Prophecies is telling us Jesus's return will be very soon then we will see our loved one very soon. Of course no one knows exactly when but I pray every day it's soon.
I feel like my family has had a similar lifestyle but I am 42 and am from rural USA (California, Idaho, Arkansas). I've made butter plenty, taken care of lots of farm animals, and my dad is a blacksmith. I feel blessed to have experienced the simple, good life 🙏
The more I watch videos such as these, the more I learn about & appreciate our heritage. As a much younger person, at the time these programmes were broadcast, I was more interested in pursuing my social ventures and interests rather than absorbing these beautifully crafted documentaries of our country and life. My formative years were a mix of city, town and rural and I have memories of farmsteads and lifestyles such as those documented here. Much of the rural land l roamed, explored and played in my childhood is now sprawling estates, supermarkets and other urban features of modern living; no longer a sleepy village. Such is progress - alas.
This takes me back to a time that was so real. I was born in co cork 1966 i left my mother land 1988 and arrive in the good old USA I'm here over 30 years and I miss the life of my youth. However we must forge on. This show brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my chest. A time gone by. A lovely time!!!
So nice to see this and all the government is doing to day is destroy any thing that is anything to do with Ireland as fast as possible we are in a very sad country now unfortunately ,
I am also from Cork living in the UK since 96 As they say no place like home I'm a rebel true and true and so proud to be 👍 as they say ( UP CORK) home is where the heart is 💯 ❤🙏
How marvellous this show was . They don’t make hardy folk like the Mulhollands any more I warrant . Such a well made and narrated document of a time and place which is rapidly if not totally disappearing . Glad I saw this . 👍🏴
I'm glad I got to see this. Although born of Irish kin-despite being born and raised in Pennsylvania - this film touches me deep within my soul. I long to walk those green meadows of Ireland...
The Paddy's will always talk of home, no matter how far they are from it, and your yen is a testament to how well they told their stories. People are place, as much as place is. Good luck
Lovely story. Beautifully written very well narrated by Benedict Kiely. Thank you for helping me reconnect to my history. Our family of Scots-Irish became wealthy shopkeepers in Dublin. They built Castle Coole, around the corner from the town of Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh. My son and I visited from the states and learned the story of how building a castle can ruin your finances.
I want to thank you so much for uploading this absolute gem of a series. It’s such a shame that the times have changed so drastically😢 Everything is so fast paced nowadays, everybody is rushing to get nowhere. We no longer stop to take in the beauty that surrounds us, instead we’re enslaved to materialism. I’m from Dublin myself, but have always longed for the peace and tranquility of the countryside. I have watched three episodes of this captivating series so far, and can’t wait to watch the rest. Thank you again, thank you!
Helen Tucker: Yes, I've made my own from raw milk almost nothing like it except for Kerry Gold butter which I've bought here in the states. As close as you'll get.
Yes, though I prefer non salted butter. It does not keep fresh so long but once you get used to it you realise how much salt you were consuming. NZ butter is very, very salty and strong. I much prefer milder, non salted European butters.
2020 anyone watching this.. How simple life was then, wish it was the same now today as it was back then. Rip the great peaceful and simple lives they had.
Dan following the cattle along a lane secretly curtained, and perfumed with bushes and brambles. A place for children to play outlaws and pirates, the haunted country lane of everyone’s childhood. Just wow. What a phrase. Transports me back to 6 years old
wow... Helen, i love his spoken voice , it brings me back to my childhood ... Benedict also narrated the cavan cabinet makers episode which is my favourite one....
Love to see old school crafts and skills preserved coupled with proud self reliance. Those dogs could tell a tail, for sure. Born in Dublin, lived in Norther Ireland and England, greetings from the USA.
Well done to the folks behind the camera who recorded this episode. I was born in the mid 90s in Ballymun, Dublin. Always had an affinity toward the rural lifestyle compared to city living which I find dismal. Hopefully one day I can afford to buy myself some land out in the countryside 🙏
How to be happy,going to confession and saying the rosary. Confession gets rid of depression,and the rosary makes one happy and optimist because most of our prayers get answered the way we like.
Dylan McGowan, do it now while you have the youth and the money for it. Notice the hard physical labor that is continuous all day, every day? Having a pipe and a mug in front of the fire is a blessing then.
The circuitous mode of conversation is a marvel. Instead of saying "I would like to buy a scythe stone", we have, "Well yous are still working at the scythe-stones? ...Well I suppose yous'd have one spare now or? ...Well that'll be ok now Frank, I could be doing with one."
My father was from Irvinestown in Fermanagh. This family lived exactly how his did up until the 1980s. Lovely hard working, highly skilled, peaceful people.
love this video thankyou retired bricky , graphic designer and lithographic printer now hardened NATIONALIST GET FIT TRAIN HARD FIGHT EASY WELCOME TO CAMP WESTERN FREEDOM
@@stevebell4906 I don't live in the city. I fucking hate them. A town maby. I'm not advocating entirely going self sufficient im saying that the city isn't all its cracked up to be
I was reared in the 50s in exactly this way of life.It was work work work when you reached ten years old.We NEVER had a holiday anywhere.I am very conflicted on the debate as to which era was better.So much pros and cons for both I think.I could list off some of them but it would take all night.Suffice it to say it wasn't all roses back then as this series suggests.I LOVE these programmes dearly as they mainly portray the beautiful skills of the craftsmen and women then.We have IKEA now😡😡.Peace from Ireland to all.🍀🍀🍀.
Never heard of any one ever dying from hard work and good food but many today die from lack of hard work and eating processed shite,glad I am a hard working irish throwback Blessed be us Irish👍🇮🇪
Blessed indeed. But I have seen people's lives shortened by physical hard work - not sure if that counts as dying from hard work. The quality of the food was very important - as well as the volume. I've heard elsewhere of how on farms the second helpings as well as the best of the first, would go to the people (often men) who would do the most physically demanding work: food was fuel.
No, lives are shortened by hard physical work; and bodies worn out prematurely. This especially so when one is driven hard by the bosses who have no human sentiment; when the working man is driven at an inhuman pace. Please note that the old lads in this video move at a gentle pace. I have noticed that those who claim that "hard work never killed anyone" are usually strangers to toil.
@@markstuckey6225 you can't pretend that words like "hard" and "gentle" have exact, repeatable definitions. I would say that any work that's difficult to the point of chronic injury is, by definition, "backbreaking" work. That's how that word has always been used. Your claim that "hard work shortens lives" is also far too broad. Even backbreaking work will *lengthen* the life of a particularly slovenly person.
My goodness! The one thing I always notice about these Irish farmsteads from the last century is how silent everybody is! My husband and I are always talking, laughing, singing, or humming all day long, now that we’re both retired! And our adult sons are the same way….we never run out of things to say and to laugh about! And it’s so different that six unmarried siblings chose to live together til death.
This is how I'd like to spend time when traveling, with ordinary people, especially homesteaders, learning to do a thing or two. This was how mankind lived freely and mostly independently, but for the damn manor born taking everything. With them now gone, it'd be a much better way to live - and sustainably.
Loved this video, so relaxing to watch. I remember here in the southern states of America when life was much simpler and children were raised to take care of themselves. How to hunt, plant a garden, make your own tools and provide for your own family. Everyone had a task to perform everyday no matter the age, just like these gents and no matter how poor we were my family never asked for a handout...my God look at how things are now with all the "I'm entitled" people today. Political correctness has destroyed this country!
It's not "political correctness" that "destroyed this country". There is political correctness on both sides of the political divide. Don't pretend conservatives don't have their own narrow rules about the opinions people should hold. There are two things destroying the country, as much as anything: 1) the huge, growing gap in wealth & incomes between the 1% at the top and the half of the country that survives from paycheck to paycheck with no savings and 2-3 jobs to feed their families. This is thanks to the tax giveaways to the rich that Trump has made even more unequal. 2) Meth and synthetic opiates - millions of Americans in the cities and across rural America, addicted to cheap drugs and being killed at a rate of hundreds of thousands a year from overdoses. I'm not talking about black people in the inner cities or drugs coming over the Mexican border. Millions of poor white people in the South and Midwest are hooked on opiates manufactured and sold legally in the US. Trump has done f*ck all to stop this crisis. The Wall is nothing but a distraction.
Bloody hard work I doubt many of todays twenty somethings could manage doing what those chaps are doing at their age . Great video gone but not forgotten .
I worked very hard and now I have arthritis and other things that mean that I must take morphine for the pain and I don’t believe that I want my children to be suffering like me
Very similar to my own childhood and family's history, except that we were farmers and potters. I'm certain my father had one of these whet stones to sharpen his scythe. He always said that handmade was better than machine-made. Oh to return to those simpler times.
Here and there there are folk living simply keep calm and don't be in such a rush to get nowhere fast. I grow organic veg and fruit in a lovely comunity garden and we all sit and share food and drink in a calm civilized manner and talk and laugh and back to working ad getting our hands dirty. So enjoyable and rewarding. My father was a farmer from Fermanagh
I bought the dvds of this series years ago. Wish I still had them. Is the entire series to be added to tube? Certainly gave me much pleasure from tv series to dvds. Thank you for making them available in this format.
I did't see anyone that looked at all happy. They looked like living stones. Even the women looked like they never smiled. No thanks, I'll stay where I am.
wel, your grandma is unfortunatly wrong, when you go back and ckeck death records you'll see that men tend to die younger than women, it is attributed to hard labour, and is especially true in working class people.
Even in 1980, 50p was next to nothing. Pocket money for a small child. For something hewed out of the living rock and hand shaped, and then transported, it’s incredible.
The thing that stands out to me the most, is how the men dressed to go out and do heavy, dirty work. Button shirts, vests, suspenders and tweed jackets. They worked their asses off, and I guess looking good was part of a job well done.
I remember detachable collars, to make the shirt last longer. And my mother and her sisters were good at turning cuffs to get double the wear out of them.
Interesting they don't use feathers but wedges to hew split the stone. And no stone lathe- not even a treadle one. Lovely documentary film it's not only an Irish story, but a Welsh, an English and a Scots story of quiet men and women, going about their own business. My English grandfather born 1902, was apprentice wood turner and cooper at age 12 eldest of 6, at the Clyde (we had relatives there). His parents were Northern Irish- flax spinners and farmers from Antrim where the world's finest linen grew, had granda in their forties. Not all change is for the better.
I imagine these people have the best chance of survival during disasters. Hopefully, they are able to teach others and give them "city folk" a chance to learn and survive.
It's easy to look back thru rose tinted glasses but times could be hard then but somehow I think it was a better time in so many ways...people had time to talk...looked out for their neighbours.... no credit cards or living beyond your means..... in so many ways better times me thinks
At ~15.55 _“The final scraping an shaping of the wooden stake is done by a scythe blade.”_ Someone screwed up the sound track, because that’s not a wooden stake being shaped, it’s a sharpening stone.
Oh, he narrates "... at the wooden stake" which the sharpening stone is pressed up against. The CC subtitles gets it wrong and says 'of' not able to handle the narrators accent.
What great traditions we had in our wee country back then now sadly technology has taken and these great traditions with the old hands are being lost these people could of learned the people now a thing or two about living self sufficient and working hard of the land and tyrone like other parts of ulster is a beutifull wee homeland that i miss and love thank so much for bringing us this wonderfull documentry a great watch
I’d love to know if the farm and quarry are lived in and used. Tried to find Eshbally quarry near Lisnaskea but just came up with the townland boundary and what could be an overgrown quarry isn’t in focus enough. Ahh well, some things and places are meant to stay hidden away from prying invasive nosey technology. Great film👏🏻
I would love to live like that so peaceful, eating .smoking . hunting . If I done a hunt with my dog he would fall a sleep . People with less look a lot happy than know in the towns with much more 👍🏻
