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.
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.
@@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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 ☘️🌈🌦🍖🥬🍻🎻🗽
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.
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.
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
@@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
@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
"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.
@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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?
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 😭😭 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
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
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.
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
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.
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"
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.
@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
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.
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.
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
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!
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."
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 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 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!
@@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
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
"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.
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
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.
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
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
So why do most people from Irish descent that I have met tried to be mean, racist, use weird stereotypes if they also had gone through such things. I am from South Asia.
Maybe because they married and bred with racist Americans? Why judge Irish people based of 4th generation mixed race North American’s instead of hmm I dunno actual Irish people?
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.
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.
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.
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,
@@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.
That was a liberal simplistic explanation of a complex problem. There were Irish in america before the great potato famine already established as farmers and businessmen. When the great starvation wave of Irish came to the united states most were as poor as could be and would take any jobs at any pay to earn money and that drove down the wage scale for everyone and that caused much hatred of the new Irish. Even the Irish already here look down on these dirt poor immigrants calling them "Shanty Irish" as they were "Lace Curtain Irish" because they owned their own homes. The Irish were not the only immigrants looked down on for drinking as the first wave of German immigrants was starting to happen about this time and their culture also revolved around beer halls that were looked at by them as social clubs in the old world just like the Irish pub was. By the way my mother's side of the family was predominantly Irish that immigrated in the 1850's and my father's family were German immigrants as the entire family immigrated between 1849 - 1891 as my grandfather was one of the last to emigrate from Groesfehen Ostfriesland at age 26.
They were not native Irish. Irish protestants descended from British colonizers of Ireland. The Scots-Irish (Appalachians) are Scottish. Catholic Irish are native.
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
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.
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.
@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 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.
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 ❤️🍀🇨🇮💯🍀
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).
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.
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.
Shame the nativists of America couldn't come around and embrace those of African origin with the same, relative, swiftness as they did the Irish. Nothing to do with skin colour, I'm sure...
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.
Google up Irish beef exports to UK now the past Is the past now Ireland is the richest country in Europe
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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
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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.
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Yeah and beutiful people too.
Go raibh maith agat 💚
Potato famine sounds so funny
It was technically the Chocktaw that sent us help during the famine.
Is cuimhin linn.
I’m a Latino American that has much love and respect for the Irish! I find there history extremely interesting.
Woah! Me too! :) I'm Guatemalan-American what are you, if you dont mind sharing?
both share a similar history. Makes us kin
Catholic brothers ❤
Irish and Spanish were usually on the same side.
@@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
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!
"It all started with potatoes".
It all started with the British
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.
Unknown2234 Unknown They didn’t create the fungus are you mad😂
*ENGLISH. The scots have nothing to do with this genocide. They are being colonized themself.
@Unknown2234 Unknown they did not
Haha I couldn’t agree more
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.
That’s fantastic
That’s fantastic
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.
@@sunshinenday3439 my father doesn’t now anything about Irish mythology, lol he just got me the book.
@@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Oh lol well then you.
The population of Ireland has yet to reach pre-famine levels.
@DarrenVeryCool yes I am
For real, though?
@@thenewcaliph766 Yup
It's close though
@@bigjuicypotato1482 not really still another 3mil to go
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 ☘️🌈🌦🍖🥬🍻🎻🗽
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.
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.
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
@@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
@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
Yeah the hardship faced by the Irish started long before the 1840s
I've been to Ireland once and the people were very kind and welcoming
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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 !
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.
@Clint O'Connell Welcome to the family 🥰🧑🏿🎤🇮🇪 and you too Afro Gamer.
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Word where can I find swett
i'm irish and i'm not proud at all
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.
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.
I'm 100% Irish and not so proud.
I just wanna say me as an American I appreciate you guys
Stan Talent Stan BTS 🇮🇪☘️
im both haha Irish American here !
@@stargirlabi_111 how?
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If the famine never happened Ireland’s population would be between 20-30 million
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.
@@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.
Rough estimate 18.05 million........fact !!!
Very doubtful.
@@cigh7445 my god you're a dolt
Mariah Carey? She's as Irish as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee 🤣🤣🤣
William Sullivan she has Irish blood I think Carey is an Irish Catholic surname
@@richardrich1384 if ur not born in Ireland you're not Irish
chjcavzbzcsv ahjxgs I agree totally you no what I meant an American of Irish heritage.
@Judgement Day Everyone here commented on the same vid. I guess it takes a fool to spot one 🤣
@Judgement Day I was born in Ireland
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.
Didn’t know that.. I must research.. thanks👍
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?
@@kingheffo it did happen..the turks sent aid to Ireland..educate yourself
@@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.
@@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.
Irish and black people are family!! I love Irish people.. celebrate are unique heritage..
Yes we are! We relate on a lot of levels
@Fíonán Murphy thats a pile of sh*te, if we were anything we were Mediterranean looking not African.
"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.
@Lord Tyyranus Just your opinion. Irish have more in common with blacks, Hispanics and native Americans than we do with Anglos.
@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.
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.
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
@@downburst1 I wish I could, I’m out of high school now but man I’m still not happy about it
Researching Guinness doesn't count.
@@aaronsmyth7943 I didn’t even include that
@@BMoney8600 maybe that's why you got a d
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.
"Music, dance, and drink". How awfully lazy. Disappointing end to a concise video.
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.
It started way before the genocide. Ever heard of Oliver Cromwell. I suggest you do a little more research.
True. And Cromwell was nominated even recently as one of the greatest ever Brits by the Brits. Think about that one
Johnny Green not everyone likes hike though many do not like him
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
@@gerardnolan2939A lot of Scotch-Irish, but virtually no indigenous Irish.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Ireland hasn't been a Republic for a few years though now
You never say "Saint Paddy's Day"
mech5 fab if someone does I’ll put them in a cell
We say Paddy's Day all the time in Ireland.
@@IRISHATLANTIC exactly. We as irish say it but not others
I thought it was saint pattys day..:/
Lalasong well ur not Irish
I hope
100% Irish American 🇺🇸 🇮🇪☘️
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
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.
They drank because they didn’t have enough money to send home? No they were drunken cretins. The video tells you that.
Native Americans, the rest European Heritage, respect each others culture.
It is properly St. Patrick's Day rather than St. Paddy's Day.
It’s either or
@@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.
Michael Conley Paddy has roots in the Gaelic spelling of Patrick.
@@KP-ej7gc why does it matter, alot of people in irelane call it st paddies day anyway
Thank you! This helped me with my homework assignment. Best video I've found.
What was the assignment about, as an Irish person I could tell you were to get more reliable information 😊
God bless parishes in Americans
Good video. Thanks for acknowledging the British neglect of the Irish at the time of the Potato Famine.
hah true
They wanted the land. They needed population to drop for overtake.....
Thats the stupid British name for it - disguising that there was plenty of other food.
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.
@@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?
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.
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@@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
@@anthonym3351I doubt it pal,
Thank you for saying Paddy's day. Great video
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 😭😭
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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
0:19 Ten pounds per day per person seems a wee bit much
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
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.
@One he did until he passed away five years ago.
@One Thank you.
Bob who cares it’s not happening now. It sounds like you like being a victim. What year did your family come to America?
@@timlinator sorry to hear about that
@@MichaelOBrien71 Not happening to Irish but still happening to black and brown people so I will stand in solidarity with them.
But Ireland 🇮🇪 build half of New York IRISH SQUAD WHERE R U?
They probably help build 10 percent of it, Dutch and Italians did more of it
Present! We built everything even the pyramids
damo show You forgot the Great Wall of China 😂
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
@@Damian-ex8qv Finally! A fella who knows his history!🤣
Respect these Irish. Really good people.
Should have mentioned how the British exported food from Ireland while women and children were starving in the streets from the famine.
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.
@@rohanmarkjay
They came up with Race theories - responsible for Hitler and Co.
I am 75% Irish🇮🇪🇺🇸🏰 💘 Ireland.
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"
Wasn't this in the 1800s
If that is true, yikes
“I refuse to capitalize it”
That is the most pathetic thing I think I’ve ever heard lmaooo
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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.
Irish people are very kind and happy...love them..my partner is Irish too..😊
100% Irish and proud
0:36 it’s called blight
Thank you...
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.
Well done to your family, Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
@@saolálainn thank you very much! It was because of their work ethic and the luck of the Irish, lol 🍀
No luck involved just loads of brains and a shot of charm😁
You dont see irish Americans today focusing on the past and think they're owed something
@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
@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
Irish Americans didn't have Jim Crow style laws working against them until the 60s
@@edwnx0 read our conversation, I'm talking about in history as a whole
Skrooge Lantay You’re wrong do your research Irish people were first slaves in America don’t always believe the liberal curriculum 👍🏻.
It was an Irishman who designed and built the white house in 1782
Along with his slaves 😂
You can’t ever beat the Irish. How do you beat a man that refuses to lose.
I am Irish American
Cool. Me too.
No, you are American.
@@devinpeirce7152 oh should all Americans leave since you should know that most Americans are from europe
James hoban from co Kilkenny designed and built the white house it doesent get any better than that
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.
Really? The Irish were amongst the first settlers of Australia and a third of Aussie Prime Ministers have been of Irish descent.
@@adammartin7007 the irish didnt settle in australia they were sent there because it was a prison colony
@@laoch5658 Yes, like the English, Scots and Welsh.
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.
@@adammartin7007but it was all set up by the Scots English and Welsh lol
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
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!
@@mariecait Yes it is.. my Dad was from Newark
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."
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!
You can make that statement but you have to ask why?
@@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.
You calling black ppl ‘blacks’ is all I need to know
@@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!
@@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
Americans can't hate them now pretty much every American has Irish ancestry
9.7 percent of the population including me
It wasnt a famine it was a genocide
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
"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.
i dont appreciate you saying "my love of the drink"
you don't say saint paddy's day, it's either saint Patrick's day or just paddy's day.
We didn’t eat over 10 pounds of spuds a day first of all.
The famine was the British fault
Jane Heskin ok
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
That's why Ireland always helps countries worldwide when they have a Famine now
@@oog2370 what countries did we help ?
No they don't
I don't believe it. Do yo have a genuine reference for this?
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.
Its wasn't a famine. It was Grenoside, there was oplenty of food but the British shipped it out.
History always repeats itself…
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..
Sláinte* míle*
Wow! conan obrien shown as the first image on this vidoe, I love this man !
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
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
Well I am Irish with English ancestors,I havent figured out yet which part of me I should hate yet.
Irish were in America, the original 13 Colonies, long before the famine. Many signed the Declaration of Independence.
@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.
@KingNeckbeard scottish also have anglo saxon blood. And they are protestants and british. Both the scots and english looked down on the irish.
@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.
@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.
@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.
And yet today, Ireland is the most thriving country in the EU.
The EU did a lot for us but we have our problems. Housing crisis and public transportation isn't up to scratch.
So why do most people from Irish descent that I have met tried to be mean, racist, use weird stereotypes if they also had gone through such things. I am from South Asia.
Because some of them were traitors to their own people and wanted to become part of the establishment, it happens in every country
That's what I keep wondering
Because people can't remember what happened to their ancestors over a 150 years ago.
Maybe because they married and bred with racist Americans? Why judge Irish people based of 4th generation mixed race North American’s instead of hmm I dunno actual Irish people?
@@Beth-uc7jb exactly if they dont look like ed Sheeran or Karen Gillian they're not proper risih
It’s basically what’s happening today in 2024 with our friends from the Middle East
It’s funny that Irish and other Celtic peoples were not considered white for a long time.
Just shows how dumb the concept of race is
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There is a lot of pride in our heritage. Perseverance!
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.
Are, are you calling use r@pists
Tries to give an Irish history lesson but still calls st Patrick’s day “st patty’s” day. Classic American
Paddy is a common shortening of Patrick in the Irish American community
My great great great grandparents moved to Leeds because of the potato famine in around 1841
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.
Irish is the second biggest ancestry in USA , only behind the German ancestry
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.
U are American mate shut it
@@poke6013 man, I don't know why americans say they're irish instead of americans.
@@vg9kaa-gun658 no he's Irish his aunts friend works with someone who's Irish that makes him Irish
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,
@@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.
2:52 a pint of guinness
That was a liberal simplistic explanation of a complex problem. There were Irish in america before the great potato famine already established as farmers and businessmen. When the great starvation wave of Irish came to the united states most were as poor as could be and would take any jobs at any pay to earn money and that drove down the wage scale for everyone and that caused much hatred of the new Irish. Even the Irish already here look down on these dirt poor immigrants calling them "Shanty Irish" as they were "Lace Curtain Irish" because they owned their own homes. The Irish were not the only immigrants looked down on for drinking as the first wave of German immigrants was starting to happen about this time and their culture also revolved around beer halls that were looked at by them as social clubs in the old world just like the Irish pub was. By the way my mother's side of the family was predominantly Irish that immigrated in the 1850's and my father's family were German immigrants as the entire family immigrated between 1849 - 1891 as my grandfather was one of the last to emigrate from Groesfehen Ostfriesland at age 26.
They were not native Irish. Irish protestants descended from British colonizers of Ireland. The Scots-Irish (Appalachians) are Scottish. Catholic Irish are native.
@@llmeekos
Thats not true - Americans came up with that.
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
Yeah because Irish Catholics and Americans have a common bond in history they both rebelled against British rule.
In fact im American but have some Irish decent in me
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.
No need to be salty. Many of us are Irish on both sides..especially us from Boston
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.
@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.
@@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
@@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.
pov ur in mr goffs history
Me when I find out that I’m about 10% irish
*irish drinking song*
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
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10% of Americans have Irish heritage
😊😊😊 God bless u Irish Americans
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I'm one of them
@@5n.k.l.312
Cool amazing
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).
@@MrBlabax ok no problem
Why do Americans say clover and st patty’s day no one in ireland sais this
They're 2% Irish so that makes them believe that they're Irish...
@@cofepaper9484 I am like 40% Irish but that does not really matter because you can’t be proud to be Irish apparently
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
@@iangallagher4135 well your not irish there is a difference between being an irish person and having irish ancestry
The average adult ate TEN pounds of potatoes per DAY? 😂😂😂
First ethic cleansing was in the 1600's and Cromwell. They the first Irish in the U.S. good video though.
The average adult in Ireland ate 10 pounds of potatoes a day?!? That cant be right 🤣🤣🤣
I'm Irish/American so lol
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.
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.
I did a dna test and found out I’m 40% Irish and I had no idea
Was the hangovers not a clue lol
It was about religion - most Irish starving in Ireland were catholic and USA didn’t want them for their religion either
It was more than just religion lol job ads said no Irish need apply not no Catholics need apply lol the Catholic part just made it worse lol
Shame the nativists of America couldn't come around and embrace those of African origin with the same, relative, swiftness as they did the Irish. Nothing to do with skin colour, I'm sure...
You know why
Took My Job😂😂😂 South Park never leave my life
I doubt the average Irish person ever ate ten pounds of potatoes per day.
they had to eat more because conditions were worse..no heating..you had to eat more to stay warm