Travelling By Boat From Dún Laoghaire to London, 1967
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2022
- Willie O’Reilly has spent 35 years going back and forth to England. On the boat once again, he talks of his experiences as an emigrant.
Emigration, it is a word we don’t like, a cold abstract word. Better to say going over the other side, going to England like Willie O’Reilly and 20,000 others this year alone. Taking the mailboat from Dun Laoghaire as he has done on and off for thirty-five years. Ten years ago 60,000 went only one-third of that number this year but all those thousands mount up to one million people who left this country since it became a free nation. Poets, writers, ballad singers, all have placed this boat in our consciousness. It is part of our Irishness this movement of people.
Willie O’Reilly talks about the changes he has seen in travelling to England since his first trip thirty five years ago.
Another passenger Mr O’Brien wearing a badge of the Irish Guards Association talks about his career as a soldier in the British army and later as a policeman.
It is not far in miles from Ireland to England but for some the distance is too far. Most after years still show signs of stress. For a few born in a more uniquely Irish tradition the sense of loss can never be repaired.
‘7 Days’, for ten years RTÉ television’s flagship current affairs programme, began broadcasting on 26 September 1966. The programme’s young production team was made up of producer Lelia Doolan, directors Eoghan Harris and Dick Hill, and reporters John O’Donoghue, Brian Cleeve and Brian Farrell.
Muiris Mac Conghail became producer of ‘7 Days’ in 1967 when the programme was merged with another current affairs programme, ‘Division’.
The extract shown here is from a special edition on emigration to London broadcast 10 October 1967. - Zábava
My Dad came over to England in 1936 on the Princess Maud. Worked all over England and Scotland, did every kind of work. The one thing he would do was work in a factory. His own Father worked most of his life in England.
my grand father worked on the boat to Holyhead he felt sorry for all the people leaving there home land had to leave myself was home sick every day working in the coal mines hard graft 1950 tryed to go back every year and loved it still do in my twilight years and will be back end off my days,
Loved every minute of this. Cheers 👍
An old timer told me he first travelled across on the cattle boat..
I came from Ireland to England in 1960 with nothing and I still have most of it left.
Made the first trip to London in '67....same boat and train. I'd just turned 17.
A great year to be hitting the road and escaping all that sainthoodlumery and scholarship.
What is sainthoodlumery?
@@daemonudivs4 Ireland through the bleak fifties and brightening sixties preened inself on its Roman Catholic saints and scholars narcissistic mythologising, meanwhile the church was harbouring paedophiles, incarcerating women and kids in slave labour industries, while the priests wined and dined themselves in considerable comfort while pontificating to the Mass-hypnotised people.
These purported 'saints', were clerical hoodlums.
Excuse my shorthand. I hope that clarifies.
Been there ,done that , bought the leather jacket , but i kept going on to Germany.
Lived and worked in UK (as did my Aunts/Uncles) no British man ever ripped me off, as for the Irish Subbie different matter.. If you know you know. I returned, my family stayed and all did extremely well. Still there.
Hundreds of thousands of Irish labourers in Britain had their retirement utterly destroyed by Irish contractors. Decades of pension payments that were never paid in- endless tens of millions of pounds in lost investment. Pure theft is what it was. The Irish pub landlords were often just as bad- cashing work cheques while taking “their cut”.
@@TodayFreedom 7ou could easily open a bank account to lodge your check
15 Years later made that same journey myself.
Me too. 1982
1989 for me .Still here .Coming home was a disaster .Had to come back
You’re a wise man. Wish I’d been intelligent enough to stay out of Ireland. It’s a broken place now
@@SarahConnorIE At least we are more socially progressive
1987, been all over the gaff since.
I must try that next time im in London...Hop on with my left foot
I remember in tthe 1970s the cattle boat the Sealink to Holyhead upi fullof young Irish to get employment in the uk.
Some you never see again left ireland for good
Made that journey in 2002. Not going back.
Ireland between 1950-1997 was a dark grey place with hopeless employment prospects ruled by a horrid Catholic church. Nowadays there are jobs to be had all over the country albeit with some problems but a far better country now than then when a latte with chocolate dusting or big music festivals were not available to the young..
History shows that the country who turns away from God ends up being run by the 'dues'
and that's why it won't be long before Ireland is changed forever into another New York/Los Angeles. And it's all done in the name of revenge and supported by those 'lords and earls'
across da water who have benefitted for centuries.
and the worst thing about it is no one wears a hat anymore. what is the world coming to
that's hilarious that he couldnt understand the english accent in london. i can hardly understand a word he says himself
Då måste du ta dig över Irländska sjön, eller hur?
@2.50, HA HA HA, JESUS!
Pickystians he was right
that ship stopped sailing that route in 1965 so your headline is wrong
Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead - and down to London by train or bus! #PedanticMuppet
Worked there myself I found they didn’t like the Irish,I was near Chelsea and I was dressed like a leprechaun and pissed out of me head 5 days a week on whiskey
@2:29 - Typical Ireland, driving their own away.
As James Joyce said, "Ireland is the sow that eats its own farrow".
That old lad was right about the Pickystanis and blacks