Dublin in the 1940s

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memorybliss

11 жыл бұрын

"time keeps on slipping slipping slipping in to the future "

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@susanmorris6204 10 жыл бұрын

My Dad was born in Dublin, grew up in the tenements gardner street, summerhill, foley street, started work at the age of 8years, just for food and a place to sleep. he worked in and around Dublin and then went over to England where he met and married my mum, Oldham Lancashire, my dad was a hard working man with a soft voice and kind ways, he retired at the age of 78 he is still a very active and lovely dad of 87. he has always told me tales of Dublin life, O'connell st, Cabra, The pillar The Threepenny bridge he crossed many times when he was a delivery boy, Stephens green, his many jobs and his tales of hardship, he always say's don't feel sad, don't pity me, we where all in the same boat, so we didn't know we where poor. his friends some long gone and some still here in Oldham, some in Ireland,they remember the day's of Angela's ashes, they where friends with the children mentioned in the book and portrayed in the film of the same name. He will love this film, will show it to him tomorrow, and I know he will have another tale or two to tell me. thank you for sharing x

@memorybliss 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that Susan, I hope your Dad likes the video

@caseycasey9173 9 жыл бұрын

Hi Susan it;s actually the halfpenny bridge ,when it was built it had a toll of one halfpenny to cross it .Nice story about your dad .

@grahamjonathan762 5 жыл бұрын

Susan Morris My mum lived in Gardner street and they moved to Cabra too

@paulbroderick8438 5 жыл бұрын

I was born in Clontarf, Dublin in 1940 and brought to England by my parents when I was just 10 month old. Lived in England until in my mid thirties, visiting relatives in Dublin many times in between. Immigrated to the USA in 1975. Have recently employed a Dublin genealogy search company to locate long lost relatives. Sadly many have passed on but glad to report I have been given some very promising contact names and addresses of living relatives. Emailed them one week ago so I am truly hoping for a positive response.

@margaretwaite5170 4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamjonathan762 I live in Gardiner St . Came over to manchester in 1960, its still home to me.

@murpho999 5 жыл бұрын

Look at the tram network they had then. Such a stupid decision to get rid of it. Dublin would be a very diffrent city now if that network was still there now.

@Steve14ps 3 жыл бұрын

That is true of many cities, not just Dublin

@martinrea8548 2 жыл бұрын

@@Steve14ps Cork had a decent tram network too.

@Steve14ps 2 жыл бұрын

@@martinrea8548 Always loved visiting Ireland, I must go back, nice country, nice people

@martinrea8548 2 жыл бұрын

@@Steve14ps True. Climate could be a bit better though. Mid May now and temperatures still a bit cool.

@vilamor007 Жыл бұрын

I agree 💯

@francish5401 5 жыл бұрын

Grew up in dublin in 1968 and remember dear old dublin town in the rare old times .

@johnfitzsimons3198 5 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for uploading great video....the opening photo on Kevin St. is of my grandfather Cecil Jacob, his wife Mary and 2 of thier children(they are centre)...my mam gave us this photo a couple of years ago, it really amazes us....shortly after that they moved to Windmill, Crumlin in the early 50’s....

@elizabethconnolly8958 5 жыл бұрын

i was born in Dublin in 1943 went to work at 14 years old i lived in Summerhill now living in Australia 44 years and the best move ive made

@eoliver437 5 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Connolly Was it? Australia has a lot of very bad things about it, apart from the sunshine. Just ask the aboriginal peoples. Also in global terms, in the middle of nowhere

@thestandingwanderer8215 4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, Dublin is unrecognisable now compared to what it used to be!

@emmams5 3 жыл бұрын

@Elizabeth Connolly, yet here you are having a dig at Dublin 44 years later.....btw, when is the last time you visited Dublin? You might be surprised at how modern a city it is and the amount of foreign nationals now call it home.

@elizabethconnolly8958 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not having a dig at anything or anyone the last time I was in Dublin was 83 I went back to live and nothing had changed then I stayed 5 weeks ..Australia has more to offer and lots of sunshine witch Ireland never had it was full of people living in poverty and from what hear from my Irish friends there nothing has changed they would give their right arm to live in Queensland Australia the best country in the world so think what you like ..maybe your too scared to make that move

@samnicholson5051 3 жыл бұрын

@Leon Erin Funny you say that. Because my Great-Grandparents were the reverse of that. They emigrated FROM Australia, first to America, but then the Great Depression occured and then they ended up coming here. However they were educated and middle-class, and didn't experience the same poverty that impacted the working classes.

@dylanryan2567 3 жыл бұрын

Some of us watching this may be in a video on KZfaq of people 80+ years from now Looking at Dublin in the 2020's

@mcmurder8835 24 күн бұрын

Lovely post. Ireland was fortunate to stay out of trouble in those times, but they were still very hard years. My father was born and raised in Dublin city in 1945, and still speaks very fondly of the people. Most of our extended family still live in the county to this day 👍🇮🇪

@daithiderrus8293 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful piece of footage this, made even more evocative by this quietly moving piece of music - pity it only lasts 1.47 min . . .

@frankiemoore3607 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! I love my city.

@memorybliss 11 жыл бұрын

Hi, not at all, I'm just glad if people get to see the wonder that is Dublin, thanks for sharing

@patdoyle3686 2 жыл бұрын

As Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz there's no place like home ☘☘☘

@khiggins7231 3 жыл бұрын

It wouldn’t have been a pleasant time. Rationing was still going on and Ireland was about to enter a depression with massive immigration a few years later.

@samderrida 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely footage

@MapleSyrupPoet Жыл бұрын

💚💚💚 "Stay thirsty my friends" ...the True Vine, 🍇 will reign forever

@josipmickovic2572 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful.

@ChrisShelley 11 жыл бұрын

Hi There, These old Dublin videos are amazing ( where did you find them ?) hope you don't mind that i shared a link to my "MY DUBLIN" page on Facebook !

@samhraid 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you so, so much.

@TheSeanm102 10 жыл бұрын

great upload thanks funny to see the trams on o Connell street

@pauldunneska 6 жыл бұрын

TheSeanm102 And you typed that 4 years ago and now the trams (Luas) are back.

@marymcmullen7765 8 жыл бұрын

Hi Susan, I am writing a book about my parents. My Mother was born in Dublin 1925. I loved to hear your story and I would love to hear more. Are you on Facebook?

@francish5401 5 жыл бұрын

What's name of your book?

@elizabethconnolly8958 4 жыл бұрын

I was born in Dublin city in 1943

@rubrown1397 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, wow!

@PODledge92 10 жыл бұрын

Amazing, sound lad!

@grahamjonathan762 5 жыл бұрын

Great upload thanks

@653j521 5 жыл бұрын

Good series on why the old days were horrible, The Dublin Tenements on youtube.

@memorybliss 10 жыл бұрын

Dublin in the 1940s

@declan3906 2 жыл бұрын

The music is great.

@memorybliss 11 жыл бұрын

No worries Samhraid, you're welcome.

@kytchynsync 9 жыл бұрын

see a penny, pick it up........ 1.13 -1.19!

@memorybliss 9 жыл бұрын

Well spotted!

@mikecat23 9 жыл бұрын

Any idea where he went? I dropped it .

@memorybliss 9 жыл бұрын

Finders keepers..

@eamonize 9 жыл бұрын

kytchynsync see a penny, pick it up, all day long, you have a penny :)

@laylal4895 5 жыл бұрын

YAY I live in Dublin:0 :D

@imransharif443 Жыл бұрын

Nice video

@waynefarrellvoiceovers 2 жыл бұрын

The clouds...

@Bootlegger4 3 жыл бұрын

I never knew there were 2 statues between Daniel O’Connell and the pillar. I’m 51 now and they were gone before my time. Does anyone know who they were?

@freebeerfordworkers 3 жыл бұрын

I think one was a priest who ran a temperance campaign and no disrespect to the man, but it looked a bit cheap. The other might have been William Smith O'Brien, which is still there but moved along a bit. William Smith O'Brien was a Protestant MP and a nationalist involved in an almost bloodless rebellion in 1848. His statue was originally inscribed "William Smith O'Brian sentenced to death for high treason, 1848." This is perfectly true, but neglected to say they rushed through law abolishing the death sentence for treason and he was transported to Australia. He was allowed to return home after about eight years and died of natural causes at the age of 60 in North Wales. Last time I saw it "Died 1860" had been added to the inscription, but nothing else.

@martinrea8548 2 жыл бұрын

@@freebeerfordworkers Fr Matthew was the priest's name; the only man to have a statue in both Cork and Dublin.

@TF80s Жыл бұрын

@@martinrea8548 He also has a little Cul De Sac named after him, doesn't he? Father Matthew Square, across from St. Mary Of The Angel's Church on Church Street?

@declan3906 6 жыл бұрын

The music is?

@memorybliss 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you Xynos7, the music is from the soundtrack from Donnie Darko.

@mickbrown9021 7 сағат бұрын

Same old boring College Green, O'Connell Street...... how much better it would have been were it the Liberties, the Coombe, Kevin Street, Sheriff Street, Corporation Street, Railway Street. Yes, the real Dublin !

@SinfeinersCubanDevilera 2 жыл бұрын

Dublin not the same without Nelson pillar. Now crappie looking syringe for a spire.

@alastairstaunton7081 11 ай бұрын

More like a Dutch city with all the cyclists. Up till the sixties at least, perhaps. Car ownership took off in the seventies. I wonder whether cars are so necessary if shops would routinely deliver, as they used to. Then we could have uncluttered streets again, maybe.

@Passengervehicles 11 жыл бұрын

The spire looks slightly different :)

@alfredalfredo5080 3 жыл бұрын

Depressing music

@christopherlane2552 Жыл бұрын

lovely pics, little bomb damage as the country was neutral in WW2

@davidlally592 Жыл бұрын

Except those dropped over whitsun 1941 in the North Strand area of Ath Cliath by the Nazis. There were some deaths and injuries, remember the South then was " neutral". Lots of suggestions re that German raid (Dublin had very few AA guns). One is Devs decision to send fire brigades twice up to Belfast (when it was burning end to end) and Hitlers anger re that neutrality breach.

@trishaprett7721 9 ай бұрын

My father was LDF on patrol North Strand that night.Horrendous experience for him.He always said a friends hair turned white with the shock.He always said that the front flying planes,thought they were over Belfast.A patient I was nursing early 80s told me his uncle was killed.They received money from Mr Hitler as compensation,delivered by an friend of Mr de Valera.