RTE's Small World Waterford connection

johnnykilo

I don't know if anyone saw this last week on RTE a week or so ago. I missed it but I'm just watching it now on the RTE Player now http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1127225

Basically it's about a group of people who left the South-East of Ireland and went to an Island off New Foundland and haven't really changed in a few hundred years. Some of them have mad Irish accents I'm sure some of ye will find it interesting

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Alot of Newfies as their called come to Waterford every year they sound like their from Wexford even their humour is very much like ours

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Alot of Newfies as their called come to Waterford every year they sound like their from Wexford even their humour is very much like ours

You sure that's not just Wexford people up for the christmas shopping?

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Alot of Newfies as their called come to Waterford every year they sound like their from Wexford even their humour is very much like ours

Do they tell each other to hang their b*lls off the Clock Tower or their local tower?

ex_infantry man

st johns in newfoundland are waterford descendants, and believe it or not ice hockey started with irish fishermen playing hurling on the ice and thats where that descended from

mike65

I thought eveyone knew this, basically Waterford/Wexford stock (once the natives had been slaughtered of course!