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Faiscthe as an Talamh

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04/11/2010

BBC ALBA - Faiscthe as an Talamh

Documentary charting a year in the life of an Irish farming family in Conamara.

Documentary charting a year in the life of an Irish farming family in Conamara, highlighting the great changes taking place in agriculture.

A sgìre Chonamara ann an Èirinn sgeulachd mun daimh dìomhair eadar an duine agus an talamh. Tha Séamus agus Máirín de Búrca a' leantainn ann an lorgan - coise an athraichean agus iad ri obair an fhearainn, obair chruaidh a tha a' leantainn bho ràith gu ràith bliadhna bho bhliadhna agus tro na ginealachan. Sin mar a bha, ach an ann mar sin a bhitheas e as dèidh seo? 

Documentary charting a year in the life of an Irish farming family in Conamara, highlighting the great changes taking place in agriculture. Behind the bare statistics on the demise of small farming in Ireland lie thousands of individual stories. This documentary tells one of them as it chronicles the bittersweet change from the daily toil of farming to a more urban style of living that brings some comfort but also a palpable sense of loss. A year in the life of a rural family in the Irish-speaking Connemara region in the West of Ireland, capturing the decision to end fulltime farming on the family holding.

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