Pick a decade to be a teenager in Ireland

Chin Stroker · 08-08-2013 09:54PM #1

50s: ???

60s: apparently a boom time for the economy and the introduction of mind bending drugs (if thats your thing)

70s: Cool fashion and music

80s: Mmmm computer games

90s: Ireland's football glory days

00s: The Bebo Generation?

Id probably go with the 70s for the reasons listed. What decade would you choose to grow up in?

Celly Smunt · 08-08-2013 09:56PM

85-95.But employed.

Mariasofia · 08-08-2013 09:58PM

The swingin' 60's would have been great craic I'd say.

Augmerson · 08-08-2013 09:59PM

1990s. Football, Sega, Spice Girls, Father Ted.

kneemos · 08-08-2013 10:04PM

They were all miserable apart from the nineties and noughties.

Rothko · 08-08-2013 10:07PM

90's

andyman · 08-08-2013 10:09PM

I wish I was a teenager in the 90s.

Ihatecuddles-old · 08-08-2013 10:10PM

I'm 21 so I was a part of the bebo generation! I'd pick 90's, my brothers were teens then and I was so jealous of everything they did. Going to Faces and 92 seemed so cool.

saabsaab · 08-08-2013 10:12PM

Not the seventies - I was there. Awful fashion mostly crap music too.

Duckworth_Luas · 08-08-2013 10:13PM

Augmerson wrote: »

1990s. Football, Sega, Spice Girls, Father Ted.

I was there.

I was also a teenager so I thought all of that was $hit!

seven_eleven · 08-08-2013 10:26PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU

On a serious note: I'm in my early 20's, and my memories of the 90's are really 98-99 (97 at a stretch). From what I remember it was a glorious time to be a young child. I remember the songs on the radio, the sweets, the general atmosphere etc.

I cant really say I experienced the 90's all that much but from what I remember it was great. Probably a different story for adults and teens though.

Then when 2002/2003 came around, everything seemed to change. I dont know how to explain it, but everything became bloated and irritating.

flossy1 · 08-08-2013 10:29PM

1960s I was 10-20 during 60s Music was great Beatles Rolling Stones etc.

Poor TV and not everyone had one. Sex was a mystery, and the short skirts drove us all mad

I often long for the 60s again

BraziliaNZ · 08-08-2013 10:30PM

The 90s was great. I was born in 1980 so I was unaware of the grimness of the 80s with the North and recession and what not. In the 90s I was never out of a job since I turned 13 and there was a great optimism about the place. Or maybe that was just me and all teenagers are optimistic. I wouldn't like to be part of this overly exposed internet generation either. I used to beat off to the tanning section of an Argos catalogue. I can't imagine what having all kinds of weird pornography available must be doing to young minds these days. And Social Networking ffs. Girls were better looking in the 90s too.

KeithM89 · 08-08-2013 10:32PM

The 1920's so i can be in that Michael Collins movie.

anncoates · 08-08-2013 10:35PM

80s

EdenHazard · 08-08-2013 10:35PM

2006/2007 the glory years for southside teenagers.

Jimoslimos · 08-08-2013 10:36PM

Chin Stroker wrote: »

90s: Ireland's football glory days

Really? Let me see, there was Italia '90 and USA '94......then nothing. A couple of weeks of progressing out of the group stages from an entire decade - I'll pass.

However the music, the TV (last decade of decent television before the internet), the computer games were all better than the previous decade. Plus being the perfect age to take full advantage of the internet revolution.

Femme_Fatale · 08-08-2013 10:37PM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Really? Let me see, there was Italia '90 and USA '94......then nothing. A couple of weeks of progressing out of the group stages from an entire decade

Still Ireland's football glory days though.

Loopy · 08-08-2013 10:37PM

Defo the 80's

MadYaker · 08-08-2013 10:38PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I'm 21 so I was a part of the bebo generation! I'd pick 90's, my brothers were teens then and I was so jealous of everything they did. Going to Faces and 92 seemed so cool.

I'm 22 but id really rather our generation wasn't known as the Bebo generation. Anyway the 00s get my vote. I had a good time.

Jimoslimos · 08-08-2013 10:44PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Still Ireland's football glory days though.

Well I wouldn't like to live through Ireland's football dark days then...

Wait...in what decade did Macedonia beat Ireland?:(

castletownman · 08-08-2013 10:45PM

I'd give my left nut to have been of a drinking age in 1996 amongst the throngs of people out on the streets of my hometown celebrating Wexford winning the All-Ireland. Would've been amazing.

So yeah the 1990's. Dodgy haircuts and lots of denim aside

seven_eleven · 08-08-2013 10:52PM

flossy1 wrote: »

1960s I was 10-20 during 60s Music was great Beatles Rolling Stones etc.

Poor TV and not everyone had one. Sex was a mystery, and the short skirts drove us all mad

I often long for the 60s again

Ah jaysis. Now I feel sad/too young.

markomuscle · 08-08-2013 10:53PM

i'd go for the 1590's myself or viking age ireland to be a young man.

R P McMurphy · 08-08-2013 10:58PM

1990s definitely - the asylum, ufo

razorgil · 08-08-2013 11:06PM

not sure what decades, but anytime when you could see the original line-ups of led zeppilin, thin lizzy, the who, the doors live

Belle E. Flops · 08-08-2013 11:10PM

I'd love to have been a teenager in the mid 60s - mid 70s, but not in Ireland. As far as I know Ireland wasn't as 'swingin' as Britain or the US.

ShazGV · 08-08-2013 11:12PM

I was a teenager the 00s & it was pretty good to me. The 60s would've been fantastic if only for the music.

Superbus · 08-08-2013 11:13PM

1950s, I'd love to fully experience being socially repressed by a hostile, all-powerful religious force and live in a cold, small cottage with no heating or electricity. What a time to be alive.

Geomy · 08-08-2013 11:16PM

1990s the music was quite good, grunge, indie, rave, techno, house, alternative, metal....

I love all kinda music, I remember the clubbing scene and disco bar's were hopping...

My friends and I spent most of our weekend's from 94 to 99 travelling the country from Clare to Sir Henry's Cork, the Castle Salthill, CP's Galway,Spirals Tralee, Langtons Kilkenny, Kellys Portrush,Queens Ennis, O Looneys Lahinch, Doc's Limerick, Fibbers Bunratty.
Hacienda Manchester,

The Micky Mack Dance Show was the sound track of Saturday nights during the 90s

The fishing was also way better during the 90s

Nadser · 08-08-2013 11:17PM

1990s. Before then you had to go to a chemist and ask at the counter in order to get contraceptives. Condom machines became legal in the 90s - sexual freedom way hey!

Pick a decade to be a teenager in Ireland

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