Glimpses of Erin 1934

[rlaycock]

If my father was still with us he'd go back to old Cork in a minute.

[ByrneMJames]

@rlaycock Not a fan of screw tops what?

When Oirish ayes are smiling taah loo rah aye are ey lol cabbage

[ByrneMJames]

Im glad Im from a city. We may have been livin in squallor in Dublin and dealing with mad wars but its better then this donkey nonsense

[rlaycock]

@ByrneMJames You probably were suckled on the dole in the Dublin. Poor urbanite's opinions are warped by the government buying their votes stealing from the more productive. The farmers and ranchers always get screwed to pay for louts in the city whether in America or Ireland.

[ByrneMJames]

@rlaycock

The Dublin is a mystery to you culchies isnt it. Like the rock music and the TV lol

Ranchers lol Just because you culchies listen to country music over a bodhran and call it trad doesnt mean I relate to the US. If yiz didnt have muck under your nails there wouldnt be anythin Irish about yiz culchies at all lol

Lets be honest here, if dublin people hadnt fought for independance youd be british and happy with that. History says we had to organise yiz peasants :P

[ByrneMJames]

@rlaycock

The Dublin is a mystery to you culchies isnt it. Like the rock music and the TV lol

Ranchers lol Just because you culchies listen to country music over a bodhran and call it trad doesnt mean I relate to the US. If yiz didnt have muck under your nails there wouldnt be anythin Irish about yiz culchies at all lol

Lets be honest here, if dublin people hadnt fought for independance youd be british and happy with that. History says we had to organise yiz peasants :P

[Gerardomalley]

Poor aul dick is a big man!

[keatingellie]

Love it was Galway really like that wow how simple life must have been and real

[ShamrocksGetYouHigh]

young people leaving again. in their thousands.

[ShamrocksGetYouHigh]

if u travel the real backroads there are still scenes like this, thank god. there a few old fellas where i grew up (clare) still ride around on their donkey carts, bring it to the pub and to mass and home again pissed as a fart.

[pussersrumisgood]

I just returned from Ireland. If only Dublin were still like it was in this film. Dublin is now a city full of foreigners and parasites.

[Foloman1]

@pussersrumisgood You're talking nonsense! So you want Ireland permanently frozen in the 1930's? Is it a country or a theme park you want?

[malcolmkav76]

was this Walt Disney???????

Well I guess the rest of the world bought it!!!!

[malcolmkav76]

was this Walt Disney?????????????

[kevinwoods2009]

loved it

[retread01]

This narrator, James Fitzpatrick, is the person Peter Sellers was impersonating for his parodies of travel movies in the Goons and on records like "Balham Gateway to the South".

Funny to compare what this movie depicts with realities such as James Joyce having published Ulysses at least 10 years BEFORE this was made. Could easily have portrayed rural America in almost the same way. Or rural 'anywhere'.

[edwardjames50]

@retread01 ~ It's a product of its time, so you can't judge it by 2010 standards.

[beggo321]

This video just shows how little the US knew about Ireland at the time. 'Theres no excuse for a family to go hungry and theres enough for all?' My granny grew up in Donegal and she says that all she ever had to eat was potatoes and cabbage and had to drink tea from jam jars.

[gatheringleaves]

Aw that's sad

[digita1ove]

@beggo321

what your grandmother told you is exactly that they lived on the food they could produce themselves, so its the same :)

[E1REANN]

@beggo321 Oh god how horrible Ireland must have been without microwave food and Chinese take aways.

[expectationlost]

look at the size of that guy

[itsjustmacker]

Great Video 5*

[niknikolay]

Good video.:)

[preacain]

Nice video true the backbone of a country is the poor farmers and workers not the politician who sold out to oil companies or the city teenager that hates immigrants Long live Ireland her people and her love for humanity! xxx

[irelandmartyrs]

beatiful video

[AMason8634]

This is great!

[gavmcguinness8024]

Very interesting to see how far my country has come along. Being only 17 years old, I was born into an age where technology was so prevelent.

[jratt2]

This is a fascinating piece of film.

There have been staggering changes in Ireland since this was made but emigration didn't stop until the 1990s and Ireland remained poor until then. Donkeys are hardly ever seen and those that remain are kept as pets now. Every home has a least one car, and that street in Galway where the market is probably has coffee shops and other outlets staffed with immigrants seeking a new life here. Amazing to watch.

[bigbeninjax]

How fitting this film is now as it was shot at the beginning of the Great Depression and the announcer makes a point of how an agriculture based society will survive thru an industrial downturn. It appears that history is about to repeat itself. Unfortunately the vast majority are no longer living that agrarian economy he spoke of and it looks like Ireland has suffered greatly because of it.

[Maewynia]

I wish some old-timers would make youtubes on useful things like: how to raise vegetables, how to snare a rabbit, how to clean a chicken, how to forage. If we pampered Westerners do not learn some basic survival skills, I wonder how we will cope.

[bigbeninjax]

Well, it wouldn't surprise me to find videos on those subjects on Youtube, but it begs the question, "Will there be enough rabbits and chickens left in Ireland"?

[lukessummer]

30,000 in '26 .............50 to 60'000 every single year during the 1980's !

I wonder if we will learn anything about ourselves during the bleak times ahead in the next few years

[jratt2]

I was one of those latter emigrants!

[No1barney1]

Maybe the bigots in Ireland might lay off the incomers there & give them the chance u got!

The EU workers from Poland & Eastern Europe are returning home coz the jobs are no longer.

There are brave ppl from Africa & Asia fleeing persecution, even murder in their home country. They claim NOTHING from the Irish govt or tax payer. The racists make their shattered lives even more miserable & terrifying.

Best of luck to you : )

[Mersey26]

yes, well said, anyone should be able to live and work wherever they want. Irish people went to all parts of the world, (albeit facing some predujice in uk during troubles) but largely have been welcomed in all countries. , nice video for posting anyhow poster.

[lympog]

Please don't tar us all with the same brush. Most of us were welcoming, but you seem to be zeroing on a number of loud bigots that unfortunately exist everywhere

[corkafcceltic]

notice all the women wearing shawls.we have photo's of our grandmother in her best sunday shawl. people seem so happy in the movie,i suppose that has a lot to do with the fact the english were driven out.

[jratt2]

They're probably smiling because there is a camera on them. Its a fantastic piece of film though.

[corkafcceltic]

what beautifull footage,so carefree and happy exellent stuff.

[WolfArden44]

It is great footage of sweet Ireland,love old footage like this.Great channel this person has ,allot of old stuff :-}}

[shellyriver]

Lovely footage - plenty to learn even to day!

[attylove]

How very sentimental and fascinating, thank you!

[gatheringleaves]

Ah yes, the old mystical Ireland