YouTube Videos of Irish Archaeological Interest
Actually, it mostly shows normal excavation work going on. One of the few places where coal mining took place was Arigna, County Roscommon, where it continued until the 1990s. This is a short film clip showing the miners at work. Sample clip from a video by a company specialising in travel videos. Background music (no, I think it’s the video that’s background) is The Heat Is On from Beverley Hills Cop. A compendium of views (mixed video and still) with Enya’s music. Views of various parts of the old ironworks (1600-1898) at Creevelea, County Leitrim. Scenery and ruins from the air, old engravings, re-enactors in battle, video shorts an ancient manuscript and more. More old footage: the steam train which transported the coal. More speeded-up footage from the N8/M8. This list will, I hope, give a representative selection, but will tend to concentrate on the more interesting ones. It is the site proposed for a new deepwater port, but it will affect a group of passage tombs. Introduction to the site and a visit to the gatehouse. The end of the story, from Henry VIII to the National Monuments Acts. Still photographs, not only of monoliths, but of megalithic tombs, standing stones/stone rows, and other stone monuments in various countries, with a musical soundtrack (The Last of the Mohicans, of all things). This content was created by GSA Content Generator Demoversion !
No commentary. German song Du Hast (Rammstein) as soundtrack. Historic footage, monochrome, with live sound but no commentary. No sound. Note that ‘Gabriel Conroy’ should be ‘Gabriel Cooney’. Conor Newman’s interview is subtitled: note that ‘jeduritical’ should be ‘Jesuitical’. Interviews with Dr Conor Newman & a girl with green hair. The narrator discusses the relationship between the "Celtic" attitude to nature and that of the "Green" movement. Series of stills of Tara (some of the nicest I’ve seen) acompanying The Voice by Celtic Woman. Impressionistic and a bit mixed up: you won’t learn much from it, but you might like it if you would prefer to ‘feel’ Celtic art rather than learn about it. If you like the music on this one, there's a link to iTunes Store. Many of these are holiday videos, with comments like 'I have no clue where we are, but it's a bunch of rocks'.
Archaeologists Declan Moore and Billy Quinn show that brewing beer could have been one of the uses of the Bronze Age sites known as burnt mounds or fulachta fiadh. Beginning rather abruptly, this appears to be an extract from a television documentary on the later Bronze Age and Iron Age in Ireland. Spoof explanation of a real excavation in County Kilkenny (Bronze Age bus-stop etc). Again, a reference to "speculators’ gold" reveals their real grievance. Camera pans along a line of postholes. Camera pans back and forth to show a rainbow. After the significance of these sites has been explained, the documentary gives way to some slides relating to the Tara controversy. Description of the significance of Tara, and the controversy about the building of a nearby road. Accompanied by a pop-song sung in an American accent, but the words are about the Tara controversy rather than the usual ‘ooh baby I love ya’ theme. Protesters obstructing the machinery on the road project alternating with scenes in the protesters’ camp, while a rhyme about the controversy is recited in the background. ‘A walk to the baryte mine on Kings mountain county Sligo, Ireland.’ Tagged as ‘industrial archaeology’ but it’s mostly a walk through some atmospheric mountain scenery with some nice guitar music in the background.
A few shots of ruined mine buildings and cables, but no narrative. Restful musical background, no narrative. Series of stills of sites, manuscripts, finds, structures, and book covers, with a musical accompaniment described as ‘songs by Celts’. Starts with a series of stills without comment, then the tour continues. 360-degree pan round the cliffs and then the stone fort. A quick pan across what appears to be archaeological monitoring of a deep channel being dug. I’m not sure that these tour guides would appreciate being put on YouTube, though, and I foresee a crackdown. Part of the guided tour of Newgrange. It includes pre-Celtic sites such as Newgrange and Stonehenge, and post-Celtic sites such as St. Lawrence’s Gate, Drogheda. Courses run all summer, and students learn a wide range of skills on sites of various types and periods. This is explained in a series of text slides. Series of text slides attacking various infrastructural projects in County Meath and adjoining areas. Another planning controversy: Bremore, in North County Dublin. Quite a lot of decidedly non-Celtic images - megalithic tombs, Henry II, Gothic cathedrals, a Norman knight’s effigy, 18th-century church plate, and modern Dublin. A lot of wind noise. How ‘putlog’ scaffolding worked.
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