This 1960s color film (Part 2 of 4) created by Wisconsin filmmaker Norman E. Schley offers a travelogue view of Ireland, with music and SFX sans narration, which was intended to be provided during in-person screenings by the touring filmmaker himself. Irish architectural landmarks, natural features, and cultural activities of Kilkenny, Waterford, Tipperary, Barleycove, Clonmel, Cork, and Blarney are depicted (TRT: 19:01).

Part 1: https://youtu.be/VFreu5DPwLc

Part 3: https://youtu.be/gTWvJJxWP6A

Part 4: https://youtu.be/5eRHGhLxL78

Boys at a Catholic school. A headmaster welcomes them indoors (0:08). Families flock to the Gothic Revival style Church of St. John the Evangelist (0:59). Men loiter outside O’Gorman’s pub (1:19). A map indicates County Waterford with wine glasses. Harp music. A zoom from green highlands into Saint Declan’s Graveyard in Ardmore, aka Round Tower Cemetery. Schley strolls through overgrown plots. An Irish donkey grazes as an automobile passes (1:37). The Comeragh Mountains. Coumshingaum Lough, a scenic lake (2:43). A residential area. Mothers, grandmothers, and children. A family poses for a portrait (2:59). Schley meets a pair of Greyhound dogs. Master McGrath Monument, honoring a famous hare coursing dog of the 1960s (4:05). A herd of cattle are guided away from a passing car. A sign for Ormonde Castle on the east side of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary (4:40). The 15th century castle’s walled bawn, Tudor era house, and grounds. The River Suir (4:53). A horse-drawn cart. A montage of Irish license plates in closeup. A montage of signs pointing to Barleycove in County Cork, Mizen Head, Skibbereen, Nine-Mile-House, Grandemockler, Bandon, Cork, Drimoleague, Ennistymon, Kilkee, Windgap (5:12). Swans. A postman on a bicycle. A laundromat or “Washeteria” (5:56). The map indicates Clonmel, Tipperary. A sign: The Falconry of Ireland, The Falconer’s Inn.” A fellow photographer with a telephoto lens. Falcons spread their wings, accept food, peer at the camera from perches (6:45). A woman applies decals to salt and pepper shakers. A boy makes a teapot on a potter’s wheel. A glazed teapot (7:43). Street vendors sell woven blankets and shawls. A smith hammers a bowl (8:38). Marlfield Church and graveyard in Clonmel. Hilly streets (9:11). Glass blowing. Vases, sculptures, bowls, etc. (9:30). A sign for Tramore. Waterfront cliffs. A hairdresser, a chemist, a telephone booth, a home appliance shop (10:46). Teenage girls share apples. O’Connor’s Baker. The Hotel Majestic. Molloy Brothers butcher shop hangs cuts of meat in the window (11:41). A butcher cuts, saws, weighs, and packages red meat (12:35). A woman puts the meat parcel into a baby stroller that has been left waiting outside the shop (13:42). A sign points towards Cork and the Coast Road. A woman tends a large garden in front of a mansion (13:56). Women on benches take in the sun by the seashore. Children at a red gazebo with a monumental statue (14:33). A life preserver: “Kinsale Boats.” Fishermen and women wear rain gear. A view of the shoreline. The map indicates Cork (15:12). A harbor port with ships loading goods. Pedestrians. “Little Chef Hamburger Restaurant” offers chicken and fish options. A sign for “Roches Stores.” Jaywalkers. A statue of Father Mathew in St. Patrick’s Street 15:57). A sign for Blarney. Schley tours Blarney Castle. Kissing the Blarney Stone (17:23). “Intermission” (18:48).

In addition to making travelogue films, Norman Schley was an accountant, insurance salesman, and the proprietor of three camera shops in Waukesha, WI. He founded his vacation film industry “Picturelogue, Inc.” with the creation of “Schley Ride to Florida” in 1943, and continued making vacation films for three decades.