My wife said that even in the early 50s it was similar in Carlow planting with her grandfather in the fields..plenty of work for an 8 year old girl too..children walking miles to school in all weather..some boys would hop on the back of a donkey to get to school…very organic food as well before the dreaded pesticides came along
They used lead arsenate as a pesticide back then, which caused lead and arsenic contamination of the soil that lasted for decades. Not to mention, even if their food was organic, they used a lot of toxins in other areas of their life that would have negated the benefits of pesticide/herbicide-free food.
At one time on Achill Island livestock was kept in the house on winter nights as there was no wood, coal or turf available for fires and the animals raised the indoor temperature.
My Dad grew up in this era. He loved it. If you look around, there is nothing like agricultural waste or rubbish in those days. Everything was clean and unpolluted. and used again.
The rivers had been highly highly polluted by the industrial shops popping up along the water ways since about 1780 sadly but otherwise I know what you mean
@@KingPhilipsRideshare yea but only in urban centres. countryside would have been much more pristine. Nowadays plastic garbage blows longs distances and chemicals seep through entire watersheds. Homeless people leave longterm piles of garbage bags deep in the woods
@@UhtredOfBamburgh Picking on homeless people to illustrate the waste of modern society is misleading and shows your ignorance of the reality. Most plastic waste is created by home owning, tax payers. Much of this (recycled) waste ends up in shipping containers for poorer countries to deal with. Also. to your first point many rivers would have been somewhat polluted outside of urban areas due to the mining of metals like tin and lead. But yeah, things are much worse now.
@@spinny2010 Most plastic waste is from the companies telling you its down to the individual to solve these issues while they contribute staggering amounts in comparison.
@@durtydubliner5758 Well, yeah. The companies produce and we consume with little option of alternatives in many cases. We can reduce our consumption of single use plastics, but packaging companies need to be forced to change to more easily recycled and biodegradable products where possible. So I imagine we are in agreement.
I lived in Galway in 1947,. But then my parents Anny and Joseph Brennan in 1961, moved to New York city. Doe I was a young boy,and a little wild at the time. I remember well those days as if it were yesterday. Ireland was and still is, is a beautiful place to live.
My dear, late mother, who came from rural Cavan, passed away in 2019, and nearly every day of her life she spoke about her childhood there. As a child I heard all about the day war was declared when she and her friends were up on the planting, about the animals she shared her life with, her bedridden aunt, her going to church on the pony and trap and so on and so forth. Altho' she left Ireland, Ireland never left her.
I remember going to my grandparents over in Ireland during the school 6 week holidays in late sixties (I'm now 62)...my dad was Irish and my mum English which was not good parentage to have at the time because of all the troubles in Belfast etc, but I can still remember those six weeks like it was yesterday....my grandparents lived out in the sticks, no running water, no flushing toilet, no telephone, no electricity....but it was beautiful to wake up to the hills of Donegal every morning almost magical and mystical.....you could see every star in the sky on a clear dark night and see the milky way....the morning mists where ghostly and surreal...those moments never fade....I have visited Ireland many times both in the south and the north and have found that as long as you don't talk politics or religion they accept you with open arms and are probably the most friendly and hospitable people that you could ever meet.
I visited Ireland eight years ago and I didn't feel like I was in a foreign land. My accent would have been similar to their own having grown up in Newfoundland and I felt right at home from the very start. Many Newfoundlanders of Irish ancestry would have come from Waterford and Wexford counties . Hope to get back again before I get too old to travel and have a walk down Talbot Street and drop into The Celt for a pint . Happy New Year to one and all. Erin Go Bragh !!!☘☘☘
I am an west Irish man who lives in London. Done a job for a guy from newfoundland. Could not believe the accent. He had never stepped foot in Ireland.
Thank you for posting this video it brought tears to my eyes as I thought back to the 50ths and 60ths when as children we spent time on our family farm during our summer holidays, making haystacks and my memories of making ropes from hay with my grandfather to trow over the haystacks. A time of my life that was so precious to us all, sadly most of my family are gone now but I forever have those memories. Enjoy life when you can.
I remember these days. My mother was born on the west coast of Ireland, west of Clifden, in the 30s. Her home was on a peninsula with water on three sides that we still visit to this day. They didn't get electricity till the late 50s. I can still remember my grandmother sitting outside my uncle's thatched cottage churning butter.
I am 65, and have to categorically say spending my summer holidays on my grand parents farm in the 1960,s were fabulous times as a young child. Learned life skills very early..
Fascinating. As a model maker interested in horse drawn vehicles, I notice that the donkey carts differ in construction details from the similar, but slightly larger English ones. Thanks for these pictures. A delight.
my god 90 years ago, wonderful to watch, little did these people know one day people would watch this in a changed world that no matter what can never live those days again, i know it was not easy at that time, but part of me thinks i bet people where happy with there lot, and life was simple and every one did there bit.
People will say the same thing about this generation in 90 years time that's the way of the world to look back with nostalgia, I'm not sure they were happy with there lot in the 1930s I think they didn't know any better so they were used to it and having very little
@@ggmm6182 is anyone happy with their lot now either? Constantly struggling, looking for the basic thing we're all entitled to, a roof over our heads. Some people working day and night with no hope of getting one, others doing nothing and getting everything for nothing.
@@ggmm6182 There will be no one around to say that if humanity continues on its current trajectory. It also doesn't take much foresight to see how poorly future generations will view what's happened since the 1970s. In that span, we've continually harmed and polluted the earth, quite unlike what you see here.
I can remember pony and trap on the road in the 70s as a kid and trams of hay. My grandad has a small farm outside Templemore, he never drove, travelled into town on pony and trap, milk churns on the trap to the creamery and Billy cans. I used to help him bring in trams on the trap. Found memories of my two hardworking grandparents God rest them all. My other grandfather was born in Templemore in 1895, he was a Carter in the town, and a ploughman for a shilling a day.
@@liammurphy2725 not claiming any such. Simply an observation. Failte Ireland have the same problem - usually a slow smarmy Dublin South/Wicklow type accent promoting tourism all over Ireland! It turns me off. Maybe you're from Wicklow? 🤣
This is the era my parental grandparents were a young married couple in , raising their seven children in rural Monaghan. Out of their seven children five emigrated, my father being one of them. His oldest brother did return from Birmingham when he inherited the farm in the 1960s . I really must get over to Ireland this year. Love that country and its people
Ive seen Trotting Carts while hitchhiking in Ireland in the 90s and that crazy back lanes bowling game. great film a culture that’s never died Erinn go Bracht
Absolutely beautiful videos. God love the Irish people - worked so hard but always a smile. They were happy and in touch with nature. Yes, historically, they suffered but moved on with life and always had welcome for visitors. Blessings.
Happy memories of hitching around Ireland. One of the friendliest and most welcoming places in the world in my experience. 🇮🇪🏴 Pob lwc i blwyddyn newydd dda i bawb!
Sadly, Ireland and its unique culture has been destroyed in the last 20 years. Globalisation and its mass illegal migration agenda has irreversibly damaged every city, town, and village.
Sadly you have reason to be terrified. All changed, changed utterly: but what has been born is not a terrible beauty, but ruin, and loss of our national identity.
I picked potatoes, cut the bindertwine on the threshing( we called it 'thrashing') machine, stood on wynds of Hay and helped make them, drew them home with my father in the Hay car, picked Hay into the shed, or made reeks of Hay and covered them outside, drew home turf and went to the creamery with an ass and car, cut turf with the sleamhain, and footed and stooked it, went barefoot to school, and skated on the ice in the pond in Shanahan's field across from Kilflynn National School. I also broke the ice, fell into the pond and was suitably compensated for my efforts, at home and educationally. Gerald J
My mom would have been around 10 years old at this time in the hills near Wicklow. She talked a little about growing up back then but after migrating to Canada after the war and me being the 9th of 10 those memories were long past and faded. I wish I had asked more questions as a kid.
Fascinating insight. Looked at the start as if that was from around Killarney. My mother and grand-parents would have been living in Killarney at this time so wonderful to imagine the times they lived in.
@seansaighdeoir -I'm from county Kerry & I would have to agree with you that some of that early footage indeed looks like Killarney. Bucolic life at its most appealing 😃
I'm from Killarney and you are correct. The first scene from Killarney is with the girl going through the gates on the horse and cart at 00.48 seconds. Tomies mountain is featured in the far distance in the background. Queens cottage in Derrycunnihy is featured at 00.58 seconds. Just inside the original driveway entrance to Muckross House beyond the gate lodge is featured at 1.28 mins. Torc mountain is on the left.
@@omstygomsty thanks for that. I used to know Killarney well so thought that might be the drive down to Muckross. Was either that or around the domain. Many Jaunting cars down there in the summer. I missed Torc waterfall / mountain so will watch again. Its a few years since I've been up there but always remember what a beautiful spot it is. We used to visit often by now most of the folk there are no longer around so we have lost touch with the place sadly. All the best, thanks for your comments.
I am not Irish. My grandfathers, both paternal and maternal, immigrated to America in the early 20th century. But there is a connection, be it of heart or ancient blood I feel inside, that draws me dear
I miss Ireland and the craic and the people my great grandparents are from co wexford and I lived in Ireland for 10 years until 8 years ago now back in Birmingham
I caught the back-end of this way of life as a lad in rural Galloway South west Scotland in the postwar period. Village blacksmith and community spirit prevailed. I'm fully aware there were hardships and poverty at the time, but is it wrong to wish for the bonhomie and sincerity that I remember in the village. Maybe my memory is clouded with the mists of time and departed friends, but I'll always insist (as I continually tell my grandchildren) that you'll never ever compare this modern technological era with the pedigree period of the past. Yup ! Yer right! I'm a wishy-washy old sentimentality. And proud if it. 😅
My mother was born on a farm in the middle of rural Ireland in 1918. 2nd oldest in a vary large family, in summer went to school bare footed, went to work at 10 as the family desperately needed the money, lived in a tiny house with no running water, most of her generation left Ireland or went into religion, the siblings who left never went back except for visits, the poverty drove them all away. I'm not saying they were unhappy, but they all had a better life elsewhere, very sad really.
1918 the Irish, certainly the landless tenant farming Irish, were still enslaved by the British. They were still living the same way as they had been at the time of The Great Hunger of the 1840s (albeit with a few legal fictions passed to make the servitude seem voluntary).
Wow great video . Hard to believe we alll know people who were born in that decade. Because the world outside Ireland went to war a few years later the 1940s probably looked pretty similar.🙂👍
Don’t let the rose tinted video fool you , ireland was a very tough country to live in those days. A lot of economic hardship and lingering bitterness from the civil war.
The first scene from Killarney is with the girl going through the gates on the horse and cart at 00.48 seconds. Tomies mountain is featured in the far distance in the background. Queens cottage in Derrycunnihy is featured at 00.58 seconds. The original driveway entrance to Muckross House just beyond the gate lodge is featured at 1.28 mins. Torc mountain is on the left.
Working WITH nature. 3:07 see the guy scything the barley, wind seems to be blowing right to left holding up the stalks. Otherwise you'd need another person ahead with a long stick to hold up the cropface to be cut.
My God, those were the days & that was good 'old-fashioned' farming when the animals were truly "domesticated" and often had personal names. Modern farming is industrialised by comparison and no goat would let you away with that now.
Amazing you could restore that! in 1930 it seemed like the 1800's in Ireland! Wasn't a large part of their diet potatoes, or am I wrong? Also I wonder what the age was of that man cutting the hay with the big scythe. Thanks for sharing this and preserving history!
Irish 1930s rural diets were very simple, but not just potatoes. There was lots of oats wheat rye barley grown, lots of eggs, a little meat occasionally. In the mid 1800's, Irish land was owned by English landlords... That land grew wheat etc which was exported. The poor could only grow potatoes on their crappy small bit of land, so they HAD to rely on potatoes. It was not a famine. It was an imperialist genocide.
reminds me very much of/likeness to my grandfather - he died aged 94 and was active on the farm well into his 80's. My guess is that man is aged 70ish.
@@peterlarkin762 Hi Peter! England has been very imperialistic and what you describe reminds me of how the Romans dominated other countries. I didn't realize the British even owned the land wow! I always felt Engand's domination of Ireland as against international law and United Nations should do something about it. Did Ireland have to follow with England's "Brexit"?
These are clips taken from all over Ireland. Mayo Connemara, Wicklow, Antrim are some places I recognize. Imagine is you could send yourself there . A slower more peaceful way of life
Beautiful...the little girl playing with a goat is my hero...thanks for posting...great job!!!!
She was cruel to that goat. Although pulling along by horns may not hurt a goat.
Not been around goats myself since I was a little kid.
My wife said that even in the early 50s it was similar in Carlow planting with her grandfather in the fields..plenty of work for an 8 year old girl too..children walking miles to school in all weather..some boys would hop on the back of a donkey to get to school…very organic food as well before the dreaded pesticides came along
They used lead arsenate as a pesticide back then, which caused lead and arsenic contamination of the soil that lasted for decades. Not to mention, even if their food was organic, they used a lot of toxins in other areas of their life that would have negated the benefits of pesticide/herbicide-free food.
I Love the way the video shows how people and animals lived so closely together.
Only till we ate them.
@@liammurphy2725 you want to eat a car?
@@liammurphy2725 each animal only has one day of death. That same animal has hundreds, if not thousands of days of life among humans.
O there still animals living amongst us only difference is that these animals steal from the elderly break into homes .
At one time on Achill Island livestock was kept in the house on winter nights as there was no wood, coal or turf available for fires and the animals raised the indoor temperature.
I truly wish it was still like this
My Dad grew up in this era. He loved it. If you look around, there is nothing like agricultural waste or rubbish in those days. Everything was clean and unpolluted. and used again.
The rivers had been highly highly polluted by the industrial shops popping up along the water ways since about 1780 sadly but otherwise I know what you mean
@@KingPhilipsRideshare yea but only in urban centres. countryside would have been much more pristine. Nowadays plastic garbage blows longs distances and chemicals seep through entire watersheds. Homeless people leave longterm piles of garbage bags deep in the woods
@@UhtredOfBamburgh Picking on homeless people to illustrate the waste of modern society is misleading and shows your ignorance of the reality. Most plastic waste is created by home owning, tax payers. Much of this (recycled) waste ends up in shipping containers for poorer countries to deal with. Also. to your first point many rivers would have been somewhat polluted outside of urban areas due to the mining of metals like tin and lead. But yeah, things are much worse now.
@@spinny2010 Most plastic waste is from the companies telling you its down to the individual to solve these issues while they contribute staggering amounts in comparison.
@@durtydubliner5758 Well, yeah. The companies produce and we consume with little option of alternatives in many cases. We can reduce our consumption of single use plastics, but packaging companies need to be forced to change to more easily recycled and biodegradable products where possible. So I imagine we are in agreement.
I lived in Galway in 1947,. But then my parents Anny and Joseph Brennan in 1961, moved to New York city. Doe I was a young boy,and a little wild at the time. I remember well those days as if it were yesterday. Ireland was and still is, is a beautiful place to live.
i'm 67 and here for 40 years,must be somit in the water,?many people are surprised when is speak Irish to them few unfortunately dont understand
@@andreasobuaculla9511 I didn't make comments of speaking Irish.
@@andreasobuaculla9511 you obviously have some reading difficulties. I never mentioned anything about speaking Irish. Go back to sleep.
Never visited Ireland, probably never will but I've heard so many nice things about it... And I love the music.
@@owengreene382 did he say you did?? He was speaking about himself. Don't be so snappy.
Please don’t confuse a hard working life with an unhappy life….I would trade about 60 percent of my modernity for this
100%, men were real men and everyone knew what a woman is.
👍☘️
My dear, late mother, who came from rural Cavan, passed away in 2019, and nearly every day of her life she spoke about her childhood there. As a child I heard all about the day war was declared when she and her friends were up on the planting, about the animals she shared her life with, her bedridden aunt, her going to church on the pony and trap and so on and so forth. Altho' she left Ireland, Ireland never left her.
Because it was a simpler life, it was less taxing mentally and certainly financially.
Me too ☺
I remember going to my grandparents over in Ireland during the school 6 week holidays in late sixties (I'm now 62)...my dad was Irish and my mum English which was not good parentage to have at the time because of all the troubles in Belfast etc, but I can still remember those six weeks like it was yesterday....my grandparents lived out in the sticks, no running water, no flushing toilet, no telephone, no electricity....but it was beautiful to wake up to the hills of Donegal every morning almost magical and mystical.....you could see every star in the sky on a clear dark night and see the milky way....the morning mists where ghostly and surreal...those moments never fade....I have visited Ireland many times both in the south and the north and have found that as long as you don't talk politics or religion they accept you with open arms and are probably the most friendly and hospitable people that you could ever meet.
The way you describe being out on the land is poetic, thanks for sharing your recollections
Thank you alot beautiful video ❤❤❤
Beautiful Ireland and its splendid people
I visited Ireland eight years ago and I didn't feel like I was in a foreign land. My accent would have been similar to their own having grown up in Newfoundland and I felt right at home from the very start. Many Newfoundlanders of Irish ancestry would have come from Waterford and Wexford counties . Hope to get back again before I get too old to travel and have a walk down Talbot Street and drop into The Celt for a pint . Happy New Year to one and all. Erin Go Bragh !!!☘☘☘
@Terminus Est yep, its falling apart at the seams
@Terminus Est Hi, Could you please say more about this? I really would appreciate it. Thank you
newfoundlanderrs are our cousins .. you guys are as irish as us !
I've heard the Newfoundland accent, it is very Irish sounding.
I am an west Irish man who lives in London. Done a job for a guy from newfoundland. Could not believe the accent. He had never stepped foot in Ireland.
Thank you for posting this video it brought tears to my eyes as I thought back to the 50ths and 60ths when as children we spent time on our family farm during our summer holidays, making haystacks and my memories of making ropes from hay with my grandfather to trow over the haystacks. A time of my life that was so precious to us all, sadly most of my family are gone now but I forever have those memories. Enjoy life when you can.
Simpler times. Imagine how close families were working , living, laughing and crying together ❤️
And dying of curable diseases in childhood because of ignorance, poverty and believe that the Lord would save them
Mawkish sentimentality.
@@Ghhyuttgg at least they got to have life compared to a lot of poor unfortunates today sacrificed at the altar of "choice"
@@dezertfox3681 it's still possible in Ireland
World wars musta been fun
I remember these days. My mother was born on the west coast of Ireland, west of Clifden, in the 30s. Her home was on a peninsula with water on three sides that we still visit to this day. They didn't get electricity till the late 50s. I can still remember my grandmother sitting outside my uncle's thatched cottage churning butter.
The late fifties was still much sooner than most of the world,
We're visiting there today actually. Slan'.
I love the intro to this video so much, the happy girl pulling the donkey cart with hard wind a blowing, legs kicking, and a smile on her face.
I am 65, and have to categorically say spending my summer holidays on my grand parents farm in the 1960,s were fabulous times as a young child. Learned life skills very early..
Hi how are you doing?
Lucky you!
Great content! The skill of the weavers is impressive, and how fit those field-workers harvesting grain were.
Fascinating. As a model maker interested in horse drawn vehicles, I notice that the donkey carts differ in construction details from the similar, but slightly larger English ones. Thanks for these pictures. A delight.
my god 90 years ago, wonderful to watch, little did these people know one day people would watch this in a changed world that no matter what can never live those days again, i know it was not easy at that time, but part of me thinks i bet people where happy with there lot, and life was simple and every one did there bit.
People will say the same thing about this generation in 90 years time that's the way of the world to look back with nostalgia,
I'm not sure they were happy with there lot in the 1930s I think they didn't know any better so they were used to it and having very little
@@ggmm6182 is anyone happy with their lot now either? Constantly struggling, looking for the basic thing we're all entitled to, a roof over our heads. Some people working day and night with no hope of getting one, others doing nothing and getting everything for nothing.
Well as soon as they had a choice they voted with their feet.
Verdade... simplicidade 🙌💖🇧🇷
@@ggmm6182 There will be no one around to say that if humanity continues on its current trajectory. It also doesn't take much foresight to see how poorly future generations will view what's happened since the 1970s. In that span, we've continually harmed and polluted the earth, quite unlike what you see here.
A great video with some lovely scenes. I particularly like the expressions on the man tasting his poteen.
Yes, I liked how he gave a little shudder after each sip! 😊
Thank you for uploading..my grandparents lived in this era in Ireland..great people..
Good to hear you getting positive about our past
Cheers from Brazil. Beautiful images in this video. I've just subscribed to the page.
Lovely, nostalgic video. Thank you for your work.
I can remember pony and trap on the road in the 70s as a kid and trams of hay. My grandad has a small farm outside Templemore, he never drove, travelled into town on pony and trap, milk churns on the trap to the creamery and Billy cans. I used to help him bring in trams on the trap. Found memories of my two hardworking grandparents God rest them all. My other grandfather was born in Templemore in 1895, he was a Carter in the town, and a ploughman for a shilling a day.
And just Irish people . What a sight.
If they don't get their immigration under control, idyllic scenes will probably disappear forever...
How we have been betrayed.
It would break your heart to look at it. Gone now forever 😢
No Ireland was built by black people
Wow just simply Wonderful and the guy at the end,that was moonshine for sure, thanks for sharing brilliant ⛄🎄🎄⛄👌
Absolutely loved this thanks so
Much for sharing
You choose great backing tracks for your clips, way different and much superior to the usual schmalsh most people posting similar clips select! Great!
Great to be an expert on other channels crap.
@@liammurphy2725 not claiming any such. Simply an observation. Failte Ireland have the same problem - usually a slow smarmy Dublin South/Wicklow type accent promoting tourism all over Ireland! It turns me off. Maybe you're from Wicklow? 🤣
@D T, I've only heard schmalsh once before from the song 'Do the Strand' by Roxy Music. 'weary of the waltz and mash potato schmalsh' 🙂
@@InOffTheRed oh well, I know what I mean! 😅
@@dt1351 it's a catchy tune, great video too here on TH-cam if you have a chance. Best Wishes 🙂
This is the era my parental grandparents were a young married couple in , raising their seven children in rural Monaghan. Out of their seven children five emigrated, my father being one of them.
His oldest brother did return from Birmingham when he inherited the farm in the 1960s .
I really must get over to Ireland this year. Love that country and its people
Ive seen Trotting Carts while hitchhiking in Ireland in the 90s and that crazy back lanes bowling game. great film a culture that’s never died Erinn go Bracht
Beautifully done,, such hard but simple times ❤️
Thankyou , just so easy on the eyes 😊
Absolutely beautiful videos. God love the Irish people - worked so hard but always a smile. They were happy and in touch with nature. Yes, historically, they suffered but moved on with life and always had welcome for visitors. Blessings.
Happy memories of hitching around Ireland. One of the friendliest and most welcoming places in the world in my experience. 🇮🇪🏴 Pob lwc i blwyddyn newydd dda i bawb!
Happy New Year to you too! 🎉💕
Just got back from a 10-day walkabout in Killarney National Park and the Iveragh Peninsula. Beautiful.
did you try a pint of stout
@@dylan3657 Beamish is my personal preference.
As a Minnesotan, I can say that it terrifies me to visit Ireland. I know I would never come back. What a great video!
It’s not like that now, it’s full of so called refugees milking the system. Ireland is finished as is the U.K.
Not now Dustin, it's a shithole !
Sadly, Ireland and its unique culture has been destroyed in the last 20 years. Globalisation and its mass illegal migration agenda has irreversibly damaged every city, town, and village.
It's all changed so much know but still so beautiful here
Sadly you have reason to be terrified. All changed, changed utterly: but what has been born is not a terrible beauty, but ruin, and loss of our national identity.
I picked potatoes, cut the bindertwine on the threshing( we called it 'thrashing') machine, stood on wynds of Hay and helped make them, drew them home with my father in the Hay car, picked Hay into the shed, or made reeks of Hay and covered them outside, drew home turf and went to the creamery with an ass and car, cut turf with the sleamhain, and footed and stooked it, went barefoot to school, and skated on the ice in the pond in Shanahan's field across from Kilflynn National School. I also broke the ice, fell into the pond and was suitably compensated for my efforts, at home and educationally.
Gerald J
That should be
PIKED
Was that Kilflynn in Kerry?
Get off your ass and do some work had a different meaning then.
Wonderful life , simple, peaceful, yes hard work too but really satisfying.
I am lucky to be surrounded by this kind of life still. Some things have changed to be more comfortable. ⚘
Love this. I have been going back there since I was a kid in the 60s.
My mom would have been around 10 years old at this time in the hills near Wicklow. She talked a little about growing up back then but after migrating to Canada after the war and me being the 9th of 10 those memories were long past and faded. I wish I had asked more questions as a kid.
It's always great to see such footage. Thanks for posting.👍
Watching this, it looks so like the Latvian countryside and way of life that I have been experiencing the last sixteen years.
Fascinating insight. Looked at the start as if that was from around Killarney. My mother and grand-parents would have been living in Killarney at this time so wonderful to imagine the times they lived in.
@seansaighdeoir -I'm from county Kerry & I would have to agree with you that some of that early footage indeed looks like Killarney. Bucolic life at its most appealing 😃
I'm from Killarney and you are correct. The first scene from Killarney is with the girl going through the gates on the horse and cart at 00.48 seconds. Tomies mountain is featured in the far distance in the background. Queens cottage in Derrycunnihy is featured at 00.58 seconds. Just inside the original driveway entrance to Muckross House beyond the gate lodge is featured at 1.28 mins. Torc mountain is on the left.
@@omstygomsty thanks for that. I used to know Killarney well so thought that might be the drive down to Muckross. Was either that or around the domain. Many Jaunting cars down there in the summer. I missed Torc waterfall / mountain so will watch again. Its a few years since I've been up there but always remember what a beautiful spot it is. We used to visit often by now most of the folk there are no longer around so we have lost touch with the place sadly. All the best, thanks for your comments.
I am not Irish. My grandfathers, both paternal and maternal, immigrated to America in the early 20th century. But there is a connection, be it of heart or ancient blood I feel inside, that draws me dear
I miss Ireland and the craic and the people my great grandparents are from co wexford and I lived in Ireland for 10 years until 8 years ago now back in Birmingham
Beautiful! @erinofold We were so much more connected to Earth back then. Let’s do it again! Why not? 🌱
Lovely to watch this video they were so happy those days are gone now what a pity
I caught the back-end of this way of life as a lad in rural Galloway South west Scotland in the postwar period. Village blacksmith and community spirit prevailed. I'm fully aware there were hardships and poverty at the time, but is it wrong to wish for the bonhomie and sincerity that I remember in the village. Maybe my memory is clouded with the mists of time and departed friends, but I'll always insist (as I continually tell my grandchildren) that you'll never ever compare this modern technological era with the pedigree period of the past. Yup ! Yer right!
I'm a wishy-washy old sentimentality. And proud if it. 😅
Wonderful thanks for sharing .
My mother was born on a farm in the middle of rural Ireland in 1918. 2nd oldest in a vary large family, in summer went to school bare footed, went to work at 10 as the family desperately needed the money, lived in a tiny house with no running water, most of her generation left Ireland or went into religion, the siblings who left never went back except for visits, the poverty drove them all away. I'm not saying they were unhappy, but they all had a better life elsewhere, very sad really.
1918 the Irish, certainly the landless tenant farming Irish, were still enslaved by the British. They were still living the same way as they had been at the time of The Great Hunger of the 1840s (albeit with a few legal fictions passed to make the servitude seem voluntary).
Wow great video . Hard to believe we alll know people who were born in that decade.
Because the world outside Ireland went to war a few years later the 1940s probably looked pretty similar.🙂👍
Beautiful!
Lovely video of times gone past 🇮🇪😥💔
Superb. Really nice.
0:01 want to say "Hi" to her and join the peaceful Ride 😊😊
Great video - reminds me of Chillingbourne.
Wow ,, happy and peaceful
Ohh Ireland 🇮🇪 what have we become so sad 😭
What a way to grow up. Perfect.
"Did I ever tell you about the old country, Jim? Ah, the old country! The songs! They'd melt your face!"
Don’t let the rose tinted video fool you , ireland was a very tough country to live in those days. A lot of economic hardship and lingering bitterness from the civil war.
"It's okay to struggle. That's how you get stronger."
@@deanpd3402 not if you die during the process.....
some of this was filmed in and around Killarney county kerry .. you can see the lakes and mountains there in the background
The first scene from Killarney is with the girl going through the gates on the horse and cart at 00.48 seconds. Tomies mountain is featured in the far distance in the background. Queens cottage in Derrycunnihy is featured at 00.58 seconds. The original driveway entrance to Muckross House just beyond the gate lodge is featured at 1.28 mins. Torc mountain is on the left.
Only the decade before I was born : just incredible how much the world has changed since.
Working WITH nature. 3:07 see the guy scything the barley, wind seems to be blowing right to left holding up the stalks. Otherwise you'd need another person ahead with a long stick to hold up the cropface to be cut.
Love it!! 💚❤
God bless Ireland
It's always nice to see how the world was before WWII.
Things weren’t much different after ww2 in ireland. Not until the 1960s did we begin to industrialise and catch up.
Wow amazing vid
For a decendant from Ireland (Kelly of Cork) and Australian. Thank you 🇮🇪 🇦🇺
Thank you 💖 🙏
Wonderful.
at 2.13 the claddagh?
Yes, St Nicholas' spire and the long walk in the background
A luminous visualisation of an Ireland so viscerally described in verse by Patrick Kavanagh
I love how people just get on with their own business and the simplicity. I would give what I have for that.
Environment-friendly life!
Happy to find a good vintage-video channel.
(Mon 09 Jan 2023 22h05)
I would love to live like that.
Then do..
You still can. Get off the grid, grow your own.
Lovely old film!
Gaggingly gorgeous.
Long live the Republic!
Wow very emotional
Beautiful Erin IRL ❤️miss County kilkenny
0:38 That fearless young girl wrestling with the billy goat sums it all up for me.
My God, those were the days & that was good 'old-fashioned' farming when the animals were truly "domesticated" and often had personal names. Modern farming is industrialised by comparison and no goat would let you away with that now.
I wonder if there was any information reference where this was filmed?
Mums uncle Con was a horse and mule expert. He was in the British Army and loved by the regiments Colonel for his knowledge. This explains why.
Boooooooo
A great man.
@@briankean7153 🤣😂🤣👍
I would not mention this in Irish company,, you might find out where the door is very fast. The tans are a bad Irish memory.
Maybe don’t mention the British army part
Amazing you could restore that! in 1930 it seemed like the 1800's in Ireland! Wasn't a large part of their diet potatoes, or am I wrong? Also I wonder what the age was of that man cutting the hay with the big scythe. Thanks for sharing this and preserving history!
Thus the Irish joke that goes:
Q: How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
A: none.
Irish 1930s rural diets were very simple, but not just potatoes. There was lots of oats wheat rye barley grown, lots of eggs, a little meat occasionally. In the mid 1800's, Irish land was owned by English landlords... That land grew wheat etc which was exported. The poor could only grow potatoes on their crappy small bit of land, so they HAD to rely on potatoes. It was not a famine. It was an imperialist genocide.
@@peterlarkin762 exactly! Inventing the potato blight in their bio labs, crafty imperialists.
reminds me very much of/likeness to my grandfather - he died aged 94 and was active on the farm well into his 80's. My guess is that man is aged 70ish.
@@peterlarkin762 Hi Peter! England has been very imperialistic and what you describe reminds me of how the Romans dominated other countries. I didn't realize the British even owned the land wow! I always felt Engand's domination of Ireland as against international law and United Nations should do something about it. Did Ireland have to follow with England's "Brexit"?
Actually, it looks like a beautiful life.
This is just a romantic view..It was a struggle for the less well off..
@@danwebb4418 ...and struggle is what made it a beautiful life.
i was born on newfoundland. very similar lifestyle. my granmother had a loom.
Nice.
Hi how’re you doing?
It must have been a tough existence but it looks beautiful.
I couldn't help thinking how much more satisfying it would have been to be actively producing things. Much better than sitting around watching TV.
These are clips taken from all over Ireland. Mayo Connemara, Wicklow, Antrim are some places I recognize. Imagine is you could send yourself there . A slower more peaceful way of life
Beautiful.
Great information Sir 🌹
Sir - is an English title which has no legal value in Ireland
Boy o boy, did you just get a subscription and a like, bless your hearts, thank you 😘
Beautiful existence
Beautiful..
continuous soft, beautiful Corot or Morandi painting or Gwen John watercolour.
Was that wagon around 1:25 carrying dead bodies?
God knows lol
@@mm-wz8dx I'm thinking it was, yikes.
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Long gone days! People worked hard but happy!