The Ancient Irish Art of Door Dancing, 1981
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2021
- Josie McDermott, the blind traditional Irish musician from Roscommon explains the tradition of door dancing.
In Ireland long ago it was customary when groups of people worked together, as a ‘Meitheal’ to dig potatoes or save hay, that they would gather after a day’s work to relax and have a dance.
A solo dancer dances on a door and tries not to spill the water in the four glasses which are placed around the edge of the door.
These gatherings took place in traditional Irish cottages with mud floors and flagstones. A door was taken off its hinges to provide a flat surface for dancing. Solo set dancers were asked to dance on the doors as the skill of the dancer is best shown by how well they can produce the variety of steps within the narrow confines of the dance surface. In order to gauge the best dancer amongst a group of solo dancers, they placed four glasses on the corners of the door to help determine the most skilled dancer. The person to spill the least amount of water was the winner of the competition.
The custom has been revived at the O’Carolan Festival in Keadue, Roscommon where male dancers take to the ‘door’ to demonstrate their solo dancing prowess. Josie McDermott and a fellow musician provide the flute music.
This episode of ‘Hand Me Down’ was broadcast on 11 May 1981. The presenter is Doireann Ní Bhriain,
This episode of ‘Hand Me Down’ provided a profile on the blind flute player, composer and singer Josie McDermott (1925-1992) from O’Carolans Country. He lost his sight in the 1960s and lived as a blind man for thirty years. He was a versatile musician and continued to play a wide range of instruments until his death. 
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Lol looks like something you'd invent one night at a house party at 6 in the morning after wrecking the gaff.
That's most likely how it was invented 😂
Love it, lol.
I'll have four crates of Heineken, three crates of Guinness, a bottle of Vodka and two doors please. Oh yeah I nearly forgot, can I get a packet of those hinges there as well please.
@@joebyrne5277 Couldn't help but notice... " Joe Byrne "?
Wasn't he part of the Kelly gang?
@@Lee-nh5bb that's right!
You'd have to be fairly hammered to come up with this, oh yeah they were
These dancers are definitely unhinged
Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙 🤙
I see what you did there.
HNNNNG
Very punny!
They're spilling far too much water - put Guinness into the glasses and they won't spill a drop 😂
Came for the Guinness comment, not disappointed....👍
Deadly
I see an old tradition where family and community gathered to enjoy themselves using their own entertainment rather than being herded by social media, staring at their mobile phones. . I see the pride of the dancers carrying the flame of their ancestors.
Well said.
It reminds me of the film "Dancing at Lughnasa".
I see someone's great great ancestor getting feckin drunk and having a blast with some furniture lol
Exactly right. This is how any actual culture is formed, through the eccentricities of certain people socializing with each other.
God Bless the Irish - strangely, they’ve produced some of the greatest minds, in several key disciplines, upon this planet! Yet, they could still “invent” this sort of play!
I’m very proud of my Ulster heritage. I was conceived in Belfast, but born in Canada to immigrant parents back in the 1950’s. Mom was a from a very well off family from Ireland proper (the south) Dad was from very poor Belfast roots, but was bright enough to win a part scholarship to study medicine at Trinity in Dublin. I’ve been to Ireland several times, both Belfast and Dublin and I still have the orange sash dad had me wear on my birthday, July 12th (not kidding!)
Oh, what a tangled web was woven for me by my parents! Dam good thing I was raised in Canada!
Peace
You have a Brilliant heritage from a very old people, Pity the Globalist cabal has installed a puppet regime in Dublin. I once met Oliver Reed in a Pub in Cork, about 8 years before he passed and he said to me, "The Irish are the only real people left"
PS, hope the tyranny ends in Canada soon from the forced gene therapy and illegal house arrests.
Ireland proper? Shut the fuck up
When SHAWS (almost nationwide) were the only clothes distributors in Ireland...)
This is now officially my favorite thing on the internet. 😂☘
I'd have thought the guy who spills the MOST water, gave the BEST Most Energetic Performance! Re-write those rules!!! : )
The musicians here are the late Josie McDermott and (I think) it maybe Peg McGrath who left us all too soon.
Correction May Baxter is the other flute player.
How did you know?
@@TheBony45 I knew Josie McDermott ...He used to stay sometimes at my Uncle's house when he came to Dublin...I also remember vividly the color of his fingers from smoking cigarettes. He was one of the great traditional flute players and composed many Irish reels, jigs & hornpipes...Josie was completely blind.
If you sync the video with the sound of The Doors singing "Backdoor Man" it is amazing that you will have wasted 10 minutes that you will never get back
Days that will never be seen again, thanks leo
Don't worry, he's just a dog on the leash.
I'm Irish and I've never heard of this, looks like something monty python would come up with.
You are either, not Irish, or not fooling anyone.
your probably a yank.
I'm Brazilian, been to Dublin for a single month and I know about door dancers.
Live was more fun without the internet.
I can guarantee you that it wasn’t water - except the dew of a resident distillery that prompted such talented care in performance of such dexterity!😆😂🤣❤️😘😍
love this kind of dance . AMAZING 💝
I've seen this played lots of times in Kerry in the 1970's. What many don't know about this is that after enough drink is taken by all, the next part is to see who can open the door without spilling the water.
The man's fit so he is.
Nice video , great people ,
this is where the origins of clogging in the usa come from when irish and scotish folk emigrated to the usa
If you want to see dancing at it's very best look up "Sean Nós Dancing" here on YT...
Pity we couldn’t bring back them days. Simple times ,, lives ,,world back then☘️
yeah, forget Eurovision lol
Class Ty for sharing
If this is door dancing the mind boggles at what they'd do if someone mentioned tap dancing.
I remember seeing the door dancing in Keadue as a child. Brilliant stuff 👍👏
That's mind blowing!
Wow! Fascinating
This was quite an unexpected RUclips recommendation.
Take it up a level - Rotating Door Dancing! Now that's a spectator sport waiting to be realised.
The long winter evenings must fly past...
Rare sighting of a left handed flute
The key to this is don't get locked as everything hinges on Ballance.
(Get it?)
Better than my 'knock knock' jokes...
I don't think I could handle it
I adore this type of thing.
Very cool. Thank you RUclips.
So nice to see how every single country has its own individual dancing traditions.
Could not make it up simply brill 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Father Ted Crilly just out of shot...
FEK! ARSE! DRINK!
Loved farther ted.
Spider baby!
@@janicekrieger1922 how can you tell?
@@unclejoeoakland ; “Spider Baby, it’s got the body of a spider but the mind of a baby...and eh...and it couldn’t really bite ye unless it got a bit older.”
Monty Python: Ministry of Door Dancing.
The evenings must fly by
Hahaha... My grandfather, if he wasn't on the "squeeze box" or blasting his lungs out singing 😂
This seems more like a fun game rather than an artform but still looks pretty fun!
Appalachian buck dancing! Never heard of the glasses of water thing though.
Damn!!! I JUST DISCOVERED A "NEW" DRINKING GAME!!!! 😁
I have far too strong a suspicion that the rules weren't quiet so clear cut :P I strongly suspect that spilling all the water without KNOCKING them over is what won ya the contest ;)
The happy smile on the face of that first fella defo looked like he had been at the Guinness lol
What tou mean DONT spill the water. Gwt it ALL out boy. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Back when they were too poor to have a floor and it was literally earth. Didn't even have the money or time to put down rushes.
Not smart...or nice...They may have been poor but I can guarantee you they were a lot happier than most of the young people of today....and yes they did have floors to dance on...This type of entertainment was looked down on by the clergy at the time who banned house dancing so they could set up their own way of making money by building what was known as Parish Dance Halls...and charging money for people to meet & dance to mostly American / British Pop Music..
Glasses of water... Damn right.😆 No way the Irish risking the precious!😂🍻☘
Aside from dancing there are other benefits of always having your front door with you:
1) You can catch anyone trying to break in
2) You can catch porch pirates
3) The delivery driver will carefully place your TV instead of throwing it from the curb
4) If you're camping in the wilderness and a bear comes along, you can dive into your house and lock the door
Interesting to hear an Irish word in the commentary - “‘twas easy to take the door down, it was only on the buckawns (bacáin)”
Also called a hinge.. I think
My parents were from limerick and Clare and even though I was born in London “ ‘twas” is a word I always used and still do .
@@dianaconnors4700 Im pretty sure Padraic was referring to the word buckawns, not 'twas
@@blahblahblahblah2837 ......whatever 🤷🏻♀️TWAS my mistake 😳😳
@@dianaconnors4700 Fair play hahah
This entertainment beats Netflix any day.
Now you don’t know but it was to straighten the doors after winter, the water was to soften the boards and the dancer just a little fun, now yay didn’t know that did ya
Wow
Ok internet. I am effin DONE! Hello outside world. 🌞
You can see where US Hill Billy dancing came from .
Is this an outtake from Brass Eye?
I see they put slices of lemon in the water jug .That surely makes a difference to water displacement .( lol )
Now that I understand it, it makes sense.
Is this where the expression, "Show this man the door" came from lol
Maybe we should revive door dancing, with this economic downturn mobile phones will not last forever. We need entertainment.
No have to be burning the wooden doors for firewood since the economic downturn just have to dance around to keep warm too.
I don't think a pint of Guinness Will be left bouncing.
Every drop is precious.
I can see it in the nightclubs now, people bringing their own designer doors
Hi Trump. Pog ma Hon, Laddie!
Top 'o the Morning to ya!
I brought a car door.
Is that ok?
im gonna go ahead and assume copious amounts of alcohol must have been involved when they came up with it...
There is in fact a female version of this dance except they use half pint glasses instead and add a little drop of blackcurrent.
Only the Irish could come up with this. Are paddy yoo danced the door knob off tonight to be sure to be sure!
it's just like normal dancing but on a door! I get it.
Suddenly understand why she didn't want to share the door at the end of Titanic.
If they had put four glasses of whiskey, not a drop would have spilled! :D
“That’s a lovely bit of artistry, skill and heritage...
...BUT CAN YOU PUT MY DOOR BACK ON MY HOUSE?!? “
Just writing some fan fic...
Anyone know that flute song? Can’t find it anywhere 😳😎
Fun thing to do at a oarty
This is why Irish houses are so cold, the doors are either used for dancing on or shooting through.
The Irish have the coolest accents.
What do you think is the key to his success
Socially distanced too!
Did the door have to be locked or unlocked?
*This is from a sketch show, right?!*
Oh, I have a beetle in my shoes!
Would like to see him trying it , if the door was hanging on its hinges 😁
I was praying that nobody outside of this island would ever see this. Foiled again!
The Doors.
From the thumbnail, I thought for a minute that Anderson Cooper took up door dancing.
Let that girl dance! 1:02
Is the accent of the narrator an east Galway accent?
No a Roscommon accent..I think it's the voice of the flute player the late Josie Mac Dermott. Josie was considered one of the best flute players in the country. He was unsighted and the composer of many times.
Thanks
My father’s family came from near Moore in South Roscommon. The accent sounded familiar.
Somewhat cold in winter with front door off
Make them pints of stout and there would not be a drop spilled so there wouldn't
A ruky má načo?
Is this old-fashioned tinder and if you don't spill the water.
Mary MARY... Get the feckin mop.
I have seen this in the kingdom of kerry i was amazed but never said anything incase your man took a fence 😉
Fracking banjos I tell ye
Feck it I'm off to Wickes.
Where the term "Door Dasher" came from!
The door is warped because of the amount of water spilt on it.
I would say it is the direction "out from the pub" which gets bumped into statistically more often than "into the pub" but that is just my theory ;)
we are all death now
Fill whisky in those glasses and they won't even make a ripple :D
Its better if you do it holding a couple of shopping bags.
"Hey, WTF, get off my damn door. Who is this a-hole?"
That’s really unhinged.
Also known as "Stubbed my Toe" dancing.
Jesco White....
The dancing outlaw.