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  • @NM-vw1fl
    @NM-vw1fl 6 лет назад +1310

    There was also the part where there was plenty of food in Ireland during the famine but the British shipped the food out of Ireland. It was a genocide.

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 лет назад +37

      Google up Irish beef exports to UK now the past Is the past now Ireland is the richest country in Europe

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 лет назад +2

      Swett contact me Gary hynes black pool cork city Ireland 0861686422

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 лет назад +2

      Where can I find swett

    • @keithkeegan9776
      @keithkeegan9776 5 лет назад +52

      True the we're 6 British naval ships a day leaving Dublin port with other foods and grains it was a houlacast on the Irish by the British

    • @lisakelly2640
      @lisakelly2640 5 лет назад

      N M true

  • @harmonymitcham2857
    @harmonymitcham2857 4 года назад +415

    The Irish are some of the kindest and most amazing people Ive ever met, the story of Ireland reaching out and repaying the Navajos for there help during the potato famine was inspiring, keep up the great work Ireland.

    • @joehannigan8367
      @joehannigan8367 4 года назад +11

      Thanks Harmony Mitcham 🇮🇪Much love🇺🇸 ✌

    • @maxgamer3121
      @maxgamer3121 4 года назад +8

      Yeah and beutiful people too.

    • @fradrake11
      @fradrake11 3 года назад +11

      Go raibh maith agat 💚

    • @lawliet2263
      @lawliet2263 3 года назад +2

      Potato famine sounds so funny

    • @Bimagragaireacht
      @Bimagragaireacht 2 года назад +5

      It was technically the Chocktaw that sent us help during the famine.
      Is cuimhin linn.

  • @RiversXXVII
    @RiversXXVII 4 года назад +432

    I’m a Latino American that has much love and respect for the Irish! I find there history extremely interesting.

    • @he.quetzal4
      @he.quetzal4 4 года назад +14

      Woah! Me too! :) I'm Guatemalan-American what are you, if you dont mind sharing?

    • @joker1087
      @joker1087 4 года назад +22

      both share a similar history. Makes us kin

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 4 года назад +20

      Catholic brothers ❤

    • @Bthunder560
      @Bthunder560 4 года назад +28

      Irish and Spanish were usually on the same side.

    • @anwjuice
      @anwjuice 4 года назад +8

      @@joker1087 I got good chunk of Irish but I am an American Mutt overall and we are all kin. I don't get why people don't get that we are a human beings and we have an ancestor long long long ago

  • @High_rise12
    @High_rise12 4 года назад +900

    "It all started with potatoes".
    It all started with the British

    • @jackbasquille5481
      @jackbasquille5481 4 года назад +29

      Unknown2234 Unknown the fungus wouldn’t have done any damage at all if they didn’t steal the land , ship off the much needed grain to Britain and also wouldn’t allow foreign nations to help.

    • @James-hm3jk
      @James-hm3jk 4 года назад +5

      Unknown2234 Unknown They didn’t create the fungus are you mad😂

    • @nntflow7058
      @nntflow7058 4 года назад +23

      *ENGLISH. The scots have nothing to do with this genocide. They are being colonized themself.

    • @spartanx9293
      @spartanx9293 4 года назад

      @Unknown2234 Unknown they did not

    • @lililolo9304
      @lililolo9304 4 года назад

      Haha I couldn’t agree more

  • @MonarchPoolPlaster
    @MonarchPoolPlaster 4 года назад +248

    The population of Ireland has yet to reach pre-famine levels.

  • @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
    @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Год назад +42

    I was born in America to Indian immigrants. I grew up on Irish folklore from a book my father bought when I was around 2-3 years old, so I have always loved Ireland.

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 Год назад

      That’s fantastic

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 Год назад

      That’s fantastic

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 Год назад +2

      Your father probably has the best conversation taking the time to learn so much about the world and others cultures. I really need to take the time to learn about Indian culture.

    • @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
      @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Год назад +1

      @@sunshinenday3439 my father doesn’t now anything about Irish mythology, lol he just got me the book.

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 Год назад

      @@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Oh lol well then you.

  • @aranbehan6940
    @aranbehan6940 4 года назад +47

    Yeah the hardship faced by the Irish started long before the 1840s

  • @collinsjackson8927
    @collinsjackson8927 Месяц назад +3

    As a Nigerian from Benin city(we also went through British invasion) I've always felt a kindred spirit with anything Irish, i watch their football league, follow their national team and love me my Guinness! i hope to visit someday... Ireland the country of rainfall, Harp and Enya!

  • @thebee8415
    @thebee8415 4 года назад +56

    I’m Irish and lived in the US for 8 years. Some of the best years of my life. I found the Americans are great, generous, friendly people and no way deserving of all the bad rap they get. I miss all the people I knew so much, my heart goes out you all during this Covid crises. My prayers are with ye. God bless from Eire ☘️🌈🌦🍖🥬🍻🎻🗽

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 4 года назад +5

      Fact Checker Well I didn’t dominate anything but made a load of great friends. I just enjoyed my stay totally, the magnificent scenery, food, activities but the people were the best part of all, never to be forgotten it changed me for the better and forever. The diversity of cultures, personalities, totally amazing. Ye are portrayed incorrectly as raciest, bullies, unaccepting of diversity, not true in my experience. How could ye be when every 2nd person is a different race, coloring, creed, religion only God in heaven could run that smoother. Down on earth we’re always going to have some conflicts. Theres one thing wrong with America it is ye allow people to show their disapproval at the state of things there and ye do and that’s a credit to ye.

    • @beartheconfused6798
      @beartheconfused6798 2 года назад

      And from I’ve heard from the British specifically and there economy…
      *not great.*
      Still feel bad since there clearly not the same “give me everything you own for a 100 years eww what the heck are these spices go away” kind of people they used to be.
      I actually heard during the potato famine some British civilians gave Irish popes soup for there support for us but the popes declined.

    • @chrisputkamer3249
      @chrisputkamer3249 Год назад +5

      Ya I wish the irish were nicer to irish Americans I've seen to many comment sections hating on irish Americans for a multitude of reasons most being unreasonable

    • @Harrydoc02
      @Harrydoc02 Год назад +3

      @@chrisputkamer3249 it’s because it’s getting annoying. Think about it, imagine acting like a stereotype in the streets of Dublin and having all these people look at you. Plus and I feel I need to make this clear its not really about heritage, no one cares about that. It’s the culture. If you understand the culture then you’ll be respected. If you Gowan about how much you love leprechauns and want lucky charms, news flash people aren’t going to take kind to that. Plus like I’ve never seen lucky charms ever here. So yea ino it seems like we hate on Irish Americans, it’s just annoying that’s all. I’d like if our culture was more well known around the world im sure there is no doubt but, we’re not all stinking drunks and live in the 1950s. Take care

    • @chrisputkamer3249
      @chrisputkamer3249 Год назад +3

      @Harrydoc02 respecting the culture and not following stereotypes I understand. But a lot of comment sections. I have seen a lot of irish people saying that Not only do Irish Americans have no right to call themselves Irish but they also have No right to be proud of their heritage because my ancestors betrayed Ireland by leaving(👈and alot more stupid reasons like thisone) . Now I get the whole since you weren't born in Ireland you can't call yourself irish. Look I just want to say I'm proud of my Irish heritage without a bunch of Irish people getting angry at me just because I don't know everything about their history and culture. I know some just not all of it

  • @mohamedly5557
    @mohamedly5557 Год назад +5

    I've been to Ireland once and the people were very kind and welcoming

  • @_space.monkey
    @_space.monkey 3 года назад +78

    I've always loved the Irish and I'm African.....then recently I came to find out I was born on St Patrick's day !

    • @joshuabruce9599
      @joshuabruce9599 2 года назад +2

      Good on ya, my friend. I hope you can appreciate and love the land of my father as much as I do. Irish folk music, in particular is amazing. On the surface level, it does sound similar but the lyrics always point to an inner sorrow present within all Irish people. But the tone, in contrast, is always cheerful and joyful. I honestly think its the best medium to tell the painful history of Ireland while also expressing hope and dreams of a better tomorrow. There's honestly nothing quite like it, imo.
      I know you commented this over a year ago but I'm responding in the hope that you happen to see it.

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 2 года назад +1

      @Clint O'Connell Welcome to the family 🥰🧑🏿‍🎤🇮🇪 and you too Afro Gamer.

    • @saxglend9439
      @saxglend9439 Год назад

      That makes you Irish

    • @englishspacitel258
      @englishspacitel258 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sl@v€€€€€

  • @simonstewart5685
    @simonstewart5685 5 лет назад +194

    100% irish and proud

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 лет назад +1

      Word where can I find swett

    • @Snakexkiller1
      @Snakexkiller1 5 лет назад +1

      i'm irish and i'm not proud at all

    • @Squiggles..
      @Squiggles.. 5 лет назад +7

      Why is everyone so salty here? It's just a thing we say. Where not really proud of anything it's just a saying that mean nothing. Stop getting into history your dissecting a very simple sentence and turning it into something insane like.

    • @columncreek6019
      @columncreek6019 4 года назад +5

      This is getting entertaining. I don’t get all but hurt though when people are being racist to my people. I’m Irish, but it is fun to listen to people argue with each other about which nationality is better.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 4 года назад +1

      I'm 100% Irish and not so proud.

  • @manusurboi3369
    @manusurboi3369 5 лет назад +54

    If the famine never happened Ireland’s population would be between 20-30 million

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 5 лет назад +5

      No it wouldn't you tool. We'd need to have had a lot more English, German, Scandinavian, Italian and Scottish immigrants, in their millions, we'd then have needed them to be attracted enough to sleep with some of us, and then maybe by today we'd have something close to the Irish Americans population and genes. We'd also need to have stopped all the Scots from leaving Ulster and had them make up half of the Irish population but for most of them to deny their not really Irish in an ethnic sense roots and call themselves Irish too. Then we'd have the Irish American population size here, and Dublin would be so big that Galway and Cork would just be suburbs of Dublin.

    • @nomadtripz5927
      @nomadtripz5927 4 года назад +7

      @@cigh7445 As an Historian, I tend to agree with Manus on this one. Irish Catholics intermarried people in the same communities, however when married often had a lot of children. due to lack of any idea about contraceptives (catholic policy), and needing children to help work the land (although this was drastically negated during the Famine by the small plot sizes given to them by greedy and unempathetic landlords). Ireland had a population of roughly 2.8 - 2.9 million in 1745. By 1845, the population was (according to research by UCC) ,8.75m. That is a massive increase. Even with a continual flow of outwards migration, both before and after the famine, the population would have continued to grow this way right into the 20th century. This certainly warrants a strong argument that it would have reached at least 20 million by today.

    • @emmetnolan7081
      @emmetnolan7081 4 года назад

      Rough estimate 18.05 million........fact !!!

    • @Cola.Cube.
      @Cola.Cube. 4 года назад +1

      Very doubtful.

    • @irosoqpsdvjj
      @irosoqpsdvjj 3 года назад +2

      @@cigh7445 my god you're a dolt

  • @alexvictor3015
    @alexvictor3015 2 года назад +8

    LOVE FROM ROMANIA IRELAND

  • @felixnite_2462
    @felixnite_2462 4 года назад +52

    I just wanna say me as an American I appreciate you guys

  • @williamsullivan3702
    @williamsullivan3702 6 лет назад +173

    Mariah Carey? She's as Irish as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee 🤣🤣🤣

    • @richardrich1384
      @richardrich1384 6 лет назад +27

      William Sullivan she has Irish blood I think Carey is an Irish Catholic surname

    • @seanmurphy6106
      @seanmurphy6106 6 лет назад +33

      @@richardrich1384 if ur not born in Ireland you're not Irish

    • @richardrich1384
      @richardrich1384 6 лет назад +13

      chjcavzbzcsv ahjxgs I agree totally you no what I meant an American of Irish heritage.

    • @williamsullivan3702
      @williamsullivan3702 6 лет назад

      @Judgement Day Everyone here commented on the same vid. I guess it takes a fool to spot one 🤣

    • @kiannielsen
      @kiannielsen 5 лет назад +2

      @Judgement Day I was born in Ireland

  • @niggadeesiadugara3415
    @niggadeesiadugara3415 5 лет назад +12

    Thank you History Channel for this eye-opener. Hope the haters from the same community see this and learn 1% and become 0.5% better.

  • @chrisod22
    @chrisod22 2 года назад +22

    More than 60% of Medal of Honor recipients are Irish-Americans. Also, in regard to Medals of Honor awarded to foreigners, the Irish rank first. When America calls, the Irish answer.

    • @jgdooley2003
      @jgdooley2003 Год назад +3

      The Republic as we know it today would not exist without the support of the Americans in the 1920's. Britain did not have the free hand they had in Ireland in previous centuries and had to be aware of world, and especially American, public opinion. This enabled Ireland to gain some modicum of independence from Britain which is a project that is still ongoing.

    • @Maidaseu
      @Maidaseu 5 месяцев назад

      As Irish this doesn’t make me proud. Being associated with the USA military goes against humanity it’s. It’s the British on steroids.

    • @paulcolin9071
      @paulcolin9071 3 месяца назад

      Ireland hasn't been a Republic for a few years though now

  • @BMoney8600
    @BMoney8600 4 года назад +20

    I did a whole research paper on this since my mom’s side of the family is Irish. I put my heart and soul into that paper. I watched documentaries and read a novel. After all the hard work I put into it I got a D! I’m still mad about it.

    • @downburst1
      @downburst1 3 года назад +3

      Toe to toe, fight back my friend, no surrender and be Irish, life is short and you’ve not got much time to get through all of them

    • @BMoney8600
      @BMoney8600 3 года назад +2

      @@downburst1 I wish I could, I’m out of high school now but man I’m still not happy about it

    • @aaronsmyth7943
      @aaronsmyth7943 2 года назад

      Researching Guinness doesn't count.

    • @BMoney8600
      @BMoney8600 2 года назад

      @@aaronsmyth7943 I didn’t even include that

    • @aodhanmorris3410
      @aodhanmorris3410 2 года назад

      @@BMoney8600 maybe that's why you got a d

  • @emeidocathail7808
    @emeidocathail7808 4 года назад +13

    Was in New York last year and saw an Irish Tricolour on the front of an FDNY ambulance .. bizzarre and quite cool at the same time.

  • @mistalion1
    @mistalion1 5 лет назад +42

    During the femine, Ottomans sent many nutrition ship and money to Ireland but Btrits tried to prevent it and caused only 1/5 of support to be recieved.

    • @lepruchanwdc
      @lepruchanwdc 5 лет назад +1

      Didn’t know that.. I must research.. thanks👍

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo 5 лет назад +1

      That's a myth, it didn't happen. Why would Muslim Turks help Christians when they murdered, persecuted, forcibly converted, overtaxed and undermined Christians at every turn in their own lands?

    • @itsmrmurraytoyou4924
      @itsmrmurraytoyou4924 4 года назад +18

      @@kingheffo it did happen..the turks sent aid to Ireland..educate yourself

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo 4 года назад

      @@itsmrmurraytoyou4924 no proof it happened, but what we do know is that Turkish pirates raided Ireland in the 1700s and enslaved, murdered, robbed, raped and plundered as much as they could. Baltimore in Co Cork suffered this. Any Irishman worth his salt would know this, so please educate yourself. The star and crescent on the drogheda crest dates back to the 1200s, long before the famine. Please educate yourself.

    • @Skymaster.47
      @Skymaster.47 3 года назад +3

      @@kingheffo Why would Muslim Turk help Christians? That question you posed alone baffles me about your idiocy. For the same reason when Muslims rescued Jews facing Spanish Inquisition or Muslim Arabs sheltering Armenians condemned to death marches in the Syrian desert by the Young Turk government.

  • @mech5
    @mech5 6 лет назад +73

    You never say "Saint Paddy's Day"

    • @CrazyBrosCael
      @CrazyBrosCael 5 лет назад

      mech5 fab if someone does I’ll put them in a cell

    • @IRISHATLANTIC
      @IRISHATLANTIC 5 лет назад +29

      We say Paddy's Day all the time in Ireland.

    • @avabreen4684
      @avabreen4684 5 лет назад +3

      @@IRISHATLANTIC exactly. We as irish say it but not others

    • @chainmail5886
      @chainmail5886 5 лет назад +1

      I thought it was saint pattys day..:/

    • @samconnolly3601
      @samconnolly3601 5 лет назад +6

      Lalasong well ur not Irish
      I hope

  • @freddyferret2313
    @freddyferret2313 4 года назад +10

    Native Americans, the rest European Heritage, respect each others culture.

  • @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540
    @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 6 лет назад +35

    "Music, dance, and drink". How awfully lazy. Disappointing end to a concise video.

  • @simplyamazing8902
    @simplyamazing8902 4 года назад +21

    Irish and black people are family!! I love Irish people.. celebrate are unique heritage..

    • @bobbyburseth5861
      @bobbyburseth5861 3 года назад +3

      Yes we are! We relate on a lot of levels

    • @mactirethesonoflir1536
      @mactirethesonoflir1536 3 года назад +1

      @Fíonán Murphy thats a pile of sh*te, if we were anything we were Mediterranean looking not African.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 года назад +5

      "No blacks, dogs or Irish". My dad grew up in Ireland and said white racists treat black people the same way the English treated us and always empathized with blacks and Hispanics.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 года назад +2

      @Lord Tyyranus Just your opinion. Irish have more in common with blacks, Hispanics and native Americans than we do with Anglos.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 года назад +3

      @Lord Tyyranus Europe is made up of many ethnic, religious and cultural groups that have been oppressed by other European groups. Irish by today's standards are white but still ethnically Irish not Anglo. We have a different language, culture and national identity. What the English did to us can rightly be called ethnic cleansing.

  • @seanhiggins9806
    @seanhiggins9806 2 года назад +9

    100% Irish American 🇺🇸 🇮🇪☘️

  • @adamrasnic9652
    @adamrasnic9652 5 лет назад +55

    It started way before the genocide. Ever heard of Oliver Cromwell. I suggest you do a little more research.

    • @johnnygreen200
      @johnnygreen200 4 года назад +5

      True. And Cromwell was nominated even recently as one of the greatest ever Brits by the Brits. Think about that one

    • @darragney623
      @darragney623 4 года назад

      Johnny Green not everyone likes hike though many do not like him

    • @gerardnolan2939
      @gerardnolan2939 4 года назад +2

      The Irish were going to America before the famine a large percentage Washington's army was Irish and Scots Irish the British lost America to the Irish

    • @Ru_1963
      @Ru_1963 3 года назад

      @@gerardnolan2939A lot of Scotch-Irish, but virtually no indigenous Irish.

    • @MrBlabax
      @MrBlabax 2 года назад +1

      @@gerardnolan2939 Those 'Irish' are not the indigenous Irish (Gaelic speaking). They are the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon protestants (Lowland Scots and English) first sent to the Irish plantations in the 16th and 17th century. The indegenous Irish catholics only started emigrating en masse to the states after the potato blight, culminating in around 2.5 million out of the total 4 million immigrants that had left Ireland for the states between the period of 1840 to 1910.

  • @Sage-cs1bm
    @Sage-cs1bm 4 года назад +16

    I'm pretty sure the irish being drinkers is because of the guilt refugees felt for leaving their families behind and not being able to send enough money back to their families. Not to mention the horrific things they probably witnessed

    • @bud389
      @bud389 3 года назад

      It was also because, as Catholics, they weren't against alcohol. Protestants are very strict about alcohol (or at least pretend to be), while Catholics have no problem with drinking, smoking, or gambling. Protestants were the primary reason for prohibition, and they themselves were the primary reason that it failed.

    • @bigbird6039
      @bigbird6039 3 года назад +1

      They drank because they didn’t have enough money to send home? No they were drunken cretins. The video tells you that.

  • @michaelconley2896
    @michaelconley2896 4 года назад +16

    It is properly St. Patrick's Day rather than St. Paddy's Day.

    • @KP-ej7gc
      @KP-ej7gc 3 года назад +1

      It’s either or

    • @michaelconley2896
      @michaelconley2896 3 года назад +1

      @@KP-ej7gc That is incorrect. Patrick's name was "Patrick". Patrick was not "Paddy". Learned individuals will properly and correctly say, "St. Patrick's Day". With respect.

    • @KP-ej7gc
      @KP-ej7gc 3 года назад

      Michael Conley Paddy has roots in the Gaelic spelling of Patrick.

    • @eamondo1076
      @eamondo1076 3 года назад +1

      @@KP-ej7gc why does it matter, alot of people in irelane call it st paddies day anyway

  • @brittanycostello8824
    @brittanycostello8824 5 лет назад +10

    Thank you! This helped me with my homework assignment. Best video I've found.

    • @ellie2454
      @ellie2454 5 лет назад +2

      What was the assignment about, as an Irish person I could tell you were to get more reliable information 😊

    • @trevorjacobs8302
      @trevorjacobs8302 5 лет назад +1

      God bless parishes in Americans

  • @bmxbandit5911
    @bmxbandit5911 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for saying Paddy's day. Great video

  • @sibealgrogan6899
    @sibealgrogan6899 6 лет назад +8

    0:36 it’s called blight

  • @EileanoirDaly
    @EileanoirDaly 4 года назад +32

    Good video. Thanks for acknowledging the British neglect of the Irish at the time of the Potato Famine.

    • @diarmuidb50
      @diarmuidb50 Год назад

      hah true

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 Год назад

      They wanted the land. They needed population to drop for overtake.....

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 Год назад

      Thats the stupid British name for it - disguising that there was plenty of other food.

    • @jgdooley2003
      @jgdooley2003 Год назад

      The man responsible for that was Cornish man Charles Trevelyan , Home Secretary in the Peel government, had a belief in the wrath of God, laissez faire economics and self reliance in people. He viewed the Famine as Gods punishment for a sinful and barbarian race of people, the Irish.
      Similar sentiments were expressed against the poor in general including the English poor as vividly portrayed by Charles Dickens at that time.

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 Год назад

      @@jgdooley2003
      So he was a racist, put in charge of the very people he was racist towards.
      So it was Britain that was behind it - he was just doing their bidding.
      Do you think the Irish are "sinful and barbarian" then? - otherwise why do you repeat his idiocy?

  • @luishernandezblonde
    @luishernandezblonde 3 года назад +11

    Respect these Irish. Really good people.

  • @devin5381
    @devin5381 3 года назад +6

    Should have mentioned how the British exported food from Ireland while women and children were starving in the streets from the famine.

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay Год назад +1

      Yeah they committed a lot of Evil around the world but they still some how paint themselves as the good guys in the world. How they ever manage that I will never know. Irish Catholics, Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, Indians, Black people in the Caribbean West Indies, Boers in South Africa as well as blacks in africa to name a few have a different opinnion of British Colonial Rule and how they suffered greatly under it.

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 Год назад

      @@rohanmarkjay
      They came up with Race theories - responsible for Hitler and Co.

  • @richardgillette5759
    @richardgillette5759 5 лет назад +42

    0:19 Ten pounds per day per person seems a wee bit much

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 3 года назад +1

      Ten pounds per day is a load of bolloks I live in cork city now and there is no way I could eat 5 kilos of potatoes per day ...it's impossible

  • @freckles9857
    @freckles9857 5 лет назад +27

    100% Irish and proud

  • @crazychicSHENA
    @crazychicSHENA 2 года назад +4

    I am 75% Irish🇮🇪🇺🇸🏰 💘 Ireland.

  • @ethanetn
    @ethanetn 3 года назад +4

    During the census in england ( I refuse to capitalize it) during the Irish potato famine there was a note in the beginning that stated something like "it is my honor to inform the crown that the Irish population has diminished greatly"

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 3 года назад

      Wasn't this in the 1800s

    • @patriciaotoole6508
      @patriciaotoole6508 2 года назад

      If that is true, yikes

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 2 года назад +3

      “I refuse to capitalize it”
      That is the most pathetic thing I think I’ve ever heard lmaooo

    • @yusuf3005
      @yusuf3005 2 года назад

      Nüfusunuzun azalması kraliçeyi çok mutlu etmiştir. Sayı da olsa rekabet rekabettir

    • @KeelsF2F
      @KeelsF2F 7 месяцев назад

      Speaking as a mostly Irish mongrel, it's time to put the historical baggage behind and move on, don't you think? To forgive is not to forget.

  • @beanie9040
    @beanie9040 4 года назад +8

    I recommend reading 'A Slice of the Moon' by Sandi Toksvig, which is a story about a girl who immigrated to America to start a new life. I only managed to reach halfway through the book as it is an extremely emotional book, but I would recommend it if you can finish reading it in one piece 😭😭
    🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

    • @dreamit7623
      @dreamit7623 4 года назад

      yh there is also a good book called '' under the hawthworn tree'' about the famine if anyone would like to read it its about 3 siblings leaving home to live with their aunts when their parents leave and dont come back

  • @timlinator
    @timlinator 3 года назад +5

    My dad grew up in Limerick and emigrated to America when he was 17 with his family. He saw sign that read "Help wanted, Irish need not apply" He told me about the sign and said "It wasn't a black, Jew or Puerto Rican who put up that sign, you know did" Yes I did some wasp. We were once hated like blacks and Hispanics are today.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 года назад +2

      @One he did until he passed away five years ago.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 года назад +2

      @One Thank you.

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 2 года назад

      Bob who cares it’s not happening now. It sounds like you like being a victim. What year did your family come to America?

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 2 года назад

      @@timlinator sorry to hear about that

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 2 года назад

      @@MichaelOBrien71 Not happening to Irish but still happening to black and brown people so I will stand in solidarity with them.

  • @xxari_grandegamingxxx9884
    @xxari_grandegamingxxx9884 5 лет назад +24

    But Ireland 🇮🇪 build half of New York IRISH SQUAD WHERE R U?

    • @Rickky007
      @Rickky007 5 лет назад +5

      They probably help build 10 percent of it, Dutch and Italians did more of it

    • @Damian-ex8qv
      @Damian-ex8qv 4 года назад +1

      Present! We built everything even the pyramids

    • @Rickky007
      @Rickky007 4 года назад +2

      damo show You forgot the Great Wall of China 😂

    • @Damian-ex8qv
      @Damian-ex8qv 4 года назад +3

      We planted the amazon rain forest, dug the grand canyon, painted the white clifs of dover and built the titanic but that sank it was protestants who built that lol

    • @brazenlilhussy5975
      @brazenlilhussy5975 3 года назад

      @@Damian-ex8qv Finally! A fella who knows his history!🤣

  • @barbarachase5824
    @barbarachase5824 6 лет назад +2

    Thank you...

  • @janeheskin
    @janeheskin 4 года назад +43

    The famine was the British fault

  • @SofiaBerruxSubs
    @SofiaBerruxSubs 3 года назад +9

    I have Scottish and irish ancestry as an american. Got to say they both faced a hundred years or more of oppression and invasion by the english.

    • @yusuf3005
      @yusuf3005 2 года назад +1

      İskoç ve Kuzey Irlandalılar referandum yapıp neden Birleşik Krallıktan ayrılmıyorlar. Celladına aşık mahkumlar

    • @anthonym3351
      @anthonym3351 2 года назад

      @@yusuf3005 Scotland held a refendum in 2014 but lost, the majority wish to be apart of uk. Northern Ireland will probably leave UK within 10 yrs

    • @jonhughes2346
      @jonhughes2346 Год назад

      @@anthonym3351I doubt it pal,

  • @popxulture8067
    @popxulture8067 3 года назад +6

    Irish people are very kind and happy...love them..my partner is Irish too..😊

  • @caliscribe2120
    @caliscribe2120 3 года назад +2

    "It all started with the potato. " The Irish are so loved in US because we Americans love us some potatoes, whether it be French fried, skins, or baked with all the toppings.

  • @heartbr8k
    @heartbr8k 5 лет назад +7

    I am Irish American

    • @liamforan4105
      @liamforan4105 5 лет назад

      Cool. Me too.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 4 года назад +4

      No, you are American.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 4 года назад

      @@devinpeirce7152 oh should all Americans leave since you should know that most Americans are from europe

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 4 года назад

      James hoban from co Kilkenny designed and built the white house it doesent get any better than that

  • @commonsenseveiws4860
    @commonsenseveiws4860 5 лет назад +7

    i dont appreciate you saying "my love of the drink"

  • @HerveyShmervy
    @HerveyShmervy 6 лет назад +37

    You dont see irish Americans today focusing on the past and think they're owed something

    • @HerveyShmervy
      @HerveyShmervy 6 лет назад +13

      @Skrooge Lantay weren't they enslaved in a different era? If so then I'm sure they would be complaining about that but don't

    • @HerveyShmervy
      @HerveyShmervy 6 лет назад +3

      @Skrooge Lantay but do they do it as much as other races that faced prejudice? Also others that complain about the past complain about stuff that happened in other areas of the world too

    • @edwnx0
      @edwnx0 6 лет назад +25

      Irish Americans didn't have Jim Crow style laws working against them until the 60s

    • @HerveyShmervy
      @HerveyShmervy 6 лет назад +3

      @@edwnx0 read our conversation, I'm talking about in history as a whole

    • @randall10james47
      @randall10james47 6 лет назад +6

      Skrooge Lantay You’re wrong do your research Irish people were first slaves in America don’t always believe the liberal curriculum 👍🏻.

  • @Zetsuke4
    @Zetsuke4 4 года назад +1

    Wow! conan obrien shown as the first image on this vidoe, I love this man !

  • @briansisk2182
    @briansisk2182 3 года назад +3

    You can’t ever beat the Irish. How do you beat a man that refuses to lose.

  • @MeMe-pj8ve
    @MeMe-pj8ve 4 года назад +18

    This is the exact story of my Irish ancestors. They fled the famine, were discriminated against, and now my family are a bunch of high-ranking politicians in Chicago.

    • @saolálainn
      @saolálainn 3 года назад +4

      Well done to your family, Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @MeMe-pj8ve
      @MeMe-pj8ve 3 года назад +1

      @@saolálainn thank you very much! It was because of their work ethic and the luck of the Irish, lol 🍀

    • @saolálainn
      @saolálainn 3 года назад +3

      No luck involved just loads of brains and a shot of charm😁

  • @laoch5658
    @laoch5658 3 года назад +3

    It wasnt a famine it was a genocide

  • @Patrickcom2011
    @Patrickcom2011 2 года назад +2

    2:52 a pint of guinness

  • @ShawnSullivan352ACR
    @ShawnSullivan352ACR 2 года назад +3

    I’m American with my heritage being Half Italian and Sicilian on my Mom’s side and Half Irish on my Dad’s.. they came from County Cork and are very Pro Irish and Pro Catholic..my Dad’s sister married an English Protestant and they disowned her.. I never met my Aunt until my Father’s funeral when I was 18 years old.. I’m 44 now and while she and her husband have passed away years ago I have a great relationship with my cousins and their kids .. they all live in the Chicago area and we all live in Florida originally from Jersey and New York

    • @mariecait
      @mariecait Год назад +1

      Wow my moms Sicilian catholic and my dads Irish catholic. My parents met and raised us in south jersey. Went to catholic school my whole life. Still living in jersey. The Italian/Irish combo is very common here!

    • @ShawnSullivan352ACR
      @ShawnSullivan352ACR Год назад

      @@mariecait Yes it is.. my Dad was from Newark

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner1589 4 года назад +10

    It was an Irishman who designed and built the white house in 1782

    • @kahlilboi
      @kahlilboi 2 года назад

      Along with his slaves 😂

  • @happytoday333
    @happytoday333 4 года назад +5

    In Australia not that long ago some pubs and businesses had signs that read 'no dogs and no Irish.' Despicable but another example of how first waves of immigration get treated very badly wherever they go.

    • @adammartin7007
      @adammartin7007 3 года назад +3

      Really? The Irish were amongst the first settlers of Australia and a third of Aussie Prime Ministers have been of Irish descent.

    • @laoch5658
      @laoch5658 3 года назад +1

      @@adammartin7007 the irish didnt settle in australia they were sent there because it was a prison colony

    • @adammartin7007
      @adammartin7007 3 года назад

      @@laoch5658 Yes, like the English, Scots and Welsh.

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay Год назад

      Problem is where ever the Irish immigrated to the English settlers immigrated too. Which means whatever grudges Irish and English had with each other they took it to countries they settled in like Canada, US and Australia. Yes there are many Americans, Canadians, Australians of Irish descent in powerful positions in those countries but also many Americans, Canadians and Australians or English descent in those countries. So they passed it on the generations in those countries which is why you saw signs like that in Australia most probably done by Aussies of English descent possible of Aussies of English people who were prominent administrators in the British Empire. Irish Catholics as we all know along with people in many other countries not just Irish Catholics had serious problems with British rule of their countries and rebelled just like Irish Catholics. The consequences of that supporters of the English or related to them would target those rebels of English colonial rule if they wre in those countries to they migrated to. On the other hand the English colonialists and their supporters were the first to ban slavery. So they were not all bad all the time we have to balanced in these matters. But Irish Catholics as well as people from other countries of British Empire who rebelled against English rule justifiably have some serious beef with the English right up to today its historical and deep rooted.

    • @samuelb2375
      @samuelb2375 11 месяцев назад

      @@adammartin7007but it was all set up by the Scots English and Welsh lol

  • @lb2kxx
    @lb2kxx 3 года назад +1

    i’m British/Jamaican and I have a weird relationship with Ireland. My grandfather was IRA and born in Belfast and despises me because i’m from England

    • @paullooney2522
      @paullooney2522 3 года назад +1

      Well I am Irish with English ancestors,I havent figured out yet which part of me I should hate yet.

  • @Makarosc
    @Makarosc 3 года назад +4

    Americans can't hate them now pretty much every American has Irish ancestry

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 3 года назад

      9.7 percent of the population including me

  • @ssmith5701
    @ssmith5701 4 года назад +3

    You failed to mention that there was a potato famine through out Europe and the Brits were exporting other crops from Ireland causing starvation. It you want accurate info google the article "the Irish famine complicity in murder."

  • @leemurphy8710
    @leemurphy8710 6 лет назад +9

    you don't say saint paddy's day, it's either saint Patrick's day or just paddy's day.

  • @terrymalloy3541
    @terrymalloy3541 Год назад +2

    We didn’t eat over 10 pounds of spuds a day first of all.

  • @buzzaree
    @buzzaree 3 года назад +9

    Lad's, Thank You For All The Love You've Been Sending To Us Irish People. Although I Do Sometimes Cringe At All Of Ye Doing Your Impressions Of Us, It's Nice To Know That Not All Americans Are Money Hungry Twats Waiting To Rob Someone At Every Corner You Walk By

  • @ralph3428
    @ralph3428 10 месяцев назад +1

    It’s basically what’s happening today in 2024 with our friends from the Middle East

  • @philipyang9593
    @philipyang9593 5 лет назад +5

    It's all making sense.
    I would like to hear more about the Irish establishing a stronger presence of Catholicism here in the United States.
    It may shed light on more recent events in terms of child abuse scandals in the church.

  • @kellypolfleit3942
    @kellypolfleit3942 3 года назад +2

    There is a lot of pride in our heritage. Perseverance!

  • @mt22l99
    @mt22l99 6 лет назад +3

    My great great great grandparents moved to Leeds because of the potato famine in around 1841

    • @aidenfletcher6503
      @aidenfletcher6503 4 года назад +1

      It was a genocide by that I mean the Irish people were left with no other food source as the British army took the food out of Ireland by the ship loads leaving only the potato when that failed the people had nothing the English offered them soup if they converted most refused and either left Ireland or died it's not really taught in school only that the food crops failed I ask you a land of farmers had no food why cattle grain all other vegetables taken out by force look for a book called the Irish holocaust by Chris fogarty.

  • @Peikkey
    @Peikkey 3 года назад +1

    Me when I find out that I’m about 10% irish
    *irish drinking song*

  • @Erojing12467
    @Erojing12467 3 года назад +3

    In fact im American but have some Irish decent in me

  • @shaebryant1916
    @shaebryant1916 4 года назад +1

    Tries to give an Irish history lesson but still calls st Patrick’s day “st patty’s” day. Classic American

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 3 года назад

      Paddy is a common shortening of Patrick in the Irish American community

  • @user-jb3ip6bi3p
    @user-jb3ip6bi3p 3 года назад +5

    We are Irish we are fighters and you will never break our spirits we will fight till the end 💪☘️ Slàinte Go raibh mile maith agat..

  • @dutchvanderlinde8031
    @dutchvanderlinde8031 2 года назад +1

    Its really weird because im irish born in ireland live here but i have always viewed America as a really close friend of ireland like Americans and irish mostly get along i think

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay Год назад +1

      Yeah because Irish Catholics and Americans have a common bond in history they both rebelled against British rule.

  • @johnrodgers2018
    @johnrodgers2018 3 года назад +4

    Being English and Irish I found there are Americans who seriously don't like the Irish, I tired of the alcoholic jokes to the point I usually told people I was English. Where as everywhere else I would tell people I was from Ireland

  • @thecreativeprocess-pureima3389
    @thecreativeprocess-pureima3389 7 месяцев назад +1

    And yet today, Ireland is the most thriving country in the EU.

    • @MurphysisbetterthanGuinness
      @MurphysisbetterthanGuinness 2 месяца назад

      The EU did a lot for us but we have our problems. Housing crisis and public transportation isn't up to scratch.

  • @fiachoconnor
    @fiachoconnor 4 года назад +3

    First ethic cleansing was in the 1600's and Cromwell. They the first Irish in the U.S. good video though.

  • @joeduff8761
    @joeduff8761 3 года назад +2

    The average adult in Ireland ate 10 pounds of potatoes a day?!? That cant be right 🤣🤣🤣

  • @tarastafford9123
    @tarastafford9123 4 года назад +3

    pov ur in mr goffs history

  • @jasminecommercemusic
    @jasminecommercemusic Год назад +1

    The average adult ate TEN pounds of potatoes per DAY? 😂😂😂

  • @colmsexton0386
    @colmsexton0386 5 лет назад +8

    Cork is the best places in the world

  • @user-sr3sf
    @user-sr3sf 2 года назад +2

    Irish is the second biggest ancestry in USA , only behind the German ancestry

  • @snidelywhiplash6889
    @snidelywhiplash6889 4 года назад +12

    There are help wanted ads in the late 1800's and early 1900's New York Times and Boston paper and others that advertise for help stating Irish need not apply, coloreds welcome, Catholics need not apply, swedish need not apply. Discrimination of Irish was rampant!

    • @bigbird6039
      @bigbird6039 3 года назад +1

      You can make that statement but you have to ask why?

    • @snidelywhiplash6889
      @snidelywhiplash6889 3 года назад +3

      @@bigbird6039 cuz people were discriminating against them. Blacks aren't the only ones being discriminated against and whites discriminate against other whites not on skin color but religious or class. This false claim that all whites have it made and have always had it made is pure BS.

    • @aichamangue8677
      @aichamangue8677 3 года назад

      You calling black ppl ‘blacks’ is all I need to know

    • @snidelywhiplash6889
      @snidelywhiplash6889 3 года назад

      @@aichamangue8677 Not if you want to be fully educated and widen your breadth and knowledge of the whole truth it's not all you need to know and to base your satisfaction thinking you know everything based on a particular description is short sighted!

    • @aichamangue8677
      @aichamangue8677 3 года назад +1

      @@snidelywhiplash6889 yea I definitely know all I need to know about you💀 you’re probably one of those ppl who think white people are being discriminated against rn lmaooo

  • @Zetsuke4
    @Zetsuke4 4 года назад

    Very interesting .

  • @mikewazooski5010
    @mikewazooski5010 5 лет назад +5

    I'm Irish/American so lol

  • @darylshanley2674
    @darylshanley2674 5 лет назад +1

    East coast massive

  • @risteardwest3384
    @risteardwest3384 3 года назад +3

    It's nothing like an Irish pub especially when they have a live band playing the music just puts chills through your body you sit there with a nice drink or Irish beer or maybe a hot Irish coffee with some good whiskey in it put the old jukebox on nothing but Irish music 100%. We never had anything to do if other people came into the bar and sat there we woke them everyone and everyone loved us for being kind and nice to them most of the boys always had policemen or firemen come in after work for a face drink and just take it easy for a while we used to love to see them just wonderful people and music it lives on forever
    ❤️🍀🇨🇮💯🍀

  • @usmarine51519563
    @usmarine51519563 Год назад

    Work hard. You wlll succeed .

  • @hannahnekelly9236
    @hannahnekelly9236 3 года назад +5

    Its wasn't a famine. It was Grenoside, there was oplenty of food but the British shipped it out.

  • @member100xy
    @member100xy 3 года назад

    just wondering was Steve Bannon a refugee and a sharecropper too?

  • @godzilla964
    @godzilla964 10 месяцев назад +4

    It’s funny that Irish and other Celtic peoples were not considered white for a long time.

    • @Sean-jc6cu
      @Sean-jc6cu 10 месяцев назад +5

      Just shows how dumb the concept of race is

    • @emilieflagg1715
      @emilieflagg1715 5 месяцев назад

      😮

  • @tooprandineshkumar3338
    @tooprandineshkumar3338 3 года назад +2

    10% of Americans have Irish heritage
    😊😊😊 God bless u Irish Americans
    😊

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 3 года назад

      I'm one of them

    • @tooprandineshkumar3338
      @tooprandineshkumar3338 3 года назад

      @@5n.k.l.312
      Cool amazing

    • @MrBlabax
      @MrBlabax 2 года назад +2

      Considering that the number of Irish *catholic* emigres to the US between 1840-1910 is only around 2.5 millions people, it is highly unlikely that they make up 10 percents of the US population today, unless of course if you include the Irish protestants (most of whom are predominantly of English and Lowland Scots stocks).

    • @tooprandineshkumar3338
      @tooprandineshkumar3338 2 года назад

      @@MrBlabax ok no problem

  • @osamabinlegend547
    @osamabinlegend547 4 года назад +7

    During the famine some African country tried to donate money to us despite having their own famine with their crops however the queen of England wouldn't allow them to as it would make them look bad for donating less
    The country still tried to ship a boat full of food over and the brits stopped it on the way over

    • @oog2370
      @oog2370 4 года назад +4

      That's why Ireland always helps countries worldwide when they have a Famine now

    • @osamabinlegend547
      @osamabinlegend547 4 года назад

      @@oog2370 what countries did we help ?

    • @osamabinlegend547
      @osamabinlegend547 4 года назад

      No they don't

    • @Ru_1963
      @Ru_1963 3 года назад

      I don't believe it. Do yo have a genuine reference for this?

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay Год назад +1

      All people fighting against the British Empire had common cause. For example I heard of many Irish people went over to India in the 19th century to be part of the Indian Independence movement against British rule.

  • @wk3820
    @wk3820 5 лет назад +1

    I think one of the more interesting aspects is that the discrimination was largely isolated to one particular wave of Irish immigration, those who flooded over during the potato famine. The millions of earlier Irish immigrants, many of whom predate the American Revolution, suffered no such discrimination. Parts of Appalachia were originally settled by the Irish and by Scots, and they were not discriminated against, other than willingly entering into indentured servitude to pay their fare (a practice later made illegal by the 13th Amendment). By the time of the potato famine, they had been absorbed into the larger culture so much that they weren't even considered "Irish" any longer, and so they mostly evaded being caught up in the reaction against the massive wave that flooded into America during the potato famine.

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo 5 лет назад +4

      Most of the 1700s emigration from Ireland to USA was Protestant Ulster Scots Irish, although some Catholics did make their way over. In the early 1800s, it was beginning to even out. The profile changed dramatically from 1845 onwards when it became vastly Catholic and in much larger numbers. 'Appalachian Irish' would be Ulster Scots Protestants, not Native Catholic Irish.

  • @frisco21
    @frisco21 4 года назад +5

    I doubt the average Irish person ever ate ten pounds of potatoes per day.

    • @laoch5658
      @laoch5658 3 года назад +1

      they had to eat more because conditions were worse..no heating..you had to eat more to stay warm

  • @bicuriousdirtbikeboi2594
    @bicuriousdirtbikeboi2594 2 года назад +1

    I should know about the stereotypes. I steal one job form a protestant every month

  • @mye-mail9375
    @mye-mail9375 4 года назад +6

    Us IRISH Love Potatoes. RIP My Irish family's in Ireland & those of my family who died in Ireland much earlier on whom I've never met. My family on both sides came to NY then other close city's. I once was asked by an old man "Are you Irish?" Instead of saying Why? I said Yes. So,he started on me about about "The Irish" blah blah. It did not take me long to curse him,I enjoyed arguing with him,while all the time owning the fight with my words. Oh how some time as soon as the 1990's you could be approached and asked the same ques.
    We Irish came far in America. & I think there is more of us in America than in our Mother country.

    • @poke6013
      @poke6013 3 года назад +4

      U are American mate shut it

    • @vg9kaa-gun658
      @vg9kaa-gun658 3 года назад +4

      @@poke6013 man, I don't know why americans say they're irish instead of americans.

    • @Pessidog10
      @Pessidog10 3 года назад +2

      @@vg9kaa-gun658 no he's Irish his aunts friend works with someone who's Irish that makes him Irish

    • @eirekelleher8366
      @eirekelleher8366 3 года назад +3

      You are American , even by reading your comment I know you are nothing like us hahahah , have to be born and raised in Ireland to understand the culture in my opinion,

    • @Sngy9621
      @Sngy9621 2 года назад

      @@eirekelleher8366
      When people in America ask “what are you?” they are asking what is your ethnicity, not your nationality. We are a nation of immigrants. Everyone who isn’t Native American has come from somewhere. When Americans say they are Irish they aren’t claiming they were born in Ireland, they are claiming ethnicity, which is sometimes tenuous (my great great uncle was Irish), but oftentimes well-founded (all of my grandparents were born in Ireland). It’s really disappointing how weird Irish people are about Americans trying to claim Irishness, and let’s be honest, it’s because you think you’re better than us. JFK has memorials in Ireland, but the average American who tries to claim they are of Irish descent? A plastic paddy. Maybe if Irish people were more receptive and didn’t sneer at every American of Irish descent then we would be more educated about your culture. Irish people are so caught up in gatekeeping Irishness that you’ve missed the opportunity to mobilize a huge segment of the population of the world’s most powerful country to Ireland’s advantage on the world stage.
      Let’s be frank, Irish-Americans have been more successful and influential on the global stage than Ireland itself, and it’s because you’re obsessed with gatekeeping.

  • @gavinn.4060
    @gavinn.4060 4 года назад +1

    I hate it so much when people refer to themselves as “Irish American”, that isn’t a thing, ur just american. more than half my ancestors were Irish and came to Canada during the famine but I don’t go around claiming to be “Irish Canadian” or Irish. Just cuz your great grandfather on your mothers side was 1/4 irish doesn’t make you basically Irish.

    • @Sean-jc6cu
      @Sean-jc6cu 4 года назад

      No need to be salty. Many of us are Irish on both sides..especially us from Boston

    • @jldch26
      @jldch26 4 года назад +2

      It's the same way people claim to be Italian Americans even if they're just Americans. The discrimination they faced made them be just Irish, Italian, etc. While the U.S. just considers them as White now, they still stick to their roots and should. Because while the discrimination may not be so blatant anymore, it still exists, as it does for any ethnic group that isn't Anglo-Saxon.

    • @jldch26
      @jldch26 3 года назад +2

      @Yarp Yarp it really doesn't matter what Europeans think, you're over there, not here. Your opinions are irrelevant in the everyday life of Americans, the same way our opinions are irrelevant to your lives.

    • @user-yr7mf3fr3e
      @user-yr7mf3fr3e 3 года назад

      @@jldch26 a fair amount of 'Irish -americans' are defended from Ulster Scots who were Anglo-Saxons so your logic doesn't really make that much sense

    • @Ru_1963
      @Ru_1963 3 года назад

      @@user-yr7mf3fr3e His logic makes perfect sense. The Ulster Scots/Scotch-Irish do descend from Anglo-Saxons and weren’t discriminated against because of their ethnicity and religion. A number of presidents have Scotch-Irish ancestry, for example.

  • @idisxgic7651
    @idisxgic7651 4 года назад +5

    Why do Americans say clover and st patty’s day no one in ireland sais this

    • @cofepaper9484
      @cofepaper9484 4 года назад

      They're 2% Irish so that makes them believe that they're Irish...

    • @iangallagher4135
      @iangallagher4135 4 года назад +1

      @@cofepaper9484 I am like 40% Irish but that does not really matter because you can’t be proud to be Irish apparently

    • @samiralhajeed350
      @samiralhajeed350 4 года назад

      cause it's not about people that live in ireland, it's not to celebrate them, it's to celebrate the irish that came to america

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 3 года назад

      @@iangallagher4135 well your not irish there is a difference between being an irish person and having irish ancestry

  • @MukhtarmohamedDucale
    @MukhtarmohamedDucale Год назад +1

    Everybody love the Irish in the world

  • @yelena7997
    @yelena7997 5 лет назад +6

    Irish were in America, the original 13 Colonies, long before the famine. Many signed the Declaration of Independence.

    • @thenextshenanigantownandth4393
      @thenextshenanigantownandth4393 5 лет назад

      @KingNeckbeard The scots Irish are infact irish. Infact it's inaccurate to refer to them as scottish because alot of them didn't have scottish blood nor did the idea of the scots irish exist yet. Infact 40% of them where not even from ulster. And quite a few where catholic. The idea of the scots irish as this pure ethnic people from the plantations of ulster is a very dangerous myth. The idea of the scots irish as loyalists for the british crown is also unfounded and seems unlikely.

    • @c.i.a8359
      @c.i.a8359 5 лет назад +2

      @KingNeckbeard scottish also have anglo saxon blood. And they are protestants and british. Both the scots and english looked down on the irish.

    • @c.i.a8359
      @c.i.a8359 5 лет назад +1

      @KingNeckbeard nah g only the north of scotland is mainly celtic the rest is mixed. In fact every part of britain and ireland is mixed. The scottish are mixed with the irish who are mixed with the welsh and english. They are all now the same people basically. The english have celtic blood now and the irish have english or scottish. Both isles are close and are obviously gonna inter marry with eachother.

    • @c.i.a8359
      @c.i.a8359 5 лет назад +1

      @KingNeckbeard nowdays the only times catholics and prodys fight are at football games. Like celtic vs rangers. And honestly is just stupid because they are the same folk. They should focus on real issues like those immigrants.

    • @ryang6397
      @ryang6397 5 лет назад

      @Swett wrong, 24 american presidents are of scottish descent including trump. thats more than half of them. your scottish royal rulers started the colonization of the americas, decreed by king james vi after he conquered the english crown and invented the united kingdom of great britain in 1603. he sent his english slaves to establish jamestown in his first conquest of the americas.