The Other Irish Travellers | movie | 2012 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Can you be loyal to two nations? It's the question posed to the Anglo-Irish class of the 1930s. Landed Protestants with  | dG1fWVh3eFlsQ2V1RHM

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00:00Ireland had got rid of people like us, landed Protestants who spoke with English accents.

00:11As my father was growing up, one by one the Anglo-Irish families were being ejected.

00:17It was a polite version of ethnic cleansing. My aunts and uncles went back with me to the

00:27west of Ireland to tell me about their childhood in the 1930s.

00:33My father is a City of London computer boffin. He's 83.

00:39It was a very comfortable life, really. The only thing we didn't have was a car and a

00:46telephone and electric light. Look at the poor old gate-clodge falling down, losing its plaster

00:55all over the place.

01:03My Uncle Richard is a poet. Ireland and its bitter history has been his subject.

01:14When we entered those gates, it was like an embrace. Possessive and jealous by turns, an intense

01:26surge of excitement and joy.

01:33My cousins are the only one-time Anglo-Irish family still around here, farming their own land.

01:47We looked down this great green cathedral.

01:54But we were still holding a fort, kind of outpost of the British Empire, kind of forlorn, last survivor

02:09feeling. Surrounded by people who were different.

02:29When I first came to Milford, age seven, I was told that ancient Irish princes married their domains.

02:36That's the house and land. I wondered if my father had wanted to marry the house when he was young.

02:45Here we are, the grand old entrance.

02:50The Rangoon Prince.

02:56Yes, sir.

02:58Richard gave the house its own voice, the voice of the Anglo-Irish, full of dread, in his poem about his own birth upstairs in the house.

03:09The house speaks as Richard is emerging from his mother.

03:14I'd been expecting death by absentee owner's decay, or fire from a rebel match.

03:21Too many old relations I'd seen die in the same bedroom.

03:25Made me scared to watch.

03:29And then your birth cry came, piercing through wall behind wall.

03:34The sun transfigured all of us.

03:39The first relation to live in the house was an English soldier.

03:43The Irish rebelled in 1641, and Britain's new model army came to reconquer the Catholic colony, for Britain and for Protestants.

03:53It was the best fighting force in Europe.

03:56Led by Oliver Cromwell, it crushed all opposition, swiftly and ruthlessly.

04:03But to secure long-term control in the decades that followed, officers were settled around the country.

04:11My ancestor identified the land, claimed it under the Adventurers Act, and set up home over 300 years ago, in 1691.

04:22The first relationship to the Southeliers Act as a very girl.

04:25The next relationship is just for a long-term control.

04:27We are now on every one of those are on the same, with the same person that we have to perform with.

04:31To save that, you'll be the same.

04:33The other relationship is broken down.

04:38The end, you'll be the same.

04:39The other relationship as a native legend is just for a long time.

04:42The other relationship is that the higher-old encounter, and the other relationship is why it's not as easy.