I have always found the Irish people to be amongst the friendliest and nicest people you could ever meet, but I may be a bit biased as I am of Irish decent. God Bless Eire.
This is just brilliant. My father and myself used to tar and grit farm roads. He started from nothing with a barrow and couldn't read or write but new how to rokka to a ry mush. This is a lovely old film of days gone by we shall never see the likes of again unfortunately. God bless you all those tarring men. 👍
_One of the great Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Players Maurice O'Keeffe...Maurice passed away in March 2017 at 98 years of age. Go ndéana Dia trocaire ar a anam_
He seemed like a wonderful character. Really makes me proud of my Irish blood. If my calculations are correct he would be 55 in this film. Its great to hear that he reached such a grande age. Films like this are pure gold.
They were. Their kindness and earthiness with their sense of humour were unique. As kids, we felt totally loved and accepted. But we too had to do our 'party piece' always to great applause!
Classic. They sent the TV reporter back to your mans house to pick up his fiddle for him to play a tune at the end. The tea out chilling. People knew each other back then and stood for each other. Prices footage.
They were kind of shy and humble people but with hidden talents like that man Maurice playing the fiddle so well.Frank Hall brought out the best in them.God bless the whole lot of them.
No messing. Men at work. Filling holes. No safe work plans, I pads, reports, phones, certs, inspections, training courses, tattoos, drugs, welfare facilities (except the one with a hole in the roof) or traffic lights.......arent we cutting edge in 2021. Irelands prime years. 70, 80 and 90s
I'm from upstate New York. It's civic duty up here to honk your horn when you hit a pothole, that way the fella driving behind you doesn't get stuck in it too. 😂😂😂
Lovely video. Surprised the title says Co Kerry. All the places mentioned are in Cork - e.g. Boherbue, Kiskeam and Ballydesmond (though Ballydesmond is right on the Kerry border).
I think that was filmed in County Cork I remember most of these men and they all came from the Cork side of the border. Frank Hall was very popular around that area there was a Pub in Newmarket called the Newsbeat Inn in his honour'
somewhere along the Kerry-Cork border anyway. He mentions the road to Ballydesmond. I cant make out the name of crossroads or bridge sounds like"Cishkeen"
The Village is called Kiskeam The man who played the Fiddle lived between Kiskeam and Ballydesmond I was born in that neck of the woods some of my relations worked for Cork County Council on those actual roads that are on that video clip
I think it's sad how this is why the Irish were loved all over but that's completely gone now, were just a mixed European country now there is no national identity or uniqueness anymore, rip to all these men.
Ah the good old days when we were all colour blind👀(& some of driving Ford Anglia's!!) with the grass black & white📺, until we went out the back door and saw it was green!! 😀
If you were driving a lorry they'd all stop work when you were passing just to have a look. They'd stand with the shovel leaning on their chest. We used to call it breast feeding the shovel.
It's like they've never been through modern highschool where everyone turns into party poopers for life and shits on any unique charismatic features...
Ah, the '70s and '80s - 'loose chippings' signs were everywhere, cracking windscreens, and stripping the paint off the front of the car. The tractor is a Fordson Major, I can tell by the sound of the engine ticking over and the shape of the rear lights. The front of it is not view, if it was I could tell if it was a Major or Super Major. The car Frank Hall arrived in was an Opel Manta. A friend of my parents worked in RTE radio at that time and he also drove an Opel Record. I wonder did RTE have a fleet of them back then.
Frank was coming onto him, he was suave, he knew all the pick up techniques! 😀 In emergencies he would break out the big legion of Mary medallion🏅, put it on & open up his shirt to expose his hairy chest, County council workers couldn't resist him!! 😜
Don’t think about thumbs down.A simple push of a button by people who hate. They don’t need reasons. They cannot comment. No minds are present. They are in a deluded group of people who need nothing but hate and someone to follow.
The lost pot hole machine paid for by the EU in the 80s to fix the roads in kerry, and locked safely away in a council shed never to be used... comes to mind....
A few experimental colour broadcasts from 1970, mainly major sporting events but it was still largely black and white up to about 74. Last B&W broadcasts by RTE in early 76. A lot of people still had black and white TVs into the 80s.
Ray Darcy, and have you any dead or dying relatives, Jenny can play the Piano, You know I played junior rugby for 2 years...Tubirty have you read Shaw or Keats?
You should have learned this Mattino: That there was a time when people talked to each other ,even on television ,just for the pure act of partaking in human interaction. Psychiatric drugs and illegal drugs were not needed because of this. People were happier and in tune with themselves and the nature that surrounded them . I'm sure we have much to learn from the people portrayed and indeed from the people that lived in the Middle Ages even. We have progressed scientifically but I'm convinced we have lost part of what it means to be human. I think we have not reached the bottom yet so prepare yourself for The coming days!!
@@seamusburke9101 Thank you ,Seamus,It's good to know that there are people still out there who are in tune with what it means to be a human being.Its got very clinical especially since Facebook etc . We are on a downward trajectory and we have a while to go before we hit bottom. Like my mother ( a devout Kerrywoman )said before she passed ,"I don't envy the young anymore!"
@@joekavanagh8997 that exactly what my mother said as well when we talked about life she said nobody stops to talk anymore and she felt sorry for the youth of today
@@adreenryan2901 yes, the older generations in Ireland may not have had the education due to their adverse circumstances but they had common sense and common sense has now become uncommon on both sides of the Atlantic.
My beautiful uncle Maurice. Loved listening to him playing the fiddle. His brother Jeremiah is my father. The whole family have the kindest hearts.
my great granda was Jeremiah Connaghan from Raphoe in Donegal
having recently been to beautiful Kerry and its lovely folk, dont doubt it for a second...!
I have always found the Irish people to be amongst the friendliest and nicest people you could ever meet, but I may be a bit biased as I am of Irish decent. God Bless Eire.
@@michellemcdermott2026 those lads are not from Donegal, definitely.
The location was Newmarket Co Cork
This is just brilliant. My father and myself used to tar and grit farm roads. He started from nothing with a barrow and couldn't read or write but new how to rokka to a ry mush. This is a lovely old film of days gone by we shall never see the likes of again unfortunately. God bless you all those tarring men. 👍
These same boys started at the top of my road in 74. Still waiting for them to get to the other end of it. Any day now with the help of God.
Sure whats the hurry... have ye somewhere better to be ??... 🤷♂️🙄
😅👍☘
_One of the great Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Players Maurice O'Keeffe...Maurice passed away in March 2017 at 98 years of age. Go ndéana Dia trocaire ar a anam_
And a true gentleman.
He seemed like a wonderful character. Really makes me proud of my Irish blood. If my calculations are correct he would be 55 in this film. Its great to hear that he reached such a grande age. Films like this are pure gold.
What a lovely guy
Great times.. A canister of tea, soda bread and a fiddle.. Frank Hall was a man of the people..
I know everyone says this about the older days but honestly in all these videos and other ones I've watched everyone just seems so decent and nice.
They were. Their kindness and earthiness with their sense of humour were unique. As kids, we felt totally loved and accepted. But we too had to do our 'party piece' always to great applause!
And relaxed
lovely times with very little money but every one happy out
I miss the auld ones😢. Never were better people than these dears. 🍀🇮🇪
Its humility... a human trait completely lost to modern society... 😒
What a fantastically simple life, the tin lunch, the fiddle, cup of tea... I bet that day was a highlight for those old guys, with the cameras there.
Classic. They sent the TV reporter back to your mans house to pick up his fiddle for him to play a tune at the end.
The tea out chilling.
People knew each other back then and stood for each other. Prices footage.
Lunch out of the auld biscuit tin😊
I miss those days and that wonderful generation.🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪
A gentler time great stuff legends
What a treasure these videos are ....
A cuppa cha and a slice of soda bread for the lunch, and feck all work getting done haha. Great stuff.
If you go fast enough it'll take you less, classic
Ah the old Irish... Stuff of legends.
They were kind of shy and humble people but with hidden talents like that man Maurice playing the fiddle so well.Frank Hall brought out the best in them.God bless the whole lot of them.
Frank Hall reminds me of John Hume the accent and everything
His like Terry Wogan too.
Now that you say it Sir , I can see that too... 🤔
Lovely people 🙏🏻
As long as ur not married to one of them
That was the job to have on Kerry County Council.
They’re still at that job down here
Title is wrong. It's Cork actually. My granddad one of those men. xx
That's somewhere near Newmarket Co Cork .
1974 - Mrs Doyle aged well!
Them days you could leave one job and get another within the week. How beautiful Eire was back then.
No messing. Men at work. Filling holes.
No safe work plans, I pads, reports, phones, certs, inspections, training courses, tattoos, drugs, welfare facilities (except the one with a hole in the roof) or traffic lights.......arent we cutting edge in 2021.
Irelands prime years. 70, 80 and 90s
There's no soul in it nowadays
This is one of best channels on youtube . By the way he's having a quiet pint or two.
Reporter - “How long will that take, about 5 minutes”
Maurice - “Well if you go fast it’ll take less”
Top lads, the lot of them
I'm from upstate New York. It's civic duty up here to honk your horn when you hit a pothole, that way the fella driving behind you doesn't get stuck in it too. 😂😂😂
I was in upstate New York back in 1989, 1990, 2002 when I lived in Pennsylvania and Bronx, NYC.
We used to have potholes so big, You could meet a car coming out of it.
My uncle worked on the roads like these guys on kerry County Council in the 40is, 50is,60is,70is. Different times.
I love these videos. 👍👍 up from Galway
Back in those days, my uncle had the same job with Sligo CC. That and a bit of farming.
Lovely video. Surprised the title says Co Kerry. All the places mentioned are in Cork - e.g. Boherbue, Kiskeam and Ballydesmond (though Ballydesmond is right on the Kerry border).
Fantastic , So so fantastic
Thank you for posting C R, I've been waiting a long time to see a film like this
Many the happy summers I spent down in Ballydesmond. Lovely people. The roads have not improved.
Brilliant
Now the Healy-Rae dynasty does all the council work and they rent machinery to the council, making an absolute fortune, Up Kerry...😂😂😂😂
I think that was filmed in County Cork I remember most of these men and they all came from the Cork side of the border. Frank Hall was very popular around that area there was a Pub in Newmarket called the Newsbeat Inn in his honour'
somewhere along the Kerry-Cork border anyway. He mentions the road to Ballydesmond. I cant make out the name of crossroads or bridge sounds like"Cishkeen"
The Village is called Kiskeam The man who played the Fiddle lived between Kiskeam and Ballydesmond I was born in that neck of the woods some of my relations worked for Cork County Council on those actual roads that are on that video clip
My grandfather, Ger Murphy was the legend on the cork county council. He is the man with pipe.
Maurice, this was filmed on the boherbue to kiskeam road. My grandfather, Ger Murphy is the man with the pipe. Great to see this
@@mariewoods4107 I Partly guessed I went to Foyle NS with the Young chap Driving the Tractor who was wearing the Cap with the flaps
Frank Hall was great , he even interviewed The Beatles
His best interview was the one with Satan👺, Frank Hall's bookies was sorry to hear it as Frank cleaned him out! 😃
I think it's sad how this is why the Irish were loved all over but that's completely gone now, were just a mixed European country now there is no national identity or uniqueness anymore, rip to all these men.
Nonsense
@@eddieoconnor8560 in your opinion
@@eddieoconnor8560 in what way nonsense?!
@@3210-n1x Wow, well spotted - he can hardly give an opinion other than his own, can he?
@@ulpetzmaznat1366 yeah of course he can, not everything is opinion some things are facts, anything else u need me to explain to ya
These men didn’t want to overshadow one another that was the acting was going on. Great people
Ah the good old days when we were all colour blind👀(& some of driving Ford Anglia's!!) with the grass black & white📺, until we went out the back door and saw it was green!! 😀
A time when a bloke in a pub would tell you he drove his car better after he had 6 or 7 pints of porter.
The Manta A is a rare sight now
🎶Oh happy days 🎶
4:46 "how long will that take us to get there 5 mins"...."well if you go fast enough it will take you less" .......priceless
Great bit of all round hurling
Six men all day to fill a couple of holes with lots of tea-breaks and sitting around. 'Make it lasht' was the motto.
If you were driving a lorry they'd all stop work when you were passing just to have a look. They'd stand with the shovel leaning on their chest. We used to call it breast feeding the shovel.
It's like they've never been through modern highschool where everyone turns into party poopers for life and shits on any unique charismatic features...
A fun comment. Thanks!
Did you hear the way Frank even kept the men out of teouble by saying it s now 10 past 1 bwfore Maurice started to play. Great times.
'If you go fasht enough it will take you less' Love Kerry.
Cork
@@patrickoconnor6566 Close 😊
This would make you smile Eire go brath
Ah, the '70s and '80s - 'loose chippings' signs were everywhere, cracking windscreens, and stripping the paint off the front of the car.
The tractor is a Fordson Major, I can tell by the sound of the engine ticking over and the shape of the rear lights. The front of it is not view, if it was I could tell if it was a Major or Super Major.
The car Frank Hall arrived in was an Opel Manta. A friend of my parents worked in RTE radio at that time and he also drove an Opel Record. I wonder did RTE have a fleet of them back then.
Im almost sure its a Super Major, it has the long badge on the side of the bonnet.
That wasnt a Rekord it was an A series Manta. Four headlamps and no top rail on the door.
Did you spot the Anglia 1200 super.
@@seamusburke9101 Forgot about the Anglia!
@@seamusburke9101 Thanks for the correction. I see the door now in the Opel. Bit of a dent in it too I think.
This is brilliant, it's like a father ted episode,,big shot from the big smoke
Very Good craic!
The way Frank frustratedly gives your man a few taps at 0:37
Frank was coming onto him, he was suave, he knew all the pick up techniques! 😀
In emergencies he would break out the big legion of Mary medallion🏅, put it on & open up his shirt to expose his hairy chest, County council workers couldn't resist him!! 😜
If u go faster it will take ya less..some codgers
I remember the little huts they used, they had an orange top on them
Yeah, they were made by Presco. It was on a plate above the door.
This was the lovely Irish culture we grew up with. How I hate the way our country has been utterly destroyed.
He played a nice tune on that fiddle
A whole other world back then.
Lovely tune.
Frank Hall is 43 years old here.
Id be really interested to know what was wrong with the 5 people who gave this a thumbs down.
Don’t think about thumbs down.A simple push of a button by people who hate. They don’t need reasons. They cannot comment. No minds are present. They are in a deluded group of people who need nothing but hate and someone to follow.
@@robkunkel8833 you're right Rob, two more joined in since I made the comment.
@@robkunkel8833 Well said Sir
There's 15 thumbs down now, and I think that's probably every surviving member of the Pothole Preservation Society.
Just for the record it's ''Cup O' Tae'' 🤣
was the fiddle anywhere near in tune?
They had different priorities...
@@robwilde855 yeah i understand what you mean, you are correct sir
Who cares!
You do still see the loose chippings sign.
The lost pot hole machine paid for by the EU in the 80s to fix the roads in kerry, and locked safely away in a council shed never to be used... comes to mind....
they had a pot hole machine in the 00s pulled behind a lorry
The roads haven’t changed at all.
It starts out as like the original pilot for cowboy builders
I lost a few windscreens to "chippings" on Cork roads back in the 1970s.
Fresh like. I'll be coming back.
He is murdering that poor 🎻
I was hoping to see them “ Breast Feeding” the shovels lol. Council workers were famous for that.
When Ireland, was Ireland...☘️💚☘️
When did Irish TV switch over to colour? In my part of Canada it was in the mid 60s but at my parents farm it was closer to the mid 80s.
90s
It was all colour when I was growing up in the 80’s. So it changed well before that.
A few experimental colour broadcasts from 1970, mainly major sporting events but it was still largely black and white up to about 74. Last B&W broadcasts by RTE in early 76. A lot of people still had black and white TVs into the 80s.
@@johnnyfeen1347 thanks Johnny. We had a black and white T.V well into the 80s.
Didn't matter about colour in our house the only time we watched TV was for the Angelus and the News.
And council's have been bodging road repairs ever since !!
Love it!
Ah the little folk.
When the world was in black and white . ☺
The boys having crack!
Came away more confused than I was at first.
Understandable.
IF YOU. WENT FASTER. IT WOULD TAKE YOU LESS (. Great, . Not. As Green as they are cabbage Lookin)
LOL LOL This was a real display of TRUE IRISH BLARNEY!!! LOL LOL
So is the fella moaning that there not rolling the chippings into tar?
Ray Darcy, and have you any dead or dying relatives, Jenny can play the Piano, You know I played junior rugby for 2 years...Tubirty have you read Shaw or Keats?
they were all probably shittin it cause of the big camera there filming them haha theyd never seen the like before in kerry
They didn't look like they were shittin it to me. Looked like they hadn't a care in the world.
still waiting on them to make it down to ballydesmond 😂
did he call the tea a "cup of cha?" like the hindi Chai?
If you go fast enough it will take you less - ha ha
The tipecal Irish co council if not leaning on shovels their playing fiddles lol
They had nothing elce great folks
❤️
2:30 some bird
That’s lovely
Loose chippings, Angela car pass, connected tarring.!
This is just northern Irish propaganda....
just kidding it’s amazing 😍
Forgein idiot
@@scoyle1750 Come on it made ya laugh
These old guy got no clue what they doing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
East kerry.
Go hana Maith ar fad.
I feel I didn't learn anything...
You should have learned this Mattino: That there was a time when people talked to each other ,even on television ,just for the pure act of partaking in human interaction.
Psychiatric drugs and illegal drugs were not needed because of this.
People were happier and in tune with themselves and the nature that surrounded them .
I'm sure we have much to learn from the people portrayed and indeed from the people that lived in the Middle Ages even.
We have progressed scientifically but I'm convinced we have lost part of what it means to be human.
I think we have not reached the bottom yet so prepare yourself for The coming days!!
@@joekavanagh8997 well said Joe. Top comment.
@@seamusburke9101 Thank you ,Seamus,It's good to know that there are people still out there who are in tune with what it means to be a human being.Its got very clinical especially since Facebook etc .
We are on a downward trajectory and we have a while to go before we hit bottom.
Like my mother ( a devout Kerrywoman )said before she passed ,"I don't envy the young anymore!"
@@joekavanagh8997 that exactly what my mother said as well when we talked about life she said nobody stops to talk anymore and she felt sorry for the youth of today
@@adreenryan2901 yes, the older generations in Ireland may not have had the education due to their adverse circumstances but they had common sense and common sense has now become uncommon on both sides of the Atlantic.
The tipecal Irish co council if not leaning on shovels their playing fiddles lol