Seoda: The Irish Village (OS) Duration: 33:50
Rinneadh taifead ar ‘The Irish Village’ i mbaile Cruacháin i gCoraigh i 1959. Ba é James Clarke, stiúrthóir as an mBreatain, a stiúraigh an scannán. Bhuaigh sé gradaim BAFTA agus Oscar ina dhiaidh sin. Is meascán atá sa scannán d’antraipeolaíocht agus cur síos ar shochaí na háite, cur síos ar an saol i gCruachán i 1959. Sa ghuthú deirtear nach bhfuil aon cheo speisialta faoi Chruachán ach go bhfuil sé ag fáil bháis.
The Irish Village was shot in the town of Crookhaven, Co. Cork, in 1959 by James Clark, an English director who would go on to win Academy and BAFTA awards for his work as a film editor (on The Killing Fields & Vera Drake). It is a mix of anthropology and social commentary, a visual record of life in Crookhaven in 1959 with a voice-over that tells us that there is nothing special about Crookhaven 'except that it is dying'.
this is available on listen again on tg 4,at 23 minutes there is some irish trad music plus a boy stepdancing [quite fast ]to the boys of bluehill.
Interesting that the english tune LA RUSSE,was used by the irish set dancers,
it seems to me from talking to older people,that before comhaltas attempted to save Irish music, there was much more cross over of english and scottish tunes,in irish music.
there was much less worrying about correct ornamentation,people played and enjoyed themselves and werent preoccupied with correct style.
shock horror :a piano accordion player playing for a step dancer,the boy was managing ok though,just as he would if it had been an english concertina.
here in Ireland,people are a lot less precious about style,there are all kinds of box players,even bc players playing vamping basses[some of them playing in the key of c].
All down to the days when ceili dancing was big, and I mean big! In the early fifties there was ceili dancing on most weekends in most towns in Ireland and in the Irish Dance Halls abroad. More Ceili Bands than you could shake a stick at and most playing a lively mixture of Irish and Scottish music.
One thing the dancers in those days wanted was a lively band that could also play in a nice old time waltz, and not just Irish waltz either. Anything in 3/4 time from the top twenty got an airing.
Has the programme been aired yet on TG4 or have we still a chance to see it? Delighted to be reminded of those carefree days back in the fifties and sixties where céilí bands even played waltzes and the odd quickstep! It's true some of us are getting far too precious about our tradition nowadays which is there to be shared by all. The last straw for me was the recent ears v dots debate on "how you learned your tunes" and that if you got them from dots, then they weren't really kosher. In those days all that mattered was that you could play!
the programme can be viewed on the TG 4 website http://www.tg4.ie/index.asp
go to TG4 live,
Faisnéis - Cartlann,
Seoda: The Irish Village
The tune the piano accordion player is playing near the end is actually the first part of La Russe with a different second part.
the irish village
the irish village
Seoda: The Irish Village (OS) Duration: 33:50
Rinneadh taifead ar ‘The Irish Village’ i mbaile Cruacháin i gCoraigh i 1959. Ba é James Clarke, stiúrthóir as an mBreatain, a stiúraigh an scannán. Bhuaigh sé gradaim BAFTA agus Oscar ina dhiaidh sin. Is meascán atá sa scannán d’antraipeolaíocht agus cur síos ar shochaí na háite, cur síos ar an saol i gCruachán i 1959. Sa ghuthú deirtear nach bhfuil aon cheo speisialta faoi Chruachán ach go bhfuil sé ag fáil bháis.
The Irish Village was shot in the town of Crookhaven, Co. Cork, in 1959 by James Clark, an English director who would go on to win Academy and BAFTA awards for his work as a film editor (on The Killing Fields & Vera Drake). It is a mix of anthropology and social commentary, a visual record of life in Crookhaven in 1959 with a voice-over that tells us that there is nothing special about Crookhaven 'except that it is dying'.
this is available on listen again on tg 4,at 23 minutes there is some irish trad music plus a boy stepdancing [quite fast ]to the boys of bluehill.
# Posted on October 19th 2008 by Dick Miles
Re: the irish village
hey dickens, can you speak Irish?
# Posted on October 19th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: the irish village
Very nice little film, thanks for the heads-up.
# Posted on October 19th 2008 by Murph
Re: the irish village
Interesting that the english tune LA RUSSE,was used by the irish set dancers,
it seems to me from talking to older people,that before comhaltas attempted to save Irish music, there was much more cross over of english and scottish tunes,in irish music.
there was much less worrying about correct ornamentation,people played and enjoyed themselves and werent preoccupied with correct style.
shock horror :a piano accordion player playing for a step dancer,the boy was managing ok though,just as he would if it had been an english concertina.
here in Ireland,people are a lot less precious about style,there are all kinds of box players,even bc players playing vamping basses[some of them playing in the key of c].
# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Dick Miles
Re: the irish village
All down to the days when ceili dancing was big, and I mean big! In the early fifties there was ceili dancing on most weekends in most towns in Ireland and in the Irish Dance Halls abroad. More Ceili Bands than you could shake a stick at and most playing a lively mixture of Irish and Scottish music.
One thing the dancers in those days wanted was a lively band that could also play in a nice old time waltz, and not just Irish waltz either. Anything in 3/4 time from the top twenty got an airing.
# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Free Reed
Re: the irish village
Has the programme been aired yet on TG4 or have we still a chance to see it? Delighted to be reminded of those carefree days back in the fifties and sixties where céilí bands even played waltzes and the odd quickstep! It's true some of us are getting far too precious about our tradition nowadays which is there to be shared by all. The last straw for me was the recent ears v dots debate on "how you learned your tunes" and that if you got them from dots, then they weren't really kosher. In those days all that mattered was that you could play!
# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Bannerman
Re: the irish village
the programme can be viewed on the TG 4 website http://www.tg4.ie/index.asp
go to TG4 live,
Faisnéis - Cartlann,
Seoda: The Irish Village
The tune the piano accordion player is playing near the end is actually the first part of La Russe with a different second part.
# Posted on October 20th 2008 by cathycook