the women of achill island

[Music] like I do remember my sister and I we were built in the new stables I remember us knock in a wall you know like with the big hammer I remember laughs and say you know we're not boys but yeah we were well able to do it and I remember we were astonished ourselves that we could do it and from that day it were already young at the time but I think we've always had the idea you know turn your hand to anything [Music] so this is the deserted village it's quite a stark image on the landscape now Daphne it would remind you of famine times obviously in order to gain employment men have to go elsewhere really and the women were left here really to raise the children until to to manage the house and manage the affairs and you know till the land the women in Akko were very different the cycling of the women in Akko was very very different Akal women were quite independent they were very resourceful they had great reserves of common sense they were extremely resilient the men went away and the women were left to do the work and it was very hard work for the women it's the story of a kibbutz that's been acting all the time that was what was very clever about what my father did he didn't move away to make a living he could see what resources were here what natural resources were here that he could tap into in deep I'm huggin I'm Carmindy sheathing they're all going to connect up come come much closer they're a bit scattered over like the stairs in the sky at the moment see they're moving along down here know that transom to the cause [Music] wait wait wait we have around 150 grazing here on this mountain or I come here regularly once a week so we usually do a accountant fee that 99 percent or 90 percent of the sheep are all in the area for the grace [Music] pretty small it's hard to see her Helen where's she going now she's gone my daughter's they come here help to collect the shape they've been coming since I mean that's I sit there where Abraham was little on at all there's a boy the oldest in eight girls and then a boy the youngest so in total there's ten of us jakey couldn't taste the order for a boy we got to kick without ginger so God's in Damascus you know that's sort of the moment the other daughter but the shelf [Music] [Applause] we've always been farming for as long as I can remember the male black-faced sheep which we then producers a comment in love [Music] each of us in our own way stay central to the to the business you just give a hands wherever you can and I trained here with my father and I worked in the shop and that's how I fell into it well we grew up with it it was part of our lives we all worked here when we were younger so we all you have to do everything in a small family business is just everything you don't have an expert in every department you are the expert in every department I did refer to myself as the weakest links I'd always take fatah that wasn't really fun totally it work of course you know contributed all the same it's not a home that you can sit and relax I wish sometimes it was more a home that you could put your feet up in but they're always just tends to be something happening I think anyone that's born ARFF remark oh I would love to probably live here full-time but it's very few people that can make it work you live on the island you can do that you just don't give up you have to make an effort and the soldier keepers will maybe go because to want to go I wanted to go but I wanted to see what it's like on the other side but there's nothing easier to keep on the other side either my family are aware that I've often told them if you put the time in you'll get to your world did not fit in the time and expecting his reward [Music] it's in our heritage trees we strong and independent and we were a family of girls it was just very much got on and you know did the farming and did whatever have to be done book it to do really with the ancestry of our collecting people are are just like that those women of the past like they were a shining example they're an inspiration I think there's a place for those qualities in the achill island of today they all came in improved it with elan and that no doubt there's a by no problem don't me no one ever questioned whether it was a man's job or a woman's job we knew no different yeah just got on it that was it you know yeah [Music] [Music] you

Channel: theperennialplate

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Rating: 4.818182 out of 5

Keywords: ireland, achill, calvey, perennial plate, lamb, black faced lamb, she persisted, feminist, film, documentary, sustainable, wild, epic, daniel klein, mirra fine, hunter johnson

Id: hOUpaeqspJg

Length: 6min 49sec (409 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2020