New Discoveries At Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland 1962

[@iknowyoureright8564]

It’s Strange to think the majority of the people in this video are now deceased…..61 years ago, as I write this……so even the students at that time doing the digging would be in their 80s. Shows how absolutely lightning quick time does pass, and I shall pass too and so shall all who read this and those tombs will still stand where they have always stood. Crazy thought.

[@sc8914]

I could listen to the old woman telling stories all day

[@Coastwiser]

My boat’s name is White Lady

[@Mostrichkugel]

@@Coastwiser Like my neighbour's cat. They both must be reincarnations.

[@finolaomurchu8217]

@Mary Marshall Absolutely. Oh she is very special. A mine of information, and very bright. God bless her.

[@MikeyJMJ]

6:02 The Italian girl with the modern looking hoodie looks so strange compared to everyone else

[@dicklimerick7]

Time-traveller?

[@cianmcliam1]

Her hoodie has the Harvard logo so she is probably an American student.

[@nikitameo8711]

Thanks so much for sharing! I live 10 mins from newgrange 😍

[@DashDrones]

Same, Never realised Drogheda is the 6th biggest town/city in Ireland...

[@Fortyball]

A very important video, thank you very much for making this video available for public viewing, whoever you are.

[@jenniferdunn3560]

I can’t believe we were not told of these discoveries at school. I first went there about 1970.

[@elzorro7of9]

You just got unlucky with your teacher. I had the best history and geography in a tiny school in westmeath.

[@msb9997]

9.33 (mins) the Swedish student smoking away as he's digging!! 🤭

[@noelryan6341]

Dramatic recreation of the humble peasant at work! Thanks to Sir Walter Raleigh bringing back tobacco (as well as potato) from the New World, hardworking labourers smoked a pipe to stem the hunger pangs of their semi-starvation conditions. 🚬

[@jamescornflake1542]

06:65 I made one of those things when I was small. He is supposed to pull the string tight!!

[@michaelarnold417]

Lol. RTE on a budget. Microphones came later

[@noelmaher4633]

Customs, you'll have no customs and traditions and be happy.

[@michaelf4506]

They can try

[@markmarnell]

“So much for the fairies. Science and progress marches on… etc” comment by interviewer and his superstitious nature unmasked after the curtesy’s of Mrs Ann Hickey 90yrs Newgrange’s oldest guardian of the day - totally disregarding her important testimony regarding the local history, habits, 🐐 and beliefs related locally to Newgrange. One hopes there are longer recordings in existence still shared equally between both the science and the guardians. Because many questions remain to today unanswered. Would love to see the full unedited reels?

[@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In]

As would I like to see the full recordings.

[@exiled2home]

Couldn't agree more. I live in South Africa and was particularly interested to hear her speak about the goats and how the people worked with them. Goats are the animals used by Sangomas here in South Africa as physical mediums for communication with ancestors. So her testimony was of particular interest to me.

[@davidnyc487]

The bloody vikings

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

Irelands first knackers and junkies were the vikings

[@exiled2home]

I demand reparations

[@inazonitobe737]

Oh interesting. He wrongly said bronze age. I wonder if they hadn't properly dated it yet by that point.

[@noelryan6341]

'Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise'! Prof O'Kelly had tremendous insight, but there were many detractors & sceptics!

[@captur69]

Its the priests and religion they should of feared...nevermind the 🧚‍♂️...

[@irishgigachad2347]

Post about michael collins

[@colmmcnaughton2152]

thanks for posting. a brilliant wee film.

[@johnobrien7860]

Repairs...hmmm. Desecration more like. After 4,000 years they decided to repair it.

[@exiled2home]

for the tourists

[@nat-fp1pq]

Lovely

[@noelryan6341]

Iontach ar fad. Cuimhnionn me an-tOllamh o'n am a bhi me ag staidear i UCC fado fado. Ni bheidh a leithead de'n t-Ollamh Micheal O'Cheallaigh ann aris!

[@badethics7542]

Tá sé maith ag féachaint cuid beag Gaeilge ar KZbin.

[@noelryan6341]

@@badethics7542 Mara dearfa as Bearla 'Use it, or Lose it'!

[@Genetulsa1]

Another great upload

[@GkPhotographic]

no mention of the light box , the most important aspect of the Bru . it is the centre of the Gael universe .

[@macneassa]

They hadn't decided to invent that, yet.

[@noelryan6341]

That expose followed on shortly afterwards. You need to know the full story of how a dog going into what was considered a rabbit hole in the hill unmasked the ancient tumulus that Prof O'Kelly suspected was hidden there.

[@martini3524]

Professors, TV people, Parish Priests, Bishops, TDs, Taoisigh, Bank Managers, School Heads et al took themselves terribly fooking seriously back in the 50s & 60s. I know this because I was reared in the countryside and I was 10 years old in 1962. Most of the youth in their teens & twenties back them were busy having no involvement in Irish Music, Dance nor the Irish Language. Perhaps Newgrange would have been best left alone until now given the enlightened approach of our present day Archaeologists on site.

[@noelryan6341]

I'm of the same vintage as you. I took a great amateur interest in ancient sites like Lough Gur Co Limerick. I think you must subscribe to the notion 'There's no future in History'! If you don't know where you came from, how can you know why/where you're going to?

[@thehairysnot8069]

They could find ancient archaeological artifacts but couldn't find out what was going on in the mother and baby homes at the present time..... Irish media folks, keep people distracted by the past

[@thehairysnot8069]

@@johnbalance3989 nothing, just like the gardai and government, you're missing the point little sheep

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

@@johnbalance3989 digging is their game is it not

[@thehairysnot8069]

@@alllovingcowherdboy4475 how's tusla, ooops you're still focusing on the church

[@elzorro7of9]

@@johnbalance3989 Discovering cause of death and the society that allowed it?

[@michaelf4506]

And we give out about North Korea