Where did Ireland get its name? - Animated

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  • Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2024

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  • @WellActually
    @WellActually  7 лет назад +12

    Hope you enjoy this! Busy doing essays (what fun...) so the next video will be on Monday! As always please like, comment and share if you can! Thanks :)

    • @thomasfallon3639
      @thomasfallon3639 7 лет назад +1

      Well... Actually Hello My name is Thomas Fallon. I previously comment on one of your videos about Turkey and and I said "why Ireland called Ireland". I have watched your video about Ireland and I can't believe you made a video about it. :-)

    • @reilly616
      @reilly616 7 лет назад +5

      Hey, fan of your videos but as an Irish guy I thought I'd just give a pronunciation pointer. "Éire" is pronounced air-uh, whereas "eire" is pronounced err-uh. The two words are entirely distinct and it actually is not a case of the accent in Éire being optional in modern Irish. Indeed, the use of the incorrect spelling "Eire" is often seen as a slight against Irish sovereignty, as it was the spelling used by British authorities when communicating with Ireland after independence. This was such an issue that the Irish High Court issued a judgment holding that official State correspondence addressed to "Eire" could legally be ignored, as no such State exists.

    • @InHouseMaterial
      @InHouseMaterial 7 лет назад +1

      Yeah irish yeah. It's pronounced. AIR-UH wih a soft UH. Eire ...AIR...uh.

  • @tomaslynch9621
    @tomaslynch9621 7 лет назад +44

    You pronounced Éire wrong it's (Air-rah)

    • @CleoFoley
      @CleoFoley 7 лет назад +2

      Tomas Lynch it bother me so much

  • @conordever6340
    @conordever6340 7 лет назад +9

    It's spelt Éire man. Not Eire. And it's Éireann not Eirin, that's the Americanised. We do put fádas on capital letters in Irish if they're vowels. See: Áire, Áine, íoc and éist.

  • @arda8195
    @arda8195 7 лет назад +4

    This channel deserves more than 10 million subscribers!

  • @Luke-rc1hk
    @Luke-rc1hk 7 лет назад +12

    The map in the thumbnail has me triggered

    • @manbunxx1489
      @manbunxx1489 7 лет назад

      left over scots loved the thumbnail

    • @user-vk8yq8oq7p
      @user-vk8yq8oq7p 6 лет назад +1

      I know, the whole of Irish should be under the Union Jack

  • @someguy1026
    @someguy1026 7 лет назад +4

    You can also think of it like this, Eire in german is ire and the english spoke a language very similar to german and dutch so it would also have been ire.

    • @WellActually
      @WellActually  7 лет назад +1

      True! but no one is going to mix up Luft and Eire :P

  • @oldcomrade8929
    @oldcomrade8929 7 лет назад +5

    Greeting to the wonderful people of Ireland from Armenia =)

    • @xotan
      @xotan 6 лет назад

      Go raibh míle maith agat - thanks!
      And my good wishes to All Armenians!

  • @TheBlueMapper
    @TheBlueMapper 7 лет назад +26

    Why is Wales called Wales?

    • @WellActually
      @WellActually  7 лет назад +4

      Something I am planning to do soon!

    • @TheBlueMapper
      @TheBlueMapper 7 лет назад +1

      Glad to hear that, thanks for replying! It will probably also be easy to make a funny intro for that video :)

    • @TheBlueMapper
      @TheBlueMapper 7 лет назад

      Welsh Mapping hi

    • @neringa3753
      @neringa3753 7 лет назад +1

      because Wales are Wales, wait....

    • @thegreatwalrus6574
      @thegreatwalrus6574 7 лет назад

      I think it's since Wales in Old English. Welsh meant something along the lines of foreigner, or stranger. I heard it was an insult that the Saxons gave to them after invading them.

  • @Hero-by6ib
    @Hero-by6ib 7 лет назад +1

    I actually really enjoy this channel

  • @Giftedbryan
    @Giftedbryan 7 лет назад +1

    Great video! may I ask though: what did you look for when you found this music?

  • @TheBlueMapper
    @TheBlueMapper 7 лет назад +15

    Video idea: *Difference between UK, Great Britain and England*

    • @ALAPINO
      @ALAPINO 7 лет назад +6

      You mean the viral video by CGPGrey.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 7 лет назад

      ALAPINO But CGP Grey's video has at least two errors.

    • @ALAPINO
      @ALAPINO 7 лет назад +1

      Didn't stop it from going viral.
      "Well... Actually" will have to decide for himself if the effort into producing a video that essentially has already been done is worth it.
      From a viewer's perspective I would say, no. I'd rather see something niche (and more importantly, interesting), as a lot of "W...A" videos are.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 7 лет назад

      Northern Ireland is, in British law, a province, not a country. And Republic of Ireland is the official _description_ of the state: the official name of the state is just Ireland. WonderWhy has bettee quality videos on these topics than CGP Grey does.

  • @imperialcrusader2647
    @imperialcrusader2647 7 лет назад +1

    Ireland has a cool name origin.

  • @chicknorton8839
    @chicknorton8839 7 лет назад +1

    You need to pronounce the 2nd e in Éire and I never have seen Éire without the fáda. Also, What's Éiren? Do you mean Éirinn, or Éireann, because they are the same thing, just grammatical ways of say Ireland. But nice video

  • @darreljones8645
    @darreljones8645 7 лет назад +1

    So, if the sisters wanted the land named after them, what places (if any) did the Gaelic tongue name after Banba and Fodla? (Sorry, I don't know how to type accented o's.)

    • @xotan
      @xotan 6 лет назад

      The whole Island. \but the use of Banba and Fodla is usually poetic.

  • @fcalvaresi
    @fcalvaresi 7 лет назад +5

    Why is Earth called Earth ?

    • @sion8
      @sion8 7 лет назад

      +François Calvaresi
      I wonder when that was standardized?

  • @Dylan_crafty
    @Dylan_crafty 3 года назад

    great video, educational and funny.

  • @johanneflanagan7950
    @johanneflanagan7950 4 года назад +1

    I wish you wouldn't call it the Gaelic language - It is the irish language or gaelige - pronouced gwail ga , the Brittish named it gaelic - and they call the Scottish langauge similar to gaelige gaelic too , but they are the only ones who call it that - in short its irish -

    • @therabbithat
      @therabbithat 3 года назад

      Right, Gaelic is a family of languages. It's like insisting on calling Spanish "Romantic" or calling English "Germanic".

  • @aagrawal8688
    @aagrawal8688 5 лет назад

    Also create a network with someone from Irelands (both northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland) government/military.

  • @danielburkeodonoghue7478
    @danielburkeodonoghue7478 7 лет назад +3

    'aira' not 'air'

  • @Robi2009
    @Robi2009 7 лет назад +2

    0:30 - poor owl :(

  • @bonyuri5211
    @bonyuri5211 7 лет назад +7

    Why Philippines called Philippines?

  • @elchad0
    @elchad0 7 лет назад +1

    Can you explain why it's just "Wales" and not "Walesland" if there''s England, Ireland, and Scotland?

  • @hunterwhitehead7870
    @hunterwhitehead7870 7 лет назад +1

    Those Goddesses were super cute.

  • @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917
    @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 7 лет назад +1

    Éire is NOT pronounced 'Air'. It's promounced 'Air-ah'. And 'Éire' refers to the whole mainland, the whole of the big island of Ireland and does not traditionally refer to the islands of Éire/Ireland. Even today, the people of Toraí island, and other islands off the coast of the mainland, speak about 'ag dul go hÉireann' ('going to Ireland'), meaning the mainland.

  • @alarabi98
    @alarabi98 7 лет назад

    Hey could you do where Kuwait got it's name? I can help out as a lot of people don't know about the History of Kuwait.

  • @Zx-hy9ys
    @Zx-hy9ys 7 лет назад +5

    *asking an irish speaking person where the live*
    hey what country do you live in
    right in 'eire

  • @lukas187x
    @lukas187x 7 лет назад

    You will have a ball of a time if you do "Where Did China Get Its Name".

  • @keithlachtnain
    @keithlachtnain 5 лет назад +1

    Éire is pronounced (Air-ah)

  • @qhus42
    @qhus42 7 лет назад +2

    Why Anatolia Called Anatolia ?

  • @hijazlander
    @hijazlander 7 лет назад

    Where did Birmingham get it's name?

  • @jaredletos1stcousin144
    @jaredletos1stcousin144 4 года назад

    Cant believe l Iive near that sign post

  • @ninaburgerfriedhof2527
    @ninaburgerfriedhof2527 7 лет назад

    Make "how did Azerbaijan got its name"!

  • @maxk2249
    @maxk2249 7 лет назад +1

    Where did Åland Islands got their name from? :)

    • @WellActually
      @WellActually  7 лет назад +1

      Last time I tried to say that I got a lot of angry comments! haha

    • @maxk2249
      @maxk2249 7 лет назад

      lol

  • @Yeah-hs2ek
    @Yeah-hs2ek 7 лет назад

    as an irishman i can say everyone pronounces it "are-lund"

  • @Gaurav_Sharma3112
    @Gaurav_Sharma3112 7 лет назад

    why is Jersey known as jersey?

  • @rateeightx
    @rateeightx 7 лет назад

    Calling It Southern Ireland Makes No Sense: It Goes Farther North Than Northern Ireland, Which Should Be Called Eastern Ireland.

  • @hamzapadilla8995
    @hamzapadilla8995 7 лет назад

    Why is Syria called Syria?

  • @patrickklicek8874
    @patrickklicek8874 7 лет назад +1

    Do why is croatia called croatia

  • @homie_mick
    @homie_mick 5 лет назад

    Huh. I always thought somebody just mispronounced "island".

  • @kknives36
    @kknives36 7 лет назад

    While I already know the origin. Do one on the etymology of Viet Nam!

  • @ardit3148
    @ardit3148 7 лет назад

    Why Albania called Albania?

  • @sylvianna9349
    @sylvianna9349 7 лет назад

    Please do 'Why Philippines called "Las Islas Filipinas"/The Philippine Islands' 🇵🇭

  • @Languslangus
    @Languslangus 7 лет назад

    Why do Slovenia and Slovakia have similar names.

  • @simonzefaj8927
    @simonzefaj8927 7 лет назад

    can you do history of albania plz

  • @marthastewartschowchow
    @marthastewartschowchow 2 года назад

    In English the language is called Irish not Gaelic. 😳

  • @mjayb83
    @mjayb83 3 года назад

    Erie' = arian
    Land of the arians.

  • @eddieseyeej9743
    @eddieseyeej9743 7 лет назад

    i from Ireland

  • @PMcA90
    @PMcA90 7 лет назад +1

    As an Irishman I thought you would get the pronunciation correct. But good video all the same

    • @therabbithat
      @therabbithat 3 года назад

      He's Northern Irish, it's a different country.

  • @xangpee8271
    @xangpee8271 7 лет назад

    Are you northern or southern irish

    • @veronicadredd22
      @veronicadredd22 7 лет назад +1

      no such place as southern Ireland

    • @TheAirborneRogue
      @TheAirborneRogue 7 лет назад

      There is to us northeners :P

    • @xangpee8271
      @xangpee8271 7 лет назад

      I didn't mean it like that I just meant is the man from the north or south

    • @TheAirborneRogue
      @TheAirborneRogue 7 лет назад

      he said he comes from the north

    • @manbunxx1489
      @manbunxx1489 7 лет назад

      the most northern part of Ireland is in the Republic

  • @papi8659
    @papi8659 6 лет назад

    dreadful mispronunciation of Eire throughout is dreadful

  • @herbert4725
    @herbert4725 7 лет назад +1

    Im early