Co Clare Female Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Co Clare Female Conversation

Conversation

I was born in Maine and then--my mother is American, my dad is Irish--and they moved over to Claire when I was nine in nineteen ninety-seven, and that's where I was raised.

Male: How long have you been in Galway now?

I went to college in Galway, so I've been in Galway for three years. I studied film and-- Well, I studied Film and Television; I just graduated this year.

Male: Can you tell me about this project, about how this got started?

Well, I know that Jack wrote it as a play. Jack Hanover wrote it as a play a couple years ago and sort of made it into a film. I don't know.

Male: And how did you get going with the project?

I got to know the guy who's doing the special effects and the editing for it during the filming for that, and he told me about that they were looking for people in art department and wardrobe. So, that's how I got it.

Male: So, what are you doing in the film?

Wardrobe. Costumes.

Male: I thought maybe-- Maybe you were in it as well. But--

No.

Male: Doing purely wardrobe for it?

Yeah.

Male: Great.

No, no, no, no. I hate acting. I do.

Male: So what were you focused on in your film work?

In college?

Male: Yeah.

Documentaries and cinematography and production design.

Male: And have you changed more into doing wardrobe since then or…

Yeah, definitely. I don't know if it's something I want to do, but I just seemed to kind of end up doing it. Just kind of get in lobbed into it a little bit. Yeah, I'll probably go back over to the States maybe at the end of this year or next year.

Male: Yeah?

Yeah.

Male: Any thoughts of where?

Probably New York. My uncle's a cameraman in New York, so...

Male: What would you like to do eventually? What's your...

I really, really like documentaries. Maybe shoot documentaries. Yeah.

Male; Which is so interesting because it has so-- nothing to do with wardrobe.

I know, I know.

Male: What is it that intrigues you about documentaries or are there any that have really inspired you?

Well, I love documentaries. I love kind of-- I love how small the crews are that are working on them. I love kind of the intimacy with working in documentaries, you get to know a lot of people intimately. Yeah, I like-- I just like the idea of just going out there and shooting things without any of this nonsense kind of behind it, which I think is-- comes with fiction films. It's just-- And you never know what's gonna happen as well. You never know what you're gonna find or you never know what crazy person you're gonna bump into or-- That's what I love about it, I think. And there's-- Yeah, there's not a lot of time wasted. It's always go-go-go. You know? Get this, get this, get that. You know? That's what I like about it.

Male: Yeah. I love that, too, actually. I'm more fascinated in general by documentaries than I am by feature films.

Yeah, me, too. I-- I like just people stories. I like those kind of things.

Male: Is there anything else that you would really suggest that I do while I'm in Galway City?

There's really nothing to do in Galway apart from go out on the town. There really-- Have you seen-- Have you gone on to Connemara?

Male: I have not yet. No.

Do you have a car?

Male: No, I don't.

Well, you could take the bus out there for the day. Yeah.

Male: Yeah. I might do that tomorrow.

Out to Spiddel or Carraroe or Carna or something like that. It's very pretty. Very, very nice.

Male: Have you gone out there a few times?

Oh, yeah. I used to work with-- do a bit of work out there with Ros na Run, which is an Irish language soap, and another-- just some other like some Irish language things. Because it's the Gaeltacht area, which is where they speak all Irish and so there's a lot of-- there's TG Ceithre, which is a-- an Irish TV channel and so they commission a lot of work and stuff like that. Jenny is actually-- has a job out in Ros na Run.

Female: What?

Your job out in Ros na Run.

Female: Talking about me.

Yeah, I'm always talking about you.

Female: Yeah.

She's getting paid, getting paid.

Male: It's all good actually,

Female: Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah. She's going to be working out there. I'm sure her Irish is much better than mine. She's getting into with Gavin, you know he's from Sligo. Oh, he's going to talk to you in a minute.

Male: He's taking the opportunity to walk away.

Co Clare Male Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Co Clare Male Conversation

Conversation

I am from Ireland. I have lived most my life here actually, down in the west coast of Ireland in a county called Claire. No, I have no siblings, no kids yet. No one will have me. What I do for a living actually is I work for the postal service here in Ireland. For all my sins, that's what I do. I wish I could be doing something else, but it will have to do for the meantime. Yeah, my hobbies would be mainly recording music. I'm trying to get into the film scoring side of things but I'm just starting off. I also-- One of my other biggest loves is playing video games, especially Battlefield 3. Obviously, the dream that I'd like to get accomplished is to get my name known doing music, which sure is not everyone's dream. Just to get rich and sit on my ass for the day. That's what I'd love to do.

Co Clare Female Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Co Clare Female Conversation

Conversation

I’m from Clare in the West of Ireland, but I’m livin’ in Cork about the last ten years now. It’s an enjoyable place to work. Lovely part of the city. Meet some interesting people doing things like this. Yeah, Cork’s a lovely spot to go. You should go to the Crawford Gallery. You should go to the Shandon Tower. And you should probably go down to UCC as well. It’s a beautiful campus. 

Probably in the English Market. If you go around and talk to a lot of the traders, a lot… like most people or a lot of people workin’ here are from like the city center in Cork, so that’s a very classic Cork accent. And then I suppose just go and hang out in the pubs and you’ll probably hear a lot of them. Yeah, there’s a lovely one just to the right here called Mutton Lane, so it’s here almost as long as the market as well. It’s one of the oldest pubs in Cork. There’s that and then Electric on the boardwalk is really nice. You can sit out and, if we get any sunshine, sit out, watch the water, have some nice pints, local beer, things like that. So those would be my two recommendations in the center. 

So I come in here to work at about half nine in the morning. I open up for ten. The mid-afternoon is usually the busiest time. We get a lot of walking tour groups in at this time of year. During the winter it’d be more local people. Christmas and Easter are our busiest times. Tip away for the day and then close up about five or half five and go on home. And that’s my day usually. I live about three miles away from here, so sometimes I get the bus in. Sometimes I walk. Depends on the weather, things like that. Yeah. As I say, lovely place to work and lovely city to live in.

Shannon Co Clare Male Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Shannon Co Clare Male Conversation

Conversation

So you've just, did you fly over specifically just to get accents? I'm from the southern part of Ireland, a place called County Clare. It's a very small place, it's not a lot of people, lots of livestock, plenty of green and castles, but I moved up here because of my family up here. This is my youngest of three, and then I have my wife as well. I took a half day off work today to take him to get his vaccinations, so he had a fun moment with that, but now he's happy out again. Yes, but I've been living here five years now. 

Male: Now, do you still have family back in County Clare? 

Oh yeah, yeah, all my family are there, which is great. It's nice to have family. They're seven hours away, which is a bit of a distance, so it means they can't be popping in me all the time, so I only get to see them when I want to, which is kind of nice. 

Male: We've been down to Dingle and... 

Dingle's lovely. 

Male: Actually, to Doolan. 

Oh, Doolan, that's not far from us, it'll be about a half hour drive. Yeah, yeah. That's County Clare. Nice part of the world, Doolan. Did you go by Cliffs of Moher and all that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You lovely old spot, lovely old spot. Or we'd be five minutes from Bunraighe Castle, and about five minutes from Shetland Airport, where we're from, so it's a nice part of the world, nice part of the world. Very Irish, that's to say, very Irish. 

Male: And now, what do you do here? 

I work in recruitment. I'm a contractor, so at the moment, I'm working two separate contracts. I'm doing one for Citibank and one for the Home Office for immigration and security and stuff, and I just recruit staff for them. So, yeah, but I choose my own hours because I'm a contractor, I'm self-employed, so that's pretty sweet. I just do 40 hours a week, and that pays me, well, crazy money. Crazy money. If anyone else is listening to this, if you want to do it and go be a contractor, you get paid way more. Way more. 

Male: So you've been really surprised by it, I take it? 

Oh yeah. So I started contracting a year and a half ago, and I was earning £30,000 sterling. I'm now on £212,000 sterling a year, just doing the same job with a bit less responsibility. 

Male: So your world has really changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has. Oh, it has, it has. We've gotten to a stage now where we're saving up to get a mortgage, and now it's looking likely in the next six months we're going to be able to buy a house outright, no mortgage needed. So, a contractor is the way to go. If you're looking to make a lot of money, just do a year or two permanent, and then move to contracting. 

Male: How did you get started in that area? 

I've been a contractor. So I started, I was doing sales since, well, really 24 years altogether I've been doing sales, including recruitment. And I did, I switched from doing other types of business sales to doing recruitment for the last three years. And then about a year and a half ago, I got offered a roll of £350 a day to move to contracting. And I wasn't going to, because you don't get the benefits of your contract, and I have a family, so I was like, I don't know. And then I worked it out, and if I did the year's contract, it was triple my salary. So the way I see it, if I save the rest of the money, it'll give me two years to look for another job in the meantime. So I took the risk, and it's just been going great since. I've been going contract to contract, and I'm on my fourth contract now. I'm doing two at the same time, so it's all going well. And it's only looking up, and this little fella is getting the best opportunity he can get. 

Male: And you're getting probably more time with him. 

Oh yeah. I work from home now, so I get to spend every day with him, which is great. I wake up in the morning, all my clients, I make sure they know that I've got a baby, and he'll be with me when I work. And sometimes I go on calls, I can sit him into his playmat or whatever. But if he's any bit cranky or any bit needy, they're okay with him just being in my arms while I work on calls. They know I'll still give them the same amount of effort, and that they're still going to get the work done, and I'm going to fill their jobs for them. Just how it is. 

Male: Yeah. And it's lovely you've got family around you here too. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, my wife is an orphan, so we have... I calm two kids, one of my two stepkids, and then this fella. So there's the four of us, there's the five of us, so we're happy as we are. We're happy as we are, and we have a few close friends, and we have everything we need, and we get to visit my family whenever we want. So all is good. All is good. 

Male: And where are you looking at buying a house? 

We were thinking Belfast, but at the same time we're thinking somewhere outside of Belfast would be nice. So our short-term goal is a house to live in, and then our mid-term... I was going to say long-term goal, but it shouldn't take too long. Our mid-term goal is to get a house somewhere like Spain or Portugal, where they've nice weather, so you can go for summer holidays, and then Airbnb it out the rest of the year when we're not there, and have that making more money for us. It's all about multiple streams of revenue. I've worked... I've ran companies, I've worked different types of business, and I've just learned as many streams of revenue as you can have when you come into times of crisis, you're better off. And because we have multiple streams of revenue, that has us comfortable enough where we have a few deals at local schools, where we give them money to pay for kids' lunches and meals and everything, and so we're able to give back to the community. One second… I better go. 

Male: You got it.