0:12:41 > 0:12:45THEY SPEAK IRISH
0:13:04 > 0:13:10We discovered that my husband, Brian, and his grandparents had Gaelic,
0:13:10 > 0:13:14in the 1911 census, it said that they had English and Irish,
0:13:14 > 0:13:16living on the Newtownards Road.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18We found out later they'd come up from Rathlin Island
0:13:18 > 0:13:21and we did a bit of research and discovered that there was still
0:13:21 > 0:13:23remnants of the language about there.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25So we don't know how fluent they were,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27but they had enough to record it.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30What importance do you place on learning Irish yourself?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32I feel it's very important.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35The Irish language is part of our heritage,
0:13:35 > 0:13:37yet we don't know a word of it,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40we never have the opportunity to engage with it.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43I discovered that the language is all around us.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46It's part of the heritage of Unionist people, as well,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49so it's my language, and I think it's shameful that I don't know it.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51I'm going to make it my business to learn it.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57And we're here on the Sli Cholmcille.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Colm Cille himself perhaps has been
0:13:59 > 0:14:01an inspiration in the work you've done.
0:14:01 > 0:14:06Again, Colm Cille is a shared saint,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09it's something that brings people together.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13He's a person who both communities can look up to and respect.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16I think that's very important in our divided communities.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19He's a symbol of unification.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Is there anything you've learnt, do you think,
0:14:21 > 0:14:27- on this course you'll bring back home?- Absolutely. Just more...
0:14:27 > 0:14:30It's been a lovely week. I've really enjoyed it.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Even just to take the message back to people that this course exists
0:14:33 > 0:14:36and they can come and be part of it.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Rosario, tell me about your journey from Italy
0:21:58 > 0:22:01to working with seaweed products in Ireland.
0:22:01 > 0:22:07I started to be passionate in seaweed in about 1996
0:22:07 > 0:22:12when I was working for a company that was dealing with organic wine making.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17I knew that the seaweed was good as a fertiliser.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Then I decided,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24"OK, maybe this is the time in the day I can leave the job
0:22:24 > 0:22:28"and try to do something on my own just with seaweed,"
0:22:28 > 0:22:32because it was a great passion that I had at that point.
0:22:32 > 0:22:38So, I just left Italy, and I ended up in Aran Islands,
0:22:38 > 0:22:41this was my favourite place in Ireland,
0:22:41 > 0:22:42so I started there.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45When I was still in the Aran Islands,
0:22:45 > 0:22:50a company wanted to start making instructions for agriculture.
0:22:51 > 0:22:56So I decided, "OK, I accept the task." Also, I needed money, anyway!
0:22:56 > 0:23:00What are the range of products that you're making?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03We make spelt cake with seaweed, instead of salt.
0:23:03 > 0:23:09We make a condiment, a mix of nuts, almonds, sesame seed,
0:23:09 > 0:23:14sunflower seeds, garlic, chilli, so it's kind of a mix.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Then we make extraction in organic olive oil.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22If you eat just, you know, the condiment,
0:23:22 > 0:23:28vegetable and the oil, you would have all the nutrients that you need.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Then the cosmetic side.
0:23:32 > 0:23:37We make soaps. The soaps are only coloured with the seaweed.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40So green seaweed for the green soap and so on.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Then they will be sold in a net like this one,
0:23:43 > 0:23:46so you can use them as a scrub.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49The soap has the advantage that, with the seaweed oil,
0:23:49 > 0:23:51it never dries the skin.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Do you think the Irish people understand the benefits of seaweed?
0:23:54 > 0:23:58I think the Irish people are more and more into health food.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02They understand that diseases can be prevented
0:24:02 > 0:24:06and everything that comes from the sea is good.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09It's easy also even to old people.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14Normally, if I go to Italy, for example, where I come from,
0:24:14 > 0:24:17and I say to an old person, "Would you eat seaweed?",
0:24:17 > 0:24:21she would stare at me.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25But the old people here, they know about seaweed,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27more than the young ones, actually.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30At least, all of them have a memory
0:24:30 > 0:24:33of the childhood with Carrigan.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35So that's a good start.
0:27:02 > 0:27:07HE RECITES BEAN NA GLINNE