From Camden to Connemara For Christmas, 1969
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- Journey from Camden to Connemara for Christmas.
‘Féach’ traces the Christmas journey home from London to Connemara in a programme about emigrants from 1969. This extract follows a young man who’s been living in London for two years as he leaves Camden and makes his way to the train that will take him and many other Irish people to Holyhead for the boat back to Ireland for the holiday season.
Bhí suim faoi leith ag ‘Féach’ san imirce agus pobal Chonamara i Londain. Rinne Breandán Ó hEithir tuairisc faoi i 1968.
This report for ‘Féach’ was broadcast 22 December 1969.
I lived in the same style bed set in a pub in archway in the mid 90s drank my fill every night and off to work with Murphy’s in the morning great days I caught the tail end to that way of life .
Loved the Sunday sessions in the Archway Tavern.
@@desmonddoyle4470 Lee Lynch. He used to read out the football scores from home.
Great days for a young man, and for a few years, maybe. Not so great if that was your entire life.
You are not the real willi D your nothing only a fraud
Murphy's yard highgate road knew it well as i lived in Queens crescent . USA now
My parents were both native Irish speakers from the Connemara Gaeltacht. They were married in London in 1963 and I was born in Willesden, north London in 1965. I made the trip from London to Connemara via Hollyhead many times. Moved to Chicago in 1974 when Chicago was packed with people from the Connemara Gaeltacht.
Gerald, my family is also from Connemara. I grew up here in Chicago. I teach Irish here on the South side of the city in Beverly. You should join us if interested!☘
@@seankelly7241 Did you grow up speaking Irish in Chicago? if you don't mind me asking
My father and his brothers did this a decade earlier ,The Irish rebuilt Britain after WW2, yet there are no monuments anywhere to their hard work, except the buildings and roads of course
And many of them buildings have being demolished at this stage.
@@europa2000man have they fked been demolished the Irish built America and the railines with chinese
My mum came over from northern irland in the early 1960s, she worked in a bank in London and the bank would pay for her to go back home on the ferry. Oh how the work place has changed.
Great snapshot video of that time. That man packs a suitcase like an absolute legend and not a phone charger in sight. :)
Brilliant thanks for sharing 👍🏻☘️☘️☘️
I thought that was Shane McGowan for a sec.
Great content mate thanks
No think this is an Irish working class chap ,Shane sadly is a posh wannabe
@@margaretohara7250 I'm proud to be working class
If this man is alive today he’s well into his 70s.
True that. And?
There's always one useless comment!
Make that two
@@hugostiglitz6914 Noones comment and input is useless, not even yours.
@@laboskie349 yours is
Merry Christmas
did they run out of film ......should be camden to euston
I hope he got home OK.
Just perfect! 💚🇮🇪
Note him not bothering to lock the door. This is still how it is outside the cities. So sad we let everything get so bad in the urban areas, worldwide. I feel blessed to not have to bother locking mine, but who knows how long that will last.
i'd say judging by the interior state of the place plus the fact he gave the door a good bang and it still swung open again that it probably didn't lock to begin with haha.
I'd imagine he had a flat in the house, was able to lock his own door, no need to lock the front door. Still, the state of the place. He desperately needed a woman in his life.
Could be something to do with having a film crew in his flat
@@fergal2424 Knew he wasnt cuming back to the kip.
Maybe he was squatting? Maybe it was open as he was coming out with the camera crew and he left it that way, could be someone going off quickly to the shop!? 😶
That’s a Very carefully packet suitcase by ya man
He forgot the live hen! Níl Cearc aige :)
Seriously now, where do you get all these videos from?
Bit depressing TBH. Hope he got home.
depressing sounds irish enough alright.
Not so sure. He seems to have met someone he knows at the end.
@@55ablebof I did not see that! Well spotted, changes the complexion of the vid. There's even a poster just before they meet, saying, " See a friend this weekend." Thanks.
@@andyarmstrong1493 Things might have worked out well for him in the end Andy.
There is something fake about this video. The rough Irishman, packing his case as if his clothes were rags. Who would do such a thing? Then they show him in Trafalgar Square, going TOWARDS Charing Cross, which is the wrong direction, and then later, in Picadilly, which is in the other direction entirely. I wonder, why would he be in any of those places, if he was trying to get to an airport or maybe Hollyhead? I did enjoy the video, but the staging was so obvious.
Paddington for Hollyhead.
@@belltopcone Euston.
He was doing some last minute Christmas shopping..
Even I who can speak Irish can't understand him over the loud music. Subtitles would be appreciated
It really sounds like he's mumbling his way through.
@@nialljohnson5191 I speak Donegal Irish and can only catch the odd word here and there. Dreadful accent on the man although I dont follow Connemara Irish at the best of times
@@paulgallagher13 I'm a Munster Irish speaker who lived in Galway for four years. First time I had trouble with Connemara Irish.
@Paul G Cén píosa cainte nach dtuigeann tú? Is cainteoir dúchais mé agus tuigim gach rud atá ráite ag an bhfear seo.
Má chuireann tú ceist ar aon dhalta meán scoile taobh amuigh do Ghaillimh agus Dhún na nGall.....táim cinnte go roghnódh formhór acu Gaeilge Chonamara thar Ghaeilge Thír Chonaill.
Its the art of speaking Irish without opening your mouth.
Wonder who this man was ? Anyone out there know
he's like - get me tha feck outa here....loneliness a effect on irish mental health abroad...
loneliness is the key word but poor immigrants had to be stoic. No wonder many of them hung out in pubs. God love them.
Went home for Christmas and left his front door ajar , well he did not have much there to pinch .
The house was divided into bedsitters.
the night in 68 when i was leaving london i was so drunk i folled my case and put it in to my clothes
Iron them shirts
Tony bellew must have had a chat with him
Dirty room , unfolded clothes , messy bed , hair uncombed and unwashed ……. Yup that’s a Connemara man for sure
Ciarraí Abú
What is unclean, stays unclean.