Life in The Donegal Gaeltacht, Ireland 1969

In this part of Donegal, the population has grown in recent years. How will people make a living?
‘Gaeltacht’ visits Donegal to see how people make a living and survive in such a scenic but remote spot. Fishing, farming cutting and selling turf, light industries and tourism are the main sources of income in this Donegal Gaeltacht town.
Aindreas O’Gallchoir visits Mount Errigal and Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair). With a growing population, how do people make a living? Local school teacher and part-time fisherman Seán McGinley who talks about making a living and the future of tourism and turf cutting.
The programme was filmed on location in Gweedore, Ranafast, Crolly, Falcarragh and Annagry in July and August 1968.
This episode of ‘Gaeltacht’ was broadcast on 3 April 1969. The presenter is Aindreas O’Gallchoir. This version of the broadcast includes subtitles in English.
‘Gaeltacht’ was a series of six programmes which examined life in various Gaeltacht areas of Ireland including Conamara, Co. Galway and An Rinn, Co. Waterford. Chaith léiritheoir Colm Ó Laoghaire bliain ag dul thart ar na Gaeltachtaí le foireann scanánaíochta. Bhí borradh faoi leith le feiceáil i dTír Chonaill.

[@Ardspans]

I have lived in and around here for over 20 years. Fascinating to see how all these places have change with the flow of time.

[@thatsthat8421]

Lucky we are to have been born and to live here.

[@123danvc]

Not anymore with ask the migrants moving in!

[@thet1375]

When Ireland was Irish. Irish culture and identity is now gone

[@cigh7445]

This is a Gaeltacht, in Donegal, in the most northwestern part of Ireland. The rest of Ireland was as culturally removed from that in 1969 as they are today, more or less. You probably just notice it more now because of how fast the media homogenises everything and everyone into an angloblob of marginally different regional Anglosphere cultures So if your bar for 'Irish' is being a native Irish speaker from Donegal whose forefathers never stopped speaking Irish in an unbroken chain back to the early days of the Lebor Gabala and who still has many of the traditional skills passed down through generations like the building of currach by hand, then by your own definition almost no Leinsterman has been Irish for about three hundred years and almost no Dubliner for over six hundred. So is that what you mean by 'Irish culture and identity is now gone'? Because if the Hiberno English Irish ethnicity (cultural) isn't Irish, then sure 'Irish' identity is almost gone, but I have a feeling that's not exactly what you meant.

[@DrPhil-pw2to]

You are a clown

[@thet1375]

@@DrPhil-pw2to Just because some Irish people worked abroad doesn't mean we have to hand Ireland over to world. Irish people didn't get free houses, welfare, education and medical. They worked hard and only went to countries with similar cultures. Look around you we are overrun.

[@thet1375]

@@cigh7445 Simon Coveney who was a student of Peter Sutherland, said in 2017 : 'Over the next twenty to thirty years , Effectively we want to attempt to DOUBLE the size of all of the cities in population terms outside of Dublin . The population of Ireland will certainly grow by an extra million people . Linked to that estimate is that half of that number wont have been born in Ireland . I think that will be a really good thing for Irish Society but we have to manage it carefully so that we don't allow the politics of migration to play a big part in Irish Politics.' Coveney wants a non Irish Ireland. This is a replacement

[@thet1375]

@@cigh7445 Leo Varadkar a student of Klaus Schwab (World Economic Forum) said at the Immigrant council of Ireland conference in November 2019: 'Diversity in Ireland is a reality and it is one of our greatest strengths. It is a strength that we are now one of the most diverse countries in the EU, with 17% of the population born outside Ireland. It is a strength that our workforce is the third most international in Europe. We’ve made it easier to become a citizen, 120,000 people have become citizens since 2011 which is wonderful. We have sought to regularise some of those who are undocumented, providing legal status to people who arrived as students but become undocumented, along with their families. Indeed, over 2,000 people were regularised last year under this scheme. Strongly supporting a non Irish Ireland. A well scripted vision of the 'new Ireland' he envisions.

[@Finnegeas]

Can’t get over the accent it’s so soft in comparison to today’s Irish. Outside of the dialect and pronunciation you could almost place this fine man in Connemara given the low tone of his expression as Gaeilge. Very interesting piece as always CR

[@comment1014]

You would struggle catching lobsters crabs and salmon these days

[@shutup2751]

ireland was so beautiful back then, whole country was like one big tight-knit community, no fear of going out alone at night, could leave your door unlocked etc etc but then liberalism ruined it all

[@max__pain]

Sure but do we really need this kind of comment on every video?

[@enhancesoutheast5964]

@@max__pain Yes.. Yes.. We do... The current disintegration of Ireland both physically and spiritually is a result of the planning and implementation of the actions of money grubbing devious traitors..as well as being planned its also not inevitable in its conclusion as many traitorous elites have have discovered..

[@soupersonic]

I don't understand what this statement means! Liberalism ruined Ireland? Fuck you on about?

[@colmocuinneagain3580]

Hes a troll whos never set foot in Donegal let alone Ireland

[@thet1375]

@@max__pain His comment is right though, Ireland isn't even Irish anymore

[@edmundpower1250]

Brilliant video once agaí. Go maith ar fad

[@vanessalavin9871]

Well, that was interesting.

[@gerardmccavana4905]

He was right about tourism

[@TomTasker]

Dude kinda looked like my grandfather.

[@123danvc]

If you made this documentary today you’d have to get a bunch of Muslims & migrants to make it!