Old photos of Donegal

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  • čas přidán 3. 08. 2018
  • Old photos and Postcards of Co Donegal, See how Donegal have changed over the past hundred years

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  • @feckineck
    @feckineck Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks for the photos my grandad mcclintock had a farm in castlefinn love to end my day's in donegaul

  • @mariat9010
    @mariat9010 Před rokem +1

    Great photos my grandfather was in the video which was a lovely surprise 🙂. They were hard times for sure.

  • @encarnacionmacorol7899
    @encarnacionmacorol7899 Před 3 lety +8

    What a lovely place to live in. I wish one day I could be there and see it in person in God's time. What a beautiful creation of God 🙏🙏🙏 Amen

  • @dianebarrett7340
    @dianebarrett7340 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for the amazing pictures of Donegal. My mother ( Leticia Mary Lynch) was born in Dunree, Buncrana Donegal and I remember the many visits to see my Grandparents. It's only now that I appreciate the absolutely stunning beauty of Donegal whilst looking out my window onto dirty old London town. Sadly beauty doesn't create jobs and jobs erode beauty.

  • @jimeb2jim256
    @jimeb2jim256 Před rokem +2

    My grandmother is from there. She kept a piece of turf wrapped in wax paper for years. Her family thatched roofs and had a farm.

  • @johnmcdyer7297
    @johnmcdyer7297 Před 4 lety +9

    That was brilliant my dad was born in that lovely county Donegal

  • @eileengray8133
    @eileengray8133 Před 3 lety +6

    Ireland is beautiful My mother was from county Cork & my farther county Kildare been 4 times in my life time love it!

  • @upperkeeldrum
    @upperkeeldrum Před 4 lety +7

    My mother’s family is all in this area, I adore and cherish it

  • @jennyb7745
    @jennyb7745 Před 3 lety +16

    Lovely film,but the icing on the cake would have been some Irish Celtic music

    • @Michael-bf1dt
      @Michael-bf1dt Před 3 lety +1

      Hi Jenny how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. It’s a lovely video but you are correct about the music 🎶. Should have been some lovely Irish ☘️ airs. Wishing you a lovely Sunday 🙏🌹😊👍 Michael

  • @brendonbonner3309
    @brendonbonner3309 Před rokem +4

    Thanks for these. A special place. The old Derry to Donegal town train shows how partition cut Donegal off from it's natural hinterland of the rest of Ulster. Life looks like it was pretty tough for people there back in the day. What a change from today with Letterkenny getting a new IT university and all the medical manufacturing companies around there. How did the women keep those long dresses so clean when living on a farm in a thatched cottage?

  • @winfriedwinterstein8884
    @winfriedwinterstein8884 Před 4 lety +25

    I am very grateful that Ireland gave hope to German children with Operation Shamrock, gave them life and gave them a new home. I visited Glencree and I love Ireland and especially Donegal where an Irish family gave me shelter on their farm.

    • @waldo197720
      @waldo197720 Před 2 lety +1

      This would be an interesting story to hear about,…..

    • @irishterminator.
      @irishterminator. Před rokem +1

      Winfried I am delighted that you got to spend some time in Ireland 🇮🇪 and I hope that you come back soon and as someone said it would be a very interesting story to read

  • @earlsinclair1064
    @earlsinclair1064 Před 2 lety +3

    Hello, everyone. I'm from Germany and I hope to travel to Ireland one day. I especially want to see the small towns, visit the western cliffs and enjoy nature. First of all, I want to drink a Guinness. I know it's everywhere, but when I drink something like that, I want to do it in the country it comes from. hahaha I don't need tropics, turquoise sea and coconut. I hope Ireland is and will be as beautiful as in my dreams.

  • @jerkennelly8863
    @jerkennelly8863 Před 4 lety +6

    Thanks for sharing, Jer

  • @jeanwegner7266
    @jeanwegner7266 Před 4 lety +22

    Lovely video! But the music doesn’t fit 👍👍

  • @williamgoldsmith3796
    @williamgoldsmith3796 Před rokem +4

    Pity there is no Irish music to accompany the lovely photographs.

  • @Colquhoun2676
    @Colquhoun2676 Před 5 lety +6

    Beautiful 💚🇮🇪🧡

  • @themadfarmer5207
    @themadfarmer5207 Před rokem +2

    Beautiful photos. However so many lived in poverty with the annual emigration to Scotland to harvest potatoes. They may have been content, but they were poor, and accepted it. At least they had a railway line which they don't have now. Music was lovely. It is not necessary to have a tootling on a tin whistle for every Irish event..

    • @movinon1242
      @movinon1242 Před rokem

      Read the book "The Children of the Dead End" by Patrick MacGill to get a better understanding of the place and time.

  • @galynaborysovska2085
    @galynaborysovska2085 Před rokem

    Thank you very much!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.

  • @GeneMcC
    @GeneMcC Před 3 lety +3

    Where my grand mother was from.

  • @michelleburnett7098
    @michelleburnett7098 Před 4 lety +5

    Loved watching this,thank you!😍😁

  • @irenemohan
    @irenemohan Před 3 lety +2

    Thanks for sharing this - unlike one or two others on here I thought the music fitted perfectly.

  • @MrJoecool9999
    @MrJoecool9999 Před rokem +1

    Nice photos - I have a collection of negatives myself of copies I did for a man in Annagry - men standing with rifles and the barracks burning in the background - wearing the broad black brimmer of the IRA - Crolly chapel - corrugated with dozens of Black Nellies lying along the ditch outside.....! - mostly photos from Dungloe to Gaoth Dobhair...!
    I was a photographer - I took photos of the Boat - the 2nd one - I actually took photos on it for the Local knitwear factory for a magazine....!

    • @feckineck
      @feckineck Před rokem

      You should make a video like this

  • @ninamedeiros2325
    @ninamedeiros2325 Před rokem +1

    Um dia eu vou visitar,eu sonho com isso

  • @phyllidaanamaire1707
    @phyllidaanamaire1707 Před rokem +2

    Why can’t you PLEASE accompany these great photos with our beautiful Irish music…I have to look without volume as it is too 😮disturbing .

  • @rubytroy7756
    @rubytroy7756 Před 10 měsíci

  • @jodiescarcega1924
    @jodiescarcega1924 Před 4 lety +6

    And then they moved to AMERICA!

  • @phyllidaanamaire1707
    @phyllidaanamaire1707 Před rokem +2

    Is there NO IRISH MUSIC AT ALL//////WHAT IS THIS ABOUT???

  • @hilltop521
    @hilltop521 Před 3 lety +5

    Beautiful pictures don't know where the hughe castle is n donegal old ireland at its purest music a joke though

    • @M-isty
      @M-isty Před 2 lety +1

      St Eunan's college Letterkenny,....was incarcerated there for 5 years

    • @hilltop521
      @hilltop521 Před 2 lety

      @@M-isty looks impressive must be a very old building

  • @petermartin9335
    @petermartin9335 Před 2 lety +1

    It's a fascinating look back at how most Irish people had to live not all that long ago. These thatched cottages were primitive. No disrespect to those who had to live in them. It was a roof, protection from the wind and rain. But, its an indictment of the politics of that time. The " elite " lived in gated estates, had huge town houses in Dublin, multiple servants while most Irish people lived in squalid, smoky cabins hardly fit for animals. Times improved, but those living in tents in Dublin might not agree today either.

  • @philippejarnoux4912
    @philippejarnoux4912 Před 2 lety +1

    C est beau l Autriche 😂😂

  • @jamesyoung6003
    @jamesyoung6003 Před 2 lety +2

    Commercial came in fast at the end - usual English voice selling some scam.Talk about attention grabbing .Thay just can't let things be for what they are , can they?

  • @gaagallagher
    @gaagallagher Před 3 lety +3

    Great photos. Music totally inappropriate. Bloody awful music. Was expecting Irish music, so wont share

    • @michaelcampbelton1059
      @michaelcampbelton1059 Před 2 lety

      Just because you don't like the music.go on share it maybe who ever you share it to will like it .don't be selfish and share.

  • @jeffreygoggin9118
    @jeffreygoggin9118 Před rokem +3

    My God don't we all wish we could go back cause it would be better than the shit now

  • @GeneMcC
    @GeneMcC Před 3 lety +1

    Where my grand mother was from.