Inishbofin Island Life, Co. Galway, Ireland 1977

[@liamhayes1011]

There's a particular pathos surrounding the fate of Ireland's islands: the country is itself an island of course and deep down the Irish have a great affection for the beauty of those unique places and the courage of those who live there. Long may they prosper.

[@pts13miffy16]

They aren’t Ireland Islands they are British Ireland’s islands

[@wakeoftheflood2]

@@pts13miffy16 Its in Galway...and 'British' Ireland is still Ireland.

[@fred66665]

@@pts13miffy16 Innisboffin is located off the coast of the Republic of Ireland it hasn't been an English part of the world for a hundred years give or take.

[@ludothehammer]

@@pts13miffy16 Its Ireland you ill informed fool

[@SaoirsedohÉireann]

@@pts13miffy16 thankfully not..

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

A place and a people of deep deep beauty and sadness of people leaving and not returning, a hard land to make a living from. The land of my dear departed father and mother, the land of my forefathers and foremothers, the land where my heart belongs to and someday hopes to someday return

[@JonathanASmyth]

There is something beautiful about these programmes, especially those on the Irish speaking islands of Ireland. I have also watched programmes on the Scottish native speaking islands and found them fascinating.

[@silverbullet8338]

Another beautiful upload of Ireland and its people .

[@Discover-Ireland]

Many’s a night I spent on inishboffin island ,,and many’s a night I walked around it. Beautiful place ☘️

[@Discover-Ireland]

@Windy City Blues if you get a chance try the Aranislands or Clare Island

[@Discover-Ireland]

@Windy City Blues Nice one fair play to you…your enjoying life 👍

[@Discover-Ireland]

@Windy City Blues Mayo is a beautiful place and achill. Iv been to a lot of beautiful places here in Ireland…if you get time check out my basking shark video in keem. Stay safe ☘️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHmUe3uYob5gmLs

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Now now don't you be getting too graphic there boy!

[@Discover-Ireland]

@@paudsmcmack3117 😀

[@TodayFreedom]

I haven’t heard my grandfather’s voice since he died over a decade ago. This old fella sounds exactly like him and it brings back a tidal wave of memories for me just listening to him.

[@markscott9622]

The Lavelle's and the Dunlevy's from those islands were my maternal grandmother's people. Now spread throughout the world.

[@johnmc3862]

The videos are restricted in many countries for some reason.

[@WWG1WWGA]

Lavelle's & Dunlevy's "spread throughout the world" 😏😣 wtf

[@PrevailingFreedom]

@@WWG1WWGA ???

[@pmacc3557]

@@WWG1WWGA cos the world needed us

[@bunnybrown809]

Lavelle is now Lawwill here in the USA. Rebellious bunch!

[@rorycreane7581]

Inis boffin is a great place to go for a few nights camping very small island you'd walk around the entire island in about an hour if i remember correctly

[@lurak9]

you don't remember correctly, or else you set a new land speed record for walking!

[@rorycreane7581]

@@lurak9 must be wrong my bad

[@wakeoftheflood2]

you post the best content on youtube thanks

[@choctaw6838]

Amazing people Great video, thanks 👍

[@tonygallagher4157]

Very nice Owey was populated at that stage seagull outboard thanks Fionn "Ole"

[@karenjones782]

God bless you Sir x

[@goalltheway-pm8xs]

No phones back then, they used to send smoke signals, the post office was burned down 3 times.

[@pmacc3557]

Pat was well able to move for 86

[@paudsmcmack3117]

That's a lovely Harse he's mounted there.

[@disprogreavette8545]

Beautiful island. So Mara means sea in Irish? It's Mer in French. I wonder if it's just a coincidence or some ancient connection? Don't mind me, I'm just rambling to myself again.

[@disprogreavette8545]

@@seoigh thanks, always nice to learn something new.

[@seoigh]

Farraige is the Irish word for sea. Connemara is the part of Co Galway where this island is.

[@disprogreavette8545]

@@seoigh thanks for the correction. I was basing it off someone I knew with the name McNamara telling me their surname meant Son of the Sea (something along those lines). They didn't speak Irish though as they'd been in Canada for a long time.

[@colmtierney3160]

You are correct, actually. To say "by the sea" you could say "cois farraige", like Seoigh mentioned, which is literally 'foot' of the sea. Another way would be "in aice na mara". I'm not sure about the McNamara translation however - other than it meaning "son of Namara".

[@AnGhaeilge]

Muir is sea/ocean, and "mara" is just a different form of "muir". For example "na mara" = "of the sea". Farraige also means sea. We've different words for similar things.

[@hilltop521]

Changing times

[@jacquikelly7929]

The era of this film I was 14yrs old growing up in b' ham England, makes me realise I should of been growing up there.

[@haveyouconsideredtherapy]

Haven't you got the whole programme?

[@mizzyroro]

That interview with Pat needs English subtitles. I couldn't understand a word.

[@mickeyh1961]

Strange for me to hear that , but understandable as you are not Irish , as an irish person I am intrigued to hear this observation , hes speaking English but with very heavy accent , Thanks for your comment

[@brianfitzpatrick9949]

Sounds like a Kerry accent

[@stephendaltonclassicallytr849]

If you put the subtitles on, you will see that they are auto generated and far from accurate... unless of course I'm mistaken and he was in fact talking about naked potatoes

[@mizzyroro]

@@stephendaltonclassicallytr849 I listened again and can confirm that he did mention naked potatoes. 😄

[@countycricklewood]

My dad's part of Ireland

[@mizzyroro]

Is it a uniquely Irish thing to cut someone off before they finish their question with your answer? Is it also uniquely to repeat the question in the answer?

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Never mind finishing...the Greeks will interrupt a question before you even have a chance to ask it; and yes-we will repeat the surmised question (which was never properly asked in the first place) in the answer given. Also, in Greek television interviews it is commonplace for fifty people to be talking over one another all at the same time, expressing two-hundred-and-fifty different opinions (roughly five a-piece); it’s CHAOS I tell you...ΧΑΟΣ! 🤪

[@horatiotodd8723]

I was on the island, i heard the locals in their back garden talking in England amongst themselves 😢

[@horatiotodd8723]

*english

[@jamieocallaghan9603]

I wonder how it is now.

[@herculesv1.247]

It's doing alright. Boffin has a very popular music festival each year. Good tourism trade also

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

@@herculesv1.247 nice to hear. Was there about twenty years ago. They were still making haystacks then (I hadn't seen one of them in a long time)

[@lydialily846]

@@sdrtcacgnrjrc That footage was frm 1977 , no haystacks in a long time ... sadly ...

[@davids8449]

Probably a few India restaurants, Chinese takeaway, B&B owned by a Pakistani, and a place where the boat people can rest if they have taken the wrong turning

[@Alphae21]

@@davids8449 no thats not there

[@angelariley.9963]

You remind me of Ian McCulloch.

[@SoldierDrew]

God bless and free Ireland from British tyranny. God bless & protect the Republic of Ireland and the Irish language.

[@TRAVELLINGCHANNEL1]

@nova more like an American state by now.

[@kenneth2656]

You've got more to worry about with the arrivals of Muslims and the mosques appearing in Irish towns.

[@kenneth2656]

50 mosques and over sixty three thousand practising muslims in Ireland now, come back and have a count in twenty or thirty years and see what the number is then.

[@kenneth2656]

@nova What?

[@FPSIreland2]

@@kenneth2656 so you want... Penal Laws against them?

[@renebecher147]

We’re all to be European now! Strip the culture, way of life & anything that the eu can’t bleed you dry. An awful state of affairs.

[@willywonka7812]

@Christo Genea you have brain cancer

[@sonsen25]

@@willywonka7812 big nose much?

[@willywonka7812]

@@sonsen25 capitalism has destroyed your capacity for thought. Filled your head full of shadow people

[@willywonka7812]

@Douglas Wayne yes but quoting the bible is like quoting my schizophrenic aunt

[@willywonka7812]

@Douglas Wayne the bible didn't make you anti-semites. Modern Conservative propaganda did that

[@eachwaythief6132]

Billions spent on scam artists but the islands are neglected. We live in a crazy kip.

[@cg7975]

It was on my list to go there when Dessie was alive - no point in going now🤷‍♂️.

[@mikegalvin361]

I was full sure he'd be an Irish speaker only, his english is very good.

[@tomasdhaithieoghain242]

Who are you referring to with he? Irish isn’t really spoken as a first language on Inishbofin and also wasn‘t in the seventies.

[@mikegalvin361]

@@tomasdhaithieoghain242 I was referring to the older gentleman.

[@michealbreathnach2928]

Oddly Inisbofin has been English speaking for a long long time

[@faelan1950]

You get some areas like that across the west, where you'd think that Irish would be spoken in when it actually isn't. Same thing with the Aran Islands, like you'd actually meet people who don't speak a word of English in the likes of Inishmaan but in Inishmore you wouldn't really hear much Irish being spoken. As far as I know, West Connemara hasn't much Irish whereas the more Central/Northern parts are mostly Irish speaking, i.e Iorras Aithneach, na hOileáin and Cois Fharraige

[@michealbreathnach2928]

@@faelan1950 Yes Faelan, Gaeilge starts to die out a bit north of Carna, by Clifden it's gone, bar a few people who might have moved there from Carna, Cill Chiarain, Rosmuc etc. Its a pity. It would be an even nicer place if Roundstone and Clifden etc had more Gaeilge, two lovely places to visit.

[@marynadononeill]

IREXIT now. The EU has become a strangulation situation for culture.

[@FPSIreland2]

What? Sure the decline in irish and the culture is due to the Irish public being too disinterested to preserve them. Railing against the EU won't stop that.

[@willywonka7812]

Right wing politics destroys a person's ability to think. Tá sé seo le feiceáil i ngach físeán atá ar an stáisiún seo. The comment section is full of scumbags who blame refugees rather than the rich capitalists who destroyed their homes and force them to seek refuge. People like brian badonde and deus vult. Braindead fascists

[@donallbreathnach9998]

An ceart díreach agat a chara!

[@willywonka7812]

@UC27NrH2qnomel-ATrBkycjQ no msm here, simply an historically literate person politically engaged. Fascism is rising everywhere. Just because you don't know what it is doesn't mean it doesn't exist

[@willywonka7812]

@UC27NrH2qnomel-ATrBkycjQ also, it's fascists, with an S. You oughta stick to subjects you can understand, like playing with balloons and eating mud

[@iloveponis]

Why does Ireland have to take refugees from war though? They didnt create the crisis, and considering the EU has never done anything to help in Northern Ireland, why should they take on the burdens? What is so wrong about wanting an IRISH nation for IRISH people.

[@willywonka7812]

@@iloveponis lol the spirit of irish hospitality passed you right by. It's about doing what you can to alleviate the burdens on the less fortunate, who are homeless or stateless due to geographical happenstance and capitalist imperialism. By embracing the dark side - that being the 'free' market - all member states of the EU have the obligation to offset some of Capitalism's more shadowy externalities, like the poverty of third world countries that were looted by western funded corporate thieves. Read about US regime change and Reagan/Thatcher's backing of rightwing death squads. We still haven't returned to pre famine numbers, if memory serves, so the land should have no trpuble sustaining us. What gets me is why you think there's something innately more deserving of irish people than others to enjoy the bounties of neoliberal profligacy. My people have only been here since Norman times. Am i worth less than you?

[@jamesfagan7823]

Don't worry lads there are plenty of people coming to live there 👍 however none of them are Irish

[@joecunn2422]

Plenty of third world persons thanks to fg,ff sine fine greens and other parties bastand ruins Ireland