Life On The Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork, Ireland 1989
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- Eileen O’Sullivan loves her rural life in the parish of Cahermore, near the village of Allihies at the top of the Beara Peninsula.
Originally from Cork City, Eileen O’Sullivan is the 1987 Cork regional winner of the Housewife of the Year. She lives with her husband Michael and their two sons Brian and Morgan on a farm in Cahermore, near the village of Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork.
Eileen and Michael spend an afternoon footing turf on Goula mountain which Eileen admits is not her favourite task as she finds it very physically demanding. Especially as she has to make dinners and heat the house when she comes down from the bog.
Give me gas central heating any day of the week; I’ve no pride where turf is concerned.
Eileen reminds herself that she has it easy compared to the women before her who brought the turf down from the bog by donkey and cart, and then had to start a fire and bake bread and do a day’s work in the home.
There are spectacular views from the top of Goula and if the weather is fine, working on the bog on is a pleasure, especially if Eileen can also listen to the radio.
Imagine sitting down in that scenery listening to Gay Byrne, what more could you ask for?
On the first Thursday in every month Eileen and Michael O’Sullivan go to the fair day in Castletownbere, the principle town on the Beara Peninsula. This is the one day everyone goes to town and meets up.
It’s a social outing really rather than a shopping spree.
Eileen does her main shopping in Castletownbere every Friday. Michael looks after all of the finances and she lets him, even though she would be better at it.
I have no financial worries; I don’t know what’s going on.
Berehaven Harbour is a regionally important fishing port and Castletownbere is a very cosmopolitan place. Eileen recalls a Russian factory ships operating in the port and the Russian fishermen came ashore to buy goods unavailable in Russia.
Eileen has visited nearby Garnish Island but has not been to Dursey or Bere Island. She keeps promising that she will take the ferry to Bere Island with her sons and go cycling around the island, but it never happens.
This episode of ‘I Live Here’ was broadcast on 1 November 1989.
I'm proud to say my roots are in the beara peninsula and its still as beautiful today as it was then.
I was there 20 yrs ago with my girlfriend complained to the landlady about the cold room.. lady said the heating was broken, but we should do other stuff to warm up, lol.. back there again 2 yrs ago, and the food a nd accomadation were well improved,. We will go again next summer hopefully💕
1989 was a great summer..
Christ, that woman can talk!!
And she’s so repetitive! At the beginning, I’ll bet she said, “REELY Beautiful,” 20 times in 3 minutes! (yes, I spelled it wrong on purpose!)
Definitely kissed the Blarney stone too many times 😅
Ah sure, Cork.
People in these comments harking back to the 80s like they were halcyon days. The 80s ffs. Poverty stricken, emigration riddled, priest fearing dump is what it was. We all miss our youth. Let’s not kid ourselves to the corrupt little hole it was.
LOL
Kids don’t have to worry about corruption thankfully.
@@johnmc3862 they did have to worry about the Pedo Priests
David Reynolds
Great comment because it's the truth and very well said.
Fucking hell thank you. People here acting like the 80s was some kind of golden era lmao. What a fucking shithole it was, thankfully we've moved on while retaining a warmth in the people for the most part
1989! Hard to believe it only took 15 years for Ireland to have changed so much... And we are living with that change now.. and to be honest I fucking hate it.
But, but we now have THAI takeaways Anthony- or something
We got what we voted for and sleepwalked into "modern Ireland". Unfortunately we lost a lot along the way.
Hard to belive bogs are illegal now.
Good on to that hate and try to do something positive with it.
When Ireland was irish 🇮🇪 never no more
Its a shockingly fast world young people live in.
Beautiful keep them coming thank you
I can smell the turf burning just now , what a beautiful time ! Love all these little films thanks ! ☘️♥️🇮🇪
Not any more. sadly.
Why would you ruin a beautiful view listening to gay Byrne.
For god sake woman
Her narration has a touch of The Orb's "little fluffy clouds" about it
God bless her. And the Ireland that is gone
Ireland's uniqueness is gone... And for what?
@Eoin F 🤣🤣 good shtuff lad. The national party want to bring us back to this.
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 If those lads had to foot turf for days like this woman did or as I did in the 70s, it would soon soften their cough about turning the clock back.
@@anthonymullen6300 The devil was in heaven and he wasn't happy there.
@@danhealy3261 there is no more Irish an expression of the "grass is always greener" than yours. Beautiful
I left Cork in 1984 for the US these videos bring back fond memories and also remind me why a 21 year old was chomping at the bit to leave to better oneself financially etc .The unemployment rate in Cork was very high a lot of my age group were heading to England or US within a year I had 3 jobs 7 days a week ,no safety net as a 22 year old it was fantastic.Eileen mentions money managing and that consumed a lot of people as there was very little disposable income.Great videos thank you.
Did you ever go back to visit?
what more could you ask for than sitting down listening to Gay Byrne on the radio
She’s 99% cork and 1% Eileen
Man I live in castletownbere and it changed so much
1989:safe to leave your keys in the car
2021: your catalytic converter gets ripped off
Hahahaha, classic! We have the same problem in Auckland, New Zealand.
Cue the nostalgic comments or giving out about the young!
I hope Eileen made it to the island?
Are you referring to Eileen Harrington.
@@stuartmartin3870 the lady in the video, her name was Eileen I think?
@@lmc4964 the last I heard she won £12 million euros on the lottery and left her husband for a Masai warrior.
Just a few months before my family moved there for 9 years.......
She has the gift of the gab
God Bless Éireann ☘ 🇮🇪
Brings back such happy schoolboy memories. The usual yearly visit to see mums parents on their farm in Clare and then dad's in the Claddaghduff Galway such was the life of many a child of Irish parents in 60's/70's and early 80's. Happy times
Ah yes, a time of Massive Unemployment and Mass Emigration, with all out war going on in the north, not to mention the Pedophile Priests that were molesting children.
The good old days Right?
@@macpeepeepoopoo7567 Clown! I speak of my memories of my wonderful grandparents, I only saw once a year, travelling from the UK. Ireland I remember as a boy, was one where people genuinely kind and actually cared for each other within the village and community. Not the unfortunate/tragic events that we now know of now and British interference and all its off shoots from their ignorance and intolerance
@@countycricklewood I think the moral of the story boys is that sometimes change is good and sometimes not so good, always remember your health is your wealth.
So you’re just going ignore the Priests who raped children and the church who killed babies and locked their mothers up in mother and baby homes?
And you call me the clown….
@@macpeepeepoopoo7567 Nope! Should be locked up and key thrown away, along with others involved. They're disgusting! However I only have the memories of my grandparents/parents who had nothing to do with that, alone with the greater majority of everyday Irish people
Even more "cosmopolitan" today I bet!!!
The brits own 6 counties Brussels own the other 26 making the Irish mere tenants on a land that they don't own anymore
1989 it looked like 60 years ago
Afraid it is gone. But it ended with Donal Cam !
The last thing I would’ve wanted was listening to gay Byrne god help us all
Gees she would do your head in. It would have been hard to listen to Gay Burn with her blathering in your ear 🙃 great vid 👍
Golf Fox
Lol! So true!
Differant old Eire now. sure most of the youngs ones these days couldnt care less about our history
Hard work??? Not many left who want to do any work. It's sad what Ireland is becoming, let alone an interest in history
@L D yes... Different. Like typing useless messages. Snowflakes.
@@conman4119 Genius Con.
Cork people are at home in cork, Cork.
Then along came Mr Celtic Tiger and fucked the whole place up.
Ahhh jaze!
brilliant.
But, what I want to know....IS IT BEAUTIFUL?!?!? _Jaysus,_ woman!
No, "it's reeeeely beauuutiful"
It shows that these people didnt need smartphones or computers to have a good time.
@DG At least you could buy a house. We weren't starving we just weren't obese like today.
she spent most of the time complaining about having to do stuff while the man sits on his arse and watches live at 3 - i.e. not having a good time.
👍
Scenery is
beautiful from all elevated area especially from mountinas regions trouble is its hard to cash it in at the shop pub or bank that why the young people move on back in Valentia recently beautiful place as well
True. You can't ate the scenery.
Wish I could visit. Thanks
@Daniel Osullivan. Anyone should visit it if and when they can. One Ireland's hidden gems. Pay no attention to the haters on here. My cousins were born and raised there and we visit them often over the last four decades. We stayed in a fabulous Airbnb in Castletownbere in 2019. The town and the local villages are so colourful and look way better than in the 80s as shown here.
@@dellhell8842 """AMEN""--- Dell - Ireland - the land of my birth- don't care what anyone says -- it's in my Blood--- HEART- and Soul...God Bless You Dell.....🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I like to be there The fishing must be good .
New Zealand used to be like that
Yep been down hill ever since Robert Muldoon and Roger Douglas
The good 'ol days? 😅😅...
@DG At least you could buy a house. We weren't starving we just weren't obese like today.
Oh, the comments. May ye all marry such a woman. Or any woman….