Gola Island Community, Co. Donegal, Ireland 1970
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- Another family leaves Gola Island where once hundreds lived there are now only a handful.
Gola, the island in the song familiar to all Irish schoolchildren ‘Báidín Fheilimí’ covers approximately one square mile (500 acres). In 1881 it was home to one hundred and seven people. By the time of the 1911 census it had 169 residents, a result of a boom in the fishing industry. But by 1969 following years of population decline, only five people are still living here.
RTÉ commissioned Professor F.H.A. Aalen of the Department of GeographyTrinity College’s and Hugh Brody, a research sociologist at Oxford University to conduct a social survey of the last days of the Gola island community in conjunction with the making of the film ‘Terminus’.
Film maker Odran Walsh wanted to record the island, its people and the departure of one of the last families for life on the mainland. In an article for the RTÉ Guide of 23 January 1970, he explains the significance of the programme, because
We can’t always look the other way while our island communities give up and die.
As the O’Donnells family leave their house for the last time, life goes on for those left behind - Bridie McGinley and her husband Eddie a fisherman, Tadhg McGinley, also a fisherman, Mary Diver, an elderly woman, and island postmistress Nora McGee and her husband John.
Time, and love, and life, and dreams discharged into oblivion. The full stop that speaks the end of three hundred years.
‘Terminus : Gola Island’ was broadcast on 30 January 1970. The narrator is Padraig Ó Raghallaigh.
Jeez .I was a bit traumatized after that.
That guy just Drowned the dog ,What did you do that for!!??
The scene with the dog caused ructions back in 2012 when shown on RTÉ.
But the slaughter of Catholic s on the streets of the 6 county's caused not a ripple
The brutal reality of life and leaving was shockingly brought home with the disappearance of the family dog under the sea. 'Viewer Discretion' should have been flagged.
@Laurence O'Connor LO'C, in my seven decades on planet earth, I've dealt with lots of death and other tragedies. I don't need, or want, any flippant, smart alec comments from your likes!
Sad and very very crude. The dog should have left on the island simply.
It's little different today . Donegal dog rescue currently has three young collies which were about to be drowned if the rescue didn't take them .
I watched until the dog. I hope they had a long & miserable life on the mainland.
I’d of taken the dog!
Why didn’t they just leave the dog on the island
Thats a lock that would only keep an honest man out
That was evil what they did to that dog. Why!
DISTURBING, DO NOT WATCH UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE TRAUMATIZED.
They just let the poor dog drown? Seriously?
Howse Bridie..