Living in Ireland | The Country That Lost Half Its People | 4K Documentary

Living in Ireland | The Country That Lost Half Its People | 4K Documentary On an island the size of Indiana, fewer than seven million people live today — half as many as lived here in 1841. No other country in Europe has fewer people now than it did two centuries ago. Ireland is the only one. In a kitchen above the harbour in Dingle, an elderly woman sets the kettle on the range at half past six and pulls a loaf of soda bread from the oven. The bread has been baked the same way her mother baked it, and her mother's mother before that. The radio is on. The death notices come at twelve. In a stone field on the western edge of Connemara, a farmer in his sixties walks between dry-stone walls that were built without mortar two hundred years ago by hands that are no longer here. His sheepdog walks a few paces behind him. He counts forty-three sheep this morning. Last week there were forty-five. ABOUT NATIONSCAPE Nationscape is a 4K documentary channel about how people actually live in countries — the working versions, not the postcard ones. New documentaries posted regularly. #Ireland #LivingInIreland #IrelandDocumentary #4KDocumentary #TravelDocumentary #IrishCulture #Nationscape