Magnificent Ireland 70 years ago
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- A 16mm film of a visit to Ireland. Great landscapes, Carna, Galway and Clifden are called on in the great old car (make?)
A reviewer report that Newport Mayo is at the start of the clip the Black Oak river he is fishing in. Paul C, wrote: The footage starting at around 55 seconds is of Achill Island, Co Mayo. The shot of the 2 women walking over a bridge is taken just on the island from Achill Sound looking back over the bridge along the road towards Tonragee. The steep roofed building on the left is now the site of the Railway Hostel and adjacent to the building on the right is now the excellent Alice's bar. (At 48 seconds the mountain in the background looks an awful lot like Slievemore to me but it's hard to say..? (Michael:) Incidentally I met lady Mayo in Hong Kong in 1955.
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I was five years old when my dad took me home to Ireland when this was filmed , brought up in England but my heart was always in Ireland.
Hello Ireland is magical and I love it
My parent’s took me to on a visit to the farm where my father grew up when I was only four, but I remember so much about it still. It is hard to believe so much time has passed. It must have been around the same time you went there. 1954 or 5
This really gives me an idea of the way it was for my grandmother and her ancestors.
I live in Leeds I’m 50 now but my heart is always in Longford we’re my family are...!!👍 The beauty is just amazing, makes me long for home ❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@getlauriekor no running water electricity and toilet for these guys, they were still happy though...❤️
Respect from Poland! Hope our European lands, values and beliefs will remain with us forever 👍God bless Ireland
Love Poland! I am Irish American! God Bless You! Hail Mary!
Irish and British hate Eastern Europeans more than blacks and browns, so cool off there :)))
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis not true FACT trust me
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis not true Oleg, I like Poles more than Non Europeans, we mainly have a problem with Lithuanians not Poles nowadays
Cian Greene The general friendliness and welcoming nature is a definitive characteristic of an Irishman. Not being a racist fits into that category.
I’d like to believe that you don’t consider yourself an Irishman, because I doubt an Irishman would go after another Irishman for defending the Irish by differentiating Oleg - the racist from the Irish before people get the wrong idea. Yes, we have a few bad apples but the Irish aren’t racists.
I don’t see how you have a problem with my comment, I thought it was fairly reasonable.
Ps: don’t like your own comment...
Carna. Co. Galway 65 years ago. My mother rented a cottage there in 1969. It was a memorable holiday. The tide went out for miles and the tide pools were rich with all manner of creatures! The sights and sounds were not unlike these. A very traditional way of life.
I visited Achill on the 25th August 2015, although my heritage is Irish I’m English by birth. I was 55 at the time and my was...I'll come to that in a moment.
It was a horrible heavy drizzly day, the sort of rain that get you wet through in seconds without you realising it. That wasn’t going to spoil our mood, I was in God's corner of the world with the most beautiful lady I have ever met, and it was a special day to cheer us up even more.
We went into one of the many little potteries of the little island, and gosh what a talented person created all those amazing wares. I heard an accent I’d known all my life: "Are you over here on holiday, it’s terrible weather for an holiday."
I explained indeed we were, but more than that it was our honeymoon: "Oh congratulations to you Sir, Madam you have my heartfelt commiserations'. This jovial conversation carried on for several more minutes whilst my wife chose a beautiful and now treasured piece to purchase.
As he was carefully wrapping the piece he asked of our plans for the rest of the day. I told the potter that it was actually my wife’s fortieth birthday that day, something we hadn’t taken fully into account when planning the wedding hence it was her choice for the day. "Please accept this with no charge, and very happy birthday" he said handing over my wife's chosen piece.
That made my wife's birthday so special. It wasn’t necessarily the potter's friendliness, or even his generosity that made it so special, but the way he did it. It wasn’t being polite to a customer, it was him being as he would be with anybody. It was because it was all so natural to him that made it special.
I’ve been to many countries and my wife has been to more, but nowhere will remain in our hearts like Ireland.
Beautiful story
Beautiful story
Just as well that potter was there, otherwise you might have formed a completely different view of the country
edmund184 Not so much the country because we had many wonderful experiences, but we would have looked back at my wife's fortieth in a different way.
@@edmund184, just as well they didn't meet you, they'd never have been back.
This is incredible footage of the west of Ireland, what a gem to stumble upon, like a trip back in time! Clare, Dublin
Bald Nonce .Well the Irish left home to work and provide for their families and to integrate into their new communities.Unfortunately a large portion of foreigners coming to Ireland have no intention of working and no intention of integrating.
Bald Nonce .Closet racist bum boy ? That’s a bit rich coming from someone calling themselves a bald nonce.I know what happens to nonces where I am from !
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Most of my fathers side came from Ireland. So nice to get a glimpse of what it would have looked like for them. So beautiful and simple. We can’t go back to those times.
I was in Bunratty Folk Park, it's amazing place to go back to the past ❤️ I love Ireland 💕
Old days west of Ireland beautiful scenery in short filming. I enjoyed the shot at 8.30 second two women are cycling and riding on the donkey 65 years ago in Irish countryside. Old Ireland's fascinating story peace of mind.💂😁
I have lived 8 years in Dublin. I just realized how I connected to Ireland . God bless you brave Irish people!
Beautiful footage. Thanks so much for posting.
Such beautiful beauty 💚🇮🇪love from New Zealand 🇳🇿💚
beautiful beauty? Huh? Is there another kind?
And big aroha to you in aotearoa.
My grandparents emigrated to NZ from Cork and Galway in the early 1900’s. My mum was a WW2 war bride and emigrated to the U.S.
@Tadgh Michael Tobin jr Oh yeah, just filled with love and kindness, you are. No apostrophe in YOUR, by the way
You have no idea how badly this makes me want to sit down and cry because I can't hop in my TARDIS and go back there. Almost forgot, bless you, kind sir, for posting this.
Thank you so much . . . . real scenery . . .real people . . .overcoming and making the best of what they had.
Delightful, thank you for this! Greetings from Oregon, USA.
Ireland is still my most favourite country.....,
Number 69 is still my most favourite number.....,
You brought me HOME, If only in spirit which is always breathing in the crisp clean air of Home 🇮🇪
Great footage. My family is from Mayo, so I know these areas well. I did notice all the Scottish music!!!
This is Connemara not mayo
@@westernladsshorts3747 Yes I know it is! Mayo is not far away and so I have spent a lot of my childhood in Connemara where I had many relatives.
The music played was a hymn Amazing Grace. A beautiful hymn. winifred Thompson.
Found nothing wrong with the music. It is preferable to the tootlie wootley tin whistle music which posters feel is a must for any Irish scenes👍👍👍
The first music is the theme from The Last of the Mohicans
The Ireland of my childhood. It doesn't need the overpowering bagpipe background music.
Try turning it down! 🙄🙄🙄
I muted it.
@@jj302 how about not being condescending to his opinions... 🙄
Tis lovely. It'd be nice to see some of the old traditions like the ass and cart still alive
REAL Irish people LOVE THE HARP - I NEVER even saw bagpipes in Ireland
Michael Rogge 65 years ago I wasnt born. Thank you so much for share this valuous video!
Love ireland,my family come from there.Thank you for the upload
What's an UPLOAD - sounds "heavy"
Beautiful -- I love it!
Thanks Michael for this momento, so close to my heart: I lived there in Conemara,Recess in 1952-54 with my granny and uncle. I still have fond memories of climbing with uncle up into the Maamturk mountains, running barefooted Zelter Skelett over the moss covered slopes down to the cottage !!! Sad to see how Ireland and its folk have changed!
Fantastic footage, thank you so much for sharing this with us on TH-cam. I intend to check out you other videos. All the best from Derry, Chris
The title says it all. Magnificent Ireland. My grandmothers family was born in this wonderful land, her maiden name was o`Brian and I am proud to have her blood in my veins. God bless Ireland.
Well said.
Your not Irish.
Come home
Nathan Sheeran it’s people like her actually care about the true Ireland it’s young fools like you that are ruining it
We’d be a better nation if we could swap idiots like you for her
Your grandmothers family was a dumb to leave this country for America
lovely old pics of our area of Connemara
Love you Ireland
That is so beautiful that is an evidence that God exists! Thanks a lot! Marvellous video!
Lovely wee film, regards the music i just turn sound of, but any way people love to morn about something, i dont care where the music comes from, still adds to the film i am glad i can sit in my home and watch a film from 65 years ago, wonderful we can do that these days, thank you so much for the share.
Thanks and I have more than a thousand of such clips. Search with 'michael rogge'. Wish you happy viewing !
Even wear suits for fishing in them days...!! Thankyou the beauty and scenery was stunning looked a calm day ...❤️
Thank you for sharing Mic!
From that hardship comes beauty and revelation : I remember the bog road...rough, unpaved with rocks , ruts and rivulets climbing through the pines and then the mountain gorse and heather.
Wind hurrying the white clouds into azure sky blue.
We passed the remnants of an old stone hut buried deep in ivy.
“Don’t go there.” It’s cursed, a relic of the famine.
Until we came to our own little plot of bog, my father there since sunrise.
Thin as a stick he was, white sleeves rolled up, his big workman’s hands cutting out the squares.
Two-sided spade, he pressed it down, raised up the ancient life, heavy with water.
Back-breaking work. No horse nor mule nor donkey, but boy and dad and sisters Helen, Joan and Mary.
The turf was saved high and dry for winter’s kitchen fire, warm and cozy,
And memories too, to last a lifetime.
Digging...
Thanks for sharing, Michael! This takes me back to a bygone time I can barely remember. (Don't worry about the music ;-))
Thank you for sharing this Absolutely beautiful video and the awesome music excellent
performance and this so beautiful Scottish pipe tune and video about Ireland.love it. My dear friend Michael Have a beautiful Wednesday Warm
hugs from my heart and much ԼƠƔЄ from Huggie
I've watched this video over and over. It makes me want to cry, but i'm not sure why...
Thanks for sharing another great vid.
When everything was clean and pristine.
But it still is, looking back at my "bog days" I didn't know then that I was creating beauty all around me. Great video, superb scenic and country life pictures, but the Irish did survive the poverty, got on with it with little to offer, just like we are doing today. As an Irish person, no matter where we go, our "homeland" is always in our hearts, if not a few miles across by the crow. Thank you and cheers from Imelda, from Switzerland xx
@@psychedelica305 Don't ever let developers in. They destroy everything and steamroller over the land and peoples' way of life.
Still is
Deluded.
Michael, Thank you so much for posting this video. This video will forever give my Grandchildren what the West was like when their Great-Great- Grandparents left IRE in 1898 and 1903. A true gift to us all. (Sorry I mentioned the Pipes in an earlier message.... that was totally stupid on my part)
+Kathleen Gillis But who the heck is the guy in the Tweed Suit?? He seems also to be in a very upscale Auto! Just wondering if this is my family who are the Minions to this SIR? I really do not like this film as it relates to the Irish population...... I am actually pretty put off by this guy.... However, I do like the presentation of the day to day reality as it was heaped upon the WEST.... while showing how the English System worked......
I think the gent in question maybe the camera owner and I think you owe him and his wife or relation a thankyou for recording these lovely scenes. Maybe he is American, Scottish or European as many wore tweeds whilst fishing and hunting and still do to this day including working class gamekeepers and the like.
It's a long time ago since this film was shot, but it was beautiful. Winifred Thompson. Lisburn. Northern Ireland.
Nephin beg mountain in the background :) I live in Newport!!
Thank YOU!! Brings back memories!!
I LOVE THIS !!
WHAT BEAUTY
THANK YOU.
Fantastic thankyou for this lovely vidio with lovely memories of my family from achill
I have been researching that Islands history, actually met a carton lady last year,
I love their fishing outfits, very classy!! This was really enjoyable....I hope to return to Ireland one day.
Its super lovely!
Different world from now ,thanks Michael.
Wish we stayed that way😞😞
Nice ..I Grew Up With Most Of This Stuff Here In Donegal from 1950....But There Were Many Sad Days Too...With Poverty .Stigma..Church Ruling School Punishments ETC ETC..They Was Nothing Magnificent About It A Lot Of The Time...Times Are Much Better Now..We Are No Longer The Irish To Laugh About ...TG...
Lovely video. Thanks, Michael. All the Best from Galway:
Renzo *
Awesome! Only happened upon as I found a property I’m interested in. Excellent to see this thanks 🙏
In 1978 I visited relatives in Bantry in West Cork, at a time they were still trading horses on the village green. It retained a few traces of an older period quickly disappearing even then. I prefer my memories of that visit and will probably never go again. Sometimes its better that way.
Simpler day ! And time's !!! 🍀
I feel like crying !!!!!
Frances Van
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My Father and mother always dressed up to go away anywhere. Dad wore a ‘sport’ coat, tie and a dress hat ( Fedora ) any time he went shopping. Mother wore dresses and a hat or scarf in public ( this was in Michigan, U.S.A. 1950’s and early 1960’s ).
What a gem that was
Ahh, good old Ireland.
JV 6400 , 1937 Riley Big 4 Kestrel saloon , petrol . Was in an auction in 2006 in the UK , so still motoring =) Love it , thanks , shared with friends
+yefaircity It was taken off the road recently and re-bodied with a 2-seater open sports body :(
That was lovely, thank you!
I wish ireland was like that when i am growing my dad was some lucky man
Thank you señor Michael , so nice
What happened to old ireland and what state will it be in for future generations.we have lost our culture, identity, morality and faith.we have lost our nationhood.slaves to the empire and now slaves to globalism.very sad.
We were nothing more than slaves to religion and ignorance .
Tuam scandal, amongst many others. Your morality was corrupted.
I agree too....but unfortunately times change as they will also for your kids, their kids and so on. And they too will comment on how times are changing.... I personally do thing history repeats it's self. ❤️County Kerry
What profit does a man get to gain the whole world yet loose his own soal?
Where did the alcoholism and the incest and the Paedophilia come from and the vicious and spiteful temper where did that come from..
Shows the "Impermanence of all things" we really are just passing through this life...
Really enjoyed this clip!
On reflection:
1954, nine years after the second world war, and about 32 years after the South claimed independence,and the North being held on to by the British settlers. My one and only connection are friends who had immigrated to the South in th elate 70s and mid 80s, where upon visiting them , and contrary to all that was said about the Irish, back here in England, I found the most hospitable people imaginable, who had no problem either talking about their politics or religion. Salt of the Earth folk as ever I had come to meet ! It was an amazing experience in cultural differences that only the Highland and Hebridian Scots showed in all my travel across the UK. That is not to say there were no unpleasent folk but, personally I never came across anyone who was not freindly and very helpful during my visits. Even the postman knocked on the door to introduce himself,though he had no mail to deliver, as diid a son of a local farmer who came to the cottage to offer his and his family's help if it were needed. And this I consistantly found to be the way. No class issues,just considerate human beings willing to offer a helping hand,or a bit of turf. And a fight if you wanted one too !
But try and cheat them and they will wreak revenge in the cleverest ways imaginable, as I came to learn when someone I knew who immigrated to Cork, disputed ownership of land seperating his newly bought property to his neighbour's.
Now it has to be said,the 'Blow in' friend of mine had, prior to his move ,done an insurance scham back in England on some very valuable antique furniture,which was reportedly destoyed in a fire, The furniture in question was moved out under darkness, before the fire happened and was shipped to Ireland,where it was then stored in a barn on the newly bought property. A nice little money maker so my friend thought, being he recieved a payout of thousdands of pounds from the insurance company back in England.
As far as I was aware,this was unknown to his irish neighbour, when the dispute got to a level and intransigence of my 'Blow in' public school educated friend , when he found the said barn burnt down one day on his return from a business trip. And along with it, all the Antique furniture ! The irony of this was that my friend found himself in a position that he could not have dreamed of, and was unable to make any complaint for fear of being found out about the insurance scham. Shortly after the fire he accepted the boundry line that he had so 'hotly' disputed over. And from there on he and his neighbour got on with life and no more disputes arose between them.
You put some effort into that post. Lol
@@brendanryan1852 Seeing your post made me re read what I had wrote, and am a little embarrassed about my grammer and spelling. But pleased that you did not think too badly of it.
@@allandavies1642 good man 👍
Thank you, that is the Ireland I know. To tell the truth to people now, really annoys them. Ireland was a very productive country in them years.
Nice Old Footage.
très beau film !!! nice pics
Beautiful
I love Ireland I visit 3 time. My Mother from County Cork and my Father from Kildare!
Music was fine..Amazing Grace, played by bagpipe, is like no other!!! Thanks!
Connemara is so beautiful.
Lovely! It reminds me of my childhoods holidays here when we came to see my grandparents,great times, so free! The bit at 1:23 made me chuckle- Bridie and Mary are having an oul' chat and Johnny's there thinking "Would the two of ye ever stop gassin'? I'm dyin' for a pint!"LOLOL!
Love the sound of Irish bagpipes, or was that Scottish bagpipes, oh well. Those Irish mountains are so very tall and magnificent. I did not know mountains were as high as those over in Scotland. Love those Irish streams full of wonderful tasting trout. Good to see that Scottish black-face sheep being imported and bred in Ireland back then
The HIGHEST mountain in the West is CROACH PATRICK where ST PATRICK
drove all the snakes from Ireland. I could see it from the bedroom window in gran's house. I'll NEVER FORGET. SO MAGICAL - so FOND of the memory
Highland Culture in Scotland is Irish Culture brought from Eire in the 2nd century, hence Scotland translates as "land of the Irish"..the Romans named Scotland as this..Bagpipes are Irish origin 🇮🇪
The music was from "Gaelic Airs, Hornpipes and Jigs" by Ian McGregor & Scottish Pipe Band (according to Shazam).
Just Brilliant !!!
Those poor beautiful donkeys though being made to work so hard
I know, I thought the same thing!! I would walk instead of breaking their backs all day. 😢
Nice video. My family is from The Neale in Ballinrobe, County Mayo.
I met a lady who called herself 'the countess of Mayo' in Hong Kong in 1955 !
MichaelRogge How neat. Now Hong Kong is not a place I have ever ventured to.
About that music... hahaha. Thanks for sharing nevertheless. I'm more than happy to point you in the correct direction of some Irish Music. ;) Beautiful footage.
Sounds like Scottish Highland bagpipes and pipe bands to me playing Scottish tunes. Doesn't sound like the uilleann to me.
+flip inheck No, but the uileann pipes are. ANd these are Scottish, 3-drone pipes. Surely there was something more Irish to be had, than Amazing Grace played by a set of Scottish pipes?
radwizard yes but the Gaelic culture /language, pipes , whiskey, MC/ MAC surnames = son of, all came to Scotland from invading Irish tribes in 600AD,
Newport mayo is at the start of the clip the black oak river he is fishing in
How beautiful
Gorgeous. But why always the West. I'm in Kilkenny. Just as beautiful. Lots trees.
Powerful , life looks so much easer. What have we done to the world and are country.
Question: does anyone know who plays the Irish jigs in the final part of the video (starting about at 9'03 ")???
Thanks for Sharing........
In that era Ireland was the poorest nation in the “rich” part of Europe
They didn't know they were poor until the government came along and told them so.
@@tonybrook4519 When you are shitting in a bucket you know you are poor
We may have been poor then by today's standards but we were hard working - proud- -@- expected nothing from no one. My Roots are deep embedded in the BLOOD - SWEAT -@- TEARS of my Ancestors. God Bless My Ireland the land of my birth..God Bless all that commented....☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
@colin canton idk Colin Italy was on economic boom ( as well as Ireland had in 90's with Celtic Tiger) so my final answer Is that Ireland was poorer. Anyways Love for both countries
@@marykategraham.205 Well you expected money to be sent back from those that had to emigrate .
It so beautiful god bless Ireland always
Hi Michael ,was wondering if you had any more footage of Ballinasloe ? you show the fair green / tinker caravans etc on your clip. Would love to see more of my home town ! . Came across it by accident and have sent the link to friends ! . ao you might now see the amount of visitors rising .....
That's a lot of 'fekking' rocks in those fields. HA! Great visuals here Michael Rogge THX!
oh for a return to those glorious days! lost and gone forever!
Beautiful love Ireland
4:44 is st.johns church in Ballinasloe, Co.Galway.
Brilliant!
Ireland was a relatively poorer country both in absolute terms and compared to its Western European neighbors and a quasi theocracy . Ireland has evolved a lot since the 1990s would want to visit one day
At 4:39 are these Travellers? I'm a Traveller myself and the time this was recorded my family didn't have wagons because they were to poor only hand made tents
I'm pretty sure that's Ballinasloe on or around the time of the annual horse fair always a big gathering for travellers (when some say they select by a fight their king for the year) but actually probably a few days before or there'd be more people and not afterwards or it would have been churned up more. Also, I think it's around late 50's. some travellers had caravans at any rate but not all
@@eddycorrigan1433 I would think the one's who had waggons where better off than most Travellers/Minceirs at the time, nice video
Probably the Clifden Show
Hi where is this bridge ant the very end of vid wit the old car crossing
I guess it is the bridge to Achill Island , county Mayo. It has been rebuilt once or twice since the filming.
That's the year I was born. People at that time were as happy or as unhappy as they are now. They had no high expectations of life. Hard manual work for both men and women was the order of the day. Chlldren had to work like adults. Only primary education for 90% of the populace. Second level was for the privileged and those who won scholarships. I got the tail-end of this way of life as Ireland was beginning to modernize from the sixties onwards. Electricity was the big leveller. I saw my first televison in 1960 in sombody elses house. Within a few more years nearly every house had one. Most houses had Wet or Dry battery radios for decades before that. I find the video nostalgic and sad that my Ireland is gone forver as neeeds must I suppose. Progress is progress whether we like it or not. The person doing the film was a lover of our scenery.
Most of the "Beautiful / God Bless Ireland" etc comments are likely either written by ex-pats who couldn't wait to leave to chase opportunities abroad, or people who've never lived here at all. The reality of living in Ireland with its collapsing health-care system, appallingly high cost of living, dreary rain-sodden skies, unaffordable housing, etc etc, is a far-cry from the cliched images people have of colleens, leprechauns, and the glowing hearth.
I like the music and think the bag pipe music is fitting for it. What is the tune ?
Ireland and Scotland have so much in common, including persecution from England.
And language..
We were colonised by Britain as a whole, not just England. Even though they were at the helm
If you look in the Northern Ireland today, the unionists are mostly descendants of Scottish not English people
@Imix Muan what are you talking about? England had Christian roots before Ireland, st Patrick came from Britain to Ireland to convert the irish
Scottish independence soon!
Doesn't look like much has changed in 60 years, rural Ireland will always look the same.
I'd love to hop in a time machine and just go back there! Probably only 2pence a pint! Haha
God's graced land☘️
I love this. Been there and now working on a play about Ireland ll of this ads so much to my research. what is wrong with the music? Scotch? I lived the music.
nice recollection