Pictures and memories from old Galway

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 6:38pm

paddytheloaf wrote: »

Laffeys and Alfies were one and the same.

I knew it

Now does anybody remember 'Dirty Dicks' and the car seats ????

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 6:52pm

Tom Kenny has a stupendously good collection of Old Galway photos here

http://www.kennys.ie/News/OldGalway/Archive/

Most of them are older than the reference period for this thread , typically the last 40 years or so .

Tom also has a potted history of the street or event once you click through the photo and welcomes any added information through an email address at the bottom of each article .

He may well allow use of the photos if he is asked first by email and if the person asking wants to use it to support a point about that particular place but do remember he may have borrowed them in the first place and that copyright always applies and that if you do use it you should send him a link to the post where you used it in case he is interested .

People with Videos to post should also send the Youtube links through to Tom for use on his own site , I am pretty sure he would be grateful ( especially if he does not have to pay for the bandwidth

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mikom · 16-10-2009 6:52pm

Sponge Bob wrote: »

I knew it Now does anybody remember 'Dirty Dicks' and the car seats ????

Is that something to do with dogging?

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 6:57pm

mikom wrote: »

Is that something to do with dogging?

Nope, the answer to this would be from back in the day when dogging was something that generally only went on in College Road after dark and "can I bum a fag" was something you could say openly across a pub on Quay Street without getting thrown out .

?Cee?view · 16-10-2009 7:29pm

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Tom Kenny has a stupendously good collection of Old Galway photos here

http://www.kennys.ie/News/OldGalway/Archive/

Most of them are older than the reference period for this thread , typically the last 40 years or so .

Tom also has a potted history of the street or event once you click through the photo and welcomes any added information through an email address at the bottom of each article .

He may well allow use of the photos if he is asked first by email and if the person asking wants to use it to support a point about that particular place but do remember he may have borrowed them in the first place and that copyright always applies and that if you do use it you should send him a link to the post where you used it in case he is interested .

People with Videos to post should also send the Youtube links through to Tom for use on his own site , I am pretty sure he would be grateful ( especially if he does not have to pay for the bandwidth )

There's a guy called Willie Henry who writes in the Galway Independent. In fact, he's the only good thing about that rag - I don't know how they got him.

In my opinion (and it's obviously only an opinion) his stuff is far more interesting and infinitely better researched than Kenny's. He really delves into the history of Galway rather than just filling column inches with lists of people in old photographs. He has a few great books out as well, one about a Coffin Ship that left Galway during the famine, the St. John I think.

Never met the guy but I hear he's very approachable as well.

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 8:14pm

churchview wrote: »

In my opinion (and it's obviously only an opinion) his stuff is far more interesting and infinitely better researched than Kenny's. He really delves into the history of Galway rather than just filling column inches with lists of people in old photographs.

But he has no website , unlike Tom .

?Cee?view · 16-10-2009 8:19pm

Sponge Bob wrote: »

But he has no website , unlike Tom .

Very fair point. Henry's not geared up for the same publicity or as commercial as Kenny, more of an academic/scholarly approach I suppose. Having said that a search on the Galway Independents website will throw up some interesting stuff.

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 8:33pm

churchview wrote: »

Very fair point. Henry's not geared up for the same publicity or as commercial as Kenny, more of an academic/scholarly approach I suppose

Having a website does not make you definitive , after all Maurice Semple never had a website and produced stacks of books on Galway and certainly the Corrib ( although these are all basically various editions of 4 books ) ..click below.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=maurice+semple&x=15&y=16

?Cee?view · 16-10-2009 8:41pm

I don't get you SpongeBob? I'm not saying that Henry needs a website to be definitive? In fact, I'm saying that he's very good even though he doesn't have a website. Whereas Kenny, while he has a website and is interesting, really isn't in the same league as Henry.

Agreed on Semple, his books are full of great information, but I'd disagree in that the ones on the Corrib are quite different from each other.

Anyway....I'm not arguing (and I know you're not either S'Bob)

so, for those who want to go back a bit in Galway Time, check out

William Henry
Maurice Semple
Tom Kenny
Peadar O'Dowd
Hardiman's History of Galway
Wilde's Lough Corrib - his son wrote a bit of fiction

Journals of the Old Galway Society

..who else?

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 9:10pm

churchview wrote: »

Hardiman's History of Galway

Awww here , you forgot Roderick O Flaherty and his History of Iar Connaught

Anyway , pedantry with links simply works better .

Hardimans History of Galway ( FREE DOWNLOAD , PDF 39MB)

William Wilde , Lough Corrib ( Free Online )

?Cee?view · 16-10-2009 9:13pm

One of my prized possessions is a first edition of Hardiman. The illustrations and maps are amazing.

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 9:33pm

churchview wrote: »

One of my prized possessions is a first edition of Hardiman. The illustrations and maps are amazing.

Bet you bought it off Tom Kenny and all

The PDF has most of the maps and images , could you check it is complete for us and verify it is a full first edition ????

If not please scan in the missing bits and where they belong in the page numbering scheme in the PDF .

?Cee?view · 16-10-2009 9:58pm

No, not from Tom. It's around the house long before the Kennys came to town

I'll definitely have a look at it to see if it matches up with what you've ?? scanned. It'll be a few weeks until I get to do it though.

Did you scan the one you've linked? If you did, well done. A great thing to do and something a lot of people will appreciate.

I see from the notification to my email you said

"1829 edition by the RIA , bound in Green and with the issue number in red on the 2nd or third page" I think it's 1820, It'd kind of a mottled greenish colour (but I'm a bit colour blind!), I don't remember an issue number, but I'll check next time I'm in Galway

Sponge Bob · 16-10-2009 10:23pm

archive.org ( The Internet Archive) did, their PDF files are text searchable too, bless

Fuinseog · 16-10-2009 11:10pm

there is a bit of old galway down the west end. 'ideal drapers', a derelict shop but still as it was 40 forty years ago. beside the gentlemans club. i can't believe that it hasn't being sold and developed.

Fuinseog · 16-10-2009 11:12pm

I remember when the Crane Bar was a place for locals and fishermen, before it became a mecca for germans and french looking for their irish trad music.one of the few pubs in galway where talking is frowned upon.

?Cee?view · 17-10-2009 12:37am

Fuinseog wrote: »

there is a bit of old galway down the west end. 'ideal drapers', a derelict shop but still as it was 40 forty years ago. beside the gentlemans club. i can't believe that it hasn't being sold and developed.

Would love to know what the story is with that place

Meemars · 22-10-2009 2:25pm

Pat's chipper on Fairhill road, anyone? Always a massive dog outside, Mural to the chipper's destruction is still up in Fr Burke park.
Regular poems in the Advertiser penned by P. Cooke.
Miss Mick Taylors pub so much....
Remember Kaylems? Where Sally Longs is, until about 1988 or '89
Nora Crub's had proper yummy cappucinos way before they became ever-so-trendy 20 years on.
Supermac's bridge st - best chips ever, back when the use of aromat was not a sin!
Hilton Burger, Savoy arcade & Savoy roller rink.
Teen discos in Leisureland, Seapoint and the Tennis club, then graduating to the Oz, Rumurs, Castle, Oasis, Warwick etc.. (not before being well underage in the Manderley tho!)

Salthill church so full during summer months they would put on extra masses for the overflow in Seapoint! What a holy bunch we all were then.
July 12th weekend Salthill would be chock-full of Northerners & the Wolfe Tones would always play Twiggs (downstairs - the Barleycorn? the Shamrock?) Salthill became a madhouse that week!
in the 70's - Concorde Castle blew into the sea? Weather hasn't changed much, then!
Galway was grey and smaller, more innocent and more free.

Des Hynes · 22-10-2009 3:07pm

Meemars wrote: »

Pat's chipper on Fairhill road, anyone? Always a massive dog outside, Mural to the chipper's destruction is still up in Fr Burke park.
Regular poems in the Advertiser penned by P. Cooke.
Miss Mick Taylors pub so much....
Remember Kaylems? Where Sally Longs is, until about 1988 or '89
Nora Crub's had proper yummy cappucinos way before they became ever-so-trendy 20 years on.
Supermac's bridge st - best chips ever, back when the use of aromat was not a sin!
Hilton Burger, Savoy arcade & Savoy roller rink.
Teen discos in Leisureland, Seapoint and the Tennis club, then graduating to the Oz, Rumurs, Castle, Oasis, Warwick etc.. (not before being well underage in the Manderley tho!)
Salthill church so full during summer months they would put on extra masses for the overflow in Seapoint! What a holy bunch we all were then.
July 12th weekend Salthill would be chock-full of Northerners & the Wolfe Tones would always play Twiggs (downstairs - the Barleycorn? the Shamrock?) Salthill became a madhouse that week!
in the 70's - Concorde Castle blew into the sea? Weather hasn't changed much, then!
Galway was grey and smaller, more innocent and more free.

More like 86 or 87, what was it called before Kaylems? It'll come to me.

xtradel · 22-10-2009 9:39pm

Des Hynes wrote: »

More like 86 or 87, what was it called before Kaylems? It'll come to me.

Salmon Weir. Sally's opened on the Monday of Race Week 1988.

ErnieBert · 22-10-2009 10:14pm

Meemars wrote: »

Pat's chipper on Fairhill road, anyone? Always a massive dog outside, Mural to the chipper's destruction is still up in Fr Burke park.
Regular poems in the Advertiser penned by P. Cooke.
Miss Mick Taylors pub so much....
Remember Kaylems? Where Sally Longs is, until about 1988 or '89
Nora Crub's had proper yummy cappucinos way before they became ever-so-trendy 20 years on.
Supermac's bridge st - best chips ever, back when the use of aromat was not a sin!
Hilton Burger, Savoy arcade & Savoy roller rink.
Teen discos in Leisureland, Seapoint and the Tennis club, then graduating to the Oz, Rumurs, Castle, Oasis, Warwick etc.. (not before being well underage in the Manderley tho!)
Salthill church so full during summer months they would put on extra masses for the overflow in Seapoint! What a holy bunch we all were then.
July 12th weekend Salthill would be chock-full of Northerners & the Wolfe Tones would always play Twiggs (downstairs - the Barleycorn? the Shamrock?) Salthill became a madhouse that week!
in the 70's - Concorde Castle blew into the sea? Weather hasn't changed much, then!
Galway was grey and smaller, more innocent and more free.

Methinks me must know you because you just described my life as a teenager in the 80's.

Throw in the Silver Dollar for pool, Wimpy for chips and Brambles for cuppa tay and a snog from a girl from the Mercy and u can sum up 1986 to 1988 for mr.

happyoutish · 24-10-2009 12:45am

I'm really loving this thread!!

Anyone remember the great bands that were around way back then.....

Midway were one of the best bands going anyone remember them??

ErnieBert · 24-10-2009 7:51am

happyoutish wrote: »

I'm really loving this thread!!

Anyone remember the great bands that were around way back then.....

Midway were one of the best bands going anyone remember them??

Amongst the less politically correct named bands were the following.....

Shattered Ego

Manic Depression.

Too Much For The White Man

Mandy Smiths' Underpants.

...and ToasteD Heretic.

.

inisboffin · 24-10-2009 3:04pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

...and Toaster Heretic.

.

Toasted Heretic

ErnieBert · 24-10-2009 9:00pm

Galway in 1993

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJaAE9GaPGc&NR=1

ErnieBert · 24-10-2009 9:03pm

Robbie RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scdh7QV7WEM&feature=related

ErnieBert · 24-10-2009 9:08pm

Johnny Massacre RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEZbLfoO6g

hairyfairy00 · 24-10-2009 9:14pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

Robbie RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scdh7QV7WEM&feature=related

Dennis is as bad as Kanye West interrupting Robbie's mid performance!

ErnieBert · 24-10-2009 9:25pm

UCG 1988. Ohhhh, the fashion...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8lgWuCH5c

JohnCleary · 25-10-2009 1:18am

ErnieBert wrote: »

Johnny Massacre RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEZbLfoO6g

Thanks for posting that, never really knew who this infamous person was until now. RIP, that was a truly talented guy

dec25532 · 25-10-2009 11:22pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

UCG 1988. Ohhhh, the fashion...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8lgWuCH5c

Aah, who is the student that is all mouth at the beginning and sings happy birthday at the end. She is great. Where is she now, anybody?

civis_liberalis · 25-10-2009 11:30pm

I love this thread!

dochara · 25-10-2009 11:31pm

Krieg wrote: »

Elderly man who was able put his lip over half his face (another galway character)

Pat (Pateen) Stephens - not elderly.

civis_liberalis · 25-10-2009 11:53pm

Terryland Park in 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3dQ3gLTjw

civis_liberalis · 26-10-2009 12:11am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYAObwDBf8

ErnieBert · 26-10-2009 3:24pm

The videos from Claddagh 1965 and Terryland Park in 1987 were already posted here.

Here is the Waterboys in Salthill for the Lark In The Park in 1986.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLEluPDy7A

ErnieBert · 26-10-2009 3:33pm

JFK in Eyre Square 1963

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiwXywrFYQ

Meemars · 28-10-2009 12:29pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

Amongst the less politically correct named bands were the following.....

Shattered Ego

Manic Depression.

Too Much For The White Man

Mandy Smiths' Underpants.

...and ToasteD Heretic.

.

Unbelievable! Right up my alley! Am related to a Shattered Ego member as it happens, so say only nice things

The Salthill Festival with bands on the super-glamourous Gig-Rigs!
Also, they put up a stage when the tide was out in Blackrock, and De Danaan played a free gig, did I make that up, or does anyone else remember? 1983 or 4 maybe....

fifilarue · 28-10-2009 2:53pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

UCG 1988. Ohhhh, the fashion...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8lgWuCH5c

Was there meself and seeing this brought back many happy memories-great days, great place, good times. Thanks a million ErnieBert.

fmul9798 · 28-10-2009 7:12pm

re: De Dannan, that definitely happened, as I remeber being there. I think the "stage" was the concrete steps/seats though?

ErnieBert · 28-10-2009 11:29pm

Prospect Hill 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cixlj8riYmo

Fuinseog · 29-10-2009 6:31pm

does anyone remember the tow hall (cinema)?
you could smoke down the back and food fights were not unusal. someone told me there used to rats running about the place.i think the place has onl two screens.

xtradel · 29-10-2009 9:44pm

Fuinseog wrote: »

does anyone remember the tow hall (cinema)?
you could smoke down the back and food fights were not unusal. someone told me there used to rats running about the place.i think the place has onl two screens.

Dunno if rats were just a rumour but the place was mank! It had 2 screens, no1 was fairly big with balcony seating & no2 was tiny. My main memory of there is getting coke in a glass bottle & the freshest bag of tayto cheese n onion ever!

galvianlord · 02-11-2009 11:30am

Hope this doesnt get me in trouble, but I went to all the trouble of finding this article, scanning it etc, only to notice the other thread on Una Taaffe has been closed....annoying!

Anyway in the hope that my work aint in vain I thought this may be the most relevant place for the article that was printed in the Sunday Independent back in 1992. In it Una and her companion talk about her family history and Galway in the rare auld times...

Sorry to the mods if they consider it a continuation of the other thread...but it would be relevant to this one!

Article attached:

galvianlord · 02-11-2009 11:55am

Sorry for the two posts, but found the missing section in the archives for some reason not included in the original, attached:

fifilarue · 02-11-2009 1:05pm

dec25532 wrote: »

Aah, who is the student that is all mouth at the beginning and sings happy birthday at the end. She is great. Where is she now, anybody?

Her name was Ger (Killeen??) and I think she was a med student-not 100% sure though.

bobbybo · 20-11-2009 3:39am

hi guys, if i can recommend website made by me

www.galwayhistory.info

Tomcat2 · 21-11-2009 3:58pm

Great Thread As a kid I used to go on Holidays to Galway so for what it's worth I'm going to add in my fragmented memories. In the late 1970's Air Hockey,Pinball and Electromechanical entertainment was the main thing in Salthill amusements besides the eternal Slot Machines and Coin Slides.You could visit Leisure Land in 1978 before they modified it The swimming Pool was smaller then and a different shape.Lydons Bakery/Restauraunt was on the main street in Galway City Center near the Department Store Moons and the food was great.In July 1981 Ghost Town by the Specials was Number One in the charts That month a French Submarine surfaced in Galway harbour. The Rubix Cube was the big thing that summer,you could hire out large Tri-cycle or Quad-Cycle to go along Salthill promenade.You could buy a bag of sweets from the Bon Bon sweet shop on the corner near the Park with the Bandstand.You could visit the Amusements nearby with the Magic Mirrors outside Next to this was a Go Kart Track ? Arcade Video games where at the height of popularity Summer 1981 The new Leisureland, Claudes Amusements, Seapoint and the Silver Dollar had all the very best ones including Defender, Berzerk, Tempest and Gorf. You could meet the little man with the Monkeys and he would put one on your shoulder to get your photograph taken.The Galleon Restauraunt did great Hamburgers and Fries and there was another great little Cafe opposite Seapoint that did great food and Crusha Ice Cream Milkshakes.It's funny looking back now trying to remember these details For a 10 year old it was Mecca.