Fair Day in The West Of Ireland, Elphin, Co. Roscommon, 1971

[@jasborb]

Elphin, Co. Roscommon, a fair step from Connemara. Some poetic licence perhaps.

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

You are right. I see the Cagey Shady hooers.

[@carolinetv5112]

I was thinking that. Being from Ballaghaderreen!

[@maguire296]

Great film

[@fincorrigan7139]

All I remember of the fair day was the streets covered in cow dung and piss until the rain came and washed it away. There's a reason why they all moved to marts.

[@stormytempest6521]

Charming old Ireland...Cherish it.

[@oldwobble916]

Not really the same, but this reminds me of our first holiday in Ireland in 1974. We saw a cow driven trough the main street of Granard, to be delivered at the local butcher in a side street.

[@kevfit4333]

Before the EU and it's layers of grey Germanic buerocracy.

[@oldwobble916]

@@kevfit4333 But the EU also brought a lot of benefits for Ireland. I was there last time in 2006 and I saw a lot of billboards on building sites and at road works about EU subsidies. I agree, not everything is great about the EU, we suffer with you in the Netherlands.

[@OscarOSullivan]

There are still butchers who slaughter on the shop site.

[@davidsmyth8647]

​@kevfit4333 what? You are definitely not from a farming family or remember pre EU farming.

[@patrickporter1864]

So you now know where food comes from. Don't you.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Fair Day in The West Of Ireland, 1971. 20.7.24. Ayyyyyyyyyyye.........

[@maebh123]

All is changed, changed utterly,a terrible beauty is born

[@Paulco67]

There was a horse fair in the early 70s on James St, Dublin. Hardly 300 yards from the Guinness factory entrance! I actually saw a photo of a man riding his horse into the pub for a pint. For real

[@polki1482]

Smithfield is still going second Sunday of every month

[@brianquigley1940]

👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

[@brianquigley1940]

The language sounds almost like... poety.

[@kevinmchale333]

but not quite

[@davidowen6977]

Lyrical and a Beetle doing some pulling 💚

[@thepintman6166]

When Ireland was Irish!

[@michaelstaunton1632]

👍👍

[@jockstrap]

Elphin is only a kick in the arse up the road from Carrick on Shannon in Leitrim ye could walk it in a hour, Nice aul chapel in Elphin

[@Paulco67]

They walked the 6 miles with the cattle to the fair. Really? Did they walk home? Jesus

[@jimosullivan4866]

yes, they did and many more , walked 16 miles a few times myself after the fair if my father didn't sell

[@Wild_west_84]

Yeah pretty common mileage at least according to the stories my dad would tell me. 20+ miles in some cases

[@polki1482]

6 miles is nothing😂

[@dechannigan2980]

My dad told me his widowed mother walked cattle 12 miles, didn't get a satisfactory price and often walked them home again and didn't sleep for two days. .

[@pmacc3557]

Eejit

[@DuderinoDeux]

Bull?