There is nothing like an Irish christmas, right down to seeing RTÉ cameras in arrivals just after you've touched down in Dublin Airport! Alas, with all the younger people in Australia now, there is a different flavour to the Christmas season locally.
Every time I see videos of people in Mayo, I see people who look more like me than anyone in the world. Every old timer looks the spitting image of my dad, God rest his soul. My family left during the famine.
I was in Gaelic Park in NYC a few years ago, to see Mayo take on New York in gaelic football. All of the people working at the stadium- guys on the gate, people working in the bar, stewards etc.- were instantly recognisable as Irish, even though their people had probably been in America for generations. My missus's great-uncle emigrated to Woodlawn over 60 years ago and still sounds more Mayo than I do! Alas, it seems like the last of NYC's Irish citadels, most having disappeared in the last couple of decades. It means that people are more upwardly-mobile than they once were, I guess.
@@TheLastAngryMan01 perhaps so! My family settled in Philadelphia and the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Hard life, even after immigration. We are doing better these days, although nothing looks as beautiful as Mayo. It’s a dream I have to look for family there, take my three daughters to see people that look like they do.
@@nightheron5892 I was in Philly myself on one occasion, enjoyed it. Where America began ;) Would recommend Westport if you can make it over, there’s a lovely cycle piste all the way up to Achill Island, “The Wild Atlantic Way”. Hard to beat, scenery wise.
Ahh I remember those days. All the parents waiting with smiles then after the New Year the sadness when saying good bye… remember that glass wall in Dub airport with Newgrange etched on it and we’d all be waving and crying either side as we went thru to boarding.the airport had kindly made it that way so we could see each other longer🥲
meeting and greeting family and friends that you have not seen for a long time is the greatest joy Saying goodbye we will meet again sometime in the future is sweet deep sad sorrow
Born and Bred in the most beautiful County of Mayo. Past history , ravaged by famine, and injustices, but , Survivor's with the blood, sweat, heart, and Soul still intact -- NEVER to give in or give up. Thank you Cr's. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
If that is the type of greetings and welcome one receives then I'm off to Knock airport just as soon as I save up some money and I finally get released from a long prison sentence that i am serving for mutiny on the high seas( I was not fully guilty of this crime, I was suffering from homesickness at that time) , here in prison nobody cares for you, there is no hugs and handshakes the smiling faces or people shouting out that there are happy to see you early in the m morning as we wake up. I have a feeling that angry the prison guards would be very happy to see me, and my way to Knock Airport
There is nothing like an Irish christmas, right down to seeing RTÉ cameras in arrivals just after you've touched down in Dublin Airport!
Alas, with all the younger people in Australia now, there is a different flavour to the Christmas season locally.
🙏🇮🇪🙏💚💚🙏🇮🇪🙏
Every time I see videos of people in Mayo, I see people who look more like me than anyone in the world. Every old timer looks the spitting image of my dad, God rest his soul. My family left during the famine.
I was in Gaelic Park in NYC a few years ago, to see Mayo take on New York in gaelic football. All of the people working at the stadium- guys on the gate, people working in the bar, stewards etc.- were instantly recognisable as Irish, even though their people had probably been in America for generations.
My missus's great-uncle emigrated to Woodlawn over 60 years ago and still sounds more Mayo than I do! Alas, it seems like the last of NYC's Irish citadels, most having disappeared in the last couple of decades. It means that people are more upwardly-mobile than they once were, I guess.
Phóist go hálainn. Béannachtaí..🙏🇮🇪🙏
@@TheLastAngryMan01 perhaps so! My family settled in Philadelphia and the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Hard life, even after immigration. We are doing better these days, although nothing looks as beautiful as Mayo. It’s a dream I have to look for family there, take my three daughters to see people that look like they do.
@@nightheron5892 I was in Philly myself on one occasion, enjoyed it. Where America began ;)
Would recommend Westport if you can make it over, there’s a lovely cycle piste all the way up to Achill Island, “The Wild Atlantic Way”. Hard to beat, scenery wise.
@@TheLastAngryMan01 thank you for the recommendation. We’ll make someday, with luck!
Ahh I remember those days. All the parents waiting with smiles then after the New Year the sadness when saying good bye… remember that glass wall in Dub airport with Newgrange etched on it and we’d all be waving and crying either side as we went thru to boarding.the airport had kindly made it that way so we could see each other longer🥲
meeting and greeting family and friends that you have not seen for a long time is the greatest joy Saying goodbye we will meet again sometime in the future is sweet deep sad sorrow
Up Mayo!
Born and Bred in the most beautiful County of Mayo. Past history , ravaged by famine, and injustices, but , Survivor's with the blood, sweat, heart, and Soul still intact -- NEVER to give in or give up. Thank you Cr's. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
Maigh Eo go deo.
@@TheLastAngryMan01Athbhilain faoi mhaise dhúit, agus Béannachtaí agus Méas. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
If that is the type of greetings and welcome one receives then I'm off to Knock airport just as soon as I save up some money and I finally get released from a long prison sentence that i am serving for mutiny on the high seas( I was not fully guilty of this crime, I was suffering from homesickness at that time) , here in prison nobody cares for you, there is no hugs and handshakes the smiling faces or people shouting out that there are happy to see you early in the m morning as we wake up. I have a feeling that angry the prison guards would be very happy to see me, and my way to Knock Airport
Jamsie is it yourself that's in it
Outstanding footage 👏 of yesterday's families being reunited especially at Xmas time 1:57 ❤from Ireland 🇮🇪 x ⚘🌈🌍
Isit true mayonnaise was first made in county mayo. 🇬🇧
No, lol. Mayo/ Maigh Eo means “plain of the yew trees” in the Irish language.
Invented by a French chef in 1756 after the capture of Port Mahon in Menorca, Spain.