Clare Travelling Shop, Ireland 1982

Nice video. Bernard o'Halloran liked his bread alright.

Very Nice

The most important vehicle on the roads in Ireland, is the traveling shop van and now for my story about the traveling shop van When I was a young fellow of 12 years of age my (illegal job) was opening the railway gates at Brooklawn crowing, I lived with my family 2 miles away but each morning I would arrive to open the railway fates to allow the 8.30 train pass through, in total there were 6 trails free day and last trail was at 6pm, I have a few hours to kill during each train and so I would go a work part-time on the local estate for Mrs Dermody and her family I helped out with the farming works and I got the best treatment, the best meals, I was also able to sneak into the orchard and take some of the sweetest applies and plums that I have ever tasted, One day when walking around the fields, I discovered a very large nest of eggs, they were away from the farm building and chicken shed so I believe that it would be OK to collect up all of those eggs and bring them back to the railway gate house and kept them for selling to our local traveling shop van man Willie Costello when he was passing by a few days later I stoped him and told him that I has about eggs for sale, I helped to stack them on to egg tray at the back of the van, I got a little money and I bought a bar of chocolate, I was happy with my deal. Willie drove off in his van with its wheels hopping over the railway line crossing the road, drove up a steep road with a few potholes and pulled up outside my neighbor 200 years up the road, following week as Willy was passing by, he stopped and told me that he was no longer going to sell or buy anything from the man up the road, he sold me glugger eggs last week and cracked and stunk the van out., Later I realised that it was the eggs I took were from a nest that the hen was no longer laying on and so the eggs I sold were rotten. I never told my secret to Willie or my neighbor up the road that I was the guilty one. Some day when I get the courage, One day sooner I will have to confess my sins to a priest

I remember these shops from my youth in tullow in Newport County tipperary my mother god rest her would take us up the passage to the road and we, d always get a sweet from the man my mother loved buying chef sauce as the shaking off the van on the road always loosened the sauce in the bottle we had no inside toilet of fridge or esb but we were happy in 1970

Are there still any traveling shop vans operating today?

I love the 1980s...Golden era in some ways..hard too..harder times ..that's life..@paddy Sullivan VHS 📼 1990s..

Uber Eats of the 80s 😂😂😂😂😂😂

What was that rusty pick up truck at the start...??? Cool Jews Jaws harp music..

And that box shaped fiddle.. Wow! The mellow tone from it..

This video is a treasure.. ❤

Sounds like a pat short comedy sketch set in oz...... 😂😁😀

Looks like Bernard might have people combing over tonight

I have a memory as a child on holiday in Tulla in the late 1970's or early 1980's visiting family and walking down Tulla high hill to go to Mass. I wonder if my memory is right and the church is near that high hill? I also remember a travelling shop that used to visit my mum's home farm in Mullingar and the excitement of it arriving. Such good memories of going to Ireland as a child.i met the kindest people I ever met back then in Ireland.

ahh the old irish..great actors..

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Thank you for preserving and sharing this history. Always things change yet stay the same. Stay close to your neighbors and fellow countrymen. We only live one life.

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Loving the registration number!

We had a travelling shop coming til about 2000 or a little later here to our farmyard in Mayo..
It was great for the elderly who had no transport.
As well as all the shop items, both food and all other household basics from needles to washing powders etc, he would have any vegetables, jam, bread etc that any other households had surplus to sell to him along his route. He took our surplus eggs to sell on.. and we'd buy some of other neighbors homemade stuff if he had it.
It was a fantastic service.. a real part of the community.
You'd be sure to have the big shopping bags, the list and the purse ready at the door that morning not to delay him whenever he arrived..
And be hoping that the buns or maybe sweet cakes that you wanted weren't already sold out!
You could ask him to bring a particular item for you from town the next week. He was very obliging that way..
The image of the traveling shop now only a ghost image in the yard in my mind..
It was one of last things of that old way of life of fresh made from the cow's milk salted butter and the soda bread, the home bacon and that delicious bacon fat to fry an egg in.. the pot of home grown spuds on the table, cabbage and turnip.. the desserts of queen of pudding and stewed apple or pies and homemade custard ... .the BlackBerry jam.. and the dressing up for mass on a Sunday.. neighbors sharing boiled eggs and tea on the bog.. etc

Yes, the travelling shop was the last surviving remnant of a different way of rural life...

It was common back then if you had a van to do a few nixers as money was tight. I remember seeing my secondary school teacher selling food from his parked van in the Slane 1982 Rolling Stones gig. McElroy ye Legend.🤘

I,m from Wales and remember these kind of shops.......round our old housing estate............one for bread/cakes............on for soft drinks/fizzy aswell.............and maybe others etc...........the good olde days etc....................

I used to love that bread ,cut with the oniony knife

Bernard was more in need of a travelling barber....👱👱👱

This was a tradition in Appalachia in America as well

Fine looking bread

Mr.O’Leary drove a van like this in my area,great flash back.

I remember the travelling shops in South kilkenny in the 60's. as kids we'd be out for our sweets and comics during the wet days of the Summer holidays

These still exist in Co. Down, although mainly just veg and bread these days

I remember in 1979 in ballybofef co donegal climbing a tree as an eleven year old watching the van man coming from 2 miles away on Wednesday great memories

Why does Ireland of 1982 look like 1952? Seems Ireland then was decades behind the rest of Europe.

Watching this, it is like we have entered the TARDIS and went back to Ireland of the 50s and not the 80s. Seems some parts of Ireland are probably still like this now in 2023.

As I recall , we called the travelling shop “the bun man “

Ireland is changing now. My mother is from Ennistymon . She remembers a pedlar selling his wares in the 40s. Known as the Jew man. Local kids used to skip behind taunting him. 'You killed our lo ord you killed our lo ord. ' True story. 😅

The travelling shops gave credit and bought eggs, when people had no cars they provided great service up until the late 80s.

That Jews Harp is brutal 😂 strange choice.

Did they accept Apple Pay?

I’m from Donegal and I believe these people should leave to speak English properly . Some gossip out of them.

Liam o Connor from Freshford done this in the 60s,70s and early 70s.

If the Current Irish Government keep applying more and more tax on energy the Irish people will be back to living in poverty, many are struggling now as it is with massive taxes on petrol, diesel, heating oil Gas and electricity, people can hardly afford both heating and electricity as well as run their cars, these days as the Government must tackle climate change by making sure energy is unaffordable except for the wealthy and politicians themselves.

Ireland is a tiny Island country and has no impact on climate one way or the other yet we're being punished by extortionate tax on energy as if we're the ones causing climate change, all the Government of Ireland are doing today is pushing more and more people into poverty.

Mom and Dad and my granny who are all from Ennis Ireland said" 80's Ireland was so Fun and family organized in the farming industry on there farm. Now with All The E.U. sympathy lover's and illegal immigrants it's Changing in places like Dublin😮🤷🏼‍♀️.

I left Ireland in 1979. Born and raised in Mayo. These films bring a tear to my eye.

Hey is there any people with the last name Curry. ,( County Clare Felamyage) thank you 👍🏼