The Humours Of Kitsy Cotter, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland 1974

Limerick woman Kitsy Cotter shares her wit and wisdom on countrymen, Dublin Women, pints of porter, buttermilk, and marriage.
In Abbeyfeale, County Limerick Frank Hall meets witty local woman Kitsy Cotter who believes the recipe for a happy and healthy life is a pint of porter every day, either before or after breakfast.
It would put the cockles in your heart going.
Kitsy is determined to fix up a local man with a Dublin girl who he says are more classy and have better legs than country girls.
He says the girls down here are too country.
According to Kitsy, buttermilk is the secret to the Abbeyfeale schoolgirl complexion.
While Kitsy believes that countrymen make wonderful husbands, she says that the key to a successful marriage is for couples to keep away from the bedroom as much as they can.
The countryman is great. He’s a great ole sticker.
This episode ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ broadcast on 3 January 1974. The reporter is Frank Hall.

[@paulbreen8533]

When I was a kid, all the old people in the village had lived most of their early lives without TV or radio. They had a much more engaging and interesting conversational style than the sort of grunting that goes on nowadays.

[@orlalolo4585]

Village life changed forever, especially now with the government putting ppl from all parts the world into our small towns and villages , Ireland is not the Ireland of even 5 years ago

[@edwardoneill9559]

The EU will destroy Ireland

[@ericablair4425]

And no smart phones ! More human !

[@lydialily846]

Back when “ gay “ meant happy 😂

[@matthewmcmahon6032]

Wonderful to see Kitsy it brings back happy memories when I met her every morning on my way to school in Abbeyfeale in the early 60s - a wonderful lady

[@thresagraham8181]

How wonderful 😁👍🌻

[@electricrussellette]

I remember growing up in the 80s, the old people would shake your hand and not let go until they finished the story about one of your grandparents growing up and how they were "the devil of a man altogether!"

[@laurasands8322]

That was a view of Ireland despised by the politicians here now who want a multi racial progressive Ireland.

[@fluffybunny7840]

The holding of hands…so sweet ❤️

[@tinasavage674]

The world needs more kitys 😊

[@twomeymichael2000]

Wonderful character Sad that these people are far and few in Ireland now Watching the video takes me back to my childhood

[@jimbrennan3953]

She's a great character of a woman. There used always be various types of characters around in communities back then, before mobiles and multiculturalism. Despite the abundance of doctors and engineers from overseas nowadays, they don't integrate or have an understanding for our own unique quirks and ways

[@scottfree3759]

The hands! Sweet!❤

[@FabianMacGintyONeill]

You could scour the improv comedy clubs of the world and you'd never find a better person to do 'Yes And' than a rural Irish aul fella or aul wan. She never misses a beat throughout the whole video. Amazing

[@NeverBelieveALie]

[@seandelap8587]

These sort of characters are needed in modern Ireland more than ever but they are fast dissapearing unfortunately

[@ciananmacreamoinn9253]

You find these characters every day still in every community in Ireland...you just have to find them!

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@ciananmacreamoinn9253 I have to fully agree with you

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I have just learned a lesson from this fine woman Kitsy Cotter, from now on I am going to drink a tall glass of Porter every day, as a nondrinker I will also have to learn how to come with hangovers but if it makes me laugh so loud and heart like this lady I will be halfway to Heaven, But I refuse to wear a similar flat hat/cap, I will not do that, what would the neighbors say, I have my standards to live upto

[@Kittiesdawn]

Love her…

[@stephaniewalker3288]

God bless her where ever she now is ☘️

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

In her younger days Kitsy Cotter, got herself into a lot of trouble caused by heavy drinking, staying out late, mixing with high society, gambling on the horses and dogs, illegal fishing and brewing and selling Poitín, illegal butter trading across the border causing trouble, always knocking over the dustbins on her way home from the pub on dark nights, often suffering black eyes and bruised lips, her lovely hair in a mess after fighting for refusing to leave the bar, I could tell you much more about my dear 3rd cousin but I think it would be best if I keep some of our family secrets our dearest and most lovely Kitsy Cotter for some other time

[@ME24689]

We'll take all that with a pinch of salt.. 😊

[@anthonyduffy1278]

@james She sounds like a lot of fun!😂🤣👍🏻☘️

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@anthonyduffy1278 She was great fun, full of life and a wild woman

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@ME24689 please do and enjoy and have fun

[@naomiobrien3136]

Sounds like a great character 😂

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

Will we ever see characters like this again? Has the internet killed them all?

[@FabianMacGintyONeill]

This island will never run out of entertainingly mad people. Recently moved back to rural Westmeath and the characters are abundant as ever!

[@itsmeitsme99]

The European Empire is slowly eradicating wonderful people like Kitsey. Sad.

[@palecap]

Reminds me of Johnny Mealy of Moneen Roe, Clogh, Co Kilkenny, may God be good to him.

[@rightturnclyde1564]

My Mum's from Moneenroe - I'll ask her if she remembers Johnny Mealy 😀

[@palecap]

@@rightturnclyde1564 Brilliant. He lived on the road up to Sacred Heart Church from the N78 by the Railyard

[@rightturnclyde1564]

I have family buried in the graveyard there, and family still in the Railyard. Lovely place

[@user-lh4sb2pn9s]

Чудове відео. Велике велике велике спасибі усім ірландцям і Уряду Ірландії за підтримку України.

[@trixiteresa9887]

❤🎉

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Whey, they you would understand

[@taizymcc]

My dad was from Abbeyfeale. He met a Dublin woman.

[@ShoJ369]

Kitsy would have been delighted 😊

[@timothyosullivan2904]

AH Kitsy was a Star in her own wright May she rest in Peace .

[@catherineoconnell3213]

@67 never see the likes of it, no more...... 21/05/2024

[@davidmorris6278]

Bless her

[@connoroleary591]

Poor woman died on the breadline, meanwhile, her character achieved immortality as Mrs Doyle in Fr Ted 😂

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Good but you are not as funny as this fine lady was, God rest her soul in eternal peace in Heaven, I bet St Peter said to this new angle as she entered into heaven, have your fun but keep the noise down, this is a peaceful place, we don't want every drinking poter for breakfast every morning, that will not be allowed

[@timothyosullivan2904]

I remember many moons ago Frank Hall doing interviews with Kitsy Cotter on a few controversial issues and getting her views on many different stories .

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

2nd cousin Kitsy Cotter was full of fun great wit but when she went drink, fights would break out all over the place,, dear old Kitsy Cotter was never knocked down she had too much fighting spirit, she went undefeated and when she passed on to her heavenly reward with howling laughter and a wide smile on her face, it took over 25 minutes for her to complete her journey through the Golden Gates, Saint Peter keep asking more quests so he could set back and enjoy the great fun of meeting and chatting with |Kitsy Cotter as she entered into Heaven but she has not changed her way and still drinks a pint of cool black Porter for her breakfast early each morning then sits back and smokes a fag, them old woodbine are her favorite

[@markruddle5136]

Was this the same Kitty Cotter that recently passed away in Abbeyfeale aged 104? If it is, her recipe for life is very sound.

[@memisemyself]

I think it's her.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

104 years of age, she proved herself right and the doubters wrong

[@connoroleary591]

No. It wasn't her. The lady who lived to be 104 was called: "Kitty" and they owned the largest restaurant in the town. The lady in the video has a similar name, but she is definitely not a business woman, and her hallway is a basic working class dwelling from 1974.

[@markruddle5136]

@@connoroleary591 Thanks.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Working class you say, but we are all working class, yes, if you have to work for a living, very few of us have our own oil wells and gold and diamond mines, I have only in small gold mine, which provides just enough to be able to keep a large pack of wolves away from the front door

[@rabc1558]

She reminds me of Pauline dooley from the fair green

[@roundtowerproductions]

Irish National Treasure. Kitty Cotter should be on the back of an Irish Bank Note If Ireland ever takes back her Sovereignty.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I second you on that

[@tay7366]

She was 38

[@sunshine-bs2jx]

I wonder what age she was there

[@jeanniemullinder9038]

what language is she speaking ???

[@user-nl1pp6cq7t]

Yappy daisy

[@norahsearle7237]

🌈♥️🙌🏻