I was too busy sitting my Leaving Cert when this was being filmed, but it brings back many fond memories.

I shouldn’t have watched this while I was hungry. Seeing all that food at the English Market, and then the bowls of soup at the end has made me famished!

Love is rare , Life is strange,. Nothing lasts ,. And people change. W.B.YEATS. Thank You for this video. We have flown so high now, we are all afraid to look down . God Bless..🙏🇮🇪🙏

Your great for finding these old 📼 films thanks🎉

More laid back, the simple things in life, no material things. More freedom. We had the place to ourselves. Less state involvement in people lives.

I was crossing at the bus station as the train was crossing the bridge , I saw the camera man in the cab. John Flynn the late ticket checker in it.

I was born in 2003 and I was born far away from Ireland like 5000 km . But i feel that every people feel the same. Doesn’t matter when they were born . Peace !

Ah yes! I would have been there then, having grown up in Cork in the 1960 and 1970s. No car back in those days: we walked everywhere. Maybe that's why I can still get around, lol.

The greatest change I see is how overweight Cork (& Irish ) people have got in the last 50 years.

Brill 🎉 thank you 😊 sights ‘n sounds of a past time ☘️

I was around back then and I know we have all our modern stuff we cant seem to do without today. But if you offered me a ticket back to 1975 I'd take it. At least you could afford to get married, buy a house have more than half a child.on one fairly basic wage. And I could rely settle for some tripe and onions certainly better than any crap food we put up with today.

I see a lot of people here saying how bad things were back then. Do people forget that we are living in bad times now with no affordable housing, high inflation, rising fuel prices, wars, etc. The past had its own problems, some different and some similar to today’s problems. It doesn’t matter what era you live in. There is some good and some bad times no matter what time in history or the future humans will live in. Just remember that as long as humans exist on Earth, there’s always going to be hard times and good times.

‘Twas lovely to see the train on the bridge near the City Hall. When we were lining up to go into the Eglantine baths, you would see that train pulling in further along that rail line into what was then a Cork Corporation work yard. Our neighbour in Capwell Mr. Heas used to work there and we’d see him in his overalls at work there. I think this was was the old Bandon rail line which used to pass at the back of our houses in Capwell Ave. and St Finbarrs across the ‘line’ as we used to call it.

Excellent look back of Ireland. Sadly, the Ireland of today is a shadow of this.

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it should still be like that today our country its very sad to see it like it is now things change but not for the good today our country is being held in bondage once again and its croppy lie down but we will never lie down again

I have been told by a reliable source that the people of Cork are the very finest you could wish to meet. Someday when I break free and my hard work is done of working on the chain ganger, I will pick up my few belongings, collect my exceedingly small amount of money from being locked in prison for 43 years for a crime I did not commit and head over to Cork fair city and enjoy myself for a little time until my savings run out

Ah, for the 'good - old, bad - old days'! Maybe it's being a 'Gen - X~er' but has anyone else noticed that '80's footage has a (relatively) modern look about it, but the '70’s definitely have an "In me fadder's time' vibe about them! But yeah... When the English Market was, tbh, kind of a dump, and not the the chi~chi foodie hang~out it is today... Of course, that was before the fire, which many people didn't think it would come back from; not to mention it would be many years yet before the late Betty Windsor would be going there for her 'messages'! And when Cork City was a proper working port, ie 'The Docks'. ('Docklands'? _'Sextant Quarter'?!_ 🤮 Bleeurgh!!) They can be seen to very cinematic, and atmospheric, effect in the 'video' for 'A Million Miles Away' by the city's adopted son, the great Rory Gallagher, from his 'Irish Tour 1974'. Back then, the port was internationally famous - if only for its 'brassers'! (True - there's a Radharc/RTE documentary about it, though it doesn't seem to be online) Fwiw, in the '70's, even Belfast was still in the top 10 busiest ports in the World! I'd be very surprised if there's more than 1 or 2 of the World's 10 busiest ports these days that arent in China! Of course, in common with ports the World over, 99% of the shipping is now handled quite a ways downstream. Unfortunately, it's a bit like an Irish version of the old 'Dumb Yank Tourists' joke - "Gee - weren't they smart to build the (new) freight handling facilities _the wrong side of the harbour×_ from the railhead!" When I was a little kid, the same as many kids of that era still did, I would sometimes dream of running away to sea. Not that I had an unhappy childhood or anything, but what a way to see the World! Who would be a sailor nowadays though, when the port is invariably 15 miles away from where anything interesting is happening?! (Sorry Ringaskiddy, but 'Old Amsterdam', you're not!) Finally, I had always thought (no less in the '70's than today) that it was an unwritten rule, given the importance placed on conversation in Irish hostelries 🙄😉, that there were only 4 types of literature allowed in a Cork boozer; in no special order - d'Ekko, The Sun, The Mirror and The Racing Post. I'd have thought, surely, some joker ostentatiously leaving _Kandinsky,_ (whoever _she_ is) title page up on the table would get themselves thrown out, if not actually beaten up; but then I remembered, like the surviving 'early houses' in the _'Docklands',_ that there are a number of premises with special exceptional licences in the environs of the University, and, as here, a mere spit away from the Opera House and Art Gallery *>`ahem‘

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Fascinating to watch this. I was born in Cork in 1975 but wasn’t there for long. I’m still one of God’s people though on account of being born there 😂

I say 90% of all the places and buildings in this haven't changed I was about to recognise all of them and I wasn't even born in 75

I was 5.

Did the older women near the end (and in the thumbnail) go on to star as maurading fans of Eoin McLove in an episode of Fr Ted ?

7:15 price list 👀

Tripe and onion and a pint?

somebody tune that feckin piano

Fastest thing outta Cork in 1975, the Dublin train. Well its going into Cork but as we can see its empty.

This is when there was proper old men and old women. There are no proper old people these days😅

Traffic management was much better

Diversity is our strength......

2 quid for a flagon

The echo man's taint..

What went wrong ? Open borders.

Who would have thought that the Gael would soon become a second class citizen in his own land. That another plantation was not far off in the future.