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The 70's and 80's in Ireland
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Hamsterchops wrote: »My 1st car in her early 80s was a mini 850 with an annual insurance premium of 500 Irish Punts, then when I landed in London one if the 1st things I did was to buy a Datsun 280ZX sports car with an annual insurance premium of £120
I went to gigs in stadiums + other venues and saw George Harrison & Eric Clapton Live, Pink Floyd, Ian Duty & the Blockheads, David Bowie, I camped @ Glastonbury and flew to places like Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, many places on a shoestring. Holidays that you you couldn't even book from here, or if you did they cost thousands (of Punts)!
Quinnsworth (Quinnswert) was the main supermarket here, but suddenly I was able to shop in Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose etc (none of which were here in the ROI).
One thing I remember before I left these shores was a Republican picket outside (a British shop) C&A, which was situated in O'Connell Street.
No Foreign shops please, we're Irish
Television was another dead end in the 70s early 80s, amateurish TV run on a shoestring, RTE1 only, then RTE2 and that was it ......
Thankfully we had a TV mast with an aerial stop tuned to Harlech (HTV) Television-Wales, we also got BBC Wales!!! Fancy pants indeed, but it gave us a choice we'd never have here without the mast. Same with FM radio whereby we had an FM aerial pulling in the BBCs in glorious Stereo (BBC Top 40 on a Sunday afternoon) Wow, when there was nothing going on here apart from Wanderly Wagon, Trad music & The Angelous @ Six.
Hail Mary full of .........everybody on the top deck of the 46a constantly blessing themselves (in a thick haze of fag smoke) as we passed every Church on the way into Dublin.
Jezuz it was bleak.
B.H.S. not C @ A
Welsh T.V. Harlech.
Crossroads with Miss Diane and Benny
The Golden Shot "Bernie. the bolt"
The Big Match, always the games with London teams.
Ireland. Rip off Aer Lingus so ferry over and then
the night train from Holyhead to Euston.
Menai Bridge, Crewe.
Ending up in London 6 in the morning and hitting for digs in Camden or Kentish Town0 -
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The British channels closed down early in 1973-74 when they had the coal miners strike and the three day week.
BTW why did people start using the word "punt" ever since the euro came in? Nobody called it that when we actually used it, it was always just pounds (or powend, dat ting cost me twenty powend )
It's as annoying as saying Êire instead of Ireland. I don't call Germany Deutschland when I'm speaking English...In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Fûck Bosco
But Wanderly Wagon, To The Waters And The Wild, Hands, and Hall's Pictorial Weekly are classic TV.
RTE wiped the videotapes of the first
, I've bought both DVDs of the last, the excellent Hands was repeated in full a few years ago and I watched the lot. I'd buy DVDs of To The Waters And The Wild if available.
Some of Wanderly Wagon survives. RTE released two DVDs in the 2000s. I have the first one - a continuous storyline from c.1979. 7 episodes, no end credits which is very sloppy.0 -
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
BTW why did people start using the word "punt" ever since the euro came in? Nobody called it that when we actually used it, it was always just pounds (or powend, dat ting cost me twenty powend )
It's as annoying as saying Êire instead of Ireland. I don't call Germany Deutschland when I'm speaking English...
If Sterling was being discussed, Punt was always used to differentiate between the two.
Now that there is no Irish pound, I guess the term Punt is used so as not to confuse with the remaining Sterling pound - if you said "pound" now, people would assume that you are talking about Sterling.0 -
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Oh for goodness sake, this is what I said .....Hamsterchops wrote: »My 1st car in her early 80s was a mini 850 with an annual insurance premium of 500 Irish Punts, then when I landed in London one of the 1st things I did was to buy a Datsun 280ZX sports car with an annual insurance premium of £120
If for no other reason that many of the audience for this may not be old enough to remember the Irish pound, hence I'm trying to inform the (younger) reader that there really was an Irish currency long before the Euro!
I also mentioned the fact that people frantically blessed themselves on the top deck of a smoke filled 46a, loads of stuff from back then that's been forgotten, including the Irish *unt 0 -
The first official language of Ireland is Irish - surely the official name of the Irish currency would be an Irish language word, which I don't think "pound" is.
But we don't call our country Éire all the time - Churchill in particular was fond of using that word to describe our country (post-1937 era when the Irish Free State no longer existed) because the Brits hated using the word Ireland to describe our country. Although, "Free State" with its implication that under their rule we had no freedom must have riled at least a few Brits up
We're allowed call it what we like, and it's in the Constitution that the name of our country is Éire, or in the English language, Ireland. QED.
Republic of Ireland is a "description" of the state, and is also a soccer team, but it is not the name of our country. BBC News' preferred term appears to be "The Irish Republic" :rolleyes:
Similarly the name of our currency was "punt" in Irish, but was always described as "pound" in English, "Irish pound" if there was any possibility of confusion with the pouind sterling. Not "punt".In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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Talk about going down a rabbit hole ....
When the Irish pound was in circulation it was often referred to as the Punt, specially in currency exchange and international banking, so as to differentiate it from Sterling/GBP British pounds, I only mentioned it for the youth (I'm in my 50s).
Moving swiftly on, the Cinemas were full of fag smoke too. Anyone remember proper metal bins & bin lorries? The lids were always blowing off in high winds 0 -
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Vincent Hanley wasn't it?
I remember the different types of Dublin buses too!
My first being the RA type (hop on hop off), followed by some smelly old Leyland busses that always seemed to be falling apart, then there was the super-dooper 'Van Hool' automatic buses, well I hougjt they were super (maybe they were crap)? 0 -
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Hamsterchops wrote: »Anyone remember proper metal bins & bin lorries? The lids were always blowing off in high winds
And the mess it would make when the arse rusted out of it.0 -
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Hangdogroad wrote: »Theres a partial 1971 black and white episode on YouTube, on phone can't link.
Do you know what the status of Fortycoats & Co is? Again just a partial episode on YouTube and that's it. I think it ran up to about 88 or 89. Was there a radio series as well? Ive a funny feeling there was.
There was a documentary on TV3 some years ago about Irish kids television - still have it on the DVD recorder. Pretty sure it has Fortycoats clips so I imagine some of it is intact.
Here is the RTE Guide announcing the start of it - January 1983. The character of Fortycoats first appeared in Wanderly Wagon in 1979 but wasn't played by Fran Dempsey - instead it was Bill Golding (who previously played Rory). I found that annoying at the time - and still do.
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