A Self Sufficient Farm, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland 1979

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  • A look at the life of a self-sufficient farming family in Co. Fermanagh.
    The Mullholland family live a completely self sufficient existence on their farm in Fermanagh and the stone quarry which has been in use for at least 400 years. Benedict Kiely describes the landscape and the life of the Mullholland family. From a family of ten, four brothers and two sisters remained on the farm. Self-containment and self-sufficiency are two of the chief marks of the Mullholland farm. They produce their own poultry, cattle, butter, eggs, and turf. The Mullhollands have stuck to traditional farming methods.
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  • @dellhell8842
    @dellhell8842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The narrator is Benedict Kiely, from Dromore, Co. Tyrone, and owner the greatest story telling voice I've ever heard. He was a regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany in RTE Radio 1 on Sunday mornings in the 1970s. One of the sounds of my childhood.

    • @johnnielson7676
      @johnnielson7676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And he was a great author as well

    • @chrismccormack2064
      @chrismccormack2064 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The full episode of this "hands" documentary series is available on youtube

    • @Bdoc76
      @Bdoc76 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@chrismccormack2064What a fantastic show that was.

  • @MyFoxworld
    @MyFoxworld 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I was lucky enough to have grown up having a grandmother and a next door neighbour that both made butter, plus homemade soda bread, boxty. A dozen or so hens and geese and ducks where we would take the fresh eggs to the shop to sell.

  • @cormacbrowne9571
    @cormacbrowne9571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    From the great series 'Hands'.

  • @zenden6584
    @zenden6584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Love these old clips could watch them all day .

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    If only we could go back in time. I think I’ll stay there for good.

    • @Blackfyre741
      @Blackfyre741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some people still live similar to this in ireland

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love your use of words, it is poetry at its ver best, If only we could go back in time. I think I’ll stay there for good.

    • @JosephE-yd6ks
      @JosephE-yd6ks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Far away hills are greener. A lot of not so nice things went on that you don't see here! Everywhere looks nice when you're getting a quick snapshot

    • @JosephE-yd6ks
      @JosephE-yd6ks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Blackfyre741 Few if any

    • @patriciaclarke5188
      @patriciaclarke5188 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JosephE-yd6ks Looking back on a very hard way of life through rose-tinted glasses, whilst conveniently overlooking the no-so-good side of it!

  • @benji.B-side
    @benji.B-side 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Not an easy life but a one of contentment, without distraction of the quite soulless, modern day consumerism life.

  • @Joe-B1
    @Joe-B1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loved watching this. These people had nothing, yet they had everything. How times have changed and not for the better either.

  • @DashDrones
    @DashDrones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Now this is interesting history.

  • @nj2205
    @nj2205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Where did those beautiful days disappear!
    life nowadays is very complex and difficult, there is no sense of simplicity and goodness among people, our life today is full of suffering and hypocrisy.

    • @Discover-Ireland
      @Discover-Ireland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was thinking the same things.

    • @polki1482
      @polki1482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I still live very similar to this only real difference Ive a smart phone in my hand ,live your life as you wish.

    • @nj2205
      @nj2205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@polki1482
      Believe it or not a lots of people dreaming about having this Lifestyle, simplicity, nature...
      And even if you take a look at these modern fashion and health magazines, it's all about living around nature organic food fresh milk... meditation.
      So it's a blessing to have this,
      Keep it that way.
      Have a peaceful day :)

    • @seirbhiseach
      @seirbhiseach 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So many tell me when I say I'd like a life like this that it's a hard one, but I'd rather a simple and hard life than a complex and sedentary one. Seems like you're more alive being worked to the bone than you are living till you die as a couch creature

  • @stephensmith4480
    @stephensmith4480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A Beautiful part of the World, I have been fortunate to have visited Co Fermanagh many times in the 80s.

  • @turloughkennedy6579
    @turloughkennedy6579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The full documentary is on TH-cam. A beautiful film

    • @24tommy109
      @24tommy109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whats the name?

    • @aaronrider4051
      @aaronrider4051 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@24tommy109 aye, anyone know?

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 ปีที่แล้ว

      Name is: Hands documentary sycthe stone

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@24tommy109 "hands: fermanagh County"
      The whole hands documentary series is well worth watching, as is eamon mqc Thomas documentaries on youtube

  • @marydonohoe8200
    @marydonohoe8200 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was a priceless six minutes. Thank you.

  • @Torontokid
    @Torontokid ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A farmer's wife has as much skill as the farmer in the field. A true partnership.

  • @JDLeonard74
    @JDLeonard74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh, that butter would go nice on a big ear 🌽 of heirloom corn.
    I used to go out into my grandparents garden with a salt shaker once in a while,, and pull up a turnip when I was about 10 or 11 years old. After taking it up to the garden hose for a rinse of course.

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a stunning beautiful way to tell the story of the Maolchalann farming family, listening to the spoken words is like watching your most favorite film of times when you were just a child and was running free in the green lands of home

    • @movinon1242
      @movinon1242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maol - Mull
      chal - holl
      ann - an(d)

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 ปีที่แล้ว

      Theres a full documentary on youtube that this clip is from, the name is handy documentary fermanagh scythe stone

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Hands: fermanagh county"

  • @shill700
    @shill700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this is a clip from one of the 'Hands' series from RTE.

  • @rob_jarvis
    @rob_jarvis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Buy full fat cream and keep mixing it with a blender it'll split and you'll have butter like that just and a small bit of salt

  • @neilbriffa7211
    @neilbriffa7211 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Vast green pastureland for sheep,cattle,goats n fertile fields❤❤❤ in ulster

  • @Shcreamingreen
    @Shcreamingreen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I would like to know how are they doing now.

    • @charliedoherty5965
      @charliedoherty5965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All dead

    • @johnoriordan7657
      @johnoriordan7657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Benedict Kiely loved his storytelling in that beautiful voice.... God rest his soul

  • @kcahill2777
    @kcahill2777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great video, really interesting, keep them coming

  • @edmundpower1250
    @edmundpower1250 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant piece of film

  • @pauldurkee4764
    @pauldurkee4764 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a lovely way of life, give me that life any day, to modern life living in a city, its hell.

  • @qasaaye23
    @qasaaye23 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    wonderful!

  • @borderlord7562
    @borderlord7562 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way life should be

  • @johncunnane1582
    @johncunnane1582 ปีที่แล้ว

    different world back then

  • @paudsmcmack3117
    @paudsmcmack3117 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My neighbours are still living the same way today.

  • @JohnDoe-jn3es
    @JohnDoe-jn3es 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    EXAMPLE OF PAST WELL DONE

  • @judymanning2538
    @judymanning2538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ❤❤ for the algorithm ❤❤

  • @batmanb8194
    @batmanb8194 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    now what does she cook with that?

  • @user-jl2tb8xg4y
    @user-jl2tb8xg4y 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Old videos of tempo

  • @Sonia76373
    @Sonia76373 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is where the hippies of mayo should have done a crash course!

  • @Hooftimmer
    @Hooftimmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wonder if her cream was sweet or clabbered.

  • @787maggie
    @787maggie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did I hear a cuckoo?