1913 Colored Pictures of Ireland
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2013
- These images, which represent the first ever colour
photographs taken in Ireland, were taken in 1913 by two
French women, Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine
Mignon-Alba, who used newly available autochrome colour
plates.
Ireland until relatively recently was populated with an island full of survivalists. Hard and tough people with hearts of gold and a sense of humour that never gets old.
@I HATE TOUCANS ummmmm so I'm irish and 4.904 million seems like a lot to me and if you don't believe me look up the population is and what my name (aisling)means
@I HATE TOUCANS We dont need more people in Ireland. I like having a small population. The UK is just one big parking lot, we dont want that here.
@I HATE TOUCANS WOW !!!! What a bold statement and so very wrong. Ireland is a small island and is overpopulated in my opinion and overpopulated Ireland has lost her charm because of this very fact. Tourists used to flock to Ireland to meet the famous Irish story tellers, musicians, matchmakers, joke tellers and rogues. Now it is like all the other countries in the world, a bland, boring mix of everyone from everywhere with no specific identity. As for Ireland's presence on the "European Stage" !!!! Ireland currently has 13 members in the European Parliament, the executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO) is Dr. Michael Ryan from Sligo,Ireland, the Irish police (An Garda Siochana) and ex members play a bigger role in Interpol (Europe's FBI) than any other European nation etc. etc. etc. You are so misinformed. Ireland as always is punching way above her weight and has a big presence the world over not just the EU.
@F'er MaGee I love it...
@Chad Brömann the day we set down our arms and got in bed with those orange bastards. Tiocfaidh ar lá.
I'm Irish it is one amazing stunning country I'm blessed to be forever green ❤️💖💚🇮🇪
Same here Sophia we're lucky we're able to appreciate the beauty of our country and our young people are the best of us all open minded and kind and still very much have a scence of mischief the most thing I miss about my youth.
Very proud of my Irish heritage.
Ireland is outstandingly beautiful & I am blessed to live here..x
I never appreciated it till I moved to the wesht
Good for you I am English sorry but have some Irish roots that I am proud offyes been to Ireland was beautiful and friendly.
With love and blessings from Germany❤
I spent two years in Ireland.It is really a very beautiful country and the people are great.My favourite place in Ireland us Galway and the Aran Island.We went to the Aran Island by ferry from Galway and stayed there for two days.It was an amazing experience with my friends.I would love to visit Ireland again in future.Respect to the people of Ireland who made it a great country!!
Who randomly gotthis on their recommends because I did😂😂😂
Yes I don’t know why
Everyone
That woman in the red claddagh dress was mesmerising
Spiddal and Claddagh geographically close but that was all, the Claddagh were even poorer than spiddal but you can see the pride they took in themselves ,fiercly independent .
B McC oh, I thought so too & I love the claudaughs, still.
I know! I wish I could see it up close.
B McC - despite the poverty that dress is stunning. I love the huge hood, you can sense her hiding within it against against wind and rain. Would love to see fashion like that around today but I doubt it would look as good on tattooed persons !!
@@dryflyman7121 doubt you'd see any tattoos so can't see how that's relevant
That red is something else Haunting
Great photos! Love from your siblings across the pond. 🏴❤️🇮🇪 our culture and traditions are so closely tied.
I wish my grandma had her last wishes and got to go back to Ireland...she always spoke about it
Lovely images. Thank you for putting together and sharing. NOTE that the image at 6:14 is not women "weaving" (there is no loom), but women "spinning" fiber (likely wool) into yarn using a spinning wheel. The spun yarn/fiber could be used for either either knitting or weaving. (Although knitting would be a more likely craft in a poorer croft.)
Apart from the clothes and the currachs, Connemara looks pretty much the same today. Beautiful landscape. Glendalough too looks the same except for the tourist car parks :)
Apart from the mosque, lol
I absolutely agree about Glendalough. I was just thinking it looks exactly the same.
Was in Clonmacnoise recently and from the angles pictured, looks virtually the same also.
Such a shame what became of the Claddagh but the symbolism lives on in jewellery ☘️
The picture at 4:34 in particular hits home with me. My family are from donegal, where turf is still a main source of home heating for us. if you substituted the shirt and trousers for a Jersey and jeans, this photo could have been taken yesterday, and I think that's insane. More than a hundred years and not much has changed, all things considered
This came up in my recommended and I'm not one bit sorry I clicked on it! Crazy seeing what life was like for our grandparents grandparents in such good detail! A very different Ireland from the one we know now! !
The collection is more valuable as time goes by! What a collection from 1913 !
Amazing to see how far Ireland has come since the days of desperation and poverty in the very recent past. Many problems persist today but we're a forward looking nation proud of our place in the world. Thanks for uploading.
And Irish women aRE FINE
Pity the EU are turning it into a multi culti shithole.
Diversity is far from a strength
You're being replaced in your own land
@@Daisy-ct3nh Shit then, I suppose we better get rid of all the vikings, Normans, Scots, English, French and Flemish settlers who've invaded our land in the last 1000 or so years.
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What wonderful photos. Galway is a homey town. I loved our whole trip. The landscape is luscious. Ireland is one place I would love to take a second trip to. Thank you for sharing. 🦋🦋🦋
Where about in Galway were you if you don't mind saying cause I'm from there
Brings tears to my eyes. It's not often I see old pictures like this, never mind in colour. So beautiful. It makes you feel more connected to the past. The people look like they could have been photographed just yesterday in some of them. So much has changed in this country and yet so much still looks the same, but it really makes me sad for the traditions that we've lost and the almost complete disappearance of our language.
It's a rich culture in music and speech
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You're wrong regarding our language. There is more 'Gael Scoil' in Ireland now than there has been in many many a year.. And as for our traditions... Well Irish Dancing is extremely popular throughout the world these days.. More children are playing hurling than were in the 80's and 90's.. There are more children learning traditional Instruments than there were 20 years ago.... Get yourself out and take a look around.. Talk to people... Get involved instead of sitting there being sad... Saddo.
@@tearitloosetearitloose4670 obviously he does not live near the ages of civilization (costal areas only)
I send you these words with love: there is no need to mourn the loss of things we still have.🇮🇪💚✌🏼💚🇮🇪
Ireland still has some of that charm. The Cladagh still there. Wonder why havent we preserved the Cladagh dress even for folk events...its amazing. Sooo much red...red on green...gorgeous place my foster home.
Irish hands create gold such an awesome nation GOD BLESS IRELAND!
Amazing photo’s!
A time capsule in pictures! 💕
Thank you! 🥰
I love my country 🇮🇪💚☘️
Beautiful record! I journeyed a few years ago to Paris to view them in the museum! Wonderful experience! Thank you for sharing!
WHAT A PLEASURE! THHANKS VERY MUCH.
My family comes from the west of Ireland round Sligo , Connaught. Beautiful place. Wish i could return there and raise my family there.
A single Irish Grandparent will entitle you to an Irish Passport.
My mother's family are a long line of McNamara's (Mac Con Marra) and I have always wanted to go to Ireland! 💚from Canada
You should come you would be very welcome ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
@@saulpaulsaul3378 thank u, its at the top of my destination list, whenever that's possible again!!
"mac cú na mara", son of the seahound. it's a limerickk name, the place is still full of them.
I'm a McNamara but we are from Keel, Achill Island, County Mayo.
My cousin went over from Cleveland, Ohio, US to the island, she proudly told a bartender "I'm a McNamara, we are from here" expecting to be welcomed like long lost kin. He said, "yeah, aren't you all" and went on polishing the glasses.
@@kateeilers574 lol, thats exactly what I'd expect from the bar tender lol
I usually hate background music in YT videos, but the music in this one was fitting and fun.
Life was poor yet there is something so serene about these pictures.
Poor, now to a rich country.
That spends barely anything on the military.. and the WiFi lmao.
@@urma7713 we don't need to spend on the military.
@@EK-rx2ju We do.
Who’s gonna invade us
@@doledole2539 We haven't been invaded in like.. forever.
Rite on point.still untouched in some places .Dublin girl here.Still here .Love the pics
Excellent 👌
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thankyou for posting this my mother (Quinn) from bohermore rd, and my father from rural galway. I expect not many living there are originally from there. Greeting from uk💚
like the uilleann pipes playing
Like the banjo too, but I'm biased! lol
THANK YOU... I ENJOYED SEEING THE ORDINARY PEOPLE
❤this I'm not Irish, but have a deep ❤for Ireland and the Irish people, beautiful people who know what it is like to live through hard times yet very hospitable and beautiful culture
Wonderful , thank you.
The colour makes the pictures seem more real for me.
Beautiful thank you so much for posting this. I’m so proud to be Irish ❤️❤️❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
these pictures are great. I’m so happy they did this & the color? Hard to believe over 100 yrs old. I still love how the claudaugh looks.
Thank you for sharing.
Marvellous photo's, if somewhat sobering. The sheer grinding poverty of most of the Irish in these photos, tattered clothing and no shoes. Thanks Britain, a real testimony to your regard for Ireland and the Irish during our time under your yoke!
Beautiful, thank you!!
Fascinating and beautiful
Thank you for sharing! And thank you Marguerite & Madeleine 😍
Love irish history
Beautiful!
I went in holiday on Ireland,, such a fantastic country. Glad of that travel and decision.
This was awesome, thank you for sharing it.
ireland was so beautiful back then. i would love to be able to travel back to see what it was like living in ireland then 👍
Izzy O ngl lie to ye fella it’s still like that just go to the country side in county limerick. It’s the same just with nackers everywhere
@@jamieunited6177 been to limerick plenty of times it would just be nice to see people who aren’t covered in orange 😅😂
@@izo6806 oh the girls you mean 😂 they use an insane amount of fake tan lol
Marvellous photos and excellent background music.
Fabulous step back in time, oh for those days
Absolutely brilliant.
This was insanely stunning and beautiful
Beautiful. Thanks
Enjoyed and thank you.
Back then men and woman where made of iron!!!
There was a lot of hardship.
God bless Ireland and it’s people
Tough times and even tougher people
Thank you very much 😊
Thank you!
Very interesting! My Grandparents were from that era and area!♥️
So beautiful. Ave Maria+++
Wonderful film .
Thanks for this. Kind of sad that a certain way of life has fallen by the way side as history has moved on.
@@annesmith9181 and now racists like you but you're the only bad thing on that list.
@serendipidus1 the people that are suffering true famine in africa have no way of escaping and the asylum seekers are not asylum seekers if they have to go true 20 plus countries to get to ireland there economic migrants. and see this shit "If you were truly Irish" he is more irish than you considering he actually gives a fuck about the country by acknowledging the problems that we have. we don't owe anybody anything except are dead and future irish generations
@serendipidus1 well said there was nothing but poverty and hardship back then and people dieing of old age at fourty
@serendipidus1 yeah i supose
@serendipidus1 you think irish spirit is immigration irish spirit is holding on to this island no matter the cost not running away from it .and where not availing of their services were availing of are services that we pay for true taxation. services that we put in place to look after our own less fortunate. immigrants take full advantage of are services like council housing ETC. doctors get paid what do you think there doing it all out of the good of there harts. and very few of them are doctors besides it is irrelevant who they are and what they do. they have no right to this island. and irish people that have emigrated is a completely irrelevant argument go over to america and take it up with them because it means nothing hear pure whataboutism. speaking of whataboutism if all the the irish decided to move to Eswatini and out populate the natives would that be a good thing or a bad thing in your opening
My grandfather was from Bunnyconlin and my grandmother from Swinford, both in Mayo. They lived there right around 1912-1940
There may be ice tonight near Lough talt., I not from there but I remember a shortcut from by the lake
Thanks for sharing
God bless Marguerite and Madeleine!
How much has changed in the past 100 years! I got my mother a dna test from ancestry and the recent update showed she is 62% Irish and the rest is Scottish and Cornish. She is pretty much a pure Gaelic Celt.
Someone else may have already mentioned this, but the woman at ~6:20 is spinning, not weaving.
God Bless The True People Of Ireland !
Thank you..x
Thanks
very nice pictures and music
So poignant...my grandfather's people, are Wards, from Galway ♥️🙏♥️
I know someone with the surname ward in meath
Great grand mother is a ward form balinstack, Galway
Travellers?
Anna nicole Suix I was thinking the same. There are a lot of Travellers in Ireland with the surname Ward.
Lorna Kelso especially Galway. Full of them
My great, great, great grandfather was an Irishman I believe from county Cork. He was a Sullivan and migrated to New Zealand and a whaler. We were given a video from a friend of ours showing the remains of their castle and history. It was said that the English, was it Oliver Cromwell? Their murderous escapades almost wiping out the clan owing to their resistance to English sovereignty. We also had a dear a Dermot Childs, now deceased from that same area a wonderful family. Anyway there are plenty Sullivans now, part Maori in Australia as well. Just thought I mention it. Thank you for sharing your video. Arohanui from New Zealand.
Sullivan/Súil Amháin/One Eyed. A big Clann still here in Éire.
Irish music is always so jolly
This is about the time my Grandma was living in County Mayo. Going to school and getting on with farm work on the Corley farm.
some photos remind me of my days as a turf cutter in co. antrim...a bog man...
wow i’m 12 but i’m irish, i’m so glad i didn’t have to experience the famine. rip angels
Visited many of these places, just fantastic .
That was fantastic! I'm visiting Ireland next summer.
To think we were still serfs at the time of these wonderful photographs 🇮🇪☘🍀
@Nunquam Non Paratus of course 🇮🇪🍀
What beautiful pictures and what a beautiful place. It looks so peaceful. The men, women and their children worked very hard labor, they took many risks and discovered just how far they can really go.
This is true diversity, the diversity of different people's and their culture. This homogeneous world the financial elites are building at the moment is a Frankenstein.
Bhí mé ag gabháil a scríobh an ruda chéarna. Tá na duifreacha eadar na tíorthaí ag laghdughadh ó bhliadhain go bliadhain. Tá na teangthacha ag fagháilt bháis. Muna ndéantar rud ar bith beidh achan nduine cosamhail le Meiriceánach i gcionn cupla bliadhain. Ní bheidh mise, cibith...
Very gorgeous place
Looking at poverty in Ireland in those makes me scream!! Part of United Kingdom, Great Greedy British Empire. Always so badly treated by briths, during hard times not getting any help from them at all. I love Ireland, not only because the music and atmosphere 😂 but also to see that this nation haven't loose their proud, as much as British wanted to break them, they remained Proud Irish. Just the shame that the language didn't survive... :(
@@DonBean-ej4ou well it's a harsh reality. The British Empire made the native population destitute for centuries.
All I can think of when looking at these pictures is how strong their accents must have been
there are things more important than noticing strong accent
Most of us don’t even have strong accents (at least not in Dublin)
@@sofiakhan1917 Ah I'm from Kildare and I always find it so interesting when travelling around that such a small country can have so many different accents
Jessica Price yeah , a lot of teachers are form all over the country, I’ve never really had lots of teachers form Dublin , they were all from the west /north/central Ireland
some wouldn't even speak English but only Irish.
Fun fact Irish doesn't have a word for "shoes" the word "Bróga" means shoes by some but that refers to the type of shoe worn in a kilt.
Shoes weren't worn then.
yeah this is bs ...these people are not representative of Irish people at the time ..
@Pat Alessi That's where the word brogue comes from :)
@@silverkitty2503 I met people living in thatched houses in 1970
It’s beautiful. I like the traditional dress too.
Terrific
i used to take care of an elderly man called michael padden, from county mayo. passed away in 2018. let me tell you he had the temperament of a banshee, drank like, well, an irish and his last shower/bath was in 1763. was never sick and not even the flies dared to enter his room.
Sounds like a great man 🙂
Because of the muted colours and very slight lack of sharpness, some of these look like watercolour paintings.
I'm from Galway. Wow. This is so interesting.
I'm guessing this is what Americans think of when they hear Ireland 🤦♀️
so what? let us have this image. this was what it was like when our ancestors fled. can't we hold this image in our collective mind? can you a least give us that?
@@Declan_Moriarty maybe learn the difference between old Ireland and what it is now, is all they are saying, someone hurt u? Lol
@@ivartheboneless5969 nope, we know the difference. you're just disrespectful of the image we had when we left. You act like we are ignorant to it; we're not!
Read a book or two lad or watch a video or two. Educate yourself.
Americans be like I’m Irish!!!1!1!1!1!1!!!!!🍀🥴
Thanks for these pictures of Ireland. They were taken within weeks of when my grandfather emigrated as a teen, never to see the land or his parents again. The cloaks the women are wearing are very similar to the Munster cloaks worn all over the rural southern counties by women, and which can stiil be found by diligent search. My grandmother was also a young teenager in Cork, south and east of where these photos were taken, at the time. Kahn must have been very prescient to have undertaken this photo project on the eve of The Great War WWI, which began the vast destruction and transformations of the dark and bloody 20th century. The picture of the Anglo-Irish landlord's masion, which has an ominous photo fault on the left resembling smoke and fire, might have been one of the ones blown up, burned or abandoned by the English during and after the Irish War of Independence, which began in earnest less than six years after these photographs.
It's very interesting to see the world my people were forced to flee by religious, political and economic oppression. Thanks for revealing the "white privilege" of my people, as the contemporary government of Ireland refers to it, through their recent immigrant spokespeople.
White privilege doesn’t mean white people dont have struggles, it means their skin colour isn’t the cause of struggle i.e racism/ police brutality
“White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. With roots in European colonialism and imperialism, and the Atlantic slave trade, white privilege has developed in circumstances that have broadly sought to protect white racial privileges, various national citizenships and other rights or special benefits”
blackswan20 where are you from?
blackswan20 just wondering if you’re Irish or American or something
blackswan20 no. I do think reparations by the British are in order i.e funding Gaeltachts, Irish heritage centers, Irish language/ culture centers though. White privilege is a big problem in the states from what I gather. OP seems to think that because our people have had tremendous struggles that white privilege is a myth. It’s not.
blackswan20 don’t have kids or grandkids considering my age. Don’t have a victim mentality. Don’t expect reparations from a kid on a northern council estate nor a pensioner rather, the government. It’s not a victim mentality to want what was once destroyed to be rebuilt. We go to school for years, learn Irish and all for what? Not being able to use it or remember it? White privilege means white people don’t need to worry about being killed every time the cops pull them over, or being racially profiled as a threat, or a thief, or violent. I don’t want anyone to provide for me, I don’t know where you got that from, I provide for myself. All I said was the British government could fund Gaelic heritage centres, Irish language centres ect. An apology for Bloody Sunday after a 12 year inquiry isn’t enough. “Victim mentality” my bollocks. Good luck to ya
so sad. what did they go through without internet, it's so heart whelming
Clonmacnaoise hasnt changed a whole lot in a hundred years.
nor the recipe of Mayonoise and the world has not ended.
miguel pedroso not yet
There is a short documentary on here somewhere about their travels in Ireland and some of the things they wrote.
That traditional dress is beautiful
Very nice.
My grandfather was a British boy soldier who had a run in with a sergeant and deserted. He was helped by some French people in Ireland. Who knows.
Wonderful. May ancestors mostly escaped Ireland for England by about 1852 (although my great grandfather only left in the 1860s but his father was able to take over the land he farmed from about 1820 so they were not in such a bad way).
2.40 the last sentence is depressing. Government housing schemes omg.
But it is the most telling as to why the country has changed and lost itself.
They were a huge improvement on the housing which had been available previously to the native Irish. There are some excellent videos on CZcams of people moving from the slums in Dublin, out to Finglas, Ballyfermot etc., The people who got those houses were delighted. They had been living in the worse slums in Europe for generations, the council houses and flats were a vast improvement on the conditions endured previously. I do however take your point; that historically we lost a great deal of our culture and history in the rush to modernise.
@@raysmyth8596 That's Dublin though. Dublin was like a foreign country to the West of Ireland
I enjoyed the pictures of the land of my ancestors.❤
music is beautiful