The Humours Of Kitsy Cotter, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland 1974

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  • Limerick woman Kitsy Cotter shares her wit and wisdom on countrymen, Dublin Women, pints of porter, buttermilk, and marriage.
    In Abbeyfeale, County Limerick Frank Hall meets witty local woman Kitsy Cotter who believes the recipe for a happy and healthy life is a pint of porter every day, either before or after breakfast.
    It would put the cockles in your heart going.
    Kitsy is determined to fix up a local man with a Dublin girl who he says are more classy and have better legs than country girls.
    He says the girls down here are too country.
    According to Kitsy, buttermilk is the secret to the Abbeyfeale schoolgirl complexion.
    While Kitsy believes that countrymen make wonderful husbands, she says that the key to a successful marriage is for couples to keep away from the bedroom as much as they can.
    The countryman is great. He’s a great ole sticker.
    This episode ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ broadcast on 3 January 1974. The reporter is Frank Hall.
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  • @paulbreen8533
    @paulbreen8533 Před 24 dny +77

    When I was a kid, all the old people in the village had lived most of their early lives without TV or radio. They had a much more engaging and interesting conversational style than the sort of grunting that goes on nowadays.

    • @orlalolo4585
      @orlalolo4585 Před 22 dny +17

      Village life changed forever, especially now with the government putting ppl from all parts the world into our small towns and villages , Ireland is not the Ireland of even 5 years ago sadly

    • @edwardoneill9559
      @edwardoneill9559 Před 21 dnem +1

      The EU will destroy Ireland

    • @ericablair4425
      @ericablair4425 Před 21 dnem +5

      And no smart phones !
      More human !

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 Před 6 dny

      Well said sad times now 😢😢

  • @lydialily846
    @lydialily846 Před 25 dny +69

    Back when “ gay “ meant happy 😂

  • @alanoneill3065
    @alanoneill3065 Před 11 dny +11

    I like the affection that the young folk have for Kitty

  • @matthewmcmahon6032
    @matthewmcmahon6032 Před 25 dny +67

    Wonderful to see Kitsy it brings back happy memories when I met her every morning on my way to school in Abbeyfeale in the early 60s - a wonderful lady

  • @tinasavage674
    @tinasavage674 Před 22 dny +25

    The world needs more kitys 😊

  • @twomeymichael2000
    @twomeymichael2000 Před 24 dny +41

    Wonderful character Sad that these people are far and few in Ireland now Watching the video takes me back to my childhood

  • @fluffybunny7840
    @fluffybunny7840 Před 17 dny +13

    The holding of hands…so sweet ❤️

  • @FabianMacGintyONeill
    @FabianMacGintyONeill Před 25 dny +30

    You could scour the improv comedy clubs of the world and you'd never find a better person to do 'Yes And' than a rural Irish aul fella or aul wan. She never misses a beat throughout the whole video. Amazing

  • @aileenwarren5916
    @aileenwarren5916 Před 10 dny +5

    My mother was from.Abbeyfeale and she remembers this lady couldn't understand her accent ha ha as she has been in london since the 60s but thank you utuve for the memories for my mother

  • @stephaniewalker3288
    @stephaniewalker3288 Před 22 dny +10

    God bless her where ever she now is ☘️

  • @jimbrennan3953
    @jimbrennan3953 Před 23 dny +31

    She's a great character of a woman. There used always be various types of characters around in communities back then, before mobiles and multiculturalism.
    Despite the abundance of doctors and engineers from overseas nowadays, they don't integrate or have an understanding for our own unique quirks and ways

  • @scottfree3759
    @scottfree3759 Před 24 dny +23

    The hands! Sweet!❤

  • @d.beaumont9157
    @d.beaumont9157 Před 8 dny +3

    What a wonderful lady. She reminds me of my grandma Gilligan. The words came thick and fast. Tuning your ear in as a young lad was hard work, never stopping to take a breath. We had no TV in those days. I miss listening to her tales.

  • @Kittiesdawn
    @Kittiesdawn Před 23 dny +19

    Love her…

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Před 25 dny +52

    These sort of characters are needed in modern Ireland more than ever but they are fast dissapearing unfortunately

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 25 dny +26

    I have just learned a lesson from this fine woman Kitsy Cotter, from now on I am going to drink a tall glass of Porter every day, as a nondrinker I will also have to learn how to come with hangovers but if it makes me laugh so loud and heart like this lady I will be halfway to Heaven, But I refuse to wear a similar flat hat/cap, I will not do that, what would the neighbors say, I have my standards to live upto

  • @electricrussellette
    @electricrussellette Před 23 dny +21

    I remember growing up in the 80s, the old people would shake your hand and not let go until they finished the story about one of your grandparents growing up and how they were "the devil of a man altogether!"

  • @elizabethcurtin4468
    @elizabethcurtin4468 Před 10 dny +2

    My dad was from glantin,And he married a Kildare women.mum loved it there.

  • @jasonobrien1989
    @jasonobrien1989 Před 6 dny +1

    Wonderful memories.

  • @theeggtimertictic1136
    @theeggtimertictic1136 Před 25 dny +31

    Will we ever see characters like this again? Has the internet killed them all?

    • @FabianMacGintyONeill
      @FabianMacGintyONeill Před 25 dny +17

      This island will never run out of entertainingly mad people. Recently moved back to rural Westmeath and the characters are abundant as ever!

    • @itsmeitsme99
      @itsmeitsme99 Před 24 dny +6

      The European Empire is slowly eradicating wonderful people like Kitsey.
      Sad.

    • @AffectionateAstroStation-lx5is
      @AffectionateAstroStation-lx5is Před 8 dny

      Fucking mobile phones were the worst thing ever invented .

  • @Bagpipe13
    @Bagpipe13 Před 8 dny +1

    Love it ❤

  • @spike6643
    @spike6643 Před 3 dny

    Fantastic! There's a wee village beside me in Perthshire that was full of irish characters like this in the 60s. They came for the potato picking initially. Lovely people in special times.❤

    • @spike6643
      @spike6643 Před 3 dny

      Ps.. their descendents are all still here and sit on the Celtic bus with me. Great people!

  • @timothyosullivan2904
    @timothyosullivan2904 Před 21 dnem +2

    AH Kitsy was a Star in her own wright May she rest in Peace .

  • @palecap
    @palecap Před 25 dny +11

    Reminds me of Johnny Mealy of Moneen Roe, Clogh, Co Kilkenny, may God be good to him.

    • @rightturnclyde1564
      @rightturnclyde1564 Před 16 dny

      My Mum's from Moneenroe - I'll ask her if she remembers Johnny Mealy 😀

    • @palecap
      @palecap Před 15 dny

      @@rightturnclyde1564 Brilliant. He lived on the road up to Sacred Heart Church from the N78 by the Railyard

    • @rightturnclyde1564
      @rightturnclyde1564 Před 15 dny

      I have family buried in the graveyard there, and family still in the Railyard. Lovely place

  • @davidmorris6278
    @davidmorris6278 Před 22 dny +4

    Bless her

  • @taizymcc
    @taizymcc Před 24 dny +6

    My dad was from Abbeyfeale. He met a Dublin woman.

    • @ShoJ369
      @ShoJ369 Před 24 dny +2

      Kitsy would have been delighted 😊

  • @laurasands8322
    @laurasands8322 Před 22 dny +17

    That was a view of Ireland despised by the politicians here now who want a multi racial progressive Ireland.

  • @timothyosullivan2904
    @timothyosullivan2904 Před 25 dny +13

    I remember many moons ago Frank Hall doing interviews with Kitsy Cotter on a few controversial issues and getting her views on many different stories .

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 22 dny +2

      2nd cousin Kitsy Cotter was full of fun great wit but when she went drink, fights would break out all over the place,, dear old Kitsy Cotter was never knocked down she had too much fighting spirit, she went undefeated and when she passed on to her heavenly reward with howling laughter and a wide smile on her face, it took over 25 minutes for her to complete her journey through the Golden Gates, Saint Peter keep asking more quests so he could set back and enjoy the great fun of meeting and chatting with |Kitsy Cotter as she entered into Heaven but she has not changed her way and still drinks a pint of cool black Porter for her breakfast early each morning then sits back and smokes a fag, them old woodbine are her favorite

    • @AffectionateAstroStation-lx5is
      @AffectionateAstroStation-lx5is Před 8 dny

      ​@@jamesbradshaw3389. Shut up you fool your not funny.

  • @connoroleary591
    @connoroleary591 Před 25 dny +22

    Poor woman died on the breadline, meanwhile, her character achieved immortality as Mrs Doyle in Fr Ted 😂

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 25 dny +7

      Good but you are not as funny as this fine lady was, God rest her soul in eternal peace in Heaven, I bet St Peter said to this new angle as she entered into heaven, have your fun but keep the noise down, this is a peaceful place, we don't want every drinking poter for breakfast every morning, that will not be allowed

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 24 dny +32

    In her younger days Kitsy Cotter, got herself into a lot of trouble caused by heavy drinking, staying out late, mixing with high society, gambling on the horses and dogs, illegal fishing and brewing and selling Poitín, illegal butter trading across the border causing trouble, always knocking over the dustbins on her way home from the pub on dark nights, often suffering black eyes and bruised lips, her lovely hair in a mess after fighting for refusing to leave the bar, I could tell you much more about my dear 3rd cousin but I think it would be best if I keep some of our family secrets our dearest and most lovely Kitsy Cotter for some other time

    • @ME24689
      @ME24689 Před 24 dny +8

      We'll take all that with a pinch of salt.. 😊

    • @anthonyduffy1278
      @anthonyduffy1278 Před 23 dny +7

      @james
      She sounds like a lot of fun!😂🤣👍🏻☘️

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 23 dny +9

      @@anthonyduffy1278 She was great fun, full of life and a wild woman

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 22 dny

      @@ME24689 please do and enjoy and have fun

    • @naomiobrien3136
      @naomiobrien3136 Před 17 dny +4

      Sounds like a great character 😂

  • @catherineoconnell3213
    @catherineoconnell3213 Před 25 dny +10

    @67
    never see the likes of it, no more......
    21/05/2024

  • @markruddle5136
    @markruddle5136 Před 25 dny +13

    Was this the same Kitty Cotter that recently passed away in Abbeyfeale aged 104? If it is, her recipe for life is very sound.

    • @memisemyself
      @memisemyself Před 25 dny +4

      I think it's her.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 25 dny +6

      104 years of age, she proved herself right and the doubters wrong

    • @connoroleary591
      @connoroleary591 Před 25 dny +6

      No. It wasn't her. The lady who lived to be 104 was called: "Kitty" and they owned the largest restaurant in the town.
      The lady in the video has a similar name, but she is definitely not a business woman, and her hallway is a basic working class dwelling from 1974.

    • @markruddle5136
      @markruddle5136 Před 25 dny +3

      @@connoroleary591 Thanks.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 24 dny +12

      Working class you say, but we are all working class, yes, if you have to work for a living, very few of us have our own oil wells and gold and diamond mines, I have only in small gold mine, which provides just enough to be able to keep a large pack of wolves away from the front door

  • @rabc1558
    @rabc1558 Před 25 dny +3

    She reminds me of Pauline dooley from the fair green

  • @laurencesmith-ct9th
    @laurencesmith-ct9th Před 7 dny

    She wore a belt whenever she felt a pain in her didly push , a comical vest to save her chest from common cold or the cush . She drank quinine and spirits of wine whenever she felt the drop ................................

  • @tay7366
    @tay7366 Před 20 dny +3

    She was 38

  • @roundtowerproductions
    @roundtowerproductions Před 24 dny +14

    Irish National Treasure. Kitty Cotter should be on the back of an Irish Bank Note If Ireland ever takes back her Sovereignty.

  • @sunshine-bs2jx
    @sunshine-bs2jx Před 22 dny +2

    I wonder what age she was there

  • @gerrynicol3951
    @gerrynicol3951 Před 7 dny

    Who was the reporter

  • @markhilbert6573
    @markhilbert6573 Před 7 dny +1

    The trouble is shes only 23

  • @user-nl1pp6cq7t
    @user-nl1pp6cq7t Před 21 dnem +1

    Yappy daisy

  • @willowhilldesigns7
    @willowhilldesigns7 Před 7 dny +1

    She seems so interesting, but I can’t understand what she’s saying.

  • @norahsearle7237
    @norahsearle7237 Před 25 dny +2

    🌈♥️🙌🏻

  • @user-lh4sb2pn9s
    @user-lh4sb2pn9s Před 24 dny +12

    Чудове відео. Велике велике велике спасибі усім ірландцям і Уряду Ірландії за підтримку України.

  • @jeanniemullinder9038
    @jeanniemullinder9038 Před 18 dny

    what language is she speaking ???