The 70's and 80's in Ireland

the purple tin

Young ones now expect their parents to fund a holiday abroad with their friends for doing the leaving cert.
Back then you were straight into summer job of full time work as soon as you finished the exams, one night on the beer maybe to celebrate.

the purple tin

Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these

branie2

The clock on television before programmes started

Buford T. Justice XIX

O Domhnaill Abu playing on RTE radio 1 at 6.30am every morning until the news at 6.33.

branie2

haunting tune

Carfacemandog

the purple tin wrote: »

Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these

Times certainly had improved when instead we got Feeder, Damien Duff bowing and an injury to the dreaded big toe area.

branie2

the purple tin wrote: »

Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these

RTÉ 1 and RTÉ 2 had 2 different sounds with their test screens.

Hangdogroad

the purple tin wrote: »

Remember when the TV channels used to close down for the night, you would get the annoying ringing sound and a test screen like these

Yes. I remember the RTE one well as that was all we had. I used to call the test card the roundy thing and I remember as a child watching it impatiently waiting for the programmes to start

beauf

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

8 hours on the ferry!!! A truck ferry rather than cars presumably, the drivers would need an overnight rest anyway so no point going faster. The daytime car and passenger ferries were faster, I never sailed to Liverpool but going to Holyhead took about 3.5 hours. It was the 90s not the 70s or 80s when the HSS came in, 99 minutes and smooth and comfortable too. They added about half an hour to the trip time in its later years to save on fuel, cheap air travel killed it really.

I can remember getting an overnight ferry to Liverpool and having a cabin to sleep in. Mostly went to Holyhead. Did that a lot. Haven't been on a Ferry in a very long time.

the purple tin

beauf wrote: »

I can remember getting an overnight ferry to Liverpool and having a cabin to sleep in. Mostly went to Holyhead. Did that a lot. Haven't been on a Ferry in a very long time.

You can still go on the lorry boat for quite cheap. I saw a musician from england once and he said that's how travels to ireland for gigs. There is a cabin with loads of bunks like a hostel but most truckers nowadays would sleep in the cab instead.

nigeldaniel

Well, I was born in 76 and remember day trips in the early '80s with the family to Dublin zoo. The Train up at 6 from Tralee. A lunchbox with sandwiches and some Twix bars. A flask of tea and a can of cola or two. Mom did nearly all the planning and Dad was just grumpy about the cost of a Taxi in the big city. The train trip up was a highlight. Dublin Zoo, all I can recall was the snake pit don't remember the rest. We would not be home till 10-11 pm. Not the worst of times. During Summer we had 6 weeks in the bog for turf and another two cutting hay in the meadows. School was blaa and we cycled everywhere on old patched up bikes. I will not dis the old days.

The Dublin to Liverpool ferry is still 8:00 hours long.
http://www.poferries.com/eu/liverpool-dublin

Mongfinder General

Lucy8080 wrote: »

The BBC and I.T.V. used to have "schools and colleges" programmes on weekday mornings. It must have been a service to the national curriculum in British schools.

So,one morning in the seventies , I'm off school in Ireland (holy day) ,eating my cornflakes , home alone at ten a.m. watching some hospital programme.

The next minute,there's a screaming woman ,legs akimbo , blood and mess everywhere and out pops a crying baby. Fcuk me, it must have been sex ed. for secondary schools in Britain.

I've never forgotten that moment. Some days you go to bed knowing your little world has changed for ever.

I remember this too. It would have been about 85/86. I was sick that day. I remember a fanny about to explode. It was nuts for a 7 year old!

Lucy8080

Mongfinder General wrote: »

I remember this too. It would have been about 85/86. I was sick that day. I remember a fanny about to explode. It was nuts for a 7 year old!

The same programmes repeated for years depending on the time of year. Most were boring. I first watched it somewhere between 75/77.

It was shocking,intriguing , a w.t.f. moment and then...so that's how I got here!

It's a Santa Claus moment , innocence lost but ,knowledge gained. A strange place for a kid.

branie2

Mongfinder General wrote: »

I remember this too. It would have been about 85/86. I was sick that day. I remember a fanny about to explode. It was nuts for a 7 year old!

I hope you didn't have nightmares that night!

steddyeddy

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 wrote: »

Both decades were, to my experience, marked by high unemployment and high interest rates.


I wouldn't go back to them for any reason.

And alcohol. I know people who barely remember the eighties. Drinking your way through a recession seemed to be the way to go.

Babooshka

Lucy8080 wrote: »

You'd read Oliver Twist in school, back then, and think, "what a spoiled little b*stard!"

:pac::pac: thanks - got a morning giggle outta that

Hotblack Desiato

Manach wrote: »

We did not have to worry about Political correctness nor the presence of the presence of the state adverts saying how to behave.

Nah we had churchmen dictating our laws instead.

Hotblack Desiato

L1011 wrote: »

Road safety, water safety, alcohol consumption, power line safety; if we go back to the 70s you can add nuclear safety to it too

I remember all the others (don't forget smoking, ear defenders comedian, a few fire ones, 'fit to catch that bus' and the unforgettable one about rubella with the nun shouting 'BA!!!!'...)

But nuclear safety? Really? A TV equivalent of Bas Beatha? They had Protect and Survive films in the UK but they were officially top secret until a nuclear war was imminent. You wouldn't just slip that sort of thing in to fill a space in an ad break on a random Tuesday evening.

Hotblack Desiato

nigeldaniel wrote: »

Well, I was born in 76 and remember day trips in the early '80s with the family to Dublin zoo. The Train up at 6 from Tralee.

I lived less than four miles from the Zoo, I got to go there all of twice

steddyeddy wrote: »

And alcohol. I know people who barely remember the eighties. Drinking your way through a recession seemed to be the way to go.

Some things never change...

the purple tin

In beautiful weather like this people would cut the legs off old jeans and make them into shorts.

Kermit.de.frog

the purple tin wrote: »

In beautiful weather like this people would cut the legs off old jeans and make them into shorts.

It's 12c with an onshore wind.

:eek:

the purple tin

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It's 12c with an onshore wind.

:eek:

Well the summer so far I mean April was a belter.

Edgware

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

O Domhnaill Abu playing on RTE radio 1 at 6.30am every morning until the news at 6.33.

It is still played but now 5.30

Edgware

Anyone remember William Conrad in "Jake and the fatman" in the mid 80s?
And Abe Simpsons favourite Matlock..

Trigger Happy

Edgware wrote: »

Anyone remember William Conrad in "Jake and the fatman" in the mid 80s?
And Abe Simpsons favourite Matlock..

I remember Jake and the Fatman before the tv show - when it was a comic strip in the new york times.

D3V!L

Curley Wurley bars were a foot long

We had proper summers where it was 45 degree's for 3 months

You could get 8 kids in an estate sitting in the boot and arm rests

House doors could be left open because no one ever got burgled



Ahh those were the days

Edgware

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I remember Jake and the Fatman before the tv show - when it was a comic strip in the new york times.

It was a great time for cop and private eye shows.
Streets of San Francisco
Mannix
The Rockford Files
Barnaby Jones
Matlock
The Rockford Files
and not a cop show, Then came Bronson.

All lovely cliches;
anti authority disillusioned cops "following their gut"
" I reckon he's hold up in the old Smith place out on 44"
Mannix gets visited by an old army buddy

the purple tin

Edgware wrote: »

It was a great time for cop and private eye shows.
Streets of San Francisco
Mannix
The Rockford Files
Barnaby Jones
Matlock
The Rockford Files
and not a cop show, Then came Bronson.

All lovely cliches;
anti authority disillusioned cops "following their gut"
" I reckon he's hold up in the old Smith place out on 44"
Mannix gets visited by an old army buddy

Remember Frank Cannon, the obese detective. They used to have him chasing criminals on foot every week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PC3P2Fw8LY

Edgware

the purple tin wrote: »

Remember Frank Cannon, the obese detective. They used to have him chasing criminals on foot every week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PC3P2Fw8LY

Cannon was played by William Conrad

He played the fatman in Jake and the Fatman after Cannon.

Hangdogroad

L1011 wrote: »

You clearly didn't actually watch TV, then. "public information" advertising was at a high in the 80s. Road safety, water safety, alcohol consumption, power line safety; if we go back to the 70s you can add nuclear safety to it too

Exactly, and they were nearly always voiced by the distinctive tones of Bill Golding "rabies kills, agonisingly! ". They were designed to get your attention and stood out from regular adverts.

cj maxx

Men on the dole , prohibitive insurance costs, potholes, mayhem in the North and along the border. Bombs in England. Kerry Winning all Ireland's.
The centenary cup ( great competition)
I really don't get the nostalgia for the 80's. They were shyte.
Highlight was the 86 world cup

Hotblack Desiato

D3V!L wrote: »

Curley Wurley bars were a foot long

We had proper summers where it was 45 degree's for 3 months

You could get 8 kids in an estate sitting in the boot and arm rests

House doors could be left open because no one ever got burgled

Ahh those were the days

Well of course none of that is true

You could get a lot more than 8 kids into an estate

NewbridgeIR

Just finished watching Cannon again on DVD. Great show

fryup

cj maxx wrote: »

Men on the dole , prohibitive insurance costs, potholes, mayhem in the North and along the border. Bombs in England. Kerry Winning all Ireland's.
The centenary cup ( great competition)
I really don't get the nostalgia for the 80's. They were shyte.
Highlight was the 86 world cup

the music was great though, but yes it was sh!te - in ireland anyway

Strumms

I was born at the tail end of the 70’s so no recollection of it...

The 80’s seemed like a very religious time, moving statues, holy days, my parents were religious enough and everything seemed veery serious in religious terms..
Religion was huge, whereby money and corporate dickheads call the shots now, a priest would have been as influential back then. Goings on at Ballenspittle gripping the nation and a priest built a big feckin Church and then an airport no less with a runway big enough for to land the space shuttle on in the middle of nowhere.

Kerry and Meath were sweeping the board in Gaelic football with the hurling being more competitive with five different counties triumphing over the decade.

We had a fair few good football players towards the end of the decade and that saw us qualify for Euro ‘88 with the Charlton revolution...a great start beating England, a 74th minute equalizer by the Russians put a spanner in the works and a later goal conceded against the Dutch and it’s underachievers must try harder and hello Dublin...

The Troubles were nightly news, you’d never get your head around the sight and sound of what misery was unfolding, almost weekly, sometimes nightly and for many of us, 80 minutes drive up the road only this mess of hate was unfolding..

Growing up a holiday was Westport, Ballycullane to visit friends or Tramore... foreign was almost off the map, unless religion was the catalyst... Lourdes, I’ve never known boredom like Qing for an hour, in the pissing rain, to light a candle.
Did take a trip to New York in ‘87 and that was like another Galaxy... there was about half a school day on my return spent with me being quizzed about it.

Your car choice was simply whatever you could afford and that it wouldn’t rust... air conditioning was something you saw on Miami Vice...

Manic Moran

Odd no mention of the CIE colour schemes. One chap mentions the old orange locomotives, but by God those CIE orange buses were horrid, even when they were clean. Which they normally weren't. God knows who chose the colour. The two-tone green buses after Dublin Bus split off from the rest of CIE were beautiful in comparison. I vaguely recall some of the open-rear-staircase cream and dark double-deckers as well, but they were on their way out.

Hotblack Desiato

Strumms wrote: »

Religion was huge, whereby money and corporate dickheads call the shots now

Catholic church is really just a multinational, and a very wealthy one, and it pays no tax at all anywhere.

We had a fair few good football players towards the end of the decade and that saw us qualify for Euro ‘88 with the Charlton revolution...

It's not as if we only started having good players then... you heard of Liam Brady?
We were absolutely robbed in the '82 qualifying campaign.
You could pretty much guarantee in every away game that we'd have a perfectly good goal disallowed for no reason anyone could make out, and the opposion would be let have a dodgy goal stand or get a dubious penalty.
I remember watching us on TV playing in Brussels in 1981, defintely large bundles of Swiss francs being exchanged over that one.

The Troubles were nightly news, you’d never get your head around the sight and sound of what misery was unfolding, almost weekly, sometimes nightly and for many of us, 80 minutes drive up the road only this mess of hate was unfolding.

People were totally desensitised to it, oh another bomb went off, a few people killed, we have the sports results after the break.

Mugser

D3V!L wrote: »

Curley Wurley bars were a foot long

They just used to stretch the chomp bars further is all...

pawdee

Could you show me a metre?

Tordelback

nigeldaniel wrote: »

Well, I was born in 76 and remember day trips in the early '80s with the family to Dublin zoo. The Train up at 6 from Tralee. A lunchbox with sandwiches and some Twix bars. A flask of tea and a can of cola or two. Mom did nearly all the planning and Dad was just grumpy about the cost of a Taxi in the big city. .

Don't blame your Dad for being grumpy about the taxi - it's barely a mile's walk from Heuston to the Zoo.

Tordelback

nigeldaniel wrote: »

Well, I was born in 76 and remember day trips in the early '80s with the family to Dublin zoo. The Train up at 6 from Tralee. A lunchbox with sandwiches and some Twix bars. A flask of tea and a can of cola or two. Mom did nearly all the planning and Dad was just grumpy about the cost of a Taxi in the big city. .

Don't blame your Dad for being grumpy about the taxi - it's barely a mile's walk from Heuston to the Zoo.

malinheader

Watching rte last night. Ireland v Russia 1974,Dalymount park. Think its called the shed end. Rusty corrugated roof covering the stands.probably a hundred or so supporters walking over it and sitting on it to watch the game.

Commentator during the game says. Alot of supporters congregated on the roof above the stands now. Not very safe but what a view of the game.!!!

Badly Drunk Boy

Babooshka wrote: »

We had a fruit and veg man who came in a van

We still have a fruit & veg man. Well, not me but he parks outside my house at 8 every Friday evening and calls into my next door neighbours for their weekly order.

I don't know how he's making any profit but the last time I bought anything from him (about 10 years ago), it was extremely cheap. I was trying to hand him more money.

YFlyer

igCorcaigh wrote: »

That little guy in the black waistcoat always creeped me out.

I thought it was Ken Doherty.

Hamsterchops

Fiat cars with "Guaranteed Irish" badges affixed

Ooor Tee Eee, Nuacht, De Angelus, Dallas, big hair, tight jeans, platform shoes, moustaches, Big Tom & the Mainliners, massive perms, unemployment, Charlie Haughy, Priests & Nuns, Bib Geldof, the mailboat, Troubles up North, Raleigh Choppers, plimsolls, Dock Martins, Gay Byrne, Dickie Rock, Thin Lizzy, Garda Patrol, stockings, beards, polythene, peat briquettes, cigarettes, cigarette smoke (everywhere), spitting, gobbing, Disco balls, Shay Healy, Eurovision, pot noodles, Bewleys, Smithwicks, Guinness, contraception NO, divorce NO, Sex Yes, the Mini Metro, Ford Zetor tractors, Farmers journal, broken down buses, Mass, bin lids & bangers ......

fryup

malinheader wrote: »

Watching rte last night. Ireland v Russia 1974,Dalymount park. Think its called the shed end. Rusty corrugated roof covering the stands.probably a hundred or so supporters walking over it and sitting on it to watch the game.

Commentator during the game says. Alot of supporters congregated on the roof above the stands now. Not very safe but what a view of the game.!!!

ireland v world champions italy in 85

cml387

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Fiat cars with "Guaranteed Irish" badges affixed

Yes, FIAT had an assembly plant on the Kylemore Road.
In fact many major manufacturers had plants in Ireland because before EU entry importation of fully assembled cars incurred an eye watering duty.

Strumms

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Catholic church is really just a multinational, and a very wealthy one, and it pays no tax at all anywhere.




It's not as if we only started having good players then... you heard of Liam Brady?
We were absolutely robbed in the '82 qualifying campaign.
You could pretty much guarantee in every away game that we'd have a perfectly good goal disallowed for no reason anyone could make out, and the opposion would be let have a dodgy goal stand or get a dubious penalty.
I remember watching us on TV playing in Brussels in 1981, defintely large bundles of Swiss francs being exchanged over that one..

I’ve heard of Liam Brady :rolleyes: but it takes more then one very good player with a handful of others across a squad and a qualifying campaign to bring success....

The campaigns for ‘88 and ‘90 had us boast scores of players playing and achieving in the top echelons of world football and their respective leagues..

Kevin Moran, Paul McGrath, Ray Houghton, John Aldridge, Niall Quinn, Packie Bonner, Chris Morris, Mick McCarthy, Kevin Sheedy, Chris Hughton..

By my thinking were 2 players in the squad who were not playing in top division football...Gerry Peyton at Bournemouth, David Kelly at Walsall.

In 1982 while you also had the likes of Stapleton and Brady we were calling on the likes of...

Mickey Walsh,
Pierce O'Leary
Fran O'Brien
John Devine
Jerry Murphy

Whose mark on International football wasn’t quite as indelible as the aforementioned.

cameramonkey

fryup wrote: »

ireland v world champions italy in 85

Think that was a friendly.