Brings tears to my eyes, this is the Ireland I grew up as a child, it was hard living but a great life, unfortunately it's almost gone and most of the people coming in don't care or aprichhate that hard working way of life, and it looks like they Irish politicians don't care about the past, good by Ireland
This brings back so many memories. When i moved back to Ireland after Uni in England, I stayed in a guesthouse in North Tipperary. The landlady's husband was an old farmer, similar to these brothers and lived "next door" in a kitchen that was like walking back in time. He was a quiet, hard-working man with little in the way of education, but much in the way of wisdom - and I spent many an evening chatting with him in front of his turf fire, not least because he could tell me of all the little things that happened in the locality back in the anglo-irish war. He had no interest in politics or religion, but "respected" both (or the power of both), his interest was confined to that and those around him. For him, the fight ended with the treaty, not because he agreed or disagreed with it, but because he could not accept Irishmen fighting each other..... and his views on the North were the same. RIP, Sonny.
Two characters from a sadly long gone way of life i grew up around rural folk like this and feel fortunate to have lived amongst people like these two Brothers
Loved to have meet these boys for era long gone so straight forward to understand listen to the true life stories common honest simple life antiques in modern world
There’s still a few of them around, I worked for an elderly husband and wife last winter and you could stay listening to their stories and humour all day long.
My god this was a beautiful video nice hearings to Irish men and to brothers great show.the best song was ever wrote .will my soul ever mass through old Ireland .my mother sang it alot her name was helen Bradley Byrne she sand always irish music she had two tapes out was one 8 track and one cassette it was called the road to dundee her tapes went to Ireland back in the 90es just by people visiting there We were told it was played in irish pubs she met Tommy makem my mother though he was number 1 in her time she passed a way 2005 .she would have love to been able to see this viedo she always wants to see Ireland but she never got there but i know her soul would have passed ireland when she died bring up her four children and her husband worked every day we were not well of .nobody was nabours anyone all that we all got food in are bella clothes on are back she also sand a lot of house partys and benefits concerts then when the for children were able to fend for themselves my mother went out work.i just told a little bit about my mother .she would have loved seen this video i really enjoyed it thank RUclips for letting people see this October 2020
Reminds me of my annual summer holiday treks, from England to Ireland as a wee boy to see my wonderful grandparents and farm in Co Clare throughout the 60'/70's, The close knit tiny village where people genuinely cared for each other and Ireland was a nicer place
This is brilliant. There was a similar documentary released in 1999 following Ernie Morrow and his brother Stewart from 1996 to 1998, up in the Glens of Antrim, called “Us Boys”. Two different parts of Ireland, but all Irishmen and a really similar life. Ernie and Stewart were “Scotch-Irish” (as Ernie describes it, their ancestors coming from Scotland with the plantation) and spoke real broad Ulster-Scots. But it’s class to see that this is a really similar documentary, but just in a different part of Ireland.
Yes, Robb, I remember that documentary so well. "US Boys" was beautifully filmed and it touched my soul. I recall how they still had their radio set to BBC Home (2) on mediumwave. It was an incredible and haunting documentary about the the Morrow brothers in the Antrim glens and their Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots) background. This documentary about the Butler brothers with that wonderful Comeragh Mountains accent from Waterford is so similar in many ways. As you observed, two sets of brothers from opposite ends of the island of Ireland, Antrim and Waterford, and captivating us in a manner that we will never see with the Twitter generation. Real people with no agendas. What a special generation of great people.
""I've just stumbled on this BEAUTIFUL -heart - wrenching - tear- jerking video. They could be my Ancestors from Belmullet in Co.Mayo- as this was the way my Father -@- Mother RIP was. Hard working - yet- full of Spirituality - Kindness- -#- Goodness. May those two BEAUTIFUL Brothers Paddy -@- Nicholas RIP. now walk carefree with their parents in God's Great Garden up yonder. They can plough the fields @- sow there seeds for our next generation. God Bless You Paddy -@- Nicholas-- your toiling days are over your now at PEACE"""--- ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚🙏🙏🙏🙏🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🧚🧚🧚
@Jim Halfpenny ""Thank u Jim -4- your lovely - informative- reply. Yes- they seemed a truly lovely - genuine - pair of Gentlemen. Sadly those kind of STRONG- men are a dying breed as they were STRONG IN MIND -@- BODY. My Parents RIP worked from dawn till dusk and reared -8- of us me being the youngest. Their parents same too Ploughing away and never a begrudging word to say about no one. God Bless You Jim and Go ráibh máith ágát -- BLESSINGS from Belmullet - down Mayo. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️💚💚💚
Stumbled across it myself just now. Two gas men. Their mother must have been a tough woman. We only seem to appreciate characters like this when they are gone. “You only miss the water when the well runs dry”
@@aidanmullally5459 ""Thank u Aidan- very well said. They were STRONG IRISH Men -@- women bk then. We are Blessed that we are Descendants from this THE REAL IRISH. God Bless You Aidan and your Family.""🙏🙏🙏☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚
Mary Kate , I loved your comments, & they are so very true . I’m lucky enough to remember ppl like this , salt of the earth , at their core was their faith which shone through. Sad that all those lovely Real ppl are gone now & will never be seen in this life again . We really need to cherish our old ppl & their stories ... God bless you & all your family ....
@@lydialily846 """Just read your beautiful reply Katie- -@- I thank u from my Heart. Yes- those Beautiful kind of ppl are rare. To Qoute the words of one of our great Poet's and Writers- W.B. YEATS--"""LOVE IS RARE- LIFE IS STRANGE- NOTHING LASTS -- AND-- PEOPLE CHANGE.""-- that surely is the old Ireland gone -@- this New Inhumane setting down roots. God Bless You Katie- and All Your Family."".🙏🙏🙏💚☘️🇮🇪
Man made virus will answer a lot of your questions. Scary times for the elderley and the sh!t care they are recieving kidnapped away from families who love them.
I am listening to this in Los Angeles County, California, June 2021. I can barely understand one out of five words they say, with their accent being so thick.
Reminds me of my two uncles who were from Co Cavan they lived on the farm where my mother grew up. They never married. We loved spending our summer holidays there.
I love this progamme, with the lovely Waterford accents, and the confusuion between Old time, and New time, I remember one year when we had double summertime,🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
They were from Coolnahorna (Cúil na hEorna) in the parish of Mothel, Co.Waterford at the foot of the Comeraghs - not far from Counshinghaun. Filming started in 1992 by photographer Richard Fitzgerald. Paddy died in 1998. Nicholas died in 2002. The programme ('Townlands - The Brothers') was broadcast on RTE1 in 2006. Quote " . . The women: since they got the motor-cars, you couldn't stop them now . . "
@@willy2k595 """If u can direct me -2- a - County in Ireland where I can find a ""MAN""-- like either if these -2- Beautiful - Spiritual I'll be astonished. I'm looking a Husband but the odds now at 36- it's an Illusion. Diá dháoibh Willy-- Béannácht -Léat"".🙏🙏🙏
Well they say the Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves Butler is of Norman origin Not that it matters i really enjoyed this God Bless them both 👍
Wexford was Viking. I see a Viking look to them, even in the language a Scandanavian lilt is there. Mayo and Galway was Norman land with families like, Burkes, Barrets, Costellos, Dillons etc.
@@MrResearcher122 normans landed in wexford in bannow bay and baginbun Your carrying a name of norman origin Yes vikings were in Dublin wexford waterford cork limerick
Had two uncles like them in co Clare. I remember when one of them passed away the other declined. I remember I once asked why he never married and he said " women are awful contrary " 😁
If one of them died in 1997 then obviously the recording could not have been done in 2006! The material must be at least 23 years old, probably more. My husband knew them, they lived not too far from here. And i met so many people like them down the years that watching and listening to them, it feels like listening to old friends of mine. Though i actually never met those two.
@@marypower1261 If you cared to watch part two it says at the end of the program 2006. They obviously made the program over time but it was edited in 2006.
Growing up in rural Ireland, I witnessed many bachelor men like this. There were many reasons for it. Like the one man said, “Working all the time on the farm, no time for girls.” And then there was isolation issues, lack of social interaction with the female sex...in school, ‘twas boys to boys and girls to girls and never the two should mingle...until courting time. For some, it was just too little too late. God bless them all and Rest In Peace...There but for the grace of God go I.
Brings tears to my eyes, this is the Ireland I grew up as a child, it was hard living but a great life, unfortunately it's almost gone and most of the people coming in don't care or aprichhate that hard working way of life, and it looks like they Irish politicians don't care about the past, good by Ireland
This brings back so many memories. When i moved back to Ireland after Uni in England, I stayed in a guesthouse in North Tipperary. The landlady's husband was an old farmer, similar to these brothers and lived "next door" in a kitchen that was like walking back in time. He was a quiet, hard-working man with little in the way of education, but much in the way of wisdom - and I spent many an evening chatting with him in front of his turf fire, not least because he could tell me of all the little things that happened in the locality back in the anglo-irish war. He had no interest in politics or religion, but "respected" both (or the power of both), his interest was confined to that and those around him. For him, the fight ended with the treaty, not because he agreed or disagreed with it, but because he could not accept Irishmen fighting each other..... and his views on the North were the same. RIP, Sonny.
Great pair of lads sadly the last of the brothers passed away in 2004. Rip chaps
Pro trick: you can watch movies at kaldroStream. I've been using them for watching loads of movies lately.
@Cash Alonzo yup, been using KaldroStream for months myself :D
Not sure how this got reccomended. ..but i loved that ...that was the most real thing I have ever watched ....so pure
Rest their souls, they were great men ,loved watching this, 👏🇨🇮♥️
Two characters from a sadly long gone way of life i grew up around rural folk like this and feel fortunate to have lived amongst people like these two Brothers
Purity and contentment. Beautiful to witness. Bring me back there 🦋
Brilliant footage! Love this! Best wishes from the Castlereagh hills of Belfast.
I love these guys! Thanks so much for this wee window into the past.
Loved to have meet these boys for era long gone so straight forward to understand listen to the true life stories common honest simple life antiques in modern world
There’s still a few of them around, I worked for an elderly husband and wife last winter and you could stay listening to their stories and humour all day long.
My god this was a beautiful video nice hearings to Irish men and to brothers great show.the best song was ever wrote .will my soul ever mass through old Ireland .my mother sang it alot her name was helen Bradley Byrne she sand always irish music she had two tapes out was one 8 track and one cassette it was called the road to dundee her tapes went to Ireland back in the 90es just by people visiting there
We were told it was played in irish pubs she met Tommy makem my mother though he was number 1 in her time she passed a way 2005 .she would have love to been able to see this viedo she always wants to see Ireland but she never got there but i know her soul would have passed ireland when she died bring up her four children and her husband worked every day we were not well of .nobody was nabours anyone all that we all got food in are bella clothes on are back she also sand a lot of house partys and benefits concerts then when the for children were able to fend for themselves my mother went out work.i just told a little bit about my mother .she would have loved seen this video i really enjoyed it thank RUclips for letting people see this October 2020
The Irish humor in life blessed people beautiful people
Never washed their hands - never had a cold 🤣
must be vacinated 2021........
and me granny smoked 40 a day till she was 90 you pleb
Enjoyable watch from South Carolina
Just love it, great characters, salt of the earth.
Reminds me of my annual summer holiday treks, from England to Ireland as a wee boy to see my wonderful grandparents and farm in Co Clare throughout the 60'/70's, The close knit tiny village where people genuinely cared for each other and Ireland was a nicer place
Count yourself very very lucky
Real men, we could do with more like them today, RESPECT.
ZZzAfi
Yep!
Now we have the trans woman. That's what I call progress.
I just want to sit and have a cup of tea with them boys..... Could listen to them for hours.
Love this.... Rip boys x
U just know wen one these guys goes..the other wont be long behind..very close the two of them, God bless them 🙏
I was just thinking that , it will a sad hard time for who ever is left , if they are still going now this video 4years old
He did say that the dog was more loyal than his brother so I’d say he had some bitterness towards his brother after the saga.
This is brilliant. There was a similar documentary released in 1999 following Ernie Morrow and his brother Stewart from 1996 to 1998, up in the Glens of Antrim, called “Us Boys”. Two different parts of Ireland, but all Irishmen and a really similar life. Ernie and Stewart were “Scotch-Irish” (as Ernie describes it, their ancestors coming from Scotland with the plantation) and spoke real broad Ulster-Scots. But it’s class to see that this is a really similar documentary, but just in a different part of Ireland.
Yes, Robb, I remember that documentary so well. "US Boys" was beautifully filmed and it touched my soul. I recall how they still had their radio set to BBC Home (2) on mediumwave. It was an incredible and haunting documentary about the the Morrow brothers in the Antrim glens and their Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots) background. This documentary about the Butler brothers with that wonderful Comeragh Mountains accent from Waterford is so similar in many ways. As you observed, two sets of brothers from opposite ends of the island of Ireland, Antrim and Waterford, and captivating us in a manner that we will never see with the Twitter generation. Real people with no agendas. What a special generation of great people.
""I've just stumbled on this BEAUTIFUL -heart - wrenching - tear- jerking video. They could be my Ancestors from Belmullet in Co.Mayo- as this was the way my Father -@- Mother RIP was. Hard working - yet- full of Spirituality - Kindness- -#- Goodness. May those two BEAUTIFUL Brothers Paddy -@- Nicholas RIP. now walk carefree with their parents in God's Great Garden up yonder. They can plough the fields @- sow there seeds for our next generation. God Bless You Paddy -@- Nicholas-- your toiling days are over your now at PEACE"""--- ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚🙏🙏🙏🙏🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🧚🧚🧚
@Jim Halfpenny ""Thank u Jim -4- your lovely - informative- reply. Yes- they seemed a truly lovely - genuine - pair of Gentlemen. Sadly those kind of STRONG- men are a dying breed as they were STRONG IN MIND -@- BODY. My Parents RIP worked from dawn till dusk and reared -8- of us me being the youngest. Their parents same too Ploughing away and never a begrudging word to say about no one. God Bless You Jim and Go ráibh máith ágát -- BLESSINGS from Belmullet - down Mayo. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️💚💚💚
Stumbled across it myself just now. Two gas men. Their mother must have been a tough woman. We only seem to appreciate characters like this when they are gone. “You only miss the water when the well runs dry”
@@aidanmullally5459 ""Thank u Aidan- very well said. They were STRONG IRISH Men -@- women bk then. We are Blessed that we are Descendants from this THE REAL IRISH. God Bless You Aidan and your Family.""🙏🙏🙏☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚
Mary Kate , I loved your comments, & they are so very true . I’m lucky enough to remember ppl like this , salt of the earth , at their core was their faith which shone through. Sad that all those lovely Real ppl are gone now & will never be seen in this life again . We really need to cherish our old ppl & their stories ... God bless you & all your family ....
@@lydialily846 """Just read your beautiful reply Katie- -@- I thank u from my Heart. Yes- those Beautiful kind of ppl are rare. To Qoute the words of one of our great Poet's and Writers- W.B. YEATS--"""LOVE IS RARE- LIFE IS STRANGE- NOTHING LASTS -- AND-- PEOPLE CHANGE.""-- that surely is the old Ireland gone -@- this New Inhumane setting down roots. God Bless You Katie- and All Your Family."".🙏🙏🙏💚☘️🇮🇪
Not many like these old boys left. Give their whole lives to the farm. Got to respect that.
Bring back memories
What about the pig trying to say one of the FARMER are her daughter trying to take the FARMER'S propertys of them
@@franoreilly7004amazing how she waited to pounce when her father died, it never crossed her mind to visit him when he was alive.
Where have all these people gone? When I was a child, they were so many, they seem to have vanished when I wasnt looking..
Man made virus will answer a lot of your questions. Scary times for the elderley and the sh!t care they are recieving kidnapped away from families who love them.
Hardworking men of integrity. Almost impossible to find such qualities today.
Don't generalise silly arse.
Your use of profanity suggests that you are unfamiliar with both hard work and integrity.@@stephenroche5107
@@mikekelly4222 Mike, there's always one.
Absolutely. Solid old school country men. Full of integrity and would never see anyone wrong.
@@johnobrien3780did you see part 2? One lad used to stray at night when the other lad thought he was still in bed beside him.
I am listening to this in Los Angeles County, California, June 2021. I can barely understand one out of five words they say, with their accent being so thick.
I'm Irish and I can only catch a few words they're saying🤣
Reminds me of my two uncles who were from Co Cavan they lived on the farm where my mother grew up. They never married. We loved spending our summer holidays there.
Two lovely gentleman God bless them
They remind me of grandfather Tom Kearney in the Nire Valley.A gentleman as well. RIP.
This video is golden my grandfather and grandmother had a great time watching it
Thank you so much for the upload wish there was more
Thank U! hope you watched part two Dylan.
@@johnniejukebox oh we did it was heartbreaking my family went true the same years ago
they seemed liked such nice guys and everything they talk about is interesting.
What two great souls hopefully they’re still around
See part 2
@@noramc3581 Watched it Nora very sad. Thanks for that
what articulate and likeable people
What a shame they don’t make them like this any more
I love this progamme, with the lovely Waterford accents, and the confusuion between Old time, and New time, I remember one year when we had double summertime,🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I love their speech patterns.
Love Irish people, from Brittany, never surrender
le moen Gweltaz ,lm
It's an awfal toof loife
We will never Surrender , " Ireland Unfree shall never be at peace "
They were from Coolnahorna (Cúil na hEorna) in the parish of Mothel, Co.Waterford at the foot of the Comeraghs - not far from Counshinghaun. Filming started in 1992 by photographer Richard Fitzgerald. Paddy died in 1998. Nicholas died in 2002. The programme ('Townlands - The Brothers') was broadcast on RTE1 in 2006. Quote " . . The women: since they got the motor-cars, you couldn't stop them now . . "
Up the deise
A Coffey i
What happened to the farm after ?
Is this accent still common? The Norman French influence is very apparent in the way they pronounce R.
Lovely old boys from an Essex man
Still one or two characters in Fermanagh just the same. I don't tinker with my clocks either.
Lovely people god bless them
Two True Legends.
Very few of those great characters left -"our traditions are fading.
Agreed 👍, it's a shame, free movement of EU will be the death of Ireland
@@derekobeirnes482 🥃🥃🥃🥃🇮🇪👌
Loads of these lads around now.
@@willy2k595 """If u can direct me -2- a - County in Ireland where I can find a ""MAN""-- like either if these -2- Beautiful - Spiritual I'll be astonished. I'm looking a Husband but the odds now at 36- it's an Illusion. Diá dháoibh Willy-- Béannácht -Léat"".🙏🙏🙏
@@marykategraham.205 You’re only a baby ! You are a beautiful young woman & should hav no trouble finding a husband ..
I tell you time's don't change it is the next generation that changes, one day soon we will go back
Love it,I'm a dairy farmer looking for a man rich enough so I can live like tha!
The old time hardy irish farming men rip men.
Would have likrd to have a pint and chat with these two lads!!☘
Thanks, great. Bits of it remind me of Love in Summer by William Trevor,hard but rewarding life.
Waterford sayings are suppose to be common here in my community of St. Marys bay Newfoundland Canada. "Like the fella said." and "I suppose".
RIP lads the world can't touch you any more.
Canna beat the. Old lads,, n dog wo lovily,, blessem,,, both,,,,xxx
@ Johnniejukebox this is a great channel......
Well they say the Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves
Butler is of Norman origin
Not that it matters i really enjoyed this
God Bless them both 👍
Notice the French throaty r had survived in their dialect. Incredible.
Wexford was Viking. I see a Viking look to them, even in the language a Scandanavian lilt is there. Mayo and Galway was Norman land with families like, Burkes, Barrets, Costellos, Dillons etc.
@@MrResearcher122 normans landed in wexford in bannow bay and baginbun
Your carrying a name of norman origin
Yes vikings were in Dublin wexford waterford cork limerick
Pure comedy gold, we have central heating now, we don't need women, and the motor cars too, ye couldn't keep up with them...LOL! Smart men boy...!
Brilliant
I would have enjoyed having a chat with these two.don't make them like this no more.
The same two boys would be the ones sat in the pub corner great boys dying brews such a shame RIP boys
Requiescat in Pace dear brothers 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🌹🌹💚🤍🧡🙏🙏🙏
Rip 👘 Tom
Great watch 🇮🇪👍
Do they have a whicker man to sure the harvest is good.
Good men God love them
Had two uncles like them in co Clare. I remember when one of them passed away the other declined. I remember I once asked why he never married and he said " women are awful contrary " 😁
My uncles to a T.
What, he declined to pass away? Is he still alive then!
@@raymomull2258 Not so much passed over, more just passed, on the suggestion too.
❤❤❤
Jeez he wasn’t wrong😂
The people who work to feed the country get very little of what they are worth.
Salt of the earth lovely men
Once bought a tractor and a hape of poteeen of deeez twooo
hardy work irish men right der a hole life on the farm jasus 🙏🙏🙏R I P
Im a New member USA N.Y.
We have known the days.....
It reminds me of a book called ,The Black Hills.
What year was this taken? Should post the year in the description for historical reasons later down the line
You should have watched part two! It was made in 2006. Paddy died in 1997 and Nicholas died in 2004.
If one of them died in 1997 then obviously the recording could not have been done in 2006! The material must be at least 23 years old, probably more. My husband knew them, they lived not too far from here. And i met so many people like them down the years that watching and listening to them, it feels like listening to old friends of mine. Though i actually never met those two.
@@marypower1261 If you cared to watch part two it says at the end of the program 2006. They obviously made the program over time but it was edited in 2006.
Part one was made around 92/93
@@bluegtturbo Exactly it was made over time and fully finished in 2006.
R.I.P Gentleman
rip boys xx
Class stuff
2 happy go lucky workmen doing there best (to survive)
Nicolas and paddys house is now a direct provision centre.
RIP lads.
Lies
Lies rasist
@@izzyisabelle4152 Ireland for the Irish.
Lovely
Good men
If you like this, try Hannah Hauxwell.
gentleman
Growing up in rural Ireland, I witnessed many bachelor men like this. There were many reasons for it. Like the one man said, “Working all the time on the farm, no time for girls.” And then there was isolation issues, lack of social interaction with the female sex...in school, ‘twas boys to boys and girls to girls and never the two should mingle...until courting time. For some, it was just too little too late. God bless them all and Rest In Peace...There but for the grace of God go I.
Me too - I knew several pairs of old men who lived and worked together. They were almost always close as Nicholas and Paddy.
@@bluegtturbo yes,my heart goes out to them
Bless
When men were men and no mobile phones in your day.
Brilliant, only spoiler desperately nieve camera work.
all the auld characters are gone
proto and not being replaced !
Apparently the dog was leading a double life too!
In a world of their own and their own local dialect in a bye gone erA
All I can say is there just to proper gentlemen
What’s the song @ 7:00 anybody?
The Sunny Side of Life - Carter Family.
Keep on The Sunny Side by the Whites. Was in movie Brother Where Art Thou.
where are these chaps from just asking
Waterford
Oh be God.
Could do with hard-copied subtitles!
That poor man needed some neosporin under that nose in a bad way..that had to hurt .
They Interupt each other more often than Jedward....
Gowt.
They are very good friends for to borthers martin flaherty.
almost need subtitles
I understand every word
Try listening
A lovely heavy waterford accent
It’s a possibility we’re related I’m irish and my name is butler
Sounds like OP version Shakespeare.
Good poragane
Imagine how good it would have been if the stupid fuckin music didnt drown it out
Not married then that's ok it's not for everyone
Your man nicholas is a scary lookin man
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vacinate them highly vulnerable