A Self Sufficient Farm, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland 1979

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  • Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
  • A look at the life of a self-sufficient farming family in Co. Fermanagh.
    The Mullholland family live a completely self sufficient existence on their farm in Fermanagh and the stone quarry which has been in use for at least 400 years. Benedict Kiely describes the landscape and the life of the Mullholland family. From a family of ten, four brothers and two sisters remained on the farm. Self-containment and self-sufficiency are two of the chief marks of the Mullholland farm. They produce their own poultry, cattle, butter, eggs, and turf. The Mullhollands have stuck to traditional farming methods.

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  • @dellhell8842
    @dellhell8842 3 года назад +60

    The narrator is Benedict Kiely, from Dromore, Co. Tyrone, and owner the greatest story telling voice I've ever heard. He was a regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany in RTE Radio 1 on Sunday mornings in the 1970s. One of the sounds of my childhood.

    • @johnnielson7676
      @johnnielson7676 3 года назад +4

      And he was a great author as well

    • @chrismccormack2064
      @chrismccormack2064 2 года назад +4

      The full episode of this "hands" documentary series is available on youtube

    • @Bdoc76
      @Bdoc76 Год назад +1

      ​@@chrismccormack2064What a fantastic show that was.

  • @MyFoxworld
    @MyFoxworld 3 года назад +29

    I was lucky enough to have grown up having a grandmother and a next door neighbour that both made butter, plus homemade soda bread, boxty. A dozen or so hens and geese and ducks where we would take the fresh eggs to the shop to sell.

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland 3 года назад +38

    If only we could go back in time. I think I’ll stay there for good.

    • @Blackfyre741
      @Blackfyre741 3 года назад +3

      Some people still live similar to this in ireland

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 3 года назад +2

      I love your use of words, it is poetry at its ver best, If only we could go back in time. I think I’ll stay there for good.

    • @JosephE-yd6ks
      @JosephE-yd6ks 3 года назад +5

      Far away hills are greener. A lot of not so nice things went on that you don't see here! Everywhere looks nice when you're getting a quick snapshot

    • @JosephE-yd6ks
      @JosephE-yd6ks 3 года назад

      @@Blackfyre741 Few if any

    • @libertybell-o2k
      @libertybell-o2k 3 года назад

      @@JosephE-yd6ks Looking back on a very hard way of life through rose-tinted glasses, whilst conveniently overlooking the no-so-good side of it!

  • @Joe-B1
    @Joe-B1 2 года назад +6

    Loved watching this. These people had nothing, yet they had everything. How times have changed and not for the better either.

  • @zenden6584
    @zenden6584 3 года назад +21

    Love these old clips could watch them all day .

  • @benji.B-side
    @benji.B-side 3 года назад +30

    Not an easy life but a one of contentment, without distraction of the quite soulless, modern day consumerism life.

  • @stephensmith4480
    @stephensmith4480 3 года назад +8

    A Beautiful part of the World, I have been fortunate to have visited Co Fermanagh many times in the 80s.

  • @cormacbrowne9571
    @cormacbrowne9571 3 года назад +18

    From the great series 'Hands'.

  • @marydonohoe8200
    @marydonohoe8200 3 года назад +5

    This was a priceless six minutes. Thank you.

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 3 года назад +6

    What a stunning beautiful way to tell the story of the Maolchalann farming family, listening to the spoken words is like watching your most favorite film of times when you were just a child and was running free in the green lands of home

    • @movinon1242
      @movinon1242 2 года назад +1

      Maol - Mull
      chal - holl
      ann - an(d)

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 2 года назад

      Theres a full documentary on youtube that this clip is from, the name is handy documentary fermanagh scythe stone

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 2 года назад

      "Hands: fermanagh county"

  • @nj2205
    @nj2205 3 года назад +23

    Where did those beautiful days disappear!
    life nowadays is very complex and difficult, there is no sense of simplicity and goodness among people, our life today is full of suffering and hypocrisy.

    • @Discover-Ireland
      @Discover-Ireland 3 года назад +5

      I was thinking the same things.

    • @polki1482
      @polki1482 3 года назад +5

      I still live very similar to this only real difference Ive a smart phone in my hand ,live your life as you wish.

    • @nj2205
      @nj2205 3 года назад +4

      @@polki1482
      Believe it or not a lots of people dreaming about having this Lifestyle, simplicity, nature...
      And even if you take a look at these modern fashion and health magazines, it's all about living around nature organic food fresh milk... meditation.
      So it's a blessing to have this,
      Keep it that way.
      Have a peaceful day :)

    • @seirbhiseach
      @seirbhiseach 3 года назад +5

      So many tell me when I say I'd like a life like this that it's a hard one, but I'd rather a simple and hard life than a complex and sedentary one. Seems like you're more alive being worked to the bone than you are living till you die as a couch creature

  • @DashDrones
    @DashDrones 3 года назад +24

    Now this is interesting history.

  • @Torontokid
    @Torontokid 2 года назад +13

    A farmer's wife has as much skill as the farmer in the field. A true partnership.

  • @JDLeonard74
    @JDLeonard74 3 года назад +8

    Oh, that butter would go nice on a big ear 🌽 of heirloom corn.
    I used to go out into my grandparents garden with a salt shaker once in a while,, and pull up a turnip when I was about 10 or 11 years old. After taking it up to the garden hose for a rinse of course.

  • @turloughkennedy6579
    @turloughkennedy6579 3 года назад +23

    The full documentary is on RUclips. A beautiful film

    • @24tommy109
      @24tommy109 2 года назад +3

      Whats the name?

    • @aaronrider4051
      @aaronrider4051 2 года назад

      @@24tommy109 aye, anyone know?

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 2 года назад

      Name is: Hands documentary sycthe stone

    • @MrChristopher42
      @MrChristopher42 2 года назад

      @@24tommy109 "hands: fermanagh County"
      The whole hands documentary series is well worth watching, as is eamon mqc Thomas documentaries on youtube

  • @kcahill2777
    @kcahill2777 3 года назад +6

    Great video, really interesting, keep them coming

  • @edmundpower1250
    @edmundpower1250 2 года назад

    Brilliant piece of film

  • @pauldurkee4764
    @pauldurkee4764 2 года назад

    What a lovely way of life, give me that life any day, to modern life living in a city, its hell.

  • @maxpower1337
    @maxpower1337 7 месяцев назад

    Great land up there.

  • @rob_jarvis
    @rob_jarvis 3 года назад +11

    Buy full fat cream and keep mixing it with a blender it'll split and you'll have butter like that just and a small bit of salt

  • @shill700
    @shill700 3 года назад +5

    this is a clip from one of the 'Hands' series from RTE.

  • @Shcreamingreen
    @Shcreamingreen 3 года назад +11

    I would like to know how are they doing now.

  • @neilbriffa7211
    @neilbriffa7211 Год назад

    Vast green pastureland for sheep,cattle,goats n fertile fields❤❤❤ in ulster

  • @qasaaye23
    @qasaaye23 2 года назад

    wonderful!

  • @borderlord7562
    @borderlord7562 3 года назад +1

    The way life should be

  • @JohnDoe-jn3es
    @JohnDoe-jn3es 3 года назад +2

    EXAMPLE OF PAST WELL DONE

  • @johncunnane1582
    @johncunnane1582 Год назад

    different world back then

  • @paudsmcmack3117
    @paudsmcmack3117 2 года назад +1

    My neighbours are still living the same way today.

  • @batmanb8194
    @batmanb8194 3 года назад

    now what does she cook with that?

  • @judymanning2538
    @judymanning2538 3 года назад +2

    ❤❤ for the algorithm ❤❤

  • @Sonia76373
    @Sonia76373 2 года назад

    This is where the hippies of mayo should have done a crash course!

  • @Hooftimmer
    @Hooftimmer 3 года назад +3

    I wonder if her cream was sweet or clabbered.

  • @RosaleenOwens-e4t
    @RosaleenOwens-e4t Год назад

    Old videos of tempo

  • @787maggie
    @787maggie 3 года назад +1

    Did I hear a cuckoo?