A Blacksmith Retires, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, Ireland 1988

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The demise of the trade of the farrier means that when blacksmith Holly Graham leaves his forge for the last time nobody will be replacing him.
There are 69 registered farriers in Ireland and as they retire their craft goes with them. Blacksmith Holly Graham is retiring after nearly fifty years of working at his forge in Ballymahon, County Longford.
It’s dying now because the young people that learn it, they all gave it up.
Holly Graham is the last in the line of a family of blacksmiths. His father before him and seven of his uncles were all blacksmiths.
There’s not many farriers around here, there’s only one more in County Longford and one in County Westmeath.
One customer who has been going to Holly for the last thirteen years says he will,
Have to travel the length and breadth of Ireland to get a blacksmith after he retires.
In 1960 Holly Graham saw the first signs of the decline in his craft when the tractor took over from the horse, leaving only hunting horses.
So you had to turn your hand to different jobs, you know, making car tailors or something like that.
However things improved in 1970,
The horse came back round the time Dana won the Eurovision contest from that on they came back and now they’ve got very plentiful.
Ironically the return of the horse is marked by the demise of the traditional farrier in County Longford.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 12 October 1988. The reporter is Gerry Reynolds.

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  • @ConstantThrowing
    @ConstantThrowing2 жыл бұрын

    Learned a lot about mechanisation of farming from this channel.

  • @brianrossiter2547
    @brianrossiter25472 жыл бұрын

    "The horse came back around the time that Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest" 😄

  • @beecee1235

    @beecee1235

    Ай бұрын

    And no one spared a thought for the poor horse. :)

  • @501live
    @501live2 жыл бұрын

    Ya 💘 love longfordians .so so beautiful amazing places and faces to see....just visit and will never regrets

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw33892 жыл бұрын

    If I was a blacksmith I would whistle and sing and I would follow the ship that my true love sails. O Very sorry in was a blackbird. It is a great pity that those great old important skills old have faded away I once drove past an old forge building situated outside of Cong Town, the entrance door frame is made of stone in the chape of a horseshoe and I believe that it has got some of the marking of nails on it, I must take a trip back to that part of the world and check it out after i have served my life ling sentence of working hard every day

  • @righteousred723
    @righteousred7232 жыл бұрын

    I was just researching the history of horse shoes

  • @JDLeonard74

    @JDLeonard74

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nice balaklava R.R. I figured, ya know. 🤷‍♂️ We're all something.. especially these days. Then there is everything that happened over there. You shouldn't have to feel that way any more. Especially if you're just trying to stay warm when it's cold as @#$&: out. 😄 👍

  • @JDLeonard74

    @JDLeonard74

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because it is here. Much further south. Whew, Love of Jesus, warm fires and hot food to you way up there in Ireland Sir.

  • @dellhell8842
    @dellhell88422 жыл бұрын

    Just looked up Farriery Ireland. There are now 99 registered farriers in the Republic alone, 30 more than the figure mentioned in this video. Sure 'Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave.' We're all doomed, or maybe not, and a lot more prosperous than in the '80s.

  • @JDLeonard74
    @JDLeonard742 жыл бұрын

    There was a mobile farrier here, but I haven't seen him for a while.

  • @davidhuff5676
    @davidhuff56762 жыл бұрын

    As long as there's horseracing/showjumping/eventing, there will always be jobs for Farriers. Not a skill that can be automated. Conventional Blacksmiths might be on shakier ground, but there seems to be a fair few about in Ireland, making gates and such.

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    @CENTRIX4

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @briantneary2248
    @briantneary22482 жыл бұрын

    My lineage, the Nearys from county Mayo, were blacksmiths.

  • @brianbadonde8700
    @brianbadonde87002 жыл бұрын

    Longford sure looks different today, have ya seen it

  • @andyarmstrong1493
    @andyarmstrong14932 жыл бұрын

    My Grandfather was a blacksmith.

  • @seandelap6268
    @seandelap62682 жыл бұрын

    Pity these guys are no longer around to interview today.

  • @stevenc123
    @stevenc1232 жыл бұрын

    Horse: "Let me chew the fecking rope" 0:36

  • @jackiechan8755
    @jackiechan87552 жыл бұрын

    The horse was the first car on the road and don't forget that all these scrap car nowadays notthing but fucking trouble the horse is the best that's my opinion 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @marykategraham.205
    @marykategraham.2052 жыл бұрын

    """I'd rather be dumped by a Horse - than a Man"""--- Diá dháoibh CR'S---- V.V.---🐴🐴🐴🐴

  • @harrykuntz878

    @harrykuntz878

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your a fine cut of a girl if you treated me right I wouldn't dump you 😆

  • @thornwarbler
    @thornwarbler2 жыл бұрын

    Aye a great shame

  • @lexzoolia1
    @lexzoolia12 жыл бұрын

    Let’s go Brandon

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