Brings tears to my eyes, this is the Ireland I grew up as a child, it was hard living but a great life, unfortunately it's almost gone and most of the people coming in don't care or aprichhate that hard working way of life, and it looks like they Irish politicians don't care about the past, good by Ireland
This brings back so many memories. When i moved back to Ireland after Uni in England, I stayed in a guesthouse in North Tipperary. The landlady's husband was an old farmer, similar to these brothers and lived "next door" in a kitchen that was like walking back in time. He was a quiet, hard-working man with little in the way of education, but much in the way of wisdom - and I spent many an evening chatting with him in front of his turf fire, not least because he could tell me of all the little things that happened in the locality back in the anglo-irish war. He had no interest in politics or religion, but "respected" both (or the power of both), his interest was confined to that and those around him. For him, the fight ended with the treaty, not because he agreed or disagreed with it, but because he could not accept Irishmen fighting each other..... and his views on the North were the same. RIP, Sonny.
Two characters from a sadly long gone way of life i grew up around rural folk like this and feel fortunate to have lived amongst people like these two Brothers
Reminds me of my annual summer holiday treks, from England to Ireland as a wee boy to see my wonderful grandparents and farm in Co Clare throughout the 60'/70's, The close knit tiny village where people genuinely cared for each other and Ireland was a nicer place
My god this was a beautiful video nice hearings to Irish men and to brothers great show.the best song was ever wrote .will my soul ever mass through old Ireland .my mother sang it alot her name was helen Bradley Byrne she sand always irish music she had two tapes out was one 8 track and one cassette it was called the road to dundee her tapes went to Ireland back in the 90es just by people visiting there We were told it was played in irish pubs she met Tommy makem my mother though he was number 1 in her time she passed a way 2005 .she would have love to been able to see this viedo she always wants to see Ireland but she never got there but i know her soul would have passed ireland when she died bring up her four children and her husband worked every day we were not well of .nobody was nabours anyone all that we all got food in are bella clothes on are back she also sand a lot of house partys and benefits concerts then when the for children were able to fend for themselves my mother went out work.i just told a little bit about my mother .she would have loved seen this video i really enjoyed it thank RU-vid for letting people see this October 2020
Loved to have meet these boys for era long gone so straight forward to understand listen to the true life stories common honest simple life antiques in modern world
There’s still a few of them around, I worked for an elderly husband and wife last winter and you could stay listening to their stories and humour all day long.
Reminds me of my two uncles who were from Co Cavan they lived on the farm where my mother grew up. They never married. We loved spending our summer holidays there.
This is brilliant. There was a similar documentary released in 1999 following Ernie Morrow and his brother Stewart from 1996 to 1998, up in the Glens of Antrim, called “Us Boys”. Two different parts of Ireland, but all Irishmen and a really similar life. Ernie and Stewart were “Scotch-Irish” (as Ernie describes it, their ancestors coming from Scotland with the plantation) and spoke real broad Ulster-Scots. But it’s class to see that this is a really similar documentary, but just in a different part of Ireland.
Yes, Robb, I remember that documentary so well. "US Boys" was beautifully filmed and it touched my soul. I recall how they still had their radio set to BBC Home (2) on mediumwave. It was an incredible and haunting documentary about the the Morrow brothers in the Antrim glens and their Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots) background. This documentary about the Butler brothers with that wonderful Comeragh Mountains accent from Waterford is so similar in many ways. As you observed, two sets of brothers from opposite ends of the island of Ireland, Antrim and Waterford, and captivating us in a manner that we will never see with the Twitter generation. Real people with no agendas. What a special generation of great people.
I love this progamme, with the lovely Waterford accents, and the confusuion between Old time, and New time, I remember one year when we had double summertime,🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Man made virus will answer a lot of your questions. Scary times for the elderley and the sh!t care they are recieving kidnapped away from families who love them.
""I've just stumbled on this BEAUTIFUL -heart - wrenching - tear- jerking video. They could be my Ancestors from Belmullet in Co.Mayo- as this was the way my Father -@- Mother RIP was. Hard working - yet- full of Spirituality - Kindness- -#- Goodness. May those two BEAUTIFUL Brothers Paddy -@- Nicholas RIP. now walk carefree with their parents in God's Great Garden up yonder. They can plough the fields @- sow there seeds for our next generation. God Bless You Paddy -@- Nicholas-- your toiling days are over your now at PEACE"""--- ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚🙏🙏🙏🙏🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🧚🧚🧚
@Jim Halfpenny ""Thank u Jim -4- your lovely - informative- reply. Yes- they seemed a truly lovely - genuine - pair of Gentlemen. Sadly those kind of STRONG- men are a dying breed as they were STRONG IN MIND -@- BODY. My Parents RIP worked from dawn till dusk and reared -8- of us me being the youngest. Their parents same too Ploughing away and never a begrudging word to say about no one. God Bless You Jim and Go ráibh máith ágát -- BLESSINGS from Belmullet - down Mayo. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️💚💚💚
Stumbled across it myself just now. Two gas men. Their mother must have been a tough woman. We only seem to appreciate characters like this when they are gone. “You only miss the water when the well runs dry”
@@aidanmullally5459 ""Thank u Aidan- very well said. They were STRONG IRISH Men -@- women bk then. We are Blessed that we are Descendants from this THE REAL IRISH. God Bless You Aidan and your Family.""🙏🙏🙏☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚
Mary Kate , I loved your comments, & they are so very true . I’m lucky enough to remember ppl like this , salt of the earth , at their core was their faith which shone through. Sad that all those lovely Real ppl are gone now & will never be seen in this life again . We really need to cherish our old ppl & their stories ... God bless you & all your family ....
@@lydialily846 """Just read your beautiful reply Katie- -@- I thank u from my Heart. Yes- those Beautiful kind of ppl are rare. To Qoute the words of one of our great Poet's and Writers- W.B. YEATS--"""LOVE IS RARE- LIFE IS STRANGE- NOTHING LASTS -- AND-- PEOPLE CHANGE.""-- that surely is the old Ireland gone -@- this New Inhumane setting down roots. God Bless You Katie- and All Your Family."".🙏🙏🙏💚☘️🇮🇪
I am listening to this in Los Angeles County, California, June 2021. I can barely understand one out of five words they say, with their accent being so thick.
@@willy2k595 """If u can direct me -2- a - County in Ireland where I can find a ""MAN""-- like either if these -2- Beautiful - Spiritual I'll be astonished. I'm looking a Husband but the odds now at 36- it's an Illusion. Diá dháoibh Willy-- Béannácht -Léat"".🙏🙏🙏
They were from Coolnahorna (Cúil na hEorna) in the parish of Mothel, Co.Waterford at the foot of the Comeraghs - not far from Counshinghaun. Filming started in 1992 by photographer Richard Fitzgerald. Paddy died in 1998. Nicholas died in 2002. The programme ('Townlands - The Brothers') was broadcast on RTE1 in 2006. Quote " . . The women: since they got the motor-cars, you couldn't stop them now . . "
Had two uncles like them in co Clare. I remember when one of them passed away the other declined. I remember I once asked why he never married and he said " women are awful contrary " 😁
Well they say the Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves Butler is of Norman origin Not that it matters i really enjoyed this God Bless them both 👍
Wexford was Viking. I see a Viking look to them, even in the language a Scandanavian lilt is there. Mayo and Galway was Norman land with families like, Burkes, Barrets, Costellos, Dillons etc.
@@MrResearcher122 normans landed in wexford in bannow bay and baginbun Your carrying a name of norman origin Yes vikings were in Dublin wexford waterford cork limerick
If one of them died in 1997 then obviously the recording could not have been done in 2006! The material must be at least 23 years old, probably more. My husband knew them, they lived not too far from here. And i met so many people like them down the years that watching and listening to them, it feels like listening to old friends of mine. Though i actually never met those two.
@@marypower1261 If you cared to watch part two it says at the end of the program 2006. They obviously made the program over time but it was edited in 2006.
Growing up in rural Ireland, I witnessed many bachelor men like this. There were many reasons for it. Like the one man said, “Working all the time on the farm, no time for girls.” And then there was isolation issues, lack of social interaction with the female sex...in school, ‘twas boys to boys and girls to girls and never the two should mingle...until courting time. For some, it was just too little too late. God bless them all and Rest In Peace...There but for the grace of God go I.
