Ballybay, Co Monaghan
From the collection of
The A-Z of Work Experience
- Chorlton-cum-Hardy
- 2002
Ballybay, Co Monaghan
Visit the area of Ballybay in County Monaghan and explore the history and people.
Joe Mahon visits the town of Ballybay in County Mongahan. After a brief overview of the town's natural setting and history Joe talks by a lakeside to Peadar Murnane, a local historian, who details how the town came into being thank to its location. He also talks about the area's connection to the growing of flax for the linen trade and mass emigration to America when that industry started to go downhill.
George Montgomery tells Joe how he can remember flax still being grown and harvested in the area when he was young. John Connolly takes Joe around his fish farm where he has made a success in providing perch for the continental market. Kieran McQuaid then treats Joe to poached perch in his restuarant.
Joe tells the story of Crazy Jane, a famous race horse from the area and of the town's connection to horse fairs before visiting a stud farm for a tour round the stallions by Gladys McArdle. Local vet Clare Percy shows Joe an ultrasound scan of a young foal. Paul Flynn talks to Joe beside the wetland centre about its educational benefits for young people. Greta McCarron shows Joe a newt and some frog tadpoles.
Lesser Spotted Ulster is a long-running and popular programme that visits the places many of us have heard of but never been to. Presenter Joe Mahon gently explores what makes a place what it is.
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How We Worked
Explore how yesterday's workplaces were recorded on video - and were infiltrated by it
From the late 19th century, the earliest film cameras captured thronging workers leaving their factories, their faces filling the frames of early films. Ever since, the moving image has had a close relationship with the workplaces where so many of us spend so much of our lives. As both screen technologies and the patterns of work evolved across the 20th century this relationship grew ever more varied and complex.
Film itself played every possible working role in relation to all parts of the economy, the public and the private sectors, the factory and the office - observing and documenting, dramatising and satirising, training and campaigning. In the videotape era it became ever easier for cameras to film in workplaces - and for moving images to be shown there, via players and monitors. This collection explores the working worlds of the recent past, marked by economic and technological change, a world so close to our own and yet so far away.
23 videos in this collection
1
The A-Z of Work Experience
2
Stationery Objects
3
National Minimum Wage: Journey
4
IT82: The Home
5
Working Hard - Nottingham Division
6
A Day in the Life of a Hospital Pharmacist
7
Make Health Your Business
8
The Goldsmiths' Company Lecture: Vivienne Becker
9
Station Assistance Support on the London Underground
10
Disability Discrimination Act: Act Now
11
Two World Famous Things About Batley
12
Work, Rest, and Play
13
The Goldsmiths' Company: a Silversmithing Demonstration
14
Firewoman
15
One Man and a Van
16
Employment Centres
17
Your Career in the Hotel and Catering Industry
18
Work in Progress
19
Park, Co Derry
20
Ballybay, Co Monaghan
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30 Years of UTV
22
Farming Ulster
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