Also there’s a movement in the return to hand painted window signage as well.
While I’m not against modernity, I do think we fell too close to the sun with the rapid erasure of classic styles. And honestly it’s the homogenization that’s the worst part. The stripping of personality.
I visited Ireland for a week… It was a long time ago, but at that point it was a trip back in time. It felt as if every place was saturated with Catholicism, which I was born into in this lifetime. I imagine I spent numerous lifetime in Ireland. If you haven’t already, make sure to see the movie the Magdalene sisters. It is a true tragic story about how girls & women were imprisoned often for their entire lives.
More videos like this please. We should not forget the history that helped build the modern day. Im a child of the 70s, I don't belong in this time. I prefer a more manual and analog time.
The only country I want to go to…..
My goodness but you have a beautiful 🤩 voice.
I have a corner!
you have such an old soul. 🙂
so long as small local competition cannot co-exist with monolithic corporation, i've a terrible feeling that these conservation efforts are gonna be for nought. and that's simply because of the fact that the issue is not just one of aesthetic preference.
Sadly, the same here in mainland Britain. Thanks to Tesco Asda Sainsbury's etc…….
Don’t worry, your unfettered immigration from the Middle East will solve the problem of Irish culture. But sure, commercialization is the big problem in Ireland. 😂😂
Don't forget the Vagrant, stragglers and "diversity"
My grandfather owned two wee bake shops and I can still smell that shop and taste the marzipan 60yrs later. Oh his wedding cakes were all the talk. Keep old Ireland alive!
Unfortunately this WEF No Borders Puppet Government despise anything Irish – Sovereignty Culture Religion and Identity – Developers are buying them all up for IPAS or they are being turned into Mosques
Great video i love this one. My parents run an independent upholstery and furniture making shop and our shop in town is bright red. Its a shame so many independent shops ,that are far superior in quality to mass produced, are being forced out of towns and cities.
Try living in Australia. Pretty much no architecture pre mid 19th century. Wish we had half the history of Britton
What a fine writer you are, young man. Not just a craftsman, a true Irishman and his magical silver tongue shine forth in all you say.
I well remember a holiday I took in county Waterford in about 1974. I was staying in a small town and on my first lunchtime there I fancied a pint, so I went looking for a pub. I looked and looked all through that town but there were no pubs! 😲 "This can't be right," I thought, "the Irish are known for liking a drink…". So eventually I asked a passer by where the pubs were. "Pubs?" he said. "There are no pubs here." "Dammit," I said, growing desperate, "And I really fancied a drink." "Is it a drink you'll be wanting?" he said in astonishment, "Why every place in town has a bar in the back! Just go in anywhere and you'll find plenty to drink." Sure enough, the butcher's, the baker's, the candlestick maker's, the toy shop, the sweet shop…even the vet's had a neat tidy little bar in the back room.😃 That day I felt I'd really found Ireland.😊
Some tan on that barman.
Beautifully presented and very important. No stranger to Blarney, I might guess
There's nothing more wonderful looking takes me back to when I was little 😊
IRELAND FOR THE IRISH
I love how the 7/11's in Kyoto's more historical parts have to look a certain way in order to blend in with the traditional visage of the city. We need to do that more often. In fact, a train station near my work is being expanded, but rather than have ugly undecorated steel beams, they have copied the style of the old ones. Love to see it.
Those times weren’t the good old days; no technology, no antibiotics, and no hope.
Eoin, take your photos of these beautiful buildings and keep them stored somewhere safely.
25 years ago I started to notice that the old painted signage on the sides of many buildings was starting to fade away or being painted over or knocked down.
I said at the time that we should be recording this before it all disappears.
We didn’t have smart phones back then and I regret that I didn’t capture those images, examples of incredible sign writing advertising products, newspapers and businesses. These days I hardly see these beauties anywhere. Occasionally one building is knocked down and reveals an incredible example on the neighbouring property. Sealed in and saved from the elements when they built the building next door.
Your shop fronts very much remind me of this. Don’t be like me and regret not capturing this moment in time.
One day, sadly your fabulous shop fronts too will be a thing of the past.
I wish I had recorded the old signs in my country.
These days it’s so so easy to make your own photo books online.
You could just do it all via a website and then you would have a visual record, an archive that you can share with generations to come.
❤I hope you do it. I really do. 🙏
P.s that rope lock is amazing isn’t it. I would so love to know it’s little story ❤
I hope RTE lines you up for a documentary on restoring an old shop front
You can drink that history with your eyes…the craftsmanship is unparalleled…Keep up the great work spud.
Also there’s a movement in the return to hand painted window signage as well.
While I’m not against modernity, I do think we fell too close to the sun with the rapid erasure of classic styles. And honestly it’s the homogenization that’s the worst part. The stripping of personality.
I visited Ireland for a week… It was a long time ago, but at that point it was a trip back in time. It felt as if every place was saturated with Catholicism, which I was born into in this lifetime. I imagine I spent numerous lifetime in Ireland. If you haven’t already, make sure to see the movie the Magdalene sisters. It is a true tragic story about how girls & women were imprisoned often for their entire lives.
Educational, unique, historic, important, Irish video.
More videos like this please. We should not forget the history that helped build the modern day. Im a child of the 70s, I don't belong in this time. I prefer a more manual and analog time.
The only country I want to go to…..
My goodness but you have a beautiful 🤩 voice.
I have a corner!
you have such an old soul. 🙂
so long as small local competition cannot co-exist with monolithic corporation, i've a terrible feeling that these conservation efforts are gonna be for nought. and that's simply because of the fact that the issue is not just one of aesthetic preference.
Sadly, the same here in mainland Britain. Thanks to Tesco Asda Sainsbury's etc…….
Don’t worry, your unfettered immigration from the Middle East will solve the problem of Irish culture. But sure, commercialization is the big problem in Ireland. 😂😂
Don't forget the Vagrant, stragglers and "diversity"
My grandfather owned two wee bake shops and I can still smell that shop and taste the marzipan 60yrs later. Oh his wedding cakes were all the talk. Keep old Ireland alive!
Unfortunately this WEF No Borders Puppet Government despise anything Irish – Sovereignty Culture Religion and Identity – Developers are buying them all up for IPAS or they are being turned into Mosques
Great video i love this one. My parents run an independent upholstery and furniture making shop and our shop in town is bright red. Its a shame so many independent shops ,that are far superior in quality to mass produced, are being forced out of towns and cities.
Try living in Australia. Pretty much no architecture pre mid 19th century. Wish we had half the history of Britton
What a fine writer you are, young man. Not just a craftsman, a true Irishman and his magical silver tongue shine forth in all you say.
I well remember a holiday I took in county Waterford in about 1974. I was staying in a small town and on my first lunchtime there I fancied a pint, so I went looking for a pub. I looked and looked all through that town but there were no pubs! 😲 "This can't be right," I thought, "the Irish are known for liking a drink…". So eventually I asked a passer by where the pubs were. "Pubs?" he said. "There are no pubs here." "Dammit," I said, growing desperate, "And I really fancied a drink." "Is it a drink you'll be wanting?" he said in astonishment, "Why every place in town has a bar in the back! Just go in anywhere and you'll find plenty to drink." Sure enough, the butcher's, the baker's, the candlestick maker's, the toy shop, the sweet shop…even the vet's had a neat tidy little bar in the back room.😃
That day I felt I'd really found Ireland.😊
Some tan on that barman.
Beautifully presented and very important. No stranger to Blarney, I might guess
There's nothing more wonderful looking takes me back to when I was little 😊
IRELAND FOR THE IRISH
I love how the 7/11's in Kyoto's more historical parts have to look a certain way in order to blend in with the traditional visage of the city. We need to do that more often. In fact, a train station near my work is being expanded, but rather than have ugly undecorated steel beams, they have copied the style of the old ones. Love to see it.
Those times weren’t the good old days; no technology, no antibiotics, and no hope.
Eoin, take your photos of these beautiful buildings and keep them stored somewhere safely.
25 years ago I started to notice that the old painted signage on the sides of many buildings was starting to fade away or being painted over or knocked down.
I said at the time that we should be recording this before it all disappears.
We didn’t have smart phones back then and I regret that I didn’t capture those images, examples of incredible sign writing advertising products, newspapers and businesses. These days I hardly see these beauties anywhere. Occasionally one building is knocked down and reveals an incredible example on the neighbouring property. Sealed in and saved from the elements when they built the building next door.
Your shop fronts very much remind me of this.
Don’t be like me and regret not capturing this moment in time.
One day, sadly your fabulous shop fronts too will be a thing of the past.
I wish I had recorded the old signs in my country.
These days it’s so so easy to make your own photo books online.
You could just do it all via a website and then you would have a visual record, an archive that you can share with generations to come.
❤I hope you do it. I really do. 🙏
P.s that rope lock is amazing isn’t it. I would so love to know it’s little story ❤
I hope RTE lines you up for a documentary on restoring an old shop front
You can drink that history with your eyes…the craftsmanship is unparalleled…Keep up the great work spud.