I really do think we need to talk about decolonisation in the Irish context. We have been so disconnected from our own history, culture and traditions for a very long time.
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There's also the postulation that the Filideacht agus Draíodeacht to maintain their status in Society may have joined the Christian missionaries especially in the period between 700 and 1000 CE, so maintaining their status as Ecclesiastical nemed. Samhain agus Lughnasadh are my two favourite holy times after Oimelg.
I think it’s so ironic, or maybe there are no coincidences, how I keep seeing and hearing related phrases and themes all the time. Maybe it’s the modern age and having the internet, and we’re naturally exposed to more things, so naturally, we will make more connections. But when Emily referred to the book _Do Nothing_ by Celeste Hedley (?), at around 2:15, those are words I am continuously as of late, "do nothing". Only Inknow it in another context-from Star Wars. 😂 Yoda is sort of known for telling Luke Skywalker, who’d said he’d "try" his best at something, "Try? Do not try. Do, or do nothing." All or nothing. Save your energy for what matters. The other connection there though… not sure if you know, but one of the more recent Star Wars movies was filmed, in part, on Skellig Michael. I just think it’s interesting, the connection between things… the words "do nothing", which for some reason I hear everywhere lately, including from Star Wars references, and then the Kerry/Star Wars connection. Random, I know. 😆
Speaking of a four-day week. I don't know if you've heard of the research that was done a few years back. It found that our hunter-gatherer ancestors probably didn't have to work much more on average than 15-20 hours per week. Most of this work was of the type you do when camping with friends and the rest of the time was just resting and having fun. We have not evolved physically from the old hunter-gatherer norm, so we were never physically designed for working long hours.
Couldn't agree more! We were chatting around the fire inside caves for far longer than we have been sitting at a desk alone in our front room for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. We were never built for this way of working. We simply aren't evolved for it.
if ireland was never colonised, we prob would be speaking irish alright. also, the highlands of scotland would prob be part of ireland, with armagh being the overall capital of that irish nation. we’d also prob have a monarchy, with our irish monarch deriving from the older connachta high-king dynasty.
Oppression un-Irish? Have you considered the Irish colonisation of parts of Britain in the post-Roman period? No nationality is free of sin. The Irish colonised the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales - Lleyn derives from 'Laigin', the origin of 'Leinster', and the South Wales kingdom of Dyfed was an Irish colony of the Déisi, led by Eochaid, mac Artchorp . The greatest Irish colony, colonised from northeast Ulster, was the Kingdom of Dal Riada in what is now Argyll. Dal Riada became the Kingdom of Scots, headed by the MacAlpin dynasty. Before the arrival of the Dal Riada the entirety of the Island of Britain spoke 'P' Celtic dialects, there was no Gaelic spoken. The reason that Scots Gaelic is so like Irish is that it was imported from Ireland. The Irish of Scotland effectively wiped out the Pictish language and culture after the MacAlpin kings succeeded to the Pictish throne (Pictish succession was through the female line). So the Irish, at one remove, were responsible for the ultimate genocide of the Picts. Like I said, no nationality is free of sin. The 19th century, and later, Irish diaspora also included Britain, there are an estimated 14 million people in the island of Britain with Irish ancestry, including me.
@@jillm5243 Any reputable scholarly history covering the British Isles in the period c. 350 to 850 AD will support the historical facts, not claims, I have mentioned. The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. I is a good place to start. The Romans, from the late 3rd century, called Irish seaborne raiders 'Scotti', so even the names 'Scot' and 'Scotland' are derived from a word originally meaning 'Irish'. As for more recent Irish immigration to Britain, I think that it is common knowledge (outside of the USA) that there was large-scale immigration to Britain from Ireland following the Famine. Why do you think that a major football club in Edinburgh is called Hibernian? Hibernian means 'Irish'. Why do you think that Lennon and McCartney of the Beatles, from Liverpool in England, have Irish names? Why do you think that the former Prime minister of the UK, James Callaghan, has an Irish name? One of my Irish gt. grandparents was born in Cork, Ireland in 1846, at the height of the Famine, but in the 1851 census he and his family were living in Lincolnshire in England. Other of my Irish ancestors came to England much later. The colonisation of Ireland in the late 12th century was not originally English in character, though it resulted in Henry II of England (a Frenchman) claiming to be 'Lord of Ireland'. Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, was ousted from his throne by Ruari O'Connor. He fled to South Wales, where he invited the Norman lord, Richard de Clare 'Strongbow', Earl of Pembroke, to invade Ireland on his behalf. Strongbow married Dermot's daughter Aoife, and became his heir. Strongbow's army consisted of Norman knights and Welsh infantry and archers (not English!) and was very successful, conquering Leinster and much more of Ireland. The Welsh connection is why the surname Walsh is common in Ireland and the Normans are the origins of the many 'Fitz-' names, such as FitzGerald.
Totally agree that no country is “free from sin” so to speak. And you make a fair point that we should learn about our own historical wrongs as well as our neighbour’s. It’s not the first time I’ve seen reference to the Pictish language and it’s extermination through colonisation so thank you for bringing it up.
This is really interesting! Thanks so much for sharing, I will definitely look into this. No nationality is free of sin, totally agree with you. We touch on this in this episode actually around the middle!
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I really do think we need to talk about decolonisation in the Irish context. We have been so disconnected from our own history, culture and traditions for a very long time.
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There's also the postulation that the Filideacht agus Draíodeacht to maintain their status in Society may have joined the Christian missionaries especially in the period between 700 and 1000 CE, so maintaining their status as Ecclesiastical nemed.
Samhain agus Lughnasadh are my two favourite holy times after Oimelg.
Really interesting! Thanks for this insight
I think it’s so ironic, or maybe there are no coincidences, how I keep seeing and hearing related phrases and themes all the time. Maybe it’s the modern age and having the internet, and we’re naturally exposed to more things, so naturally, we will make more connections. But when Emily referred to the book _Do Nothing_ by Celeste Hedley (?), at around 2:15, those are words I am continuously as of late, "do nothing". Only Inknow it in another context-from Star Wars. 😂 Yoda is sort of known for telling Luke Skywalker, who’d said he’d "try" his best at something, "Try? Do not try. Do, or do nothing." All or nothing. Save your energy for what matters. The other connection there though… not sure if you know, but one of the more recent Star Wars movies was filmed, in part, on Skellig Michael. I just think it’s interesting, the connection between things… the words "do nothing", which for some reason I hear everywhere lately, including from Star Wars references, and then the Kerry/Star Wars connection. Random, I know. 😆
Very curious indeed! Serendipitous perhaps?
Speaking of a four-day week. I don't know if you've heard of the research that was done a few years back. It found that our hunter-gatherer ancestors probably didn't have to work much more on average than 15-20 hours per week. Most of this work was of the type you do when camping with friends and the rest of the time was just resting and having fun.
We have not evolved physically from the old hunter-gatherer norm, so we were never physically designed for working long hours.
Couldn't agree more! We were chatting around the fire inside caves for far longer than we have been sitting at a desk alone in our front room for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. We were never built for this way of working. We simply aren't evolved for it.
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if ireland was never colonised, we prob would be speaking irish alright.
also, the highlands of scotland would prob be part of ireland, with armagh being the overall capital of that irish nation.
we’d also prob have a monarchy, with our irish monarch deriving from the older connachta high-king dynasty.
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Thank God Patrick escaped Ireland then came back to convert it.
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Oppression un-Irish? Have you considered the Irish colonisation of parts of Britain in the post-Roman period? No nationality is free of sin. The Irish colonised the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales - Lleyn derives from 'Laigin', the origin of 'Leinster', and the South Wales kingdom of Dyfed was an Irish colony of the Déisi, led by Eochaid, mac Artchorp . The greatest Irish colony, colonised from northeast Ulster, was the Kingdom of Dal Riada in what is now Argyll. Dal Riada became the Kingdom of Scots, headed by the MacAlpin dynasty. Before the arrival of the Dal Riada the entirety of the Island of Britain spoke 'P' Celtic dialects, there was no Gaelic spoken. The reason that Scots Gaelic is so like Irish is that it was imported from Ireland. The Irish of Scotland effectively wiped out the Pictish language and culture after the MacAlpin kings succeeded to the Pictish throne (Pictish succession was through the female line). So the Irish, at one remove, were responsible for the ultimate genocide of the Picts. Like I said, no nationality is free of sin. The 19th century, and later, Irish diaspora also included Britain, there are an estimated 14 million people in the island of Britain with Irish ancestry, including me.
can i ask what ur sources for these claims are?
@@jillm5243 Any reputable scholarly history covering the British Isles in the period c. 350 to 850 AD will support the historical facts, not claims, I have mentioned. The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. I is a good place to start. The Romans, from the late 3rd century, called Irish seaborne raiders 'Scotti', so even the names 'Scot' and 'Scotland' are derived from a word originally meaning 'Irish'.
As for more recent Irish immigration to Britain, I think that it is common knowledge (outside of the USA) that there was large-scale immigration to Britain from Ireland following the Famine. Why do you think that a major football club in Edinburgh is called Hibernian? Hibernian means 'Irish'. Why do you think that Lennon and McCartney of the Beatles, from Liverpool in England, have Irish names? Why do you think that the former Prime minister of the UK, James Callaghan, has an Irish name? One of my Irish gt. grandparents was born in Cork, Ireland in 1846, at the height of the Famine, but in the 1851 census he and his family were living in Lincolnshire in England. Other of my Irish ancestors came to England much later.
The colonisation of Ireland in the late 12th century was not originally English in character, though it resulted in Henry II of England (a Frenchman) claiming to be 'Lord of Ireland'. Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, was ousted from his throne by Ruari O'Connor. He fled to South Wales, where he invited the Norman lord, Richard de Clare 'Strongbow', Earl of Pembroke, to invade Ireland on his behalf. Strongbow married Dermot's daughter Aoife, and became his heir. Strongbow's army consisted of Norman knights and Welsh infantry and archers (not English!) and was very successful, conquering Leinster and much more of Ireland. The Welsh connection is why the surname Walsh is common in Ireland and the Normans are the origins of the many 'Fitz-' names, such as FitzGerald.
Totally agree that no country is “free from sin” so to speak. And you make a fair point that we should learn about our own historical wrongs as well as our neighbour’s. It’s not the first time I’ve seen reference to the Pictish language and it’s extermination through colonisation so thank you for bringing it up.
This is really interesting! Thanks so much for sharing, I will definitely look into this. No nationality is free of sin, totally agree with you. We touch on this in this episode actually around the middle!
if ireland had never been colonised you'd probably have a lot of lonely leprechauns. 😁