Discovering Kilkenny City, Ireland 1967
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- A visit to Kilkenny to explore the City’s past and present.
Michael J McGuinness Mayor of Kilkenny presents PP O’Reilly and the ‘Discovery’ team with the seal of welcome to the city.
PP O’Reilly outlines the reason for their visit to the historic town.
Kilkenny has always been famous in art and culture throughout Ireland. We want to know, we want to discover how it stands today.
Kilkenny’s Town clerk Peter Farrelly holds the responsibility for keeping the city’s ancient records, which go back to 1231. The ‘Libro Primus’ is the minute book of Kilkenny Corporation from 1231 to 1538.
A document dating back to 1244 outlines how the Dominican friars were granted permission by the Bishop of Saint Canice’s to take water from the well of St Canice provided the pipe wasn’t any bigger than his episcopal ring.
One of the most interesting documents is the Charter of James the 1st along with a sword, which declared Kilkenny a city in 1609, a status held since this date. Peter Farrelly also recounts how following the Battle of the Boyne, King William in 1690, camped at Bennetsbridge, five or six miles outside Kilkenny.
We have the biggest collection in Ireland outside Dublin.
While all these documents and books are of great value in discovering the history of the city, Mr Farrelly believes that it is shame to have them locked away and hopes to put them on display in the council chamber.
On to Saint Canine’s Cathedral which holds the finest collection of 16th century sepulchral monuments in all of Ireland.
In these grounds the footsteps of history tramped and left their mark. A thousand years of building and destroying. From round towers to the scars of Cromwell. From tools in granite to floors in the marble of four provinces.
Nearby Saint Canice’s is the Black Abbey which was built for the Dominicans by Guillaume le Mareschal in 1225 and remains Dominican today.
Its museum is another storehouse of antiquities and rare books.
Saint Mary’s graveyard lies in the centre of the town next to the courthouse.
Cromwell had reason to storm this city for wasn’t it the seat of the government of confederacy and this old courthouse is where the parliament met.
The cathedral at one end of the city and the castle at the other, act as twin props of the Norman civilisation. The structure of the castle dates from the early 12th century and has been improved and extended many times since.
PP O’Reilly chats to John Kelly Keane editor of ‘The Kilkenny People’ about a range of changes taking place from the restoration of the castle and the possibility of the city becoming ‘the Florence of Ireland’.
The castle is an important Kilkenny landmark and it has played a very significant part in Irish history.
John Kelly Keane also mentions the importance of the connection between the past and present with the establishment of the Kilkenny Industrial Design Centre in what were formerly the stables of Kilkenny Castle.
In the past the idea was that new ideas were created here in the crafts... and the arts. Today in the industrial sphere, new ideas are being created here.
Kilkenny is also a leader in the field of social services and has a long tradition of caring for its sick and elderly.
This episode of ‘Discovery’ was broadcast on 30 March 1967.
Thank you Mr CR for all your effort’s in putting so many fascinating videos online.
It would appear the town clerk could use some education on how to handle and store historical documents. He unfolded and folded those ancient scrolls like he was rummaging through the daily newspaper…incredible!
I think the ignorance is a bit common here....do YOU not know the state of conservation in the 1960s?? *INCREDIBLE!!* No. You obviously do not. So why criticize people who around the world had not yet invented archival practices?? Instead of such ridiculous scorn and negativity (which I am trying very hard not to feel about your ill considered comment), why didn’t you first use the internet for the reason it was invented: RESEARCH. In two minutes, you could have found out when the concept of archival practices as we know them today were first started, and you wouldn’t have made yourself look ignorant for millions of people to see!
@@voraciousreader3341 Jesus you got a bit upset didn't you?
@@voraciousreader3341 , woooh! The archive police…you seem a bit constipated, maybe time for an exlax…. But maybe you should research that first oh voracious reader… not too pretentious are you…
@@voraciousreader3341 touch grass
My Kilkenny as a Boy growing up in the Ninteen Sixties, what Memories of a time Gone by, and yes all the great characters who have long since Passed....Thank you for Posting it was a Great Pleasure for me to relive my Boy Hood Days.........
The way they handle those ancient documents!! 😂🤣
PRICELESS DOCUMENTS.
My hometown….lovely to see it in different times👍🏻
Nice to see Ronnie Barker doing a serious project.
It's nerve wrecking seeing how they manhandle those ancient documents, I hope they are treated better today.
REALLY?!?! You “hope [the ancient documents] are treated better today”?!? What, do you think Ireland is still stuck in the 1960s?? Ridiculous!! People should engage their brains before typing one word, I swear!
@@voraciousreader3341 and what if I do think Ireland is in the 1960s huh? What if I do? What would you do? Ya bollocks? Goodfornottin nable? Ah? Would ya be well? Ah? Wake
I'm assuming that the Kilkenny archives are now located between the Kilkenny Castle Butler Archives fought for so hard by Peggy (Susan) Butler in her older years and the "Medieval Mile Museum". Local authorities in Ireland at least had the sense to keep these things in cool dark and dry lock up cupboards where they survived pretty well. I expect Mr. Farrelly was a little energised by the presence of the camera. I much doubt he was given to rough treatment of these archives in a general way.
Inverted cross on the wall in the opening scene...
Throwing them around like yesterdays newspapers.
Dilapidated through age? Or just the fact you treat them like last week's Sunday world
I cannot believe the ignorance of people commenting here! _IT WAS 1967, FFS, GET IT?!?_. The best archival historians in the WORLD at that time didn’t have any better practices than were shown here! Good Lord, what silliness!
@@voraciousreader3341 that's just bollocks, look at the magna carta, and the declaration of independence, they wouldn't have survived if they had been handled like that, because they were always handled with reverance for what they were
Kilkenny town is still quaint and historical, as are it's environs to this day,but a city it's not.
"IP" If you know you know 😉