Ronnie Drew's guide to Dublin City, Ireland, 1988

Dublin City it's been around for a thousand years and myself in the lads of The Dubliners have been singing its praises for 25 of them now there's no way you'd fit the full story of Dublin into an hour you could be walking around the place for weeks still have the full picture but what we do have time for is a bit of history a few yards and plenty of music and of course the odd stopped off for the pointer to a taste you might say of the spin as a doctor Dublin is steeped in history and in the love of his generations James Joyce had a mad passion for an Olivia the Liffey it was a Blackpool in Gaelic ad of Liam farm for the rivers Livie and puddle met that cave Dublin its name when it was born since then it's grown into a rascally friend but you could see good and bad him for chance helping charm boy the Dublin character is as unique as a pound of bread it Spartan money's the Sun to celebrate a Dublin way ago and since the government started playing Oh don't these years ago no donor who's Bob we've probably summed them all oh god I see Riley she has taken to the Sun oh poor old I see Riley she will never given up birds off feet Mordor to the pub and then she's in full another little drop her heart on the relic I see why push effort oh I see lady she is heading through the stop her I see Roy be she will never give it up it's Tommy's hardeneth hot and she's been put on a little hop on a heart of the roundest I see blood or she walks alone Fitzgibbon streets with an independent air and then it's down be Summer Hill and as the people stare she says it's teeny hop has wrong and it's time I had another little one and a hurt on the rail with Pacey my question for a Roy be she is akin to the soap I see my tea she will never give it up Tuffy's corner to the clock a little rough for the heart after a list I see my long years ago when men were men and fancied me of long par lovely Becky Cooper on Maggie's Mary one one woman put them all to shame just one was worthy of the name and the name of the Tama Gracie ride Chevrolet see lady she can do this up I see mighty she will never give it up I'll be smart and hard and she's another little dumpling I'm count around list I see rise or what time went catching up with her like many pretty and it's after Yule on the streets before you're out the doors there looks all fade in the balance Wade have a notable a great flick aid still the heart of the role would play see rise Shepard Alexi Riley she is a conduces helping her out I see Riley she will never give it up selfies warden Hilton are and if she's in fulminant up to the heart of the round will play see my wish effort oh I see Riley she has taken to the sub her out I see Riley she will never give it up it's often a pillock and it sees it from a little heart after all was dicey rah of course here are way to be stackin Cordell dozy sure what would anyone think of a group that was farmed in a pub and does most of his gigs and pubs with the late little Kelly the Lord o mercy on him who said we should name ourselves after James Joyce's book of short stories double doors since the early days no Donohue's and places like the Royal Hotel of holes in the embankment and Teller we've been singing Dublin ballads through Gordon bad times we were very lucky a course because we caught on not just in Ireland but all around the world the only years we've made dozens of Records and played in at least 60 countries and we'd say we're a bit like Dublin ambassadors to the water bringing the Sun as well home tell in two places fire and wood it's certainly a far cry from pushing it to gigs in Dublin pubs to jet net around the world and back again but you're full of the - pardon parts there's nothing like getting back to the old sod smarter the matter I haven't been born and reared here sure in the dispirited open the caves is going well enough about The Dubliners but what about double itself the first weird settlements along the banks of the Liffey were built where the Vikings a thousand years ago and here on the st. audience church a taste of what life was like then has been reconstructed with the help of a few genuine Vikings oh there yeah what do you do here I'm the Builder oh I see what are you learning to be a builder what are you doing I'm afraid out of my boat I can try it for some wine if you have silver on you Oh it's here around the area known as the liberties that Dublin glue-up christchurch cathedral was built with a norman warrior strombel for st. Lawrence until the 12th century well underneath us is the oldest of waving building and Dublin the Crypt started out as a religious place was three chapels here but later the nooks were hurried out to shopkeepers and publicans the cathedral and markets counted on together at first with a record from the revelers below drilled too much during religious services above and the place was finally closed day one it was use them to store such things as relics and statues of forgotten large another sister to data the Ancients ducts of the liberty of Christ Church this is where the Dean put people at for some our brokers laws by the way I wonder where the expression the liberties came from well centuries ago Liberty was a stretch of land given to so Merrill or - bishop we the royalty are wrong and the meant they didn't just own the land they were a law unto themselves in that ground was a liberties in this area and some even had gates and walls avoiding them and you have to pay to get in that kind of grandeur has faded a course but the liberties is known and loved today as the cradle of the Dublin character it's the setting for many yarns and Sons and my own favorite is asylum at a famous event that took place here every Christmas the reichman's bar these fellows who made our living we trade in old foes and tatters collected door-to-door will gather here for the bills up and well other things besides I'll come listen to me for a while may God fans one and all and I'll sing to you a verse or two about a famous ball now the ball was given be some friends who live down in High Street in a set house of the liberties where the Ragman used to meet well for tea we had 20 now as much as we could hold we think Brady's loop line Porter punch around the floor we rolled in the midst of all the confusion someone shouted for a song when up Jones held on Lebanon sings Hebrew roll in your bed alone well since my one Yorick where one now and video had to base or went up jumps eliza poland and she told it a holdup race then my one made it shouted her she missed her and hit the wall and it would've went of the ambulance tonight at the reichman's bowl then we all sat down to some ham pairings when everything was quiet and four broken noses I must say we had a lovely night black eyes they weren't a great demand not to mention speed heads and all so funny who wants to commit suicide let him come to the rag man's ball hey I think a lot of Dubliners don't realize the stories behind the streets they walk down every day for instance this is Marsh's library when the oldest libraries in europe so if you'd like to stick with me we'll have a little ramble and a candor at some historic sites one historic site visited Boyer that started character is st. Patrick's Cathedral in the liberties but Oliver Cromwell led his thirteen thousand soldiers to Dublin he wrote on horseback into the church and let his horse drink from the baptismal font no respects in later years the cathedral was run by Dean Swift Jonathan Swift to you the man who wrote Gulliver's Travels when the Normans took over the running of the patient the Vikings back in the 12th century then put the massive wall around the town this is packed of that original war and that's wall set dublin apart from the rest of the concert there was from dublin castle built on the edge of the original medieval Talent The Dubliners world in those days Dublin was a fairly small affair and for hundreds of years it suffered plagues and sieges on the lake in the early 17th century Dublin still only had a population of 10,000 but by the end of that century thanks to the arrival of Jewish Dutch and other immigrants and the buildup of Commerce it reached 60,000 the 18th century the real spender of Dublin started to take shape this building for almost 200 years now the Bank of Ireland was built as the Irish House of Parliament was built in four stages by for architects and when it became a bank they installed cannons centuries combined a few Barban saw it and then there's Trinity College Berlin's most famous Caesar learning it was established in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth and the statues of scholar Bork and play roid goldsmith have looked down on its visitors for centuries such great people as Wolfe Tone Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett studied here it was originally settled only from members of the Church of Ireland but in these ecumenical days it's open to all comers until it is old library you'll find this gem The Book of Kells this is not the red one of course he'll keep the real one here under glass no one even knows what monks and what monastery put their sweat and eyesight into writing this book back in 800 AD but it was kept in Cara's cut him either until it was brought to Dublin in the 17th century the pages are made from the hides of calves and the cores are made from plants and flowers from all over the world there's even a particular shade that comes from the belly of an African insect the gorgeous work has 680 pages and illustrates the four Gospels written in Latin it must be one of the world's finest pieces of religious art wouldn't that the old buildings give you a terrible taursus whether we like it or not the drink has played a big part in the double of where you go to having the place where point it's a great measure of how you are fixed the Dublin's already funded the gaggle so there's nothing like it I took a great frequented of Dublin pubs plan O'Brien to raise one amounts to a homage to the gaya when things go wrong I will not come right oh you do the best you can when leaf looks black it's a bag of noise point applying is your only bath well one muniya strays is hard to guess and your horses also run and your house of death is I hate but that's the point of plain is your only man when health is bad and your heart feels strange in your face is pale and one but doctors say that you need a change point the plains your only map when food is scarce and your lard are bare and no rushers grease your pan when hunger grows and your meals are rare a pint the plane is your own game the times of trouble and lousy strife you've still got a darlin plan it's still can torn to a brighter life you appoint a plane your own Lima but she can't spend all your time enjoying yourself and in the city there's always work to be done Dublin was a merchant city the River Liffey was it slaves blood donors wedding work show and commerce blossoms for the end of the 18th century but a population of 150,000 it was one of the largest cities in Europe and the second city of the British Empire in the heyday of George and Dublin the gentry were making a stack and they lived in dignified splendor with a servants downstairs in the basement and themselves upstairs lording it over Dublin Society Dublin's this day boasts some of the finest examples of Georgian architecture the fine lights in the red brick of Marion Square and Fitzwilliam Square her glory but Dublin is a curio was left out of the race for growth and importance after the 1798 rebellion when there were fears in England that it was getting too powerful hurt between being the capital of the land of saints and scholars and being an old pose of the British Empire it then bore the brunt of changes in the 20th century while thousands of Dubliners were are fighting for king and country and the green and bloody fields of Flanders in the psalm Dublin was the scene of the 1916 Easter Rising that rebellion eventually led to the forming of the orange free state with Dublin as its capital but the birth of the Republic was a painful the civil war followed flourish man turned against Irishmen the city an innocent bystander being battered by the struggle finally after 700 years of English rule and with all the landmarks of the Empire still around it the last British soldiers left and the city his people had a kind of choices of identity and the nineteen thirties Dublin was as the poet Louis McNees put it the town would portal running from the tops with a head of yellow cream and Nelson on his pillar watching his world open to that time double nose were a very tight-knit community in the city they were the people Sean O'Casey immortalized and plays like Juno and the paycock and the play on the stairs but the city center grew tired and once elegant George and townhouses fell into decay as tenements these grand old houses might have teamed with life but they also teamed with rats and filth the romance of staying with the people you've grown up with for generations was hard to forget though and Dubliners were horrified when it was announced that the corporation would move them out to - up - down houses and faraway suburbs they couldn't bear it to face the prospect of being shifted out beyond the pale her Brendan beans father claimed they ate our young so prejudiced were Dubliners about life in the country but they had bloodthirsty ballads about all kinds of goings-on in the Royals Hill joy the city and one such penny dreadful Quinto son is still a dublin favors there was another woman and she lived in the would we yeah we award there was an old woman and she lived in the water of our sorry hey Hannah baby three-month-old we away a war she had a baby three months old temper universal Qi Honda and I follow we are we a war Tiana and I Furman sharp down by the river Saul yeah she stuck that and I've been the baby's hurt we yeah we award stocked up and I'm in the baby's heart down by the river so how it feel oh it away away via wire feed Aloha nuts come and look upon the door down by the river sorry there were two policemen and a man we are we a warrior two policemen and a man by the river sorry they took her away in the butter and yeah we do they took her away and they put her into jail temper universe star yeah they put the rope around on Nick we we do war yeah they put the rope around the neck down by the river sorry they put thorough when she got home we're willya wire Quintero when she got home down by the river Saul yeah well that was the end of the woman in the world away away away yeah and that's what the end of the baby to down by the river song yeah when the move from the inner city finally came it was to places like Kremlin that Dubliners were shifted no matter that for the first time they had their own toilets of gardens and room window for the families there was still far from gun on the place all they could do was face it with what you might call a courage of the bewildered the author and playwright Brendan B and was probably the most reluctant commoner he lived hidden number 72 their Road they've even put a plaque up on the house well he was a hired man to manya at the age of 16 he was arrested in Liverpool for possession of explosives and save time and boss of prison he was no sooner doubted us and he was like for shooting at a detective but he uses experience to read such modern classics as borstal boy the hostage and the queer fella Oh hungry feelin K more me stealin and mice were squealin in my prison cell and the old triangle West jingle jangle all along the banks over there royal can Oh to begin the mornin this crew was born get up your baozi aunt Alena PSL and the owl triangle went jingle jangle all along the banks of the Rio now the screw was peeping as the likely sleepin dreaming about his girdle soeul and daeul triangle went jingle jangle all along the banks of the Royal Colonel up in the female prison there are 75 women and among them now I wish I did well then that I'll try and go go - go jingle jangle all along the banks of the Royal Hannah all along the banks of the Rio Oh Copland the course was always a great place for producing Reuters but never a great one for holding on to them James Joyce had to get the hell out of it all together even though he went down waiting with the loving detail of his genius about the old tell him art allotted Dublin in his works and the academics and the hobros of the wars sometimes knew his fate of the fact that Joyce is waiting as as Dublin and sandy coves Martello tower he captured Dublin knees to such perfection he turned the English language oops I'd Ellen and inside him so you have to remember the English language is only browse him nor many more cultures and languages here from all over Europe and a course up from the country words and language songs and stories have been our strengths for a thousand years it spread into us you may not know for instance but there's an old Dublin song and Joyce loved it so much that he named one of his books avarice Finnegan's Wake at Tim Finnegan lived in Warren Street bad gentlemen Irish mighty hard he had a probe or pigeon sweets and horizon the Whittle he cut in a heart but Tim in a bit too much ever his way but all over the liquor he was born and ascend number one is away each day he'd open a crate or ever regardful it out we hear partners around they tell you lots of fun of filling it awake one morning him my brother full no head felt heavy which made her shake he fell off the ladder he broke his skull and he carried him home he's carved awake follow her up to map in a nice tin sheet and I laid him out upon the bed will a Butler whiskey at his feet and he's had business I tell you lots of chronic fatigue and awake well he's trance is sampled at the wake and mrs. Finnegan called for lunch well first he brought and paying cake then pipe tobacco brandy punch then a winner Malone began to cry as serjilla beneath the corpse did ever seen was it him a morning way to guitar well yeah Helen your cups of money Magee watchful it out here part of the world the floor with your proper shape isn't it great how do lots of product making the way oh well Mary Murphy took up the job happily she she are wrong I'm sure Bob any French tulip Elton the gob I left us brawling on the floor or civil war didn't engage or a woman a woman a man come on she lady love full of truth I tell you lots of fun of Finnegan's awake well Mick Malone he talked his head when a bottle of whiskey flew at him he ducked and landing on the bed the whiskey skutters over Tim Bobby Danny Williams and see every raisins Tim Finnegan Roizen in the bed st. Whitney always steelo like blazes Peter Tontons you did you think it was dead wakeful it are we have to act around upload a photo shake designate they tell you lots of fun and Finnegan's away how would you know of course James Joyce wasn't the only Dublin genius not be a longshot should we produce some of the greatest writers in the wars including two Nobel Prize winners it's a shame though that so many of them had to leave the country to make their mark and sure in the end didn't it take a writer from Monaghan Patrick Avner to come up to Dublin and adopt a place perfect wrote the great hunger and many another wonderful call he lived in Pembroke Road and these were his haunts he spent so much time strolling along the Grand Canal it has even a seat dedicated to but I was working on here one day and I met patty hammer you ever think you've had it well sleeping when we go to Millie's I did it all the became Court immunity said I'm bad at it we may go to see essence she says patty said well it's opal is patty said I'm bad or the citizens we have to go to the corporate Barbie horses ready old answer gee I am Bardo to program our BCC we may go to the Waterloo house this is very petty the trouble is I'm bad over the walls of your house how else is he good look I see again howdy kavanah was full of what Joyce called Irish humor wet Android and once he even wrote a poem wondering how he'd be remembered in times to call if area go to Dublin town in a hundred years or so queer from me and baguette sees and what it was late to know oh he was a fair one full of it annoyed oh he was a queer one I tell you I'm Pembroke Road look out for me ghost the shovelled which she was untied playing to the railings with little children whose children have lunch since died oh he was a nice man father little odo leave it a nice man a child you I love the sights and sounds and smells of Grafton Street I remember the old days we used to love the smell apart I've been buttered you'd smell it coming up from the grills let's drive you into the place another cars beauty the smell of the coffee being ground in the window and the people going in there for breakfast a break from work or shopping me too along here that you'll have buskers of all sorts 780 shoppers and putting a spring in their step and if you spend enough time posing around you can guarantee I got the bump into someone you know a great Dublin landmark and a great heart for people who want to just take it easy in the middle of the city bustle as Stephen's Green over the holded years ago it was closed and dilapidated but the Guinness family fair play to them paid for it to be all done up and opened again which only goes to prove what a social service the freaking mouse avoided a Dublin get out of him step back from double and you can see what brought the Vikings here a thousand years ago it Nestle's in a void valley below the mountains and facing the sea cradled by nature like a favorite child weren't you one of the great things about Dublin is that you only have to cook the road to the Phoenix pack and he wrote the quantity at 1,700 acres it's the largest walled crack in Europe and for centuries it's been the place where Dubliners go for picnics rambles a curtain session in some of its quieter spots or a visitor Diaz in look under lakelyn is know when come along shimmy the view money in the heart and builders ever lucky girl we went up there the CDs ooh we saw and the kind there was the males and females of every hue poppin we went out there because enough tishy to me come on we're stuck from outside they were yeah Oh Thunder like when mm Sammy is he'll depart and view we went up there are no villain chickie if you don't come soon I'll have to get in with the hey me Bambi when open the Silla logical girl to me it's 7 o'clock and it's time but I'd love this cedar canoe to see to me we love aleejack to ride on the elephant if you don't anyway I'll give you such as my friend as you a logic but then when I and uh belong of you the fire and you Oh at night dublin becomes a different place couples after meeting on the clearly stuck or at the front gates of trinity college said off to enjoy themselves we go into the pictures orphanage air there's a less savory side to the city too of course but that's life today there was a time though when certain ladies were looked upon with a touch of funds the children even had skipping sons about Oh down in Bombo Lane there is a big fat woman and if you want to know our name you have to pay your shillin soldiers to when six sailors three the penny big fat man to pound townn little kids a penny the area around what used to be called Montgomery Street the Monto was a place much frequented by his sailors on shore leave and many a Dublin boil hoping to meet a pavement hostess a lady of the evening with the Legion emeriti red and long put and stuff too that I can tell you they had all the brothers closed and changed the street name - Carla Brewer after one of our Patriots but it was such a famous center for the oldest profession it was immortalized in South oh if you got a wing Oh take her up the ring know where the Lexi single all the day you had to fill the porter and you can't go one before the give your man the order back to the cave take her up to mondo mondo mondo take her up to Montreux like Harry tell you for your head in the bookshop fostered the dirty I will imposter he took his Martin lost her of the 42 land he first put on me Boland and he buttoned up his trousers and he was sent for a growler and he said my man take me up to Mon Salman to Oman so take me up to Montel like Mary Terry you when you head into mm Fusiliers at or tal bamboozle you stay wet to get a chilled are one two three merchants from the linen hall there's one for every cannonball and Vicky's going to send you Saul oh they see the first go optimum town so on so fresh go optimum so like our real Terry you but Carrie told and skinned the goat Oh Donald put him on the boat he never showed up be in a float authority skirts it wasn't very sensible to tell on the Invincibles they stored the for the principal's day and the noise you go when ups among Thomann so mon-sol going up to mom so like guru here you know when de santa lucia and the king of lucia landed in the phoenix packing a big bad livin they asked the pole is band to play the wedding of the green but the Booker's in the devil didn't know - Ian so they all went up to mondo mondo mondo they all went up two months oh like our real Terry you the queen she came to call on us she wanted to see all of us I thought she didn't fall on us she hey these stone will miss dummy Lord Mayor she's it's all you've got to show to me why no mob there's some more to see Oh own they took her up to Mum tomans Oh Mon so he took her optimum tolling hello Terry you in the 60s when myself in the lads will start nope Dublin was crowded with show bonds and ballad groups the look of the city was changing too some people saw fit to put a bomb under Admiral Nelson feeling he'd spent enough time learning an overall common street with of other places that people in our wisdom saw fit to replace with office blocks places dear to the hand of many adore the Theatre Royal the Metropole and Capitol cinemas were all pulled down Dublin got his one and only skyscraper then to the artists transport in general workers unions Liberty Hall Dublin's day has gone through even more changes in developments i'll keeping up with the times of course i suppose what are those changes you might wish that the old days in the old ways were still with Ray's done songs and stories heroes Omri now the passing tales and glories at once was Dublin town the hallowed halls house the hunting children ride that once was part of Dublin and the rare old times break the ring pass the lights declines Hiram today those times mrs. Jean Dempsey Dubliners could be born hard and late in Pimlico in a house that seized to be bike lane I was the cool her lost out her dumb and see like my house that fell press my and I courted Peggy I was pretty on my role in a child from the rebel liberties I lost her to a student with skin not broca's cold when he took her off she took my soul bring the rain as the light declines I remember and the right the years have made debater the goggle dims me brain cuz Dublin keeps on changing and nothing seems the same the pillar and the metal the Royal long since pull it down as the gray unyielding concrete makes society of my toe the lights the times I remember Dublin fare thee well sweetheart I can no longer stay and watch any Hey and spring up my love memo to hear you I'm a part of what was Dublin in the rain Oh time Rick I rang was here as the light declines I remember Dublin city of times break parole as the light the pie I remember Dublin Oh Dublin is still alive and kicking and she won't today be tomorrow's rarely old times you see it's the double door that keeps doubling in at as of its own I know but the place to find a rail dope then endorses the traders here have been passing on their stars from generation to generation lovely and hard work and lassies will give you an earful of Dublin ease and are more than used to having the cameras come to visit on your ladies are Queen god bless Warcraft and sweets a wonderland there's magic in the air there's diamonds in your lady's eyes are gold of tomorrow and if you don't believe me come on meet me there in Dublin on this early Sunday morning I can say hello to Joe in Australia are you born jockey okay Janine Doody wires ready go bring out a nobleman I don't drink round regular don't drink you know not a problem I like sex stuff yeah waitwhat Radhika's have really fun to the thousand years of breeding and brazenness he's gone into the making of Dublin on speaker The Dubliners wavered Ward's would run rings around you and their spirit is what keeps the city's body and soul together so Dublin lives are too good bad and indifferent times it may well have its drawbacks but for charm it's second to none a thousand years old it's still a Smasher and a home to be proud of and I noted The Dubliners group and the people of Dublin all wish the best for our jewel and darlin Ruby old city well there you have it God knows we didn't fit it all in we did our best I hope you enjoy the tour and the bit of music and the bit of chat the next time you're around the old town maybe you think of raising a glass to Dublin's fair city good luck god bless you in Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty I first set my eyes on sweet money hello as she wheeled her wheel barrow to the street and nano throwing covers and the muscles ha Oh alive alive oh I lie crying colors and muscles hi ho she was a fishmonger wonder for so her father and the mother before and they will their burrow through the streets fraud trying Coty's and of Massage all Oh Ryan from the muscles he died of a favor and sure no one could Samer and that was the end of sweet Polly Malone now her ghost wheeled her burrow through the streets broad playing cockles and mussels ha babe I live I lie all right haha I rely I lie buying colors and Russia Oh you

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Length: 50min 42sec (3042 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 25 2015

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The bit in the bar when they do ‘A pint of plain’

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Lovely taster of Dublin for sure.

The Dubliners playing music and playing with the animals in the zoo is something I didn't know my soul needed.