Most Irish people today don't realise or don't remember that the old Irish accent in the western counties involved rolling their R's. I remember hearing my grandparents in Country Kerry rolling their R's at times and with such deeply swooping vowels and sing-song lilts in their accents you'd think they were Danish or some other Scandinavian country. So sad that it has died out and we've got a generation of Irish kids growing up with American TV accents.

Is little Katie still alive? It's possible. Such adorable innonence in the face of a revolutionary and powerful technology.

Arh the good old British giving a glimpse into rural Ireland! The way they want it to look anyway.

You cannot beat a happy ending spoken beautifully by such an innocent!

This is the first year of sound for film.Most of the folks in this film have passed on l am afraid. It's cool to see how people got around and lived their lives nearly 100 years ago. Greetings from Texas.

We were never peasants, we had kings and queens, a sophisticated and rich language, seats of learning long before many universities and a highly envious system of education, equal rights, and a sense of community, there is no translation in the Gaelic language for peasant, this is an imposed description by outside reporting

Ireland was known as the island of "Saints and Scholars " since the early centuries after Saint Patrick took the Gospel to Ireland in the year 432 .From there they brought Christianity and education all over the known world .Even today Ireland's influence is all over America , Australia,Canada ,UK ,Europe ,South America and the world.God is not finished with Ireland yet , she will rise again like the " Phoenix from the ashes" The world has benefitted greatly, check out the truth yourself.

What a gorgeous wee colleen with her 'Hush -a-bye baby' . . . one can only hope her future was a good one.

@1.36 "primitive " lol this has to be British Pathe filming

All I see is rural poverty in a Free State that was struggling financially, and still worse was yet to come in the lean and hungry 1930s only a year away. Things were bad in rural Ireland for the working man, and not much better for the working people in the towns and cities.

The donkey and horse was the main mode of transport

My English Mummy would call that dancing " having a knees-up ( good time ) "

Not quite as idyllic as it looks. The terms of employment for the Kerry county manager in the 1920s were £500 a year, a car and a gun. It was a dangerous job.

Weird my ancestors long gone from Ireland by then

Me recuerdan a mi gente de antes,enAragon el sustrato celtico y la misma pobreza,pero la mejor gente.

Very picturesque and charming but oh, so poor !!!

The cheek of them with their primitive, Ireland held on to its culture pretty well after all the oppression they went through.

Our downtrodden ancestors.........the old ways were better in spite of the wretched oppression

We had moccasins kindness hard work and family and community’s, with song and dance. Then I was told we were poor.

No harm to the environment then no cars we could learn from these people

Ireland then was approx 15 years behind the UK then!!

Life is all memory

Back when Louth and Meath were good

Empire in action.

Evil was bestowed by their own people too. The Civil war (families divided) was far worse than the the war of Independence. History is not Black and White. There is many layers that will surprise those who believe in the history books. Remember History is written by the victors and those who come into power afterwards, to rewrite history. Many of the British soldiers fighting in the 1916 were Irish Soldiers who joined the various parts of the combined British Army. Most of the RIC and other Irish Police forces under British Rule were Irish men and Irish men run. Many of the British civil service both at home and abroad were Irish men, including those who were inside the GPO. The reality is that we occupied ourselves and attached ourselves to British Rule. At 1916, the vast majority of Irish people only wanted Home Rule back, but to remain part of the UK, thus the Part of the British Army. 1916 was Irish Men against Irish men (who were part of the British Army and Police forces). The Irish Folklore can afterwards was twisted and parts omitted. We Irish know how to retell a story. It was the Black and Tans who did the most damage to British Rule. They were brutal. They were ex British soldiers who fought in world war 1. Many of them suffered from PTSD and thought of the Irish as Traitors at the same time their own brothers and friends killed in areas like the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where whole villages of fighting age men were killed. Emotions ran high. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-british-soldiers-belong-on-the-1916-remembrance-wall-1.2601102 The reality of 1916 is that these terms are not mutually exclusive and to ignore a certain category of names would be to ignore fellow countrymen. Forty-one of the British army names on the wall are those of Irish men. Private Patrick Leen from Rathkeale, Co Limerick, was mortally wounded on April 24th, 1916, dying later in the week. His mounted troop of 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers were the first British soldiers to arrive in the Sackville Street area during the early afternoon of Easter Monday. Fired on by insurgents inside the GPO, Leen was one of four soldiers who ultimately died. Years later, his family would alter the story of his death, claiming he had refused to fight the rebels, and had been executed by the British as a result. Also killed that day were Captain Alan Ramsay from Ballsbridge, Dublin, and Captain Alfred Warmington from Mountrath, Co Laois - both of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Ramsay led an unsuccessful attempt to break into the South Dublin Union (St James’s Hospital) via the Rialto gate and was mortally wounded in the process. Enraged, his close friend Warmington stormed the breach with a second wave and was subsequently killed. Their foe: Commandant Éamonn Ceannt’s Irish Volunteers - fellow Irish men. Shoeing-Smith When 10th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers were fired on by Captain Seán Heuston’s volunteers in the Mendicity Institution on April 24th, the subsequent fighting resulted in the death of Private Francis Brennan. A 19-year-old Irish-speaking Catholic from Dublin, his home address was Usher’s Island - the very street on which the Mendicity Institution was located. Shoeing-Smith Charles O’Gorman, a 22-year-old from Limerick city, was one of the reinforcements to arrive from the Curragh camp not long after the start of the Rising. He died in the fighting around City Hall during the night of April 24th.One of the men he died fighting against - George Geoghegan of the Irish Citizen Army, who was also killed at City Hall and who is also recorded on the Glasnevin wall - was a former Royal Dublin Fusilier and Boer War veteran. Family plot Perhaps most poignant is the name of Lieutenant Gerald Neilan, 10th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Neilan, who was 34 and from Ballygalda, Co Roscommon - was a passionate Home Rule nationalist. Killed across the river Liffey from the Mendicity Institution by Heuston’s first volley, his death was later recalled by Irish Home Rule MP Stephen Lucius Gwynn in his 1919 book John Redmond’s Last Years: “The first volley which met a company of this battalion killed an officer [Neilan]; he was so strongly nationalist in his sympathy as to be almost a Sinn Féiner. Others had been active leaders in the Howth gun-running. It was not merely a case of Irish men firing on their fellow-countrymen; it was one section of the original Volunteers firing on another.” Down the road from where Gerald Neilan died, his younger brother Arthur was serving in the Four Courts. Arthur survived the Rising and was interned in Wales. When he passed away in 1944, he was laid to rest alongside his British army brother Gerald in the family plot in Glasnevin, a short walk from the new Remembrance Wall. The fact is that the Irish regiments of the British army stationed in Dublin in April 1916 were the first to respond to the Rising. The earliest battles were Irish versus Irish. On April 24th, Irish men in the British army outnumbered the insurgents 2 to 1. As more Irish units were summoned to Dublin, that soon grew to 3 to 1 conservatively. Put simply, there were thousands of Irish men serving in khaki during Easter Week 1916, 41 of whom were killed in action. If the names of all sides had not been recorded on the Glasnevin wall, how could we have said that these fellow “children of the nation” would have been cherished equally? Neil Richardson is a military historian and author of According to Their Lights: Stories of Irishmen in the British Army, Easter 1916 (Collins Press) After that we destroyed our economy after applying the latest insane socialist economic policies, and did not have good relations with our neighbors in Britain. It was mainly self defeating. That along with the Civil war did far more damage to the Irish People and to our economy. It was not until the 1990s did Ireland economy really opened up and took off. Remember Irish people are great stories tellers. You as a narrator can spin the story anyway you like, especially when politics is involved. It is called propaganda. History books is full of propaganda, if you read one sided stories. If you want to research and find out go to Dublin Castle Museum and talk to Irish Army and also to the National archives or to local Irish Libraries. Find out who the members of the Dublin Constabulary and the Various Army Battalions names involved and the names and where they were from. You will find that 1916 GPO and the following uprising was the real start of the Civil war. The Irish Nationalists (Sinn Féin) won the first war, but lost to the Treaty with the creation of the Free State. The home rule nationalists (free State pro Treaty) won the second war. That war (commonly known as the Irish Civil war) was bitter, as family member was against family member, friends against friends. Most of the soldiers of the British Army became part of the Irish Free State Army and Sinn Féin was divided into two, pro Treaty and post Treaty. More cruelty was done in that Irish civil war, than under 600 years of British rule. It was not our finest hour. It took several generations for it to slide into the past. Irish Involvement of the First world war. Here is a story from a Limerick Perspective. Many of these men were mistreated after they came back from the war. They suffered from PTSD defending Ireland and were supported in doing so when they left, and to arrive home and treated as traitors as Ireland changed while they were away at war. Many soldiers who were at home fighting rebels were also treated as Traitors after the war. The anti treaty side were vicious and so were many in the pro treaty side. www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/1916_chtp_4_they_dreamed_and_are_dead.pdf www.findagrave.com/memorial/107047967/patrick-leen

_"primative"_

The dancers on aran islands look Dutch in clothing, beard and hat. Even the dance looks imported. This is after all records were burned right. Customs, Dublin Castle and Cork city for that matter. Propaganda at its best!

It's amazing how backward the people where my grand parents lived in mayo at that time who kept them poor and ignorant the British the free state the catholic church the Irish would not put up with this in this day and age

Is this a savage eye sketch?

Eire has a more frighting pass than France during the French Revolution. So mush of our pass history over 800 years ago was destroyed . English did to the irish what the Germans did to the Jews .but unlike modern history they dump all the bones into sea or caves . And kill anyone who could read or wright . Sending lreland into a dark age .where only children where left alive . some old people taught the children the language and try teach them the dance and music . The English cut off their arms . That why arm movements in irish dance has been lost . Some are born with the knowledge of the lost history . Irish language to day is more English version . We have to learn to speak a dead language from 685 years ago . Hidden books telling of high train craft men and women . With skill of working silver and gold into jewelry . The women where teachers of the arts .fighting styles . Star charts and seasonal change . Men work the land . And fishing . Our people came from the stars . Knowledge hidden and crafts buried . Un aware of English fear and blood lust . On hearing of a race in eire . That crafted gold .they invaded and kill all . They could. Leaving eire kingdom's now controlled by english . Next 800 years . Eire people where kept in child like state .no education as they where seen as English live stock not humon. They still treat the lrish and lreland as their property. We can be very bitter and twisted. Or we can reach back into the pass and give our children the knowledge that once . They where descends from very advance peace full society. Who know how to work gold and silver and cut diamond. While the England where still only working with steal . Those they took where sent to death after showing them how to work gold and silver and diamonds. Our further and real language will remain lost. Till lreland is one and the bells sound . Then the children will be born with one voice . Or

FFS this is ridiculous typical "I diddle I " bs.. I'm surprised they didn't put a cartoon image of a leprechaun in the footage.

Can anyone understand what the town crier is saying?

Bog Hoppers!

no mgm lions

It's still like that in KILRUSH in Clare , only joking,,have family living there 👍

There is no such place as Erin

Holy shit, even as an irisnman from Antrim this seems like a propaganda video...

America saved the Europe.

Cad ??