Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

Birneybau

Britain from above?!?

mambo

ThisRegard wrote: »

Was thinking it was something like that, as they have misspelling of Clontarf later, they have Clow Tarf Estates.

"Clow Tarf" estates seems to be what is now Killester/DonneyCarney
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Addison+Lodge/@53.3756908,-6.2124749,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x195de8acbe4f1fe4

Good view here of what is now St Anne's Park, with the house which was subsequently destroyed by fire at the top left
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/xaw044956?search=clow%20tarf&ref=2

ThisRegard

mambo wrote: »

"Clow Tarf" estates seems to be what is now Killester/DonneyCarney

I'm not that familiar with the area, saw the sea in the pic and assumed they meant Clontarf.

eisenberg1

ThisRegard wrote: »

Was thinking it was something like that, as they have misspelling of Clontarf later, they have Clow Tarf Estates.

Not to mention "O'Connor Street":D

Qualitymark

Jaysus, don't let them near Hackballscross!

mambo

ThisRegard wrote: »

I'm not that familiar with the area, saw the sea in the pic and assumed they meant Clontarf.

I assume they did mean Clontarf. "Clontarf" could be misread as "Clow Tarf" fairly easily, if the writing wasn't clear.

Andrewf20

Has anyone ever come across a photo of the old link between the road where the R139 (N32) is now and the airways industrial estate in Santry? Back in the mid 1980s, where the N139 is now was pretty much all forested in with a narrow back road that led over a bridge to the bungalows at the back of airways. See red dotted line in pic attached. Id love to get a pic of that but after much web searching ive yet to find any.

chopper6

The Pierrot snooker club on batchelors walk...spent hundreds of hours in this place back in the day!

Darraghmh91.

Just went through this whole thread it's super cool looking at videos and pictures of old dublin .. I'm from Tallaght and have pictures of it from the 90s with all the old shops

Must get them up

Rashers

Tha Mary St Cinema (The Maro) in the 1950s. My favourite picturehouse at the time, as I recall it was 5 pence entrance fee for 2 movies, the B movie or a cartoon, followed by the main film. The seats were the 'woodeners'.... long wooden benches that tilted up when someone came and went from their seat.

neris

Rashers wrote: »

Tha Mary St Cinema (The Maro) in the 1950s. My favourite picturehouse at the time, as I recall it was 5 pence entrance fee for 2 movies, the B movie or a cartoon, followed by the main film. The seats were the 'woodeners'.... long wooden benches that tilted up when someone came and went from their seat.

Is that the maro mentioned in the dubliners song?

neris

highdef wrote: »

Here are a few documentaries I produced in 2004 & 2006 about Baldoyle and the surrounding areas. Not very historic at this stage but it does show the huge changes that have occurred in those short years with regards to massive developments in the immediate vicinity.

fantastic videos and very well put together. only moved to baldoyle in 2008 from sutton and amazing to see the changes over time on the videos. great to see the old racecourse and its layout.

That username is already in use.

Interesting to see Grafton St. with cars and buses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNROXsMqcI0

Andrewf20

Driving on Grafton here also, in 1976

Peregrine

Moved from After Hours to the Dublin City forum.

Peregrine

fiachr_a

Where are the fat people in those clips?

jimmii

fiachr_a wrote: »

Where are the fat people in those clips?

There were no fat people before 1987.

entropi

If you search for British Pathé Ireland on Youtube you'll bring up lots of really old videos of Dublin and beyond such as this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOlrtS2nsCE

fiachr_a

This movie was filmed in Dublin in the 1920s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJU8qR9pZzc

FCallo

The last photo on this page is Molyneux Lane looking from Thomas Street. The stable where the horse is stood once belonged to a Dublin Cavalry Man. Molyneux Lane recalls the famous Molyneux family of Dublin of whom William and Thomas were most famous. They had considerable property in this area. Given this and the lovely church building of John’s Lane, facing Molyneux Lane, where the blind organist, Dal McNulty played for many years, my mind turned to matters equstrian and blindness and the associations of these places of old Dublin.

IN 1815 theThe Molyneux Asylum for Blind Females (1815-2014) was founded in the house of Sir Thomas Molyneux in Peter Street Dublin. This had previously been let to the Famous equestrian circus man, Philip Astley, in the grounds of which he ran his famous theatre — the origins of circus in Ireland.

The Molyneux family had made great contributions to Irish science and letters and their connection with blindness, whether personally or professionally, is unusual, to say the least. Sir William Molyneux (1656-98), patriot and philosopher, was the founder of The Dublin Philosophical Society in 1684 after the model of The Royal Society (London). Its first President was Sir William Petty of The Down Survey of Ireland fame (himself vision-impaired). William Molyneux too was famous for his political treatise ‘The Case of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated’. He had been incensed by the suppression of the Irish wool trade by the English parliament when he wrote this treatise, published in 1698 and condemned as seditious and burned at Tyburn by the public hangman3 — it became the text-book of the American Independence pioneers. Like many of the Molyneux family, he was highly interested in optics and in the psychology of sight. He married Lucy, daughter of Sir William Domville in 1678. ‘In November, a few months after their wedding, she took ill when leaving morning service at Christ Church Cathedral. By December she found her eyes were affected and by January 1679 she was blind. On three different occasions William took her to London and other English cities to consult the best eye specialists, but the condition was untreatable’.4 William is, perhaps, best known for his ‘Molyneux Problem’ which is still debated by philosophers today. The problem in question (which he addressed [though not initially] to the English philosopher John Locke) is, ‘if a man is born blind and learns to distinguish a sphere and a cube using his sense of touch; and then is granted sight, could he recognize the two shapes using vision?’
The Molyneux problem was first proposed to John Locke by William Molyneux in a letter dated from Dublin. March 2nd 1692/3 (as was the style of dating the early months of the year before the change from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar in September, 1752 as a result of the Calandar Act of 1751).

FunkyDa2

I reckon it's the late '50s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5-KkdFggk

jimmii

Thats great to see thanks for posting. Shame the only time you get that many people there now is when there is a water protest.

spurious

1957 - 'Saint Joan' in the Metropole - released in the UK in June '57.
Must have been late summer - GAA time.

Nice piece of film - all the businesses clearly visible. The Pillar Cafe, the Green Rooster etc..

FunkyDa2

I particularly like the persistence of the chap running alongside the camera (both sides of the street!). Possibly hoping to be discovered by a movie producer?

uch

Google Streetview of it's day, brilliant

Csalem

Hi all,
I am not sure if this is suitable for here, but in the Bus Section I have a thread for my website detailing my travels on the bus routes in Dublin. One of the things I like to do is to recreate a shot of a bus on a route taken by my father maybe twenty or thirty years ago. As an example of this, here are four shots showing bus routes 1, 2 and 3 in Parnell Square. The 2 and 3 are now gone three years and the 1 we have today is a bit different to the original 1. These photographs span thirty-one years.

D 175 with a 3 to Sandymount Tower, 30/08/1982:

Scan D 175 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

AX 472 with a 2 to Sandymount, 25/06/2011:

AX 472 Parnell Square 25 06 11 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

AX 494 on the last day of the 3, 12/05/2012:

P1090771 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

GT 75 with a 1 to Sandymount, 04/04/2013:

P1010716 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr


More pictures from my travels can be found here:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/routes-1-2-and-3

My thread on this site is here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057054873

And if people are interested I can post some more old bus photographs here.

Csalem

Hi all,
Some pictures taken in College Street over a period of thirty-two years showing route 83.

My page on the 83 and 83A on Off The Beaten Track can be found here:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/routes-83-and-83a

And some older photographs of the 83 can be found on the overview page:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/route-83-and-83a-overview

And some examples of how the route has changed over the years.

D 172 at the College Street terminus, 10/05/1983:
Scan D 172 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

KD 309 on College Street prior to the route becoming City Imp, 27/03/1992:Scan KD 309 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

MW 2 on College Street shortly after the City Imp transformation:
Scan MW 2 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

GT 142 passing through College Street with now cross-city 83 from Harristown to Kimmage, 02/03/2015:
GT 142 College Street 02/03/15 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

The current route 83 and 83A, along with the routes 9 and 68A, replace part of the former routes 19 and 19A.

My page on the 19 and 19A can be found here:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/routes-19-and-19a

My page on the 9 can be found here:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/route-9

And my page on the 68A can be found here:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/routes-68-and-68a

Speedsie

Csalem wrote: »

And my page on the 68A can be found here:
http://offthebeatentrack.webs.com/routes-68-and-68a

Ah, the 68a... when you'd missed the 68 & had to take the breakneck speed detour to Baldonnell before getting to Newcastle.
Think I only ever once saw someone actually get off at Baldonnell.

Speeds

fcondon

Hi

Sorry for changing the subject.
My name is Fergal Condon. I'm working on a book cover for a small Irish publisher, The Stinging Fly. I wanted to use the photo you uploaded to Dublinforums but also seen here called Waiting in the Rain in Pearse Street 1950s or Pearse Street 1950s on the cover. Does anyone have any info on this, who took it etc.
Thanks