Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. When we reminisce we do so through rose tinted glasses. The poverty in rural Ireland was terrible. Having said that Ireland is a beautiful country. Irish people have great qualities.

I would love to go back to that time for a visit, very nostalgic. Life passes by so quickly!

Beautiful those great people that came before us God bless them all

This hits home for sure, brings back memories most of them good. Memories of heading out to sea My brother my dad and me, Lobsters galore and salmon too Before all the common market holabalue. We ate like kings ,crabs claws and winkles too We thaught we were poor ,but who knew.

I was fortunate to have visited Ireland in 1985. It wasn’t that much different than this except for the cars and clothes,. It was beautiful. Ireland and its people were warm and welcoming.. I now know a bit more about my Irish ancestry than I did then so I look forward to visiting Ireland again.

Why would anybody give this beautiful movie a Thumbs Down.. like it or not it was our past ..Irish Heritage at its best, and for the most part in my opinion a better country like then. thank you Tim for posting this 👍

It’s the beautiful Irish people that make that country so special

Yes, that’s the way it was, people so friendly,smiling loved leaving Dublin to visit country relatives, and the nights so dark, but always a turf fire burning and all ages together, old folk never left out but honored guests.people so genuine..all knew hardship too,but saw bright side allways..

Nice...Born in 1950 ..I saw a lot of this stuff here in Donegal also...Thanks for the memories....

Beautiful, as a child I remember this Ireland, I think 63/64 would be about right, my father was a sales rep. for Denny's in Sligo and I traveled with him on many a day Wednesdays were my favorite as that was Gurteen, Ballaghdereen, and Carracastle. Funny, how I remember that. I loved being with him, lunch was a flask of tea and scones or corned beef sandwiches at the side of the road. Certainly life had its hardships then but it was also a lot simpler.

I'd give up all my luxuries to live in this simple times

There wasn't as much stuff and yes we were poorer, but I truly believe happier, families stuck a lot closer, good memories

Beautiful film! Thanks so much for posting this.🇮🇪💚🇮🇪✌🏼📽️

This is the Ireland i love and cherished as a child growing up in a farm with my grandfather who was a blacksmith, I worked with him in his forge,life was tough but real satisfying and rewarding.its now being destroyed by American ideology of consumerism.

Sliding down the hill. What a great moment captured.

Wonderful video. Brought back so many memories. Saving the hay,ford cortina,stone walls.Simple happy times when people were so caring.Bravo!

Some great times and history in that oul house. I can say I done most of the stuff in this video saving the hay ect great old days beam me up and take me back Scottie

Spraying the potatoes with bluestone. One indelible memory of my father.

I was there then. Thanks 🙏 for sharing beautiful country and wonderful folk

life as it should be natural and normal

Great to look back at our poor but happy days , i wonder if the young lad with the gun is still alive we would be around the same age , God grant the older folk eternal rest

Gorgeous video, memories flooding back of a more gentle time, thank you for sharing.

Miss it so much I prefer it without all technology we have today ,was way more peaceful .

This is an excellent short film of Irish country living back in the 1960, the poor donkeys were often made to far harder than they should have, and I am also guilty of that sin. That boy eating freshly plucked apples whilst looking out from the tall tower window When I was a schoolboy, I learned nothing but fear in school, to me it was like going to prison each day, the few things, I would get hit on by the teacher and asked things that i did not know ( because I had severe Dyslexia ) i never got asked by the teacher about the thinks that i did know, Yet the other kids did not treat me bad probably because i was the champion apple stealer, and would share the sweetest apply with other kids around me,, we wore short corduroy trousers going to school which were fully lined on the inside, and when I would break into fines apple orchards covered in tall stinging nettles to go and steal the finest apples, First I would tar a hole on the pockets of my trousers, wear a good leather belt and clime up into the trees to pick and pocket the best of the apples, my trouser legs would get filled with apples around my legs, I would be carrying a very heavy weigh which made it difficult to walk but could not run to save my life after being shot at by angry farmers as I made my escape across the fields loaded down with beauty full sweetest stolen apples. I no longer steal apples and have tried my best to go straight since those wild times in Ireland as a young lad.

This was great Tim, it brought back a lot of memories! Thank so much for sharing it. They even climbed up to Stirring Rock, I thought it was a big hike in 1990, and I was a lot younger than they were when they hiked it! Thanks again! XOXO

Thank you so much for this look. IT was a joy.

Great to be Irish

Loved and shared in Kilkenny .I love the horsedrawn Cortina in the raffle at 8 mins. 48 secs.

These look like old family movies...what a great window into a sweeter time.

Interesting. Watching in Burnaby/Vancouver B.C.Canada!

It was certainly a lovely time back then

Bit of Boyle Abbey in there also. It was hard work back then and Sunday was Sunday a day of rest or off to Knock. Not many "movie recorders" either. Thank you for the memories

Great days the sixties .The great Showband scene .The simple way of life .Friendly people .Everyone had a kind word or a chat .No smart phones to play with . No murders .People could leave their door open .A better Ireland back the not like the fucked up country we have today

Thank you for sharing this it's beautiful

Ireland 2020,,,,bloody 'ell, take me back.

Great vid. Great soundtrack too.

1:02 A fascinating image is that of the woman hiding at the side of the house. A treasured piece of nostalgia from my childhood days in East Mayo/ South Sligo is that of shy people lurking around the backs of houses.

Beautiful scenery.

What was the name of the last music on the video It was gorgeous

A beautiful colour film!

Gorgeous, thank you....

The proud land of our fathers.

Thank you for this

The spot @ 6mins brought back so many memories...My late beloved father used one of those spraying contraptions to spray something called 'bluestone' on the potato crop...and he used to carry ...and pump the tank, whilst I used the spray! By modern standards, we were very poor...though I did not know it at the time. Than you for posting this!

NOW THATS THE IRELAND..IRISH..PEOPLE AND CHRISTIAN CULTURE...

are some of those photos of knock where the priests are giving communion? please correct me if im wrong

Aah... great, but it’s over too soon! Thanks for posting!

The town scene from 039 to 1:00 is Aclare between Tubbercurry and Swinford

a lovely view of Ireland from way back, I wonder if the young lad with the imitation rifle and uniform ever joined the military later on.....

what family is this?

A better place and time

My grandma used to count the 'clip clops' of the donkeys feet from the field to the house and if it went above 53 she knew grandpa was going to the pub for a drink " ahhh the owl egit" she used to say

Beautiful Ireland, beautiful people, very very tasty food. If only you still went to church maybe not for the religion, just for the strong community!

Hello, I was just wondering if it is ok to use 3 seconds of footage from this film in a not for profit piece of art that I am doing with three other artists. It's a community project about elderly people talking about growing up in the 50's. Thanks it would make their day to have the clip in the film.

Eleshia, I made that climb to Stirring Rock in 1956 with Aunt Maisie.

Tim, Sean and I thought this was fantastic! Thanks for sharing XO

Hi, we are making a short film about the Irish in Coventry and were wondering if we could use some of this footage?

The greatest country in the world.

At 8:30 the monastery is Boyle Abbey.

Fun,,,,, gotta love how things used to be,,,,

Irish music is fascinating

Fantastic!

Terrific. Some of early part focuses on a pilgrimage to Knock.

Hello, I hope you are well. I know this video is from nine years ago, but I love watching these videos that show what life was like before. I would like to ask something hoping someone can answer, What were the most common jobs in Ireland during the 1950-1960s? In the cities and in the towns, especially in the villages. 🤔

Loved it

Looks like County Mayo from the IZ car plates, Mweelrea, Killary Harbour and the Irish tune Cill Aodáin?

Wasn't Swinford a grand and half-civilised place before the Hardy Bucks took over the streets.

We were not as poor as people think ............... every one smoked and the pubs were full on many nights of the week..... ...... CIE was fully modernised with diesel locomotives by 1961...... 7 Years ahead of BR , 10 years ahead of Northern Ireland railways......... but the weather :-) ....... who could forget the winter of 1962

Round Tower Meelick?

Kilverneen is near Cloonacool, Tubbercurry. Most of the hay making was on my uncle John Gallagher's farm here: www.google.com/maps/place/Cloonacool,+Co.+Sligo,+Ireland/@54.0714103,-8.8169659,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x485eb616532e4abb:0xa00c7a99731f140?hl=en

some mighty powerful looking women!

The psychedelic and cultural revolution didn't quite make it to Ireland..Some suburban young people grew their hair long and listened to Simon and Garfunkel but I think that's as far as it went

Brings back memories Ireland will never be the same it’s been invaded just like England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿☘️☘️☘️🇨🇮

Loved that

I think Ireland changed in the 60s more than any other decade. The country became a lot more prosperous, access to education improved enormously and housing standards skyrocketed. There were plenty of wrong things and plenty of good things worth remembering. Irish people are pretty good at blaming others for wrongs and are also pretty good at ignoring rules when it doesn't suit them. Not as rigid a place as many would have you believe.

God be with the days that were in it.

I was a child in the seventies and most of the donkey and horses and carts were gone by then but eventhough silage and bales of hay had come in to some extent I remember the cocks of hay and the garden cocks well the hay was brought in with a 20 tractor and buck rake alot of the time but in the last seventies the 165 of and david brown 990 started taking over and I thought they were massive. Alot of people had hens and everybody nearly had their own milk and vegetables cattle had started been sold at the mart but there was still a fair for sheep. Anybody who didn't have their own turkies baught them at a Turkey fair about a week or so before Christmas and killed them themselves. Things have changed so much some for the better and some for the worse but the world can't stand still or it would just stagnate.

Where exactly is Kilverneen in Co Sligo? North Sligo? South Sligo? If near Tubbercurry, can you name some adjacent town lands?

The good Ol` days....When times were hard.

That's the south of Ireland. Looks really nice. Wasn't like that in the North though.

By no means am I racist, but no foreigners in this beautiful video, but now I'm afraid we are the foreigners in our beautiful island of ireland, how time has changed.

If you want more good Irish films watch, "kings in grass castles," about the potato famine.

Think the last Round Tower is Turlough Round Tower outside Castlebar

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thats when the irish people had good food ,, good heath ,, and a good lifestyle ,,, free to roam the land ,, there was no toxic spray,s back the ,,, cancer was not heard of ,,,,, now it is not such a good place to live ,,,,,

No murders in Ireland back then wat alovly land it was and real friendly people hadn’t much but got on wit it No big machines donkeys and ploughing and now we have internet and eu Ain’t we happier now Ya

Ireland is far from the quiet peaceful place it once was drugs and crime in general is taking over it is fast becoming a dangerous place if something isn't done soon to change it i pity life in years to come here

This is the Ireland I thought I was going to meet when I moved there in 2015. 🙃

When white men had their own homeland.

I can’t see anyone using their mobile phone

Hi Tim. Great old footage. I would be interested in using a clip from around 7.41 for a documentary I'm currently working on, if possible? Let me know if you have anything else. Especially interested in anything related to traditional Irish music. Email me directly at straydog@indigo.ie

no income tax at the time,because no one had a bob.

In that year Bono The singer of U2, Born hahaha 😂

The maiden city Belfast was a hell for people under a shite evil regime

Not a hint of allergies, can’t eat this, that or the other, people ate well of what there was in season, and of course there was the Guinness. ,,, there still is, go and have a taste.

Not a fan of shooting animals at the start of video.I was a child in 60s Have v happy memories ,But it was a mans world then .Life was more simple and children used imagination to play.I remember our car well driving up to munster final in Tipp.

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I wonder what they would have thought if they knew dear old Ireland would adopt gay marriage......

The simplicity and beauty is wonderful. However women were treated like second class citizens then so it wasn't all rosy in Catholic Ireland . Thank fully we have seen huge progress

Back then, the Catholic Church was all powerful and I'm not entirely sure we would want to return to the misery inflicted by some quarters of the Christian Brothers / Magdalene Sisters / insert your religious bogeyman here...