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  • čas přidán 30. 03. 2021
  • The tale of Jack Dinan from County Clare whose wife was replaced by a fairy.
    An elderly storyteller known as a seanchaí, tells the story of Jack Dinan from Fahy’s Hill in County Clare whose young wife mysteriously disappeared.
    She went to bed as he thought and when he went to bed there was nothing but a little small little collough in the bed, screaming and cross and if he went near her she’d kick him.
    Jack Dinan spent the next seven years with this fairy or collough-na-luha in his bed.
    One May evening Jack Dinan was up late with a foaling mare when his wife appeared. He asked her to come home but she replied she could not
    While you have that thing in the bed that you have and when she leave the bed I’ll go back home.
    Jack Dinan asked how he could remove the interloper from his bed. His wife told him to light a large fire and threaten to burn the fairy alive.
    Jack did as he was told and when the fairy refused to go, he said he would burn her alive. Only when he lit the fire did the fairy leave the house. She went out through the door with a breeze of wind and Jack’s wife came in.
    Jack Dinan and his wife lived together a further forty years and were never parted again.
    This episode of Newsbeat was broadcast on 14 January 1970.

Komentáře • 169

  • @gaylebrown5216
    @gaylebrown5216 Před 3 lety +79

    He is wonderful!
    A dying breed.
    God Bless him.

    • @fivetwoeight528
      @fivetwoeight528 Před 3 lety +12

      Dead breed not dying

    • @MikeyJMJ
      @MikeyJMJ Před 3 lety +11

      Sadly they're all gone now

    • @carrick2494
      @carrick2494 Před 3 lety +6

      There is one left on the western coast she is imortal and will bring in the true Great Reset!

    • @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917
      @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 Před 3 lety +8

      @@fivetwoeight528 Actually, wrong. There are still many seanchaí around, particularly in the west, but even in the east. Co. Wexford, for example, has at least 5 'teach seanchaí', which are all part of a route. And they hold seanchaí' nights about once a month, taking turns in each house. And the houses are beautiful traditional Irish cottages. Would highly recommend it.

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety

      @@carrick2494 Nonsense.

  • @bretdouglas9407
    @bretdouglas9407 Před 3 lety +22

    If you don’t win best you tube channel of the year, I will be surprised

    • @ciarancummins303
      @ciarancummins303 Před 3 lety

      Get ready to be surprised then

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety +1

      Agreed. It's excellent.

    • @denverfrancisco3365
      @denverfrancisco3365 Před 3 lety

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    • @marcusbeckham3744
      @marcusbeckham3744 Před 3 lety

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    • @tannercolson1886
      @tannercolson1886 Před 3 lety

      @Denver Francisco yea, been using InstaFlixxer for months myself :D

  • @alecmaccnaimhin1781
    @alecmaccnaimhin1781 Před 3 lety +77

    For an Irish person with a massive interest in history, this is absolutely incredible to me, I’ve never seen footage of a seanchai before

    • @turnpiketumbler8938
      @turnpiketumbler8938 Před 3 lety +13

      I think this fella was from Ennistymon in Co. Clare. He was of Travelling heritage and was also a veteran of Gallipoli.

    • @laurenceoconnor6499
      @laurenceoconnor6499 Před 3 lety +1

      You must be a millennium snowflake.

    • @JG-ob6cv
      @JG-ob6cv Před 3 lety

      @@turnpiketumbler8938 you think?

    • @JG-ob6cv
      @JG-ob6cv Před 3 lety +10

      @@laurenceoconnor6499 how is he a snowflake?

    • @laurenceoconnor6499
      @laurenceoconnor6499 Před 3 lety

      @dogs aren't dangerous
      🤡

  • @patdonnelly9392
    @patdonnelly9392 Před 3 lety +14

    No sure what this dude is saying....but, I'm mesmerized by him!!!

    • @halibut1249
      @halibut1249 Před 3 lety +2

      He's talking about an affair his wife had. CORRECTION: an affair he had as husband, apparently with a fairie. He makes ref to that at the very end, that his wife would return, but only on the condition that he get rid of the fairy that had been inhabiting his bed. A very strange tale, told with straight-faced conviction....

    • @patdonnelly9392
      @patdonnelly9392 Před 3 lety

      @@halibut1249 ahh.....thanks! I'm going to listen again and try to pick up better on what he's saying. I love how he talks!

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 2 lety

      This man tells the true story of the Quite man, it is to understand

    • @jacqui9176
      @jacqui9176 Před rokem

      @@halibut1249 I think the husband had the affair, not the wife.

    • @halibut1249
      @halibut1249 Před rokem

      @@jacqui9176 - I agree and changed my comment. The narrator says the man had a fairie in his bed, which the wife wanted gone as a condition of her return. As she did return, we may assume the man banished the fairie. I'm not familiar with fairies so I can comment on the procedure to do that.

  • @tonynapoli5549
    @tonynapoli5549 Před 3 lety +18

    God bless your soul sir
    A nice Shellegha you have there 👏👏👏☘️

    • @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917
      @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 Před 3 lety +1

      Saill éalaigh 😉

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety +2

      It's a blackthorn stick, not a shillelagh. A shillelagh would be shorter, with a thick round piece of wood attached to the end of it. A far more common implement is the blackthorn stick, used as a walking stick, and for herding cattle.

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland Před 3 lety +22

    Great story teller 👍

  • @dillydally6277
    @dillydally6277 Před 3 lety +19

    He's talking about a Fae taking over his pals wife , and he couldn't throw the wife in the fire to burn her out (didn't have the heart) and so lived with the fae as his wife for 7 years . Then she came back (the wife) and they lived another 40 years together .

    • @jammyscouser2583
      @jammyscouser2583 Před 2 lety

      It sounded to me like someone lethis horse sleep in his bed and the Mrs wasn't happy about it

  • @norahsearle7237
    @norahsearle7237 Před 3 lety +9

    He Reminds me of my Dad ..great story teller 💞🧚☘️

  • @silverbullet8338
    @silverbullet8338 Před 3 lety +37

    I know the feeling well. Mine often turns to a banshee ,fact!

  • @emulatorm9600
    @emulatorm9600 Před 3 lety +22

    Amazing...👌🏻

  • @colinbrigham8253
    @colinbrigham8253 Před 3 lety +8

    Thankk you 🤗

  • @agrace7889
    @agrace7889 Před 3 lety +12

    Ask her leave now she will ring the solicitor and after his fees and her share the real wife will have nothing to come back to.😣

  • @MrWhothefoxthat
    @MrWhothefoxthat Před 3 lety +14

    don't knock the fairy's, they have their own trees too.

  • @Barnagh1
    @Barnagh1 Před 3 lety +5

    Reminds me of people I used to know around Fanore, North Clare people have a great turn of phrase.

  • @owenmcgee8496
    @owenmcgee8496 Před 3 lety +11

    That phrase, 0:48, "this is gospel, you know": I've heard old relatives say something like that, when they want to be persuasive, and it bothers the bejasus out of me.

    • @ciarancummins303
      @ciarancummins303 Před 3 lety +5

      Why?

    • @shiteguides
      @shiteguides Před 2 lety

      @@ciarancummins303 Because gospel technically means that it's complete and utter lies, like the gospels

    • @ciarancummins303
      @ciarancummins303 Před 2 lety +1

      @@shiteguides My previous statement was being sarcastic. Your statement is completely false, "Gospel" means its as true as true can be. The holy Gospel.

    • @shiteguides
      @shiteguides Před 2 lety

      @@ciarancummins303 Im aware of what the saying is supposed to mean, just that it doesn't have the same connotations in the 21st century, seeing as the Holy Gospels are literally total fabrications and lies. We can all agree that magic spells and zombies and ghosts do not exist.

  • @alexdinan9709
    @alexdinan9709 Před 3 lety +12

    Wasn't expecting to hear the last name Dinan.

    • @mastemawolfesq.2408
      @mastemawolfesq.2408 Před rokem

      Right! I'm just seeing this for the first time!😅 Don't know of a Jack Dinan in my family's history but I don't know much about my paternal side in general tbh!

  • @apjpisared
    @apjpisared Před 3 lety +7

    Jaysus that's some creepy story

  • @crookedpaths6612
    @crookedpaths6612 Před 2 lety +3

    “they slept in the same bed for seven years and he didn’t know if she was a man or a woman.”
    This tale just gets funnier the more it goes on.

  • @choctaw6838
    @choctaw6838 Před 3 lety +5

    Great people

  • @davelydon1982
    @davelydon1982 Před 3 lety +16

    Brill youtube channel.
    👍👍 up from Co Galway 🇱🇻.

  • @lauraleogue414
    @lauraleogue414 Před rokem

    I love the way when the camera fades out he's still talking away hahaha

  • @soupersonic
    @soupersonic Před 3 lety +33

    Ok. Jack Deignan had a wife.....7 years pass......Jack has a bed........a dog?........There was a fire......Jack's a firestarter........Jack was in bed with a ginger transexual? Jack made love to a red head transexual for 7 years??
    That story had everything, I think

    • @md61211
      @md61211 Před 3 lety +7

      I'm with you ... don't know wtf is going on

    • @mrmac8816
      @mrmac8816 Před 3 lety +2

      Wtf good story

    • @ruairiobradaigh9810
      @ruairiobradaigh9810 Před 3 lety

      I completely confused too wtf is going on? Jack the wife what was in the bed? Where did the white horse feature? 🤔What happened next

  • @combrogi
    @combrogi Před 3 lety +4

    And I'm afraid I was very, very drunk 😵

  • @SniffMyDeadwax
    @SniffMyDeadwax Před 3 lety +14

    Party's hill has a motorway running through it now.

  • @sentimentaloldme
    @sentimentaloldme Před 2 lety +1

    There were a few fairies in Clare when I was growing up..They all disappeared when the electric light was switched on for the first time...It's easy to frighten fairies..ask Michael Healy Rea...Up The Banner..🇮🇪

  • @o-o2399
    @o-o2399 Před 3 lety +6

    nice

  • @CELTIC-CROSS
    @CELTIC-CROSS Před 3 lety +9

    so varadkar was in his bed for 7 yrs

  • @fritzkrieger5826
    @fritzkrieger5826 Před 3 lety +2

    Fairies wear boots,and you gotta believe me, I saw it I tell you no lies!

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 2 lety +1

    This is the story of a quiet man who lived with a wild redheaded woman who was not his wife, they were the talk of the village and local town for years, everyone said, How could he do something like that is he a married man.

  • @maxpower1337
    @maxpower1337 Před 3 lety +7

    Not necessarily a bad thing😄

  • @sineadconran4964
    @sineadconran4964 Před 3 lety +7

    I love the Cailleach ❤️

  • @k956upg
    @k956upg Před 2 lety +5

    I’m sure it was an interesting story….as an Irish blooded man myself I have to ask though……what the heck was he on about…

  • @davidking6979
    @davidking6979 Před 3 lety +2

    That's scary I'm from Clare up the banner

  • @kingofthecatnap6246
    @kingofthecatnap6246 Před 3 lety +4

    Space critters took my wife once. I didn't try hard te get her back, though.

  • @fivetwoeight528
    @fivetwoeight528 Před 3 lety +2

    Whats CRs end game, what are you projecting of these people.?

  • @johnduffy2604
    @johnduffy2604 Před 3 lety +2

    My grandmother was from clare surname foote

  • @stevenspenneberg7407
    @stevenspenneberg7407 Před 3 lety +1

    I feel like, if I only understood what he was saying at :21. Then I wouldve gotten the whole story.

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety +2

      I believe he said there was a small little 'cailleach' in the bed. Cailleach (pronounced ka-lok) is Gaeilge for witch.

  • @haimbenavraham1502
    @haimbenavraham1502 Před 2 lety

    No T.V. no Internet. No problem.

  • @ballygeale1
    @ballygeale1 Před 3 lety +2

    Were we actually like this

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety

      Who is we?

    • @ballygeale1
      @ballygeale1 Před 3 lety +2

      @@mbd6054 we the bog Irish

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety

      @@ballygeale1 Who are these "bog Irish" you claim to belong to?

    • @ballygeale1
      @ballygeale1 Před 3 lety

      @@mbd6054 you a paddy

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety

      @@ballygeale1 A "paddy" - as in .......?

  • @carmelburchell6732
    @carmelburchell6732 Před 2 lety

    Looks exactly my dad to me

  • @michaelvonahnen3050
    @michaelvonahnen3050 Před rokem

    Just go to Breezy point , USA…there’s plenty of them…amen

  • @mizzyroro
    @mizzyroro Před 3 lety +4

    Can we have English subtitles please? Thanks.

  • @carmelburchell6732
    @carmelburchell6732 Před 2 lety

    I wish to god I had of been raised and lived with my dad I would have been more safer than living here in Canada.

  • @troleary
    @troleary Před 3 lety

    Gospel.

  • @patrickfenton3173
    @patrickfenton3173 Před 2 lety

    My wife left year’s ago and I left her gone

  • @SniffMyDeadwax
    @SniffMyDeadwax Před 3 lety +6

    Mailleabh Cailleach?

    • @jamessheehy2752
      @jamessheehy2752 Před 3 lety +3

      Good people changling

    • @SniffMyDeadwax
      @SniffMyDeadwax Před 3 lety +3

      @@jamessheehy2752 thank you James I thought so I heard the word Cailleach manty times referring to an old cockerel or a witch/hag

  • @mentzerr
    @mentzerr Před 2 lety

    demons awaits at the door of your justice good luck as i hAVE NONE , FOR YOU .

  • @stokescroftmuseum
    @stokescroftmuseum Před 3 lety

    What on earth is he on about?

  • @iseegoodandbad6758
    @iseegoodandbad6758 Před 3 lety +2

    Is it true rural Britain had the same standard of living as rural Ireland in 1970?

    • @birdsaloud7590
      @birdsaloud7590 Před 3 lety +1

      More or less.

    • @marycull3607
      @marycull3607 Před 3 lety +1

      @Very Smart England had great industry back then. Many people left Ireland and found work in all the British Cities in the 50s 60s 70s. There was no work in Ireland until the 90s.

    • @iseegoodandbad6758
      @iseegoodandbad6758 Před 3 lety +2

      So England had donkey carts and houses with open fires for kitchens in the 70s still??

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety

      Ireland had an Agricultural economy traditionally, whereas the British economy was Industrial. Obviously, then, Ireland had comparatively fewer cities, and less industrialisation. Therefore, Ireland tended to be more rural. However, whereas in the 70's and 80's you would see the odd horse and cart, cars were most commonly used.

    • @iseegoodandbad6758
      @iseegoodandbad6758 Před 3 lety

      @@mbd6054 makes sense thanks. I guess ireland was about 10 to 15 years behind united Kingdom in terms of standard of living until about 2000.

  • @MyFoxworld
    @MyFoxworld Před 3 lety +2

    Fu@k sake is this true?

  • @charlottescott6609
    @charlottescott6609 Před 3 lety +2

    Can this be typed couldant understand a word

  • @owenmcgee8496
    @owenmcgee8496 Před 3 lety +2

    A bit of backwoods unsophistication growing up in the 80s was seeing the Dukes of Hazzard on TV. Image if you grew up instead listening to old geezers like this? Ye'd be madder than a box of frogs.

  • @BigB-qk6zh
    @BigB-qk6zh Před 2 lety

    Brilliant. Where the Christ are you getting all these videos , don't say your vault

  • @tjhaze8303
    @tjhaze8303 Před 2 lety

    *eh* 😬

  • @fivetwoeight528
    @fivetwoeight528 Před 3 lety +2

    Next you'll be saying the luck of the Irish.

  • @Marlondurran
    @Marlondurran Před 3 lety +5

    Load of complete and absolute bollox.

    • @johnmurphy7316
      @johnmurphy7316 Před 3 lety +6

      Marlon weren't you married to boxer Jack Doyle's wife Movita?

    • @Marlondurran
      @Marlondurran Před 3 lety +1

      @@johnmurphy7316 Correct my friend. I'm very impressed with your knowledge and not many people would remember Movita but I can safely say they are all here with me now and big jack is behaving himself these days.

    • @johnmurphy7316
      @johnmurphy7316 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Marlondurran The legendary, hard drinking ex boxer Jack Doyle lived locally, or at least drank locally at The Hoop, Notting Hill in London and other pubs in the area at the time I lived and worked there in the Sixties. Irish people living in the area knew him well and would often tell me about him and Movita and how he had once been married to this famous Hollywood starlet who you married yourself!

    • @Marlondurran
      @Marlondurran Před 3 lety

      @@johnmurphy7316 Excellent my dear friend a good story indeed. Greetings from a Irish bubliner now living on Kenya. Thanks for sharing the story buddy. Take cake of yourself.

    • @johnmurphy7316
      @johnmurphy7316 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Marlondurran Thanks. Yes Jack was a colourful character standing 6 foot 5inches. How on earth YOU, Marlon Brando, ended up marrying Movita I'll never know! It has always seemed to me to have been a very strange union indeed whereas Jack Doyle and Movita somehow seemed right together because of their temperaments and fun loving escapades. Anyway take care over there in Kenya!

  • @The58stupot
    @The58stupot Před 3 lety +1

    Real culchie. Only in Eire.

  • @dagre1839
    @dagre1839 Před 3 lety +7

    The wokes will cancel Jack for talking about throwing that cailleach (witch) thing out of the bed. It sounds like a gay a trans or someone.

    • @solarnewsnetwork1764
      @solarnewsnetwork1764 Před 3 lety +2

      Jack was canceled a long time ago.

    • @MikeyJMJ
      @MikeyJMJ Před 3 lety +5

      Jack would be jailed for hate speech today

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety

      Stop with your politics. Don't try to contaminate this good man's memory with such nonsense.

  • @owenmcgee8496
    @owenmcgee8496 Před 3 lety +1

    Was Eamon Kelly an actual seanachai, or did he just he pretend to be one? I think he was a little less insane, and more entertaining, than this guy, though I haven't heard him for yonks.

    • @marycull3607
      @marycull3607 Před 3 lety

      @Owen McGee who was Eamon Kelly.?

    • @lydialily846
      @lydialily846 Před 3 lety +2

      Eamon kelly was a fantastic storyteller ( seanachaí ) I believe he’s passed away now though...

    • @lydialily846
      @lydialily846 Před 3 lety +1

      @GearóidODU - Thank you 🙏 for the extra information , I did not knw that .. I found him extremely endearing & would always hold my attention when he told a story. 👍👍

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety +2

      @@lydialily846 He was remarkable. By the same token, though, in the Ireland I remember, you could go to nearly any house in the countryside, of an evening, and listen to stories, humour, and sometimes music. We had a rich oral culture, and people genuinely loved language.

    • @lydialily846
      @lydialily846 Před 3 lety +1

      @@mbd6054 That is so true , I remember my parents telling me of such things & it was indeed a beautiful tradition.. So different now & not all for the better ....

  • @peterfranks6243
    @peterfranks6243 Před 3 lety +1

    FFS, did you say 1970....or 18 fucking 70...
    Dev being driven around in a Rolls Royce, living in the park and the rest of the country looks like this.... Jesus

    • @user-cy4vw1qj9m
      @user-cy4vw1qj9m Před 3 lety

      Didn't understand it, was it fairy's?

    • @marycull3607
      @marycull3607 Před 3 lety

      This was before 1970.

    • @peterfranks6243
      @peterfranks6243 Před 3 lety

      @@marycull3607 looks more like a century before

    • @paulie-Gualtieri.
      @paulie-Gualtieri. Před 3 lety +1

      It was like this even in the 80s and early 90s, we'd go home to Tipperary from England and we would see old lads like this coming into the grandparents house, looked the spit of this lad all dressed the same.

    • @michaelf4506
      @michaelf4506 Před 3 lety

      Theres money in baby snatching

  • @owenmcgee8496
    @owenmcgee8496 Před 3 lety +1

    That's a decent shtick he has there: an old shilleagh. I have one here meself, that me great granddad had. I think not, but I hope he didn't talk quite as much bollox as this guy did.

    • @MikeyJMJ
      @MikeyJMJ Před 3 lety +3

      It's a light hearted story lad, not meant to be taken seriously

    • @lydialily846
      @lydialily846 Před 3 lety +1

      Calm down Owen , you’re obviously one sad snowflake ! It’s a STORY , I’m sure you’re familiar with the term ??? Maybe not !

    • @mbd6054
      @mbd6054 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lydialily846 Poor Owen doesn't grasp the concept of storytelling. We've come a long way 😞.

    • @lydialily846
      @lydialily846 Před 3 lety +1

      @@mbd6054 Agree !

  • @Diamonddavej
    @Diamonddavej Před 3 lety +1

    Similar to the burning of Burning Of Bridget Cleary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Cleary