Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

donaghs

Anyone got any photos of Kellys Corner or An Beal Bocht pub? That area has be rebuilt so much recently my memories of what it looked like previously are a bit hazy. Seemed a lot more run-down looking in my mind's-eye. As with most of 80s Dublin!

ikb

Hi Donaghs,
There was another pub beside an beal bocht.... do you remember what it was called?

Hermy

HydeRoad wrote: »

Lovely photograph, very interesting in a number of ways. One point of detail, the Garda car is not a Ford Escort, it is a Vauxhall Victor FE, a slightly bigger car.

Any chance it might be an Opel - similar I know but just wondering?

WindSock

Don't know if this has been posted already but this is some beautiful and pleasant footage of Howth Tram in the 1950's

http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/261/see-the-film-once_upon_a_tram

Masada

Anyone know where's good to upload video? i have a show called something like "cloch le carn" or similar and its the story of Tony Gregory's life, loads of shots, video and photo of inner city over the years.,

ps, its 20-30mins long so cant use youtube.,

OldGoat

A rather poor quality picture scanned from a magazine "Ireland on Parade" from 1964. It shows the Garda band in parctice in the Phoenix Park Barracks(?) just before they set off to the States for a 4 week tour with various other marchings bands (The Tara Boys and others).
What I like most is the way the band master has managed to perfect his Levitation spell long before Harry Potter ever got his hands on a wand.

Ronan Keating

Masada wrote: »

Anyone know where's good to upload video? i have a show called something like "cloch le carn" or similar and its the story of Tony Gregory's life, loads of shots, video and photo of inner city over the years.,

ps, its 20-30mins long so cant use youtube.,

Split it and use youtube if it isn't already there.

Pete Briquette

Loving this thread since day one but first post...

The National Library have just put a huge collection of photos and glass plates online.

Great pictures of Dublin here:

http://digital.nli.ie/cdm4/browse.php

And the rest are here:

http://digital.nli.ie/cdm4/index_glassplates.php?CISOROOT=/glassplates

Enjoy!

Gaspode

I'm not sure if this one has been posted here before, but you can get some great views of Dublin. Not sure of the exact year of this - some people say it's 1976, but I've seen some sites suggesting it was taken in the early 80s.

Enjoy the views and the excellent music, but don't get too aroused by those open shirts and the porn star facial hair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5oNd6RziDo

scruttox

Anyone recognise anyone in this photo? My Grandad is on the left, Paddy "Padser" Hughes. Gardiner Street. 6 time Irish Boxing Champ, Olympic Games Los Angeles 1932, Golden Gloves. Photo taken around 1932-34.

Thanks.

Rashers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POzeMR9Y3RQ

Rashers

Pt.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebQj0X3574

Rashers

Pt.3

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

Rashers

Pt. 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSOZtJ-AOME

Rashers

Once Upon a Tram 1958. part 5 (final part).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjk1-kq8XFM

corblimey

Still a great thread. I was reminded of it last weekend but one, when some photos of a similar ilk appeared in the Guardian Weekend magazine. The setup is much the same, but the photographers have gone and composed the current environment 'around' the old photo.

Anyway, take a look, and let's see if anyone like Rashers or anyone else can come with a Dublin-centric version.

(note, slightly OT as it's not about Dublin or even Ireland)

Rashers

Introduction:

Decades before Michael Moore, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and legendary French Nouvelle Vague Director of Photography Raoul Coutard managed to get a society to condemn itself on camera. In Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), Ireland's patriotic sportsmen, priests, censors and 'brain-washed' children unwittingly convey the truth about a repressed, suppressed and massively censored Republic.

Lennon and Coutard expose the hypocrisy of church, politics, and state through a series of seemingly innocent interviews. Unsurprisingly, after one screening in a Dublin cinema in 1968, it was banned for more than three decades - never released in Ireland nor ever shown on Irish television.

Restored in 2004 by the Irish Film Board and Loopline Films, complemented by a new film (The Making of Rocky Road, dir. Paul Duane) of additional footage featuring Lennon and Coutard revisiting the issues in contemporary context, the ensemble piece tells the complete story of the Rocky Road.

In The Making Of, Coutard breaks his silence by coming out of retirement to tell his story of the making of this revolutionary film. It features previously unreleased footage of Lennon confronting Godard and Truffaut in a furious debate surrounding the shutting down of Cannes, as well as the Paris Demonstrations that occurred surrounding the screening of the film at the Sorbonne in full 'revolutionary' swing.

Peter Lennon, a veteran Guardian journalist working in Paris at the time, had never shot a foot of film in his life. Even so, with Coutard at his side, he set out to question the idea of: "What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" A very topical debate indeed.

I'm sorry that I have to embed the following in clips, but You Tube will not accept videos that are longer than 10 minutes in length, so I'm constrained by their rules.

There's some interesting outdoor Dublin scenes in the following....

Rashers

Clip 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3uJLCP4ag

Rashers

Clip 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud83d5nJ2Tw

Rashers

Clip 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smqSt5iifxk

Rashers

Clip 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QI4Z0CWks

Rashers

Clip 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwN8Yj0PLGo

Rashers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZHETMDRic

Rashers

Final clip

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

vampire of kilmainham

clown bag wrote: »

its amazing how different finglas looked in the 30s i dident know they wore trakies at that time do.

vampire of kilmainham

flynnc8 wrote: »

ha ha, ya dont see crowds like that anymore.....



Can anyone guess where this is?

grafton st i rember those old type bus stops when i was a young lad growing up in the 60s

vampire of kilmainham

Javon Tasty Manger wrote: »

How about posting photos and video's of a rapidly changing Dublin?..

I've some old photo's of home of Ballymun during my childhood, including recent photos taken of the 'flats' where I lived and soon to be knocked down and gone forever which I can include.

I think it would be nice to record people's pix & vid's of Dublin in one thread.

Anyone remember the snow of 1982..

i do rember the snow in 1982 but i dont think it was half as cold as it was this year and it seemed to go on forever.

vampire of kilmainham

Rashers wrote: »

A busy part of Dublin in 1964. But where do you think it is?

id say nth strand heading towards connolly station

vampire of kilmainham

Rashers wrote: »

Temple St 1950




Same view 2005

great old pic of temple st im glad that dam scaffold is down at last after all the years it was there it was a right eyesore.

vampire of kilmainham

Rashers wrote: »

Who remembers.... or even knows where it was?

i think it burgh quey