A Visit To Dublin City’s Dandelion Market, Ireland 1970

you look sweet talk about a tree you look a dapper from your nap to your feed dressed in style brand new tile your father's old green tie on but i wouldn't give you tougher spirit chain no dying no dying listen this record player anyways 12 pounds if you're interested and you can have the half dozen records going with it if that's of any use to replace them [Applause] bring you back to childhood days the little lamp is 4 pounds 10. all you need now is the electric bubble in it bargain only bargains on the stall genuine hand knitting stretches further more hygienic three and six or how about these one and six do your thinking we sell uh knitwear very good knitwear very cheap very good good quality wash well washed very well very good any old diamond any old gun any any any old diamond well how did you come to know anything about england but a man called graham webb and the portobello road and while i was there i learned all about them but when i came back here i found that very few people did so i was able to get them quite reasonable and i was also able to get one say broken which nobody could repair so i found i was able to repair to myself quite easily so that's why you say we've called ourselves a musical antique company you look sweet talk about the trees you look at diamond up to your face is this your a full-time job you're a hobby well at the moment it's full job but i'm a doctor in fact and i gave that up just to do this for the moment dr madison yes are your patients i miss you well i'll be going back to what is the range of prices in europe well it goes from about four and six up to three or four pounds i put it this way last week was very good and this week isn't so good i see what did you sell last week these paintings how much do they go for a pound for the big ones and 10 bulbs and what kind of people buy them generally um i don't know mixture of everything sort of mummies with little children and dear sweet people i think it's mainly attractive here for young people no no i think a bit of everything you like a flower the flowers are lovely yes how much do they go from they're two shillings two shillings two shillings of flower and they're handmade an unnamed store in town is selling with twelve and six each resting stock brand new tire your father's old green tie on but i wouldn't give you tough spring roll with chain no dying no dying fifty percent i'd say the same people coming back every week and 50 percent of new people coming every all the time and do you think they're locals or young people or mostly young people i would say and possibly just for the interest of it i think it's not necessarily the young people that are buying well the server you know and um you can get some larger stuff you know some of the other styles have larger antiques tables and stuff like that but what for instance would be your cheapest item tensionings where are these beer bottles for two shillings where do they originate from glasgow actually yeah how do you find businesses in a market like this have you ever done this kind of thing before uh i used to sell some in liverpool yeah similar sort of idea we used to hang them on railings you know to sell them for a few shillings how did you come to hear about this uh well i live just around the corner there's a guy called emman cannon who's doing it you know he's just putting here i had about a few weeks ago but uh you know i i'd often sort of walked down here and thought somebody ought to do something start something it's very nice could you show us one of these things and explain a little and how it's done yeah this this one's done aluminium using printing and then varnish afterwards this particular one is on aluminium yet it's a new idea eamon what gave you this bright idea in the first place at starting the market really well i think well i've traveled a great deal travel around europe and around the near and far east and we thought there were so many so many open air markets all over that we've been frustrated for a long time i feel in dublin about open air markets generally so we decided why not open this year in dublin and you're living here yourself i think in the lane yes indeed i live right in the middle of it all if you like and how did you actually go about putting it into action well it's taken it's taken a long time because first of all we had we had to approach the police and we went to them on the fourth of april until we were having a market and they said very well okay from 1970 1970. yes indeed and uh we went uh we told them what we were doing and then we went to the corporation we had the corporation down we told them what we were doing and they said go ahead and after that it was just

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Published: Mon Mar 28 2022