Connemara
Added 2024-08-29 14:51:02 +0000 UTCFirstly, apologies to anyone who only discovered The Infinite Review last month and thought it was a 100% Bots Master focused channel.
It's nice to do something truly personal now and then, and I'm grateful that there are people like you who are willing to listen. I'm not sure if this will strike a chord with anyone who isn't Irish and the same age as me, but I hope it does. It's nerve wracking putting out something like this online, but ultimately I do want to be able to look at the channel with pride, and I'll only be able to do that if I know I've made some things like this along the way.
And if you were in the mood for something lighter, THE INFINITE REVIEW PODCAST returns later today for all $3 patrons - featuring a BELOVED lineup!
Comments
This was absolutely lovely. I've been watching your videos for 10 years (oh god) and this is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this.
SecondSafestSlav
2024-10-18 02:47:28 +0000 UTCOwen I don't even have words for this video. It is just so impossibly loving while introspective. I need to go visit my old nan.
Jim
2024-08-30 12:45:26 +0000 UTCThis is one of the most sincere videos I've seen on YouTube. My family visited Buxton a few months ago to scatter my nana's ashes, since we'd go on holiday there with her when I was a kid. I was struck by just how familiar everything seemed almost 20 years later. Besides the crazy golf course closing it was exactly as I remembered it.
Ralsei Gosling
2024-08-30 00:04:41 +0000 UTCI get the melancholy over granny and granddad's old place where I would've spent half my childhood memories. Overpeppered scones, Cain Markoesque sheep, cocker spaniel eating rotten grapefruit, skytv with cartoon network, a nice pony, mowing the lawn with the cheapest music player lawn mowing money can buy, almost drowning in the land's most pathetic drain, Christmas lunch with all my dad's family. My granny hasn't lived there in over a decade, and granddad died before she moved, but the house is still there in my home town All the nice trees seem to have been felled, the house painted a jarring shade of blue from white and the 27 acres of prime clover growing land destined for subdivided property investors. Times do change, and they should, and really that's a lot of land for any one to have possession over. But i'll struggle to accept it nonetheless, and I even resist going to that part of town to further overwrite the images of the place I have that no longer reflect reality. I wasn't born to be a grass farmer, I was born to be a viennoiserie fella making danishes at night, and I know what I'd rather be eating.
Temporarily Embarrassed Deleuzeanaire
2024-08-29 23:20:35 +0000 UTCMy parent and I were both immigrants to Ireland around the mid-2010s, she stayed (now a citizen) and I left for Canada a few years later. We lived extremely close to Connemara out in rural Mayo and drove through there when going to Galway for hospitals and such. They may not be the same situation, but I relate to this video heavily as my anxieties about being foreign to Ireland, yet so familiar with it, every time I go back have compounded over the years, with it being so much my home and very far from it. Thank you for this.
maybs
2024-08-29 21:01:37 +0000 UTCThis video has hit me in a very strange way. I spent so much time in my grandparents' house as a kid that I occasionally find myself wishing I could go back for just a few hours and read or play a game or something. It was sold a few years ago. This was great. Really looking forward to the podcast.
Rory Fleming
2024-08-29 18:19:52 +0000 UTCConnemara is so gorgeous I need to get down there some day and have people look very confused at my very crap Irish.
Malachy
2024-08-29 17:41:49 +0000 UTCVery poignant while maintaining a sense of humor. Always impressed at your range of video making!
Josh B
2024-08-29 17:34:56 +0000 UTCWow, I loved this Owen thank you for sharing it with us ❤️ Can’t wait to listen to the pod later
Will Gates
2024-08-29 17:04:00 +0000 UTCAh, I really loved this! The sense of shame you talk about feeling wrt Irish really rings home, though at least in the part of the North where I lived, I didn't know anyone - even my grandparents - who spoke more than a few words of Irish. I know you spoke of it coming with some difficult feelings but there's something that makes me, happy, I guess? When I hear that you had people close to you who did know Irish and spoke it fluently. When it's thought of so often as this relic up here, knowing that fluent speakers aren't as far away does my heart good, on some level.
Woodaba
2024-08-29 15:50:31 +0000 UTCOwen what a sweet video. Easily one of my favs of yours.
Harley Gilbert-Rolfe
2024-08-29 15:16:54 +0000 UTCFantastic video and an amazing contemporary ode to a meaningful place. Loved it!
Andrew Campopiano
2024-08-29 15:13:18 +0000 UTCThat was a lovely video. Your ability to combine heartfelt feelings with laughs is unmatched
McauleyArt
2024-08-29 15:03:46 +0000 UTCBeautiful video, might be my favourite yet
Patrick Clough
2024-08-29 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
