Reeling in your years.

lazygal

I love Reeling in the Years. My favourite ones are the 1990s episodes, because I remember so much from that decade.

Stand out moments from the 1990s for good and bad are:
Italia 90
Mary Robinson getting elected
Northern Ireland peace process
Bill Clinton's visits to Ireland
Tony Blair getting into power and the whole New Labour thing

What stands out from what decade for AH-ers?

galwayrush

Katie Taylor, 9th august 2012.

later12

This. Mainly because it's happening again.

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

I_smell_fear

You know shít went down when Albatross by Fleetwood Mac comes on Reeling In The Years

Professey Chin

later12 wrote: »

This. Mainly because it's happening again.

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

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

girl in the striped socks

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?

SocSocPol

Live Aid 1985
Self Aid 1986

MrStuffins

I'll always remember 1999

it was when they first aired my favourite show, Reeling in the Years.

Oh the memories!

Ghandee

I'll never forget the tsunami of 2004.

That was a tragedy my friends.

So many people lost their lives, i watched in disbelief knowing I'd been in Thailand a few months previous.

GerM

1989: Fall of apartheid, Hillsborough, end of Cold War, fall of Communism with reform and revolution across eastern Europe, Tianamen Square, Guildford Four released, Ireland qualify for first WC and Berlin Wall is torn down.

Where To

1987

Emmerdale Farm

Jackie Merrick fell into an old mine shaft trying to rescue sheep.

Galwayguy35

September 29 2008

The day the dream ended for the Irish

Bad Panda

1995.

Just because it was a summer whereby you woke up and you just knew the weather was going to be good. You could plan a day at the beach a few days in advance without worrying!

ScumLord

Windows 95.

galwayrush wrote: »

Katie Taylor, 9th august 2012.

I wonder how long we'll have to listen to people gushing over Katie. I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure endure Ryan Tubridy rattle on about how much of a saint she is coming home from Dublin this morning in the car (I doubt he has the slightest interest in boxing) and he's just ruined it for me.

Katie is a legend but I almost felt sorry for her having all that pressure on her during the fight.

senorwipesalot

In the mid eighties when the british gutter press first went on sale here with their Page 3 lovlies.
Oh the mammaries.

Mr Benevolent

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

September 29 2008

The day the dream ended for the Irish

Why, did you bow out of the Porn Olympics with a punctured knob?

Galwayguy35

Confab wrote: »

Why, did you bow out of the Porn Olympics with a punctured knob?

I could give you a proper answer but it might be too much for your single brain cell.

Ziegfeldgirl27

I was born in 1988 but the best episodes of reeling in the years are the 1960s ones!! Can't get enough of them. Don't like the modern ones so much.

BornToKill

ScumLord wrote: »

I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure Ryan Tubridy

Was he badly injured? Fair play to you anyway. I hope you don't get charged over it now.

ScumLord

BornToKill wrote: »

Was he badly injured? Fair play to you anyway. I hope you don't get charged over it now.

They just used a bit of wood glue to put him back together, he's fine.

AlmightyCushion

ScumLord wrote: »

Windows 95.


I wonder how long we'll have to listen to people gushing over Katie. I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure Ryan Tubridy rattle on about how much of a saint she is coming home from Dublin this morning in the car (I doubt he has the slightest interest in boxing) and he's just ruined it for me.

Katie is a legend but I almost felt sorry for her having all that pressure on her during the fight.

I hope that isn't a typo.

cml387

ScumLord wrote: »

Windows 95.


I wonder how long we'll have to listen to people gushing over Katie. I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure endure Ryan Tubridy rattle on about how much of a saint she is coming home from Dublin this morning in the car (I doubt he has the slightest interest in boxing) and he's just ruined it for me.

Katie is a legend but I almost felt sorry for her having all that pressure on her during the fight.

Oh how I agree with that. It was absolutely awful and if I never heard the name Katie Taylor again it would be too soon.

Still, then I watched the fight and my heart melted..go girl.

Oh the topic. The seventies, definitely. If there was any colour in the newsreel film, wasn;t everything so ..brown

Sunnyisland

I love reeling in the years and there is a song/music of every year that brings back memories.

Lapin

Best thing on RTÉ.

I don't care how often they repeat it, I'll watch it again and again.

Two incidents that most stand out for me both stem from 1981. One of the most fúcked years in this nation's history.

The scenes of the Stardust fire still send a shiver down my spine whenever I see them.

And I always PMSL whenever I see Albert Reynolds in James Bond mode trying to sort out the Aer Lingus hijacking.

ChunkyLover54

I thought the 90's series was good because I could remember/half-remember all of it.

My favourite is the 80's series though....fascinating decade

crapmanjoe

Is there any place online you can watch these shows or order the box set or something.

Love the show

Cookie_Monster

The only good series RTE have every made.

Cookie_Monster

crapmanjoe wrote: »

Is there any place online you can watch these shows or order the box set or something.

Love the show

you can buy it on the rte site, I have 70,80 and 90 from them

seamus

This decade and the last are probably the ones which will stand out most for me, I'd say. I was a child in the 80's, and a self-obsessed teenager in the 90's. So the true impact of any major events during those times was lost on me. I don't even remember hearing about the Good Friday agreement, such was my lack of giving a ****.

Italia '90 and USA '94 are about the only "big" things I remember from the 90's, purely because I had fun watching them. I remember the first Iraq war, but only because it got so much coverage. From my point of view it was "just another war", and I didn't even know who was fighting in it.

It was only going into my twenties that I started paying attention to world events and understanding their implications.

Ghandee

seamus wrote: »

This decade and the last are probably the ones which will stand out most for me, I'd say. I was a child in the 80's, and a self-obsessed teenager in the 90's. So the true impact of any major events during those times was lost on me. I don't even remember hearing about the Good Friday agreement, such was my lack of giving a ****.

Italia '90 and USA '94 are about the only "big" things I remember from the 90's, purely because I had fun watching them. I remember the first Iraq war, but only because it got so much coverage. From my point of view it was "just another war", and I didn't even know who was fighting in it.

It was only going into my twenties that I started paying attention to world events and understanding their implications.

Dont hate me for this Seamus, I've imagined you to be much older than this lol?

If, for no other reason than the mature and level headedness of ypur posts.

I'm guessing your in your mid 30's, for some reason I imagined a decade older.

seamus

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.

Ghandee

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

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

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

mikemac1

1981 and Enya was becoming the biggest star in Ireland

Now she is one of the richest

Jester252

1991 best year on the RITY

mikemac1

dodgy haircuts, wooly jumpers and battered Toyotas

Bad times

dazberry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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......