In the days before TV, stories like this were part of how people entertained themselves in their downtime in the winter evenings. Visiting each others houses, playing cards, telling stories, playing music. By 1968, TV was coming into many homes (my late father got one to watch the NASA Apollo moon missions then) so this video is at the end of an era in a way. Now, even the TV is off (hardly ever on in our house anymore) and we are all doing our own thing online, not interacting with others face to face but indirectly with complete strangers as I am doing writing this comment.
Yep, so true. The 1930s Dancehall Act deserves a mention too, killed the culture of music and dancing in peoples houses, a well known fiddle player from Clare that I knew used to tell me about that and how much he hated it, rip to that gent. The church stamped out keening at funerals too, gone by the 60s
@@siogbeagbideach Never realised the impact of the dance halls. There was an actual Act?? In the parish I was born the parish priest cursed the hall in the 1940s so no one went to it. Meanwhile, 4 miles up the road, in the next parish, the priest championed his dance hall. Didn't know the church stopped the keening either.
@@dellhell8842 yes Act was in 1935. There's archive footage of a lady from Inis Mór, Aran on RTÉ's website. She keens for a minute but kind of reluctantly, asks have ye enough now. The priest had a lot of power back then, interesting how your parish compared to another
@@dellhell8842 Synge describes a funeral and keening in one of his books, I forget the name of it, but it made me so sad that we lost it, powerful bit of writing
Ancient tales in Ireland always have their roots in truth. But folk stories of old have to be interpreted . There is a story similarly recorded in both fairy lore and English about a plague of beetles which swept across Ireland once. In English it was recorded that the beetles were eating all the crops and fires were lit at night to attract them and fight their spread of destruction . The folk story however never tells of beetles . It is recorded that there was a battle of the fairies and their drums could be heard at night . The beetles while travelling at night could be heard like a drum as their wings beat the air en mass .so this story of the Englishman , the cutting of the head and the destruction of the grave stones could relate to king Henry the eight. The grave markers were hidden in the river and then re erected some time later after the man had "fallen from his horse" the story is told as if it happened in one day , but for a story to survive like this it must have been a situation which lasted some time . Thanks for the video
Wow! Thanks for sharing that. I was initially going to dismiss this video as a silly story that didn't make sense, but you gave it a deeper context. Much appreciated!
Used to think it would be amazing to travel & live back in the 1960's/70's. But the amount of shite talk in Ireland at the time must have been fucking unreal.
@@enemyofmyenemy6713 I tried it at .75 and understood about a third of it. Decades ago I did masonry with a guy from small outport village in Newfoundland who's accent was somewhat similar to my untrained ear.....he was a great guy but I had no clue what he was saying half the time and I'm sure my accent didn't help him much either.
In the days before TV, stories like this were part of how people entertained themselves in their downtime in the winter evenings. Visiting each others houses, playing cards, telling stories, playing music. By 1968, TV was coming into many homes (my late father got one to watch the NASA Apollo moon missions then) so this video is at the end of an era in a way.
Now, even the TV is off (hardly ever on in our house anymore) and we are all doing our own thing online, not interacting with others face to face but indirectly with complete strangers as I am doing writing this comment.
Yep, so true. The 1930s Dancehall Act deserves a mention too, killed the culture of music and dancing in peoples houses, a well known fiddle player from Clare that I knew used to tell me about that and how much he hated it, rip to that gent. The church stamped out keening at funerals too, gone by the 60s
@@siogbeagbideach Never realised the impact of the dance halls. There was an actual Act?? In the parish I was born the parish priest cursed the hall in the 1940s so no one went to it. Meanwhile, 4 miles up the road, in the next parish, the priest championed his dance hall. Didn't know the church stopped the keening either.
@@dellhell8842 yes Act was in 1935. There's archive footage of a lady from Inis Mór, Aran on RTÉ's website. She keens for a minute but kind of reluctantly, asks have ye enough now.
The priest had a lot of power back then, interesting how your parish compared to another
@@dellhell8842 Synge describes a funeral and keening in one of his books, I forget the name of it, but it made me so sad that we lost it, powerful bit of writing
I honestly hate it, the world is so sterile. Wonderful vibrant cultures all over the world are dying out for this technocratic nightmare.
I just love this youtube channel another brill video.
👍👍 up from Co Galway 🇱🇻.
Ancient tales in Ireland always have their roots in truth. But folk stories of old have to be interpreted . There is a story similarly recorded in both fairy lore and English about a plague of beetles which swept across Ireland once. In English it was recorded that the beetles were eating all the crops and fires were lit at night to attract them and fight their spread of destruction . The folk story however never tells of beetles . It is recorded that there was a battle of the fairies and their drums could be heard at night . The beetles while travelling at night could be heard like a drum as their wings beat the air en mass .so this story of the Englishman , the cutting of the head and the destruction of the grave stones could relate to king Henry the eight. The grave markers were hidden in the river and then re erected some time later after the man had "fallen from his horse" the story is told as if it happened in one day , but for a story to survive like this it must have been a situation which lasted some time . Thanks for the video
Wow! Thanks for sharing that. I was initially going to dismiss this video as a silly story that didn't make sense, but you gave it a deeper context. Much appreciated!
Videos are gold!
This story was covered in an episode of John Creedon's Atlas of Ireland! A really interesting show where he learns about how places got their names...
Used to think it would be amazing to travel & live back in the 1960's/70's.
But the amount of shite talk in Ireland at the time must have been fucking unreal.
👻 love the story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I love our country haha
Is there anything subtitles 😂
i'm Irish & i dont what the fook he's sayin
@@enemyofmyenemy6713 I tried it at .75 and understood about a third of it. Decades ago I did masonry with a guy from small outport village in Newfoundland who's accent was somewhat similar to my untrained ear.....he was a great guy but I had no clue what he was saying half the time and I'm sure my accent didn't help him much either.
@@enemyofmyenemy6713 😂😂👍
He went from zero to 100 once he said he didn't believe
You can't beat the Guinness in Ireland
Magic 🍄 Mushrooms I blame
The horse has a reign ..
Loonatics all of ya!
And proud of it!
The little people moved the stones, Leprechauns all of them, moving house.!
That's fish and chips pls..
Ah we ye stop,😂😂👍
Must have been fair putch
It like a flyann o brien story came to life..