Irish Farming and History DVDS

At this site you will find farming history, sporting and music dvds made in Co Derry Northern Ireland of interest to young and old

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Those Days are Gone

This DVD is about the turf cutting when men, women and children went to the bog to cut turf using a spade and turf barrow.  By the 1970s machines were on the market to cut more turf in an hour than a man would have done in a week. The DVD also looks at the ancient art of bee keeping, old breeds of Irish cattle and poultry production.Read more

Price: £12.00

The Golden Years of Farming

This DVD deals with the changing face of farming in the 1960s. Men who had worked all their lives with horses were now changing to the tractor and inside the farmhouse the advent of piped water and electricity were making life better for the farmer's wife.Read more

Price: £12.00

Muckross - preserving the past

This DVD was filmed in Muckross Traditional Farm, Killarney.   Based on the 1930's this DVD deals with a time when all the work on the farm was done with men and horses. This DVD goes through the complete season on the farm and also shows the women's roll, making butter, buttermilk and baking bread on an open fire.Read more

Price: £12.00

1920s Irish hiring fairs

This DVD is about the hiring of farm servants in Ireland which was common up until the beginning of World War 2.  Men, women and children as young as 7 would stand in the market place hoping to find a farmer who would hire them.  The wage would be about £6 for 6 months.Read more

Price: £12.00

Wildfowling & Roughshooting In Ireland

This DVD is said by many to be the best wildfowling film ever made in Ireland.  In this dvd we follow the complete wildfowling season on Lough Neagh,  including duck, partridge and pheasant shooting (wildfowl),  snipe, rabbit and vermin control.Read more

Price: £12.00

Days of Hunger

This DVD is a dramatised documentary about a family from mid Ulster during the Great Irish Potato Famine from 1845-1849.  John Kane, his wife and 8 children had a small farm during the mid 1800s - this is their story.  This DVD is part of the history curriculum in almost every school in Ireland.Read more

Price: £12.00

Lint & Linen - the linen industry in Ulster

This DVD deals with the Flax Industry in the 1940s and 1950s. It looks at the complete year of flax production including sowing, pulling, dam retting, stooking, scutching, beetling, spinning and weaving to name a few.Read more

Price: £12.00

The War Years

A history lesson not to be missed.  This DVD deals with ordinary Irish country people and how they coped with the difficulties of living in a country at war.Read more

Price: £12.00

Miraculous Visions / Apparitions At Kerrytown & Knock

On January 11th 1939 the Ward family witnessed an apparition of Our Lady on a rock in front of their house in Kerrytown, near Dungloe Co.Read more

Price: £12.00