My Own Place- Pat Murphy’s West Cork
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Documentary from the 1970's featuring Irish Journalist Pat Murphy, a good insight into the daily routines and lifestyles of those living in West Cork at the time.
"Journalist, author and raconteur, Pat Murphy, lives in Crookhaven, West Cork - here he vists Fastnet Rock by boat and taks a visit to a local creamery."
Photography McCARTHY, Joe
Sound recording GOUGH, Terry
O'FLYNN, Paul
Editing CASH, Brian
22/10/1975
This is a great posting. i'll go back one more time for sure. A memory lane absolutely.
Great to see my grandfather John O'Keeffe delivering bread around 21 mins into the video
That’s lovely for you
Oh what a trip down memory lane. I spent my summers in Goleen growing up as my mother's family were all from Dunmanus Bay. I knew many many of the faces in this video, some of whom are relatives. These were the nicest, kindest people I have ever met. Nearly all gone now. God Bless them.
A really nice video brings back memories, I have been visiting Crookhaven and Barleycove on and off since the late '60s and am planning on a week's holiday in Barleycove next June. It's my favourite place in Ireland, I would live there full time if I could.
Superb...that was a trip down memory lane! I grew up in West Cork in the 70's in Aughadown, near Ballydehob. I remember well milk churns to the creamery and walking cattle to Skibereen Market...running ahead of the cattle with baler twine to put across gaps in the hedge!!. A different time !. I head back every summer and never tire of exploring the peninsulas of West Cork and seeing old friends...a big part of my heart is forever in West Cork!! Cheers, Steve
Patrick Murphy was my great grandfather. Please feel free to message and share stories with me.
What a beautiful, nearly forgotten time.
I used to stay with friends nearby in the 1970s in the summer holidays (their house is shown briefly in the film) - met Paddy quite a few times. Wonderful story teller and a fabulous and exciting life before he went home to Crookhaven
Any stories stand out in particular?
@@twistaumhc91 helping Einstein escape from Europe; lunch with Picasso; Christmas at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg before the Revolution, attending the Yalta and Potsdam conferences after WWII (both I think) meeting Hitler and Mussolini
It sounds too fantastic to be believed! It’s a shame he didn’t write a memoir. Did he ever speak about his children to you?
@@twistaumhc91 He did write a memoir! I read it many years ago, afraid don't have it now. and no, I didn't hear about his family. I was only 16 or 17 at the time, and he was friends of the parents of the people we holidayed with - so they knew him better and would have known more about him. His memoir did cover his family more not just his working career
I worked with a man from Kent who lived in the hippy community in Ballydehob in the 70, .He brought me in the pictures of all his fellow hippies outside a small courtyard with thatched houses.
Loved his Stories .
@ 7:51, that’s my Grandfather - ‘Johnny Joe’ O’Driscoll
& @ 16:55, my Granduncle Fleur
I think this film was taken the eighties mainly because the woman handling the petrol pump was May McCarthy I think.
Thank-you!
Is that Paddy Sheehan in the background
My grandmothers brother, Pat Murphy.
he's my great grandfather - so we are related
@@twistaumhc91 we are indeed. I was so excited to find the video and have sent Pippa loads of info for you to look at. Please let me know if you want more info regarding the rest of the family.
@@annebee5993 hi Anna bee! I read and am always interesting to read more. It’s completely fascinating.
The series was repeated in 2006.
Cork had the worst toothless drunks ive ever seen in my life
Such a nice fellow you are.