Lovely! Thanks for sharing the history.

This blast from the past came into my head and I had to look it up. We thought this was all natural at the time but CLEARLY she was told to chose Bernard for the spectical. He became a regional legend because of this though. I remeber him him handing out local bread in my local shopping centre.....

Growing up in Wales, my grandfather was a coal miner who played the fiddle for the people in our village. He was a hero to the kids there and they used to beg him to teach them how to play the fiddle. Fiddlers are the aristocrats of the working-class. If you were a tradesman or a miner who could play the fiddle, you were respected and beloved, just like my grandfather.

I am sitting next to one of my wheels right now, working with suffolk wool from local sheep that I have scoured and processed. It's not so much a hobby to me as a way of life.

Still knitting and spinning in the 2020s. We won’t let this skill die easily. There are several modern spinning wheel makers that craft fabulous wheels, as well as, single man operations that craft very high quality wheels in both the US and Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Handspindles are more productive than anyone would imagine. They can be purchased from many different sources. There are also spinning groups that meet regularly with wheels in tow.

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Thanks so much for this lovely video. ❤

lovely stuff

We can do it again 3:01

Thank you. I'm so glad someone has recorded this history.

Will be there five days in October. Want to experience the WAW in all her wrath that time of year!

He was in Clash of the Titans as that thing in the marshes with the horns im sure it was him.

Great nostalgia

I love this. The processing from cutting, to skirting, washing, carding to spinning laid out simply. I learned a lot.

Talking about milking 15 minutes of fame.

Upload more advert breaks and footage through the years RTE advert breaks (1984-1989), 1991, 1994 & 1997 soon.

He made a good deal in the end of it.

Bernard is a real gent.. thanks for uploading this

mind watching this with my dad we where on the floor laughing . as we are from donegal 2

Anybody know the tune at 10:40 ive definetly heard it before but cant think of the bleddy name

That is nice that these historic records have been made not only of the way of life and manufacture but of those that did lived it.

Rip John u absolute legend.

I wonder if there are scenes of Towney in this piece? My great grandfather was from Towney ( Middle, as the allotment map from 1830 stated) was then the land of James McFaden ( McFadden)

My Grandfather Patrick, son of James McFadden, came from Tawny ( Towney) and was a fisherman,. He left the Kilcar area in 1849. His skills on the water served him well, as he enlisted in the US Navy in Philadelphia in 1852, serving four full years with the Perry Expedition to Japan, with an 11 month stopover st Shanghai at the American Consulate. He never returned to Donegal, but married a Margaret, also a McFadden, from Killybegs whom he met in New York City upon his return. The "Wild Geese" of southwest Donegal have left their mark upon the world.

If my great grandfather (from nearby Towney) had stayed in Kilcar he would have continued fishing for herring from a small boat from a poor harbour. He emigrated in 1849 to Philadelphia and worked multiple jobs. I think there is today a tendency to not put all of ones eggs in one basket, as the economic chaos of recent years makes one want to have more than one source of income

Everybody working for everyone else produces laziness, working for your family will always achieve the highest product. American Pilgrims found this out in the 1600's in the new American colony.

Chuir na sean-leaids a bhí ag caint i nGaeilge leofa ola ar mo chroí. Físeán suimiúil go leor.

Thats my Great Great Great Grandfather buried at St Matthews at the 8:22 mark

The young lady...what is she reciting?

Jamie's favourite sister

Love it! Fascinating and a great historical record. I had heard that the great or walking wheel was used for flax and the smaller, treadle wheel defaulted to wool. But instead here we are given evidence that it was the other way around, the tourn mór (please excuse spelling, Google translate wants to go in a different direction), was the default that was used for wool and the tourn beag was intended for use with flax but somehow found itself being repurposed for wool instead.

arggHHH, the fiddle is out of tune...

What advert is this at 9:20?

a Star !!!

Very interesting branch of lrish history and lrish music too Brilliant

There’s nothing secret about Glenn Cholm Cille.

Oh my goodness Bernard is gorgeous ❤

Would anyone happen to know the names of the first 2 tunes played by Mr. Byrne here with his grandson?

Ireland sold its soul to the EEC. Heritage and culture down the drain.

T0 Brian h0w are you OK from Mel J0y

What a guy lol

Upload more programmes and advert breaks from the past.

Rip David ...he's a good man

My Cannon ancestors came from Carrick and Kilcar. I love those towns.

Bernard McHugh took part as a celebrity helper on the UTV quiz, All Mixed Up.

Old piss head staggering across the Street...🤣

Nobody mentioned that Joe Mahon is one of the finest presenters to visit those places and dig out interesting people. 👍👍👍 To Lesser Spotted Ulster

It is very hard to get excited about culture and tradition and Irish language if the bread on the table is hard to come by. Fr MC Dyers efforts, while very very commendable was a drop in the bucket of the needs of the Donegal community. Beautiful scenery and lovely young ladies singing and playing music is only for the tourists for 6 or 7 months of the year. In the early decades of independence Donegal might have been better off being the 7 th county of NI, economically. Culturally.... Not so different. Donegal always exported it's young

Trust his not a dentist 🤣

Tony McMahon is an absolute titanic on the accordion