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The Glenroe Feeling

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  • #62
    It BeeMee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭It BeeMee


    Not quite the same, but "The Rose of Tralee" always suggests the end of the summer holidays to me.

    I have memories of being in a neighbour's house, bargaining over the prices of second-hand books, while Gay was telling some not-so-pretty young thing about his wife with her red head......


  • #63
    lemansky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭lemansky


    I'm 18 so I cann't remember what age I was when Glenroe was on...but yes it did also signify the end of the weekend for me.
    Two bits I remember clearly for some reason:
    On an episode shown on a Halloween night(I remember because I was sitting on the floor with my haul of sweets) Biddy and Miley had an argument.Miley got pissed off,said to her 'Biddy....I....I'm annoyed',smashed a plate over a table,and then showing how whipped he was proceeded to clean up the mess and apologise profusely.
    Other incident was when Biddy died.....a sad day for Irish television:D


  • #64
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Duggy747 wrote:
    Eurgh!! Anyone remember the quiz show Where In The World that would be on before Glenroe? That awful sick feeling as well that your weekend was over and another week of school started in 10 hours......*shivers*

    Anyone remember Mary cracking Dick's head on the fireplace?

    I do remember Mary getting high on the magic mushrooms. :D


  • #65
    mkennedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭mkennedy


    great description of an impending school week/homework undone etc. I definitely recall that feeling associated with the glenroe theme tune.

    tbh though I didn't think that such a specific association would be something so many others here also experienced.
    very interesting.


  • #66
    DO0GLE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭DO0GLE


    Would make a great mobile phone ringtone!!


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  • #67
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    ntlbell wrote:
    Now your talking!

    Would I be correct in saying the "glenroe" feeling was more of a "country" thing.

    Even at that age i think i'd rather go to bed than watch glenroe

    Yeah probably, wouldnt have been caught dead watching that class of thing


  • #68
    DaBreno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭DaBreno


    Argh, Yes! The sound of end credits, gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach even now.


  • #69
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    Deadly thread, the memories all come flooding back.

    Those f**king end credits! :D


  • #70
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Was just talking about this recently... God how I hated Glenroe! All these feelings are flooding back now!


  • #71
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    I live just south of Kilcoole where Glenroe was shot. I moved here just before the show finished but I still find it weird when I drive through the village. The Church and the Molly Malone bring me back to those Sunday nights.

    I love this pic of the sign in the village. It's the best bit of graffiti that I have ever seen.

    glenroe.jpg


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  • #72
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Feeling this strongly tonight.


  • #73
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Six years later?? :D


  • #74
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    All those things I thought to myself in work on Friday 'pff, feck it, it's the weekend, I'll deal with it on Monday' are now rushing back to me :(


  • #75
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    I've got the glenroe theme tune ringing in my head now... holy godddddd!


  • #76
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Usually had Teresa Lowe (??) with Where in the World on before Glenroe.

    Arragha , Sunday blues are setting in now, thanks for resurrecting this thread :mad:


  • #77
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Has the dawning of the internet age meant that future generations will no longer experience that collective consciousness thing like this anymore. I mean kids these days dont sit down to watch something at 8.30 with their family, its all PS4's, IPad's, beating prostitutes to death in GTA. I think they are missing out on the chance to come on a forum in 20 years and reminise about some awful drama. I suppose they could watch Love/Hate.......


  • #78
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,887 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Have ye got your homework done for the morning :eek:


  • #79
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,027 ✭✭✭The_B_Man
    Something about sandwiches


    Jaysus I've had an awful dose of it all day. :(


  • #80
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Pardon me for being smug, but I usually did my weekend homework on a Saturday morning.


  • #81
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Agricola wrote: »
    Has the dawning of the internet age meant that future generations will no longer experience that collective consciousness thing like this anymore. I mean kids these days dont sit down to watch something at 8.30 with their family, its all PS4's, IPad's, beating prostitutes to death in GTA. I think they are missing out on the chance to come on a forum in 20 years and reminise about some awful drama. I suppose they could watch Love/Hate.......


    Yep everybody is kind of going their own way these days and have more in common with some e-peeps 1000s of miles away in the states than anyone on their own street. The future seems very boring indeed


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  • #82
    coinflip13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭coinflip13


    Anyone else get put to bed at like 8 or half 8 during the summer and lie there, not tired at all, too warm, bored out of your mind, watching the room get slowly darker ... childhood wasn't all fun!


  • #83
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    The weekend is over


  • #84
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Ah sure! There'll be another one round soon enough!


  • #85
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Thread is almost as old as Glenroe.


  • #86
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    branie wrote: »
    Pardon me for being smug, but I usually did my weekend homework on a Saturday morning.

    You either do it on a Friday when you get in from school to get it out of the way, or else Sunday just before going to bed, leaving it till the last minute.

    Saturday morning has no place here :P


  • #87
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    I used to love glenroe..my favourite episode was when miley got cross with biddy for ploughing the wrong field!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsB6-GbpQxQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player


  • #88
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Blackie Connors was some man to fix a gate.


  • #89
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    While we're on that theme, remember Murphy's Micro Quizim used to be on just before Glenroe
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2013/1009/479266-murphys-micro-quiz-m-1983/


  • #90
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I always found Mary weirdly rideable


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  • #91
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    While we're on that theme, remember Murphy's Micro Quizim used to be on just before Glenroe
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2013/1009/479266-murphys-micro-quiz-m-1983/
    Wondered for years what the "m" tacked on at the end meant. Wordplay referring to "microcosm". Didn't work...


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