Mental Health & The Rural West, Ireland 1968
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- What causes the high rate of mental illness in the west of Ireland?
A man who spent a long time living in the west of Ireland believes social conditions have a large impact on mental health.
One sees a lot of old bachelors and old maids living alone, they become odd, this may be some way connected with emigration also because it’s well known the best emigrate and then the weakest remain on, and they find themselves cut away from life.
He saw four people in two counties in the west of Ireland fall under the impact of powerful missionary speakers which led them to
Develop certain complexes and became mad.
He also recalls meeting a young priest in the west who underwent psychiatric treatment because of his loneliness. This priest lived on an island in the Atlantic ten miles off the west coast of Ireland.
At night-time as he saw cars coming and going on the mainland he felt like going off his mind, actually he nearly did.
In certain parts of Ireland where people in one village are all related,
Blood thins out and insanity happens, just as we have seen it happen among the royal families of Europe.
If people drink badly made poteen, particularly in large quantities,
It has the effect of upsetting them mentally.
On the whole, however,
Emigration and loneliness has a great deal to do with it, and the fact that in many places in the west there is no social life.
This episode of ‘7 Days’ was broadcast on 11 October 1968. The reporter is Ted Nealon. 
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Ah yes the famous RTE sound effects crew that went on to work on iconic projects such as The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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I think the music triggered an unknown PSTD, and I think I picked up a disorder by listening to it, no wonder the lads went mad listening to that noise in the wild. Thank god they killed that animal making the noise.
It will haunt me for years good lord Jesus 🤣
the music just stood out to me as I was scrolling down the comments and read your. ffs I was afraid to look back at the video.
🤣🤣. I'm weak laughing.
Feck me that sound track is enough to tip anyone over the edge.😱
Don't pay too much attention to all of that misery. Unfortunately there is isolation and depression everywhere, even in urban meccas like London and New York. I grew up in that region of the West of Ireland and I can tell you all right now that as teenagers we had a great time, way way more freedom and action and parties than our cousins living in cities. They envied us and when we took them out during their visits, they found it amazing, especially when we were chatting up girls and ordering food in Gaeilge.
You chatted up girls? Oh you evil bigot racist!
What you say is completely true, I back what you said 1 trillion percent, I know what you said is the fact because during that time I lived in that area and had the most brilliant times, I was lord of all that I could walk, run, cycle, climb and all that I could see with my eyes
Well I'm from Dublin and I have to say that when I lived in Killarney I saw a lot of mental health problems among the men of that town. And that was last year. I was disturbed by it. But then West Cork is full of lovely, friendly people. So it's not all of the West and Dublin certainly has a high rate of mental illness. Don't take it so personally. Loneliness, delusion, alcoholism and inbreeding is still rife in the West even if there are many good families there too.
Yeah man. I hate revisionism. I read a comment today, how horrible and oppressed Ireland in particular Dublin was in the 80s as opposed to the inclusive and tolerate paradise it is today.
Your missing the point Michael he isnt saying this happens to everyone in the west just that minority of which you and many others clearly were not part of.
After hearing that music, I now have two pencils stuck up my nostrils and saying "Wibble" a lot.
Listening to that music would drive ya mad
I think this is part of father Dougal Maguire's record collection...side B
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Thanks for these uploads, they're a brilliant look into our past. I'm quite surprised we were even discussing mental health on RTE in the 60s.
Me too. Loads of illnesses even in emigrated counties and cities like Birmingham UK. Cancer had to be talked about in hushed tones, sometime called the 'C', the same kind of hushed tones used for talking about atomic bombs and the cold war. Just not to scare the kids about these kind, of almost, mystical things because nobody really understood them. Still not convincing enough for most (sensitive) kids to pick-up up on. I too am amazed that such things were being discussed so openly back then on Irish TV. In fact almost shucked as too it still exists considering the amount of propaganda they've pumped out forever. I have lots of memories of people suffering such affliction. Not so much as being so, so familiar with the west of Ireland at the time but mainly witnessing things which people just accepted then but now would seem truly shocking in The Midlands and West Galway (Ballinasloe) where many were hospitalized for a variety of reasons often spurious, lumped together in situations totally unbecoming to anything remotely like a more recent conception of what a therapeutic environment should or could be.
I also believe that enormous'psychic' and long lasting spiritual damage was done or actually perpetuated upon our shared nation by emigration, famine and many other events that preceded ir, coincided wirh it, and so on. etc.
I think it's a trauma, genetically held, as with Native Americans, Australian aboriginals, etc. for very similar reasons of similar cultural and indigenous trauma savagely and viciously attacked upon out peoples rather then what might better be described as the myth or lie of some sort of genetic disposition. So, genetic yes but very much not for the reason ascribed.
~One thing I find difficult to understand, and obviously I can't possibly be in his shoes especially 60 years later nor geographically but the loneliness he expresses I find in some ways slightly unusual because the music tradition continued or actually maybe that's why it di.
Anyway Harpy ~Bloomsday ..... a few hours tardy though
Whoever thought that lad how to play violin should give him his money back
I think he had a dose of insanity and oddness at the time as a result of drinking some bad poteen.
He should have known there was something wrong when he started blowing into it
Whoever taught you to write should be granted the same.
Thanks Shakespeare!
People blame the modern world for a lot of the depression we see in society, citing a more naturalistic environment as preferable. But I think the truth is that some people just find being human difficult, regardless of circumstances, and that has a toll on mental health. 60s west Ireland is some of the most naturalistic living you could get this side of the stone age yet it was still a major concern. The past wasn't all family togetherness and healthy outdoor lifestyle, there was genuine misery to be had.
A very accurate retrospective. I think a lot of the depression of today has been artificially created, but undoubtedly being human can be painful on it's own, in the best of circumstances. I was just watching something on Kurt Cobain last night, this reminds me of that
That sound is horrible, my nerves are shot listening.
True, but I think it’s mainly lack of community. Big numbers of young people leaving the countryside spurs on that effect.
wow, I've never thought of it like that, interesting take
yes you're all onto it. the truth is we all have ptsd from childhood. aming other things where i live in Australia we were taught at a young age in school that we live upsidedown.. resulting in schismogenesis of the brain.. logic ergo nonsense becomes the norm. the irrational becomes the rational. everything literally on it's head. i mean what a heinous criminal act that prank by SATAN was.. and that's only the beginning.. im not a flat earther. im just an earther. plain old regular earther. now you know. there is a way out . don't panic.
The duality of the west of ireland. Both beauty as well as misery for some who have none.
All of the above I agree with. Throw in the abysmal weather in the West of Ireland with so many sunless days and the picture of gloom is complete. Loneliness is a killer that is caused by social isolation and some unfortunates form their own reality without the balancing that comes with blending with others in the scattered community.
@@peacefulcottagelife In that case, two weeks in a summer cottage in the Cork-Kerry mountains sounds like just the ticket. Can't guarantee that it won't rain, though, but the rain is likely to at least be a little warmer on average.
@@peacefulcottagelife Then the loneliness will get to you, the only person you might see is the post man or woman a couple of times a week, if you are lucky...But seriously, I can't handle the heat over there either...LOL"
@@brianm2881 There a bit odd down there, she needs to go to Connemara...Out to the Atlantic's edge...LOL"
0:38 "It`s well known that the best emigrate and the weakest remain on."
Harsh.
Thank God for the "weakest" who kept the country going in the bad times, there'd be no Ireland at all without them.
Yup. In Ireland we're all descended from the poor lunatics that were left behind to starve lol
Culture is the product of vulnerability, not strength.
Well, I'd say Ireland is due for a major improvement in mental health with its new arrivals, then. Though it's odd how many new arrivals in other European countries get arrested after a violent occurrence cased by their mental instability.
And do you know which philosopher said that?.. Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.
@@COIcultist How many, exactly?
What a load of bolloxs, I was raised in Connamara and the only madness I saw was the crazy yanks that came every summer looking for their roots. That and feckers from Dublin 😁🤭 love from Oz
And made it all the way to 5th class by the looks of yer spelling...LOL? Having the craic, no, there are daft fe-ckers out there in Connemara, let me tell you...the further out ye go the dafter they get...I lived in Roundstone for a while, everyday, you walked the street, curtains would be pulled aside, people gawking and gossiping...they would never mingle or try and get to know an outsider, and I was only from around Galway city...FFs...
Sure this spelling lark is over ruted 😁 ní leabhar mé bearla go maith
Well, thanks for that.
It really cheered me up , and thankful I live in Northern Ireland.
Lol. You're all mental with religious and political fanaticism up there. 🤣
suas na poblacht.
100k subs congrats 👍
Original soundtrack by Boards of Killarney.
Boards of connemara
Tis the west of Ireland not the bates motel, that music is terrifying.
As you drive west from Galway city, you can see the oddness and madness get steadily worse or more common, the further west you drive...and it's co-related to the increase in isolation...drinking a drop of the hard stuff, that wasn't distilled properly etc., on a regular basis would not help either...and like he said marrying distant cousins etc., who might be passing on bad genes was a factor...and not marrying at all, was another one...
I think peepin around the bushes and staring at Loopins is mad too))
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Foxgloves, staring at a rock now that's real Father Dougal McGuire.
True or not that was interesting. Is this part of a larger documentary? And if so could you upload the rest?
Everybody's mental health will be tested in October, when it all comes crashing down.
And others are just going to go shopping for incredible deals. Anybody so sure about this full collapse has sold everything right? .. and that would not be smart at all because cash is consumed by inflation over time. Here's how I look a our markets, if ever it breaks beyond repair, the US has collapsed and our way of life has ended so money and assets are worthless.. to hedge against those dooms day thoughts, buy guns and canned goods. Otherwise, and like always, we will be fine, a new day will emerge with new energy, new blood, new hope and good news will bring reason to rally and invest. Want to play the markets to win? remain calm, invest in companies you personally use and know are good, never sell in fear, never buy in envy.
Yeah autumn 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃😉😉😅😆😄😅🤣🤣
That four minutes almost triggered an episode of sympathetic schizophrenia.
Well, that soundtrack. Well. I think that would leave anyone disconcerted.
I think the priest he was referring to was none other than himself, Father Jack Hackett.
I completely agree with what Micheal Breathnach wrote Yes.I back what he said 1 trillion percent, I know what Micheal said is true because during that time I lived in that area and had the most brilliant times, I was lord of all that I could walk, run, cycle, climb and all that I could see with my eyes, Yes I was a boy and so I did not think like an adult way back then
Loneliness, religious fanaticism, inbreeding and alcoholism. Oh how we miss the good ol days. If only we could return to those golden years when everything was right with the world. 🤣
Shut up David
He didn’t mention that sexual abuse was rife there also.
The captions mis- translate "poteen", a home-brewed liquor, as "protein," which is very confusing.
Poitín?
Pocheen
It's google creating the captions, maybe send them an email
Very helpful and insightful comment there. Better call the authorities over that one. Get those captions sorted will yas bois.
The great Ballydesmond whey protein powder addiction crisis of 1964.
I travel them roads most days and nights while leprechaun hunting… he’s wrong about the Potcheen
Looks and sounds like a trailer for The Day of the Triffids! 😂.
This PSA brought to you by the Alcohol Industry - Inexpensive homemade Potcheen will drive you fecking mad and suicidal!!! Also, listen to this musician on his synthesizer- off his feckin nut on the good stuff so he is!!!
This has a very ‘Night of the Living Dead’ quality to it. Esp the last bit with the locked door; low key nightmare fuel
What movie soundtrack was that and also noted a cannabis tree!
Horrible music
Lay you of the cannabis Ciaran 🤣
Loneliness, occasional incestuous marriage, Poteen, Banshees and the Lash...
Your spot on I spent 25 years in the west of Ireland, my own story,isolation brings loneliness. anger resentment, being left at home,while everyone els was gone some place or another ,work day and night,taken for granted.I left in 2000,happy now tg
Cliches pi8led upon cliches.
Wasn’t “Poteen, Banshees and the Lash” an album by The Pogues?
Was this sound track designed to drive the last few over the edge......
Some of the comments below are Gold...so funny - love the sense of humour. 😊
cool soundtrack on this
Time to bust out the chainsaw 😆😉
as a piece of horror cinema this is pretty fun. was it a gag program or did ppl rly think this way?
Where is this video excerpt from do you know?
Hell
Dem chickens frightened da bejeesus outta me.
This video somehow reminds me of the beginning of Edna O' Brien's brilliant novel Down By The River.
There is also a book on the theme of madness in the Irish West called Saints, Scholars and schizophrenics.
The parish priest was probably living the high life!
My mum grew up in Connemmara in the 50s and 60s she is wetting herself at this depiction
Is it true!?
Jesus i`m glad my ancestors escaped that to Australia
Escaped or transported to Australia?
@@COIcultist Free settlers in the 1860`s with my mob matey
Lovely bunch of white racists over there. Lovely.
On a jet plane.
@@paulholland5270 No in a 1860`s ship mate
Aye the government says being self sufficient will drive you mad. Best move to a city and pay for every step of life. Aye.
And then starve to death when the food runns out.
This would be good if it weren't for the sound effects crew trying to play a saw.
Such a dreary picture painted! There is & always will be aul bachelors or maidens as they call them.
Who is the cheery speaker?
Wittgenstein who stayed in Galway in the 40s said that a lifetime of drinking made the Irish feebleminded people. Alcohol is a depressant,they say,
Wittgenstein may or may not be right, but I’d sooner spend an evening in the hospitality of the “feeble-minded” Irish than spend 30 minutes with a cold, dull savant who was renowned for his joylessness. Life is to be lived and enjoyed, not just understood.
Wittgenstein was also a depressant, they say.
"And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel."
Monty Python
Heinrich Boll spent several months in Mayo (Achill I think) in the Fifties and liked it.
Wittgenstein ran into the comfort of religion. He was feebled minded too. We all have our vices.
I’ve lived in Vienna for over a decade and trust me, there’s a drinking culture there to match anything in Ireland.
My wife is from the west of Ireland who will tell her?.
U her first cousin shur 💚
@@aineslattery3090 brother Aine
Who is speaking?
My DNA, Dingle, Kerry, this is spotlighting inbreeding, makes total sense. It can totally flare-up a major mental issue or worst. Pax
That music would not exactly pick you up 😳
I'm Fu*kin depressed after watchin that
Are these legit period clips or is someone making these appear to be from earlier times?
These are deffo clips of a legit period.
"The best emigrate".
But the strong remain.
From The highest planet in the material worlds down to the lowest all are places of misery wherein repeated birth, diseases, old age and death take place but one who comes to My abode never takes birth again ..chant the names of God, He has as many as there are planet's and they give happiness in the heart because God Himself lives in the heart of all and bestows love of God on those who call out to Him
3:30: Bad Poitín
3:35: If Poitín is badly made.
This is what he's actually saying, so you might want to correct the transcript. Poitín was illegally distilled moonshine, and if badly distilled, was quite dangerous.
it was worse in many countries ! mental health is not just in remote country areas Just look at the mental health chaos in the cities ! Especially the si called wealthy USA Australia ,Britain, and the music is enough to drive anyone insane !
And we could go back again
What a bad intentioned video. They didn't show villages, homes, people, families, neighbours. We have the camera looking at a plant or rock up close or low down. No scenic, no groups of people, no local shop, church, pub, etc.
Interesting to watch it now but who was behind this video being made in the first place and what was there intention?
Won't anyone think of the poor lonely Catholic priest? 🧐
What’s wrong with the background music 😂😅
I was asleep by the end of that, but that's not a criticism.
Ha ha!
Jesus that was grim. Some soundtrack. Is it a priest doing the commentary I wonder? also the priest who couldn't fraternize with the islanders is so bleak
Oh my God! I’m scared now to go home to Donegal after escaping to Canada in 2005!
This video is totally exagerate & mainly false,
I thought Father Ted was just a Comedy show, now I realise it's a documentary on the west of Ireland
Traditional Irish mondless soundtrack. Echoing the areas high rate of mental illness.
And not a mention of the poor kids in Letterfrack detention house and the vile injustices that they suffered during this period of “McQuade Adoration “ in the fifties and sixties
Jaysus lads the sound effects are cat, that would drive ye mad !!
Doesn't apply to me
That music sounds like someone cutting a railings in half , drive you mad .
The Highlands and Drumchapel Glasgow worse the people living in those areas in Scotland make it slumps and ghettos in Scotland Thomas.
Music is satanic in the background
Apparently the donkey, killed itself, overdose of carrots.
I hate RTE. I used to drop into one of their news channels on YoutTube just to hit the thumbs down. It was my duty but it made me feel better too.
That's a bit mad
It’s good that give you’ve kept yourself busy. Logging into a channel you don’t like just to thumb-down videos you don’t watch is certainly less anti-social than rural incest.
@@daithiocinnsealach3173 He lives out whest! 🤣
You only notice how odd they are when you go away and come back. Tis cultural imperialism
Ok, that wasn't spooky at all😮
What about all the poor people in China?
I blame whomever is playing that weird music all the time! You know they never did find out who it was!.
"The White Noise" score during production wouldn't have helped.. Eating mushrooms and drinking poteen might need investigation..😉
wether you believe in adam and eve or evolution at some point in our earliest time we had to inbreed with each other, so how does any animal population develop diversity in order to prevent the problems from inbreeding?
It's a lot more complicated than that I'd imagine. Why don't you read a few biology books on it if you're bothered about it?
New species emerge over many, many generations; it isn’t like you wake up one day and there are two penguins stood there that turned up during the night and they’re looking a 3rd penguin to shag.
The gene pool can be dramatically reduced by natural events, though. One current theory suggests that a global catastrophe approximately 78,000 years ago (a meteor, supervolcanic activity, sudden global cooling, etc) reduced the human population to about 5,000, which limited our genetic variety and led to the prevalence of many of the diseases and genetic malformations that blight us today. It’s not always the strongest and fittest that survive.
@@daithiocinnsealach3173 why don't you g back in time and tell your trash mother to get an abortion?
@@markofsaltburn thanks
I think he nailed it: inbreeding.
Once again, people saying negative things about the Irish. When will it stop?
WTF!!!
Max fosh is very good. He strong to you Thomas you got a friend with him politically Thomas. Is place Ireland still available yes. What think it Tom it not for me that being kind say it in English.
Comments like this are what happen when you tolerate bot inbreeding.
Will you stop farting in that kettle
WTAF?
That music is overdone now days cities...... isolation... drugs are the cause they say of psycatric problems don't understand why all those houses in the Island were collapsed Ireland is one big iland
Well, it's not music
Satan
Stop the mad music!,
Well then you shouldn't drink poteen, and try and date your ma!
Come on lads cut out the lunatic music crap dont make the thing mùch worse
.........i saw it happen to people in two counties in the west of Ireland......