I like my late parents were born on the next island Inishmore, the biggest of the 3 Aran Islands. My mother would have been 9 years old when this film was made. This is lovely to see.
Incredible! Love my country and what a privilege it is to see this in colour and the correct speed. Fun fact: the little boys were put in dresses to disguise them as little girls so that the fairies wouldn’t take them (the fairies had a preference for boys). Also if you are wondering what is going on at the end they are getting a cow to go into a small boat so that they can bring it to a larger boat/ferry to bring it to the mainland.
I wondered why the boys were in dresses. I thought it was economically better so that the parents didn't have to buy so many clothes and they could be passed down. I like your story better :). PS If I was a cow I wouldn't want to get in a small boat either!😀
Actually little boys wore dresses as it was easier to put nappies on them. This was the practice all across Britain until the nineteenth century. The Aran islands were retaining a practice that had died out elsewhere.
@@gordonlepard4200 actually no. Please don't explain my own country and history to me, it's rude, presumptuous, and culturally insensitive. First of all, Ireland and Britain are TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES (we are exhausted from explaining this) so it has nothing to do with Britain. Second of all when you go to any of the islands the people there will tell you that it was to disguise the boys as girls so that the Fairies wouldn't take them.
@@StephBer1 I like that idea! Keep in mind that clothes were rarely bought back them, and rather made from scratch too. You can see the seat of the men's trousers patched up to be mendes too in the footage.
Wow, that is incredible footage! Life in the Aran Islands in 1929 was probably scarcely much different to the 1840s or 1850s, so we're getting an absolute snapshot of Irish history.....amazing. The sound on this is real btw and not dubbed, we're hearing their actual voices.
I'm Irish from Boston 1960, it's funny how as a kid I couldn't wait to grow up, time seemed so slow at times, now I turned 63 and time picks up speed as you age. Thank you for great images of the past, enjoy your time on earth, it's numbered.🙏
Although life was hard in these times, people seem happy and joyful, very good rescue, very good video, thanks for showing a small sample of those times. 🌻🌟⚘👏
not to be confused with the Isle of Arran off the west coast of Scotland. That aside, I love how you've incorporated the sounds as well, kudos to all involved!
My husband and I visited Galway and took a tour of the Aran Islands and the cliffs of Moher. My father's family was from there and immigrated to the US like so many others. Beautiful place and wonderful people.
I wonder what people of that era would think if transported to our time now. I think they would feel terrified and overwhelmed. They would beg to go back.
Most of the people in the video would've only spoken Irish and been very religious. They also came from large families and probably the first thing they'd wonder if they appeared in the modern world would be where everyone is. There are a thousand less people living in the Aran islands today than when this video was taken and the modern population is also older.
Another amazing snapshot in time. I just love how the colourizing just brings the footage to life from something that you can't really connect to... to something that sparks with life...
Social media has taking mind and identity from people. This vids are a living testimony from other time when people just live life with other perspective.
I am British. I knew about the Isle of Arran in Scotland, but I never knew about the Aran Islands in Ireland. Clearly my geography is appalling 🤦 Wonderful video - the closest to time travel we'll ever get!
Beautiful restoration. I'm interested in history, what people wore and did. Not really here for the fashion/beauty content, but there's a lot here of all different things.
I’m Irish and I’m very proud of our culture, a good few of These people are of Spanish Decent from Ship wrecks , and settled, also on the mainland spiddel and most of the west coast ( Name King a very known name in the west is Actually Raya or Rayas Same as Spanish football player they are others and still have the Spanish look to this day 2024
Wow what a good long life! RIP, I am sure that man saw so many important moments in humanity and advances in technology living those 92 years, hopefully you learned a lot from him
@@gmg9010 sorry to hear that, i can understand seeing a loved ones mind become lost as well, my grandfather passed at 75 after a long battle with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s that was almost certainly due to his exposure to agent orange in Vietnam. May they all RIP
No Diela It is not! These are the Aran Islands, a group of three Islands off the Galway cosst. There is an Arran, two 'rs" in Scotland. Brush Up on your geography.
Correct! The large boat can only come so far or it would ground. So the way to get cattle to the mainland and back was to get that on a smaller boat, row them out to the ferry, then using pulleys get them up the side of the ferry. Understandably they were reluctant to go!
The cattle have been sold and are heading off to Galway. They swam behind the currach, supported with their head held, then hoisted onto the "Galway Bay" steamship, then after that ship retired, the "Naomh Éanna" ship took over until 1988 I think. They haven't had to swim in a couple of decades, they get hoisted from the pier these days
They are trying to get it into the small boat to row it out to a larger boat. Then the larger boat will be taking it to mainland Ireland. The large boat wouldn't be able to come right in to the shoreline (and later the piers when they were built) or it would have become grounded.
It's a famous tradition. If it doesn't drown it means it's possessed so they throw it off a cliff. If it survives that it is given the office of Mayor of Aran.
