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Hello. My name is Ardal.

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It is a real name
and I'm a real person.

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And this is Ireland, a real place,

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as well as an imaginary one.

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There are just a few things
about my country I could do without.

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But mostly, I love it.

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To help separate the myth
from the reality,

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I'm going to consult
this old guidebook to Ireland.

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It was written by the
formidable Mr and Mrs Hall,

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an Anglo-Irish couple

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who condescended their way
around the country,

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examining every facet of Irish life
for better or for worse.

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"..idle, reckless...unprincipled."

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It was the drink, James,
it was the drink.

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Their observations of Ireland
and the Irish took root

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in the minds
of their English readers.

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But was there any merit in them?

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Are we really a bunch
of superstitious, God-fearing,

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whiskey-sodden chancers or
are we just like everybody else?

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Well, there's only one
way to find out.

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This time I'm looking into
what makes the Irish

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so distinctly, well, Irish.

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In a globalised world,

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can a small country hold on
to a strong national identity?

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And if so, what's ours?

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I'm starting off in a small village
in County Clare to meet

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who some say are the original
indigenous people of Ireland,

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predating the Normans,
Vikings, even the Celts.

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Traditionally, they toured the
country in their colourful caravans,

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but nowadays you're more likely
to find Irish Travellers

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in settled communities, like these.

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Could they shed any light on
what defines the Irish?

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And do you buy and sell
the horses as well?

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This is home
to a large extended family.

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And the head of the family
is Michael Mongan.

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Yeah, yeah.

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He's a daredevil, that fellow.

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Michael and his wife, Maryellen,
have 14 children

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and 67 grandchildren and there's
great-grandchildren as well.

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CHILD: Can I go on? Pick me up!

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They've had to get used to living
in houses like settled people do.

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But home was once wherever
they pulled in for the night.

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And do you miss that life at all?

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What was it that you liked
about it though?

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MICHAEL:

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Do you like that life,
just going from town to town?

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Yeah?

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I suppose on
a summer night it was...

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Lovely in the summer.

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And did you have a plan of where
you would go all did you just go

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wherever your nose took you?

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I mean, do you consider yourself
different from the settled people?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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You were saying that
the language is different.

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In what way is
the language different?

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Cant? Cant. Yes.

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A beor?

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Right. MARYALLEN: We call a girl...

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Is that a friendly term?
That's a woman. Friendly, yes.

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A lackin?

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Maryellen has invited me
inside her house.

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This is a rare privilege indeed.

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Is there a lot of coming and
going all the time?

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Because it's all your immediate
family in the other houses?

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Yes.

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'Maryellen's living room reveals

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'a lot about the
Travellers' way of life.'

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Nice pictures of horses up there.

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This is a photo of a horse.

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It's lovely and cosy.
Is this your great-grandchild here?

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Oh, that's your grandchild.

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CHILD: That's the baby!

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That's the baby? Yeah, look. Yeah.

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It's the baby. What his name?

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I don't know.

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CHILD: I know his name! Jerry!

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What's his name? He's Jerry.

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Um... Spider-Man.

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Spider-Man?
He's not Spider-Man! He's Jerry!

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That's a nice name for a boy,
Spider-Man, isn't it?

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On the walls are photos of
Michael and Maryellen

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when their children were young.

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In 1963, a government initiative
tried to force Travellers,

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like the Mongans, to leave
their caravans behind for good.

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You can see the pride
the young couple had

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in who they were
and where they'd come from.

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Now, a great-grandmother, Maryellen
is quite keen to explain to me

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the traditional way in which
she's dressed in the photo.

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Oh, yeah.

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And what would be in the basket?

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Oh, you make those yourself? Yeah.

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Very nice.

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For many, the nomadic life
of the Travellers might be over

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but they've managed to hold on
to many of their old ways,

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including the sulky carts they use
for their hair-raising races.

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Do you think the community
will survive,

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the Travelling community, like?

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Do you think the customs and
traditions will be,

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kind of, maintained?

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No, I'd say that the Travellers'
life... We're all dying out.

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You really think that? Yeah.

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If that's true, it'll be a sad day
for Michael and the Mongans.

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These Travellers talk of their love
and understanding of their animals.

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The affection they have for
the countryside they once roamed

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and for what they saw as the
freedom they used to have.

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It's all too easy to romanticise
Travellers or indeed vilify them.

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But what we all have in common
is a deep commitment to family

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and horses.

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It's insane to try and sum up
a whole country

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or something as fickle as a people.
That's just folly.

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But there definitely seems to be
a strong sense of identity here,

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a lot of symbols and so forth
that people broadly share.

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Now, whether these are real
and rooted in our history

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or manufactured,
that's open to debate.

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But one thing for sure is
people in this country,

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they're absolutely preoccupied with
what it means to be Irish.

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It's March 17th,
Saint Patrick's Day.

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It's instantly recognisable
as the day when the Irish revel

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in their Irishness.

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It's celebrated in more
countries around the world

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than any other national holiday.

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It's a day when everyone
the world over is encouraged

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to wear the green,
a colour adopted by revolutionaries

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in the late 18th century,

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when they attached green ribbons and
shamrocks to their clothes.

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The Ireland I grew up in
has been totally transformed.

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For centuries,
we were a nation of emigrants.

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At least 70 million people around
the world have Irish ancestors.

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But in the economic boom of
the late 1990s, all that changed.

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People started to come
here to settle.

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In only one generation,

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Ireland went from a monoculture
to a multicultural society.

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TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYS

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Elliott and his family moved
from Nigeria 15 years ago.

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Today, he's one of the best
Irish dancers in the country.

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OK. You go on ahead.
I'll follow you in.

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I have to be honest.
I used to scoff at Irish dancing

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when I was younger
and when I was older.

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For me, it was always
a little bit too wholesome,

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a little bit old-fashioned and...

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..desexified, if that's a word.

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I was more of a head-banging along
to Black Sabbath sort of guy.

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But for Elliott here, this is a real
crash course in Irish culture.

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He's gone in at the deep end.

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Irish dancing was one of
the art forms invented

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in the late 19th century
to revitalise Irish culture.

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As Elliott and his friend
Emily demonstrate,

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it's all about a controlled
and rigid upper body

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and quick, precise movements
of feet and legs.

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Fantastic.

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I know you're a good footballer,
I know your brothers play football.

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Why did you pick dancing?

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I found out that was my talent
and that's what I loved.

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I discovered it on YouTube
and I found out that I loved

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doing that more than football.

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So then I kept on working towards it
and I reached my goal in the end.

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Did you practise on your own
in front of the mirror? Yeah.

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And so you knew some of the steps
before you actually got lessons?

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Yeah. And do you do competitions?

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Yeah. All over Ireland?

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All over the world.
All over the world?! Yeah. Really?

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When I was younger,
boys weren't allowed to dance

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with girls a lot of the time,
so you'd end up dancing with chairs.

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THEY GIGGLE
That was no fun.

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It was just a big bunch of boys in
a room dancing around chairs.

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I fell in love with a chair once.
THEY LAUGH

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Needless to say, the chair found
somebody else and that was the end

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of my dancing career.

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Fact is, these days Irish dance
is scarily competitive.

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I wouldn't have stood a chance.

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Naturally enough, the Halls
have an opinion on Irish dancing.

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Here we go.

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"The best idea we can give of
it is that it consists in striking

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"the ground very rapidly with
the heel and the toe

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"or with the toes of each
foot alternately.

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"A stranger not hearing the music
and seeing only the dancer

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"would be likely to imagine
he was killing a rat."

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How dare they?

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They're not really
appreciating the nuances.

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I'm on the lookout for what makes
the Irish unique, or different.

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I suppose one of the things
that have shaped us

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are the repeated
invasions by other people.

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And the internal conflicts
we've experienced as a result.

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Up until about a century ago,

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Ireland was part
of the United Kingdom.

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Now, I'm in Dublin.
The centre of a rebellion in 1916

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that led eventually
to Irish independence.

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After independence, the
country was transformed radically.

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Well, they painted
the red postboxes green.

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Although it doesn't look like it,
this postbox is actually green.

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But it has been
temporarily painted red

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in order for it to
be painted green again.

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"Why?" I hear you ask.
Good question.

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Well, to commemorate those
heady days of 1916, of course.

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Hello, Eamonn.

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And now Eamonn Dolan and I

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are going to restore it
to its rightful colour.

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That's for you. OK, so let's go on
and get you all suited up, OK.

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OK, right.

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I'm not allowed near a can of
paint until I'm wearing overalls.

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'Hm. Obviously a
very dangerous mission.'

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You feel like you have to walk like
this when you're in one. Oh, aye.

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OK, have you painted before?
No, not really. Not really.

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Of course you have.

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Eamonn is a professional
postbox painter.

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And there's a certain
technique I have to master.

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You just go in like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We're going with
the curvature of the box.

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Going with the
curvature of the box. OK.

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Like, why was it so important

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that we painted these green
after independence?

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Well, I think... Myself now,
personally speaking, you know,

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it was sort of to eradicate
the whole British red of Britain.

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We wanted to move on,
have our own identity.

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We have amazing history
and I love that.

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Do you think we're different from
the British then? I mean...

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Well, they have their own history,
as well, to be honest with you.

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I mean, I love the
British history as well.

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To be quite honest with you.
But what makes us like different?

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Because, you know,
we're very close neighbours.

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We're a small country, but we
recognised all over the world. Yeah.

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Isn't that it? You know?
A nation our size, what?

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Under five million.

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We're recognised all over the world.

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We always try to be
different to England.

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I think that's... Yeah.

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That's the main thing
when we got independence

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and in the decades
before independence,

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I think we had to invent a new
Ireland... A new Ireland.

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..that was very
different to England.

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I think that was the main...
Like it was the main thing.

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Did you ever hear it said that
green is a very restful colour?

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No. It's supposed to be, yeah. But
I... I can understand that. Yeah.

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It literally, physically, is
supposed to make you relax.

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Yeah, yeah. That's what I heard.

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Apparently, it actually even...

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It reduces your allergy symptoms.

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Yeah. It stimulates
the pituitary gland. OK.

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Which relaxes the muscles and
reduces your allergy symptoms.

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I find... To be honest with you,

243
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I find painting my boxes
very, very therapeutic. Yeah.

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Very, therapeutic. Yeah.
Either way, it is very enjoyable.

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I also do feel a little bit of
a swelling of pride myself,

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to be honest with you. Yeah.

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Like this is my
contribution to Irish freedom.

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No, I think absolutely. 100 years
too late, but there you go.

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Over the centuries, when
it comes to protest,

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we can be quite subtle
and to the point.

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From the simple symbolism of
changing the colour of a postbox,

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to just banging a big drum.

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Unique to Ulster, the Lambeg drum

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is allegedly the loudest folk
instrument in the world.

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I can believe that.

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It mostly features in Protestant
Orange parades as a battle drum.

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On the border between
the north and south,

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there's a brand-new drumming
tradition in the making.

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I'm being taken to meet some members
of a community of a dozen or more

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Irish Japanese who have settled
within a few miles of Derry.

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All right. How are you?
You're the boss. I am.

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Under the guidance of Fiona Umetsu,

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they've taken up
Japanese Taiko drumming.

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I made them into a body.
Incredible. That's cowhide, is it?

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Yes. Are you allowed to touch
these things? Oh, God, yeah.

266
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You don't get bad luck?

267
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There's something awful good
about Taiko. There really is.

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I kind of think of it
as a force for good

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and it brings people together
and it brings out the best in people

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and it brings out a lot
of really creative energy.

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I mean, that begs the question...
I mean, you're obviously from Derry

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and you lived through The Troubles.

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In fact, probably escaped
from The Troubles

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by going to Japan
to some extent. Yep.

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But do you think that Taiko drumming
has some sort of a role to play

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in the sense that it's nonsectarian?

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Irish drums unfortunately
have sort of become segregated,

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which is such a shame.

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So, we do kind of
refer to them sometimes

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as the nondenominational drums.

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It is something new that is kind of
still being developed. So, yeah...

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It's like you're pioneering
a new tradition.

283
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I mean, it could take off as the
Japanese Irish community grows. Yes!

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That's the plan! World
domination through Taiko. Wow!

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SHE SPEAKS JAPANESE

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THEY CHANT

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There's something heartening
about these Irish-Japanese kids

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banging out a new
identity for themselves.

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THEY SHOUT

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Wow! That was amazing.
Well done. Excellent.

291
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Thank you! Thank you very much.

292
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Do you want to have a go?
I don't know. I don't... I don't...

293
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Like, I don't want to ruin it.
No. You won't ruin it. Too special.

294
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We'll break you in gently.

295
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OK.
FIONA LAUGHS

296
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OK, and you're going to
bring your right hand down

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and then your left hand down.

298
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So, it's like your
goalkeeping stance. Exactly.

299
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About to save a penalty. OK.
Nothing's going to get past you.

300
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OK, so... Are you ready?

301
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FIONA SPEAKS JAPANESE

302
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Don't be scared of it.

303
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OK, and then you're going to
bring your left hand down.

304
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You're kind of bringing
it down like a backhand. OK. OK.

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THEY CHANT

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Well done, well done. All right.
I have it. I got it, I got it.

307
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You got it, you got it. You're
sorted, you're sorted. No problem.

308
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OK, so maybe rhythm's not my thing.

309
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Unlike these guys,
who are clearly marching

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to the beat of a
very different drum.

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In a country where for so
long religion divided the people,

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when it came to the issue
of marriage equality,

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the people came together.

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Thank you very much.

315
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One of the biggest advocates for gay
rights in Ireland is Rory O'Neill.

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Rory grew up in a remote town
in the west of Ireland.

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He created Ireland's pre-eminent
drag queen, Panti Bliss.

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And together, they opened
Dublin's most famous LGBT venue,

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Pantibar, in 2007.

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I'm lucky because I can leave here.

321
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I asked Rory what it was like to be
gay in Ireland back in the old days.

322
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When I was growing up,
you know, in the '70s or '80s,

323
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I always felt that
sort of queer people

324
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weren't really considered Irish.

325
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They might be sort of a bit
Protestant English or something,

326
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,480
do you know what I mean?
They were heathens.

327
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You know, and that your Irishness
was being called into question.

328
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And I sort of had this funny accent,

329
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so people would start thinking,
"Where are you from?"

330
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You know, there was
that sort of quality.

331
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And my queerness did the same thing.
They were like...

332
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I always felt that there was no
space for a queer Irish person.

333
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In 2015, following much heated
debate around the country,

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championed by people like Rory,

335
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Ireland had a nationwide
referendum on marriage equality.

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62% voted yes.

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Ireland, perhaps surprisingly,
found itself at the vanguard

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of social change when it became
the first nation in the world

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to vote in a referendum
for same-sex marriage.

340
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When you walk around Dublin now,
you do see, you know,

341
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gay and lesbian
couples holding hands.

342
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Which is something you
almost never saw before.

343
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And if you did, you know, they were
a pretty brave, bolshie couple.

344
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And I think after the referendum,
the gay community here felt secure

345
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in their place and they felt secure
in their place as Irish people.

346
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Because I sort of have
always felt myself...

347
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Like sometimes people describe me,
say, as a gay activist.

348
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But I always say, "Well, that's not
really exactly what I was about."

349
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What I was about was trying to
expand the definition of Irishness.

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I feel the
referendum finally said,

351
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"Actually, yes.
You're totally Irish."

352
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You know, that's what
it sort of felt like to me.

353
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Just six months on
from the referendum,

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over 400 couples have tied the knot.

355
00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:56,280
Our sense of identity,
it's not cast in stone.

356
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,240
We're open to change
and that can only be a good thing.

357
00:22:05,980 --> 00:22:09,940
I'm on a journey to find out what
makes the Irish in any way unique.

358
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A lot of what we now think of as
being Irish was actually

359
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forged in defiance of invading
forces trying to change us.

360
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This is Kilkenny.

361
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Following the Anglo-Norman invasion
nearly 1,000 years ago,

362
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the native Irish population were
accused of corrupting the colonisers

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with their ways and wiles,

364
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making them more Irish than the
Irish themselves.

365
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Apparently.

366
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As a result, a whole raft of laws
were passed to stop the

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widespread adoption of Irishness
and Irish culture.

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The Halls detailed some of these
laws

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00:22:50,580 --> 00:22:52,940
with a certain relish, I feel.

370
00:22:52,940 --> 00:22:54,620
HE LAUGHS

371
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"That marriage with the Irish
was treason.

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"That the use of Irish names,
apparel or language be punished with

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"forfeiture of lands or
imprisonment."

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00:23:02,340 --> 00:23:05,460
This was the first real attempt to
wipe out Irish culture,

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00:23:05,460 --> 00:23:07,500
including the language.

376
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:10,460
"No Englishman was to entertain any
of the minstrels,

377
00:23:10,460 --> 00:23:12,780
"rhymers or newstellers."

378
00:23:12,780 --> 00:23:14,300
That was me out of a job.

379
00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:17,180
You couldn't have your linen dyed in
saffron.

380
00:23:17,180 --> 00:23:19,620
Nothing too colourful for the
English settlers.

381
00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:21,660
"That the English should not
permit the Irish to

382
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"graze upon their land."

383
00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:27,220
They even said that hurling, the old
Irish game, should be banned.

384
00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:31,060
And they complained about the great
evils and maims that were

385
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associated with hurling at the time.

386
00:23:35,540 --> 00:23:37,300
More than seven centuries later,

387
00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:39,740
the Irish revived hurling with
a vengeance.

388
00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:46,460
Thought to be thousands of years
old, this fast-moving,

389
00:23:46,460 --> 00:23:48,780
and some would say extremely
dangerous sport,

390
00:23:48,780 --> 00:23:51,660
was vastly different to any other
sport in the United Kingdom

391
00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:53,780
at the time. And that was the whole
point.

392
00:23:55,820 --> 00:23:59,060
Now, Kilkenny is home to one of the
top teams in the country.

393
00:24:00,340 --> 00:24:03,340
Players use a wooden stick called
a hurley to hit

394
00:24:03,340 --> 00:24:06,260
a small called a sliotar,

395
00:24:06,260 --> 00:24:08,700
which can be caught in the hand and
carried

396
00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:10,180
for not more than four steps.

397
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,020
The ball can travel at 100mph -

398
00:24:14,020 --> 00:24:15,460
that's the dangerous bit.

399
00:24:17,220 --> 00:24:19,460
And these lads are just 14.

400
00:24:19,460 --> 00:24:21,380
They dream of the ultimate honour -

401
00:24:21,380 --> 00:24:23,380
to represent their county.

402
00:24:23,380 --> 00:24:25,500
But things aren't going so well.

403
00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:26,460
Lads, look...

404
00:24:28,140 --> 00:24:31,100
..it's not intense enough, right?

405
00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:33,820
It's not typical Kilkenny hurling.

406
00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:35,540
It's too tippy-tappy.

407
00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:38,500
Take control of the territory
you're hurling in.

408
00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:40,780
Mark it out in your head -
"This is my area,

409
00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:42,940
"and any ball comes in here,
I'm taking it."

410
00:24:42,940 --> 00:24:44,340
It's not intense enough, lads.

411
00:24:44,340 --> 00:24:46,380
You know it's not good enough.

412
00:24:46,380 --> 00:24:48,620
It's not near the level that's
required.

413
00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:49,900
Deal with it.

414
00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:51,540
Well, look, I-I heard what they
said -

415
00:24:51,540 --> 00:24:53,660
I thought you were all brilliant,
so...

416
00:24:53,660 --> 00:24:55,980
LAUGHTER
But then, I'm not coaching yous.

417
00:24:55,980 --> 00:24:58,460
OK, guys, let's go again.
COACH: Ramp it up, ramp it up.

418
00:24:58,460 --> 00:25:00,620
Let's go, come on.
Quickly, quickly.

419
00:25:02,140 --> 00:25:03,820
To get anywhere as a hurler,

420
00:25:03,820 --> 00:25:05,940
you need to be brave, superfit

421
00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:08,420
and have lightning-fast reflexes.

422
00:25:08,420 --> 00:25:09,780
There's nothing like it.

423
00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:16,100
'Ned Quinn is chairman of
the county team.'

424
00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:20,700
It really doesn't bear any
resemblance to any other game,

425
00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:21,780
does it? No, no.

426
00:25:26,260 --> 00:25:29,860
And what is a uniquely Irish about
hurling, in terms of its character?

427
00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:33,380
The players playing have very little
concern about being injured

428
00:25:33,380 --> 00:25:36,500
or anything. There's a lot of
physical contact in it.

429
00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:38,900
I think it appeals to the
Irish psyche.

430
00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:41,540
There's an element of danger in
a game of hurling all the time.

431
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:43,300
And there's no feigning injuries?

432
00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:44,780
HE CHUCKLES
Oh, no.

433
00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:46,340
No. No diving? No, no.

434
00:25:46,340 --> 00:25:48,180
If you want to be despised
in the GAA,

435
00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:50,260
you go down and pretend
you're injured.

436
00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:52,940
You actually get up and pretend
you're not injured.

437
00:25:52,940 --> 00:25:56,540
You don't give in to the other fella
to say that he had injured you.

438
00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:00,620
Selfless bravery?

439
00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:03,980
Yeah, perhaps that's the
quintessence of the Irish psyche.

440
00:26:05,220 --> 00:26:08,900
No-one is more passionate about this
game than the Irish mammies,

441
00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:11,900
another great Gaelic archetype.

442
00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:15,140
Can I just ask you all, do you
actually want to be here,

443
00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:17,300
or do you have to be here?

444
00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:20,220
Well, I want to be here. I want to
be here. I want to be here as well.

445
00:26:20,220 --> 00:26:22,100
Really?
ALL: Yeah.

446
00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,340
We don't go on holidays in the
summertime when the hurling

447
00:26:24,340 --> 00:26:25,460
season is on.

448
00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:27,700
You plan your holiday around
the championship,

449
00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:29,060
or whatever is going on.

450
00:26:29,060 --> 00:26:30,900
Would you not be worried at all?

451
00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,220
I mean, it's clearly, like,
a dangerous game, in some ways.

452
00:26:34,220 --> 00:26:36,900
They do wear helmets. Yeah.

453
00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:38,980
That's what's they grow up with.

454
00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:42,380
We don't know any difference,
really. They don't get many
injuries. They don't.

455
00:26:42,380 --> 00:26:46,100
I have to say, none of mine ever
had anything serious.

456
00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,660
A few bruises here and there,
but nothing major - no broken bones.

457
00:26:49,660 --> 00:26:51,100
Bruised egos, I'd imagine?

458
00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:52,740
Oh, plenty bruised egos.

459
00:26:52,740 --> 00:26:54,380
Oh, plenty over the years.

460
00:26:54,380 --> 00:26:56,580
But, you know, it's all part of life
and growing up,

461
00:26:56,580 --> 00:26:58,580
and I think it teaches them, really.

462
00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:06,660
They say that hurling is the fastest
field game in the world,

463
00:27:06,660 --> 00:27:10,500
but there's something that moves
even faster across the Irish grass.

464
00:27:13,020 --> 00:27:16,220
Quite simply, horses are
synonymous with the Irish.

465
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:21,420
Whether it's the Travellers with
their piebald horses and home-made

466
00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:24,060
carts, or the thoroughbreds of
elite racing,

467
00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:25,500
we Irish do love a horse.

468
00:27:27,340 --> 00:27:29,180
Even the Halls noticed it -

469
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:31,340
they tell the story about
a Mr Sullivan,

470
00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:34,700
a real-life horse whisperer who was
able to tame the wildest of

471
00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:36,980
horses by simply
whispering in their ear.

472
00:27:41,220 --> 00:27:44,980
Buyers come from all over the globe
to invest in our bloodstock.

473
00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:47,660
But their pockets need to
be well-lined.

474
00:27:47,660 --> 00:27:51,020
The highest price paid for
a thoroughbred was £12 million.

475
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:57,500
I'm no horsey man - I don't even
have a waxed jacket - but I might

476
00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:59,180
as well have a flutter.

477
00:28:00,260 --> 00:28:02,220
I've backed a British horse,

478
00:28:02,220 --> 00:28:03,180
Blood Moon.

479
00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:05,340
Just like the name.

480
00:28:08,380 --> 00:28:11,420
This meeting at Naas
Racecourse near Dublin

481
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:13,740
is a typical everyday event in
Ireland.

482
00:28:13,740 --> 00:28:16,740
There are more racetracks per
head of population here than

483
00:28:16,740 --> 00:28:18,580
in any other country in the world.

484
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:32,740
Now, I've come here not to make my
fortune, although that'd be nice.

485
00:28:32,740 --> 00:28:36,340
I'm here to find out what
it is about Ireland and the

486
00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:39,940
Irish that breeds arguably the
best racehorses around.

487
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:52,620
I've no idea which one was Blood
Moon, or what happened to him.

488
00:28:52,620 --> 00:28:54,820
Oh, I haven't a clue what I'm
doing.

489
00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:59,260
But why are we Irish so good at
breeding winners?

490
00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:02,620
It's the one pursuit, I feel, that
Ireland can stand up and say,

491
00:29:02,620 --> 00:29:05,540
Right, we are a world leader here,
bar none.

492
00:29:05,540 --> 00:29:08,300
"We can go round the world
and we are a number one."

493
00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:10,820
Tom Ryan is the racecourse manager.

494
00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:13,300
I've done a good bit of
travelling through the world.

495
00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:16,620
I spent a bit of time in America on
the breeding side of things,
you know?

496
00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:20,100
And anywhere you see a congregation
of horses - mostly racehorses -

497
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:22,380
you'll see an Irishman, somewhere.

498
00:29:22,380 --> 00:29:24,540
It doesn't matter how far away it
is.

499
00:29:24,540 --> 00:29:26,540
How did we get to that position?

500
00:29:26,540 --> 00:29:29,260
The number one thing,
I believe, was the climate.

501
00:29:29,260 --> 00:29:33,020
You know, you can grow the grass,
and it keeps the horses sound,

502
00:29:33,020 --> 00:29:35,340
and let them prosper and grow,
you know, and breed well.

503
00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:38,300
So you're saying an Irish horse is a
happier horse than anywhere else?

504
00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:40,900
This climate, I mean, it's cool,
there's no extremes.

505
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:43,860
You know, it's all about the grass,
in my book, really.

506
00:29:45,180 --> 00:29:47,060
COMMENTARY BLARES OVER TANNOY

507
00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:48,580
Bocca Baciata, that's mine.

508
00:29:51,540 --> 00:29:52,740
JOCKEY ROARS

509
00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:56,340
Another loser.

510
00:29:56,340 --> 00:29:59,740
Bocca Baciata -
stupid name, stupid horse.

511
00:29:59,740 --> 00:30:00,860
HE SNORTS

512
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:05,940
The most famous person I ever hired
a pair of binoculars to,

513
00:30:05,940 --> 00:30:09,260
besides yourself, was Jimmy Carter.

514
00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:11,900
The former US president?
The president. Yeah.

515
00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:13,740
And he was a really nice man.

516
00:30:13,740 --> 00:30:17,460
He hired them, went off -
apparently, he likes his horses.

517
00:30:17,460 --> 00:30:20,980
That was... I didn't ask him for I'D
or to sign anything, you know.

518
00:30:20,980 --> 00:30:23,380
You took him on face value.
That's fairly incredible.

519
00:30:23,380 --> 00:30:25,300
Thanks a million, George, OK?
Right, Ardal.

520
00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:26,660
Cheers, nice to meet you. Thank you.

521
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:30,260
That's better.
Now, I can't go wrong.

522
00:30:32,860 --> 00:30:34,100
Ah, yes.

523
00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:37,660
The man in the blue blazer is one of
Ireland's greatest trainers.

524
00:30:37,660 --> 00:30:41,140
William McCreery trains the horses
of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid,

525
00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:43,820
one of the wealthiest men
in the world.

526
00:30:43,820 --> 00:30:46,300
He has ten stud farms here.
Yeah.

527
00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:50,540
Most of his... All his best progeny
are raised and grazed here. Yeah.

528
00:30:50,540 --> 00:30:52,820
But why Ireland? Like, what's so
special about Ireland,

529
00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:54,740
or Irish trainers like yourself?

530
00:30:54,740 --> 00:30:57,500
We have the best ground here.

531
00:30:57,500 --> 00:30:59,860
The best soil type here.
Yeah? Yeah.

532
00:31:01,220 --> 00:31:02,420
Unbeknownst to yourself,

533
00:31:02,420 --> 00:31:06,060
a lot of Irish people have
horses in their blood. Yeah.

534
00:31:06,060 --> 00:31:09,300
And A lot of Irish people, their
first time touching a horse,

535
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,860
they touch them very gently. Yeah.
Foreigners don't, you know?

536
00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:14,700
We just have it in our blood that
you don't even know about it.
Yeah, yeah.

537
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:17,260
You'd have it and you wouldn't even
know it. Yeah, yeah.

538
00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:20,220
Because sometimes a foreigner will
touch a horse and he'll slap them.

539
00:31:20,220 --> 00:31:22,940
Yeah, or be afraid of horse, even?
Yes. An Irish lad will pat it.

540
00:31:22,940 --> 00:31:25,500
It's probably cos we all go back to
a caravan at some stage.

541
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:27,100
ARDAL LAUGHS
Yeah.

542
00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:32,220
McCreery is here to see
his horse run.

543
00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:35,780
But as always, success is down to
both the horse

544
00:31:35,780 --> 00:31:37,500
and the jockey who rides him.

545
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:39,780
ARDAL: And is this a horse that
you'd have high hopes for?

546
00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:41,420
MCCREERY: Yeah, I do, yeah.

547
00:31:41,420 --> 00:31:43,420
And we'll train him at home to
follow a horse,

548
00:31:43,420 --> 00:31:45,260
and then come out and put on the
turbo.

549
00:31:45,260 --> 00:31:47,380
Hopefully, the turbo,
you know?

550
00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:48,580
You brought the turbo?

551
00:31:48,580 --> 00:31:49,980
Well, we brought the turbo,

552
00:31:49,980 --> 00:31:52,620
but we don't know if the jockey
can engage it.
ARDAL LAUGHS

553
00:31:52,620 --> 00:31:55,860
He's ridden him twice last year,
so he knows the horse well.
He knows him well, yeah.

554
00:32:02,580 --> 00:32:04,220
'They're out there somewhere.

555
00:32:05,780 --> 00:32:07,100
'Ah, there they are.'

556
00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:11,900
COMMENTARY BLARES OVER TANNOY

557
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:16,180
'Aridity is William McCreery's
horse,

558
00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:18,460
'but I sense things aren't going
very well.'

559
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:22,820
No, and he's just...

560
00:32:22,820 --> 00:32:25,020
He's not giving him a hard race
here.

561
00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:28,300
'These binoculars are fantastic.'

562
00:32:32,140 --> 00:32:33,500
That's Dermot Weld wins it again.

563
00:32:35,140 --> 00:32:37,420
So what was the...? What was
the issue there?

564
00:32:37,420 --> 00:32:39,180
Erm...well, I hope the ground.

565
00:32:39,180 --> 00:32:40,980
I hope the ground, you know, held
him up,

566
00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:43,300
because he wasn't too hard on him.
You know? Right, right.

567
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:45,340
And he turned in in a lovely
position,

568
00:32:45,340 --> 00:32:48,540
but I hope the ground just collared
him, you know? Yeah, yeah.

569
00:32:48,540 --> 00:32:52,140
Yes, I also hope the ground was to
blame, for the jockey's sake.

570
00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:56,540
Like hurling,
it's a fiercely competitive sport.

571
00:32:56,540 --> 00:32:57,500
INAUDIBLE

572
00:32:58,780 --> 00:33:02,580
McCreery believes that we Irish are
able to coax our horses

573
00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:06,980
into winning because we've acquired
a special affinity with them.

574
00:33:06,980 --> 00:33:09,860
Although I'm not sure it's something
I've quite achieved yet.

575
00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:14,420
It's one thing the Halls
were right about -

576
00:33:14,420 --> 00:33:16,340
we are half human, half horse.

577
00:33:27,850 --> 00:33:31,250
I'm in Dublin, following in the
footsteps of Mr and Mrs Hall,

578
00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:34,490
who travelled the country
back in the 1840s.

579
00:33:34,490 --> 00:33:37,650
More than anything,
it was the peculiarities of

580
00:33:37,650 --> 00:33:40,810
Irish culture and identity that they
were most keen on.

581
00:33:42,890 --> 00:33:45,010
Like their Victorian countrymen,

582
00:33:45,010 --> 00:33:48,010
they associated Irish cuisine
with the potato.

583
00:33:49,170 --> 00:33:51,650
For them,
it was the root of our misfortune.

584
00:33:54,130 --> 00:33:57,570
They reckon the accursed root is,
if not the originator,

585
00:33:57,570 --> 00:33:59,850
the sustainer of
Irish poverty and wretchedness.

586
00:34:01,330 --> 00:34:03,450
Well, I'm going to find out
if this "accursed root"

587
00:34:03,450 --> 00:34:05,450
has any place on Irish tables today.

588
00:34:10,050 --> 00:34:14,090
This is Gallagher's Boxty House,
modern Ireland's temple

589
00:34:14,090 --> 00:34:16,570
to the humble spud.

590
00:34:16,570 --> 00:34:18,890
Chef, Padraic Og Gallagher,

591
00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:22,890
is taking me back to how the potato
was first served in Ireland.

592
00:34:24,010 --> 00:34:25,930
Some lumpers cooked, huh?

593
00:34:25,930 --> 00:34:28,010
This is the way the families
would have had them.

594
00:34:28,010 --> 00:34:30,530
Yeah, or even in a wooden bowl,
strained out.

595
00:34:30,530 --> 00:34:34,090
If you had an acre, you could grow
enough for a family of six,

596
00:34:34,090 --> 00:34:38,410
eating 12 pounds of potatoes a day -
like five kilos of potatoes a day,

597
00:34:38,410 --> 00:34:39,650
every day.

598
00:34:39,650 --> 00:34:42,170
Breakfast - potatoes.
Wow. Lunch - potatoes.

599
00:34:42,170 --> 00:34:44,250
Three meals a day - potatoes.
Potatoes. That was it.

600
00:34:44,250 --> 00:34:45,690
And that's all they had to eat.

601
00:34:45,690 --> 00:34:48,370
But, you know, they would have eaten
these with the centre raw.

602
00:34:48,370 --> 00:34:50,690
So they would just parboil them?
Parboil them, yeah.

603
00:34:50,690 --> 00:34:52,930
So the outer half would have been
kind of fluffy and...?

604
00:34:52,930 --> 00:34:55,370
Yeah,
and the inside would have been raw.

605
00:34:55,370 --> 00:34:57,130
What was the thinking?

606
00:34:57,130 --> 00:34:59,530
Second digestion,
when they're working the field.

607
00:34:59,530 --> 00:35:01,930
They would have said that,
if the potato was cooked too much,

608
00:35:01,930 --> 00:35:03,730
they wouldn't be able
to do a day's work.

609
00:35:03,730 --> 00:35:06,730
And that was it, so an hour and
a half or two hours later,

610
00:35:06,730 --> 00:35:10,890
they get a salient feeling from the
fact that the raw potato was

611
00:35:10,890 --> 00:35:13,730
mixing with the juice in their
stomach, or whatever.

612
00:35:13,730 --> 00:35:17,170
I haven't experimented with that one
yet, you know? Yeah, yeah.

613
00:35:19,410 --> 00:35:22,730
200 years ago,
poverty was rife in Ireland.

614
00:35:22,730 --> 00:35:25,210
The potato was about the only
food people ate.

615
00:35:27,170 --> 00:35:31,170
Then the potato blight hit,
destroying the nation's crops,

616
00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:32,530
and resulting in famine.

617
00:35:35,130 --> 00:35:37,570
A million people starved to death,

618
00:35:37,570 --> 00:35:40,250
and at least a million more
were forced to emigrate.

619
00:35:46,610 --> 00:35:48,290
Was that their fault?

620
00:35:48,290 --> 00:35:51,090
You know, there's an opinion that,
like, you know,

621
00:35:51,090 --> 00:35:52,970
they should have tried to grow
something else.

622
00:35:52,970 --> 00:35:55,010
Why couldn't they grow
something else?

623
00:35:55,010 --> 00:35:57,530
Because, first of all,
the potato is...

624
00:35:58,690 --> 00:36:00,410
You just need to grow the potato.

625
00:36:00,410 --> 00:36:02,050
You don't have to take it
to the mill,

626
00:36:02,050 --> 00:36:04,170
you don't have to pay
a miller to mill it.

627
00:36:04,170 --> 00:36:06,970
It's not like a grain, you just grow
it, and you grow it again.

628
00:36:06,970 --> 00:36:08,410
You keep some of these
for next year,

629
00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:11,010
and you just put them in the soil,
and they grow again next year.

630
00:36:11,010 --> 00:36:12,290
Very simple.

631
00:36:12,290 --> 00:36:15,210
And the potato gave them
everything they needed.

632
00:36:15,210 --> 00:36:18,930
So, I suppose the question would be,
"Why would you grow anything else?"

633
00:36:18,930 --> 00:36:20,890
Yeah.
You know?

634
00:36:20,890 --> 00:36:24,810
Padraic has resurrected the potato
from its accursed past.

635
00:36:24,810 --> 00:36:29,130
It's now the raw ingredient
of 1,001 gastronomic creations,

636
00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:32,650
built around the traditional Irish
boxty, or potato pancake.

637
00:36:33,810 --> 00:36:36,930
Wow!
This is your boxty pancake.

638
00:36:38,130 --> 00:36:40,410
Made of grated raw potato,
cooked mashed potato,

639
00:36:40,410 --> 00:36:42,770
and we use a gluten-free
flour in it.

640
00:36:42,770 --> 00:36:47,170
And these are... Have you tasted
these? Mm. They're gorgeous.

641
00:36:47,170 --> 00:36:50,850
It's a pancake, thinly sliced,
and deep fat fried. Oh, my God.

642
00:36:50,850 --> 00:36:54,410
Boxty pancake, so again, you've
about 70% potato in there. Yeah.

643
00:36:54,410 --> 00:36:57,490
And that's just...
They are nicer than chips.

644
00:36:57,490 --> 00:36:59,290
Nicer than your regular
skinny fries.

645
00:36:59,290 --> 00:37:01,530
They're much nicer than chips. Mm.
PADRAIC CHUCKLES

646
00:37:01,530 --> 00:37:04,890
This is the loaf. It's the boxty
loaf, boxty bread. Potato bread.

647
00:37:04,890 --> 00:37:08,730
Potato bread. 60%, 70% potato in it.
Look at my fingers, my God.

648
00:37:08,730 --> 00:37:09,810
Mess here.

649
00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:14,530
'Oh, Padraic's food was so good,

650
00:37:14,530 --> 00:37:19,290
'I found it increasingly difficult
to focus on what he was saying.'

651
00:37:19,290 --> 00:37:21,650
I feel like a bit of a savage,
so early in the day...

652
00:37:21,650 --> 00:37:27,570
'990 potato dishes later, we finally
ended up with something to drink.'

653
00:37:27,570 --> 00:37:31,330
I think we should have a wee drop of
poitin. Just to round it all off.

654
00:37:31,330 --> 00:37:34,290
Yeah. Lovely. I suppose you know
what poitin's made from, do you?

655
00:37:34,290 --> 00:37:37,250
There would be a potato content.
I think there might be, indeed.

656
00:37:37,250 --> 00:37:41,250
Creator, they call it. Yeah? Yeah.
The original? A drop of the creator.

657
00:37:41,250 --> 00:37:44,170
Well...
No, this is completely legal.

658
00:37:45,450 --> 00:37:47,970
Slainte.
Slainte.

659
00:37:47,970 --> 00:37:50,690
'Now, people, this
innocent-looking liquid

660
00:37:50,690 --> 00:37:53,050
is to be consumed
with great care.

661
00:37:53,050 --> 00:37:56,650
It is poitin
- potato whiskey - and it's probably

662
00:37:56,650 --> 00:37:58,810
the most wicked thing
you can do with a spud.'

663
00:37:58,810 --> 00:38:02,250
Tastes great.
'Alas, I can't possibly say no,

664
00:38:02,250 --> 00:38:04,930
'especially in the presence of
a connoisseur.'

665
00:38:07,730 --> 00:38:10,690
Yeah, there's a...
There's a warming quality to that.

666
00:38:15,090 --> 00:38:18,690
When the Halls were travelling
around Ireland in the 1840s,

667
00:38:18,690 --> 00:38:23,090
the pub, or tabhairne, was the focal
point of most communities,

668
00:38:23,090 --> 00:38:26,850
with ten million gallons of whiskey
and poitin consumed annually.

669
00:38:29,730 --> 00:38:33,170
The Halls were very concerned about
our drinking habits,

670
00:38:33,170 --> 00:38:36,090
especially the illicit liquor,
poitin.

671
00:38:36,090 --> 00:38:40,170
They described it as the shame
and the bane of Ireland,

672
00:38:40,170 --> 00:38:43,330
and were huge fans of the
temperance movement at the time.

673
00:38:43,330 --> 00:38:46,210
But we've always been a bit
ambivalent about the drink here.

674
00:38:46,210 --> 00:38:48,490
We resent the stereotyping
- of course we do -

675
00:38:48,490 --> 00:38:50,770
but we sometimes
revel in the reputation,

676
00:38:50,770 --> 00:38:52,410
and for every hardened drinker,

677
00:38:52,410 --> 00:38:54,810
you'll find people who don't drink
at all,

678
00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:57,570
and I'm about to speak to
one of those guys now.

679
00:38:57,570 --> 00:38:59,850
He just happens to own his own
distillery.

680
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:06,210
For centuries, poitin was illegal,

681
00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:09,290
and distilled in secret using
primitive techniques.

682
00:39:10,490 --> 00:39:15,090
'Echlinville Distillery is on the
eastern shores of Strangford Lough.

683
00:39:15,090 --> 00:39:17,890
'It's the first official distillery
in Northern Ireland

684
00:39:17,890 --> 00:39:22,810
'in over 125 years,
and it makes legal poitin.'

685
00:39:22,810 --> 00:39:25,250
It's like a
whiskey-producing saxophone,

686
00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:27,770
that's what that looks like.

687
00:39:27,770 --> 00:39:30,570
'Chief distiller is Shane Braniff.'

688
00:39:30,570 --> 00:39:33,130
This sounds like one of the
greatest jobs in the world.

689
00:39:33,130 --> 00:39:36,090
In truth, I have never drank.

690
00:39:36,090 --> 00:39:37,490
I've never drank alcohol.

691
00:39:37,490 --> 00:39:40,330
But surely, as a distiller,
you must taste it.

692
00:39:40,330 --> 00:39:45,690
Erm... As a distiller, I would taste
the spirit coming off the still.

693
00:39:45,690 --> 00:39:49,170
Erm... Tasting is very,
very different to drinking.

694
00:39:50,370 --> 00:39:52,490
Shane is so proud of his
tasting ability,

695
00:39:52,490 --> 00:39:55,930
he's considering insuring
his own tongue.

696
00:39:55,930 --> 00:39:57,570
So we'll go down here now,

697
00:39:57,570 --> 00:40:01,290
and we'll head down and have
a look at the spirit coming off.

698
00:40:01,290 --> 00:40:04,250
I want to try some of this
notorious brew myself,

699
00:40:04,250 --> 00:40:06,250
but Shane has warned
me to be careful.

700
00:40:06,250 --> 00:40:08,730
I'm going to be sampling
almost pure alcohol.

701
00:40:10,450 --> 00:40:12,370
So, I'll just get you
a little sample here.

702
00:40:12,370 --> 00:40:14,610
Is it strong at this stage?
Oh...

703
00:40:14,610 --> 00:40:15,690
It's, erm...

704
00:40:15,690 --> 00:40:18,490
Now, this is only a rough guide
here, but do you know what?

705
00:40:18,490 --> 00:40:22,410
It's coming off just above 85 ABV,
so it's strong, aye.

706
00:40:22,410 --> 00:40:23,970
Don't be knocking this back.

707
00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:29,890
So the spirit that's coming off here
now should be very, very sweet,

708
00:40:29,890 --> 00:40:33,170
very, very pure, and it should be
full of character and flavour,

709
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:35,890
so just on the edge of your
tongue or on your lips.

710
00:40:35,890 --> 00:40:38,250
Don't drink it.
OK.

711
00:40:38,250 --> 00:40:40,410
Purely in the interests of
scientific research.

712
00:40:48,650 --> 00:40:50,570
Je...

713
00:40:50,570 --> 00:40:51,850
Now, really...

714
00:40:51,850 --> 00:40:55,170
EXHALES SHARPLY
COUGHS

715
00:40:55,170 --> 00:40:57,810
I actually think my tongue melted.

716
00:40:57,810 --> 00:40:59,850
Aye, seriously.
Will you have a look?

717
00:40:59,850 --> 00:41:01,530
SHANE LAUGHS

718
00:41:04,090 --> 00:41:08,130
In spite of - or maybe because of -
its former illegality,

719
00:41:08,130 --> 00:41:11,770
poitin has become one of
Ireland's most famous spirits.

720
00:41:11,770 --> 00:41:14,770
The secret recipe for
this particular brand

721
00:41:14,770 --> 00:41:18,090
was formulated by David Mulligan
and Cara Humphries.

722
00:41:20,330 --> 00:41:22,930
This book I've been reading, though,
the Halls, you know,

723
00:41:22,930 --> 00:41:26,490
they were very down on it.
They would not like you guys.

724
00:41:26,490 --> 00:41:29,930
They just thought that
home-distilled stuff was the

725
00:41:29,930 --> 00:41:32,770
bane of Irish life, that it was the
cause of every misery,

726
00:41:32,770 --> 00:41:36,690
every misfortune going.
Are people still distilling it?

727
00:41:36,690 --> 00:41:38,170
Oh, yeah, plenty people.

728
00:41:38,170 --> 00:41:40,690
Plenty people still distilling it,
and it's really passed down

729
00:41:40,690 --> 00:41:42,970
generation to generation
how they do it, you know?

730
00:41:42,970 --> 00:41:45,930
But our main research was just
collecting as many as we could,

731
00:41:45,930 --> 00:41:47,650
you know, and drinking
as many as we could.

732
00:41:47,650 --> 00:41:48,970
How do you find these people?

733
00:41:48,970 --> 00:41:51,650
They find you, funnily enough,
once you put the word out, you know?

734
00:41:51,650 --> 00:41:54,170
Everybody's got a story in Ireland,
everybody knows somebody.

735
00:41:54,170 --> 00:41:55,610
You'll never meet the guy
who made it.

736
00:41:55,610 --> 00:41:57,050
No-one'll ever admit to making it,

737
00:41:57,050 --> 00:41:58,730
but they can get you
a bottle fairly handy.

738
00:41:58,730 --> 00:42:00,810
Yeah, and it usually comes in an
old lemonade bottle.

739
00:42:00,810 --> 00:42:03,090
Lemonade, or an old whiskey bottle,
an old wine bottle.

740
00:42:03,090 --> 00:42:05,970
It was definitely
a labour of love in the beginning.

741
00:42:05,970 --> 00:42:08,410
A lot of experiments,
a lot of distilling, and...

742
00:42:08,410 --> 00:42:10,410
A lot of long days, yeah.
..a lot of potato peeling.

743
00:42:10,410 --> 00:42:11,850
Lot of hanging out with Shane.
Yeah.

744
00:42:11,850 --> 00:42:13,810
What other purposes were people
using poitin for?

745
00:42:13,810 --> 00:42:16,370
Oh, God, there's 101 different uses.

746
00:42:16,370 --> 00:42:18,650
You still get a lot of county
footballers using it,

747
00:42:18,650 --> 00:42:21,090
rubbing it into their muscles and
stuff, when they've cramps.

748
00:42:21,090 --> 00:42:23,730
That's a genuine thing?
Aye, and then the animal thing.

749
00:42:23,730 --> 00:42:26,290
I've heard that there was
a horse that was so sick,

750
00:42:26,290 --> 00:42:28,450
they had to put it down,
and they didn't want to shoot it,

751
00:42:28,450 --> 00:42:30,570
so they gave it a bucket of poitin,

752
00:42:30,570 --> 00:42:34,130
and the thing ended up living
for another two years.

753
00:42:34,130 --> 00:42:36,290
And you don't drink at all!
No, no, no, I...

754
00:42:36,290 --> 00:42:40,010
Which is kind of bizarre for
somebody who's peddling.

755
00:42:40,010 --> 00:42:41,690
Yeah, I know, I know, I know,

756
00:42:41,690 --> 00:42:44,370
sometimes I find it hard to
sleep at night, but...

757
00:42:45,810 --> 00:42:48,450
I love to see people drinking,
you know?

758
00:42:48,450 --> 00:42:50,530
I really, really do.
I'm not surprised!

759
00:42:50,530 --> 00:42:52,690
You wouldn't be living in
this house otherwise.

760
00:42:59,730 --> 00:43:04,290
Fortified on poitin, I've travelled
to the opposite end of the country,

761
00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:07,450
to complete my investigations
into Irish identity.

762
00:43:13,530 --> 00:43:16,770
I'm being escorted to one of
the most mysterious places

763
00:43:16,770 --> 00:43:17,930
in all of Ireland.

764
00:43:21,050 --> 00:43:24,850
And I'd just like to show you the
entrance, right over here.

765
00:43:27,330 --> 00:43:30,570
'Looks like I'm about to enter
another dimension,

766
00:43:30,570 --> 00:43:33,250
'with only the vaguest notion
of what to expect.'

767
00:43:40,370 --> 00:43:42,930
I'll let you experience that by
yourself, now.

768
00:43:44,370 --> 00:43:46,650
You're not going to leave
me here on my own?

769
00:43:49,130 --> 00:43:50,250
Is this a trick?

770
00:43:52,330 --> 00:43:54,690
This was once the site
of a souterrain,

771
00:43:54,690 --> 00:43:56,690
an ancient underground passage,

772
00:43:56,690 --> 00:44:00,050
a secret tunnel for entering or
leaving a hidden fortress.

773
00:44:06,490 --> 00:44:11,210
And this is where the secret
souterrain rejoins the world above.

774
00:44:19,730 --> 00:44:23,930
This is the Sky Crater,
an astonishing modern artwork,

775
00:44:23,930 --> 00:44:26,130
built on the site of an
ancient ringfort.

776
00:44:30,170 --> 00:44:33,330
It's a little bit...
It's a little bit, er...

777
00:44:33,330 --> 00:44:35,010
I'm a little bit scared,

778
00:44:35,010 --> 00:44:37,810
because it does look like I'm about
to be ritually sacrificed.

779
00:44:42,410 --> 00:44:47,090
'The Sky Crater was designed by
American artist, James Turrell.'

780
00:44:47,090 --> 00:44:50,210
There's a little headrest there.

781
00:44:50,210 --> 00:44:54,490
'What's the point of it?
Well, it's an observatory.

782
00:44:54,490 --> 00:44:57,530
'A place to observe the
universe out there,

783
00:44:57,530 --> 00:44:59,570
'and the universe within oneself.'

784
00:45:01,650 --> 00:45:02,890
I remember as a kid,

785
00:45:02,890 --> 00:45:05,290
that you'd often lie in the park
and look at the sky.

786
00:45:05,290 --> 00:45:07,730
You know, there's something to be
said for that, I think, so...

787
00:45:07,730 --> 00:45:09,530
I mean, this forces you to do that,

788
00:45:09,530 --> 00:45:12,170
because that's all there is to do
in this crater.

789
00:45:14,090 --> 00:45:17,850
So I think that's maybe kind of one
of the ideas that the artist had,

790
00:45:17,850 --> 00:45:21,570
is that he gets you to
stop and think,

791
00:45:21,570 --> 00:45:25,810
and contemplate and maybe reflect
on the meaning of life.

792
00:45:31,730 --> 00:45:36,170
What you see is the green hills,
the blue sky, and the white clouds.

793
00:45:37,970 --> 00:45:41,850
This view of Ireland that I'm
looking at now is exactly

794
00:45:41,850 --> 00:45:44,570
the same one the Celts saw
and the Vikings saw,

795
00:45:44,570 --> 00:45:46,890
and the Normans and the English saw.

796
00:45:46,890 --> 00:45:50,010
In that sense, the country hasn't
really changed at all.

797
00:45:58,250 --> 00:46:01,010
You might be able to get the same
effect by just putting one of

798
00:46:01,010 --> 00:46:05,450
those dog flea collars over your
head, so if you can't come here,

799
00:46:05,450 --> 00:46:10,010
just lie in your garden,
with a flea collar like that.

800
00:46:18,530 --> 00:46:22,410
Next time, I'll be heading into
uncharted waters in Donegal,

801
00:46:22,410 --> 00:46:25,530
in search of Irish
myths and legends.

802
00:46:25,530 --> 00:46:27,290
Nobody knows about this.

803
00:46:27,290 --> 00:46:30,650
It's completely hidden away,
this architectural treasure.

804
00:46:32,610 --> 00:46:35,850
I'll be practising my
sword-fighting skills in Belfast.

805
00:46:35,850 --> 00:46:38,530
You never know when you
might need them.

806
00:46:38,530 --> 00:46:41,130
I mean, I think it's a good way to
start the day - just to hold one.

807
00:46:41,130 --> 00:46:42,730
Yeah.
And just wave it around on your own.

808
00:46:42,730 --> 00:46:44,050
You don't need to tell anyone.

809
00:46:45,530 --> 00:46:47,450
And I'll be awestruck
by a legendary beast

810
00:46:47,450 --> 00:46:49,930
who's just landed a new job.

811
00:46:49,930 --> 00:46:52,530
She's an actual officer in
the Irish Army? Yes.

812
00:46:54,010 --> 00:46:55,410
She's messing with me.
No!

813
00:47:17,850 --> 00:47:22,850
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