Oh I could of watched this for evermore. Beautiful.

The song is " Rip Tide" Al Bowlby. Wonderful.

Friend of my dad's drove a VW Beetle over the Ha'penny Bridge as a bet. This was early '50s. One of his favourite stories.

That was smashing. It was nice to see Nelsons Pillar, I always though it was shame it was blown up. My Great Grandad sold his newspapers at the pillar.

that made tonight in calgary a bit easier,fantastic to see MY TOWN.a few of us here had to reach for the whiskey glass.the marino waltz or dublin can be heaven would've been a lovely accompanyment but wel done great stuff.these things make us proud to be Dubs wherever we are.up da dubs up da bohs!!!!

That was my Mother in the white coat walking down the the penny farthing bridge seriously. Long gone to meet her maker but she was looking great then thanks for the memory

For a while, it was called the Penny Ha'Penny bridge -- when the toll was increased.

You're Kidding !! That's amazing :-) Delighted to have had the chance to give you that little snippet of your past. Made my day !

Many thanks for the excellent Vid. The trams really only stopped running in Dublin in 1949, so I suspect that the clips showing only busses may be from the early-mid 1950s

This is truly brilliant, the city of Dublin was absolutely beautiful back then, it's a Dump now, 👍👍👍

Parking on O'Connell Street!

It was a good town in the 1980's ....small + intimate + fun.

Yes we had a copy in our home in Harold's Cross for years, it was her pride and joy. Long time ago now but thanks again for the memory

This is superb! Wonderful images of Dublin so many years ago,even long before my time. Super editing with great use of the music of the period. Bravo!

that's amazing thank you for showing me my home city so long ago

Wonderful...love the tune too..magical and haunting audio video...

I absolutely love this it fascinates me

For a while, it was called the Penny Ha'Penny bridge -- when the toll was increased. The toll was dropped in 1919.

Isn't life strange.....to think how long ago this film was made. Capturing life at the moment which we now observe in 2012......wow...very nice! thanks for posting

what a beautiful city we had back then. not like now

Houses of the Georgian type started being built in Dublin in the 1740s. Georgian architecture had strict rules for the size and proportions of the houses. The doors were the feature of the house which the inhabitants could make their own. So you see so many different doorcases and all the different colours. The houses are very similar in style whereas, generally speaking, it would be hard to find 2 doors exactly the same. A nice book is Peter Pearson's "Decorative Dublin". Not only about doors but also about the beautiful buildings and decorative work, which despite terrible losses through the 1970s and 1980s, we still have in Dublin today.

Lovely - just looking for videos to show my mum Dubliner 90 now but remembers eveything at her youth so this is perfect for her - thank you love the music by the way

Fantastic stuff. Pearse St. cop shop and everything..and Grafton St. before hanging out on it was trendy!

So beautiful ‘ an Beautiful song

Love to see the bikes dominate the traffic flow!

Absolute Brilliant Love it

The Dublin Tenements on youtube for all who prefer the horrors of past poverty.

Glamour...!!!!❤ épocas doradas ...

I definitely agree with your last point I was born in the 70s and vividly remember growing up in Finglas, Dublin in the 1980s experiencing many. many hardships that are still a long way off in comparison to present day.

Thanks for uploading this video. I really enjoyed.

Nice but there was lots of poverty back then.... And it was long before the invasion ..

What a lovely comment sir and to think of all the modernization and regeneration that accompanied the Celtic tiger so much of this still stands. Trinity college, bank of Ireland, O'connell bridge, butt bridge, ha'penny bridge, the view of o'connell st. (minus the monument). A city so rich in culture, heritage, history and characters. Up the dubs, although as a proud shamrock rovers man well agree to disagree. Best of luck

A lot of views that are still recognisable. It's just a shame that the IRA blew up Nelson's Pillar and ended the chances of there being Pearce's Pillar instead of that spire.

Behind this veneer there was a lot of poverty in Ireland were there was a lot of people stuck in tenement slum's. This is what happens when people are thrown into slums and forgotten about you get a society of scumbags. This all came about because of Ireland nationally based country.

its so different now!

my city ,

The song comes from the golden age of the British Dance band - the singer is Al Bowlly - one of the greatest voices ever produced and needs to be remembered - so I place his name here - he did not survive the war - killed by a Parashoot bomb - some say landmine in London April 17th, 1941 - I believe he appeared in Dublin at least twice - once c-1930 and later c-1937.

super .super vid ,,,,,,,,,,,loved it

I believe that it was called ( and still is ) The Hapenny Bridge.

Weird to think that probably everyone in this short film are long since dead!

Very good

brill

where did the truck go at 1:17

Nice

The virnush and welsh were part if the british celts who inhabited the island apart from scotland. I assume thst either the saxons failed to conquer wales and cornwall or a lot of the britons were pushed to the edge of the island.

These are great images of Dublin, i was wondering if it is possible to find out where i could possibly find them, i am a student and doing a short doc on an Artist living in Dublin in the thirties,early forties. thanks Mgt

Yeah, that's true !

Weather looked so much better back then

@ Becky Somers .. No Problem, work away, and good luck :)

Eugenics was very big in the 30s and 40s ;-) They should bring it back tbh.......

Great....never seen that before. Looks like 30s and 50s.

I don't know where you get that from. England's oldest overseas colony, long before Union was Ireland. In the mid 12th century the pope at the time gave Henry II authority of the Island and authority to invade if required. The high king Of Leinster asked him for protection and hence paved way for the first norman invaders/settlers and the infamous Strongbow in 1170. This was many years before Gascony and hundreds of years before roanoake, jamestown and popham in North America

Taylors hall is still there.

cool

Was that Patrick Hitler I thought I saw there, heading to his restaurant gig? ;-)

I used to go to gardner street with my pillow case for the loves.of bread

Where's the Spire? ;p

the isle of man is overseas. its nearest neighbour is scotland. england colonised the I.O.M. before she colonized ireland. but england's very, very, very first colony was cornwall, followed by wales, then the isle of man, then ireland, then scotland. next stop was the rest of the world (allmost)> so, overseas speaking, the isle of man is england's oldest colony. near home, cornwall is the oldest colony.

Anyone have any info re Dublin August 20th,1937. My father won Irish Lightweight title that day, I was wondering about old newspapers or news reels. Be Well! Up Tipperary!!!!! Up Dublin!!!!!

Fair play, I concede that one, technically speaking Mann is abroad. Due to it's size I didn't consider or know it to be a colony although I know it is a small isle of importance i.e. Celtic culture, tynwald, tax haven etc. So AFTER Mann Ireland was the first overseas territory of significant importance to be colonized by England of whose fallout we are still feeling to present day - do we agree?

I can't believe how yellow Dublin was back then, it's a lot more green now.

Ha'penny Bridge... is not an never has been called the penny farthing bridge

Definitely. Those power plants need to run on something and fuel is getting expensive.

loads of poverty back then !! terrible times they were !! we are living much better now !! fact !!

Hi there, great footage - is it yours? We would possibly like to use it in a tv programme -

If the modernization had of been more considerate and controlled the Celtic tiger would not have been so bad. In a way there still is a Celt tiger in that there are still people with good jobs. Still bad for a lot of people but not as bad as it was in the 60,70,80s.

Refreshing, as well, to see the Union Jack long gone from the scene, except apparently at TCD on VE day (or was it VJ day), where a riot of some sort nearly broke out!

At 1.17 a truck powered by a gas converter passed. Sometime during the war. The film is of different periods, some show the trams, which finally finished 1949, other show the tram overhead wires but no trams, while other bits are after the wires were removed. Copper wire, being valuable, would have been taken down quickly lest criminals got it first, although there was less crime in those days. Crime didn't pay then - plenty of hard labour if you got caught.

oh, and tony blair IS a hundred percent celt. his father was scottish. his mum was from ballyshannon in county donegal. and he himself was born in scotland. THAT MAKES HIM A CELT AND PROUD OF IT.

Where the hell did the truck disappear to at 1:18 didn't you notice it just disappeared into thin air

i DID say the isle of man, or i.o.m, which IS overseas from GB. and cornwall is not in the bottom west of england. IT IS SITUATED IN THE SOUTH WEST OF BRITAIN, not england but BRITAIN.

i understand, ger, a t.c.d. student was SHOT DEAD on that day for putting up the union jack flag on top of trinity. someone,apparently, had a gun on him in the crowd outside and pumped the poor man. english, i think he was. or british. dunno. but he was studying medicine or something. anyway, sad. bless everyoone connected with this incident.

LOL.

I t had a strong feel of an English city back then.

i would call it english rather than british. and when queen lizzie the first opened it, she was queen of england and a few colonies, but not queen of britain. scotland had yet to join the union. bythe way, we are england's FOURTH oldest colony. guess what the earlier ones were. and what was the fifth colony? THIS IS A PUB QUIZ!!

why can't they re-introduce two-way car trafficing on every street? look at all the space they could save? how many celtic states are there? what is ireland's nearest neighbour? what is our oldest city? how many cities have we got? what is our population? what is our oldest province? what is our biggest lake and river? tony blair was ONE HUNDRED PER CENT CELT ... True of false???????????????

Oh this is amazing....look .....no fcuking Foreigners.....Ireland and Dublin the way it was intended.....

Wow My Mom wasen't alive then lol!

Trinity was always considered a British university (college) and very few Catholics went there.

Beautiful women but poor country so typical!!

Everyone thought Dublin was a tiny social experiment caught in a maze of catholic morality and governmental backwardism back "in dem days".If you wanna find out how wrong that assumption would be talk to JP Dunleavy,or read one of his books.You will be pleasantlly surprised.Dublin was a hive of bohemian activity,and I dont just mean the football team.

Just wish the British built a subway system before they got kicked out

now it just needs keeping irish

its in black and white so you cant see it

100 yrs later more technologically advanced but has a huge migrant population now and losing its identity together with huge housing problem, drugs and gangs.

no, i don't agree. as a celtic nationalist i regard cornwall as the oldest english colony. there was never a british empire, of course, just an ENGLISH empire1 now that we have established that, if you don't believe me, check out celtic nationalism on wikipedia. by the way, the IOM was once colonized by scotland, then ireland threatened war with the scots in an attempt to colonise it, england crept in and took the IOM for herself.!! check it all out on wikipedia. start now. go on!

They were in tenement flats at that point and were probably so uneducated that they could not find the city center. Years and years of poverty then created Chav's.

Listen I don't think it's going into your head man. Cornwall IS NOT I REPEAT NOT overseas or abroad from England it is the peninsula that juts out at the bottom west of England. I said OVERSEAS COLONY and you keep giving me cornwall, wales and scotland for fuck sake. And listen if you need wikipedia to educate yourself things are bad. Good luck

fantastic, not a junkie in sight, or any nigerians fighting.

The music is awful