There’s a pleasant formality and reservation about people in the more remote parts of Connemara which I love; it’s an antidote to the brash, loud, intrusive behaviour of most people today. The only other place I’ve seen that reservation is actually in rural England, where the same friendly but formal “public manners” still exist. I probably learned most of my conduct as a child from standing next to my grandparents outside the church after Mass chatting to the neighbours in rural Connemara- those constant moments of exchange where you had to be on best behaviour and not intrude. You were brought up to be patient, polite, and to LISTEN. Being a show-off or bragger was social death; public life was about modesty and not being a nuisance. One thing that stands out crystal clear was the constant warning to not embarrass your family. My grandfather, for example, despised drunkenness and when I came home plastered one night (a two-mile walk from the pub!) he didn’t speak to me for two whole days as he was livid that I’d been in the local pub “making an amadan of yourself”. For all those reasons Connemara is very different to the rest of the country- “an island within an island”; a place that’s hard to be fully accepted in if you’re not at least a blood relative of someone in the locality…and even that doesn’t guarantee you’ll be fully accepted into the fold.
@magarlai-dado
Жыл бұрын
That must be Kenny's Bar in Oughterard? A tragic end.
@maxpower1337
Ай бұрын
Ah the bog the midge's were the worst thing about the bog and the wet weather biting fly's still good time's.
@davidpatrickcoggins1153
7 ай бұрын
Wonderful
@antartatina
Ай бұрын
The man milking the cow is my dad tony nee, hes still well and pat nee is still alive and well.
@pc77ish
9 ай бұрын
Mikie Conneely letterdyfe, Paddy Conneely lehid, Gabriel Mac, and Paddy Mac Aillebraic1:50
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