Blow-Ins (2022) Movie Script
(birds squawking)
(gentle music)
[Paul] Why did I come here?
(chuckles)
That's a good one.
(gentle music)
It wasn't my plan to come here.
I've been around to different
countries in the world,
but I hadn't seen my own country.
I remember standing up in the
street and thinking to myself,
I don't know what it
is, I have to be honest.
There was just something about the air.
It just felt good.
[Harris] I was like, you
know, I've been in Amsterdam
for eight years and I knew more
people here after two weeks.
[Aaron] As soon as I got
to the top of Conor Pass,
I felt like I could
breathe for the first time
in, must've been 30 years.
[Carol] Just an insanely rich place
and it seems to all be concentrated
in this small little town.
[Clemont] I'd say you
can say that it's magical
in a way that no one was
planning on staying here
when they come here at first,
and it just takes a week to
make up your mind and stay here.
[Chris] I really don't
believe that half the people
that live here, realize
how lucky they are.
It's a complete bubble.
(gentle music)
[Trevis] The town sort of
takes care and respects us
as much as we respect them and the town.
(people chattering)
Look, there's two cultures in Dingle.
There's the blow-ins and the locals.
[Gavin] If you're not
from Dingle town itself,
then you're not Dingle and that's it like.
But yeah, being of blow-in,
I've just got used to that
now 'cause you can't hide it
because of the way I speak.
[Dave] It'll take 10
generations from now
for my
great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren
not to be blow-ins and
to be considered local.
Famously as a local said to me,
"If your grandparents bones
are not in the graveyard, man,
you ain't local."
[Tom] Is he local? No.
[Dave] Yeah.
[Tom] He's from Lispole.
[Dave] He's from Liospole,
it's four miles away.
So you know, he's a Liospolian,
he's from Ballyferriter,
he's from back west,
but back west encompasses
seven or eight villages.
You're a blow-in if you're from Dublin
or Killarney or Cork.
God, can't understand Cork people at all.
(upbeat music)
[Paul] Oof, Dingle.
What do you want to know about Dingle?
Dingle is a cosmopolitan fishing village
on the west coast of Ireland.
(soft ambient music)
And where the border
probably is, is Lispole,
and then maybe Ventry?
[Kirsten] When you hit Blennerville,
you know that it's just green thereafter.
You're nearly home. It's not far to go.
And the same when you come into Inch,
it's like, right, we're so close.
[Jimmy] Goin' to school,
you had the townies,
which were Dingle and
the westies from west
of the Milltown Bridge
and you have, you know,
the Lispolian's from Lispole and the crowd
from over the hill where Castlegregory.
Oh yeah. There's, there's
definitely a townie thing.
There's the townies and the westies.
So the westies would be
people living back west,
starting from Ventry probably.
And yeah, everyone living in
Dingle is called a townie.
And there's the blow-ins that kind of try
to mix everything between everybody else.
Dingle Town is certainly Dingle town
and West Kerry is an Gaeltacht.
[Jill] What I think of blow-in is?
Somebody who's not from Dingle,
somebody who's, who wasn't born here.
[Aideen] I actually looked
up a definition before
we came to meet you today
and one of them said,
"you must be at least 10
generations removed from the area".
(laughing)
I think it will take
about four generations
to actually be classed as a local.
The native native who's
been here for whatever,
10 generations and, you know,
you're just not one of them.
I know someone that's
in Dingle for 60 years
and is still called a blow-in.
[Paul] I haven't lived
in East Cork for
almost 40 years.
Right? But I go back in one day
and I'm more local than somebody
who's been there since I left.
You're always going to be a blow-in,
there's no doubt about that.
I'll be dead and
buried in the local grave
and they'll say, "Oh
yeah, she was from Cork".
I'll always be a blow-in.
[Gavin] Even if you kids
are born here, you know,
it's still, you'd wonder are
they still classed by some
as blow-ins or are they native?
But then there's also people
who come in and marry a local
or get or have children with a local,
and are their children blow-ins?
They probably are, if
they're half blow-ins,
can you be a half a blow-in?
Half blow-in.
Yeah.
(laughing)
(birds chirping)
It looks a lot like that girl there.
Yeah, I imagine I'll be, "Ah, yeah",
she's been here for 30 years.
She's local. We adopted
her", that kind of thing.
(birds squawking)
[Jurgita] I have lots
of friends around here,
so I'd say I am like here local.
I'm not, I'm not different,
just I'm, because they,
most of people like, they're
not speaking Irish as well.
So it's like I'm not different to them.
I'd say 99% of the population
of Dingle are blow-ins.
(laughing)
Well I wouldn't go that high now, Tom.
Well maybe 90%. There
are a lot of blow-ins, so.
(boat engine running)
[Chris] Yeah, so the
Euros are on England playing
and I was gone, I'd gone
down to my local pub,
great crack going on outside
and as I've wandered in,
the lads are very kindly
pointed out that, "Oh yeah,
there's your table there,
that's the English table".
There's this empty table right
in front of the TV screen.
So I've plunked myself down there.
10 minutes later my
wife comes in and says,
"What are you doing there?"
I said, "This is English table,
this is where we gotta sit".
So the two of us sat there
for the rest of the game,
on our own.
It's more an elbow in the
ribs, a term of endearment,
you know, "Ah, you fucking blow-in",
but the first five years
we didn't own a car,
we let a car when we needed one,
but we rode our Boardwalk cruiser bicycles
into town and it was always, you know,
"You know, Trevis, the yank on the bike",
I'll always be the yank on the bike.
(chickens clucking)
(soft music)
I suppose with the Dublin
life, sometimes it can go wrong.
So from the early years
I would've been into,
getting into addiction
and things like that.
Every now and again when I
look for some sort of guidance,
I speak to me, me grandmother,
me mother's mother,
but she was the one that would
always take me back again.
She would be the one that was, you know,
would always say "look
he's still my grandson" so
You know, "It doesn't
matter how much he does"
you know, and up until
the day of her death
or a day or two before her death,
I know for a fact that it was on her mind
and that I was on her mind and
that she was thinking about
And I was on a binge for a couple of weeks
drinking and drugging
and things like that.
And it got on top of me, it just,
it was getting on top
of me. It was too much.
I didn't wanna be doing it.
So I remember throwing
me head up to heaven
and the saying, "Please."
Gran gives a dig out here, gives a hand",
never thought nothing of it.
Went to bed and the next morning,
I woke up with Dingle in my head.
I got a bus to Tralee
and walked to Dingle.
Later on and I was thinking about it,
reminded me that film, The Mission.
Do you know the film, The Mission?
You know, where he kills his brother
and he's kind of, he's walking through,
I think it's the Amazon
or whatever with bags
of armor and swords and all his,
his penance kind of, it
was kind of like that.
Reminded me of that.
And as soon as I got to
the top of Conor Pass,
I felt like I could
breathe for the first time
in must've been 30 years.
And I just felt the weight
being lifted off my shoulder.
So I knew then and there
that it was the place for me.
[Clemont] Someone rang me to
offer me a job in Inch Beach,
which is on the Dingle Peninsula.
And that's how I ended up here.
Fell in love with the place,
the landscapes, the quietness
of the place in the winter.
[Paul] It wasn't, it
wasn't my plan to come here,
it wasn't my plan to come back to Ireland.
And I woke up one morning in
London and I said, "That's it.
I've had enough in London".
And I thought, I haven't been to America,
I'll go to America.
I said, "But you know,
I've been around to different
countries in the world
but I hadn't seen my own country".
So I thought, okay,
I'll go back to Ireland and
I'll tour around Ireland.
And then when I'm finished with Ireland,
I'll fly to New York,
walk out the airport and see what happens.
I came to, I was touring around Ireland,
I came to Dingle and I
remember the first day
I came to Dingle, it was
early in the morning,
and I remember standing up in the street
and thinking to myself,
I dunno what it is,
I have to be honest, there was
just something about the air,
I just, it just felt good.
So I had a guitar with me.
So I sat down the street about
10 o'clock in the morning
with my foot up in the chair,
sat down and played a few songs to myself,
and before I knew it there
was about 10 musicians
sitting down with me playing music.
And they literally played
all day long, right?
To a point where the police came,
the guards came at two
o'clock in the morning
and told everybody to go home.
To be honest with you, I
still haven't been to America.
It's 20, 23, 24 years ago, I'm still here.
[Fiona] I was nursing in Australia,
and then I was traveling,
I'd do nursing and then
go traveling and then,
and this was supposed to be my last trip.
(playful music)
I was on the Paddywagon tour,
and I was walking up Main Street,
just out there and I heard someone talking
with an Australian accent and I stopped
and I started speaking to her,
she was nursing here and she said,
"You don't want a job, do you?"
And I said, "Yeah".
And I started night duty that night.
[Dave] I met a girl on
holiday while I was away
on a weekend in Belgium, in an Irish pub.
At about one o'clock in the
morning I seem to remember.
Luckily, I remember.
How do you remember?
How do I remember?
And a hen party came in from Dingle,
and I got talking to one
of the girls in the party,
not the bride-to-be, I'd
like to point that out.
And yeah, we had a long
distance communication thing
going on for a few months and
packed up all my belongings,
and into a Ford Escort and
took the Swansea to Cork Ferry,
which doesn't run anymore.
And landed in Dingle on
the 26th of May, 2002.
I sit.
And muse about my childhood.
And the happy hours I
spent in Dingle Bay.
My grandparents come from
either side of of town.
So I knew of Dingle and the
area for my entire life.
At age 30 I just sort
of hopped on a plane,
landed in Dublin, got on
a a bus and then a train.
And eventually landed in Tralee
at about 11 o'clock at night
and started the walk into Dingle.
[Aideen] We ended up pulling
in at Coumeenoole Beach.
There happened to be a wedding party of,
I remember it was a Dublin
girl with a big family group.
And they were having their
pre-wedding on the beach,
and the music was amazing and it just,
it was like sprinkling
magic dust on everything.
We had arrived.
[Jill] Well I came here
for holiday to Dingle,
and just came for four days.
It was just like going
into this big lounge room,
It was fabulous in the
pubs and stuff like that.
It was so welcoming.
I thought when I got back home
I thought, "You know what,
I think I'll go over
there for a few months".
Rented my house in
Australia and just left,
and came here and I remember
when I left my apartment
I was like, "I'm not coming back here".
It was weird 'cause I thought I would.
And so I came here and I haven't been home
in 11 and a half years.
[Billy] Friend of
mine was here in Dingle.
I'd never heard of Dingle before that.
And I asked, "Where are
you? What are you doing?"
And he said, "I'm in Dingle".
I said, "Where is that?"
He said, 'It's in Kerry".
So I came here and hooked up
with the place straight away.
Just loved it straight away.
(birds chirping)
[Kirsten] So I moved down here in 2004,
my mom and my sister and
we've been here since.
And I have a partner and my son here now.
And we're, yeah, we're very, very happy.
(gentle music)
When I first came here for a little,
for a little break from
busking, that was 1990,
I met a bunch of people who were,
and everyone was really friendly.
I came back like a year or two later,
and everywhere I went
everyone was like, "Oh hey",
"how you doing?" Da da da da da.
Everyone remembered me.
Everyone knew my name.
I was like, "You know,
I've been in Amsterdam for eight years,
and I knew more people
here after two weeks".
There is no magic recipe
for being part of Dingle,
let's say just be
yourself, be nice and ah,
yeah they will treat you as a
local before you even realize.
The Golden rule in
Ireland, and in Dingle,
and in Kerry is if you're a nice person,
you'll fit in, right.
You know what I mean?
And I think that's really important here.
If you're a nice person,
they don't care who you are,
where you are or what you are,
if you're nice, you're nice and that's it.
(boat engine running)
[Jimmy] It attracts
every kind of a person.
There's no doubt about that.
What kind of a person stays?
I think a person that gets it.
(gentle music)
[Clemont] Most of the
countries are in Dingle,
so it's very cosmopolite
people from Czech Republic,
people from France, or
just Spain, or Brazil,
you see, are all around here.
And they all bring something
special to the place.
From geologists to
archeologists to musicians, right?
I mean everything, you
name it and Dingle has it.
[Jimmy] Without the
people, it doesn't work.
It takes a lot of people
to make this town work
between the B'n'Bs and you know,
the restaurants to the
supermarkets, to the boat tours.
Poets, artists, musicians,
and just the general
culture that is here is usually very, very
intertwined between us that
come here and the locals
that are already here.
[Paul] If you put into the mix
foreign people coming here,
and how interesting they are,
and they all have a story
and it all blends together,
and we go out and we have a drink together
and play music together.
[Tom] Because I'm a
musician, having guitar,
being able to play an instrument
will always kind of bring the crowd in.
And that was probably
one of the best moments
for the first time we came down here,
we met other people, other musicians,
and we just had a brilliant session.
And those sessions just
were, they were indefinite,
they went on and on and on, day after day.
So that's another great thing about,
as you're probably aware with Dingle,
it's steeped, you know, in music,
mostly traditional but all sorts of music
can really go down here.
And that for me was a
great place to meet people
and how we found ourselves
in long-term friendships
with people all through music.
And I'm still doing that to this day.
(melodic music)
[Camilla] This sort of pub life
and the music that was
fantastic, completely.
You'd have to search that out in England.
When I first came here,
there'd always be they'd lock the doors
and I used to think "What's
going on?", you know?
And then the next thing I walk
outside and it's daylight,
and I think, "Oh my god,
it's quarter to six",
and there's people still in the bar
and I'm going, "Oh, when do you go home?"
You always come away
laughing from the pub.
You know, there's never a
bad word ever said there.
There's people out on the
streets in the Friday evening.
It's completely different.
Everything you feel Irish, Irish climate,
you know, like completely different.
Music from the doors is magic.
[Camilla] Every Sunday there'd
be a great big roast lunch
and whole families would come in,
and there'd be music and
we got together and danced
Kerry sets and to live music.
I mean some of the top
musicians of the country
would be sitting there at
the corner of Dick Macks
playing for us.
I play in pubs sometimes
I do it for free,
which is not much less
than you get paid but.
And I used to play concerts in
the church two times a week.
I did that for about 10
years when I moved here.
I know I know a few of the musicians
that I played with around planet a lot.
If they come here, I'll
always bring them here
and then we'll start,
I might tell a couple of
people that I'm coming to play,
there's always a gathering then
of three or four or five
musicians that will join
and just sit behind here
and just have a great night.
Just belt out a few songs, bit of craic.
(guitar music)
(birds squawking)
So the cultures they don't collide,
they just intertwine as
different as they are.
Bringing new ideas as well,
which are very much welcomed
into the fabric of society.
But like it's very hard to change Irish,
the Irish very strict. They
say like, "No, we go this way".
But then slowly, slowly like they do like,
they see like it's going
well. So they change.
[Dave] What doesn't happen anymore.
But used to drive me mad
when I first came here,
was that on every single
menu board in town,
on every single menu in town
there was a spelling mistake,
or misuse of punctuation
and it was atrocious.
Like every business in town.
[Tom] He's like an Apostrophe Nazi.
He would literally go up and
change people's street boards.
Yeah, I used to go around,
if they had the big chalkboard
outside and they had, you
know, today's specials
with an apostrophe, I just go.
Nope.
And just rub it out with
my finger as I walked past.
I thought I was doing them a favor,
but it used to drive me mad.
I just wanna say this for the record,
it's improved hugely over the years
and that a lot of people are lot more...
[Tom] Your ability to deal
with it or their ability, too?
I like to think I've
played some small part
in correcting people, but
yeah I can be annoying
like that myself.
(birds chirping)
[Andi] Some people come in
and they bring their culture with them
and they don't wanna let it go,
and they bring their language with them,
and they bring their
traditions and things like that
and that can enrich a country.
But they also have to accept
that that other country
has its own traditions and things
which they need to
integrate with, as well.
I hope that those who come
here are looking to give
not just to take.
A lot of them have a
lot of talent and energy
and experience in various things,
and they start things up like...
Well, the bookshop was
started by a blow-in,
I mean she was only from
Cork but she was a blow-in.
Irish people like things,
you know, from Polish kitchen
and we serving, I'm
serving like stuff, food,
with a little bit of
Polish kitchen as well.
We are part of this place
as well. We had as well,
for example, Polish shop was
closed after a few years,
but it was nice, go to Polish
shop buy the Polish stuff.
It's a melting pot of the world.
Capped off with the Irish
thing, do you know what I mean?
It all seems to fit together.
(melodic music)
I used to live in town
directly across the street
from the supermarket and it
would take me 15 minutes,
20 minutes to get to the door
because everyone that you meet
in the street you're having a chat with,
and the pace of life is just a lot slower.
Down the road can take hours,
because you meet half of the town
and everyone is up for a little chat.
[Billy] Just people,
everyone saying hello to you
in the streets is almost like
you're obliged to say hello.
And that it doesn't happen
in too many places around.
I had to go up to England to
a funeral a couple years ago,
and a small town like Dingle
in Cornwall is where I was.
And I found myself saying
hello to people in the streets,
just "How are ya? Hello, how's it going?".
And it was mad to come...
People look at you like you've
got two heads in many places
when you're... but here it is different.
It's a friendly place.
I picked up the habit myself,
and when I go back to the
UK I'm more open with people
and say hi to everyone.
But unfortunately over there,
they look at you as though
you're some sort of nutcase.
(gentle music)
Dingle is so much more
than people see it to be
on the surface.
And the vast majority of what
that is, is immensely good.
When you're walking down the street
and you're not thinking about it,
and then you just, you
look up and it's, "Oh yeah,
I really am in one of the
most beautiful places".
[Aaron] The energy comes
outta the ground in this place,
you know, and just so much
energy getting pounded
from the sea to the cliffs,
and that energy has to go
somewhere in a my book, so.
You know, it oozes, the energy I suppose.
My mom, she visit once,
like she's busy woman at home,
she's dreaming to come
again after first time
she wrote like a poem like
about Dingle, you know,
so she just, she missed Dingle,
even like she was only
once and she felt in love.
[Tomasz] My wife is falling
in love in this place.
You can't believe we have in
every one room, in our house,
big pictures from Dingle,
from Wine Strand for example.
That was, this is a part of our life.
(soft music)
[Carol] Every year I'm here
and I have people coming in
and you can see this particular
look on their face thinking,
"What can I do in my life to
turn it around so that I can
work out how I can work and live here".
And you can see that their
brain is going, you know,
and there'll be all
types of different people
from all walks of life.
It's just, it's a type of place
that attracts people with who
have a kind of pie in the sky,
romantic vision of the kind
of life they wanna live.
And even more importantly,
the kind of place that
they're trying to get out of.
You know, you move here
and then you find out
it's like anywhere else, it's real life.
And you know, some people are, you know,
are really cool and some
people are less cool,
and you're gonna have problems.
You know, they come here
with rose-colored glasses
and then they find out, you
know, there's other sides
to it that they hadn't banked on.
And my rocking chair is
literally deconstructing
while I'm sitting in it.
A lot of people want
to come here and think,
"Oh, I'd love to live in Dingle",
and it's never as easy as it looks.
And it does take time to
get used to the place.
I think the thing is you
have to stay for the winter
and see it as it's at its most difficult
in order to really live here.
(gentle soft music)
[Trevis] Things are harder to get here,
there's no doubt about it. We
are on an island in an island.
You think back to perhaps
the peninsula's most famous
ever resident, behind Fungie.
Tom Crean died because his appendix burst
because he wouldn't get to
the hospital fast enough.
And yes, it was a different time,
but Annascaul to Tralee is not that far.
I was diagnosed with MS in April of 2001.
When I first came here for a winter,
I told my neurologist about
where, what I was doing,
and he said, "Is there
a hospital in Dingle?"
And that had recently been closed.
And flippingly I said, "Well
no, but there is a vet".
He said, "Well, he'd have
the needles and catheters,
he'd have methyl prednisone".
So he actually wrote an
introduction to the local vet
to whom it my concern,
describing my condition,
describing what meds I would
need if I had an acute attack.
As he was writing the letter,
he says, "Jesus, Trevis,
this is just very all creatures
great and small, isn't it?"
It's life in the dynamics.
It's the Fortissimo,
as well the Pianissimo.
And that's what life is.
It's the loud and the soft,
and you can't really appreciate the beauty
without the difficulty.
The grandeur without the adversity.
Getting into town can
be a difficulty sometimes.
Although my partner enjoys going,
she can be... doesn't like being
the chauffeur all the time,
you know.
Just like for you, like it's hard
because you have to drive.
Like if you have kids like, you know,
to school then like, you
know, like a taxi driver,
like so I did this, I did before as well.
I was living like outside and your car,
like if your car broke,
like it happened for me.
So how will you get like to work?
So you go like hitch-hiking
as well say like, "Sorry",
like my car is broken", so it is problem.
[Kirsten] Everyone knows
each other's business
and they kind of portray it
as been a very negative thing.
But like there's always
going to be that sense
where everyone thinks
something's malicious,
but it's really not.
If cows broke out and
like nearing on the road,
like they'd called him say, "Oh, you know,
are they always down below
there with the black and white
stripes or whatever".
And he'd just like, "Oh yeah, Jesus,
one of them is coming out
after coming over the ditch".
He'll be like, "Oh, Jesus".
And they was like, "Well, I
hunt him back in for y'all".
It's something that's just in them.
It's not a badness, it's a quality.
[Jill] When I moved
from the lane up to here,
I couldn't get over it
'cause I got this letter
in the post and I'd
only been here two days,
and I thought, "God, the
postman knew that I'd moved,
already".
But at the beginning,
people knowing your business
and calling you from across the street,
and wanting to talk to you,
and ask you how is your
this, and how's your that,
and "Oh, I heard you were
doing such and such",
and you go, this is very
intrusive, very intrusive.
But eventually you just
know that they mean well,
and they want you to be welcome,
and they want you to be part
of the everyday going on,
and that those same people
who you thought were just
being intrusive into your life
will later to become
friends or they'd ask you
to do something for them
or you know, vice versa.
You know, you would ask something of them
because you knew who they were
and you knew what they could do for you.
"Oh, you're a, you know,
you're a carpenter."
I got some, you know, can
you come and sort this out
for me?", or, you know.
(uplifting music)
Rumor spreads very fast around here.
It's something very funny, to be honest.
I've experienced it a few
times and it travels very fast.
Rumors around, okay,
it's almost every week
you have a new rumor
about a place in town,
which 90% of the time happens to be wrong.
[Jill] In the early days,
people used to find it fascinating
that I moved halfway around
the world to this little town
in Dingle, in Ireland.
And I just thought I wanted
to live somewhere else,
and they're like, "Yeah,
but it's a long way away".
And I said, "Yeah, but
it's beautiful here.
You know, the people are lovely".
"Yeah, but there must be something else".
And anyway, after nights
and nights and nights
of people asking me over a
certain couple of periods
of time, I just said to them,
"I'm on witness protection".
And it was like, "Oh, okay,
sorry about that". And then that was that.
So that was a conversation stopper.
(laughing)
Am I on witness protection? No,
(laughing)
You can Google that.
(laughing)
(uplifting music)
(Chris) Yeah. My
daughter at the age of 13
went into the local school,
was integrated perfectly,
did really, really well.
But unfortunately after a year there,
they opened a new school
and it was a co-ed,
and it was to be taught
through the medium of Irish,
completely.
That proved to be a
massive problem for her.
And you know, it was a big
hindrance to her moving forward.
There was a bus that went
from Dingle to Castlegregory,
that you could send your kids,
but the places were limited,
really limited, and that you
had to drop your kids off
at the crack of dawn in town
so they could get over the hill
in time to get to to school
for the start of the day.
And you know, you had to be, you know,
there would be a really long
day for them with the travel
both ways unless you wanted, you know,
or you could take 'em yourself.
It was something that upset me going back,
realizing that my kids were gonna go to
an Irish speaking school and
I wasn't gonna be able to help
them in their education as
much as I would've done,
for example, if we were living in the UK
and they were growing up in
an English speaking school.
But it's not something
that's insurmountable,
it just makes life a
little bit more difficult.
If you wanna kind of get
in with the local people.
It helps to learn some Irish, you know,
people I think appreciate that.
I'm saying that as someone who,
who has done a bad job of learning Irish.
I tried for a while and
then it didn't really take,
I mean I have some but not much.
[Fiona] If I moved to
Indonesia then you have to like,
you have to speak the language.
You can't assume that everyone will,
will speak your language.
I used to go into Krugers Pub,
and everybody in there
would be speaking Irish
until I walked in or until
somebody else who spoke English
walked in and then everybody
would switch really politely.
Like the majority of people
would switch to English,
and there was never any hassle with it.
They were just so great and everything.
And I remember thinking,
"God, not only am I, you know,"
I'm actually making it
worse by having everybody
talk to me in English.
I'm not adding anything and
I'm just making the Irish
situation worse...
[Andi] Like, you know,
in Scotland for example,
there's so few places left
that speak Scots Gaelic,
it is very nearly dead.
And I as a history enthusiast,
and a person with a history degree,
I think that's a travesty.
So I tried, am trying to learn Irish
and like if I have kids or
settle with an Irish guy,
they'll be speaking Irish.
Like even if I can't understand
a word they're saying,
they will speak Irish.
(speaking Irish)
I started when I first came,
when these classes were just beginning.
So I've attended a few of
those and done classes,
and conversation groups,
and things like that.
All the time since I've been here.
It's a beautiful sounding language.
It's impressive to hear
and it just sort of,
it just sort of rolls and you know,
you can just sort of
(exhales deeply)
Just sit and listen to that.
Sounds a bit like
Scandinavian and German,
or Slavic spoken with a smile.
There's something harsh about it,
but there's something
beautiful about it as well.
Like my son, he's seven now,
so he's kind of grown up around here.
He's got that really old
Irish way of doing it.
I think he gets it from his grandfather,
and his uncle, and his dad, so
they have the real old Irish.
So he'd turn around and would say...
(speaking Irish)
So like, "can I have a
drink? I'm dying of thirst".
There isn't a word for
accent in the Irish it's blais,
how beautiful is that?
That they speak of the way
that they speak as the taste
for the language. That's Ireland and Irish
just tied right up in a poetic bow.
A minteoir (teacher) come to the house,
like a lady to help me
speak conversational Irish.
Just to say hello or just
to say how are you doing?
Or it's raining. That's
always a good one to have.
You know, I have a niece
that lives down here now
and she's fluent Irish and
we'd be saying Irish words
and she'd be laughing us.
Now we'd be saying the way
we were taught but you know,
it's totally different.
I have school Irish, but
it's amazing when you put the,
you know, the cpla focail together.
It's amazing that a lot
of it's still at the back
of the head here.
I can't get any sense out
of how to pronounce, you know,
where there's mh and a dh
and all that and I'm like,
"Oh, I can't do that".
[Gavin] Because I don't,
I don't speak Irish.
I was away that day in school.
Couldn't have a conversation.
No way like.
You don't know the Irish word,
you can put the English word in,
or if you don't know any Irish,
you can just speak in English.
(gentle music)
[Gavin] There's a lot of natives here
that don't bother with the Irish either.
They speak English all the time,
and they wouldn't even
consider speaking Irish.
They'll come into the shop
and they woof out in Irish,
and I go and I thought
I'd go really Australian,
"Oh, sorry mate, I can't speak Irish".
And they understand then you see,
(laughing)
So then they flip back to
English, "How are you today?"
"Go maith", which means good thanks.
First Irish I've
learned was dn an doras.
When you go to the pub and
it's windy outside, you,
you have to close the
door when you get in.
That's probably the
first Irish I've learned.
Fan anseo ar dearg.
Oh yeah, on the road, you
know when they have those red,
those roadworks going on and
they have these traffic lights,
it's always in Irish "Fan anseo ar dearg".
So you learn how to speak
the looking at the road.
Stop here at, stop
here on red basically.
Yeah, so anybody who can't
speak Irish you can say that,
they'd be very impressed.
Fan anseo ar dearg.
I came into town and I
came into O'Flaherty's pub,
and I sat down and I was having a pint
and bantering back and forth
a little bit as one does.
And your man down the end of
the bar said something to me,
I didn't understand and I
thought maybe I was putting on
a bit of the Oirish, you
know, the American-style
accent about it.
And I said to him, said, "I'm sorry,
my family's from the north,
I don't have the Irish".
And the whole of the
bar broke up laughing.
And the publican said, "You know",
I won't say your man's name,
"it's just, you know,
that's John Sullivan."
He wasn't speaking the Irish
and that's okay because
we can't understand
a damn word he's saying either...
And it was just his, his West
Kerry accent was so strong.
I actually thought that he
was speaking another language.
Someone from Killarney has
a completely different accent
to someone from Tralee, that's
only like 20 minutes away.
In Australia, we've all got
this one big accent, you know,
and it's a continent.
Like now, two, three years.
Like I'm getting they saying like,
"Oh, you're getting like
you have Kerry accent".
Like last week they say I have
have Dublin accent as well.
I was like, no, I'm not
having Dublin accent.
I know that well but the like
Kerry accent. It's possible.
(gentle music)
Fungie, let me tell ya,
Fungie's been my best friend for 23 years.
(uplifting music)
[Gavin] He's a blow-in, he swam in
and when he was very
young and that was it,
he stayed, he just felt welcome.
So I'm going along on the boat anyway,
and all of a sudden Fungie comes
up by the side of the boat,
literally comes up to the surface, right?
Tilts his head, tilts his body like that,
and looks at me straight
in the eye. This is true.
Looks at me straight in the eye,
and I looked at him straight in the eye,
and I said to myself, "That
ain't just a fish, man".
[Tom] You just go out
to where he hangs about
and maybe hit the water with the oar,
he'd come right up beside you.
You just wanna make sure he
didn't jump into the boat,
but you could put your, I
had a pleasure, you know,
you could rub him and then
he'd go off and do his tricks.
(gentle music)
[Harris] There were a lot of people
who have this spiritual
relationship with the dolphin,
and can go on about that.
Fungie and I had just
a normal relationship.
(boat engine running)
That's the kind of place this is.
Do you know what I mean?
We just, I don't know
anywhere else in the world
where a dolphin's going
to hang around, you know?
And the things that the
Dolphin did for the community,
you know, the fishing
industry was on it's knees
and you know, things were going down,
and a dolphin hung around,
and kind of brought it
back to life, you know,
became a focus and
started bringing people in
and then other people
start feeling the energy,
the place I suppose.
And it grew from there.
For him not to show up.
Even for one day, I knew
he wasn't coming back.
Yeah, we got kicked in
the pants this last year
between Covid and losing
the dolphin. It's like...
It's like Armageddon.
33 Years. He was here 37
years and for 33 years of those,
he was a massive part of
me and my family's life.
He, you know, he put the
kids through college,
you know, the amount of
people that we brought out
over the years.
It might seem a bit
flip and romantic to talk
about how much influence Fungie had
and will have.
But I think that that is sort of the,
the entry point to Dingle
or was for many, many
young Irish children.
(birds chirping)
[Tomasz] I fish a lot every day, almost,
sometimes in the summer.
And that was great to see
him, to hear him at at night,
how he's breathing, how he's jumping.
And then now it's empty. Now
it's, the harbour is empty now.
There's no boats, no Fungie,
no birds, no nothing.
There's kind of an aura
or a magic that's gone.
Now, it's just a bay. You
didn't even notice it.
It was on a really subliminal level
until he was suddenly gone.
And then you noticed, like
the loss was palpable.
[Jimmy] It's different,
it's a little darker there
but I still can't help, you know,
just looking out for him
to see is he, you know,
is he going to show up?
And I think that's going to carry on
for the rest of my days.
(gentle music)
[Tom] I found myself
thinking about him a lot,
like a bereavement so to
speak. But as you say,
"All good things must come to an end".
[Aideen] Yeah.
[Tom] It's just, as Aideen said,
it's unfortunate that it
had to happen this year,
when everything went so bad
for so many people here.
Maybe he's still alive
'cause we didn't see like him,
you know, dead.
So we hope he's just around going,
'cause he was like a
businessman. It was his business.
All this tours, which
people, they was coming.
I had a trip out about 10 people,
all along the one side of
the dolphin boat again.
And I just, I knew Fungie
was acting strange.
Something wasn't, something
was a little bit different.
He never left the side of the boat.
He was just stuck to it
a bit more than usual.
And I came out to the deck
and I spoke to the people,
and I said, "Look guys, somebody
along the side of the boat
here needed them today, needed him today".
Nobody said anything.
But we came in and a
girl was still sitting
on the side of the boat
when everybody went off,
and she said, "It was me".
And she said, "I'm after
being diagnosed with cancer".
And he knew,
he knew.
Sorry.
(soft somber music)
(birds squawking)
[Harris] Where do I see Dingle going?
Well, I don't think it's going anywhere.
You know, there's an
awful lot of consultants
making an awful lot of money
telling an awful lot of people,
exactly what that's going to look like.
And as with most consultants,
they're probably 80% wrong.
Yeah, this Dingle is every year bigger
and I see is much more people,
coming for holidays every year.
It has changed. You see like new roads,
like, you know, as I
said, new people as well.
New places opening.
Well like when I moved here
you couldn't even buy
a sandwich very easily.
There was hardly any
restaurants. There was Doyle's,
there was the Half Door,
there was, if you went into
a cafe and asked for coffee,
you got instant coffee.
And I used to ask, I'd say,
"You know, do you have any real coffee?"
"They'd go like, 'What the
hell are you talking about?"
I mean there was, that Nescafe was coffee.
If you taught me five
years ago that people
that you know would be queuing
up outside a coffee shop
in Dingle, I just said, "You
outta your mind". (Indistinct)
Things do need to move on.
But what I'd love to see is
that they move on in a way
that preserves what's really
special about the place.
You know.
I have concerns for what
the future of Dingle is.
[Harris] There's a lot of
housing projects being built,
so there's gonna be more people here.
And obviously, you know,
suddenly there's a booming housing market.
I mean there's no houses for sale,
but there's a boom in people
who wanna buy in here.
[Chris] Yeah to buy or rent now
has become major, major issue.
Anyone coming into the town
will have serious problems
trying to find either of those
sort of property options.
There just is nothing out there now.
So suddenly there's nothing for sale
and a lot of people looking to buy.
I don't know in the long
term what that means.
I don't have a crystal ball.
[Trevis] Now, when I moved here,
there were three butchers,
and two fishmongers.
Now there's one of each.
There's not an abattoir
on this peninsula anymore.
And there used to be teens of them.
Every time one shop closes their stores,
or fails to reopen after
something like that.
That's one straw taken
out of the, you know,
the whole fabric of who this peninsula is.
I don't think Dingle will change.
It will grow, but I don't
think it will change.
I don't think so. I think it's
well able to contain itself,
and keep what Dingle has for itself.
I think the people here do protect that.
I believe so, I don't
think it wants to change.
That's what I honestly believe.
If you don't plan for change
then it's unplanned change.
And that seldom for the long
run is good for a place.
So it has to be planned change.
And my feeling is that the more residents,
not just, you know,
people who came up here,
but people who live
here, who call this home,
the more people who are
involved in the decision making
process of what that plan looks like,
the better representative of Dingle's past
and Dingle's hopes will be represented
in what the plan and the future look like.
(uplifting music)
[Aaron] I have a beautiful
place that I've dreamed about
all me life but never thought I'd have it.
You know, I have a partner,
we're getting married this next year,
and she came down for a
weekend to visit (indistinct)
Weekend, four years later and
now we're getting married.
So, things work out for me down here.
Even if I don't do this
for the rest of my life,
I do wanna stay around Dingle.
I just, I really, really love it here.
I've been actually looking at houses
and dreaming about one day.
It's hard to save up money,
and it's hard to afford anything here.
Let's say for now, no
plans to move it from here.
'Cause I just stick with Dingle.
When we first moved here,
and I remember coming in from the shops,
I think it was one January
or February morning,
and said to Karen, "Don't
you just love this town?"
And she said, "I like it".
Which pulled me up short,
because I had to remember
this was my dream
and she was facilitating it.
I said, "Let's move to to
Dingle for five to seven years".
And she said, "I'll move there
for three to five years".
I said, "That's what I
meant. Three to five years".
And we don't remember the reason,
don't remember even the exact day,
but she walked in the door
and she dropped the bags
of shopping and she said,
"I love this town, Dingle's
like a driving damp.
If you let it in, it will get
in and it will change you".
This is our future really.
I think. Yeah.
I don't see, I mean, all going well.
(gentle music)
[Harris] I don't know what
I'm doing. I'm conflicted.
I mean I've been here a long time,
and I kind of feel like
time's running out,
and I'd like to do some other things.
And I don't wanna live in
a gigantic house anymore.
In the rain and the wind...
(laughing)
I don't know, like, I hate to
sound like one of these people
who're like trying to move
to Florida when they get old,
but there's something to
be said for being warm,
and not getting arthritis and you know,
I find the weather here hard
to take for a lot of the year.
I'm an old fella. I'm
suddenly an old fella.
Yeah. I'm suddenly starting to feel it
and so yeah, put me somewhere warm
with some good, good tacos or something.
(gentle music)
I'm thinking that it's
probably my last season here
and I'm too old for that.
And you know, I dunno how
many life left for me,
for my wife. We have to spend together,
the rest of our life.
But I think I planning all the time,
I planning and maybe every two years,
maybe every three years
I coming for holidays,
for a week for two. Maybe.
[Trevis] Neither of
us, my wife, Karen nor I,
can imagine being any
happier living anywhere else.
So if Dingle will have us...
Dingle is more than just a place.
It's the people that's here,
it's the atmosphere that's
here. It's for everyone.
It's not for one specific
person. It's for everybody.
Once you've people here,
once you've people still
wanting to come to visit Dingle,
which I think will always be the way,
you'll always have a Dingle.
My brother was in
Dingle a couple days ago,
and he lives in Killarney,
and he just saw the amount
of people in Dingle. Right?
And he has a business
there as well. Right.
And he said to me, he
said, he shook his head,
he looked at me and he
went, "Do you know what,
if there was a nuclear
attack in Ireland, right,
two things would survive,
cockroaches and Dingle".
Right. And I just thought, "You know what",
he's dead right, man". It's true.
Dingle is, it's one of those,
it's one of those places.
(uplifting music)
(gentle music)
[Paul] Why did I come here?
(chuckles)
That's a good one.
(gentle music)
It wasn't my plan to come here.
I've been around to different
countries in the world,
but I hadn't seen my own country.
I remember standing up in the
street and thinking to myself,
I don't know what it
is, I have to be honest.
There was just something about the air.
It just felt good.
[Harris] I was like, you
know, I've been in Amsterdam
for eight years and I knew more
people here after two weeks.
[Aaron] As soon as I got
to the top of Conor Pass,
I felt like I could
breathe for the first time
in, must've been 30 years.
[Carol] Just an insanely rich place
and it seems to all be concentrated
in this small little town.
[Clemont] I'd say you
can say that it's magical
in a way that no one was
planning on staying here
when they come here at first,
and it just takes a week to
make up your mind and stay here.
[Chris] I really don't
believe that half the people
that live here, realize
how lucky they are.
It's a complete bubble.
(gentle music)
[Trevis] The town sort of
takes care and respects us
as much as we respect them and the town.
(people chattering)
Look, there's two cultures in Dingle.
There's the blow-ins and the locals.
[Gavin] If you're not
from Dingle town itself,
then you're not Dingle and that's it like.
But yeah, being of blow-in,
I've just got used to that
now 'cause you can't hide it
because of the way I speak.
[Dave] It'll take 10
generations from now
for my
great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren
not to be blow-ins and
to be considered local.
Famously as a local said to me,
"If your grandparents bones
are not in the graveyard, man,
you ain't local."
[Tom] Is he local? No.
[Dave] Yeah.
[Tom] He's from Lispole.
[Dave] He's from Liospole,
it's four miles away.
So you know, he's a Liospolian,
he's from Ballyferriter,
he's from back west,
but back west encompasses
seven or eight villages.
You're a blow-in if you're from Dublin
or Killarney or Cork.
God, can't understand Cork people at all.
(upbeat music)
[Paul] Oof, Dingle.
What do you want to know about Dingle?
Dingle is a cosmopolitan fishing village
on the west coast of Ireland.
(soft ambient music)
And where the border
probably is, is Lispole,
and then maybe Ventry?
[Kirsten] When you hit Blennerville,
you know that it's just green thereafter.
You're nearly home. It's not far to go.
And the same when you come into Inch,
it's like, right, we're so close.
[Jimmy] Goin' to school,
you had the townies,
which were Dingle and
the westies from west
of the Milltown Bridge
and you have, you know,
the Lispolian's from Lispole and the crowd
from over the hill where Castlegregory.
Oh yeah. There's, there's
definitely a townie thing.
There's the townies and the westies.
So the westies would be
people living back west,
starting from Ventry probably.
And yeah, everyone living in
Dingle is called a townie.
And there's the blow-ins that kind of try
to mix everything between everybody else.
Dingle Town is certainly Dingle town
and West Kerry is an Gaeltacht.
[Jill] What I think of blow-in is?
Somebody who's not from Dingle,
somebody who's, who wasn't born here.
[Aideen] I actually looked
up a definition before
we came to meet you today
and one of them said,
"you must be at least 10
generations removed from the area".
(laughing)
I think it will take
about four generations
to actually be classed as a local.
The native native who's
been here for whatever,
10 generations and, you know,
you're just not one of them.
I know someone that's
in Dingle for 60 years
and is still called a blow-in.
[Paul] I haven't lived
in East Cork for
almost 40 years.
Right? But I go back in one day
and I'm more local than somebody
who's been there since I left.
You're always going to be a blow-in,
there's no doubt about that.
I'll be dead and
buried in the local grave
and they'll say, "Oh
yeah, she was from Cork".
I'll always be a blow-in.
[Gavin] Even if you kids
are born here, you know,
it's still, you'd wonder are
they still classed by some
as blow-ins or are they native?
But then there's also people
who come in and marry a local
or get or have children with a local,
and are their children blow-ins?
They probably are, if
they're half blow-ins,
can you be a half a blow-in?
Half blow-in.
Yeah.
(laughing)
(birds chirping)
It looks a lot like that girl there.
Yeah, I imagine I'll be, "Ah, yeah",
she's been here for 30 years.
She's local. We adopted
her", that kind of thing.
(birds squawking)
[Jurgita] I have lots
of friends around here,
so I'd say I am like here local.
I'm not, I'm not different,
just I'm, because they,
most of people like, they're
not speaking Irish as well.
So it's like I'm not different to them.
I'd say 99% of the population
of Dingle are blow-ins.
(laughing)
Well I wouldn't go that high now, Tom.
Well maybe 90%. There
are a lot of blow-ins, so.
(boat engine running)
[Chris] Yeah, so the
Euros are on England playing
and I was gone, I'd gone
down to my local pub,
great crack going on outside
and as I've wandered in,
the lads are very kindly
pointed out that, "Oh yeah,
there's your table there,
that's the English table".
There's this empty table right
in front of the TV screen.
So I've plunked myself down there.
10 minutes later my
wife comes in and says,
"What are you doing there?"
I said, "This is English table,
this is where we gotta sit".
So the two of us sat there
for the rest of the game,
on our own.
It's more an elbow in the
ribs, a term of endearment,
you know, "Ah, you fucking blow-in",
but the first five years
we didn't own a car,
we let a car when we needed one,
but we rode our Boardwalk cruiser bicycles
into town and it was always, you know,
"You know, Trevis, the yank on the bike",
I'll always be the yank on the bike.
(chickens clucking)
(soft music)
I suppose with the Dublin
life, sometimes it can go wrong.
So from the early years
I would've been into,
getting into addiction
and things like that.
Every now and again when I
look for some sort of guidance,
I speak to me, me grandmother,
me mother's mother,
but she was the one that would
always take me back again.
She would be the one that was, you know,
would always say "look
he's still my grandson" so
You know, "It doesn't
matter how much he does"
you know, and up until
the day of her death
or a day or two before her death,
I know for a fact that it was on her mind
and that I was on her mind and
that she was thinking about
And I was on a binge for a couple of weeks
drinking and drugging
and things like that.
And it got on top of me, it just,
it was getting on top
of me. It was too much.
I didn't wanna be doing it.
So I remember throwing
me head up to heaven
and the saying, "Please."
Gran gives a dig out here, gives a hand",
never thought nothing of it.
Went to bed and the next morning,
I woke up with Dingle in my head.
I got a bus to Tralee
and walked to Dingle.
Later on and I was thinking about it,
reminded me that film, The Mission.
Do you know the film, The Mission?
You know, where he kills his brother
and he's kind of, he's walking through,
I think it's the Amazon
or whatever with bags
of armor and swords and all his,
his penance kind of, it
was kind of like that.
Reminded me of that.
And as soon as I got to
the top of Conor Pass,
I felt like I could
breathe for the first time
in must've been 30 years.
And I just felt the weight
being lifted off my shoulder.
So I knew then and there
that it was the place for me.
[Clemont] Someone rang me to
offer me a job in Inch Beach,
which is on the Dingle Peninsula.
And that's how I ended up here.
Fell in love with the place,
the landscapes, the quietness
of the place in the winter.
[Paul] It wasn't, it
wasn't my plan to come here,
it wasn't my plan to come back to Ireland.
And I woke up one morning in
London and I said, "That's it.
I've had enough in London".
And I thought, I haven't been to America,
I'll go to America.
I said, "But you know,
I've been around to different
countries in the world
but I hadn't seen my own country".
So I thought, okay,
I'll go back to Ireland and
I'll tour around Ireland.
And then when I'm finished with Ireland,
I'll fly to New York,
walk out the airport and see what happens.
I came to, I was touring around Ireland,
I came to Dingle and I
remember the first day
I came to Dingle, it was
early in the morning,
and I remember standing up in the street
and thinking to myself,
I dunno what it is,
I have to be honest, there was
just something about the air,
I just, it just felt good.
So I had a guitar with me.
So I sat down the street about
10 o'clock in the morning
with my foot up in the chair,
sat down and played a few songs to myself,
and before I knew it there
was about 10 musicians
sitting down with me playing music.
And they literally played
all day long, right?
To a point where the police came,
the guards came at two
o'clock in the morning
and told everybody to go home.
To be honest with you, I
still haven't been to America.
It's 20, 23, 24 years ago, I'm still here.
[Fiona] I was nursing in Australia,
and then I was traveling,
I'd do nursing and then
go traveling and then,
and this was supposed to be my last trip.
(playful music)
I was on the Paddywagon tour,
and I was walking up Main Street,
just out there and I heard someone talking
with an Australian accent and I stopped
and I started speaking to her,
she was nursing here and she said,
"You don't want a job, do you?"
And I said, "Yeah".
And I started night duty that night.
[Dave] I met a girl on
holiday while I was away
on a weekend in Belgium, in an Irish pub.
At about one o'clock in the
morning I seem to remember.
Luckily, I remember.
How do you remember?
How do I remember?
And a hen party came in from Dingle,
and I got talking to one
of the girls in the party,
not the bride-to-be, I'd
like to point that out.
And yeah, we had a long
distance communication thing
going on for a few months and
packed up all my belongings,
and into a Ford Escort and
took the Swansea to Cork Ferry,
which doesn't run anymore.
And landed in Dingle on
the 26th of May, 2002.
I sit.
And muse about my childhood.
And the happy hours I
spent in Dingle Bay.
My grandparents come from
either side of of town.
So I knew of Dingle and the
area for my entire life.
At age 30 I just sort
of hopped on a plane,
landed in Dublin, got on
a a bus and then a train.
And eventually landed in Tralee
at about 11 o'clock at night
and started the walk into Dingle.
[Aideen] We ended up pulling
in at Coumeenoole Beach.
There happened to be a wedding party of,
I remember it was a Dublin
girl with a big family group.
And they were having their
pre-wedding on the beach,
and the music was amazing and it just,
it was like sprinkling
magic dust on everything.
We had arrived.
[Jill] Well I came here
for holiday to Dingle,
and just came for four days.
It was just like going
into this big lounge room,
It was fabulous in the
pubs and stuff like that.
It was so welcoming.
I thought when I got back home
I thought, "You know what,
I think I'll go over
there for a few months".
Rented my house in
Australia and just left,
and came here and I remember
when I left my apartment
I was like, "I'm not coming back here".
It was weird 'cause I thought I would.
And so I came here and I haven't been home
in 11 and a half years.
[Billy] Friend of
mine was here in Dingle.
I'd never heard of Dingle before that.
And I asked, "Where are
you? What are you doing?"
And he said, "I'm in Dingle".
I said, "Where is that?"
He said, 'It's in Kerry".
So I came here and hooked up
with the place straight away.
Just loved it straight away.
(birds chirping)
[Kirsten] So I moved down here in 2004,
my mom and my sister and
we've been here since.
And I have a partner and my son here now.
And we're, yeah, we're very, very happy.
(gentle music)
When I first came here for a little,
for a little break from
busking, that was 1990,
I met a bunch of people who were,
and everyone was really friendly.
I came back like a year or two later,
and everywhere I went
everyone was like, "Oh hey",
"how you doing?" Da da da da da.
Everyone remembered me.
Everyone knew my name.
I was like, "You know,
I've been in Amsterdam for eight years,
and I knew more people
here after two weeks".
There is no magic recipe
for being part of Dingle,
let's say just be
yourself, be nice and ah,
yeah they will treat you as a
local before you even realize.
The Golden rule in
Ireland, and in Dingle,
and in Kerry is if you're a nice person,
you'll fit in, right.
You know what I mean?
And I think that's really important here.
If you're a nice person,
they don't care who you are,
where you are or what you are,
if you're nice, you're nice and that's it.
(boat engine running)
[Jimmy] It attracts
every kind of a person.
There's no doubt about that.
What kind of a person stays?
I think a person that gets it.
(gentle music)
[Clemont] Most of the
countries are in Dingle,
so it's very cosmopolite
people from Czech Republic,
people from France, or
just Spain, or Brazil,
you see, are all around here.
And they all bring something
special to the place.
From geologists to
archeologists to musicians, right?
I mean everything, you
name it and Dingle has it.
[Jimmy] Without the
people, it doesn't work.
It takes a lot of people
to make this town work
between the B'n'Bs and you know,
the restaurants to the
supermarkets, to the boat tours.
Poets, artists, musicians,
and just the general
culture that is here is usually very, very
intertwined between us that
come here and the locals
that are already here.
[Paul] If you put into the mix
foreign people coming here,
and how interesting they are,
and they all have a story
and it all blends together,
and we go out and we have a drink together
and play music together.
[Tom] Because I'm a
musician, having guitar,
being able to play an instrument
will always kind of bring the crowd in.
And that was probably
one of the best moments
for the first time we came down here,
we met other people, other musicians,
and we just had a brilliant session.
And those sessions just
were, they were indefinite,
they went on and on and on, day after day.
So that's another great thing about,
as you're probably aware with Dingle,
it's steeped, you know, in music,
mostly traditional but all sorts of music
can really go down here.
And that for me was a
great place to meet people
and how we found ourselves
in long-term friendships
with people all through music.
And I'm still doing that to this day.
(melodic music)
[Camilla] This sort of pub life
and the music that was
fantastic, completely.
You'd have to search that out in England.
When I first came here,
there'd always be they'd lock the doors
and I used to think "What's
going on?", you know?
And then the next thing I walk
outside and it's daylight,
and I think, "Oh my god,
it's quarter to six",
and there's people still in the bar
and I'm going, "Oh, when do you go home?"
You always come away
laughing from the pub.
You know, there's never a
bad word ever said there.
There's people out on the
streets in the Friday evening.
It's completely different.
Everything you feel Irish, Irish climate,
you know, like completely different.
Music from the doors is magic.
[Camilla] Every Sunday there'd
be a great big roast lunch
and whole families would come in,
and there'd be music and
we got together and danced
Kerry sets and to live music.
I mean some of the top
musicians of the country
would be sitting there at
the corner of Dick Macks
playing for us.
I play in pubs sometimes
I do it for free,
which is not much less
than you get paid but.
And I used to play concerts in
the church two times a week.
I did that for about 10
years when I moved here.
I know I know a few of the musicians
that I played with around planet a lot.
If they come here, I'll
always bring them here
and then we'll start,
I might tell a couple of
people that I'm coming to play,
there's always a gathering then
of three or four or five
musicians that will join
and just sit behind here
and just have a great night.
Just belt out a few songs, bit of craic.
(guitar music)
(birds squawking)
So the cultures they don't collide,
they just intertwine as
different as they are.
Bringing new ideas as well,
which are very much welcomed
into the fabric of society.
But like it's very hard to change Irish,
the Irish very strict. They
say like, "No, we go this way".
But then slowly, slowly like they do like,
they see like it's going
well. So they change.
[Dave] What doesn't happen anymore.
But used to drive me mad
when I first came here,
was that on every single
menu board in town,
on every single menu in town
there was a spelling mistake,
or misuse of punctuation
and it was atrocious.
Like every business in town.
[Tom] He's like an Apostrophe Nazi.
He would literally go up and
change people's street boards.
Yeah, I used to go around,
if they had the big chalkboard
outside and they had, you
know, today's specials
with an apostrophe, I just go.
Nope.
And just rub it out with
my finger as I walked past.
I thought I was doing them a favor,
but it used to drive me mad.
I just wanna say this for the record,
it's improved hugely over the years
and that a lot of people are lot more...
[Tom] Your ability to deal
with it or their ability, too?
I like to think I've
played some small part
in correcting people, but
yeah I can be annoying
like that myself.
(birds chirping)
[Andi] Some people come in
and they bring their culture with them
and they don't wanna let it go,
and they bring their language with them,
and they bring their
traditions and things like that
and that can enrich a country.
But they also have to accept
that that other country
has its own traditions and things
which they need to
integrate with, as well.
I hope that those who come
here are looking to give
not just to take.
A lot of them have a
lot of talent and energy
and experience in various things,
and they start things up like...
Well, the bookshop was
started by a blow-in,
I mean she was only from
Cork but she was a blow-in.
Irish people like things,
you know, from Polish kitchen
and we serving, I'm
serving like stuff, food,
with a little bit of
Polish kitchen as well.
We are part of this place
as well. We had as well,
for example, Polish shop was
closed after a few years,
but it was nice, go to Polish
shop buy the Polish stuff.
It's a melting pot of the world.
Capped off with the Irish
thing, do you know what I mean?
It all seems to fit together.
(melodic music)
I used to live in town
directly across the street
from the supermarket and it
would take me 15 minutes,
20 minutes to get to the door
because everyone that you meet
in the street you're having a chat with,
and the pace of life is just a lot slower.
Down the road can take hours,
because you meet half of the town
and everyone is up for a little chat.
[Billy] Just people,
everyone saying hello to you
in the streets is almost like
you're obliged to say hello.
And that it doesn't happen
in too many places around.
I had to go up to England to
a funeral a couple years ago,
and a small town like Dingle
in Cornwall is where I was.
And I found myself saying
hello to people in the streets,
just "How are ya? Hello, how's it going?".
And it was mad to come...
People look at you like you've
got two heads in many places
when you're... but here it is different.
It's a friendly place.
I picked up the habit myself,
and when I go back to the
UK I'm more open with people
and say hi to everyone.
But unfortunately over there,
they look at you as though
you're some sort of nutcase.
(gentle music)
Dingle is so much more
than people see it to be
on the surface.
And the vast majority of what
that is, is immensely good.
When you're walking down the street
and you're not thinking about it,
and then you just, you
look up and it's, "Oh yeah,
I really am in one of the
most beautiful places".
[Aaron] The energy comes
outta the ground in this place,
you know, and just so much
energy getting pounded
from the sea to the cliffs,
and that energy has to go
somewhere in a my book, so.
You know, it oozes, the energy I suppose.
My mom, she visit once,
like she's busy woman at home,
she's dreaming to come
again after first time
she wrote like a poem like
about Dingle, you know,
so she just, she missed Dingle,
even like she was only
once and she felt in love.
[Tomasz] My wife is falling
in love in this place.
You can't believe we have in
every one room, in our house,
big pictures from Dingle,
from Wine Strand for example.
That was, this is a part of our life.
(soft music)
[Carol] Every year I'm here
and I have people coming in
and you can see this particular
look on their face thinking,
"What can I do in my life to
turn it around so that I can
work out how I can work and live here".
And you can see that their
brain is going, you know,
and there'll be all
types of different people
from all walks of life.
It's just, it's a type of place
that attracts people with who
have a kind of pie in the sky,
romantic vision of the kind
of life they wanna live.
And even more importantly,
the kind of place that
they're trying to get out of.
You know, you move here
and then you find out
it's like anywhere else, it's real life.
And you know, some people are, you know,
are really cool and some
people are less cool,
and you're gonna have problems.
You know, they come here
with rose-colored glasses
and then they find out, you
know, there's other sides
to it that they hadn't banked on.
And my rocking chair is
literally deconstructing
while I'm sitting in it.
A lot of people want
to come here and think,
"Oh, I'd love to live in Dingle",
and it's never as easy as it looks.
And it does take time to
get used to the place.
I think the thing is you
have to stay for the winter
and see it as it's at its most difficult
in order to really live here.
(gentle soft music)
[Trevis] Things are harder to get here,
there's no doubt about it. We
are on an island in an island.
You think back to perhaps
the peninsula's most famous
ever resident, behind Fungie.
Tom Crean died because his appendix burst
because he wouldn't get to
the hospital fast enough.
And yes, it was a different time,
but Annascaul to Tralee is not that far.
I was diagnosed with MS in April of 2001.
When I first came here for a winter,
I told my neurologist about
where, what I was doing,
and he said, "Is there
a hospital in Dingle?"
And that had recently been closed.
And flippingly I said, "Well
no, but there is a vet".
He said, "Well, he'd have
the needles and catheters,
he'd have methyl prednisone".
So he actually wrote an
introduction to the local vet
to whom it my concern,
describing my condition,
describing what meds I would
need if I had an acute attack.
As he was writing the letter,
he says, "Jesus, Trevis,
this is just very all creatures
great and small, isn't it?"
It's life in the dynamics.
It's the Fortissimo,
as well the Pianissimo.
And that's what life is.
It's the loud and the soft,
and you can't really appreciate the beauty
without the difficulty.
The grandeur without the adversity.
Getting into town can
be a difficulty sometimes.
Although my partner enjoys going,
she can be... doesn't like being
the chauffeur all the time,
you know.
Just like for you, like it's hard
because you have to drive.
Like if you have kids like, you know,
to school then like, you
know, like a taxi driver,
like so I did this, I did before as well.
I was living like outside and your car,
like if your car broke,
like it happened for me.
So how will you get like to work?
So you go like hitch-hiking
as well say like, "Sorry",
like my car is broken", so it is problem.
[Kirsten] Everyone knows
each other's business
and they kind of portray it
as been a very negative thing.
But like there's always
going to be that sense
where everyone thinks
something's malicious,
but it's really not.
If cows broke out and
like nearing on the road,
like they'd called him say, "Oh, you know,
are they always down below
there with the black and white
stripes or whatever".
And he'd just like, "Oh yeah, Jesus,
one of them is coming out
after coming over the ditch".
He'll be like, "Oh, Jesus".
And they was like, "Well, I
hunt him back in for y'all".
It's something that's just in them.
It's not a badness, it's a quality.
[Jill] When I moved
from the lane up to here,
I couldn't get over it
'cause I got this letter
in the post and I'd
only been here two days,
and I thought, "God, the
postman knew that I'd moved,
already".
But at the beginning,
people knowing your business
and calling you from across the street,
and wanting to talk to you,
and ask you how is your
this, and how's your that,
and "Oh, I heard you were
doing such and such",
and you go, this is very
intrusive, very intrusive.
But eventually you just
know that they mean well,
and they want you to be welcome,
and they want you to be part
of the everyday going on,
and that those same people
who you thought were just
being intrusive into your life
will later to become
friends or they'd ask you
to do something for them
or you know, vice versa.
You know, you would ask something of them
because you knew who they were
and you knew what they could do for you.
"Oh, you're a, you know,
you're a carpenter."
I got some, you know, can
you come and sort this out
for me?", or, you know.
(uplifting music)
Rumor spreads very fast around here.
It's something very funny, to be honest.
I've experienced it a few
times and it travels very fast.
Rumors around, okay,
it's almost every week
you have a new rumor
about a place in town,
which 90% of the time happens to be wrong.
[Jill] In the early days,
people used to find it fascinating
that I moved halfway around
the world to this little town
in Dingle, in Ireland.
And I just thought I wanted
to live somewhere else,
and they're like, "Yeah,
but it's a long way away".
And I said, "Yeah, but
it's beautiful here.
You know, the people are lovely".
"Yeah, but there must be something else".
And anyway, after nights
and nights and nights
of people asking me over a
certain couple of periods
of time, I just said to them,
"I'm on witness protection".
And it was like, "Oh, okay,
sorry about that". And then that was that.
So that was a conversation stopper.
(laughing)
Am I on witness protection? No,
(laughing)
You can Google that.
(laughing)
(uplifting music)
(Chris) Yeah. My
daughter at the age of 13
went into the local school,
was integrated perfectly,
did really, really well.
But unfortunately after a year there,
they opened a new school
and it was a co-ed,
and it was to be taught
through the medium of Irish,
completely.
That proved to be a
massive problem for her.
And you know, it was a big
hindrance to her moving forward.
There was a bus that went
from Dingle to Castlegregory,
that you could send your kids,
but the places were limited,
really limited, and that you
had to drop your kids off
at the crack of dawn in town
so they could get over the hill
in time to get to to school
for the start of the day.
And you know, you had to be, you know,
there would be a really long
day for them with the travel
both ways unless you wanted, you know,
or you could take 'em yourself.
It was something that upset me going back,
realizing that my kids were gonna go to
an Irish speaking school and
I wasn't gonna be able to help
them in their education as
much as I would've done,
for example, if we were living in the UK
and they were growing up in
an English speaking school.
But it's not something
that's insurmountable,
it just makes life a
little bit more difficult.
If you wanna kind of get
in with the local people.
It helps to learn some Irish, you know,
people I think appreciate that.
I'm saying that as someone who,
who has done a bad job of learning Irish.
I tried for a while and
then it didn't really take,
I mean I have some but not much.
[Fiona] If I moved to
Indonesia then you have to like,
you have to speak the language.
You can't assume that everyone will,
will speak your language.
I used to go into Krugers Pub,
and everybody in there
would be speaking Irish
until I walked in or until
somebody else who spoke English
walked in and then everybody
would switch really politely.
Like the majority of people
would switch to English,
and there was never any hassle with it.
They were just so great and everything.
And I remember thinking,
"God, not only am I, you know,"
I'm actually making it
worse by having everybody
talk to me in English.
I'm not adding anything and
I'm just making the Irish
situation worse...
[Andi] Like, you know,
in Scotland for example,
there's so few places left
that speak Scots Gaelic,
it is very nearly dead.
And I as a history enthusiast,
and a person with a history degree,
I think that's a travesty.
So I tried, am trying to learn Irish
and like if I have kids or
settle with an Irish guy,
they'll be speaking Irish.
Like even if I can't understand
a word they're saying,
they will speak Irish.
(speaking Irish)
I started when I first came,
when these classes were just beginning.
So I've attended a few of
those and done classes,
and conversation groups,
and things like that.
All the time since I've been here.
It's a beautiful sounding language.
It's impressive to hear
and it just sort of,
it just sort of rolls and you know,
you can just sort of
(exhales deeply)
Just sit and listen to that.
Sounds a bit like
Scandinavian and German,
or Slavic spoken with a smile.
There's something harsh about it,
but there's something
beautiful about it as well.
Like my son, he's seven now,
so he's kind of grown up around here.
He's got that really old
Irish way of doing it.
I think he gets it from his grandfather,
and his uncle, and his dad, so
they have the real old Irish.
So he'd turn around and would say...
(speaking Irish)
So like, "can I have a
drink? I'm dying of thirst".
There isn't a word for
accent in the Irish it's blais,
how beautiful is that?
That they speak of the way
that they speak as the taste
for the language. That's Ireland and Irish
just tied right up in a poetic bow.
A minteoir (teacher) come to the house,
like a lady to help me
speak conversational Irish.
Just to say hello or just
to say how are you doing?
Or it's raining. That's
always a good one to have.
You know, I have a niece
that lives down here now
and she's fluent Irish and
we'd be saying Irish words
and she'd be laughing us.
Now we'd be saying the way
we were taught but you know,
it's totally different.
I have school Irish, but
it's amazing when you put the,
you know, the cpla focail together.
It's amazing that a lot
of it's still at the back
of the head here.
I can't get any sense out
of how to pronounce, you know,
where there's mh and a dh
and all that and I'm like,
"Oh, I can't do that".
[Gavin] Because I don't,
I don't speak Irish.
I was away that day in school.
Couldn't have a conversation.
No way like.
You don't know the Irish word,
you can put the English word in,
or if you don't know any Irish,
you can just speak in English.
(gentle music)
[Gavin] There's a lot of natives here
that don't bother with the Irish either.
They speak English all the time,
and they wouldn't even
consider speaking Irish.
They'll come into the shop
and they woof out in Irish,
and I go and I thought
I'd go really Australian,
"Oh, sorry mate, I can't speak Irish".
And they understand then you see,
(laughing)
So then they flip back to
English, "How are you today?"
"Go maith", which means good thanks.
First Irish I've
learned was dn an doras.
When you go to the pub and
it's windy outside, you,
you have to close the
door when you get in.
That's probably the
first Irish I've learned.
Fan anseo ar dearg.
Oh yeah, on the road, you
know when they have those red,
those roadworks going on and
they have these traffic lights,
it's always in Irish "Fan anseo ar dearg".
So you learn how to speak
the looking at the road.
Stop here at, stop
here on red basically.
Yeah, so anybody who can't
speak Irish you can say that,
they'd be very impressed.
Fan anseo ar dearg.
I came into town and I
came into O'Flaherty's pub,
and I sat down and I was having a pint
and bantering back and forth
a little bit as one does.
And your man down the end of
the bar said something to me,
I didn't understand and I
thought maybe I was putting on
a bit of the Oirish, you
know, the American-style
accent about it.
And I said to him, said, "I'm sorry,
my family's from the north,
I don't have the Irish".
And the whole of the
bar broke up laughing.
And the publican said, "You know",
I won't say your man's name,
"it's just, you know,
that's John Sullivan."
He wasn't speaking the Irish
and that's okay because
we can't understand
a damn word he's saying either...
And it was just his, his West
Kerry accent was so strong.
I actually thought that he
was speaking another language.
Someone from Killarney has
a completely different accent
to someone from Tralee, that's
only like 20 minutes away.
In Australia, we've all got
this one big accent, you know,
and it's a continent.
Like now, two, three years.
Like I'm getting they saying like,
"Oh, you're getting like
you have Kerry accent".
Like last week they say I have
have Dublin accent as well.
I was like, no, I'm not
having Dublin accent.
I know that well but the like
Kerry accent. It's possible.
(gentle music)
Fungie, let me tell ya,
Fungie's been my best friend for 23 years.
(uplifting music)
[Gavin] He's a blow-in, he swam in
and when he was very
young and that was it,
he stayed, he just felt welcome.
So I'm going along on the boat anyway,
and all of a sudden Fungie comes
up by the side of the boat,
literally comes up to the surface, right?
Tilts his head, tilts his body like that,
and looks at me straight
in the eye. This is true.
Looks at me straight in the eye,
and I looked at him straight in the eye,
and I said to myself, "That
ain't just a fish, man".
[Tom] You just go out
to where he hangs about
and maybe hit the water with the oar,
he'd come right up beside you.
You just wanna make sure he
didn't jump into the boat,
but you could put your, I
had a pleasure, you know,
you could rub him and then
he'd go off and do his tricks.
(gentle music)
[Harris] There were a lot of people
who have this spiritual
relationship with the dolphin,
and can go on about that.
Fungie and I had just
a normal relationship.
(boat engine running)
That's the kind of place this is.
Do you know what I mean?
We just, I don't know
anywhere else in the world
where a dolphin's going
to hang around, you know?
And the things that the
Dolphin did for the community,
you know, the fishing
industry was on it's knees
and you know, things were going down,
and a dolphin hung around,
and kind of brought it
back to life, you know,
became a focus and
started bringing people in
and then other people
start feeling the energy,
the place I suppose.
And it grew from there.
For him not to show up.
Even for one day, I knew
he wasn't coming back.
Yeah, we got kicked in
the pants this last year
between Covid and losing
the dolphin. It's like...
It's like Armageddon.
33 Years. He was here 37
years and for 33 years of those,
he was a massive part of
me and my family's life.
He, you know, he put the
kids through college,
you know, the amount of
people that we brought out
over the years.
It might seem a bit
flip and romantic to talk
about how much influence Fungie had
and will have.
But I think that that is sort of the,
the entry point to Dingle
or was for many, many
young Irish children.
(birds chirping)
[Tomasz] I fish a lot every day, almost,
sometimes in the summer.
And that was great to see
him, to hear him at at night,
how he's breathing, how he's jumping.
And then now it's empty. Now
it's, the harbour is empty now.
There's no boats, no Fungie,
no birds, no nothing.
There's kind of an aura
or a magic that's gone.
Now, it's just a bay. You
didn't even notice it.
It was on a really subliminal level
until he was suddenly gone.
And then you noticed, like
the loss was palpable.
[Jimmy] It's different,
it's a little darker there
but I still can't help, you know,
just looking out for him
to see is he, you know,
is he going to show up?
And I think that's going to carry on
for the rest of my days.
(gentle music)
[Tom] I found myself
thinking about him a lot,
like a bereavement so to
speak. But as you say,
"All good things must come to an end".
[Aideen] Yeah.
[Tom] It's just, as Aideen said,
it's unfortunate that it
had to happen this year,
when everything went so bad
for so many people here.
Maybe he's still alive
'cause we didn't see like him,
you know, dead.
So we hope he's just around going,
'cause he was like a
businessman. It was his business.
All this tours, which
people, they was coming.
I had a trip out about 10 people,
all along the one side of
the dolphin boat again.
And I just, I knew Fungie
was acting strange.
Something wasn't, something
was a little bit different.
He never left the side of the boat.
He was just stuck to it
a bit more than usual.
And I came out to the deck
and I spoke to the people,
and I said, "Look guys, somebody
along the side of the boat
here needed them today, needed him today".
Nobody said anything.
But we came in and a
girl was still sitting
on the side of the boat
when everybody went off,
and she said, "It was me".
And she said, "I'm after
being diagnosed with cancer".
And he knew,
he knew.
Sorry.
(soft somber music)
(birds squawking)
[Harris] Where do I see Dingle going?
Well, I don't think it's going anywhere.
You know, there's an
awful lot of consultants
making an awful lot of money
telling an awful lot of people,
exactly what that's going to look like.
And as with most consultants,
they're probably 80% wrong.
Yeah, this Dingle is every year bigger
and I see is much more people,
coming for holidays every year.
It has changed. You see like new roads,
like, you know, as I
said, new people as well.
New places opening.
Well like when I moved here
you couldn't even buy
a sandwich very easily.
There was hardly any
restaurants. There was Doyle's,
there was the Half Door,
there was, if you went into
a cafe and asked for coffee,
you got instant coffee.
And I used to ask, I'd say,
"You know, do you have any real coffee?"
"They'd go like, 'What the
hell are you talking about?"
I mean there was, that Nescafe was coffee.
If you taught me five
years ago that people
that you know would be queuing
up outside a coffee shop
in Dingle, I just said, "You
outta your mind". (Indistinct)
Things do need to move on.
But what I'd love to see is
that they move on in a way
that preserves what's really
special about the place.
You know.
I have concerns for what
the future of Dingle is.
[Harris] There's a lot of
housing projects being built,
so there's gonna be more people here.
And obviously, you know,
suddenly there's a booming housing market.
I mean there's no houses for sale,
but there's a boom in people
who wanna buy in here.
[Chris] Yeah to buy or rent now
has become major, major issue.
Anyone coming into the town
will have serious problems
trying to find either of those
sort of property options.
There just is nothing out there now.
So suddenly there's nothing for sale
and a lot of people looking to buy.
I don't know in the long
term what that means.
I don't have a crystal ball.
[Trevis] Now, when I moved here,
there were three butchers,
and two fishmongers.
Now there's one of each.
There's not an abattoir
on this peninsula anymore.
And there used to be teens of them.
Every time one shop closes their stores,
or fails to reopen after
something like that.
That's one straw taken
out of the, you know,
the whole fabric of who this peninsula is.
I don't think Dingle will change.
It will grow, but I don't
think it will change.
I don't think so. I think it's
well able to contain itself,
and keep what Dingle has for itself.
I think the people here do protect that.
I believe so, I don't
think it wants to change.
That's what I honestly believe.
If you don't plan for change
then it's unplanned change.
And that seldom for the long
run is good for a place.
So it has to be planned change.
And my feeling is that the more residents,
not just, you know,
people who came up here,
but people who live
here, who call this home,
the more people who are
involved in the decision making
process of what that plan looks like,
the better representative of Dingle's past
and Dingle's hopes will be represented
in what the plan and the future look like.
(uplifting music)
[Aaron] I have a beautiful
place that I've dreamed about
all me life but never thought I'd have it.
You know, I have a partner,
we're getting married this next year,
and she came down for a
weekend to visit (indistinct)
Weekend, four years later and
now we're getting married.
So, things work out for me down here.
Even if I don't do this
for the rest of my life,
I do wanna stay around Dingle.
I just, I really, really love it here.
I've been actually looking at houses
and dreaming about one day.
It's hard to save up money,
and it's hard to afford anything here.
Let's say for now, no
plans to move it from here.
'Cause I just stick with Dingle.
When we first moved here,
and I remember coming in from the shops,
I think it was one January
or February morning,
and said to Karen, "Don't
you just love this town?"
And she said, "I like it".
Which pulled me up short,
because I had to remember
this was my dream
and she was facilitating it.
I said, "Let's move to to
Dingle for five to seven years".
And she said, "I'll move there
for three to five years".
I said, "That's what I
meant. Three to five years".
And we don't remember the reason,
don't remember even the exact day,
but she walked in the door
and she dropped the bags
of shopping and she said,
"I love this town, Dingle's
like a driving damp.
If you let it in, it will get
in and it will change you".
This is our future really.
I think. Yeah.
I don't see, I mean, all going well.
(gentle music)
[Harris] I don't know what
I'm doing. I'm conflicted.
I mean I've been here a long time,
and I kind of feel like
time's running out,
and I'd like to do some other things.
And I don't wanna live in
a gigantic house anymore.
In the rain and the wind...
(laughing)
I don't know, like, I hate to
sound like one of these people
who're like trying to move
to Florida when they get old,
but there's something to
be said for being warm,
and not getting arthritis and you know,
I find the weather here hard
to take for a lot of the year.
I'm an old fella. I'm
suddenly an old fella.
Yeah. I'm suddenly starting to feel it
and so yeah, put me somewhere warm
with some good, good tacos or something.
(gentle music)
I'm thinking that it's
probably my last season here
and I'm too old for that.
And you know, I dunno how
many life left for me,
for my wife. We have to spend together,
the rest of our life.
But I think I planning all the time,
I planning and maybe every two years,
maybe every three years
I coming for holidays,
for a week for two. Maybe.
[Trevis] Neither of
us, my wife, Karen nor I,
can imagine being any
happier living anywhere else.
So if Dingle will have us...
Dingle is more than just a place.
It's the people that's here,
it's the atmosphere that's
here. It's for everyone.
It's not for one specific
person. It's for everybody.
Once you've people here,
once you've people still
wanting to come to visit Dingle,
which I think will always be the way,
you'll always have a Dingle.
My brother was in
Dingle a couple days ago,
and he lives in Killarney,
and he just saw the amount
of people in Dingle. Right?
And he has a business
there as well. Right.
And he said to me, he
said, he shook his head,
he looked at me and he
went, "Do you know what,
if there was a nuclear
attack in Ireland, right,
two things would survive,
cockroaches and Dingle".
Right. And I just thought, "You know what",
he's dead right, man". It's true.
Dingle is, it's one of those,
it's one of those places.
(uplifting music)