Travel back in time - take a trip through Dublin City in 1965 – VIDEO

Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 05:12 AM

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Toward the end of the video, is that a glimpse of the Lord Nelson pillar on O'Connell Street? I fondly recall the song Tommy Makem wrote for the Clancy Brothers not long after this film was made. "And then in 1966, on March the seventh day/A bloody great explosion made Lord Nelson rock and sway/He crashed and Dan O'Connell cried in woeful misery/ 'There are twice as many pigeons now will come and sit [one of the Clancys -- Liam? -- pronounced this word as Gaeilge!] on me'/So remember brave lord Nelson boys, he had never known defeat/And for his reward, they blew him up in the middle of O'Connell Street." Yeah, I can "remember" him without having to see him towering over O'Connell Street!

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jacersagain | Feb 04, 2013, 04:27 PM EST

(…more) My father brought my sister and me to a St. Patrick’s Day Parade when were about 8 or 9 yrs old. We got to O’Connell Bridge where it was already packed with parade viewers. A couple of kids were sitting on the roof of a dilapidated Morris Minor van parked just beside the bridge – the kind that had timber slats on the roof – so my father put us up on the roof to watch the parade. As time passed, more kids were placed on top of the roof. It was old, rusty and the timbers were rotting. Suddenly, the roof collapsed under the weight of all of us kids and we all fell into the van's interior! The screams of us kids at that moment! My dad and other dads fished us out through the hole in the roof one by one and we all then scarpered through the crowd. God knows what the poor van’s owner thought when he came back to his car to find a huge hole in the roof!

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jacersagain | Feb 04, 2013, 04:23 PM EST

Thanks very much for this video of Dublin in 1965! How it brought back memories, I was just a young teenager back then. The traffic policemen didn’t have ‘special’ uniforms... they wore pull-on white arms sleeves and waved white batons to direct traffic. The policeman father of one of my friends was the main traffic director at O’Connell Bridge for many years during the 60’s, tried to spot him in the video but I don’t think it is him seen in the video on the day. I couldn’t help but notice all the old cars, Ford Cortinas and Morris Minors etc which were popular at that time… This reminds me of a Morris Minor story to tell you all… (More…)

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