Mini Movie Clip taken August 1988 by Gregory Whelan
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@iamachildofgodministry93603 жыл бұрын
Ahhh thats the Dublin I remember Growing up in Dublin was great You wouldn't know the place now
@liamcurran52 жыл бұрын
@Paul hahahaha
@tonydeluca3610 Жыл бұрын
I miss these days so much. Everything seemed a lot easier back then.
@bluemoonrose2 жыл бұрын
O'Connell Street looked so much better in 1988 than it does now, it's horrible now they made a bollox of it.
@moc73232 жыл бұрын
There was no blanchardstown shopping centre , the square or omni centre .. you could only really shop in city centre ..
@rmlfilms1232 жыл бұрын
In what way?...
@bluemoonrose2 жыл бұрын
I think It's just a grim place now, it was a lot safer and looked better overall, ok there was some horrible things about it back then too but that's nothing compared to how bad it is now, especially down towards the AIB bank where theres a massive vacant site sitting there for years its terrible looking...it has been very neglected over the last 20 years and it's so sad to see it the way it is now.
@caezar552 жыл бұрын
Who's "they". It's the local people engaging in criminality and drug dealing that are the problem
@bluemoonrose2 жыл бұрын
@@caezar55 they meaning Dublin City Council they are responsible for the current state of O'Connell Street.
@kipdynamite41643 жыл бұрын
How skinny everyone was... Great video ❤️. The clock at Easons...every catch up in the city started there
@moc73232 жыл бұрын
The clock at Clearys for some ..
@alslevie1986 Жыл бұрын
It still does. That or in the Insomnia on the Abbey Street side of Easons.
@bernadettekelly27722 жыл бұрын
Amazing I loved this old Dublin .before smart Alex's were around with there Masters Degrees Etc.........
@martinmoore7920 Жыл бұрын
Not a refugee, Ukrainian, eastern European Gypsy or African in sight....ah Dublin was great in 88
@noided42306 күн бұрын
a few too many blacks these days
@patriciabracken75463 жыл бұрын
When Dublin was Dublin. Happy days..
@azazali3 жыл бұрын
What is it now
@seanredmond31123 жыл бұрын
Do you hear the noise and chatter in Henry Street. It was a great place to shop back then. You could be in any country now.
@patriciabracken75463 жыл бұрын
@@azazali Unless you we're around in those days you wouldn't understand. Or have a clue what I'm talking about.
@speakertreatz3 жыл бұрын
@@patriciabracken7546 I was around so you can answer me. 'When Dublin was Dublin'...meaning what?
@seanredmond31123 жыл бұрын
@@speakertreatz she probably means that Dublin was full of Dubs. Your not offended by that I hope. Its a diverse city now and she can be nostalgic if she wishes for the old days, as am I.
@AhHighlights5 жыл бұрын
This is the Dublin I remember
@ballybunion93 жыл бұрын
Ah, 1988 - when people noticed when you pointed a camera at them.
@Murdog363 жыл бұрын
The Floozie in the jacuzzi !
@XLR_82 жыл бұрын
The hooer in the sewer 😁
@ValentinoMoon2 жыл бұрын
Ah God love her,she wasn't appreciated when she was there. I had to pause to have a good look at her again! Iconic.
@bengaliinplatforms12682 ай бұрын
Was always full or rubbish and scum but miles better than that shite Spire
@marti24743 жыл бұрын
O'Connell St before the despicable Spire
@tuduloo77992 жыл бұрын
who remembers the millenium 50ps?
@user-nt6hb6bv8p25 күн бұрын
I have loads of them if ya wanna buy them.collectors items.
@tylertheotaku92703 жыл бұрын
Nice, a rare S12 Silvia next to the double decker bus.
@joannajess48913 жыл бұрын
Makes me feel old watching this video 🙄 great to watch
@bostaffterrier729327 күн бұрын
We had a good football team we were winning the eurovision most of the time we knew our neighbours we were all slim and we had a lot more common sense Jesus I miss dublin of the past
@spleeen2 жыл бұрын
so cute how everyone waves 2 the camera
@junerose-sommer54942 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful time that was!!
@RG-hf9em2 жыл бұрын
The fashion has drastically changed since then:) and the 80s haircuts lol :)😀.. the music and the cars..Double decker bus existed already back then:)The streets look alot cleaner than today Easy going times in the 80s!!:)
@tomthumb35003 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage, just seen family member pass by the camera. Incredible footage thank you so much for posting.
@danbreen69462 жыл бұрын
That sounds a bit tall Tom 🇮🇪☘😂😂
@tomthumb35002 жыл бұрын
@@danbreen6946 I’m in the height of it Henry 😉😉☘️🇮🇪
@buddymacbuddington2 жыл бұрын
No mobiles, fb, covid, restrictions on absolutely every little thing you say and do pubs where great craic people more genuine, life was alot more simple back then
@andrewlyng48552 жыл бұрын
It sure was, but it was not all that great in many ways either. I don't like the times we are living in in many ways now, as you say mobile phones, fb, the genuine characters and atmosphere of the pubs. But times back then were bleak for many people, a happy and good mix of both worlds would be great. It's in our hands. Smile and talk to people, you will find the old Dublin still there.
@seamusburke91012 жыл бұрын
@@andrewlyng4855 agreed Andrew but people were pretty mean to one another at that time cause there wasn't enough to go round. So glad I got out of it.
@ryanOGab2 жыл бұрын
Kevin Regan It was Illegal to be gay and a bomb could suddenly go of anywhere in public places killing people, it was also poorer. So no id say it was pretty s*** lol wasn’t great at all.
@khiggins72313 жыл бұрын
Very few young people as there was no work here and most were in England , the USA or Australia.
@exs35743 жыл бұрын
In terms of work - looks like we've come a full circle...
@pillardelaney47263 жыл бұрын
The needle was not yet a thing of the future. Last time in Dublin, 2009. We live in Australia, but every so often we expend a couple years back. Malahide, was hour home, not recogniseble now, that is call ""PROGRESS. ""
@eddiesmoothence60802 жыл бұрын
Thats a fair amount of time away from home...maybe it isnt home to some...understandable
@liamo54483 жыл бұрын
Dare I say it looks better then
@TheBlueCorolla3 жыл бұрын
Back when you could drive through the city centre, oh how they've bollox'd that up
@solsol16243 жыл бұрын
Was just about to say that. I autuaclly enjoyed driving then. Even out of thee city it's constant speed bumps and idiots on scooters.
@TheBlueCorolla3 жыл бұрын
@@solsol1624 I couldn't even drive then as I was only born in the June of 88, but even still city centre and all surrounding areas are just a nightmare to drive
@DanielHowardIRE3 жыл бұрын
In fairness there were far fewer people in Dublin at that time compared to now. Many young people had emigrated and there was little immigration. People had less money then too so many families didn't have a car. It just doesn't make sense these days to have lots of vehicles passing through Dublin city centre.
@emmams53 жыл бұрын
@@DanielHowardIRE, you must be a cyclist?
@DanielHowardIRE3 жыл бұрын
@@emmams5 Actually I have a car which I use to get to work but if I need to go into town I take the bus or luas. I just don't think the city centre should be clogged with cars. I do cycle at times usually to get to places nearby.
@Halotest1005 жыл бұрын
How little traffic there was on the streets.
@sineadharris40743 жыл бұрын
looks like Sunday afternoon traffic
@treborsirrah79163 жыл бұрын
poverty i got back from USA around this time ,it was one recession after another ,few had cars compared to today
@ColmGibney2 жыл бұрын
It was shot in August, everyone was probably in Courtown.
@supafuckinmingster5 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. More please.
@LOGOS4224 жыл бұрын
The black tar on the roads was cleaner looking than the stuff they use today.
@melissa03863 ай бұрын
A Simple happy life
@rph1117453 жыл бұрын
I was tryin' to spot myself or the Missus, we were back in Dublin in August of 1988
@kadogo77123 жыл бұрын
wow...to me it feel nostalgic , although i wasn't yet born in 88
@jamesfagan78233 жыл бұрын
How did we go from this to the shit hole we are in now
@catfordkat3 жыл бұрын
Liberalism
@mrhotdog468Ай бұрын
It was shit then and its shit now
@adammaher66013 жыл бұрын
DART was only 2 years old in 1988
@billymccrea96742 жыл бұрын
O Connell st, still a kip back then.....
@speakertreatz3 жыл бұрын
The Dublin City Council building absolutely destroyed that back view of Christchurch, how did it ever get the go-ahead? It's a good modern building but why it was planted there, completely blocking the church from the Liffey side..This footage goes straight to my heart because I was 16 in 1988, but when you watch it at face value now, the whole place does look very grim. Deeply depressing in fact. All the 'but sure the people had a great community spirit' talk in the world isn't going to convince anyone otherwise.
@thefisherman43343 жыл бұрын
Very good point iv never seen this side of the building and what a view of beautiful architecture hidden in plane sights I live only down the road too 😂
@speakertreatz3 жыл бұрын
@@thefisherman4334 lol I was the same when I lived near Christchurch and every day walked back up that hill from work without realising it, then I think it was under a FB photo, one of those 'Dublin in the old days' pages, a discussion was raging underneath a pre-Civic Offices photo, people slamming the decision to put a building right in the way of a national landmark (and tourist spot). And I saw what they meant! Afterwards the whole thing came back to me, I could remember it the way it was, my Dad drove home from town up that hill all the time. What were they thinking??
@speakertreatz3 жыл бұрын
@@thefisherman4334 this is a similar discussion which goes back further than the Mk1 Dublin City Council building put up in the 80s, to the controversy before it was built involving the viking remains at the site (you can see in the photo everything has been flattened in preparation for the office) facebook.com/dublin8irl/posts/wood-quay-was-the-site-of-the-original-viking-settlement-in-dublin-it-is-now-alm/2286786414693147/
@colmmeade182416 күн бұрын
We marched to keep wood quay but to no avail
@newandoldmovies83503 жыл бұрын
I was only 2 years old in 1988 i was born in dublin
@daverennix43323 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when people had roofs over their heads and hardly any beggars to be seen. What the hell went wrong??
@briancd373 жыл бұрын
Dave Rennix you think Dublin and Irish society was better in the 80s????!!! Mmm... no!!!
@seanredmond31123 жыл бұрын
Half the people on housing list in dublin weren't born in Ireland, that's what's wrong, and a huge mistake.
@catfordkat3 жыл бұрын
@@briancd37 Depends on your personal values, in my opinion Dublin was far more cohesive and friendly as a society, we knew everyone on our street growing up and there was a sense everyone had eachothers back. The city had more character, you had more individual characters who were their own people compared to now. I like some of the changes to the city and they were well needed, but we have lost too much of our identity in gaining them and I see Dublin continuing to lose its unique character and morphing even more into a generic run of the mill dopamine thrill fuelled city that you can find anywhere in Europe.
@Paul5520 Жыл бұрын
Greed. That’s it.
@PaulMcWeeney Жыл бұрын
Mass immigration.
@KJ_20202 жыл бұрын
The yellow reg car reminds me of the game we played as kids when we saw it first we gave a dead arm to our mates
@Karl_with_a_K2 жыл бұрын
Mini pinch.
@jamesfagan78233 жыл бұрын
Get your cheeky Charlie
@blasketblasket44483 жыл бұрын
Heree aw Press!
@raygreen59263 жыл бұрын
Life is all a dream
@Etcher2 жыл бұрын
Deadly video; anyone notice the Millenium "Dublin's Great in '88" logo in the top window of BHS @ 3:14
@montaguewithnail58912 жыл бұрын
Glad I emigrated.
@Paul5520 Жыл бұрын
Flowwuurrsshhhh twoooo furraaa pouuunnndd 😂 good aul days of Henry street
@ropaul80062 жыл бұрын
An actual Irish city. Wow
@louistamone7528 Жыл бұрын
Yeah the same actual Irish city’s still exist now , you are stupid aren’t you !
@ropaul8006 Жыл бұрын
@@louistamone7528 yeah and some areas have no Irish whatsoever. Well done you 👏
@buckfastpk3 жыл бұрын
I was 8 then but remember puking my guts up every time I got on them buses
@seanredmond31123 жыл бұрын
Many the time 😊. Something about the big heavy engines I think.
@user-oe2jt2oe2j2 жыл бұрын
💯🙈
@ValentinoMoon2 жыл бұрын
Christ,ur after reminding me. The stink from the engine if u sat downstairs at the back and forget about being able to hear anybody talking ,bloody deafening!!
@KP-bq8sr3 жыл бұрын
Demz was simpler timez
@aislingsibeallyons3416 Жыл бұрын
I miss Dublin.so much . I left Dublin in ,2000 and.now I'm living in Spain . I miss Ireland haven't been home in ten years
@terrybaker81563 жыл бұрын
3-4 months after RTE hosted the Eurovision
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in August 1988 =)
@55167244 жыл бұрын
It looked like it was a dull day out
@ariseandgonow43192 жыл бұрын
Trying to figure out whether that’s Frere Jacques visible on Dame Street - Dublin was a better city when Frere Jacques was in operation…….
@MacCionnaith3 жыл бұрын
Cigarette lighters two for a pou
@markofsaltburn2 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing that everywhere in 89, and I wondered before I watched if it would be on this video - it was the first f**king thing.
@Paul5520 Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@gerardleahy69462 жыл бұрын
I love those videos and as a car enthusiast they bring back fond memories. Great to see the streets before they were messed up for bike lanes etc.
@RedKnight-fn6jr2 жыл бұрын
Priority for bikes must end - I do think the city needs an inner motorway ring (like many European cities), but that the city centre should then be reserved mainly for pedestrians and public transport. I think the Luas is a great system, but there's a need for much more. Also, the DART Underground should have been built years ago.
@jacquelinem35513 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️
@spacejesusadventure2 жыл бұрын
Going to go against the grain here: It looks very nice, but not massively different, nicer in some ways, less nice in others. People here really need to relax and take off the nostalgia goggles - things changes, it's always been that way, it always will be
@marcinmarcin40683 жыл бұрын
Dublin 🍀💚❤️💚
@asdfffytr3 жыл бұрын
Time traveler confirmed
@Paul55203 жыл бұрын
3.31 ah ther she is🥰🇮🇪
@kevinanthony54753 күн бұрын
Better times when Dublin was Irish just like I remember as a kid.
@smhorse3 жыл бұрын
Clearly the traffic was as bad then as it has been in more recent years
@JohnMcMahon.3 жыл бұрын
Northern Reg Renault 5 @2:14
@almon7993 жыл бұрын
In the rare oul times.. Ath cliath
@silveriver92 жыл бұрын
Nothing's changed
@Jen-lg4hp Жыл бұрын
@@catfordkat Couldn't agree more! I'm a Dubliner born and bred and nowadays I feel like a foreigner in my native city- it's like being in African or Pakistani slum ! City has gone to hell- I avoid the city centre when I can- it's too depressing to see how Dublin has been destroyed by mass immigration, globalism, and woke tripe (the mess of rainbow flags/Ukrainian flags)! Disgraceful how we Native Irish have been betrayed while any terrorist scum can buy an Irish passport for the right price! Sell-out politicians are to blame!
@louistamone7528 Жыл бұрын
How better the life was then , people very happy with what they had which wasn’t much unlike now when kids have everything and still miserable
@UsacHunt2 жыл бұрын
Deadly buzz we're getting green busses back now but the drivers aren't even orange.
@martinrooney36702 жыл бұрын
Notice anything
@tommyfh10363 жыл бұрын
Miserable August.. the days when u didn't need tax or insurance for your car. Producer to boogie address 🤫😅😅
@bigm1862 жыл бұрын
pt breakers ,if you seen a pt van when black jack was a sweet only a half you could buy 1 smoke in the van give us a drag was 3 pulls of a smoke Butt's on a apple crying if you got the last of the bat* water after everyone was washed before you the flee market on the hill bag of chips 25 cents greeny was old english 2 litter of cider
@MaryWall-ii2bg16 күн бұрын
Your ma would always go to town to meet up with sisters or friends for cup or tea and cake and a gossip 😂
@weximan12 жыл бұрын
There's no road markings on any of the streets
@peternolan56322 жыл бұрын
it looks like the neighbour calty
@PaulMcWeeney Жыл бұрын
Imagine. Dublin full of Irish people. What have they done?
@flaviojosefo71302 жыл бұрын
The Cranberries didn't exist yet!
@bdeithrick9 ай бұрын
Fluzin in daJacuzzi
@dawidwojtaldw3 жыл бұрын
That was difriend world,better
@markofsaltburn2 жыл бұрын
Loyders two furra pound.
@finglasunited99893 жыл бұрын
Ah would you just look at all those IRISH PEOPLE🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️
@Jen-lg4hp2 жыл бұрын
And not a Ukrainian flag or rainbow flag in sight.....Good times!
@shanehughes35114 жыл бұрын
I'm 24 and can without doubt say I prefer modern Dublin. Sure this city is far quieter, less traffic, less people, but it feels poor, dirty and depressed. Looks like a video from an Eastern European soviet state from the same period just with blue jeans and pop on the radio. Older people long for this time but only because they fit in better then. Honestly, I'll take the modern buildings, bustling streets, diversity, youth, clean buildings (trinity and Dublin Castle look black from air pollution), cosmopolitan feel and general European openness of modern Dublin and Ireland. You can smell Catholic Ireland through this. People wearing sueor long skirts and all the men in the same jeans. People were lacking in artistic expression and fun. Anyone who was anyone left the country. Amazing video but damn modern Dublin is a huge improvement. (just need to get those rents down and more trams and trains up).
@Ladygaga40474 жыл бұрын
There was more to it than meets the eye. It just felt more Irish back then. I know what the old and new Ireland feels like and the old felt more Irish that's really all their is to it.
@Goldedguy4 жыл бұрын
I prefer modern Dublin as well.
@lightelton69534 жыл бұрын
@@Goldedguy Did you guys watched " Die...Hard" in Odeon On that day?
@catfordkat3 жыл бұрын
I do like aspects of modern Dublin, but without doubt for me its lost a large chunk of its character and soul. We could have had all those improvements you mentioned without compromising that. Mid to late 90s Dublin probably came closest to it. We had one of the youngest, creative populations in Europe then. Had diversity, but still felt Irish. There was an enthusiasm and craic about the place that is not present to the same extent today. I run an airbnb in town and a lot of my guests are disappointed with Dublin. I think its because with all those improvements you mentioned its lost a lot of it's charm and uniqueness, it really has just become a bit of a generic less personable european city now.
@tomthumb35003 жыл бұрын
Difficult times economically we were on our knees. Trouble up North was in full flight. You are very much entitled to your opinion, however you do come across as being somewhat smug.
@davidp4043 Жыл бұрын
lovely pale white faces. better times.
@neilisagumАй бұрын
NOT ONE SINGLE OIL RIGGER
@edbredin64063 жыл бұрын
Those were good times before the foreigners took over the place Grrrrrrrrrr
@tomthumb35003 жыл бұрын
Appalling comment to make. No one would travel to Ireland in the 80s as the country was on its knees economically and politically.
@edbredin64063 жыл бұрын
@@tomthumb3500 it still is and they are here in droves
@Ricardo-mr3bg3 жыл бұрын
@@edbredin6406 Ireland was a 3rd world country in the 80s, no one would go there. It improved a lot.
@Ricardo-mr3bg3 жыл бұрын
@@redfishswimming The History books say that Ireland was a 3rd world country in the 1980s. Full stop. No one emigrated to Ireland, all the Irish who could emigrate did it.
@speakertreatz3 жыл бұрын
@@edbredin6406 so you admit we were on our knees in the 80s, but you're calling them 'good times'?
@scoyle175010 ай бұрын
A lot less congested and Not a African or Asian scrounger in sight far better times