Early House Pubs of Cork City, Ireland 1980

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  • Customers availing of the early hour exemptions in a Cork pub are joined by singer Jimmy Crowley.
    It is early morning along Union Quay in Cork and reporter Pat Butler pays a visit to a few of the city’s early houses. Early houses are an old tradition in the city providing a place for dockers to congregate for an early morning drink. Open from 7 am, Early houses are not specific to Cork and can be found throughout the country. Pat Butler meets some of the early morning customers and asks the question,
    What are people doing in pubs drinking at that hour?
    The pubs are packed with people from all walks of life with the stout flowing. Some in for a quick drink before they start the day while others are in for a pick me up after finishing a night shift.
    Whether we like it or not, drink and drinking are part of the national character.
    Cork folk singer Jimmy Crowley joins the men in the pub for a sing-along performing ‘Boozing’.
    Boozing, bloody well boozing.
    This episode of ‘Ireland’s Eye’ was broadcast on 14 October 1980. The presenter is Pat Butler.
    ‘Ireland’s Eye’ was a Tuesday-to-Friday series with human-interest stories and features from locations throughout Ireland. First broadcast on 7 October 1980, the programme ran until August 1983.
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Komentáře • 207

  • @johncreedon7847
    @johncreedon7847 Před rokem +70

    " I never seen things so bad" yet there they are flooring pints at 8 in the morning...doesn't look too bad to me 🤣🤣🤣

  • @StormKidification
    @StormKidification Před rokem +46

    I'm Italian but I'm so glad I've stumbled upon this channel randomly, what a wonderful culture that i can access

    • @chulainn32
      @chulainn32 Před rokem

      Welcome Italia. PS. Fuck Schillaci . 😁

    • @ckpalmeiras1318
      @ckpalmeiras1318 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Irish and Italians are usually very close and often intermarried in the US.

    • @TheCurtisdavies
      @TheCurtisdavies Před 5 měsíci

      @@ckpalmeiras1318hi do you know why that is

    • @ckpalmeiras1318
      @ckpalmeiras1318 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@TheCurtisdavies Both Catholic and tended to live in the same areas of north eastern cities

  • @finolaomurchu8217
    @finolaomurchu8217 Před rokem +27

    The man singing and playing accordion was really talented. The man the chef, was bit down over lack of work. Jimmy Crowley gifted.

    • @sentimentaloldme
      @sentimentaloldme Před rokem +1

      Jimmy Crowley is a well known Irish Folk Singer..

    • @vonliz8223
      @vonliz8223 Před rokem +4

      Chef cheered up towards the end haha 😂

    • @billparrish9200
      @billparrish9200 Před rokem +5

      I guarantee you "the chef" had just come off a night's work, cash in hand. Forklift, docks, whatever.

  • @SebNutter
    @SebNutter Před rokem +14

    Just a bunch of good blokes leading their best lives.

  • @Seansaighdeoir
    @Seansaighdeoir Před měsícem +2

    Went over to Dublin in the late 80's to watch England v Ireland and landed into town at 7.45am straight from Dunlaoire found one of these pubs open. Never seen nothing like it.
    A few of the lads had poppers and they spread around the bar and the place was rocking at 8.00 in the morning. Got chatting to a few of the locals who explained having to get up to come to the pub!
    Unbelievable day with a full 12 hours before the match. Great memories.

  • @billybigtime2808
    @billybigtime2808 Před rokem +13

    The Life and soul a character in the pub but the next day skint and miserable around there family I’ve seen this growing up, good time people with a drink In them a pain in the arse without

  • @Wunjo-Wunjo
    @Wunjo-Wunjo Před rokem +19

    I love this clip. It's been a favourite of mine for a while. 👍

  • @ArsonFire00
    @ArsonFire00 Před rokem +22

    Charlie's as the pub is called now, is a Cork gem. You'll still see Cillian Murphy stop in for a pint if he's home on St. Patrick's day.

  • @79johnnykage
    @79johnnykage Před rokem +17

    Can’t beat a good ol’early hse for a dirty hangover cure 🇮🇪 ❤

  • @bnk777
    @bnk777 Před 3 měsíci +5

    You can see the sadness/ sense of defeat in the Chef’s eyes.

  • @brianoc7926
    @brianoc7926 Před rokem +16

    This should have way more views! Excellent stuff

  • @DublinDriftR33
    @DublinDriftR33 Před rokem +13

    wish there was cameras around the early houses and similar adventures so ppl could look back as im doing, these videos are an amazing time capsule , thanks for the uploads

    • @Paul-sl9zm
      @Paul-sl9zm Před rokem

      Look back at what? Smelly men sitting and drinking talking SHITE

    • @andrewclavin7447
      @andrewclavin7447 Před rokem

      This was recorded last Monday !
      May as well have been

  • @russianbot1420
    @russianbot1420 Před rokem +4

    Thanks CR 👍 from Wexford

  • @randyborstol2491
    @randyborstol2491 Před rokem +20

    I thought this was uploaded before? it is how I found your excellent channel.

  • @DuderinoDeux
    @DuderinoDeux Před rokem +5

    Imagine! People talked, the gift of the gab and now it's smart this and smart that pushed by smart alecs!

  • @anthonyslevin1717
    @anthonyslevin1717 Před rokem +3

    You wouldn't have the late late toy show from 1984 with St Colmcilles Boys National school playing. I've been looking for it for years.

  • @alcoyne3333333333333
    @alcoyne3333333333333 Před rokem +2

    Thanks

  • @eamondevalera3126
    @eamondevalera3126 Před 10 měsíci +4

    I just came in too cure me head from last night😂😂😂

  • @mairesavage6815
    @mairesavage6815 Před rokem +1

    This video was uploaded previously on this channel @paddy Sullivan VHS 📼 Cork.

  • @Dessienewshoes
    @Dessienewshoes Před rokem +39

    The good old days of meeting a man in an early house about a job ❤

    • @eugenemcgovern9703
      @eugenemcgovern9703 Před rokem +3

      It was the black market that always kept this country running during a recession.

    • @ropaul8006
      @ropaul8006 Před rokem +1

      @@eugenemcgovern9703 that was basically the economy of every town till 20 years ago. The cash in hand job put clothes on most of our backs

    • @chulainn32
      @chulainn32 Před rokem +4

      @@ropaul8006 Totally correct lads. Moving to cashless society only benefits those at the top. Cash in hand fed and clothed most of the country for many years. Was either that or emigration for a lot.

  • @kingseanp9267
    @kingseanp9267 Před 2 měsíci

    Well, I now have a theme song that I’ll hear in my head whenever I crack open a cold one at 7 in the morning. Bloody boozing!

  • @seriousstuff8887
    @seriousstuff8887 Před rokem +20

    And not a phone in sight too .. There's alot to be said for meeting up in person and having a few jars and a sing song at 7am .

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 Před rokem +1

      Couldn't beat it 😅

    • @sentimentaloldme
      @sentimentaloldme Před rokem +1

      I doubt if the great Jimmy Crowley would be there normally at 7am. Jimmy was/is a famous professional Cork folk singer. He has loads of great ballads up here on CZcams..

    • @seriousstuff8887
      @seriousstuff8887 Před rokem

      @@sentimentaloldme I know I'm from cork .. they'd always start a sing song anyway. It was tradition then that's sadly lost .

  • @billparrish9200
    @billparrish9200 Před rokem +7

    90% of these guys were coming off a night-shift (cash in hand, no questions asked) and claiming dole at the same time.

    • @KingTrouser
      @KingTrouser Před 4 měsíci +1

      Right, you saw the look on the Chefs face when the reporter sat down. Anyone they don't know coming and asking questions, they were lucky to have that many answers!

  • @tess5378
    @tess5378 Před rokem +2

    God them talking about the price of a pint and cost of living! So much has stayed the same!

  • @johndoe-fd7rd
    @johndoe-fd7rd Před rokem +1

    My uncle used to own the limerick castle pup. Can you find any videos or photos then. Would of been 80’s and early 90’s.

  • @sullieking
    @sullieking Před rokem +16

    Haha go on the lads

  • @eddieraffs5909
    @eddieraffs5909 Před 9 měsíci +5

    You should see the pint of a pint in 2023 lads

  • @jamescornflake1542
    @jamescornflake1542 Před rokem +4

    Mighty Livers back then))

  • @Biffoaussie85
    @Biffoaussie85 Před měsícem +1

    Best video on CZcams 😂😂😂

  • @gbhgvhgbh
    @gbhgvhgbh Před rokem +12

    Absolute chancers 😂

  • @richiehoyt8487
    @richiehoyt8487 Před rokem +7

    They don't seem to make that model of geezer any more... kind of a shame. I remember when I was a student back around maybe '88, a few of my mates and myself thought it would be great sport to go down the 'early house' one morning, but every place we tried they put the block on us... Can't even say I blame them, I mean it's not even like we'd been 'On the Lash' all night, we just thought we'd go and gawp, like tourists -- only the joke would have been on us had we gotten served, we woulda come across like Kevin Zoolander in that scene where he mortifies his Old Man (John Voight) in his local workingmen's tavern!

  • @Breas1014
    @Breas1014 Před 24 dny

    Nothing like a pint at 815am after working the death shift.

  • @jasond869
    @jasond869 Před rokem +12

    Anyone else here looking for their Father?

    • @richiehoyt8487
      @richiehoyt8487 Před rokem +3

      Shouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a few kids sat on the windowsill outside after doing exactly that; sent down by their mams to salvage the housekeeping before Mr. "Murphy" or Mr. "Beamish" get a~hold of it!

  • @paidimusic
    @paidimusic Před rokem +3

    1:53 Paul McCartney has nothing else to do since The Beatles broke up

  • @anthonykilgannon3443
    @anthonykilgannon3443 Před rokem +2

    Be funny if the chef broke into helter skelter. "when you get to bottom you go back to the top.......... 😂😂

  • @MrTerrytod2
    @MrTerrytod2 Před rokem +9

    Beautiful....such a fabulous way of life. Pints at 7am, fall around Patrick's St at 11am then home to terrorise the wife and kids pissed off me face. The sound of roaring "wheres me dinner bitch". Beautiful times

  • @nigefal
    @nigefal Před 4 měsíci +2

    The common thread from a lot of the men seems they had nothing to do to pass the time. Limited interests, limited education and limited outlets. Hard to know whether the early house was a good thing or bad thing for them.

  • @corkboy4523
    @corkboy4523 Před 9 měsíci

    Only one early house left in cork now.

  • @CharlieGeorge_
    @CharlieGeorge_ Před rokem +3

    Thought that was Paul McCartney on the thumbnail

  • @jaymichaels5187
    @jaymichaels5187 Před rokem

    2:00 Billy Shepherd's younger brother Aleister.

  • @lurchlocker89
    @lurchlocker89 Před rokem +1

    I'm fairly sure they're in present-day Charlie's but Jimmy Crowley looks like he's in the Welcome Inn.

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Do they still have early houses in Ireland?

    • @TheLastAngryMan01
      @TheLastAngryMan01 Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah, there are still a few in Dublin and Drogheda anyway. They tend to be associated with port cities and people working nights.

    • @Breas1014
      @Breas1014 Před 24 dny

      Yes, in Limerick

  • @HisrealnameisLukeFury

    Who knew paul McCartney used to frequent Cork pubs early in the morning looking for a job as a Chef!!!😂🤣

  • @misterleary
    @misterleary Před 2 měsíci

    Hu, Paul McCartney in an irish pub ;-)

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 Před rokem +11

    back to simpler times. 😉

    • @d23bw
      @d23bw Před rokem +9

      I'd love to hear some woke type attempting to explain themselves to someone from 1970's Ireland.

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet Před rokem +4

      @@d23bw
      Hard to explain anything to a drunk.

    • @happy_camper
      @happy_camper Před rokem +4

      @@shysonofficialbetter social skills? How so?

    • @kevinhegney3813
      @kevinhegney3813 Před rokem

      @@shysonofficial I'll like to no how u came up with that coz u are way off

  • @johngcahill9583
    @johngcahill9583 Před rokem

    Where are there now 42 years later...but the misery goes on.

  • @stevensalmon1318
    @stevensalmon1318 Před rokem +2

    6:48 no room for domage in 1980...

  • @df289
    @df289 Před rokem +5

    That "chef" was hilarious.

    • @noelodonovan8201
      @noelodonovan8201 Před rokem +7

      fell on hard times after the beatles broke up

    • @paddyo3841
      @paddyo3841 Před 5 měsíci

      He could a made a fortune as McCartneys double

  • @andrewclavin7447
    @andrewclavin7447 Před rokem +12

    Ah yes,chronic alcoholism!

  • @ciaranoh
    @ciaranoh Před rokem +1

    better times

    • @corkboy4523
      @corkboy4523 Před 5 měsíci

      One guy literally said he’d never seen it so bad in his life!

  • @themunwardy4182
    @themunwardy4182 Před rokem +9

    Paul mcartney

  • @vetertee
    @vetertee Před rokem +2

    Would be great to subtitle this

  • @markcarolan5356
    @markcarolan5356 Před rokem +4

    Dad you rascal

  • @geraldwalsh6489
    @geraldwalsh6489 Před měsícem

    Going to work half jarred....where was Health and Safety??

  • @robertmccarthy8467
    @robertmccarthy8467 Před 28 dny

    Price of the pint?? 😂😂 €7 now for a pint

  • @michaelmajor4450
    @michaelmajor4450 Před rokem

    it looks more like 7 0 clock at night everyone is wide awake

    • @billparrish9200
      @billparrish9200 Před rokem

      To these guys, it was.
      They were all doing night work for cash and claiming dole at the same time.

    • @sidewindersid4180
      @sidewindersid4180 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@billparrish9200judge not lest ye be judged.

    • @billparrish9200
      @billparrish9200 Před 9 měsíci

      @@sidewindersid4180 No judging here.
      Just explaining the situation. A lot of these guys aren't with us anymore. I doubt they'd care forty years on.

  • @sm7baller435
    @sm7baller435 Před rokem

    I’d be gawking

  • @nickbrennan3389
    @nickbrennan3389 Před rokem +1

    Lads in the jacks doing fat lines, with their jaw all over the shop 😀

  • @Ellierua
    @Ellierua Před rokem +29

    Soo depressing.. Their wives left to keep the house going while they do nothing..

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 Před rokem +25

      Sure Elaine that's what the Good Lord put women on earth for 😂😂 x

    • @citrix123
      @citrix123 Před rokem +9

      Listen to what the men are saying also, men who feel purposefullness is a Dangerous mix, and they are together in drinking feeling connected therfore a sense of purpose hence the attraction, be wary of the purposefullness man as he will find any way to spend his time

    • @shane7103
      @shane7103 Před rokem +11

      Well they were living through an economic depression, the clue is in the name

    • @megataurus7779
      @megataurus7779 Před rokem

      Men have this gift of doing 'fuck all', I should know😅

    • @sentimentaloldme
      @sentimentaloldme Před rokem +13

      I agree.. Alcohol is a drug that caused untold damage in homes all over Ireland..All these boys "great craic" in the pub .The next morning/ day it was a different story..Lots of my friends passed away early in life from heavy drinking.

  • @johnsometimeswrong8742
    @johnsometimeswrong8742 Před 5 měsíci

    Ireland in the Eighties was great...you couldnt get a job" if" you wanted one..😂😂

  • @88_garnet8
    @88_garnet8 Před rokem

    The interviewer asks, "what are you doing here , this early." Of course they're thinking, "what do you mean by that? What are you insinuating? Get the hell out of here, that kind of half insult is the last thing I need, BBC or whoever he works for." Anyway, that's how people feel about it.

    • @zortzsborgnine3983
      @zortzsborgnine3983 Před 6 měsíci

      Fuck off you moron......your clearly not Irish let alone British and have no understanding whatsoever..... BBC LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!! IDIOT

  • @Kloppsserialbottlers
    @Kloppsserialbottlers Před 7 měsíci

    The biys are boozing

  • @JohnCambridge-gw3ox
    @JohnCambridge-gw3ox Před 7 měsíci +1

    I think it was a sad sign of the economic recession of 1980s ireland

  • @frontleftfender
    @frontleftfender Před rokem +4

    That looks so depressing

  • @darraghstewart8478
    @darraghstewart8478 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I Wonder how all these people are in 2024, the order have diffently passed on

  • @willmoore3790
    @willmoore3790 Před rokem +10

    Jesus what a sad existence

    • @seriousstuff8887
      @seriousstuff8887 Před rokem +7

      Happy times

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 Před rokem +5

      @@seriousstuff8887 Happy Days

    • @Slash12121
      @Slash12121 Před rokem +10

      Same could be said today, staring into our screens.

    • @randyborstol2491
      @randyborstol2491 Před rokem +3

      anyone i knew who grew up then says it was better then than now on so many levels. For me everything was better (sense of community, patriotism, socailizing, sport, tv, fashion, music, toys, games). Only technology and medicine is better today and cheap travel.

    • @ropaul8006
      @ropaul8006 Před rokem

      Good fun in your early 20s actually. Not so much in your 30s... used to love the early on a Sunady morning after a mad weekend

  • @sherryrobinson7389
    @sherryrobinson7389 Před rokem +7

    Dang! 7 a.m.! By the way, i estmated , an Irish guy could drink about ten Genice beers, a full night! Sorry on the spelling, I uh forgot how to spell it!😀😀😀😆😆😆😮😄😄

    • @johnhehir508
      @johnhehir508 Před rokem +4

      With a name like sherry I can see why you have such a bad spelling of Guinness

    • @sentimentaloldme
      @sentimentaloldme Před rokem +1

      The pub scene has completely changed..Over a third of pubs (mostly in rural parts of the country) have closed..The drinking culture is a thing of the past ...unless you visit Temple Bar, Dublin and see tourists paying in excess of 10Euro for a pint of beer.

    • @AjarSensation
      @AjarSensation Před rokem

      @@sentimentaloldme they are using euros in Ireland?

    • @sentimentaloldme
      @sentimentaloldme Před rokem +2

      @@AjarSensation Yes

    • @AjarSensation
      @AjarSensation Před rokem

      @@sentimentaloldme never thought of that, thx for sorting that one out

  • @Bigtimecharliepotatoes

    Fekn thatcher 😅

  • @anna-st2mh
    @anna-st2mh Před rokem +13

    I love how the reporter says the place is full of people when it's wall to wall men. No nostalgia whatsoever from Irish women on the good old days of 80s economic depression. It was grim.

    • @johnm001
      @johnm001 Před rokem +4

      Some serious operators there, definitely worth a time travel

    • @yupisaid
      @yupisaid Před rokem +3

      The day they let women into the pubs was the day Ireland died

  • @michaelcollins237
    @michaelcollins237 Před 16 dny

    Before the Celtic Tiger ruined it all

  • @devanman7920
    @devanman7920 Před rokem +7

    Nobody seems drunk though?

    • @gunz5628
      @gunz5628 Před rokem +1

      we dont get drunk, were Irish!!!

    • @devanman7920
      @devanman7920 Před rokem +7

      @@gunz5628 I'm Irish and I can tell you irish people most definitely get drunk 😂

    • @megataurus7779
      @megataurus7779 Před rokem +1

      Give it another hour or so!

    • @thebillryan
      @thebillryan Před rokem +1

      Too early. They should have popped in with the cameras around 10. Things be heaten up.

    • @devanman7920
      @devanman7920 Před rokem +1

      @@thebillryan ya that's a really obvious answer I didn't even consider at the time haha

  • @JimmyDropout
    @JimmyDropout Před 6 měsíci

    Roman Polanski at 1:29

  • @colincampbell4261
    @colincampbell4261 Před rokem

    Alcoholics all?

  • @johnilbehonest
    @johnilbehonest Před rokem +8

    Not a women in the place, says alot!

    • @sentimentaloldme
      @sentimentaloldme Před rokem +2

      Don't be putting bad thoughts into their heads..They have to get the kids ready for school and have a big fry up when the big man gets home from the pub.. That's the way it was in those days .Women weren't even allowed into pubs in times gone by . And did you know " there was no sex in Ireland before television"..so said a famous blue shirt politician in Dáil Éireann..

    • @richiehoyt8487
      @richiehoyt8487 Před rokem

      The couple at 6:51 - but I presume you're being rhetorical.

    • @randyborstol2491
      @randyborstol2491 Před rokem +5

      see my other comment above. Women who went to the pub then were looked down upon as being loose. Many a true word in that. Women would hang out together at home, minding children, drinking tea and having a great time together. A break from their men. I still see South American communities doing this. it's seems frowned upon in the new modern trendy soulless West.

    • @yupisaid
      @yupisaid Před rokem

      @@randyborstol2491 well said

  • @cxxxx685
    @cxxxx685 Před měsícem

    That was a time before dirty filty drugs

  • @thelastdetail1
    @thelastdetail1 Před rokem +1

    "I came in to see a chap about a job..." Wouldn´t you go to the Job Centre for that? Chancer..

    • @richiehoyt8487
      @richiehoyt8487 Před rokem +2

      Chancer is right. Don't mind him, he's just putting on the poor mouth. In his 'day job' he's a musician, does quite well for himself, apparently; and his Missus (now late Missus) was some Yank from money, and she was bringing in a nice few bob herself doing dinners for vegetarians.

    • @billparrish9200
      @billparrish9200 Před rokem +2

      He HAD a job. They were all working night shifts for cash and claiming dole at the same time.

  • @2prize
    @2prize Před měsícem

    my gosh they're hobbits

  • @King.Mark.
    @King.Mark. Před 4 měsíci

    and the kids will starve

  • @sullieking
    @sullieking Před rokem +5

    And not abit of charlie about 😢😜

  • @20alphabet
    @20alphabet Před rokem +5

    Lol, typical Irish. 😆

    • @gard7662
      @gard7662 Před rokem

      Lol typical fkn idiot

    • @russianbot1420
      @russianbot1420 Před rokem

      Dam right boy!.

    • @martin4458
      @martin4458 Před rokem

      Better than being a typical racist.

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet Před rokem

      @@garyhynes6574
      Drunks or robots... either or?

    • @finnmcginn9931
      @finnmcginn9931 Před rokem

      @@garyhynes6574. Don't get Canadians started, they'll proudly ell you they burnt down the white house.

  • @HisrealnameisLukeFury
    @HisrealnameisLukeFury Před rokem +11

    Imagine the Guinness Guru was in a pub back then, sitting in a corner of the bar with his wee camera talking about domage and the temperature of the pint and what not.
    Me hole.

    • @paul85439
      @paul85439 Před rokem +2

      He wouldn't last a minute,can't do proper pub talk with men.Typical modern man.

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 Před rokem +5

      @@paul85439 And he knows feck all about Guinness

    • @HisrealnameisLukeFury
      @HisrealnameisLukeFury Před rokem +5

      @@paul85439 Yeah. The oul boys up here in the pubs in Fermanagh are wild about the domage. They get the rulers out and measure the height of the domage as well as use thermometers to measure the temperature of the Guinness.
      Would they fuck, they’d drink motor oil if it was put in a glass in front of them…😂🤣😂🤣

    • @LN_997
      @LN_997 Před rokem +3

      Would be a funny scene. You wouldn't get a drop of Guinness down here at all though, Beamish and Murphy's is what we drink down in the real capital

  • @gunz5628
    @gunz5628 Před rokem +7

    Fuck, i tought i had s problem for a minute, now i knows its bred inta me. problem solved' slainte!!!!

  • @yupisaid
    @yupisaid Před rokem +1

    The fucking lads