Radharc: Inisheer

1971 Radharc documentary about life on Inisheer/Inis Oírr, the smallest of the three Aran Islands.

[@ianmedium]

Wonderful, I love watching things I watched first time they were broadcast when I was a child. I’m amazed how much in my lifetime the world has completely changed. I realise I am using a computer to watch and type this but still, I can’t help thinking in a hundred years time this along with the mobile phone will be seen by many as some of the greatest mistakes humankind ever invented.though they give us greater ability to see things and contact each other immediately as I get older the less I think that’s a good thing except for things like this. I have now started to switch my phone off at 4pm and switch it back on again the next morning and it’s off all weekend and this alone has taken me back to my childhood where there was more space to think in greater depth. These programmes you share remind me how important this is. Don’t get me wrong, living back then I also remember the bad stuff as there was plenty of it so no rose tinted glasses here.

[@tonymurray814]

Good advice. I think I’ll try it.

[@user-eg7wi8xr2f]

Had me weeping for times gone and peoples past 💚

[@saram4271]

This was a lovely sharing. Thank you.

[@eddiepower3876]

Marvelous programme thanks for sharing

[@snadhghus]

+Eddie Power Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sir243_simr]

Bring these back rte and let us see what we have lost

[@pmacc3557]

Lost and will be gotten back. And the memory or history next to be re written or written out

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Old men with wooden mouths? I don't think it's a loss.

[@tonymurray814]

@@yanikkunitsin1466u evidently missed the whole point!

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Fascinating, thank you! Will be able to visit all three islands in April!

[@pmacc3557]

Did you visit?

[@seamusmacconmara4087]

Paddy Gilligan, RIP, Fear/Sagart uasal a bhí ann. duine faoí leith ar a lán bhealaigh.

[@1975480able]

I've been looking for one on Achill island made about the same time , thaks for great upload , I'm from achill myself

[@pmacc3557]

Did ya find it?

[@francieodonohue5453]

Radharc was a brilliant award winning programme that reported on most towns in Éire directed and narrated by a Priest that covered the culture,traditions and wellbeing of the people.

[@georgel74]

Another gem.. Classic..

[@lizdoyle7158]

EXCELLENT FABOULOUS AWESOME tv series 📺

[@tomkiely7274]

RIP Paddy, a classmate.

[@Roadtripmik]

The irish have beautiful music and filmmaking

[@user-de8mu8xh9j]

I wish I’d known me then - what advice I’d have given!

[@christianfan1563]

brilliant makes you proud to be irish

[@gerryclarke9795]

Love this!

[@deeryker]

Fr Peter Lemass,,,such a cool dude

[@lafillenoir]

I wonder what those young people are doing now, and how many of them came back to the island as adults. As the narrator said, they had opportunities their parents didn't have.

[@georgel74]

Gold..

[@themadfarmer5207]

Amazing to see the locals using gelignite.

[@themadfarmer5207]

Bare hands, handling gellignite... a woeful headache that night😮

[@user-lx5ue4wm5k]

This priest is straight out of father ted

[@hurricane.7650]

Is the plassey shipreck involved in this?

[@brianmackle955]

Yes. . . .sin í / é at 3:06.😅 As far as I recall the Plassey ran aground (was driven aground in a storm) on Inis Oirr in 1953.

[@markalexwhite]

The 'h' in Inish Oirr isn't pronounced by the locals but Inisheer is probably the most convenient anglisisation ;-)

[@kathleenirish]

Stunning and poignant

[@jackyblue67same10]

I wonder if people are still living on that island today in the year of 2022 anybody know ?

[@snadhghus]

Yes, it's still inhabited. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inisheer

[@here_we_go_again2571]

In 2022, I wonder if people still live on the islands all year round?

[@siogbeagbideach]

They do!

[@DavidWoods-rk8st]

I don't wAnt to visit isn't it a bit wild

[@spmoran4703]

I will go for you then.

[@themadfarmer5207]

The Padre put a bit of a damper on that hooley when he came in. He was there to ensure that there was no fornication

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

Fkn priests... shower eh b@stards

[@tonymurray814]

😂

[@rosscattanach9813]

Eighty year old living on a boat H

[@BrianJMonahan]

Father Ted?

[@harrisonboone2248]

Ha haa ..Craggy Island.

[@Baz09]

Part of the father ted trailer was filmed on the island.

[@DavidWoods-rk8st]

Man I thought i seen a 👻👻

[@vinm300]

12:00 The priest is dominating this community, and they would like to be shut of him. A very honest documentary. Normally Irish TV would act as a propaganda arm for the Vatican.

[@geraldneary1948]

Are you gay or something troll.

[@vinm300]

@@geraldneary1948 ,I'm making an historical observation. The Catholic Church has always dominated as a form of control. In South America the Jesuit colonies were totalitarian : Indians were told when to rise, what to eat, what to grow, when to attend mass and when to sleep. They made no decisions for themselves. Jesuit authoritarianism is one reason they were expelled from every country in Europe (include Catholic Spain, Austria Italy etc).

[@lizdoyle7158]

I grew up in 1950s the catholic church did me no harm only good thats my story i was there yeah true If you dont like the Catholic faith thats your decision yet leave those who are true to there faith the faith of old ireland To them to practice in peace

[@vinm300]

@@lizdoyle7158 Well said. My Dad would've been proud of you : whenever I criticized the Catholic Church for some historical atrocity he'd say, "Don't knock it". Here is a story the Nuns taught us kids in 1968 when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia :- " A Russian soldier aimed his rifle at the tabernacle and the Lord struck him down dead" I often wondered why the Lord didn't do that to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

[@christianfan1563]

@@lizdoyle7158 well said the same catholic church done me no harm and benefited the community in my local parish with schools etc

[@DavidWoods-rk8st]

🙄🙄🙄🙄😂

[@googleaccount7986]

Father dougle

[@harrisonboone2248]

Haa haa , I was thinking the same thing..

[@stephenridge567]

I want to know what happened to the poor dog barking over the live blasting stick