Ireland in 60's and 70's?

Growing up in Ireland during 60s and 70s?
What was the experience of growing up in Ireland during the
1960s and 1970s?

How did the people handle their lives, dreams, education, health care, meeting people and treating people. Assume that wages were lower too.

What type of jobs did people do without the presence of big corporations.

Ireland was a Grim Place everybody was very Poor and a lot of People were basically Starving,but things were slowly starting to get better for them. There was more People working on Farms and the Farms were mostly small Holdings. In the Cities all the Work was done Manually mostly without Modern Conveniences, Hence loads of dockers working to unload Ships, and Street Workers using Shovels and Pickaxes instead of Pneumatic Drills and Cranes. There was a lot of Clothing Firms making Coats ,Suits , Shirts , Shoes ,etc. The Government was in League with the Roman Catholic Church in trying to stop the People from looking for their Rights and Entitlements. The Government signed a Pact with the RC Church giving them Special Rights in the Constitution. Any time a Person Complained about the Government or Church the Church and Government would Condemn it and the Church would say it was a Sin. If a Politician from another Party that was not Fianna Fail tried to bring in a Bill for the Betterment of the People , like Noel Brownes Mother and Child Bill for Instance, The Fianna Fail Government and Archbishop John Charlie Mac Quuaid shot it down and would not have anything to do with it . So The De Valera Government always had a Cosy Sweetheart Deal with the RC church to keep the People in their Place, and when The Child Perversion Cases began to Emerge in the Catholic Church the Fianna Fail Government always Protected the RC Church to this very Day. I remember going to School with Children and their Clothes were Literally falling off them. It would start with their Pockets Tearing and other Holes Appearing in their Clothing and Trousers, and Shoes falling to Pieces. It was a Godsend to them to get the Free Small Bottle of Milk and Sandwich or Bun at 12.0 Clock Lunch Time in School it kept them alive as many of them often had no Food in their Houses when they got Home. Hospitals were very Clean unlike now , nowadays you can become Infected by MRSA or The Winter Vomiting Bug and it is best if you do not stay in Hospital for long just get your Treatment or Operation and get out of there or else you could end up worse than when you went in or even Dying from it. Boys still wore Short Trousers until they were 12 Years Old.Most People were Manual Labourers there was very few Skilled Jobs and People left School at 14 Years Old and very few stayed on to further Education. Most Women Pawned the Sunday come to Meeting Clothes like Her good Coat and Husbands good Suit on Mondays and Tuesdays and Redeemed them on Saturday after Fridays Payday in order to make ends meet. Very Dickensian Lifestyle in Ireland that time.The type of Cars were , Ford Anglia. Ford Prefect, Ford Poplar,Morris 1100, Morris Minor , Volkswagon Beetle, Austin 1100, Triumph, The Government had a Taboo about Sex with the Connivance of the Roman Catholic Church Contraception was Banned until about 1986 when AIDS arrived and the Government Reluctantly Allowed it together with Divorce. Most Books were Banned if it was even mildly Sexual and if it castigated the Government in some way they contrived to have it banned . So with the result it was a very downtrodden narrow minded Public, because of all the Propaganda by the Government and Church. This was the time when everything was beginning to open up and People were starting to think for themselves, the times they were a changing.The Establishment does not get away with stuff like they did back then.

Further Information . A lot of People had to go to what was
Called Stew Dens, These were run by the Different Parishes in Dublin. People would get a Ticket from the Parish Priest or his Equery and then go with a large Pot to get Stew in a Depot or Parish Hall . Some of these Places were better than others and the Quality was better and more Variety of Food . A couple of times when My Mother had not enough Food she went to them . The best Place on the North Side of Dublin was North William Street Parish run by Nuns , they gave very nice Food . You should look at Angelas Ashes by Franck Mac Court the Book and the Film, The Butcher Boy it is a sort of Pastiche of the Lifestyle of the 1960ties not true but still a very good Film Sinead O Connor plays the Virgin Mary I thought it was very funny Filmed in Clones in County Monaghan. The War of the Buttons/ Le Guerre De La Boutons by Claude Pichnod It is a Classic French Story set in an Irish Context in the 1960ties in the Area of Skibereen West Cork An Anglo French Irish Co Production. It is A War between two Rival gangs of Boys and a few of their Girlfriends. The Boys of the Town were Working Class Boys and the Rival Gang from an Adjoining District had nice Uniforms . The Prize for the Victors was the Rivals Buttons of the Clothes . It is a very nice Story worth looking at . Additional Information A Certain amount of Dockers were called Button Men because they were given a Button as these were Permanent Workers, and anybody else were picked out from a Crowd of Men Waiting for Work. Dockers and Building Workers were Paid in the Pubs by Stevedores for Dockers and Gangers or Foreman for Builders.With the Result that the Men would have to Treat the Foremen to Beer or Whisky for being given the Work which led to much Drunkeness and Eventual Alcoholism for many Workers. A lot of Men had very little Wages coming Home to their Wives on Friday Night, and arriving at their Houses or Flats Maggoty Drunk some having spent all their Wages in the Company of their Fellows and also as a direct result of their Foremen. This Practice went on for Years in Ireland and Britain among the Building Workers of whom the Majority were Irish. They built most of Britains Underground System and also Roads and Buildings. The Majority of these Workers ended up as Alcoholics and with no Homes and Eventually in Hostels for Destitute Irishmen.

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coal mining

Electricity's there, Television was just coming in in 60's so that made a difference, radio was there obviously, less health care and they mainly worked in factories and industries eg coal mining and not at desks like nowadays
the 60s and 70's were the show band era (think pre Joe dolan times and Dickie Rock) so many people met in discos etc...
women were becoming big in the workforce
The Best Information is if you go to Examinations.ie -this is the website for the Junior and leaving cert exam papers and stuff like that -its helpful even if you arent doing exams!
go to :Exam materials archive, Junior cert, select year-any recent year, or you might have to check a couple of different years, Look up marking schemes for History and then Higher level
I think its Question 6 -called society and culture/life in certain era that Will have it, and im sure this will help, i just cant remember the answers off hand!