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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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What was it like in the 1980's in Ireland?

I have seen pictures, video and my god it looked like a depressing place. :eek:

Grey, delapidated, hopeless.

What was it like? How did you get by without internets, wheelie bins, toilets...?

Would you go back if you could??

*Might as well throw in the 70's too for people of that vintage.

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branie2

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Ooh, Betty!

[Deleted User]

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

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

The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

The timeline covered by the series spanned 1939-1948.
In Australia it ran from 1976-1983.
They generally showed four or five episodes a week.
In Ireland, it ran for one episode a week and if there was showjumping or snooker, it got bumped.

RTE started showing it in 1978. They still hadn't finished the run by the mid 1990s.

They are 1,114 episodes. 23 volumes on DVD. Bought them all from Eaton Films (UK distributor for Crawfords) ande-watched the lot between 2011-2017.

Heroditas

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

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

The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

I've just realised that I'm.now a couple of years older than Dan Sullivan was when WW2 started. I thought he was ancient when I was a kid.

[Deleted User]

Ipso wrote: »

North and South, starring Patrick Swayze.

and David Carradine as Justin LaMotte - legend of a character.

Hotblack Desiato

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

The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

super_furry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DQ7lWOw9I

begbysback

Rubberlegs wrote: »

Boys from the Blackstuff. Yosser Hughes, "gis a job".

Auf wiesersehen pet

Hotblack Desiato

nearest thing you'd ever get to hot oil wresting on RTE, maybe I should have watched it!

JupiterKid

Anyone remember the TV mini series Sins with Joan Collins which aired in the late 80s? Quite good.

Of course La Collins was more famous as the uberbitch Alexis in Dynasty. The catfights between her and Krystle (Linda Evans) were the stuff of legend lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0mK81UTG8

Rubberlegs

Boys from the Blackstuff. Yosser Hughes, "gis a job".

Kat1170

I remember being sent to bed when a show called 'Pennies from Heaven' would be on. I've never watched it but I'd hazard a guess it's fairly tame by today's standards

The Crowman

Shogun with Richard Chamberlain, Cain And Abel. Then the Aussie mini series the Dirtwater Dynasty. TV mini series of this type were very popular in the 70's and 80's.

Heroditas

branie2 wrote: »

one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.

They used to like showing that around Easter, along with other "holy" films.
I found the series on YouTube, quite the stellar cast! Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine...

Ipso

North and South, starring Patrick Swayze.

bodhrandude

Remember the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man as well, Falconetti the baddie was like another Jack Palance or Lee Van Cleeth and the Jordache brothers, one played by a young Nick Nolte. Also Roots (also a miniseries) , who could ever forget the story of Roots.

MonkieSocks

branie2 wrote: »

one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.

Remember that one, it was very good with Robert Powell as Jesus.

Great cast, Larry Oliver ect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IiF1rTTGQ

Around the same time there was another mini-series about Moses, Burt Lancaster played the lead.

I'll remember one scene when he is preaching to a crowd of onlookers.

He said" My Name is..........................Moses" then just flashed thosed teeth as he smiled at all around him

branie2

one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.

branie2

tringle wrote: »

Knock knock
Open wide
See what's on the other side

Knock knock
Any more
Come with me
Through the magic door...

Tidy up!
Goodbye! Goodbye!

tringle

Knock knock
Open wide
See what's on the other side

Knock knock
Any more
Come with me
Through the magic door...

tringle

branie2 wrote: »

Star Trekkin, across the universe!
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

There's Klingons on the starboard bow, the starboard bow, the starboard bow...
There's Klingons on the Starboard bow the starboard bow now Jim.

It's life Jim but not as we know it
Not as we know it
Not as.we know it Jim

Heroditas

Sardonicat wrote: »

Slowly going forward
Cos we can't find reverse.

Where are the Klingons now?

F**kers, both of you. I have that song stuck in my head now.

Sardonicat

branie2 wrote: »

Star Trekkin, across the universe!
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

Slowly going forward
Cos we can't find reverse.

Where are the Klingons now?

Electric Sheep

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.

I guess that proves that ignorant jerks existed long before the year 2000.

NasserShammaz

eviltimeban wrote: »

Benwell bangers. They were rubbish. Snap bangers were all we were "allowed" but we managed to get the other ones.

Yes, played the apple on a string game, plus the apple in the basin of water. Which was kind of gross when you reflect on it, especially after a few people goes!

killer when it bounced off your front teeth

branie2

Star Trekkin, across the universe!
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

.......

kittensmittens wrote: »

I would like to apologies in advance for recalling the trauma for all that suffered from the gruesome injuries these "toys" inflicted

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Lolo balls. I had one, wasnt to enthused by it.

eviltimeban

Benwell bangers. They were rubbish. Snap bangers were all we were "allowed" but we managed to get the other ones.

Yes, played the apple on a string game, plus the apple in the basin of water. Which was kind of gross when you reflect on it, especially after a few people goes!

mikemac2

Six children in the back seat of a fiesta
Adults didn’t wear seatbelts
Hanging off the back of tractors for a lift
Dodging tree branches on top of trailers full of hay

Ah health and safety, nobody gave a damn

We did however have graphic and shocking TV ads showing people in accidents. Like climbing ESB pylons and getting electrocuted or playing by a river and drowning

tabby aspreme

The Crowman wrote: »

Did anyone else play snapapple at Halloween in the 70's and 80's or was it dying out by then?

Yes, and ducking for coins in a basin

Wibbs

sabat wrote: »

Ooh "French bangers" lah dee dah. We had to make our own with a roll of caps, a pin, and some sellotape.

Jaysus now there's a few decaying braincells firing again. French bangers. For some reason such fireworks were considered French. I presume because a large shipment came in from there under the customs radar at some point? You could buy fireworks over the counter in the rest of Europe, here feckin sparklers were your lot. Sparklers.