I was a Garda in Limerick city (1983 - 1990) new recruit to Edward St and when it closed Roxboro. Loved it there - people were so friendly and even the people who "helped us with our enquires" had a basic honesty and goodness about them. Retired now but I drive by Edward St when I am in the city and reminese a little about the good times I had there.
@peterquaid22412 жыл бұрын
Different place now, Edward St, not so much!
@rudithedog75342 жыл бұрын
I lived very close to Edward street station and always appreciated the Gardi there, they were quite friendly and really well liked by the community, a particular fellow I remember was Tom Murphy, good days back then
@mrbrian8262 жыл бұрын
I'd say you would have ran into a few of my uncles 😂. Although they would have been in their 30s so maybe not 🤔
@drya.7877 ай бұрын
You probably picked my father up a few times back then. lol
@nevishogan72 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather is in this clip 3.12 mins into the clip, wearing his coat & hat, the grandest of men.
@fordford91333 ай бұрын
He like you very beautiful
@markofsaltburn2 жыл бұрын
This has put me in a good mood for Saturday morning. It’s good to learn that my inconsequential town of 6,000 people has 2 more public toilets than Limerick did in 1974.
@freebornjohn26872 жыл бұрын
That's one of calibrating life - it sounds as good as any. Sounds like your town is very convenient.
@peterquaid22412 жыл бұрын
I'm sure we've only 2 now! Limerick is forgotten Ireland, but its home!
@animallover195812 жыл бұрын
Imagine this, I was born 24 miles from Limerick City. 1974 I was 16 and I can safely say I would not have been to the city at all. Times have changed. Ironically I ended up working in the city for nearly 30 years. A great old spot indeed. Limerick Abu. 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
@Zorak12 жыл бұрын
i hope your bed time drink works
@Kevin-cq3cl2 жыл бұрын
What a great piece of film. Two things said really touched me. "I love Limerick but Limerick doesn't love me" & "every Irishman has the right to make his bread and butter in Ireland". Tiocfaidh ár la.
@Rinty145 Жыл бұрын
Worked in Shannon from 1974 to 1977, always loved going into Limerick at the weekends
@fowleheidi482 Жыл бұрын
I LOVED living in Limerick! I'm American worked as a bartender at Nancy Blake's. The craic was mighty!! I could write a book on the daily experience. I have gone back to visit on a few occasions and my first trip back they acted like I'd never left except the last guy (Dominic) in for after hours drinks picked me up twirled me around and said WOW you have gained a stone! I called him a gobshite and we stayed all night. I forget I had no place to stay and my friend brought me home to his family's house, his Indian mom said I should stay as long as I wanted. I also loved in Dublin for years but truly Limerick feels like home. And I still get pissed when people call it Stab City.
@hefellump1 Жыл бұрын
Filling up with various 3rd worlders now , shits falling apart
@KevinDunne-qi7sg Жыл бұрын
Well people call it Stab City for a reason. So get pissed at the people of Limerick for giving it a bad name.
@MrYFlyer Жыл бұрын
I went to Nancy Blakes for 30 years until a barmaid barred me claiming I was drunk. Finished work at UL.
@SpiralMoss2 жыл бұрын
The Limerick city accent changed over the years....it was more refined back then.
@SpiralMoss2 жыл бұрын
@Saoirse Eireann Culture boss 😂👍
@YoutubeUser..2 жыл бұрын
Chap walks onto the bus with his cigarette 😂 Times sure have changed!!
@DuderinoDeux2 жыл бұрын
Yup. One bad HABIT replaces another!
@Alex-gn2rb2 жыл бұрын
A fella said to me before while smoking a cigarette, I have one of the e-cigarettes too but it's only for the bus. So times may not have changed for some.
@fowleheidi482 Жыл бұрын
Teenagers could do same until mid 90's!
@25pappy9 ай бұрын
Don't worry the cigarette smoke will be nothing compared to the diesel fumes off the old bus.
@tdot91402 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Please keep them coming. ❤️
@donfalcon14952 жыл бұрын
Nice to see John Cleese conducting the band!
@ThairishTimes2 жыл бұрын
Haha I was just thinking the same
@DuderinoDeux2 жыл бұрын
And now for something COMPLETELY different!
@naffer2 жыл бұрын
Sammy Benson . A limerick legend
@James_BAlert2 жыл бұрын
He beat them up with a golf club soon after, as they failed him once to often!! 😄
@uwabanimalooni31382 жыл бұрын
@@naffer Yep an absolute legend that man.
@williammcdonald32932 ай бұрын
My Dad worked in Krupps as a toolmaker. My old high school the Comp loved seeing that in the video. I Immigrated to America in 87, Lots of good Memories are flooding back watching this video last time I came home for a visit I hardly recognized the place. It's a case in point from my perspective looking at this video as limerick was a changing city in 74 to today in 2024 50 years later.
@barrymac44312 жыл бұрын
I lived in co, limerick in temperglantine and then moved to Abbey Feale for 7 years and then I moved back home from there to liverpool and it’s one of my regrets moving back to liverpool from there because I loved it there but I was young and got homesick lol. I’d go back to co, limerick at the click of the finger if I could.
@55ablebof2 жыл бұрын
Lovely snapshot of Limerick 48 years ago.
@72mossy2 жыл бұрын
The school band was playing "It's only just begun" by The Carpenters. I was born in 72
@seandelap62682 жыл бұрын
I only live about 15 miles outside Limerick city in county Limerick thanks for posting this.
@michealbreathnach29282 жыл бұрын
The accents are different from today. Odd, in such a short time but that's true of so many places, like New York, its accent changes every 20 years or so.
@simmey20112 жыл бұрын
Sean Burke was spot on!
@naffer2 жыл бұрын
He was , Take DELL for example . He was dead right
@michaelroche61812 жыл бұрын
He said it out straight.
@maureenbourke237511 ай бұрын
He was indeed.
@Ma-fh9on2 жыл бұрын
How do manage to combine work and your house wife duties ha brilliant líne could you imagine saying that now
@neilmcmahon2 жыл бұрын
Even married women were allowed to work. How times have changed.
@johnc63112 жыл бұрын
Limerick & Proud ❤
@saoirse11842 жыл бұрын
Born over 20 years after this was made, it's funny to see how things have changed, but some things never change 😂
@drya.7877 ай бұрын
Even from the 90s uts changed so much. Like mid 2000s hit and it just changed
@ainnothin98542 жыл бұрын
Damn, that guy was dropping truth
@cqk35782 жыл бұрын
Are you black?
@DuderinoDeux2 жыл бұрын
Phew! Thought he had a mobile phone there for a bit way back in '74!
@thechosenone3197 Жыл бұрын
I thought exactly the same, the way he has the newspaper rolled up
@davidorourke43112 жыл бұрын
Affluence depending on foreign Investment is something that is the same today as back in 1974. Interesting viewpoint on this from the return emigrant at the end of the video.
@KJ_20202 жыл бұрын
Even moreso since EU regulations killed a lot of traditional industry in the country.
@cigh74452 жыл бұрын
It's far more a thing today, Neoliberal market ideology is widespread and there are few protections for native industries. They have to compete with the multinational companies
@donfalcon14952 жыл бұрын
Ireland has the 2nd most globalised economy in the world and has gained massively from this fact! How people fail to see this self evident fact is beyond me.
@KJ_20202 жыл бұрын
@@donfalcon1495 In a way it seems like we don't want to govern ourselves, or maybe don't know how, so we constantly hand the reigns over to others. To be fair, we failed quite miserably for more than half a century so maybe it was best to let foreign companies run our economy and follow the EU/UK lead on other important issues.
@donfalcon14952 жыл бұрын
@@KJ_2020 in what way don’t we govern ourselves? What changes would you propose?
@apjpisared2 жыл бұрын
The housing list for Limerick city in 1974 was 800 plus according to this report when the city's population was 68000 and the country had just under 3.2 million people. A quick Google shows Irish Examiner reports saying the housing list in 2021, 47 years later, was around 2'400 plus., with a population of circa 94'000 in the city itself and just under 5 million in the country. Three times as many people waiting for housing, a 300% plus increase and the city population only actually went up less than 40%. Ireland has always been an unequal hole of a country. It is also well known that Drogheda, South Louth and East Meath, the areas I am from, have it even worse than this with housing lists often going over 10 thousand since way back even before 2008-obviously because a major city gets more investment than the largest town and the neglected commuter belt, although clearly everywhere is massively underresourced. All of this is compounded by the fact that we have possibly the worst regulated rental market in Europe and definitely the most unfair one, with zero low cost high rise apartments, zero publicly owned public apartment or student dorm buildings, and the country has no legacy buildings like we do out here in Eastern Europe, so even if you can afford rent, all you get is a mouldy old death trap that you usually have to share with at least 2 other people to afford. This video was interesting but also depressing. Unless Sinn Fein build apartments like we have in Poland, Czechia and Ukraine and tackle the vested interests and landlord class, it'll be the same forever and ever and ever.
@rudithedog75342 жыл бұрын
Be responsible for yourselves, get a job and get off council waiting lists, don't have stuff you can't afford.
@LeMerch2 жыл бұрын
@@rudithedog7534 Well said. Sick and tired of people who think we all owe them something. Go to South America, Africa and Asia and see how far that gets you! THOSE are proper hard working people unlike some of the self entitled moaning Irish!
@jericho96532 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about. Ireland is one of the greatest countrys in the world if your someone who doesn't want to work. All the benefits they get. Go to poland, czech republic or ukraine and not work and see how you get on there
@James_BAlert2 жыл бұрын
Surely we as a people (the state) have to set standards in housing which we do via the law and inspections in private build, and via building public housing, if we leave it to the private sector we will end up with slum housing and appalling living conditions which leads to crime and ill health and the empowerment of reprehensible slumlords. So is British landlords bad, but lrish landlords(& international vulture funds under the permission of the lrish government) good? Surely it is good to set a ceiling(or floor) to rents, so as people have more disposable income to live a better life and to invest in the actual economy that employs people and leads to further business opportunities instead of the crony Capitalistic model we have today? 🤔
@rudithedog75342 жыл бұрын
@@James_BAlert the problem is the welfare state, the more you give to people the more they want. There are people who will live off welfare for years and never work for a living, the easier you make it for them the more they will take. Welfare is supposed to help you get to your next job not support you for life.
@TomJerry-gs3fi3 ай бұрын
Nice Memories of Limerick City during my Stay as Student❤
@shanegriffin86822 жыл бұрын
Limerick is such an underrated place in my opinion. It's by far the friendliest city in the country. It's the only Irish city with the streets arranged in that grid layout. It reminds me of Melbourne in that aspect albeit on a smaller scale.
@limerickman85122 жыл бұрын
Of all the cities I have gone out in. Limerick was one of the safest cities. I never got into any trouble in the 25 years living here. You want to look for trouble to get into trouble in Limerick City (unfortunately many loudmouths do get into trouble and I have no pity for them), unless the gangs lands you into it with their war against each other. In Dublin, Cork and even Galway, Trouble came on top of me on those nights out. In fairness to Eyre Square in Galway, I was in Super macs 15 years ago, when A fellow hit me in the back of the head while I was in the queue, I turned around and he immediately half apologies. The brute was bigger than me and he immediately saw his target and rushed towards him. Other times I just stared at the trouble makers until they left, except a few, who wished they never landed themselves at me... Lets me just say, one or two landed into a squad car on top of a guard open windows or into the back seat or and another at another time in front of the squad car on the road. I Made it easy for the guards to deal with them, as I winded them before I threw them using their own weight as they attacked towards me, as I positioned myself to guide them into a new set of troubles. a few of the lads was drunk and the other was on drugs. I usually run interference or distraction on the gullible trouble makers without then realizing it until it is too late.
@jamesbradshaw33892 жыл бұрын
You ask me What Do You Think of Limerick City, I have never been there but if they build that new toilet and I happen to visit that city I would heap praise on Limerick City. Flipping Heck I just noticed Sean Burke, you should know the story about Sean Burke and George Blake, a film should be made about their escape and it should be called Jailbreak after the most brilliant album by Phil Lynott/Thin Lizzy
@COIcultist2 жыл бұрын
Just as a point of order, it is Sean Bourke. I've got broad shoulders, but it does grind at times those who can neither spell nor pronounce our surname!
@maureenbourke237511 ай бұрын
The rights to his story was owned by Hitchcock's estate. The intention was to make a movie.
@E_O_S_2 жыл бұрын
Best city in Ireland the people are real
@timmyhiggins52202 жыл бұрын
Aggressive
@72mossy2 жыл бұрын
What's the story Sham
@venmxshadows2 жыл бұрын
Fucking kip it is what ye on about
@FoMoCo123 Жыл бұрын
@@venmxshadows Your comment says more more about you than Limerick. Cheer up and have a nice day, from a concerned Limerick man
@dublinsfaircity2 жыл бұрын
68,000 people the man said back in 1974. That's very small for the south of Ireland's 3rd biggest city. I think it's approx 100,000 now which is similiar to Tallaght here in Dublin.
@darrenmoloney25782 жыл бұрын
None of the cities in Ireland are that big bar dublin cork Ireland second city is tiny
@phatdoobz38842 жыл бұрын
Great video
@qasaaye232 жыл бұрын
Insightful.
@kieran32372 жыл бұрын
Greatest city in Ireland and the nicest people...sports mad is an understatement
@shanegriffin86822 жыл бұрын
Cork would give it a run for it's money though, but i tell you i much prefer Limerick to Dublin and the way overrated Galway. Limerick is a very real, genuine and authentic place, while Galway on the other hand is very fake, pretentious, touristy and artificial.
@briankelly82972 жыл бұрын
Great stuff
@davidesimonetti89895 ай бұрын
Look up that writer, Sean Bourke on Wikipedia. It's a hell of a read! Lad helped another guy escaping prison, went to live in Moscow, came back and got probably poisoned to death by the KGB in Limerick... Crazy life.
@DuderinoDeux2 жыл бұрын
The only Irish Soviet back in the day.
@Eoin9332 жыл бұрын
Yes and famous for it's progrom crimes committed against the Jewish community of Limerick - while De Valera and his cronies did nothing to help
@noelmaher46332 жыл бұрын
1974/2022 Housing, not much has changed....
@patrickdelaney39612 жыл бұрын
Can someone please tell me the poem at the beginning.
@BigBalls-jd5jf2 жыл бұрын
Happier times all the same
@John_Wood_2 жыл бұрын
2:36 whats this song anyone?
@PeterPeadar2 жыл бұрын
Who wrote the poem and what's its title?
@christineterry30792 жыл бұрын
ver been to Ireland , might even have relatives here Cork and Dublin 🤔 my Grandparents from here .
@ellenfalveycarroll44892 жыл бұрын
Ha like it tommy drennan a limerick man singing
@davidhuff56762 жыл бұрын
Very topical given the Lily Pharma announcement today. Good news for Limerick.
@geraldinelynch69992 жыл бұрын
Brilliant .. there are so many more on the housing list today on rehousing list. Not sure about progress..
@tonywilliams71522 жыл бұрын
I was born in limerick but haven't lived there for a long time, so forgive me but what is the lily pharma announcement?
@this_username_is_taken7004 Жыл бұрын
@@tonywilliams7152 Eli Lily (a pharmaceutical company) announced that they are going to build a facility in the Raheen Industrial Estate, which is set to be completed in 2026
@Tofu_va_Bien5 ай бұрын
Just what we needed: Another multinational to exploit the workers of Limerick to the nth degree, charge American workers up the hole for lifesaving drugs like insulin, all while contributing as little as possible to the state coffers by taking advantage of our broken tax system, to enrich a handful of American oligarchs. Providing jobs is not good enough. Slavery provided jobs for people, unpaid jobs, but jobs nonetheless. Hell, at least the slave owners were obliged to provide room and board to their workers. Sadly, upon the abolition of slavery, many found their new found freedom included the freedom to starve, the freedom to be thrown out on the street, to be imprisoned, conscripted, and so on. I see this quote bandied about quite a bit, but rarely in it's proper context, so here it is: "With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891).
@grahamwishart48322 жыл бұрын
Now your man Sean Bourke was an interesting fella was he not...
@maureenbourke237511 ай бұрын
He was.
@andyarmstrong14932 жыл бұрын
OMG I was 19 when this was made.
@devanman79202 жыл бұрын
Limerick is the city I know the least well out of any of out cities. What is is honestly like nowadays? Poor or doing well? Is it still quite rough or better? I really should head there for a few days.
@annehebert5102 жыл бұрын
Limerick has changed more over the last 20 years than any other city in Ireland. (For the better for the most part)
@martinkeary8187 Жыл бұрын
Lunch hour break he said,you would be lucky to get 15 minutes these days,get out of the eu and you might see these days again.
@raymondkinsella24842 жыл бұрын
It’s a city that has never been able to sit itself up
@josipmickovic25722 жыл бұрын
9:00 onwards?
@robertrobello7382 жыл бұрын
I think limejuice its a Nice city like other Eirish city, Robert
@ballygeale12 жыл бұрын
I wonder who is the reporter
@spmoran47032 жыл бұрын
Oh look there it is Dunns stores.
@michael421582 жыл бұрын
Great video. My people are from Co. Limerick
@ntskl2 жыл бұрын
John Cleese @ 6:55
@DuderinoDeux2 жыл бұрын
Cue The Likely Lads theme-tune.
@EMGL332 жыл бұрын
3:00 My Grand uncle Willie (WACK) Gleeson
@azam987654321 Жыл бұрын
Small detail but the guy was allowed to smoke on the bus back then
@ruaidhri99502 жыл бұрын
Seán Bourke Laoch Luimnigh
@shanksnag9359 Жыл бұрын
I'm from Limerick. In the 80's, it was a grand spot. Enter the 90's & it started to disintegrate. Then it became all tracksuits, nasal drawl & 'gimme a faaaag willaaahhhh'. My car was robbed, I was attacked on the street 3 times (I'm a woman). Was stuck in the middle of an armed robbery too. If I never saw the place again, I wouldn't care.
@Tofu_va_Bien5 ай бұрын
So unseemly attire (according to you), off-putting accents (again according to you), people asking for a fag, car robberies, and assaults never occurred in Limerick prior to the 90s? Where did you purchase your rose tinted glasses from? I'd like to buy a pair.
@irishmade81362 жыл бұрын
Just shows the housing crisis is still to as bad in Ireland. 🙄
@SilverSquirrel2 жыл бұрын
It's a city most favored by truckers.....
@robertryan2542 Жыл бұрын
Up 'the Boro!!!'
@victorpatrick28122 жыл бұрын
Did anne one no Mi Grandmother who live in Limerick her name was Betty ryan she live there in 1979 but passed a way in 80s she had two children mary & chris & her sister bridey dont no anne one can help thank you
@lewisticknor2 жыл бұрын
Great video, not sure about someone that thinks kids having shoes is artificial wealth...LOL.
@Tofu_va_Bien5 ай бұрын
Artificial wealth in the same sense that Americans with fancy houses and cars are wealthy, i.e., living on credit, under threat of having their assets stripped away from them at any moment should circumstance take a turn for the worse.
@39doddle2 жыл бұрын
Carefree times when no one gave a toss about anything. Life's too serious now!
@Eoin9332 жыл бұрын
Eoin933 Eoin933 0 seconds ago Yes and famous for it's progrom crimes committed against the Jewish community of Limerick - while De Valera and his cronies did nothing to help
@paralleloctagon70622 жыл бұрын
thats limerick city
@DIEGOGUTIERREZSAGASTEGUI3 ай бұрын
🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽👌👌🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
@Eoin9332 жыл бұрын
Shame on you Limerick - there is no excuse - and shame on Dev Valera and cronies for not letting the Saint Louis dock in Ireland and welcome people ... all totally shamefull - but blotted out of Irish history
@kierno94682 жыл бұрын
Still no public toilets in limerick
@venmxshadows2 жыл бұрын
Might aswell just piss on the street sure the whole place is a shithole anyway
@Alex-gn2rb2 жыл бұрын
He gave the "married woman" a right grilling and that factory "even" employs other married woman. Remember until 1972 I think when a couple married , the new wife had to stop working and start breeding. I think teaching and nursing were except, but it was actual law thanks to Dev and his Catholic constitution.
@petegallows54942 жыл бұрын
Interesting video, but why is the reporter referring to the lady worker in the factory as a “housewife”, when she’s clearly employed there? Would he call his female colleagues at his work “housewives”? Did they call all married mothers housewives back then? Regardless whether they were employed or not?
@paulmccarthy35472 жыл бұрын
Calm down.
@richiekennedy45142 жыл бұрын
You should get a time machine and go back and have a go at him
@juliawatkins79742 жыл бұрын
@@paulmccarthy3547 noone can ask a question these days without being told theyre being aggressive or angry. Its a cheap tactic to undermine someones opinion or reasoning.
@TheDavveponken Жыл бұрын
@@juliawatkins7974 hear hear
@stringplayer2992 Жыл бұрын
No one answered the question.😂
@jasonfallon49682 жыл бұрын
2022 still no public toilet….
@72mossy2 жыл бұрын
EI Electronics still in Buisness and still married women working there, shocking carry on
@anthonyduffy12782 жыл бұрын
Making the best household fire alarms for GB market, number 1 seller. Keep them coming EI. Fitting one today in Wolverhampton. Always a joy to see “Made in Ireland “ on the box when I pick up supplies from the wholesaler! Well done EI. !!!!!!
@72mossy2 жыл бұрын
@@anthonyduffy1278 Makes a change from "Made in China" ha ha
@neilmcmahon2 жыл бұрын
Down with that sort of thing!
@brianallen8582 жыл бұрын
Courdroy jacket, complaining about the public cottaging place 🤣🤣
@OSTARAEB42 жыл бұрын
Brian, that was good! 😅😂🤣🇮🇪☘️🇺🇸
@Rog54462 жыл бұрын
Who was that idiot who called the married woman working in the factory a Housewife? I suppose he would call a married man in the factory, a house husband? Alternately, he might call an unmarried girl working in a factory a house girl?
@neilmcmahon2 жыл бұрын
That's the way things were 50 years ago. My parents met in that factory lol, EI
@fitzerelli16 ай бұрын
When limerick was limerick not a multi cultural mess.
@Tofu_va_Bien5 ай бұрын
No, it was a mono-cultural mess. Instead of poor foreigners doing all the jobs nobody wants to do, it was poor locals. Not exactly what I'd call an improvement, but not a step backwards either. One day socialism will eliminate the need for people to travel far from their loved ones to make a decent living. You'll probably still have to see people with more melanin in their skin though, as racism won't be tolerated in such a society.
@eddiecaplan19082 жыл бұрын
But you know, Dublin is soon to become the biggest city in europe!, . .....cos its Dublin every day!😀
@glennmcloughlin12332 жыл бұрын
The only real city in Ireland is Dublin
@michaelahern63472 жыл бұрын
And you can fecking keep it
@davidpryle39359 ай бұрын
You forgot Belfast.
@liamg17062 жыл бұрын
Stab City
@biliusmaximus95102 жыл бұрын
Priest killers
@iloveguiness862 жыл бұрын
Thats original!!
@liamg17062 жыл бұрын
@@iloveguiness86 thanks
@FoMoCo123 Жыл бұрын
Dublin= Junkie Central.
@liamg1706 Жыл бұрын
@@FoMoCo123 everywhere is junkie central these days
@johnnyjumpup8592 жыл бұрын
There is no way I would live in Limerick ...it's rubbish... but having said that it seems that foreign people like it...I much prefer south Dublin or Wicklow or south cork city ...
@irishmade81362 жыл бұрын
We don't want your type here, so you won't be missed.