Hands: Dublin's Workhorses

[@galwayvideonews3625]

Watching Hands is like eating the most nourishing food. It's a fabulous, wonderful archive.

[@humblehombre9904]

Very lovely. This is the life I wish we still lived.

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

Same here

[@Kevin-lo1le]

Very kind and good of you to upload all these fantastic videos, it keeps our heritage alive, thank you 🙏

[@stephenrice4554]

I've saved all these fine programmes, my Gran was from Ireland and apparently she and her family was all over . I can hear her voice in these programmes , her my grandad and mother , it's a privilege. 👍🇬🇧

[@iansing5278]

As a child in Sydney (Aust.) '58/9 I remember the ice man coming tuesdays and thursdays, his horse stopping in front of the house, then the iceman bringing in the block for the icebox.

[@elviramcintosh9878]

What a lot of respect we owe to the blacksmith. And to the horses that served us so well. Thank you for this film. It is an eye-opener to a culture that gives honour to whom honour is due. Man and horse.

[@ianking-jv4hg]

They say a man's best friend is a dog. But they don't measure energy in "Dog-Power" i love me horse before me dog.

[@killickfarms]

Hands was a fantastic series. The farrier, jimmy Harding, used to shoe the horses for my father. He was such a respectable man. A real old fashioned Dubliner

[@chrisclark1761]

I was just thinking, the narrator has a great Dublin accent, without being common as muck.

[@killickfarms]

Chris Clark it’s what is known as “ an auld fashioned” dublin accent. Far softer and far better pronunciation than the dumb sounding monotoned aggressive sounding accent that Dubliners have today

[@humblehombre9904]

Is there differing accents throughout Dublin? Like a West or South, North and such? I’m Canadian, but my whole family from my Grandpa come from Ireland, I’m certain it’s Dublin. I’ve always been interested in Irish, and their language. Thanks for posting.

[@1bigjohnnyd]

@@humblehombre9904 Yes they do vary from place to place .

[@jakej2256]

It seems the horses were treated very well, which is nice to see!🐴

[@thejiggitygiggity90]

jake i had to like your comment as i believe animals are an extended family member to human beings mo cara (irish gaelic for my friend) Godbless!! :)

[@emmetdonnelly2072]

@@thejiggitygiggity90 also a wonderful comment ❤️

[@mariekatherine5238]

I haven’t heard that accent since I was a little girl! My great grandfather was born in Dublin, came to US in 1928. He passed in 1964 when I was age 12.

[@diane9247]

Interesting - and I loved the narrator for this. So amiable sounding!

[@ianking-jv4hg]

Loving you from rural Queensland.

[@emmetdonnelly2072]

It's crazy to think that this is 1983. It's not a huge amount of time ago but Ireland has changed so much really since the mid 90s becoming the Ireland as we know now. Perhaps not as well off when this was filmed but a wonderful magical easier going time.

[@GfdHeeey]

It's mad how fast our culture and traditions are changing, seems a lot of character and charm being lost in Dublin City.

[@emmetdonnelly2072]

​@@GfdHeeeyyeah myself and my wife visited Dublin last Christmas. Don't get me wrong it's a lovely city and really enjoyed it but certainly much different from the 90s when I was last there. Just felt that the Irish feeling was no longer there but then again I was a lot younger years ago and felt more special with both my late parents there with me.

[@audreyannebrady7503]

Lovely footage. I could listen to Eamonn's voice all day. Thanks for putting this up.

[@Signaman-z9d]

I worked on this flote when a kid , Dublin 7 . I was hung over many a tar barrel,memories ☘️

[@neilcarrollMeganJamieForever]

So sad to see this side of Dublin gone. So much for poxy progress!

[@shamrock4500]

love this series, I enjoyed seeing horses and carriages in Dublin when I was there last summer, couldn't catch one for a ride, they always had people on board. My Granddad was born in Ireland, his father was a coachman, I grew up on a farm with horses and ponies, the work horses had been replaced by a tractor, but the horse barn still stands today, with the harnesses still on the wall.

[@martinmcgowan7991]

It is a good video and the blacksmith is a good one and it's interesting for kids..and. Grown-up s

[@alansimpson2647]

We have them passing the house when the dead take there final journey we English black but from the African nations white!

[@gerryduggan6821]

Appsaluty amazing 👏 thanks for this Makes me so proud to be irish 🇮🇪💯🙏

[@thejiggitygiggity90]

I'm so proud of my country too but all 32 counties of it tho drugs are a major problem in this nation, gotta get rid of that nonsense off the island get people jobs and further more united the north and south and catholic protestant and muslim jew gay str8 black white old and young and rich and poor unite the nation and the people create new manual jobs instead of office jobs and get rid of the drugs problem, i don't mind cannabis and alcohol but thats it nothing more we don't want to turn our people into zombies like america, also solve the hunger and homelessness problem particularly in the capital dublin and 2nd city belfast, do all that and you'd be so proud of this nation we can do it i know we can godbless mo cara!

[@pacovd01]

beautifull, just beautifull, thank you for this post, love horses and mules, so sad the last horses in my city are going out of bussines because our city has no patience for this slow moving and noble animals thanks and greeting from Guadalajara in Mexico.

[@snadhghus]

It's good to hear that these videos are of interest to people from across the world.

[@sandrastone8994]

Really enjoyed this video especially the saddlers as I have a palm iron and clamp given to me by a retired saddler years ago and it's lovely to see how they were used. Thanks again.

[@rebeccalowes9448]

I enjoy this series very much and learn a lot too!

[@jamesgoodrich8355]

Outstanding, what a joy to watch!

[@finglasman1]

Id sit listening to that chap talk for the whole day , I'm a Dub in exile lol

[@Fcutdlady]

The guy doing the voice over is Dublin Historian the Late Èamon MacThomais

[@LEE-BX5VC]

I loved listening to the horse during the night and I'd run to the window and look out.

[@caroldixon7796]

I am enjoying this series so much. Thank you very much for posting this.

[@dandy1dandy198]

Thanks for this absolutely fantastic video. What a beautiful insight into bygone Dublin and craftsmanship. There's such a beautiful resonance of working class throughout this. I'm sure there were some beautiful people at the times whose attributes live on in their children and people who knew them.

[@geraldneary1948]

The working class and others were good natured people back then. There is still some people today like them.

[@KatePerry-y5s]

Brilliant video!! Wonderful!! Thank you for the upload!

[@josephbrennan4622]

Thank you for sharing so many great video's love them all....

[@alexreain5068]

Great thanks for posting this

[@alleneire2197]

Fantastic I really enjoyed it thank you

[@familyplannumbrer2424]

Wonderful to see such im feel like I'm sweept back in time thank you for sharing these videos with us.Charles E.Huggins Jr

[@walterpalmer2749]

Without the horse, man’s history would be rewritten. A most noble, forgiving animal obeying his bridle willingly.

[@iansing5278]

"Horse Power."...

[@eddycorrigan1433]

Wow...just wow I was totally entranced and captivated by thi for several repeat viewings despite this was my time nad I saw most of this especially butnot exclusively outside of Dublin. I just feel privileged (now) that I got to experience all this. Truly what an honour ...makes you realise money doesn't mean shit

[@gorgoths_ethos]

I have been watching a lot of your videos and I really appreciate you uploading these!! Thanks!!

[@snadhghus]

I'm glad you've been enjoying them.

[@angelakelly3246]

JKP Ranc

[@geraldneary1948]

@@snadhghus is all high quality stuff.

[@SuperOlds88]

Man, that woman wasnt gonna give that gentleman one slice of breads worth of butter too much.

[@thejksquad5615]

Im 39 and remember the coal getting delivered by horse in kilbarrack,,,brilliant stuff these videos

[@eoghanmacdonald7265]

Gerald Kelly what do they shout when they’re going about with their horses with the coal on the back

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

@@eoghanmacdonald7265 he's just saying coal. But the accent is breaking the word up. Co Al :)

[@dietermohn8863]

Really nice, I wish there was more of this kind

[@paulbroderick8438]

Visiting my relatives in Clontarf, Dublin many years ago I remember milk being delivered to the front door via a horse drawn carriage full of milk pales. Milk was ladled from the pales into household jugs. No doubt the health inspector would not approve of this practice if attempted today. Thank you for your informative video.

[@devally2432]

Back in 1964, I was nine years old living in Artane. I had a Saturday job selling fruit and veg from a horse drawn cart. The greengrocer had a smallholding opposite St. Bridgets convent school. It was a great job and I was paid ten shillings for the day. I have great memories of that time.

[@dkcorderoyximenez3382]

An interesting video...thank you...

[@julien23lastchristmas2]

Irish know-how in all areas of life BRAVO !! 👏👏👏 Greeting from north Africa

[@laetitialogan2002]

Loved this..thank you....

[@annetteegerton6153]

My farrier comes every 5 weeks and my horses love him. My son is a blacksmith not a farrier. My uncle was a blacksmith and a farrier. It's a common belief that all blacksmiths are farriers but they aren't. i love these films. Thank you.

[@L7E7N7O]

A that,s a Dublin accent that is dieing out real fast, this stuff is gold, my uncle is the guy who mix the sound for all the HANDS series. I wish I had known him a lot better , I have hundreds of questions I would have loved to ask him, he did alot of the sound mixing for mostly Irish nature programmes with eamon de butlier , and a few small films, eat the peach , I think it was called or something like that. That's all I really know about as I have no other relatives to talk about this situation..

[@1989Chrisc]

He sounds like joe Duffy..

[@alansimpson2647]

I love Ireland and there accents but never been there!

[@billyrussell1511]

Both hands and Éamonn de buitléirs programmes are forever golden in my childhood... Such stillness and beauty in them, gosh the sounds of EDB were part of my childhood Sunday evenings god bless your uncle 🙂

[@76navan]

Dublin doesn't make men like this anymore more's the pity

[@thejiggitygiggity90]

belfasts the same sure half of the old sayings that used to be said even in the 90s are no longer said by people its all mandem n blood n nonsense like that being said

[@drunkenconspiracy6534]

love these kinds of videos, subscribed!

[@Ashlin-f5d]

Great documentary 💯😊

[@johndonnellan5794]

Can remember when I was A kid growing up in Australia and the local milky (milk man) driving the streets with his drought horse.The kids would come out to pat the horse and the neighbour who was a gardener coming out with his shovel to spread the horses droppings on his garden

[@gypsyspirit4380]

Well rotted horse manure, nothing better for potatoes and roses!

[@newsnowireland4028]

Oh grandpa take me back to the good old days, when boys where boys and men where men 🇮🇪

[@thejiggitygiggity90]

well boys are still boys and men are still men we just gotta share the world now lol

[@charlescharliecharles484]

pure gold!☺️

[@robertrammullen6935]

ENJOYED THAT

[@charlescharliecharles5220]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting these👍

[@pmacc3557]

I just watched a vid of CR's video vaults and there was a blacksmith from 1966 who was talking about the trade dying out. So this guy was doing well to survive into the 80's

[@Michael-vf2uy]

Thank you for this interesting footage on Harness Making. My G grand Dad and his father before him were harness makers in Kerry in early and late 19th Century. I wonder where they would have learned that specific trade. At the turn of the 20th C. it was seen by some that the horse was being consigned to history and replaced with bicycle and car so the trade died in many families.

[@shaymurtagh8821]

I remember the horses working out of the fruit market back in mid seventies .Tomo, 4:06 Desi, forget the rest of the lads names .I used to go with them to off load in Moore St. Great days

[@stephanblack4558]

great show, thank you.

[@deeppurple883]

Mr Harding was a nice man and a great blacksmith . I used to get my hoese shawed there, everybody went to Harding really. Good old days, most of the city horsey men are dead now, all great men. Poor times remembered . My Da heald me and all the kid's over the Tar barrels if we had coughs of any kind, the hooping cough was the worst. If a road was being layer down many a tar barrel was there. I was one of the people's home remedies. The 60s in Dublin Ireland. 🎄👊☘️

[@harrykuntz878]

a joy to watch thanks for sharing them I will hit the subcribe button so I can see more . my grand father and my father God rest them were both black smiths and farriers back before the tractor took over my father was born in 1908 he was lucky to get work from a local bloke making up hay barns at the forge when there was not as much work shoeing horses he later went to work full time at the steel mills shoeing horses of a Saturday or in the evening . he embraced technology and owned the first electric hand drill around a big strong wolf with no clutch I used it myself to drill pillars for sheds it would hurt you if you were not careful its still going strong but not used much now as its slow to drill he also bought a oil cooled triangle welder its still going strong and has a lot of work done . I live in the country side and I only ever saw one horse to come to the local little creamery and one ass and car I started school in 74 so there were nearly gone at that stage the tractors going to the creamery were all small a massey fergson 65 would be the biggest I can remember or a david brown 880 no body had a cab or even a roll bar I remember the law being passed when they came in . God be with the days nearly all them men that I used to see going to the creamery are dead and gone by now .

[@ingenuity168]

September 4, 2020 Thank you.

[@royalbee9088]

Loved that 👍🏻

[@matnaylor8939]

We were nothing with out the horse we owe these beautiful creatures everything ! I home rescue horses coloured cobs that no one wants big respect to these working animals .

[@captain007x]

I worked as a kid on one of those milk carts in Rathmines.

[@walterpalmer2749]

That blacksmith is probably the toughest man in Dublin. Not a wasted movement.

[@eileenbailey8634]

Beautiful

[@scartissue2575]

I'm almost sure that the blacksmith's at the start was on a lane off Pleasants Street (the lane seems to be nameless on Google maps- between Sova Vegan Butcher and Olympic House). It was sold, with a house on Pleasants Lane, around 2012 or so. I viewed the house and forge (as it was called in the agent's description) and got some very atmospheric photos of the interior. There were still tools lying around and horseshoes lining the walls. Allegedly where the Guinness horses were shod, though that might just have been agent's guff. Still unrefurbished or redeveloped, so the interior might be unchanged since the sale.

[@killickfarms]

You are correct. It was called pleasant lane. Jimmy Harding was the blacksmith

[@SN-cm7hu]

'Vegan butcher' now there's an oxymoron for the ages

[@christysirishallotment1269]

Brilliant video

[@user39h2j8il]

When ppl were craftsmen and time was your friend.

[@alansimpson2647]

Now i know why these products are so expensive, all the time and work involved!

[@user-mq3ey4he1e]

In the rare ole time

[@Jungleland33]

Back in a time when postmen actually delivered letters.

[@jredmondscaff]

They still do ...!

[@Jungleland33]

​@@jredmondscaffthey deliver junk now I'm afraid. Bills and publicity post. Nobody writes letters anymore 😢

[@edbaker515]

Back in day in mid sixties....left school a 14 to work 7 days a week as helper on milk round.£4 .10 a week... memory s abound.... stuck for two years... after that I joined British army for 7 years never never looked back.....that was Dublin then

[@bigears4426]

Times change not always for the better

[@HitchHikersBlues]

@Barry Kelly You fuck off... Crack Head !

[@BryanBeast13]

This was good vibes

[@franreilly7139]

When I was a kid sale in news papers after school going by all these little shops sad to say i would just walk by not bothered to look at all the work these man women working. now there office blocks apartments love to go back in time no mobile phones and yeah everyone new were everyone were 2020 different world

[@danielkelly5112]

Plenty of Fiat 127's around the place. . Great stuff

[@rileymcmahon3157]

Class👍

[@lilliankeane5731]

The ‘Rag & Bone man’ anyone remember that? He collected iron steel and the likes.

[@moayadinstreet2705]

Hello dear Lillian

[@moayadinstreet2705]

Thank you, Mrs. Lillian, for sharing this video

[@lilliankeane5731]

@@moayadinstreet2705 hello my friend ! ♥️🙌. The horses are very well cared for. As far as i know are still horses and carriages on Dublin streets, but i could be wrong as its been a long tome since i was in Dublin.

[@moayadinstreet2705]

@@lilliankeane5731 It is a beautiful city and now it is full of population and people I knew this via Google and videos KZbin

[@moayadinstreet2705]

@@lilliankeane5731 ❤

[@rockcrusher4636]

Excellent, thank you.

[@RavenfieldFarm]

This is awesome, thank you for uploading... wish times still had this kind simplicity to them. Do you know what year this is from?

[@snadhghus]

It was made in 1983.

[@1989Chrisc]

@@snadhghus I was thinkin late 70s early 80s

[@TinaConington-ix9sb]

The good Old days i remember well ❤️😅

[@alexlechef2]

In 1983 horses were still used in ireland? Was that common practice?

[@1989Chrisc]

My grandad was a milkman like tom at the beginning.. he was up at 3.30 every mornin, did the milk rounds until 7.30 and was on a building site by 8 working until 6. They really knew the meaning of work back then.. Yound lads dont want to be in before 9 always askin about home time and never off the bloody phones....

[@brijones]

way things are going we will be going back to horses

[@robertsroberts1688]

its amazing how much of this stuff is lost knowledge in the usa the craft traditions of the ozarks and various areas are lost knowledge that needs to be regained

[@katesanderson3208]

I wonder what year this was filmed.

[@snadhghus]

1983

[@Paddyman8869]

2:44 he knows the blacksmith

[@chrisclark1761]

Does anyone know the location @12:26 ? I'm thinking around Pimlico, Marrowbone Lane ?

[@scartissue2575]

Molyneux Yard, facing south. The black and white striped gable belongs to a house on Catherine Street, at the junction with Engine Alley.

[@captain007x]

You would want to see Moore Street today...shocking.

[@michaelbrowne8469]

When milk was milk not water

[@jerrydineen6819]

How old is joe Duffy

[@eoghanmacdonald7265]

What is it the coalmen actually shout?

[@sitluxetluxfuit4481]

He is actually shouting coal in a very strong Dublin accent.

[@randyhendrix5375]

Cowwll

[@brendancoughlan3487]

I remember those days back in Dublin. They were very tough times but much more characters were about. Fond memories but am glad they are in the past. Ireland is a better place now overall.

[@thejksquad5615]

What year was this,anybody know??

[@snadhghus]

1983

[@christymillea5159]

Real working man never be the same again pitty

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

Moore St before the ilac was even started...

[@clonSanG]

Dublin the real Dublin gone don't here a Dublin accent anymore all foreign now

[@ShielSullivan]

Where the fuck do you be walking? can't get away from it haha

[@HitchHikersBlues]

and phony american ones !

[@daithinolanskl1977]

What year was this.?

[@daithinolanskl1977]

Jaysus I was only a baby meself when this was on.

[@snadhghus]

1983

[@daithinolanskl1977]

@@snadhghus Christ I was nearly five over in Arbour Hill.

[@patdoyle3686]

ONLY HORSES🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎NO FOOLS🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

[@bigredc222]

Was that butter for the horse, the way the lady was putting her dirty fingers in it, I don't think I'd want to eat it. Good video. Thanks

[@j5892000]

Horse power

[@wutang6020]

Horse coming back in! It would be better than cars and climate change that's for sure

[@stevefarrell9609]

Might be a good idea for our kids, the Pampered SnowFlake Generation to look at this. Genuine horsepower, electric milk carts and paper bags. It's the little shites screaming about Saving the Planet who demand their 1000-euro iPhones wrapped in plastic, their water in plastic bottles, and wouldn't feckin walk around the corner without getting a lift from Mammy or Daddy. Awww be the hokey, a good feckin' clip around the ear would sort dem out!

[@stevothefellow]

What was it the coal man was yelling?

[@snadhghus]

I'm not sure. It might simply be "coal!", pronounced something like "kyow-ell" in a strong Dublin accent.

[@ScoriacTears]

Apples, six fer twenty pence.