As a 61 yr old, I watched the video and didn't notice anything strange but then I read a lot of comments about the kids on the elephant. Back in those days, your safety was your own responsibility, even from an early age. If you fell into an unmarked hole in the pavement, your mother would slap you and tell you to watch where you're going, but mothers today would blame whoever dug the hole and didn't put signs and fences all around it. Society has changed
You are so right. There is so much nonsense everywhere you look today. Everything is upsidedown. People are offended by others opinions and everybody sues one another. One person is given rights and at the same time another one is stripped of theirs. We've chosen the wrong path as society. We need to toughen up and learn to ignore things instead of fighting everything that doesn't suit us.
Parasmunt Life was so tough for ordinary people. It was not uncommon for a working week to be Mon to Fri plus half day Sat. So people put on their Sunday best when going on an excursion anywhere. Incidentally, a trip to Dublin Zoo was a big deal. It cost money to get in ... and to buy ice creams ... for everyone.
How poor though??? They could afford a house on one wage. They had better family and community support..so they probably couldn't afford a lot of rubbish but they had food on the table
A junkie would fold in two if he tried to cycle a bike. The "junkies" you're referring to are nothing more than disrespectful little c*nts that do fek all other than collect their dole and try to rip society off all their lives.
s j because people were respectful back then and the community was a lot more linked, people looked out for each other. People avoid each other now. I’m guilty of doing it too, society now makes you nervous and it’s hard to take part in.
I remember in the late 1950's when the highlight of the year was a 2 week holiday with my Auntie in Dublin...to me it was the most exciting place on earth. Every year I climbed Nelsons column, visited the Zoo, spent at least 2 days plane spotting at the Airport, walked up and down Moore St. and spent hours gazing at the toy soldiers in Woolworths. Best of all was the fish 'n' chip shop near my Aunties...food for the Gods served in that days newspapers!
@@simonholyoak8869 On the 8th day of March 1966. . . .”at one thirty in the morning, without a bit of warning” 🎶. Nelson had to be gone before the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. 🤪
The common denominator was that they were mostly spiritual. People had morals, values, a code for life. Life was simple, kindness prevailed to neighbours and strangers alike.
Happier? Not sure lol, tell that to novelists, playwrites, mixed-race children and most importantly women of the era. No sex education, no uncensored film releases, banned books and the intense stranglehold of the Catholic Church: religion and state should be kept separate. There are bad things about modern society, every iteration of human society will always have its flaws, but I think the pros of this era far outweigh those of the past, especially when many of the pros of '60's living were things that people should be able to take for granted anyway, like being able to comfortably afford a house in your twenties, being able to freely marry whomever you please, continue to work after having a child and live equally among each other regardless of gender.
Families with 5 and 6 children probably able to live on one wage living in a house in Dublin. 1. The average family can't afford 5 children now. 2. Most people can't afford to live in Dublin now. 3. It takes 2 wages for a family to love now and that's often with just 2 children living in commuterland.
@@Elle_Gowing It's the downside of letting massive companies set up huge apartment buildings for extortionate prices. There's little to no regulation on them. Dublin looks like hell now, and gets more expensive every year. You're better off avoiding living in it altogether.
God damn, 2:18 really struck shivers down my spine. What an amazing quality vid for the mid 60s, the cinematography and sense of how to make a video feel like a community of peace and safety is present! Amazing! I’m 23 this year and remember when my parents used to bring me to the Dublin zoo and we’d sit around Phoenix park close to that spot on 2:18, there a family ate and chatted some 50 years ago and I have as a child 15 years ago and as I most likely will with my family in perhaps another 15 years and another family again in 50 years! Gives me a weird feeling! Them children in the video are now about 57-58!
I remember as a kid being brought into town was a great treat, interesting shops, a sense of community, feeling safe. Now i dread going into town, full of undesirables, dirty rundown streets, and chain stores you can see in any city in europe.
Same everywhere ro eng..I am not from Ireland but Harworth near Doncaster, S. Yorkshire. It too is bad just like other villages all over the UK. Used to be incredible here back in the 50s, 60s 70s. All factories gone, mainly the coal mine where I worked, so now we have housing estates being thrown up on every bit of spare land there is..but still no more jobs to go to here, for school leavers.
It's strange looking at this footage. I get some kind aching nostalgia yet i wasn't born nor lived in Dublin and I wasn't born until 72. It's amazing footage. It seems life was a lot simpler. You can't help but wonder if we are worse of today in some ways despite all the technological advancements, secularization and 'improved living standards'. Improved is very debatable. The M50 is a car park in the mornings and evening with many people spending 3 -4 hours a day in their cars commuting in and around Dublin. The more I think of it, it's not an aching nostalgia I'm feeling, it's more a realization that I'm perhaps suffering from a sense of anomie and dislocation living in postmodern times. We've lost a deeper sense of connection and sense of community that this footage seems to portray better. I think that i experienced more of this sense of connection from growing up as a child in the 80's.
What surprised me was the number of kids each family had. There seemed to be 5 or 6 in each family and the parents were quite young. Is it the same now?
Yes because there were no fast(junk)food shops them times.People ate what Mother made for dinner and if you didnt like it then youl have to wait till tomorrows dinner.
I left Dublin in early 1964(just after Christmas '63) for Boston. Plenty of Jobs back then. I was in the US Army during the height of the Vietnam War. I have four children, three grandchildren and counting. I'm glad that I came over. I;m retired now but worked for the Electrical Company for 35 years. C'mon the Dubs!!!!
@@bfc3057 famine is understandable, but people emigrating from a country in my eyes are traitors, it's ok to emigrate but don't claim or display any patriotism or nationalism towards a country you left behind years ago, left for a better life? yes arguably but to a true Irishman or true countryman of any country home is home. When you need to seek success from another country in my opinion you are selling out.
Maybe because it’s edited to be. They forgot to put all the crime and alcoholics. Dublin is a much safer city now, something many right wingers will never want to believe even though it’s a fact.
Sara the elephant and Komali the baby (with the First Communicants riding on him (her?). The "azoo" was a favorite with everyone. And Phoenix Park a wonderful asset for Dublin City.
Look at how undeveloped Dublin Docklands was @ 1.00. Just warehouses and that huge gasometer (long since demolished) and the two chimneys at Poolbeg hadn't even been built yet
Jesus did I just see two kids riding on a baby elephant. Lol. That really was Dublin In the 60s. You'd never see the like of that now. This is wonderful footage. Thanks so much for posting.
Thank you for this vid.....people commenting about the elephant rides.....it was a different time....and may I say the elephants were treated kindly by one and all...nowadays thugs think that animals are fair game....also the fact that people dressed properly...even going to the local shop....a lot of people go out nowadays as if they’re ready for bed...the man casually parking his bike outside the pub...no lock...you could put 10 locks on your bike now and it would still be stolen...I’ll finish now before I become totally depressed 🤩
Brilliant cine reels or cassettes. A nice treasure! I could not get over the look of the docks and what it is today, the difference is mad. Lovely and humorous at the end with the children on the elephant! I also like to take 8mm & 16mm of Dublin, but it can be pricey with developing and scanning 25ft rolls or 100ft rolls. Thanks for the upload!
Used to live in Ballyfermot. Every Saturday I'd visit my two aunts - Pearse House and Boyne Street. A lovely stew in both places and they'd also give me a few bob. Blow the money in Fun palace then get the 78 to home where I'd have another stew waiting for me ! I used to make up scramblers and race them in the California Hills ( The Calliers ). Crime ? If you call nicking an orchard or going on the hop from school a crime, well I apologize. Thanks for reading this.
@@memorybliss Thank you memorybliss. Yes those were the days of innocence, still wet behind the ears and a slap of a leather glove across the face from LUGS ! When you got that you NEVER wanted to get arrested.
Wow Great video for the era! the aul one kicking the ball was deadly,people looked so Close, not a care in the world.unlike nowadays, Everyone with text neck..The pheeno looks exactly the same as it did only yesterday. 👍 (Not a mobile phone in sight) 😀 good times I'd say...
Wow that’s great film I wonder have the people who are in it seen this .it would bring back lots of memories to them or there family’s .the girl and boy making there communion on the elephant that would be special for them to see .it should have been longer film .
Watching this because the city centre is too depressing to visit these days-feel like a foreigner in my own country- not one word of English or native Paddy to be seen!
How do we get back to a time where a bus driver can safely go about his daily business. Oh yes round up the big drug dealers that have garda protection would be a start.
I am 70, in fact in the 60s the economy began to improve and people were generally optimistic about their and their childrens' future. I am from a working ckass bacground from a family that suffered chronic unemployment in the 50s. My dad found permanent employment at the beginning of the 60s when he was in his late 40s. I remember my parents being optimistic about our future. In 1967 free secondary education was introduced of which I was a beneficiary. Couples wirking in factories were abke to buy a house with a council loan I knew of many of them , also council housing estates were built in the 60s whic took a lot of people out of tenements, although they were still in use until he 89s.
Me too! back then, all my friends with ordinary "manual" jobs could buy cars in the late 60s, and one man's salary plus half his wife's income (if she had one) could get a mortgage for a 3-bedroom house. Most of my neighbours had 3 children, the husband worked and the wife minded the children. Doctors made house calls, we repaired our own cars, workers were paid in cash (nobody had bank accounts) and there few people with mental health issues. A journalist, Terry Prone wrote a book about murders in Ireland, a thin paperback. Now it would be ten times thicker.
Loved the freedom we children had back then. For example, look at the two young ones riding unsupervised on the baby elephant as it strolls through the zoo. What an awesome First Holy Communion day out....brilliant! I remember the Kiddies Corner there where we could play amongst all the young animals....sadly, that's all stopped years ago.
Damn Dublin looks so different I grew up in the early 2000s (won't say what year because privacy) but I sorta wish I grew up in the old Dublin, where things seemed more simple
there was good and bad to it, I can't speak for the mid-60s but to me the best decade (objectively) in my lifetime was the 90s especially as the decade went on, the country became more prosperous, the dereliction of the city centre had been replaced with new developments that were still cheap and attractive to live in, we were opening up to the outside world with the first immigration of mainly Nigerian and then East European people bringing life and colour to Dublin, we were becoming more tolerant and open minded, the 60s might look idyllic but we were still in a theocracy, absolutely ruled by the Catholic Church. Culturally we opened up, from a monoculture of U2 style stadium rock and trad/folk to a boom in pop music, the rave and dance phenomenon, hip-hop and rnb (again brought in, in some cases, by immigrant people). Third level education became free. Arts and culture were funded properly. I could go on and on, even avoiding the obvious stuff like rent and house prices before they were grossly inflated
When Dublin💚 was charming Beautiful 💚easy going yeah it all vanished for the celtic tiger🐯 and the european union 🗼 I remember dublin city in the rare ould times ⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚
I was thinking... the bus driver looks like a young version of my grandad. Then I remembered - aparently he drove buses for CIE for years. I am nearly certain it must be him! Incredible. Does anyone know where this footage is from?
If you mean specifically the footage of the bus departing, that is definitely from Busáras in the city centre. You can tell from the angle of view of Liberty Hall in the background. And the Custom House would be on the left of this scene but this is not shown in the video. Later you can see the bus travelling up what I think is Talbot Street. You can see Guineys shop on the left and Nelson’s Pillar straight ahead. All regional buses departed (and still do) from Busáras which is the main bus station in Dublin city centre.
In my memory, I will always see The town that I have loved so well. Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane. Those were happy days in so many, many ways In the town I loved so well
I don't think the baby boomers will ever realise what they threw away. What future generations will never enjoy because of their selfishness and divisive behaviour. This was paradise, and it was snatched and snuffed out.
We didn't have baby boomers in Ireland. We were neutral in WW2 so there was no post-war population explosion similar to the 'baby boom' in America. But if you're referring to people in Ireland born in the late 40s and early 50s, all I have to say to you is they did their best and they were never selfish or divisive and they didn't 'snatch paradise' from anywhere. Ireland in the 60s was not paradise. Maybe in the U.S. you might accuse your own people of that.
Absolutely beautiful video, my father has told me about those times, apparently everybody was quite poor, his family would only eat meat once of meat week. And he himself had to emigrate. But my God doesn't look so good there in the pictures,I can't imagine the Dublin with that little amount of cars, must have been amazing!
Check out the British Pathe website for info on how to license this footage. Probably shot on 35mm film by professional camera-people hence the lovely sharp quality, excellent vantage points and clever selection of images.
Still is . Back then there was lots of poverty , people living in tenements . Unemployment was high . Don’t fool yourself looking at the nice side of Dublin.
It's amazing how empty the city was, in those shots. What was the population of the city in 1965? Super quality film, and shot by someone who knew what they were doing.
No tracksuit wearing scumbags, junkies and thugs. Unique, individual family run shops instead of the characterless, sterile chain stores you see in every town in Ireland now (and beyond). Less of the aggressive and near pornagraphic advertising. You could just leave your bike unlocked and most likely find it still there when you returned. Less crowded, cleaner and tidier looking. And, despite the church's grip, more of a relaxed vibe than nowadays. It is sad what has become of Dublin since then, what an extreme downward slide. It has been torn apart by drugs, criminality and aggression and has lost all of that character now, forever. Personally, I think it was ruined by a) the pc brigade completely doing away with the discipline of the youth by parents, teachers, police etc, which has resulted in the most unruly, greedy generation of youth ever witnessed, and b) the aforementioned drug culture, which has spawned several wars and a lot of killing and grieving, and which has made some extremely nasty people very rich. All very sad.
I was born in 1965,but that bus and the cars,the way people dressed etc,are strong in my memory.I think things didnt change as quickly until the 70s.I wouldnt agree that Ireland was very repressed back then,although things where stricter,but the people in general where used to that,it was like that worldwide,and the Catholic church was no different to other institutions,the abusive priests where a minority,as many where absolute saints.
exactly,... the Church wasn't that strict, and it guided people for a better society and happier life, some people might not like it, but it's good for the majority, and that's what makes a society and nation function. I personally think things started going down when the churches grip/influence lessened and they became less assertive... oh and 1958 Vatican, the real church and pope were Pius XII and that's where it changed after.
Hi, great footage. I am making a video about how re-vision O'Connell Street. Wondering where you got this old footage and if I could get a copy? Thanks.
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As a 61 yr old, I watched the video and didn't notice anything strange but then I read a lot of comments about the kids on the elephant. Back in those days, your safety was your own responsibility, even from an early age. If you fell into an unmarked hole in the pavement, your mother would slap you and tell you to watch where you're going, but mothers today would blame whoever dug the hole and didn't put signs and fences all around it. Society has changed
Yep. And people live longer, with less debilitating injury and illness.
You are so right. There is so much nonsense everywhere you look today. Everything is upsidedown. People are offended by others opinions and everybody sues one another. One person is given rights and at the same time another one is stripped of theirs. We've chosen the wrong path as society. We need to toughen up and learn to ignore things instead of fighting everything that doesn't suit us.
Agreed 100%. I'm only 35, and I remember that even in the 90s, people were not so infantalised.
@@JGrowl-er9md What are you talking about? Where have you been for the last two years, the Orion Belt?
@@JGrowl-er9md Go in to old Irish graveyards and look at the amount of people who died at a young age compared to today's average life expectancy.
The city and people looked so much more respectful back then, less signage, less clutter, less cars. It was beautiful.
Good on you for knowing those things.
Less cars as Ireland was dirt poor even by European standards.
Very empty streets. Perhaps a Sunday?
@@iseegoodandbad6758 less pollution is a good thing, money isn't everything.
@@shughy1 yes the irish grew very tall and attractive as a result!!! Same with Russians who weren't very rich either!!!
People were much poorer than today but damned if they weren't more elegant and better dressed.
And most likely happier...it’s nothing compared to the Dublin of today. The Long hall is still doing great business thou👌🏻☘️
Not one scumbag wearing nike tracksuit bottoms poxy looking air max and a north face hoddie in sight! What a time to have lived in.
@@Thomas-ou2sp spot on! People dressed with a bit of style and class back then unlike todays skangers with their nike hoodies and tracksuits!
Parasmunt Life was so tough for ordinary people. It was not uncommon for a working week to be Mon to Fri plus half day Sat. So people put on their Sunday best when going on an excursion anywhere. Incidentally, a trip to Dublin Zoo was a big deal. It cost money to get in ... and to buy ice creams ... for everyone.
How poor though??? They could afford a house on one wage. They had better family and community support..so they probably couldn't afford a lot of rubbish but they had food on the table
Shocked when the guy just left his bike outside with no lock, these days stolen in a sec by a junkie..
was just thinking that haha, I couldn't believe he just left it outside, it'd be gone in a second these days
A junkie would fold in two if he tried to cycle a bike. The "junkies" you're referring to are nothing more than disrespectful little c*nts that do fek all other than collect their dole and try to rip society off all their lives.
I thought that! I left my bike outside St. Patrick's Park on the 19th of May and when I came back, not a trace of it.
Why do you presume his bike was still there when he got back?
s j because people were respectful back then and the community was a lot more linked, people looked out for each other. People avoid each other now. I’m guilty of doing it too, society now makes you nervous and it’s hard to take part in.
Was in Dublin in !965. I was 19 yrs old. From the US. Best trip have ever taken!! Wish
I knew how to share my old slide photos!!!
I remember in the late 1950's when the highlight of the year was a 2 week holiday with my Auntie in Dublin...to me it was the most exciting place on earth. Every year I climbed Nelsons column, visited the Zoo, spent at least 2 days plane spotting at the Airport, walked up and down Moore St. and spent hours gazing at the toy soldiers in Woolworths. Best of all was the fish 'n' chip shop near my Aunties...food for the Gods served in that days newspapers!
Didn't the IRA blow that up around this time?
@@simonholyoak8869 1966
@@simonholyoak8869 Thank jaysus,what a dildo,NELSON on his pillar watching his world collapse.💣
@@simonholyoak8869 On the 8th day of March 1966. . . .”at one thirty in the morning, without a bit of warning” 🎶. Nelson had to be gone before the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. 🤪
Love the way that guy just left his bike unlocked. Today even with 3 locks it would be gone within minutes 😂
Not always
Or maybe seconds!
Gee I wonder who would do such a thing?
Look how tidy and un crowded the city looks. O'Connell Street looks like a nice place for a stroll instead of what it is now.
because so many could not afford to go into the city centre and made more of their lives where they actually lived.
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I'm 25 and you can see people had more respect back then. Too many undisciplined little brats running the street nowadays!
they were there also, and always have been. Pick pockets, shop lifters etc. do not kid yourself.
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In 1965 I was 12 years old and I remember all of these scenes. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
No traffic, roads in perfect condition (as in no pot holes), people dressed very respectable,
We will never get this back... People were simpler yet happier..
Will take the best from back then will god help we will put it in the future.
The common denominator was that they were mostly spiritual. People had morals, values, a code for life. Life was simple, kindness prevailed to neighbours and strangers alike.
Happier? Not sure lol, tell that to novelists, playwrites, mixed-race children and most importantly women of the era. No sex education, no uncensored film releases, banned books and the intense stranglehold of the Catholic Church: religion and state should be kept separate. There are bad things about modern society, every iteration of human society will always have its flaws, but I think the pros of this era far outweigh those of the past, especially when many of the pros of '60's living were things that people should be able to take for granted anyway, like being able to comfortably afford a house in your twenties, being able to freely marry whomever you please, continue to work after having a child and live equally among each other regardless of gender.
Never..we're over populated and that's going to get 2 million people worse in the next 10 years
It looked lovely back then..great summers cleaner air....times might have been tuff but the people were more honest and happier☘️
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Many things have improved, but so much has been lost too. The thing that struck me in that film was the number of Irish families.
Families with 5 and 6 children probably able to live on one wage living in a house in Dublin.
1. The average family can't afford 5 children now.
2. Most people can't afford to live in Dublin now.
3. It takes 2 wages for a family to love now and that's often with just 2 children living in commuterland.
This was long before contraception was legal in Ireland.
@@Elle_Gowing It's the downside of letting massive companies set up huge apartment buildings for extortionate prices. There's little to no regulation on them. Dublin looks like hell now, and gets more expensive every year. You're better off avoiding living in it altogether.
@@guitarmaniac004 corporate cartel of American retirement funds together with bankers are draining the juice out of this island.
Yes. None of those foreign surnames))
It's amazing seeing the quays past the custom house so different, the large families in the park, and the amount of people in the park in general!
We were poor but we had way more fun, values and morals in the old days.
Wish we could go back.
God damn, 2:18 really struck shivers down my spine. What an amazing quality vid for the mid 60s, the cinematography and sense of how to make a video feel like a community of peace and safety is present! Amazing! I’m 23 this year and remember when my parents used to bring me to the Dublin zoo and we’d sit around Phoenix park close to that spot on 2:18, there a family ate and chatted some 50 years ago and I have as a child 15 years ago and as I most likely will with my family in perhaps another 15 years and another family again in 50 years! Gives me a weird feeling! Them children in the video are now about 57-58!
I remember as a kid being brought into town was a great treat, interesting shops, a sense of community, feeling safe. Now i dread going into town, full of undesirables, dirty rundown streets, and chain stores you can see in any city in europe.
Remember going in at Christmas to visit Santa in Pimms in George Street. Magic! Clery's window at Christmas...
I'm writing this in 2018 and it's worse it's getting. Thugs paradise.
Wish I could have grown up back then :/
@laser325 I hope youre right. Sometimes it just feels so overwhelming you know? You gotta ask what the point of it all is
Same everywhere ro eng..I am not from Ireland but Harworth near Doncaster, S. Yorkshire. It too is bad just like other villages all over the UK. Used to be incredible here back in the 50s, 60s 70s. All factories gone, mainly the coal mine where I worked, so now we have housing estates being thrown up on every bit of spare land there is..but still no more jobs to go to here, for school leavers.
Reminds me of my grandmother from the Liberties. She's in hospital today aged 93, on Christmas Day 💔
Hope your grandmother is ok.
My Family lived in the liberties 🙏
Awh God bless her I hope she still alive
What a lovely film of my dublin that was 😢
It's strange looking at this footage. I get some kind aching nostalgia yet i wasn't born nor lived in Dublin and I wasn't born until 72. It's amazing footage. It seems life was a lot simpler. You can't help but wonder if we are worse of today in some ways despite all the technological advancements, secularization and 'improved living standards'. Improved is very debatable. The M50 is a car park in the mornings and evening with many people spending 3 -4 hours a day in their cars commuting in and around Dublin. The more I think of it, it's not an aching nostalgia I'm feeling, it's more a realization that I'm perhaps suffering from a sense of anomie and dislocation living in postmodern times. We've lost a deeper sense of connection and sense of community that this footage seems to portray better. I think that i experienced more of this sense of connection from growing up as a child in the 80's.
Top quality Raymond.
It's self evident, Dublin people/indigenous lrish were among their ow.
What surprised me was the number of kids each family had. There seemed to be 5 or 6 in each family and the parents were quite young. Is it the same now?
Obesity wasn't a problem back in 1960s Ireland.
Yes because there were no fast(junk)food shops them times.People ate what Mother made for dinner and if you didnt like it then youl have to wait till tomorrows dinner.
Poverty was tho
The food industry was different then. There have been vast changes over the years & the majority are not for the better.
@@MandNsvideos665 and there is no poverty today???
@@sidewindersid4180 it's nothing compared to back then
I left Dublin in early 1964(just after Christmas '63) for Boston. Plenty of Jobs back then. I was in the US Army during the height of the Vietnam War. I have four children, three grandchildren and counting. I'm glad that I came over. I;m retired now but worked for the Electrical Company for 35 years. C'mon the Dubs!!!!
logan Walker
You are no addition to anywhere either.
you are a traitor to this great country.
@@bfc3057 Liam is a traitor to Ireland
@@bfc3057 I wasn't born until the 90's
he is a traitor because he left behind Ireland(his home country).
@@bfc3057 famine is understandable, but people emigrating from a country in my eyes are traitors, it's ok to emigrate but don't claim or display any patriotism or nationalism towards a country you left behind years ago,
left for a better life? yes arguably but to a true Irishman or true countryman of any country home is home. When you need to seek success from another country in my opinion you are selling out.
Haha. Love the little girl at the end on the elephant in her holy communion rig out
My dad drove one of the fork lifts for Guinness, where he worked from the tender age of 12 years old, until his retirement. great video.
JimmyJamesonJnr Thanks Jimmy - I hope he didn't start on the fork lifts at 12!
What is in the grey Guinness containers been loaded onto the ship? Kegs? Bottles? Thanks
Guinness ,what else ;-)
@@09046208 Harp larger....
@@anthonydowling3356 i thought it was gluten free craft beer.
Great memories and hops in the Leinster...dances in the Television Club and the Olympic.... who's.left from back then?!
its surprisingly very good quality video
Maybe because it’s edited to be. They forgot to put all the crime and alcoholics. Dublin is a much safer city now, something many right wingers will never want to believe even though it’s a fact.
Doubt you lived in ireland back then you probably only came here in the last 20 years saj
Shot on 35mm film.
@@B0Sajwah Talking about the quality of the image, not the content, Saj.
@@B0Sajwah Oh the alcoholics have been traded for less alcoholics, more homeless, and now heroin, benzo and crack addicts. Lovely
How much nicer than today..
Sara the elephant and Komali the baby (with the First Communicants riding on him (her?). The "azoo" was a favorite with everyone. And Phoenix Park a wonderful asset for Dublin City.
Look at how undeveloped Dublin Docklands was @ 1.00. Just warehouses and that huge gasometer (long since demolished) and the two chimneys at Poolbeg hadn't even been built yet
I noticed that metal bridge on the quays that traffic goes under is still there, around where the convention center is today .. :)
The couple with arms around each other i haven't seen that in a long time
yes, was lovely
The video quality is second to none, Great find, great video :-)
Thanks Declan, glad you like it.
Wow it was so beautiful back then
It's a different beauty now
that was dublin in the rare old time
I remember Dublin City in the rare auld times. 👍
It's amazingly clear quality film for 1965
Great video. Dublin was like a different planet in them days compared to wot it is now
Dave Rennix Yes. It was backwards religiously oppressed shithole.
@@paddymuppy i would rather that than the souless multicultural shithole we have now
@@paddymuppy
I'd gladly take those days over the PC liberal shit-fest we have now.
@Ford Prefect They weren't healthier and didn't have the life expectancy of today's people.
@Ford Prefect When I walked through Stephen's Green this summer it looked the same, the people just wore different clothes and enjoyed themselves.
Jesus did I just see two kids riding on a baby elephant. Lol. That really was Dublin In the 60s. You'd never see the like of that now. This is wonderful footage. Thanks so much for posting.
..and a little girl on her way into the zoo wth her fi
shng net!!!!
Happy old days when life was simple and easy!
Thank you for this vid.....people commenting about the elephant rides.....it was a different time....and may I say the elephants were treated kindly by one and all...nowadays thugs think that animals are fair game....also the fact that people dressed properly...even going to the local shop....a lot of people go out nowadays as if they’re ready for bed...the man casually parking his bike outside the pub...no lock...you could put 10 locks on your bike now and it would still be stolen...I’ll finish now before I become totally depressed 🤩
A simpler time.
I wasn't born for another fifteen years but I have fond memories of being a kid in the 80s.
Brilliant cine reels or cassettes. A nice treasure! I could not get over the look of the docks and what it is today, the difference is mad. Lovely and humorous at the end with the children on the elephant! I also like to take 8mm & 16mm of Dublin, but it can be pricey with developing and scanning 25ft rolls or 100ft rolls. Thanks for the upload!
My mother was 5 years old ...!!! amazing and great to look back.... Dublin in the rare auld times 💙
Thank you so much and nice one for uploading 👍
She had you at 5??
You could leave your bike outside unlocked and unattended with a smile on your face back then.
Those days are long gone.
I remember using the original entrance to the zoo in the 70's, now just for show beside modern entrance. 7/10/2013.Irish time 16:56.Monday.
Used to live in Ballyfermot.
Every Saturday I'd visit my two aunts - Pearse House and Boyne Street.
A lovely stew in both places and they'd also give me a few bob.
Blow the money in Fun palace then get the 78 to home where I'd have another stew waiting for me !
I used to make up scramblers and race them in the California Hills ( The Calliers ).
Crime ? If you call nicking an orchard or going on the hop from school a crime, well I apologize.
Thanks for reading this.
Sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday. :)
@@memorybliss
Thank you memorybliss.
Yes those were the days of innocence, still wet behind the ears and a slap of a leather glove across the face from LUGS !
When you got that you NEVER wanted to get arrested.
Wow Great video for the era! the aul one kicking the ball was deadly,people looked so Close, not a care in the world.unlike nowadays, Everyone with text neck..The pheeno looks exactly the same as it did only yesterday. 👍 (Not a mobile phone in sight) 😀 good times I'd say...
Wow that’s great film I wonder have the people who are in it seen this .it would bring back lots of memories to them or there family’s .the girl and boy making there communion on the elephant that would be special for them to see .it should have been longer film .
Watching this because the city centre is too depressing to visit these days-feel like a foreigner in my own country- not one word of English or native Paddy to be seen!
Thanks for uploading. Great footage. Amazing stuff.
No phones just people livin in the moment
How do we get back to a time where a bus driver can safely go about his daily business. Oh yes round up the big drug dealers that have garda protection would be a start.
Oh, you're not wrong there! But the Gards are now bullyboys against ordinary folks.
I am 70, in fact in the 60s the economy began to improve and people were generally optimistic about their and their childrens' future. I am from a working ckass bacground from a family that suffered chronic unemployment in the 50s. My dad found permanent employment at the beginning of the 60s when he was in his late 40s. I remember my parents being optimistic about our future. In 1967 free secondary education was introduced of which I was a beneficiary. Couples wirking in factories were abke to buy a house with a council loan I knew of many of them , also council housing estates were built in the 60s whic took a lot of people out of tenements, although they were still in use until he 89s.
Me too! back then, all my friends with ordinary "manual" jobs could buy cars in the late 60s, and one man's salary plus half his wife's income (if she had one) could get a mortgage for a 3-bedroom house. Most of my neighbours had 3 children, the husband worked and the wife minded the children. Doctors made house calls, we repaired our own cars, workers were paid in cash (nobody had bank accounts) and there few people with mental health issues. A journalist, Terry Prone wrote a book about murders in Ireland, a thin paperback. Now it would be ten times thicker.
This is the most serene video i've ever seen
Beautiful video and a great bit of music to go with it.
great quality thanks for the upload
Nobody wore jeans then- everyone looked smartly
Nothing wrong with wearing jeans.
Fashion is always changing.
Loved the freedom we children had back then. For example, look at the two young ones riding unsupervised on the baby elephant as it strolls through the zoo. What an awesome First Holy Communion day out....brilliant! I remember the Kiddies Corner there where we could play amongst all the young animals....sadly, that's all stopped years ago.
The petting zoo.
The poor elephants there who probably died with horrible back pain because of the amount of people that rode on their backs over the years
@@johnb.9806 Pet’s Corner if I remember correctly.
Damn Dublin looks so different
I grew up in the early 2000s (won't say what year because privacy) but I sorta wish I grew up in the old Dublin, where things seemed more simple
Oh go on, we are desperate to know what year...
And learn how to write properly. More simple? You are simple.
there was good and bad to it, I can't speak for the mid-60s but to me the best decade (objectively) in my lifetime was the 90s especially as the decade went on, the country became more prosperous, the dereliction of the city centre had been replaced with new developments that were still cheap and attractive to live in, we were opening up to the outside world with the first immigration of mainly Nigerian and then East European people bringing life and colour to Dublin, we were becoming more tolerant and open minded, the 60s might look idyllic but we were still in a theocracy, absolutely ruled by the Catholic Church. Culturally we opened up, from a monoculture of U2 style stadium rock and trad/folk to a boom in pop music, the rave and dance phenomenon, hip-hop and rnb (again brought in, in some cases, by immigrant people). Third level education became free. Arts and culture were funded properly. I could go on and on, even avoiding the obvious stuff like rent and house prices before they were grossly inflated
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Looks clean
Makes me nostalgic for an era I've never even lived in.
When Dublin💚 was charming Beautiful 💚easy going yeah it all vanished for the celtic tiger🐯 and the european union 🗼
I remember dublin city in the rare ould times ⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚
Yes and the stink from the river river Liffey . Tenements not filmed.
I was thinking... the bus driver looks like a young version of my grandad. Then I remembered - aparently he drove buses for CIE for years. I am nearly certain it must be him! Incredible. Does anyone know where this footage is from?
If you mean specifically the footage of the bus departing, that is definitely from Busáras in the city centre. You can tell from the angle of view of Liberty Hall in the background. And the Custom House would be on the left of this scene but this is not shown in the video. Later you can see the bus travelling up what I think is Talbot Street. You can see Guineys shop on the left and Nelson’s Pillar straight ahead. All regional buses departed (and still do) from Busáras which is the main bus station in Dublin city centre.
Nice to see you could park your bike outside a pub without a lock on it
Great video, footage like this is gold - thanks for sharing
Fleeting beauty, well chosen music 💚
The music is River by Enya.
Also used in the movie Green Card.
Brilliant video. Thanks
Thanks Mary.
In my memory, I will always see
The town that I have loved so well.
Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane.
Those were happy days in so many, many ways
In the town I loved so well
Lol, 3:07 two very young kids on top of an elephant just wander by unattended.
@3.10 two kids just wandering around with their very own elephant!!😂
Isn't it lucky we have all those Euro H&S Rules these days!
Great video thanks for sharing.
Things seemed more simple then i was born in 69 so i rember the 70s
Thank you Donal
Noticed how nearly all the men are wearing suits and ties. What happened to us?
We threw away any moral values we ever had
@@nick-her9275 Indeed!
@@nick-her9275 Clothes has nothing to do with morals and values.
@@Jake-jr2zh it shows how ireland has become nothing but a land of degenerates
I think we lost something.The more I experience overwhelming multikuti the less I like it.
I don't think the baby boomers will ever realise what they threw away. What future generations will never enjoy because of their selfishness and divisive behaviour. This was paradise, and it was snatched and snuffed out.
We didn't have baby boomers in Ireland. We were neutral in WW2 so there was no post-war population explosion similar to the 'baby boom' in America. But if you're referring to people in Ireland born in the late 40s and early 50s, all I have to say to you is they did their best and they were never selfish or divisive and they didn't 'snatch paradise' from anywhere. Ireland in the 60s was not paradise. Maybe in the U.S. you might accuse your own people of that.
Interesting looking at the size of the families, most seemed to have had at least three or four children back then.
Absolutely beautiful video, my father has told me about those times, apparently everybody was quite poor, his family would only eat meat once of meat week. And he himself had to emigrate. But my God doesn't look so good there in the pictures,I can't imagine the Dublin with that little amount of cars, must have been amazing!
Meat was typically saved for Sundays and the leftovers were made into other meals throughout the week. Always fish on Fridays.
Good ol days. And everyone dressed so well..
Going to a pub was far more affordable back then.😋
I was born that year in Dublin. That video really brings me back to my childhood.
So was everything else.
Not for everyone.
A unlocked bike outside a pub nowadays not a chance
Lovely Dublin !!!! 🇮🇪 ❤
Superb colour
fantastic archive footage
Brilliant!
I love dublin @ lovely people Irish
Take a trip there and see if you can spot one
Image being able leave a bike outside a pub.
Now they would rob it while you were still cycling it.
Looks amazing
Beautiful time xx
Hello, we are making a film about the Irish in Coventry and was wondering if we could use this footage?
Ciaran Davis
Check out the British Pathe website for info on how to license this footage. Probably shot on 35mm film by professional camera-people hence the lovely sharp quality, excellent vantage points and clever selection of images.
Back when Ireland was an independent country.
Still is . Back then there was lots of poverty , people living in tenements . Unemployment was high . Don’t fool yourself looking at the nice side of Dublin.
Very nice. My only visit to Ireland was in 1977.
I love my homeland proud to be irish
Back when Europe was magical
really enjoyed the video
It's amazing how empty the city was, in those shots.
What was the population of the city in 1965?
Super quality film, and shot by someone who knew what they were doing.
and probably early in the morning
Lol . Elephant in the room
No tracksuit wearing scumbags, junkies and thugs. Unique, individual family run shops instead of the characterless, sterile chain stores you see in every town in Ireland now (and beyond). Less of the aggressive and near pornagraphic advertising. You could just leave your bike unlocked and most likely find it still there when you returned. Less crowded, cleaner and tidier looking. And, despite the church's grip, more of a relaxed vibe than nowadays. It is sad what has become of Dublin since then, what an extreme downward slide. It has been torn apart by drugs, criminality and aggression and has lost all of that character now, forever. Personally, I think it was ruined by a) the pc brigade completely doing away with the discipline of the youth by parents, teachers, police etc, which has resulted in the most unruly, greedy generation of youth ever witnessed, and b) the aforementioned drug culture, which has spawned several wars and a lot of killing and grieving, and which has made some extremely nasty people very rich. All very sad.
this is unreal.genius to have captured this and made emmigrants like us so happy at our town.toronto aint so bad now!!!!ta!!
I really hope visiting dublin one day
I love Dublin ❤️
I don't 👍
I was born in 1965,but that bus and the cars,the way people dressed etc,are strong in my memory.I think things didnt change as quickly until the 70s.I wouldnt agree that Ireland was very repressed back then,although things where stricter,but the people in general where used to that,it was like that worldwide,and the Catholic church was no different to other institutions,the abusive priests where a minority,as many where absolute saints.
Gerry Mack your quality thanks for telling the truth.
exactly,... the Church wasn't that strict, and it guided people for a better society and happier life, some people might not like it, but it's good for the majority, and that's what makes a society and nation function. I personally think things started going down when the churches grip/influence lessened and they became less assertive... oh and 1958 Vatican, the real church and pope were Pius XII and that's where it changed after.
Hi, great footage. I am making a video about how re-vision O'Connell Street. Wondering where you got this old footage and if I could get a copy?
Thanks.