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  • 7/9/2025
Older Than Ireland features thirty men and women aged 100 years and over. Often funny and at times poignant, the film ex | dG1fbUc0VVpuY0FMa1U
Transcript
00:00No I didn't ever thought I'd live to be 100. My daughter said I'm not on the
00:09register, God forgot all about me. Well I think he did.
00:13Oh if you saw all the cards I got, oh the Lord save me. Imagine 452.
00:20I feel elated to be over 100.
00:23And of course if you run into me, it's my fault, even though it's yours. You say that whole
00:36bastard shouldn't be on the road. And so when we got electricity we didn't know where we were,
00:42sailing all over the place. The washing machine is the best thing to ever come out. There's no
00:46scarcity of boyfriends. Well I had loads of them. Go out through the window. When I wanted to go to
00:52a dance. We had our moments of romance and all the rest of it. He said will you marry me? And I
01:00said of course I will, sure it was a foregone conclusion. Actually I drank about him one night
01:06and I was so delighted to see him that I flew at him and put my arms around him and that was my dream.
01:13I don't think I ever fell in love. I never lose a night's sleep over a fella. The meaning of life.
01:19How in the name of God did they get here? Everyone should die at 70.

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