County Donegal, Ireland - 1964

[@mamaduck9370]

My gt gt gt grandmother was from Ballyshannon and emigrated to the Swan Colony of Western Australia in 1961....generations later, I'm living in West of Ireland and visit Ballyshannon at the merest excuse. Truly beautiful county in a wonderful country. Love from an Aussie in Ireland.

[@irishmade8136]

To think it was only 60 years ago. The True spirit of IRELAND. 🇮🇪

[@yvonneflanagan2312]

Yes the year I was born. The changes in my lifetime in Ireland is unreal. I myself had to emigrate to Uk and still living here. Couldn’t afford to move back to Ireland now…

[@lorirose76]

A half Irish Londoner here. It’s amazing listening to these women with 11 children talk of their lives and it’s evident the sacrifices they’ve made for their families. Now you get women complaining about small things… I really think there’s so much I as a mother can learn from this.

[@johnmccormack4498]

Donegal the most beautifull county in Ireland and the friendliest nicest anywhere in the world

[@aislingmaki6049]

The schoolmaster being interviewed is my great uncle by marriage, Barney Gallagher. He and his wife, my aunt Nellie Boyle, who was originally from Mullaghduff, served as teachers on the island for decades. I still have cousins on Arranmore.

[@richiem7716]

Congratulations

[@ladylaois8184]

how fantastic thanks 🙏 for sharing

[@ladylaois8184]

how fantastic thanks 🙏 for sharing

[@sirrobinofloxley7156]

And with a really weird twist, your surname is the same name as the Israeli Communist Party, lol, what's that all about? :)

[@AngelicErin]

Amazing!! My whole family is from arranmore, who are your cousins, what are their surnames? :))

[@claireklawikowska2332]

I'm proud to say my mother was from arranmore island donegal. Most beautiful place on earth also kindest, caring, hard working people you'll meet. God bless them always 🙏🙏🙏

[@dannymcmince]

Good for you, where do live now?

[@claireklawikowska2332]

@@dannymcmince I live in Scotland but my heart is in arranmore always was and always will be.

[@dannymcmince]

@@claireklawikowska2332 Arranmore is a special place..I have visited many times ☘️

[@leostewart363]

Danny Brew,get yourself Christy Live at Barrowland and taste the affinity.

[@dannymcmince]

@@leostewart363 I sure will ☘️

[@jamescopen9817]

a great testimony to the enduring spirit of the donegal people...small wonder they are a nation unto themselves

[@Chris-qt4yy]

A nation unto themselves no more thanks to open borders. Their ancestors must be weeping from the heavens.

[@blueneptune825]

​@@Chris-qt4yy Don't drag our ancestors along with your selfish narrow minded ignorance. Attitudes like yours bring only shame to the pride of Ireland.

[@galboy7899]

Most hardworking people I have ever met, my beautiful mother was one of them , us London /Irish would struggle to keep up , ha ha , great place, fantastic people.

[@silverkitty2503]

very hardworking people

[@mattkaustickomments]

I’m an American because my grandfather was one of those exports. Donegal’s a tough yet beautiful place.

[@marykategraham.205]

""""Good Afternoon Matt- just read your comment. If you ever come across the wide- wild- majestic Atlantic -2- your choice of destination --- IRELAND IS BEAUTIFUL. Our History was Tragic and Turbulent but we the IRISH - NEVER GIVE IN -@- NEVER GIVE UP. Our Roots are embedded in us like our Beautiful Turf Bogs we go way bk to the start of Mankind. We are what we are - got our faults like any humans but we have SURVIVED THE MULTI- PASSAGE OF TIME. May God Bless You -@- Your Family. Across 4.000 thousand miles away from Ireland to you across the wild majestic Atlantic."""""----- 🇮🇪☘️💚🙏🙏💚☘️🇮🇪🙏🙏🙏

[@mattkaustickomments]

@@marykategraham.205 Thank you for the warm welcome & wishes. My ancestor managed to hang on until the Irish Civil War ca. 1920-22. I figure he was on “the wrong side” of that deal and figured it was best he left Eire in 1922. Family is from Muckross Point / Kilcar. Where you walk into a pub and ask “Is Mr. here?” and half the joint says “Aye!”. My folks and uncles have been back to visit the cousins. Hopefully I’ll make it back someday too.

[@marykategraham.205]

@@mattkaustickomments """"God bless you Matt- thank u too -4- ure lovely reply. Please God one day you'll make it -@- walk on the soil of your Ancestors may they all R.I.P.----wherever they've been laid to rest. May God return their SOULS bk home to Ireland the land of their birth."""Diá dháoibh ------🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚💚💚☘️☘️☘️☘️

[@richard9444]

Go there see the people ,great place

[@mattkaustickomments]

As a note to descendants of Irish folk who scattered across the globe in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, a lot of great info can be found online in the Irish Censuses, dating back to 1821 and then on a 10-year cycle up through 1911. Many of the years have been destroyed though. In my case I traced my people in 1901 and 1911. Of course the occupants of the farmstead were listed. But what struck me was the detail of the property! I know how many windows were on my great grandfather’s house, what the walls were made of, what kind of roof, what the farm outbuildings were, etc. it was amazing! You don’t get that on comparable US census forms of the era.

[@georgeredbranch652]

Love this. Listening to the women l hear my Grandmother. Such strong people.

[@TheGolfdaily]

Wow,,, these are pricess footage of a remote corner of Europe not that long ago but looks so distant. I can't help but have respect for these people. They seems so unspoilt, pure and natural. The last part that "the men always comes back to his family" just tells everything about them.

[@McConnachy]

Remarkable similarities to some rural communities in Scotland. Everyone is known by a nickname, it’s the same on the Isle of Lewis. The nicknames stick for generations

[@sparkyhughes131]

Donegal people just get on with it and can still spare a smile for a stranger

[@kateguilfoyle5155]

God bless them! What beautiful people!

[@carolinekeown]

Dear old Donegal there the people have the best accent of all Ireland

[@jasondoherty4773]

Jay is such a sad little man 👍

[@roadwarrior8560]

@Jay M best part of you ran down your mothers leg

[@fromireland8663]

@Jay M where are you from, Jay?

[@BeltandBraces]

@@fromireland8663 jay M is a dinghy invader from France?

[@fromireland8663]

@Jay M vomit is not a liquid.

[@jen.b6076]

My Grandfather is from Donegal I am Australian,my sister and I were going to travel there but covid happened. Thank you for the video.

[@seanpgob]

Come soon !

[@flipper2392]

Make sure you fly into Donegal, Carrickfinn airport. check it out on YT.

[@KMTBB]

I hope you get to come here soon, stay safe♥️

[@richiem7716]

Covid didnt prevent u, the tyrannical overreaching govts prevented u

[@marydonohoe8200]

Please do make an effort to travel to Ireland, and especially to Donegal-my favorite area there. We’ve been twice (from the US), but never got to the little island. Precious life and people. ☘️🇺🇸😎

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

She was such a beautiful place!

[@annebarr9314]

Thanks, Lee.

[@anthonyodonnell8724]

Fascinating. My great grandfather came from Creeslough. Got married in Ayr, Southwest Scotland. My parents grew up in Dumbarton, Strathclyde.

[@donegalchick09]

I live in creeslough now in a restored cottage. I love it.

[@anthonyodonnell8724]

@@donegalchick09 Wonderful! Never been there myself. Went to Dublin many years ago. My wife was saying this morning that she'd like to go to Ireland. She also has Irish ancestry, among other things. Would love to take my sons to Donegal and to Creeslough in particular. Little Donegal story: I work as a journalist in the insurance field and remember when Allstate started an operation in Ulster-the Northern Ireland part. Then Prudential (the American one) started a technology operation in Ulster, but in Donegal. I interviewed the Chief Information Officer at that time, a guy named Bill Friel, at Prudential's headquarters in Newark, N.J. I said, "It's interesting that you chose Donegal, specifically Letterkenny. My understanding is that the Friels are thick on the ground in Donegal." He laughed and didn't deny the coincidence.

[@emmetodonnell4002]

@@anthonyodonnell8724 my Granny was Friel. This video made me homesick! lol

[@dannymcmince]

@@anthonyodonnell8724 I live in Termon not far from Creeslough, Prudential was based in Letterkenny!

[@jimhanratty9543]

My grandmother was born and raised in Creeslough, her last name was Montgomery. I spent a few weeks at her homestead in 1971. Very nice house and countryside, there was a nice Catholic church right next to their farm.

[@dennisking1555]

Moville , Green Castle ,shroove , lighthouse ,beautiful and unchanged for centuries, cross to the giants causeway,

[@MrResearcher122]

That Mrs Gallagher is a beautiful looking woman, and that reporter, is making her blush. He sometimes describes Donegal people as if they were in Afghanistan. He sounds like a West Brit, as they used to say.

[@fionac360]

Thank you, that was my Nan, she died the year before last on her 97th birthday. She was a very special lady.

[@bernadettebradley7951]

Very beautiful natural woman 😍

[@gardengeek3041]

Couldn't tell if the 'city boy' interviewer was asking dumb questions & making silly assumptions on purpose. For many people, isolation or separation from a spouse does NOT equal loneliness. All are physically & mentally fit, simply too busy to be fretting about who is absent or what might be missing in their lives. Liked the way the geography and social dynamic was explained at the beginning.

[@SuperCazmac]

Totally agree

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

Since the border was drawn up on a sectarian head count it was obvious that the planters would exclude the three other counties of the ancient province of Ulster which will always belong to the Irish nation in spite of what the planter thieves may say. Ireland was partitioned against the wishes of the vast majority of the Irish people, however now in 2022 the six north eastern counties of IRELAND now have a nationalist majority against the best efforts of the planters over one hundred years to eliminate them by bigotry and discrimination.

[@seosamhofionnaghain5555]

True comment indeed, However while it is a Roman Catholic majority now, it is NOT a "nationalist" majority. Recent opinion polls in NI show only 26 % of the population are currently in favour of a United Ireland as the majority of Catholics in NI are well aware that People in the Republic of Ireland are not prepared to pick up the 15 Billions Euros Tab in order to pay for a UI. I am afraid money talks as it always does when seriously discussing this United Ireland topic.

[@frankisfunny2007]

My Irish family came from Lettermackaward, county Donegal to Ellis Island in New York City, NY, USA in the 1870s.

[@MrResearcher122]

My grandad, God rest him, might be your relative: we were Cannons, from Lettermacward.

[@Peter-gi3re]

It would not have been Ellis Island they came through. Ellis Island was open from 1892 to 1954.

[@shanegallagher5287]

My father came from Gortahork to Scottish Borders, I have visited Donegal many times.

[@ronmcmurray3544]

the women of Donegall? The best in the world. This is a tough but magical world that sadly has disappeared. But the memories and hills remain.

[@skavihekkora5039]

God bless Donegal county, the only people who voted against the horror of abortion

[@Tacoman1967]

My mom's aunt Jenny spent her time here in America. When she retired from being a maid in Philadelphia she went back to Donegal. She must've liked it alot because she had arthritis and Donegal's cold moist weather is terrible for arthritis.

[@paulbroderick8438]

Trusting that the heritage and culture of these good people have not evaporated through globalization.

[@tridentmissile1]

donegal and indeed all the northern counties are fantastic places.

[@Mcfads999]

My family come from Donegal I love it 💚

[@christineroerty2534]

Even the name DONEGAL is beautiful. I have family in Ireland. Its a real jewel, So beautiful.

[@robertdoyle687]

Futted the turf with my family when I was over home for the school holidays 🇮🇪

[@the_famous_reply_guy]

My best friend growing up was a MCGLYNN from Donegal, his parents and his friendship made me know he was from a special place.

[@Paddymayne4738]

These women are long gone not only in Donegal but elsewhere in the whole of Ireland. The women of an ulster lived no differently in the country within the six counties. Now, they want the good life, the money 5he cars and the house over 5heir head and no more of this 8 or 10 children, They want their own careers. It’s a different kind of hardship now. And not everyone is enjoying it.

[@hilltop521]

Must be the most hard working people in all of Ireland

[@TheLadyhypa]

I’m from Donegal and so is my mum and dad were Mcdaid but it is a beautiful and the best place to be, so proud to be Irish ☘️I just noticed the channel belongs to a Lee Mcdaid how funny I still haven’t met half of my family lol there so big but we lived in glengard

[@jonathanc4166]

I found out that some of my ancestors came from this region.

[@trachtaire]

My great-grandfather, Joseph Ward, moved to Scotland from An Clochán Liath, Co. Donegal in the 1920s in order to become a coal miner.

[@rtward9]

my grandfather, also Joseph Ward, left donegal to work the mine's in scotland, came back and left for the U.S. in the early 1900s, settled in elizabeth, new jersey and worked for standard oil for 30 + years.

[@leostewart363]

Derry gets it's strength from it's Donegal roots(Dohertys,Gallagher's etc)Even it's Scots Irish lot have a strong connection.Take Donegal connections from Ranger,Celtic Derbies and you'll be left with Queens of the South crowds.

[@dannymcmince]

Up the Celts!

[@MrResearcher122]

...and Cannons and O'Donnels and Boyles all over West Coast Scotland, especially Glasgow, Port Glasgow, and Greenock. I used to go to old Firm Games as a kid in 70s, when up from London visiting relatives.

[@leostewart363]

What's no1 in the Irish pubs.Caledonia and even the Dubs sing it . Thank God they've forgotten the lyrics of "Ballyfermot in the rare out times "

[@riannadohertyy7246]

Yea they fucking do!

[@marykategraham.205]

""Afternoon Lee- just stumbled on this Beautiful video. On my Mother's side she's born and bred Donegal R.I.P. -@- My Father's Mayo.. These are my Beautiful Irish ppl- hard working - self sufficient- ppl. This was when women were WOMEN AND MEN were MEN. So GIVING- POWERFUL- UNSELFISH -@full of HEART -@- SPIRITUALITY. This ERA is GONE sadly everything now is FAKE-- FALSE - PLASTIC-AND SYNTHETIC. plz Forgive my outburst. There is only one GREAT GIFT my Parents and Grandparents passed down to me our Beautiful Language. Both my parents were fluent Gaelic--- Speakers. It was passed down from one generation to the next. May all those AUTHENTIC IRISH if now gone R.I.P. ""Go ráibh máith ágát Lee-- Diá dháoibh.🙏🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚☘️☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@marykategraham.205]

""""Ahh- go on with Bic- Fox- I look like a wild mountain hairy goat. Big old wiry red hair bk in the day they used to stuff mattresses with. Green old eyes cry at the drop of a hat- big old freckles when the bit of sun appears. I'm definitely no centrefold.. except down the bog with me Ass -#- cart. God Bless You Bic- Fox your far too kind."""Béannácht -Léat. 💚☘️🇮🇪🍀🧟🧟🧟

[@tonymurray814]

Don’t sell urself short there girleen. Ur photo shows ur a good looker. Maith an Caileen !!!😘

[@freemindthinkerezrapound5071]

Well that must not be you in the photo

[@marykategraham.205]

@@tonymurray814 """Go ráibh máith ágát Tony--AGAIN- an unbelievable kind Nd comment. I never put my status photo up it was my Niece who stuck me up -4- a laugh. I went haywire-as I hadn't got a clue as -2- how to get rid of me Auld Dial. God Bless You Tony thank u- @- have a Blessed wkend.""""----🙏💚☘️🇮🇪🌹🌹🌹

[@marykategraham.205]

@@freemindthinkerezrapound5071 """Yes- Ezrap- it's me all right. I come from a long line of Horrible Redheads- I have 5- sisters and 2- Brother's -@- YES- were all DOOMED. I've explained -2- Tony-- in his kind comment how my Ugliness appeared so without my approval"""--- God Bless You Ezra have a BLESSED wkend."""----P.S. Ezra sounds Eastern European Hungary perhaps I'm wrong."""--- 🙏🙏🇮🇪☘️💚

[@EMERALDJAYNE]

I hope to get to Fintown before I die....to meet the McDevitts they raise sheep in a white house with thatched roof...and my mom had six kids IRISH PROUD ♥️💋🙏xxoo GOD BLESS US ALL!♥️🙏

[@richardbrown1189]

"...they haven't much time for blackguardism really." What a wonderful turn of phrase.

[@voraciousreader3341]

I have no idea how the women dried their clothes in that damp climate, let alone their babies’ cloth diapers. My sister moved to Balquidder, Scotland from northern Wisconsin to get married, and when my mother visited in July (this was around 1990), she was supposed to sleep in their caravan (a small mobile trailer thing). She slept there two nights, and then decamped to a nearby bed and breakfast where there was central heating. She said her sheets felt like they’d been through the spin cycle of the washer and were immediately put on the bed, instead of going through the dryer; she toughed it out for two wet, chilly nights but couldn’t stand any more. My sister’s small house had oil heaters for heat and my mom said there was mildew on the walls...it was so chilly she kept drinking hot tea to stay warm. Their water came from a “burn” coming down from the mountains. She refused to visit again until my sister and her family had moved to a larger town, or “civilization,” as she called it. I guess the women on Arranmore were used to the conditions, having been raised there, but their lives must have been horribly hard.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Fireplaces and stoves

[@fromireland8663]

Wind. Lots of it.

[@MrResearcher122]

As a kid, I used to spend time in West Scotland in the Seventies, and my grandad was raised in Donegal. We used to have coal for fires, and during Strikes, we used to chop wood. Everyone used to drink hot tea, as you said. I used to see men in T shirts in weather that would be regarded as freezing in London, my home city.

[@seanharkin8999]

Brilliant video. Did I see a tv in the room? It was another 9 years till my Cousins got one in Leitrim (Near Gleneely) Before that it was the radio and ghost stories to frighten us "Scotchies" over for 7 weeks every summer. Happy times.

[@charliedoherty5965]

Ballymagaraghy got its first TV much later than that,

[@NM-vw1fl]

My dad lived in Ryehill, Galway and got one in 1978

[@eileenhartmaher5444]

@@NM-vw1fl most of ireland got a tv for president john f Kennedy visit in 1963,,,

[@maureenmckenna5220]

The Irish emigration was Ireland’s loss and the world’s gain. That Donegal’s women are tough goes without saying; that toughness is a national trait of Irish women, and men. Their lives under British rule created such a culture of harshness, that they had to grow up tough to survive, and they did just that. In the Civil War, the Irish Brigade were instrumental in three of the most important battles, and lost almost 4,000 men. Having been greeted with derision and extreme prejudice when they arrived in America, the Irish Brigade’s bravery in battle forced Americans to rethink their place in their new country. There is a reason that Notre Dame is known as the Fighting Irish.

[@lizbrosnan6267]

wow- lovely find! what a sweet quiet woman there in the middle...

[@rogerfournier3284]

"I can see myself doing the same thing too. The other half of my ancestry is from Donegal, Ireland"

[@markstrickland8736]

If only all Americans had that culture and those virtues.

[@finnkdy]

life without a gun??

[@markstrickland8736]

@@finnkdy A gun is a tool, to be used for good or evil. For good, it is protection and food on the table.

[@edwardmclaughlin7935]

'They come to......and probably father another child..." ! Brace yerself now Bridget!

[@seancampbell9740]

I did with several women

[@dennisneo1608]

Ulster. Got to love the Catholic church!

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Our nearest and dearest keeping neighbour the invadin and bretal Britain/England/UK bused The Irish people nothing but heartache, deep sorrow and bad memories that will take many lifetimes to fade away. Britain/England/UK. For over 800 years the longest war in history they attacked stole plundered, they help to cause one of the greatest famines in Europe. Thank God those days are almost done and soon Ireland will regain its total freedom, Ireland would never invade abuse or steal from its neighbouring country, the Irish people are known for their greatest generosity to others in need all over the world. Ireland and its people other great examples to others throughout the world of how to care for their fellow man in need, no matter how far away and how difficult it is to reach them, I shut in hands always come and do their bit to help and asked for nothing in return

[@Discover-Ireland]

Some of the woman today wouldn’t survive back then.

[@hughofarrell6636]

Do you know a Marie mc said she was a nurse from Donegal.

[@roghabhrideradioshow]

Álainn ar fad. Beautiful!

[@DOboyle73]

❤️

[@ladylaois8184]

wonderful thanks

[@diaperdonsacon8620]

Prince Charles and Diana visited Donegal when they were a courting,they spent most of their time in mount Charles.

[@catherineoconnell3213]

"Every child a blessing" Now unborn in womb means nothing......abortion .........GENO CIDE Lest we forget 2020 is 1916 rising....... 21/11/2020

[@sirrobinofloxley7156]

#BarbaraSpectreLerner spills the beans over that matter

[@maggiemconnor]

my ancestors on my father's side (Malcolm William Connor) are from Donegal

[@SuperCazmac]

Bit dramatic, not all the men left and not all the women were left on their own to raise the kids and farm the land etc

[@francesmcgloin9743]

CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOUND YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR THEM SPEAKING, PLEASE WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS ON WHEN THE SOUND 8S SO BAD. THANK YOU

[@robhaidheuch]

Can't hear you Frances!

[@seanmcguire7974]

My 3rd ggps were from donegal. I think kilcar

[@themadfarmer5207]

Ah . The daddies are only gone for 6 months, so.... comes home raring to go

[@DAFARTISTARTISTWORDPLAYER]

👍👍👍

[@daveymach6941]

Hoo come on Now! Best Fecking Crack I've watched in ages. Lovely

[@daveymach6941]

Don't fecking start, my end name McKEOWN and those lovely ladies can say it properly..! Now then ye tell me feckoff. I'm not offend at all.

[@bobbybrown840]

💙

[@patriciaroach685]

Name of Culbert

[@Kitiwake]

"the frontier between Donegal and the civilized world."😂😂😂

[@davids8449]

11 children with no man about the place..... Now there's a novelty

[@nia.d33]

Certainly not in donegal at those times , that was the norm. Big familys and the man away working in london.

[@hazelredmond104]

The poor donkeys feet. Agony🥺

[@Mcfads999]

Now Donegal has mass uncontrolled immigration Ireland is rising up and im proud of you 💚💚💚

[@alecmcdaid081]

Your second name is mcdaid so is mine

[@finnkdy]

hard not to hear John Cleese betimes.

[@jamesbrennan9591]

It now imports men

[@cuhulainsblood]

Ireland so much nicer when it was only Irish.

[@mcsuibhne005]

Yup, all those lovely priests and nuns and their institutions! Let's not forget the wonderful politicians, economists and nosey-parkers who kept us in penury and ignorance. And who could forget those who felt that bombing and maiming each other over a bit of land was 'heroic'. Such great times.

[@cuhulainsblood]

@@mcsuibhne005 never had any problems with any nuns and Priests. You listen to the communist that occupies your living room to much.

[@gailday3781]

🌙🌈🥊🍀❤️

[@magzb2642]

The British held on to the 6 counties for the ship building and linen industry. They would have been instrumental in their creation. Donegal was of no value. The men in charge.. as usual...made a mess of things.

[@roadwarrior8560]

load a bolox

[@thewinnertakesitall4384]

Glengad. Home

[@tombaker9341]

sassnack opinions whoops.

[@johnking5174]

Donegal was and still is the most conservative right wing county in the Irish republic. The influence of the catholic church in that county has been appalling, with the scale of child sex abuse by priests in Donegal really bad. Its conservative nature and deference to the catholic church made Donegal the least liberal county in Ireland.

[@johnking5174]

@@johnnyrocker7495 And keep the extreme right wing in control too remember. There has to be a balance. Donegal's severe conservative nature will be it's downfall, as more and more of their young will leave the county, never to return. Leaving Donegal with a right wing, aged population. Not great for Donegal's future.

[@seosamhofionnaghain5555]

@@johnking5174 I am afraid many so called Christian denominations are into paedophilia. Take the claims of David Icke about The last 2 popes and also his claims about satanic practices of the British "royal" family and their participation at Satanic black masses. Canadian Kevin Annett is another who exposed The British "royals" and very senior Vatican clerics. When it emerged earlier this year that the late queen Elizabeth paid over 10 million pounds Sterling to a female victim of prince Andrew's appalling behaviour on the Epstein island it woke up many People to the true nature of the "royal" family, where before most People thought wrongdoings by members of the "royal" family was just "conspiracy theory" a term used by the puppet mainstream media to try and discredit genuine independent investigation. The so called Elite always seem to be able to pay off victims and stay out of jail whether they are Catholic "Christians" or protestant "Christians".

[@kokobwild2413]

This is about as racist as it gets.

[@StripedLime]

To father another child... 😆😅🤣😂