John Thompson Productions Specialising in Irish Farming and History DVDS

At this site you can find dvds of interest to young and old from farming history to sporting and music.

We dispatch to America and all DVDs are converted to American format.

Take a browse through what we have to offer.

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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

Wildfowling & Roughshooting In Ireland

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

Days of Hunger

A film following a family through the great Irish famine of 1845.  The population of Ireland in a 1841 census was given as 8.1 million people. Some believe that it could have been as high as 9 or even 10 million. The vast majority of the poor depended on one resource - the potato.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