Old 8mm film from the 1960s (probably 1964). Most of it shot in Kilverneen, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, Ireland. I believe some of the street scenes at the end are in Swinford, Co. Mayo.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. When we reminisce we do so through rose tinted glasses. The poverty in rural Ireland was terrible. Having said that Ireland is a beautiful country. Irish people have great qualities.
Poverty ? I only got the tail end of real Ireland . What have we done! We have lost our minds and soul! We are just a soulless mass now . I don't see one obese person in this , and I can assure you these people ate better , had a greater sense of community and had lives ! Now we are stuck to our phones , our mental health has declined . Look at the suicide rate then and now ! Look at the fun these people had . It honestly makes me sad watching this . .
@@johnduggan8398 think they call it progress John..not sure I would call it that. I could have been that boy on the load of hay, I was there somewhere in Sligo 10 years old..my hair might be grey now , but I'm still that little boy on that hay stack
@@kennymartin3416 I'm not sure what we have progressed to Martin. Seems like we have degenerated. I'd gladly go back to this Ireland . Especially after seeing that clip with Hector and that African rapper comedian fella laughing about how the Irish will be a minority and I'm not putting words in his mouth or embellishing what he said by saying "we are taking over ". Of course it's not them really taking over . They were brought here by others to serve a purpose.
Why would anybody give this beautiful movie a Thumbs Down.. like it or not it was our past ..Irish Heritage at its best, and for the most part in my opinion a better country like then. thank you Tim for posting this 👍
This hits home for sure, brings back memories most of them good. Memories of heading out to sea My brother my dad and me, Lobsters galore and salmon too Before all the common market holabalue. We ate like kings ,crabs claws and winkles too We thaught we were poor ,but who knew.
I was fortunate to have visited Ireland in 1985. It wasn’t that much different than this except for the cars and clothes,. It was beautiful. Ireland and its people were warm and welcoming.. I now know a bit more about my Irish ancestry than I did then so I look forward to visiting Ireland again.
Beautiful, as a child I remember this Ireland, I think 63/64 would be about right, my father was a sales rep. for Denny's in Sligo and I traveled with him on many a day Wednesdays were my favorite as that was Gurteen, Ballaghdereen, and Carracastle. Funny, how I remember that. I loved being with him, lunch was a flask of tea and scones or corned beef sandwiches at the side of the road. Certainly life had its hardships then but it was also a lot simpler.
This is the Ireland i love and cherished as a child growing up in a farm with my grandfather who was a blacksmith, I worked with him in his forge,life was tough but real satisfying and rewarding.its now being destroyed by American ideology of consumerism.
Yes, that’s the way it was, people so friendly,smiling loved leaving Dublin to visit country relatives, and the nights so dark, but always a turf fire burning and all ages together, old folk never left out but honored guests.people so genuine..all knew hardship too,but saw bright side allways..
Great to look back at our poor but happy days , i wonder if the young lad with the gun is still alive we would be around the same age , God grant the older folk eternal rest
Can't believe how different young people are now to the way we were the seventies was my childhood and the 80's my teens but I still remember alot of these things and Ireland was still very rural but things started to really change from the mid 80's on little did we know where it would end life holds no mystery for the young people now. Imagine the thought of going on a foreign holiday when we were young you might as well try to get to Mars and they take it for granted now it's funny but looking back to our youth I feel they're the ones missing out.
@@kevinleonard62 well people educated today but by no means happy or content , poverty is a loaded term , there was no hunger or tyranny , people were a community where they looked out for each other and the abuses were there for sure but that was not the case for the vast majority thankfully
Some great times and history in that oul house. I can say I done most of the stuff in this video saving the hay ect great old days beam me up and take me back Scottie
Great days the sixties .The great Showband scene .The simple way of life .Friendly people .Everyone had a kind word or a chat .No smart phones to play with . No murders .People could leave their door open .A better Ireland back the not like the fucked up country we have today
This is an excellent short film of Irish country living back in the 1960, the poor donkeys were often made to far harder than they should have, and I am also guilty of that sin. That boy eating freshly plucked apples whilst looking out from the tall tower window When I was a schoolboy, I learned nothing but fear in school, to me it was like going to prison each day, the few things, I would get hit on by the teacher and asked things that i did not know ( because I had severe Dyslexia ) i never got asked by the teacher about the thinks that i did know, Yet the other kids did not treat me bad probably because i was the champion apple stealer, and would share the sweetest apply with other kids around me,, we wore short corduroy trousers going to school which were fully lined on the inside, and when I would break into fines apple orchards covered in tall stinging nettles to go and steal the finest apples, First I would tar a hole on the pockets of my trousers, wear a good leather belt and clime up into the trees to pick and pocket the best of the apples, my trouser legs would get filled with apples around my legs, I would be carrying a very heavy weigh which made it difficult to walk but could not run to save my life after being shot at by angry farmers as I made my escape across the fields loaded down with beauty full sweetest stolen apples. I no longer steal apples and have tried my best to go straight since those wild times in Ireland as a young lad.
Ha ha I laughed at that too. Poor father the one we had was always leaking all over him, what a miserable day, but us little kids didn't care, poor father rest him
This was great Tim, it brought back a lot of memories! Thank so much for sharing it. They even climbed up to Stirring Rock, I thought it was a big hike in 1990, and I was a lot younger than they were when they hiked it! Thanks again! XOXO
to relive one week from the sixties with all it had to offer would surpass the greatest world cruise. mobile phones didn't exist but human interaction and willing to help was there in abundance.
Bit of Boyle Abbey in there also. It was hard work back then and Sunday was Sunday a day of rest or off to Knock. Not many "movie recorders" either. Thank you for the memories
Hi Kathleen how are you. Greetings from Dublin. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Yes the 1960’s were lovely n special. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘. Michael
My grandma used to count the 'clip clops' of the donkeys feet from the field to the house and if it went above 53 she knew grandpa was going to the pub for a drink " ahhh the owl egit" she used to say
All granny's were detectives back then psychic... Anything you did slightly" naughty " as a child , she'd know all the details before you even got home !!
Yea I still believe in god but have no time for the institution I still go to mass but you can count the amount of people who go now but you can't blame people for stopping after what the church done and the cover ups I often wonder what my grandparents would make of it all that generation were very religious and everyone of them would ask you to pray for them when you visited them. I remember some of the men who faught in the war of independence and they were very devout youd see them at mass praying with their rosary beeds and they had a mass for the dead members of the old IRA and if you were serving they'd give us a pound to share between four of us that was a fortune back then. Well times change and that Ireland is dead now what's to come god knows
I remember as a child going to mass as a duty rather than something to be enjoyed. The older males would congregate at the back and discuss politics and sport. Some would go out the back of the overcrowded church for a quick smoke during the mostly Latin and incomprehensible mass. As soon as I reached 18 and especially when I got my first shift work, working Sundays as well as weekdays to make ends meet, mass became an occasional thing. There was a lot of tokenism about attendance at Mass, something that was done by a lot of people as a social obligation rather than as a spiritual thing.
The psychedelic and cultural revolution didn't quite make it to Ireland..Some suburban young people grew their hair long and listened to Simon and Garfunkel but I think that's as far as it went
The spot @ 6mins brought back so many memories...My late beloved father used one of those spraying contraptions to spray something called 'bluestone' on the potato crop...and he used to carry ...and pump the tank, whilst I used the spray! By modern standards, we were very poor...though I did not know it at the time. Than you for posting this!
Copper sulphate solution. Used to prevent the dreaded blight in late growing potatoes. Our weather forecasts always feature warnings about blight prone weather conditions ( still misty weather) so that the growers know when to spray. Fungicides like Dithane are used now. Two of my uncles lived on subsistence farms in those days, buying only flour, tea and sugar from the shops, everything else was sourced from the land or harvested from the sea.
1:02 A fascinating image is that of the woman hiding at the side of the house. A treasured piece of nostalgia from my childhood days in East Mayo/ South Sligo is that of shy people lurking around the backs of houses.
@@mickeencrua Special needs !! O save us from the modern snowflake psychobabble. You twist a gentle memory of rustic shyness into a judgemental mundanity. People like you make living dreary ; I'd hate to know you.
Kilverneen is near Cloonacool, Tubbercurry. Most of the hay making was on my uncle John Gallagher's farm here: www.google.com/maps/place/Cloonacool,+Co.+Sligo,+Ireland/@54.0714103,-8.8169659,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x485eb616532e4abb:0xa00c7a99731f140?hl=en
We were not as poor as people think ............... every one smoked and the pubs were full on many nights of the week..... ...... CIE was fully modernised with diesel locomotives by 1961...... 7 Years ahead of BR , 10 years ahead of Northern Ireland railways......... but the weather :-) ....... who could forget the winter of 1962
I believe the rush to dieselise the rail network was brought about by the shortage of native steam grade coal in Ireland and the savings in manpower that could be realised from diesel locos. no need for firemen or labour to refuel the coal burning steam locos. The first locos were General Electric A class diesel electrics.
I think Ireland changed in the 60s more than any other decade. The country became a lot more prosperous, access to education improved enormously and housing standards skyrocketed. There were plenty of wrong things and plenty of good things worth remembering. Irish people are pretty good at blaming others for wrongs and are also pretty good at ignoring rules when it doesn't suit them. Not as rigid a place as many would have you believe.
I was born in 61, alot of people got thier first TV in the 60s and kids began to get alot of thier culture off the box and rejected older people culture in lots of ways, straight away. The TV was a major factor perhaps. I think you have a great perspective on the times.
By no means am I racist, but no foreigners in this beautiful video, but now I'm afraid we are the foreigners in our beautiful island of ireland, how time has changed.
We just have to be more careful with our public expressions and casual language than before. It is easy to fall into the trap of letting foreign people in our homeland get away with sloppy work or over reaching criticisms and exploitations in the workplace out of fear of being labelled racist. I have witnessed foreigners being very abusive to native workers with no attempt being made to correct their abuse or complain about it, all out of fear of being labelled a racist. This reticence in face of workplace bullying and abuse by non-Irish workers is just as racist as vexatious as false complaints which also happen. Also common is for a group of foreign workers to use a common language, not english, to hide criticisms among their own kind from the native Irish workers. Many companies adopt an English-only policy to prevent this.
Hello, I was just wondering if it is ok to use 3 seconds of footage from this film in a not for profit piece of art that I am doing with three other artists. It's a community project about elderly people talking about growing up in the 50's. Thanks it would make their day to have the clip in the film.
Sure Karl. You can use some footage. I just ask that I am credited as a contributor. If your finished product gets posted, pleast let me know. I'd like to see it.
Hello. No problem using footage as long as I am credited. There was more, I sent the original 8mm films to John O'Donnell at Stray Dog Films Limited, Co Clare who promised to digitize them and then return the films. He used a few short clips in his latest production about traditional Irish music (on Vimeo). Unfortunately, he never returned the films.
Thanks very much How would you like to be credited?- Tim Quinn and a link to this page?-- Our movie will be completed in March 2018- I will send you a copy. Kind regards Ciaran Davis
Hello, I hope you are well. I know this video is from nine years ago, but I love watching these videos that show what life was like before. I would like to ask something hoping someone can answer, What were the most common jobs in Ireland during the 1950-1960s? In the cities and in the towns, especially in the villages. 🤔
I was a child in the seventies and most of the donkey and horses and carts were gone by then but eventhough silage and bales of hay had come in to some extent I remember the cocks of hay and the garden cocks well the hay was brought in with a 20 tractor and buck rake alot of the time but in the last seventies the 165 of and david brown 990 started taking over and I thought they were massive. Alot of people had hens and everybody nearly had their own milk and vegetables cattle had started been sold at the mart but there was still a fair for sheep. Anybody who didn't have their own turkies baught them at a Turkey fair about a week or so before Christmas and killed them themselves. Things have changed so much some for the better and some for the worse but the world can't stand still or it would just stagnate.
The non-wheeled sledges used to draw hay in from the fields were called trams. The were simply made up from a criss-cross frame work of light laths nailed together. The finished cocks were kept close to the animal housings in a field know as the haggard and were often topped off with canvas covering and grass or hay roping to mitigate damage from wind.
Hi Nuala how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Yes it’s a fantastic video. You have a great playlist - I recognise lots. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘 Michael
Hi Nuala how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Yes it’s a fantastic video. You have a great playlist - I recognise lots. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘 Michael
No murders in Ireland back then wat alovly land it was and real friendly people hadn’t much but got on wit it No big machines donkeys and ploughing and now we have internet and eu Ain’t we happier now Ya
The north was more like the UK in those days, plenty of work for the "right" sort of people but little work for the people with the "wrong" religion. There was a good standard of living and free medical care and mostly free technical education. Many early factories in the south employed lots of mechanical and industrial engineers from the North as they had the experience to do the work. Another great source of technical know-how were the young farmers then coming out of the technical schools with a good practical knowledge of machinery derived from their family farming backgrounds, if the farms were big enough to support the costs of mechanisation. Most farms weren't. The situation is totally different now with the south well ahead of the North economically but still heavily dependent on FDI, which could vanish overnight.
@@jgdooley2003 You make some very good points.As a child in the 60s I made regular visits there to see my grandparents and it was a different and noticibly more successful place - their roads were great, they all seemed to drive deluxe versions of the cars the southerners had,even the shops were better. However beneath the appearance of success festered a sectartarian rot. The Catholics were effectively excluded from the Engineering heritage of the North but took a form of refuge in the Educational system incl third level.The delicious irony now- forty plus years later - is that large sections of professional life ie. Law , Medicine etc have been colonised by RCs.The Malone road is now very different in resident profile than previously. Education is the way to change things and the South ,for all its faults , is a much better and more successful place now thank goodness.The North remains moribund.
thats when the irish people had good food ,, good heath ,, and a good lifestyle ,,, free to roam the land ,, there was no toxic spray,s back the ,,, cancer was not heard of ,,,,, now it is not such a good place to live ,,,,,
john mcgillycuddy : yeah? So what was in that tank the guy was strapping on his back to spray the potatoes, and him not wearing no respirator. Probably smokin them fags all the day long on top of it, no wonder he died at forty. There was good, there was bad, just like now. Stop yer whining, gt on wit it...kive the ol’ woman a poke tonite john,
Ireland is far from the quiet peaceful place it once was drugs and crime in general is taking over it is fast becoming a dangerous place if something isn't done soon to change it i pity life in years to come here
You would have to go to the nearest shop, use a payphone, turn a handle on the side and ask the local operator at the post office to put you through. Its like the titanic or something I don't believe I am that old.
Hi Tim. Great old footage. I would be interested in using a clip from around 7.41 for a documentary I'm currently working on, if possible? Let me know if you have anything else. Especially interested in anything related to traditional Irish music. Email me directly at straydog@indigo.ie
Nunquam Non Paratus He is Irish he born in Dublin, and he is not a rubbish, well if I make a comparison between you and him, it’s obvious that the rubbish is the one who just know how to criticize the people who wants to change the world... You just know how to criticise?, Yes You make something to change the world?, No So who is the real rubbish here 😂? Before criticizing, look at your own flaws first, I suppose they must be a lot 🤣🤣🤣
Nunquam Non Paratus well movies has critics to make the directors improve the way they make their movies, that critics are constructive, instead yours only hurt feelings and are empty, pure hate, and the truth??? Jajajaja, in first, the real king of Rock n’ roll isn’t Elvis Presley is Chuck Berry. You think Luke Kelly it’s a good singer because you think that!, and i don’t tell you nothing about that, it’s the same I think Bono it’s a good singer, and you must respect that, oh I remember you just came to this world to criticise. The ones who criticise know that the person who are criticising is the same or better that them. The only truth here is that you don’t know what no do with your life, instead, Bono has a beautiful wife, Four beautiful children, an awesome band and 2 Nobel prices. You have Nobel prices?, No He has done more that you will able to do in your life. And if someone gave you an award it would be: the hater with low self-esteem
Not a hint of allergies, can’t eat this, that or the other, people ate well of what there was in season, and of course there was the Guinness. ,,, there still is, go and have a taste.
Bacon and cabbage from your own fields, spuds and beef and fish on Fridays. Roast chicken on Sundays and chicken soups from the carcass on Mondays, nothing was ever wasted. Porridge in the mornings, nothing like it. During WW2 the Irish were among the best fed people in Europe because of the low density family farming structure which was absent in the rest of Europe. They lacked imported items however, mostly missed were tea and tobacco........
The simplicity and beauty is wonderful. However women were treated like second class citizens then so it wasn't all rosy in Catholic Ireland . Thank fully we have seen huge progress
@@ondawallfly9427 no I have not. Don’t try to gaslight me. My aunts and mother were in their 20s in the 1960 s and 70s. Made to give up their jobs on marriage. Told to be virginal...no contraception or autonomy over their bodies. Nothing to do with feminism actually.
Not a fan of shooting animals at the start of video.I was a child in 60s Have v happy memories ,But it was a mans world then .Life was more simple and children used imagination to play.I remember our car well driving up to munster final in Tipp.
Back then, the Catholic Church was all powerful and I'm not entirely sure we would want to return to the misery inflicted by some quarters of the Christian Brothers / Magdalene Sisters / insert your religious bogeyman here...
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. When we reminisce we do so through rose tinted glasses. The poverty in rural Ireland was terrible. Having said that Ireland is a beautiful country. Irish people have great qualities.
i know it is kinda off topic but do anybody know a good place to watch new movies online?
Poverty ?
I only got the tail end of real Ireland .
What have we done!
We have lost our minds and soul!
We are just a soulless mass now .
I don't see one obese person in this , and I can assure you these people ate better , had a greater sense of community and had lives !
Now we are stuck to our phones , our mental health has declined .
Look at the suicide rate then and now !
Look at the fun these people had .
It honestly makes me sad watching this .
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@@johnduggan8398 think they call it progress John..not sure I would call it that. I could have been that boy on the load of hay, I was there somewhere in Sligo 10 years old..my hair might be grey now , but I'm still that little boy on that hay stack
@@kennymartin3416 I'm not sure what we have progressed to Martin.
Seems like we have degenerated.
I'd gladly go back to this Ireland .
Especially after seeing that clip with Hector and that African rapper comedian fella laughing about how the Irish will be a minority and I'm not putting words in his mouth or embellishing what he said by saying "we are taking over ".
Of course it's not them really taking over .
They were brought here by others to serve a purpose.
@@kennymartin3416 Lovely memories .
Grew up on a farm too it's a great way of life really.
Hard work but real work.
Satisfying work
I would love to go back to that time for a visit, very nostalgic. Life passes by so quickly!
Why would anybody give this beautiful movie a Thumbs Down.. like it or not it was our past ..Irish Heritage at its best, and for the most part in my opinion a better country like then. thank you Tim for posting this 👍
people just have to hate on everything
Probably Marcuse fans.
@Michael John Dennis In these uncertain times I wish you good health prosperity and sanity. ☘👍
A. the epidemic is "malignant narcissism"
man Plandemic more like it
This hits home for sure, brings back memories most of them good.
Memories of heading out to sea
My brother my dad and me,
Lobsters galore and salmon too
Before all the common market holabalue.
We ate like kings ,crabs claws and winkles too
We thaught we were poor ,but who knew.
Good on you, me to
I was fortunate to have visited Ireland in 1985. It wasn’t that much different than this except for the cars and clothes,. It was beautiful. Ireland and its people were warm and welcoming.. I now know a bit more about my Irish ancestry than I did then so I look forward to visiting Ireland again.
Don't leave it to long....
Yes, it’s even better here now we are out of the catholic oppression of 1985
It’s the beautiful Irish people that make that country so special
I'd give up all my luxuries to live in this simple times
Me too
Beautiful those great people that came before us God bless them all
Beautiful, as a child I remember this Ireland, I think 63/64 would be about right, my father was a sales rep. for Denny's in Sligo and I traveled with him on many a day Wednesdays were my favorite as that was Gurteen, Ballaghdereen, and Carracastle. Funny, how I remember that. I loved being with him, lunch was a flask of tea and scones or corned beef sandwiches at the side of the road. Certainly life had its hardships then but it was also a lot simpler.
Did you ever come to ballymote or were we not good enough for you haha eventhough I wasn't born until '67
Feel identified.I used to travel with my father in Dennis Larry delivering in co.Kildare,from mountmellick
There wasn't as much stuff and yes we were poorer, but I truly believe happier, families stuck a lot closer, good memories
No, women were totally shackled and oppressed in this ireland
This is the Ireland i love and cherished as a child growing up in a farm with my grandfather who was a blacksmith,
I worked with him in his forge,life was tough but real satisfying and rewarding.its now being destroyed by American ideology of consumerism.
Totally disagree. This was an Ireland ruled by men in white collars. Women were treated less well than the donkeys
Yes, that’s the way it was, people so friendly,smiling loved leaving Dublin to visit country relatives, and the nights so dark, but always a turf fire burning and all ages together, old folk never left out but honored guests.people so genuine..all knew hardship too,but saw bright side allways..
Nice...Born in 1950 ..I saw a lot of this stuff here in Donegal also...Thanks for the memories....
You said that very well, yes thanks for the Memories
Thank god a lot of it is gone
Miss it so much I prefer it without all technology we have today ,was way more peaceful .
@Frank Buckley True ,well that's all going to change, with the situation where in now ,
@@lindenvillage2474 if anything we will become more technically advanced.
Great to look back at our poor but happy days , i wonder if the young lad with the gun is still alive we would be around the same age , God grant the older folk eternal rest
+Tom O Donoghue - He's alive and well and owns that farm now.
Can't believe how different young people are now to the way we were the seventies was my childhood and the 80's my teens but I still remember alot of these things and Ireland was still very rural but things started to really change from the mid 80's on little did we know where it would end life holds no mystery for the young people now. Imagine the thought of going on a foreign holiday when we were young you might as well try to get to Mars and they take it for granted now it's funny but looking back to our youth I feel they're the ones missing out.
Wonderful video.
Brought back so many memories.
Saving the hay,ford cortina,stone walls.Simple happy times when people were so caring.Bravo!
Taking the back seat out of the car to bring home calves baught off the men who sold them off the back of the lorries outside the main cattle mart.
Beautiful film! Thanks so much for posting this.🇮🇪💚🇮🇪✌🏼📽️
life as it should be natural and normal
Hardship poverty and bearly educated people
@@kevinleonard62 well people educated today but by no means happy or content , poverty is a loaded term , there was no hunger or tyranny , people were a community where they looked out for each other and the abuses were there for sure but that was not the case for the vast majority thankfully
I agree! But looking at these comments, guess it really IS is the eye of the beholder. God bless you ❤️
Some great times and history in that oul house. I can say I done most of the stuff in this video saving the hay ect great old days beam me up and take me back Scottie
Great days the sixties .The great Showband scene .The simple way of life .Friendly people .Everyone had a kind word or a chat .No smart phones to play with . No murders .People could leave their door open .A better Ireland back the not like the fucked up country we have today
Keep going Morris don't give in.
This is an excellent short film of Irish country living back in the 1960, the poor donkeys were often made to far harder than they should have, and I am also guilty of that sin. That boy eating freshly plucked apples whilst looking out from the tall tower window When I was a schoolboy, I learned nothing but fear in school, to me it was like going to prison each day, the few things, I would get hit on by the teacher and asked things that i did not know ( because I had severe Dyslexia ) i never got asked by the teacher about the thinks that i did know, Yet the other kids did not treat me bad probably because i was the champion apple stealer, and would share the sweetest apply with other kids around me,, we wore short corduroy trousers going to school which were fully lined on the inside, and when I would break into fines apple orchards covered in tall stinging nettles to go and steal the finest apples, First I would tar a hole on the pockets of my trousers, wear a good leather belt and clime up into the trees to pick and pocket the best of the apples, my trouser legs would get filled with apples around my legs, I would be carrying a very heavy weigh which made it difficult to walk but could not run to save my life after being shot at by angry farmers as I made my escape across the fields loaded down with beauty full sweetest stolen apples. I no longer steal apples and have tried my best to go straight since those wild times in Ireland as a young lad.
Gorgeous video, memories flooding back of a more gentle time, thank you for sharing.
Sliding down the hill. What a great moment captured.
Thank you so much for this look. IT was a joy.
Spraying the potatoes with bluestone. One indelible memory of my father.
We used dytane
Ha ha I laughed at that too. Poor father the one we had was always leaking all over him, what a miserable day, but us little kids didn't care, poor father rest him
@@MrFootballfu Lord rest him and all our dear fathers.
Loved and shared in Kilkenny .I love the horsedrawn Cortina in the raffle at 8 mins. 48 secs.
I was there then. Thanks 🙏 for sharing beautiful country and wonderful folk
This was great Tim, it brought back a lot of memories! Thank so much for sharing it. They even climbed up to Stirring Rock, I thought it was a big hike in 1990, and I was a lot younger than they were when they hiked it! Thanks again! XOXO
to relive one week from the sixties with all it had to offer would surpass the greatest world cruise. mobile phones didn't exist but human interaction and willing to help was there in abundance.
Thank you for sharing this it's beautiful
Great vid. Great soundtrack too.
Bit of Boyle Abbey in there also. It was hard work back then and Sunday was Sunday a day of rest or off to Knock. Not many "movie recorders" either. Thank you for the memories
Great to be Irish
Interesting. Watching in Burnaby/Vancouver B.C.Canada!
It was certainly a lovely time back then
Hi Kathleen how are you. Greetings from Dublin. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Yes the 1960’s were lovely n special. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘. Michael
Not really with all the catholic oppression ...
NOW THATS THE IRELAND..IRISH..PEOPLE AND CHRISTIAN CULTURE...
These look like old family movies...what a great window into a sweeter time.
Old family movies exactly, so real as I remembered it
Ireland 2020,,,,bloody 'ell, take me back.
a lovely view of Ireland from way back, I wonder if the young lad with the imitation rifle and uniform ever joined the military later on.....
My grandma used to count the 'clip clops' of the donkeys feet from the field to the house and if it went above 53 she knew grandpa was going to the pub for a drink " ahhh the owl egit" she used to say
Lol she would have made a great detective.
All granny's were detectives back then psychic... Anything you did slightly" naughty " as a child , she'd know all the details before you even got home !!
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Beautiful Ireland, beautiful people, very very tasty food. If only you still went to church maybe not for the religion, just for the strong community!
Yea I still believe in god but have no time for the institution I still go to mass but you can count the amount of people who go now but you can't blame people for stopping after what the church done and the cover ups I often wonder what my grandparents would make of it all that generation were very religious and everyone of them would ask you to pray for them when you visited them. I remember some of the men who faught in the war of independence and they were very devout youd see them at mass praying with their rosary beeds and they had a mass for the dead members of the old IRA and if you were serving they'd give us a pound to share between four of us that was a fortune back then. Well times change and that Ireland is dead now what's to come god knows
I remember as a child going to mass as a duty rather than something to be enjoyed. The older males would congregate at the back and discuss politics and sport. Some would go out the back of the overcrowded church for a quick smoke during the mostly Latin and incomprehensible mass. As soon as I reached 18 and especially when I got my first shift work, working Sundays as well as weekdays to make ends meet, mass became an occasional thing. There was a lot of tokenism about attendance at Mass, something that was done by a lot of people as a social obligation rather than as a spiritual thing.
The psychedelic and cultural revolution didn't quite make it to Ireland..Some suburban young people grew their hair long and listened to Simon and Garfunkel but I think that's as far as it went
Punk rock did not make it, but old and young during 60 and 70s Ireland were as different as chalk and Cheeze, old was gone full stop
The proud land of our fathers.
The spot @ 6mins brought back so many memories...My late beloved father used one of those spraying contraptions to spray something called 'bluestone' on the potato crop...and he used to carry ...and pump the tank, whilst I used the spray! By modern standards, we were very poor...though I did not know it at the time. Than you for posting this!
Copper sulphate solution. Used to prevent the dreaded blight in late growing potatoes. Our weather forecasts always feature warnings about blight prone weather conditions ( still misty weather) so that the growers know when to spray. Fungicides like Dithane are used now. Two of my uncles lived on subsistence farms in those days, buying only flour, tea and sugar from the shops, everything else was sourced from the land or harvested from the sea.
1:02 A fascinating image is that of the woman hiding at the side of the house. A treasured piece of nostalgia from my childhood days in East Mayo/ South Sligo is that of shy people lurking around the backs of houses.
These "shy" people were invariably special needs people or alcos. Wake up.
@@mickeencrua Special needs !! O save us from the modern snowflake psychobabble. You twist a gentle memory of rustic shyness into a judgemental mundanity. People like you make living dreary ; I'd hate to know you.
Thank you for this
A beautiful colour film!
The town scene from 039 to 1:00 is Aclare between Tubbercurry and Swinford
Beautiful scenery.
Eleshia, I made that climb to Stirring Rock in 1956 with Aunt Maisie.
Gorgeous, thank you....
Wasn't Swinford a grand and half-civilised place before the Hardy Bucks took over the streets.
Aah... great, but it’s over too soon! Thanks for posting!
Kilverneen is near Cloonacool, Tubbercurry. Most of the hay making was on my uncle John Gallagher's farm here: www.google.com/maps/place/Cloonacool,+Co.+Sligo,+Ireland/@54.0714103,-8.8169659,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x485eb616532e4abb:0xa00c7a99731f140?hl=en
What was the name of the last music on the video It was gorgeous
A better place and time
We were not as poor as people think ............... every one smoked and the pubs were full on many nights of the week..... ...... CIE was fully modernised with diesel locomotives by 1961...... 7 Years ahead of BR , 10 years ahead of Northern Ireland railways......... but the weather :-) ....... who could forget the winter of 1962
I believe the rush to dieselise the rail network was brought about by the shortage of native steam grade coal in Ireland and the savings in manpower that could be realised from diesel locos. no need for firemen or labour to refuel the coal burning steam locos. The first locos were General Electric A class diesel electrics.
Tim, Sean and I thought this was fantastic! Thanks for sharing XO
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Brings back memories Ireland will never be the same it’s been invaded just like England 🏴☘️☘️☘️🇨🇮
It was invaded by the English. Don't use your xenophobia to try and relate to that
@@adamgillespie3393 its a different kind of invasion these days. Its called globalism.
are some of those photos of knock where the priests are giving communion? please correct me if im wrong
+john foley ... You are right. It's Knock Shrine.
I think Ireland changed in the 60s more than any other decade. The country became a lot more prosperous, access to education improved enormously and housing standards skyrocketed. There were plenty of wrong things and plenty of good things worth remembering. Irish people are pretty good at blaming others for wrongs and are also pretty good at ignoring rules when it doesn't suit them. Not as rigid a place as many would have you believe.
I was born in 61, alot of people got thier first TV in the 60s and kids began to get alot of thier culture off the box and rejected older people culture in lots of ways, straight away. The TV was a major factor perhaps. I think you have a great perspective on the times.
The greatest country in the world.
There was some work done that time no Internet phones drugs a lot to be said for it the houses were modern thought
i live in ireland
Irish music is fascinating
By no means am I racist, but no foreigners in this beautiful video, but now I'm afraid we are the foreigners in our beautiful island of ireland, how time has changed.
We just have to be more careful with our public expressions and casual language than before. It is easy to fall into the trap of letting foreign people in our homeland get away with sloppy work or over reaching criticisms and exploitations in the workplace out of fear of being labelled racist. I have witnessed foreigners being very abusive to native workers with no attempt being made to correct their abuse or complain about it, all out of fear of being labelled a racist. This reticence in face of workplace bullying and abuse by non-Irish workers is just as racist as vexatious as false complaints which also happen. Also common is for a group of foreign workers to use a common language, not english, to hide criticisms among their own kind from the native Irish workers. Many companies adopt an English-only policy to prevent this.
Terrific. Some of early part focuses on a pilgrimage to Knock.
Hello, I was just wondering if it is ok to use 3 seconds of footage from this film in a not for profit piece of art that I am doing with three other artists. It's a community project about elderly people talking about growing up in the 50's. Thanks it would make their day to have the clip in the film.
Sure Karl. You can use some footage. I just ask that I am credited as a contributor. If your finished product gets posted, pleast let me know. I'd like to see it.
some mighty powerful looking women!
Hi, we are making a short film about the Irish in Coventry and were wondering if we could use some of this footage?
Hello. No problem using footage as long as I am credited. There was more, I sent the original 8mm films to John O'Donnell at Stray Dog Films Limited, Co Clare who promised to digitize them and then return the films. He used a few short clips in his latest production about traditional Irish music (on Vimeo). Unfortunately, he never returned the films.
Thanks very much
How would you like to be credited?- Tim Quinn and a link to this page?--
Our movie will be completed in March 2018- I will send you a copy.
Kind regards Ciaran Davis
Just my name in the credits is fine. I'm sure it will bring me fame & fortune! ..,.looking forward to seeing your completed project.
I contacted John and he is returning the films and also, digital copies.
I contacted John. he is mailing the films & digital copies to me.
Fun,,,,, gotta love how things used to be,,,,
Looks like County Mayo from the IZ car plates, Mweelrea, Killary Harbour and the Irish tune Cill Aodáin?
At 8:30 the monastery is Boyle Abbey.
If you want more good Irish films watch, "kings in grass castles," about the potato famine.
Hello, I hope you are well. I know this video is from nine years ago, but I love watching these videos that show what life was like before. I would like to ask something hoping someone can answer, What were the most common jobs in Ireland during the 1950-1960s? In the cities and in the towns, especially in the villages. 🤔
what family is this?
I was a child in the seventies and most of the donkey and horses and carts were gone by then but eventhough silage and bales of hay had come in to some extent I remember the cocks of hay and the garden cocks well the hay was brought in with a 20 tractor and buck rake alot of the time but in the last seventies the 165 of and david brown 990 started taking over and I thought they were massive. Alot of people had hens and everybody nearly had their own milk and vegetables cattle had started been sold at the mart but there was still a fair for sheep. Anybody who didn't have their own turkies baught them at a Turkey fair about a week or so before Christmas and killed them themselves. Things have changed so much some for the better and some for the worse but the world can't stand still or it would just stagnate.
The non-wheeled sledges used to draw hay in from the fields were called trams. The were simply made up from a criss-cross frame work of light laths nailed together. The finished cocks were kept close to the animal housings in a field know as the haggard and were often topped off with canvas covering and grass or hay roping to mitigate damage from wind.
Round Tower Meelick?
Fantastic!
Hi Nuala how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Yes it’s a fantastic video. You have a great playlist - I recognise lots. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘 Michael
Hi Nuala how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Yes it’s a fantastic video. You have a great playlist - I recognise lots. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘 Michael
God be with the days that were in it.
Loved it
No murders in Ireland back then wat alovly land it was and real friendly people hadn’t much but got on wit it No big machines donkeys and ploughing and now we have internet and eu Ain’t we happier now Ya
The good Ol` days....When times were hard.
Where exactly is Kilverneen in Co Sligo? North Sligo? South Sligo? If near Tubbercurry, can you name some adjacent town lands?
I'm from Sligo and I've never heard tell off the place, I could be wrong though.
Think the last Round Tower is Turlough Round Tower outside Castlebar
Round tower is at Drumcliffe - it looks like Ben Bulben in background although top is coverted in cloud.
The round Tower at 8:14 is most definitely Turlough Abbey near Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
You are correct.
@@patmf2000 it is indeed.
That's the south of Ireland. Looks really nice. Wasn't like that in the North though.
The north was more like the UK in those days, plenty of work for the "right" sort of people but little work for the people with the "wrong" religion. There was a good standard of living and free medical care and mostly free technical education. Many early factories in the south employed lots of mechanical and industrial engineers from the North as they had the experience to do the work. Another great source of technical know-how were the young farmers then coming out of the technical schools with a good practical knowledge of machinery derived from their family farming backgrounds, if the farms were big enough to support the costs of mechanisation. Most farms weren't.
The situation is totally different now with the south well ahead of the North economically but still heavily dependent on FDI, which could vanish overnight.
@@jgdooley2003 You make some very good points.As a child in the 60s I made regular visits there to see my grandparents and it was a different and noticibly more successful place - their roads were great, they all seemed to drive deluxe versions of the cars the southerners had,even the shops were better. However beneath the appearance of success festered a sectartarian rot. The Catholics were effectively excluded from the Engineering heritage of the North but took a form of refuge in the Educational system incl third level.The delicious irony now- forty plus years later - is that large sections of professional life ie. Law , Medicine etc have been colonised by RCs.The Malone road is now very different in resident profile than previously. Education is the way to change things and the South ,for all its faults , is a much better and more successful place now thank goodness.The North remains moribund.
@@declanlee5440and 10 varieties of crisps! LOL!
thats when the irish people had good food ,, good heath ,, and a good lifestyle ,,, free to roam the land ,, there was no toxic spray,s back the ,,, cancer was not heard of ,,,,, now it is not such a good place to live ,,,,,
we also had some of the worst child mortality rates in europe and the reason nobody got cancer was because they died of TB before they turned 60
john mcgillycuddy : yeah? So what was in that tank the guy was strapping on his back to spray the potatoes, and him not wearing no respirator. Probably smokin them fags all the day long on top of it, no wonder he died at forty. There was good, there was bad, just like now. Stop yer whining, gt on wit it...kive the ol’ woman a poke tonite john,
My grandmother died from breast cancer in 1950😢
Ah yes...plenty of poverty, child abuse, domestic abuse, religious dominance. Thankfully those awful days are behind us!
Don't be fooling yourself, ill health mental and physical abound, and very little help at times
This is the Ireland I thought I was going to meet when I moved there in 2015. 🙃
You have got to be kidding, things change all ty he time some for the good and some not so good but changes happen all the time
All yanks think that,they haven't a clue.
Ireland is far from the quiet peaceful place it once was drugs and crime in general is taking over it is fast becoming a dangerous place if something isn't done soon to change it i pity life in years to come here
Cultural enrichment at it's best unfortunately
Crime rates today are lower than the 70s, fact!
Loved that
I can’t see anyone using their mobile phone
You would have to go to the nearest shop, use a payphone, turn a handle on the side and ask the local operator at the post office to put you through. Its like the titanic or something I don't believe I am that old.
There was no running water never mind mobile phones,and a lot didn’t even have electricity.
Sad too😢
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Hi Tim. Great old footage. I would be interested in using a clip from around 7.41 for a documentary I'm currently working on, if possible? Let me know if you have anything else. Especially interested in anything related to traditional Irish music. Email me directly at straydog@indigo.ie
no income tax at the time,because no one had a bob.
Cars parked bumper to bumper in Swinford? No one had a bob? Wake up Tim.
In that year Bono The singer of U2, Born hahaha 😂
And the rot set in ?
Michael Igoe :V?
Nunquam Non Paratus He is Irish he born in Dublin, and he is not a rubbish, well if I make a comparison between you and him, it’s obvious that the rubbish is the one who just know how to criticize the people who wants to change the world...
You just know how to criticise?, Yes
You make something to change the world?, No
So who is the real rubbish here 😂?
Before criticizing, look at your own flaws first, I suppose they must be a lot 🤣🤣🤣
Nunquam Non Paratus well movies has critics to make the directors improve the way they make their movies, that critics are constructive, instead yours only hurt feelings and are empty, pure hate, and the truth??? Jajajaja, in first, the real king of Rock n’ roll isn’t Elvis Presley is Chuck Berry.
You think Luke Kelly it’s a good singer because you think that!, and i don’t tell you nothing about that, it’s the same I think Bono it’s a good singer, and you must respect that, oh I remember you just came to this world to criticise.
The ones who criticise know that the person who are criticising is the same or better that them.
The only truth here is that you don’t know what no do with your life, instead, Bono has a beautiful wife, Four beautiful children, an awesome band and 2 Nobel prices.
You have Nobel prices?, No
He has done more that you will able to do in your life.
And if someone gave you an award it would be: the hater with low self-esteem
Well I have more important things to do instead of fighting with a low self-esteem hater
Not a hint of allergies, can’t eat this, that or the other, people ate well of what there was in season, and of course there was the Guinness. ,,, there still is, go and have a taste.
Bacon and cabbage from your own fields, spuds and beef and fish on Fridays. Roast chicken on Sundays and chicken soups from the carcass on Mondays, nothing was ever wasted. Porridge in the mornings, nothing like it. During WW2 the Irish were among the best fed people in Europe because of the low density family farming structure which was absent in the rest of Europe. They lacked imported items however, mostly missed were tea and tobacco........
The maiden city Belfast was a hell for people under a shite evil regime
When white men had their own homeland.
Hungary and Poland
The simplicity and beauty is wonderful. However women were treated like second class citizens then so it wasn't all rosy in Catholic Ireland . Thank fully we have seen huge progress
Yes but they were powerful figures within the home
They were not treated like second class citizens. They were treated like women, not men. You've been brainwashed by feminism.
@@ondawallfly9427 no I have not. Don’t try to gaslight me. My aunts and mother were in their 20s in the 1960 s and 70s. Made to give up their jobs on marriage. Told to be virginal...no contraception or autonomy over their bodies. Nothing to do with feminism actually.
@@emu9520 yes well said I totally agree
@@ondawallfly9427 and women did not have equality under the law, or in the minds of men.
Not a fan of shooting animals at the start of video.I was a child in 60s Have v happy memories ,But it was a mans world then .Life was more simple and children used imagination to play.I remember our car well driving up to munster final in Tipp.
Back then, the Catholic Church was all powerful and I'm not entirely sure we would want to return to the misery inflicted by some quarters of the Christian Brothers / Magdalene Sisters / insert your religious bogeyman here...
Read the real story before you criticize anybody....I see you believe everything on RTE. 😮Do a bit of real research on the Magdalen laundries.
Here here
@@Super241946 please....my friends mother was in one. Made to scrub floors when 9 months pregnant . Barbaric places
I wonder what they would have thought if they knew dear old Ireland would adopt gay marriage......
They probably would think that if they did that they would be in the POO .
@@mickigoe someones triggered
Many would have felt liberated
@@emu9520 To practice so da my. I dont think so