@@inconnu4961u clearly dont know hockey culture well then. I remember there being riots at my local highschool rink like every few years. Ppl would throw dead squid’s and fish and stuff on the ice and then all the fans of both teams would break out into an all out brawl. It happened like at least 4 times while growing up. I moved away from that area long ago but im willing to bet rioting fans are still a problem there today. They loved hockey the way ppl in texas love football. Mfers were crazy
I hadn't listened to that song in ages. Once I saw this video title I had this nagging feeling that I knew a song about it. Looked it up and once I head the first few notes, it all came flooding back.
Yeah you see a similar scene in the movie Gangs of New York. When the two volunteer fire companies came to a fire at the same time and began to fight over who had the honour of putting out the fire.
Actually, many departments had a fighting group and a fire brigade so the fire could be battled while the other companies were kept at bay. This was not for honor but rather to collect pay for saving the building.
@@memathews That really bears no resemblance whatsoever to a "free market." "Free-for-all fire fighting" would probably be a more apt description. "Free market" would require an actual market with voluntary transactions, not street fighting over who can provide a service by force.
Could you imagine being Fire Company 14, answering a fire alarm bell, and you round the corner and get attacked by hundreds of randos and discover a war is suddenly happening
Speaking as a born and bred Bostonian with Boston-Irish roots and as a former volunteer firefighter, congrats on another excellent video. BTW, "Quincy" is pronounced "Quinzee" in Massachusetts and "Charlestown" is pronounced as written, not like Charleston.
Brilliant story. Long ago,I was hired as a production assistant to work for WGBH TV. The day we showed up to cover a bussing protest in South Boston, I was surprised to be handed a helmet& bulletproof vest ( very old, no Kevlar yet) I was informed that any bussing protest could be a riot in a second, and a reporter had been shot before. I went anyway,very afraid, but my college loans were looming….
I can't think why not? Unitarians and Catholics in Ireland in the 1700s were both not Established churches i.e. the state religion was Anglicanism; similarly the Presbyterians who were prominent in promoting Enlightenment ideas and promoting an Irish Republic fought for in 1798. There is a famous Unitarian Church in Dublin and one founded in 1770s in Cork whose community still exists.
I grew up as a Unitarian in Atlanta and then moved to Boston for college. I was happy that there seemed to be so many Unitarian churches in Boston. The Boston congregations were far more Christian than the secular humanist congregation I grew up with. I never did find a church in Boston.
So what you're saying is, we have an enormous riot to thank for the establishment of the judicial system that formed the tableau for William Shatner's greatest role in Boston Legal. 😂 Thank you THG, you always connect more of my dots!:-) 🙏😽🖖
"Against the law at the time to sell alcohol on Sunday." Heck as i recall there were STILL some laws against some sales of Sunday alcohol when i lived in Mass in the late 1990's
I was expecting you to say, "The riot was so brutal that a hockey game sprang up." The Irish were a marginalized population for some time. It is a history that became important during the Civil War a few decades later.
They were marginalized in a young United States for a time. however English Rule over Ireland is more like passive aggressive, bureaucratic, cultural genocide.
@@dirus3142 not just ireland, Canada, Jamaica, Indonesia, Australia. Ironically or expected, most of us that built Canada and Australia are Irish immigrants and our countries are being handed over to China and India so england and isreal can make money. England and isreal are the worst rhings to ever happen to humanity. I loathe them... damn the English lol
I can’t thank you enough for this video. I moved to the NYC area in 1989 at the age of 20 from the mid west and I learned a lot about the Irish problems from “off the boat” Irish. Irish Need Not Apply was real. It may be the time for me as an Irish descendant to stop saying my people had problems and think about how many of us all have. How about we take a breath and talk about it. Again, I love you history guy.
Remember that at that time, the term Irish was synonymous with Catholic. Religious bigotry was at least as prominent in these events as any cultural bias.
When I was having a beer at Boston International waiting for my flight some random dude from Jersey started talking shit about the Bruins at the bar and let’s just say airport security had to pull quite a few people off of this man haha
@@Michaelbos He was talking about the airport, in case you couldnt understand. Why didnt you just mention the correct name of the air port instead of your silly rebuttal?
In so many of these historical accounts, it seems like England was almost intent on making as many enemies as possible. It's no wonder the empire crumbled.
I've always found it interesting that the Irish, coming from a extremely agrarian society, when arriving in the United States essentially said, "screw that". We're living in the city
@@c.j.rogers2422 not all immigrant group stayed in the city; lots of them moved out west and became farmers. Personally I think the Irish made a better choice
I don't think so. That has more to do with just helping to control traffic to allow the procession to stay together through intersections and such. It's also not universal. Some cities have stopped police escorts of funeral processions.
Yup. Just like the “patriots” who broke into the Capitol building trying to overturn an election while chanting to kill the VP and assaulting police officers.
Why do I get the feeling that everything happening today, has already happened before. There’s very little, if anything that is “unprecedented “. Thanks History Guy.
It's partly because the events back then affect events now. And partly because people haven't changed, so they'll do the same bigoted selfish violent stuff they always have.
"Broad street's just not broad enough, and you just don't love God enough. And if that isn't hard enough we've taken to much crap. You poke, provoke, and prod enough somethin's gonna snap." The mighty mighty boss tones. Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket, bottle, ax, or cobble stone.
Got that right! I've use to know a guy that he's grandpa went through all that. If you can't win you better join in. Makes sense when on survival mode.
I am sadden no one has written of the guest host. Bob Ross, up there on the top shelf. Ready to “wash the brush, and just beat the devil out of it ”......
Here to feed the algorithm. Book recommendation about Vikings because unknown to most the word Viking translates to pirate and as we know on this channel all good stories involve pirates. Children of Ash and Elm. By Neil Price. One of the best history and discussions of the culture in Scandinavia before written history. Published in 2020 it benefits from the huge amount of research and excavations made in the last 30 years.
Had a great grandfather and great uncle both died " accidentally" , "fell out of the wagon while drunk and hit their head on a rock" . Just another dead Irishman
Stories like this show why anti-immigrant Irish-Americans have forgotten the sacrifices of their ancestors. They're practically spitting on our ancestors' graves.
Why? They understand how socially disruptive waves of immigrants can be! Without commonsense, comprehensive immigration control, there will be friction & conflicts.
Interesting, according to a relative's reasarch an ancestor's came from there and the thing that birthed me had the Celtic curse, and the moment I became interested in family's trees they all vanished but a simple swipe of a swab or a spit nowadays will tell more than years of research. so to the thing that tried to hide things you failed.
I have a special place in my heart for the Irish, even though we (Blacks) rioted against them for jobs and housing. It was a function of local leaders pitting minorities against immigrants, not inherent hatred. They also gave us the basis for tapdancing, which Blacks eventually popularized in Hollywood and on Broadway. Thanks yaw.
At least in New York City, there was an additional complication. Much of the strife in NYC was between Americans of Scotch-Irish /Ulster Protestant ancestry and Irish Protestants. The Scotch Irish in New York were in a social strata below the Knickerbockers and WASPS. They actually formed much of the basis of the Democrat Party in New York City. For instance William Poole, the inspiration for Bill "the Butcher" Cutting in Gangs if NY, was Scotch-Irish in his father's side.
So now I'm seeing a history of policing that says it was begun to control and recover slaves. I'm confused by that. I'm sure that's partly true, but can't imagine a municipality without police. Now I see there weren't police in Boston until 1838, but it wasn't related to slavery. I'd be interested in a more nuanced history of the establishment of policing in the U.S., which I imagine has several strands, and how they intertwine.
My great, great grandfather would have lived in Boston at this time. But with a name like George Henry Sage, I’m sure he wasn’t Irish but had immigrated from Scotland. He would make a good subject for one of your videos. He hung out and did business with Andrew Carnegie and family lore has it that he built all the railroad bridges in Costa Rica.
Boo to Andrew Jackson sorry history guy I love ya but Andrew Jackson has a sour roll in my family history..I'm half Cherokee besides Irish on my old man's end and can personally trace kin to the trail of tears..and the trail of tears is basically a Holocaust and Jackson to native Americans are as bad as Hitler or Goering..but I'm definitely pro Irish my bunch came with the famine but also we're the first colonists haha one of my kin even helped found the precursor of the IRA the united Irishman party..you should do a story on that that's a group and history you'd probably have a blast with please excuse me sorry for nerding out and I like your videos haha and being autistic my thing is history so you can see where your channel appeals to me lol
Fire hydrants used to be called "fire plugs" and the term "Plug Uglies" is derived from these competing fire companies. Whichever company put the fire out got paid and when the alarm sounded more than one company might show up. Whoever got there first would guard the fire plug until their company arrived and these guys were called "Plug Uglies". There was usually a fight going on while the building or house burned over the fire plug.
It is of note that Peter Faneuil, of Faneuil Hall fame, did not pronounce his name as we do today. We seem to be careful, as was The History Guy, to pronounce the name as "fan-you-el." Peter himself spoke it as "fannel."
ABSOLUTELY........."Scott Fisher 1 day ago Thank you for being the only person to not politicize history. You're a true gentlemen, and a very well liked man"
As a born and bred Bostonian of Italian-American extract, I remember some of the after effects of this 19th-century surge of the Irish. A great tale well told, sir. Thank you.
It wasn't just The U.S., South American was flooded with Irish too as my Great-Grandfather was 1 of 5 brothers who emigrated to Both North and South America!
@@rabbi120348 Lololololol! Truer words were never spoken. We have risen above language, above meaning, above grammar, above expression to pure, rampant, mayhem! America the beautiful!
Then he should pronounce it Baastin instead of Boston. When we talk about Louisville, we don't say Lewvul. It's "New Orleans" not "Nawlins". I'm not going to tell you your accent is crazy, and you're also welcome to stay in your lane.
AS ALWAYS THE HISTORY GUY, AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! Forgot there's a Broad St. in Boston (have a Broad St. here in Charleston, S.C. ) Didn't know, beforehand, about this riot. Sounded like a scene from GANGS OF NEW YORK which was mentioned in the comments. Since I subscribed, I've been made aware of history I didn't know existed. Continue your OUTSTANDING WORK!!!👏👏👏💪💪💪✌✌✌✌
And some things never change... When I was attending TEEX (fire school at A&M in College Station Texas) we were briefed and warned early Not to cause trouble, that the locals were long since over admiration for firefighters excusing bad behaviour. 😳🙊🙀
Wondering... was the supposed deceased person (the cause for the funeral, after all) ever identified? I wonder if anybody had the smarts to turn the hearse away before encountering the mob.
Thank you for being the only person to not politicize history.
You're a true gentlemen, and a very well liked man
ABSOLUTELY
yes this!!!!!
Look around you and you will realize everything has been politicized mostly by PC.
So true!
I used to work at 89 broad st. This is Boston's financial district. Had no clue this happened. Another tale of old Boston.
I went to a riot and a hockey game broke out.
Good one :D
Meh, ya know that doesnt happen very often! Rioters dont like hockey very much!
@@inconnu4961u clearly dont know hockey culture well then. I remember there being riots at my local highschool rink like every few years. Ppl would throw dead squid’s and fish and stuff on the ice and then all the fans of both teams would break out into an all out brawl. It happened like at least 4 times while growing up. I moved away from that area long ago but im willing to bet rioting fans are still a problem there today. They loved hockey the way ppl in texas love football. Mfers were crazy
Listen to "Riot on Broad Street" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, on the album Pay Attention. A good song on the subject.
I hadn't listened to that song in ages. Once I saw this video title I had this nagging feeling that I knew a song about it. Looked it up and once I head the first few notes, it all came flooding back.
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...thank you...I will my paternal grandfather's folks were from Kerry; my maternal grandmother was from Kinnegad, West meath
Fiery but mostly peaceful funeral procession.
Shots fired 😆
Outside a family one
One standard issue Irish funeral.
The thing is, I doubt the star of said funeral would have been dissapointed. Irish are Irish after all.
No no, they were just patriots trying to save america
@@jtgd snarky but mostly agreeable comment
Yeah you see a similar scene in the movie Gangs of New York. When the two volunteer fire companies came to a fire at the same time and began to fight over who had the honour of putting out the fire.
That happened all over the country. Volunteer companies were commonly called "rowdies."
… while the building they were going to save burned to the ground…
Actually, many departments had a fighting group and a fire brigade so the fire could be battled while the other companies were kept at bay. This was not for honor but rather to collect pay for saving the building.
Free market fire fighting...emphasis on "fighting"
@@memathews That really bears no resemblance whatsoever to a "free market." "Free-for-all fire fighting" would probably be a more apt description. "Free market" would require an actual market with voluntary transactions, not street fighting over who can provide a service by force.
Could you imagine being Fire Company 14, answering a fire alarm bell, and you round the corner and get attacked by hundreds of randos and discover a war is suddenly happening
Speaking as a born and bred Bostonian with Boston-Irish roots and as a former volunteer firefighter, congrats on another excellent video.
BTW, "Quincy" is pronounced "Quinzee" in Massachusetts and "Charlestown" is pronounced as written, not like Charleston.
"after the dust and feathers settled"... ok, this should be a good one.
Hoping for pirates.
I think that's a quote from The clash and which song let me see
Brilliant story. Long ago,I was hired as a production assistant to work for WGBH TV. The day we showed up to cover a bussing protest in South Boston, I was surprised to be handed a helmet& bulletproof vest ( very old, no Kevlar yet) I was informed that any bussing protest could be a riot in a second, and a reporter had been shot before. I went anyway,very afraid, but my college loans were looming….
HG you are everything that is great about YT.
Irish is walking down a street. Sees a fight spill out of a bar. Gets close and asks a guy, "Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?"
LOL Was he drunk or sober at the time? My friend and i are taking bets!
An interesting video subject: The actual migration of the Irish to America.
Am I the only one who views the idea of Catholics and Unitarians working in conjunction hilarious? 😉
God must have a sense of humor.
@@elcastorgrande Of course he does. I mean, look at Australia.... "Hey Darwin! Suck on this!"
I can't think why not? Unitarians and Catholics in Ireland in the 1700s were both not Established churches i.e. the state religion was Anglicanism; similarly the Presbyterians who were prominent in promoting Enlightenment ideas and promoting an Irish Republic fought for in 1798. There is a famous Unitarian Church in Dublin and one founded in 1770s in Cork whose community still exists.
I grew up as a Unitarian in Atlanta and then moved to Boston for college. I was happy that there seemed to be so many Unitarian churches in Boston. The Boston congregations were far more Christian than the secular humanist congregation I grew up with. I never did find a church in Boston.
So what you're saying is, we have an enormous riot to thank for the establishment of the judicial system that formed the tableau for William Shatner's greatest role in Boston Legal. 😂
Thank you THG, you always connect more of my dots!:-) 🙏😽🖖
"Against the law at the time to sell alcohol on Sunday." Heck as i recall there were STILL some laws against some sales of Sunday alcohol when i lived in Mass in the late 1990's
I was expecting you to say, "The riot was so brutal that a hockey game sprang up." The Irish were a marginalized population for some time. It is a history that became important during the Civil War a few decades later.
They were marginalized in a young United States for a time. however English Rule over Ireland is more like passive aggressive, bureaucratic, cultural genocide.
“Marginalized populations” continue to feel the brunt of discrimination and violence today.
@@dirus3142 not just ireland, Canada, Jamaica, Indonesia, Australia. Ironically or expected, most of us that built Canada and Australia are Irish immigrants and our countries are being handed over to China and India so england and isreal can make money. England and isreal are the worst rhings to ever happen to humanity. I loathe them... damn the English lol
Those pesky Fire fighters are rioting again
Aye that be a real Donnybrook....😁
I'm a lifelong resident of Boston's suburbs and I'd NEVER heard this story!
I’m from Quincy. I’m learning something new every day.
In the 1950s, my mom was not hired as an operator because she had an Irish Brogue.
I can’t thank you enough for this video. I moved to the NYC area in 1989 at the age of 20 from the mid west and I learned a lot about the Irish problems from “off the boat” Irish. Irish Need Not Apply was real. It may be the time for me as an Irish descendant to stop saying my people had problems and think about how many of us all have. How about we take a breath and talk about it. Again, I love you history guy.
Remember that at that time, the term Irish was synonymous with Catholic. Religious bigotry was at least as prominent in these events as any cultural bias.
Hence the birth of the Boston Bruins.
Honestly, the most realistic rumor surrounding this
That's why they're called the "Broad Street Bullies"! Oh wait....
You mean all Boston sports teams
The Broad Street Bullies were/are the Philadelphia Flyers NHL franchise.
@@leemaxwell8228 I know. That's what the "Oh, wait..." was all about. LOL
The Boston suburb is pronounced "CHARLES - TOWN," not "Charleston" as in the video.
And Quincy is pronounced Quin-zee, not Quin-see. I was really shocked to learn this when I moved to Boston from the Midwest a few years ago!
then they should spell it right
Charlestown is not a suburb of Boston, it is formally a part of the City of Boston since 1873.
When I was having a beer at Boston International waiting for my flight some random dude from Jersey started talking shit about the Bruins at the bar and let’s just say airport security had to pull quite a few people off of this man haha
As a former Jerseyan, I can say…what an idiot.
Must’ve been when the Devils were good.
No such place as Boston international.
@@Michaelbos He was talking about the airport, in case you couldnt understand. Why didnt you just mention the correct name of the air port instead of your silly rebuttal?
In so many of these historical accounts, it seems like England was almost intent on making as many enemies as possible. It's no wonder the empire crumbled.
Sound like any other country you know of?
@@glorideefaithperez2858 He said it already! England!
I've always found it interesting that the Irish, coming from a extremely agrarian society, when arriving in the United States essentially said, "screw that". We're living in the city
A lot had only enough money for passage , but not enough to go any farther.
What other choice did they have? Buy land? With what? Like any immigrant group, they followed their countrymen who went before them.
@@c.j.rogers2422 not all immigrant group stayed in the city; lots of them moved out west and became farmers. Personally I think the Irish made a better choice
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that funeral processions are almost invariably escorted by police.
I don't think so. That has more to do with just helping to control traffic to allow the procession to stay together through intersections and such. It's also not universal. Some cities have stopped police escorts of funeral processions.
A mostly peaceful protest then
And only looting bread for their families. 🥴
by today's standards
Yup. Just like the “patriots” who broke into the Capitol building trying to overturn an election while chanting to kill the VP and assaulting police officers.
@@navret1707 yup. Reminds me of people trying to “save America” by stealing laptops from representatives’ offices while rioting
@@jtgd no they did worse back them
Why do I get the feeling that everything happening today, has already happened before. There’s very little, if anything that is “unprecedented “. Thanks History Guy.
It's partly because the events back then affect events now. And partly because people haven't changed, so they'll do the same bigoted selfish violent stuff they always have.
@@googiegress the story stays the same, but the names of the actors change.
Another great one History Guy. Thank you.
Erin go brawl.
A drunken brawl at an Irish funeral? I never heard of such a thing.
LOL
"Broad street's just not broad enough, and you just don't love God enough. And if that isn't hard enough we've taken to much crap. You poke, provoke, and prod enough somethin's gonna snap."
The mighty mighty boss tones.
Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket, bottle, ax, or cobble stone.
Typical Irish " If you cant Beat them " Assimilate them its a win win every time =)
Got that right! I've use to know a guy that he's grandpa went through all that. If you can't win you better join in. Makes sense when on survival mode.
its always the new kid on the block that gets the brunt off it in this land of MILK and HONEY....go figure 😕
I am sadden no one has written of the guest host. Bob Ross, up there on the top shelf. Ready to “wash the brush, and just beat the devil out of it ”......
I was so waiting for someone to notice!
Here to feed the algorithm. Book recommendation about Vikings because unknown to most the word Viking translates to pirate and as we know on this channel all good stories involve pirates. Children of Ash and Elm. By Neil Price. One of the best history and discussions of the culture in Scandinavia before written history. Published in 2020 it benefits from the huge amount of research and excavations made in the last 30 years.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I've reserved it through our regional library group.
Shit if i see a good street fight im jumping in especially if its 1837 and its that or read a book
Great episode. Love Boston history. Too many ads, I'm afraid...
Thank you for mentioning the Corn Laws, which I have seen mentioned many times but with no explanation. Now I'll finally go have a look for more info.
"Corn" meant any important cereal grain, not just corn.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thank you. I gathered that from your discussion, and I'm also familiar with that use of corn from my farming experience.
Had a great grandfather and great uncle both died " accidentally" , "fell out of the wagon while drunk and hit their head on a rock" . Just another dead Irishman
Stories like this show why anti-immigrant Irish-Americans have forgotten the sacrifices of their ancestors. They're practically spitting on our ancestors' graves.
Why? They understand how socially disruptive waves of immigrants can be! Without commonsense, comprehensive immigration control, there will be friction & conflicts.
Suggestion
History of copyright and patent.
This is my morning coffee.
I've been to Boston once, and the weight of centuries can be felt in some places there.
Its a modern city as well! Hope you get to visit again!
Andrew Jackson was Ulster Scots
Interesting, according to a relative's reasarch an ancestor's came from there and the thing that birthed me had the Celtic curse, and the moment I became interested in family's trees they all vanished but a simple swipe of a swab or a spit nowadays will tell more than years of research. so to the thing that tried to hide things you failed.
I have a special place in my heart for the Irish, even though we (Blacks) rioted against them for jobs and housing. It was a function of local leaders pitting minorities against immigrants, not inherent hatred. They also gave us the basis for tapdancing, which Blacks eventually popularized in Hollywood and on Broadway. Thanks yaw.
For more firefighter riot action see the Toronto Clown Riot of 1855 (spoiler, it wasn't just clowns).
Thank you!
Irish history is never boring
I'm from Massachusetts and I've never heard of this. Thanks
At least in New York City, there was an additional complication. Much of the strife in NYC was between Americans of Scotch-Irish /Ulster Protestant ancestry and Irish Protestants. The Scotch Irish in New York were in a social strata below the Knickerbockers and WASPS. They actually formed much of the basis of the Democrat Party in New York City.
For instance William Poole, the inspiration for Bill "the Butcher" Cutting in Gangs if NY, was Scotch-Irish in his father's side.
"... as many as 15,000 people...", Now, that's what I call a Boston (Tea) Party!! 🤦♂️🤷♂️😂
15,000 is just a Southie keg party
@@jimgavin1761 Yup! Doubt there was any tea there.
Who down votes these? And why?
Down votes are validation of superior videos!
So now I'm seeing a history of policing that says it was begun to control and recover slaves. I'm confused by that. I'm sure that's partly true, but can't imagine a municipality without police. Now I see there weren't police in Boston until 1838, but it wasn't related to slavery. I'd be interested in a more nuanced history of the establishment of policing in the U.S., which I imagine has several strands, and how they intertwine.
My great, great grandfather would have lived in Boston at this time. But with a name like George Henry Sage, I’m sure he wasn’t Irish but had immigrated from Scotland.
He would make a good subject for one of your videos. He hung out and did business with Andrew Carnegie and family lore has it that he built all the railroad bridges in Costa Rica.
Yankees in Boston?!
Boo to Andrew Jackson sorry history guy I love ya but Andrew Jackson has a sour roll in my family history..I'm half Cherokee besides Irish on my old man's end and can personally trace kin to the trail of tears..and the trail of tears is basically a Holocaust and Jackson to native Americans are as bad as Hitler or Goering..but I'm definitely pro Irish my bunch came with the famine but also we're the first colonists haha one of my kin even helped found the precursor of the IRA the united Irishman party..you should do a story on that that's a group and history you'd probably have a blast with please excuse me sorry for nerding out and I like your videos haha and being autistic my thing is history so you can see where your channel appeals to me lol
Why do I keep thinking about Blazing Saddles?
Because it fits for some same twisted reason :D
Fire hydrants used to be called "fire plugs" and the term "Plug Uglies" is derived from these competing fire companies. Whichever company put the fire out got paid and when the alarm sounded more than one company might show up. Whoever got there first would guard the fire plug until their company arrived and these guys were called "Plug Uglies". There was usually a fight going on while the building or house burned over the fire plug.
It is of note that Peter Faneuil, of Faneuil Hall fame, did not pronounce his name as we do today. We seem to be careful, as was The History Guy, to pronounce the name as "fan-you-el." Peter himself spoke it as "fannel."
Well, Sundays are usually kind of slow....
😂
Andrew jackson was born in my home county! Lancaster, SC
Congratulations on pronouncing Bangor Maine correctly. Due to the fact I come from there, I noticed that a lot.
Drunken volunteer firefighters, aren't they all?
Tell us about Henry Clay and election of 1828, please.
ABSOLUTELY........."Scott Fisher
1 day ago
Thank you for being the only person to not politicize history.
You're a true gentlemen, and a very well liked man"
Again, such a great and informative video!
Hey Johnny boy, What say ye we get drunk 'n fight me buck-O?
Neck beards causing trouble for 200 years
Once again, WASPs get crazy when confronted with anything different.
And here I use to think the South was the only place that did this I stand corrected.
I remember when you had a couple thousand subscribers. My how times have changed.
As a born and bred Bostonian of Italian-American extract, I remember some of the after effects of this 19th-century surge of the Irish. A great tale well told, sir. Thank you.
As someone of Scots heritage, I am sorry for my drunken cousins!
The original " Broad Street Bullies".
Comment for the algorithm.
How about the 1967 riots in Detroit. I was there on the eastern side.
Divide the people to rule over them and benefit from their misery.
My dad was a volunteer fireman. It's odd for me to think of them as being undisciplined
5:40 He looks like GW without that powdered wig !
It wasn't just The U.S., South American was flooded with Irish too as my Great-Grandfather was 1 of 5 brothers who emigrated to Both North and South America!
Gosh! I never even thought of Irish people emigrating to South America because of the language barriers.
Yeah Boston sucked way back then,and nothing's changed since...
Yankee fan still hurting over the recent sweep
Al Gore has no rhythm
Maybe it was allegorical.
Oh Danny boy.
Love your video's, but in Boston Quincy is pronounced Quinzy market, zee sound not cee
We are proud Americans, with God-given right, and perhaps obligation, to massacre any language we wish, including our own! God bless America!
"In fact, there are places where English completely disappears.
In America they haven't spoken it for years!"
Prof. Henry Higgins
@@rabbi120348 Lololololol! Truer words were never spoken. We have risen above language, above meaning, above grammar, above expression to pure, rampant, mayhem! America the beautiful!
Then he should pronounce it Baastin instead of Boston.
When we talk about Louisville, we don't say Lewvul. It's "New Orleans" not "Nawlins".
I'm not going to tell you your accent is crazy, and you're also welcome to stay in your lane.
@@RockinRobbins13 Life reduced to a meme.
What? No pirates? Surely there was a pirate in the fray!
But do mine eyes decieve me? There be a painter upon the top shelf...... "let's get crazy".....
AS ALWAYS THE HISTORY GUY, AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! Forgot there's a Broad St. in Boston (have a Broad St. here in Charleston, S.C. )
Didn't know, beforehand, about this riot. Sounded like a scene from GANGS OF NEW YORK which was mentioned in the comments.
Since I subscribed, I've been made aware of history I didn't know existed. Continue your OUTSTANDING WORK!!!👏👏👏💪💪💪✌✌✌✌
And some things never change...
When I was attending TEEX (fire school at A&M in College Station Texas) we were briefed and warned early Not to cause trouble, that the locals were long since over admiration for firefighters excusing bad behaviour.
😳🙊🙀
"Lingered longer" - in a video about Boston? No, it can't be.
Wondering... was the supposed deceased person (the cause for the funeral, after all) ever identified? I wonder if anybody had the smarts to turn the hearse away before encountering the mob.
Yes, he was described in a newspaper as a “very respectable man.”
What happened with the funeral? Did they make it to the cemetery and bury the body?
Yes. All the trouble seemed to be at the back end of the procession
Wow crazy stuff!
This incident is a good example of the phrase, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
"All politics is local." Tip O'Neill D-MA
Algorithm food!
My great-grandparents came though customs in Boston in the early 1900s.
So what?
Nordvpn sponsoring oversimplified and now the history guy....hmmm, good taste.
Thomas O'Connor taught at Boston College, not Boston University. Big difference.
Damn English...
Excellent video and the....Video quality and sound was all so Excellent as well....Thanks very much indeed !
8:22 sorta like Portland.
Or Seattle.
Or Chicago.
Or Minneapolis