I hope the farmers of Ireland are planting thorn bushes for the generations to come, seriously. Bad enough to have a housing crisis for people without a homeless crisis for fairies as well.

@personl7949

3 жыл бұрын

👍🤣🤣🤣

@slaneysider106

3 жыл бұрын

lol 😂 ,very witty comment fair play

@margaretpartington1071

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly the fae are our elders Need to tend to there garden

@blueneptune825

Жыл бұрын

Genius!😂😂😂

What an excellent conversationalist this man was; he had wit and wisdom, and could quote Goldsmith as naturally as we breathe air. We truly "won't see their likes again".

@martinhanley9524

Жыл бұрын

They have been replaced by woke arseholes

Trees have been sacred in Ireland for 1,000s of years. The ancient Irish Ogham script is based on tree species.

guy freaks out for 5 minutes saying the tree must be up so he can live reporter : let's check it out! ( start pulling the branches ) old fellow : what the...

@nycgingercat

3 жыл бұрын

@Christo Genea Plot twist...the journalist is a fairy!

@davidoconnor3930

2 жыл бұрын

Gay

@thebee8415

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidoconnor3930 No Mike, Gay was the other guy. 😉

@maxpower1337

2 жыл бұрын

😀

LOL can't believe he disturbed that old man by yanking on those branches. His reaction was very predictable even before the guy touched the tree. He's not kidding about what he believes. Very disrespectful to listen to the whole story and his beliefs just to jerk on this guys lifeline tree. Might as well have said "yeah right, dumb dumb, bye bye."

@GordonGarvey

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, like tell telling a devout Catholic to burn in hell.

@bretdouglas9407

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah was really awkward

@cybrpypr

3 жыл бұрын

I can only have envisioned him picking up a thornbush limb and flogging him if he had of brought that tree down by pulling on those branches.

@una877

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah what a prick lol. Poor old man

@guinevereinthefield176

2 жыл бұрын

I felt the same way, I was like noooo the fairies, don’t do that!

That's quite a chin and jaw line on Jim Sweeney, a unique character and true to his roots. I love his passionate protection of that sacred tree.

@spiralrose

5 ай бұрын

It’s a good thing that jaw is on the man because that would make a very homely woman

One of the things I love about Ireland is that we treat the supernatural with such casual reverence, if that makes sense. "Sure we know there's strange goings on, but ah, what harm?" Love it. Thanks for this. 😁

@MrGoneTroppo

2 жыл бұрын

Oh there were some cold winters in the early 1980s I remember lookin at the snow...

@dirtyunclehubert

4 ай бұрын

im german but i came to looove ireland not only for its nature, but for exactly that deep old culture. which i heard, is of course , getting forgotten. man do i love me some eddie lenihan storytelling!

Always a good idea to leave these trees as they are and just plow around them.

We have a fairy tree in the middle of a field as well, under no circumstance would you cut it down!!

I've experienced what looked like the other way round: a neighbour of mine (in his late eighties) died about ten years ago. He had planted a redwood tree behind the house when he was in his twenties. The tree died the following summer after your man died. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but an eerie one...

@xleplex7070

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the death of the plane caused him to die somehow but it is a little far fetched.

@michaeladrian2210

3 жыл бұрын

Eerie enough for yer man to have a Redwood tree....

@thebee8415

2 жыл бұрын

That is strange.

@mikethompson5966

2 жыл бұрын

likely a coincidence, redwoods grow too fast for an urban environment. may not have have enough root space or if planted too deep(super common) the tree will grow roots that girdle the trunk and cut off food supply. still eerie.

@thebee8415

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikethompson5966 They experts say the best hole to plant a tree in, is a square one. If you put a tree in a circle hole the roots spiral down and in-tangles themselves then tree dies. Square holes encourage the roots to get to the corners there they stretch outward and make a better foundation for the tree. Long live red woods. The best time to grow a tree was 30 years ago the better time is today. 🌴🌳🌲🌵

We all live in our own universe and some of us experience things that others never will. Never seen any faeries, but i did see a ufo back in about 98, when i was 7, in Swords where I’m from. I have also witnessed objects moving in my kitchen. There definitely is something else to this life that we can’t really experience when we’re immersed daily in technology. These people lived in an older time and I really think some of them did see things that were real enough to them.

@wckr1826

2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@NiaJustNia

5 ай бұрын

There's been family jokes that I was a changeling, especially given my strange birth, but I do wonder what my dad and his pals were feeling when they saw me walk half a mile into a absolutely massive old bog as a child. Obviously someone saw me leave the trees and go into the bog (I was maybe 5-7 years old), and they fetched my dad. Now obviously my dad didn't want to shout out to me in case I got a fright and fell in, so he tried clambering after me, tripping and getting soaked a few times, which made me turn, skip on over to him as easily as skipping down a street, and ask what he was doing. He thought if I panicked, I'd fall, so told me he came to fetch me because it was time to head back to get lunch. I asked why his legs were wet, and he said that it's because he kept stepping in the puddles, so I asked "Why don't you just walk on the path then?", not realising that for some reason, I could see a path through the bog that he couldn't, when it seemed really obvious to me, so I told him to follow me back and just walk where I did, and sure enough, it was a dry solid path 😂 And then on the walk back through the woods, I brought up a conversation about the spirits that live in the forest and the land like the creepy little child I was. I think that and my weird being able to make electronics flicker and lights turn on and off (my older sister remembers it more clearly that I do. Apparently when I was really little, I could just tell the light to turn on or off, and it would, though I can't remember this, but other family members have mentioned it to lol). I can still see paths through bogs and make electronics flicker and wifi to go out, especially when I'm angry (In Uni the IT department nicknamed me Carrie, because I would kill computers during essay season), but I'm just a very staticy person. I do wonder wtf my dad thought was wrong with me though as the bog incident happened twice. On the second time he was straight up "Stop going near the bog, because if you fall off your little path, you will die." There was also the old lady that lived with us until I was around 2 that would help take care of me (especially during my mother's neglect when my dad was at work), whom I didn't find out until I was around 25 apparently didn't exist. They never had an elderly family member living with them, but both parents said separately (divorced) that it "explained a few things", which hasn't ever been elaborated on other than "Well from the second you could talk, you talked clearly and just knew things you couldn't possibly know.". But they also both never elaborated on the 2 occasions I woke up temporarily able to speak dead languages (old norse was one, can't remember the other, but I know they did do a deep dive try and find out what languages they were both times) that I don't really remember any of now. So fuck knows what's been going on with me since childhood, but ghosts maybe. The waking up briefly with knowledge of a language has happened one time since childhood and it was some form of proto-celtic. So fuck knows what's been going on with me since childhood, but ghosts maybe 🤷‍♀ My mother revealed when I was around 20 that she'd always been scared of me, which made me surprised that being catholic, she never tried to have me exorcised or something 😂 If I could've been born and came out this weird since birth and it be experienced by every member of my family, I'm fairly confident others must experience unexplainable things in their lives too. There's over 8 billion people on the earth currently, and billions more that have already died since the dawn of humans, so it stands to reason that it's impossible for nobody to have experienced anything unexplainable.

He's a great character, well read too

Deep in the bogs on Summer evenings i heard music from a fairy band. It frightened me, as it was drawing me close to a world that was very different to the one i knew.

@slaneysider106

2 ай бұрын

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

I love these folklore stories, thank you for uploading them.

@thiest1205

2 жыл бұрын

When you think about it It's all they had, sitting in each others homes on winter nights playing a tune and sharing the folklore, great to have an archive we can all enjoy,

@eddiecaplan1908

2 жыл бұрын

Oh?, you think they are only stories then??🧚🧚‍♂️

@thiest1205

2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiecaplan1908 🤭

@timahern4854

Жыл бұрын

@@thiest1205 7up

God, I love the Irish.

I know a very special tree that grows on my father-in-law's farm, I have been told stories about that special tree and how best care has to be taken not to harm it. I know a man who had forgotten about the power of those fairy trees, he was cutting a branch from the tree, and part of the branch struck him in the eye and caused damage, he did not lose his eye. A lesson was learned that tree has not been damaged since that day.

I remember when this piece was first aired on the live Mike in the early 80’s

He sounds like a great story teller like many of his generation who really did know hard times as opposed to many today who think they do but in reality have it so much better than what people back then in particular rural Ireland had to deal with on a day to day basis and I'm assuming he's dead now so RIP.

@lydialily846

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more ,, 👍

@jamesgreene4811

3 жыл бұрын

Well said and so true Sean our beautiful country and culture has changed so much sadly 😥

@BoundForAdventure

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgreene4811 Like all things, cultures are constantly evolving. Witnessing this change so clearly can be so very disheartening but it's important not to sway to the path of despair. While it's terribly sad to see the great aspects of our cherished culture diminish over time, you can always take solace in the fact that our developing culture has some positive changes as well. Our stories, our sport, our language, our music and dance are alive and well, and spreading rapidly around the world. In this modern Ireland most of our people don't have the same grasp on the legends and myths of the land as our grandparents and great grandparents did, but the people of our tiny nation are admired and their effect on the new World has been enormous. There is a traditional Irish bar 3,000 feet high in the mountains of Nepal, a thriving gaeltacht in Toronto, and competitive GAA clubs on every habitable continent. Our culture is changing and being sad about that is grand, but all we can do is keep the important aspects of it alive. Is fearr Gaeilge briste, ná Béarla cliste

@tangerinetech5300

2 жыл бұрын

What does that have to do with being a good story teller

@cece3194

Жыл бұрын

It's coming again.

That was awesome, I'll no tell you my age ,I'm on the lookout ! Good on you fella.

My dad is from the same part of Longford. He used to know him back in the days.

@cynicaldrummer2608

3 жыл бұрын

Did the tree fall, or how did he died, do you know?

@jakenconor

3 жыл бұрын

Amy idea where exactly the tree is/was John? I'm not far from there myself.

@johngill7776

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakenconor Hello Jake. Next time I speak to my dad I will find out for you .

@jakenconor

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngill7776 thanks John, I'd really appreciate that. 😃

@Rosesraspberries72

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngill7776 “ apparently” him and the tree are still alive???

The family farm has a fairy fort on it and of course a few fairy trees, and of course Ioved being inside that fort, really peaceful....

These old films are call " In the Vault" the nickname of video on film that's been stored away for years and then brought back to see them again, for today's generation to see.

I love these old fellas

Time nor tide waits for no one..

@ahmedgunit

3 жыл бұрын

True

Clannad as the soundtrack. I remember when they were massive.

@galwaytribesman9289

3 жыл бұрын

Like my knob

@sarahstrong7174

3 жыл бұрын

They were great.

@RockyRoader

3 жыл бұрын

That was one of their earliest "electronic" hits. I saw them when Enya toured as part of the band in 1981/82

@TheOrientalNightFish

3 жыл бұрын

They still are ☺️

@douglasgreen437

2 жыл бұрын

@@d23bw I used to call her Enema 🤔😂😆🤣

You are so good at documenting and preserving your history! Not just movies from this channel but in general. Much better then us in Sweden

Things were slow in Ireland, news wise, and it was good.

Bit at the end is gas 😂😂

Imagination is a far more exciting life than plain logic and reason. Castrated by concrete conclusions. Prefer to be catapulted into conceived conundrums!

@carollucey111

3 жыл бұрын

Agree with you🤣🤗💕

@christdiedforoursins8985

3 жыл бұрын

Did you ever read the Bible !😁👍👌soundl like it's just up your alley.where imagination ,myth and reality collide

@seanpadraigobrien1260

3 жыл бұрын

@@christdiedforoursins8985 a man and his symbol's

@carollucey111

3 жыл бұрын

@@christdiedforoursins8985 Well, clearly you haven't, I love my neighbors, how about you?🤣🤣😃😃

@christdiedforoursins8985

3 жыл бұрын

@@carollucey111 I'm glad you have read some of it ,that's great now let's put it into practice 💕👍😁

All I know for a fact is NEVER burn an Elder tree. If you do something bad will surely happen

Wonderful old guy

Absolute gold! I love this so much!!! Thank you for sharing.

Keep doing what you are doing in keeping this alive...👍👍

This is a great channel! Keep these gems coming 👍

Brilliant. A man of a dying if not already extinct breed here unfortunately. Now we quote Kim Kardashian with ample opportunity for education and access to literature. He likely barely saw school and quoting Goldsmith.

My fairy tree is quite young. Yes,there are fairies in it. Storms will not kill it any time soon.

Lovely music, beautiful singing.

@DoctorInk20

3 жыл бұрын

_Clannad's_ the band.

@thebee8415

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoctorInk20 Enya’s sis

i come back to this video at least once a year because him yanking on the tree at the end fuckin kills me every time 🤣

That auld lad is class. I'll ask my relations and find out if that tree is still standing.

May he be in the fae realm..what abeautiful creature! ❤❤❤

Legend has it, he fell off the tree and survived but a branch fell on him and killed him

@personl7949

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂👏👏

@user-ns8ld5sn7k

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@user-ns8ld5sn7k

3 жыл бұрын

The tree still hasn’t died and your man is 137 thinks he’s Benjamin button

@47AgStudios

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/o3ZhlqOziajXZKQ.html

@jamesgreene4811

3 жыл бұрын

Well said Pat I remember seeing this video years ago it's sad to see how much our beautiful country and culture has changed 👍

His favorite drink was a chin and tonic , I'll tell ya , thats a half moon of a chin lol . God bless him .

@tri0tran

3 жыл бұрын

Them chins are common up in Longford.

@mr.green.thumbnailclipper98

3 жыл бұрын

@@tri0tran He done well so , Many a seed did this man lay in Longford, PS i was just having a bit banter, and i love listing to old video clips of my Irish people from years ago.

Cathleen, Cathleen! I'm on d'telly!

I had my back turn while this was playing and it hit me that this must be where farmer Michael comes from of the Sir Stevo Timothy KZread Channel. Sounds exactly like him.

You can see the smirk on MM's face. He loves treating these people with a degree of false seriousness, but he's really laughing at them.

@genghisthegreat2034

3 жыл бұрын

It's a respectful milking of the moment, no condescension or malice in it.

@saintessa

3 жыл бұрын

Who is this person? Hopefully not still doing "interviews."

@sheila6186

Жыл бұрын

@@saintessa Mike Murphy. Bit of a smug gowl. He's retired from working in TV now.

Priceless.....

🌳💖 Jim Sweeney was likely born at the end of the 19th century, saw action in WWI, perhaps in WWII; if his O.C.D. from his anxiety about the randomness of mortality takes such a charming & fairytale like form, so be it. 🌈🌲Everyone needs to feel some small control over heedless vagaries of fate!

@twomattoes7800

2 жыл бұрын

Feck off

Best jawline in all of Erie

"Few more years out of the bush" Dont we all)

@personl7949

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣💯👍

@carollucey111

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@bretdouglas9407

3 жыл бұрын

😁

@garymcmanus9946

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to stay in it if I may...

@carollucey111

2 жыл бұрын

@@garymcmanus9946 🤣🤣🤣

I like this old dude! lol 🍀

There all over Ireland fairy trees and forts.

@genghisthegreat2034

3 жыл бұрын

Agus chuile faoi bhláth álainn bolasmhar na sceice ghile um an dtaca seo.

wow what a jerk lol Messing with the old man's fears like that. If the man does not want you to touch the enchanted tree, don't touch it.

@irishelk3

2 жыл бұрын

Mike Murphy isn’t a jerk.

@JaythePandaren

2 жыл бұрын

@@irishelk3 Might not be a jerk in person but messing with a tree and giving a old man almost a heart attack so viewers can take the piss out of him and his tradition's and belief in the fairies' that is a dick move to me.

@irishelk3

2 жыл бұрын

@@JaythePandaren Ah no, i don't agree, you're just projecting your own life onto him, he didn't nearly have a heart attack and Mike wasn't taking the piss out of him, he was perfectly nice to the man for the entire interview, and was just having a bit of fun at the end, he's a comedian, and he's a great man, worthy of respect. There's worse people out there.

@JaythePandaren

2 жыл бұрын

@@irishelk3 I guess you're right. It is Mike murphy after all. I mean he was on winning streak and all that so still a legend as always

That one way to make sure your last son won’t emigrate tell him about that bush at the bottom of the field.

I have some pictures taken from when my great-grandmother went home to Ireland in 1926 to visit her brother on the “old homestead”. One of the pictures include a tree noted as the “fairy wraith”.

Pure brill realy is 👌👍😉

"Get away from the tree ye wee shite!"

Oh Ireland how you doing with myths legends

Well, I suppose the obvious question is; did it fall and did he die within a week of it? He must be long gone bless him, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the tree is still going strong.

Great video

murphy being denigrating and sarcastic. typical west brit attitude. these are genuine people i grew up with. innocent souls but if you crossed them by jaysus!

@nervesinapattern7261

3 жыл бұрын

Very typical attitude to people living beyond the pale by those smug eejits. People like that old fella are what gives Ireland its character and soul.

I'm crying for my country.

The virgin sceptical journo vs the Chad Fairy Chin Man.

This guy is like a real life Darby O'Gill. 🤣

@barelnuckleboxing3149

2 жыл бұрын

And sounds like him too

If the Bush falls he's dead in a week, if he falls from the Bush he's dead in a week.

@carollucey111

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@genghisthegreat2034

3 жыл бұрын

But if he's dead, the bush feels no obligation to keel over. 😉

@carollucey111

3 жыл бұрын

@@genghisthegreat2034 🤣

@garymcmanus9946

2 жыл бұрын

He hasn't seen a bush since birth that boy...

The tree is still there and the old boy is 139 year's Old and Married with children and survived covert 19

@viorelush4187

2 жыл бұрын

He died in 1989 at age 84. The tree's whereabouts are unknown

It's like Sir Stevo meets Houstus from courage the cowardly dog.

Omg my heart💕💗

Love yer vids 👏👏

Where in longford is this tree ??

The reporter makes the old man look foolish. Very ignorant and unkind. Who does he think he is? The one who knows it all? And that seems to entitle him to treet an older man like that. Very small.

@douglasgreen437

2 жыл бұрын

The reporter is a pound store Terry Wogan 🤔

@tangerinetech5300

2 жыл бұрын

I believe he thinks he's a normal person who's isn't stupid and the tree thing is him just having a laugh seems to have offended more people in this comment section than it did the old man

🤔Wonder if that old tree did indeed fall and did he die less than a week later like he said ? What ever happened to that old guy , I wonder ?

@Tony97G

3 жыл бұрын

The tree still stands as does he!

@Discover-Ireland

3 жыл бұрын

It’s good to know all’s standing.

@carollucey111

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tony97G dont be ridiculous poor crature long gone

@thealchemistdaughter3405

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tony97G seriously?.. I love to believe that’s true.. He’s just great.

@SuperJohnyyy

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Ardagh and yes the tree still stands

The dates are wrong on this video unless the video has had audio editing after the fact. The Celtic song playing is a song by Enya who released the song in 1988, so unless the audio has been edited, the video can't be from 1983.

@danw4237

Жыл бұрын

The date is wrong, but in the opposite direction. The show, The Live Mike, aired from 1979 to 1982 so the description is at least a year off. The song from Enya was probably edited in later.

@electricrussellette

3 ай бұрын

The Celtic song is called "Theme from Harry's Game" and was released by Clannad in 1982.

My mammy told us stories of banshees and other things and that was fifty years ago I am a Donohoe and I truly believe

How he started pull the tree. That was out of order

@TonyM540

2 ай бұрын

It was a “set up” for the camera.

🤩🤩🤩

Grabbing his tree like that! Fecking lunatic!

Aye......Wendy the wee duende😀

auld one: it could fall over and mark me demise git: **LIKE THIS?!**

Love Mike Murphy ,, he & Gay ( Rip) will never be matched ...

What is the song playing at the beginning? With the female vocal?

@tearitloosetearitloose4670

2 жыл бұрын

It's a group called Clannad..not sure of the song title though.

Holy shit, he completely fucked with him at the end. That was hilarious. 😂

👍

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🍀🍀🍀🍀❤️

L0Ve

Mike took the mike some.

Anyone know the name of the song playing in the beginning?

@nedthestaffieegan3452

2 жыл бұрын

It's Clannad, Harry's game 🙂

@lthomas3623

2 жыл бұрын

@@nedthestaffieegan3452 Thanks

Is the tree still ip

So....what ever happened to him and the tree?

He could shovel snow with that chin

qxir sent me here

What species of tree was that ?

@genghisthegreat2034

3 жыл бұрын

Whitethorn.....an sceach geal ! ....all beautifully in heavy bloom maddening bees as I write

@adymode

3 жыл бұрын

@@genghisthegreat2034 Many Thanks ! I did not know it could reach out twisting in this form, and now I read about the Whitethorn and Blackthorn with their haw and sloe berries - and hear "an sceach geal" to understand the place names that record the woods and groves which did flourish healthily, and wait patiently to return.

@genghisthegreat2034

3 жыл бұрын

@@adymode you're welcome ! For some reason, the lone one's in the middle of fields are particularly garlanded in bloom, and no one here would risk moving one. If you enjoy the folklore of them, I recommend Eddie Lenihan on KZread " The Fairy Bush". Eddie looks like Moses' grandad, you can't miss him 😁

Name of the song?

@brendancarroll9376

3 жыл бұрын

Theme of Harry’s game- Clannad

Why the hell did he shake the tree like that in the end? Wasn’t he paying attention?

Who went first... The man or the tree?

What happened to poor man and the tree sense

@garymcmanus9946

2 жыл бұрын

He branched out into other areas and twigged he might have misjudged this...

Tinkerbell don't play

I thought being a fairy in Ireland was illegal by the church.🤣

Is it true there are leprechauns in Ireland?

@lydialily846

3 жыл бұрын

Of course !!

@russthebiker

3 жыл бұрын

who did you think brewed the Murphys then ??

@seananderson8804

3 жыл бұрын

Ye they are only found in Offaly

@stardust-hr8wh

3 жыл бұрын

I heard you can find them in the bushes

@stardust-hr8wh

3 жыл бұрын

@@russthebiker Cork?

😨🙏😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🍀🇮🇪

The condescending Mike they should have called this one, poor auld Jackeen down from Bigballs-bridge havin a laugh at the other 95% of people that live outside D4..