
@@markgoodair2978 Britain wasn't a colonial empire or killer when America gained independence, and America allied itself with even worse colonial empires and killers to gain independence all because they didn't like paying a small amount of tax which had increased a bit to help pay for the damages caused by a war they had started.
And? Would it not be good to model after them? Look what they achieved? From third world backwater to space-faring nation with a higher quality of living than the USA*. You cannot but admit their accomplishments *(source: C.I.A. of the United States)
apart from the kids that were being beaten black and blue in the orphanages and when they told, they were beaten some more. Yeah, apart from the nasty theocracy bit. Very happy, I'm sure. If ignorance is happiness, then so be it!
It's very fitting that this ends with an Aer Lingus Boeing blasting into the Irish skies, Aer Lingus was a source of national pride for the nation, a symbol of Ireland around the world and independence at home. Even to this day, as the aviation industry and Ireland as a whole has changed, many still look at Aer Lingus with pride.
Its a symbolic of a nation that offered it's citizens nothing but a fucking jet to fly them to UK, USA , OZ , NZ , Canada to earn a crust.
Greetings ireland.
Happy St.Patrick Day!
What would you say to someone (not me by the way, okay?) who likened 1960s Eire to Soviet Russia?
Indeed. A film that provides an accurate insight into how Ireland wanted to be perceived in the 1960s. The modern and the traditional side by side.
@@G4KDXlive And, horrifyingly, a priest-ridden state that banned contraception and imprisoned young women in conditions of slave labour while selling their children for a market price.
God save Ireland 🇮🇪
It's an interesting mini-documentary on how Ireland saw itself in the 1960s. Not all positive, like the children pouring into the modern school - to learn about the different sorts of sinning - and what to do about it. Some people think Ireland should change its anthem, but this is a good tune. They shouldn't change it.
Are you kidding? This is one of the best anthems I’ve heard in a while! It’s beautiful, emotional and proud. And better yet: it’s sung properly, unlike the US anthem...
@@L_back I’m sorry but I have to laugh.
“Sung properly”? Lmaoo have you ever heard anyone sing this anthem?
Usually after the “Seantír ár sinsear feasta” line, people tend to break out into this mumbled humming as most people don’t know the rest of the song. Only for the last line do people start singing again.
I’m only here to poke fun, no harm intended, but christ I wouldn’t describe Irish people singing this anthem as singing it properly. It’s a proper good anthem, but we can’t sing it to save our lives. I’m an adult and only now trying to learn the lyrics haha.
@@foreigeanneamhspleach that's because the language was beat out of us you prick
@@ropaul8006 as I said in my comment, I was only poking fun.
Nobody’s having Irish beaten out of them nowadays so you could very easily learn the national anthem lyrics if you so wish.
Love this. I was a bit too young to remember seeing this (wonderful promotion of Ireland...love the industrial vibe). Musically, it beats many others for best national anthem.
Have you seen my hypothetical 21st century close down movie? czcams.com/video/GdEQpZQ3Dpg/video.html
Some years ago, I think I saw a documentary on Radio Teilifis (pronounced 'telefish' by the way) Eireann and someone once recalled how they watched telly until 'the plane took off' only in Eire did you get that. I'm not sure if RTE still used this closedown sequence (albeit an updated one) in the mid 70s but that didn't stop me using it in my first novel Runaway In The Night. Peter Finnegan, the main character, is from Cork hence the reason why I used it in a scene early on in the novel.
I also remember seeing this clip elsewhere (but without the RTE ident seen here) and someone describing it as being a bit Stalinist. How fecking insulting is that to the Irish? Eire at the time WASN'T fecking Stalinist at all - it was just a different time when abortion was unheard of and unmarried young women (or those 'with child') were slung in the Magdalen Laundries. If I mentioned about Ireland being 'Stalinist' to my mum, she'd do her f****** pieces and why? Because SHE'S Irish.
+Bearraigh Lunt Ireland was very proud in the 1960s not to think of itself any more as a third world nation (though others might still have). Unlike the rest of Europe just after WW2 there was almost no development in the country for over a decade and a half so actually being able to do amazing things like give most people electricity or having working trains or jets and the like based in the country was considered something to be really proud about. Ireland kept being the sick man of western Europe until the plans for bringing businesses to the country with low taxation happened at the end of the 1980's. You shold see my own version of this movie I made for the 21st century, search for: What-If 21st Century RTÉ Closedown (Kieran Griffith) it also has the 1960's and 1970/80's closedowns before it. And of course they wouldnt need it now since all channels in Ireland run 24/7.
Eamon de Valera kept Ireland in the dark ages until Sean Lemass brought modernisation to Ireland. Lemass was Ireland's greatest Taoiseach. This video clip shows the results of his work.
And what would you say to those who thought that 1960s Ireland was very Stalinist? It's not MY view because, unlike Soviet Russia, Eire was (and still is) a democracy...except of course for those young women who were pregnant outside wedlock or wanted an abortion.
"Feesh" and not "fish"
@@tipperary1082 I heard both pronunciations
i love ireland but i still love singapore!
0:34 SMOKE BENDIGO - sign of the times....
Brings back great memories of what this country could once achieve, Can we ever be optomistic again?
No
Tipperary very funny how you commented in 2020
@@L_back I tried ever so hard to comment last year but unfortunately I found it to be difficult and indeed impossible
@@tipperary1082 take your time
Like I did... it took a year to respond
I remember seeing a different version of this. Not the 1980's one with pictures of nature. Around 10 years ago, I saw one like this, with a plane taking off at the end. However, it was in colour, and looked like it was recorded in the 70's or 80's (bad quality). Does anyone know which one I'm talking about?
They uploaded a colour version of the national anthem, but with the flag and everything seen in this video. Is that it?
czcams.com/video/mELxZT080eI/video.html
I know this was 10 years ag, but, is this it? czcams.com/video/krZEfzKAhD4/video.html
@keith4291 Thats so true that money doesn't make you happy. Right now I am living on 600 dollars a month in USA (€444). And I am smiling all the time. Happiness is how connected you are to other souls
Question: Few ident exist for 1961 to 1978 for RTÉ was this the normal opening ident to all programmes, inlcuding the footage of the RTÉ tower followed by the logo?
Nelson on his pillar.
I have also read similar comments to yours on videos for other countries such as UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and Brazil. xD
@SuperJM9 I havent got a clue which one your talking about. From the 80's I remember only the luvy-duvy signing off movie with vids of beaches, flowers, streems and spider webs and sunsets. You can see that one on my channel as well as one I made myself ('Irish National Anthem Movie') for the 2010's (Not that Ireland needs it with channels going 24-7 now, but its nice and patriotic.). Wouldn't mind seeing the movie your talking about though.
@knockbridgeman If you like short patriotic movies with The Soldiers Song, I made the 21st Century equivalent of the 1960's RTÉ Signing-off National Anthem. You can find it on CZcams titled 'Irish National Anthem + Movie (Kieran Griffith)'.
Sorry if I sounded sensitive. I just am a scientist and have been studying a lot about futurism. You seemed to say that Ireland was a better place in the 1960's then it is today (The reality is that it has always been a great place since the famines.). Too many people think things were better in the past then they are today worldwide. People are living longer and healthier lives and all are far better off now then in the 60's also. Maybe I misunderstood you.
Always found it weird how they did this every day like we thought we where some sort of Soviet state
It meant many different things to many people, look at my to see what it would look like today: What-If 21st Century RTÉ Closedown (Kieran Griffith)
It's not only "Soviet states" which do something like this. Check the link for similar arrangement in New Zealand (albeit a longer and far more upbeat one): czcams.com/video/o-r_PutRulM/video.html
Most countries did this. Could be worse, we could be American's pledging allegiance to a flag tarnished with blood.
I wouldn't suggest this film was a founding template for the late night station sign off. Indeed, it reaches back to propaganda movies of the early Soviet and PRofC. But it is a very stirring bit of collage and you can't help but shed a bit of tear for the climactic take-off of the Aer Lingus 707. All of, sixty years ago this very evening. I have a small pang of regret though, which is my late father was part of the inaugural line-up and hosted a weekly show of live jazz music under the title of 'For Moderns'. He even debuted ahead of Gay Byrne. Alas, no video survives, or even a still shot of the broadcasts.
Surprised to see someone else see the Soviet connection. Obviously the USSR anthem had a little bit more emphasis on the industry and the military which were proud traditions of the nation.
It's all propaganda, but is it really that bad to teach people to be proud of our nation? It's not like British nationalism or American nationalism were they are proud of blowing up innocent people and starving them. For me, it can only be beneficial.
Love the industrial vibe. Didn't play to the darby o gill nonsense of leprechauns and maidans dancing etc...just focused on economic progress which is something we should be very proud of.
Yes. The old Soviet television sign-off did the same. It's great to see the progress of our island, and maybe one day, that will be together, as one.
@spacemooseireland Maybe RTE coloured this?
Porblacht na Èirann ❤️🇮🇪❤️
@knockbridgeman they probably got the O.B.E.
Ireland is going through a rough patch now, but compared to all the other countries on the planet it is still the best one. I am still very proud to call myself Irish. Do you only think that Ireland is a good country when everyone has fat bank accounts? Ireland is a beautiful place with or without building sites. Also in the 1960s Ireland was a 3rd world country, poorest nation in Western Europe, low life expectency. Now its the 21st richest nation on Earth, above Germany, France and the UK.
In Analogy, Ireland is the South Korea or Singpore of Europe
where were these footages shot?
0:34 that's o connell street dublin 0.46 looks like cobh County Cork, and also dublin Airport it looks like aswell not sure about the rest
@menapia1 It is pessimists who don't think Ireland is a wonderful and great nation that are the most dangerous thing for Ireland. Check out statistics over and over for things like national pride, crime rate, standard of living, average income etc. Relative to other nations were happiest nation on Earth still and what doesn't destroy Ireland makes us stronger. Watch my new patriotic movie IRISH NATIONAL ANTHEM + MOVIE on my channel and tell me what you think.
@SuperJM9 Making color movies out of black and white ones was not possible with available 1980's computer technology, and you need computer tech to do it on anything more detailed then a tom and jerry cartoon. So you must be talking about a different movie alright.
It is a myth that Ireland has become a third world nation again. Ireland was the fourth richest nation on Earth last decade but we have only dropped to 10th richest nation on Earth. That means were still ahead of nations like the UK, France, Holland and Italy not to mention over a hundred more, Overall Ireland is the greatest nation on Earth and always will be unless we get hit by a Haiti sized earthquake. Even then we would only stop being number one for about 10 years. Be more optimistic.
I made a movie that might change your mind, it starts showing the social/economical 1960s Closedown followed by the natural beauty 70's 80's closedown and ends with a hypothetical 21st century social/economical closedown I made myself. Ireland is better then ever thanks to globalism and almost the whole world improving technologically and socially. Look for 'What-If 21st Century RTÉ Closedown ' on my channel.
The closing theme of RTÉ is Danny boy (Also known as Londonderry air)
@@erickpaolod.santos3719No one calls it 'London'derry air. Even unionists know how dumb that name is, to name a city with a perfectly fine name after a corporation that exploited it, which itself was named after the city that presided over them
@knockbridgeman I didn't know that it had been stopped - that's terrible!
I'm even less impressed that they still show the Angelus as a bit of lingering Catholic triumphalism.
[The clock goes back 30 years]
And now, somewhere in England (Kilburn or Coventry maybe), the doors of the pub will be locked, the Soldier's Song played, and the green buckets handed round, all the better to fund bombs in Manchester or Warrington or Canary Wharf.
As an English child brought up by an Irish stepfather, thank goodness that revolting filth is no more.
The Irish republic had nothing to do with the IRA attacks. The republics was brutally and deliberately attack by protestants - most notably, when attacked it was the bloodiest day of the troubles.
I hope whoever decided to stop showing the national anthem on rte was sacked.
Australia national anthem abc
Its a myth that Ireland has become a third world country again. During the Celtic Tiger we were the fourth richest nation on Earth, it doesn't feel quite as extraordinary as it did during the last decade but we have only dropped to the 10 richest nation on Earth. Were still ahead of nations like the UK Germany and France. Do not be so pessimistic. Ireland is the greatest nation on Earth overall and will always be that way unless we get hit by a Haiti sized earthquake.
The whole thing is a myth for the people. A country with some obscenely rich individuals isn't necessarily a rich country. I would say Norway is a rich country, Ireland is a country robbed and run by rich bastards and their hired crooks. Up, Sinn Fein!
Ireland was the first country to get rid of the colonial empire and killer of the UK, this song is very inspiring undoubtedly Ireland is the inspiration for all of us! Hopefully next year Scotland can have the same happy ending like Ireland!
ÉIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREETINGS FROM BRAZIL!!!!!!!! =D
slevisham explain the history of American Independence.
You think that Scotland was oppressed in the UK? Who do you think started Britain's involvement in slavery? Whose soldiers committed the terrible atrocities? Proportional to the population of that pathetic country they have done a lot of really bad stuff. England isn't the most moral or pious or anything, but Scotland is plain despicable.
@@markgoodair2978 Britain wasn't a colonial empire or killer when America gained independence, and America allied itself with even worse colonial empires and killers to gain independence all because they didn't like paying a small amount of tax which had increased a bit to help pay for the damages caused by a war they had started.
It's very Soviet
And? Would it not be good to model after them? Look what they achieved? From third world backwater to space-faring nation with a higher quality of living than the USA*. You cannot but admit their accomplishments
*(source: C.I.A. of the United States)
apart from the kids that were being beaten black and blue in the orphanages and when they told, they were beaten some more. Yeah, apart from the nasty theocracy bit. Very happy, I'm sure. If ignorance is happiness, then so be it!
This had nothing to do with that. Cast away the mistakes of the past, and bring the good into the future.