Imagine trying to get on with your weekend and flipping Whicker turns up in his drip-dry moustache and Terylene spectacles making snide remarks about your architraves and Germans
Lol guinness is saying irish catholic churches are hideous? Obviously never visited the usa. Also every state church in europe was building so many ugly churches all through the 50s 60s 70s
20.28 "The Irish live on the tattered fringe of Europe in a land full of evening sadness beyond caring, they are indifferent to their heritage despite those determined Guinnesses " To hell with you Alan Whicker, you pompous prat, since when did Irish heritage begin and end with Georgian architecture ? By 1970 great moves were underway to save the music traditions of the people, the dance traditions of the people, the oral traditions of the people, and great archaeology etc, etc. Maybe Georgian architecture wasnt a priority for everyone.
The obsession with folk culture and anything that was Gaelic resulted in the shameful neglect of our 18th century heritage. The Post Colonial chip on the shoulder hasn't gone away you know!
Bullshit it was ignorance and neglect ..luckily someone had the foresight..it’s still basically a dump up there but at least some of that character remains..
First comment is spot-on: the folk obsession with "trad" resulted in neglect of 18th and 19th Century art and architecture in Ireland, and if not for Guinness most of this art would've been lost forever. All that postcolonial noise is no good excuse either: Ireland's position in the UK was far more ambiguous than nationalists want to acknowledge, and Guinness was a living example of that.
3:03 he turned the shell of a historic house into a fully restored stately home in less than three years. That's amazing! PS the £93k he paid in 1967 is worth around £2 million today! I used to love Wicker's World. It was my ambition to disappear abroad and never come back and be a fantastic success just like one of the people in Wicker's World 🥹🤪
