I am Scottish but retired in Brazil although my young days involved a lot of this I thoroughly enjoyed every minute and taught me a great deal of respect
Irish people has a great personality.....and a wonderfull culture....In my hometown in Portugal music also was very important for the people in this times 60,70 years ago..I dont know how but this doc.put tears in my eyes...
We have music for love kindness war and killing music made all people equal my old Grandfather told me , now I’m a grandfather and I understand at last what he meant. Best wishes Ireland ☘️
i remember as if it was yesterday when i helped my irish family rake the hay for the harvest in 1979, id only gone for a holiday and ended up working 9am-9pm for 5 days, never ate so well and slept so well in my life!!
I've just come across this. Part 2. It takes me back to 1940 when I was evacuated from London to Shaftesbury in Dorset. The corn harvest, sheaves and stooks. At 8 years old I still helped. The Threshing machine was driven by a Steam Traction engine. I still have a picture of me on top of a haystack. Horse drawn hay carts and me being hoisted up on the back of the horse. Halcyon days. But then in 1941 back to London and the bombing. Thankyou CR's video vaults
I was just reading the Cast of Credits of the Show l see a Jimmy TEVLIN, my brother was Jimmy and my maiden name was Tevlin it is unusual and not a COMMON NAME IN EIRE, this is why l am posting to thank you all for the great entertainment, IT REALLY Was extremely well done and it brought back childhood memories of my Uncles forge and the Horses, he was a Blacksmith. A big hello to Mr. TEVLIN THANKS AGAIN FOLKS GREAT JOB.
My Grandfather was a blacksmith as well I would watch him working with his huge arms, he was always working doing work and being paid meant little to him. He was a volunteer and used to fix broken or near burnt out weapons. He was badly injured twice and when once he came home from an English prison my Grandmother didn’t recognise him he was so skinny. But he was kind and decent on another subject your name is uncommon I have never known any TEVLINS but best wishes Ireland ☘️.
Do you notice how every single child in these old timely videos & documentaries is so kind and respectful they also don’t complain at all or eat lollies and snacks everyday they also help there parents with literally everything which installs a hard ingrained good work ethics good morals & good level of respect not one kid has to be told off!!!! Here in the future 2020 every single child needs a screen including my own hahaha
We are your brothers if you come in peace yet if you come with bad intentions we are your nightmare, we are a clannish people the island and sea around us kept us this way until lately ☘️
Thank you for sharing a part of your history. I love the music and the singing. My Grandfather on my father's side came from Tipperary, Ireland....O'Meara.
watched both parts and brought back many memories from my life west country England I am 80 now and we were still farming in the same way back in the 40s. In 48 we had our first tractor but still kept the horses. Thanks for showing.
briddy , i still remember going to the hen hoose and gathering the eggs in a wicker basket , that was just a country cottage with lots of farms around , you could hear a motor car coming from way off lol , i do remember watching hannah hauxwells story on tv ,
My grandparents retired in 1969 they had a farm I can remember threshing machine there at one point I can remember the relations mucking in at that time most of the time they done it themselves milking the cows by hand loads of different breeds of cows vegetables corn I can remember sitting on that machine that where you lower the blades to cut the grass you lower it with the handle sometimes round the edge of the field in the summer, I left school basically when they retired, I started working on a bigger farm for a couple of years sometimes you didn't finish work in the summer till 10 at night I won't mention everything they produced but they did produce veg but stopped with the EU,I'm 67.
Bless these wonderful folks.. it hurts watching this to know that sadly most of them can no longer be with us. I wish they were still here passing their day doing their work. Churning their butter and scything their fields. Maybe they still do while in heaven.
This is the courageous story of survival. Read ireland's history but they "overcame". No wonder Irish people understand humanity - good and bad. Blessings. Really a lesson in survival.
Sometimes progress might not always be advancement , moreso when i hear the soft spoken gentle manner folks interacted together , they all had to depend on the skills ,harvests ,goodwill of neighbours and kin . Its been a while since i was back in Co, Armagh but there are certainly elements of these bygone days i still recall .Our tech filled world has no place in this time and place .
Definitely great charmers I have 6 fine strong Irish lads and their some of the biggest bunch of charmers you'll find but the charmers of eire will always put a smile on your face
hahaha Yep, but as an iRish woman born/bred, i will tell ya, we've got not only the Blarney, but a bit of the ol harsh temper too! haha We're a product of our harsh climate & it's shaped us into who we are. :-) Yep, me names not iRish, because me Dad's Scandinavian, but me Mother's iRish born/bred & her family been here for more than 1,000 yrs. iRish pride & love runs deep in our veins. :-)
How fantastic to see this film and to remember it all as a child. I was in awe of the farmers in those days. There was certainly no problem with obesity in those days! Mind you they did not live as long as we do today. Lovely memories, I look forward to showing this to my grandchildren later. A million thanks for the lovely nostalgic evening. I am always so very proud of my roots. I left Ireland in 1963 because I met an Englishman in Cork. I trained as a Nurse in Cork. My dear Mum was afraid that if I went to England to train , I might meet an Englishman and marry him, so I stayed in Cork and met the Englishman there instead,!
Thank you Connor for posting. Absolutely brilliant, fantastic, The singers were great and the music ',well,; what can I say. I was born in Wexford in the forties so I can identify with all of it. I have gone all nostalgic and when I hear the song ; The home I left behind ; it breaks my heart. I left Ireland in 1959 , I'm still Irish and I've still got my accent;; great film....
I showed my wife this and the emotion on her face. It bought bach so many memories of her childhood growing up in Portumna, Ireland. She visulised her mother making butter the same way, the mummers going from house to house and a lot more.As a musical family she remembers Bobby Kilkenny who played some of the music in this. Many thanks for downloading.
this has been a most enjoyable journey down memory lane.i had a feeling I recognised the voice of the narrator. on viewing the credits. I knew for sure it was Tom Gilmore. he and I grew up in adjoining villages near tuam in co. Galway. as we are of the same era we would both have witnessed all that this beautiful video brought to life. many thanks to all the contributors for enabling me to relive all those happy memories.
Never loose your traditions, ways, history, skills, trades, stories respect and love of this amazing country . With globalism wiping everything away, this is just so precious to watch.. thank you for sharing this, much love from USA
Peculiarly mass immigration and demographic transformation is only happening in European populated nations from the USA/Canada to Australia/New Zealand to the EU nations & the rest of Europe to Russia; this deliberate demographic displacement & replacement has been planned since at least the late 19th Century when we were given a blueprint for their plans in "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion". Say what you want about who wrote it, the fact remains that EVERYTHING said in that book has come to pass and we can easily see the people doing this to us if you can put your emotions aside and be honest with yourself.
Also THE Henry Ford's 1924 publication about the Protocols 20 something years after they first appeared in print is also a VERY IMPORTANT read. If I wrote the title of his book here it would trigger TH-cam's anti-truth algorithm so just search for a book written by Henry Ford, the inventor of the assembly line and founder of Ford Motor Company and you should be able to find it. In case you can't find it though here's the title with one word changed to hopefully beat the algorithm, "The International Chew: The World's Foremost Problem".
Thank god these old traditions are being recorded and saved. We may well need them again. My mother used a whiskey, lemon and honey sure on us when we were children for colds and fever. We loved it and I'm sure we slept the night.
I'm 63 and my grandmother born in the early 1900s taught to my mother and she to me and now passed to ours. Still works! Be careful to only buy real honey. Get the honey comb if you can. Else you're being fooled by high fructose corn syrup. fraudulently sold as dark honey and hydrogenated at that. You'll get sicker. We only gave whiskey to the adults. Just water for the children. We put cloves into the lemon and removed those after boiling it up before bottling.
Please note that our comforts are just making us ill. Just sitting behind desks and eating fats and sugar without burning any of them is no progress. These lads may have had some pain in the back from time to time caused by the hard labour, but there was no stress and anti-depressives were not needed, back in those days. It makes me feel at home, although I was born in 1973 and I'm not even Irish. Luckely I've been in Galway for a couple of weeks, for work and I can guarantee you, Ireland instantly felt like home to me (I'm from Holland)! Love the people, love the accent, love the landscapes, love the GUINNESS and for sure love the traditional music!! Thanks a million! Please keep these traditions alive!
I doubt there was no stress, but it may not have been a concept as we understand it now. When 2 of your children die from tuberculosis, as many children did in the old days, you better believe that'll induce some stress. And when you're sent against your will to a Magdalene Laundry simply for the crime of being too pretty, that's going to be stressful. And when you've had a poor harvest and can't get the money together to pay the landlord the rent due, that's going to be stressful as well.
So true Rene! Actually, do have your DNA test done, because you never know, you may just have a bit of Irish DNA. I found out i'm Irish, Scandinavian, Baltic & Eastern Europe & i didn't realise i had such strong Irish roots. My Mother's Russian/Finnish & my Father's Norwegian/Swedish, yet i have Irish ancestry, so you may well too.
In 1944 the church unofficially stopped Baptizing or initiating new Catholics. It was actually done before the french revolution in Latin just the english was updated in the chaos of WW2 to delete God The Father The Holy Ghost or Deum Patrum Spiritum Sanctum. This is why Ireland & any Catholics worldwide are gone wiped off the face of the planet. It is the last correct name to be deleted but this heresy has being going on for almost 2 millennia
@@brianm2881 Not really a biggie because working Sacraments were taken offline are were always in the early 19th century extremely limited and gone worldwide by WW1 with the last valid Priest! Be sitting down for the secrets of TPTB..www.ourladyisgod.com/i-mark-of-the-beast-on-the-forehead-baptism.php Extremely dangerous to any masonic state
Although I'm from rural India, 20 years back we used to carry out same task each day for example churning, milking a cow but it's all gone now! Those were the days tho!
jitendra singh I'm from Dublin as a child 45 to 50 years ago my family would to the west of Ireland , mayo, it was just like that an still looks the same we all have really good memories of it , we now have a holiday home. There now we bring our kids , such lovely people too .
We cannot turn back time, however we can preserve and respect our history, this contribution is gold-worth, i will share with pleasure and pride, thanks
Even though this is about Ireland, and I'm from the US, this brought back some wonderful memories! My grandmother taught me to churn butter when I was so young I don't even remember how old I was. She put me in charge of the butter production during the summer when we were there, and part of it went each day to the farmer that she rented from. (Years later, my grade school teacher handed us each a 1/2 pint carton of whole milk to teach us to make butter, and I proudly showed her I already knew how!) Later each afternoon, I saddled up the farmer's plow horse, Sally, and went down the mountain to collect the mail for every family that lived up there that wanted delivery right to their door. I didn't consider that "work", I saw it as being entrusted with something important and was proud to be able to help. Several days a week, my brother and I helped in the farmer's dairy, then some days we hoed and picked strawberries--which WAS hard work, LOL. Looking back, those were some of the best days of my life. Thank you for bringing back those memories!
@@mohinderkumar7298 USA is different in different parts buddy. And that's coming from someone who's IRISH. They aren't bad people. Only the higherups, as anywhere else in the world.
I'm glad you have fond memories of your childhood in Ireland ,as a young child my family and I would holiday in the west of Ireland playing in the fields and streams,we never watched TV for the two weeks that was 50 years ago we still keep in touch with the family who rented the cottage to us and have our own holiday home just up the road loved every minute of it,it's such a shame our countries are heading the direction they are, best for the future ☘️🇮🇪🙏🏻
Bygone days of Newfoudland too...I'm 50 and miss the days when the men fished and mad hay in the fields, and worked their gardens in the summer sun. Horses and cattle roaming free with sheep around here and there.
My family's love of storytelling obviously comes from our Irish roots. It's said that's why so many American writers come from the South. We're mostly Irish people.
@@Armistead_MacSkye not entirely true. Im from georgia but my grandparents are from Donegal and immigrated here in the early 40s. My parents were raised in georgia. So technically there are straight Irishmen from the south.
Utterly fascinated by this bygone era of Irish traditionalism and what it represents. It’s hard to put in to words and explain the feeling, does anyone else agree? It feels like the saying “hard men create good times and good times create soft men” (or whatever variation of it you prefer). We definitely face different challenges and issues in the modern day and I’m not taking away from anyone’s struggle but something about this simple life where folk just had to survive and get on with it is so appealing, as opposed to sitting 40 hours a week in front of a computer screen and going home to order a takeaway. This is much more natural to human life, it’s sad that it’s mostly gone.
I'm 50, and was born into the era of big combines, but my father could thatch a roof, scythe a field, my grandad made cartwheels, and I still have the granny's butter pats .which are identical to these ones in this film. I was so blessed to get the tail end of these fine types of people..there was a huge strong community bond, and people had a firm sort of a strength and goodness in them. Maybe we will all have to go back to it soon enough.
@@blizzz01 we may, not now, but being raised with my gran in the house, I, at least have the confidence, that if need be, I CAN, and will,survive the culture shock; be a hard transition, but I'm sure I'll manage, seeing what I do, around other people, I'm not sure how widespread that's going to be..nor pleasant IF it comes down to it. But the latest Covid garbage has me rather afraid that we may have no choice in the matter...
*Every* gathering at our house while my gran was alive was as above..they all ended up musical! Never failed! I dont know how she did it, never actually saw the instruments...but it seems everyone brought one; all of a sudden, the music started and no one was empty-handed.😁👏🥰💝🤣'tis only now, in my 50s that I'm realizing how much music played a part in my early years. It was wended through *every part* of every moment of my early life, ive only in thecpast few years, had an injury to my throat that makes it impossible for me to even hum, can't carry nor hold a tune if you gave me a bucket; something I used to take for granted. My secret weapon if you will, I could get on any horse(rode professionnally for 20 years, since I was a child really) and only after my operation did I realize how much I relied on my voice to keep those worst animals attached to me..if you've nothing else to reach with, your voice is always there and best reach across the species divide, animals *always* understand..never failed me before and I can only say I was glad I'd left that career before I lost my ability to sing, it would gave truly broken me(not just my heart) to have gotten on a horse and been unable to bridge the divide...that was always truly magical to me. To take the worst rogues, and within seconds, find "their song" and click with them, become a team, have them relax and sigh as if: "finally, someone who understands me..." and we were friends from then on.. of course it gad its downsides too.
Hi Ross, your comments are more relevant than most people might think and such a life and lifestyle , may not be that far away. What I mean is this. I grew up in at the end of these times. What people are actually doing is providing their own food and fuel, directly, if you are a farmer, or indirectly if you are working on a farm. Back then it was a necessity to grow and save what you could, with no money for shop bought items etc, you depend upon yourself and your neighbours and they on you. We had then what is now known as good food security, recklessly so, that is not the case now. That’s what I mean by these ‘ idyllic’ scenes not being that far away now, if one has any interest in international politics, it’s easy to see what I mean. At the time I don’t remember saying to myself ooh what halcyon times we are in, please don’t let them end. Definitely not. It was hard physical work, which I did enjoy and took pleasure from and still do. Arcadia , no money was always tight, interest rates high, the difference between then and now, simply we or at least I, did not know any different, no social media etc , to either inform, or worse, make us feel inadequate.. The most noticeable thing I would say that has slipped through our fingers, is respect for our farmland, then , it was rightly regarded as a resource, now merely a trade able commodity, with disastrous environmental damage.
today we all need money for every single thing we buy. Back then they all chipped in with each other and got the work done and all reaped the benefits from each other. In my mothers life-time our world has changed beyond any recognition. Thanks to the folks who had the foresight to preserve this small part of history in West Ireland for us all to see....God Bless Them ALL> x
DIDN'T SHOW THE SANATORIUMS, THE MAGADELINE LAUNDRIES, THE PERVE-RIDDEN CHILDREN'S HOMES, THE MENTAL HOSPITALS IN EVERY TOWN, THE POOR HOUSES... WE NEED TO SEE IT FOR THE DUMP THAT IT WAS.
@@AD-mw5mv yeah, cause the modern world certainly has banished all the pervs. The world may have been fallen from the start but some times are more fallen than others, and we live now in a modern world about as fallen as it can get.
Well we are obviously self aware of how unnatural our everyday lives are, it’s easy to find an article about the insidious way modern life degrades us, from social media addiction to narcisissim/consumerism and a sedentary lifestyle, even to how most low wage workers view their work as pointless and boring, we are very aware of this problem but we can’t fix it due to the current economical system that the typical worker lives in. It’s sad
It's a real pleasure to see films like this. They show the pride one had for one's homeland, for one's work and for one's life. Those were those days. Those were the days! Today .... 2021? In comparison to THOSE historical times, many attitudes have meanwhile become sick. Many thanks for the film. Regards, Horatio Nelson.
I admire the Irish. They never gave up and fighted a long time for their independence. They have also similarities to my culture. They are hardworkers and thankful to what they have - even if they are poor! 💪🏼
Incedible. So wonderful. Sharing it on Facebook and all the Irish I know. Thank you for putting this together for us. What valuable valuable lives and times to sure with us.
@@INTUITIVENORSK2303 Dia dhuit Kathleen, conas atá tú. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪. Hope you’re safe from covid. It’s wonderful video. Best wishes for a lovely day 😊🙏 Mícheál
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You obviously never lived and worked on a non-mechanized farm. This really glorifies the endless, hard work with very early mornings with chores to do after supper in the evening….if you had a cow or two, that meant scalding every piece of every implement twice per day, separating it, making butter or cream, and scalding stuff again when you were finished. People on farms in Ireland didn’t start having indoor plumbing until the late 1970s, so women had to haul buckets of water for _everything,_ and they also washed _everybody’s_ clothes without a washer or dryer! Women also had to make much of the clothing and furnishings the family needed. There were no refrigerators, so this doesn’t show how they kept perishables cold, nor how they cut and stored ice for the summer months, or if they bought it, or what. There was no such thing as even half a day off, or weekends, or sick days, or holidays, and if you relied on market days for weekly cash, that meant a hell of a long night after being in town all day or afternoon selling your goods and/or livestock. And you had to get up to milk cows at no later than 5AM, regardless of when you went to bed. My folks farmed non-mechanized in the US until 1950, as did several generations before them, so I know what I’m talking about!
Excellent, inspiring, salt of the earth people. These beautiful Irish people of faith, who worked hard all their lives, doing what is necessary and important, including generosity towards the homeless gypsies in their community. Even their partying, gift of the gab, singing rebel songs to never forget the past oppression, music making, dancing, joking--support of neighbors together. This was real living. These bygone days is a lesson for us who think we have it hard... No. We have become lazy and ungrateful. Time to raise our moral and work ethics.
Gypysies weren't homeless. They travelled the country in the caravans. Fixing pots n pans, doing roadwork until the county councils took that over and banned them. A few knew well, folk all emptied out of the house for sunday mass for a couple of hours and would steal. Gave themselves a bad name, but the church was the biggest hater of them. They would return to their real houses for the winter. Hence we called them travellers. Always on the move. Originally family O'Neill. Disposessed of land and animals by the crooked english and irish in government in cahoots.
Thank you for posting this wonderful video. I'm from Wexford a little bit young to remember but I do remember them been talked about. I'm still in wexford watching this ,with my American wife and she loves it , we are losing so much history and tradition ,it's so precious to have this video to keep it alive ,thank you .
Truthfully has it been said that the further we suppose we advance , surely we get weaker and more feeble in the mind and body . And it's been proved to be true . Grand film 👍🇬🇧
Well done. The tractor is real class. The corncrake is now almost extent. They may be regarded as backward times because money was scares and the weather could cause problems. Imagine the shock and boredom a person from that era would feel if he visited a modern tavern with wall to wall of sky sports and no proper conversation /music.
I lived that life in the 1950s as a young boy & the sense of belonging as part of a rural communal way of living daily was priceless. The Planet Earth Community need to inherit this sense of relating to ensure a future
Amazing Europeans. But look at those Irish go. I remember in POrtugal, they would sing along in homes re: religion and families. And playing cards was the pass time as well. The wagon making...WOW, brings back memories. 1:15:30. So peaceful.
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I am 65 Im happy to say I lived this life and done all those beautiful chores.. .I look back now with an appreciate all the auld hard people I used to know...they had a hard life for sure,everything was done the hard way, I go back now and still love the place...but it's changing and not in a good way.
@@AD-mw5mv It wasn't voted for financial reasons. It has mainly to do with equality, peace, levels of development, etc. Ireland scores high on almost every metric. And the (global) crash was some time ago. It's recovered now.
Love this wonderful account of life, same as my own, born 1950 . Time was precious, we always seemed to be busy, jobs to be done despite poor weather, long warm evenings outside playing. Wonder where this was made?? I saw Portumna mentioned in a comment, also Athlone. Thanks for posting this gem.
Thank you so much ,we just want to be left alone in peace but we won't sit back and let people from different countries come here and say how we should live . thanks again . IRELAND 🇮🇪
@I'm sorry About that! Your dead right we all have a fight on our hands with everything changing so fast ,too many imagrints still coming into our country's getting homes , money, while homeless Irish are dieing in the freezing cold on our streets ,we need a change of government , someone who lives this country and will stand up for us .
@Not A Piegon Pecker Irish emmigrated to cultures same as or s imiliar to themselves America New Zealand Australia UK Canada all were based on western European culture so they had no problem in fitting in and apart from UK there was no social welfare they had to work for what they got. Present day Ireland is paying out billions to people's from alien cultures Islamic and African most of whom will never integrate as seen in UK France Germany Sweden etc. Yes Irish migrated but assimilated and contributed , your comparison is unfounded
@@lindenvillage2474 It makes me sick what the globalists are doing to your beautiful island, and this goes for all the other European countries WHERE indigenous Europeans are being replaced
En Argentina hay una comunidad irlandesa muy bien conceptuado. Nuestro héroe naval Guillermo Brown nació en FOXFORD CONDADO DE MAYO. Murió en Buenos Aires.
Thanks for uploading these. I spent some time in Athlone in 97. I did get to see a glimpse of the old days nearby. It seems all but gone now as I talk to the friends I made back then.
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These videos are amazing. Does anyone know what year this was, I am 58 and my family came from Tournafulla, Co. Limerick, I was reared in Dublin but spent all holidays in "Tour". I remember the polka or set dancing as it's more commonly called. I loved going, I remember the turf, hand milking the cows, make hay stacks, drinking from the well and many other wonderful things. I have a channel called Grawnya's Home and Kitchen where I make bread, scones etc. I now live in Canada and this makes me yearn for home. 🥰
Not far from my mums err . .my. 'maams.. Farm home she worked hard on hr parents home growing up.she ws born raised thr moms home still thr tdy.she had take care of cows. & look aftr her mum.cook fo hr brothers.but thy left hard times th brothrs moved to newzealand work building ships.ithr 2 brothers left went to work in Nottingham uk. Mom stayd longer lk aftr hr mom. Mom . Boss . Ran th show. Name SARA..TYRESA BARRETT. OUTLIVED ALL HER BROTHERS.& SISTER.. HEALTHY RAISED ON SALMON.VEG' FROM THR LAKE'FARM. CONNAMMARRA IRELAND.'thy hv family Reunion.s 😳cple hundred People NOT KNW THEM? WS JS US MY CPLE CUZZ'S"Jaysus.! who are These people?😟😳
@Jacob Taylor - You have _NO IDEA_ what you’re talking about, nor how hard farm work was when it was completely non-mechanized, so naturally you’ve got a romanticized view of what it was like. The work literally never ended, from 4AM when the cows needed to be milked until evening when they needed to be milked again. Everything touching the milk once it got out of the cow had to be scalded….the pails, the separators, the containers the milk went into, _everything,_ piece by piece, twice per day, _every single day;_ you never got a 1/2 day off, bc the cows udders would fill with milk and cause them incredible pain. So, no sick days, no vacation days, no weekends, no holidays….how would you like that??? Every farmer had at least one cow, too, bc there weren’t grocery stores to buy it. Horses pulled all the farm implements, as you see here, but plowing was physically every bit as hard on the farmer. If anything broke, the farmer had to fix it somehow, bc there was never time to drop everything….once spring plowing began, it was a flat out race to the end of harvest, and if there wasn’t a thresher going around to thresh everybody’s grain for shares, it had to be done with a flail on a bare wooden floor once the hay and harvest was in. Fences had to be constantly repaired where several generations of my family farmed unmechanized up until 1950, when my father decided he’d had enough. Of course, he had taken a detour to the Pacific Theater of WWII after enlisting in the Marines as soon as he graduated from high school in 1942. My parents sold their small dairy farm and moved to the city where my dad very happily went to work in the morning, and was done in the evening. Both my parents loved having their evenings, weekends, and holidays together, after all the hard, endless work on their farm. So, again, you have no idea, just NONE!!!
Interesting to see how the farming in Ireland is. I grew up on the West part of Norway during the 1950s. The farming in Ireland is very similar to that one I grew up with. By and large it was hard work. The difference is : We had to keep the animals indoors during the winter because of the cold weather. Therefore we had to prepare food for the animals during the summer.
they did so in uk as well , silage i think , feeding for the winter , the farmer had to go and dig sheep out of snow , think it was on tv about yorkshire farm and maybe the story of 'hannah hauxwell' who lived on the yorkshire hills , tough life in winter but glorious in summer but not as cold as norway ,
some body said time around 80s more like the 50s i left ireland in 59 when i was about 16 and thats exactly as is was then and before and that is how my dear mammy seperated the cream
So do i Patsy, so do i. :-) We iRish will always carry these precious times & memories within our hearts, minds & soul eternally. Me Mother come from the O'Donnell line & she told me, that her ancestors all lived this way. They churned the own butter & milked they own cows & baked they own bread, everythin!! I would give anything to go back one day in time. If only................................. such a pleasant thought. :-) I'm lucky though, because i now live in Dingle Peninsula & life here, is still old fashion in some ways. We still see the sheep walkin around & a few farmers goin by on there way. We get the best views & the rolling green hills & pastures, plus the old houses. So loverly!! It's a grate life here, although very remote.
A few observations: 1) There was an incredible sense of community; 2) Life was a lot of work tempered by that sense of community and its survival and; 3) Young men were relatively scarce; 4) It seemed to be in the early/mid 1940s. Good documentary...
I think of our mum this was her time, she showed us how to make hay ropes to keep the hay cocks down and she loved to play 25s and always changed the rules every time we played !
reminds me so much of home, men knew how to shoe their horses, make and mend harnesses, build a building, etc...great skills lost and language lost too...no more French for us...Really...anglicized french...just like Ireland...Gaelic...and we had house parties...no mic's...where people danced and sang...and people sang when they worked outside...
It's always sad when bits & pieces of our culture & language are lost. Both French & Irish are so beautiful & rich. We don't say iRish Gaelic no more, we juss say iRish. :-)
Thank God there are still a few families and people who still carry on some of those great old traditions, each year my brother-in-law makes Saint Bridget crosses for all his family members, inlaws and sends to distant countries by special post. I say my grandmother making the churn and using those beautiful earthenware cream bowls, What artwork this stone wall builder was/is, that young man supplying the concrete is as a very important worker, those walls will still be standing in 1000 years if left alone, Those poor traveling people who lived on the side of the road under a bit of cover, on the damp wet ground, why did we all not do more to give them a helping hand in those days The storyteller told one of the best stories I have heard. To those people the music and dancing most have been to the most brilliant Thin Lizzy & Roiry Gallagher concerts that I got to see
The traveling people had the lives they chose. Sure, they weren't landed, but not many people were. There was 4 healthy boys laying idle who could've been put to use, man power was short, and all hands were needed.
My next door neighbour left Ireland with the clothes on his back at 13. He got a job in Glashouton pit as a boy and met a girl and made a home for himself..when he died in his eulogy we were staggered to find out he was trapped in a cave in for 16 days before he was 15 yrs old..he kept the mens spirits up by singing these wonderful songs. He nevbr soike of it ..but he sang all his life. Rebel songs mainly..he likef a dro or 2...god bless you Barney Boyle for if there is a heaven then that wonderful man is surly there❤..
@@geraldneary1948 good job, I say my Rosary faithfully here in Nova Scotia, but I can’t say there’s too many who still say it here. I hope you don’t go to the antichrist novus ordo church, though. antipope Francis is about as Catholic as Lenin was.
@Ben jamin I'm fascinated that you know of my lack of hands on experience in this or any other matter. Do please explain how you knew. As for the truth of the matter, I have a few years experience operating ancient binders, loading thrashing machines with combers, stooking, and rick building. Harvesting with binders and rick building was the most enjoyable. We produced hundreds of acres of combed wheat reed for thatching. I also have quite a lot of experience with 'hay' not that hay is even relevant to the discussion.
Andrew Wright you can go to parts of rural eastern Europe and its still like this. This is a romanticised dramatisation of what was bleak and depressing times in Ireland. you don't get the sense dire poverty that existed in rural areas or crippling social structures that dominated daily life. Thankfully Ireland has moved so far beyond that now, there's still a strong sense of community out west but without the hardship.
I am Scottish but retired in Brazil although my young days involved a lot of this I thoroughly enjoyed every minute and taught me a great deal of respect
Irish people has a great personality.....and a wonderfull culture....In my hometown in Portugal music also was very important for the people in this times 60,70 years ago..I dont know how but this doc.put tears in my eyes...
We have music for love kindness war and killing music made all people equal my old Grandfather told me , now I’m a grandfather and I understand at last what he meant. Best wishes Ireland ☘️
i remember as if it was yesterday when i helped my irish family rake the hay for the harvest in 1979, id only gone for a holiday and ended up working 9am-9pm for 5 days, never ate so well and slept so well in my life!!
I've just come across this. Part 2. It takes me back to 1940 when I was evacuated from London to Shaftesbury in Dorset. The corn harvest, sheaves and stooks. At 8 years old I still helped. The Threshing machine was driven by a Steam Traction engine. I still have a picture of me on top of a haystack. Horse drawn hay carts and me being hoisted up on the back of the horse. Halcyon days. But then in 1941 back to London and the bombing. Thankyou CR's video vaults
I was just reading the Cast of Credits of the Show l see a Jimmy TEVLIN, my brother was Jimmy and my maiden name was Tevlin it is unusual and not a COMMON NAME IN EIRE, this is why l am posting to thank you all for the great entertainment, IT REALLY
Was extremely well done and it brought back childhood memories of my Uncles forge and the Horses, he was a Blacksmith. A big hello to Mr. TEVLIN THANKS AGAIN FOLKS GREAT JOB.
My Grandfather was a blacksmith as well I would watch him working with his huge arms, he was always working doing work and being paid meant little to him. He was a volunteer and used to fix broken or near burnt out weapons. He was badly injured twice and when once he came home from an English prison my Grandmother didn’t recognise him he was so skinny. But he was kind and decent on another subject your name is uncommon I have never known any TEVLINS but best wishes Ireland ☘️.
How beautiful is Ireland ,, The Emerald Island 😙💖👍☘🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪. God bless all the irish people. Visiting there for me was unforgetable.
What a great talent denis macroom
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@@sullieking Yes. Plantations have that effect!
I love Ireland 🇮🇪 I haven't been there but I feel connected to the place and the people maybe because my Great Grandfather was from Ireland
Do you notice how every single child in these old timely videos & documentaries is so kind and respectful they also don’t complain at all or eat lollies and snacks everyday they also help there parents with literally everything which installs a hard ingrained good work ethics good morals & good level of respect not one kid has to be told off!!!! Here in the future 2020 every single child needs a screen including my own hahaha
ireland wow has to be the greatest small country in the world life is so easy wowwww love the irish verry proud
We are your brothers if you come in peace yet if you come with bad intentions we are your nightmare, we are a clannish people the island and sea around us kept us this way until lately ☘️
Thank you for sharing a part of your history. I love the music and the singing. My Grandfather on my father's side came from Tipperary, Ireland....O'Meara.
beautiful trip down memory lane when people we're great natured.
Self sufficient in everything even their entertainment. Bless them all.
Those days gone forever.
watched both parts and brought back many memories from my life west country England I am 80 now and we were still farming in the same way back in the 40s. In 48 we had our first tractor but still kept the horses. Thanks for showing.
you are a treasure till our country thank you
The horses were brought in when the tractor broke down 😄
Hope you are still going strong
briddy , i still remember going to the hen hoose and gathering the eggs in a wicker basket , that was just a country cottage with lots of farms around , you could hear a motor car coming from way off lol , i do remember watching hannah hauxwells story on tv ,
My grandparents retired in 1969 they had a farm I can remember threshing machine there at one point I can remember the relations mucking in at that time most of the time they done it themselves milking the cows by hand loads of different breeds of cows vegetables corn I can remember sitting on that machine that where you lower the blades to cut the grass you lower it with the handle sometimes round the edge of the field in the summer, I left school basically when they retired, I started working on a bigger farm for a couple of years sometimes you didn't finish work in the summer till 10 at night I won't mention everything they produced but they did produce veg but stopped with the EU,I'm 67.
Bless these wonderful folks.. it hurts watching this to know that sadly most of them can no longer be with us. I wish they were still here passing their day doing their work. Churning their butter and scything their fields. Maybe they still do while in heaven.
Some still are. . Hail n hearty
This is the courageous story of survival. Read ireland's history but they "overcame". No wonder Irish people understand humanity - good and bad. Blessings. Really a lesson in survival.
Sometimes progress might not always be advancement , moreso when i hear the soft spoken gentle manner folks interacted together , they all had to depend on the skills ,harvests ,goodwill of neighbours and kin . Its been a while since i was back in Co, Armagh but there are certainly elements of these bygone days i still recall .Our tech filled world has no place in this time and place .
This makes me cry. I long for days of old like this.
What’s happened to the world? It’s horrible now I just feel nervous all the time..
The charm of the Irish is intoxicating!
May God bless you.
Definitely great charmers I have 6 fine strong Irish lads and their some of the biggest bunch of charmers you'll find but the charmers of eire will always put a smile on your face
hahaha Yep, but as an iRish woman born/bred, i will tell ya, we've got not only the Blarney, but a bit of the ol harsh temper too! haha We're a product of our harsh climate & it's shaped us into who we are. :-) Yep, me names not iRish, because me Dad's Scandinavian, but me Mother's iRish born/bred & her family been here for more than 1,000 yrs. iRish pride & love runs deep in our veins. :-)
@@INTUITIVENORSK2303 shut her up 👏
God bless you love from 🇮🇪☘️😘
@phyllis brady don't be jealous for something you will never know and that is personality and sense of humor aka the Craic now go and pog mo hon
The blowing the cream from the milk, is just amazing. How many beautiful, skilled daily activities are no more..
How fantastic to see this film and to remember it all as a child. I was in awe of the farmers in those days.
There was certainly no problem with obesity in those days! Mind you they did not live as long as we do today.
Lovely memories, I look forward to showing this to my grandchildren later.
A million thanks for the lovely nostalgic evening.
I am always so very proud of my roots. I left Ireland in 1963 because I met an Englishman in Cork.
I trained as a Nurse in Cork. My dear Mum was afraid that if I went to England to train , I might meet an Englishman and marry him, so I stayed in Cork and met the Englishman there instead,!
Thank you Connor for posting. Absolutely brilliant, fantastic, The singers were great and the music ',well,; what can I say. I was born in Wexford in the forties so I can identify with all of it. I have gone all nostalgic and when I hear the song ; The home I left behind ; it breaks my heart. I left Ireland in 1959 , I'm still Irish and I've still got my accent;; great film....
A Wexford man here myself ,hope to find you well .
Indeed a great video to come across .
Thank you for the video!
to see those two lovely young girls, and to think how old they are today, if they are even still around, age is cruel.
I showed my wife this and the emotion on her face. It bought bach so many memories of her childhood growing up in Portumna, Ireland. She visulised her mother making butter the same way, the mummers going from house to house and a lot more.As a musical family she remembers Bobby Kilkenny who played some of the music in this. Many thanks for downloading.
this has been a most enjoyable journey down memory lane.i had a feeling I recognised the voice of the narrator. on viewing the credits. I knew for sure it was Tom Gilmore. he and I grew up in adjoining villages near tuam in co. Galway. as we are of the same era we would both have witnessed all that this beautiful video brought to life. many thanks to all the contributors for enabling me to relive all those happy memories.
This is the old Ireland is remember
Très jolis souvenirs
Hermosos recuerdos....😘
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Never loose your traditions, ways, history, skills, trades, stories respect and love of this amazing country .
With globalism wiping everything away, this is just so precious to watch.. thank you for sharing this, much love from USA
Your a good one too.
globalization destroys the unique attributes of each culture and people.
Nationalism>Globalism
Peculiarly mass immigration and demographic transformation is only happening in European populated nations from the USA/Canada to Australia/New Zealand to the EU nations & the rest of Europe to Russia; this deliberate demographic displacement & replacement has been planned since at least the late 19th Century when we were given a blueprint for their plans in "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion". Say what you want about who wrote it, the fact remains that EVERYTHING said in that book has come to pass and we can easily see the people doing this to us if you can put your emotions aside and be honest with yourself.
Also THE Henry Ford's 1924 publication about the Protocols 20 something years after they first appeared in print is also a VERY IMPORTANT read. If I wrote the title of his book here it would trigger TH-cam's anti-truth algorithm so just search for a book written by Henry Ford, the inventor of the assembly line and founder of Ford Motor Company and you should be able to find it. In case you can't find it though here's the title with one word changed to hopefully beat the algorithm, "The International Chew: The World's Foremost Problem".
Thankyou for this vintage film, keep tbem coming. Love it, ❤ God bless
Thank god these old traditions are being recorded and saved. We may well need them again. My mother used a whiskey, lemon and honey sure on us when we were children for colds and fever. We loved it and I'm sure we slept the night.
I'm 63 and my grandmother born in the early 1900s taught to my mother and she to me and now passed to ours. Still works! Be careful to only buy real honey. Get the honey comb if you can. Else you're being fooled by high fructose corn syrup. fraudulently sold as dark honey and hydrogenated at that. You'll get sicker. We only gave whiskey to the adults. Just water for the children. We put cloves into the lemon and removed those after boiling it up before bottling.
During my episode of COVID 19, I had a couple of those and it did wonders. Helped me get a good nights sleep and that helped my recovery.
I remember that generation very well. I lo.ved them and the way of life.
Please note that our comforts are just making us ill. Just sitting behind desks and eating fats and sugar without burning any of them is no progress. These lads may have had some pain in the back from time to time caused by the hard labour, but there was no stress and anti-depressives were not needed, back in those days. It makes me feel at home, although I was born in 1973 and I'm not even Irish. Luckely I've been in Galway for a couple of weeks, for work and I can guarantee you, Ireland instantly felt like home to me (I'm from Holland)! Love the people, love the accent, love the landscapes, love the GUINNESS and for sure love the traditional music!! Thanks a million! Please keep these traditions alive!
I doubt there was no stress, but it may not have been a concept as we understand it now. When 2 of your children die from tuberculosis, as many children did in the old days, you better believe that'll induce some stress. And when you're sent against your will to a Magdalene Laundry simply for the crime of being too pretty, that's going to be stressful. And when you've had a poor harvest and can't get the money together to pay the landlord the rent due, that's going to be stressful as well.
So true Rene! Actually, do have your DNA test done, because you never know, you may just have a bit of Irish DNA. I found out i'm Irish, Scandinavian, Baltic & Eastern Europe & i didn't realise i had such strong Irish roots. My Mother's Russian/Finnish & my Father's Norwegian/Swedish, yet i have Irish ancestry, so you may well too.
If you have grown up on a farm you have a lot of stress.
In 1944 the church unofficially stopped Baptizing or initiating new Catholics. It was actually done before the french revolution in Latin just the english was updated in the chaos of WW2 to delete God The Father The Holy Ghost or Deum Patrum Spiritum Sanctum. This is why Ireland & any Catholics worldwide are gone wiped off the face of the planet. It is the last correct name to be deleted but this heresy has being going on for almost 2 millennia
@@brianm2881 Not really a biggie because working Sacraments were taken offline are were always in the early 19th century extremely limited and gone worldwide by WW1 with the last valid Priest! Be sitting down for the secrets of TPTB..www.ourladyisgod.com/i-mark-of-the-beast-on-the-forehead-baptism.php Extremely dangerous to any masonic state
Although I'm from rural India, 20 years back we used to carry out same task each day for example churning, milking a cow but it's all gone now! Those were the days tho!
jitendra singh yes Indian village life seems so similar. Everything made by hand, community farming,
jitendra singh I'm from Dublin as a child 45 to 50 years ago my family would to the west of Ireland , mayo, it was just like that an still looks the same we all have really good memories of it , we now have a holiday home. There now we bring our kids , such lovely people too .
conceived, produced, & inspired by great genius & art. Important & informing. Erin the Great.
God love the blacksmith !! Respect from USA
We cannot turn back time, however we can preserve and respect our history, this contribution is gold-worth, i will share with pleasure and pride, thanks
den scoth!!!
@Ben jamin Vote the National Party too! 🇮🇪✝️
Even though this is about Ireland, and I'm from the US, this brought back some wonderful memories! My grandmother taught me to churn butter when I was so young I don't even remember how old I was. She put me in charge of the butter production during the summer when we were there, and part of it went each day to the farmer that she rented from. (Years later, my grade school teacher handed us each a 1/2 pint carton of whole milk to teach us to make butter, and I proudly showed her I already knew how!) Later each afternoon, I saddled up the farmer's plow horse, Sally, and went down the mountain to collect the mail for every family that lived up there that wanted delivery right to their door. I didn't consider that "work", I saw it as being entrusted with something important and was proud to be able to help. Several days a week, my brother and I helped in the farmer's dairy, then some days we hoed and picked strawberries--which WAS hard work, LOL. Looking back, those were some of the best days of my life. Thank you for bringing back those memories!
Hi you should check out Absolute history on TH-cam, a day in the life of an Edwardian milkmaid, and 100 years of the high Street.Goodluck
But why is USA die hard Capitalist? 😯😯😯
@@mohinderkumar7298 LOL, what? What does that have to do with learning to make butter?
@@mohinderkumar7298 USA is different in different parts buddy. And that's coming from someone who's IRISH. They aren't bad people. Only the higherups, as anywhere else in the world.
I'm glad you have fond memories of your childhood in Ireland ,as a young child my family and I would holiday in the west of Ireland playing in the fields and streams,we never watched TV for the two weeks that was 50 years ago we still keep in touch with the family who rented the cottage to us and have our own holiday home just up the road loved every minute of it,it's such a shame our countries are heading the direction they are, best for the future ☘️🇮🇪🙏🏻
Bygone days of Newfoudland too...I'm 50 and miss the days when the men fished and mad hay in the fields, and worked their gardens in the summer sun. Horses and cattle roaming free with sheep around here and there.
We learnt to make crosses with rushes ... never saw them being made with straw. Super interesting video ... half expected my Dad to turn up 😄
And we put the St Brigids cross up over the door?
Every since I was little girl I always felt connected to everything Irish..Ireland. I had to live here in my past life ❤
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Ur very welcome to come an Liv in Ireland, Budget queen
If you have saracism and crack a joke to cover your sadness and could charm a snake or knock a man out id say theres a good chance you were irish
Me too. :-) I'm blessed to be livin here in this wonderful & hauntingly beautiful country. Love ya Eire. Forever in me heart & soul.
@@noelmoran5725 no shes fucking well not
Thank you for a trip back to my childhood years
Beautiful culture and beautiful country.
My family's love of storytelling obviously comes from our Irish roots.
It's said that's why so many American writers come from the South. We're mostly Irish people.
And now we are facing genocide because we are too afraid to state the facts and face the truth.
No, we are NOT "mostly Irish." We are Scots-Irish, Scots and Welsh. New York and Illinois are "mostly Irish" among the white people.
@@Armistead_MacSkye not entirely true. Im from georgia but my grandparents are from Donegal and immigrated here in the early 40s. My parents were raised in georgia. So technically there are straight Irishmen from the south.
@Danvers97 Your family is one family. I'm a Historian, and I go by facts and statistics. Look up the statistics for yourself.
Utterly fascinated by this bygone era of Irish traditionalism and what it represents. It’s hard to put in to words and explain the feeling, does anyone else agree? It feels like the saying “hard men create good times and good times create soft men” (or whatever variation of it you prefer). We definitely face different challenges and issues in the modern day and I’m not taking away from anyone’s struggle but something about this simple life where folk just had to survive and get on with it is so appealing, as opposed to sitting 40 hours a week in front of a computer screen and going home to order a takeaway. This is much more natural to human life, it’s sad that it’s mostly gone.
I'm 50, and was born into the era of big combines, but my father could thatch a roof, scythe a field, my grandad made cartwheels, and I still have the granny's butter pats .which are identical to these ones in this film. I was so blessed to get the tail end of these fine types of people..there was a huge strong community bond, and people had a firm sort of a strength and goodness in them. Maybe we will all have to go back to it soon enough.
@@blizzz01 we may, not now, but being raised with my gran in the house, I, at least have the confidence, that if need be, I CAN, and will,survive the culture shock; be a hard transition, but I'm sure I'll manage, seeing what I do, around other people, I'm not sure how widespread that's going to be..nor pleasant IF it comes down to it. But the latest Covid garbage has me rather afraid that we may have no choice in the matter...
"Mostly" is still not *all!*😁😎🥰💝👏👏we're IRISH, WE *ENDURE*
*Every* gathering at our house while my gran was alive was as above..they all ended up musical! Never failed! I dont know how she did it, never actually saw the instruments...but it seems everyone brought one; all of a sudden, the music started and no one was empty-handed.😁👏🥰💝🤣'tis only now, in my 50s that I'm realizing how much music played a part in my early years. It was wended through *every part* of every moment of my early life, ive only in thecpast few years, had an injury to my throat that makes it impossible for me to even hum, can't carry nor hold a tune if you gave me a bucket; something I used to take for granted. My secret weapon if you will, I could get on any horse(rode professionnally for 20 years, since I was a child really) and only after my operation did I realize how much I relied on my voice to keep those worst animals attached to me..if you've nothing else to reach with, your voice is always there and best reach across the species divide, animals *always* understand..never failed me before and I can only say I was glad I'd left that career before I lost my ability to sing, it would gave truly broken me(not just my heart) to have gotten on a horse and been unable to bridge the divide...that was always truly magical to me. To take the worst rogues, and within seconds, find "their song" and click with them, become a team, have them relax and sigh as if: "finally, someone who understands me..." and we were friends from then on.. of course it gad its downsides too.
Hi Ross, your comments are more relevant than most people might think and such a life and lifestyle , may not be that far away. What I mean is this. I grew up in at the end of these times. What people are actually doing is providing their own food and fuel, directly, if you are a farmer, or indirectly if you are working on a farm. Back then it was a necessity to grow and save what you could, with no money for shop bought items etc, you depend upon yourself and your neighbours and they on you. We had then what is now known as good food security, recklessly so, that is not the case now. That’s what I mean by these ‘ idyllic’ scenes not being that far away now, if one has any interest in international politics, it’s easy to see what I mean. At the time I don’t remember saying to myself ooh what halcyon times we are in, please don’t let them end. Definitely not. It was hard physical work, which I did enjoy and took pleasure from and still do. Arcadia , no money was always tight, interest rates high, the difference between then and now, simply we or at least I, did not know any different, no social media etc , to either inform, or worse, make us feel inadequate.. The most noticeable thing I would say that has slipped through our fingers, is respect for our farmland, then , it was rightly regarded as a resource, now merely a trade able commodity, with disastrous environmental damage.
today we all need money for every single thing we buy. Back then they all chipped in with each other and got the work done and all reaped the benefits from each other. In my mothers life-time our world has changed beyond any recognition. Thanks to the folks who had the foresight to preserve this small part of history in West Ireland for us all to see....God Bless Them ALL> x
Loved it altogether, a grand look back.
Awesome. Video thanks for sharing thmbs up 👍☘️☘️🍀🍀🇮🇪
I watch this to warm up my soul a little after another modern day
DIDN'T SHOW THE SANATORIUMS, THE MAGADELINE LAUNDRIES, THE PERVE-RIDDEN CHILDREN'S HOMES, THE MENTAL HOSPITALS IN EVERY TOWN, THE POOR HOUSES... WE NEED TO SEE IT FOR THE DUMP THAT IT WAS.
@@AD-mw5mv there was no butchering of unborn children going on, how dare they not see the beauty of the purely individualistic society
@@AD-mw5mv yeah, cause the modern world certainly has banished all the pervs. The world may have been fallen from the start but some times are more fallen than others, and we live now in a modern world about as fallen as it can get.
@@AD-mw5mv U feel inferor troll; dont u, and are probley gay.
Gay troll, can never be happy.@@AD-mw5mv
These are real people. Real lives. Real, simple happiness and security from having neighbors who care. What happened to us?
the rothschilds happened
Greed happened,everything is about money now,the greedy get more greedy...
We Europeans of every ethnicity destroyed ourselves fighting for the Bolsheviks and against our own people in WW2.
the devil
Well we are obviously self aware of how unnatural our everyday lives are, it’s easy to find an article about the insidious way modern life degrades us, from social media addiction to narcisissim/consumerism and a sedentary lifestyle, even to how most low wage workers view their work as pointless and boring, we are very aware of this problem but we can’t fix it due to the current economical system that the typical worker lives in. It’s sad
I saw a lot of this kind of work when I was a kid. It's no wonder everyone was slim and fit!
I remember my mam making butter how lovely it was
It's a real pleasure to see films like this. They show the pride one had for one's homeland, for one's work and for one's life. Those were those days. Those were the days! Today .... 2021? In comparison to THOSE historical times, many attitudes have meanwhile become sick. Many thanks for the film. Regards, Horatio Nelson.
Did you ever take your wife up the shannon?
vc descobriu que ano foi esse do documentario...??
just brilliant to see and hear....
The Sound of that Corncrake brings me back to my youth, never have heard one overe here in England.
I admire the Irish. They never gave up and fighted a long time for their independence. They have also similarities to my culture. They are hardworkers and thankful to what they have - even if they are poor! 💪🏼
And now there becoming prisoners in ever increasing communist Ireland
Incedible. So wonderful. Sharing it on Facebook and all the Irish I know. Thank you for putting this together for us. What valuable valuable lives and times to sure with us.
den scoth!!!! :-)
@@INTUITIVENORSK2303 Dia dhuit Kathleen, conas atá tú. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪. Hope you’re safe from covid. It’s wonderful video. Best wishes for a lovely day 😊🙏 Mícheál
fantastic footage, a real treat to see the real history of the greatest Ireland
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I enjoyed watching this The world sure has changed I love the old ways of life. I have been called old fashion
You obviously never lived and worked on a non-mechanized farm. This really glorifies the endless, hard work with very early mornings with chores to do after supper in the evening….if you had a cow or two, that meant scalding every piece of every implement twice per day, separating it, making butter or cream, and scalding stuff again when you were finished. People on farms in Ireland didn’t start having indoor plumbing until the late 1970s, so women had to haul buckets of water for _everything,_ and they also washed _everybody’s_ clothes without a washer or dryer! Women also had to make much of the clothing and furnishings the family needed. There were no refrigerators, so this doesn’t show how they kept perishables cold, nor how they cut and stored ice for the summer months, or if they bought it, or what. There was no such thing as even half a day off, or weekends, or sick days, or holidays, and if you relied on market days for weekly cash, that meant a hell of a long night after being in town all day or afternoon selling your goods and/or livestock. And you had to get up to milk cows at no later than 5AM, regardless of when you went to bed. My folks farmed non-mechanized in the US until 1950, as did several generations before them, so I know what I’m talking about!
Nothing better than hot Irish brown bread, real cream butter, freash berry jam, cup of hot tea! So good.
Shttop I want that now!
Boiled bacon and cabbage pint of guiness
And cucumber sandwiches. Oops, there I go being all Anglo- Irish again.
It's great that this was captured on film. You wouldn't believe it today with all the cars zipping around.
Well done Paddy Hurney ,,you were the best tradesman I ever knew ,,RIP Paddy
This is excellent filming. It could tell a story without the aid of words.
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iRish story tellin & the good ol Blarney is so wonderful & i can be listenin to it for hours. :-) Bless ya Eire & all ya peeple.
Beautiful sight of old lreland ; hoping we never forget .
Excellent, inspiring, salt of the earth people. These beautiful Irish people of faith, who worked hard all their lives, doing what is necessary and important, including generosity towards the homeless gypsies in their community. Even their partying, gift of the gab, singing rebel songs to never forget the past oppression, music making, dancing, joking--support of neighbors together. This was real living. These bygone days is a lesson for us who think we have it hard... No. We have become lazy and ungrateful. Time to raise our moral and work ethics.
Gypysies weren't homeless. They travelled the country in the caravans. Fixing pots n pans, doing roadwork until the county councils took that over and banned them. A few knew well, folk all emptied out of the house for sunday mass for a couple of hours and would steal. Gave themselves a bad name, but the church was the biggest hater of them. They would return to their real houses for the winter. Hence we called them travellers. Always on the move. Originally family O'Neill. Disposessed of land and animals by the crooked english and irish in government in cahoots.
Thank you for posting this wonderful video. I'm from Wexford a little bit young to remember but I do remember them been talked about. I'm still in wexford watching this ,with my American wife and she loves it , we are losing so much history and tradition ,it's so precious to have this video to keep it alive ,thank you .
Truthfully has it been said that the further we suppose we advance , surely we get weaker and more feeble in the mind and body . And it's been proved to be true .
Grand film 👍🇬🇧
Well done. The tractor is real class. The corncrake is now almost extent. They may be regarded as backward times because money was scares and the weather could cause problems. Imagine the shock and boredom a person from that era would feel if he visited a modern tavern with wall to wall of sky sports and no proper conversation /music.
I lived that life in the 1950s as a young boy & the sense of belonging as part of a rural communal way of living daily was priceless. The Planet Earth Community need to inherit this sense of relating to ensure a future
God bless that dear green place!
I am a farmer of North India of a Aryan Race(Jat) Iike this video too much.Thanks .
Amazing Europeans. But look at those Irish go. I remember in POrtugal, they would sing along in homes re: religion and families. And playing cards was the pass time as well. The wagon making...WOW, brings back memories. 1:15:30. So peaceful.
What a wonderful, enjoyable video. Beautiful land and beautiful people. Thank you for this.
Forgot to say, loved the old guy thatching with the pipe on !..I thought I'd seen it all.
Dae Dues. I agree wee pet you are so smart. I am Irish Italian love and my mum and I could not agree more. Mum speaks Gaelic.
Both parts are wonderful and give so much information about the bygone times. Thanks a lot for uploading.
No Rudolf, not "both parts", just says something like "all parts" . If you say "both" you are giving recognition to the British occupation.
@@MisterPeterColeman he means Parts 1 and 2
Got it. Thanks P Mac C.
The sense of community here is absolutely top class.
She never turned the handle, us kids all took turns!! 🧈☀️❤️
Enormous Thánks for posting this remarkable footage of Eire!!
Lovely Ireland !!!
Lovely Irish People !
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@@hobbyfarmingro8840 whats your language ?
Could you answer in English?
Im Brazilian...
lucy maria hello . Am Românian my dear friend . I Love Brazilian people . 😀👍🏽. My hair dresser is from Brazil also my neighbour 🇷🇴👍🏽
Give me this sort of life any day!!! Been there, done that, would really love to go back there!!!
Can you imagine how amazing that butter would be on some golden toasted bread..
Wonderful in site and video of New Years Eve in house's of Galway and also dances and parties of ancient Ireland.
Thanks for this great film. Brings back memory especially making the butter.
I am 65 Im happy to say I lived this life and done all those beautiful chores.. .I look back now with an appreciate all the auld hard people I used to know...they had a hard life for sure,everything was done the hard way, I go back now and still love the place...but it's changing and not in a good way.
A beautiful and peaceful country... I'd vote it as one of the best places to live on earth together with NZ and Finland.
So did The Economist. In 2008, Ireland was voted the best country in the world to live.
@@tacobell6826 then CRASSSSSSSSSSH
@@AD-mw5mv It wasn't voted for financial reasons. It has mainly to do with equality, peace, levels of development, etc. Ireland scores high on almost every metric. And the (global) crash was some time ago. It's recovered now.
@@tacobell6826 that only ended within the last year and we are still recovering.
I remember those days great times
Beautiful! Thank-you!
Love this wonderful account of life, same as my own, born 1950 . Time was precious, we always seemed to be busy, jobs to be done despite poor weather, long warm evenings outside playing. Wonder where this was made?? I saw Portumna mentioned in a comment, also Athlone. Thanks for posting this gem.
Born 59 and from Beara. County Cork. Little difference.
Beautiful country and people
Thank you so much ,we just want to be left alone in peace but we won't sit back and let people from different countries come here and say how we should live . thanks again . IRELAND 🇮🇪
@I'm sorry About that! Your dead right we all have a fight on our hands with everything changing so fast ,too many imagrints still coming into our country's getting homes , money, while homeless Irish are dieing in the freezing cold on our streets ,we need a change of government , someone who lives this country and will stand up for us .
@Not A Piegon Pecker Irish emmigrated to cultures same as or s imiliar to themselves America New Zealand Australia UK Canada all were based on western European culture so they had no problem in fitting in and apart from UK there was no social welfare they had to work for what they got.
Present day Ireland is paying out billions to people's from alien cultures Islamic and African most of whom will never integrate as seen in UK France Germany Sweden etc. Yes Irish migrated but assimilated and contributed , your comparison is unfounded
@@lindenvillage2474 It makes me sick what the globalists are doing to your beautiful island, and this goes for all the other European countries WHERE indigenous Europeans are being replaced
En Argentina hay una comunidad irlandesa muy bien conceptuado.
Nuestro héroe naval Guillermo Brown nació en FOXFORD CONDADO DE MAYO.
Murió en Buenos Aires.
Thanks for uploading these. I spent some time in Athlone in 97. I did get to see a glimpse of the old days nearby. It seems all but gone now as I talk to the friends I made back then.
So sad. Why don't we locals bring it all back?! I want to start some sort a new historical revival. I reely do!
I did a lot of work like this when I was young. Times have changed alright.
Ar Fiannas o yes good friend. Time it’s flight away Salut . Iartă-mi îndrăsneala te rog dar te invit cu placere să vizionezi acest filmulet al bunicului meu care cred că te va binedispune : Ciobanul trist th-cam.com/video/ws1Nh5lAj0M/w-d-xo.html 🇷🇴👋🤝
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These videos are amazing. Does anyone know what year this was, I am 58 and my family came from Tournafulla, Co. Limerick, I was reared in Dublin but spent all holidays in "Tour". I remember the polka or set dancing as it's more commonly called. I loved going, I remember the turf, hand milking the cows, make hay stacks, drinking from the well and many other wonderful things. I have a channel called Grawnya's Home and Kitchen where I make bread, scones etc. I now live in Canada and this makes me yearn for home. 🥰
Early 1980s Aughrim, Co.Galway. My fathers cousins were the musicians.
@@Feech23 I believe it ranges from around 1945 (they are listening to news on the 2nd world War on the radio) up to 1970's
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Hi its staged to look like 1940s. It was definately filmed in the 80s I knew some of the people in it.
@@Feech23 troll.
well they say they were hard times, but by jesus, i would say they were definitely easier on the mind spirit and soul, unlike today's rat race.
I guess it's kinda off topic but do anybody know of a good site to stream new tv shows online ?
@@titandallas6667 Lol bots.
I agree with you 100%. Live in a hurry, die in a hurry!!
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@Jacob Taylor - You have _NO IDEA_ what you’re talking about, nor how hard farm work was when it was completely non-mechanized, so naturally you’ve got a romanticized view of what it was like. The work literally never ended, from 4AM when the cows needed to be milked until evening when they needed to be milked again. Everything touching the milk once it got out of the cow had to be scalded….the pails, the separators, the containers the milk went into, _everything,_ piece by piece, twice per day, _every single day;_ you never got a 1/2 day off, bc the cows udders would fill with milk and cause them incredible pain. So, no sick days, no vacation days, no weekends, no holidays….how would you like that??? Every farmer had at least one cow, too, bc there weren’t grocery stores to buy it. Horses pulled all the farm implements, as you see here, but plowing was physically every bit as hard on the farmer. If anything broke, the farmer had to fix it somehow, bc there was never time to drop everything….once spring plowing began, it was a flat out race to the end of harvest, and if there wasn’t a thresher going around to thresh everybody’s grain for shares, it had to be done with a flail on a bare wooden floor once the hay and harvest was in. Fences had to be constantly repaired where several generations of my family farmed unmechanized up until 1950, when my father decided he’d had enough. Of course, he had taken a detour to the Pacific Theater of WWII after enlisting in the Marines as soon as he graduated from high school in 1942. My parents sold their small dairy farm and moved to the city where my dad very happily went to work in the morning, and was done in the evening. Both my parents loved having their evenings, weekends, and holidays together, after all the hard, endless work on their farm. So, again, you have no idea, just NONE!!!
Interesting to see how the farming in Ireland is. I grew up on the West part of Norway during the 1950s. The farming in Ireland is very similar to that one I grew up with. By and large it was hard work. The difference is : We had to keep the animals indoors during the winter because of the cold weather. Therefore we had to prepare food for the animals during the summer.
they did so in uk as well , silage i think , feeding for the winter , the farmer had to go and dig sheep out of snow , think it was on tv about yorkshire farm and maybe the story of 'hannah hauxwell' who lived on the yorkshire hills , tough life in winter but glorious in summer but not as cold as norway ,
some body said time around 80s more like the 50s i left ireland in 59 when i was about 16 and thats exactly as is was then and before and that is how my dear mammy seperated the cream
Me Irish Nanny & her ancestors did the same Patsy. Such wonderful history of a wonderful land.
@@INTUITIVENORSK2303 there's still a few that live that way old famers with a couple of cows out in the sticks ,I miss them time's .
So do i Patsy, so do i. :-) We iRish will always carry these precious times & memories within our hearts, minds & soul eternally. Me Mother come from the O'Donnell line & she told me, that her ancestors all lived this way. They churned the own butter & milked they own cows & baked they own bread, everythin!! I would give anything to go back one day in time. If only................................. such a pleasant thought. :-) I'm lucky though, because i now live in Dingle Peninsula & life here, is still old fashion in some ways. We still see the sheep walkin around & a few farmers goin by on there way. We get the best views & the rolling green hills & pastures, plus the old houses. So loverly!! It's a grate life here, although very remote.
Thank you. Just great
An excellent scene at about 35 minutes, a tinker camped at the roadside and what appears to be an itinerant chimney sweep meet.
A few observations: 1) There was an incredible sense of community; 2) Life was a lot of work tempered by that sense of community and its survival and; 3) Young men were relatively scarce; 4) It seemed to be in the early/mid 1940s. Good documentary...
Looks like a grand life
It's clearly a reconstruction. Looks like it was filmed in the 80's.
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I think of our mum this was her time, she showed us how to make hay ropes to keep the hay cocks down and she loved to play 25s and always changed the rules every time we played !
reminds me so much of home, men knew how to shoe their horses, make and mend harnesses, build a building, etc...great skills lost and language lost too...no more French for us...Really...anglicized french...just like Ireland...Gaelic...and we had house parties...no mic's...where people danced and sang...and people sang when they worked outside...
It's always sad when bits & pieces of our culture & language are lost. Both French & Irish are so beautiful & rich. We don't say iRish Gaelic no more, we juss say iRish. :-)
@@INTUITIVENORSK2303 oh aye not lost just misplaced slan neoi mo chara
Your culture was very like our Irish culture.
These are the people who produced us. So give a thought to them now and again.
Bygone days of ireland
What an upload. Brilliant stuff here.
Amazing authentic.! Greetings from Roumania.
No, terrible acting out of the 'tinkers'and fake neighbors. The rest? Ok.
Thank God there are still a few families and people who still carry on some of those great old traditions, each year my brother-in-law makes Saint Bridget crosses for all his family members, inlaws and sends to distant countries by special post. I say my grandmother making the churn and using those beautiful earthenware cream bowls, What artwork this stone wall builder was/is, that young man supplying the concrete is as a very important worker, those walls will still be standing in 1000 years if left alone, Those poor traveling people who lived on the side of the road under a bit of cover, on the damp wet ground, why did we all not do more to give them a helping hand in those days The storyteller told one of the best stories I have heard. To those people the music and dancing most have been to the most brilliant Thin Lizzy & Roiry Gallagher concerts that I got to see
The traveling people had the lives they chose. Sure, they weren't landed, but not many people were. There was 4 healthy boys laying idle who could've been put to use, man power was short, and all hands were needed.
My next door neighbour left Ireland with the clothes on his back at 13. He got a job in Glashouton pit as a boy and met a girl and made a home for himself..when he died in his eulogy we were staggered to find out he was trapped in a cave in for 16 days before he was 15 yrs old..he kept the mens spirits up by singing these wonderful songs. He nevbr soike of it ..but he sang all his life. Rebel songs mainly..he likef a dro or 2...god bless you Barney Boyle for if there is a heaven then that wonderful man is surly there❤..
The good oul days so much simpler an safer it's nearly all gone
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A lot of the Irish still say the Rosary and we will come back again better than ever.
@@geraldneary1948 good job, I say my Rosary faithfully here in Nova Scotia, but I can’t say there’s too many who still say it here. I hope you don’t go to the antichrist novus ordo church, though. antipope Francis is about as Catholic as Lenin was.
The thatcher with the pipe in his mouth thatching😂😂😂😂😂Only in my beautiful Ireland😂😂😂😂😂
TOO WET TO CATCH FIRE...!
@@AD-mw5mv yeah I know but the visual is just hilarious😂
@@AD-mw5mv I don't think you would put wet or damp straw on a roof because it would rot
@Ben jamin I'm fascinated that you know of my lack of hands on experience in this or any other matter. Do please explain how you knew.
As for the truth of the matter, I have a few years experience operating ancient binders, loading thrashing machines with combers, stooking, and rick building. Harvesting with binders and rick building was the most enjoyable. We produced hundreds of acres of combed wheat reed for thatching.
I also have quite a lot of experience with 'hay' not that hay is even relevant to the discussion.
I would also like an answer to that question... but from someone with a little knowledge, not you.
how I wish the world is like this now simplicity. ...you can't beat it..
Andrew Wright you can go to parts of rural eastern Europe and its still like this. This is a romanticised dramatisation of what was bleak and depressing times in Ireland. you don't get the sense dire poverty that existed in rural areas or crippling social structures that dominated daily life. Thankfully Ireland has moved so far beyond that now, there's still a strong sense of community out west but without the hardship.
TB ridden, priest pervs, corruption, drunkenness, nope, it was a dump..
It looks like a gay troll.@@AD-mw5mv
so nice,absolutely beautiful