Inishbofin Island Life, Co. Galway, Ireland 1977
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- The wild weather, lack of employment and a dwindling population are all part of life for the island dwellers of Inishbofin.
While it has its attractions, the exposed Inishbofin Island off the coast of Connemara in County Galway offers little to young people and faces an ever-declining population.
Pat Tierney’s journey to the bog is comparable to a Mexican trying to cross the Rio Grande.
The hardship of island life is clear as Pat Tierney transports his turf at low tide on horseback. There are many reasons for young people to leave the island. The weather and lack of employment opportunities are two factors at work. But what do young people really think of living on the island of Inishbofin?
The young people featured in this report don’t want to go but must for education or employment opportunities.
In summer time there’s a lot to do. In winter, not so much.
Some island residents fear for the future of Inishbofin as more and more people are forced to leave the island to make a living. The problems are compounded by the fact that Inishbofin is not a Gaeltacht island and as does not benefit from the grants, aid and funding available to other remote areas in the region.
Many islanders fear progress on the grounds that they may lose some of their social welfare entitlements upon which they are dependent to survive.
Fuel supplies are also scarce with few turf banks and residents dependent upon straw turf to keep them warm. This has implications for other areas of farming by removing rough grazing for sheep. However, there are no alternatives for fuel on a treeless island.
The oldest inhabitant on the island is 86-year-old Pat Lavelle. In his youth, the population of Inishbofin was around 2,000 people. Up to 50 boats employed around 250 men in the fishing industry. Emigration, the Cleggan Disaster of 1927, and the decline of the fishing industry have resulted in a population today of 247. Pat recalls his early life on the island when people shared many skills and trades, which helped to make the islanders more self-sufficient.
There was a weaver, there was a tailor, there was a blacksmith, there was a shoe maker, and all these were professional men.
This episode of ‘Landmark’ was broadcast on 7 April 1977. The reporter is Peter Martyn. - Zábava
There's a particular pathos surrounding the fate of Ireland's islands: the country is itself an island of course and deep down the Irish have a great affection for the beauty of those unique places and the courage of those who live there. Long may they prosper.
They aren’t Ireland Islands they are British Ireland’s islands
@@pts13miffy16 Its in Galway...and 'British' Ireland is still Ireland.
@@pts13miffy16 Innisboffin is located off the coast of the Republic of Ireland it hasn't been an English part of the world for a hundred years give or take.
@@pts13miffy16 Its Ireland you ill informed fool
@@pts13miffy16 thankfully not..
A place and a people of deep deep beauty and sadness of people leaving and not returning, a hard land to make a living from. The land of my dear departed father and mother, the land of my forefathers and foremothers, the land where my heart belongs to and someday hopes to someday return
There is something beautiful about these programmes, especially those on the Irish speaking islands of Ireland. I have also watched programmes on the Scottish native speaking islands and found them fascinating.
The Lavelle's and the Dunlevy's from those islands were my maternal grandmother's people. Now spread throughout the world.
The videos are restricted in many countries for some reason.
Lavelle's & Dunlevy's "spread throughout the world" 😏😣 wtf
@@WWG1WWGA ???
@@WWG1WWGA cos the world needed us
Lavelle is now Lawwill here in the USA. Rebellious bunch!
Another beautiful upload of Ireland and its people .
Many’s a night I spent on inishboffin island ,,and many’s a night I walked around it. Beautiful place ☘️
@Windy City Blues if you get a chance try the Aranislands or Clare Island
@Windy City Blues Nice one fair play to you…your enjoying life 👍
@Windy City Blues Mayo is a beautiful place and achill. Iv been to a lot of beautiful places here in Ireland…if you get time check out my basking shark video in keem. Stay safe ☘️
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Now now don't you be getting too graphic there boy!
@@paudsmcmack3117 😀
I haven’t heard my grandfather’s voice since he died over a decade ago. This old fella sounds exactly like him and it brings back a tidal wave of memories for me just listening to him.
Pat was well able to move for 86
God bless you Sir x
Inis boffin is a great place to go for a few nights camping very small island you'd walk around the entire island in about an hour if i remember correctly
you don't remember correctly, or else you set a new land speed record for walking!
@@lurak9 must be wrong my bad
The wild Irish Sea 🌊
No phones back then, they used to send smoke signals, the post office was burned down 3 times.
Amazing people
Great video, thanks 👍
Changing times
you post the best content on youtube thanks
Very nice Owey was populated at that stage seagull outboard thanks Fionn "Ole"
That's a lovely Harse he's mounted there.
The era of this film I was 14yrs old growing up in b' ham England, makes me realise I should of been growing up there.
My dad's part of Ireland
Beautiful island. So Mara means sea in Irish? It's Mer in French. I wonder if it's just a coincidence or some ancient connection? Don't mind me, I'm just rambling to myself again.
@@seoigh thanks, always nice to learn something new.
Farraige is the Irish word for sea. Connemara is the part of Co Galway where this island is.
@@seoigh thanks for the correction. I was basing it off someone I knew with the name McNamara telling me their surname meant Son of the Sea (something along those lines). They didn't speak Irish though as they'd been in Canada for a long time.
You are correct, actually. To say "by the sea" you could say "cois farraige", like Seoigh mentioned, which is literally 'foot' of the sea. Another way would be "in aice na mara". I'm not sure about the McNamara translation however - other than it meaning "son of Namara".
Muir is sea/ocean, and "mara" is just a different form of "muir". For example "na mara" = "of the sea". Farraige also means sea. We've different words for similar things.
Haven't you got the whole programme?
You remind me of Ian McCulloch.
That interview with Pat needs English subtitles. I couldn't understand a word.
Strange for me to hear that , but understandable as you are not Irish , as an irish person I am intrigued to hear this observation , hes speaking English but with very heavy accent ,
Thanks for your comment
Sounds like a Kerry accent
If you put the subtitles on, you will see that they are auto generated and far from accurate... unless of course I'm mistaken and he was in fact talking about naked potatoes
@@stephendaltonclassicallytr849 I listened again and can confirm that he did mention naked potatoes. 😄
Is it a uniquely Irish thing to cut someone off before they finish their question with your answer? Is it also uniquely to repeat the question in the answer?
Never mind finishing...the Greeks will interrupt a question before you even have a chance to ask it; and yes-we will repeat the surmised question (which was never properly asked in the first place) in the answer given. Also, in Greek television interviews it is commonplace for fifty people to be talking over one another all at the same time, expressing two-hundred-and-fifty different opinions (roughly five a-piece); it’s CHAOS I tell you...ΧΑΟΣ! 🤪
I wonder how it is now.
It's doing alright. Boffin has a very popular music festival each year. Good tourism trade also
@@herculesv1.247 nice to hear. Was there about twenty years ago. They were still making haystacks then (I hadn't seen one of them in a long time)
@@sdrtcacgnrjrc That footage was frm 1977 , no haystacks in a long time ... sadly ...
Probably a few India restaurants, Chinese takeaway, B&B owned by a Pakistani, and a place where the boat people can rest if they have taken the wrong turning
@@davids8449 no thats not there
It was on my list to go there when Dessie was alive - no point in going now🤷♂️.
I was full sure he'd be an Irish speaker only, his english is very good.
Who are you referring to with he? Irish isn’t really spoken as a first language on Inishbofin and also wasn‘t in the seventies.
@@tomasdhaithieoghain242 I was referring to the older gentleman.
Oddly Inisbofin has been English speaking for a long long time
You get some areas like that across the west, where you'd think that Irish would be spoken in when it actually isn't. Same thing with the Aran Islands, like you'd actually meet people who don't speak a word of English in the likes of Inishmaan but in Inishmore you wouldn't really hear much Irish being spoken.
As far as I know, West Connemara hasn't much Irish whereas the more Central/Northern parts are mostly Irish speaking, i.e Iorras Aithneach, na hOileáin and Cois Fharraige
@@faelan1950 Yes Faelan, Gaeilge starts to die out a bit north of Carna, by Clifden it's gone, bar a few people who might have moved there from Carna, Cill Chiarain, Rosmuc etc. Its a pity. It would be an even nicer place if Roundstone and Clifden etc had more Gaeilge, two lovely places to visit.
God bless and free Ireland from British tyranny. God bless & protect the Republic of Ireland and the Irish language.
@nova more like an American state by now.
You've got more to worry about with the arrivals of Muslims and the mosques appearing in Irish towns.
50 mosques and over sixty three thousand practising muslims in Ireland now, come back and have a count in twenty or thirty years and see what the number is then.
@nova What?
@@kenneth2656 so you want... Penal Laws against them?
We’re all to be European now! Strip the culture, way of life & anything that the eu can’t bleed you dry. An awful state of affairs.
@Christo Genea you have brain cancer
@@willywonka7812 big nose much?
@@sonsen25 capitalism has destroyed your capacity for thought. Filled your head full of shadow people
@Douglas Wayne yes but quoting the bible is like quoting my schizophrenic aunt
@Douglas Wayne the bible didn't make you anti-semites. Modern Conservative propaganda did that
IREXIT now. The EU has become a strangulation situation for culture.
What? Sure the decline in irish and the culture is due to the Irish public being too disinterested to preserve them. Railing against the EU won't stop that.
Right wing politics destroys a person's ability to think. Tá sé seo le feiceáil i ngach físeán atá ar an stáisiún seo. The comment section is full of scumbags who blame refugees rather than the rich capitalists who destroyed their homes and force them to seek refuge. People like brian badonde and deus vult. Braindead fascists
An ceart díreach agat a chara!
@UC27NrH2qnomel-ATrBkycjQ no msm here, simply an historically literate person politically engaged. Fascism is rising everywhere. Just because you don't know what it is doesn't mean it doesn't exist
@UC27NrH2qnomel-ATrBkycjQ also, it's fascists, with an S. You oughta stick to subjects you can understand, like playing with balloons and eating mud
Why does Ireland have to take refugees from war though? They didnt create the crisis, and considering the EU has never done anything to help in Northern Ireland, why should they take on the burdens? What is so wrong about wanting an IRISH nation for IRISH people.
@@iloveponis lol the spirit of irish hospitality passed you right by. It's about doing what you can to alleviate the burdens on the less fortunate, who are homeless or stateless due to geographical happenstance and capitalist imperialism. By embracing the dark side - that being the 'free' market - all member states of the EU have the obligation to offset some of Capitalism's more shadowy externalities, like the poverty of third world countries that were looted by western funded corporate thieves. Read about US regime change and Reagan/Thatcher's backing of rightwing death squads.
We still haven't returned to pre famine numbers, if memory serves, so the land should have no trpuble sustaining us. What gets me is why you think there's something innately more deserving of irish people than others to enjoy the bounties of neoliberal profligacy. My people have only been here since Norman times. Am i worth less than you?
Don't worry lads there are plenty of people coming to live there 👍 however none of them are Irish
Plenty of third world persons thanks to fg,ff sine fine greens and other parties bastand ruins Ireland