The Longford Cure - Donncha Ó Dúlaing, Ireland 1980

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The Longford Cure - Donncha Ó Dúlaing, Ireland 1980

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Lizzy Donnelly from the village of Legan in County Longford has the cure for jaundice. This particular treatment is a mixture of herbs, boiled and strained to make a drink. She was given the recipe by a neighbour.
Lizzy Masterson has the cure for ‘the thorn’. This cure was given to her family by a woman and consists of unsalted butter that must be renewed annually on the morning of the first of May.
Bobby Trimble has a cure for various ailments. These include warts and a urinary condition called ‘the gravel’. He can also stop bleeding by saying a specific prayer three times. He was given this prayer from a man he knows called Pat Brady.
‘Donncha’s Travelling Roadshow’ was a series presented by Donncha Ó Dúlaing highlighting the people, music and traditions of rural Ireland.

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@patrickmcgreevy1051 2 жыл бұрын

Great clip, bless them all 🇮🇪🍀

@rutgersplague4595 2 жыл бұрын

These are probably long deleted from rte tapes, great to see someone has saved some of these from destruction

@Imightberiding 2 жыл бұрын

It appears that 1980 elsewhere in the world was still essentially the middle ages in Ireland; populated by charming old people who represented this forgotten time centuries past by what was their unrecognizable spoken word, archaic superstitions & beliefs. Quite charming folks indeed. Thanks for this rare upload & insight.

@caracortage3270 Жыл бұрын

Very funny, but daft in arrogance

@TheAvarusAnimus 2 жыл бұрын

I had horrendous warts on my hand for around 5 years. Tried everything, freezing etc. Went to a man with the cure in Celbridge, Co.Kildare in c.2000-2002. My dad made me go! I had no faith in it at all. Said a few prayers over them and rubbed them with something (maybe Elderberry leaf?!).Within 2 weeks they were gone and have never returned.

@michaeloconnor9809 2 жыл бұрын

People might sneer a bit at the prayers but those people believed and generally ate wholesome food, not near the drinking and smoking that goes on today. Herbs have provided wonderful cures for centuries

@jackjsheridan 2 жыл бұрын

Oh be god if drinking and smoking was all they were at Michael. Lord save us and guard us

@FFrankie93 2 жыл бұрын

Oh be da hokey, there's no amount of dandelions that could save the youth of today Michael

@johnsometimeswrong8742 2 жыл бұрын

@@FFrankie93 🤣🤣🤣

@johnsometimeswrong8742 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackjsheridan 🤣🤣🤣

@wittywoo9559 2 жыл бұрын

Piss in the beds 🤣

@dellhell8842 2 жыл бұрын

I can feel the 1980 cold and dampness of that hall from here, given the way they are all dressed.

@johnsometimeswrong8742 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same here it reminds me of our little parish hall when i was a kid in the 80s i can smell it from here maybe a little gas heater running in the corner😃😃

@deanodog3667 2 жыл бұрын

Theres a po under the stage !

@andrewdaley3081 2 жыл бұрын

Central heating is bad for you. 🇬🇧👍

@scottblack9213 2 жыл бұрын

Probably a couple of Super Ser's on full blast for the stage only... The great unwashed in the audience will have to do with keeping their wet donkey jackets on .. the smell of the gas will probably make them feel warmer!

@kokobwild2413 2 жыл бұрын

That's a fine prayer.

@ripme6616 2 жыл бұрын

Such dignity

@mae9064 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing, times past, gone but not forgotten

@Discover-Ireland 2 жыл бұрын

I love the cure especially after a good night’s drinking.

@seanoceallachain 2 жыл бұрын

I was honestly hoping that at least one of these cure's were gonna be a hangover one. Woulda been gas if they took out a fry-up with a cup of tea :D

@Discover-Ireland 2 жыл бұрын

@@seanoceallachain lol 😆

@Discover-Ireland 2 жыл бұрын

@Greg 😆

@radharcanna Жыл бұрын

I used to enjoy Donnacha’s Highways and Byways radio programme years ago. He travelled all over the country, interviewing some very interesting people. Real radio. Nowadays we have to put up with Ray D’Arcy!

@adbl.d6324 2 жыл бұрын

from a US Donnelly, this does me proud to see

@pifflepockle Жыл бұрын

Magic

@rosehogan2861 2 жыл бұрын

The Prayer for Blood cure Our lord Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem He was baptized In the River Jordan The waters was pure and the waters was culled As Jesus passed by the water stood And by his power And in his name I demand this blood to do the same Say 3 time for the cure to complete Powerful simple lovely Prayer

@barra6709 2 жыл бұрын

There was nothing a bit a flat 7up couldn't cure back in the day.

@johnnielson7676 2 жыл бұрын

Or a mug of broth

@wittywoo9559 2 жыл бұрын

Me ma use to pull that one when yea were sick .. used to heat it up 🤣

@CH-px5fp 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t drink Lucozade to this day. I associate being sick with drinking it.

@johnnielson7676 2 жыл бұрын

They’re like my own grandmother years ago in Idaho - an herb and a prayer for every ailment. Can anyone suggest a good book on Irish botanical folk medicine?

@fred66665 2 жыл бұрын

following on here for any other comments.

@farmersimonk 2 жыл бұрын

Niall Mac coitir Ireland’s wild plants

@johnnielson7676 2 жыл бұрын

@@farmersimonk Thank you! I just now reserved this through interlibrary loan and it should be in my hands by next week. And I’m excited to see the author also has books on the folklore of Ireland’s birds, trees and animals

@farmersimonk 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnielson7676 I have the whole collection! They are a treasure.

@rivolinho 2 жыл бұрын

Longford, 1980. No joke.

@fred66665 2 жыл бұрын

This is interesting CR, I've heard of some of the cure's for the burns and the bleeding and the Jaundice but different ones than these mentioned if you have anymore that come up in the Archive please consider posting them.

@jonser20cent68 2 жыл бұрын

"Harp and Shamrock" Great hornpipe.

@johnsometimeswrong8742 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣I thought she said she had a cure for the horn!!😃

@danbreen6946 2 жыл бұрын

What Wid The Horn Being 😳

@ripme6616 2 жыл бұрын

She definitely had a wicked sense of humour

@djdownie3 2 жыл бұрын

Funny. But what did she have a cure for?

@jamesbradshaw3389 2 жыл бұрын

A very strange thing happened to me 49 years ago. I was out walking one day through mountains and valleys in my area, minding my own business when I set down for a rest, a 0voice directed me to a place further up the mountain, I was told that I would find a very rich vein of pure gold, it was mine but I must not show others where this existed, it was for my own use and I must not pass any part of it to anyone else. I am a very rich but poor man as I am not allowed to sell any of my mountains of gold

@wilfredwilde9559 2 жыл бұрын

NI cure for warts . My mother said a local lady had the cure and cut a spud in two .One half rubbed on the warts and the other half tied up on a string out on a tree .As the spud rotted so too did the warts . It worked .

@dannymcintyre3819 2 жыл бұрын

Are all these three from Longford? Would they have a Longford accent?

@jakenconor 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, what you are hearing here probably constitutes what you'd call a longford accent. It's not as instantly discernable as accents from other areas of the country...being as flat as the landscape around the area itself.

@paullinnane8135 Жыл бұрын

Donnacha o dulaing 1933-2021, age 88 years

@MrDyersy 2 жыл бұрын

Class.

@joepullen-tu5wi Жыл бұрын

Look how people in Ireland we're so far behind rest of the world, 1980 they were still living in the 60s

@joepullen-tu5wi Жыл бұрын

The latest man saying a prayer lol, I remember people blessing themselves walking by statues, cyefin Mary, even if they were driving past lol

@coolmacatrain9434 6 ай бұрын

By jasus! Who said there was no talent in Longford.... what?

@daithiocinnsealach1982 2 жыл бұрын

This guy looks like he's parodying someone 😂

@deet1558 2 жыл бұрын

I say the blood prayer works Ona cut jugular vein

@animallover19581 2 жыл бұрын

A long time since I saw 3 elderly people on telly. Now you must have legs 6 feet long and blonde hair the same length. Simple happy times. Long gone alas. Sure we are all dead cool now drinking Processo eating caviar and doing pilates. Auld cures my arse.🤒🤧🤮😭😢😤😫🤤😝👀👁👀👁

@COIcultist 2 жыл бұрын

Not quite the same but hardly any better than Jeremy Kyle.

@danbreen6946 2 жыл бұрын

That's why the prick got the sack

@frontleftfender 2 жыл бұрын

And with all the portions and cures none could remove the curse of being born in Longford

@niadonnis 2 жыл бұрын

Ufff

@daithiocinnsealach1982 2 жыл бұрын

Add a bit of fairy dust and 3 Hail Mary's and you're laughing

@larryoconnor7094 2 жыл бұрын

Or a trip to the Laughing Factory for tune up.

@sitluxetluxfuit4481 2 жыл бұрын

It's not witchcraft , then the old guy processed to cast a spell , repeat three times etc. Wow.

@user-lx5ue4wm5k 2 жыл бұрын

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣

@ClannCholmain 2 жыл бұрын

They’re all dead now. The cure didn’t work.

@honeyfungus4774 2 жыл бұрын

They weren't claiming they had a cure for Death.

@ClannCholmain 2 жыл бұрын

@@honeyfungus4774 it’s a little bit of dark humour.

@evanhaley.7813 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they are still alive.

@ClannCholmain 2 жыл бұрын

@@evanhaley.7813 the interviewer died this year.

@adbl.d6324 2 жыл бұрын

as will we be all is some 40-60 years’ time. what of it? Mortality does not erase the possibility of shared positivity effecting a ‘cure’, albeit even only temporary, for all sorts of human malaise.