Hands: Dublin's Workhorses
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2017
- RTÉ documentary series exploring the craft traditions of Ireland. hands.ie/
A look at the lives of some of the last of Dublin's working horses, and the associated trades - farrier, harness maker, etc.
Locations include Moore Street & Smithfield markets.
Narrated by Éamonn Mac Thomáis.
Filmed in 1983.
Very lovely. This is the life I wish we still lived.
Same here
Very kind and good of you to upload all these fantastic videos, it keeps our heritage alive, thank you 🙏
As a child in Sydney (Aust.) '58/9
I remember the ice man coming tuesdays and thursdays, his horse stopping in front of the house, then the iceman bringing
in the block for the icebox.
It seems the horses were treated very well, which is nice to see!🐴
jake i had to like your comment as i believe animals are an extended family member to human beings mo cara (irish gaelic for my friend) Godbless!! :)
@@thejiggitygiggity90 also a wonderful comment ❤️
It's crazy to think that this is 1983. It's not a huge amount of time ago but Ireland has changed so much really since the mid 90s becoming the Ireland as we know now. Perhaps not as well off when this was filmed but a wonderful magical easier going time.
What a lot of respect we owe to the blacksmith. And to the horses that served us so well. Thank you for this film. It is an eye-opener to a culture that gives honour to whom honour is due. Man and horse.
They say a man's best friend is a dog.
But they don't measure energy in "Dog-Power"
i love me horse before me dog.
I haven’t heard that accent since I was a little girl! My great grandfather was born in Dublin, came to US in 1928. He passed in 1964 when I was age 12.
So sad to see this side of Dublin gone. So much for poxy progress!
Id sit listening to that chap talk for the whole day , I'm a Dub in exile lol
The guy doing the voice over is Dublin Historian the Late Èamon MacThomais
I loved listening to the horse during the night and I'd run to the window and look out.
Hands was a fantastic series. The farrier, jimmy Harding, used to shoe the horses for my father. He was such a respectable man. A real old fashioned Dubliner
I was just thinking, the narrator has a great Dublin accent, without being common as muck.
Chris Clark it’s what is known as “ an auld fashioned” dublin accent. Far softer and far better pronunciation than the dumb sounding monotoned aggressive sounding accent that Dubliners have today
Is there differing accents throughout Dublin? Like a West or South, North and such? I’m Canadian, but my whole family from my Grandpa come from Ireland, I’m certain it’s Dublin. I’ve always been interested in Irish, and their language. Thanks for posting.
@@humblehombre9904 Yes they do vary from place to place .
Watching Hands is like eating the most nourishing food. It's a fabulous, wonderful archive.
Interesting - and I loved the narrator for this. So amiable sounding!
Appsaluty amazing 👏 thanks for this
Makes me so proud to be irish 🇮🇪💯🙏
I'm so proud of my country too but all 32 counties of it tho drugs are a major problem in this nation, gotta get rid of that nonsense off the island get people jobs and further more united the north and south and catholic protestant and muslim jew gay str8 black white old and young and rich and poor unite the nation and the people create new manual jobs instead of office jobs and get rid of the drugs problem, i don't mind cannabis and alcohol but thats it nothing more we don't want to turn our people into zombies like america, also solve the hunger and homelessness problem particularly in the capital dublin and 2nd city belfast, do all that and you'd be so proud of this nation we can do it i know we can godbless mo cara!
Loving you from rural Queensland.
Lovely footage. I could listen to Eamonn's voice all day.
Thanks for putting this up.
pure gold!☺️
ENJOYED THAT
Great thanks for posting this
Outstanding, what a joy to watch!
A that,s a Dublin accent that is dieing out real fast, this stuff is gold, my uncle is the guy who mix the sound for all the HANDS series. I wish I had known him a lot better , I have hundreds of questions I would have loved to ask him, he did alot of the sound mixing for mostly Irish nature programmes with eamon de butlier , and a few small films, eat the peach , I think it was called or something like that. That's all I really know about as I have no other relatives to talk about this situation..
He sounds like joe Duffy..
I love Ireland and there accents but never been there!
Both hands and Éamonn de buitléirs programmes are forever golden in my childhood... Such stillness and beauty in them, gosh the sounds of EDB were part of my childhood Sunday evenings god bless your uncle 🙂
Dublin doesn't make men like this anymore more's the pity
belfasts the same sure half of the old sayings that used to be said even in the 90s are no longer said by people its all mandem n blood n nonsense like that being said
beautifull, just beautifull, thank you for this post, love horses and mules, so sad the last horses in my city are going out of bussines because our city has no patience for this slow moving and noble animals thanks and greeting from Guadalajara in Mexico.
It's good to hear that these videos are of interest to people from across the world.
love this series, I enjoyed seeing horses and carriages in Dublin when I was there last summer, couldn't catch one for a ride, they always had people on board. My Granddad was born in Ireland, his father was a coachman, I grew up on a farm with horses and ponies, the work horses had been replaced by a tractor, but the horse barn still stands today, with the harnesses still on the wall.
It is a good video and the blacksmith is a good one and it's interesting for kids..and. Grown-up s
We have them passing the house when the dead take there final journey we English black but from the African nations white!
Really enjoyed this video especially the saddlers as I have a palm iron and clamp given to me by a retired saddler years ago and it's lovely to see how they were used. Thanks again.
I've saved all these fine programmes, my Gran was from Ireland and apparently she and her family was all over . I can hear her voice in these programmes , her my grandad and mother , it's a privilege.
👍🇬🇧
Can remember when I was A kid growing up in Australia and the local milky (milk man) driving the streets with his drought horse.The kids would come out to pat the horse and the neighbour who was a gardener coming out with his shovel to spread the horses droppings on his garden
Well rotted horse manure, nothing better for potatoes and roses!
I am enjoying this series so much. Thank you very much for posting this.
I enjoy this series very much and learn a lot too!
Without the horse, man’s history would be rewritten.
A most noble, forgiving animal obeying his bridle willingly.
"Horse Power."...
Fantastic
I really enjoyed it thank you
Im 39 and remember the coal getting delivered by horse in kilbarrack,,,brilliant stuff these videos
Gerald Kelly what do they shout when they’re going about with their horses with the coal on the back
@@eoghanmacdonald7265 he's just saying coal. But the accent is breaking the word up. Co Al :)
Irish know-how in all areas of life BRAVO !! 👏👏👏 Greeting from north Africa
An interesting video...thank you...
Oh grandpa take me back to the good old days, when boys where boys and men where men 🇮🇪
well boys are still boys and men are still men we just gotta share the world now lol
Wow...just wow
I was totally entranced and captivated by thi for several repeat viewings despite this was my time nad I saw most of this especially butnot exclusively outside of Dublin. I just feel privileged (now) that I got to experience all this. Truly what an honour ...makes you realise money doesn't mean shit
Thank you for sharing so many great video's love them all....
Great documentary 💯😊
Brilliant video!! Wonderful!! Thank you for the upload!
Mr Harding was a nice man and a great blacksmith . I used to get my hoese shawed there, everybody went to Harding really. Good old days, most of the city horsey men are dead now, all great men. Poor times remembered . My Da heald me and all the kid's over the Tar barrels if we had coughs of any kind, the hooping cough was the worst. If a road was being layer down many a tar barrel was there. I was one of the people's home remedies. The 60s in Dublin Ireland. 🎄👊☘️
I just watched a vid of CR's video vaults and there was a blacksmith from 1966 who was talking about the trade dying out. So this guy was doing well to survive into the 80's
Loved that 👍🏻
Thanks for this absolutely fantastic video. What a beautiful insight into bygone Dublin and craftsmanship. There's such a beautiful resonance of working class throughout this. I'm sure there were some beautiful people at the times whose attributes live on in their children and people who knew them.
The working class and others were good natured people back then. There is still some people today like them.
I have been watching a lot of your videos and I really appreciate you uploading these!! Thanks!!
I'm glad you've been enjoying them.
JKP Ranc
@@snadhghus is all high quality stuff.
Really nice, I wish there was more of this kind
Visiting my relatives in Clontarf, Dublin many years ago I remember milk being delivered to the front door via a horse drawn
carriage full of milk pales. Milk was ladled from the pales into household jugs. No doubt the health inspector would not approve of this practice if attempted today. Thank you for your informative video.
Back in 1964, I was nine years old living in Artane. I had a Saturday job selling fruit and veg from a horse drawn cart. The greengrocer had a smallholding opposite St. Bridgets convent school.
It was a great job and I was paid ten shillings for the day.
I have great memories of that time.
love these kinds of videos, subscribed!
Wonderful to see such im feel like I'm sweept back in time thank you for sharing these videos with us.Charles E.Huggins Jr
Thank you for this interesting footage on Harness Making. My G grand Dad and his father before him were harness makers in Kerry in early and late 19th Century. I wonder where they would have learned that specific trade. At the turn of the 20th C. it was seen by some that the horse was being consigned to history and replaced with bicycle and car so the trade died in many families.
September 4, 2020
Thank you.
Beautiful
My farrier comes every 5 weeks and my horses love him. My son is a blacksmith not a farrier. My uncle was a blacksmith and a farrier. It's a common belief that all blacksmiths are farriers but they aren't. i love these films. Thank you.
I worked as a kid on one of those milk carts in Rathmines.
a joy to watch thanks for sharing them I will hit the subcribe button so I can see more . my grand father and my father God rest them were both black smiths and farriers back before the tractor took over my father was born in 1908 he was lucky to get work from a local bloke making up hay barns at the forge when there was not as much work shoeing horses he later went to work full time at the steel mills shoeing horses of a Saturday or in the evening . he embraced technology and owned the first electric hand drill around a big strong wolf with no clutch I used it myself to drill pillars for sheds it would hurt you if you were not careful its still going strong but not used much now as its slow to drill he also bought a oil cooled triangle welder its still going strong and has a lot of work done . I live in the country side and I only ever saw one horse to come to the local little creamery and one ass and car I started school in 74 so there were nearly gone at that stage the tractors going to the creamery were all small a massey fergson 65 would be the biggest I can remember or a david brown 880 no body had a cab or even a roll bar I remember the law being passed when they came in . God be with the days nearly all them men that I used to see going to the creamery are dead and gone by now .
Beautiful! Thanks for posting these👍
Man, that woman wasnt gonna give that gentleman one slice of breads worth of butter too much.
We were nothing with out the horse we owe these beautiful creatures everything ! I home rescue horses coloured cobs that no one wants big respect to these working animals .
great show, thank you.
I'm almost sure that the blacksmith's at the start was on a lane off Pleasants Street (the lane seems to be nameless on Google maps- between Sova Vegan Butcher and Olympic House). It was sold, with a house on Pleasants Lane, around 2012 or so. I viewed the house and forge (as it was called in the agent's description) and got some very atmospheric photos of the interior. There were still tools lying around and horseshoes lining the walls. Allegedly where the Guinness horses were shod, though that might just have been agent's guff. Still unrefurbished or redeveloped, so the interior might be unchanged since the sale.
You are correct. It was called pleasant lane. Jimmy Harding was the blacksmith
'Vegan butcher' now there's an oxymoron for the ages
That blacksmith is probably the toughest man in Dublin. Not a wasted movement.
Times change not always for the better
@Barry Kelly You fuck off... Crack Head !
Class👍
Brilliant video
Excellent, thank you.
When ppl were craftsmen and time was your friend.
Now i know why these products are so expensive, all the time and work involved!
Back in a time when postmen actually delivered letters.
They still do ...!
@@jredmondscaffthey deliver junk now I'm afraid. Bills and publicity post. Nobody writes letters anymore 😢
This was good vibes
When I was a kid sale in news papers after school going by all these little shops sad to say i would just walk by not bothered to look at all the work these man women working. now there office blocks apartments love to go back in time no mobile phones and yeah everyone new were everyone were 2020 different world
This is awesome, thank you for uploading... wish times still had this kind simplicity to them. Do you know what year this is from?
It was made in 1983.
@@snadhghus I was thinkin late 70s early 80s
Plenty of Fiat 127's around the place. . Great stuff
its amazing how much of this stuff is lost knowledge in the usa the craft traditions of the ozarks and various areas are lost knowledge that needs to be regained
My grandad was a milkman like tom at the beginning.. he was up at 3.30 every mornin, did the milk rounds until 7.30 and was on a building site by 8 working until 6. They really knew the meaning of work back then.. Yound lads dont want to be in before 9 always askin about home time and never off the bloody phones....
Back in day in mid sixties....left school a 14 to work 7 days a week as helper on milk round.£4 .10 a week... memory s abound.... stuck for two years... after that I joined British army for 7 years never never looked back.....that was Dublin then
in a devon village someone started a milk round using a small cart and donkey but the villagers made a fuss and said it was cruel for the donkey to pull a cart. this world is finished
well have they actually asked the donkey what he thinks, you'd be surprised if he answered lmao hahahaha!
I wonder if they would be so sentimental if they had to work as hard as these people just put a bit of bread and drippin on the table
And do u see how old these men are still working as hard as men in their 20s u would not see men like them today
2:44 he knows the blacksmith
way things are going we will be going back to horses
Does anyone know the location @12:26 ?
I'm thinking around Pimlico, Marrowbone Lane ?
Molyneux Yard, facing south. The black and white striped gable belongs to a house on Catherine Street, at the junction with Engine Alley.
The ‘Rag & Bone man’ anyone remember that? He collected iron steel and the likes.
Hello dear Lillian
Thank you, Mrs. Lillian, for sharing this video
@@moayadinstreet2705 hello my friend ! ♥️🙌. The horses are very well cared
for. As far as i know are still horses and carriages on Dublin streets, but i could be wrong as its been a long tome since i was in Dublin.
@@lilliankeane5731 It is a beautiful city and now it is full of population and people
I knew this via Google and videos RUclips
@@lilliankeane5731 ❤
In 1983 horses were still used in ireland?
Was that common practice?
I wonder what year this was filmed.
1983
What year was this,anybody know??
1983
Horse power
What year was this.?
Jaysus I was only a baby meself when this was on.
1983
@@snadhghus Christ I was nearly five over in Arbour Hill.
Moore St before the ilac was even started...
What is it the coalmen actually shout?
He is actually shouting coal in a very strong Dublin accent.
Cowwll
ONLY HORSES🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎NO FOOLS🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴
Was that butter for the horse, the way the lady was putting her dirty fingers in it, I don't think I'd want to eat it.
Good video.
Thanks
I remember those days back in Dublin. They were very tough times but much more characters were about. Fond memories but am glad they are in the past. Ireland is a better place now overall.
Ah jaysus the chizzlers wah
Apples, six fer twenty pence.
When milk was milk not water
What was it the coal man was yelling?
I'm not sure.
It might simply be "coal!", pronounced something like "kyow-ell" in a strong Dublin accent.
Horse coming back in! It would be better than cars and climate change that's for sure
Might be a good idea for our kids, the Pampered SnowFlake Generation to look at this. Genuine horsepower, electric milk carts and paper bags. It's the little shites screaming about Saving the Planet who demand their 1000-euro iPhones wrapped in plastic, their water in plastic bottles, and wouldn't feckin walk around the corner without getting a lift from Mammy or Daddy. Awww be the hokey, a good feckin' clip around the ear would sort dem out!
Dublin the real Dublin gone don't here a Dublin accent anymore all foreign now
Where the fuck do you be walking? can't get away from it haha
and phony american ones !
beautiful - takes me back to my childhood it's like music. I could listen to it all day
Most of them auld horse-yards are gone now. Nobody wants scrap, were not allowed use coal or logs. Miss the auld Dublin and its sounds and smells.
Premier daires
Came here by accident on a mdma n vodka trip, Not disappointed 👌
I thought it was great meself
How old this video is ?
1983
What is the coalman calling out?