These images, which represent the first ever colour photographs taken in Ireland, were taken in 1913 by two French women, Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba, who used newly available autochrome colour plates.
Ireland until relatively recently was populated with an island full of survivalists. Hard and tough people with hearts of gold and a sense of humour that never gets old.
@I HATE TOUCANS ummmmm so I'm irish and 4.904 million seems like a lot to me and if you don't believe me look up the population is and what my name (aisling)means
@I HATE TOUCANS WOW !!!! What a bold statement and so very wrong. Ireland is a small island and is overpopulated in my opinion and overpopulated Ireland has lost her charm because of this very fact. Tourists used to flock to Ireland to meet the famous Irish story tellers, musicians, matchmakers, joke tellers and rogues. Now it is like all the other countries in the world, a bland, boring mix of everyone from everywhere with no specific identity. As for Ireland's presence on the "European Stage" !!!! Ireland currently has 13 members in the European Parliament, the executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO) is Dr. Michael Ryan from Sligo,Ireland, the Irish police (An Garda Siochana) and ex members play a bigger role in Interpol (Europe's FBI) than any other European nation etc. etc. etc. You are so misinformed. Ireland as always is punching way above her weight and has a big presence the world over not just the EU.
Lovely images. Thank you for putting together and sharing. NOTE that the image at 6:14 is not women "weaving" (there is no loom), but women "spinning" fiber (likely wool) into yarn using a spinning wheel. The spun yarn/fiber could be used for either either knitting or weaving. (Although knitting would be a more likely craft in a poorer croft.)
Ireland still has some of that charm. The Cladagh still there. Wonder why havent we preserved the Cladagh dress even for folk events...its amazing. Sooo much red...red on green...gorgeous place my foster home.
@serendipidus1 the people that are suffering true famine in africa have no way of escaping and the asylum seekers are not asylum seekers if they have to go true 20 plus countries to get to ireland there economic migrants. and see this shit "If you were truly Irish" he is more irish than you considering he actually gives a fuck about the country by acknowledging the problems that we have. we don't owe anybody anything except are dead and future irish generations
@serendipidus1 you think irish spirit is immigration irish spirit is holding on to this island no matter the cost not running away from it .and where not availing of their services were availing of are services that we pay for true taxation. services that we put in place to look after our own less fortunate. immigrants take full advantage of are services like council housing ETC. doctors get paid what do you think there doing it all out of the good of there harts. and very few of them are doctors besides it is irrelevant who they are and what they do. they have no right to this island. and irish people that have emigrated is a completely irrelevant argument go over to america and take it up with them because it means nothing hear pure whataboutism. speaking of whataboutism if all the the irish decided to move to Eswatini and out populate the natives would that be a good thing or a bad thing in your opening
How much has changed in the past 100 years! I got my mother a dna test from ancestry and the recent update showed she is 62% Irish and the rest is Scottish and Cornish. She is pretty much a pure Gaelic Celt.
Looking at poverty in Ireland in those makes me scream!! Part of United Kingdom, Great Greedy British Empire. Always so badly treated by briths, during hard times not getting any help from them at all. I love Ireland, not only because the music and atmosphere 😂 but also to see that this nation haven't loose their proud, as much as British wanted to break them, they remained Proud Irish. Just the shame that the language didn't survive... :(
Fun fact Irish doesn't have a word for "shoes" the word "Bróga" means shoes by some but that refers to the type of shoe worn in a kilt. Shoes weren't worn then.
i used to take care of an elderly man called michael padden, from county mayo. passed away in 2018. let me tell you he had the temperament of a banshee, drank like, well, an irish and his last shower/bath was in 1763. was never sick and not even the flies dared to enter his room.
Went there last year, most beautiful place. Loved every minute of your amazing country. Heartbreaking history at times, but a testament to the courage and resilience of the people of Ireland. Hello from Australia 🇦🇺.😉
For some reason I long for times to be like this. I feel like life was more living and it was exciting and not just all about technology and the negatives :(
Same here Sophia we're lucky we're able to appreciate the beauty of our country and our young people are the best of us all open minded and kind and still very much have a scence of mischief the most thing I miss about my youth.
I spent two years in Ireland.It is really a very beautiful country and the people are great.My favourite place in Ireland us Galway and the Aran Island.We went to the Aran Island by ferry from Galway and stayed there for two days.It was an amazing experience with my friends.I would love to visit Ireland again in future.Respect to the people of Ireland who made it a great country!!
Spiddal and Claddagh geographically close but that was all, the Claddagh were even poorer than spiddal but you can see the pride they took in themselves ,fiercly independent .
B McC - despite the poverty that dress is stunning. I love the huge hood, you can sense her hiding within it against against wind and rain. Would love to see fashion like that around today but I doubt it would look as good on tattooed persons !!
Apart from the clothes and the currachs, Connemara looks pretty much the same today. Beautiful landscape. Glendalough too looks the same except for the tourist car parks :)
The picture at 4:34 in particular hits home with me. My family are from donegal, where turf is still a main source of home heating for us. if you substituted the shirt and trousers for a Jersey and jeans, this photo could have been taken yesterday, and I think that's insane. More than a hundred years and not much has changed, all things considered
This came up in my recommended and I'm not one bit sorry I clicked on it! Crazy seeing what life was like for our grandparents grandparents in such good detail! A very different Ireland from the one we know now! !
so what? let us have this image. this was what it was like when our ancestors fled. can't we hold this image in our collective mind? can you a least give us that?
@@ivartheboneless5969 nope, we know the difference. you're just disrespectful of the image we had when we left. You act like we are ignorant to it; we're not!
Brings tears to my eyes. It's not often I see old pictures like this, never mind in colour. So beautiful. It makes you feel more connected to the past. The people look like they could have been photographed just yesterday in some of them. So much has changed in this country and yet so much still looks the same, but it really makes me sad for the traditions that we've lost and the almost complete disappearance of our language.
You're wrong regarding our language. There is more 'Gael Scoil' in Ireland now than there has been in many many a year.. And as for our traditions... Well Irish Dancing is extremely popular throughout the world these days.. More children are playing hurling than were in the 80's and 90's.. There are more children learning traditional Instruments than there were 20 years ago.... Get yourself out and take a look around.. Talk to people... Get involved instead of sitting there being sad... Saddo.
I'm a McNamara but we are from Keel, Achill Island, County Mayo. My cousin went over from Cleveland, Ohio, US to the island, she proudly told a bartender "I'm a McNamara, we are from here" expecting to be welcomed like long lost kin. He said, "yeah, aren't you all" and went on polishing the glasses.
What wonderful photos. Galway is a homey town. I loved our whole trip. The landscape is luscious. Ireland is one place I would love to take a second trip to. Thank you for sharing. 🦋🦋🦋
Amazing to see how far Ireland has come since the days of desperation and poverty in the very recent past. Many problems persist today but we're a forward looking nation proud of our place in the world. Thanks for uploading.
@@Daisy-ct3nh Shit then, I suppose we better get rid of all the vikings, Normans, Scots, English, French and Flemish settlers who've invaded our land in the last 1000 or so years.
This is true diversity, the diversity of different people's and their culture. This homogeneous world the financial elites are building at the moment is a Frankenstein.
Bhí mé ag gabháil a scríobh an ruda chéarna. Tá na duifreacha eadar na tíorthaí ag laghdughadh ó bhliadhain go bliadhain. Tá na teangthacha ag fagháilt bháis. Muna ndéantar rud ar bith beidh achan nduine cosamhail le Meiriceánach i gcionn cupla bliadhain. Ní bheidh mise, cibith...
They were a huge improvement on the housing which had been available previously to the native Irish. There are some excellent videos on RU-vid of people moving from the slums in Dublin, out to Finglas, Ballyfermot etc., The people who got those houses were delighted. They had been living in the worse slums in Europe for generations, the council houses and flats were a vast improvement on the conditions endured previously. I do however take your point; that historically we lost a great deal of our culture and history in the rush to modernise.
❤this I'm not Irish, but have a deep ❤for Ireland and the Irish people, beautiful people who know what it is like to live through hard times yet very hospitable and beautiful culture
Notice how all in all of these images, people have dark hair - thats the most common in Ireland. Dark hair, pale skin and light or brown eyes. Never understood the stereotype of the red head irish! (even though they are beautiful, they are 'rare')
My great, great, great grandfather was an Irishman I believe from county Cork. He was a Sullivan and migrated to New Zealand and a whaler. We were given a video from a friend of ours showing the remains of their castle and history. It was said that the English, was it Oliver Cromwell? Their murderous escapades almost wiping out the clan owing to their resistance to English sovereignty. We also had a dear a Dermot Childs, now deceased from that same area a wonderful family. Anyway there are plenty Sullivans now, part Maori in Australia as well. Just thought I mention it. Thank you for sharing your video. Arohanui from New Zealand.
Thankyou for posting this my mother (Quinn) from bohermore rd, and my father from rural galway. I expect not many living there are originally from there. Greeting from uk💚
Lovely to see what my country locked like back in the day . When we were really Irish . Now most of the Irish people are left wing Europe and forget our past . But not me i am a Irish man from Dublin till i die . God bless you . Nice video ☘☘☘☘☘
Marvellous photo's, if somewhat sobering. The sheer grinding poverty of most of the Irish in these photos, tattered clothing and no shoes. Thanks Britain, a real testimony to your regard for Ireland and the Irish during our time under your yoke!
Thanks for these pictures of Ireland. They were taken within weeks of when my grandfather emigrated as a teen, never to see the land or his parents again. The cloaks the women are wearing are very similar to the Munster cloaks worn all over the rural southern counties by women, and which can stiil be found by diligent search. My grandmother was also a young teenager in Cork, south and east of where these photos were taken, at the time. Kahn must have been very prescient to have undertaken this photo project on the eve of The Great War WWI, which began the vast destruction and transformations of the dark and bloody 20th century. The picture of the Anglo-Irish landlord's masion, which has an ominous photo fault on the left resembling smoke and fire, might have been one of the ones blown up, burned or abandoned by the English during and after the Irish War of Independence, which began in earnest less than six years after these photographs. It's very interesting to see the world my people were forced to flee by religious, political and economic oppression. Thanks for revealing the "white privilege" of my people, as the contemporary government of Ireland refers to it, through their recent immigrant spokespeople.
White privilege doesn’t mean white people dont have struggles, it means their skin colour isn’t the cause of struggle i.e racism/ police brutality “White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. With roots in European colonialism and imperialism, and the Atlantic slave trade, white privilege has developed in circumstances that have broadly sought to protect white racial privileges, various national citizenships and other rights or special benefits”
blackswan20 no. I do think reparations by the British are in order i.e funding Gaeltachts, Irish heritage centers, Irish language/ culture centers though. White privilege is a big problem in the states from what I gather. OP seems to think that because our people have had tremendous struggles that white privilege is a myth. It’s not.
blackswan20 don’t have kids or grandkids considering my age. Don’t have a victim mentality. Don’t expect reparations from a kid on a northern council estate nor a pensioner rather, the government. It’s not a victim mentality to want what was once destroyed to be rebuilt. We go to school for years, learn Irish and all for what? Not being able to use it or remember it? White privilege means white people don’t need to worry about being killed every time the cops pull them over, or being racially profiled as a threat, or a thief, or violent. I don’t want anyone to provide for me, I don’t know where you got that from, I provide for myself. All I said was the British government could fund Gaelic heritage centres, Irish language centres ect. An apology for Bloody Sunday after a 12 year inquiry isn’t enough. “Victim mentality” my bollocks. Good luck to ya
