The Longford Cure - Donncha Ó Dúlaing, Ireland 1980

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  • Lizzy Donnelly from the village of Legan in County Longford has the cure for jaundice. This particular treatment is a mixture of herbs, boiled and strained to make a drink. She was given the recipe by a neighbour.
    Lizzy Masterson has the cure for ‘the thorn’. This cure was given to her family by a woman and consists of unsalted butter that must be renewed annually on the morning of the first of May.
    Bobby Trimble has a cure for various ailments. These include warts and a urinary condition called ‘the gravel’. He can also stop bleeding by saying a specific prayer three times. He was given this prayer from a man he knows called Pat Brady.
    ‘Donncha’s Travelling Roadshow’ was a series presented by Donncha Ó Dúlaing highlighting the people, music and traditions of rural Ireland.

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  • @patrickmcgreevy1051
    @patrickmcgreevy1051 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great clip, bless them all 🇮🇪🍀

  • @rutgersplague4595
    @rutgersplague4595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    These are probably long deleted from rte tapes, great to see someone has saved some of these from destruction

  • @Imightberiding
    @Imightberiding 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It appears that 1980 elsewhere in the world was still essentially the middle ages in Ireland; populated by charming old people who represented this forgotten time centuries past by what was their unrecognizable spoken word, archaic superstitions & beliefs. Quite charming folks indeed. Thanks for this rare upload & insight.

    • @caracortage3270
      @caracortage3270 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very funny, but daft in arrogance

  • @TheAvarusAnimus
    @TheAvarusAnimus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I had horrendous warts on my hand for around 5 years. Tried everything, freezing etc. Went to a man with the cure in Celbridge, Co.Kildare in c.2000-2002. My dad made me go! I had no faith in it at all. Said a few prayers over them and rubbed them with something (maybe Elderberry leaf?!).Within 2 weeks they were gone and have never returned.

  • @dellhell8842
    @dellhell8842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I can feel the 1980 cold and dampness of that hall from here, given the way they are all dressed.

    • @johnsometimeswrong8742
      @johnsometimeswrong8742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking the same here it reminds me of our little parish hall when i was a kid in the 80s i can smell it from here maybe a little gas heater running in the corner😃😃

    • @deanodog3667
      @deanodog3667 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Theres a po under the stage !

    • @andrewdaley3081
      @andrewdaley3081 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Central heating is bad for you. 🇬🇧👍

    • @scottblack9213
      @scottblack9213 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably a couple of Super Ser's on full blast for the stage only... The great unwashed in the audience will have to do with keeping their wet donkey jackets on .. the smell of the gas will probably make them feel warmer!

  • @michaeloconnor9809
    @michaeloconnor9809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    People might sneer a bit at the prayers but those people believed and generally ate wholesome food, not near the drinking and smoking that goes on today. Herbs have provided wonderful cures for centuries

    • @jackjsheridan
      @jackjsheridan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh be god if drinking and smoking was all they were at Michael. Lord save us and guard us

    • @FFrankie93
      @FFrankie93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh be da hokey, there's no amount of dandelions that could save the youth of today Michael

    • @johnsometimeswrong8742
      @johnsometimeswrong8742 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FFrankie93 🤣🤣🤣

    • @johnsometimeswrong8742
      @johnsometimeswrong8742 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jackjsheridan 🤣🤣🤣

    • @wittywoo9559
      @wittywoo9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Piss in the beds 🤣

  • @mae9064
    @mae9064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for sharing, times past, gone but not forgotten

  • @radharcanna
    @radharcanna ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to enjoy Donnacha’s Highways and Byways radio programme years ago. He travelled all over the country, interviewing some very interesting people. Real radio. Nowadays we have to put up with Ray D’Arcy!

  • @kokobwild2413
    @kokobwild2413 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's a fine prayer.

  • @ripme6616
    @ripme6616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such dignity

  • @adbl.d6324
    @adbl.d6324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    from a US Donnelly, this does me proud to see

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love the cure especially after a good night’s drinking.

    • @seanoceallachain
      @seanoceallachain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was honestly hoping that at least one of these cure's were gonna be a hangover one.
      Woulda been gas if they took out a fry-up with a cup of tea :D

    • @Discover-Ireland
      @Discover-Ireland 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seanoceallachain lol 😆

    • @Discover-Ireland
      @Discover-Ireland 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Greg 😆

  • @rosehogan2861
    @rosehogan2861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Prayer for Blood cure
    Our lord Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem
    He was baptized In the River Jordan
    The waters was pure and the waters was culled
    As Jesus passed by the water stood
    And by his power And in his name
    I demand this blood to do the same
    Say 3 time for the cure to complete
    Powerful simple lovely Prayer

  • @johnnielson7676
    @johnnielson7676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They’re like my own grandmother years ago in Idaho - an herb and a prayer for every ailment.
    Can anyone suggest a good book on Irish botanical folk medicine?

    • @fred66665
      @fred66665 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      following on here for any other comments.

    • @farmersimonk
      @farmersimonk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Niall Mac coitir Ireland’s wild plants

    • @johnnielson7676
      @johnnielson7676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@farmersimonk Thank you! I just now reserved this through interlibrary loan and it should be in my hands by next week.
      And I’m excited to see the author also has books on the folklore of Ireland’s birds, trees and animals

    • @farmersimonk
      @farmersimonk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johnnielson7676 I have the whole collection! They are a treasure.

  • @pifflepockle
    @pifflepockle ปีที่แล้ว

    Magic

  • @wilfredwilde9559
    @wilfredwilde9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    NI cure for warts .
    My mother said a local lady had the cure and cut a spud in two .One half rubbed on the warts and the other half tied up on a string out on a tree .As the spud rotted so too did the warts .
    It worked .

  • @paullinnane8135
    @paullinnane8135 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Donnacha o dulaing 1933-2021, age 88 years

  • @fred66665
    @fred66665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is interesting CR, I've heard of some of the cure's for the burns and the bleeding and the Jaundice but different ones than these mentioned if you have anymore that come up in the Archive please consider posting them.

    • @jonser20cent68
      @jonser20cent68 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Harp and Shamrock" Great hornpipe.

  • @rivolinho
    @rivolinho 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Longford, 1980. No joke.

  • @barra6709
    @barra6709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There was nothing a bit a flat 7up couldn't cure back in the day.

    • @johnnielson7676
      @johnnielson7676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or a mug of broth

    • @wittywoo9559
      @wittywoo9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me ma use to pull that one when yea were sick .. used to heat it up 🤣

    • @CH-px5fp
      @CH-px5fp 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can’t drink Lucozade to this day. I associate being sick with drinking it.

  • @johnsometimeswrong8742
    @johnsometimeswrong8742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    🤣🤣I thought she said she had a cure for the horn!!😃

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What Wid The Horn Being 😳

    • @ripme6616
      @ripme6616 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      She definitely had a wicked sense of humour

    • @djdownie3
      @djdownie3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny. But what did she have a cure for?

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A very strange thing happened to me 49 years ago. I was out walking one day through mountains and valleys in my area, minding my own business when I set down for a rest, a 0voice directed me to a place further up the mountain, I was told that I would find a very rich vein of pure gold, it was mine but I must not show others where this existed, it was for my own use and I must not pass any part of it to anyone else. I am a very rich but poor man as I am not allowed to sell any of my mountains of gold

  • @MrDyersy
    @MrDyersy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Class.

  • @dannymcintyre3819
    @dannymcintyre3819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are all these three from Longford?
    Would they have a Longford accent?

    • @jakenconor
      @jakenconor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, what you are hearing here probably constitutes what you'd call a longford accent.
      It's not as instantly discernable as accents from other areas of the country...being as flat as the landscape around the area itself.

  • @joepullen-tu5wi
    @joepullen-tu5wi ปีที่แล้ว

    Look how people in Ireland we're so far behind rest of the world, 1980 they were still living in the 60s

  • @joepullen-tu5wi
    @joepullen-tu5wi ปีที่แล้ว

    The latest man saying a prayer lol, I remember people blessing themselves walking by statues, cyefin Mary, even if they were driving past lol

  • @deet1558
    @deet1558 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I say the blood prayer works Ona cut jugular vein

  • @coolmacatrain9434
    @coolmacatrain9434 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    By jasus! Who said there was no talent in Longford.... what?

  • @frontleftfender
    @frontleftfender 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    And with all the portions and cures none could remove the curse of being born in Longford

  • @daithiocinnsealach1982
    @daithiocinnsealach1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This guy looks like he's parodying someone 😂

  • @animallover19581
    @animallover19581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A long time since I saw 3 elderly people on telly. Now you must have legs 6 feet long and blonde hair the same length.
    Simple happy times. Long gone alas.
    Sure we are all dead cool now drinking Processo eating caviar and doing pilates. Auld cures my arse.🤒🤧🤮😭😢😤😫🤤😝👀👁👀👁

  • @COIcultist
    @COIcultist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not quite the same but hardly any better than Jeremy Kyle.

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why the prick got the sack

  • @daithiocinnsealach1982
    @daithiocinnsealach1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Add a bit of fairy dust and 3 Hail Mary's and you're laughing

    • @larryoconnor7094
      @larryoconnor7094 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or a trip to the Laughing Factory for tune up.

  • @sitluxetluxfuit4481
    @sitluxetluxfuit4481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's not witchcraft , then the old guy processed to cast a spell , repeat three times etc. Wow.

  • @user-lx5ue4wm5k
    @user-lx5ue4wm5k 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣

  • @ClannCholmain
    @ClannCholmain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They’re all dead now.
    The cure didn’t work.

    • @honeyfungus4774
      @honeyfungus4774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They weren't claiming they had a cure for Death.

    • @ClannCholmain
      @ClannCholmain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@honeyfungus4774 it’s a little bit of dark humour.

    • @evanhaley.7813
      @evanhaley.7813 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe they are still alive.

    • @ClannCholmain
      @ClannCholmain 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@evanhaley.7813 the interviewer died this year.

    • @adbl.d6324
      @adbl.d6324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      as will we be all is some 40-60 years’ time. what of it? Mortality does not erase the possibility of shared positivity effecting a ‘cure’, albeit even only temporary, for all sorts of human malaise.