List your top 5 favorite fruits.
Okay, here’s my top 5 fruits from 5 to 1.
5. Orange
4. Cherry
3. Strawberry
2. Raspberry
1. Blackberry
Why blackberries?
Because firstly they taste amazing and secondly they would grow wild and freely available from bushes along roads everywhere while growing up in Ireland. A real happy childhood memory!
‘The Lonesone Boatman’ was a song released in 1980 on the old Banshee label by The Fureys & Davey Arthur. Written by Finbar Furey, it’s a haunting tune played with a long tin whistle known as kerrywhistle cobre high D alongside guitar and other traditional instruments.
This version on YouTube is from the 1985 Harmac compilation album called ‘Green Fields of Home’.
A little toy nostalgia with the ‘Hat Full of Magic’ or just Magic Hat as we used to call it.
This may or may not be the exact version we had in the 1970’s, but it looks like it. The hat itself was if remembered correctly a hard plastic shell with hidden buttons on the inside of the rim. Being hard plastic with sharp edging it wasn’t very comfortable when placed on one’s head. The tricks were fun and entertaining though, and often a show of magic skills was demanded from the adults after dinner. ‘Don’t remember it being too popular in Ireland, only heard one other guy in my school who had it. It definately wasn’t a toy you would take into school with you, too many small items and easily broken if in the wrong hands!
But a few hours fun at home was guaranteed!
..recreated a bit of Dublin nostalgia kitsch from the 1980’s.
This well-known neon sign from the old Cats wine bar on Leeson street in Dublin city Ireland is now available on a t-shirt from the Irish Nostalgia webshop (check links below). All recreated down in our design dungeon by ‘Big Pen Louie’! ✏️
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This design is now available from the Irish Nostalgia store on Redbubble and also on Teepublic . ..Go check it out!!
📺 ..late 70s early 80s – VEGAS☀️🎰🎲
The Tv series ‘Vegas’ starring Robert Urich was popular in Ireland back in the late seventies and early eighties. The show also featured Hollywood legend Tony Curtis. A bit of glamour and style on the Irish tellybox!
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The Pyramid Church aka the Church of Lady of Dolours in
Glasnevin, as viewed here from the Botanic gardens.
– The Luas –
Dublin light rail transport (tram) opens it first line (Green Line) on June 30th, 2004. The locals in Dublin sometimes refer to it as the Daniel Day Luas.
…eighties nostalgia montage!
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