@@Jackalos1 While its fun to ponder. I think, if we lived too much longer then our DNA allows, our minds would probably collapse (due to the shared evolution of body and mind). Our short and long term memories would get knocked out of shape first. Then, a full catatonic state and finally body shutdown. I'd bet, it will be the first hurdle ..if they ever try to extend life beyond (say) 130 years. Not to mention, it could have profoundly bad effects on any culture. As it might well stagnate natural, human social changes
The first 50 years were pretty boring. The 20th century was a miracle. In 1900 we didn't have relativity, quantum theory, flight, or mass production. Now our phones show where we are within meters, reliant on all those principles.
An excellent point. If we don't destroy our society, and manage to preserve archive footage on newer and/or more durable mediums, then people in the future could well be watching people talking, who were born a thousand years before them (although language changes, so they would need some form of subtitles).
It's the food and drugs we take that are melting old peoples brains. My great gran was 102 before she died and all there mentally. Quite decrepit bodily, but what're you gonna do? She died in 2001.
It's all in the food we eat. Alzheimers and dementia are not normal parts of aging. Check out the Wahls Protocol. Saved my life from secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and being unable to walk at 25. I can walk again. The brain fog is gone and I am thriving.
My Irish grandmother lived to a few days short of 104 years old. She was sharp like this fellow all the way to the end. She milked cows by hand until she was 90 and cooked on a wood stove. Never learned to drive and never wore a pair of pants-always a long dress. Until she was about 80, she walked to town (2 miles each way) to work as a cook for a restaurant-her "side" job. Then, she would walk home. She never wanted or asked for help. Ah, me Grandma was an exceptional lady with 4 boys serving in WW2. God bless all their memories.
Confused man. ROI wasn’t in WW2 as the Irish government were too busy finding hitler and selling weapons to him. So I wonder which army they served in?
You think that's incredible try listening to the Holy spirit of the LIVING GOD, Yahweh, the Godhead where Yeshua is the Son. Not the pagan Christian god that made the pope the most powerful Roman leader in the world, the only ruler above emperor queen elizabeth herself! Welcome to the Holy Roman Empire.
During his youth, this man saw and interacted with people born in the 1700s. During his last years, he got to hear The Beatles stirring up the world. Let that sink in.
Truth to the saying, In the USA 100 years is a long time, and in Europe, 100 miles is a long way. This guy would have talked to people who lived through independence, literally the birth of the USA, and could have talked to me, born in 1966.
And people who were children when he was born are now old men in the 2020s. The people he met in his lifetime may have covered at least 250 years of history
This guy was amazingly healthy for 107 years old. His mind was still working incedibly well. It's crazy to think that someone can live so long and still be this alert and clear-headed.
@@LuigioMacchio777 There was a guy Ray Peat talked about who lived rurally a majority of his life. When he first saw a car the smell almost made him throw up. He was super sensitive to microplastics and other toxins in our daily lives we just can’t “notice”.
This man was alive when the us civil war broke out, when the eiffel tower was being built, when Germany unified under Bismarck, lived through the franco-prussian war, ww1, ww2 and a little of the cold war. How fascinating is that!
@@raoulduke344 The famine wasnt forced, culling off the ones who produce your food is not something the British intended now is it? Also he wasnt even alive during the famine
@@ApeX-pj4mq The famine was forced. The Potato Blight hit Ireland and Britain (well, Belgium first but lets keep focused) and Britain's response was to remove enough food (cattle, livestock, grain etc) from Ireland to feed between 12-18 million people. On top of that, food sent from Turkey and the USA was seized by the Royal Navy and Lord Trevalyan refused to give it to the starving masses, insisting it "went against the common market". Landlordism was rife, as was anti-Catholicism. The only people that were allowed food in them form of aid were Protestants and Quakers in the North. Starving Catholics were sometimes allowed bowls of soup if they renounced the -Pope and embraced Protestantism. All I was wrong about was the dates. A quote from the time went like this: "Providence brought the blight but England made the famine". It was all entirely engineered. (source: "Irish" by John Burrowes).
@@ApeX-pj4mq Landlordism was also rife. Seemingly the goal was to get as much land as possible. If you don't think the Brits were capable of that, look at the Empire some are so proud of.
The man was born just 5-6 years after the Irish Famine ended. His parents lived through one of Ireland's worst disasters. He must have grown up living in its shadow.
Almost makes you wonder how millennials will be seen in another 70-100 years. _"This man was alive when Pathfinder took the first images of our planet!"_ - Some zoomer's grandkid, maybe
@@呼吸-e9b Yeah, but you're forgetting that there were no vaccines, one or a few outliers doesn't affect the average lifespan which was shorter by around 10 years back then.
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k you are definitely being xenophobic, why Don't you stop being politically correct and just own it. Oh, and neighbourhood, yeah a very English term🙄 🐃💩
What a blessing to see. I’m privileged to live in a house built in 1768. Wish the walls could talk. Humbling to see this gentleman from the past and how resilient people like him were.
Do you really wish that, though? You know most of those memories would be the walls of the house talking about how much the families just farted over the 258 years it's been around, lol. Home life has it's moments, but how many interesting things happen even in a year in someone's house? For most, not many
@Johnt Schmichal no they arent bad but they did change everything the yields you get from GMOs are exponentially higher. Doesnt it seem weird that we are all eating the same banana over and over again
@@vashisl33t I think it's great to have the oppertunity to eat a banana at all. I do agree with concerns of GMO's going from "modified" foods to synthetic. Selective breeding to create hybrid plants however raise no such concerns with me.
reminds me of the survivor of the Tulsa massacre last year . she is still alive at 107 and is sharp as hell. her relatives were murdered by white people when she was a kid. and then later in her 30s another generation of white people murdered many more of her relatives. yet people still asked her to be kind to her rapist and murderer. it was weird.
It’s the food we eat now that’s why. Full of crap and that’s how so many people have health problems and have messed up minds of how many chemicals and junk they put in foods now. Eating healthy makes you have a clear mind and think and read better
@@Jlk-rm1jv Life expectancy in Ireland is relatively high; there quite a number of people right now in Ireland alone who are over 100 years old; an Irish woman who died a few months ago was like 105 or something. Also, worldwide plenty of people reach the age of 100, the oldest woman ever was 122, 107 may be rare bits it's not impossible.
@@SteezyRedStars What kind of sucks is the next century coming forth will not bear as many changes as there already have been. So any elders in the future won't really have much to talk about. Kinda sucks huh ?
The fact that we in 2023, can watch and listen to a man born 165 years ago talk about whatever. Its mindblowing, like we are using phones and all and he was amazed by simple farming machines
I'm on a cell phone that can record video, access all information, and I asked AI to write me a sick burn for someone who wrote a mean comment on my friend's tiktok a couple days ago. The world is very different from them it is astounding.
@@leesonneville1817 main thing i can think of is they made their own of everything they could including entertainment. heck grandpa lived 14 miles from a very small store and never had a car, but i think a huckster truck came by every couple of weeks. wasn't around them that much as we lived 120 miles away.
This video reminded me about when I was twelve in the late 90's I had an school project and teacher gave us 3 options... either world war 1, the great depression, or world war 2 and my dad told me to talk to my great grandmother at the time because she just turned 98 yrs old and lived through them all. The stories she told will always make me appreciate what I have today and just how easy it could all change.
I think that since the beginning of the internet the world changes much faster and nearly everyone has to adapt him/herself to that change. So we got lots of improved sectors just as the health sector, tech sector etc. but we have to pay a high price for it. We are kinda losing the connection to each other and to nature.
Im 59 years old and my grandfather was born in 1894. He remembered the sinking of the titanic fought as a united states marine in france at the battle of bellewood. He lived to be 94. I can still clearly remember the day in 1976 when we were driving to town and he saw his first ultralight airplane. We pulled over and he jumped out saying over and over that's amazing. I yold him it was called an ultralight airplane and he compared it to the model A ford that any man could afford that. At 12 years old i was fully aware of how much change occurred during his lifetime. I miss him like crazy.
I hope not, currently the human population is already way to big to be mantained in this world. Imagine if we all lived this long, horrific for our future. Even the Dalai Lama went into this saying how terrible that would be for our planet.
For anyone who is not Irish, the gentlemans manner of speech is, or was at one time very typical to county Clare, difficult to discern if you're not used to it, but men 30 or 40 years younger than him would speak exactly the same way, its not to do with his advanced years, I knew quite a few people in my youth that were exactly like him
No lie, to me he just had an Irish farmer accent. Or if not that, something close to what I would think (or want to believe, lol) someone might sound like back then if Irish was their first language. I'm not from Ireland, though, so I am no expert. I did live in Limerick for a little bit, though, and there definitely were some people who I'd hear 60% of what they actually said and the other 40% my brain just filled in the blanks, lol
It’s strange. I’m English, and he barely sounds Irish to me. Sounds like some other accent all together. I could understand most of what he said, but it was a totally different accent somehow.
I know a particular 78 year old from Delaware, supposedly born in Scranton, PA, who currently resides in Washington D C. and who is far less mentally capable than this man, or for that matter less mentally capable than many doorknobs.
I mean technically it is the 1849 blokes that had it bad. Once we were able to weld some old mortar casings together after the Great War, our farm productivity skyrocketed.
The emotion in his eyes when he talked about his experience with the evictions & starvation that Ireland delt with broke my heart. It was the major cause of the huge immigration wave of the Irish to the United States. I wonder if there are more videos of this interview because I would love to listen to more of his experiences.
@@danieldeblasio9368 what? Machines talking jobs wasnt the reason for people being evicted. It was the British landowners forcing the people who lived and worked the land out cause they didnt want to pay tax on it and because the farmers couldn't provide enough food during a famine
I was so lucky that my grandfather reached 101. This is incredible to see and hear that he could still understand the interviewer at that age and answer coherently
@@nayten0324 Nah he lived to 109 i just looked it up , still good old age and people back in his time were friendlier , apart from the govt figures lol
What's amazing is he lived another 11 years after this. At the time if he lived another 6 years he would have been the oldest person in recorded human history. That just proves what eating healthy natural foods & working through out your old age can do.
@@Zaptosis I think mentality also plays a facto. A recent study found that those with positive attitude toward life lived longer than those who were depressed.
Such a sharp gentleman! I tell ya, I'm 56 and my Dad who passed in 2008 was born in 34 and if I could ever be 1/100000th of the man my Dad was I would be one helluva man!!! I feel that each generation has gotten weaker and despite or should I say because of technology, we have failed to take care of mother earth and now the little kids today....just wonder what they will have to go through!! The older generations were just so tough and had that salt of the earth way about them. Thank you for this channel...fantastic content!
Until the advent of antibiotics and vaccines for childhood diseases, only the stronger half of the population survived to adulthood. So for the past century or so, this (overall physical) weakening has been true. The effects of so much death and precarious life, probably meant emotional resilience was required in order to survive as well.
My Grammy just passed at 103 this December. She use to tell me of great depression and how her brothers fought in the wars. She truly was an amazing Lady
And now when your kids or grand kids ask you about the past you can tell them about your computer, selfies with no meaning, and your dog who may or may not help you with your so called anxiety.
This man was already 41 in 1899 , he already was in his 40s in the 1800s and lived to see another 70 years before he died...he saw humanity go from horses and simple tools to cars and technology
Ok. Now think of when you'll turn 40, or when you turned 40. Think of that year. Now add 100 years to that. That year will come. And if anyone sees a video of you, they'll be like "oh wow, that guy was 40 in the year (whatever it is), isn't that amazing!"
Fuck I wanted it to keep going, I'd love to hear him recap his whole life and what he saw. 107 years man, he saw so much of the world change and lived through so much.
Its literally amazing and terrifying how some people can live to 100 and still communicate vs others lose themselves at 60 and can't even remember what's what. 😥
Or even when they're about 18 years past 60 and have that mental acuity or less and are the freaking President of the United States... THAT is scary and it's happening right now...
He died at the age of about 110 years. When he was born, the Austrian empire was 60 years away from dissolution, Germany was not yet a nation, Italy was in the process of becoming one, and there were still many people around remembering the Napoleonic era. When this interview was recorded, my own parents, both born in the 1950ies, were still little children,… It boggles the mind.
Sadly, wish i was living back in those days, unfortunately most of humanity seems to be going towards the hard warlike lifestyle. Wich is unfortunate nowadays people tend to be shuted'up these days
@darrenmurphy5347 read some books and statistics - we're better off globally than ever, only downside being the media and internet mostly covering terrible things and shifts our perspectives negatively
My grandfather was born in 1905 and lived to the ripe old age of 94. He was a Garda stationed in Dun Laoghaire and later Deans Grange but in his final years held the distinction of being the last surviving member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP). in 1996, 3 years before he passed, we brought him to see 'Michael Collins' in the Savoy cinema on O'Connell Street. On the steps outside after the film I asked him what he thought. With tears in his eyes he said: What time is the next show? I think I'd like to see it again!
He was finally getting to the good part at the end. I’m hopelessly interested in the mundane day-to-day and hour-to-hour living of normal people in the history before film cameras could properly document it. All period piece movies center around either nobles dealing with a pressured lifestyle, or it might center around poor folk but so long as there’s some large event to help spice things up. I want to see how people spent their lazy hours in the comfort of their home, and hear what conversations took place casually. This was starting to peel back some of that mystery.
I thought I was the only one who was interested in this kind of thing - googling what kind of toothpaste the Romans used and how shoes were made in the middle ages, etc. Nice to see another mundane history fan here
I'm with you on that. Everything today has to have drama and shouting hence our idiotic fake reality shows of the early 2000's. The simple everyday things in life were what my parents and grandparents enjoyed.
Bro this stuff is so fascinating to me its the closest well ever come to time travel. I think it is incredible im listening to a guy speak who was born in the 1850's.
I think the closest we'll come is cryogenically preserving people for sleep periods of hundreds of years and then waking them up. Or we'll be able to create very accurate, artificially intelligent hologramms fed by giant amounts of data collected in the past. The past will be like a garden where we can visit and talk to people.
The most impressive thing to me is that we can understand everything he says. It really shows how normal everyday conversation did not change at all during the past 200 years
"It's an awful difference, I see anyway. Because the combine did as good in one start of a day as the poor reaper and binder wouldn't bring in a week" He had a pretty old-fashioned but still competent kind of language and he was very quick with it for his age, too.
a remarkable piece of footage. It hasn't lost relevance, if anything it calls to us - 'a 3 day old baby and mother' homeless. Today in 2021 the uber wealthy float in sunglasses high up in the atmosphere and celebrate themselves while there are the impoverished with emaciated babies, blind and bloated with disease. The world continues to hasten to a robotic era in spite of humanity.
@@quill7889 probably for the best, manual labor is extremely inefficient and is terrible for most of the workers. It's called back-breaking labor for a reason!
Interviewer: I'm going to introduce you to a rather remarkable man. He's Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick from Killeaney, Maynooth. Now, he started to draw the old age pension in 1927 and 7 years ago he got the President's Bounty on his 100th birthday. Now, he's from County Clare. He came up from Clare in 1940 to a Land Commission farm in Maynooth where he lives now. You have seen a lot of changes Mr. Fitzpatrick in farming. What would you say was the biggest change? MF: Well, machinery. Interviewer: And what sort of a machine... made the biggest impression? MF: Well the reaper and binder is a great one but by God the one for cutting up the ground and throwing a crop is a a powerful one too. Interviewer: Well you were saying at the time you saw the mowing machine first it made a tremendous impression on you. MF: It did. Because [1] how could it be done at all. Interviewer: What was the reaction of the people at that time to the mowing machine Mr. Fitzpatrick? MF: A great many of them wasn't minding it or could afford it but more of them got at it. Interviewer: And some of them I think you told me wouldn't have it on the land at all. MF: Well, a man that had a good farm with us [2] townland, he wouldn't allow [3] it. He used to be paying men to cut it at 3 and 6 pence a day. Interviewer: Do you remember cutting the harvest with the reaping hook? MF: Oh 'twas all of it... cut... for years and years and years. Nothing else ever cut it. Interviewer: And... how do you think that the reaping hook compares with the combine at the present time? MF: Oh well there's an awful difference. An awful difference I see anyway. By God, the combine [4] start of the day the reaper and binder wouldn't [5] in a week. Interviewer: Now you also remember I think a rather historic thing in the land history of this country, the Bodyke Evictions. MF: I do. Interviewer: Could you describe for us what happened at those evictions? You were at them. MF: I was at one of them about five hours. [6] Interviewer: And what happened? MF: Aw, they threw out... they was very cruel. They threw out three children and women and [7]. Well, there was one of them thrown out one day I was in it and the baby was only about 3 days old. And they were sitting... they were [8]. Aw, 'twas cruel. Interviewer: And how about the...ah... type of food you had to eat at that time Mr. Fitzpatrick - what sort of - what did you live on? MF: Well, we had to live on it there a long time - Indian meal and flour. @Gary Madden I just reposted it so it would be farther up the comments. Fantastic job with the transcription, man!
I would love to see more of this interview. What a lifespan. Born in the decade of the Crimean War. Forty two when Queen Victoria died. Fifty six in 1914. Fifty eight at the Easter Rising 1916. Sixty nine in 1927 and eigthy when world War II began.
I've seen several 100+ yr olds, even one in my family, but it's impressive how well collected and lucid this man here had himself. i can only hope to be this healthy in the future
listening to the heart of an Irish farmer, an Irish gentleman at that, from the time of the mid-1800s is profoundly wonderful. His childhood, family, work life, and notice of changes within the farming community, can be shared to post -WWII generations. How impactful and wise.
@@technicalthug Yeah it's this thing called lying. Can you prove him wrong? I know he looks exactly like my 80 year old granpa when he died but I can't prove it. But he sure as hell isn't over 100 let alone over 90.
@@wtfisthis96 Agreed. I'm From Ireland also and my family are just like this aged farmer. In my late 20's I was still being ID checked or out-right refused service at bars. This old man looks like he failed to overeat, failed to enjoy the latest untested medical experiment(s) and failed to sit around all day on his ass.
@@sfaxo This has certainly got to be it. Add to that the sedentary mode of work we are all involved in today. We complain about how stressed the health care sector is. All while, the fix to the problem is to get everybody on 20 acres of land and work it.
@@ruairi4901 you're living in the dark ages pal. I know at least three extremely talented non Irish people working in high level positions in Ireland and using Irish as their first language. I would bet, it is more than you are capable of doing. If you did more to promote the Irish language and campaign for free Irish lessons for all funded by the tax payer we might eventually resurrect our identity.
@@pappy9473 English is the language of business, I'm Irish and I learned Irish throughout school, went to the Gaeltacht, visited Gweedore with school many times, and was top of the class in Irish throughout school, now, I can barely speak a word, it really has no practical use, however, it should be preserved as part of our heritage and from a historical perspective.
My great grandfather was born in 1855 and died in 1959! He was considered the head of the family until his last days, respected and loved by everyone in the family. RIP, grandpa Stevan.
Well folks, I've heard the demand for subtitles on this fine documentary piece and @siogbeagbideach made a fine go of it in a comment below, but I've attempted to transcriber the thing in full as best I can. There are eight points where I lost him, all numbered in square brackets. I'd be glad if anybody could guess these in comments below this one. Interviewer: I'm going to introduce you to a rather remarkable man. He's Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick from Killeaney, Maynooth. Now, he started to draw the old age pension in 1927 and 7 years ago he got the President's Bounty on his 100th birthday. Now, he's from County Clare. He came up from Clare in 1940 to a Land Commission farm in Maynooth where he lives now. You have seen a lot of changes Mr. Fitzpatrick in farming. What would you say was the biggest change? MF: Well, machinery. Interviewer: And what sort of a machine... made the biggest impression? MF: Well the reaper and binder is a great one but by God the one for cutting up the ground and throwing a crop is a a powerful one too. Interviewer: Well you were saying at the time you saw the mowing machine first it made a tremendous impression on you. MF: It did. Because [1] how could it be done at all. Interviewer: What was the reaction of the people at that time to the mowing machine Mr. Fitzpatrick? MF: A great many of them wasn't minding it or could afford it but more of them got at it. Interviewer: And some of them I think you told me wouldn't have it on the land at all. MF: Well, a man that had a good farm with us [2] townland, he wouldn't allow [3] it. He used to be paying men to cut it at 3 and 6 pence a day. Interviewer: Do you remember cutting the harvest with the reaping hook? MF: Oh 'twas all of it... cut... for years and years and years. Nothing else ever cut it. Interviewer: And... how do you think that the reaping hook compares with the combine at the present time? MF: Oh well there's an awful difference. An awful difference I see anyway. By God, the combine [4] start of the day the reaper and binder wouldn't [5] in a week. Interviewer: Now you also remember I think a rather historic thing in the land history of this country, the Bodyke Evictions. MF: I do. Interviewer: Could you describe for us what happened at those evictions? You were at them. MF: I was at one of them about five hours. [6] Interviewer: And what happened? MF: Aw, they threw out... they was very cruel. They threw out three children and women and [7]. Well, there was one of them thrown out one day I was in it and the baby was only about 3 days old. And they were sitting... they were [8]. Aw, 'twas cruel. Interviewer: And how about the...ah... type of food you had to eat at that time Mr. Fitzpatrick - what sort of - what did you live on? MF: Well, we had to live on it there a long time - Indian meal and flour.
Hi Gary I ahd a listen and I think its By God, the combine would do in a part of a day the reaper and binder wouldn't be done in a week. couildnt get the other bits but great archive footage...imagine, he was born during the Famine and was interviewed in 1965..!!
@@stellaoneill6579 Yeah I think bank, standing on a bank is a good guess for blank 8 Stella. Thanks. Don't think there is a river bank in Bodyke. There are a few small lakes up there. The O'Callaghan estate was spread out quite a bit though so could have been a stream. He wanted to evict 57 tenants in total! The bad feeling and legal costs ultimately meant Col. O'Callaghan lost his estate over time anyway.
He was born just after the famine, witnessed the mass migration from Ireland to various shores, lived through the Rebellion, Civil War, formation of a Republic, both World Wars, and much more. If there is a full interview with him, I would hope he was asked about his experiences and insights into those events and I'd enjoy watching every minute of it.
@@Th1sIsMyLegacy The difference between a rebellion and a revolution is success. As they lost/surrendered during the actual event, it denotes it as a rebellion.
@@Albert_O_Balsam yes. cultural mixing hasnt worked. Society doesnt work when we all have different ideals. Look at whats happening at the moment where minorities who have emmigrated want a system change where they get free stuff in exchange for government control of their lives and labour.
@@michaelreid194 My grandfather was the same. Still farming into his old age. From Galway. All his children, including my mum still going strong in their 80s. Good genes too I'd say.
The interviewer, when the farmer talked about the terrible cruel evictions…”And what did you eat….” poor man had to do a complete 360 on his emotions..
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 The potato crops may have failed yet Ireland was producing vast amounts of other food that could have been used to save the dying. Instead, it was shipped out of the country to England. 1845 - 3,251,907 quarters (8 bushels=1 quarter) of corn exported from Ireland to England 1845 - 257,257 sheep exported to Britain 1846 - 480,827 swine exported to Britain 1846 - 186,383 0xen exported to England 1847 - 4,000 ships carrying peas, beans, rabbits, salmon, honey and potatoes left Ireland for English ports 1847 - 9,992 Irish cattle sent to England 1847 - 4,000 Horses and Ponies sent to England 1847 - Approximately 1,000,000 gallons of butter sent to England 1847 - Approximately 1,700,000 gallons of grain-derived alcohol sent to England 1847 - 400,000 Irish people died due to starvation It is an indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when Irish people were dying from starvation.
@@BluntmanOO7 the brits paid for it, the irish couldn't. Simply a markets thing. Several famines right now but you're on yt complaining about a false situation an age ago. Get that fake chip off your shoulder, you didnt earn it.
@@BluntmanOO7 you know what else came from Ireland to london,,, 600k+ Irish women & children moved "to" london to be looked after cos their husbands had fcked off to the states.
@@gradualdecay1040 Oh wow another keyboard warrior talking shit on YT good man yourself, three reply's back to back for one comment, can you not formulate a decent reply first time round? I'm sure you lived through the famine and seen it all. The chip on my shoulder will remain firmly in place until the north side of my country is free from the scum that plagues it.
My father was born in 1912, it often amazed me the changes he saw in ireland in his lifetime. His generation had to cope with huge changes in technology and social change. This is a fabulous interview with a wise old irishman. Ireland has changed, though its citizens are still being evicted. Some things remain the same!
japinashne you are so right! I am proud to say that I AM the great granddaughter of Michael Fitzpatrick and we just discovered this video yesterday. I cannot describe how it touched us to actually see and hear him talking in this interview. My grandmother was his daughter, and she was a settler to South Africa. Sadly she passed when my mom was only 11 so we never got to hear her own stories of life in Ireland in those early days.
@@veronicawilsonstroud2282 what's the biggest strangest change you have witnessed so far. Like to me it would be male or same gender marriages allowed in some states
@veronica wilson stroud I would be Micheal’s great great grandson, he was my grandmother’s grandfather. Was amazing to see this interview. My grandmother had told me about the interview years ago but I never thought we would ever see it. I am still in Ireland and have met some of our South African cousins in Gort, Galway. A trip to South Africa would definitely be on the bucket list
@@treyshaffer That's not entirely it. Everyone might think it's Dennis Papin in 1690 who invented it, but the Ancient Greeks invented a form of steam power nearly 2,500 years before.
When the man recounts the eviction of a family with a three day old baby left by the side of a road you get a real sense of the appalling cruelty inflicted on the Irish people by devilish landlords .
To this day, renting should be abolished. It is a barbarian and highly unfair practice, not quite as bad as slavery but one of its offsprings. Renting should be made illegal just as usury lending should also be made illegal.
That man was sharp as a tack, zero hesitation or pausing during questions. Heck, the interviewer managed to stutter and stammer a little bit but not the old farmer. I firmly believe that hard work and keeping overindulgence at bay keeps the reaper away and this man proves it. Boy what those those old eyes must have seen in all that time.
Healthy lifestyle, probably spent most of his time outdoors in the fresh less polluted air with home cooked meals and no modern technology to mess up his brain.
When my dude was my age of 15, he was in the early mid-1800s, his grandparents were probably from the late 1700s. He literally spoke to people from the Age of Sail when pirates were going around robbing ships. Imagine what stories _he_ would have heard.
@@hijodelaisla275 "Literally" has been used informally to put emphasis on a point or express amazement for almost a hundred years now. Take your grammar Nazi ass out of here.
@@fabplays6559 By whom? Unintelligent children like yourself because they didn't know what the term actually means but used it anyway since they were unable or incompetent to form context somebody would actually like to hear about without needlessly "emphasising" every single (part of the) statement? You know what's the biggest problem? So many idiots started doing exactly what you mentioned, and when I would ask them "What do you mean, was it literally or not?", they wouldn't understand what I was asking them exactly. And that was enough of an answer for me to conclude what I just stated above. Regards
This guy was alive before Germany was unified, when the US only had 34 states and was in the Civil War, experienced the infancy of the Industry Age, lived through both World Wars, experienced the dawn of the Nuclear Age, went from a world with horse and buggy to automobiles, watched the first computer develop, and watched the rise and fall of Communism in Europe. Truly amazing.
I watched on TV one of the early astronauts saying that his dad had marveled at the first flights of the Wright brothers and now his son was going to the moon. Beyond belief.😯
As a Clareman born in 1965,I found this video to be truly astonishing,as this gentleman’s lifespan extends back to the late 1850s.A previous poster remarked upon his birth having taken place immediately after the Crimean War-my brain is doing somersaults.Mr.Fitzpatrick must have been a tough bird to have lived through such hard times-not forgetting that there were a number of subsequent famines Ireland during the latter half of the 19th century-though none having had quite the devastating impact as the Great Famine of the 1840s.Thanks for posting this fascinating insight into the social impact of colonialism on Ireland,as well as the impact of the London’s solution in the 1830s to ridding us of our unique ‘daily use’ language,something which sadly (with a few exceptions) as of 2021 has come to pass. Mr Fitzpatrick’s accent is beautiful to my ear ,as is his construction of sentences which another poster eloquently explained is as a direct result of he (Mr Fitz)having grown up with Irish as his first language. Please post more (or if possible -redirect to the respective link/archive)of these magnificent videos. Thanks for a really rewarding and at times very entertaining experience.
You may already have seen the one of old Michael McInerny from Quilty being interviewed in about 1963, talking about the rescue in 1907 of a French Cargo ship. Fascinating stuff.
@@ruairi4901 I'm sorry voting will do little good. Haven't all of you figured out about the Dominion voting machine fraud. Stalin said he who controls the ballot box controls the election. Only the most vigorous organized actions by a small determined patriotic christian corps will reclaim your nation.
What a brave man. Can't imagine how though life was back then and still he lived over a hundred years. It was heartbreaking for me to see the sadness in his eyes, and I thank him for existing. How historical this clip is
I'm sure that this man knows the meaning of hard work. Imagine what he would think of people who curse when they can't get a parking spot close to where they have to go?
i agree 100%, i’m a strong believer in not giving older people respect just because of their age. but this man makes me question that, he’s such an insightful man and i’m so glad i have the opportunity to see this interview! absolutely incredible :)
ONE OF THE MOST HEARTFELT, EMOTIONAL FEW MINUTES SEEN BY ME , A FELLOW IRISH LADY, ON UA-cam . WHAT THIS WONDERFULL MAN WITNESSED IN IRELAND & LIVED THROUGH IN EUROPE,
My great grandmother Virginia Muise lived to be 111 years old. She still had her faculties about her when she went. Interviewing her was a guaranteed 💯 on any history assignments growing up and the amazing things she had seen happen in her lifetime were just wonderful to sit and listen to as well.
Almost a century from now, everything that happens now, will be history in the next century, it’s crazy people would want to listen to our future stories about our times, especially about the Queen’s death, people would want to know where we were when it happened, and our lives during Covid-19, and probably about a future mars landing. I was born in 2003, so I was and am alive at the same time as ww2 veterans, that be crazy for people in the 2100s to hear about, since ww2 would be almost around in the 150s years
Nobody should feel bad about struggling to understand. I'm from this part of the country and I can barely hear him. I think that's a testament to Irish culture more than anything.
I honestly feel it's something about the accent, my great-grandad was the same. Must be trying to keep up with the same way they used to speak, but not being able to make the same inflections and sounds, ending up with more mumbled words.
Listening to him talk kind of reminds me of people who speak English as a second language. Was it common for people of that generation to have grown up speaking Irish?
Taken to such lengths, too,..my maternal grandmother, although Tasmanian-born, grew up in an almost entirely Irish-Catholic milieu, including the use of Gaelic,.and she unfailingly spoke of people in such a manner,..to the extent that she was reputed, within the family, to have referred to ‘Mr Hitler’ on more than one occasion. And that was after the war ! 😮
@@Albert-Arthur-Wison225 in my childhood this was common, and I'm only in my 40s. It was unheard of in the 1980s to be calling folk you didn't know well by their first names. Mum always called her close friend who was more than 10 years older than her Mrs C, as that was as informal as she felt comfortable with.
There was a black lady in my home town that was 114 in 1980, the year I went off to college. She was born a year after Lincoln got assassinated and came to Oklahoma when it was still called "Indian Territory". He son took care of her, and he was 88.
I once read an interview from the 1950s of a centenarian woman of color who vividly remembered growing up in slavery in Alabama. I would’ve given anything to actually hear her voice.
@@yolandaponkers1581 If you can remember her name there is a chance that the Library of Congress may actually have a recording of an interview with her. Look it up online, you should be able to get a copy.
Okay, that is amazing. The closest I could come is interacting with a "Black" airline pilot who proudly piloted a flight that MLK took once. He told MLK that he appreciated everything he had done for "Black" people. But he couldn't march with him. Because he was going to shoot someone at the first flying brick. Haha!!! I miss that old man. He was living history.
@@megasauruss It is always the weirdest question. Mayhap because we don't look anything like the colors white or "black. I mean Colin Kapaernick is a "Black" man, right. How does his skin color compare to the color "Black"? These are cultural designations.
To love from 1858 to 1965 is honesty astonishing to me, the history this man has seen, two world wars, the industrial revolution coming into full swing, the boer war, the rising and the Irish civil war, the great depression, the Korean war, the roaring 20's, the first plane and locamotive,
It's crazy how things change over the years. I'm an early 1980's born, in a small rural island in the middle of the Atlantic, and remembering the world of my own childhood is already mind-blowing to see how much have changed in such a short period of time. People say that 100 years is a lot, but it isn't. In just 20, 30, or 50 years the world changes drastically. And with it our entire lives! Time is really our most precious commodity! And it runs quickly! We waste so much of it...
I did in home elder care for several years & one of my clients was 100 in 2008 (she obviously has passed since then, but lived to be 105). I asked her once about the assassination of the Romanovs & she said that she remembered it being front page news, but as a child she had no idea what it meant, world importance-wise. On her lucid days, we would talk about the changes that had taken place & it was mind boggling.
Wonder what an "indian meal" was in those times. Hardly the vindaloo we're used to today Update: Indian Meal is the Irish name for Maize or cornmeal. Maize was introduced to Ireland during the Potato Famine of 1847 but lost its popularity in the 1960s. According to oral history North American Indians sent maize to Ireland to help the poor during the Famine, hence the name.
Another name for it during the famine was peel’s brimstone because the corn was incredibly hard and the Irish people weren’t told how to properly cook it
@@nuriao1111 See it's such a waste of time and energy arguing with people online. He was arguing over the semantics of the term "potato famine", saying how it was an inaccurate description of the events. He had a point but it was the way he was going on about it and picking a bone with me over it, like I had something to do with it
Such a pleasure to hear this humble man-a hard-working, clear-headed, moral soul, salt of the Irish earth. I hear my great-grandmother’s honest, spartan voice and oblique angle on life.
That gorgeous accent. My grandmother was from Cork and her words and sentences were so rhythmic and distinctive in the soft accent she had. Very sharp woman. She could run rings around me at 90 God Rest her, we lost her at 93 to dementia. She would have lived to 100 at least if she hadn't developed the disease. I miss her dearly. In many ways and for many more reasons. Hannah O'Keeffe - you would have loved her.
I appreciate the reporters questions, we tend to romanticize the past and here you had a (then) living witness to history, calling out not only the wonder of modern technology and its efficiency in helping the modern farm worker, but also the cruelty we still had against each other. Amazing how mankind can develop such inanimate wonders, but we are still the basest and cruelest to each other.
True It's only recently that life has become easy a nightmare every single day just to survive This bloke woke up everyday trying to keep his wife & family alive My grandmother said you can shove the good old days
Simply amazing.... If only there was more interviews like this one. Just goes to show we don't appreciate our elders enough when they're here. If you have grandparents still with us, ask them all you can! Because you'll always regret it if you don't.
Very true. All of social history is interesting, particularly the things that seem most mundane. For instance, nobody knows how a Roman toga was worn exactly, because nobody bothered explaining to posterity! And it's scary how the recent past gets forgotten. I talked to some children yesterday - they all knew what a 'fireplace' was, but none of them, or their parents, had ever seen a real domestic fireplace with a fire in action.
"Indian meal" = corn meal. There's a high likelihood that the corn meal he's referring to was made from something closer to feed corn or, perhaps even flint corn. Probably pretty gritty, stout stuff, but he was a tough dude, obviously...and it seems to have been mixed with flour.
1858 he was born. To think of the changes between then and 1965. Basically, the modern world grew up around him!
Just incredible.
Think about how much technology has progressed since 1965 too. If humans could live for 200 years like some other animals, it would be so surreal.
@@Jackalos1 While its fun to ponder. I think, if we lived too much longer then our DNA allows, our minds would probably collapse (due to the shared evolution of body and mind). Our short and long term memories would get knocked out of shape first. Then, a full catatonic state and finally body shutdown. I'd bet, it will be the first hurdle ..if they ever try to extend life beyond (say) 130 years.
Not to mention, it could have profoundly bad effects on any culture. As it might well stagnate natural, human social changes
*He would be shocked if he saw Ireland today*
*Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050*
*Vote The National Party🇮🇪*
The first 50 years were pretty boring. The 20th century was a miracle. In 1900 we didn't have relativity, quantum theory, flight, or mass production. Now our phones show where we are within meters, reliant on all those principles.
@@aluisious For me, the 1800's were where the biggest changes happened. Social, political, industrial, science, art.
But, its all a personal thing :)
The truly incredible thing is that we are listening to the voice and experiences of a man born in the 1850s 170 years later.
Now that’s quite unique.
what an angle
Yup❤️
An excellent point.
If we don't destroy our society, and manage to preserve archive footage on newer and/or more durable mediums, then people in the future could well be watching people talking, who were born a thousand years before them (although language changes, so they would need some form of subtitles).
And imagine he heard the stories from 1700 from his grandfather
@@polishchesshustlers9350 yes, very possible.
Being this self aware and coherent at such an age is honestly a blessing..
sucks that the questions sucked
@@Salmanul_ "Was Victor Hugo a nice man?"
It's the food and drugs we take that are melting old peoples brains. My great gran was 102 before she died and all there mentally. Quite decrepit bodily, but what're you gonna do? She died in 2001.
Like, Oh EmM GeE y diDnT theY ASK hiM iF HeD take tHE VacCInE
It's all in the food we eat. Alzheimers and dementia are not normal parts of aging.
Check out the Wahls Protocol. Saved my life from secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and being unable to walk at 25. I can walk again. The brain fog is gone and I am thriving.
My Irish grandmother lived to a few days short of 104 years old. She was sharp like this fellow all the way to the end. She milked cows by hand until she was 90 and cooked on a wood stove. Never learned to drive and never wore a pair of pants-always a long dress. Until she was about 80, she walked to town (2 miles each way) to work as a cook for a restaurant-her "side" job. Then, she would walk home. She never wanted or asked for help. Ah, me Grandma was an exceptional lady with 4 boys serving in WW2. God bless all their memories.
I’m guessing they would be your uncles did they serve in the British Army?
I should have been more clear. She emigrated from Ireland as a young lady. My dad and my 3 uncles served-each in the 4 branches. THANKS! @@Ken-fh4jc
My Great-grandmother from Meath lived 'til 107, She was very not all there for the last several years of her life.
Sorry about the not-all-there-part, but 107...WOW!.
@@mattfinleylive
Confused man. ROI wasn’t in WW2 as the Irish government were too busy finding hitler and selling weapons to him. So I wonder which army they served in?
It's so fricken incredible that we're here, in the year 2021, listening to somebody born in the mid-1800's
Then search here in youtube: Helmut Von Moltke, who was a prussian general born in 1800. He's the oldest person whose voice was ever recorded.
Closest thing to a time machine!
1850s*
Fortunate that the incredible changes in technology that he witnessed included the equipment to record this.
You think that's incredible try listening to the Holy spirit of the LIVING GOD, Yahweh, the Godhead where Yeshua is the Son. Not the pagan Christian god that made the pope the most powerful Roman leader in the world, the only ruler above emperor queen elizabeth herself! Welcome to the Holy Roman Empire.
During his youth, this man saw and interacted with people born in the 1700s. During his last years, he got to hear The Beatles stirring up the world. Let that sink in.
Truth to the saying, In the USA 100 years is a long time, and in Europe, 100 miles is a long way. This guy would have talked to people who lived through independence, literally the birth of the USA, and could have talked to me, born in 1966.
NO! nothing sinks into me! i am far too dense!
And people who were children when he was born are now old men in the 2020s. The people he met in his lifetime may have covered at least 250 years of history
@@NIDELLANEUM The people who were children when he was born would be older than him, so it's impossible any of them would be alive by now.
@@libertasautmors8995 I can't believe I said "when he was born" when I meant "when he passed away". Sorry for the error
This guy was amazingly healthy for 107 years old. His mind was still working incedibly well. It's crazy to think that someone can live so long and still be this alert and clear-headed.
@@GenghisClaus and Lucky Charms
@@GenghisClaus the yanks probably eat a lot more potatoes than the Irish
@@lukechalkley7996 Not overeating has a lot to do with it. Ever seen an obese ancient man?
It's the plastic everywhere, the industrial work and living in a crowded city.
@@LuigioMacchio777 There was a guy Ray Peat talked about who lived rurally a majority of his life. When he first saw a car the smell almost made him throw up. He was super sensitive to microplastics and other toxins in our daily lives we just can’t “notice”.
Amazing! He's 170 years old now in 2023. I hope he's well and in good health wherever he is.
@rafaeldejesus8199funnily, he seems sharper than Trump and Biden.
finally, he can drink beer in America now
@@Charky32nah, the legal drinking age is 210, he gotta wait
You just made my day. Thanks
im sure hes doing amazing
This dude literally just witnessed humanity go from a farmer-based society to an early space-faring civilization.
He witnessed the world go crazy and weird.
@Eric Cartman It really shouldn't.
@@Antractica the irony of a comment about morality and degeneracy from "one" called eric cartman
@Eric Cartman It was.
@@ohyeahyeahnumber6988 edgy
This man was alive when the us civil war broke out, when the eiffel tower was being built, when Germany unified under Bismarck, lived through the franco-prussian war, ww1, ww2 and a little of the cold war. How fascinating is that!
The Irish forced famine too.
@@raoulduke344 The famine wasnt forced, culling off the ones who produce your food is not something the British intended now is it?
Also he wasnt even alive during the famine
@@ApeX-pj4mq The famine was forced. The Potato Blight hit Ireland and Britain (well, Belgium first but lets keep focused) and Britain's response was to remove enough food (cattle, livestock, grain etc) from Ireland to feed between 12-18 million people.
On top of that, food sent from Turkey and the USA was seized by the Royal Navy and Lord Trevalyan refused to give it to the starving masses, insisting it "went against the common market".
Landlordism was rife, as was anti-Catholicism. The only people that were allowed food in them form of aid were Protestants and Quakers in the North. Starving Catholics were sometimes allowed bowls of soup if they renounced the -Pope and embraced Protestantism.
All I was wrong about was the dates. A quote from the time went like this: "Providence brought the blight but England made the famine". It was all entirely engineered.
(source: "Irish" by John Burrowes).
@@ApeX-pj4mq Landlordism was also rife. Seemingly the goal was to get as much land as possible.
If you don't think the Brits were capable of that, look at the Empire some are so proud of.
Of course, being a small rural farmer in Ireland, he may not have known much of any of those world events.
He looked good for 107. Honestly not that many wrinkles on his face.
Yes and very articulate!
Farmers tend to live longer, better diets and living close to all those plants is a good source of fresh oxygen.
@@smittywerben1849 And spend most of their waking day moving about instead of stuck behind a desk.
@@SentientSingularity uh the afterlife.
Respect to this man
The man was born just 5-6 years after the Irish Famine ended. His parents lived through one of Ireland's worst disasters. He must have grown up living in its shadow.
Maybe that's what made him stronger
@@DarkMSG bigger, stronger, happier, more productive
@@noelyking400radiohead
@@ldgaming4213 good man
@@noelyking400 thanks haha
"the machinery"
Many of us have seen technological improvements. But this man saw the Golden Age of Industry in its infancy.
Almost makes you wonder how millennials will be seen in another 70-100 years.
_"This man was alive when Pathfinder took the first images of our planet!"_ - Some zoomer's grandkid, maybe
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis I don't think Pathfinder will be nearly as memorable as the golden age of industry.
@@k-leb4671 Maybe not Pathfinder, but people definitely look on stuff like Apollo in that way.
@@olivercuenca4109 yeah I agree with Apollo.
Perhaps I'm wrong but I assume he was talking about horse drawn and powered machines - before tractors were invented......?
Not only did he look great for his age, his mental sharpness and acuity was also remarkable.
And speaks much more clearly than most Irish
How could you tell?
People back then lived much healthier lives
@@呼吸-e9b Yeah, but you're forgetting that there were no vaccines, one or a few outliers doesn't affect the average lifespan which was shorter by around 10 years back then.
That should be the norm..
This man was born 5 years after Vincent Van Gogh & outlived him by 75 years.
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k yes?
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k That wasn't his point, he was pointing out that a man alive in 1965 was only 5 years younger then Van Gogh.
*He would be shocked if he saw Ireland today*
*Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050*
*Vote The National Party🇮🇪*
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k you are definitely being xenophobic, why Don't you stop being politically correct and just own it. Oh, and neighbourhood, yeah a very English term🙄
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What a blessing to see. I’m privileged to live in a house built in 1768. Wish the walls could talk. Humbling to see this gentleman from the past and how resilient people like him were.
1768? That's amazing. Would love to see a picture of your home.
A lot of missionary took place in your house
Do you really wish that, though? You know most of those memories would be the walls of the house talking about how much the families just farted over the 258 years it's been around, lol. Home life has it's moments, but how many interesting things happen even in a year in someone's house? For most, not many
Do you experience any ghosts?. Neat stuff!
This is not uncommon in the UK, people live in houses that are even older than this, funny to see Americans think it's crazy.
I love how it gets instantly put into perspective how old this guy was, when he says the biggest change in farming hes experienced is "the machinery"
Nowadays it'd be like "can you be more specific?" but back then he went from NO MACHINERY to SOME
yeah he missed the GMO take over in the 70s
@Johnt Schmichal no they arent bad but they did change everything the yields you get from GMOs are exponentially higher. Doesnt it seem weird that we are all eating the same banana over and over again
@@vashisl33t I think it's great to have the oppertunity to eat a banana at all. I do agree with concerns of GMO's going from "modified" foods to synthetic. Selective breeding to create hybrid plants however raise no such concerns with me.
only people from the 1850s will relate
At 107, he was still sharp and quick to answer questions! Amazing!
reminds me of the survivor of the Tulsa massacre last year . she is still alive at 107 and is sharp as hell. her relatives were murdered by white people when she was a kid. and then later in her 30s another generation of white people murdered many more of her relatives. yet people still asked her to be kind to her rapist and murderer. it was weird.
It’s the food we eat now that’s why. Full of crap and that’s how so many people have health problems and have messed up minds of how many chemicals and junk they put in foods now. Eating healthy makes you have a clear mind and think and read better
@@doa_824 Mmmm yeah, maybe you're right. Good point mate.
You really believe his age? no chance in hell
@@Jlk-rm1jv Life expectancy in Ireland is relatively high; there quite a number of people right now in Ireland alone who are over 100 years old; an Irish woman who died a few months ago was like 105 or something.
Also, worldwide plenty of people reach the age of 100, the oldest woman ever was 122, 107 may be rare bits it's not impossible.
It's weird that 100 years is nothing in the eyes of the universe but a 100 year old person shows so much to us.
SOOO many things have changed for humans in the last 100 years in terms of technology, culture, and healthcare
exactly life is but a vapor
Because we arent the universe, we are people, humans.
It's all relative!
@@SteezyRedStars What kind of sucks is the next century coming forth will not bear as many changes as there already have been. So any elders in the future won't really have much to talk about. Kinda sucks huh ?
The fact that we in 2023, can watch and listen to a man born 165 years ago talk about whatever. Its mindblowing, like we are using phones and all and he was amazed by simple farming machines
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
And now YOUR kids don't know what a farm is, they think everything they buy comes from a store.
so cliche
I'm on a cell phone that can record video, access all information, and I asked AI to write me a sick burn for someone who wrote a mean comment on my friend's tiktok a couple days ago. The world is very different from them it is astounding.
@@derdoktor206 yea, life is hard in 21st century...
Imagine that in 1868 when he was 10, he would've met someone born most likely in the 1780's or 90's.
my great-great- grandfather was born in 1792. we go after the young ones when we are old and get em pregnant.
Tbf they probably would have died in the famine
That would have been a good question. Describe what older people were like when you were a young boy. How were they different from people today?
3 generations to the 1700's. That is insane.
@@leesonneville1817 main thing i can think of is they made their own of everything they could including entertainment. heck grandpa lived 14 miles from a very small store and never had a car, but i think a huckster truck came by every couple of weeks. wasn't around them that much as we lived 120 miles away.
This video reminded me about when I was twelve in the late 90's I had an school project and teacher gave us 3 options... either world war 1, the great depression, or world war 2 and my dad told me to talk to my great grandmother at the time because she just turned 98 yrs old and lived through them all. The stories she told will always make me appreciate what I have today and just how easy it could all change.
I think it should be the normal teaching method to have our grandparents tell us history through their experiences.
Oh trust me, we’re about to go through something very very soon. And it ain’t Covid.
@@LRM5195 What do you mean?
@@villekiiski7978 what do you think he means?
Tell us more !
The man who lived trough the 50's & 60's twice
good one.
I think that since the beginning of the internet the world changes much faster and nearly everyone has to adapt him/herself to that change. So we got lots of improved sectors just as the health sector, tech sector etc. but we have to pay a high price for it. We are kinda losing the connection to each other and to nature.
@@AS-bc9qd yes
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@@AS-bc9qd very true
Im 59 years old and my grandfather was born in 1894. He remembered the sinking of the titanic fought as a united states marine in france at the battle of bellewood. He lived to be 94. I can still clearly remember the day in 1976 when we were driving to town and he saw his first ultralight airplane. We pulled over and he jumped out saying over and over that's amazing. I yold him it was called an ultralight airplane and he compared it to the model A ford that any man could afford that. At 12 years old i was fully aware of how much change occurred during his lifetime. I miss him like crazy.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
it's so beautiful. what a person your grandfather! you're so lucky to be his grandson!
there is a gap between us because of languages and years, but I want to say that I feel this story and you (almost cryed)
It's impressive. Thanks for sharing your memory
As a Corpsman that served alongside the Marines i give that man nothing but respect, he is the history that i learned about. Semper Fi
This man went from horses to men in space
The space theory is beyond faked. Please stop being so naive
There is no such thing as “space” outside of NASA fiction.
Looks like you attracted the crazy people with this comment
@@hexcss9153 that’s why you’re here. How was your seventh booster?
@@sleepyjoe9267 How are your pills? Have you been off them again?
This man was born in 1858 and alive at the same time as my parents. That’s unbelievable to think about. I hope more people live that long.
Born in 66. May have been around during my time. I remember there were a few people born as slaves still alive, when I was young.
How old were you when ff7 dropped?
@@Daplin1 lmao
I hope not, currently the human population is already way to big to be mantained in this world. Imagine if we all lived this long, horrific for our future.
Even the Dalai Lama went into this saying how terrible that would be for our planet.
How old are you??
This footage is priceless. What a wonderful piece of history.
Wow I can't believe he's still alive
@@jehanariyaratnam2874 lol
@@jehanariyaratnam2874 hes immortal now thanks to youtube
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For anyone who is not Irish, the gentlemans manner of speech is, or was at one time very typical to county Clare, difficult to discern if you're not used to it, but men 30 or 40 years younger than him would speak exactly the same way, its not to do with his advanced years, I knew quite a few people in my youth that were exactly like him
No lie, to me he just had an Irish farmer accent. Or if not that, something close to what I would think (or want to believe, lol) someone might sound like back then if Irish was their first language. I'm not from Ireland, though, so I am no expert. I did live in Limerick for a little bit, though, and there definitely were some people who I'd hear 60% of what they actually said and the other 40% my brain just filled in the blanks, lol
It’s strange. I’m English, and he barely sounds Irish to me. Sounds like some other accent all together. I could understand most of what he said, but it was a totally different accent somehow.
My in-laws are from Clare, Ennis. Lovely accent ❤
He just sounded like most rural Irishmen I have met to be honest. Not particularly hard to follow as I am English and we hear Irish voices a lot.
@@hans-q2h3dmy son in laws family are from Ennis. They may well know each other.
He looks great for 107 , seen 70 yr olds look worse than this fella
I know a particular 78 year old from Delaware, supposedly born in Scranton, PA, who currently resides in Washington D C. and who is far less mentally capable than this man, or for that matter less mentally capable than many doorknobs.
@@brianmccarthy5557 😂😂
He's probably still alive.
@@brianmccarthy5557 Thank u Brian, very cool. What witty commentary.
i do not believe he looks quite as well today unfortunately
Only us 1860s kids can relate to what he's saying.
OK, tumour
@@Cjnw That's not too kind of u
@@BGomez-tk7lu yes not kind
1850s no?
I mean technically it is the 1849 blokes that had it bad. Once we were able to weld some old mortar casings together after the Great War, our farm productivity skyrocketed.
The emotion in his eyes when he talked about his experience with the evictions & starvation that Ireland delt with broke my heart. It was the major cause of the huge immigration wave of the Irish to the United States.
I wonder if there are more videos of this interview because I would love to listen to more of his experiences.
People being displaced by machines has been problematic. Nobody ponders who will own all the machines!?
@@danieldeblasio9368 what? Machines talking jobs wasnt the reason for people being evicted.
It was the British landowners forcing the people who lived and worked the land out cause they didnt want to pay tax on it and because the farmers couldn't provide enough food during a famine
@@Niall487 Nonsense.
@@Niall487 Much more economically sound when people grow their food because a lot of resources are used up to transport to overpopulated cities.
@@Niall487 Booms and Busts business cycles have been displacing farmers for a long time.
I was so lucky that my grandfather reached 101.
This is incredible to see and hear that he could still understand the interviewer at that age and answer coherently
He looks ok for being 107 years old but what surprises me is that his mind is still sharp and he answers very quick
wonder if he got to the big 110 ?
@@Cayres9 someone in a comment said he lived another 11 years after this interview apparently
@@nayten0324 Nah he lived to 109 i just looked it up , still good old age and people back in his time were friendlier , apart from the govt figures lol
@@giddots ☺️👍
They dont put Fluoride in the water in Finland
At 107 years this guy is more responsive than I am at 31
wow no good u have issues then
Fix that, for your own sake.
@@SAMMYJR00777 not helpful
It's the active lifestyle of a farmer, spent in the outdoors. You can recreate that by taking walks in the sun each day and exercising.
You are worth it to take care of yourself.
This man was 30 when Jack The Ripper was stalking London.
What's amazing is he lived another 11 years after this. At the time if he lived another 6 years he would have been the oldest person in recorded human history.
That just proves what eating healthy natural foods & working through out your old age can do.
@@Zaptosis I think mentality also plays a facto. A recent study found that those with positive attitude toward life lived longer than those who were depressed.
Think we've found our prime suspect. Case closed.
@Storm Diephuis is this a joke
The fact that he lived to Be 116?
Such a sharp gentleman! I tell ya, I'm 56 and my Dad who passed in 2008 was born in 34 and if I could ever be 1/100000th of the man my Dad was I would be one helluva man!!!
I feel that each generation has gotten weaker and despite or should I say because of technology, we have failed to take care of mother earth and now the little kids today....just wonder what they will have to go through!!
The older generations were just so tough and had that salt of the earth way about them. Thank you for this channel...fantastic content!
Until the advent of antibiotics and vaccines for childhood diseases, only the stronger half of the population survived to adulthood. So for the past century or so, this (overall physical) weakening has been true.
The effects of so much death and precarious life, probably meant emotional resilience was required in order to survive as well.
My Grammy just passed at 103 this December. She use to tell me of great depression and how her brothers fought in the wars. She truly was an amazing Lady
That’s awesome man, you come from a line of strong people. Don’t forget that. May she RIP
I'm sorry for your loss. Pass on the stories she shared with you to as many as you can.
And now when your kids or grand kids ask you about the past you can tell them about your computer, selfies with no meaning, and your dog who may or may not help you with your so called anxiety.
@@KvltKrist I didn't know I had anxiety?
@@tpucky180 Its satire. I understand it.
This man was already 41 in 1899 , he already was in his 40s in the 1800s and lived to see another 70 years before he died...he saw humanity go from horses and simple tools to cars and technology
Ask Arthur Morgan
that is how math works, yes.
He was in his 40s in the 1890s, not 1800s. And why specifically the year 1899?
I'm 38. I'm caregiver to my husband's grandmother who is 92. I literally cannot imagine living 54 more years...... 😵😫
Ok. Now think of when you'll turn 40, or when you turned 40. Think of that year. Now add 100 years to that. That year will come. And if anyone sees a video of you, they'll be like "oh wow, that guy was 40 in the year (whatever it is), isn't that amazing!"
Fuck I wanted it to keep going, I'd love to hear him recap his whole life and what he saw. 107 years man, he saw so much of the world change and lived through so much.
Same I'd liking hear his whole life story , I do looking for stuff to watch like this , not to much like this tho
Yes, I think the interviewer should just let him told his stories
Well as a simple farmer I doubt he had seen much except hard work.
Really....must you use foul language?! This is open to public and children. Shame on you. Edit please! Does your grandma know you talk this way? 🤔
@@debracollins4756 Get off the internet Debra if you can't handle a single swear word.
This is without a single doubt one of the most remarkable footages I have seen in youtube.
Agreed. You should look up WW1 veteran Jack - Fascinating
Its certainly remarkable. You did in fact, make a remark about it as did many others. I think the footage is valuable and fascinating.
Its literally amazing and terrifying how some people can live to 100 and still communicate vs others lose themselves at 60 and can't even remember what's what. 😥
Or even when they're about 18 years past 60 and have that mental acuity or less and are the freaking President of the United States... THAT is scary and it's happening right now...
@@johnlee1297 This 100+ year-old gentleman seems more way more lucid than our current president. LOL
And then become president right?
Honestly, today, even kids struggle with living a good life--despite their privileges. We're losing hope...or the will, I guess
Authoritarians usually have a hard time understanding ambiguity and subtleties.
This man went from muskets to nuclear weapons in his lifetime
They had repeating rifles in the 1860s, including gatling guns
And not being able to fly... at all... to walking on the Moon.
Well nuclear weapon is already a thing in 45
Do you ever think maybe we're just an alien game of Sid Meier's civilization 😂
horses to cars
He died at the age of about 110 years. When he was born, the Austrian empire was 60 years away from dissolution, Germany was not yet a nation, Italy was in the process of becoming one, and there were still many people around remembering the Napoleonic era. When this interview was recorded, my own parents, both born in the 1950ies, were still little children,… It boggles the mind.
Sadly, wish i was living back in those days, unfortunately most of humanity seems to be going towards the hard warlike lifestyle. Wich is unfortunate nowadays people tend to be shuted'up these days
@@soulextract640 Warlike? We live in the most peaceful times in history, and we are more inclined towards peace than we were back in the day.
@@mism847 he said whe are going towards that, would you say we are becoming even more peacefull or what? i do not think so
@@mism847 Depends on your perspective i guess
@darrenmurphy5347 read some books and statistics - we're better off globally than ever, only downside being the media and internet mostly covering terrible things and shifts our perspectives negatively
My grandfather was born in 1905 and lived to the ripe old age of 94. He was a Garda stationed in Dun Laoghaire and later Deans Grange but in his final years held the distinction of being the last surviving member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP). in 1996, 3 years before he passed, we brought him to see 'Michael Collins' in the Savoy cinema on O'Connell Street. On the steps outside after the film I asked him what he thought. With tears in his eyes he said: What time is the next show? I think I'd like to see it again!
He was finally getting to the good part at the end. I’m hopelessly interested in the mundane day-to-day and hour-to-hour living of normal people in the history before film cameras could properly document it. All period piece movies center around either nobles dealing with a pressured lifestyle, or it might center around poor folk but so long as there’s some large event to help spice things up. I want to see how people spent their lazy hours in the comfort of their home, and hear what conversations took place casually. This was starting to peel back some of that mystery.
I thought I was the only one who was interested in this kind of thing - googling what kind of toothpaste the Romans used and how shoes were made in the middle ages, etc. Nice to see another mundane history fan here
Townsends will hook u up my boy 😤
It's like you were having a great conversation and then the time machine ran out of gas, seriously!!
I'm with you on that. Everything today has to have drama and shouting hence our idiotic fake reality shows of the early 2000's. The simple everyday things in life were what my parents and grandparents enjoyed.
Ha. That's the difficult part. Mad Men was able to do this, sort of. Took years of research.
Bro this stuff is so fascinating to me its the closest well ever come to time travel. I think it is incredible im listening to a guy speak who was born in the 1850's.
Then search here in youtube: Helmut Von Moltke, who was a prussian general born in 1800. He's the oldest person whose voice was ever recorded.
I think the closest we'll come is cryogenically preserving people for sleep periods of hundreds of years and then waking them up. Or we'll be able to create very accurate, artificially intelligent hologramms fed by giant amounts of data collected in the past. The past will be like a garden where we can visit and talk to people.
@@jakobbauz With what purpose?
@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 The purpose would still be... time travel.
@@snuurferalangur4357 Both things are already being done; the holograms are definitely possible, the technology just isn't there yet.
He apparently lived 2 years after this interview and made it to 109, dying a few months before his 110th birthday
Life is a automatic death sentence.😮😦😢😢
@Captain America America *an
@@captainamericaamerica8090 May Allah forgive us and protect us Ameen
@@AtrueservantofAllah wow can we go somewhere without the mention of allah?
@@Ali1994So You have muslim name btw are u murtad?
The most impressive thing to me is that we can understand everything he says. It really shows how normal everyday conversation did not change at all during the past 200 years
He could have met someone that saw King Louis 16th and Marie Antoinette. Wow.
He could have meet somebody that seen the American revolution, French revolution or Napoleonic wars.
Wow, crazy
No timescale is not right
@@natesell2615 How? He was born in 1858, the French Revolution was between 1789 and 1799. It's about 60ish years so it's definitely possible.
His parent were alive during the famine thats crazy
"It's an awful difference, I see anyway. Because the combine did as good in one start of a day as the poor reaper and binder wouldn't bring in a week" He had a pretty old-fashioned but still competent kind of language and he was very quick with it for his age, too.
a remarkable piece of footage. It hasn't lost relevance, if anything it calls to us - 'a 3 day old baby and mother' homeless.
Today in 2021 the uber wealthy float in sunglasses high up in the atmosphere and celebrate themselves while there are the impoverished with emaciated babies, blind and bloated with disease. The world continues to hasten to a robotic era in spite of humanity.
@@hughanderson8876 Well said
Country Irish talk is quick witted and it rarely leaves you, unless you were to get alzhemiers or dementia.
@@quill7889 probably for the best, manual labor is extremely inefficient and is terrible for most of the workers. It's called back-breaking labor for a reason!
@Sargi Dhadwal it's 2021 mate
Interviewer: I'm going to introduce you to a rather remarkable man. He's Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick from Killeaney, Maynooth. Now, he started to draw the old age pension in 1927 and 7 years ago he got the President's Bounty on his 100th birthday. Now, he's from County Clare. He came up from Clare in 1940 to a Land Commission farm in Maynooth where he lives now. You have seen a lot of changes Mr. Fitzpatrick in farming. What would you say was the biggest change?
MF: Well, machinery.
Interviewer: And what sort of a machine... made the biggest impression?
MF: Well the reaper and binder is a great one but by God the one for cutting up the ground and throwing a crop is a a powerful one too.
Interviewer: Well you were saying at the time you saw the mowing machine first it made a tremendous impression on you.
MF: It did. Because [1] how could it be done at all.
Interviewer: What was the reaction of the people at that time to the mowing machine Mr. Fitzpatrick?
MF: A great many of them wasn't minding it or could afford it but more of them got at it.
Interviewer: And some of them I think you told me wouldn't have it on the land at all.
MF: Well, a man that had a good farm with us [2] townland, he wouldn't allow [3] it. He used to be paying men to cut it at 3 and 6 pence a day.
Interviewer: Do you remember cutting the harvest with the reaping hook?
MF: Oh 'twas all of it... cut... for years and years and years. Nothing else ever cut it.
Interviewer: And... how do you think that the reaping hook compares with the combine at the present time?
MF: Oh well there's an awful difference. An awful difference I see anyway. By God, the combine [4] start of the day the reaper and binder wouldn't [5] in a week.
Interviewer: Now you also remember I think a rather historic thing in the land history of this country, the Bodyke Evictions.
MF: I do.
Interviewer: Could you describe for us what happened at those evictions? You were at them.
MF: I was at one of them about five hours. [6]
Interviewer: And what happened?
MF: Aw, they threw out... they was very cruel. They threw out three children and women and [7]. Well, there was one of them thrown out one day I was in it and the baby was only about 3 days old. And they were sitting... they were [8]. Aw, 'twas cruel.
Interviewer: And how about the...ah... type of food you had to eat at that time Mr. Fitzpatrick - what sort of - what did you live on?
MF: Well, we had to live on it there a long time - Indian meal and flour.
@Gary Madden I just reposted it so it would be farther up the comments. Fantastic job with the transcription, man!
Thank you for this!
Thanks.
Legend
Wonderful job !
Thanks!
My, what an absolute treasure this interview is!
To me, It's mind-boggling that he can respond so fast to any question
didn't waste his brain cells with education and stuff
@@Gerald0613 🤦♂️
@Kennychillin That's not what he meant. He was amazed at how fast his brain works at that ancient age.
There were no TikTok and Instagram melting people's mind
I would love to see more of this interview. What a lifespan. Born in the decade of the Crimean War. Forty two when Queen Victoria died. Fifty six in 1914. Fifty eight at the Easter Rising 1916. Sixty nine in 1927 and eigthy when world War II began.
He's the Irish Little Big Man.
@@ruairi4901 shut the fuck up
Its still weird to me there were people who were born in the 1800s who saw the moon landing
When you put it in those terms it makes him even more remarkable.
This man has seen it all
I've seen several 100+ yr olds, even one in my family, but it's impressive how well collected and lucid this man here had himself. i can only hope to be this healthy in the future
Yeah he's like 85 and is a liar. That's why.
@@Connection-Lost source
@@Connection-Lost Nonsense. He was 107 when this was made. Your comment is defamatory.
@@Connection-Lost stop spreading misinformation
This man was fortunate enough to be able to eat foods that weren't genetically altered to boost yields and drank the purest of waters on Earth.
listening to the heart of an Irish farmer, an Irish gentleman at that, from the time of the mid-1800s is profoundly wonderful. His childhood, family, work life, and notice of changes within the farming community, can be shared to post -WWII generations. How impactful and wise.
quick mind for 107 years old. I could listen to his stories forever.
until he dies
@@technicalthug Yeah it's this thing called lying. Can you prove him wrong? I know he looks exactly like my 80 year old granpa when he died but I can't prove it. But he sure as hell isn't over 100 let alone over 90.
@@Connection-Lost Lil bro thinks he knows everything 💀💀💀
@@Connection-Lost some people just age better.
My great grandma is 92 and she look like she's 60, it's just genetics.
@@wtfisthis96 Agreed. I'm From Ireland also and my family are just like this aged farmer. In my late 20's I was still being ID checked or out-right refused service at bars.
This old man looks like he failed to overeat, failed to enjoy the latest untested medical experiment(s) and failed to sit around all day on his ass.
Unbelievable how clearly he thought and spoke for a man of his advanced age.
Puts Joe Biden to shame
Something's changed in how we age today. Perhaps too much processed foods, pesticide use, or just information overload.
@@MyN0N4M3 a 200 year old corps would be more coherent than ole Joe Bidet.
@@sfaxo This has certainly got to be it. Add to that the sedentary mode of work we are all involved in today. We complain about how stressed the health care sector is. All while, the fix to the problem is to get everybody on 20 acres of land and work it.
@@MyN0N4M3 At least biden isn't a demented sociopath.
Recordings like this are extremely valuable to historians, linguists and others. Do they form into a fully organised archive by any chance?
folklore archives in UCD dublin
@Braxton Apollo your two are sad... and no, nobody cares
@Liam Lance scam merchant
@@ruairi4901 you're living in the dark ages pal.
I know at least three extremely talented non Irish people working in high level positions in Ireland and using Irish as their first language.
I would bet, it is more than you are capable of doing.
If you did more to promote the Irish language and campaign for free Irish lessons for all funded by the tax payer we might eventually resurrect our identity.
@@pappy9473 English is the language of business, I'm Irish and I learned Irish throughout school, went to the Gaeltacht, visited Gweedore with school many times, and was top of the class in Irish throughout school, now, I can barely speak a word, it really has no practical use, however, it should be preserved as part of our heritage and from a historical perspective.
Watching this man is absolutely incredible !! It was recorded the year I was born, 1965. Thank you for this !!
Fascinating gentleman. I just wish this interview was longer. He’s so lucid and interesting, and I bet he has a lot of stories. ❤️God bless him.
He's dead
@@ashm4760 God bless you Ash! :)
God bless you all.
@@ashm4760 god bless you!
@@ashm4760 Nah he’s still alive
My great grandfather was born in 1855 and died in 1959! He was considered the head of the family until his last days, respected and loved by everyone in the family. RIP, grandpa Stevan.
Everything this guy said, but embrace the Orthodox Church on top of it.
@CrazyMiles go somewhere else with your propaganda!
Поздрав и слава деди :)
@Doge di Amalfi prove it.
Todo un patriarca su abuelo. Dichosos quienes lo pudieron conocer.
Well folks, I've heard the demand for subtitles on this fine documentary piece and @siogbeagbideach made a fine go of it in a comment below, but I've attempted to transcriber the thing in full as best I can. There are eight points where I lost him, all numbered in square brackets. I'd be glad if anybody could guess these in comments below this one.
Interviewer: I'm going to introduce you to a rather remarkable man. He's Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick from Killeaney, Maynooth. Now, he started to draw the old age pension in 1927 and 7 years ago he got the President's Bounty on his 100th birthday. Now, he's from County Clare. He came up from Clare in 1940 to a Land Commission farm in Maynooth where he lives now. You have seen a lot of changes Mr. Fitzpatrick in farming. What would you say was the biggest change?
MF: Well, machinery.
Interviewer: And what sort of a machine... made the biggest impression?
MF: Well the reaper and binder is a great one but by God the one for cutting up the ground and throwing a crop is a a powerful one too.
Interviewer: Well you were saying at the time you saw the mowing machine first it made a tremendous impression on you.
MF: It did. Because [1] how could it be done at all.
Interviewer: What was the reaction of the people at that time to the mowing machine Mr. Fitzpatrick?
MF: A great many of them wasn't minding it or could afford it but more of them got at it.
Interviewer: And some of them I think you told me wouldn't have it on the land at all.
MF: Well, a man that had a good farm with us [2] townland, he wouldn't allow [3] it. He used to be paying men to cut it at 3 and 6 pence a day.
Interviewer: Do you remember cutting the harvest with the reaping hook?
MF: Oh 'twas all of it... cut... for years and years and years. Nothing else ever cut it.
Interviewer: And... how do you think that the reaping hook compares with the combine at the present time?
MF: Oh well there's an awful difference. An awful difference I see anyway. By God, the combine [4] start of the day the reaper and binder wouldn't [5] in a week.
Interviewer: Now you also remember I think a rather historic thing in the land history of this country, the Bodyke Evictions.
MF: I do.
Interviewer: Could you describe for us what happened at those evictions? You were at them.
MF: I was at one of them about five hours. [6]
Interviewer: And what happened?
MF: Aw, they threw out... they was very cruel. They threw out three children and women and [7]. Well, there was one of them thrown out one day I was in it and the baby was only about 3 days old. And they were sitting... they were [8]. Aw, 'twas cruel.
Interviewer: And how about the...ah... type of food you had to eat at that time Mr. Fitzpatrick - what sort of - what did you live on?
MF: Well, we had to live on it there a long time - Indian meal and flour.
Hi Gary I ahd a listen and I think its By God, the combine would do in a part of a day the reaper and binder wouldn't be done in a week.
couildnt get the other bits but great archive footage...imagine, he was born during the Famine and was interviewed in 1965..!!
@@tomscanlon9966 Thanks Tom - the sounds about right. You have solved blanks 4 and 5 anyway.
By God, the combine did, in one part of a day, as the poor reaper and binder wouldn't bring in a week. (I'm from Clare :))
Think he said they were sitting on the bank ?
Perhaps a ditch ? As in turf bank river bank
@@stellaoneill6579 Yeah I think bank, standing on a bank is a good guess for blank 8 Stella. Thanks. Don't think there is a river bank in Bodyke. There are a few small lakes up there. The O'Callaghan estate was spread out quite a bit though so could have been a stream. He wanted to evict 57 tenants in total! The bad feeling and legal costs ultimately meant Col. O'Callaghan lost his estate over time anyway.
He was born just after the famine, witnessed the mass migration from Ireland to various shores, lived through the Rebellion, Civil War, formation of a Republic, both World Wars, and much more.
If there is a full interview with him, I would hope he was asked about his experiences and insights into those events and I'd enjoy watching every minute of it.
I agree!!
What rebellion? It was a revolution
@@Th1sIsMyLegacy The difference between a rebellion and a revolution is success. As they lost/surrendered during the actual event, it denotes it as a rebellion.
@@Th1sIsMyLegacyhaha like January 6th 😅
He was a fresh man considering he was doing physical work all his life. His mind was still razor sharp as well.
@@ruairi4901 oh away and shite, Irish people have been emigrating for 2 centuries, but we should shut our borders off to others?
@@Albert_O_Balsam yes. cultural mixing hasnt worked. Society doesnt work when we all have different ideals. Look at whats happening at the moment where minorities who have emmigrated want a system change where they get free stuff in exchange for government control of their lives and labour.
The physical work is probably why he reached this age and is so fresh. The fact it was outdoor work would have helped too.
@@sirlordcomic Could be true all right, my own grandfather lived to 94 and was doing some light farmwork with my fater up to the time he died.
@@michaelreid194 My grandfather was the same. Still farming into his old age. From Galway. All his children, including my mum still going strong in their 80s. Good genes too I'd say.
The interviewer, when the farmer talked about the terrible cruel evictions…”And what did you eat….” poor man had to do a complete 360 on his emotions..
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 The potato crops may have failed yet Ireland was producing vast amounts of other food that could have been used to save the dying. Instead, it was shipped out of the country to England.
1845 - 3,251,907 quarters (8 bushels=1 quarter) of corn exported from Ireland to England
1845 - 257,257 sheep exported to Britain
1846 - 480,827 swine exported to Britain
1846 - 186,383 0xen exported to England
1847 - 4,000 ships carrying peas, beans, rabbits, salmon, honey and potatoes left Ireland for English ports
1847 - 9,992 Irish cattle sent to England
1847 - 4,000 Horses and Ponies sent to England
1847 - Approximately 1,000,000 gallons of butter sent to England
1847 - Approximately 1,700,000 gallons of grain-derived alcohol sent to England
1847 - 400,000 Irish people died due to starvation
It is an indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when Irish people were dying from starvation.
@@BluntmanOO7 the brits paid for it, the irish couldn't.
Simply a markets thing.
Several famines right now but you're on yt complaining about a false situation an age ago.
Get that fake chip off your shoulder, you didnt earn it.
@@BluntmanOO7 you know what else came from Ireland to london,,, 600k+ Irish women & children moved "to" london to be looked after cos their husbands had fcked off to the states.
@@BluntmanOO7 "they were evicted from their homes" what happens to you today if you dont pay the rent?
@@gradualdecay1040 Oh wow another keyboard warrior talking shit on YT good man yourself, three reply's back to back for one comment, can you not formulate a decent reply first time round? I'm sure you lived through the famine and seen it all. The chip on my shoulder will remain firmly in place until the north side of my country is free from the scum that plagues it.
Dude sounds and looks incredible. The fact that he can even remember 1870 is amazing.
My father was born in 1912, it often amazed me the changes he saw in ireland in his lifetime. His generation had to cope with huge changes in technology and social change. This is a fabulous interview with a wise old irishman. Ireland has changed, though its citizens are still being evicted. Some things remain the same!
It's crazy how he's older than a lot of countries we have today
*He would be shocked if he saw Ireland today*
*Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050*
*Vote The National Party🇮🇪*
@@ruairi4901 Shut the fuck up ya clown
@@Theredrain6 it’s data bro
@@Theredrain6 why do you have a problem with irish people not wanting to be a minority in their own country?
@@sven5069 cus they don't give a bollox about irish people being a minority they only care about white ppl being a minority
Imagine being a great great grandson or granddaughter of his and being able to come on hear and listen to him!how special is that
japinashne you are so right! I am proud to say that I AM the great granddaughter of Michael Fitzpatrick and we just discovered this video yesterday. I cannot describe how it touched us to actually see and hear him talking in this interview. My grandmother was his daughter, and she was a settler to South Africa. Sadly she passed when my mom was only 11 so we never got to hear her own stories of life in Ireland in those early days.
@@veronicawilsonstroud2282 so do you think your accent sort of based on Michales or no? if so then that would be very neat.
@@veronicawilsonstroud2282 what's the biggest strangest change you have witnessed so far. Like to me it would be male or same gender marriages allowed in some states
@@GenghisClausWhy so angry, chill
@veronica wilson stroud I would be Micheal’s great great grandson, he was my grandmother’s grandfather. Was amazing to see this interview. My grandmother had told me about the interview years ago but I never thought we would ever see it. I am still in Ireland and have met some of our South African cousins in Gort, Galway. A trip to South Africa would definitely be on the bucket list
It's amazing that we can watch a man who is older than steam power on a cell phone.
He isn't older than steam power, that goes back to the late 17th / early 18th century.
@@treyshaffer His farm wasn't steam powered!
@@treyshaffer I mean, good point.
@@treyshaffer That's not entirely it. Everyone might think it's Dennis Papin in 1690 who invented it, but the Ancient Greeks invented a form of steam power nearly 2,500 years before.
@@tristanthomas5006 Fair point, I was mostly just saying that with the invention of the steamboat in mind. According to Google that was in 1705.
He was born circa 1858! Thanks for this video.
When the man recounts the eviction of a family with a three day old baby left by the side of a road you get a real sense of the appalling cruelty inflicted on the Irish people by devilish landlords .
Spending a victim’s annual ‘rent’ on an exciting _American Cocktail_ in their *Pall Mall* London club, never setting foot in Ireland.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 evil personified.
@@pugmahone9439 After independence the Irish government had to pay those scum compensation to buy them out.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 should have put them up against a wall.
To this day, renting should be abolished. It is a barbarian and highly unfair practice, not quite as bad as slavery but one of its offsprings. Renting should be made illegal just as usury lending should also be made illegal.
That man was sharp as a tack, zero hesitation or pausing during questions. Heck, the interviewer managed to stutter and stammer a little bit but not the old farmer. I firmly believe that hard work and keeping overindulgence at bay keeps the reaper away and this man proves it. Boy what those those old eyes must have seen in all that time.
Well, plenty of hard working poor people die young as well. Good genes and a good attitude are also important.
Healthy lifestyle, probably spent most of his time outdoors in the fresh less polluted air with home cooked meals and no modern technology to mess up his brain.
My grandfather from county cork is 87 now and his brain tumor is driving him to madness
Plus he’s probably speaking his second language
He went on pension in 1925
When my dude was my age of 15, he was in the early mid-1800s, his grandparents were probably from the late 1700s. He literally spoke to people from the Age of Sail when pirates were going around robbing ships. Imagine what stories _he_ would have heard.
The golden age of piracy was in the 1650s - 1750s.
That's not what "literally" means.
@@hijodelaisla275 "Literally" has been used informally to put emphasis on a point or express amazement for almost a hundred years now. Take your grammar Nazi ass out of here.
@@fabplays6559 Well, since you ask so nicely, I don't think I will. Do you imagine that you can decide who can and cannot participate?
@@fabplays6559 By whom? Unintelligent children like yourself because they didn't know what the term actually means but used it anyway since they were unable or incompetent to form context somebody would actually like to hear about without needlessly "emphasising" every single (part of the) statement? You know what's the biggest problem? So many idiots started doing exactly what you mentioned, and when I would ask them "What do you mean, was it literally or not?", they wouldn't understand what I was asking them exactly. And that was enough of an answer for me to conclude what I just stated above. Regards
This interview could have been hours longer. Thank you for the amount of time given.
This guy was alive before Germany was unified, when the US only had 34 states and was in the Civil War, experienced the infancy of the Industry Age, lived through both World Wars, experienced the dawn of the Nuclear Age, went from a world with horse and buggy to automobiles, watched the first computer develop, and watched the rise and fall of Communism in Europe. Truly amazing.
Born over two years before our civil war, which started in 1861. Amazing.
@Adi I was just thinking... pretty sure when he would've passed, the USSR would've been at it's peak
I watched on TV one of the early astronauts saying that his dad had marveled at the first flights of the Wright brothers and now his son was going to the moon. Beyond belief.😯
He went from living through the aftermath of the famine then through the tan war and civil war. The stories he could tell would be amazing
Thia was in 1965. If he lived for another few years, which I hope he did, he may have even seen Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon.
As a Clareman born in 1965,I found this video to be truly astonishing,as this gentleman’s lifespan extends back to the late 1850s.A previous poster remarked upon his birth having taken place immediately after the Crimean War-my brain is doing somersaults.Mr.Fitzpatrick must have been a tough bird to have lived through such hard times-not forgetting that there were a number of subsequent famines Ireland during the latter half of the 19th century-though none having had quite the devastating impact as the Great Famine of the 1840s.Thanks for posting this fascinating insight into the social impact of colonialism on Ireland,as well as the impact of the London’s solution in the 1830s to ridding us of our unique ‘daily use’ language,something which sadly (with a few exceptions) as of 2021 has come to pass.
Mr Fitzpatrick’s accent is beautiful to my ear ,as is his construction of sentences which another poster eloquently explained is as a direct result of he (Mr Fitz)having grown up with Irish as his first language.
Please post more (or if possible -redirect to the respective link/archive)of these magnificent videos.
Thanks for a really rewarding and at times very entertaining experience.
You may already have seen the one of old Michael McInerny from Quilty being interviewed in about 1963, talking about the rescue in 1907 of a French Cargo ship. Fascinating stuff.
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@@ruairi4901 I'm sorry voting will do little good. Haven't all of you figured out about the Dominion voting machine fraud. Stalin said he who controls the ballot box controls the election. Only the most vigorous organized actions by a small determined patriotic christian corps will reclaim your nation.
@@tomstulc9143Get lost
@@momeara7482 God bless you. Truth does wound.
What a brave man. Can't imagine how though life was back then and still he lived over a hundred years. It was heartbreaking for me to see the sadness in his eyes, and I thank him for existing. How historical this clip is
I'm sure that this man knows the meaning of hard work. Imagine what he would think of people who curse when they can't get a parking spot close to where they have to go?
@@timsmith854 He would probably die inside lol
i agree 100%, i’m a strong believer in not giving older people respect just because of their age. but this man makes me question that, he’s such an insightful man and i’m so glad i have the opportunity to see this interview! absolutely incredible :)
@@timsmith854 Its called evolution. The world evolves.
@@sjetong Some say that's what finally killed him.
ONE OF THE MOST HEARTFELT, EMOTIONAL FEW MINUTES SEEN BY ME , A FELLOW IRISH LADY, ON UA-cam . WHAT THIS WONDERFULL MAN WITNESSED IN IRELAND & LIVED THROUGH IN EUROPE,
If he saw IMMIGRATION he would turn in his grave.
Amazing footage! Born ~1858, would love to see the entire interview.
Born 1857!
Yes. It would be brilliant to see it in full
Don't be such a t*t.
@@ruairi4901 What will the National Party do?
@MichaelKingsfordGray???
We should be happy and honored for him sharing his story to us at that age. He was a remarkable man
*He would be shocked if he saw Ireland today*
*Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050*
*Vote The National Party🇮🇪*
This man lived trough the rule of Victoria, world wars, Irish independence, the collapse of the Empire, etc,etc, He's a living historybook .
No, because everything he saw and heard was filtered through a certain perspective based on a lot of factors.
@@eric-jr2nf no shit :^)
dude he's dead
Yeh he's dead tho
Which empire? British
166 years this year. Its really impressing being able to watch and listening to a person this old in this straight way
My great grandmother Virginia Muise lived to be 111 years old. She still had her faculties about her when she went. Interviewing her was a guaranteed 💯 on any history assignments growing up and the amazing things she had seen happen in her lifetime were just wonderful to sit and listen to as well.
she must have drank red wine
I hate to inform you but she was lying about her age. All these people are lying. This man isn't a day over 85.
@@Connection-Lost why are you making up stories bro
Almost a century from now, everything that happens now, will be history in the next century, it’s crazy people would want to listen to our future stories about our times, especially about the Queen’s death, people would want to know where we were when it happened, and our lives during Covid-19, and probably about a future mars landing. I was born in 2003, so I was and am alive at the same time as ww2 veterans, that be crazy for people in the 2100s to hear about, since ww2 would be almost around in the 150s years
@@Connection-Lost what are you smoking bro
Nobody should feel bad about struggling to understand. I'm from this part of the country and I can barely hear him. I think that's a testament to Irish culture more than anything.
I honestly feel it's something about the accent, my great-grandad was the same.
Must be trying to keep up with the same way they used to speak, but not being able to make the same inflections and sounds, ending up with more mumbled words.
Lol culture where no one understands and explaining it only makes more questions... IRELAND!💚!🤣
@@averongodoffire8098 alcohol!
Listening to him talk kind of reminds me of people who speak English as a second language. Was it common for people of that generation to have grown up speaking Irish?
@@neverforever4787 yes especially if they were from rural areas
This man was born at the same time where armies still marched line line formations firing muskets, and lived through the world wars and vietnam war.
Crazy right?
He was alive when trumpets were required and standard for war.
Being Irish he probably gave a shit about the Vietnam war.
And lived through the wars In Ireland
He lived through British soldiers killing his countrymen with muskets.
I like how the interviewer always calls him Mr. Fitzpatrick. A kind of old fashioned respect that can still be found in Ireland today
Taken to such lengths, too,..my maternal grandmother, although Tasmanian-born, grew up in an almost entirely Irish-Catholic milieu, including the use of Gaelic,.and she unfailingly spoke of people in such a manner,..to the extent that she was reputed, within the family, to have referred to ‘Mr Hitler’ on more than one occasion. And that was after the war ! 😮
@@Albert-Arthur-Wison225 that's amazing. God bless her
or anywhere! Some where along the way that kind of respect has been lost... sad
@@Albert-Arthur-Wison225 in my childhood this was common, and I'm only in my 40s. It was unheard of in the 1980s to be calling folk you didn't know well by their first names. Mum always called her close friend who was more than 10 years older than her Mrs C, as that was as informal as she felt comfortable with.
There was a black lady in my home town that was 114 in 1980, the year I went off to college. She was born a year after Lincoln got assassinated and came to Oklahoma when it was still called "Indian Territory". He son took care of her, and he was 88.
I once read an interview from the 1950s of a centenarian woman of color who vividly remembered growing up in slavery in Alabama. I would’ve given anything to actually hear her voice.
@@yolandaponkers1581 If you can remember her name there is a chance that the Library of Congress may actually have a recording of an interview with her. Look it up online, you should be able to get a copy.
Okay, that is amazing. The closest I could come is interacting with a "Black" airline pilot who proudly piloted a flight that MLK took once. He told MLK that he appreciated everything he had done for "Black" people. But he couldn't march with him. Because he was going to shoot someone at the first flying brick. Haha!!! I miss that old man. He was living history.
@@rolandcuthbert784 Why the quotations around black?
@@megasauruss It is always the weirdest question. Mayhap because we don't look anything like the colors white or "black. I mean Colin Kapaernick is a "Black" man, right. How does his skin color compare to the color "Black"? These are cultural designations.
To love from 1858 to 1965 is honesty astonishing to me, the history this man has seen, two world wars, the industrial revolution coming into full swing, the boer war, the rising and the Irish civil war, the great depression, the Korean war, the roaring 20's, the first plane and locamotive,
Crazy how he'd be an old man during the 20s. All those young whippersnappers and their loose ways and jazz music. Scandalous
*He would be shocked if he saw Ireland today*
*Irish people will be a minority in Ireland by 2050*
*Vote The National Party🇮🇪*
And being filmed and put on UA-cam for people to watch him 60 years later...
Contemporary of Karl Marx. Think about that.
And probably read about the American civil war
It's crazy how things change over the years. I'm an early 1980's born, in a small rural island in the middle of the Atlantic, and remembering the world of my own childhood is already mind-blowing to see how much have changed in such a short period of time.
People say that 100 years is a lot, but it isn't. In just 20, 30, or 50 years the world changes drastically. And with it our entire lives! Time is really our most precious commodity! And it runs quickly! We waste so much of it...
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I did in home elder care for several years & one of my clients was 100 in 2008 (she obviously has passed since then, but lived to be 105). I asked her once about the assassination of the Romanovs & she said that she remembered it being front page news, but as a child she had no idea what it meant, world importance-wise. On her lucid days, we would talk about the changes that had taken place & it was mind boggling.
Wonder what an "indian meal" was in those times. Hardly the vindaloo we're used to today
Update: Indian Meal is the Irish name for Maize or cornmeal. Maize was introduced to Ireland during the Potato Famine of 1847 but lost its popularity in the 1960s. According to oral history North American Indians sent maize to Ireland to help the poor during the Famine, hence the name.
Another name for it during the famine was peel’s brimstone because the corn was incredibly hard and the Irish people weren’t told how to properly cook it
That makes sense, in old French corn was called blé d'inde. It still is in Québec, I think.
@@herculesv1.247 damn it's annoying to see someone delete their comments after losing an argument. Makes me more curious about what they were saying
@@nuriao1111 See it's such a waste of time and energy arguing with people online. He was arguing over the semantics of the term "potato famine", saying how it was an inaccurate description of the events. He had a point but it was the way he was going on about it and picking a bone with me over it, like I had something to do with it
Would have just been basic meat and rice not anything ona modern Tikka Masala lol
Such a pleasure to hear this humble man-a hard-working, clear-headed, moral soul, salt of the Irish earth. I hear my great-grandmother’s honest, spartan voice and oblique angle on life.
What a man, he lived through such an incredible amount of change. And I must say for a man of 107 he had his wits about him.
That gorgeous accent. My grandmother was from Cork and her words and sentences were so rhythmic and distinctive in the soft accent she had.
Very sharp woman.
She could run rings around me at 90 God Rest her, we lost her at 93 to dementia.
She would have lived to 100 at least if she hadn't developed the disease.
I miss her dearly. In many ways and for many more reasons.
Hannah O'Keeffe - you would have loved her.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I appreciate the reporters questions, we tend to romanticize the past and here you had a (then) living witness to history, calling out not only the wonder of modern technology and its efficiency in helping the modern farm worker, but also the cruelty we still had against each other. Amazing how mankind can develop such inanimate wonders, but we are still the basest and cruelest to each other.
True
It's only recently that life has become easy
a nightmare every single day just to survive
This bloke woke up everyday
trying to keep his wife & family alive
My grandmother said
you can shove the good old days
So True..........Where is the Love?
Not only to each other, to animals too. Imagine explaining factory farms to someone who lived hundreds of years ago. Literal hell on earth.
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@@freshairkaboom8171 oh stfu, you utter sissy.
Simply amazing.... If only there was more interviews like this one. Just goes to show we don't appreciate our elders enough when they're here. If you have grandparents still with us, ask them all you can! Because you'll always regret it if you don't.
Very true. All of social history is interesting, particularly the things that seem most mundane. For instance, nobody knows how a Roman toga was worn exactly, because nobody bothered explaining to posterity! And it's scary how the recent past gets forgotten. I talked to some children yesterday - they all knew what a 'fireplace' was, but none of them, or their parents, had ever seen a real domestic fireplace with a fire in action.
@@patrickpaganini How is that even possible?
Stuck it to the state and got his pension for 40+ years. Great man. 107 and great and easy to listen to. Remarkable. God bless and rest him.
"Indian meal" = corn meal. There's a high likelihood that the corn meal he's referring to was made from something closer to feed corn or, perhaps even flint corn. Probably pretty gritty, stout stuff, but he was a tough dude, obviously...and it seems to have been mixed with flour.
I was about to say "hm indian meal? that doesnt sound too bad"
Down the bum burner every night after a hard day's reapin' XD
McDonad's ..double.
And the world would have you believe you need all this extra crap to live a ripe old age.
We ate something called Cush Cush. Was pretty good stuff.