Ran across this video and watched with interest . I am a Gallivan , and grew up close to a small town in Saskatchewan named " Gallivan " ( present population of 0 ) . Much of this reminds me of stories about my grandfather. When he came out to start farming he spent the first winter alone , the closest human was 25 miles away . He never saw anyone from Sept 1 till may of next year . The remains of his home are still there , a eight foot by ten foot hole in the ground. He broke his first section of land with a team of oxen and a walking plow . My dad estimated he walked 6,000 miles behind the oxen . First fifteen years he had to haul his crop fifty miles round trip to sell , leave before dawn , back after dark and feed cattle and horses after . Trip every other day all winter .He was joined later by a brother, sister and mother who farmed about 10 miles away . The brother was a moonshiner who supplied most of the area , sister died in the flu epidemic in 1918 . Mother knew she had passed away in a upstairs bedroom but was to crippled to get upstairs and no neighbors close to get help . Great uncle was gone working so her mother just boarded up the stairs so the temp would stay cold and waited till spring. There were a lot of stories about those days , hard work , tough people.
I love her ways, including the illegal whiskey. Go girl go. If I was you I would do it too. Moonshine, Irish style. And all her talents to raise 7 kids & also run a bootleg bar at her home!
Wonderful look into the past & a piece of history preserved for present & future generations in order to show how life was so much simpler but how hard it was to survive. The land of my wife’s family & many generations before them, a land I have so much wanted to visit but as yet never had the opportunity. Thanks for sharing.
farmers are very hard workers regardless of where they farm there was a remarkable woman call Hannah lived on a farm in the Yorkshire Dales check that out.
Oh how I would love to visit Ireland & the good hard working people there .I enter every sweepstakes I can find online for a trip to go there cause I know there's no way I will ever be able to afford to go there any other way .
This is the way our grand nana grand father lived old fashions I wish I go back to those culture back to old fashions farm life mountains life is paradise life from our creater above
It gave much needed work building roadds both men and women worked on them during the Famine.Think about that,people reduced to Skeltons breaking rocks,i sure speeded up their demise from this world.Today machines would be under pressure .
If the truth be told, their was plenty of food in Ireland during the so called famine, local police surrounded the fields that were ready for harvest to send the food to the big house or England. The cause of the famine in Ireland was the English landlord and Irish police throwing women and children out on the road in the middle of winter to die., anyone caught helping them were also thrown out to die. potatoes my foot. they might have rotted but if you had no pennies to pay high rent you died.
I hear you Joe, back then the poor worked themselves to the bone to feed and keep the rich and wealthy, all the while they together with their families were starving. Unfortunately, this happened throughout the world, keep in mind we (humans) are the worst among the animals. Not much difference today.
I agree 100% . Not many Irish have identified the genocide that was perpetrated on our forefathers. History books were written and provided by the oppressor. They didn’t figure that the culture of song that was handed down told the real truths in verse . It can always be argued that the most destructive RTE fell under the influence of the oppressor and has helped spread the narrative as evidenced in programs like this .
where do you think food comes from. My Irish father used to take a fork to school occasionally. On the way back home in the afternoons, the boys would tickle rainbow trout in the streams. this mesmerised them and they then stuck them witih the fork. He would take them home for his Mother to cook for a treat at teatime. Poaching, definitely - but its the country way of life to forage and find food. He took us on wonderful country walks all the time - and was endlessly pointing things out to us. Taught us to look at our surroundings with interest.
@@mariahoulihan2419 , you are quite right, and it was a very nice story. But once it's out of the river shouldn't one knock it on the head to put it out of its misery ?
Too many people today don't know where their food comes from. I asked a child where the meat came from and he said in a plastic wrapped package at the store. He had no idea that a cow or pig was killed to fill that package. Most are too far removed from reality.
Ran across this video and watched with interest . I am a Gallivan , and grew up close to a small town in Saskatchewan named " Gallivan " ( present population of 0 ) . Much of this reminds me of stories about my grandfather. When he came out to start farming he spent the first winter alone , the closest human was 25 miles away . He never saw anyone from Sept 1 till may of next year . The remains of his home are still there , a eight foot by ten foot hole in the ground. He broke his first section of land with a team of oxen and a walking plow . My dad estimated he walked 6,000 miles behind the oxen . First fifteen years he had to haul his crop fifty miles round trip to sell , leave before dawn , back after dark and feed cattle and horses after . Trip every other day all winter .He was joined later by a brother, sister and mother who farmed about 10 miles away . The brother was a moonshiner who supplied most of the area , sister died in the flu epidemic in 1918 . Mother knew she had passed away in a upstairs bedroom but was to crippled to get upstairs and no neighbors close to get help . Great uncle was gone working so her mother just boarded up the stairs so the temp would stay cold and waited till spring.
There were a lot of stories about those days , hard work , tough people.
I love her ways, including the illegal whiskey. Go girl go. If I was you I would do it too. Moonshine, Irish style. And all her talents to raise 7 kids & also run a bootleg bar at her home!
Wonderful look into the past & a piece of history preserved for present & future generations in order to show how life was so much simpler but how hard it was to survive. The land of my wife’s family & many generations before them, a land I have so much wanted to visit but as yet never had the opportunity. Thanks for sharing.
It's a beautiful atmosphere and I like it.
Excellent video and a fantastic story!
Wonderful show, so good to remember the history!!!🙏😚💕💕
The “famine “ fairytale is not history
unbeleivable hard work l know l couldnt have lived that life. hats off to all farmers everywhere. TFS
A hard life for a brave resourceful woman
The honey meed was delicious :). Well worth popping by!
Beautiful Molly! 💗🇨🇦
Beautiful place.i will call soon.
Stunning place,
Women are amazing, Molly is proof.
great video, thanks
Beautiful Place! Just back from Ireland back again next October........... hello Frances!!
a fine video; my ancestors were from Adrigole, which is near by.
farmers are very hard workers regardless of where they farm there was a remarkable woman call Hannah lived on a farm in the Yorkshire Dales check that out.
David Riley I did. Amazing woman. Absolutely brilliant.
Oh how I would love to visit Ireland & the good hard working people there .I enter every sweepstakes I can find online for a trip to go there cause I know there's no way I will ever be able to afford to go there any other way .
There is a way, you just have to be dedicated to saving consistently and sacrificing some enjoyments.
This is the way our grand nana grand father lived old fashions I wish I go back to those culture back to old fashions farm life mountains life is paradise life from our creater above
Molly must have worked so hard, she must have knitted at night by candle light while her 7 children were asleep
awesome
Excellent,Similar to West Donegal Traditions,
You must be joking , Kerry & Cork are much more beautiful and they don,t have DoD to give them a headache, listening to him trying to sing .
People don't know what hard graft is today !.
Some of us do.
It gave much needed work building roadds both men and women worked on them during the Famine.Think about that,people reduced to Skeltons breaking rocks,i sure speeded up their demise from this world.Today machines would be under pressure .
Great background music, pretty sure that is Sean Ryan from Galway. It's a beautiful area, we were through last September.
If the truth be told, their was plenty of food in Ireland during the so called famine, local police surrounded the fields that were ready for harvest to send the food to the big house or England.
The cause of the famine in Ireland was the English landlord and Irish police throwing women and children out on the road in the middle of winter to die., anyone caught helping them were also thrown out to die.
potatoes my foot. they might have rotted but if you had no pennies to pay high rent you died.
Yes we know.
1845 is when my great,great,great grandparents came to America.
if you want to know what went on read Paddy' Lament
The food produced on the backs of the Irish went to England, so sad 😞
I hear you Joe, back then the poor worked themselves to the bone to feed and keep the rich and wealthy, all the while they together with their families were starving. Unfortunately, this happened throughout the world, keep in mind we (humans) are the worst among the animals. Not much difference today.
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Have you been?
Wonderful story and scenery. Very irritating music, far to loud, I nearly turned off.
Western beautiful place on earth ❄ plant green land fat chaby sheep🐑 fat cow 🐄 fat chicken 🐔🐓rich rich land
Where is the cottage situated?
Do all of these great videos have to have constant music running in the background? Enough already.
It would be nice if they would play some light background music.
Hermoso 💚 🇺🇾👍
That was awful time of the famine. People died on ships going to America . I know who hunted them out of the houses . Evil 😢
Good video but the music is way too loud. Can't finish watching because if it.
Lesson learnt.....don't have too many children because you can be widowed without any notice.
For Americans . B
Here's an Irishman not telling the truth about the genocide. Why on earth is that? Ta me bamboozled.
WHAT?
I agree 100% . Not many Irish have identified the genocide that was perpetrated on our forefathers. History books were written and provided by the oppressor. They didn’t figure that the culture of song that was handed down told the real truths in verse . It can always be argued that the most destructive RTE fell under the influence of the oppressor and has helped spread the narrative as evidenced in programs like this .
2:35 I stopped watching.......it looks cruel to chuck a live trout on the grass.
where do you think food comes from. My Irish father used to take a fork to school occasionally. On the way back home in the afternoons, the boys would tickle rainbow trout in the streams. this mesmerised them and they then stuck them witih the fork. He would take them home for his Mother to cook for a treat at teatime. Poaching, definitely - but its the country way of life to forage and find food. He took us on wonderful country walks all the time - and was endlessly pointing things out to us. Taught us to look at our surroundings with interest.
@@mariahoulihan2419 , you are quite right, and it was a very nice story.
But once it's out of the river shouldn't one knock it on the head to put it out of its misery ?
Too many people today don't know where their food comes from. I asked a child where the meat came from and he said in a plastic wrapped package at the store. He had no idea that a cow or pig was killed to fill that package. Most are too far removed from reality.