RTÉ documentary series exploring the craft traditions of Ireland. hands.ie/ Irish Stoneware & Fireclays Ltd., Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Narrated by Diarmaid Ó Muirithe. Filmed in 1983.
man, that pipe potter put more love into that pipe junction than my entire company has for their customers since its foundation.
@detroitos
2 жыл бұрын
And more care than I did in the 18 years of my first marriage! 😛
@joesephrodrigues
2 жыл бұрын
dude was romancing the pipe, thats for sure
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
2 жыл бұрын
Paddy drives off with his unsecured load of clay pipes!
@spaaggetii
2 жыл бұрын
Probably need a new boss or stop watching 40 year old videos. Also transgender toilets are a must. Incase you are not a person.
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
2 жыл бұрын
@@spaaggetii Oh you get to define who and who isnt a person? Given up on doing that for races? or are you still that backward and biased and ignorant?
@oneofbillions691
5 жыл бұрын
This video is one of the reasons I love KZitem and the net. Love learning things like this. I'm older, we had to drag our butts to the library to get info like this and chances of seeing a video like this were few and far between. I honestly think some of the pieces should be glazed and displayed, like the junction box.😁
@Philly_Gamer
2 жыл бұрын
Right! I throughly enjoyed watching this craftsman create that junction box. Totally neat
@TheRAFlemingsMr
2 жыл бұрын
This stuff requires training, skill, long apprenticeships and an eye to detail; in short, true craftsmen. I, like One of Billions, am older and would have never had the opportunity to see this w/o KZitem. Absolutely great stuff; thanks you @snadhghus!
@sampsonsunny6298
2 жыл бұрын
Bet, they close down this factory today. Zero emissions, right.
@jj-eg5up
2 жыл бұрын
@@sampsonsunny6298 thanks for adding such a well thought out and eloquent addition to the conversation. Comments like yours are true evidence that western civilization is on the upswing and true enlightenment is just around the corner. Applause for Sunny!
@brokenrecord3523
2 жыл бұрын
All that work. How much a jb cost?
@gotany1
5 жыл бұрын
while i was underpinning a house in north london, i remember digging into a land drain clay pipe about 2 meters down and i split it, and a trickle of water was coming out of the pipe, this irsh voice from above me at the edge of the hole said "be jesus you are going to regret that" with a little chuckle, he was right a bucket of water every 7 mins poured in, i still had 2 meters to dig down.
@themadfarmer5207
2 жыл бұрын
The series of 37 or 38 programmes was made by Rte. The quality of the narration is second to none. Rte do not seem to have many presenters today who could deliver a similar commentary. We are confronted by hand flapping presenters who have a personal image to project. Not so sure about dedidley outbreak of music intermittently during the program but the quality of historic footage and commentary compensates for that
@majorgenerall
2 жыл бұрын
Sadly everything is Americanised
@skateboardingjesus4006
2 жыл бұрын
@@majorgenerall Not here it isn't. Most look at most Americans as being a bit on the slow side.
@Kilograham89
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for holding on to this old documentary and posting it for our enjoyment its nice to see old industrial tradesman history.
@Sherwin657
2 жыл бұрын
Irish Stoneware & Fireclays Limited was set up on Thursday the 12th of October 1950. Their current partial address is Dublin, and the company status is Dissolved with the company closing on Friday the 31st of October 2008.
@filipbrecelj669
4 ай бұрын
do you know the address of the original factory site?
@ianmedium
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading these wonderful documentaries. I watched these as a teenager when they were first broadcast.
@nuclearfrog306
2 жыл бұрын
that Irish jabber in front of the kiln was the most essential part of the process
@heydj6857
2 жыл бұрын
lost skill sets and a lost time, my time, i grew up during these times and when i watch these i feel like a thousand years has passed. i miss those times.
@jashton8710
2 жыл бұрын
Having worked with pvc pipe and installing underground services, I have a special admiration for this process. Now I'd like to see how these are installed.
@Thomas63r2
2 жыл бұрын
What a gem of a film of old traditions in making clay pipes.
@demonic87
2 жыл бұрын
Makes you wonder if the automation of production is what really kills job satisfaction in the modern factory. These guys make the same things everyday, but each piece takes thought and skill, and in the end you end up with something that you uniquely produced. You don't get that hitting a button on a machine all day.
@Nine-Signs
2 жыл бұрын
indeed you don't, but your boss gets higher dividend payments due to needing less workers, welcome to capitalism, it doesn't work for most, most work for few. As for the business above, unfortunately ended trading in 2008.
@waleed8530
2 жыл бұрын
@@Nine-Signs I wonder if the owners moved into a new business.
@mrCetus
2 жыл бұрын
This video is one of the reasons I love KZitem and the net. Love learning things like this. I'm older, we had to drag our butts to the library to get info like this and chances of seeing a video like this were few and far between. I honestly think some of the pieces should be glazed and displayed, like the junction box.
@greenfingersgardener822
2 жыл бұрын
The junction is just so impressive. Their art in crafting is second to none, I hope these men can pass their experience down. For generations to come. I am just so amazed at the HANDS work...
@ThisIsGoogle
2 жыл бұрын
Dude nobody uses clay anymore for sewage works. There is nothing to pass on.
@mci6830
2 жыл бұрын
They'll be plenty of those in Ireland in use for a few decades yet.
@aniquinstark4347
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThisIsGoogle India does
@bretdouglas9407
6 жыл бұрын
Boyo How i love this! So much respect for the Irish workingman
@robertsroberts1688
5 жыл бұрын
bret douglas if only the same could be said for welshman as they practically built the british empire and fought its wars
@robertsroberts1688
5 жыл бұрын
not that thats great it was at the expense of their lives
@JoeSolla
2 жыл бұрын
Like the clay roof tiles in Miami that still had the hair marks from being shaped over the thighs of Cuban women, these men demonstrate the value of skilled labor in the product they make. Makes me proud to be Irish.
@Evergreen1400
2 жыл бұрын
Whoa I didn’t know that about the tile roofs in Miami that’s cool. I’m born and raised in Phoenix AZ we also do tile roofs
@Minimalist11Guy
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I love to know how things are made, especially in the traditional way Ceramics was a huge leap forward in our history, I would love to have work in this factory. I would like to buy around 35 of these pipes for making terracotta wine racks. I do hope that this factory is still in full production. My respect has increased, for this skill.
@Minalkra
2 жыл бұрын
Not sure about the factory but a quick search online shows the business went under in 2008 or so.
@Evergreen1400
2 жыл бұрын
19:32 I could listen to these guys talk all day and still not understand what’s going on 😂 but I like it.
@mrfingers4737
2 жыл бұрын
I've replaced clay pipes that were in the ground for up to a 100 years and it was as good as the day it went in.
@Scribe3168
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve had to remove some of these that were placed in the ground in 1911. They’re still brand new.
@TeddyBarefoot
5 жыл бұрын
These videos a wonderful, I'm glad I clicked on it.
@K-Effect
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I could work here. Also Pat the builder of those boxes around the 13:00 minute mark, he should have signature every one of his pieces with the date, works of art
@6R4ONLINENEWS
6 жыл бұрын
My father was from Carrickmacross and I have these on video. He knew some of the workers too. Great programme
@brianhaygood183
2 жыл бұрын
I could almost read the date on the film's ending as, I think, 1989. Were they making clay pipes at that time, or was this video shot before then, do you think?
@seanfox6947
8 ай бұрын
@@brianhaygood183shot in 1982/3
@kalbs89
2 жыл бұрын
No idea how this ended up as a KZitem recommendation… but I watched it.
@markrigsby2425
5 жыл бұрын
Completely Amazing.
@MrKrasean
3 жыл бұрын
Great video. I found it interesting that the workforce was super robust--dozens of guys helping out with every task--but also skewed pretty old. Lots of old-timers with 30 years experience and seemingly not many fresh bodies replacing them. And everyone was wearing suit coats.
@stephenrice4554
2 жыл бұрын
When I started in the seventies the jacket and a cap with a good pair of boots or shoes was all you had or needed . A good suit jacket had plenty of pockets and kept the wind and rain off .
@merak0044
2 жыл бұрын
I notice that also! I would of been wearing coveralls but then again don’t think they hard the stores we have today!
@macmcabee328
5 жыл бұрын
A wonderful film. Thank you!
@nealbeard1
5 жыл бұрын
Tommy's wife " what happened at work today love?" Tommy " I got my 190th new shovel."
@suemcculley7449
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful wonderful work...I'm an American irish but my ancestors come from Ulster province....these videos connect me to them as I've always wanted tio go to Ireland....I'm 64 years of age and I've spent my entire life learning about my roots...
@alundavies8402
4 жыл бұрын
Buy Euros at the bureau de change and then when you have enough save your money for a ticket and then you can go back to the old home if your family but it might take a while
@geraldneary1948
3 жыл бұрын
You're a good one
@Thelastminstrel
5 жыл бұрын
This doc was made in 83, found this listing on the web; Irish Stoneware & Fireclays Limited was founded on 12 Oct 1950 and has its registered office in Dublin 2. The organisation's status is listed as "Dissolved". It had 3 directors at the time it closed.
@DaBoomz13
5 жыл бұрын
Like all traditional factories go and went. First the foreign money pours in, then the "efficiency"-managers come in and automatize everything they can and soon they decide that the whole factory should be shut down and production moved to China.
@hydorah
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah pipework like this is all plastic now - except really, really big stuff which is concrete
@mike8631
5 жыл бұрын
@@DaBoomz13 Usually because people like you moan about "how dear" everything has become.
@DaBoomz13
5 жыл бұрын
@@mike8631 Nowadays that kind of people tend to not care. "Everything is made in China, so what?"
@greenlawnfarm5827
5 жыл бұрын
You can tell they were poor cause they didnt even have any work clothes and had to work in old business suits.
@Dinger154
7 жыл бұрын
Hand/eye skills to amaze the gods of the fields. And me.
@johnbrett8788
5 жыл бұрын
Hands was a brilliant tv series, love watching them and not a hi vis or helmet in sight.
@martinthemillwright
2 жыл бұрын
That Irish music hits you right in the feels.
@dst8511
5 жыл бұрын
I'm amazed at the age of the workers and how nice they dressed to go to work.
@Aleph-Noll
5 жыл бұрын
it might be that they overdressed for the camera but idk.
@chubeye1187
5 жыл бұрын
They had no other clothes. These were once their best. No workwear
@Desi-qw9fc
5 жыл бұрын
Patrick Ancona Ask yourself if you could afford a woollen three-piece suit to work in if you were a coal stoker in a factory today, and you’ll see what has changed.
@nealbeard1
5 жыл бұрын
Slow fashion. Patches and darning wool.
@bigredc222
4 жыл бұрын
If you watch any black and white movie, you'll see that everyone in Europe and America, and a good bit of the world wore a coat and tie and hat, all the time, then starting in the 60s the hippies started to break the mold.
@BobbyIronsights
5 жыл бұрын
thank you. Love the series
@paulbroderick8438
5 жыл бұрын
A plain and simple thank you. Love the series.
@akiko009
2 жыл бұрын
Back when stuff was built to last. They'll be digging up these perfectly preserved clay pipes 10,000 years from now, next to the dust piles of pipes made from inferior materials.
@aidy6000
2 жыл бұрын
think the high density polymer pipes you get now would last longer 😅
@akiko009
2 жыл бұрын
@@aidy6000 I don't know. Whenever it comes to these polymer chains, I think that it's just one evolutionary step away from getting consumed by bacteria...
@akiko009
2 жыл бұрын
@@aidy6000 If I recall right, the life expectancy for HDPE pipes is 50-100 years. In comparison there are some places that still use original Roman clay pipes. I'm not advocating that we should go back to clay, because there are a lot of very good reasons for HDPE, but building things to last effectively forever is not one of them.
@rosco4659
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent craftmanship, every piece like a precision work of art.
@johnedwardadams47
Жыл бұрын
The pipes being manufactured in the clips are used for "land drainage" laid end to end, sewage so no joints are needed, mainly for agricultural applications.
@sr633
7 жыл бұрын
They are heavy. These guys make them seem lite. I have handled them.
@FB-tq5ln
4 жыл бұрын
All tradesmen dresses like that. My own father always wore a tie with starch collar fresh everyday. Thats what you call a tradesman. All tradesmen believed in cleanliness when working. It was part of their training. You never bring dirt to work and you never bring it home. I have worked with clay pipes doing alteration cutting holes in live sewer pipe. The craft of these men is brilliant to watch, years of experience and knowledge. Brings back happy memories. Safety was always part of their work ethics and common sense. To many idiots with the wrong training now. That's why to many accidents happen. Health and safety my arse.
@pngtime4comment
3 жыл бұрын
i disagree
@docwatson1134
2 жыл бұрын
And here a year later. I appreciate the slow pace, they moved deliberately, and seemed utterly relaxed and focused on doing a excellent job on each piece. This is community, stable jobs like these helped keep society stable and the trust these men have with each other...it's wonderful. Modern OSHA rules are needed, in the more discordant and hurried workplace of distracted untrained workers we see today. Also to stop profit seeking business owners from causing accidents by creating unsafe conditions on purpose. ( Because it's cheaper that way) A universal set of rules are needed in highly industrialized manufacturing. Not all rules are good, they design them to fit all, even the dumbest among us. For a skilled worker, I think good practices and focus will serve better then excessive layers of safety equipment.
@ekuhlkamp
2 жыл бұрын
Watching Pat McGivney cut that junction box... my god that man must see dimensions I can't even begin to understand.
@vincentlabrecque2275
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading such precious jewels!
@orsonkaart1853
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent ! Thank you.
@StrzalaOstryPazur
2 жыл бұрын
It's amaizing that this pipe can still work somewhere.
@tamasmihaly1
2 жыл бұрын
Tough, skillful, and honest work.
@lyokofans
2 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the chap causally smoking a pipe while working harder than most of us do today.
@user-pv1iv3jk9s
2 жыл бұрын
Я сапожник. Уважаю работу руками!
@cmasailor
4 жыл бұрын
And they took pride in it.
@uxtalzon
5 жыл бұрын
Would love to get my hands on one of those transport carts. Those motors look beastly.
@mrcrabass3669
4 жыл бұрын
Single cylinder diesel Lister ,also common on cement mixers air cooled will run all day
@paulkerrigan9857
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Thanks for this.
@stephenrice4554
2 жыл бұрын
Great film , fine lads doing a good job and those pipes looked grand . Great video 👍🇬🇧
@ronyates5436
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this video
@Chr.U.Cas2216
5 жыл бұрын
A simply fantastic documentary again. Thank you so much for uploading and sharing. By the way: I live nearby the Westerwald in Germany where the most quarries with white clay are. It is called the white gold of the western forrest. For hundreds of years there had been an enormous number of families and companies working with clay. For example making pottery, tiles, tobacco pipes, pipes, plant pots and all kinds of products. Some do even today. It is called " Kannenbäckerland" which means something like potbakercountry. It was/is famous especially for its salt glazed products. Tobacco pipe making for example: kzitem.info/news/bejne/zYt71YefqKN4rYI
@ryanbeard1119
2 жыл бұрын
What is this white clay s mineralology
@Mimulus2717
2 жыл бұрын
I bet if a German couple had traveled around Germany in the 70s they could have made an equally fascinating series like this one. Anywhere in the world, as these traditions are as rich and varied as people are.
@merak0044
2 жыл бұрын
WoW! Hard work! Great piece of recorded history!
@gvi341984
3 жыл бұрын
Old Ireland -men had suits -smoked pipes at work -went to church on sundays New Ireland -juul/vape -spend weekends eating kebabs after grinding a slag at club -claim they are atheist or agnostic -lick British feet
@BritishCigaretteMarty
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting these lovely videos. So interesting to watch. Makes me feel like I’m living in the wrong time
@thelaw2174
2 жыл бұрын
Life was hard back then. We have it so good today.
@AmishHitman73.Archive
2 жыл бұрын
what excellent work
@timhull8664
2 жыл бұрын
What a shame we don’t use this stuff anymore, the skill and artistry.. great
@adamjankowski7679
2 жыл бұрын
It's fantastic that we don't. The cost is insane compared to newer technology
@moonbongyang6460
2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea i loved this. But i do. Thank you
@mkivy
5 жыл бұрын
A time gone...
@dankingjr.2088
2 жыл бұрын
Very cool video. Thanks!
@michaelmclaughlin9807
Жыл бұрын
That was great!
@richardordonez8331
2 жыл бұрын
With the invention of pvc and abs pipe I'm pretty sure it ended this industry. I'm a retired American plumber and ceramic clay pot thrower angelophile so I have a deep appreciation for this production
@demef758
2 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly. Also, with the hysteria about climate change, the burning of coal to fire the kilns ... gasp!!! The flip side of PVC and ABS is that it is made from oil. Gasp again!!! Oh well, the climate alarmists will be content to do without sewer lines in their new caves.
@cartoonhead9222
2 жыл бұрын
They shut down in 2007, so probably.
@skateboardingjesus4006
2 жыл бұрын
You mean Anglophile. You should know then that this is Ireland, not England, which is quite an insult, considering our mutual history. Oh BTW, kudos for being a clay pot thrower. Skills are definitely needed. I'm a sculptor and don't get near enough time for the beauty of ceramics.
@AlyxGlide
2 жыл бұрын
Give it time & a few trillion particles of microplastics
@andrewszabo7342
2 жыл бұрын
This was awesome 👌 Watched before bed, super relaxing 😌 Very informative 👏
@ronyates5436
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to see that they're still doing this
@crixxxxxxxxx
2 жыл бұрын
This was filmed 40 years ago.
@2010gtoner
2 жыл бұрын
I remember this old program. Good Stuff.
@ccamen
5 жыл бұрын
This was back when men were men and women were proud of it.
@mwnciboo
4 жыл бұрын
And a good Percentage of them were full blown alcoholics. Not everything was so rosie, but I'll admit they were tough.
@FB-tq5ln
4 жыл бұрын
@@mwnciboo Not every tradesman was an alcoholic. You did have a drink on pay day and Sunday morning/dinnertime. Drinking and heavy smoking was part of the culture then.
@Danieljc98
2 жыл бұрын
Great documentary, very interesting!
@johnritchie4801
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing craftsmanship
@lerkzor
5 жыл бұрын
I know they are speaking English, but I cann'ae understand a word of it! I have no idea how this ended up in my Recommended list, but I'm glad I watched it. Learned a few things.
@nealbeard1
5 жыл бұрын
I believe that they are discussing "Uylsses" by James Joyce. Asking the same old question "what the heck is it about?"
@Forgotten_Foods
2 жыл бұрын
30 years of experience shoveling clay
@j-ch8787
2 жыл бұрын
Hands... Handy works are so important. Tks for this nice vid which inspired me and made me learn a few things on clay work. Maybe I will try something close in my property, sometimes.
@Rowrowthegravyboat
2 жыл бұрын
This is the most Irish ting have ever seen. I’d a loved to see their party after work. It would have been perfect.
@cfrincon
4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff
@idonegotold
5 жыл бұрын
tanks fer dis
@citic101
6 жыл бұрын
great ::::::::::::thanks
@torbenhellborn3175
2 жыл бұрын
Niice movie - nice narration nice thank's a LOT
@Keys879
2 жыл бұрын
Factories of this time existed to fulfill a need. To solve a problem first and make a profit second. Today, it is the other way around. I see most companies only exist because they can and almost seem to create problems so they can solve them. How times have changed...
@jean-lucpicard5510
2 жыл бұрын
10:32 He probably cut the cake at his wedding with that laser-like hand-eye coordination.
@nospoon4799
2 жыл бұрын
1983 and tweed is still the thing.
@Fernando98850
5 жыл бұрын
Amazed! Who else wants to bite those crafts?!
@mikethespike7579
2 жыл бұрын
It'd be interesting to see how these pipes are manufactured now.
@Mimulus2717
2 жыл бұрын
I have watched about a dozen of these (love them!) and I notice there does not appear to be any tradition of special workclothes. From flax growers pitching bundles, stone cutters or clayworkers: they all wear button down shirts, sweater vests, wool blazers. I am sure not Sunday best, but no jeans, Carharts or what I would think of as an uniform. I wonder why they did not keep the tradition of linen work shirts/tunics and less tailored pants for movement that they had in earlier centuries?
@oskimac
2 жыл бұрын
i was thinking about the same.
@GoingtoHecq
2 жыл бұрын
I bet a lot of it is clothing availability.
@vs71597
2 жыл бұрын
It’s simple! That’s literally all they had.
@JK-zx3go
2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@tdmjason
5 жыл бұрын
They dress nicer at work than most Americans do going out.... including me lol
@lysdexsick
2 жыл бұрын
Very very cool 👍!!!!
@yetanotherjohn
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I'd pay extra for subtitles XD
@Elmerherrera89
4 жыл бұрын
This was filmed on casual Friday, they are usually wearing tux and bow tie. Fascinating
@alva7701
3 жыл бұрын
Llevo años y años mirando este vídeo por la razón que hay unos hombres hermosos. No cabe duda que hay hombres que apesar o sin importar su edad nunca dejan de ser hermosos. Nunca me cansaré de ver este vídeo. 😍
@thomasschmidt7649
2 жыл бұрын
You wouldn’t want to arm wrestle any of these blokes. 💪🏻
@sl0m0_
2 жыл бұрын
What a handsome young canine
@bb1257
2 жыл бұрын
I love how everyone is wearing suits.
@am4793
2 жыл бұрын
The fact he uses the span of his closed fingers to measure and cut sets off my OCD. Then there is the table fork as an edging tool.
@crawford323
2 жыл бұрын
I visited a kiln in Vegan, Luzon, Philippines which has been in operation for over 200 years. It was a horizontal oven with ports at various distances from the heat source to place the green pottery. Very interesting
@spacejihadist4246
2 жыл бұрын
"Vigan"
@crawford323
2 жыл бұрын
@@spacejihadist4246 Oh goodness, yes, please forgive the misspelling. It is a wonderful city.
@mikehooverson2712
2 жыл бұрын
Great video
@billirvine9078
2 жыл бұрын
Great music.
@mwnciboo
4 жыл бұрын
When PPE was an old jacket, flat cap and hob nail boots.
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