Traditional Farming Documentary -- Farm life in Ireland during the 1930s - "Preserving the Past"
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2020
- This traditional farming documentary follows the farming year and way of life for the people of Ireland at the begging of the last century.
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Filmed in Muckross Traditional Farm, Killarney, replicas farms and dwelling from that period exist to show what life was like in rural Ireland during the 1920's and 30's. The farms themselves are actual working farms with their own horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and hens, they are situated in the centre of Killarney National Park.
We show the farming methods as they would have been in this era when all farm work was carried out by horses, donkeys and human labour. Planting potatoes in ridges, growing corn (oats) and haymaking are shown in this film along with the harvesting of the crops and the threshing.
We also follow the woman year on the farm showing butter and butter milk being made and bread making.
A variety of different crafts and traditional Irish skills such as blacksmiths are captured in this historical documentary.
Produced by Thompson Video Productions Co. Derry Northern Ireland.
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That’s not corn. It’s wheat. Corn doesn’t need threshing
I THINK WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THIS WAY OF LIFE IMMEADATLY
Not possible I am afraid. Born and raised on a farm my Dad was the Forman and had almost Eight people working with him all doing varios jobs and coming together at harvest and threshing time etc. All in tied houses , low paid ,but all employed and earning wages. Many had a specialist skill, stockman, shepherd, tractor driver and so on. Mixed farm of about 400 acres found work for maybe a dozen families. Nowadays large companies own thousands of acres, specialize in maybe two products under contract to large supermarkets etc. Maybe two full time workers, rest all done by machines and contractors . All those workers were eventually made redundant by machines, computers etc. Workers houses sold off , now holiday cottages for well off folks. Workers moved into factories , or emigrated in many cases. Times have changed, money, greed, power now the main object of farming. Will never go back as it was, people would no longer accept the hard way of life. It was hard in many ways too, not as romantic as it looks now. I went to a small village school and started work at just fifteen years of age. But pleased that I was raised then, never ever drawn public assistance, dole money in my life. Now 80 years old, quite fit and yes I am happy with my lot.
Yes hopefully they teach grammar better 😂
100% this is how life should have stayed
Take me with you please:-(
Your not wrong
I watched this video.i remembered my parents.when.out in the field.when setting the spuds.and hay making..
People that know, understand, and live the old ways will be the true survivors of the earth!!
This was great !!!! I'm the last of my family still on this earth who used heavy horses for farming before the iron horse arrived. Life was reasonably tough in those days but society and social interaction made us better people because we all helped and look after each other in those times. But some say we had to have progress but now we are having trouble buying fuel for the iron horse, progress looks good but brings its problems.
EXACTLY
Born on a farm in rural Lincolnshire in 1941. This type of life is so familiar to me. WW2 was at its height and petrol was needed for the military. So I grew up where horses were back in use as much as possible. Never will regret the way I was raised, all changed of course.
I was born in 58 a little later than you but I can’t agree more about the change, it has gotten to the point where very few people get along and so much dissension especially in our government.
@@brucerazor5202 I have never been to a farm though I am from a land lord family.. but now I will , watching these because I am thinking weather to raise a horse vs atv, side by side etc. Will be travelling so I guess having a horses can be problem !
God bless you!!
Yep. Born in 1950 the same thing happened in Derbyshire though the horses had gone and the fergie replaced them , the shafts taken off horse machines and replaced with a draw bar .
I was borne in the 1930s. a small farm in Wiltshire UK. used horses until 1947 on small farm 2oo acres. when our first tractor arrived. When the driver wanted to turn around at the headland he was shouting whoa WHOA still thinking he was in charge of a HORSE. We all fell about laughing.
An amazing documentary of those times. Hardship may be, but the closeness of families working together is endearing, and how folk use to “ pull together” share and work very hard. Our children today know very little of “ the old days” and I wish this life could be brought back for them to experience and understand what are ancestors and long time ago days were.... I’m sure it would do them the world of good. NO TV NO INTERNET NO IPhones.....no nothing......how wonderful. Im 67 and I do remember my grandparents not having electricity and having a large black range in the kitchen , that my Gran cooked on. Happy days, even though I’m sure it was hard grafting. Job satisfaction .....I’m sure
Not only that but even all the physical activity must of been good for the health.
Thats why I love gardening. The satisfaction one gets is tremendous. Good for the soul.
I totally agree with you!!!! If people worked like people did in the old days, they would have more respect for their selves, each other and the earth, hence, there would be no time or energy for our youth to get into trouble and use drugs!! There should be places everywhere where there is no electricity and make our youth that get into trouble, grow and harvest their own food and learn to take care of their farms and their animals!!! Good, clean and honest living is what we all need to go back too!!!
im 10-13 and i whish the same
Ireland is in my heart and my blood.
Good to see such well turned out horses being handled with great skill.
These videos make me appreciate just how easy and comfortable my life is today !!! However the social aspect and camaraderie of that time is a wonderful thing that is sadly lacking in today’s society !!!
Fantastic video thank you very much 😊
This is incredible! My mother's side of the family came from Ireland. Thank you very much for posting this.
These people worked so much harder than we realised. We don’t give a second thought about how good was/is produced. Amazing!!!☘️
Great documentary. The horses are beautiful. I love the way they turned together at the end of a row. I live in Virginia
I love the accent coming from amish background and married into Scots Irish family where the great grandfather spoke Gaelic this is beautiful ♥️
It made me think of our Amish friends who have so many similar traditions.
An era long gone. Thank you for sharing this video with me and many others.
These documentaries are just brilliant.
Wonderful travel back in time! Thanks sincerely!
Very good documentation of life in the 1930s. I thank you for sharing on CZcams
I have always been fascinated by the beautiful ireland. The way irish people speaks of it with so much pride and love💚💚💚
I live in a very different climate.. ploughing the fields are done by water buffaloes over here but i have never lived on a farm
Thank you for uploading the full video. It allowed me to watch many of your short vodeos in one go. Plz keep recording the ways of the past so they aren't lost. Many thanks to all re-enactors, their contributors and supporters who make these videos possible. You have a new subscriber.
Hard working people . Thank you so much.
Simply outstanding and so educational !
Thank you to bring back the essence of life.....enjoyed it so much!
Fantastic..... We really enjoyed it - start to finish . Thank you to everyone involved. Brilliant.
One of the best videos on CZcams thank you.
Most informative.
A most Appreciative
Raptor Rob 👍
Thanks for showing Muckross, near the heart of MacCarthy country. My grandfather went there on a visit before he emigrated as a teenager and kept mementoes of his visit to Muckross Abbey. He never saw Ireland or his parents again, though his siblings came to America too. They lived on the same street, just as they might have done in Ireland. Obviously I grew up hearing thick Cork and Kerry accents almost unchanged from the late 19th Century, so understanding was no problem. I've even picked the accent back up again on visits to family in Ireland.
We called them haycocks in Westmeath, never heard of haypeaks. I remember having to pull the buts before rayheadding them. Hard to believe I lived through the end of that era. Lovely video well done.
Wynds here in cork before the wynds were made the hay was made into grass cocks and the reek was made in the haggard. The hay cart was called a float.
Also the grass rope was called a sugan
@@michaelwalsh9145 Here we call it a hay bogey.
Wow, I just can't get enough of these videos. I love them and my Irish brothers/sisters. I didn't have any difficulty with the accent. As, I had worked 5 years at an Irish/American newspaper, here in NYC. I can't wait to see your other upcoming videos. KEEP IT UP!!!
A hard day’s work but you soon recovered 😎Dennis
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Only been to Ireland once and loved it. Wonderful horses.
Lovely, I appreciate your efforts
Perfect life for my soul
Brilliant Videos,Thanks
Excellent. Great to see how it was done . Hard work👍☘️
Beautiful if only the world was still so slow and peaceful
Just started to watch but I’ve been watching history about farming, and worked on a milk farm when I was in my teens, my other half mum comes from Wexford and I love that things were made there. Thanks for your history in farming love it Alan from Luton mum from Wales 🏴love that people from the Village world come and help. The world has got to fast for it’s own good I think. Great show loved it thanks again for your great iSight in farming 🤔🙏👍
Love these old videos, I remember my grandfather saying about the seed when they were drilling _ one to rot, one to grow (next years seed) one for the farmer _ and one for the crow.
Excellent, thank you.
Beautiful documentary i like 👍 very much
amazing window into the farming when not much electric or motor power
This is a fantastic video!
Klaus
Thanks Klaus..
Wonderful Video
Hard life’s and work back then not a bad way to live!
Flash and Dunagh are such beautiful horses.
Great documentary and can't understand the comments about the Irish accent.I'm English and can understand perfectly-all you need is a willingness to listen and not make a big deal of nothing!
I'm American and can understand them just fine
When we decided to leave this lifestyle worldwide the life left us.
Purely loved it
This is a great video I’m a farmer From Ireland as well and we do use tractors and that but we also use our Clydesdales for odd jobs to go back a century
Farm Life Clydesdale still that big and tall?
Last year I saw a couple Clydesdale team here in Washington DC, I was very impressed.
Thank you !! 👍
ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ 👍👍👍👍👍
Nice documentary
Excellent video. I went to see muckross farm and it was most enjoyable
Is it still open?
MrMoekanz you can go in and walk around but all the houses are closed and it is not nearly as enjoyable
Thank-you!
I wish all agriculture today was like that in those days. Small scale, no chemicals, organic fertilizer and with animals and many crafts still in demand.
We certainly would be rich in food supplies if people could use their farm land again. I remember the many small family farms in New Hampshire before environmentalists ruined farming. I grew up with all these traditions except keeping poultry in the house. And we had the old farm machinery but the horses died before I was born, and at age 5, I was driving the 1933 International Harvester hay truck with the help of a governor, on low low!
Love from India.
I love this
It was so nice to watch this video while I'm sitting here watching my canner- kind of a hostage. Lol. This is one that I'm sure I'll come back to many times. I got rather sunburned today while I was working in the garden etc... and after watching this, I was wishing for some buttermilk. Oddly enough, today we were planting turnips and potatoes. 😊
Thanks for commenting again, yeah we decided to upload one of our full films to help keep our viewers entertained for a while with whats going on in the world atm..Great to hear you got outside to get some planting done, good luck with the crop and stay safe, Chris
@@VideosofIrishFarmingLife Thank you!
After watching this video about farming in Ireland in former times, I really enjoyed your comment about canning, getting sunburned in your garden, planting potatoes and turnips. Good for you!
Complimenti per gli attrezzi agricoli che anno.
Holy, I'm part Irish and am loving this. Wondering how to work it where I live in the USA...
When I was a boy in the early 1940's it was Great to watch shire horses being shown by the Blacksmith as at times allowed to ride on a shire horse's neck as his farmworker handler sat on the horse's back behind me.
Would love to live like this. Carefree and just in nature
There’s a couple in west cork who plough with horses and raise sheep and other farm animals, they have a CZcams channel called,Way out west.
Intersting to se how people in Ireland worked on a farm. The farming in Ireland is very similar to that one I grew up with. I grew up in Norway in the1950s.The difference is the climate. In Norway we need to feed the animals indoors during the winters because of the cold weather. During the summer we have to dry hay which we feed the animals during the winter. The farm was a mixed farm. That means we had sheep and cows. We grew potatoes and wedgetables. We produced milk, butter and cheese. We had all we neded on the farm. My father made shoes, while my mother sewed clothes. We had no need during that time in spite of Norway was poor because it was short time after the war.
This is traditional farming though. Modern Irish farming is not like that.
All farms in Ireland are mechanised today.
@@wolfthequarrelsome504 not all farms. I know a fella here in Mayo who still uses donkeys and horses on the farm instead of machines
Nice 🇮🇪 🇸🇴
No problem understanding what was being said. For goodness sakes,they speak English! Except it sounds beautiful!
I remember my mother making it back in the day wish I could remember how to make it. I am going to have to look it up 😊
Nice
This was my grandparents life in the 1960 s they deserve their eternal rest , wherever they are now I hope they have their feet up,in front of a roaring fire with a drop of stout, and the stew simmering in the pot m🙏🙏🙏🙏
this would be quite handy for tests :)
I love this life of nature, agriculture, ilike it's, from Mauritius veersingh 💪🇲🇺❤️👌🌺💐♥️
Es un poco paresido como lo asiamos en los 1960 en mi pais es un trabajo muy duro pero muy bonito te mantiene ocupado que bonito video
As an American it's beyond odd to see oats and hear corn
Thank you for closing this amazing video out with a little bit of "kitchen" or "hearth music" , Great,
of course, back in those days , peat burning folks couldnt afford a parlor. So, " hearth music" it was. With love.
I did not see too many skinny folks there. Lets eat!! Bounty for all.
This the good land of Ireland no heather mixed in. 👍☘
Все зрозуміло без перекладу.Вони завжди на десятиріччя випереджали нас у всіх видах господарства.
Hello .... I'm going to be rude but I can't help it because you make me cry with your wonderful movie here ... because it reminds me of my grandparents .... my uncles and aunts on the farm and most beautiful moments of my childhood even if we were poor ... we were happy ... no need for this modernism which brings absolutely nothing to humanity ... damn shit! ... how did we manage to succeed in destroying the planet as it has become today? ...
Lord God, please help not to take the land from ordinary farmers of Ireland, their children cry, they handed out a lot of food to charity, treating everyone, look at their dark faces from the sun and strained hands. Thank you.
That's the funniest looking corn I've ever seen!! 🙃 Still a good video. (ahhh, I just saw other comments and replies below, it's oat but called "corn" in Ireland or thereabouts.)
Best life î.like this ilfe
I can watch this type of documentary hours and hours .Does this videos actually shooting 1930s?
Very nice. Thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Just as if I traveled through a time machine.
What a shame, we have modernized now.
when did the Dexter and Kerry cow appear in Ireland....well remember the thrashing machine coming to the farm and us kids would have a stick to chase the rats as they ran from the stooks as they were moved for thrashing...a great fun time for us young uns as long as we kept out of the way of the machine and belts etc....
@Border Reiver The Kerry is a very ancient dairy breed, possibly the oldest defined breed in Europe, and the Dexter was evolved from them, with an emphasis on dual purposeness, about 200 years ago. It seems they derive their breed name from someone called Dexter who was a breeder sometime in the 19th century.
I am sure a search for the breed societies will give you more info, but the above is from memory.
Apparently the Paternal line of Kerry cattle came from a local Aurochs found in the British Isles at least since the Mesolithic, apparently related to White Park Cattle and Highland Cattle. The Maternal line maybe came from the Continent with the Bronze Age Migration into Britain and Ireland since that is when the use of Bog Butter appeared in Ireland.
Que du bonheur quoi, la chance que vous possédez de l or entre les mains ✋. Bon courage
Cant remember if I saw horses ploughing but I do remember two horses pulling the combine which tied the sheafs which were pushed out the side for the workers to gather in pairs and build them in colums of eight, they were called stooks. Also horses pulling carts in the filed where the
workers emptied baskets of potatoes (picked by other worker10 minutes prior to being emptied) into these carts. Believe it or not this was in
Scotland in the 1950s.
My husband saw this kind of farmwork when he went to Ireland for holidays during the 1950s and 1960s...
Its called a binder.
The geese in this video looks like the geese we raise here in Mississippi called "Cotton Patch."
We're would I be able to get a CD video of this video
These times will return very soon.
What we take for granted today, no one will even be able to imagine in the future...and that's a good thing.
It is impossible for us to continue as we are doing today.
You’re being brainwashed by the media.
>>> 37:00 > Granny Hands ! She picks up and turns and flips those bread like nobodies business.
Ill bet she can pick up an cast iron skillet , full of hot bacon , and never blink an eye.!! Shes great . Thanks.
A really good film - ignore the H&S risks at the potato spraying. A pity the commentator was wrong about Bordeaux Mixture. It is so called because it was developed as a vine and potato spray in Bordeaux, not by somebody called Bordeaux.
It had been in use for a long time but it took the botanist and mycologist Pierre Marie Alexis Millardet to realise its potential as a fungicide. I am a great believer in ensuring that men such as he who have done so much for food production should receive their due recognition and be remembered.
Horsepower seems to be the order of the day. They dont seem to mind the cold at all.
But, Mister , you better be ready to hang on when they want the barn. !! Ask me how I know ?? Much respect from MAINE ,USA Thank you.
Talking to a neighbour about scything he said hay was cut out and corn was cut in always,his memory was of poling as a boy,the corn was cut diagonally across the small fields so they weren't making way for a reaper/binder...why did they cut it inwards?there has to be some logic behind it?
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There was an old farmer named pit. Who's cart a big stone did hit. His load of manure was a bit insicuar now to his neck in the (his work)
When was this documentary filmed?
Lord, God, I ask that the land not be taken away from farmers before it’s too late, we all ask for this. Dear, support.
Great documentary, the volume was very low so I turned volume up, but commercials come on at about twice the volume of the video blowing out my eardrums.
Not your fault but annoying...
Keep on posting... just a tad louder please 👍...
My father used to plough with horses from the age of 9 George Reynolds
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Seamos felices.
16:58 "If you were dancing round the room and went near the dresser, the goose would have the back of your leg - and leave a fair old mark"
LOL
23:00 Look at those cabbages. One of those would last you a week.
Yep I can testify to that - my geese pinch and twist. Painful - leaves a great black bruise. 😫