I used to ride a horse to primary school here in Australia. I am 81 years old. I noticed that Michael dismounted on the right side. Here in Australia we always mount and dismount on the left side. I thought that was universal. My horse was an old cart horse, a half draught horse I think. I rode her bareback because I didn't own a saddle. My little dog would run along side me to school and he alway turned up on time to accompany me home.
Mounting and dismounting from left side (near side) is standard calverly training. Yes it's standard pony club training etc. But I love the boys ways. Probably taught himself to ride. Didn't push the lovely cob, cob wasn't in a muck sweat. He rode well. I used to keep my horse in top paddock and hide when the school bus went by. Then I'd get my jeans out off school bag, get on my horse, bareback, halter, and ride around the hills all-day, once a week...when we had chemistry, physics all afternoon at school. I had to walk 1 mile to bus and back. My parents none the wiser
Thank you for sharing that. I was already smiling from the video but then you made me smile more thinking about you on your horse with your little dog running behind. Lovely times.
@Christo Genea of course even a blind man can tell the prevailing atrocities being committed against civilisation particularly western civilisation. Wake up former a community and revolt. It's about time we speak out against these traitors like woodrow
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@@godara2op566 Quiet down microcock no one cares about your lies.
@Christo Genea *immense amounts of indoctrination Have you heard of the Catholic Church? Ireland was a theocracy. Human nature never changes of course, most will always adhere to the dominant/majority ideologies and thought processes of their time.
Teacher..why aren't you in uniform. Student... because my horse was muddy and he walked under the washing line with my uniform drying, not enough time to wash clothes again. This actually happened to my daughter and teacher loved it.
@@coventrypunx1014 I just remembered my pony ate my mother's pantyhose off the washing line. Fortunately he was seen before he swallowed the whole thing. 3/4 down his throat but I managed to pull the pantyhose out
A correction if I may; The Turks and the Choctaw native Americans (who were in a bad way themselves) came to the aid of the Irish when they were quite literally on their knees. We should never forget their humanity and kindness.
True the Choctaw nation helped out the Irish when they themselves were being discriminated against but it still has nothing to do with the old Irish generations being tough and hardy people. Compared to the Irish generation nowadays who are soft and would find it hard to adapt if they lost all modern amenities.
Many the breezes that blow in the spring Sweeter the sound that the song thrushes sing. I sighed for a sight that I seldom see now A man in the fields with his Horses & Plough
......there's every chance that bycycles weren't a cheap item in Ireland at this time . Today you can help yourself to the discarded ones . They weren't cheap for us either at least in our region of Australia , a number of kids had a horse though.
I imagine they also just had it already and it helped out around the farm. Not even ploughing, if it's a big farm good luck riding across paddocks on tyres from those days
He was 13 years old. Would you want to turn up to school every day, after cycling ten miles and becoming a ball of sweat because of it? Then cycle those old dirt roads another ten miles to get home, only to do it again the following four days? He's a farmers son, which means work on the farm when the homework is done. The price of the bicycle has nothing to do with it.
I asked my 87 year old Dad, did he ever go on a school tour he said, only ever once, in 1945 his teacher piled all his class (10 kids) into his Morris Minor and drove them all to Dublin Zoo from a small country school outside Tullamore, it was the best day of his childhood he said. Wasn’t he a nice man to treat the boys at his own expense, he paid for tickets also, back then there were no road safety laws. My dad used to bring a sod of turf in one pocket for the school fire and a hot baked potato that kept them from freezing on the morning 5 mile walk to school. Dad said he and his brothers would move a sleeping cow off it’s resting spot so they could lie down to warm themselves on frosty mornings. His mum gave the boys shoes to ware but they’d hide them in a wall preferring to be barefoot. It was a different world back then.
@@tomgreene2282 Yes they did indeed and out of fresh air most of them. God and we think we have it hard now. These elderly folk have suffered again with this Covid exile, it most be very hard to deal with when your already suffering from loss of family and friends, a natural part of aging. Loneliness was already part of life then a lockdown and their lives so threatened by something they barely understood. Thank God I hope the worst is over for them now with the vaccines and freedoms somewhat restored.
I’ve a feeling I worked with the kid on the horse around 2000. He was a pipe fitter with a mechanical engineering company in cork. His name is Michael Collins from Union Hall. He’s 13 years old in the video and it was shot in 1966 so he was born in 1953. That sounds about right to me. He was a fierce nice fella.
The twanging, memorable guitar music was the rousing theme song to the movie "The Magnificent Seven," by Elmer (not Leonard) Bernstein. It also bears a resemblance to an American television western called "The High Chaparral," which aired from 1967 to 1971. It was written by David Rose, born in London but raised in the U.S.
No it wasn't. Very common in rural Britain. We always look at Ireland as being poor but their poverty wasn't as bad as the slums of every British city of that era. Even today, the UK has 8 out of the 10 poorest areas in Western Europe. The UK overall, is poor.
I have a nice photo of My Brother's and I going to mass on my Grand Father's Pony and Trap in the middle 60s when we were in Co Kerry during the Summer Holiday's but that was only 4 miles. 20 miles is a bit of a trek.
@Christo Genea Back then the extended family was the norm. The Nuclear family is a late 20th century invention, where both parents were obliged to work, grandparents were abandoned & children ignored..
@Christo Genea you're right man, when I look at this planet with its 8 billion people and its dwindling resources, melting ice caps, plastic filled oceans, the soot-filled skies of China and India, I think God, I wish there were loads more of us...
@Christo Genea yes how dare us women want to actually have agency over our lives and bodies.imagine women not wanting to be a baby making factory ...or having to quit their job when married. From a proud Irish feminist
Half the lads in my class came to school on pie balds, Apache style, and this was Blanchardstown, Dublin in the 90s. Northside was FULL of horses back then.
Imagine? But then the grass seems always to be greener on the other side of the fence? Only when we start to miss it, we realise how much this time frame meant to us.
Great to see a young lad determined to get his education. Good on him for giving the horse a good feed. The backing music comes across as ... hhmmm .... sour.
I think the only problem with horse in modern times is the poop it shits in a manner of short time but it really do outweighs the pollution of cars tbh and riding horse feels like I am in war or a 18th century general LMAO.
@0972q8 ... in today's money ... I can well believe that. I have an old high nelly in a shed, big sized wheels in a long wheelstand, dynamo in the front wheel axle and internal gears in the back axle. Must have been a RollsRoyce in its time.
Agreed, whilst this was fun to watch, this lad arrived like a drowned rat most days and was likely to get the crap beat out of him if he didn’t have his homework correct. It nice to reminisce about the good old days but we tend to forget it wasn’t all sunshine back then. I remember being in National school and being terrified of the teacher who’s favorite weapon was a 2” wide by 1/4” thick leather strap. I can still see him beating the crap out of itinerant kids for not having homework done ....... how the hell could they do homework living in a tent on the side of the road in winter time
A lad riding a horse to school in the 60's. My wife and her sisters went to school on a sledge or skied in the late 70's through forests and a logging road in the middle of Finland to get to school about 25 miles round trip a day. Kids still ski to school here.
Our politicians were crooked long before we joined the then EEC, are you kidding me? Did the EEC buy Charlie Haughy's private island for him? I don't think so! 🤔
@@joankelly3690 I doubt very much that many kids are at risk of being snatched on their journeys to and from school - no more so than they were in the past! I would think that the danger of being attacked or mugged by other kids [often from other schools] is more of a risk as this was quite common back in the day. Nonetheless, we all have to learn to live with some risk and we would never venture out anywhere if everyone drove their kids to school in Chelsea tractors.
Hard times beget tougher folk. That wee lad lived a REAL life, closer to Mother Nature than the vast majority of todays privileged hordes of spoilt, silicone addicted detached. Those who scorn or ridicule such times and folk merely put thier ignorance and frailties on show. Long live Ireland and her Tri-colour flag. God bless.
I think horses should be interduced to all schools and farrier work shops set up for children horse riding skills tought to kids keep them off street corners only very few Irish children have previllag of being able to have contact with horses
Michael You dismounted your pony from the wrong side man. But have a good trot home and next year run to school and back so you can make Irish Olympic team on a horse or in the marathon Cheers Mike
Mounting and dismounting on the left side origines from the military world. Swords were on the left side... Nowadays we don't have swords, so we can mount and dismount on each side.
I used to ride a horse to primary school here in Australia. I am 81 years old. I noticed that Michael dismounted on the right side. Here in Australia we always mount and dismount on the left side. I thought that was universal. My horse was an old cart horse, a half draught horse I think. I rode her bareback because I didn't own a saddle. My little dog would run along side me to school and he alway turned up on time to accompany me home.
Mounting and dismounting from left side (near side) is standard calverly training. Yes it's standard pony club training etc. But I love the boys ways. Probably taught himself to ride. Didn't push the lovely cob, cob wasn't in a muck sweat. He rode well. I used to keep my horse in top paddock and hide when the school bus went by. Then I'd get my jeans out off school bag, get on my horse, bareback, halter, and ride around the hills all-day, once a week...when we had chemistry, physics all afternoon at school. I had to walk 1 mile to bus and back. My parents none the wiser
Thank you for such a lovely story, I hope they are good memories 🍀
Thank you for sharing that. I was already smiling from the video but then you made me smile more thinking about you on your horse with your little dog running behind. Lovely times.
Wonderful story
How lucky u were to be able to do that. Good story animals r the best
That kid had a real childhood of adventure and exploration
@Christo Genea Ok..nothing to do with the comment.
@Christo Genea of course even a blind man can tell the prevailing atrocities being committed against civilisation particularly western civilisation. Wake up former a community and revolt. It's about time we speak out against these traitors like woodrow
@@godara2op566 Quiet down microcock no one cares about your lies.
@Christo Genea *immense amounts of indoctrination
Have you heard of the Catholic Church? Ireland was a theocracy.
Human nature never changes of course, most will always adhere to the dominant/majority ideologies and thought processes of their time.
I wouldn’t think so he’s in skibereen haha not much in west cork even now
Teacher: Mick where is your homework
MIck: the horse ate it
Teacher..why aren't you in uniform. Student... because my horse was muddy and he walked under the washing line with my uniform drying, not enough time to wash clothes again. This actually happened to my daughter and teacher loved it.
Haha Class haha
Brilliant. 👏🤣🤣
@@margaretmcrae5642 Mick - can I go home early ? Teacher - why do you need to go home early Micky ? Mick - my horse has got stomach ache.
@@coventrypunx1014 I just remembered my pony ate my mother's pantyhose off the washing line. Fortunately he was seen before he swallowed the whole thing. 3/4 down his throat but I managed to pull the pantyhose out
Dynamite altogether!
Tough, hardy people the Irish.
Never complained as nobody ever came to help.
The kindest folk you'd find on earth.
A correction if I may; The Turks and the Choctaw native Americans (who were in a bad way themselves) came to the aid of the Irish when they were quite literally on their knees. We should never forget their humanity and kindness.
@@padraicodomhnall2711 May we never forget the generosity of the Choctaw.
True the Choctaw nation helped out the Irish when they themselves were being discriminated against but it still has nothing to do with the old Irish generations being tough and hardy people. Compared to the Irish generation nowadays who are soft and would find it hard to adapt if they lost all modern amenities.
The kindest folks, apart from the Dubs.
@@zirioz Ha indeed. I was born in UK of Irish Parents from the country .I lived in a Ireland for years have to say Dubs my favourite Irish people.
Another world for me. But so interesting! An innocent time. Lovely to see...
Thanks for sharing this! What a happy chap he is, and why wouldn’t he be, there isn’t a more noble way to travel to school!
I think he was very proud of his horse and himself too, of course :))
Many the breezes that blow in the spring
Sweeter the sound that the song thrushes
sing. I sighed for a sight that I seldom see now
A man in the fields with his Horses & Plough
big mick
i am lucky i am still here and remember all those things it was harder for sure, but still would swap for many of the things i have now.
Imagine a time when it was more affordable to keep a horse than a bicycle
......there's every chance that bycycles weren't a cheap item in Ireland at this time . Today you can help yourself to the discarded ones . They weren't cheap for us either at least in our region of Australia , a number of kids had a horse though.
I imagine they also just had it already and it helped out around the farm. Not even ploughing, if it's a big farm good luck riding across paddocks on tyres from those days
@@charlesdickens6706 that’s the whole point of the original comment.
@@miamitten1123 I enjoyed Charlesdickens comment.
He was 13 years old. Would you want to turn up to school every day, after cycling ten miles and becoming a ball of sweat because of it? Then cycle those old dirt roads another ten miles to get home, only to do it again the following four days? He's a farmers son, which means work on the farm when the homework is done.
The price of the bicycle has nothing to do with it.
Wholesome Irish content is wholesome!
@GARETH TAYLOR I’ve looked into it; the horse was actually transgendered. So we’re good 👍 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳🇪🇺
Not much wholesome back then for women ....
@GARETH TAYLOR stop talking BS.
Always knuckleheads that have to start stirring crap.
@GARETH TAYLOR ooooh good one!! Try to come up with a better retort. My intelligence is beyond your simplistic tripe
I asked my 87 year old Dad, did he ever go on a school tour he said, only ever once, in 1945 his teacher piled all his class (10 kids) into his Morris Minor and drove them all to Dublin Zoo from a small country school outside Tullamore, it was the best day of his childhood he said. Wasn’t he a nice man to treat the boys at his own expense, he paid for tickets also, back then there were no road safety laws. My dad used to bring a sod of turf in one pocket for the school fire and a hot baked potato that kept them from freezing on the morning 5 mile walk to school. Dad said he and his brothers would move a sleeping cow off it’s resting spot so they could lie down to warm themselves on frosty mornings. His mum gave the boys shoes to ware but they’d hide them in a wall preferring to be barefoot. It was a different world back then.
It was indeed ...these were the folk who helped build the country .
@@tomgreene2282 Yes they did indeed and out of fresh air most of them. God and we think we have it hard now. These elderly folk have suffered again with this Covid exile, it most be very hard to deal with when your already suffering from loss of family and friends, a natural part of aging. Loneliness was already part of life then a lockdown and their lives so threatened by something they barely understood. Thank God I hope the worst is over for them now with the vaccines and freedoms somewhat restored.
He must've had big pockets or really small sods of turf 😁
@@4cormacos He had a school bag.
This channel is great🇮🇪☘️❤️
Thanks, a real gem of a clip. Great camera work of the trotting too, long before GoPro.
Cameraman was on a horse too, synchronised trotting.
Great to see keep up the great work 👍🏻☘️
I’ve a feeling I worked with the kid on the horse around 2000. He was a pipe fitter with a mechanical engineering company in cork.
His name is Michael Collins from Union Hall. He’s 13 years old in the video and it was shot in 1966 so he was born in 1953. That sounds about right to me. He was a fierce nice fella.
That's correct worked for BMD good times
Mike Collins to s it yourself? Are you the lad in the video?
Fantastic...and for a 4yr old horse wow...some at that age wont hack out on their own....👍🌸
An Appreciation of an Education , Magnificent Attitude ,
@Christo Genea will you give over
@Christo Genea Quiet down you ignorant cowardly dunce.
@@nervesinapattern7261 Agreed.
💕 this footage, as well as all the other segments, thanks 💞
2:38 lol the double look back. What every man does with his favourite transportation.
Love your Cork videos great work
Twenty miles round trip every day!
The twanging, memorable guitar music was the rousing theme song to the movie "The Magnificent Seven," by Elmer (not Leonard) Bernstein. It also bears a resemblance to an American television western called "The High Chaparral," which aired from 1967 to 1971. It was written by David Rose, born in London but raised in the U.S.
The high chaparral aired in Ireland soon after this video, great show.
My mum's Irish. The world of horses and carts of the 60s and 70s was quite different from the rest of the English speaking world at the time.
What would you know.
@ bollocks
@ Moron EU Marxist. Traitor to your own country which is being overrun.
No it wasn't. Very common in rural Britain. We always look at Ireland as being poor but their poverty wasn't as bad as the slums of every British city of that era.
Even today, the UK has 8 out of the 10 poorest areas in Western Europe.
The UK overall, is poor.
Great video...thanks for sharing this.
I have a nice photo of My Brother's and I going to mass on my Grand Father's Pony and Trap in the middle 60s when we were in Co Kerry during the Summer Holiday's but that was only 4 miles.
20 miles is a bit of a trek.
Some boy and his horse. Dedication in spades. 👊☘️
Sweet, my mother's from Skibb. Neat to see how it looked back then
This why I love living in Ireland we are obsessed with horses
One of the best things about this video is how it was safe back then to tie up your horse in the town and leave it for the day, couldn't do that now
Loving the uploads on this channel, keep up the good work!!!!
"One of a family of eleven..." 👀😂
The standard for an Irish Catholic family 😂
@Christo Genea Back then the extended family was the norm. The Nuclear family is a late 20th century invention, where both parents were obliged to work, grandparents were abandoned & children ignored..
@Christo Genea you mean the likes of contraception being made legal, or marital rape becoming illegal (1990)?
Damn liberation.
@Christo Genea you're right man, when I look at this planet with its 8 billion people and its dwindling resources, melting ice caps, plastic filled oceans, the soot-filled skies of China and India, I think God, I wish there were loads more of us...
@Christo Genea yes how dare us women want to actually have agency over our lives and bodies.imagine women not wanting to be a baby making factory ...or having to quit their job when married. From a proud Irish feminist
Another amazing video. Thank you.
If that kid is still alive he would be about 68 now.
Yeah, it's pretty likely that he's alive rn
There's an article in 2016 with his daughter saying he still loves horses. So hopefully he's living his best life somewhere.
At that age it wouldn't be that unusual more and more people are living well into their 80s and 90s so 68 is quite young by comparison.
Your maths skills are quite admirable..
@@jonmelon9792 You think I was flexing a skill learned in primary school? 😂
Half the lads in my class came to school on pie balds, Apache style, and this was Blanchardstown, Dublin in the 90s. Northside was FULL of horses back then.
That kid lived more riding to school in the morning that most people in general lol
Would've enjoyed this myself
I have just found this, great content.
Fabulous 😁⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My mom and her brother used to ride Tonyy to school in White Deer, Teas in the 1930's. I always wanted to ride my horse to school!
Ah to be fair if I had the choice of going to school on a horse I would love it and my dad said we had it easy lol
Page followed love the rebel county videos
I love the videos of lreland 🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️🌈
Nice horse
Lovely cob💓
And only 4 years old, basically a foal.
I went to school just outside Coventry ., and one of the other lads used to ride from Leamington ., it was the mid 70's and he was an O'Brien..
That was one fit pony and boy, no child obesity there!
Great video.
They should follow up on this kid today and see where he is and what he is up to.
He’s the Customer Satisfaction Director at Ryanair
Nice Video ~ My Father Used To Ride His Horse To School ~
Here before the TH-cam algorithm blows this up!!!
Mick Collins and the 🐎 kitty 😂
Rode to school a bit in Tasmania in the mid 2000s on my Galloway but not out of necessity. Loved it but other kids could be cruel with their teasing.
Is that Bill O’Herlihy?
Sure is Bill alright
RIP
I honestly hope Michael is the head of multinational company... No moaning, get up and get on.. People that made IE..
Imagine? But then the grass seems always to be greener on the other side of the fence? Only when we start to miss it, we realise how much this time frame meant to us.
No going home for lunch for that boy
Plenty of mitchin chances though
I know his Mum packed a fine lunch
My daughter in the 1980s used to want to take her horse (stabled near school here in England) to school but was never allowed!
Nice one
👍💯👍
Brilliant, high plains drifter
boy: I need a quick lift to school
Ireland: figure it out
We saw his grand parents waving him off to school, but where were his mother and father?
Probably out working, it was common to leave children with their grandparents especially if it allowed parents to work
That's boy has one helluva great name .
Did the horse also learn algebra that day?
0:37 £70 a week in fares!? That’s a lot in todays money!
Mike an effin legend
LOL, I suppose he doesn't need petrol money, nice video.
Great to see a young lad determined to get his education. Good on him for giving the horse a good feed. The backing music comes across as ... hhmmm .... sour.
Still common in Eastern Europe. Riding horses to the nearest shop!!
Is that Bill O Herilhy i can hear at the beginning.
🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪
He mounted on the left and dismounted on the right... you won't see that very often.
I think the only problem with horse in modern times is the poop it shits in a manner of short time but it really do outweighs the pollution of cars tbh and riding horse feels like I am in war or a 18th century general LMAO.
Good old Bill!....nice item.
When life was simple back then 😎
w0w L0Ve this
In 2021 there's young fellas going to school on ponies in Dublin. They're known as 'Urban Cowboys'
No.
I could think of another name for them !!!
Where is he today 2023, wouldn’t it be nice to see a follow up video 🤣
"... And that's a problem ... And that's another problem..." Poor lad
That kid had mainly hardship and poverty: 7 acre farm in that neck of the woods! No wonder he could not afford a bicycle...
@0972q8 ... in today's money ... I can well believe that.
I have an old high nelly in a shed, big sized wheels in a long wheelstand, dynamo in the front wheel axle and internal gears in the back axle. Must have been a RollsRoyce in its time.
I can remember a lad turning up to school one day on a heifer I think the pony went lame.
PS: no fun riding 20 miles in pissing rain, which is more likely than sunshine in blessed Oireland
Agreed, whilst this was fun to watch, this lad arrived like a drowned rat most days and was likely to get the crap beat out of him if he didn’t have his homework correct.
It nice to reminisce about the good old days but we tend to forget it wasn’t all sunshine back then.
I remember being in National school and being terrified of the teacher who’s favorite weapon was a 2” wide by 1/4” thick leather strap.
I can still see him beating the crap out of itinerant kids for not having homework done ....... how the hell could they do homework living in a tent on the side of the road in winter time
When Ireland was Ireland before our politicians were bought out by Europe and now there is nothing.
So ? Now will u all gather and revolt
A lad riding a horse to school in the 60's. My wife and her sisters went to school on a sledge or skied in the late 70's through forests and a logging road in the middle of Finland to get to school about 25 miles round trip a day. Kids still ski to school here.
One quick phone call and the English will reoccupy, if you want ......
Our politicians were crooked long before we joined the then EEC, are you kidding me? Did the EEC buy Charlie Haughy's private island for him? I don't think so! 🤔
@@johanna2059 Michael Collins lost his life to corruption.
He was lucky I didn't even have an donkey had to walk 6miles round trip
this is cool
Great footage, up the rebels !
The yummy Mummy's drop their darlings the 400 metres to school these days in SUV's
Yeah, because kids get snatched these days.
@@joankelly3690 I doubt very much that many kids are at risk of being snatched on their journeys to and from school - no more so than they were in the past! I would think that the danger of being attacked or mugged by other kids [often from other schools] is more of a risk as this was quite common back in the day. Nonetheless, we all have to learn to live with some risk and we would never venture out anywhere if everyone drove their kids to school in Chelsea tractors.
@@joankelly3690 LOL you gullible lying fool.
@@joankelly3690 You are right ! It's a jungle out there !
Great story! The Irish used to have true grit
I wonder what he did when he left school? Be lovely to know. I lived opposite the school and I still had to be dragged in ha ha
Where is Mick now? maybe still in cork?
Wonderful!
This is what happens when Santi doesn't just bring you a bike for Christmas.
Santi......who the hell is Santi?
Hard times beget tougher folk. That wee lad lived a REAL life, closer to Mother Nature than the vast majority of todays privileged hordes of spoilt, silicone addicted detached. Those who scorn or ridicule such times and folk merely put thier ignorance and frailties on show. Long live Ireland and her Tri-colour flag. God bless.
I think horses should be interduced to all schools and farrier work shops set up for children horse riding skills tought to kids keep them off street corners only very few Irish children have previllag of being able to have contact with horses
I can't even get my kids to go to the 📬 to get the mail. Imagine them going to school on horseback. Where would they plug their iphones in?🙈🐎
I went to school in Kent, England in the 80s. Quite a few boys came in on horses. Nothing unusual about it.
Michael
You dismounted your pony from the wrong side man.
But have a good trot home and next year run to school and back so you can make Irish Olympic team on a horse or in the marathon
Cheers
Mike
Mounting and dismounting on the left side origines from the military world. Swords were on the left side... Nowadays we don't have swords, so we can mount and dismount on each side.
He rides the horse to school every day and has to walk all the way home, only to come back for the horse when it's finished school.
00:02 - Is every male in Ireland named 'Michael Collins' ?
Only the best ones!!
Hahaha, that music though, wtf
Lol
I spend way too much time in the Turdary every day, I think it is down to eating cabbage a lot
Jesus how did he survive, no Facebook or tictock or WhatsApp