The Last of Dublin's Blacksmiths, Ireland 1966

[@johnallen7807]

A real craftsman! I bet the chap doing the interview was on at least 10x his pay, we live in a weird world!

[@damenwhelan3236]

Still the same.

[@TheDazMag]

This lad should be on TikTok, people love this type of thing on there

[@leftyspade]

My Grandfather, RockCashel, Cork, was a Blacksmith, occupation on his papers coming to the USA in 1906. Now, my best friend teaches at Ferrier School in Arkansas, still going strong.

[@pmacc3557]

Ti's in the blood boy

[@leftyspade]

@@pmacc3557 Funny P-Mac, never met my Grandfather, died appendicitis, before penicillin. He came to the USA with nothing and died a well-to-do man. I was always told, the nicest guy, but it was always from everyone who met him so sure it's true. His job before going on the boat was Blacksmith. I, amazingly, am terrified of horses, I blew that image- Peace

[@pmacc3557]

@@leftyspade Oh those old boys were tough and mannerly so a different breed than us current humans. i love watching these old episodes of Hands, showing life in a beautiful period.

[@peadaroduinnin572]

Rockchapel, surely? There's no place in Cork called RockCashel.

[@leftyspade]

@@peadaroduinnin572 Let me get the papers out, Peadar. Battling cancer so will be a fine way to keep busy. Thank you.

[@daviddunne4737]

My God. Just discovered this gem. I am now late, very late sixties. When I was a child my grandfather who lived in St. Joseph's Place used to bring me over to the blacksmiths in or off Temple Street. I am so delighted to have seen this video. Wonderful childhood, thank God. Thank you very much to my parents and my grandparents. Dublin in the rare old times.

[@lashark06]

As a young man I would have loved to learn the trade from this man!

[@patrickheneghan2794]

Really great footage..Tks.

[@MarkKelly1307]

I’ve watched this video, I don’t know, maybe a half-dozen times. I play with blacksmithing as a hobby and wouldn’t even consider myself a smith. But I love to watch a craftsman and see how things were done in simpler times. Cheers, Mark

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Where have all the blacksmiths gone, 60 years ago, a blacksmith would have worked in every town, The cure for TB I never knew, I was told that that horse would pretend to be lame just so it could go back in that forge, have a rest, eat some corn, have its nailed polished and be fitted with brand new shiny shoes, she wanted to look good walking down O Conners street during the hard working day, When I need new boots/shoes I follow the very great Phil Lynott and I go to Jeffery-West, how times have changed

[@polki1482]

They've been driven out of Dublin by the corporation and the guards there used to be a black smith in smithfield every month up until it was stoped.

[@halfdoorclub7520]

My next door neighbours were great blacksmiths and farriers.

[@davepowell7168]

Which? These are idiots

[@cathalmacsiurdain7762]

Thank you so much for this footage. I remember being brought to Temple Street and having the fear of God. Sometimes we'd wait outside if a sibling was being seen inside by the medics. This was in the 60s. What I remember most, and it is one of my earliest memories is the smell when the hot shoe is placed on the horse's foot. Years later I could clearly recall that smell when I attended a number of operations at a hospital in Germany. It is the smell when bleeding is cauterised during an operation. Some people found the smell unpleasant and even collapsed in the theatre. It reminded me of my childhood in Dublin in the 60s. Dermot Bolger, a Finglas lad like myself, wrote a poem about attending Temple Street in the 60s with reference to the farrier if my memory serves me correctly. A great profession: like reading a Hardy novel.

[@davomccranko]

It would be great to read your poem, Cathal

[@paulsmith4467]

Like you I remember the Temple Street Blacksmiths in the early 60's, I also remember how bloody awful the nurses were.

[@deet1558]

The old dub accent nice mix of country and dub,no zombies walking around,just hard working people not like today.

[@michealofloinn2539]

You couldn't have put it better- Zombies

[@lashark06]

Hear hear!

[@EannaWithAFada]

I don't think the accent really changed, it's just the difference between a soft and rough Dublin accent

[@stanscully9198]

You Put It So Well, Short , And Sweet , And So True , 24.06.2022. Dublin

[@jimwall4973]

Thank Kinahan and his boxing friends for the zombies

[@stanscully9198]

I Admire These Blacksmiths So Much. He’s Proud Of His Trade , And So He Should Be. And We’re Proud Of Him, And Those Hardworking Men And Women, I Worked For Harry Weinsummer = Cabinet Makers , Liberty Lane, Kevin Street , Dublin , 1965 / 1966. And There Was A Blacksmiths In Liberty Lane . Never Knew His Name. 24.06.2022. Dublin.

[@backpackingireland8624]

Love the content. To think we live in such a foreign country today ! Long cry from the absolutely beautiful crafts and ways of bygone days . Our traditions , trades and customs are eroding, in many erased . Amazing times and people 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@patrickbradley7360]

Brilliant man

[@Discover-Ireland]

And his little forge is most likely a shopping centre today.

[@john-paulmoran1000]

Looks like a little garage, according to google street view

[@smittybreeze]

The mc loughlin family are still going strong in the farrier world, Ken and John sons of Paddy mc loughlin who died in 1975 shoeing up till the day he died

[@gilactico]

Great to hear the tradition continues.

[@rossfleming15]

Johns a gent. Shoed many a horse for my grandad and myself.

[@linleysmith4528]

Wonderful craft hard honest work gee he knew his stuff👌

[@AM-ni3sz]

Great job with this.

[@freebornjohn2687]

There's a bit of revival in blacksmithing, but in needs people to pay a decent price for their work and not get everything from Ikea made by semi slaves in the far east. Have you noticed that at Ikea they have pictures of blonde haired blue eyed Swedes sitting around "designing" stuff but never show the people who make it.

[@fightinandirish]

This is the unfortunate trade off with mass production. People will usually think of their wallet and not consider the quality of a product or the welfare of the person who made it. I suppose that's always been the case to a degree.

[@someirishguy1662]

This has long been espoused in Marxist theory, there will be a reset eventually

[@freebornjohn2687]

@@someirishguy1662 WTF are you talking about?

[@thetwoboyos8366]

​@@freebornjohn2687😂😂🤦🤣🤣🤣

[@kerryburns6041]

When people find out I´m a Blacksmith, the first question is always about horses, and I have to tell them that the man who shoes horses is a Farrier, not a Blacksmith.

[@seandelap6268]

It's sad that characters like this are fast disappearing.

[@ponybottle]

Many trades have sadly disappeared but in contrast, back in the day, you could walk a long days walk without encountering a wanker. Nowadays Dublin is full of them ! That's Progress for ya!

[@fintan2830]

With the current increasing price of fuel, we'll all be going back to the horse again.

[@pmacc3557]

How much for petrol in Ireland now?

[@gilactico]

@@pmacc3557 €1.70 ltr

[@Diaspora1759]

@@gilactico Paid $3.15 per gallon today in Wisconsin. (Regular 87 octane) $3.15 x €1.13/$ = € 3.56 per gallon / 3.785 liters/gallon = €0.94 per liter and people still bitch here about having to pay that price

[@jasbarsoph]

This brings back memories of when I use to bring my horse over to pleasant street to Hardings to get new shoes I think it was £5 back then, The horse would be in great form afterwards., I should add the horse dropped dead out in the back garden, I used to bring it through our house for safe keeping and out to the back garden, the oul lad would have a fit over this, And this is the truth, The horse died in the back garden and we had to have a crane lift it over the house and into a council truck to be disposed of, This was in the 80s and I’m sure if you look it up you will find it.🤔

[@James_BAlert]

Still the blacksmiths was the place for a bit of heat from the fire in winter, and a good test of the ears from the banging of the hammers!! 😀

[@michaelroche3915]

It was the men's club and a place where rebellions could be planned too.

[@James_BAlert]

@@michaelroche3915 an awful lot of planning went on, blueprints📝 produced and revised, wooden chair warriors discussing strategy...... And all that hot air joined the hot air of the fire🔥, all the while the Black Smith 🔨was earning his wage!! 😶

[@michaelroche3915]

@@James_BAlert Pikes were forged for rebellion and more recently bomb casings were constructed.

[@James_BAlert]

@@michaelroche3915 how many years went by without a rebellion? How many rebellions were successful? Surely a successful rebellion would of drove the English out and then kept them out? How many partook in the rebellions? Why could Scotland that had a land border with England maintain its independence, while lreland an island couldn't? If Gaelic lreland unified in 1169 they would of defeated Strongbow, but that division inherited from the Gaelic kingdoms did lreland a huge disservice as the years went by!! 🤔

[@michaelroche3915]

@@James_BAlert Not much hope of that. The Irish population was too small and dispersed, too much warring between warring clans that couldnt form a united front for very long, too few resources of iron to step up the heavy production needed for sustained war and defense. Too little wealth to fight off a large rich country. Englands main interest in Ireland was to prevent the French or Spanish taking it and using it to destroy England. we kept the rebellions going for 800 years ,longer than most other invaded nations on the planet.

[@pmacc3557]

7 nails per shoe....lovely

[@gmc7417]

Remember that yard well my Grandad had horses and pigs cross the road in the other Lane

[@pumpkin1901]

What's there now do you know? Probably an office block, but I'm in town this week and would like to have a look-see.

[@gypsycob1351]

need more like him now

[@niallcully3457]

There's hundreds of blacksmiths in Dublin now, a farrier shoes horses, a blacksmith does it all.

[@elizabethconnolly8958]

I use to watch the blacksmith there I loved it ..but because there's not as many horses now because of all the cars

[@gerthie]

Brilliant

[@anthonymctigue9038]

GREAT BLOKES GREAT TRADE HARD WORK MAKIN AXLES GATES AND SO ON

[@Threecrow]

looks like fun to be honest

[@HistoricUlster]

Farriers aint cheap nowadays

[@pmacc3557]

Any idea what rate?

[@HistoricUlster]

@@pmacc3557 was 60 quid in the summer but I’m sure it’s gone up

[@pmacc3557]

@@HistoricUlster ah ithats not too bad...is it? I imagine it would take at least an hour for his work so 60/hour..and it would be a hazardous kind of a job id say?

[@HistoricUlster]

@@pmacc3557 it’s all very civilised they do it from the back of a van. Farriers just do horses

[@dub_dub1504]

@@HistoricUlster worked with racehorses many years ago. It can be anything but civilised shoeing a horse. Farriers earn every red cent coming to them.

[@tasteslikeawesome]

A man who deceives first glance of the modern man as a stupid bumpkin of bygone days. He says- “You only imagine that” Indeed we do.

[@pauldrennan1482]

That's my uncles father-in-law they lived in Cabra we always called him uncle Mac

[@TheBenzer9]

I remember the smell in that lane there must have been piggeries or a slaughter house there aswell, remember leaving the hospital walking up onto Gardiner place to the fresh air lol great video though

[@theemeraldfox7779]

Now that's a bloody craftsmanship! These wankers today can't do it!

[@julianpotentate5942]

why have they gone horses and ponies are still about in eire

[@therealleonidas229]

Nowadays the blacksmiths don't even burn the shoes on anymore.

[@DavidCarter-b5u]

Not correct, plenty still hotshot.

[@jacobmiller5834]

Old guy taking off the shoe. Bent over, using all his muscle banging on it with a hammer, and prying with his pliers. Interviewer - Comes off pretty easily doesn't it?

[@jasperkaye5721]

brilliant video, but you're man here is a farrier, not a blacksmith

[@bigears4426]

No he made the shoe , not just fitting bought shoes , so that makes him a blacksmith

[@elizabethconnolly8958]

He is a real blacksmith I remember his dad doing it also I use to watch him shoein the horses when I was about 10 years old it was lovely at the same place in Temple lane

[@dub_dub1504]

Nah. You're wrong. He's doing both.

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Yeah, if you watched it you'd know he discussed it. He has both trades.

[@jasperkaye5721]

Ah fair enough. I haven’t been back to this video for a while. I can admit when I’m wrong

[@jbodden6977]

SHOEING HORSES IS MORE OF A FARRIER THAN A BLACKSMITH ALTHOUGH SMITHS OFTEN DO BOTH...

[@martinbyrne6643]

No credit , no wicket horses 😀

[@davepowell7168]

This man is farrier NOT a blacksmith!

[@gkelly4588]

He made the shoe first,so he is a blacksmith

[@davepowell7168]

@james mcloughlin 20 Pints a day? World Of Wonder! Being a beer enthusiast myself l must say l respect his dedication 👏

[@davepowell7168]

@james mcloughlin Aha, a globe of Game-bread game players. Sharpwit? Maybe one day.