Hi, that's a sad story and i can relate to it as being from Crumlin and living in Kenya now.. But i try to get back once in a while and walk around Crumlin and get some of the feelings back..i wish you well wherever you are.. 🤣

I grew up in the Rare Auld Times..Born in the Rotunda .City Centre 1948 left in 1967 for a better career & away from the Gombeens running Ireland I still love Dublin & come home regularly..But very happy with my Family & Life after 55 years in London & Buckinghamshire

@@enviro5001 well done sir and may you and your family prosper in the future and I all they do.

@@Marlondurran I wish you the best of luck , friend.

@@sitluxetluxfuit4481 Thank you .. take care of yourself.

you're.

H'up oua'dat Liamo! Ger outa dat garden ;)

Well done sir

@Eire forever 🇮🇪 Well fairs fair mate, we got everywhere else.

@Irelands eye 🇮🇪 I’m sure that’s what the Americans thought too when all the ‘micks’ flooded the coast then.

Very nice of you to say so Anthony. Fair play to you.

Not if you join the fight back

@@rayflanagan9640 lol, what fight ffs?

@malicant123 And now sadly I have to agree with you. I attended the march in dublin yesterday, and it was an embarrassment. I'd guess a max crowd of 500. I travelled from London to March for my heritage and for the young Irish people. Unfortunately, they don't really see what's coming or just don't care. I'm so glad I lived through the 60,70,80,90 ties in Ireland. The troubles was bad but only child's play to what's coming. God save Ireland 🇮🇪

No

Catholics were Catholics then.

If you had a job and money then ,and lived in rather posh Glasnevin in a nice house you were made up .If not you were fuxked .Begorrah .

😂Dublin in the rare old times!! Indeed, remember when Dublin had native indigenous Irish people living in Dublin. Remember when Dublin used to be an Irish city. The 26 Roman Catholic counties of the REPUBLIC of Ireland are occupied by Europe and are no longer Irish but European. Dublin NOW IN 2024 is a rare place indeed. Full of illegal immigrants, foreigners and Muslims!! I remember Dublin in the rare auld times!! 😡😡

Ah that's great Dee. Glad ya liked it!

The horses and carts were still around till the 80's.

Yep, the past is a different country as they say, certainly has become the case for Dublin, has lost it's soul, it's character, replaced with a modern multicultural facade

Poor aul Bang Bang. Not sure if anyone knew what was up with him. I suspect he suffered from shell shock (PTSD) from the war

Yes I have all the same memories. Dublin City centre was beautiful. Replacing old buildings ruined the beautiful city. It was dirty and needed a bit of restoring, but the soul of the city has been wiped out

We had a horse....we called him Sam 😅

+EricIrl , great story!

Corruption is the sine-qua-non of politics-everywhere.

+mary mckinley , and they call it progress!

I am glad it brought back such good memories for you Mary.

Don't come back and look at it now. You'd be heartbroken. What a mess.

Ha ha ha ha. Only a car owner notices that

You poor sod , was it as bad as they said .................

THE MAN ON THE BRIDGE I REMBER HIM

Ya i new him well he died bout 10 years ago

Arthur Fields was the man on the bridge. There's a film about him from 2014. 'Man on Bridge' IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt4483566/ A Jewish Ukrainian, he worked until the early 1980s, I remember him well, coming and going to school across O'Connell Bridge.

YEAH, I REMBER HIM. I'M 73 AND I STILL HAVE SOME OF HIS PHOTOS

We done, him

I do!!

I do. I think it was in Anne St, between Grafton St and Dawson street.

South Anne St. It closed in 1991 and a more typical Grafton St area restaurant replaced it. I used to hang out there in 1989/1990 and my parents did in the 60s and early 70s.

it hasnt actually, i visited the other day

@davidoffon i have, i'm playing dumb to show how idiotic the comment is.

100% it is destroyed I was the only Irish man on Moore Street the other day completely taken over very sad and will never be the same again.

As someone who lives in this beautiful historic city, I can confirm it has definitely not been destroyed. Many of the places from this video still stand and are still filled with people enjoying them. Hope this puts your mind at ease!

@@shadician so do I. It's in bits

Greg O Hare Cheers Greg!

Well spoted Alan.

Cheers Michael!

You don't get to be Irish and racist ya twat!!

@@zaidaahida1868 John I don't know what you have against the native Irish but this is the second time you have slandered someone here in these comments. I suspect you hold a very intolerant idea of Irish people and most likely are self loathing. Get some help.

+Mary MC Mullen Glad you liked it!

What book is that Mary?

Hi Liam, at last I got back to you. I am writing a book about my parents. My Mam was Irish and my Dad English, Liverpool. They died very young and lived together in Dublin. They both were soldiers and after WW11, they worked for Guinness's. Your video is beautiful, a time of wonderful days. Thank you.

You mean it looks better now , halfwit

A "fly by night", you mean. Means much more than that to those who were born and reared in the rare old times.

"European city" means we traded our nature to blend in with the boring continentals. The decline of Dublin is a national shame.

@@Ligerpride hated it in the 80s. Very provincial. Much improved now.

@@carlosflanders518 so long as you're happy then Carlos.

@@Ligerpride No intention of ever living there again

Well at least there is sth to eat. Otherwise you would have only Tesco and Lidl.

To be fair that goes on here in Britain where I am as I am sure it does elsewhere as well as in Ireland these days-it seems to be all part of progress really and truly somehow too?!

Another eejit

@@zaidaahida1868 watched a couple of these videos and she has comments the same bollox on each one pay no mind

where did you read that

I also remember a time before we were all forced to racists

86% isnt a minority, pay attention in school you dishrag

K Doc True! My mother was born illegitimate in 1935 and grew up in Golden Bridge orphanage - her mother married a man and had more children - my mother stayed with them in the holidays but she had to pretend her mother was her aunty so no one would know her mother had an child out of wedlock - we migrated to Australia when I was 11 and when I was 12 my mother told me that "Aunty May" who I thought was my great aunt was really my grandmother!

yeah, I'm not a fan of the rosy view of the city…poverty, illness and fascistic religion were rife. The city and country still have major issues to deal with, as in poverty, corruption, crime, native and immigrant social welfare dependency… but things are better now imo. Unless you're from Sheriffer and places like that. Extraordinary how those areas never saw any real benefits from the economic uplift in the early 60s and then the Celtic Tiger. Generations of deprivation and unemployment, due to the void left by Monto, the mechanisation of the docks in the 70s, the introduction of heroin and then organised crime. But I still think I would prefer the city we have now to that from the "rare auld times" when the Church and State were brutally interlinked and good prospects only came to a small percentage of the privileged population.

Just to let you know the Roman Catholic Church Hijacked the True Christian Movement a cpl thousand years ago , it's pure Demonic out in the open these days , But Jesus is was & always will be God in the Flesh , forget Catholisim get a 1611 Kjv version print of the Bible & form a Relationship with God yourself as there is only Heaven & Hell no inbetween & all them so called pedo priests/Nuns & that Dope will be going there! As will hundreds of millions of Catholics who have been decived by there , teachings such as worshipping statues idols of Mary ) dead saints, confession to a priest when the only Mediator between you & God should be Jesus his Son, no female pastors, also most definitely no Gay marriages etc.....! 🕵️🙏

I am sure you are so right there in your views and the others on here then so too of course?!

+Nancy Benefiel , Very posh Nancy!

+RobDeLott I'd go there whenever homesickness really got to me.

1979 or 1980 I went to Captain America’s on a Sunday night to eat with a buddy from college. For us to go there at the time was a big deal because we had very little money or much to eat during the week. I had 20 pounds a week to live on 12 went to pay the “digs” I was staying in. The remaining 8 pounds was split on cigarettes and beer. Anyway, when it came to pay the bill we walked up to the register which was at the top of the stairs where you went into the restaurant. Who ever was on the register had stepped away for a minute. Without any warning my buddy decided to do a runner and bolted down the stairs……….. I only had enough money to pay for myself and had to make a split second decision and did the same thing. I felt like shit for doing it and told my friend if he ever did something like that again I would kick his ass. Needless to say, I never had the balls to go back there again. I left Ireland in 1984 for New York. I don’t think Captain America’s is still around. If it is …… I will stop in and pay my bill next time I am in Dublin 😂

That's where Chris de Burgh got his start, playing there. If I remember correctly

Donald that's the American embassy on Elgin road as seen from Pembrook road. This is what it looks like now: www.google.ie/maps/@53.330524,-6.233313,3a,75y,221.57h,87.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-HacrUTJy1wT-FBxScdR6Q!2e0!6m1!1e1

Thanks buddy!

RobDeLott By the Way, your video is great! I forgot to mention it.

Ah thanks Donald.

Donald, It looks like the US Embassy building in Ballsbridge (Dublin 4) .

Hi Kath you can e-mail me ....... robdelott@ymail.com