1 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:20,840 Fish Roads hosted by Luke Conroy Wright Saul withdrew his golden 2 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,240 rays a mist or set the moon. We dined and hurried on our way 3 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:29,880 to search the shore full. Soon 3 jolly youths conveyed us 4 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,920 where young lovely females smile. 5 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:38,960 Where first I saw fair Venus or the flower Shurkin Isle Fair 6 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,320 Venus, That's how sexy she was fair. 7 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,520 Venus like that's mad. On Shurkin, and as we'll see, at 8 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,640 its height there was only 1000 people there, so. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,760 You'd get to know the town fairly quick. 10 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,240 Yeah, and the selection to the people they have, they're all 11 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,400 beautiful. That collector there is John 12 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,280 O'Reilly. He's from Nieves. 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,880 Nieves. Counted Nieves. 14 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,520 Hello and welcome to the Pitch Strokes podcast. 15 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,160 Shah Shah, Tommy John Shaw. Kahal is here, Lucas here, 16 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,320 Lucas, and I'm done. KAHALA, San. 17 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:15,520 I'm done. Dum Dums 2 Dum Dums you. 18 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,440 Have a lovely voice. Oh, look at you. 19 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,760 Oh, I haven't. Done this before. 20 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,680 Before you arrived. I could never do that. 21 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,040 You have a lovely, fair voice. Oh, I'm fair mate. 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,920 The Fair Venus we're hopping on this weekend. 23 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,720 It's it's a holiday for us. It mightn't be for many. 24 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,280 It is indeed. We're going dancing. 25 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,440 We're going. Dancing down in Shurkin Isle, 26 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,800 where we're going to meet Venus or the flower. 27 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,680 They're in the aforementioned flower many. 28 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,360 Strangers for to greet. There's tons of strangers there, 29 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,160 but yeah, we're going to Open Air Festival, not sponsor. 30 00:01:52,160 --> 00:02:00,440 I wish to pay for my day. And we said we'd hop on and do a 31 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,720 quick little episode on Shurkin Island, because did you know 32 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,240 about Shirkin Island before this festival? 33 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,280 I didn't. I had no idea really. 34 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,320 Not even 1. I don't think I did, no. 35 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,440 No, I, an old man, came into the place I work and I mentioned I'm 36 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,400 going down to Cork to Shirkin Island and it went, it was like 37 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,760 Shirkin. I haven't heard that place in 38 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,680 years. We went down there. 39 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,240 The only getting serving than of stories. 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,080 Because I do think funnily, Irish people probably travelled 41 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,080 within Ireland a lot more for holiday destination things, 42 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,120 whereas now it was more in vogue in the last however many years 43 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,200 to go out and about the onset of the plane and the ferry changes. 44 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,840 Travel much around Ireland when you were younger, whenever the 45 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,440 recession hit and it was like, right? 46 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,360 We're going to. We're going to Bundora. 47 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,120 Bundora was the big. Spot. 48 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,000 Brilliant. Yeah, that was. 49 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,520 Great, I have fam up there too. So I used to like going to 50 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,120 Bundora and I associate it with the song We Will Rock you 51 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,640 because that roller coaster, you know they're like 1 where it 52 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,560 spins like the the other one that spins on a flat. 53 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,160 They just used to Blair. We Will Rock you. 54 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,400 Shurkin, it's one of the most southernmost parts of Ireland. 55 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,720 It's down in Cork and it's just beyond Baltimore. 56 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,480 But yet locals. When I first went to Shurkin 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,840 Island for the festival like 2 years ago, people kept saying 58 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,640 the word it's a microclimate down here, it's a microclimate. 59 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:28,440 I didn't know if they were just bragging because it was sunny 60 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:28,840 that day. I. 61 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,800 Feel like everyone remembers the first time you heard like 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,920 someone was like the micro climate down there. 63 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,280 Yeah, yeah. I mean it is interesting. 64 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,320 It has, it's like it's, I thought there was just one 65 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,040 climate, but microclimates. I believe it's to do with 66 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,600 mountains generally. And there's no yeah. 67 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,120 So the clouds are the island is protected by mountains, so the 68 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,200 clouds and the rain goes before and then sometimes you get 69 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,840 different and get different temperatures because it's 70 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,320 protected. That's fly. 71 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,680 But yeah, we heard about microclimates and then finally 72 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,320 in fly. That's fly. 73 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,120 Yeah, I'm trying to be in. I'm microclimate of flat. 74 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,160 Hades hip hop star. What was it? 75 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,120 Yeah, even on the Wikipedia, which is really fun. 76 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,480 And you know when it says like source not included, like where? 77 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,519 It's like dangerous information. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 78 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,920 It says all that local like that. 79 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,560 Oh, oftentimes when the lawns are white in Baltimore, you look 80 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,520 across the shirk and you can see that the lawns over there are 81 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,800 green. Historically speaking, it's a 82 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,200 small little island. It was a strategic stronghold 83 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:35,480 for the Odriscoll clan. So they had several castles 84 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,120 along the Cork islands when the likes of Cape Clear and such, 85 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,960 and they used these forts to to their advantage to essentially 86 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,280 tax people on their way in. Anyone that was getting into 87 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,800 Baltimore, you had to go by these islands or rob stuff. 88 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,480 Pirates plunder the ships, and this will kind of. 89 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,720 Island has a piratey past. It has a piratey past and a pub 90 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,440 currently called the Jolly Roger. 91 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,240 It's up for sale on Daft. So after this episode, if you 92 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,840 ever want to live on Shirkin Island, why not by the pub? 93 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,840 Why not give it to me? The island's name it comes. 94 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,320 Obviously it's Shirkin Island, but it comes from Inish Arkin, 95 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,200 so obviously it's a bastardization of the name, eh? 96 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,480 But islands of Arkin and Arkin? It likely derives from an early 97 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,960 word for piglet, piglets, so the island of piglets. 98 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,840 But many believe that's refers instead to sea pigs, which is 99 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:26,680 what people used to call porpoises. 100 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,360 It's it's a very normal assumption. 101 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,720 Unless they just had a pile of pigs on the island, you never 102 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,080 know. O'Driscoll could have been rare. 103 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,400 And pigs. Yeah, could have. 104 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:38,040 But I like the ideal the idea. And just piglets, there's no 105 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:43,080 like they don't grow up. This is disabled youth for for 106 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,320 poor poison, poor poises. Cheering and all for yeah, Four 107 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,840 voices for Pigs. It's beautiful. 108 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:59,280 Seaside superstitions Here's a superstition Any Carpenter who 109 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:02,520 strikes a blow on a coffin won't get a job making a. 110 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,120 Boat. That's true, I've seen it myself 111 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,920 in my own life and that came from Konko bar Oriuka. 112 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,640 Great name. Konko Bar. 113 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,520 September 1933. But yeah, I'd say any Carpenter. 114 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,160 Yeah. Who? 115 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,760 Feckin. And strikes a blow like they 116 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,680 just feck it up or. Or maybe, or is it just easy 117 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,400 being like, if you put who, if you build a coffin, because 118 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,040 obviously you have to hammer them together. 119 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,240 Hmm. So maybe it's like any Carpenter 120 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,640 who builds A coffin can't build a boat because I imagine the 121 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,080 superstition is like, if you're building, if you're building 122 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,880 coffins, yeah. You're building? 123 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:39,760 Yeah, exactly. You're not, I'm not getting into 124 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,200 any boat. I'm not that you're. 125 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,200 Like in coffins sink. That's it. 126 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,600 There would be a brother. There's the brother, the brother 127 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:46,880 that does boats, and the brother. 128 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,960 That does coffee. Yeah, I do boats. 129 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:51,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me brother's been doing coffins 130 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,560 but I'm one of the rogue ones. Yeah, I do. 131 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:54,720 Boats. I do boats. 132 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,280 Oh no, I don't know this one, but nobody wants to go fishing 133 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,840 on the first day of the season or on Friday. 134 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,640 A rat on board is lucky and it's not right to speak. 135 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,000 I've heard of this or a of a pig or a priest on board a boat. 136 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,520 A pig or a priest? Isn't there that thing? 137 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,200 And I remember there used to be a thing of like, didn't some 138 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,640 sailors get like chickens tattooed onto their their 139 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,960 ankles? Chickens because it's like good 140 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,000 look like chickens don't drowned. 141 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,600 As in I think it comes from this is not true. 142 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,240 I think it was like if there was a shipwreck, the fish, they're 143 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,080 not the fish, the chicken would somehow survive. 144 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,800 OK, so they just dissociated. Do chickens float? 145 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,760 Are they like ducks? Maybe there's some reason or 146 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,440 some. Silly, you need myth Busters. 147 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,960 Myth Busters do chickens float? But yeah, you're not don't talk 148 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,240 about pigs or priests on board about. 149 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,840 So this is almost like Macbeth, if you get me of like, you know, 150 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,760 people say the Scottish plants have Macbeth. 151 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,040 When a priest is spoken of on the boat, he is called a 152 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,240 babashti. No. 153 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,000 A babashti no. So you can't say a priest on a 154 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,960 boat and I won't anymore. And that came from. 155 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:03,320 Concubar A babashti no Baba Baba stino. 156 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:04,520 Yeah, like why? Why? 157 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,280 You just can't say the word priest. 158 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,560 So if you want to have a conversation on the boat about a 159 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,480 priest, OK, you said the Baba Steena. 160 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,400 The Baba Steena while you're. Holding your lucky rat. 161 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,160 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 162 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,240 And you have to leave your favorite pig at home. 163 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,040 Can't get to see that. I think of your lovely pig. 164 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,960 I wonder how that develops. Like why does a priest not want 165 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,960 you to talk about him? Or is there just something 166 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,600 happened where some fellow was talking about this priest? 167 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:35,120 I assume. The more badge, no more, and it 168 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,520 went down terribly on the ocean for some reason. 169 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,919 My thinking is that, yeah, like maybe even this is like a silly 170 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,960 version of a but like the same way that the Carpenter builds A 171 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,960 coffin. Can he make a boat? 172 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Because the coffin is obviously associated with death. 173 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,120 Yeah, I don't want maybe similarly talking of a priest. 174 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,560 It's kind of like you're asking for something. 175 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,560 You're asking for the need for a priest. 176 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,880 In the yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, maybe that's true. 177 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,520 Yeah. Fuck, I don't even want to talk. 178 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,800 Yeah. Yeah, I'm those pigs. 179 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,720 The seal, the man, the woman. Long ago in the northern side of 180 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,800 Shurkin, on a stormy night, a man by the name of Glanine went 181 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,720 out looking for a wreck, and on going around the points he saw 182 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,320 on the rocks a woman combing her hair. 183 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,920 He went towards her and put his hand on her shoulder. 184 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,440 She threw back her hair and looking up at him said as you 185 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,600 put your hand on me, now you'll have to marry me. 186 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:38,120 He said. He was satisfied, but before 187 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,960 they were married he had to make 3 promises never to kill a black 188 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:44,000 sheep. Don. 189 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,320 Never to invite a landlord to dinner. 190 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,120 No, no, no. And never to kill a seal. 191 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:51,400 Now you're asking for two months. 192 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,840 He promised to keep all three. They lived very happily together 193 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,840 and had three children. One morning he said he would go 194 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:06,280 wrecking Wrecking, a local name for the timber that has washed 195 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,000 ashore after a storm. I like that they explained that 196 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,240 after using the word alright earlier in this. 197 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,320 Life, that's what. It is. 198 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,520 I was like, what the hell is this? 199 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,280 Go wrecking. He met a seal which was resting 200 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,480 on the sand and did not notice the tide going from it. 201 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,080 The seal was quite alive when he met him. 202 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:26,960 The man slipped around to a boat in the vicinity, having procured 203 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,560 an oar. He returned and killed the seal 204 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,800 and brought it home in his back. That's he's broken his promise. 205 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,640 I don't know what he was thinking. 206 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:37,200 Yeah. And do people eat seals? 207 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,880 Awesome. Was it, I suppose, back in the 208 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:40,360 day, what we did? I'd say so. 209 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,000 And he could, yeah, you could use all sorts for a seal. 210 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,200 But like it seems to be the mythology just continues to say, 211 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,160 second, Irish people don't eat seals, don't be killing, bad 212 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:54,200 things will happen. But anyway. 213 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,960 That is when the wife told you not to. 214 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,160 She said not to. He went in and threw the seal on 215 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,560 the floor. You're happy with that? 216 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,840 Yeah. He was a. 217 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,400 You never listened to me. You never listened. 218 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,880 He literally like if that's one way of just saying I wanted 219 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:12,440 them. All that's it. 220 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:13,960 That's so funny. He's like, we're done. 221 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:19,840 Poof. And I killed a black sheep the 222 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,320 landlord's on his way over. Yeah, he just caught the 223 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:23,160 landlord. Yeah, he's. 224 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,080 Covered get the dead already. You love Seal he. 225 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,480 Could eat seal. He went in and threw the seal on 226 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,120 the floor. I noticed in the dead carcass. 227 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,120 The wife hurried in its direction and kneeling down, 228 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,200 took hold of one of the seals paws, muttering at the same 229 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,800 time. Lappa lappa adrehor a creheus. 230 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,680 I'm wearing the crow. The wife then asked her husband 231 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:48,600 three times for a kiss, but he refused. 232 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,520 Tis well for you, she said, licking around her mouth as far 233 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,280 as her tongue would go. For I would bite that much out 234 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,840 of you before I'd go. She kissed her five children in 235 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,200 succession and went back to the place where her husband first 236 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,920 met her, then, taking a little bundle from her pocket, shook 237 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,560 it, and immediately a Black Horse came to the rock. 238 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,920 She jumped on his back and was never seen again. 239 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,080 Location Nieves Candy Cork teacher Richard Mccarta. 240 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,000 Some brilliant names right there, Richard. 241 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:30,360 McCarthy maybe restart, restart I am restart Maharth I've seen 242 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,200 restart once and I think it's cool. 243 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,560 I do think it might be the Irish for Richard maybe. 244 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:35,880 I'm wrong? Restart. 245 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,520 It's cool though, isn't? It sounds very almost like ice. 246 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,320 Those lamps are we start. Yeah, like. 247 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:42,920 That's a wild story though, isn't it? 248 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,720 Where the vibe I got at the beginning I thought she was 249 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,800 going to be the mammy of the seal, but then she kissed the 250 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,640 five kids goodbye. And she was asking her husband 251 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,920 three times for a kiss, but he refused. 252 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,760 I think it was some weird. I think she's a witch anyway. 253 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,120 She was going to bite him. I think if he had came in for 254 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,680 the kisses, came in for the kisses and she actually would 255 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:12,200 have fucking ate him, Yeah, what I like bit the jugular out of. 256 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,080 Him, yeah. Or something like she was. 257 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,840 He broke the promise, killed his dudes and. 258 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,640 Like. She got a bundle of sticks from 259 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,920 her pockets and that's what caused the Black Horse to come 260 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:25,880 and pick her up. But it's serious. 261 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,600 Umm, the fact that he just said, you know what? 262 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,760 I'll kill a seal and I won't do discreetly in any way. 263 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,120 Stroll on the ground, stroll on, slap it onto the wooden ground 264 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,720 or whatever. Yeah, if therapy had existed 265 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,440 before this, he would have realized. 266 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,760 Yeah, you need. You want to leave your wife? 267 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,640 Yeah, he's like, wait, what? He's. 268 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,280 Fine, I've just been drinking tongue killing black sheep 269 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,240 seals. It's fine, it's fine. 270 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,760 I love her. And I love going out wrecking. 271 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,040 Wrecking all the time, yeah, yeah. 272 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,120 So lapa lapa, I didn't try. I'm not good at Irish as you 273 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,240 know, but it seemed to translate on Google as oh poor the killer. 274 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,000 My heart sings so merry. Protect us. 275 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:12,200 There you go, bringing us into that call, the animals of 276 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,160 Shurkin. The animals of Shurkin. 277 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,520 And as you can imagine with a little small island, not a whole 278 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,880 pile of land mammals. So there's a black sheep. 279 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:21,760 That's what they say. There's a seal. 280 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,520 That's why he would have killed a black sheep if he could. 281 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:26,880 He definitely. Couldn't he only find seals? 282 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,560 Yeah, there was some foxes, a few hairs and the likes. 283 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,680 There's three different species of bat. 284 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,200 But out to the sea is where you'll find all the good stuff. 285 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,480 You'll find common dolphins. And I find they're so common. 286 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,440 The Shark and Island website says that sometimes the sea 287 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,440 looks like it's boiling. Oh, wow. 288 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,800 With dolphins. That's that's amazing. 289 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,160 You have many. Feck and all those other There's 290 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,200 Bottlenose ones, the non common ones, and there's really sauce 291 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,160 dolphins. Bubbling with dolphins. 292 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,240 Bubbling with the bubbling, the most common whale is mink whale, 293 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,120 and humpback whales have also become regularly active over the 294 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,440 place. Lastly, you'll see fin whales. 295 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,280 They'll locals, they'll uh, they're the second biggest 296 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,560 whale, aren't they? The Finn whale. 297 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,240 They can reach 30 meters in length. 298 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,520 Read me the Sherkin Serpent, please. 299 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,600 The Sherkin Serpent. It sounds great. 300 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,840 The Sherkin. It sounds like a good pub. 301 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:21,840 It does. I'm going. 302 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,960 To take the Jolly Roger and. Turn it into this Sherkin 303 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,400 Serpent. The Sherkin Serpent Some few 100 304 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,280 years ago, there lived in Sherkin a serpent who tormented 305 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,520 the people. One morning a priest went 306 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,000 shooting, as it was usual for him to do, and the search the 307 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,320 serpent at once tried to torment. 308 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,920 Not funny that that Brock. He was always out shooting this. 309 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:52,320 Fucking priest seals the serpent at once, tried to torment him. 310 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,320 The priest loaded his gun and turning to where it lay 311 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:00,960 wriggling on the bank, shot it. The hollow stone form of this 312 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:06,040 serpent is still to be seen. A giant who lived on Mount 313 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,080 Gabriel used to throw stones over at the serpent. 314 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,400 One of these stones bears the print of his fingers. 315 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,240 This stone is near the bog which is called Fordray and I looked 316 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,200 into the Irish. I think for like Ford can mean 317 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,160 Pete so it makes sense it's the bog. 318 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,840 So I'd say it's like a plane of Pete is the Irish for that. 319 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,400 Another deep hole is called the horses hole. 320 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,960 For one time a horse was feeding there, and he slipped into the 321 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,080 hole in the evening when the people went searching for the 322 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,480 horse and could not find him. After a while they heard him man 323 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,880 in the hole. Then they procured sticks and 324 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,400 ropes and tried to pull him out, but the ropes broke and he fell 325 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,920 farther and farther down the hole. 326 00:16:52,840 --> 00:17:00,280 After some time there he died. It is said that it is said that 327 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,800 the place was haunted in quotation marks. 328 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:07,000 The place was then covered with stone slabs so that no animals 329 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,079 would ever be in danger anymore. And that location there again is 330 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:13,760 need. I like that the priest this is 331 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,800 like, you know, they usually hear what Saint Patrick and a 332 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,839 giant snake and he banishes them. 333 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:20,960 What is his umm his staff, his staff. 334 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,560 They sit a priest with a. Gun the more modern version that 335 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,960 I think that's a brilliant one. It reminded me of umm, I don't 336 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,600 know to know when Jesus heads into the desert, he's getting 337 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,480 tempted by the devil. Just imagined Jesus just 338 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,720 shooting him with the. Fact that he's glocked, I would 339 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,400 I'd play that game. Yeah, I would too. 340 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,880 These priests are badass though. My God. 341 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,680 You can definitely see there's a different energy of a priest in 342 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,800 the stories in Dukas than there is in present day, where the 343 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,440 priests are like, might as well be The Avengers. 344 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,560 Yeah, different. You know what I mean? 345 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,280 Saints and priests that are ganging together to save Ireland 346 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,400 from big snakes. So and the hollow stone form of 347 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,880 the serpent is there to be seen. So I have to look for these. 348 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:08,680 Do you? Think the lore will be there? 349 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,320 Like I'd love to ask a local, yeah. 350 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,360 Where's the whole? Where's the whole The horse? 351 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,240 Where's the haunted horse hole? There's a whole on them like 352 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,040 ours. Oh, you know, I'm sorry guys. 353 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,000 That one came from Richard. Restart again. 354 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,320 So very happy to. Restart is a good man. 355 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,000 Do you like me to go through some birds, or would you like to 356 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,520 list some birds? Do you want to go back and 357 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,320 forth? Yeah, Skylark. 358 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,280 Chuck. Raven. 359 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:37,680 Tip Chuff. Sand Martin. 360 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,000 With EAR. Favorite Harry Potter character 361 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,240 Swallow grasshopper warp. Oh, grasshopper warfare, The 362 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,160 Willow Warbler. Hey, you skip. 363 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,120 Sorry, said the zedge warp. Let's start again. 364 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,720 We're gonna do it again, so. Skylark, I'll do you start Black 365 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,520 Cap cuckoo. White throat. 366 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:59,320 Zedge, Warbler. Fulmer. 367 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:00,800 Cormorant. Shag. 368 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,240 OK, Black Guillemont. Common Scoter Puffin sandwich 369 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,160 turn. Great Northern diver shell duck, 370 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,560 red breasted Merganzer. Wimbrel. 371 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,400 The Pomeran. The Pomeran Skua. 372 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,200 Little bittern. Stone Kurlu. 373 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,760 Hoop hoop hoopo. Hoopo. 374 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,720 The Woods Chat Shrake. Manx Searwater. 375 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,480 The Gannett. Kitty wake. 376 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,400 The European storm petrol suti A shearwater. 377 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,160 Great Sukua. The. 378 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,280 Arctic great. SCUA great. 379 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,640 Scua there. The Arctic SCUA. 380 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,400 Corey's Shearwater. Mediterranean Shearwater. 381 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,520 Wilson's Petrel. Grey follow rope. 382 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,120 Long tailed scua. Sabine's goal fees. 383 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:52,920 Petrel. The Rhine Neck. 384 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:55,440 Yellow brown wobbler. The fine Crest. 385 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,400 Chimney Swift. Palaces Warbler. 386 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,160 Seren. Rustic Bunting. 387 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,480 Red diver. Guillemot, Razor, Bell, Widgin, 388 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,360 the Cousin White cousin of the Pigeon. 389 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,800 Gadwall. Whooper, Swan. 390 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,240 Mediterranean gull. The Iceland gull. 391 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,000 Galaka skull. Galaka skull Little. 392 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,080 Gull. Ring build goal. 393 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,240 Yellow legged goal. Ivory goal. 394 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,480 That's, you know, you. Look a bit of bird. 395 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,880 It's a lot of birds. You look at a bird. 396 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,200 Yeah. And you look at the bird. 397 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:26,920 Yeah. You know what I mean? 398 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,520 Like A and there's someone around to them. 399 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,040 Look at them. Have you? 400 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,240 I've been mad into the the Merlin. 401 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,720 If anyone doesn't have Merlin ID they should get into it. 402 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,400 It's really fun. Tap your tap a button and it'll 403 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,840 let the AI or something listens and it detects which bird is in 404 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,400 your location and you see who you're having a coffee with. 405 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,960 That's what I'd be doing. I'd be sitting be thinking, oh, 406 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,080 there's the Robin, there's the the warbler, there's the shell 407 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,840 duck. I haven't got a shell duck yet 408 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:54,640 though. Well, down in down in sharkin. 409 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,240 We'll get them, yeah. You'll be sharkin. 410 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:57,640 You're gonna. Collect all these. 411 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,960 Do I collected some facts of the most interesting of these birds? 412 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,280 The Hooper Swan migrates to Ireland from Iceland every 413 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,760 winter, travelling over 1000 kilometers. 414 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,800 That is brave. Insane. 415 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,880 Imagine all the people that volunteered or kidnapped 416 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,600 themselves away to Iceland, the old Irish back in the day and 417 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,960 you're missing home and you start to see the whoopers swab. 418 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,400 Yeah, yeah. The grey follow rope which 419 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,880 unlike most birds, the females are brighter than males and 420 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,440 compete for mates and while the males raise the chicks. 421 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:36,320 Oh there you go, the Cho, or how would you pronounce it CHOUGH? 422 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:41,360 It's Ireland's only crow with bright red bill and legs so, and 423 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:44,880 it's haunting calls along Atlantic cliffs that I just love 424 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,000 that it's a reddened crow if they're beaking their legs. 425 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,680 Ah, real red. Oh, that's I can't wait to see 426 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:56,040 him and Mank Shearwater, that he can travel thousands of 427 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,800 kilometers across the Atlantic, returns to the exact same 428 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,040 borough every year, usually coming home, coming ashore at 429 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,480 night. That's crazy. 430 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,480 What if they lose their Burrow? I suppose they don't. 431 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,800 It's pretty sweet. The Great Northern Diver, one of 432 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,040 the most striking winter sea birds in Irish waters. 433 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,240 It's got a dagger like Bill and it's eerie. 434 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,960 Calls have inspired North American legends, which I 435 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,800 thought was inciting, exciting and finally Pomerine Scua. 436 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,120 And it's a fierce pirate of the sea. 437 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,080 It chases down gulls and turns until they drop their food and 438 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,080 they steal it mid air. Isn't that cool? 439 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,720 That is cool. That's their only, that's their 440 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:33,840 game. They're robbers. 441 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,720 Which brings us on perfectly to our own pirates. 442 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,240 By the medieval period, shuriken had become one of the of the 443 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,320 strongholds of the Odriscoll clan. 444 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,600 They were seafaring Gaelic rulers who dominated the eastern 445 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,960 side of Roaring Water Bay. Their wealth came from the 446 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,280 control of the fisheries there and the shipping routes enough 447 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,200 to maintain fleets of galleys in, poured wine from France and 448 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,800 Spain, and build a chain of castles along western Cork on 449 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,520 Cherkin itself. Their Paris centred on Dunalong, 450 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,040 the 4th of the ships. Dunalong. 451 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,720 Dunalong rose on Sherkin's northern shore and overlooked 452 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,440 the narrow channel between the island and mainland, so from 453 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,200 there anything entering into the waters of Roaring Water Bay 454 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,240 could be watched, challenged or seized. 455 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,200 Oh, Driscoll's Prosperity, they mainly actually raided and 456 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,520 relations with the Anglo normal ports to the east, especially 457 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,240 Waterford, swung constantly between unease and I write 458 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,680 piracy. So merchant vessels would be 459 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:44,200 heading over to Waterford and a big problem happened where 460 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,400 essentially they seized a pile of wine, they robbed them, they 461 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,960 robbed the Waterford clan of Normans and they got really 462 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,360 peeved and it exploded into a war called the battle of the 463 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:01,160 wine barrels over the 1537. So a Portuguese ship, the Santa 464 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,120 Maria de Saki was carrying wine from libs Lisbon. 465 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,440 Imagine you're still in Waterford excited for your wine 466 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,400 and they sold shelter in Baltimore harbor. 467 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,840 But the address goes sample the cargo and the abandoned any 468 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,280 presence of safe conduct and inviting the merchants to 469 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,480 dinner. Yeah, they had a sample of it. 470 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,160 So this is good. They brought the wine merchants 471 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,960 in for dinner in the castle and then clasped them in irons and 472 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,720 seized the ship and the wine. It says 72 tons of wine were 473 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,600 distributed among their allies and neighbors and the Tun. 474 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,080 What didn't? We do, Didn't do. 475 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,720 Anything. It's a bit of a bit too much 476 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,440 wine and suddenly you're worn with water for. 477 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,440 Yeah, what did I do last night? Why is Waterford here still 478 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,560 hold? Empty. 479 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,640 Like why am I in Waterford? So the water for the authorities 480 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,280 captured the vessel and what remained of the cargo, and on 481 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,040 the 27th of March 1537, they launched a massive reprisal 482 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,880 against Shurkin. So the assault lasted for five 483 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,080 days. They destroyed Dunalong and they 484 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:07,640 destroyed the Friary and they burned it. 485 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,320 They battered it, they destroyed it. 486 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,120 And the attackers, the attackers carried off Finniano Driscoll's 487 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,960 galley, his. So they just stole everything. 488 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,160 Well, to be fair though, kind of deserved it. 489 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,040 Including its bell. They took our bell. 490 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,840 They took our bell you. Couldn't even ring a bell 491 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,920 anymore. So yeah, they rebuilt the 492 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,680 castle, but to be honest, after that point, they were never the 493 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,640 Odyskos were never as powerful as they once wore, and so that 494 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,360 end ended the the great Reign. Of the. 495 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,640 Seaside pirates. Wow, there. 496 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,000 You go, we can go see. That it's rare. 497 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,200 I think of those kind of like, I wouldn't have thought Shurkin. 498 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,800 There was a great big battle on this feckin island. 499 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,920 Like and I bet it was just but it would have been crazy if 500 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,480 you're living on a little sleepy island. 501 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,280 Next thing the water for Anglo Norman's are. 502 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,240 Yeah, coming off and I think that's they hadn't a clue 503 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,880 themselves. It was all up for grabs with. 504 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,280 Bing bang, boom, you took my wine and I took their wine. 505 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,640 I robbed that wine from Lisbon and you robbed it. 506 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,040 For me. I'm going to. 507 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,000 Rob, you taking your belt? Would you like to read The Wreck 508 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,520 of the Little Florence? It's fun. 509 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:19,200 The wreck of the Little Florence On the 23rd of April 1893, the 510 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,200 Little Florence of Newry foundered with all hands between 511 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,000 the Nedge and Whale Rocks as she was coming from the fishing 512 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,840 ground in Sotherly Gale. All the boats went to different 513 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,840 harbours. Only one, the Eleanor of Shurkin 514 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,360 that came to Baltimore saw her crew in the water, but there was 515 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:40,560 a terrible storm so they could not have rescued the drowning 516 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,400 men. Betty O'Driscoll. 517 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,960 Betty O'Driscoll. She from Kilmona, and it's not 518 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,760 mad. Imagine seeing a boat getting as 519 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,400 far as the shore. You just can't do nothing. 520 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,000 Yeah, watch them go. Yeah, that'd be annoying. 521 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,840 Yeah, and I wonder why it's called the Little Florence. 522 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,320 What do they know about Florence? 523 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:03,080 I suppose it's 1893. Sorry, a little boat stuck on 524 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,040 the rocks with no help. Nowhere to go. 525 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,040 I don't know if this is just another shipwreck, don't know if 526 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,240 it's interesting. It was a steam ship. 527 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,280 That's interesting enough, I suppose. 528 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:19,160 The Steamship in Sewald left Liverpool on December the 20th, 529 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,320 1900. She was bound for the Hampton 530 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,480 Roads of South America. I'm passing the Fastnet. 2 days 531 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,880 after she left Liverpool a terrific northwesterly gala 532 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,600 rose, causing her to break her propeller shaft. 533 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,360 She was driven helplessly before the wind down the Bay north of 534 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:40,520 Cape Clear, and about 10:00 that night she struck the rocks north 535 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,560 of Shurkin. The people of the island saw her 536 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,960 distress signals and they hurried to where she was. 537 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,720 With the aid of ropes and a boat they succeeded in taking off all 538 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,160 the crews safely. The crew were taken to the 539 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,480 houses on the island. The Airs Wild was not refloated 540 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,320 until March 18th, 1901, and during that time there were 541 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,560 divers working underwater repairing holes in the bottom. 542 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,800 Wow, isn't that insane. Wow, how do they do that 543 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,200 actively while the shit's in the water? 544 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,920 She was then towed off by tugboats and taken to Rushbrook 545 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,200 docks to be refitted for sea again. 546 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,600 Sometime afterwards, it appeared in the papers that she was lost 547 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,600 in the English Channel with all hands in the winter of 1902. 548 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:22,600 Which does that mean with all hands? 549 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,160 Does that mean everyone on the boat was dead? 550 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,400 Oh, dead, but the people are. Circulating with all hands. 551 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,400 That's what I'm guessing. OK to Shurkin Island people 552 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,000 saved the crew this time. Yeah. 553 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,480 And once again from Neves Kente, Cork. 554 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,760 What? Our old friend restart. 555 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,760 Restart is the man used to find these men. 556 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,080 Shake their hand. Shake them we need. 557 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,960 To shake their hand. Sir, I want to shake your hand. 558 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,040 Shurkin Abbey. This is a very short one, yeah. 559 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,480 In Shurkin Abbey, there's a wishing chair in Shurkin Island. 560 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,680 It is situated on the top of the Abbey and there's a graveyard 561 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,640 around it. It is a very high. 562 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,160 It is so high. That's from Castle Townsend, 563 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,280 Candy Cork. The teacher there was Shawn on 564 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,920 Donovan and. And yeah, I want to find a 565 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,640 wishing chair. Yeah, there's a wishing chair in 566 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,880 Dublin Zoo. Do you ever go to that was 567 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,000 again? No, I didn't. 568 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,480 I think it's a wishing wishing tree where I'm from in Dundee 569 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,360 and you put little dodies on it. Oh, for the babies. 570 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,640 So if you find a little dodie, you just stick it? 571 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:24,800 Yeah, it's strange. Yeah. 572 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,320 And then the tree fell, so we have to make a new tree. 573 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,360 A Dodi, by the way, is a pacifier for all you Americans 574 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,800 out there. Dodi. 575 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,040 Dodi I love. Dodi is a word I love. 576 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,360 Dodi is a word I love. Mala play DoH mala oh. 577 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,480 It's beautiful, isn't it? The little bit of fucking not 578 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,000 even Irish. Dodi isn't an Irish. 579 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,200 Word is this. No, it's just a little 580 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,640 euphemism. Yeah, euphemism something. 581 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,640 It just sounds better than pacifier. 582 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,720 Pacify my. I want to pacify the child. 583 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,280 Let me pacify you. Sit still so I that's what your 584 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,280 mouth takes the pill. That's what Glonny said to the 585 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,960 seal before. I need to pacify. 586 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,240 You must be pacified. You little piglet. 587 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,880 The chalice. There are not many known hidden 588 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,800 treasures around this place, but long ago, a chalice was supposed 589 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,320 to be hidden in Shark and Abby. You know when I bet it was 590 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,200 hidden Pesky angle Norman's. From I reckon so. 591 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,160 Wreckin size so they said. The chalices and bells were 592 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,880 taken, but this one, this one survived. 1 morning a lot of men 593 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,640 went to work digging in search of it, and they found it bright 594 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,240 and shining at the foot of a Cliff. 595 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,000 So they threw it off a Cliff, probably, didn't it. 596 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,800 Maybe that's it and they went and got it, that collector where 597 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,520 there was Donald all in on from Donegal, West of County Cork. 598 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,320 I didn't know Cork Cork's a prior place. 599 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,040 They've put the whole of Donegal. 600 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,560 There is a graveyard in Shirkin Island, and near the gate of it 601 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,120 there were two Gable ends of an old building, but sixty years 602 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,960 ago one of the Gables fell. It was always believed that 603 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,200 fairies used to dwell in the old house, so the people were afraid 604 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,800 to remove the fallen stone. Finally, a fairy. 605 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,680 Finally. We got first one we need to 606 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,240 perfect. There was a Protestant man 607 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,760 living in the neighborhood. Finally, a Protestant and. 608 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:24,920 He was in court. And he was building a house. 609 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,560 He gathered some of the stones where they were five building 610 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,600 stones and he carried them home. But whatever was the 'cause he, 611 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,560 he was seen the following morning putting the stones back 612 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,760 again in the Gable. Nobody ever touched them since, 613 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,120 and they are lying there yet where they fell when the Gable 614 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,200 fell. So we don't even hear what 615 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,720 happened to him. That can he they just saw him 616 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,480 that he. He they saw him taking the 617 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,400 stones. Something happened. 618 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,440 He was like on a strikes. Day he was bringing them back on 619 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,560 a small island. The ghosts are smaller too. 620 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,720 They don't do as. Much as much. 621 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,560 Except that woman. She was cool. 622 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,200 Who had the Black Horse? Umm, hardships the Shurkin 623 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,920 priest. In a little thatched cabin near 624 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,680 the town of Baltimore there lived a man named John 625 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,480 O'Driscoll and his wife, Nora O'Driscoll. 626 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,640 It happened at that time that Nora O'Driscoll, whilst in 627 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,520 delicate health, gave birth to a child. 628 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,880 After a child being born, she happened to get worse. 629 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,040 Her husband got very much alarmed, and though she would 630 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,240 have the doctor. The Doctor arrived and examined 631 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,200 Miss O'Driscoll, and ordered to send for the priests 632 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,440 immediately. Funny, they're O'driscolls. 633 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,360 I wonder if the descendants is the curse upon them. 634 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,960 Yeah, so he sent a messenger to the priest house in wrath, and 635 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,720 the priest was suffering with rheumatics at the time and was 636 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,880 unable to attend the patient, but said he would go in the 637 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,240 morning if possible. The priest needs a doctor, and 638 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,280 the doctor needs a priest. Fuck. 639 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,680 Me in the meantime. They're just chasing after. 640 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,480 He's got rheumatics, they're constantly in the meantime, 641 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,840 there was a rage and storm and though Jesus well, in the 642 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,520 meantime there was a raging storm that there were sea 643 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,240 mountains. Sea, mountains high. 644 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,240 That's what you used to call waves, Sea mountains high in the 645 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,360 harbour of Baltimore. John O'Driscoll thought it too 646 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,440 long to wait for the priest until morning. 647 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,120 No one would care to venture to the island of Shurkin that night 648 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,800 for the priest that was there. Miss O'Driscoll was asked did 649 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,680 she know any person that would go? 650 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,960 And she said she had a nephew that would do anything she asked 651 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,600 of him. Wow good nephew. 652 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,960 He was sent for and asked would he ventures A shirtgun for the 653 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,280 priest and he said he would. They love to how they don't 654 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,480 leave any detail on 30. Two get this check and. 655 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,320 Phrase. You know, this child, actually, 656 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,600 he went there. He'd go with me. 657 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,200 So they went to the athletes that he'd go like talking to 658 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,320 someone else. Yeah. 659 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,560 So he went. Thought about it for a while, 660 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,200 scratched his head. Yeah, so it's his eye. 661 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,880 Actually stopped his legs. So he went out in a small boat, 662 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,480 and so terribly frightened of being being lost in the way, 663 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,000 that he said he would not venture back again. 664 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,520 He told the priest of the case on shuriken, and asked him did 665 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,120 he know any person on the island that would row him to the pier. 666 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,199 He got some fellows, and when they came near the shore they 667 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:21,239 were afraid to venture. So the priest went himself in 668 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,080 the middle of the storm, and before he was gone far from the 669 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,239 shore, he was drowned. That's terrible, He. 670 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,000 Should have brought his gun. He should have shot this feckin 671 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,840 with seamount. Seaman Missile Driscoll, who was 672 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,840 still suffering in Baltimore, thought it too long until the 673 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,120 priest would arrive. Miss O'Brien, the housekeeper, 674 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,920 was getting worried that the priest was not coming. 675 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,280 She was praying in the kitchen when the priest arrived. 676 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,280 He opened the door and said God bless all here. 677 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520 He pulled his overcoat across the back of a chair and went to 678 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,080 the woman's bedroom and anointed her. 679 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,440 When he was finished he went out into the storm again. 680 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,280 Then Miss O'Driscoll turned her face to the wall and died. 681 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,360 She died, died next morning. The priest in her wrath came to 682 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,480 anoint Miss O'Driscoll, and they told him she was anointed last 683 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,280 night by the priest in shuriken at 11:30. 684 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,880 I'm sorry to say, said he, he was drowned at that very time 685 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,840 coming into the pier. The time is not known when this 686 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,880 happened, but it is a long time. That is from. 687 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:28,480 Marie de Burka, Baliya Baliotera What was Randall Tuberk? 688 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,200 Randall that's crazy. That is a It's a lovely story. 689 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,640 It's a real. Tragic tragedy. 690 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,960 Tragedy wasn't. But isn't it amazing now they 691 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,480 kind of spoiled the ending for us that the priest spirit seemed 692 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:42,800 to go over. You know what I mean? 693 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,200 So he drowned, but somehow he appeared. 694 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,520 Is that it? That's what happened, Yeah. 695 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,960 So the priest done Shurkin. He went on his boat right from 696 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,520 Shurkin. When the young nephew went over 697 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:56,920 and said, jeez, I'm not going back on that. 698 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,280 The priest said, I'll go on my own. 699 00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,640 Yeah. And he went over. 700 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:02,840 Now, forget what you know. From all intents and purposes 701 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,400 then in the story, priest arrives to the dying woman, 702 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,160 anoints her and then leaves again. 703 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,840 So then the the priest from the mainland comes with all next 704 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,400 more and said sorry I'm late. And they're like no, she's 705 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,640 already dead. And the shark and priest 706 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:16,440 anointed them. Yeah. 707 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,280 But then the priest goes, that's impossible, he drowned on the 708 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,440 way there. Oh my. 709 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,600 God, I told the story better than. 710 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,680 I got a bit. I honestly got a bit lost there. 711 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,920 No, because they should know. They shouldn't have said they 712 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,160 gave away the fact he drowned too early. 713 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,360 Yeah. The same anyway. 714 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,800 So that his spirit, his spirit went and anointed her. 715 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,720 There you go. That's wonderful. 716 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,280 That's the thing of isn't it funny? 717 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,640 Priests are different these days. 718 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,760 That's the thing. Mike then the that can anoint 719 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,200 you even if they were dead. Now it's hard to get a priest to 720 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:54,120 anoint me toe. That's our Sharkin, guys. 721 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,560 Sharkin, it's a lesser known. There's so many places in our 722 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,200 lovely little country. There is. 723 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,200 You could go down for a trip, they get AB and B down in 724 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,240 Shurkin Island. You could go with open air next 725 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:06,040 year. You could. 726 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,960 We're going. Technically go this year but 727 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,240 there's no tickets left so don't. 728 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,960 Don't. If you ever want to go on a busy 729 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,680 time of year in Shurkin, I'd recommend even going at a quiet 730 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,040 time. But they say that there's this 731 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,080 Shurkin or Regatta festival. So a rowing festival that 732 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,720 happens in late July or early August and you'll see people see 733 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,040 rowing around the island. There's children activities, 734 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,320 music and food stalls. I love islands. 735 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,080 I find obviously Ireland is an island in itself, but when you 736 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,720 have like lots of different islands going. 737 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:35,600 Around, yeah. Little you get their own little 738 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,920 subcultures and. Island life is fun like I went, 739 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,080 and it makes everything more special because if there's only 740 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,440 100 people, it's the same as little local area. 741 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,680 There's a Frenchman down there I rumored to hear he used to own 742 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,520 the Jolly Roger, which is the pub down there. 743 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,000 He's just posted up. I don't know if he does it all 744 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,440 the time or just when that festival comes around, he'll 745 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:55,720 just open up a little van and go. 746 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,200 I'm going to make some steak sandwiches. 747 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,120 Yeah. Charge cash in hand. 748 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,320 Perfect. Give me some, give me some 749 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,480 money. That's gumption. 750 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,640 I want a gumption. I walked down the lane, there 751 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,160 was a woman who cooked cakes, baked cakes, and she just said 752 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,920 give me what you think. I love the worst that's 753 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,080 spirited, which is scary. Sometimes, but I gave. 754 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,080 Her, yeah. Yeah, I gave her $0.05 on the 755 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,360 way. That's around €100 worth of 756 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:21,400 cake. You're lovely. 757 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,920 Guys visit an island. This is my big My big thing for 758 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,520 this episode called IS Go Somewhere Mad and Ireland 759 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,960 somewhere you don't even know the name. 760 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:32,840 Yes, don't, don't make assumptions about this land. 761 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,400 Go to Akna Kunar, don't even know that exists. 762 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,200 Go to Go to Licky Licky Nellies. Go to Licky Nellies. 763 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,200 Go to. Bali phallus, Bali, sit down, 764 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,560 have a pint. Don't break for the curse. 765 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,200 What is it that don't? Kill a seal. 766 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,080 Don't kill a seal and throw it down on the floor. 767 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,320 That's my advice for this episode, guys. 768 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,960 Have a great sunny weekend. Yes, have a great one. 769 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,440 See you on the island. See you on the island. 770 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:13,880 Music by Gareth Quinn Redmond. Photography by Alan Omaraku The 771 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,320 summer shone brightly on the parish of Lachine. 772 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,560 Oar hill and Dale and valley lay a mantle of pure green. 773 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,320 The Sabbath bells being chiming. We went and prayed awhile. 774 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,000 Then I said to a welcomed friend, We'll stray to Churkin 775 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,480 Isle, the boat we anchored at the dock and hurried on to meet 776 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:38,920 the loving hearts that always flocked to the strangers fore to 777 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,240 grease, then to the inn to get a drink. 778 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,920 We marched in double file, but then I had not hoped to find the 779 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:49,120 flowers. Sure can Isle.