Dunmore East

The other in which ports and fishing villages continue a gentle decline and transition into museum pieces.

In Dunmore East, County Waterford, the Harbour Pier is quieter than many remember.

A film and sound installation, Dunmore Through a Lens, captures that changing world.

Created by Dumo Collective, with support from Creative Ireland, it tells the story of the harbour, the community that grew around it, and what its former glories mean to people today.

Della Kilroy travelled to Dunmore East to hear their stories.

At the moment, we're standing right down at the base of the lighthouse in the harbour, looking up the dock towards what was the old auction hall.

And it's changed a lot.

Geoff, your memories form part of Dunmore Through a Lens, a film and sound installation by filmmaker Neil O'Driscoll.

Oh, no, we did more than that.

I went to Waterford, the Cliffs Walks, Dunmore East, all that, back through Declan's Way and Ardmore.

You know, you got to take the days, you know, when the days are dry, you got to go for it.

I don't know when it's a cloudy day, just head into the

We always went for July to Ross Lair.

And we'd had a day in Dunmore East, which was the, and the Mary's in Tramore.

Coming back, the kids, we're looking for something to eat.

Stopped by this, this beautiful building, Loftus Hall.

Rich, what's your winner of the week?

Winner of the week, I'd have to say it's the young DJ from Dublin, 13 Sean Meenehan, who actually went down and played with Paul Oakenfold last Saturday in Dunmore East.

And I was just thinking, okay, I work with adolescents all the time, and it's always surprising to me how little encouragement any of us need to do well in life, you know? And so many of us don't get that encouragement.

And when somebody who isn't your family... you know, that you look up to or that you idolize, even like this DJ, Paul Oakenfold, you know, this DJ, Sean, who adores Paul Oakenfold.

And Colin, though working in Northern Ireland, is from Cork.

Brendan Simpson from Dunmore East has been operating Heritage Fisheries with one aim, delivering traditional methods of fishing, but will close it down at the end of the year because there is no support from state or semi-state authorities for traditional fisheries.

It's disappointing to hear that he's going to give up.

There seems to be funding there for everything to do with talk shops, workshops, things like that, but nothing there... for commercial fisheries.

And the fishing died away slowly.

It carried on to an extent, but at a very low level.

And any of the kind of good fishermen of the island, they were fishing out of Dunmore East, out of Hoth, places like that.

And sad to say...

Do come and find me in Cork.

at cypress avenue where i'll be headlining that show and of course the big 25 year anniversary in dunmore east island which i've never been to before so looking forward to that one so don't forget pauloconfold.com all the information you want and i will see you there Thank you.

Thank you.

It has my soul It has my soul It has my soul This one for you is an underground record I did where I took a familiar lead line.

Be drinking a lot of Guinness there, so do come and say hi.

I'll be in Cork Island on the 25th and 26th Dunmore East.

So head over to paulopenfold.com and you'll find all the information there.

take a second to catch up Take a second to catch your breath

of Waterford, Joan?

Well, my mum is from Lismore, which is West Waterford, but we actually settled near Dunmore East, about three miles from Dunmore East.

So my dad is still there, 92 years of age.

God bless us.

And how did you manage a long way from Dunmore East up to, and I may say, because Joe mentioned there earlier on coming to Dublin, when they had their own unique accents here when we came in the beginning.

Of course, Roller's Town was not Roller's Town, it was Rowler's Town or something akin to it anyway.

So when did you come to Rowlerstown? Or sorry, when did you...