Ah Name Explain you seem to have mispronounced Londonderry. You see it is unique in the English language as its the only word with six silent letters at the start
@@versal5108 so... Yes, now it is after the Act of Union 1800. Before then it was a colony under Britain. It was named Londonderry by the British King James I after protestant colonists who were forcing their way into Irish lands. The walls were funded by a series of livery companies in the city of London and so the name Londonderry became a thing in 1619. The name is indeed a symbol of colonialism. It is the celebration of a group of corporations who funded the colonising of another country. That being said, even amongst protestants in the city nowadays people only use Derry in normal conversation as it's shorter. Lastly I'm only poking some fun at the incident. It's not an issue for me, Ireland recognises it as Derry on all signage and when the city corporation decides to return it's name to the original I'll happily support it. Til then, not a big issue for me
@@versal5108 Read my comment again. Londonderry was named as such because of colonialisation by the British Empire. I'm talking about historic context, not the legality of a nationstate and its constituent territories.
An interesting fact about my county's name (Carlow). The name in Irish derives from old Irish 'cethrae-lach', meaning land of cattle. But somewhere along the line the name got confused and changed to 'ceatharlach', which means 'four lakes'. So now our county's name in Irish is four lakes despite there not being a single lake in Carlow :/
The 9 county Ulster was an English invention for administrative purposes. Ulster historically has had different borders at various periods of history. At one point Ulster comprised of the area around Antrim and Down.
Fermanagh means men of Manapii I believe ,the Manapii also gave it's name to Monaghan, Taughmonagh in Belfast and the Isle of Man. The Manapii were a Celtic tribe from Europe , their name derives from 'dwellers by the waters'. These people were renowned for their seamanship by the Romans. They settled in Britain as well as Ireland. The Uliad who gave their name to Ulster were believed to be La Tene Celts who could be related to the Uliti a sub group of the Brigantes tribe who settled in Britain and Ireland.
Maybe there used to be lakes. I come from Texas and we had the opposite. Texas had one natural lake and the rest have been made in the last 150 years or less. 🤷♀️
Just say Derry for gods sake the only people who call it l-derry are people who don't live here. Both sides of the divide in this city say Derry because its shorter. Can nobody get that into their heads.
The pronounciation of almost all the Irish words was absolutely atrocious, but then again, it's a difficult language to pronounce for many English speakers. Please let me know if you'd like some help in future with Irish language pronounciation and translations!
Northern Ireland is not British the majority don't even want to be in the uk I can relate if we weren't in there in the first place we would've been in the eu atm
"Meath" is named as such because it was part of the former fifth central province of Ireland. Meath and Westmeath used to be a single county until they were split up. "Tyrone" has that name not simply because it was named after someone called "Eoghan", but after the area's former ruling dynasty. "Lugh" is pronounced more like "lug". It would've been more interesting to point out that Louth is far from the only place in Europe named after that particular god. Covering the names in Irish is important, though. You can't give a proper account otherwise.
In the god name "Lugh", the "gh" is like "ch" in "loch" _but voiced_, like Arabic غ and the old pronunciation of Turkish ğ. But I have had to make the ğ sound much nearer home that that, in Dutch when I had 2 holidays motorcycling in Holland.
A better way would be to tell the truth and say that Ireland has never been a nation and before the English went there in the 11th century was a collection of 120 kingdoms knows as Tuaith. If the English had not invaded there would be 4 or possibly 5 countries on the island today just as Britain has 3.
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@@davidgreen6490 If you hadn't men women and children for speaking Irish you might need Google translate to read that you're a complete arsehole David.
@@strangerinwhite i dont think those symbols have ever been used in irish so im not sure what they are. But the th in Meath is the same as in "thanks" or "thing"
@@mikeoxsmal8022 i wrote k-air-ee and not ker-ee in order to differenciate it from curry. air is a more accurate sound then ker, as it can also sound like cur.
I was like "oh this could be interesting" but i had to stop the second i heard your accent. couldn't be dealing with a brit mispronouncing the names and given the comments about you saying derry incorrectly among others im glad i did
I dont blame you for not saying the Irish names but you should have had them on screen since it makes the origin clearer, you can see the breakdown of the words.
Leinster has alot more counties in it because it was originally two provinces, Leinster and Meath, hence why both County Meath and County Westmeath exist.
I thought that Meath splitting was to do with the Civil War? The American Civil War that is. Seemingly West Meath was abolitionist & Meath wished to keep its slaves......or I'm I getting confused with Virginia?...🤔
@@padraig6200 You can love it for it being a good song but in the modern day there is absolutely no other reason to start blurting it out unless you are intentionally trying to provoke unrest
"Cork" doesn't simply mean "swamp", mind, and "marsh" might be a better translation. It's a reference to the artificial island in the middle of the River Lee on which the city centre resides. Many of the streets follow former channels of the river that were filled in and paved. According to legend, great oaks were felled and driven down into the river and some of the more marshy islands to support everything, though I have my doubts about that. The city still has issues with drainage to this day, though a great effort was made to deal with it about two decades back.
There used to be a fifth province around Meath/Westmeath (correct me if inaccurate) where the high king of Ireland resided. The mh in Mumhan would be a w sound. Moowun. In Irish mh and bh becomes either w or v. Láirge has a long accent, and 3 syllables. Sounds like lorry. Lorr-uh-gah.
It wasn't a fifth province, but a fifth kingdom. The provinces were largely named after the 5 kingdoms of Ireland (cóiceda or cúige) but omitting Mide/Meath.
Ironically you got that one totally the wrong way round. There has never been a county Derry. County Londonderry was created from Counties Coleraine and Tyrone. It was named County Londonderry. There was no County Derry before then. The city was settled by the London merchants. Yes there was a settlement there called Derry (or whatever in Irish) but it was probably about 2 huts. The London merchants named the new settlement Londonderry. Irish hate the English association with London. To the Irish, the London part of the name is poison in either the city or the county name. Most Irish don't care about your distinction, which is totally wrong anyway.
Regarding both Dublin and Blackpool, the narrator FAILED to mention that Dublin has 2 different names in Irish, the more Traditional being Baile Atha Cliath. This refered to a place where the river might be forced (crossed). In other words, this was a shallow point in the river. Dubh Linn comes from Viking times and referenced a dark (or deep) place on the same river where they could moor their ships. Now Ireland hasn't ever had the kind of catastrophic earthquake that turned a shallow point in a river into a deep pool, so clearly, these 2 names refer to two different points on the river. The original hamlet of Blackpool, Lancashire (the home of Lanky people!), grew up near a place where boggy (dark) water discharged into the sea. While some have suggested a connection between both places, there is no record of the name "Dublin" before Viking times. It's simply an Etymological coincidence that both happen to have the same (translated) name - which should give one cause to question Translations
@@michaelodonnell824 Mate, did you miss the bit at the start where he said he'll only be looking at the English names for the counties? The county in English is named after the city, which most definitely isn't named "ford", or "river crossing", or owt like that. Also, yes, of course they have different etymolotical routes, evident by the fact that they originate from *completely different languages*. Maybe you hadn't noticed, but all I was doing was making a joke at Dublin's expense by comparing it to Blackpool. But who knows, maybe you have some German ancestry in you and just don't get light humour.
@@tiagoprado7001 Dublin and baile atha cliath both originate from old irish or gaelic , though dublin does have norse influence,because it would be lindub otherwise'
@@galoglaich3281 when I said "they originate from completely different languages", I was talking about Dublin and Blackpool, not the two names for the county of Dublin. And it really doesn't matter that Dublin and Blackpool don't have the same root, it just matters that they've become close enough in meaning over the years for the joke to work.
Name Explain: And Finally we have county Cork Me: Oh he saved the best til last Name Explain: It simply means swamp. The End Me: :( Just fyi County Cork is named after the City of Cork. Which is built over rivers and marsh land. Hence the name Cork
Usually Irish people make fun of foreigners, especially British and American, for mispronouncing Irish words but I think its even more hilarious to make fun of them mispronouncing the anglicised versions of them.
If you look at our constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, you'll see the country is just called Ireland in the English language. I don't know why so many people, including us Irish, are so insistent on lumping 'The Republic of' on at the start of it. I'm no fan of partition but I'm seeing all these comments saying its just called Derry. The county was created by the planters in 1613 and it's original name was Londonderry. Derry City itself obviously predates this event, and they stuck London onto the start of that, but the country itself was conceived as Londonderry. Not that I've ever thought of it as that myself of course.
The republic point is because most people in the UK distinguish between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. We dislike using the term Ireland becuase it refers to the island and implies a claim over the whole island. For years the UK blocked the republic from using the name Ireland. Even now there are restrictions on using the name Ireland for international sport. It can only be used for teams which represent the whole island. You can call youself whatever you want. There are many coutries round the world whose names are not recognised by many other countries. I suspect the Ireland name was used to make a political point anyway, and was designed to annoy the UK. Even RTE use the phrase republic a lot. And when they are referring to north and south of the border, they always use the republic to refer to the south. Regarding the county, thank you for actually knowing how it came about. It was actually taken from Counties Coleraine (all) and Tyrone (part).
Tyrone may be named after Eoghan Mac an Bhaird. The Mac an Bhaird clan was a major clan from late medieval period that originated in Ulster, where Tyrone is, and eventually moved to Connacht. It's not for sure but it's a pretty good possibility. Mac an Bhaird is where the modern surname Ward comes from in Ireland. There is also a Saxon (English) surname Ward though too with a totally different root.
Have you ever talked about terms for regions as connected to rulers such as the connection of count/county, duke/duchy, king/kingdom….empire…principality, etc ?
Professor L. Austine Waddell writes: "And Ireland of the Irish-Scots has also its "Holy Isles", with very ancient remains, including a magnificent "prehistoric" fort of cyclopean masonry in the Hitt-ite style, in Galway Bay, and also significantly named "Aran" or "Arran", which like the name "Erin" and "Ir-land", in series with the "Airy-ana" or "Ir-an" or "Land of the Aryans" of the ancient Sun-worsipping Aryans in the Orient."
In ancient Ireland the Vikings (specifically the Danes) were referred to as the "dark invaders" or "black foreigners." So the name of Country Kerry implies there was once a Vikings settlement there, and indeed there was.
Another Corkonian here. Cork is the anglicized form of the Irish word Corcach, meaning a marsh. The centre of Cork City is built on marshy land between two branches of the river Lee, and is very prone to flooding.
I am guessing that people from Kerry had dark hair, which is what the Irish originally (at least mostly had) before the Vikings and Anglos showed up. Most the "original" Irish ended up moving more Southward.
I dimly recall that when Richard Nixon was in the White House, there was some muttering about him being "Black Irish," descended from Spanish sailors who washed up in Ireland, and never went home for some reason. Maybe they had what used to be called "olive complexions." No citation, just a dim memory.
A suggestion, Michigan has an odd and unique mix of names for municipalities across the state... From Native American, to French, German, and Greek origin. Some places have even retained old rail road designations which have been phonetisized... Detroit and it's metropolitan area have system of "mile roads" that run on this convention.
Interestingly, Dublin translates into Irish as 'Baile Átha Cliath' which roughly translates into 'the town of the hurdled ford'. It was corrupted into Dubh Linn during Viking times. Some of the pronunciation was off, but Irish can be complicated at times :P Tír Eoghan (Tyrone) is pronounced more like 'Tier Owen' Laois is pronounced exactly like the word 'Leash' Offally is pronouned like 'off-ely' Meath puts a lot of emphasis on the 'th' Donegal is pronounced like 'Dunny-Gall' Hope this helps!
Sorry Martin but as the transitions of Baile Atha Cliath and Dubh Linn indicate completely different points on the River, it's far more likely that the older Gaelic Baile Atha Cliath wasn't in the same place on the river as the later Viking settlement. Interestingly, very old Latin maps show a trading settlement at the mouth of the Liffey, which they refer to as "Eblana". This was probably somewhere close to modern Ringsend. So, that would mean that at various times in the first millennia, there were Three Different settlements along the Liffey (though whether Baile Atha Cliath was ever a settlement or just a fording point is a matter of debate).
@@michaelodonnell824 An interesting point for sure, wasn't aware of that! I was just making a point that in the Irish language, we refer to Dublin as 'Baile Átha Cliath' and not 'Dubh Linn'. when referring to the county. We are taught 'Baile Átha Cliath ' in school as the translation of the county into Irish, just how in the video NE points out that Wicklow and Wexford have different names in Irish. Also, it's Máirín, not Martin, but everyone gets this one wrong :P
The reason why MAYO or Maigh Eo was named that is that it was the largest Plain of Yew Trees in the known world back then (and grew Yew trees since before the last ice age)... and why is that significant or important... Well, besides making all kinds of things from yew trees... the single most significant and important thing made from them, are Bows... as in Bow and arrows. Pretty damn important for any society going back to when they were invented. Hence it's been an important place and strategic land to have, for protection and trade. It's also in the zone that had the least amount of Viking or Norman interaction overall in history. So it's theoretically some of the most pre/proto/Irish celtic of all. Just a bit of additional information. So while most people remember places where Gold or Silver where found and mined... the MUCH more significant and important things would have been Copper, Tin, Iron, specific types of wood (like Yew), Salt, Guano, and other such resources that allowed societies to thrive and flourish, and technological advancement to be made.
So, Sligo is named after clams... I think I will just conveniently forget I ever heard that and continue to pretend it has some heroic significance. ;)
I thought Carlow (Ceatharlach) meant "four lakes" ("ceathair" is the Irish for 4, and "loch" is lake). Kerry (Ciarraí in Irish) would be of the same roots as Irish names like Ciara/Keira and Ciaran/Kieran (the male version of Ciara) There is a suburb of Cork city called Blackpool, which means the same thing as Dublin (as far as I know, it has nothing to do with Blackpool in England). Our Blackpool has the stress on the second syllable (black-POOL) whereas the English one has stress on the first syllable (BLACK-pool)
It's a common myth, but "Ceatharlach" doesn't mean "four lakes". It's a folk etymology. According to logainm.ie, the most likely etymology would be "place of herds". The word for "herd" is related to the word for "four", as it referred to four-legged animals.
@@ericseventeen17 Garreth is when he looks for Derry. There has never been a county Derry. It was created by the London merchants who settled the city of Londonderry. It was created from Counties Coleraine and Tyrone.
@@rusticpartyeditz there was a City though which pre dates the county and got its name from the anglicisation of its Irish name ‘Daire’ the London wasn’t added until the 1600s
@@ericseventeen17 There was a settlement. Not sure how big it was. And yes it was changed around 1610. I'm not talking about the city. I'm referring to the county.
@@eamondevalera3126 Funny enough yesterday I asked a friend from Ireland and he said Kerry without hesitation. I told him I would check his answer against responses I got here. Ha ha... Thanks.
Laos and Offaly history have been brushed over a bit, the county's names were originally King and queens county named after Bloody marry who colonized the area in 1550 arguably the oldest British colony in the world. The capitals where Maryborough and Philipstown, they were changed in 1921 after the war of independence.
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 I just find it ironic that with the dislike a lot of Irish people have to England and the fact that they wanted to stop using county names with strong English connections, that it was never officially changed and still has to be used for legal transactions. It is a funny little hangover from when the republic was part of the UK.
I have learned so much and I have lived here my whole life and also I think you might have butchered some of the pronunciation of some of the counties but it could just be were I'm from in the country
Well done. If you have to do anything like that again see if you can ask anyone irish to check the pronunciation. It can be difficult. Good video. Keep up the great work.
Suspect the Fort of the Foreigners is a lot Older than Vikings, Considering the Highest Point on the Penninsula is Mount Carthage and the Tuatha Legends
People of dark might refer to black Irish which was a term for Irish with dark hair and eyes, not black people. Black people is duine gorm which means blue people, but gorm didn't always mean blue, same way red cabbage is actually purple because red was used for that shade of purple. Duine dubh which literally translates to black person is also a term for the devil so that's why a literally translation isn't used.
No offence but as an Irishman your pronunciations hurt me. Thanks for trying tho, great video regardless 👍 Also Kerry has that Name because of the Spanish who Crashed there after the Spanish Armada was sunk, the sailors who arrived in Kerry were much darker in skin tone than the native Irish and their Impact on the area can still be seen today, one example is Paul Galvin the Kerry footballer.
A lot of Spanish and French merchant ships used sail to Cork as well and mix with the Irish population, that’s another reason why there’s a larger concentration of darker skin or even just dark bushy haired people in Munster. It’s also why many accents across Munster share characteristics with Spanish speakers.
The British Colonisation of Ireland, and the later Partitioning of the Six Irish Counties of Ireland in 1921 was the Greatest Sin against God and Humanity. The Island to this very day remains divided in a Time Warp of British Imperial Colonialism.
I think Kerry's etymology actually does refer to dark people. A lot of Irish people have dark features for which there is a term - "black Irish". There are many theories as to why these phenotypes are present in the Irish. These include shipwrecked Spanish after their failed invasion of England that bred with the local Irish women and even theories that the pre-Celtic peoples were actually sallow skinned. The former can be depunked quite easily as Kerry's name is older than the events of the Spanish landing on the shores and from genetic testing there isn't much evidence of Spanish DNA in Irish populations. The theory that the pre-Celtic Irish were dark featured fits in better for an explanation of the name Kerry. It could be that the native peoples of Kerry were ethically pre-Celtic and hence the Celtic Irish named them based on their dark complection.
If you have no idea about Irish orthography, surely you could have found out the correct pronunciations somewhere. I wouldn't expect anyone from outside Ireland to be able to pronounce the county names in Irish but the English names aren't too difficult.
Ah Name Explain you seem to have mispronounced Londonderry. You see it is unique in the English language as its the only word with six silent letters at the start
It was named that way as a symbol of friendship between the two cities. You don't have to hate every single thing that has British origins.
@@versal5108 It was named that way as a symbol of British colonialism.
@@cacamilis8477 Well, it isn't a colony. It's fully integrated into the UK as much as England and Wales are.
@@versal5108 so... Yes, now it is after the Act of Union 1800. Before then it was a colony under Britain. It was named Londonderry by the British King James I after protestant colonists who were forcing their way into Irish lands. The walls were funded by a series of livery companies in the city of London and so the name Londonderry became a thing in 1619. The name is indeed a symbol of colonialism. It is the celebration of a group of corporations who funded the colonising of another country.
That being said, even amongst protestants in the city nowadays people only use Derry in normal conversation as it's shorter.
Lastly I'm only poking some fun at the incident. It's not an issue for me, Ireland recognises it as Derry on all signage and when the city corporation decides to return it's name to the original I'll happily support it. Til then, not a big issue for me
@@versal5108 Read my comment again. Londonderry was named as such because of colonialisation by the British Empire. I'm talking about historic context, not the legality of a nationstate and its constituent territories.
An interesting fact about my county's name (Carlow). The name in Irish derives from old Irish 'cethrae-lach', meaning land of cattle. But somewhere along the line the name got confused and changed to 'ceatharlach', which means 'four lakes'. So now our county's name in Irish is four lakes despite there not being a single lake in Carlow :/
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The 9 county Ulster was an English invention for administrative purposes.
Ulster historically has had different borders at various periods of history.
At one point Ulster comprised of the area around Antrim and Down.
Fermanagh means men of Manapii I believe ,the Manapii also gave it's name to Monaghan, Taughmonagh in Belfast and the Isle of Man.
The Manapii were a Celtic tribe from Europe , their name derives from 'dwellers by the waters'.
These people were renowned for their seamanship by the Romans.
They settled in Britain as well as Ireland.
The Uliad who gave their name to Ulster were believed to be La Tene Celts who could be related to the Uliti a sub group of the Brigantes tribe who settled in Britain and Ireland.
Maybe there used to be lakes. I come from Texas and we had the opposite. Texas had one natural lake and the rest have been made in the last 150 years or less. 🤷♀️
Just say Derry for gods sake the only people who call it l-derry are people who don't live here. Both sides of the divide in this city say Derry because its shorter. Can nobody get that into their heads.
Never heard the county itself called that
@@MatFen917 where are you from though? In ireland its just called county derry
@@padraigpearse1551 what I mean by that is that I have heard the city be called londonderry but not the county
@@MatFen917 ah igy nah people call the county l-derry as well although sometimes but theyre in the minority
It’s just a county name dude...
Ug, the way you said Antrim
ya a couple of them were just a little off
Yeah, he said Galway weird as well, but Antrim was by far the weirdest (Antlim)
Name Explain definitely does a weird thing where he randomly trills R's but they just sound like L's
@@HopeRock425 Achlim
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The pronounciation of almost all the Irish words was absolutely atrocious, but then again, it's a difficult language to pronounce for many English speakers. Please let me know if you'd like some help in future with Irish language pronounciation and translations!
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@@ruairi4901 country's doing just fine without the "help" of a bunch of loser fascists thank you very much
I swear, Patrick sometimes says “the Ireland of Island”.
Ireland & island are pronounced too similar in English. I mix them up too.
And "Island" is the name of Iceland in German.
I heard “the island of island” every time lmao
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Northern Ireland is not British the majority don't even want to be in the uk I can relate if we weren't in there in the first place we would've been in the eu atm
We also voted to stay but Wales carried it to leave we didn't want to leave
Simply we aren't British we still are Irish under British control
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@@Aidansands2 Recent polls tell us your just lying, the majority do not wish to join Ireland
"Meath" is named as such because it was part of the former fifth central province of Ireland. Meath and Westmeath used to be a single county until they were split up.
"Tyrone" has that name not simply because it was named after someone called "Eoghan", but after the area's former ruling dynasty.
"Lugh" is pronounced more like "lug". It would've been more interesting to point out that Louth is far from the only place in Europe named after that particular god.
Covering the names in Irish is important, though. You can't give a proper account otherwise.
In the god name "Lugh", the "gh" is like "ch" in "loch" _but voiced_, like Arabic غ and the old pronunciation of Turkish ğ. But I have had to make the ğ sound much nearer home that that, in Dutch when I had 2 holidays motorcycling in Holland.
Isn’t Louth called Lú in Irish (like L-oo)
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Calling Northern Ireland "a Separate Nation" is a really good way to start a Fight!!!
From Northern Ireland here and in my opinion id also call Northern Ireland just Ireland idc is we are geographically not the same country
A better way would be to tell the truth and say that Ireland has never been a nation and before the English went there in the 11th century was a collection of 120 kingdoms knows as Tuaith.
If the English had not invaded there would be 4 or possibly 5 countries on the island today just as Britain has 3.
@@davidgreen6490 If you hadn't men women and children for speaking Irish you might need Google translate to read that you're a complete arsehole David.
I sure hate hearing the name Londonderry.
The first two syllables are silent.
Only word in the English language with 6 silent letters
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@@viennic8592 do you live in said city?
@@padraigpearse1551 So you agree those letters are at the start of the name silent or not?
The unambiguous way of referring to the two isotopes of Ireland is Ireland-26 & Ireland-32.
some help with the pronunciation
Ulster- Ull-ster
Donegal- Done ee gaul
Derry- Dairy
Antrim- An-trim
Down- Down
Fermanagh- Fur-man-ah
Monaghan- Mona-han
Armagh- Are-mah
Cavan- Cah-van
Connacht- Con-uct
Leitrim- Lee-trim
Sligo- Sly-go
Mayo- May-oh
Galway- Gaul-way
Roscommon- Ros-common
Leinster- Len-ster
Louth- Lowth
Longford- Long-ford
West Meath+Meath- Mee-th
Offaly- Off-ally
Laois- Lee-sh
Kildare- Kill-dare
Dublin- Dub-Linn
Wicklow- Wick-low
Carlow- Car-low
Kilkenney- Oh my god they killed kenny
Wexford- Wex-ford
Munster- Mun-ster
Clare- Cl-air
Tipperary- Tip-er-air-ee
Limerick- Lim-rick
Waterford- Water-ford
Kerry- K-air-ee
Cork- Cork
Is that th in Meath like ð or like θ ? I am using the IPA (English) symbols, by the way.
@@strangerinwhite i dont think those symbols have ever been used in irish so im not sure what they are. But the th in Meath is the same as in "thanks" or "thing"
@@strangerinwhite Meath is pronounced meed , there isn't a th sound in it
Kerry is ker-ee Not k-air-ee
@@mikeoxsmal8022 i wrote k-air-ee and not ker-ee in order to differenciate it from curry. air is a more accurate sound then ker, as it can also sound like cur.
I was like "oh this could be interesting" but i had to stop the second i heard your accent. couldn't be dealing with a brit mispronouncing the names and given the comments about you saying derry incorrectly among others im glad i did
I dont blame you for not saying the Irish names but you should have had them on screen since it makes the origin clearer, you can see the breakdown of the words.
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Leinster has alot more counties in it because it was originally two provinces, Leinster and Meath, hence why both County Meath and County Westmeath exist.
I thought that Meath splitting was to do with the Civil War? The American Civil War that is. Seemingly West Meath was abolitionist & Meath wished to keep its slaves......or I'm I getting confused with Virginia?...🤔
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Why do you guys love to use outdated rebel songs
@@ApeX-pj4mq because it's a good song?
@@padraig6200 You can love it for it being a good song but in the modern day there is absolutely no other reason to start blurting it out unless you are intentionally trying to provoke unrest
"Cork" doesn't simply mean "swamp", mind, and "marsh" might be a better translation. It's a reference to the artificial island in the middle of the River Lee on which the city centre resides. Many of the streets follow former channels of the river that were filled in and paved. According to legend, great oaks were felled and driven down into the river and some of the more marshy islands to support everything, though I have my doubts about that. The city still has issues with drainage to this day, though a great effort was made to deal with it about two decades back.
Tell that to the Corkonions plagued with floods every time there's a heavy shower!
There used to be a fifth province around Meath/Westmeath (correct me if inaccurate) where the high king of Ireland resided.
The mh in Mumhan would be a w sound. Moowun. In Irish mh and bh becomes either w or v.
Láirge has a long accent, and 3 syllables. Sounds like lorry. Lorr-uh-gah.
It wasn't a fifth province, but a fifth kingdom. The provinces were largely named after the 5 kingdoms of Ireland (cóiceda or cúige) but omitting Mide/Meath.
@@ruairi4901 what does this have to do with the early mediaeval history of Ireland or its language?
County Londonderry is the only one which has six silent letters at the beginning.
I thought he was just making up places to make the video longer!
Like Monaghan, we all know that’s a myth, it doesn’t really exist!
I never Antrim had an l in it 😂 also the county of “ Londonderry “ is Derry the capital is called Derry or Londonderry
The county is named Derry the city is called either Derry or London derry it’s a touchy subject but it’s in county Derry
Ironically you got that one totally the wrong way round.
There has never been a county Derry. County Londonderry was created from Counties Coleraine and Tyrone. It was named County Londonderry. There was no County Derry before then.
The city was settled by the London merchants. Yes there was a settlement there called Derry (or whatever in Irish) but it was probably about 2 huts. The London merchants named the new settlement Londonderry. Irish hate the English association with London.
To the Irish, the London part of the name is poison in either the city or the county name. Most Irish don't care about your distinction, which is totally wrong anyway.
These pronounciations are so off
Because he’s English
So, county Antrim means the same thing as Monaco, and the Dublin spire could technically be called Blackpool Tower.
I've been to both Antrim and Monaco and they are basically the same
Regarding both Dublin and Blackpool, the narrator FAILED to mention that Dublin has 2 different names in Irish, the more Traditional being Baile Atha Cliath. This refered to a place where the river might be forced (crossed). In other words, this was a shallow point in the river.
Dubh Linn comes from Viking times and referenced a dark (or deep) place on the same river where they could moor their ships.
Now Ireland hasn't ever had the kind of catastrophic earthquake that turned a shallow point in a river into a deep pool, so clearly, these 2 names refer to two different points on the river.
The original hamlet of Blackpool, Lancashire (the home of Lanky people!), grew up near a place where boggy (dark) water discharged into the sea.
While some have suggested a connection between both places, there is no record of the name "Dublin" before Viking times. It's simply an Etymological coincidence that both happen to have the same (translated) name - which should give one cause to question Translations
@@michaelodonnell824 Mate, did you miss the bit at the start where he said he'll only be looking at the English names for the counties? The county in English is named after the city, which most definitely isn't named "ford", or "river crossing", or owt like that.
Also, yes, of course they have different etymolotical routes, evident by the fact that they originate from *completely different languages*. Maybe you hadn't noticed, but all I was doing was making a joke at Dublin's expense by comparing it to Blackpool. But who knows, maybe you have some German ancestry in you and just don't get light humour.
@@tiagoprado7001 Dublin and baile atha cliath both originate from old irish or gaelic , though dublin does have norse influence,because it would be lindub otherwise'
@@galoglaich3281 when I said "they originate from completely different languages", I was talking about Dublin and Blackpool, not the two names for the county of Dublin. And it really doesn't matter that Dublin and Blackpool don't have the same root, it just matters that they've become close enough in meaning over the years for the joke to work.
Name Explain: And Finally we have county Cork
Me: Oh he saved the best til last
Name Explain: It simply means swamp. The End
Me: :(
Just fyi County Cork is named after the City of Cork. Which is built over rivers and marsh land. Hence the name Cork
Director's Cut "The County of Cork was named after the City of Cork, and it's name means marshy place, or the true Capital of Ireland"
@@CliveBilby cork is not even a real city the only cities in Ireland are Dublin and Belfast
@@Buildbeautiful Cork is a city by a factor of 4
Tipperary man here, it's not a long way to go for me.
Usually Irish people make fun of foreigners, especially British and American, for mispronouncing Irish words but I think its even more hilarious to make fun of them mispronouncing the anglicised versions of them.
If you look at our constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, you'll see the country is just called Ireland in the English language. I don't know why so many people, including us Irish, are so insistent on lumping 'The Republic of' on at the start of it.
I'm no fan of partition but I'm seeing all these comments saying its just called Derry. The county was created by the planters in 1613 and it's original name was Londonderry. Derry City itself obviously predates this event, and they stuck London onto the start of that, but the country itself was conceived as Londonderry. Not that I've ever thought of it as that myself of course.
The republic point is because most people in the UK distinguish between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. We dislike using the term Ireland becuase it refers to the island and implies a claim over the whole island.
For years the UK blocked the republic from using the name Ireland. Even now there are restrictions on using the name Ireland for international sport. It can only be used for teams which represent the whole island.
You can call youself whatever you want. There are many coutries round the world whose names are not recognised by many other countries.
I suspect the Ireland name was used to make a political point anyway, and was designed to annoy the UK.
Even RTE use the phrase republic a lot. And when they are referring to north and south of the border, they always use the republic to refer to the south.
Regarding the county, thank you for actually knowing how it came about. It was actually taken from Counties Coleraine (all) and Tyrone (part).
Tyrone may be named after Eoghan Mac an Bhaird. The Mac an Bhaird clan was a major clan from late medieval period that originated in Ulster, where Tyrone is, and eventually moved to Connacht. It's not for sure but it's a pretty good possibility. Mac an Bhaird is where the modern surname Ward comes from in Ireland. There is also a Saxon (English) surname Ward though too with a totally different root.
*26+6=1*
10:56 *THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CARK*
Oi we don't all talk like that it's just them norries that ruin it for us
Love these counties in the Republic of Ireland:
Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow.
Have you ever talked about terms for regions as connected to rulers such as the connection of count/county, duke/duchy, king/kingdom….empire…principality, etc ?
Professor L. Austine Waddell writes: "And Ireland of the Irish-Scots has also its "Holy Isles", with very ancient remains, including a magnificent "prehistoric" fort of cyclopean masonry in the Hitt-ite style, in Galway Bay, and also significantly named "Aran" or "Arran", which like the name "Erin" and "Ir-land", in series with the "Airy-ana" or "Ir-an" or "Land of the Aryans" of the ancient Sun-worsipping Aryans in the Orient."
What county of Ireland are you watching from?
Dublin 🐛
Limerick
The Bronx! 😁
Limerick!!
Cork, the rebel County!
In ancient Ireland the Vikings (specifically the Danes) were referred to as the "dark invaders" or "black foreigners."
So the name of Country Kerry implies there was once a Vikings settlement there, and indeed there was.
Hello from County Cork!
I love your videos
Hoi :D
Another Corkonian here. Cork is the anglicized form of the Irish word Corcach, meaning a marsh. The centre of Cork City is built on marshy land between two branches of the river Lee, and is very prone to flooding.
Ahhh I've been meaning to suggest this on Patreon for ages! Well I'm still glad you did it 😁
"the island of island" I wouldn't normally leave a comment like this, but that is hilarious
The Ireland of island
The "ch" in Macha is not pronounced like CHair, but instead like the ch in loCH. ;-)
What do you mean 26 Counties in Ireland proper and 6 Counties in Northern Ireland make 32 counties? As far as I know, 26+6=1!
Your maths is off
@@versal5108 It's as off as the heads of those black and tans, that's for sure!
Munster? In Germany is a city named Munster in Lower Saxony. And another city called Münster in Northrhine-Westphalia.
Munster in Ireland is an anglicized version of the Irish Mumhan.
American here with ancestry from Kerry, Cork, Mayo, Galway, and Tipperary!
I live ireland
I'm going to Kerry for my summer holidays
@@TheBlueChannel. im from kerry going to tyrone for holding days
1:55 You might want to avoid starting your car
I don't know why but somehow Connaught sounds like it doesn't fit with the other three
Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Connaught
Historically there was a fifth province, Meath.
You mean Uladh, Laidhean, Mumhan agus Connacht.
I think that's cause it lacks the word Tir, which means land as far as I'm aware. If I named it I'd call it something like Connster.
@@gerardacronin334 Not everyone speaks Irish.
@@versal5108 And who's fault is that?
Oh my god, they killed kenny!
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I am guessing that people from Kerry had dark hair, which is what the Irish originally (at least mostly had) before the Vikings and Anglos showed up. Most the "original" Irish ended up moving more Southward.
I dimly recall that when Richard Nixon was in the White House, there was some muttering about him being "Black Irish," descended from Spanish sailors who washed up in Ireland, and never went home for some reason. Maybe they had what used to be called "olive complexions." No citation, just a dim memory.
A suggestion, Michigan has an odd and unique mix of names for municipalities across the state...
From Native American, to French, German, and Greek origin.
Some places have even retained old rail road designations which have been phonetisized...
Detroit and it's metropolitan area have system of "mile roads" that run on this convention.
Interestingly, Dublin translates into Irish as 'Baile Átha Cliath' which roughly translates into 'the town of the hurdled ford'. It was corrupted into Dubh Linn during Viking times. Some of the pronunciation was off, but Irish can be complicated at times :P
Tír Eoghan (Tyrone) is pronounced more like 'Tier Owen'
Laois is pronounced exactly like the word 'Leash'
Offally is pronouned like 'off-ely'
Meath puts a lot of emphasis on the 'th'
Donegal is pronounced like 'Dunny-Gall'
Hope this helps!
Sorry Martin but as the transitions of Baile Atha Cliath and Dubh Linn indicate completely different points on the River, it's far more likely that the older Gaelic Baile Atha Cliath wasn't in the same place on the river as the later Viking settlement.
Interestingly, very old Latin maps show a trading settlement at the mouth of the Liffey, which they refer to as "Eblana". This was probably somewhere close to modern Ringsend.
So, that would mean that at various times in the first millennia, there were Three Different settlements along the Liffey (though whether Baile Atha Cliath was ever a settlement or just a fording point is a matter of debate).
@@michaelodonnell824 An interesting point for sure, wasn't aware of that! I was just making a point that in the Irish language, we refer to Dublin as 'Baile Átha Cliath' and not 'Dubh Linn'. when referring to the county. We are taught 'Baile Átha Cliath ' in school as the translation of the county into Irish, just how in the video NE points out that Wicklow and Wexford have different names in Irish. Also, it's Máirín, not Martin, but everyone gets this one wrong :P
THE WAY YOU SAID LAOIS
I'm not even sure how to pronounce that one.
@@rusticpartyeditz it's pronounced like "Leesh"
Absolutely love the video but my god some of your pronunciations are bad :P You did your best tho. Also the volume is insanely low
County Antrilim
The reason why MAYO or Maigh Eo was named that is that it was the largest Plain of Yew Trees in the known world back then (and grew Yew trees since before the last ice age)... and why is that significant or important... Well, besides making all kinds of things from yew trees... the single most significant and important thing made from them, are Bows... as in Bow and arrows. Pretty damn important for any society going back to when they were invented. Hence it's been an important place and strategic land to have, for protection and trade. It's also in the zone that had the least amount of Viking or Norman interaction overall in history. So it's theoretically some of the most pre/proto/Irish celtic of all. Just a bit of additional information. So while most people remember places where Gold or Silver where found and mined... the MUCH more significant and important things would have been Copper, Tin, Iron, specific types of wood (like Yew), Salt, Guano, and other such resources that allowed societies to thrive and flourish, and technological advancement to be made.
Hi I was wondering what you use to create these maps and animations
1:55 Nobody calls it Londonderry lad 👍
What a massive lie, we up in the north call it Londonderry/Derry while the Irish just call it Derry
I do, lad
So, Sligo is named after clams... I think I will just conveniently forget I ever heard that and continue to pretend it has some heroic significance. ;)
It's me. I'm the man from Limerick.
I thought Carlow (Ceatharlach) meant "four lakes" ("ceathair" is the Irish for 4, and "loch" is lake).
Kerry (Ciarraí in Irish) would be of the same roots as Irish names like Ciara/Keira and Ciaran/Kieran (the male version of Ciara)
There is a suburb of Cork city called Blackpool, which means the same thing as Dublin (as far as I know, it has nothing to do with Blackpool in England). Our Blackpool has the stress on the second syllable (black-POOL) whereas the English one has stress on the first syllable (BLACK-pool)
It's a common myth, but "Ceatharlach" doesn't mean "four lakes". It's a folk etymology. According to logainm.ie, the most likely etymology would be "place of herds". The word for "herd" is related to the word for "four", as it referred to four-legged animals.
Hi it's me from county Antrim great place & would recommend you come & check it out
I'm from Tipperary and I have to agree with your recommendation. Antrim is, aesthetically, one of the most beautiful places on this island.
Yes. Best place on the island.
I genuinely think he said all the counties wrong
you pronounced Londonderry incorrectly it's pronounced De-rry
I thought he was just making up places
@@ericseventeen17 Garreth is when he looks for Derry. There has never been a county Derry. It was created by the London merchants who settled the city of Londonderry. It was created from Counties Coleraine and Tyrone.
@@rusticpartyeditz there was a City though which pre dates the county and got its name from the anglicisation of its Irish name ‘Daire’ the London wasn’t added until the 1600s
@@ericseventeen17 There was a settlement. Not sure how big it was. And yes it was changed around 1610.
I'm not talking about the city. I'm referring to the county.
What about Craggy Island? Which county is that a part of?
Galway, but the house is actually in County Clare
@@eamondevalera3126 Funny enough yesterday I asked a friend from Ireland and he said Kerry without hesitation. I told him I would check his answer against responses I got here. Ha ha... Thanks.
@@WaterShowsProd no probs, if they island is in kerry I will shocked
That would be an ecumenical matter.
If you want to go with filming then technically it was filmed in a few places around the country.
Are any other Irish people absolutely nauseous at the pronunciation in this video?
Not Irish but I agree with the yucky pronunciation
26+6=1 Éirínn go brách 🇮🇪
26* hahha
@@barryellis1543 KGSKGSHKSGKZKGX
@@barryellis1543 I suck with numbers lol
@@dracodistortion9447 You going to force me to learn Irish in a united Ireland then?
@@rusticpartyeditz why would I lol
Carlows Irish name is Ceatherlach which means 4 lakes :)
And we have no lakes.
@@adammoore251 must have dried up like all the jobs haha
county meat? county lesh? did you not ask one irish person how many of these are pronounced before making a whole video about it?
"LondonDerry"... Nah... No such place, although "Free Derry" is acceptable!
Just Derry
Can you do a video like this for Scotland?
You just want to hear the poor lad mangle Kirkcudbrightshire - you are a very evil person......but I like you.
@@reb0118 dam, you saw through my cunning plan
Laos and Offaly history have been brushed over a bit, the county's names were originally King and queens county named after Bloody marry who colonized the area in 1550 arguably the oldest British colony in the world. The capitals where Maryborough and Philipstown, they were changed in 1921 after the war of independence.
Ironically the names were never legally changed. If you buy or sell land in those counties, the paperwork still says Kings or Queens county!
@@rusticpartyeditz I know that, but no one calls them that outside of legal documents even maps say Offaly and Laos.
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 You would think after 100 years you would have sorted that one out.
@@rusticpartyeditz I don't think there's any need to change it, it's a piece of history.
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 I just find it ironic that with the dislike a lot of Irish people have to England and the fact that they wanted to stop using county names with strong English connections, that it was never officially changed and still has to be used for legal transactions.
It is a funny little hangover from when the republic was part of the UK.
County down in irish is an dún, the fort referring to an ancient fort.
I have learned so much and I have lived here my whole life and also I think you might have butchered some of the pronunciation of some of the counties but it could just be were I'm from in the country
*Derry
btw, county donegal is not pronounced “dony-ghoul” but more “don-e-gall”
Well done. If you have to do anything like that again see if you can ask anyone irish to check the pronunciation. It can be difficult. Good video. Keep up the great work.
Your Gaelic pronunciation is killing me
One of the better videos so far!
Very nice! 👍
Why is Dublin getting so big? Because it keeps doublin' and doublin'!
i'll show myself out
DOWN with that sort of thing
Very quickly!!
Put a Cork in it!
Suspect the Fort of the Foreigners is a lot Older than Vikings, Considering the Highest Point on the Penninsula is Mount Carthage and the Tuatha Legends
God Bless Éireann.☘🇮🇪
Those "black Irish" may refer to black-haired Irish, that's because a part of the Invincible Armada has crushed around there
I never realised dublin meant black pool in Irish. *Dubh linn*
I feel like each of these names could have had their own full video.
Is drogheda the same as Louth and meath? Cause a lot of people say that and I barely see drogheda-
People of dark might refer to black Irish which was a term for Irish with dark hair and eyes, not black people. Black people is duine gorm which means blue people, but gorm didn't always mean blue, same way red cabbage is actually purple because red was used for that shade of purple. Duine dubh which literally translates to black person is also a term for the devil so that's why a literally translation isn't used.
Interesting video!
No offence but as an Irishman your pronunciations hurt me. Thanks for trying tho, great video regardless 👍
Also Kerry has that Name because of the Spanish who Crashed there after the Spanish Armada was sunk, the sailors who arrived in Kerry were much darker in skin tone than the native Irish and their Impact on the area can still be seen today, one example is Paul Galvin the Kerry footballer.
A lot of Spanish and French merchant ships used sail to Cork as well and mix with the Irish population, that’s another reason why there’s a larger concentration of darker skin or even just dark bushy haired people in Munster.
It’s also why many accents across Munster share characteristics with Spanish speakers.
a spanish shipwreck caused a similar thing in orkney
oh god the pronunciations patrick please stop im begging you this hurts so much
Ooh Aah Up the RA, Tiocfaidh ár lá!
Now that's offensive
Could you do a video about the names of Prussia and Russia? eg Why was it called Prussia?
He actually made one a few years ago
Cork means swamp.
That explains a few things. 🤣
'go raibh maith agat'
Londonderry; the only county with 6 silent letters
The British Colonisation of Ireland, and the later Partitioning of the Six Irish Counties of Ireland in 1921 was the Greatest Sin against God and Humanity.
The Island to this very day remains divided in a Time Warp of British Imperial Colonialism.
I think Kerry's etymology actually does refer to dark people. A lot of Irish people have dark features for which there is a term - "black Irish". There are many theories as to why these phenotypes are present in the Irish. These include shipwrecked Spanish after their failed invasion of England that bred with the local Irish women and even theories that the pre-Celtic peoples were actually sallow skinned. The former can be depunked quite easily as Kerry's name is older than the events of the Spanish landing on the shores and from genetic testing there isn't much evidence of Spanish DNA in Irish populations. The theory that the pre-Celtic Irish were dark featured fits in better for an explanation of the name Kerry. It could be that the native peoples of Kerry were ethically pre-Celtic and hence the Celtic Irish named them based on their dark complection.
And finally we finish with.....
The Republic of Cork, son!!
Just here to find out the reason for Westmeath 🤨
All the counties have an Irish names including London derry which means brown bog lon dun and derry oak tree how very apt really!
First 6 letters of Londonderry are silent.
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If you have no idea about Irish orthography, surely you could have found out the correct pronunciations somewhere. I wouldn't expect anyone from outside Ireland to be able to pronounce the county names in Irish but the English names aren't too difficult.