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.

My Grandfather is in this clip 3.12 mins into the clip, wearing his coat & hat, the grandest of men.

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.

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. 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬

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.

Worked in Shannon from 1974 to 1977, always loved going into Limerick at the weekends

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.

The Limerick city accent changed over the years....it was more refined back then.

Chap walks onto the bus with his cigarette 😂 Times sure have changed!!

Thank you! Please keep them coming. ❤️

Nice to see John Cleese conducting the band!

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.

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.

Lovely snapshot of Limerick 48 years ago.

The school band was playing "It's only just begun" by The Carpenters. I was born in 72

I only live about 15 miles outside Limerick city in county Limerick thanks for posting this.

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.

Sean Burke was spot on!

How do manage to combine work and your house wife duties ha brilliant líne could you imagine saying that now

Even married women were allowed to work. How times have changed.

Limerick & Proud ❤

Born over 20 years after this was made, it's funny to see how things have changed, but some things never change 😂

Damn, that guy was dropping truth

Phew! Thought he had a mobile phone there for a bit way back in '74!

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.

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.

Nice Memories of Limerick City during my Stay as Student❤

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.

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

Best city in Ireland the people are real

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.

Great video

Insightful.

Greatest city in Ireland and the nicest people...sports mad is an understatement

Great stuff

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.

The only Irish Soviet back in the day.

1974/2022 Housing, not much has changed....

Can someone please tell me the poem at the beginning.

Happier times all the same

2:36 whats this song anyone?

Who wrote the poem and what's its title?

ver been to Ireland , might even have relatives here Cork and Dublin 🤔 my Grandparents from here .

Ha like it tommy drennan a limerick man singing

Very topical given the Lily Pharma announcement today. Good news for Limerick.

Now your man Sean Bourke was an interesting fella was he not...

OMG I was 19 when this was made.

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.

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.

It’s a city that has never been able to sit itself up

9:00 onwards?

I think limejuice its a Nice city like other Eirish city, Robert

I wonder who is the reporter

Oh look there it is Dunns stores.

Great video. My people are from Co. Limerick

John Cleese @ 6:55

Cue The Likely Lads theme-tune.

3:00 My Grand uncle Willie (WACK) Gleeson

Small detail but the guy was allowed to smoke on the bus back then

Seán Bourke Laoch Luimnigh

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.

Just shows the housing crisis is still to as bad in Ireland. 🙄

It's a city most favored by truckers.....

Up 'the Boro!!!'

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

Great video, not sure about someone that thinks kids having shoes is artificial wealth...LOL.

Carefree times when no one gave a toss about anything. Life's too serious now!

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

thats limerick city

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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

Still no public toilets in limerick

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.

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?

2022 still no public toilet….

EI Electronics still in Buisness and still married women working there, shocking carry on

Courdroy jacket, complaining about the public cottaging place 🤣🤣

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?

When limerick was limerick not a multi cultural mess.

But you know, Dublin is soon to become the biggest city in europe!, . .....cos its Dublin every day!😀

The only real city in Ireland is Dublin

Stab City

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 ...