County Antrim

Phil, what's it like on a film set, though? Because you've featured a number of feature films as well.

it's funny when I was doing as I said Feast and Famine when I was doing Cray the day I finished or even the day before I finished I was between the two there was a film being shot up in Glenarm in Antrim it was it was so different we'll say I was I went from Giddor where we were doing 12, 13 scenes a day and I went up to and I was given the schedule for the week and I was in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and I saw a scene we'll say scene 13 Monday Tuesday scene 13 Thursday Wednesday, scene 14, and Thursday, scene 14.

I said, right, what's wrong? We're hoping to do half the scene today and the other half on Monday and the other half on Tuesday.

And the same with Wednesday and Thursday.

In the Irish Parliament already referred to, Third and Fourth Philip and Mary, an act was passed declaring it a felony to introduce armed Scotchmen to Ireland, or to intermarry with them without a license under the Great Seal.

This statute was directed against those multitudes of Islesmen and Highlanders who annually cross the narrow strait which separates Antrim from Argyll to harass the English garrisons along shore, or to enlist as auxiliaries in Irish quarrels.

In 1556, under one of their principal leaders, James, son of Connell, they laid siege to Carrickfergus and occupied Lord Sussex some six weeks in the glens of Antrim.

Their leader finally entered into conditions, the nature of which may be inferred from the fact that he received the honor of knighthood on their acceptance.

John O'Neill had usually in his service a number of these mercenary troops, from among whom he selected sixty body-guards, the same number supplied by his own clan.

His gory head was presented to Captain Pierce, who hastened with it to Dublin, where he received a reward of a thousand marks for his success.

High spiked upon the towers of the castle, that proud head remained and rotted.

The body, wrapped in a curran saffron shirt, was interred where he fell, a spot familiar to all the inhabitants of the Antrim glens as the grave of Shane O'Neill.

[audience cheering] Everyone, please welcome the Drumloch Pipe Band.

I'm going to introduce them properly because, uh, I believe the Drumlock Pipe Band are the County Antrim M&D champions.

[cheering] What about that? Plus they've won quite a number of other competitions this season, I prefer to say.

Yeah.

He says, and now GA results.

I said, down 217, Antrim 114.

Well done to whoever won that one.

There was a moment when we were...

Okay.

So the dark hedges are in County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

Okay.

And it's cool because County Antrim is actually where, remember I told you, my mom's side of the family is from.

That is right.

Yeah, my grandmother's side, the Allens.

we did that the same day as we did the Dark Hedges.

And we actually did it before the Dark Hedges.