I was born in 79, now 42 years old. My best memories from my childhood was a day trip to Dublin on the train from Wexford. Used to love the characters in Moore Street. We used to have great chats an buy our fruit supplies for the train home. It has all changed now. Very, very sad to see the stalls lying idle. The heartbeat has gone.

All has changed, and changed utterly.

Time and tide wait for no man.

@@smhorse a horrible ugliness, has been born..."

Ah ye see that's what they call progress! (sarcasm)

heartbreaking in a way but my city is more important than my heart

Yes it's very sad the way Dublin has fallen...and the rest of Ireland.

The year I was born

Thank you for putting my head straight. Those shots seemed older than the 70's. I moved to Dublin alone from Cork aged 17 in early 1977. I've been in London since 87 (also now an absolutely horrendous place, especially with no money). I didn't remember those green buses, just the cream ones, and the cars, clothing - and buildings / signs looked way too old. 1961 would be my guess of the very earliest year those could have been. A lot of cycles funnily, but ridden sensibly and on roadways. Being a pedestrian is virtually suicidal here. I digress. Thanks again 🙃

The timescale can be determined by studying the vehicle registration plates (where it's possible) and the dates that the registrations were issued: that'll tell you that that a particular image can't be "earlier than" a certain month/year.

One could say the same about every old city around the world. Cities change all the time, not always for the better unfortunatley

They were more careful in the past to preserve the culture and buildings...politicians I mean. It's them that are allowing all thes rapid changes to our environment now...greed!

me too

I left the west of Ireland went to Dublin in 1965 this city was very good to me for 23 years i then headed back west again, I still visit this City of my youth every year but now retired to Spain

@@Doontrusk just like my brother he in Spain 3 years now but there’s no place like home

Me too. But it's 41 years for me. Great vid but I felt it was more the 50's...

Don't bother coming back.

Yes! I was wondering IF it was the same music. Thanks for confirming it; so excellent for reminiscing!

Dublin my ancestral home❤, full of great memories for me growing up in a great city with wonderful sites and sound's alsocraic and banter still missing it.

Yep

I love Dublin history and seeing it as it was, to think that was over 50years ago

Yes, it was blown up in 1966, the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

That's correct ; before 1966, the year of its destruction...

The development of Dublin is a disgrace. The heart of the city has been torn to pieces....bring back Nelson's Pillar for starters!!!

​@@johnd942 ...yeah, so that my generation can enjoy witnessing it being blown to smithereens again.

Mostly very early 60s. Some cars with 1961 and 1962 registrations.

@Lucy Hamilton It was.

The women hating paedos in the church that had so much influence over the country back then wouldn't have liked that! Thank god we've moved on.

John, there's not much left to love about it these days, I'm sorry to say. ...

Lovely story. On from the north circular road.

The city center is a zoo now.

Yep…a nation of racists! Good job we found England and the USA or we’d have to stay at home forever!!😵‍💫

Sounds like you took too many drugs at a thin Lizzy concert

Phibsboro was a rough place back then! :)

There was an old scrap yard down by Santry & Turnapin lane where the majority of all the old buses ended up....

That is true but not very often only at certain states of the tide.

Oscar Wilde put it as only he could, that "the smell of the Liffey is one of the sights of Europe".

I learned to swim in the Liffey. Saw my first couple of dead bodies there (floating!) One day when I got out after a swim across to the Custom's House from City Quay side, I noticed all my fair body-hair had turned black!!! Ugh! That was my last time for swimming in the Liffey! :))

That was the summer of `76. I was a happy carefree 14 year old!

Mm the old rhyme was the River Liffey and when the tide was out, it was the River Sniffey..! But actually the cause was the Camac river that flowed upstream of Ath Cliath into the Liffey. That was then dealt with..

Yup the Pillar was " removed" in 1966...!!

Yes, surely, before 1966, the year of its destruction

Once happy. Yea we were always happy.

a BIT of pedestrianisation?...re-watch the video and look at the cars parked on O'Connell Street, let alone the mayhem of traffic outside Trinity on College Green, while cars and vespas are parked on Dame Street...O'Connell bridge alone looks like it had 5 lanes of uncoordinated traffic. Grafton street is unrecognisable now too...It will soon be impossible to park any where near the City Centre...DCC planners are slowly pushing all traffic out. Great if you're a pedestrian, terrible if you're a business that needs supplies and services delivered. Fun fact...O'Connell bridge is the only bridge in Europe that is wider than it is long.

Or if you are working from a van, there should be some sort of parking difference for trades people. And ironically all the loading bays are now being parked in by people who can’t find parking 😂 Also there are enough disabled spots around the capital than disabled people need I’d imagine. One of Dublins many problems.

It was a literal crumbling ruin in the 70s and 80s but according to you things are worse now because we have "diversity?" Bollocks. It's people like you that are the problem in this country.

Unless you were gay, foreign, a married woman who didn't feel like sex , an unmarried woman who got pregnant, wanted to be educated without religon, a child who had been abused, a battered wife .... the list goes on !!

Don't take what I am saying in the wrong way but back then th ings were alot different, there were no non irish or homeless people, things have changed over the years alot

so I'm not the only one who thinks that then?

Early 60s too. CIE buses were green up until the end of the 1960s. Around 1967/68. they changed their colours to cream and blue. Some of the pictures show buses in the later colours.

alan duncan Fuck off Alan

It's 1961, see the comment by Johnny G. The cars on the street align with it being 1961. So you are pretty much right.