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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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Hotblack Desiato

tringle wrote: »

And she wasnt even in the nip to us she was behind a paper screen or sheet.

"Those women weren't even in the nip!"

The Crowman

Count Down wrote: »

There was one scene where she was posing for the art class and she was in the full nip, although the camera angles only showed her top half. :eek:
It was done in the best possible taste, but to no avail....

In the retrospective clip I remember them showing you could clearly see her rear end, she was nude and shown in full from behind.

Count Down

The Crowman wrote: »

In the retrospective clip I remember them showing you could clearly see her rear end, she was nude and shown in full from behind.

Odd that I don't remember that bit. I would have been around 16 at the time. Probably averted my gaze so as not to be assailed with impure thoughts for the rest of my life - assuming I was to live that long. :eek:

branie2

I think I might have seen the retrospective clip

Grayson

The Crowman wrote: »

In the retrospective clip I remember them showing you could clearly see her rear end, she was nude and shown in full from behind.

The wikipedia page for thsi is nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spike_(TV_series)

n episode five, "the briefest glimpse of naked flesh" caused outrage and angry phonecalls to newspapers. The show's producer defended the nude streak as an intent "to examine the attitude of pupils and staff to nudity". The ensuing fuss led to one of the actors requiring medical treatment after he was, as the Evening Press elegantly phrased it, "thumped by a fat elderly lady".[5] The episode sparked debate in Dáil Éireann and was condemned by the Taoiseach Jack Lynch, despite him having never seen the programme.[6] On the day that the sixth episode was due to air with a story of a schoolboy bomber, it was axed. The remaining episodes remain locked away and have neither never been broadcast on RTÉ nor viewed by members of the general public. The Spike was later featured on RTÉ's scandal series, Scannal,[7][8] with the Irish Independent naming it as one of their "Top 10 Worst Irish TV Programmes".[

Apparently it was useless too. The acting was terrible and the script sucked. they tried to tackle serious issues but were just terrible at it.

Count Down

Grayson wrote: »

The wikipedia page for thsi is nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spike_(TV_series)

Apparently it was useless too. The acting was terrible and the script sucked. they tried to tackle serious issues but were just terrible at it.

Yes, the acting was generally shyte, not helped by a rubbishy script, but this gave it an unintentional comedy aspect.
In one storyline, some young one gets crap results in her Inter cert. Her father tells her in no uncertain terms that she'll have to leave her posh fee-paying school and go to the dreaded kip of a school 'The Spike' for the new term. Aghast, she wails "No, no, not The Spike!"
At school the next day, virtually everyone in the class were imitating her wailing "No, no, not The Spike!" We thought we were hilarious.

[Deleted User]

In 2002, RTE had a good documentary on their drama - celebrating 40 years. Have it on VIDEO HOME SYSTEM. Might try to upload to YouTube. There's clips from The Spike and others on it.

Mongfinder General

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

In 2002, RTE had a good documentary on their drama - celebrating 40 years. Have it on VIDEO HOME SYSTEM. Might try to upload to YouTube. There's clips from The Spike and others on it.

Do it!

The Crowman

Remember when it was a big deal when an Irish movie came out in the cinema? Eat The Peach, Reefer And The Model, The Courier. They'd usually be shown on RTE not long after coming out.

Dyr

The Crowman wrote: »

Remember when it was a big deal when an Irish movie came out in the cinema? Eat The Peach, Reefer And The Model, The Courier. They'd usually be shown on RTE not long after coming out.

I remember Eat the Peach getting a shed load of publicity when it came outm then a few years back some newspaper gave it away free on DVD

JupiterKid

One film from the 1980s that moved me was Lamb. Featuring a young Liam Neeson, it was hugely depressing.:(

So much was truly depressing in the 1980s, thank God I was only a child and had my mates, my BMX and my LEGO town to play with (when it was raining, we played outdoors a lot...)

[Deleted User]

Lamb was excellent. Bleak stuff.
Hugh O’Conor with one n - always thought that looked wrong

[Deleted User]

Count Down wrote: »

As I recall there was a storyline concerning a teacher having an illicit liaison with one of the younger students - way ahead of its time in 1970s Ireland.
The teacher's name was Curtin, and when a fellow teacher found out he hit Mr Curtin a wallop, causing a black eye. At school the next day, some student wittily shouted out "Is it hurtin' Curtin?"

Interesting - it was filmed in Synge St, which had a Mr Curtin on staff at the time.

branie2

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Lamb was excellent. Bleak stuff.
Hugh O’Conor with one n - always thought that looked wrong

Early Liam Neeson film as well

The Crowman

JupiterKid wrote: »

One film from the 1980s that moved me was Lamb. Featuring a young Liam Neeson, it was hugely depressing.:(

So much was truly depressing in the 1980s, thank God I was only a child and had my mates, my BMX and my LEGO town to play with (when it was raining, we played outdoors a lot...)

RTE screened it soon after it was released and true to form they pretty much gave away the ending in the clip publicising the screening. That was an odd aspect of 80's TV that whenever there was a heavily publicised film or TV show coming up they'd have these promos with portentous voiceover explaining the storyline. It wasn't just RTE either as the below clip shows (spoiler alert).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0dvyK9YO-k

its_steve116

branie2 wrote: »

Early Liam Neeson film as well

...before he told that dude that he'd look for him, find him... and kill him.

Hotblack Desiato

The Crowman wrote: »

Remember when it was a big deal when an Irish movie came out in the cinema? Eat The Peach, Reefer And The Model, The Courier. They'd usually be shown on RTE not long after coming out.

And they were all sh!te too, but we were patriotically expected to watch them on RTE with our nostrils pinched to not smell the smell of sh!te and proclaim that they were "grand".

Eat The Peach is one of the worst fcuking movies ever made, but RTE made out it was Oscar material...

The Crowman

Another odd memory that just popped into my head of the movie Lamb is that soon after RTE showed it there was a story in the papers about an unfortunate man who took his own life after watching it. His neighbour reported that the man was talking about the film the following day and saying how depressing he found it and the ending in particular, I think he was found dead just shortly later.

its_steve116

The Crowman wrote: »

Another odd memory that just popped into my head of the movie Lamb is that soon after RTE showed it there was a story in the papers about an unfortunate man who took his own life after watching it. His neighbour reported that the man was talking about the film the following day and saying how depressing he found it and the ending in particular, I think he was found dead just shortly later.

That's sad.

Heroditas

Lamb was awfully grim. I still remember it well and have absolutely no desire to watch it again, particularly now that I'm a parent.

The Crowman

Who can forget the safety ads that used to be on tv in the 70's and 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hc1JbuR9Ek

Say Your Number

Never heard of that film Lamb before, Jesus Christ, from reading the plot description, it makes Angela's Ashes seem like a laugh a minute comedy.

sitkaspruce

I remember being on summer holidays in Newtownmountkennedy as a youngster and going to Wicklow town where Pierce Brosnan was filming Taffin. The highlight of summer 87 (I think it was?)

The Crowman

Clash Of The Ash was great.

Heroditas

sitkaspruce wrote: »

I remember being on summer holidays in Newtownmountkennedy as a youngster and going to Wicklow town where Pierce Brosnan was filming Taffin. The highlight of summer 87 (I think it was?)

Well maybe you shouldn't be living heeeerrrrrrreeee?

[Deleted User]

The Crowman wrote: »

Clash Of The Ash was great.

I wrote this article on Clash Of The Ash for Where's Grandad.

The YouTube upload of it is from my VHS tape.

Kermit.de.frog

"Saw Boss!" lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0SzFIf4A

imme

sitkaspruce wrote: »

I remember being on summer holidays in Newtownmountkennedy as a youngster and going to Wicklow town where Pierce Brosnan was filming Taffin. The highlight of summer 87 (I think it was?)

Taffin is a classic, an Irish film noir made in the 1980's, it is great to see the locations/scenes in it, evocative.

lmimmfn

its_steve116 wrote: »

...before he told that dude that he'd look for him, find him... and kill him.

Before he had a certain set of skills

branie2

Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid