When were your parents born?

Eponymous · 17-10-2017 12:38PM

Both parents born in the early 1930's. Suspicious of anything that's not familiar to them and very quick to judge.

Disapproved of "culchie" girlfriends I had and nearly lost it when I started dating a "forridner" (American). Then, when I did start dating a Dub, she was too "posh". Nobody was ever going to meet their approval.

Tis funny though, for all of their disapproval of my choices, my older sisters all married complete bastards, so perhaps I was right to ignore them!

It's almost amusing nowadays when I visit and I'm told about "them Muslims up the road who got a new car from the Welfare"... (He's from India and works for a multinational IT firm)

readyletsgo · 17-10-2017 12:40PM

Dad 1935, in a home now.
Mum 1945, passed 2004.

I was born in 1981.

knucklehead6 · 17-10-2017 12:54PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Not entirely sure what the point of this thread is or where it can go.

The OP is going to ask our Mothers maiden names next... It's a long play Identity Theft thing

Lt Dan · 17-10-2017 01:15PM

miss flutter ups wrote: »

Early 1950s, I like to imagine them bopping to Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin, mam with flowers in her hair and dad with a guitar in hand but in my dad's words "we were too busy working 7 days a week to listen to that ****e"

This was Ireland, assuming they were in Ireland, there wasn't too much of that hippy stuff here.

noaddedsugar · 17-10-2017 01:36PM

Mine we born in the 60s in the UK. They were part of the punk scene as youngsters and I grew up listening to the sex pistols, xray spex, adam ant etc. They have always been pretty laid back and liberal, although pretty crappy parents to my elder brother and I. They are quite alternative and hippy now.

My inlaws were born in 50s Ireland and the differences when they speak about their younger lives compared to my parents are very stark.

Lady Spangles · 17-10-2017 02:23PM

My mother was born in 1943. My father was born in 1953. (both in England, both in the month of May) They married in 1977 and I was born three years later.

It was a classic case of the reverse age-difference (the woman being ten years older than the man) and not something they initially worried about at all. They were just two people in love. Neither one of them was wealthy at all, so mum wasn't what the Americans would cruelly call a "cougar", or whatever. But, all the same, the comments she got (especially in the early years when the difference was noticeable) I think were very cutting. However, they remained devoted to each other until mum died in 2007 after thirty years of marriage.

Even today, women who marry younger men get a lot of flack. It's totally unnecessary.

Foxhound38 · 17-10-2017 02:42PM

Both were born in the mid - late 50's.

Dad is from very, very rural Tipperary, Mam is originally from just outside London (so I'm a half-Brit mongrel :pac: ) but came to Dublin as a Teenager. I was born in Dublin in the late 80's.

dd972 · 17-10-2017 02:46PM

I was born in 2002, ma an da in 1989, they're looking forward to being grandparents shortly.

Posted from Jobstown or Sherrif St or Finglas or Tallaght or....

PARlance · 17-10-2017 02:54PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Both were born in the mid - late 50's.

Dad is from very, very rural Tipperary, Mam is originally from just outside London (so I'm a half-Brit mongrel :pac: ) but came to Dublin as a Teenager. I was born in Dublin in the late 80's.

That's nothing in the mongrel stakes, I'm the German born Son of a Mayo Madman and a Elegant Edinburgh lassie.

Similar timelines for all but I haven't a clue where the OP is going with the thread. Ah yes... 1958, the year of the good mother.

knucklehead6 · 17-10-2017 02:58PM

dd972 wrote: »

I was born in 2002, ma an da in 1989, they're looking forward to being grandparents shortly.

Posted from Jobstown or Sherrif St or Finglas or Tallaght or....

Couldn't be posted from there. You've used They're in the correct context.
Shenanigans. I call shenanigans!!

5rtytry56 · 17-10-2017 04:03PM

mum 1933
dad 1934

rip mum earlier this year 2017

DEFTLEFTHAND · 17-10-2017 04:25PM

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

50's and 60's. Ones a rock n roll lovin the other a hippy. Me born in the 80's so I go round singing all the time with greased hair and shades.

/thread

We must be twins.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 17-10-2017 04:31PM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Just to add to this my parents in law were born in the late 40s.

I thought that I’d have great conversations with them about cool 60s music and suchlike.

Nah, they never understood me no more than my own parents ever did.

I was introduced to music from the time I was born, I assumed everyone grew up listening to British and American 60s and 70s.

I bonded with my best friend in Primary school because he also had music parents. Everyone else's parents seemed to listen to the likes of Big Tom.

boardsuser1 · 17-10-2017 04:34PM

Mother 1967
Father 1955

Me mid 80's
brother 1988

I have other half brothers and sisters born between 1974 & 1998.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-10-2017 04:37PM

Father in 1912 , Mother 1917. Both very progressive, and determined their children would have better lives than they had. Great believers in education - of which they had very little themselves. Politically astute, well informed, extremely hardworking, charitable, supportive and great craic.

diomed · 17-10-2017 04:58PM

1915 and 1922.

LirW · 17-10-2017 05:42PM

1966 and 1969

My mom is a hippy and my dad used to be a proper rocker. He turned a bit more conservative over the years, she lives the artist life with my stepdad (parents seperated when I was 4).
Mother and husband closed their fairly successful business because of the health problems of my stepdad, sold their house and bought a lovely small house in a very remote village on Fuerteventura.

DoozerT6 · 17-10-2017 07:16PM

1937 and 1939. Both still flying around the place thankfully.

17-10-2017 08:29PM

They were born early-mid '50's. My mum part of a large traditional Dublin family where ambition in girls was viewed suspiciously. My father was born in London to an Irish nurse, and a successful immigrant father. Dad met his Irish grandparents only once and they refused to meet their son in law at all, having a non-white, non-Catholic man marry their daughter was horrifying to them.

My parents met and married while still at uni in England and they retired a while ago after long and distinguished careers, but can't quite give up work completely and still occasionally disappear abroad for months at a time on various projects. I've been places and seen things that most kids don't thanks to them, it's been an education. They are fantastic people, and I have boundless love and admiration for them. After all these years, they're still best friends and still nuts about each other.

eviltwin · 17-10-2017 08:35PM

The late 1930's. Both were well into their 40's when I was born and my dad was nearer to 50. All my baby photos look like I'm with my grandparents. My dad was ahead of his time, very modern thinking and had a 'live and let live' attitude to life. My mother was a typical holy Mary type who lived by the church and as a girl I found it particularly difficult especially during my teens. One thing my parents did was make me determined not to be an old parent myself, it's just not fair on anyone imo.

FizzleSticks · 17-10-2017 08:59PM

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Crea · 17-10-2017 09:14PM

They were both born in the early 1940's. My father went to college in London in the late 50's early 60's and tells funny stories of going to gay bars by mistake and sharing digs with guys of different races. He has always been pretty liberal.
My mother isn't Irish. She has always spoken to everyone the same , rich or poor. She used to offer the traveller women cups of tea when the called looking for clothes. The neighbours were horrified!

AudreyHepburn · 17-10-2017 09:19PM

Mam in 1967 and Dad in 1966 - I was born 20 years later. They were only 18 and 20 when I came along.

jamesbere · 17-10-2017 09:24PM

Father in 1937, my mother in 1947.
Ten year gap between them, I was born in 85.

Pherekydes · 17-10-2017 09:51PM

'23 and '25. Devout catholic, but also very liberal. Father was a Labour councillor. Not much education, 15 and 13 leaving school, but they read a lot. I grew up listening to Jazz, Classical and Opera. Dad was semi-professional in a big band. My mother was the most introverted person I knew. I'm probably even more so.

harry Bailey esq · 17-10-2017 10:08PM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

‘30s. They never quite understood The Beatles.

Probably associated them with Hitlers 'peoples car'

Irish Guitarist · 17-10-2017 10:37PM

My father was born in 1932 and my mother in 1933. I was born in 1976. My mother was (or is, she's still alive) more laid back than my father. He was always complaining and wasn't that easy to talk to. I would be watching television and he'd change the channel just for the sake of it even though he didn't want to watch anything. I was watching The Simpsons one evening when he changed it to watch some circus thing on RTE. He then sat there for half an hour complaining that he hated circuses. He seemed to hate any music that was released after about 1940 that wasn't Dirty Old Town.

I hated the way he treated animals too. He used to feed birds but if any crows tried to eat the food he'd shoot them with a rifle.

He never once raised a hand to me though which is more than a lot of people my age can say about their father.

looksee · 17-10-2017 10:37PM

Mum in 1920 and dad in 1918. He left school at 12 and she at 14. Both hardworking, loving, honest, no-nonsense people doing their best to make a home for their two children born just after WW2. They gave us a happy and secure childhood in very difficult circumstances - like most people they had had 6 years of being apart, both away from home and coping with the privations of wartime. There was very little of anything available but we were always well fed and clothed - looking back I can see it was 'plain food' and home made clothing, but we never felt at all deprived and occasional treats were much appreciated. I can remember them talking when my dad got a job in a different county - a step up from a South Yorkshire mining village, and the discussion about him now being on £2,000 a year. Subsequently we had a car (ford Poplar), a tv, and a few years later they bought their own house, no mean feat in the early 60s.

17-10-2017 10:54PM

My Dad (English) was born in 1960 and my Mother (Irish) was born in 1963. I was born in 1989. They split up when I was a child and since then have lived in different countries. I'm still close to both of them. More so my Mother. They wouldn't be your typical parents, compared to the parents of most people I know anyway...

Martina1991 · 18-10-2017 03:01PM

1956 and 1958. I was born in 1991.

Mother is a conservative devout catholic and my father is quite laid back and liberal.
Both left school after the inter cert (if that's what it was called) and worked in the public service.

My (twin) sister is a carbon copy of my mother. I take after my dad. Brother is a mix of both.

When were your parents born?

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