Reeling in your years.

Ghandee · 10-08-2012 10:08AM

seamus wrote: »

I'm 30, and I'm not offended

For all intents and purposes, the rest of the world really only started existing for me in the year 2000.

I've five years on you buddy, I'm still considered a brat though.

RikkFlair · 10-08-2012 10:38AM

I'm outraged that the 1985 episode of Reeling in the Years fails to mention the exploits of Dr. Emmet Brown & Marty McFly. History makers.

nbar12 · 10-08-2012 10:40AM

The best part of every show is the tune at the start...

mikemac1 · 10-08-2012 10:41AM

1981 and Enya was becoming the biggest star in Ireland

Now she is one of the richest

Jester252 · 10-08-2012 10:48AM

1991 best year on the RITY

mikemac1 · 10-08-2012 10:52AM

dodgy haircuts, wooly jumpers and battered Toyotas

Bad times

dazberry · 10-08-2012 11:03AM

My previous elderly next door neighbour used to shout at the TV during the likes of Prime Time at all the politicians, notably Fianna Fail where he seems to have a deep seated hatred of them stemming back to the 50s. I used to think it was amusing...

I was watching Reeling in the years last week and anytime Bertie Aherne appeared on the TV I found myself shouting f**king c**t at the TV. I think I'm getting old

I was in my 20s in the 90s, so any episodes around that era tends to get me very nostalgic...

D.

Irishdudedave · 10-08-2012 11:04AM

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I can't remember the name of the programme, it could have been a prime time special.
Anyway there was a man on it, mid thirties, dark hair & wearing glasses. There was a mobile camera unit thing that you could go up to & say where you were going, why you were going etc.
This man starts getting emotional & is telling the camera how he doesn't know when he will get to see his elderly parents again, nieces, nephews. That he didnt want to leave ireland but har no other choice. My heart went out to him.
This was only on a few months ago but I often think of him & wonder how he's getting on.

Does anyone know who I'm on about or can they find it on you tube?

It was called "Departures" and then there was a follow up a year later called "Arrivals". I cant find it online.

jos28 · 10-08-2012 11:46AM

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I can't remember the name of the programme, it could have been a prime time special.
Anyway there was a man on it, mid thirties, dark hair & wearing glasses. There was a mobile camera unit thing that you could go up to & say where you were going, why you were going etc.
This man starts getting emotional & is telling the camera how he doesn't know when he will get to see his elderly parents again, nieces, nephews. That he didnt want to leave ireland but har no other choice. My heart went out to him.
This was only on a few months ago but I often think of him & wonder how he's getting on.

Does anyone know who I'm on about or can they find it on you tube?

I think it would be great to make a programme where they trace those who were interviewed leaving Ireland in the 80s. I too would love to find out how they got on. Mind you, RTE has no money so research trips to the USA are probably not on the agenda.

Feisar · 10-08-2012 11:54AM

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Never noticed the phrasing in that before.
"Another generation turns its back on Ireland"
Up yours RTE

That was the first thing that hit me to.

podgeandrodge · 14-08-2012 07:28PM

I love reeling in the years.

BUT:

Sat down this evening and saw it on - for 2007.

Is it just me that thinks 2007 is a bit recent for this programme? It's supposed to be nostalgic not feel like it was yesterday?

And one part has "PJ Gallagher steps out as Jake Stevens" - does he really warrant a mention in this programme? Really?

Edit - see on RTE website that they've already made 2009. I dunno. I think these programmes should even be made a good long time after the year in question - when there is a different focus on what matters/mattered.

Cassidy28 · 14-08-2012 07:33PM

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Never noticed the phrasing in that before.
"Another generation turns its back on Ireland"
Up yours RTE

They all look so innocent.

J Cheever Loophole · 19-08-2012 12:42PM

I have a good number of these shows recorded and have been watching them recently. For me 1981 and the Hunger Strike, played to the background of the intro of "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, represented absolutely brilliant television. The music caught perfectly the mood of what were emotive images, and brought me back to what were very dark, and indeed momentous events.

A wonderful television series.

itac · 19-08-2012 01:17PM

Similar story to Seamus, but some parts of the 80's/90's are crystal

I remember being in the car going past the scene of the murder of Anne & Annie Gillespie in Sligo, and seeing the blue garda car and not quite understanding what was going on.

For some reason, the murder of Jamie Bulger struck a chord with me, after reading a big article in the Sunday Times about it, I wrote a long long essay about it for school. The footage of the three of them walking off still makes me cry.

Italia 90, USA 94 and more importantly, Sligo Rovers winning the FAI cup in 94:D

The two biggest things that made me wake up to the world were in 1998- Omagh, as Mum had worked there when she was younger, knew people who were injured, and it really shook me up, as I thought the days of waking up to reports of bombings, beatings and murders were gone. And then the sudden the loss of a friend and his brother that Christmas really made me think about the world, about how events in life can have such impact on those near and far.

On happier notes, I remember the scorcher of a day that Donegal won Sam, I remember going to see Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros in 1999, getting a Christmas card from Philomena Lynott, the day I told President Robinson that I didn't want to meet her and I'd rather be playing in the estate than be shaking her hand, and of course Rovers winning the cup in 94. (I know I already mentioned it, I just wanted to say it again......

Reeling in your years.

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