There was a horse fair in the early 70s on James St, Dublin. Hardly 300 yards from the Guinness factory entrance! I actually saw a photo of a man riding his horse into the pub for a pint. For real
All I remember of the fair day was the streets covered in cow dung and piss until the rain came and washed it away. There's a reason why they all moved to marts.
Not really the same, but this reminds me of our first holiday in Ireland in 1974. We saw a cow driven trough the main street of Granard, to be delivered at the local butcher in a side street.
@@kevfit4333 But the EU also brought a lot of benefits for Ireland. I was there last time in 2006 and I saw a lot of billboards on building sites and at road works about EU subsidies. I agree, not everything is great about the EU, we suffer with you in the Netherlands.
My dad told me his widowed mother walked cattle 12 miles, didn't get a satisfactory price and often walked them home again and didn't sleep for two days. .
Elphin, Co. Roscommon, a fair step from Connemara. Some poetic licence perhaps.
You are right. I see the Cagey Shady hooers.
I was thinking that. Being from Ballaghaderreen!
There was a horse fair in the early 70s on James St, Dublin. Hardly 300 yards from the Guinness factory entrance! I actually saw a photo of a man riding his horse into the pub for a pint. For real
Smithfield is still going second Sunday of every month
All I remember of the fair day was the streets covered in cow dung and piss until the rain came and washed it away. There's a reason why they all moved to marts.
Great film
Not really the same, but this reminds me of our first holiday in Ireland in 1974. We saw a cow driven trough the main street of Granard, to be delivered at the local butcher in a side street.
Before the EU and it's layers of grey Germanic buerocracy.
@@kevfit4333 But the EU also brought a lot of benefits for Ireland. I was there last time in 2006 and I saw a lot of billboards on building sites and at road works about EU subsidies. I agree, not everything is great about the EU, we suffer with you in the Netherlands.
There are still butchers who slaughter on the shop site.
@kevfit4333 what? You are definitely not from a farming family or remember pre EU farming.
So you now know where food comes from. Don't you.
Charming old Ireland...Cherish it.
Fair Day in The West Of Ireland, 1971. 20.7.24. Ayyyyyyyyyyye.........
Lyrical and a Beetle doing some pulling 💚
All is changed, changed utterly,a terrible beauty is born
The language sounds almost like... poety.
but not quite
👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
When Ireland was Irish!
👍👍
Elphin is only a kick in the arse up the road from Carrick on Shannon in Leitrim ye could walk it in a hour, Nice aul chapel in Elphin
They walked the 6 miles with the cattle to the fair. Really?
Did they walk home? Jesus
yes, they did and many more , walked 16 miles a few times myself after the fair if my father didn't sell
Yeah pretty common mileage at least according to the stories my dad would tell me. 20+ miles in some cases
6 miles is nothing😂
My dad told me his widowed mother walked cattle 12 miles, didn't get a satisfactory price and often walked them home again and didn't sleep for two days. .
Eejit
Bull?