La vita in Irlanda è stata grande negli anni ’90?

It was fucking awesome in the 90’s.

It wasn’t bad. The country was making good progress both socially and economically, but the downsides of the Celtic Tiger hadn’t manifested yet.

Of course it was also the best decade for music 🤘

Everything was brilliant in the 90s

The 90s was full of hope.

Was only alive for half of it but by God, the stories I’ve heard…

Yes it was.

Weird song choice. Phil died in ’86

Not if you were a raped child who needed an abortion.

By the sounds of it from my parents, it was great, even though they were a lot better off as it got into the 2000s.

Coming off the back of the 1980’s, the 90’s felt alive, vital. There was a sense the youth were coming through and the country was on the up.

Looks a bit emptier than I remember. Must be February.

This was considered the peak of cool; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMSNuKYM44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMSNuKYM44)

90s into early 00’s was class. Italia 90 & USA 94 were brilliant. There was a real sense of “we are on the up” in general.

The Eurovision and river dance meant there was a real international acknowledgment of Ireland and not just in the diddly eye sense.

A lot of people were vocal of their Irish heritage that were very cool at the time, the Gallagher chiefly among them.

U2 were not the insufferable pricks just yet and pierce brosnan was bond.

You had that old fashioned childhood still happening but the modern tech was coming in the shape of PlayStation’s, the internet etc. I was 7-17 through the decade so obviously special time for me.

Looking back there was a sense of relief post recession in the 80s. There were developments everywhere. We were starting to stand up to the church regards the unraveling scandals.

To me it feels much more recent than 30 odd years ago, the next decade I’d emigrated. While still travelling home regularly and keeping up to date with what’s happening it just doesn’t feel the same. There is a darker cynicism that seems to have crept in, the place feels more grey post Covid.

I mean, I hate to be down on Dublin (I love the place, really), but I feel more or less heartbroken when I walk around town now. It’s a tit being sucked dry.

It was pretty loose. The country was liberalising but hadn’t become sterile like it has now. You could have fun and go a bit wild and nobody batted an eyelid. They certainly weren’t recording it. There were some wild characters around people were a lot less homogenised.
I remember there was a shebeen on Dominic Street in Galway that was basically the whole downstairs of a house filled with sofas. Byo or kegs no licence just pure mentalness. Some unreal sound system parties out the country too.
Good times.

I’m so happy my childhood was the 90s, what a lovely time to be alive 😎

I mean there was a lot of positivity for better times around but certainly was still before the big investment in stuff. Roads where shite, half the city seemed dilapedated. A lot of inner city Dublin was rough as fuck too

It’s noticeable how few people and cars are around compared to today. Unless this was very early on a weekend morning, town seems very lightly populated compared to today. I think we’ve tripled the number of cars in the country since then, so it’s not surprising that we have traffic chaos, given the few investments in public transport.
It looks we had the same kind of asshole parking then as now.

https://preview.redd.it/tn9frjetmp7f1.png?width=682&format=png&auto=webp&s=770da478d8d2a0609ee65b636e0d45dbb180dd9a

For some reason, for me, the divorce referendum was a changing point. I still remember being in a pub watching the results come in. It felt like we were finally changing.
Little did I know I’d be needing it less than 10 years later.