Part One: Depicting rural Ireland of the late 1930's and 1940's this video was made in South Roscommon and East Galway. It brings back memories of a time when many of us lived in thatched cottages, turf was the only fuel for cooking and heating and the cow was milked by hand. It shows the transition from horse to tractor and how the neighbours gathered together to help each other with cutting the turf and saving the hay. It was a time when cutting the corn and treshing was one of the biggest events of the year. it brings back memories of the rambling horse and how people gathered around the turf fire and told stories, sang songs and listened to Irish Music.
Part Two: Old Ireland Video/DVD continues to depict farming life in rural Ireland during the late forties and early fifties. It shows the cutting and saving of hay, the making of a sheepcock and how it was used to feed the sheep in the winter, the spraying of potatoes manually and with a horse. The cutting of corn with a scythe and reaper and binder, stacking it in the fields, drawing it home and threshing it. The digging of potatoes and a winter scene of feeding the sheep. Finally traditional music and song in a thatched cottage in the company of Joe Burke, Ann Conroy Burke, and Eileen O'Brien and Tommy Devine. As seen on R.T.E Nationwide
The Music on these Video's/DVD's is by Ireland's greatest Accordion player Joe Burke of East Galway (http://www.joeburkemusic.com)
Script and Narration is by writer and Broadcaster Liam Mac Con Iomaire
