This is awesome. Michael McInnerny (the man being interviewed) is my Great Grandfather and the little house they show with the kids in front is the my Grandmothers childhood home.

these radharc programs are pure gold..shoukd be shown again...imagine this man must have been born in the 1880s and his interview recorded

My dad's hometown... my favourite place on earth! Beautiful people...beautiful town! and so much family still there!

Just love his honesty and candor, Quality long lost in Ireland nowadays

Have been to this church and it is beautiful. Lovely stained glass within.I was born in Spanish point Clare and my family come from the area and also north Clare. It's a lovely place. I'm exiled now but its always been my "HOME "

Really cool. It's fascinating the way he speaks English, it sounds like Irish

My Grandfather was originally from Quilty. Himself and his brother cycled to the Curragh in Kildare to join the army.

I wish this had subtitles. He’s very hard to understand and I’d love to hear his story. I’ll bet he has the best stories to tell.

My father's home place as well spend a lot of my childhood in quilty . beautiful place ..mary ryan o dea

All my family from co clare love this

Love quilty enjoyed listening to this gentleman

I loved just how tight-knit Irish village communities really are, that just goes such a long way in any situation.

That was very interesting bless those people

More or less accurate transcript of interview with Michael McInerny. Corrections welcome. Michael: That French ship was going to Limerick with a cargo of wheat. And the night turned bad she then missed the mouth of the Shannon, the river Shannon below. When she came in the - - she came in the northern side of ..Loop head behind ..she came on the Clare side it was, & all of them down hither by the cliffs...all around hither..around Mutton Island...around them 2 rocks that ye see outside there. [...] Father Scanlon came down the following day: and he went around to the fishermen and of course they were weren't every [sic: my mother who is from Clare tells me the people used to say 'every' in place of 'very'] easy to go out that time.. til it calmed down a little bit, bit out, reduced back a bit.. and they came down in the canoes and went out - he ordered them out and I went out. Fr Lemass: Who was - were you in one of the canoes? Michael: I was Father, I was in one of the canoes. Fr L: Was the sea very high? M: 'Twas high outside but f'where [sic] we went out it weren't high...out from the bay, when the tide got a bit low - when the tide is out here below they'd have no breaker there at all there, hardly. But outside, the reef of rocks [was ruining?] altogether. Where the ship was. Fr L: But were the people on shore afraid that the fishermen might be killed going out? M: Yerra they was inside [i.e. "inside" from the sea: on the shore] and there was...the shore was packed up with women and men and every ..strangers & all was there. Around the parish they was, out coming down, looking at the ship. So they went out alright. They left the - they left the ship in.. Fr L: Could you see the Frenchmen on the ship? M: Oh you could Father, you could, you could see them on the ship.. they were all on her bow, standing up...they couldn't go any other part of her. Fr L: What happened with the canoes on the way out - any accidents with them? M: There was one of them ..capsized. Fr L: Were the men injured in it? M: No, they were only put in the water they was taken in again, they weren't there 10 minutes and they was taken. Their comrades had the bravery for only that, they'd be drownded. Because some of them had no swim. Fr L: And how did you get to the reef itself? M: How did we get out to the reef?? ... Out by canoes! Sure we couldn't go out any other way. Fr L: Were you able to get right up to the boat? M: Oh no, Father, within 2 or 3 hundred yards of it. How could you get up near the boat?? When we got near the boat [unclear: go swimming in, ...] ...ah no! About 300 yards from where the canoes was to the ship. Fr L: So the Frenchmen, they swam into the canoes..? M: Swam into the canoes ...just ..within a few yards of the canoes & they took them then on board ...and 'twasn't easy sticking the (-a winter's day in the month of October -) to stick the water. Fr L: What did the Frenchmen do when they got home - did they show any thanks for.. M: Begod, I didn't hear they...we didn't get nothing out of them anyway! Even a medal we didn't get out of them. Not one thrupenny bit! 'Tis small enough.. Fr L: How many men went out on the rescue in the end? M: Well there was four canoes altogether. There was 9, 10 11, 12...12 men. 12 men. And they'd 1 canoe go out in the evening, there was 3 in the morning Fr L: I see a big list outside the door of the church.. M: Ah, the half of them weren't in it! Half of them weren't in it. Fr L: And how'd they get their names put on? M: I'll tell you that! They had a committee below here in the - in one of the houses. 3 or 4 of them were fishermen, a few more strangers, thinking that they'd something out of them free for saving them. Everyone was going in: "put down my name, I was in the rescue put down my name!" Half of them weren't there! [unclear]weren't there. Yerrah no! Fr L:Tell me how was the church built then, how did you come to get the money together for the church? M: Well ...got it from..either from America, some of it and ....from all Ireland, they sent it there. Only for that they'd be no church there maybe. Ah..they got the right thing when they got the church. Better than the money, the money'd be gone: the church is there.

_Very proud of my roots...Ní fheicimíd a leithead arís.._

A fascinating bit of history✅🇨🇮

I'd say he'd have left a few swears go only that he was being interviewed by a priest.. A great character..

Half them men weren't there😂

You can't bate West Clare

No thanks from the French should left them a few shillings, at least !😦

My family is from Moher

Crowd-funding 1905-style.

Cannot understand a word that the very old man says ,the rest of the dialogue is still hard to decipher.

Sad that these poor unfortunate gullible people spent the money on a useless building. Better if they had bought food or educated their children. What a malign influence the corrupt Roman Catholic church had on these people.