Crookhaven Village Community Spirit, Co. Cork, Ireland 1975
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Retired journalist Pat Murphy on the fabric of life in and around the village of Crookhaven in West Cork.
A journalist, author, linguist and raconteur Pat Murphy lives in retirement in the village of Crookhaven on the Mizen peninsula in West Cork. His cottage ‘Castle Murphy’ is situated close to where he was born in 1897.
Pat Murphy pays an early morning visit to the local creamery which draws people from around the area together.
The papers, the post and parochialism, an inward spiral of communication.
The community has an innate neighbourly spirit,
Everybody tries to help everybody else and important roles are filled voluntarily.
When a need exists, somebody steps in to help without being asked or appointed to do so. Pat Murphy’s particular set of skills, and the fact that he owns a typewriter, means he assists his neighbours with insurance and pension matters.
Also, Pat Murphy is frequently summoned to O’ Sullivan’s Bar to chat to foreign visitors where his knowledge of eleven languages comes to the fore.
Foreigners may brighten the social lives of the locals, but they are not short of entertainment in their own right. Frequent gatherings are held in homes where songs and ballads are sung. The area has its own share of ballads and one tells of the coming of the bus to Goleen.
Five miles away, Goleen is the capital of the peninsula, providing a transport terminus, a telephone exchange and shops offering a wide variety of supplies.
It is our Switzerland and our Saudi Arabia, having both a bank and petrol pumps.
‘My Own Place’ is a documentary series in which prominent Irish personalities take an affectionate look at the place they were born or brought up in, or at some particular place that has significantly influenced their thinking.
The episode of ‘My Own Place’ was broadcast on 22 October 1975.
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That's when we had community spirit . Were did it go ? This a lovely film showing good old fashioned Saturday parties . The music , the drink and the craic .
An Ireland never to be recovered. Ohhh how Ireland has fallen.
The late P.J. Sheehan T.D is young and hearty in this clip. Lovely clip thank you.
@andrewdunne1735
8 ай бұрын
What a legend,I heard his contribution to a debate on the last night of the great CJ Haughy's reign, Mr Haughey thanked him and told him to sheath his sword as the battle was over,great stuff altogether
This is such a wonderful channel
@maryfox7440
8 ай бұрын
Love it!
I could watch this stuff all night long if it was on RTE and I wouldn’t mind paying a license fee then
@maryfox7440
8 ай бұрын
Nostalgia!
Very nice hard working lovely peoples.
Those were the days my friends, I remember them very well, I spent some time helping to collect milk and deliver it to the local creamer, Loading large heavy containers onto a tractor-trailer, not a suitable job for a lad of 12 years of age but I should not complain as the tractor driver was kind and loaded the heaviest tanks on to the trailer and left the part filled ones to me
@maryfox7440
8 ай бұрын
The crack was great!
@jamesbradshaw3389
8 ай бұрын
@@maryfox7440 It was
I wish it was still the same Paradise until now
Brilliant stuff
that whole footage from back then its invalueable.. thats unesco-wrld-heritage stuff!
I look at what Ireland has become and I hang my head and cry. We've more money but we sold our soul..
@sklenars
8 ай бұрын
Here in New Zealand in the early days of colonisation the colonials had difficulty in getting the locals into gainful employment. Same in Fiji. Money meant nothing to them as they had all their needs supplied by the land and sea. What we must do said the wisest Britisher is teach them greed.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
I’m sure I spotted a young Billy O’Sullivan.
Ivor C springs to mind
We have fallen far
6:30 😂let the dog see the rabbit
☘️🇮🇪
2:22 this only happens in a homogenous community.
@TomInIreland110
8 ай бұрын
You're correct. This is one of those things where you have to say to people, 'I wish I was wrong, but I'm not'.
Rolf Harris hovering at 5.00;
We’ve paved over paradise to put in parking lots…
Дякую Уряду Ірландії за підтримку України.
@user-lh4sb2pn9s
8 ай бұрын
Ірландія чудова країна.
@Elle_Gowing
8 ай бұрын
Ireland WAS a wonderful country. Not any more.
6:20
@patrickdowney2778
8 ай бұрын
And the way she might look at you...
@lombmusic07
8 ай бұрын
@@patrickdowney2778 the way he was looking. She was looking elsewhere.
@patrickdowney2778
8 ай бұрын
@@lombmusic07 It's a reference to an old Harp lager TV ad 🙂
@lombmusic07
8 ай бұрын
@@patrickdowney2778 and in the ad, Sally O' Brien was acting as a full grown woman with make up on. It was a full grown man narrating. This is an oul fella and a little girl.
@patrickdowney2778
8 ай бұрын
@@lombmusic07 It was meant in the spirit of a light-hearted comment, not of a mathematical treatise mapping the Harp ad detail for detail onto the clip above. But since you mention it, the woman shown at 6:20 is fully grown too. The narrator may be older than the narrator in the Harp ad. So what? Have a good day.
isnt that beautifull