Dublin Poverty - Mount Pleasant Buildings (Part 1 of 2)

the 2nd last lady is MY MOTHER IAM PROUD TO SAY IT A LADY TO BE PROUD OF

My Father was from Dublin. My Mom from Tipperary. They didn't have such harsh times but were nevertheless proud working class. I so hope that these wonderful people gained a decent environment in which to live and rear their family. ❤❤❤

i remember playing there as a kid a real hole but the people were ok we use to have battles with the local kids, all great fun. we tend to forget how poor Ireland was but it was a lot better than today a lot less serious crime we had respect for the old. Dublin is a real crime city today at least it was safe to walk around at that time

Powerful stuff. I'm a Dub too and seen such tough times in the '60s.

i must seem out of place to say this, but my family used to live in the buildings (no 149) in the 60's and 70's, and my gran must have been lucky as she had 2 bedrooms and a toilet. maybe im looking thru rose coloured glasses, but i have nothing but happy memories whilst there!! we lived below "mrs dunn" who had 2 sons, one was a musician and the other went onto write scripts for rte!!

Even though they may not have had much material things, I bet there was plenty of love in their homes. I hope all worked out good for them all. Thanks, John, Indiana.

That was such a tough life for those women. No one should have had to live in those conditions.

The thing is Dublin was the most prosperous part of Ireland during this time, if you'd had a camera crew going to Donegal, Kerry, Mayo during during this time period you would have seen far worst poverty. A lot of people in Ireland in the 60s didnt even have electricity yet

Heartbreaking 💔 my mom and dad were from Dublin, she followed him to Canada to get married in 63 and had 6 kids! Can’t imagine that was only 50 years

During the 1950s and '60s huge amounts of money were collected weekly for the African missions in all parts of Irelandwhile poverty was widespread throughout the Irish state.

I lived in this place from 1966 to 1978, it was mad, crime was huge in the 1970's

This is why I stopped having children after one. It was too hard keeping just one fed and clothed.

i lived in mount pleasent it was the best the laugh everyone used to have with each other everyone looked out for each other

 I remember bare-footed children begging on O'Connell Bridge back in the sixties.

You are a real grumpy. I have respect for these people. Work was a big issue for these people. I was born in Dublin and I was lucky. We saw poverty that''s what makes the Irish have beautiful hearts!

This is so fascinating and sad at the same time.. Some of you below, say that these people had so many children as there was no birth control allowed or available. I dont want to be judgemental but the question about so many children in these circumstances still pops into my mind. I am from eastern europe, where in this era we were terribly poor, also very catholic coutry and most families had no more than 3-4 children (and these were considered big families). Birth control was unheard off, at least among the lower classes, yet ppl managed to control their births through natural ways. I still remember my grandma talking about the times when she would push my grandad off her if he wanted 'some loving'. She was to exhausted from the hardships and the 3 kids she already had. So from what i remember listening to the older generation, the hardships, tiredness, lack of intimacy was the contraception for the era. I would like to know why was this so different in Ireland. I am trying to imagine myself, being stressed, exhausted, probably hungry, surrounded by my kids, or parents or siblings, there is no way i would be in a mood for sex. what my gradma was saying made perfect sense.. Its so strange that ppl thought and behaved so differently despite such similar circumstances..

Thanks for uploading.

One problem was the church being dead set against birth control.

God Bless the poor people

On one of these parts it showed a mother who had 20 children sitting outside watching them play. It was the only pleasure she got by smoking. I know I would too if I had all those children to take care of. Nowadays we are pretty fortunate to have the things we need but it comes with a price. Disobedient kids, no manners, etc. They want everything handed to them yet doing nothing to earn what they received. I am sure these children appreciated everything they had.