When Galway was Galway

[Declan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJaAE9GaPGc&t=2


It is time to celebrate what used to be the best place in Ireland. Not sure when it died but maybe 1995.

Any video from the old days is welcome.

 

[Declan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of_y0zg-Uto


This video looks like a cracker from 40 years ago.

 

[Declan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zo_zyKKP-Y


The two lads playing the tin whistle could be Hans Rick

 

[Anderson]

its been a few years since I was in Galway, not since before Covid, I attended the oyster festival, it was great craic.

 

[Anderson]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zo_zyKKP-Y


The two lads playing the tin whistle could be Hans Rick

Rick lives in Australia, he prob is into didgeridoos these days!

Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport by Rolf Harris 1963

youtu.be

 

[Declan]

I had many the pleasant evening in the Crane and the Quays. The Enge people mostly drank in Alfie or the Sheff.
I drank in 68 different pubs in Galway. I counted them once. At the ti.e there was about 75 or 80 but I would not be out remove or Mervue side.
Everyone knew me. Today nobody does.

As the song goes, I stake my future on a hell of a past.

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

its been a few years since I was in Galway.

Somebody told me its populated with more homosexuals than any other town in Ireland.

Is it the Brighton / San Franciso of the Emerald Isle?

 

[Declan]

Somebody told me its populated with more homosexuals than any other town in Ireland.

Is it the Brighton / San Franciso of the Emerald Isle?

They drink in the Hole in the Wall in Woodquay

 

[Declan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usAvzbDq6-c

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

I had to take a double take with this thread. I thought it said when Gays were Gays.

I'm glad that turned out not to be the case. I'm not a homophobe but the content above is quite decent.

 

[Declan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjIigedsaXA&t=

 

[Declan]

When Shop Street was two way traffic