My dad was born in 1929, he’s still alive, aged 95. When he talks about the past it sounds like another world. And my 70’s childhood is rapidly becoming the same
for my heritage to be lost like this…Hearing Irish spoken so casually, just by children…sung so lively…just makes me cry. My great-grandfather’s language feels like a dream😢 I know the words that were said when I was a child, “slaìnte” “mo chroí” “eírinn go brách” “pog mo thon”, “slan” and things like that. but we’re not fluent. And I’m estranged from my Irish family…but as a linguist, there will always be a deep longing to know the language of my ancestors. I hope to study seriously it one day, but right now, I’m still focusing on fluency in Japanese and French. But I love whatever I pick up, and I won’t forget the music. Hearing them sing so much is so wonderful. It feels like home. In my family, we just exist to hum and sing with whatever we’re doing, for absolutely no reason at all.
If you ever do decide to learn Irish there is a free online Irish dictionary which is a compilation of two ‘heavy weight’ dictionaries: the English-Irish dictionary by Ó Dónaill and the Irish-English dictionary by De Bhaldraithe (a thug of a book!). It also gives you grammar and, most importantly, the pronunciation in all three dialects: Munster in the far south, Connacht in the west, and Ulster in the north (particularly Donegal). It’s called ‘teanglann’ (dot ie😉) And if you want a peek into the quirkiness of the Irish language, have a look at: ‘Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature’ or ‘Wolf-Men and Water Hounds - The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland’ or ‘Thirty-Two Words for Field - Lost Words of the Irish Landscape’ _all by Manchán Magan_ Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat! (Good luck) [By the way, that’s pronounced Guh Ny-ree On Taw Lath] 🤪👍🇮🇪
@WinryRockbellElric Why are you focusing on Japanese and French if you feel that way. It's not as if the Japanese and French languages are short of speakers. I am being sort of a hypocrite here as I too can't speak the language of my ancestors beyond a smattering of phrases, but came to realisation late in life that I really should. And like you hopefully I will get the time to still do so. My wife is a non English speaker, so I have a reason to study her language, but others I don't think I have any valid reason to study now without being proficient at Irish first.
@@harshbutfair8993 Hmmm. Maybe this is a daft idea but I find that a good working knowledge of French is very handy when you visit or work in …what ya call it … um … eh … o yeah, FRANCE!!! 🤪 And I believe that Japanese is extremely useful in places like Japan (a fascinating part of the world). Of course, if you visit Ireland, a few words of Polish are _de rigueur_ 🤣😂🤣
....the little girl singing and hand feeding the ducks...❤ My Mum was born 1929 and we still have her. She was 95 in this August 2024. She talks of her childhood fondly and sometimes says that now these days we have everything and it's still not enough x
can’t believe my mother would have been 7 years old when this was filmed. My father too. No doubt they witnessed scenes like these. The changes they witnessed to Ireland I can’t even begin to imagine. My dad left school at 11. He built a life. I remember him buying a brand new BMW every 2 years in the 1970’s 80’s and 90’s and getting such satisfaction from them. I never understood why he needed to. I get now that I see the poverty he came from. He gave us a comfortable upbringing he never had.
They really are sweet and loving we have a donkey called Charlie he is 38 years old now my parents bought him for my 13th Birthday ne was a little baby who lost his mother in child birth he is going deaf and blind but he still comes to show you love and affection loves a peppermint cream or a toffee. and his daily hug.
Incredible footage. The sound effects and voices are all real by the way : cameras with microphones had only just become available that year. Nearly everyone is speaking in Irish, not English, including the girls singing their songs.
@@doldfamily9983 The description is incorrect. A visiting camera crew from the US filmed the scenes in 1929 with sound. They may well have been the first audio visual 'newsreel' recordings ever filmed in Ireland - the technology was brand new and extremely expensive.
@ronaldobrien6870 If they were speaking Irish, it's because they were in an Irish speaking part of the country, like Connemara, or Aran like the end of the video.
Very nice to see my people looking healthy & happy out there in Ireland way back then! It's a real shame so many of them had to leave Ireland & have it much harder elsewhere around the world
This footage, both the original and the colourised versions, is an invaluable historical treasure. This is how my Irish ancestors in Munster would have lived. Thank you.
The launching of the currach in the middle. Exactly what Paul Henry captured in his painting of the same name. Its in the Irish National Gallery. No red or green in his work as he was colourblind, just blues and browns. Thank you.
Great to see that. I was on holiday on a 3 week Irish language course a few times in the 60s, on Inis Thiar, the smallest Aran Island. Many of the men still dressed in a not too dissimilar fashion. I only saw the shawls on older women on Sundays going to Mass. Forever grateful to my father for sending us out there, even though, initially, I thought, what did we do to deserve that banishment.
@@frunomaol5069 Lovely!! My mother who lived on Inishmann for a short while, once said she always remembers the women wearing shawls in the west of Ireland ....Aran islands, Valentia island, etc.
@@frunomaol5069 Lovely!! My mum used to mention her memories of the women wearing shawls as a young child & the pony and traps to school. How beautiful!! Despite the hardship, what a lovely way of life..
Irish women had the most beautiful shawls in those days, especially in Galway. Kept you warm and beautifully dressed. Those were made of wool. Meanwhile Irish linen was world renowned, very high quality.
Спасибо большое за то, что сохранили историю! Вложено много труда, что бы мы могли не только увидеть, но и услышать тех людей, которые были до нас! Очень интересно! Благодарю!
That is a truly mind blowing restoration. Incredible detail. My mum lived in Killarney and would have been 5 years old at the time. Many thanks for sharing this!
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In 1830 the British did an investigation into what was causing the weird accent developing in Australia 🇦🇺. They found it was the mixing of all the different accents from the UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪.
Nearly 70 years ago I had my first and only ride on a donkey cart. The donkey seemed so small compared to the size of the cart but they are very strong.
@@jimoil6372 Most had already lost it. This footage is from places like Clare and Kerry. The Irish Free State (later Republic) was an English speaking nation from day one. The big failure linguistically speaking was not stopping thousands emigrating from the Irish speaking areas of the west. Rather than teaching classes to beginners nationwide, the Gaelic League's priority should have been in the founding of co-ops owned by Irish speaking communities with Gaelic League members acting as go-betweens between them and the finest business minds in the country, thereby reducing reliance on English for prosperity in those communities, reducing emigration by providing work, and reducing the psychological association of Irish/Gaelic language and poverty. This was Seamas MacAodh's/James McHugh's proposal and many Gaelic League members at the time were interested, but the leaders of the League were older, more conservative, and wrongly seemed to believe that everything would be solved by teaching Irish in classes and in the education system.
This is the time when, and the place where, my dear mother was born and raised. And I am watching this film on my laptop. Try to get your head round that timeline.
So very sad..not because the past was better, it was awful, harsh life. But sad for the utter loss in our precious country to the bribes, money men and the wicked, motorways, h m n traffickers... Thank you for this beautiful video ☘
@@mikehemens9359 Did I say things had gotten better. No. "..for the utter loss in our precious country to the bribes, money men and the wicked, motorways, h m n traffickers... "
My mum lived on the Aran islands as a child in the 1930's..think it was Inishsheer. There was a storm and it flooded the downstairs of their house completely so they had to move. Moved to Clifton in Galway.
My dad was born in 1929, he’s still alive, aged 95. When he talks about the past it sounds like another world. And my 70’s childhood is rapidly becoming the same
I'm 73 and mine is becoming the same. But, it has been a great ride.
My dad was born in 1927 and I'm off to Kerry to see him next week. Still in fine form.
@@sgp7975show him this video ❤
These films are very Important, in many ways.
Not least to challenge the distortions of history peddled by films and TV.
The famine roads .They were put to work building roads for a pittance .People have long memories in Ireland
for my heritage to be lost like this…Hearing Irish spoken so casually, just by children…sung so lively…just makes me cry. My great-grandfather’s language feels like a dream😢 I know the words that were said when I was a child, “slaìnte” “mo chroí” “eírinn go brách” “pog mo thon”, “slan” and things like that.
but we’re not fluent. And I’m estranged from my Irish family…but as a linguist, there will always be a deep longing to know the language of my ancestors. I hope to study seriously it one day, but right now, I’m still focusing on fluency in Japanese and French. But I love whatever I pick up, and I won’t forget the music. Hearing them sing so much is so wonderful. It feels like home. In my family, we just exist to hum and sing with whatever we’re doing, for absolutely no reason at all.
I keep trying to post a response and it keeps disappearing 😡
If you ever do decide to learn Irish there is a free online Irish dictionary which is a compilation of two ‘heavy weight’ dictionaries: the English-Irish dictionary by Ó Dónaill and the Irish-English dictionary by De Bhaldraithe (a thug of a book!). It also gives you grammar and, most importantly, the pronunciation in all three dialects: Munster in the far south, Connacht in the west, and Ulster in the north (particularly Donegal). It’s called ‘teanglann’ (dot ie😉)
And if you want a peek into the quirkiness of the Irish language, have a look at: ‘Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature’ or ‘Wolf-Men and Water Hounds - The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland’ or ‘Thirty-Two Words for Field - Lost Words of the Irish Landscape’ _all by Manchán Magan_
Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat! (Good luck)
[By the way, that’s pronounced Guh Ny-ree On Taw Lath] 🤪👍🇮🇪
@WinryRockbellElric
Why are you focusing on Japanese and French if you feel that way. It's not as if the Japanese and French languages are short of speakers.
I am being sort of a hypocrite here as I too can't speak the language of my ancestors beyond a smattering of phrases, but came to realisation late in life that I really should. And like you hopefully I will get the time to still do so. My wife is a non English speaker, so I have a reason to study her language, but others I don't think I have any valid reason to study now without being proficient at Irish first.
@@harshbutfair8993 Hmmm. Maybe this is a daft idea but I find that a good working knowledge of French is very handy when you visit or work in …what ya call it … um … eh … o yeah, FRANCE!!! 🤪 And I believe that Japanese is extremely useful in places like Japan (a fascinating part of the world).
Of course, if you visit Ireland, a few words of Polish are _de rigueur_ 🤣😂🤣
is this language extinct now?
....the little girl singing and hand feeding the ducks...❤ My Mum was born 1929 and we still have her. She was 95 in this August 2024. She talks of her childhood fondly and sometimes says that now these days we have everything and it's still not enough x
can’t believe my mother would have been 7 years old when this was filmed. My father too. No doubt they witnessed scenes like these. The changes they witnessed to Ireland I can’t even begin to imagine. My dad left school at 11. He built a life. I remember him buying a brand new BMW every 2 years in the 1970’s 80’s and 90’s and getting such satisfaction from them. I never understood why he needed to. I get now that I see the poverty he came from. He gave us a comfortable upbringing he never had.
So beautiful! The Irish are always blessing others with their singing.
And we Irish roll our eyes at such sentiments
This is amazing! The two girls singing - according to the info, that was filmed the day after my grandfather was born. He's in his mid-90s now.
Ah that's amazing
You do know the sound was added after right? Still amazing but yeah
"That's all" is an understatement of how good this restored video is.
That the voice of a female dog named Annette Hanshaw, a cow who couldn’t sing but is now worshipped by modern day people who have no taste
Donkeys are such sweet creatures. Love these old Irish films! Thank you ❤️🙏🏼🌿
They really are sweet and loving we have a donkey called Charlie he is 38 years old now my parents bought him for my 13th Birthday ne was a little baby who lost his mother in child birth he is going deaf and blind but he still comes to show you love and affection loves a peppermint cream or a toffee. and his daily hug.
How wonderful your parents rescued the baby donkey and gave him to you for your birthday 💕😍
The colourization was wonderful and not overdone--and the love that was put into the sound was way above average. Thanks.
Wow I feel like I stepped in a time machine! Thank goodness for modern technology. This warms my heart
Certainly humanizes the ancestors, doesn't it.
Quite ironic though don't you think though that modern technology is one of the reasons Ireland doesn't look like this anymore
@@Wightknite88 True! Technology has destroyed the traditional lifestyle, but at least we get the consolation prize of old footage.
That's *incredible*. Thank you so much for sharing this gem.
Incredible footage. The sound effects and voices are all real by the way : cameras with microphones had only just become available that year. Nearly everyone is speaking in Irish, not English, including the girls singing their songs.
But the description says that it's silent footage with added ambient sounds...
But the description says that it's so silent footage with added ambient sounds...
@@doldfamily9983 The girls’ singing is in sync with their mouth movements, so that sound wasn’t added.
@@doldfamily9983 The description is incorrect. A visiting camera crew from the US filmed the scenes in 1929 with sound. They may well have been the first audio visual 'newsreel' recordings ever filmed in Ireland - the technology was brand new and extremely expensive.
@ronaldobrien6870 If they were speaking Irish, it's because they were in an Irish speaking part of the country, like Connemara, or Aran like the end of the video.
This was one of the best! Such nice work restoring this.
Unbelievable restoration ! You seem very passionate about this kind of work. All the best.
Beautiful people.
Very beautiful. Thank you.
It made my heart happy to see this. Greetings from Limerick, Ireland!
Thank you. What pleasure you have given.
Знали бы все эти люди что через почти сто лет они всё ещё будут живы и кто-то их увидит 😊 Это так удивительно....
Very nice to see my people looking healthy & happy out there in Ireland way back then! It's a real shame so many of them had to leave Ireland & have it much harder elsewhere around the world
Many of them are still leaving today.
Fantastic!! Wonderfull work!!
Wonderful. Thank you very much. Love to the Irish people from the Netherlands ❤
Love the Dutch People !!!
This footage, both the original and the colourised versions, is an invaluable historical treasure.
This is how my Irish ancestors in Munster would have lived.
Thank you.
Well done. Especially finding the tune for the two girls singing!
Truly amazing to see. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video!
The buildings, houses, streets, clothing, wagons, way of life, all so well-built, strong, and clean, amazing! 🏆
Wow, priceless glimpses into the past.
The launching of the currach in the middle. Exactly what Paul Henry captured in his painting of the same name. Its in the Irish National Gallery. No red or green in his work as he was colourblind, just blues and browns. Thank you.
The Laughter, the music, how happy and free , one day soon may return 🇮🇪✝️❤️🙏☘️
The relentless grinding poverty that was Ireland until about the 1980s.
Wow the Aran Islands… pristine and clean. Amazing footage. Really special culture of people.
Great to see that. I was on holiday on a 3 week Irish language course a few times in the 60s, on Inis Thiar, the smallest Aran Island. Many of the men still dressed in a not too dissimilar fashion. I only saw the shawls on older women on Sundays going to Mass. Forever grateful to my father for sending us out there, even though, initially, I thought, what did we do to deserve that banishment.
@@frunomaol5069 Lovely!! My mother who lived on Inishmann for a short while, once said she always remembers the women wearing shawls in the west of Ireland ....Aran islands, Valentia island, etc.
@@frunomaol5069 reply below
@@frunomaol5069 Lovely!! My mum used to mention her memories of the women wearing shawls as a young child & the pony and traps to school. How beautiful!! Despite the hardship, what a lovely way of life..
Absolutely wonderful brilliant, thank you, its absolutely wonderful to see in to the past,
Incredible to see my ancestors alive.
Truly extraordinary. Thank you.
Great video as always thank you !! ❤
Irish women had the most beautiful shawls in those days, especially in Galway. Kept you warm and beautifully dressed. Those were made of wool. Meanwhile Irish linen was world renowned, very high quality.
Really good quality restoration and colorization 👍
This is a treasure. Thank you so much🧡
That’s wonderful you don’t see old film very much anymore. It tends to disintegrate modern technology can save it.
Спасибо большое за то, что сохранили историю! Вложено много труда, что бы мы могли не только увидеть, но и услышать тех людей, которые были до нас! Очень интересно! Благодарю!
Irish the most kind, pleasant and happy nation in Europe hence tuft history. Love them. Beautiful footage
Thank you so much for these amazing videos!
This is excellent and should be shared far&wide
Amazing like stepping back in time..Fantastic
I live in Ireland, and this is priceless!
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Awesome hearing Irish Gaelic it's quite a rare language that's magical to hear
This is amazing, thanks for sharing 🙂
Wow! That's amazing.
Adorable footage, thank you for uploading it.
That is a truly mind blowing restoration. Incredible detail.
My mum lived in Killarney and would have been 5 years old at the time.
Many thanks for sharing this!
Lovely to see the filming of Aran. Extreme weather I'm sure. Horse and trap would have been 2:00 very prevalent there...awww!!
❤ yes Indeed it is charming, and suite overwelming. Overwelming.
Just beautiful 💕
Thank you for doing this 🩷
Brilliant, thanks for sharing.. 👍
This was amazing ! Thank you for sharing this with us!❤❤❤
My late father was born in 1927 in West Cork, so this was nice to see. Thank you for uploading it.
A literal time machine.
I need to watch this while on 🍄🍄🍄 😋
These pictures are amazing !
I sit in sadness when I look at this video
I wish I knew a time and s people like these irish of old
Wonderful warm people
Beautiful.
This is a re-post from quite awhile back but I love seeing it again. My mother is from County Cork.
Aww looks like a very nice place and time to live...
1929. My grandma who is in heaven now, was 8 at that time. A little younger than these 2 girls singing. Amazing this ❤
Reminds me of going to my grandparents every year in An Clár and Gaillimh
fantastic , thank you
OMG Love it!
Thank you
Hxxx
Ireland looked beautiful back then.
It still is beautiful 💚🌿🍀🇮🇪
Apart from all the drugs and other crime. No comparison. @@elizabethwallace-donnelly.2356
@@elizabethwallace-donnelly.2356 Exactly!
It's beautiful now. We are still a fairly rural island and we've not spoilt it.
Pure brilliant document😍
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Amazing as always.
Amazing 👏 👍
In 1830 the British did an investigation into what was causing the weird accent developing in Australia 🇦🇺. They found it was the mixing of all the different accents from the UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪.
Probably the same in USA too............
@@branni6538Could be.
Fascinating and eerie
Nearly 70 years ago I had my first and only ride on a donkey cart. The donkey seemed so small compared to the size of the cart but they are very strong.
all speaking Irish too
Where DOES one find a Gaelic lip reader on a Wednesday night, anyway?
To gain independence only to lose our tongue? I'm honestly baffled as to how?
Because it's the west of Ireland, if this had been filmed in the Midlands, or east, they'd all be speaking English.
@@jimoil6372 Most had already lost it. This footage is from places like Clare and Kerry.
The Irish Free State (later Republic) was an English speaking nation from day one.
The big failure linguistically speaking was not stopping thousands emigrating from the Irish speaking areas of the west. Rather than teaching classes to beginners nationwide, the Gaelic League's priority should have been in the founding of co-ops owned by Irish speaking communities with Gaelic League members acting as go-betweens between them and the finest business minds in the country, thereby reducing reliance on English for prosperity in those communities, reducing emigration by providing work, and reducing the psychological association of Irish/Gaelic language and poverty. This was Seamas MacAodh's/James McHugh's proposal and many Gaelic League members at the time were interested, but the leaders of the League were older, more conservative, and wrongly seemed to believe that everything would be solved by teaching Irish in classes and in the education system.
Never heard spoken Irish Gaelic , melodic.
The very first shot has a red-headed person in green. Did not disappoint :P
Beautiful and terribly sad. We must go back.
They got the kerry accents bang on. Lovely video.
Wow , amazing footage
This is the time when, and the place where, my dear mother was born and raised. And I am watching this film on my laptop. Try to get your head round that timeline.
Heavly father my grandmother was 11 years old in rural FINLAND.
Wonderful. More, please.
So cool it blows my mind that they could record people before we had our first vehicle.
Fascinating thank you for sharing
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So very sad..not because the past was better, it was awful, harsh life. But sad for the utter loss in our precious country to the bribes, money men and the wicked, motorways, h m n traffickers... Thank you for this beautiful video ☘
Your insane if you think things have gotten better.
@@mikehemens9359 Did I say things had gotten better. No. "..for the utter loss in our precious country to the bribes, money men and the wicked, motorways, h m n traffickers... "
@@Beautiful_Sacred_Land sorry, good day!
i adore your channel please keep it going, when i am able to financially support you i absolutely will
Beautiful Ireland..
Great to see those old films
There was more change in the 50 years that followed this than in the 500 years that preceded.
That’s true for the entire world mate
Just love❣️✨
New sub.
Super 🔥
My mum lived on the Aran islands as a child in the 1930's..think it was Inishsheer. There was a storm and it flooded the downstairs of their house completely so they had to move. Moved to Clifton in Galway.
I am not sure why , but gave me goosebumps
I feel humble after watching this
Excellent stuff!