Changes in Farming, Co. Mayo, Ireland 1965

The story of Tom Ruane, born in 1889 near Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, who has lived his whole life on the same farm holding. Originally a four acre holding, Tom now owns twenty-four acres.
This programme looks at the changes that have taken place in farming during the life of Tom Ruane. From a time when the landlord ruled the roost, to the present day when the land is predominantly owned by the farmer. Factory farming is a new facet that has come with the mechanisation of agriculture. This has lead to new challenges for the traditional farmer in terms of production and economics. The programme visits an egg factory farm, where mechanisation has taken over and machines perform tests of quality control on the eggs. Producers claim that factory eggs have a better and more uniform flavour.

[@subtlestevey09]

Awesome video , he lived through two world wars , the rising the war of independence and his father born in the early 1800’s, legend

[@Sparky-ov1ot]

Battery and Broiler chickens held up as progress and instead of the Landlord it is now the supermarket "lord" it's backwards at full tilt.

[@KernowekTim]

"A Curse upon ye Oliver Cromwell," and all that you represented.

[@thiest1205]

He literally got his comeuppance .... Charles II has him exhumed from Westminster Abbey, put on trial and beheaded in revenge for his father's death in 1649,

[@MariaMartinez-kg6ns]

Thank you beautiful video

[@silverbullet8338]

Excellent video as always CR . Thank you

[@vingotaq777]

I think the narrator was John Skehan , an excellent speaking voice

[@richardcoleman2456]

Andy O Mahoney I would have thought.

[@vingotaq777]

@@richardcoleman2456 I’m old enough to remember 1960’s Tv and I still think it’s John Skehan , but I could be wrong

[@richardcoleman2456]

@@vingotaq777 Fair enough Donal.

[@Seansaighdeoir]

Terrible conditions for the birds. Did the farmer learn nothing through the years? 14 months. for a battery chicken when a free range bird can live for anything between 8-12 years.

[@angelariley.9963]

He would have known my Grandad.

[@SinfeinersCubanDevilera]

Interesting seeing intensive farming and battery eggs back in the mid 1960s narrator voice of over simplifies with his typical RTE polished country accent.

[@olliemal2509]

Thanks very Rare alot

[@hilltop521]

Farming and food production will always continue to be constantly changing ed

[@Dheuedbv]

We’ll see

[@choctaw6838]

Poor hungry people gave away their land the time of the Famine to English landlords for a one way ticket to America Fantastic video 👍

[@ronan8834]

It was took not given away

[@dannymcintyre3819]

Were all the landlords English? Daniel O'Connell was a landlord. He wasn't English.

[@ronan8834]

@@dannymcintyre3819 majority of them were

[@choctaw6838]

@@dannymcintyre3819 did i say all landlords were English??

[@Jim54_]

Most people didn’t own their land, ever, even when there were catholic landlords. That was the problem. Besides, many of these ‘English’ landlords that you are referring to had Irish ancestry, as there was a trend with early planters to marry into the families of the disposed Gaelic nobility, so that their children would have a kind of double legitimacy over the land they owned. Therefore, it was predominantly a class issue, not an ethnic one

[@gunnerglory]

That's one huge teapot around 2.07 must make a serious mug of tae

[@TheDAT9]

The same bar stards are at it again, only this time , it's world wide surfdom..

[@davids8449]

I very pleased to be a vegetarian all my life

[@Dheuedbv]

That’s nice keep it to yerself

[@esmeephillips5888]

Battery sheep? One prophecy of Sixties tech optimism that never happened, like private helicopters for all and throwaway paper clothes.

[@user-ot1yt5zx9v]

The housewife will be happy 😳 imagine saying that today 🤣🤣🤣

[@Fin4L6are]

no problem

[@subtlestevey09]

The house person it would have to be 😂

[@user-ot1yt5zx9v]

@@johnogara3029 Brave man I bow to you John 😲😲🤣🤣

[@declantwomey7525]

👍🏻☘️☘️☘️

[@noelmaher4633]

Think thats Ducketts Grove Carlow/Kildare 0:32 Walk it most weekends....

[@claf2]

Is there any way of watching the full episode? The man at the beginning is a relative.

[@blakemorton1394]

Would anyone be able to tell me the name of the piece of music at 1:02?

[@changolini]

Let's hear his voice

[@subtlestevey09]

A great egg

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Seems the Irish lived a very hard life until the 90s lol. But its the hard life that turned them tall and strong and good looking. Unlike now where people are chubby, weak and short!!!

[@owensmyth3390]

John skehan

[@danteventus2950]

and now all is plastic full of plastics and chemicals :(

[@mattinoleggero2707]

Back when factory farming was new and seemed ok. If they showed that on the BBC today, the Vegans would burn down all their buildings lol

[@oriraykai3610]

I could never understand why the Irish didn't have a fishing industry. When I visited in '69, I saw on obsession with eating pigs and you couldn't even GET tomatoes. They didn't exist in Ireland. They also only had ONE TV station, BBC.

[@Barnagh1]

We have tomatoes now.

[@oriraykai3610]

@@Barnagh1 - But do you have avocados? 😂

[@kerrysupporter]

What are they??😂

[@oriraykai3610]

@@kerrysupporter - We'll ship you some. You might like em... They go better with fish though. 😄

[@BirdFlypath]

@@oriraykai3610 You have got us confused ,we’re not subtropical but we can import them for your gauacamole.