Footage of Dublin in 1915 - (Enhanced Resolution + Color + sound)

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3 жыл бұрын

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@awizenwoman 2 жыл бұрын

The original footage was recorded by my Grandfather, J Gordon Lewis for British Pathe, and you can see his trademark angel shots.

@msb9997 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@Karl_with_a_K 2 жыл бұрын

Well a big thank you to J Gordon Lewis (and his decendants) 👋 💚

@Shane-zx4ps 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant, I really appreciate this film as I’m a Dubliner.

@bazduggan4042 2 жыл бұрын

Pity there was no footage of the rising a year later.

@probuilder4980 Жыл бұрын

where was it filmed from? Its great

@tacitusromanus8239 3 жыл бұрын

Many of those buildings in Dublin are still standing. Amazing footage. Thanks!

@jimmytumbles9640 2 жыл бұрын

Soon to become fishtank hotels, like the others.

@calibvr 2 жыл бұрын

It's like Cork. It looks very similar.

@1042firegirl 2 жыл бұрын

Actually no, these buildings as you see them today were completely rebuilt as p the original plans after the Rising, the war of independence and the civil war destroyed them

@everready800 Жыл бұрын

James Joyce statue still there!

@JoeOReilly 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Brilliant that folks are able to save and care for footage like this

@Jen-lg4hp 11 ай бұрын

Looks more civilized than Dublin City centre today.

@FionanOMurchadha 9 ай бұрын

So you're proposing going back to being ruled from London?😂

@doloresaquines1529 7 ай бұрын

Jen. I know exactly What you mean! I am Irish, Dublín born.

@moodyyuhoody 3 ай бұрын

@@FionanOMurchadha Under British rule the Irish had 14% representation compared to 1% in EU.

@FionanOMurchadha 3 ай бұрын

@@moodyyuhoody Not going back into the Union sorry!

@moodyyuhoody 3 ай бұрын

@@FionanOMurchadha you’ve no army , navy or Air Force . Your state exists due to the good will of other states. Ffs England still protects you. Cringe

@Squeeonline 3 жыл бұрын

City centre looked better then than it does now. Far better public transport network I bet too.

@madforit2 3 жыл бұрын

City is a complete shithole now. Irish are the minority in there

@Megabishop65 3 жыл бұрын

@@madforit2 This film doesn't show the slums which were there at the time and were real "shitholes".

@DarrenBonJovi 3 жыл бұрын

@@Megabishop65 certainly in around the likes of the Monto were scenes of abject poverty, disease etc. Arguable that those areas still havent fully recovered since the decline following Union.

@adrianduggan4739 3 жыл бұрын

A lot less people had back then - public transport was essential and compared to other cities at the time wasn’t amazing.

@geraldinecreaven6009 3 жыл бұрын

@@madforit2 not true, and you know it.

@MegaFraner 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing, couldn't take my eye off it. Imagine if time travel were possible, even for an hour or two walk the streets of Dublin over 100 years ago, impossible I know but got my imagination going.

@jackspring7709 Жыл бұрын

To be honest with you, as far as the buildings are concerned, those specific places look almost identical today: there is no huge difference that I can see except for the replacement of cobble stone by tarmac on the main street.

@dylandavos9645 2 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather would have been 16, born in 1899!. Crazy to think about what he would be doing as this footage was taken. Dublin looked great.

@bighands69 Жыл бұрын

If he was from a well to do family probably was continuing his education, working in family business or had already started a career as an apprentice. If he was from a poorer family he would be working his heart out if he was lucky.

@jackspring7709 Жыл бұрын

You'll probably be happy to know that the places where that footage was taken look almost identical today: all those buildings are still standing and, apart from the cobble on the streets, the vehicles and the fashion - that footage would have very little difference if it was filmed today.

@allisnotwhatitseems. 8 ай бұрын

Looked better then. Barely an Irishman to be seen there nowadays. Just the dregs of every other country.😢

@karlbyrne6021 5 ай бұрын

@alls I got to agree with you. Shame what this government is doing.

@charlotteritchie9969 2 ай бұрын

@@jackspring7709a lot of the cobble is still there under the tarmac

@charlottedowling2241 Жыл бұрын

God I love that video brings back memories playing at the monument in the phoneix park ,climbing up to touch the the horses and soldiers back in the 60s with mam n dad there both gone now RIP.❤thank you .for the memories.

@patricklamshear1806 Жыл бұрын

Memories are the only thing that we have left. ☘️☘️☘️☘️

@markg9749 2 жыл бұрын

A year before the 1916 Easter Rising , Amazing...!!

@md61211 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus, you're right!! Never occurred to me. Makes it even more interesting

@itsme-sn5gi Жыл бұрын

@@md61211 If you look at the original footage you can clearly see the Union Jack above the GPO!

@md61211 Жыл бұрын

@@itsme-sn5gi Unfortunately I watched it on my phone. Saw the flag but too small to notice it was a UJ

@ggg-eg5pz Жыл бұрын

@@md61211 language 🤔

@seanbonella 2 ай бұрын

@@ggg-eg5pz f u then hahahahaha

@EefsBeatz 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent footage and amazing piece of Dublin in the past!

@garyhillman4899 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant movie

@kellyc.2011 8 ай бұрын

Nice work on the colorization and sound effects.

@waynefarrellvoiceovers 2 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! Well done! My grandmother would have been seven years old at the time and grew up down town.

@Shane-zx4ps 2 жыл бұрын

Mine was 10. Born obviously in 1910-1997.she would have walked these streets with her mother then

@waynefarrellvoiceovers 2 жыл бұрын

@@Shane-zx4ps Incredible, isn't it? And here we are now at close to fifty!

@Seansaighdeoir 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating footage. The lads at centre <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="203">3:23</a> working on the tallest ladders in Europe by the looks of things. Wouldn't get away with that today.

@dukadarodear2176 2 жыл бұрын

Jaas but you have sharp eyes. I had to replay 3 times to see them. Edit to add; you'd make a good sniper saighdúir with eyes like that.

@Seansaighdeoir 2 жыл бұрын

@@dukadarodear2176 cheers :) - only noticed because of the bright overalls against the dark street. Balls of steel them lads.

@Shane-zx4ps 2 жыл бұрын

I copped that myself, health and safety my arse they would have told you back then.

@eringobreathtiocfaidharla1446 3 жыл бұрын

Mick collins was in London working and was due back soon ,a lousy 4 years later he changed the whole show

@danielstan3345 2 жыл бұрын

I love Dublin❤️

@jackspring7709 Жыл бұрын

Lovely footage, thank you. The thing that amazed me most is that Batchelor's Walk (the street with the buildings by the river Liffey) looks exactly the same now as it did in that footage. Most of the buildings in that footage have not changed, they're still the same, but there is just no longer the cobble stone on the main street. Its hard to believe how much has happened since then.

@andrewlyng4855 3 жыл бұрын

When I heard the tram bell at 2.24 I was waiting for the Luas to appear!!!

@philipmcdonagh1094 3 жыл бұрын

Makes me mad when you see the tram service we used to have.

@lesio80 2 жыл бұрын

@@philipmcdonagh1094 did you mean the tram services the British were providing? Because all independent Ireland did was destroy all the English build and than started hating the Poles for taking your jobs

@samnicholson5051 Жыл бұрын

@@lesio80 The Dublin Trams were not "provided by the British", they were always (except for one route that was owned by a British company for a while) owned and run by Irish companies. The reason they were dismantled in the 1940s and 1950s was the same reason they were dismantling in Britain at the same time. No one was using them.

@lesio80 Жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 I lived in Ireland for over 10 years and I know out well there's no nation as hateful and angerfueled than the Irish. You hate and would destroy everything foreign because it's foreign and than complain everybody is prejudiced against the Irish and than roll in your own poo instead of working hard to achieve anything. Irish and Brits fully are worth one another

@samnicholson5051 Жыл бұрын

@@lesio80 And where are you from that's so tolerant and free of hate?

@nickgilbertniderost5092 Жыл бұрын

This is the place where Joyce had set his novel from a memory, far away from home. O' I wish I was you Joyce, but homage to my city where I currently lived.

@samakolBanbol Жыл бұрын

The kidneys and milk woman or man and the dog pissing on unsmelt rock

@oulmcdonald2618 2 жыл бұрын

I drive trough the arch at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="226">3:46</a> most days still exactly the same great video

@forgottenknowledge8917 Жыл бұрын

Interesting place. Everything looks massive compared to the people. You can see that building style all over the world

@Shane-zx4ps 2 жыл бұрын

I was in most European cities, and the most beautiful is Paris, but I love Dublin the most 😁

@colors6692 2 жыл бұрын

San Sebastian is the most beautiful!

@jozefrevay4710 Жыл бұрын

Can say irish only

@nymuseum1601 Жыл бұрын

I grew up at Merrion Square Park. The appearance of smog in some images does remind me of the early 1950's

@keithtynan7469 2 жыл бұрын

Remarkable, and nicely done :)

@kierangreene6714 11 ай бұрын

A year before that rag was pulled down flying over the GPO! Amazing footage.

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

Call it what it is the butchers apron.

@anthonyfrew1571 2 жыл бұрын

fantastic

@banjodeano2202 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant, thanks for sharing

@michonn2 2 жыл бұрын

What an amazing footage !!!

@29brendus 7 ай бұрын

Amazing footage. Did you see the guy on the ladder in O'Connel St, at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="200">3:20</a>? You've gotta be kidding?

@dannybananas132 2 ай бұрын

My Nan use to tell me "back in those days you could leave your house door open and leave your bike anywhere and still be there hours later when you come back" . now days you need 3 locks an a gps tracker for your bike haha🤣

@grlfcgombeenhunter2897 Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe that was before everything changed for our little country RIP to our wonderful leaders

@RobertK1993 2 жыл бұрын

1 year before legendary Easter Rising where Irish patriots rebelled against biggest tyranny in Ireland English/ British government rule

@bighands69 Жыл бұрын

Were they not a gang of socialists out for some other reason.

@tedzer94 Жыл бұрын

We need another for the pack in charge now

@michaeljohndennis2231 5 күн бұрын

Bring back the Liffey barges to relieve Dublin’s congestion problems and to have better passenger transport between Dublin Port (North Wall) as far upstream as Capel St Bridge or up to Hueston, with passenger only vessels - this would also make it easier for cruise ship passengers to explore Dublin from a unique perspective

@Eusoik Ай бұрын

This is how it was before the hell unfolded itself.

@mrjay2807 Жыл бұрын

Strange to see the Union flag flying over the GPO, how it would all change a year later. O'Connell Street looks just like a capital city's main thoroughfare should look, not the eyesore it has become today. I wonder whose idea it was to discontinue the trams.

@TheBenzer9 2 жыл бұрын

3.17 that's some ladder..imagine doing that today

@HiVizCamo 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds added of course, but fitting and not over done.

@obamalastname34 Жыл бұрын

back then when the wool is the king and polyeser doesnt exist.

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

No George the 5th is king and judging by the smog and lack of cars coal was in charge.

@nate3315 2 жыл бұрын

Is that a barge or a gunboat going up the liffey?

@danhooper3819 Жыл бұрын

My grandparents would have been 12 and 13, who knows my great grandparents may have been in this film.

@Ladygaga4047 14 күн бұрын

Ide love it if film was available around the 1600s onwards to show the progression of life from no paths at all to having streets and buildings

@proaudiorestore8926 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, was the sound added in post? Just curious since it very done compared to other similar videos from the time?

@michaeljames3912 2 жыл бұрын

According to the description yes it was added

@Philly_Jump_Over_The_Fence 2 жыл бұрын

Was the sound added?

@eileenmcmanus443 Ай бұрын

What is the hugh building in the background at bachelor's walk?.

@elias7748 2 жыл бұрын

Horse Power!

@yamnayaseed356 2 жыл бұрын

It looks exact the same now but with more Burger Kings

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

And of course fatter people.

@jlatirl4316 3 жыл бұрын

The good old days

@spacejesusadventure 2 жыл бұрын

Might want to look up what happened one year after this John

@donall5302 2 жыл бұрын

@@spacejesusadventure what? We got our sovereignty, we have an illusion of freedom, and that's all it is.

@christophersuarez6490 Жыл бұрын

@@spacejesusadventure lol right??

@paulmcgrath6118 7 ай бұрын

Even the poor ( who were most people) had such pride in their appearance. Everyone in town these days is in a tracksuit

@nicorigo5661 3 жыл бұрын

What is the building you can see around <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="170">2:50</a> in the background when looking at Bachelor's walk?

@theocostello 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe Jervis Street Hospital .

@philipmcdonagh1094 3 жыл бұрын

Well I think we can rule out the Ilac center. Looked up an old map on this great site I'd go with the hospital.www.dublinhistoricmaps.ie/maps/1900-1939/index.html

@grahamcurtis1608 2 жыл бұрын

It's the Phibsborough shopping centre

@middler5 10 ай бұрын

Weird looking at the last shot of Eden Quay. All those buildings destroyed within a year.

@adamkurd9801 2 жыл бұрын

Still same Dublin ☺️

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

Not a pick on anyone compared to today's weight problem.

@TheLoveHealingCompany 6 ай бұрын

Old tartaria so beautiful. Anyway 2030 soon people learn it and rise.

@desmondsharpe5397 2 жыл бұрын

the buildings on the parliament look weirdly colored. the guards at the door to the parliament chamber entrance at what is now the bank has a guy who will take you inside to see the pre UK Irish parliament chamber

@kevinduffy2831 2 жыл бұрын

Weird to think that everybody is this video is now dead

@TheBenzer9 2 жыл бұрын

Do you think about it much??

@Shane-zx4ps 2 жыл бұрын

Even the horses…

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

I should hope so what with that smog you'd be lucky to see 50.

@chrishultgren777 8 ай бұрын

@@philipmcdonagh109450 years were so much better than your 76 years of clean living

@md61211 2 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="172">2:52</a> What's that really big building on the left in the background? It's massive

@kevinm9031 2 жыл бұрын

Could be Jervis Street Hospital

@md61211 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinm9031 I think you may be right. Based on its location and its size (compared to the tenement house next to it, in a historical drawing I found), it is most likely Jervis St Hosp. Thanks

@ggg-eg5pz Жыл бұрын

@@kevinm9031 it's not the hospital, it's Jervis street shopping center 😂

@thecarpetman7687 2 жыл бұрын

Where’s MacDonald’s Ffs…people must have starved😂

@edmundpower1250 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ot1up7nh4w he's just joshing

@ggg-eg5pz Жыл бұрын

@@user-ot1up7nh4w whoooosh 😂

@annmarieelliott6717 8 ай бұрын

The old fashioned Lucas.

@samakolBanbol Жыл бұрын

Unsmelt rocks!!

@lesberkley3821 22 күн бұрын

I believe that the larger vehicles are propelled by the electric fluid. Are they not aware that it can cause dangerous disruptions in the lumeniferous aether?

@gerardjames9971 2 жыл бұрын

I love old videos like this even if there's always a load of vile racist remarks about immigrants and foreigners in the comments

@FionanOMurchadha 9 ай бұрын

Exactly! It does kinda dampen the videos for me, but knowing that not all Irish people are hate filled monsters is great. God bless you sir

@garethlloyd7103 Жыл бұрын

Footage of Dublin in 1915 - (Enhanced Resolution + Color + sound)

@KimPhilby203 3 ай бұрын

The union jack over gpo .❤

@AwesomeAngryBiker 5 ай бұрын

its great enhancing the resolution, but the colourisation and random sounds kills the lot

@redrowan-yp4fh 21 күн бұрын

Is that fog or air pollution?

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

You might as well have smoked forty a day with that smog, and lets face it it wasn't caused by cars. And then a few months later the shit the fan.

@niallyb80 11 ай бұрын

Not a junkie or homeless person in sight

@middler5 10 ай бұрын

Yeah thrown into rotten tenements to die instead. Same difference.

@carolebesteverhughes2970 Ай бұрын

Henrietta street 1940s great times harry Hughes

@yutufoulogalasos 2 ай бұрын

Unpopular opinion:O’Connell street and Dublin in general is better today.

@calibvr 2 жыл бұрын

2nd greatest Irish city, you guys are. Only behind the Capital of the greatest county, in Munster.

@Shane-zx4ps 2 жыл бұрын

Kerry is not capital anymore, Dublin is.😂😂😂😂😂

@calibvr 2 жыл бұрын

@@Shane-zx4ps aye

@Buildbeautiful Жыл бұрын

cork will always be the third city in Ireland after Dublin and Belfast

@calibvr Жыл бұрын

@@Buildbeautiful wrong

@troberts235 Жыл бұрын

You're having a laugh surely? Cork is just a tiny provincial town with serious delusions of grandeur.

@chrishultgren777 8 ай бұрын

a humble painter from Austria tried to warn you

@bostaffterrier7293 Ай бұрын

Before it turned to shit

@Dboss74 3 жыл бұрын

why is everyone wearing black 🤔

@thefly5961 3 жыл бұрын

It’s black and white.

@philipmcdonagh1094 3 жыл бұрын

@@thefly5961 I blame Henry Ford's you can have any colour as long as its black. must have made its way down to cloths.

@philipmcdonagh1094 3 жыл бұрын

Easy to clean simple as that. There was smoke and soot everywhere.

@philipmcdonagh1094 3 жыл бұрын

Easy to clean simple as that. There was smoke and soot everywhere.

@grahamcurtis1608 2 жыл бұрын

It's not

@BrianGarrigan007 10 ай бұрын

Irish Lives Matter

@garethlloyd7103 Жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="56">0:56</a>/

@seanbonella 2 ай бұрын

brilliant footage.....before the brits destroyed it

@bighands69 Жыл бұрын

Poor planning more or less destroyed dublin.

@philipmcdonagh1094 10 ай бұрын

No planning.

@JohnSmith-uc4ku 2 жыл бұрын

You have to give it to the English they know how to build I don't know what they would think about it today mits a rich kip today no dubliner can afford to live in it.just like the rest of the city's

@hawthorne1504 Жыл бұрын

English built it?

@FionanOMurchadha 9 ай бұрын

@@hawthorne1504yes