County Donegal, Ireland - 1964 

To think it was only 60 years ago. The True spirit of IRELAND. 🇮🇪

A half Irish Londoner here. It’s amazing listening to these women with 11 children talk of their lives and it’s evident the sacrifices they’ve made for their families. Now you get women complaining about small things… I really think there’s so much I as a mother can learn from this.

My gt gt gt grandmother was from Ballyshannon and emigrated to the Swan Colony of Western Australia in 1961....generations later, I'm living in West of Ireland and visit Ballyshannon at the merest excuse. Truly beautiful county in a wonderful country. Love from an Aussie in Ireland.

Donegal the most beautifull county in Ireland and the friendliest nicest anywhere in the world

The schoolmaster being interviewed is my great uncle by marriage, Barney Gallagher. He and his wife, my aunt Nellie Boyle, who was originally from Mullaghduff, served as teachers on the island for decades. I still have cousins on Arranmore.

a great testimony to the enduring spirit of the donegal people...small wonder they are a nation unto themselves

I'm proud to say my mother was from arranmore island donegal. Most beautiful place on earth also kindest, caring, hard working people you'll meet. God bless them always 🙏🙏🙏

Donegal people just get on with it and can still spare a smile for a stranger

Most hardworking people I have ever met, my beautiful mother was one of them , us London /Irish would struggle to keep up , ha ha , great place, fantastic people.

Remarkable similarities to some rural communities in Scotland. Everyone is known by a nickname, it’s the same on the Isle of Lewis. The nicknames stick for generations

I’m an American because my grandfather was one of those exports. Donegal’s a tough yet beautiful place.

Wow,,, these are pricess footage of a remote corner of Europe not that long ago but looks so distant. I can't help but have respect for these people. They seems so unspoilt, pure and natural. The last part that "the men always comes back to his family" just tells everything about them.

God bless them! What beautiful people!

Love this. Listening to the women l hear my Grandmother. Such strong people.

Dear old Donegal there the people have the best accent of all Ireland

My Grandfather is from Donegal I am Australian,my sister and I were going to travel there but covid happened. Thank you for the video.

That Mrs Gallagher is a beautiful looking woman, and that reporter, is making her blush. He sometimes describes Donegal people as if they were in Afghanistan. He sounds like a West Brit, as they used to say.

She was such a beautiful place!

Couldn't tell if the 'city boy' interviewer was asking dumb questions & making silly assumptions on purpose. For many people, isolation or separation from a spouse does NOT equal loneliness. All are physically & mentally fit, simply too busy to be fretting about who is absent or what might be missing in their lives. Liked the way the geography and social dynamic was explained at the beginning.

Fascinating. My great grandfather came from Creeslough. Got married in Ayr, Southwest Scotland. My parents grew up in Dumbarton, Strathclyde.

the women of Donegall? The best in the world. This is a tough but magical world that sadly has disappeared. But the memories and hills remain.

My Irish family came from Lettermackaward, county Donegal to Ellis Island in New York City, NY, USA in the 1870s.

My mom's aunt Jenny spent her time here in America. When she retired from being a maid in Philadelphia she went back to Donegal. She must've liked it alot because she had arthritis and Donegal's cold moist weather is terrible for arthritis.

My father came from Gortahork to Scottish Borders, I have visited Donegal many times.

Moville , Green Castle ,shroove , lighthouse ,beautiful and unchanged for centuries, cross to the giants causeway,

My family come from Donegal I love it 💚

Futted the turf with my family when I was over home for the school holidays 🇮🇪

Must be the most hard working people in all of Ireland

Trusting that the heritage and culture of these good people have not evaporated through globalization.

My great-grandfather, Joseph Ward, moved to Scotland from An Clochán Liath, Co. Donegal in the 1920s in order to become a coal miner.

I’m from Donegal and so is my mum and dad were Mcdaid but it is a beautiful and the best place to be, so proud to be Irish ☘️I just noticed the channel belongs to a Lee Mcdaid how funny I still haven’t met half of my family lol there so big but we lived in glengard

I found out that some of my ancestors came from this region.

My best friend growing up was a MCGLYNN from Donegal, his parents and his friendship made me know he was from a special place.

Since the border was drawn up on a sectarian head count it was obvious that the planters would exclude the three other counties of the ancient province of Ulster which will always belong to the Irish nation in spite of what the planter thieves may say. Ireland was partitioned against the wishes of the vast majority of the Irish people, however now in 2022 the six north eastern counties of IRELAND now have a nationalist majority against the best efforts of the planters over one hundred years to eliminate them by bigotry and discrimination.

donegal and indeed all the northern counties are fantastic places.

my ancestors on my father's side (Malcolm William Connor) are from Donegal

"I can see myself doing the same thing too. The other half of my ancestry is from Donegal, Ireland"

wow- lovely find! what a sweet quiet woman there in the middle...

I hope to get to Fintown before I die....to meet the McDevitts they raise sheep in a white house with thatched roof...and my mom had six kids IRISH PROUD ♥️💋🙏xxoo GOD BLESS US ALL!♥️🙏

I have no idea how the women dried their clothes in that damp climate, let alone their babies’ cloth diapers. My sister moved to Balquidder, Scotland from northern Wisconsin to get married, and when my mother visited in July (this was around 1990), she was supposed to sleep in their caravan (a small mobile trailer thing). She slept there two nights, and then decamped to a nearby bed and breakfast where there was central heating. She said her sheets felt like they’d been through the spin cycle of the washer and were immediately put on the bed, instead of going through the dryer; she toughed it out for two wet, chilly nights but couldn’t stand any more. My sister’s small house had oil heaters for heat and my mom said there was mildew on the walls...it was so chilly she kept drinking hot tea to stay warm. Their water came from a “burn” coming down from the mountains. She refused to visit again until my sister and her family had moved to a larger town, or “civilization,” as she called it. I guess the women on Arranmore were used to the conditions, having been raised there, but their lives must have been horribly hard.

""Afternoon Lee- just stumbled on this Beautiful video. On my Mother's side she's born and bred Donegal R.I.P. -@- My Father's Mayo.. These are my Beautiful Irish ppl- hard working - self sufficient- ppl. This was when women were WOMEN AND MEN were MEN. So GIVING- POWERFUL- UNSELFISH -@full of HEART -@- SPIRITUALITY. This ERA is GONE sadly everything now is FAKE-- FALSE - PLASTIC-AND SYNTHETIC. plz Forgive my outburst. There is only one GREAT GIFT my Parents and Grandparents passed down to me our Beautiful Language. Both my parents were fluent Gaelic--- Speakers. It was passed down from one generation to the next. May all those AUTHENTIC IRISH if now gone R.I.P. ""Go ráibh máith ágát Lee-- Diá dháoibh.🙏🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚☘️☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

God bless Donegal county, the only people who voted against the horror of abortion

Brilliant video. Did I see a tv in the room? It was another 9 years till my Cousins got one in Leitrim (Near Gleneely) Before that it was the radio and ghost stories to frighten us "Scotchies" over for 7 weeks every summer. Happy times.

Derry gets it's strength from it's Donegal roots(Dohertys,Gallagher's etc)Even it's Scots Irish lot have a strong connection.Take Donegal connections from Ranger,Celtic Derbies and you'll be left with Queens of the South crowds.

wonderful thanks

Álainn ar fad. Beautiful!

The Irish emigration was Ireland’s loss and the world’s gain. That Donegal’s women are tough goes without saying; that toughness is a national trait of Irish women, and men. Their lives under British rule created such a culture of harshness, that they had to grow up tough to survive, and they did just that. In the Civil War, the Irish Brigade were instrumental in three of the most important battles, and lost almost 4,000 men. Having been greeted with derision and extreme prejudice when they arrived in America, the Irish Brigade’s bravery in battle forced Americans to rethink their place in their new country. There is a reason that Notre Dame is known as the Fighting Irish.

'They come to......and probably father another child..." ! Brace yerself now Bridget!

If only all Americans had that culture and those virtues.

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"...they haven't much time for blackguardism really." What a wonderful turn of phrase.

Do you know a Marie mc said she was a nurse from Donegal.

Ulster. Got to love the Catholic church!

These women are long gone not only in Donegal but elsewhere in the whole of Ireland. The women of an ulster lived no differently in the country within the six counties. Now, they want the good life, the money 5he cars and the house over 5heir head and no more of this 8 or 10 children, They want their own careers. It’s a different kind of hardship now. And not everyone is enjoying it.

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Some of the woman today wouldn’t survive back then.

CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOUND YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR THEM SPEAKING, PLEASE WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS ON WHEN THE SOUND 8S SO BAD. THANK YOU

My 3rd ggps were from donegal. I think kilcar

Prince Charles and Diana visited Donegal when they were a courting,they spent most of their time in mount Charles.

Ah . The daddies are only gone for 6 months, so.... comes home raring to go

The poor donkeys feet. Agony🥺

Name of Culbert

Your second name is mcdaid so is mine

hard not to hear John Cleese betimes.

Hoo come on Now! Best Fecking Crack I've watched in ages. Lovely

Bit dramatic, not all the men left and not all the women were left on their own to raise the kids and farm the land etc

11 children with no man about the place..... Now there's a novelty

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The British held on to the 6 counties for the ship building and linen industry. They would have been instrumental in their creation. Donegal was of no value. The men in charge.. as usual...made a mess of things.

load a bolox

Now Donegal has mass uncontrolled immigration Ireland is rising up and im proud of you 💚💚💚

Glengad. Home

today the Brussels controlled irish politicians see no problem in giving away this heritage,culture, identity,future to masses of economic migrants who live off welfare benefits while the young irish still have to emjgrate for decent employment and affordable housing ....

"Every child a blessing" Now unborn in womb means nothing......abortion .........GENO CIDE Lest we forget 2020 is 1916 rising....... 21/11/2020

sassnack opinions whoops.

Ireland so much nicer when it was only Irish.

6.21 she sounds more Scottish than anything else, not Northern Ireland - Scottish!

It now imports men

Donegal was and still is the most conservative right wing county in the Irish republic. The influence of the catholic church in that county has been appalling, with the scale of child sex abuse by priests in Donegal really bad. Its conservative nature and deference to the catholic church made Donegal the least liberal county in Ireland.

To father another child... 😆😅🤣😂

This is about as racist as it gets.