Irish Children

Irish Children Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. Girl & boy walking bbarefoot along road w/ rock walls, stop & look at man digging in his potato patch. Narrator w/ heavy accent while Danny Boy playing on dulcimer (?). 10:23:09 Woman w/ bucket in yard w/ young pigs & chickens. Grandfather in house reading, pan over photographs & religious icons. Mother outside picking rose on cottage side. Boy walks on top of wall, car along road; old couple on donkey cart. Father & brother forking hay into piles as boy & girl run up to see them; all walk to thatched whitewashed house. 10:25:35 Mother, grandmother & three children as older sister & mother cooking over open fire. Mother turning griddle cake. Kids having tea & cabbage, meat & potatoes. Grandmother is spinning thread w/ large spinning wheel; grandfatehr mending a harness. Kids do chores; mother is churning cream & as neighbor comes by Mary takes over but Mary is sent out so as not to hear the gossip. Older sister Cathleen feeding pigs from swill bucket. CU hens & chicks pecking scraps; cattle seen driven home. 10:28:38 Cathleen going out to get turf or peat from pile. Family going to cut turf in cart. Other neighbors cutting turf & gathering; loading cart. Boys playing game of rounders; girls picking wild flowers & making a chain to weave into a ball. Girls playing game w/ it. 10:31:20 Family eating picnic lunch sitting by cart. Boy playing harmonica aka mouth organ. Father lights pipe & relaxes. The End. Post-WWII; Families; Geography; Rural Life; Country living; Farmers;