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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Kermit.de.frog

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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Count Down

fryup wrote: »

i got a sugar addiction from them....ended going to rebab

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

lord lucan

Am I the only one that remembers The Highway Man,late 80s iirc.

https://youtu.be/4S43ASGEOuU

The Princess Bride

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

That triggered a memory of Galtee cheese sandwiches and milk in a brown sauce bottle.
The milk was warm by lunchtime.

I think I had cheese sandwiches every single day for 13 years of school.

Count Down

The Princess Bride wrote: »

That triggered a memory of Galtee cheese sandwiches and milk in a brown sauce bottle.
The milk was warm by lunchtime.

I think I had cheese sandwiches every single day for 13 years of school.

I too had Galtee cheese sandwiches and the disgusting Calvita 'cheese'. Put me off cheese for a long time because I thought that real cheese tasted like this.:o

PGE1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8oeiVDcx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4C7vSByMM

So 1980s.

Rubberlegs

Hart to Hart, "Cause when they met, it was moider"

branie2

MacGyver, saving the day with everyday objects

Sardonicat

branie2 wrote: »

MacGyver, saving the day with everyday objects

And lock of hair and a safety pin...

bodhrandude

The Dukes of Hazzard.

One of Kurt Russell's early TV appearances in The Quest from 1976.

dieselbug

Not sure if someone has already mentioned it but.....

Hill Street Blue's A really good show

"be careful out there"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqH3qCxz2x0

Hotblack Desiato

Hill Street Blues is still my favourite TV show ever.

Veronica Hamel made me do something like this before it was invented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7Z6EWimoU

She turns 75 next week :eek:

And all those bedtime scenes were wasted on Frank Furillo because Daniel J. Travanti bats for the other team...

Feisar

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

That fool might not have much else to eat.

[Deleted User]

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Hill Street Blues is still my favourite TV show ever.

One of my mine too.

I bought the region 1 DVD set a few years ago. Watched them one per week, every Monday night at around 11.00pm - same as I did with my Dad in the 1980s.

Clonmel1000

dieselbug wrote: »

Not sure if someone has already mentioned it but.....

Hill Street Blue's A really good show

"be careful out there"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqH3qCxz2x0

When you see finding joy as an example of today’s tv it makes me weep in longing for HIll Street Blues.

AllForIt

Wibbs wrote: »

I was about to call shenanigans on your post about the church in the 80's, but then remembered there was quite the large gulf between rural and urban in this. Some parishes were run by the priests and the nuns and any dissension was treated as a major social no no. I heard of people, even families moving away because of the social pressures. In the cities it was significantly less of an issue, certainly by the 80's. The clergy couldn't control things nearly so much. Even if you were religious one priest pisses you off and you piss him off? Big deal, go to another church a couple of hundred yards away. Or don't go at all, beyond oulwans behind twitching curtains nobody would care.

Well yes. I used to love being in Dublin away from the country as a late teenager say on a weekend getaway which was rare. I would feel a sense of relief from the utter sense of conformity one felt in a small country town.

Some of priests were okay but most I seriously didn't like as they struck a very serious domineering demeanour at all times. As a kid I felt I was supposed to be scared of them and If I didn't I'd be showing lack of respect. Some of our school teachers were exactly the same and in certain classes would ditch the class lesson for a sermon on religion as if they were showing off what a wonderful staunch Catholic they were and we should aspire to be the same.

The funny thing is it didn't bother me at the time but it really bothers me now when I think about it as an adult. My comments might come across as unnecessary and unfair but I just think the way it was should be recognised and not forgotten. I have no problem with anyone being a Catholic but when still to this day some family member gives me the impression I'm failing in my duties as a Catholic (which I'm clearly not one off but they think I should be anyway as if it's something you can't ditch) that's enough to drive me insane.

branie2

Little House on the Prairie

I thought I might mention it as Katherine MacGregor, who played Mrs Olsen in the series, passed away yesterday.

Sardonicat

branie2 wrote: »

Little House on the Prairie

I thought I might mention it as Katherine MacGregor, who played Mrs Olsen in the series, passed away yesterday.

Oh that's sad. She was a great comic character. Someone you loved to hate.

Hotblack Desiato

I would have thought she would have gone 20 or 30 years ago but she played a character that was younger than she was (50, at the time, was OLD) and went into the 90+es. I hope she enjoyed every minute. Given family history with dementia etc. I'll be hoping for a pillow firmly over my face as soon as things turn seriously south. But hey, let's look on the bright side...

Duck Soup

Chippers were good. Pubs were good. Eason's was good. It wasn't so bad.

AllForIt

branie2 wrote: »

Little House on the Prairie

I thought I might mention it as Katherine MacGregor, who played Mrs Olsen in the series, passed away yesterday.

Happened to watch an episode not too long ago for nostalgia sake. Mrs Olsen was the central protagonist in that episode where she wouldn't hire a dwarf and prevented him getting a job anywhere else in the town. She was utterly brilliant in her portrayal as a completely prejudiced nasty human being. I never saw her in the media as herself, she was so good you'd think she must be the same in real life to be so convincing.

BoatMad

Duck Soup wrote: »

Chippers were good. Pubs were good. Eason's was good. It wasn't so bad.

naw I lved in central Dublin in the 80s , it was a bombed out dead place.

branie2

An Irish icon of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Sonny Knowles, passed away today.

Hotblack Desiato

Ah c'mon, he was on the nostalgia / grab a granny circuit even then.

JupiterKid

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

Sadly, that may have been all his parents could afford to feed him. Or possibly he had an alcoholic father who pissed all his wages or welfare down the pub. Real poverty was widespread in Ireland back in the 80s, and many children went hungry.*

*The OECD estimated that as recently as 1986, over 45% of children in Ireland lived in poverty.

Hotblack Desiato

We used to get sandwiches (and buns one day a week) in primary school, as well as a 1/3 pint bottle of milk every day.

Was this just because I was in a poor area or did everyone get this?

JupiterKid

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

We used to get sandwiches (and buns one day a week) in primary school, as well as a 1/3 pint bottle of milk every day.

Was this just because I was in a poor area or did everyone get this?

We got free milk in primary school in those little cartons. But we had to bring our own sambos, usually with easi singles manky processed cheese (vomit...) and picnic ham.

McDermotX

Don't remember any sandwiches or buns, but there was a milk handout every day (paid for at the start of the yearly period though IIRC), with a little straw as well.

Only for the early years though. Looked on as a way to put youngsters on the right, healthy path.

Jokes on them though, little do they know about the man-sized wreck I've become.

AllForIt

JupiterKid wrote: »

We got free milk in primary school in those little cartons. But we had to bring our own sambos, usually with easi singles manky processed cheese (vomit...) and picnic ham.

We had banana sambos for school lunch every day and in the later half of the 80's we upgraded to something called luncheon. I liked it at the time but couldn't stomach it now. Fake ham would be a better name for it. All washed down with Orange (squash)..........YUCK!

padd b1975

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Why not just say Charlie Haughey?

I'm fairly sure it was Brian Lenihan Snr.

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The Princess Bride wrote: »

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

That triggered a memory of Galtee cheese sandwiches and milk in a brown sauce bottle.
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Was it hard to get the sandwiches into the milk bottle?