Thanks so much for your video. Luv’ it! I am German, studied in Galway 20 years ago, met my own Galway girl in Germany the year after, moved to Ireland for 10 years… We are now living in Germany and I am privileged to have spend a bit less than a quarter of my life in Galway city and county. I love Ireland! I have got a story to tell you guys about Northern Ireland and the Republic: In 2007, Ireland hosted the Rally World Championship for the first time, and, of course, my two best petrol head buddies from school years in Germany came over to Ireland for the 3 of us to follow the rally. On the very last day, after the last special stage, we came back to our rental car and realized that our driver had left the lights on and bled the battery. He walked to the closest petrol station to buy a pair of jump leads, he returned an hour later. ;) A guy in his Mercedes stopped to assist. The guys got chatting as I was changing my bellies behind our car. The man asked what brought us here. (Duh! The rally! Hence the wellies!) One of my buddies said, pointing at me, that I live in Galway. The man asked me what brought me to Galway. I said that my girlfriend is from there. He looked with utter disgust, mumbled: “From the Republic!?”, removed the jump leads of his car and drove off. I am not fucking kidding ya! Just as well our car was up and running at the time. That was in 2007!
14 million tons of food where exported from Ireland at gun point! The potato famine story is a coverup for one of many examples of Englands 16 century long genocide of the native Britons (Gallic peoples).
Also: Under British rule, Irish Catholics were prohibited from entering the professions or even purchasing land. Instead, many rented small plots of land from absentee British Protestant landlords.
Right that. The Brits engineered that genocide. During the height of the famine, something like 220.,000 tonnes of wheat were force-exported from Eire to UK. UK papers even mused whether or not to let Irish keep some of their wheat and corn, and English had the nerve to say the Irish should starve because allowing food would let the Irish "breed up" again!
I'm from Derry and grew up during the Troubles and hunger strikes. It is actually pretty cool that some teenager in Iowa was thinking of us and the chaos we were living through back then. So I at least appreciate it, at the time it felt like we were all alone and ignored by the world. Thank teenage you for caring about people far away :)
The English land thieves would let the poor workers take the potatoes to feed their families as part of their wage, and all other products that were grown were shipped over to feed the English or distributed among the upper classes. Plenty of other farm products were grown, barley wheat etc. A British member of Parliament, Sir Charles Trevelyan, stated "The Irish potato blight was sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson"!☘.....Oh and another Irish favourite dish,(here in the North) is Champ n smoked fish. We had large families because we were Catholics who feared, and revered the Church, who were against all types of contraceptives.
My da was from Limerick. Bacon and cabbage was his absolute favourite. He loved stew too. He always tried to tell people bacon and cabbage was the Irish dish. Irish whiskey is far superior because we do it properly. I don’t drink scotch. Powers all the way for me 😁. Dads favourite was paddy’s. I’ve been to the famine memorial in Co Mayo and it’s such an amazing place. So haunting and sad. Anyone who hasn’t been should go and see it.
as a redhead I can safely say the reason you don't see too many of us is because we're indoors avoiding sunlight, the natural enemy of gingers everywhere
I love redheads, no idea why? I myself am not (though when I had a beard there was this red spot?) but as a normal guy, all these spandex things that young women wear, you can't help looking? The downside of this smorgasboard of young. fit beautiful women is the people who should definitely NOT be wearing such things, big saggy arses and a camel rearing to go, oh no,t my eyes, my very eyes!. I'm getting older now and I predict a change in how people dress, not only that 'shabby cl Mique, will be gone, replaced with any last living artisans that that made sense.m forgetting what I previously said,
I've just stumbled upon this video, but it's great to finally see a regular Irish guy talk about Ireland, as opposed to the "ho di hi, hor r ya mi owl flower" kind of act. We just don't go on like that with each other and it's so pander-y to 'Muricas. It would be great to see a video debunking myths, stereotypes or lists like this! New sub anyway!
I love Ireland. I met my wife as a soldier on a 6-month roulement tour in Belfast. There I was, looking good, wearing riot gear and holding the line. Then I spotted a beautiful woman across the divide as she lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it at me, winking. Oh my... nothing much has changed in 34 years, and that cheeky wink of hers gets me every time.
How? I mean just how was that relationship possible? Would love to hear how your wife’s community and security said “yep go ahead no issues here” now that would be a story worth hearing 😮😂😮
@@sheenavaughan2717 Maybe I should write about it. Our wedding was scheduled to take place in Lisburn Catholic Chapel (safer than Belfast), but when the IRA discovered that, they threatened to bomb, so we got married in the multi-denominational church, St Columbs Thiepval Barracks (Also Lisburn). We had to get 136 Irish guests through security clearance in two weeks so they could get onto the base. We had the Army Catholic Priest marry us, with my wife's catholic priests attending, and then we had our reception in the UDR bar on base. Still married 34 years later.
Hi Sir. I'm a South African man working in Tipperary. You won't believe how many towns in South Africa has Irish names. There is Belfast kilarney bredastown tipperary Douglas and many more
To the person talked about the patoto, and the English thieves depriving the ppl and robbing them and let them. starve. The English attacked South Africa, forced the women children and old timers Into concentration camps, and 1000s were starved to death(I can show you acres of child graves, spanning acres. But still they couldn't beat the Boer nation,, even after they were 400 against 1.just Google the South African monument of wounded but not beaten
Never forget it was not just the potatoe blight alone which caused starvation of many poor Irish but also the fact the British crown making it near impossible for poor Catholic Irish to obtain food. Aid being sent from other countries was intercepted and deprived of mainly poor catholic Irish individuals. Iv often heard phrase "that family took the soup" when referring too Protestant families who supposedly had changed from Catholic to Protestant in order to be given food from soup kitchens enforced by British crown
True. For all but two years of the disaster, Ireland was a net exporter of beef, mutton, cheese, wheat and other crops that were controlled by the British landowners. Irish activists begged, protested and sometimes resorted to riots in vain attempts to change the Brit policies.
I’ve lived 45 minutes from the tx renfest for 32 years. So much fun. Always get the nice schedule of events! We usually go over it, referencing the adorable map. You get the most of each day- from the shows to food bathrooms and drink. Dressing up makes it more fun.
Firstly, love the vids…you’re hilarious. I get the feeling you’re into your history, if you could do some longer form history videos, with your comics take, I think it would be good
Twas great craic growing up as a picky eater with a dad from Moycullen, Galway. I quote: "what we neeeeed is another famine". If I'd a spud for every time I heard that!
The Quakers helped feed the starving Irish opening up soup kitchens.As an Irish person I have a lot of time for the Quakers. The Turks sent food ships which were blocked by the British navy.
Don't think you are correct re the Quakers and the soup kitchens.It was a stunt to force the Irish to convert from Catholic to church of England.eg Coloney on Achill Island and also the Coloney near Louis burgh.This was not a charitable act yo feed the poor.but one with terms and conditions attached .No need to rewrite Irish history
I was going to mock you calling hand-to-hand combat head-to-head combat. Then I remembered I have been to Irish pubs and you are 100% correct. My apologies.
Hazel ☘️ Be careful … if all our Irish descendants came to visit at the same time 1) there would standing room only on this Emerald Isle 2) we would SINK 😂😂😂 SO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR DELICIOUS , 🙏☘️😘
Not to mention anyone who tried to take the food that wasn’t potatoes was promptly exported to a penal colony instead.. hence the song lyrics in the fields of Athenry “He stole Travelyan’s corn, so the young might see the morn, now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay”
I absolutely loved the facts. It is so much fun learning more about Ireland, seeing the sights, learning about the food. I am proud to say that I’m 25%🍀❤from 🇺🇸
@@culllyI met a lady in Australia who was a world authority on the Langer. She said that North American Indians had the longest and Irish had the thickest, and then asked me my name. "Tonto, Tonto O'Reilly miss".
You can get the pronunciation by reading the irish. Muckanna eder daw hawlia Muk-ina-edder-daw-hawlia Mukin-edderda-hawlia Muckin/edder/d/hawlia It rhymes with " fuckin better than all-of-ye"
Would you, with respect Garron, think about a small shout out to the Chocataw and their links to ourselves which have lasted to do this day? Just a thought?
And back during Covid when the Irish raised millions for the Native American peoples in memory of the Choctaw. There's a great story for a video there alright
Irish-American of quitter descent here... My "O'Berry" family immigrated to the states in 1850. My paternal grandmother is Choctaw "Indian" (her words and I will respect them until I die) She was the last of us born on a reservation. I was raised to be very wary of government and taught that it was a necessary evil. The Irish-Indians, and there are a lot of us, are REALLY hard-headed and proud as you can imagine. My favorite meal is and has always been bacon and cabbage and my grandmother's was the best.(truth!)
My grandmother was one of the Ga berry clan. We had always been told that we had an Indian great great great great great grandmother somewhere back there.
Why do you have to use so many really foul nasty vulgar words. Live your broadcasts otherwise, but I cut you off when the filth starts. You are so talented, & I do not mind so much the mild cursing. But are you still a 13 year old trying to impress your older clansmen?
There was more than enough food to feed everyone in the country during the famine, even without the potatos, we just didn’t have access to it because the brits exported it all and actually made it illegal for the lower class to buy it.
No crops were taken, Ireland was used as the breadbasket for Britain. The "famine" was an economic disaster caused by Westminster Policies, antiquated Irish agriculture and antiquated food production and distribution. In 1847 there was more food imported into Ireland than exported. People relied on the potato not only as a food source but as a source of coin too. We tend to think of modern economic practices when it comes to the mid-1800s but this is not the case especially in the rural parts of Ireland for example the West Coast of Ireland. Mistakes from Westminster thinking the "blight" was over in 1847 led to the closing of the British Relief Association in 1848 was also another bad move as this helped Ireland in 1847 bringing much-needed aid and money.
Its absolutly amazing that an Irish man does not know that this was genocide!! Shame on our education ministers and education system. There were loads of crops and beef yet they were only for export by greedy landlords. When the potatoes crops failed our oppressors continued to export and let the people die, watch Black 47 which gives an idea of what our ancestors had to put up with.
In that case you admit the USSR also committed genocide in Ukraine, and the PRC commited genocide in China. Also the famine didn't only kill Irish Catholics, as the propagandists would have you believe, it killed protestant 'settlers' too. Not to mention people in Wales, Scotland and England also died from the famine. And France, so France is genocidal as well, right?
@@alliedatheistalliance6776I don't think people realise how badly the British aristocracy actually treated the British people too, and many other countries were just as bad, if not worse. The saddest thing is that it still goes on to this day😢
@@susangarvey9415 Yup. Irish Nationalists seem to think they were uniquely victimised, but life was shit for everyone poor back then, in every country, especially by modern standards we apply. I'm not excusing what the Brits did in Ireland, and worse, in India and other parts. But they need to get past this idea that Ireland was some unified utopia until the evil Brits came along with no other intention than to make the Irish suffer. That's a very propagandised and simplistic view of history.
Potatoes are incredibly hardy, so they make loads of sense! As a staple, they’ve helped the poor all over the world stave off starvation. No shade thrown at Ireland for relying on such a good choice!
Yeah, Irish farmers were renters of land taken by the English, they didn’t get the luxury of choosing the crops they grew. Potatoes grew fast and sold well for export, so that’s what they were forced to mainly grow. And then when the blight came and fucked every potato crop, they didn’t exactly turn around and go “well, that was a bad choice let’s see how we can help”, they pretty much just went “well you can’t pay your rent so you can fuck off and die or hey, here’s a sweetheart deal to fuck off to Australia or Canada and die there”.
(I’m the descendant of an Irish famine victim transported to Australia, and a Scottish family who lost their own farms during the Highland clearances, which was the same fucking set of events exactly but in northern Scotland.)
My grandads family left Galway for England during the famine aa they were farmers and couldn't survive. I still have the deeds receipt for the sale of their farm land in Coill Sáile. Which was huge.
Ireland never had a famine. A famine is defined as an extreme scarcity of food. We were growing plenty of food in Ireland at the time, it was just taken from us. If I took all your food and stopped you getting more, you starving to death as a result wouldn’t be described as you dying due to a famine now would it? I starved you to death. That’s exactly why its real name is An Gorta Mor, The Great Starvation. Let’s not make it sound like a natural disaster when it was in fact mass genocide of the Irish people by the British.
An Indian guy on Radio 4 a couple of years ago mentioned that there's never been a famine in a democracy. I certainly can't think of one. Ethiopia in the 80s had a military dictatorship, Mao caused a huge famine in China after the great leap forward policy. Big famine in Ukraine in Stalins time. The common theme seems to be that the authorities didn't give a shit about all the people starving to death. Foods getting short in Palestine this past year, as we speak.
Talk about “ revisionism “ you do realise that this comment is absolute bollox, right? Not only did we have a famine in Ireland we had quite a few over the centuries, probably the worst was the 1845 to 52 one which decimated the population due to the failure of the potato crop which was the main source of food for the majority of the population.
Proud of my dad who made sure I knew my history even from the US. My grandparents (and dad) and all their siblings came here in the late 40s and 50s after the war.
You forgot the part where the British forced the tenant farmers to surrender what meager crop they brought in so that they could export it. They did the same with grain and when people started dying they helped subsidize ships to the US to get rid of the Irish troublemakers. Unfortunately they took all of the Irish guns in the previous uprising.
The tragic thing about Irish Whiskey is that it depended largely on export to the US in the early years of the 20th century. Prohibition in the US killed the industry of Irish distilling which did not happen to the Scottish version as severely. At one time there were distilleries in every town in Ireland but many closed down, ending up with only 2 distilleries. Bushmills and Irish Distillers. Now many small craft beer and whiskey makers are making a comeback.
Random suggestion since you asked for them, and since you're from the west of Ireland... You should do a video on something related to the Irish language. I'm doing my Masters in Irish and it'd give me something close to heart to laugh at for once because everything else about Irish is so friggin serious and academic all the time.
This is a fantastic idea. I've been trying to learn some Irish for just over a year with little resources - duolingo, focloir, abair youtube - since there aren't many options in Canada unless ya have the grade and money to study, which I do not. Formal study was never really my thing anyway but trying to learn Irish has been one of the best things I've ever done. 😀
@@drewc981 I started learning Irish on Duolingo five years ago, actually. That's a great way to start! I have a love/hate relationship with it at this point, because at a certain point, I realized if I was serious, I'd have to treat it like a second full time job in order to actually learn it. Since I can't find anyone in a Gaeltacht to adult-adopt me, I've done it largely on my own. Now I'm doing my MA from UCC Cork, so if you're serious about it, you can really make a lot of progress (schedule in a few mental breakdowns to swear in English and Irish though). I definitely commend you for learning it because it truly deserves to be saved in my opinion (or destroyed altogether because it's so insanely horrible... Depends on my mood that day 😂).
@@pixiwix I absolutely agree Irish deserves to be saved and encouraged. I could never claim that Irish is my language even despite ancestry dating back to 1900 but it's worth the effort - even and especially if part of the point of it is to understand wonderful and often historical music as Gaeilge.
@@fieldagentryan interesting bit of history there, though not exactly sure why you posted it Edit. Oh now I see. Well he had a differing opinion of Irish and that's okay and he's dead and Irish still lives.
The British used the famine as a way to control the native Irish and poor farmers and tennets to establish a stronger British presence in a way it was efnic cleansing.
It's not comparable. Other countries were able to live off other produce and livestock. The Irish weren't because of the British. Exporting was banned in all countries during this period. The British ignored this and exported around 7 ships of produce from Ireland each day
Garron ur a gas man. I agree with u on bacon an cabage as popular meal .also never had mutton stew. And i dont understand this 4 leaf clover deal(is that not an english thing) ❤
What does a 4 leaf clover have up do with Ireland? The Shamrock (national plant) has exctly 3. Famously used by St Patrick to explain the Trinity. Whtas the 4th leaf for?
I like all what you said about the great famine. Agriculture can be funny. Actually, the people who work in it. If a produce becames more popular plenty of farmers want to have it, even in places where naturally it wouldn't grow. There is a big problem about that about vignards around where I live. Can you tell us more about you 1/16 of Italian? How that snicked in? 😁
I prefer Irish whiskey. I was in a lesbian bar in San Francisco (it was really an open, neighborhood bar, but it’s a traditional lesbian hangout.) I ordered a shot of Jameson. Bartender says she’s out of that. Bushmills, then. Out of that, too. Any Irish whisky? Afraid not. What kind of bar are you running here? The bartender said I could go get a bottle from the liquor store across the street. I said, “Really? Is that OK?” She said it was fine. I go out and come back in with my bottle. I’m sitting out on the back patio and a waitress walks by and sees me with this bottle and shouts, “What’s that?! You can’t bring outside alcohol in here! Get out! Get out!” I was about to object because the bartender had given me permission to do this, but I realized that this might get her into trouble, so I kept my mouth shut. So I’m walking out and pass a buddy sitting at the bar and he asks me where I’m going. I said, “I just got kicked out.” I’m standing outside on the sidewalk and my buddy comes out and asks what happened. I said, “It’s a long story.” He asked, “Are you alright?” I replied, “Well, it’s after midnight; I’m standing on the streets of San Francisco; I just got 86’ed from a lesbian bar; and I’ve got a nearly full bottle of Jameson. All things considered, things are going very well.” He says, “Alright, so a pretty typical night for you.”
As always Garron's disquisition is beyond mesmerizing , but why should that surprise us , he is after all a man from the greatest county in the World , that is to say the wonderful cosmopolitan hub that can only be Mayo .
My dad is absolutely obsessed with our Irish ancestry. He thought he was 3rd generation until he was in his 70s, only to discover that for several generations back our people were coal minors on the east coast of America (we grew up in the west coast). He was crushed, but still believes strongly that the heart of our family is Irish. But yeah my name is Peggy Kelley, so something was going on there. When I visited Ireland I didn't mention any of this because it seems embarrassing to claim a country you didn't grow up in, but a rather creepy older man bought me drinks on Kilronan because of my name. I'm sure that's why I got all of those free drinks. He also wanted me to give him a hair cut, but that's another story.
Also, there's a great book called How the Irish Saved Civilization. It's about how the monks in said country copied down and protected literature during the Middle Ages when everyone else was brutish and didn't care about reading.
@lesleymccolgan5797 it was an attempt to get me back to his house, which I did not take him up on. I was with friends and they went. From their stories about vodka, I'm glad I skipped the "haircut." Looking back, it's the most bizarre way to invite someone to your place. His name was Colm, and he was pretty old at the time - 20yrs ago, so either island life did a number on his looks, or he's at least 80.
Well I hope you're happy... just sent this to my whole contact list in my phone. So if you're out there Briana from the bar that left me with the tab and never called again, this one's for you. Not sure why it's for you though... Anyway love your channel Garron. Cheers from Oklahoma.
I live in Chicago And I remember a good handful of Irish who were in Chicago and working returned to Ireland I think it was early mid 90’s There were a large community in the s/w suburbs , so many the local white hen pantry actually sold the sausage and pudding and bacon , I loved that stuff, not sure where they went but they’re not there anymore, but a few I personally knew went back don’t know why but they were in they’re late 20’ early 30’
My great great grandparents decided to immigrate to Australia, with toddlers in toe. So this red head is indoors between 10-4 for six months of the year. This skin tone is, believe it or not, suited to Australia
Also, there was a paper published that said the famine would have had the same impact on us as it had on the UK and the rest of Europe if we didn't have the penal laws
We were a net exporter of food during the great potato famine. The English wanted their cut. If you didn’t give the tax, you’d be kicked off your farm. Half the population died of starvation
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Thanks so much for your video. Luv’ it!
I am German, studied in Galway 20 years ago, met my own Galway girl in Germany the year after, moved to Ireland for 10 years… We are now living in Germany and I am privileged to have spend a bit less than a quarter of my life in Galway city and county. I love Ireland!
I have got a story to tell you guys about Northern Ireland and the Republic: In 2007, Ireland hosted the Rally World Championship for the first time, and, of course, my two best petrol head buddies from school years in Germany came over to Ireland for the 3 of us to follow the rally. On the very last day, after the last special stage, we came back to our rental car and realized that our driver had left the lights on and bled the battery. He walked to the closest petrol station to buy a pair of jump leads, he returned an hour later. ;)
A guy in his Mercedes stopped to assist. The guys got chatting as I was changing my bellies behind our car. The man asked what brought us here. (Duh! The rally! Hence the wellies!) One of my buddies said, pointing at me, that I live in Galway. The man asked me what brought me to Galway. I said that my girlfriend is from there.
He looked with utter disgust, mumbled: “From the Republic!?”, removed the jump leads of his car and drove off. I am not fucking kidding ya!
Just as well our car was up and running at the time. That was in 2007!
Not a famine.. a genocide. The English exported all our food and we were left to starve! Love you garron
14 million tons of food where exported from Ireland at gun point!
The potato famine story is a coverup for one of many examples of Englands 16 century long genocide of the native Britons (Gallic peoples).
Also:
Under British rule, Irish Catholics were prohibited from entering the professions or even purchasing land. Instead, many rented small plots of land from absentee British Protestant landlords.
Right that. The Brits engineered that genocide. During the height of the famine, something like 220.,000 tonnes of wheat were force-exported from Eire to UK. UK papers even mused whether or not to let Irish keep some of their wheat and corn, and English had the nerve to say the Irish should starve because allowing food would let the Irish "breed up" again!
Lads im English and can i just say....Sorry! We really are sorry. Wont happen again the lads learned what they did was wrong.
That's why it's the ENGLISH famine.
And enforced starvation is working in a current genocide in Gaza.
As a teenager in Iowa I was obsessed with "The Troubles" & Bobby Sands. I even kept a scrapbook. Why? No idea. It was just me then.
Troubled teenager
Smooth!
Without historians who are we ?
well done
I'm from Derry and grew up during the Troubles and hunger strikes. It is actually pretty cool that some teenager in Iowa was thinking of us and the chaos we were living through back then. So I at least appreciate it, at the time it felt like we were all alone and ignored by the world. Thank teenage you for caring about people far away :)
They all went blind shat themselves and died horrible deaths, for uniforms and prisoner status. Prides a horrible thing, but so was Maggie thatcher
Fantastic video, thanks! From one of your Irish-American fans.
American, you’re not Irish.
The English land thieves would let the poor workers take the potatoes to feed their families as part of their wage, and all other products that were grown were shipped over to feed the English or distributed among the upper classes. Plenty of other farm products were grown, barley wheat etc. A British member of Parliament, Sir Charles Trevelyan, stated "The Irish potato blight was sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson"!☘.....Oh and another Irish favourite dish,(here in the North) is Champ n smoked fish. We had large families because we were Catholics who feared, and revered the Church, who were against all types of contraceptives.
My da was from Limerick. Bacon and cabbage was his absolute favourite. He loved stew too. He always tried to tell people bacon and cabbage was the Irish dish.
Irish whiskey is far superior because we do it properly. I don’t drink scotch. Powers all the way for me 😁. Dads favourite was paddy’s.
I’ve been to the famine memorial in Co Mayo and it’s such an amazing place. So haunting and sad. Anyone who hasn’t been should go and see it.
Agreed, Power's or Paddy's!
@@SharonBoland-ui3ns it’s not a museum in mayo it’s a memorial. It’s at the foot of croagh Patrick
as a redhead I can safely say the reason you don't see too many of us is because we're indoors avoiding sunlight, the natural enemy of gingers everywhere
thats not redheads thats just irish people in general
I love redheads, no idea why? I myself am not (though when I had a beard there was this red spot?) but as a normal guy, all these spandex things that young women wear, you can't help looking? The downside of this smorgasboard of young. fit beautiful women is the people who should definitely NOT be wearing such things, big saggy arses and a camel rearing to go, oh no,t my eyes, my very eyes!. I'm getting older now and I predict a change in how people dress, not only that 'shabby cl
Mique, will be gone, replaced with any last living artisans that that made sense.m forgetting what I previously said,
As a redhead who grew up in Florida-Hallelujah!😂😂😂
...avoiding sunlight, ridicule and abuse.
Yes. We hates it.
I've just stumbled upon this video, but it's great to finally see a regular Irish guy talk about Ireland, as opposed to the "ho di hi, hor r ya mi owl flower" kind of act. We just don't go on like that with each other and it's so pander-y to 'Muricas.
It would be great to see a video debunking myths, stereotypes or lists like this!
New sub anyway!
My dad’s family is from Ireland 100%. I visited two years ago and fell in love. I’m glad I found your channel, you are delightful
He's hilarious. My father's family is from Ireland too, and I swear that sense of humor is in the DNA
I love Ireland. I met my wife as a soldier on a 6-month roulement tour in Belfast. There I was, looking good, wearing riot gear and holding the line. Then I spotted a beautiful woman across the divide as she lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it at me, winking. Oh my... nothing much has changed in 34 years, and that cheeky wink of hers gets me every time.
Can't beat that spark.
How? I mean just how was that relationship possible? Would love to hear how your wife’s community and security said “yep go ahead no issues here” now that would be a story worth hearing 😮😂😮
@@sheenavaughan2717 Maybe I should write about it. Our wedding was scheduled to take place in Lisburn Catholic Chapel (safer than Belfast), but when the IRA discovered that, they threatened to bomb, so we got married in the multi-denominational church, St Columbs Thiepval Barracks (Also Lisburn). We had to get 136 Irish guests through security clearance in two weeks so they could get onto the base. We had the Army Catholic Priest marry us, with my wife's catholic priests attending, and then we had our reception in the UDR bar on base. Still married 34 years later.
If my wife is a sleeper agent, I think I've broken her will 😂😂
Someone should make a movie about that amazing love history, it has everything, love , politics, adventure, fear and a happy ending❤🎉
Hi Sir. I'm a South African man working in Tipperary. You won't believe how many towns in South Africa has Irish names. There is Belfast kilarney bredastown tipperary Douglas and many more
To the person talked about the patoto, and the English thieves depriving the ppl and robbing them and let them. starve. The English attacked South Africa, forced the women children and old timers Into concentration camps, and 1000s were starved to death(I can show you acres of child graves, spanning acres. But still they couldn't beat the Boer nation,, even after they were 400 against 1.just Google the South African monument of wounded but not beaten
"Half the stuff I say on my TikTok is just to piss people off." And this one reason you're delicious.
Never forget it was not just the potatoe blight alone which caused starvation of many poor Irish but also the fact the British crown making it near impossible for poor Catholic Irish to obtain food. Aid being sent from other countries was intercepted and deprived of mainly poor catholic Irish individuals.
Iv often heard phrase "that family took the soup" when referring too Protestant families who supposedly had changed from Catholic to Protestant in order to be given food from soup kitchens enforced by British crown
Truth. England was trying and succeeded in wiping Ireland out. ( in terms of starvation and people being forced to leave)
True. For all but two years of the disaster, Ireland was a net exporter of beef, mutton, cheese, wheat and other crops that were controlled by the British landowners. Irish activists begged, protested and sometimes resorted to riots in vain attempts to change the Brit policies.
They were shipping all the other food to england under armed guard etc. Was a hol*caust.
Did the “f” word add anything to your comments? I think not! I would have enjoyed this much more without the curse word!
@@jackiesaunders9301 You're not familiar with Garron, are you? The f-word is the least of his linguistic excesses.
I’ve lived 45 minutes from the tx renfest for 32 years. So much fun. Always get the nice schedule of events! We usually go over it, referencing the adorable map. You get the most of each day- from the shows to food bathrooms and drink. Dressing up makes it more fun.
Firstly, love the vids…you’re hilarious. I get the feeling you’re into your history, if you could do some longer form history videos, with your comics take, I think it would be good
Thank you for this! You are such a joy to listen to for humour and this educational video probably hits some people stronger than you know. Peace!
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The blight that caused the Irish potatoe famine is called Britain.. thats why they call it old Blighty 😂 I think I made that last bit up
Sounds good to me!
@@brilafable It’s an example of typical post-imperial British self-effacement.
According to Wikipedia.
What a beautiful sentence
Pretty good though
Funny it's actually named Galar in Pokémon - the Irish word for disease or blight.
If that's your level of makey uppy, feel free to make up anything at any time. It was very clever.
Brilliant 😊
My grandparents left Mayo for Philadelphia in the early 1920s and returned when the economy got better.
My grandfather left Leitrim in 1905 and returned with my German American grandmother in 1928. She refused to leave. He went to NY.
Twas great craic growing up as a picky eater with a dad from Moycullen, Galway. I quote: "what we neeeeed is another famine". If I'd a spud for every time I heard that!
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There’s a lot of Irish in Massachusetts red haired as well. My family including
My Da's family settled in Massive Chew Set's 👍
The Quakers helped feed the starving Irish opening up soup kitchens.As an Irish person I have a lot of time for the Quakers. The Turks sent food ships which were blocked by the British navy.
@@brianbreen1026 what would you except from the Brits💯💚🇮🇪
Don't think you are correct re the Quakers and the soup kitchens.It was a stunt to force the Irish to convert from Catholic to church of England.eg Coloney on Achill Island and also the Coloney near Louis burgh.This was not a charitable act yo feed the poor.but one with terms and conditions attached .No need to rewrite Irish history
I was going to mock you calling hand-to-hand combat head-to-head combat. Then I remembered I have been to Irish pubs and you are 100% correct. My apologies.
Hazel ☘️
Be careful … if all our Irish descendants came to visit at the same time
1) there would standing room only on this Emerald Isle
2) we would SINK 😂😂😂
SO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR DELICIOUS ,
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Not to mention anyone who tried to take the food that wasn’t potatoes was promptly exported to a penal colony instead.. hence the song lyrics in the fields of Athenry “He stole Travelyan’s corn, so the young might see the morn, now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay”
I must play that one again.
Yes exactly. They were only allowed potatoes and there were no potatoes and they were denied any other type of food.
Ireland is one of the most fertile countries in the world and was a net exporter of food all through the Famine. Take a bow England.
Very delicious video, Garron. Thank you 😂
Definitely get up to do the Titanic tour!!! It was brilliant before the refurbishment……way better now. It’s a must!! 4:55
Love your show. Visited North and South had a really good time.
I absolutely loved the facts. It is so much fun learning more about Ireland, seeing the sights, learning about the food. I am proud to say that I’m 25%🍀❤from 🇺🇸
Which 25% of you is Irish? I'm mostly Irish in my feet which is evident by the way I walk.
@@middlemore-brendonMy Irishness percentage is mostly in the sausage area, which is why I'm hung like Shergar. I call it my Irish third leg.
@@mattkinsella9856funnily enough, Ireland has one of the lower average penis sizes in the west, so that’s probably not the boast you think it is.
@@culllyI met a lady in Australia who was a world authority on the Langer. She said that North American Indians had the longest and Irish had the thickest, and then asked me my name. "Tonto, Tonto O'Reilly miss".
@@culllySo a few "foreign lads" couldn't fit in your gob?
You can get the pronunciation by reading the irish.
Muckanna eder daw hawlia
Muk-ina-edder-daw-hawlia
Mukin-edderda-hawlia
Muckin/edder/d/hawlia
It rhymes with " fuckin better than all-of-ye"
howlin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fantastic! @@Beansidhe-jm2qh
Brilliant
You are so engaging and funny, You are a natural comedian x
True, but I still wish you'd sing more than you do. Your voice is stunning. I could listen to you forever.
I just love that you make my days with great laughs!
Buddy love what your doing.....I'm from the east but ya make me want to move west cuz use seem like use know the crack......also a hardy bucks fan
Would you, with respect Garron, think about a small shout out to the Chocataw and their links to ourselves which have lasted to do this day? Just a thought?
And back during Covid when the Irish raised millions for the Native American peoples in memory of the Choctaw. There's a great story for a video there alright
Your accent makes everything funnier to me. Great video would be great as a podcast also
Irish-American of quitter descent here... My "O'Berry" family immigrated to the states in 1850. My paternal grandmother is Choctaw "Indian" (her words and I will respect them until I die) She was the last of us born on a reservation. I was raised to be very wary of government and taught that it was a necessary evil. The Irish-Indians, and there are a lot of us, are REALLY hard-headed and proud as you can imagine. My favorite meal is and has always been bacon and cabbage and my grandmother's was the best.(truth!)
I'm an Irish Native too! Double the stubbornness 😂
Oh here we go - another 'Irish American" 🤡
My grandmother was one of the Ga berry clan. We had always been told that we had an Indian great great great great great grandmother somewhere back there.
Why do you have to use so many really foul nasty vulgar words. Live your broadcasts otherwise, but I cut you off when the filth starts. You are so talented, & I do not mind so much the mild cursing. But are you still a 13 year old trying to impress your older clansmen?
Such a great video!!! Thank you, Nicha!!!
Dude you mentioned going to see the docks in Belfast, that’s a great idea for one of your longer videos
Great stuff lad
MInd wasn't blown, but loved you guiding us through the list!
Love your videos, Garron. I'm from the Irish border area, but consider myself 100% Irish.
This is so interesting and pleasing to hear from an Irish person! I’m trying to visit Galway in the next year or so 😁
Most other crops at that time were shipped to England and that's why so many people died.. when I say "shipped" I mean taken!
Britain, not just England. Don't let the Scottish off.
Along with cattle, sheep, and fowl, barley and oats were shipped everyday.
Come on bai
There was more than enough food to feed everyone in the country during the famine, even without the potatos, we just didn’t have access to it because the brits exported it all and actually made it illegal for the lower class to buy it.
No crops were taken, Ireland was used as the breadbasket for Britain. The "famine" was an economic disaster caused by Westminster Policies, antiquated Irish agriculture and antiquated food production and distribution. In 1847 there was more food imported into Ireland than exported. People relied on the potato not only as a food source but as a source of coin too. We tend to think of modern economic practices when it comes to the mid-1800s but this is not the case especially in the rural parts of Ireland for example the West Coast of Ireland. Mistakes from Westminster thinking the "blight" was over in 1847 led to the closing of the British Relief Association in 1848 was also another bad move as this helped Ireland in 1847 bringing much-needed aid and money.
Its absolutly amazing that an Irish man does not know that this was genocide!! Shame on our education ministers and education system. There were loads of crops and beef yet they were only for export by greedy landlords. When the potatoes crops failed our oppressors continued to export and let the people die, watch Black 47 which gives an idea of what our ancestors had to put up with.
The british stopped & stole aid at sea coming to Ireland from America
In that case you admit the USSR also committed genocide in Ukraine, and the PRC commited genocide in China. Also the famine didn't only kill Irish Catholics, as the propagandists would have you believe, it killed protestant 'settlers' too. Not to mention people in Wales, Scotland and England also died from the famine. And France, so France is genocidal as well, right?
@@alliedatheistalliance6776I don't think people realise how badly the British aristocracy actually treated the British people too, and many other countries were just as bad, if not worse. The saddest thing is that it still goes on to this day😢
@@susangarvey9415 Yup. Irish Nationalists seem to think they were uniquely victimised, but life was shit for everyone poor back then, in every country, especially by modern standards we apply. I'm not excusing what the Brits did in Ireland, and worse, in India and other parts. But they need to get past this idea that Ireland was some unified utopia until the evil Brits came along with no other intention than to make the Irish suffer. That's a very propagandised and simplistic view of history.
This guy is a total, uneducated fool. Boring!
Keep up the good work, G.
Greetings from Sunny South Australia Gammon 👍
Potatoes are incredibly hardy, so they make loads of sense! As a staple, they’ve helped the poor all over the world stave off starvation. No shade thrown at Ireland for relying on such a good choice!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Apostles_of_Ireland
He didn't mention that most of the food produced in Ireland was exported to England during this time (not by choice of the Irish).
Yeah, Irish farmers were renters of land taken by the English, they didn’t get the luxury of choosing the crops they grew. Potatoes grew fast and sold well for export, so that’s what they were forced to mainly grow.
And then when the blight came and fucked every potato crop, they didn’t exactly turn around and go “well, that was a bad choice let’s see how we can help”, they pretty much just went “well you can’t pay your rent so you can fuck off and die or hey, here’s a sweetheart deal to fuck off to Australia or Canada and die there”.
(I’m the descendant of an Irish famine victim transported to Australia, and a Scottish family who lost their own farms during the Highland clearances, which was the same fucking set of events exactly but in northern Scotland.)
People wonder why we love watching the English get their arses handed to them in any sporting event with any other country 😂
My grandads family left Galway for England during the famine aa they were farmers and couldn't survive. I still have the deeds receipt for the sale of their farm land in Coill Sáile. Which was huge.
Ireland never had a famine. A famine is defined as an extreme scarcity of food. We were growing plenty of food in Ireland at the time, it was just taken from us. If I took all your food and stopped you getting more, you starving to death as a result wouldn’t be described as you dying due to a famine now would it? I starved you to death. That’s exactly why its real name is An Gorta Mor, The Great Starvation. Let’s not make it sound like a natural disaster when it was in fact mass genocide of the Irish people by the British.
UK government* not the British. We weren't alive dipshit.
An Indian guy on Radio 4 a couple of years ago mentioned that there's never been a famine in a democracy. I certainly can't think of one. Ethiopia in the 80s had a military dictatorship, Mao caused a huge famine in China after the great leap forward policy. Big famine in Ukraine in Stalins time. The common theme seems to be that the authorities didn't give a shit about all the people starving to death. Foods getting short in Palestine this past year, as we speak.
The British wanted the land not so much the people.
@paulmorgan5655 open a book
Talk about “ revisionism “ you do realise that this comment is absolute bollox, right? Not only did we have a famine in Ireland we had quite a few over the centuries, probably the worst was the 1845 to 52 one which decimated the population due to the failure of the potato crop which was the main source of food for the majority of the population.
1942-1952. Might need to redo that one
The graphic was correct, he just mis-spoke
@@johnc3403 mishpoke
I love love love you so much, and irish people and ireland so much, may Allah bless you all yarab 🙏 ❤️
Also I super enjoyed this video.
4:00 My father used to call "Derry/Londonderry" Stroke City.
My family started fleeing Mayo from around famine time. until about the 1950s.
Id like to see a video the best Irish chocolate
Is this channel dedicated to irish and americans only? its an observation from following you for sometime from insignificant Australia
Proud of my dad who made sure I knew my history even from the US. My grandparents (and dad) and all their siblings came here in the late 40s and 50s after the war.
Just over 5 million ❤❤❤
80 million. You would never get a taxi in town on a Saturday night. Plus the national dish is spice bag.
Or chicken fillet roll
I want to move there. ❤❤❤
No snakes or spiders and everyone is a funny smartass. I love it. Its green. Is weed legal in Ireland?
You forgot the part where the British forced the tenant farmers to surrender what meager crop they brought in so that they could export it. They did the same with grain and when people started dying they helped subsidize ships to the US to get rid of the Irish troublemakers. Unfortunately they took all of the Irish guns in the previous uprising.
Plus the land was de-forested for lumber to build British ships, sadly.
You have a new subscriber! I really enjoyed your video. Will check out more of them!
Irish whiskey spelled with a -key at the end, Scottish whisky just -ky at the end. How did they miss that one?
The tragic thing about Irish Whiskey is that it depended largely on export to the US in the early years of the 20th century. Prohibition in the US killed the industry of Irish distilling which did not happen to the Scottish version as severely. At one time there were distilleries in every town in Ireland but many closed down, ending up with only 2 distilleries. Bushmills and Irish Distillers. Now many small craft beer and whiskey makers are making a comeback.
Jameson has become a household favorite.
This is super super interesting as well as funny
Random suggestion since you asked for them, and since you're from the west of Ireland... You should do a video on something related to the Irish language. I'm doing my Masters in Irish and it'd give me something close to heart to laugh at for once because everything else about Irish is so friggin serious and academic all the time.
This is a fantastic idea. I've been trying to learn some Irish for just over a year with little resources - duolingo, focloir, abair youtube - since there aren't many options in Canada unless ya have the grade and money to study, which I do not. Formal study was never really my thing anyway but trying to learn Irish has been one of the best things I've ever done. 😀
@@drewc981 I started learning Irish on Duolingo five years ago, actually. That's a great way to start! I have a love/hate relationship with it at this point, because at a certain point, I realized if I was serious, I'd have to treat it like a second full time job in order to actually learn it. Since I can't find anyone in a Gaeltacht to adult-adopt me, I've done it largely on my own. Now I'm doing my MA from UCC Cork, so if you're serious about it, you can really make a lot of progress (schedule in a few mental breakdowns to swear in English and Irish though). I definitely commend you for learning it because it truly deserves to be saved in my opinion (or destroyed altogether because it's so insanely horrible... Depends on my mood that day 😂).
@@pixiwix I absolutely agree Irish deserves to be saved and encouraged. I could never claim that Irish is my language even despite ancestry dating back to 1900 but it's worth the effort - even and especially if part of the point of it is to understand wonderful and often historical music as Gaeilge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell
@@fieldagentryan interesting bit of history there, though not exactly sure why you posted it Edit. Oh now I see. Well he had a differing opinion of Irish and that's okay and he's dead and Irish still lives.
The British used the famine as a way to control the native Irish and poor farmers and tennets to establish a stronger British presence in a way it was efnic cleansing.
Irish whisky is not just the brewing technique but also the spelling which the website missed lol
And as with most famines it could've been prevented 😔
luckily you're not such a fussy eater Garron, I always grow a few carrots next to my spuds and maybe the odd turnip or even a cauliflower
Two juristicions, one occupied, one not, One Nation!
There was a potato blight/ famine across most of Europe at the same time. The difference was how those in authority responded.
It's not comparable. Other countries were able to live off other produce and livestock.
The Irish weren't because of the British.
Exporting was banned in all countries during this period.
The British ignored this and exported around 7 ships of produce from Ireland each day
Oh my word please do more longer videos
Oh shucks! St Patrick must have come to Kodiak Alaska, too! We also are snake- & serious bug-less!
Garron ur a gas man. I agree with u on bacon an cabage as popular meal .also never had mutton stew. And i dont understand this 4 leaf clover deal(is that not an english thing) ❤
What does a 4 leaf clover have up do with Ireland?
The Shamrock (national plant) has exctly 3. Famously used by St Patrick to explain the Trinity.
Whtas the 4th leaf for?
I lived on a road with a long name in Galway called Loughathalia.
Can we do a trip with you to the pub with some facts and ‘what to do / what not to do? And can I come? I will buy my own drink.
Ireland: a place that's safe for people ✨
I like all what you said about the great famine. Agriculture can be funny. Actually, the people who work in it. If a produce becames more popular plenty of farmers want to have it, even in places where naturally it wouldn't grow. There is a big problem about that about vignards around where I live.
Can you tell us more about you 1/16 of Italian? How that snicked in? 😁
Your expressions are ticklers to me!!! The spicer the better.!!!
The potato is originally from Peru! It makes sense that it would grow in your climate.
I prefer Irish whiskey. I was in a lesbian bar in San Francisco (it was really an open, neighborhood bar, but it’s a traditional lesbian hangout.) I ordered a shot of Jameson. Bartender says she’s out of that. Bushmills, then. Out of that, too. Any Irish whisky? Afraid not. What kind of bar are you running here? The bartender said I could go get a bottle from the liquor store across the street. I said, “Really? Is that OK?” She said it was fine. I go out and come back in with my bottle. I’m sitting out on the back patio and a waitress walks by and sees me with this bottle and shouts, “What’s that?! You can’t bring outside alcohol in here! Get out! Get out!” I was about to object because the bartender had given me permission to do this, but I realized that this might get her into trouble, so I kept my mouth shut. So I’m walking out and pass a buddy sitting at the bar and he asks me where I’m going. I said, “I just got kicked out.” I’m standing outside on the sidewalk and my buddy comes out and asks what happened. I said, “It’s a long story.” He asked, “Are you alright?” I replied, “Well, it’s after midnight; I’m standing on the streets of San Francisco; I just got 86’ed from a lesbian bar; and I’ve got a nearly full bottle of Jameson. All things considered, things are going very well.” He says, “Alright, so a pretty typical night for you.”
Deadly story
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“O” and the longest name are such interesting facts as an Irish person ❤❤❤
The Irish were the first people in Europe since dark ages to have surnames based on family as opposed to trade
As always Garron's disquisition is beyond mesmerizing , but why should that surprise us , he is after all a man from the greatest county in the World , that is to say the wonderful cosmopolitan hub that can only be Mayo .
LOVE
My dad is absolutely obsessed with our Irish ancestry. He thought he was 3rd generation until he was in his 70s, only to discover that for several generations back our people were coal minors on the east coast of America (we grew up in the west coast). He was crushed, but still believes strongly that the heart of our family is Irish. But yeah my name is Peggy Kelley, so something was going on there.
When I visited Ireland I didn't mention any of this because it seems embarrassing to claim a country you didn't grow up in, but a rather creepy older man bought me drinks on Kilronan because of my name. I'm sure that's why I got all of those free drinks. He also wanted me to give him a hair cut, but that's another story.
Also, there's a great book called How the Irish Saved Civilization. It's about how the monks in said country copied down and protected literature during the Middle Ages when everyone else was brutish and didn't care about reading.
As a retired hairdresser I insist you spill the tea!
@lesleymccolgan5797 it was an attempt to get me back to his house, which I did not take him up on. I was with friends and they went. From their stories about vodka, I'm glad I skipped the "haircut." Looking back, it's the most bizarre way to invite someone to your place. His name was Colm, and he was pretty old at the time - 20yrs ago, so either island life did a number on his looks, or he's at least 80.
Many top European universities were founded by Irish monks.
irush were literate and in a mission to spread Christianity to Europe.@@pilgrimonfire
Kelley is.......a surname from the Isle of Man
We used to have wolves and Bears they have some bite boyo.
Well I hope you're happy... just sent this to my whole contact list in my phone. So if you're out there Briana from the bar that left me with the tab and never called again, this one's for you. Not sure why it's for you though... Anyway love your channel Garron. Cheers from Oklahoma.
“From 1945 to 1952!” 👌🤣🤣
My Mayo brother you are the undisputed king of taking the piss!! ❤❤
I live in Chicago
And I remember a good handful of Irish who were in Chicago and working returned to Ireland
I think it was early mid 90’s
There were a large community in the s/w suburbs , so many the local white hen pantry actually sold the sausage and pudding and bacon , I loved that stuff, not sure where they went but they’re not there anymore, but a few I personally knew went back don’t know why but they were in they’re late 20’ early 30’
That was when our economy started to improve. Irish people always want to go home.
My great great grandparents decided to immigrate to Australia, with toddlers in toe. So this red head is indoors between 10-4 for six months of the year. This skin tone is, believe it or not, suited to Australia
Also, there was a paper published that said the famine would have had the same impact on us as it had on the UK and the rest of Europe if we didn't have the penal laws
Yes my gr grandparents moved over to Glasgow so i have me irish roots
We were a net exporter of food during the great potato famine. The English wanted their cut. If you didn’t give the tax, you’d be kicked off your farm. Half the population died of starvation
To Hell or to Connaught
5:46 I nearly pissed myself laughing and totally agree!
1945 to 1952. Christ I lived through the famine, so that’s why I had no spuds with the Sunday roast.
He was only 100 years out on both dates!😊
Time travel now...would ya stop 😂.
Let's not forget about the crops that were harvested where shipped from Ireland by the landowners
Enjoyed learning about Ireland 👍🏻
600000 tons of food shipped out in the first two years of the famine. The urish grew a lot if food. However they did not own.