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Voices of the Valley - The Mealagh Valley Oral History Project

The Mealagh Valley in West Cork, Ireland is a unique place in Europe, where a time before cars, before tractors, before electricity, and running water - is still living memory for the people who grew up here and who live here now. In 'Voices of the Valley', twelve local elders from the Mealagh Valley share their stories. Their recollections are funny, poignant, and deeply evocative, painting a portrait of a rural Ireland almost unimaginable today. What emerges is an exploration of generational environmental change and communal spirit. Once, children searched for birds’ nests for fun and community came together to harvest. Everyone recalls the corncrake, once called the “sound of summer,” yet absent for over fifty years. Without judgment, the film invites us to reflect on what has vanished - not only from our natural environment, but from our communities - the neighbourliness, the meitheals, and the shared resilience of a different time. It invites us to pause, and to carry forward the wisdoms of our elders. PRESENTED BY The Mealagh Valley Oral History Project IN ASSOCIATION WITH The Cork Folklore Project DIRECTED BY Kait Husmann FILMED & EDITED BY Kait Husmann EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Eleanor Fitzgerald Kait Husmann NARRATED by Carla Collins CO-PRODUCED by Sheila Cronin Markus Husmann FEATURING Michael O’Brien Neil MacSweeney Martin O’Mahony Mary Hurley Paddy O’Sullivan Tom Conway Mary O’Sullivan Jerry O’Shea Hannie O’Brien Paddy O’Brien Denis O’Sullivan Vincent Crowley INTERVIEWED BY THE MEALAGH VALLEY HERITAGE KEEPERS Eleanor Fitzgerald Sheila Cronin John O’Leary Ciara O’Leary Leemore Butler Liam Minihane Noreen O’Shea Kait Husmann AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY Markus Husmann HISTORICAL CONSULTANT Dr Natasha Dukelow, PhD CORNCRAKE FOOTAGE COURTESY Corncrake / Traonach LIFE THRESHING FOOTAGE Siobhán Cullinane BERRY PICKING CHILD Rowan Husmann SONG Horse & Plough performed by Vincent Crowley ENGLISH / IRISH SUBTITLES Dr Natasha Dukelow, PhD Dr Tomás O'Sullivan, PhD Sheila Cronin Áine Crowley Kait Husmann Leemore Butler Amelia Butler SPECIAL THANKS TO The Mealagh Valley Community Hall Dr. Tomás Mac Conmara Oral History Consulting Pat O’Mahony Carla Collins John Cronin Michael Keohane Julie Parsons Thank you to the whole Mealagh Valley community who have helped and supported this project in so may ways. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:22 Hard Work & Survival 3:27 Hedgerow Foraging 4:47 Jam, Zero Waste, Self-Sufficiency 5:48 Schools in the Mealagh Valley 10:40 Making Butter 13:32 Scoirarte & TV 15:04 Piseógs, Superstitions, Fairy Stories 16:53 Dancing & Singing in the Mealagh 18:56 Parafin & Tilly Lamps 20:10 Shops in the Mealagh Valley 21:17 Simplicity of Childhood - Bikes 22:57 Biodiversity in the Mealagh River Then 26:45 Electricity Comes to the Valley 1960s-1975 28:53 ESB 29:48 Phones & Being a Telephonist for An Post 32:52 First Cars in West Cork 35:11 Cutting Turg in the Bog 38:04 Bog Body Found in the Mealagh 38:51 Open Fires & Cooking 42:44 Bathing, Bathrooms 43:39 Wells & Running Water 44:30 Learning To Water Divine - Water Divining 48:45 Old Field Names - Knocking Ditches 50:04 Finding Birds Nests as a Child 52:31 Forestry Plantations 53:40 Emigration from Rural Ireland 56:50 Signs of Rain & Old Cures 1:00:00 Catching Swarms, Keeping Bees, & Pollination 1:03:22 Charity & Helping Each Other 1:05:18 Meithal & Threshing 1:09:20 Drinking & Pioneers Total Absence Association 1:11:06 Catching Rabbits & Myxomatosis 1:16:04 Stations of the Cross & Walking to Mass 1:19:20 Keeping Pigs in the House, Killing the Pig 1:25:40 Self Reliance - Fair Day in Bantry Town 1:27:59 Planting & Preserving Food without Refrigeration 1:29:40 Growing Flax for Linen in West Cork 1:30:31 Gorse For Horses - Furze Planting 1:33:17 Changes in Farming 1:35:20 Remembering the Corn Crake 1:39:32 Horse & Plough Song