Why Were the Irish Once Hated in America?

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2017
  • Irish Need Not Apply. Remember that time most of America just didn't like those pesky Irish? Most don't. So let's talk about the era when the Irish horde was the 'biggest' threat to American decency.
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  • @theflyingeyeball
    @theflyingeyeball 4 года назад +1614

    My own high school history teacher accused me of making up lies when I tried to discuss the brutality the Irish have faced for centuries even before the US was a country.

    • @aidansmall9166
      @aidansmall9166 3 года назад +56

      @@user-mm8vw1ow1x and no one cares about a bigot like u sit down

    • @SRosenberg203
      @SRosenberg203 3 года назад +26

      @@allypaige124 Lol ok Donald Trump, why don't you cry about it some more. "NOBODY has been treated worse in history than me!"
      The Irish were never involved in chattel slavery, except as slavemasters once they immigrated to the United States. Being a second class citizen, while certainly undesirable, is not the same thing as being a slave.
      Also, if you want justice, go talk to the British. Why should America give the Irish a goddamn thing, since we weren't the ones oppressing them? America DOES owe black people justice and reparations, because this entire country was built on the unpaid labor of their ancestors. But we don't owe the Irish anything, except maybe a potato or two.

    • @kyleparton4610
      @kyleparton4610 3 года назад +151

      @@SRosenberg203 the Irish were enslaved they just called it indentured servitude they were also forced to fight on the frontlines in Britain's wars against their will and 1/3 were wiped out with starvation cause by a fungus that the British brought to the land of Ireland. The Irish ppl were persecuted spit on and stepped on for hundreds of years.

    • @SRosenberg203
      @SRosenberg203 3 года назад +49

      @@kyleparton4610 Indentured servitude is, by definition, not the same thing as slavery. I am well aware that the Irish had their place as the group that everyone else in the world shits on, particularly England. But let's not pretend that most groups weren't subject to equal or worse treatment by another group at one point or another in their history.

    • @aarononeill9078
      @aarononeill9078 3 года назад +72

      @@SRosenberg203
      At what point did he say this was a competition.
      Secondly i can guarantee you wouldn't always choose indentured servant over slave if u had to go back in time n live one of there lives.
      Pretty sure if the potato famine happend to the Jewish people it be a genocide to u.
      Lastly the barbary slave trade happend 100 years before the Atlantic slave trade it saw 1 to 2 million europeans took as slaves to north Africa. Yes slaves not indentured slaves.
      Why mention this? Cus ppl that tend to highlight the "indentured" bit tend to do so cus they try to diminish what's happend to the europeans. So now av mention barbary. We can not go down that route.
      To conclude. With out a shadow of a doubt if any of us now got forced into labour. And many of us died know one would be saying "indentured"
      Oh and who built usa. Pretty sure them pictures of European men up massive sky high buildings with a death rate of 1 in 4 played major part in it. Probably not to many rosenbergs up there.

  • @brendenvlogstv5923
    @brendenvlogstv5923 6 лет назад +1954

    English:hey, can you becatholic
    Irish:nah man we're good
    (Irish becomes catholic)
    English:hey, can you be protestant
    Irish:OH, COME ON!

    • @jamesxenophon9505
      @jamesxenophon9505 5 лет назад +157

      Not exactly true as Ireland was largely converted to Christianity before England was. In fact, the Irish brought Christianity to the top half of Britain.

    • @ChrisD4335
      @ChrisD4335 5 лет назад +11

      @@jamesxenophon9505 dam irish

    • @jhughes344
      @jhughes344 5 лет назад

      Mallyoo tradition itself in most things is weird and rarely holds up with time

    • @memelord2723
      @memelord2723 5 лет назад +4

      😂😂

    • @rachdarastrix5251
      @rachdarastrix5251 5 лет назад +7

      During most centuries in Europe it was hard to distinguish their idea of a true Christian from a devil worshiper anyway.

  • @BeastMode120Films
    @BeastMode120Films 5 лет назад +1220

    My family name was changed from O’Byrne to Burns so my ancestors could get jobs easier lol

    • @thenextshenanigantownandth4393
      @thenextshenanigantownandth4393 4 года назад +46

      @MAGNI Mac/O Irish names were mostly anglicized by the British. Many Americans with the surnames king/Conroy or Smith may have had Irish surnames originally, like Ó Conraoi & Mac Gabhann.

    • @esterherschkovich6499
      @esterherschkovich6499 4 года назад +67

      Sad but not just the Irish,Jewish people changed their names to be a accepted..am from both sides..

    • @connorplankey5392
      @connorplankey5392 4 года назад +12

      Powderly to Plankey for my family. I'm thinking of getting it legally changed back but I'm not sure.

    • @IncrediibleHauck
      @IncrediibleHauck 4 года назад +3

      Sean Mcdermott 1916 Mac is normally Scottish I thought ?

    • @thenextshenanigantownandth4393
      @thenextshenanigantownandth4393 4 года назад +11

      @@IncrediibleHauck Mac and O' are both Irish prefixes. Mac is the Irish word for son. Irish mac was more likely to be anglicized to mc than scottish surnames so mc is more likely to be Irish than scottish. 2/3 of all mc surnames are Irish in origin. For example Scottish journalist macmasters changed his name to Mcmasters to appear Irish in the 19th century, stating that mc was Irish and mac was scottish, mc was almost exclusively Irish in that period.
      There's tens of thousands of popular Irish surnames that begin with Mc/mac, McCarthy is the 13th most popular surname in Ireland the only mc surname in Ireland which is in the top 20. In scotland Macdonald is the most popular mac surname in scotland in the number 9 spot, the only mac surname in the top 20.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people
      Some popular Irish surnames (McCarthy, (McDermott), (McDonagh), (McNamara), (McGrath), Mcguire, (McInerney), (McEnery), (McLaughlin) also seen it spelled as O'Laughlin too, Mac Domhnaill (MacDonnell), Mac Mathghamhna (McMahon), (McGee), McEnery, mcguinness, mcNally, McGillian, McAuliffe, MacElroy, McEvoy, McManus, McFlannagan, McGillicuddy.MacCorcorans/ Ó Corcráin. Macaulay, Mac Maoláin. McEvoy, McCaffrey.McKeogh), McHugh, (McGovern), (McCormick), (McCann), McGinty, mcclearly. many many more.
      When I got to Ireland I tend to see half the surnames as mc and half as O, but in reality most are anglicized alot of us have generic surnames because of British rule.
      One of my ancestors had the surname David, but I discovered this was anglicized from Mcdavid or in its true form in Irish MacDaibheid.

  • @juantrujillo589
    @juantrujillo589 5 лет назад +1675

    I love Irish people and Irish culture
    Greetings from Mexico you’re always welcome 🇲🇽 🇮🇪

    • @jaqueswilliams5192
      @jaqueswilliams5192 5 лет назад +199

      Juan Trujillo that’s great. Irish and Mexicans can relate to each other because they’ve both been labeled as drunks and lazy but worked very hard

    • @fatphobicandproud9003
      @fatphobicandproud9003 5 лет назад +54

      @@jaqueswilliams5192 hey you described us Filipinos as well.

    • @b0wm4n86
      @b0wm4n86 5 лет назад +34

      @@jaqueswilliams5192 We Irish built America.

    • @AverageGymRat07
      @AverageGymRat07 5 лет назад +5

      Juan Trujillo thx mate. You understand

    • @2hotflavored666
      @2hotflavored666 5 лет назад +1

      That's great but no one wants to live in Mexico...

  • @ThomCoe
    @ThomCoe 6 лет назад +1709

    It would've been nice if you mentioned how badly the Irish were treated during the Mexican/American war. They were placed on the frontline as living targets and shields for the Protestants; they were starved; their churches were burnt down; their women were raped, etc. All of this caused a sizeable amount of Irish to desert the US army and join their fellow Catholic Mexicans, flying the banner "Batallón de San Patricio" (Saint Patrick's Battalion) to fight against the Protestants who hated them so much.

    • @annamcgauran8832
      @annamcgauran8832 4 года назад +46

      Doesnt suit the agenda to mentiom that

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 4 года назад +43

      @@annamcgauran8832 - What agenda is that?

    • @811brian
      @811brian 4 года назад +22

      @@loki2240 the agenda of the currently despised nationality within the US (Excluding the US)

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 4 года назад +68

      @@811brian - I asked Anna what she meant by her post. It would be unfair for me to take your response as hers, right?
      And you weren't clear in your response, either. How was that helpful?

    • @JTHMRulez1
      @JTHMRulez1 4 года назад +7

      @@811brian So Irish aren't American?

  • @knowledgehusk
    @knowledgehusk  6 лет назад +3275

    Oh look it's me.

  • @bean_eater1209
    @bean_eater1209 5 лет назад +966

    Irish person: ah we're just having a bit of craic
    American police officer: excuse me what

    • @paddydelaney799
      @paddydelaney799 5 лет назад +13

      😂

    • @doom1894
      @doom1894 4 года назад +7

      @@raleighburner1589 the fu*k you on

    • @annamcgauran8832
      @annamcgauran8832 4 года назад +4

      @@raleighburner1589 blackpool is in england and by the way your commenting on thos video i wouldnt be suprised if your mother doesnt like ya

    • @johnkelly1787
      @johnkelly1787 4 года назад +23

      An Gorta M`or, the Irish for the great hunger ,was a ploy used by the British to eradicate and ethnicly cleanse in Ireland, starving us ,almost 2 million died through starvation and related illnesses, the British used this starvation weapon also in India where the death toll was much higher, the abundant foods in Ireland were locked down and heavy protected by British troops, and exported constantly to Canada to feed the British forces there, and also to Britain, another 2 million Irish fled to USA mainly, Slainte.

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 4 года назад +2

      @@johnkelly1787 Actually it was west Kerry and connaught which had famine cork city and Dublin city suffered nothing your trying to make out the whole island was affected by the way England also had famines in the more remote poor parts

  • @Cybernetic800
    @Cybernetic800 3 года назад +177

    As a Irishman I find the phrase 'luck of the irish' very ironic as we are definitely not lucky.

    • @karmafile7685
      @karmafile7685 2 года назад +24

      The phrase is meant to be "tongue-in-cheek" or sarcastic for that very reason. lol

    • @bobbysandiego
      @bobbysandiego Год назад +12

      esp because "Murphy's law" is also a thing.

    • @animebrat76
      @animebrat76 Год назад +7

      Irishman are hard workers

    • @majilliscath9739
      @majilliscath9739 Год назад

      Island Jews

    • @johnscanlan9335
      @johnscanlan9335 Год назад +2

      "Luck of the Irish" was always a very ironic phrase!

  • @easyview4304
    @easyview4304 6 лет назад +1078

    The potato famine wasn't a tragedy it was a genocide. A nation dying of starvation was still exporting food to the rest of the British empire. An attempt to finally remove the thorn that had always been in the side of the British empire.

    • @davidodowd1768
      @davidodowd1768 6 лет назад +133

      Lol they literally banned us from eating any other food than potatoes when the crop failed. It shouldn’t even be called a famine cause it was only one crop. People were eating grass and shit lol

    • @bigyin2586
      @bigyin2586 6 лет назад +18

      It was capitalism, but this doesn't fit any micronationalist narrative.

    • @sushanalone
      @sushanalone 6 лет назад +131

      Yep, the British Empire did the same thing in India leading to death of millions by starvation and disease, in the Bengal Famine/Genocide.

    • @fionnodubhuir1686
      @fionnodubhuir1686 6 лет назад +90

      British empire was imperialistic not capitalist

    • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
      @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 6 лет назад +10

      How was it a genocide when a blight caused the famine?

  • @giustinosuarez8711
    @giustinosuarez8711 5 лет назад +1367

    “...and by being law-abiding Americans, that meant going against the next perceived foreigner.”
    Italian-Americans understand🇮🇹

    • @IlleScrutator
      @IlleScrutator 5 лет назад +9

      @o.o Why don't you go eat a slice of pizza instead of lowering your neurons?

    • @roccopiosaracino3681
      @roccopiosaracino3681 4 года назад +95

      @@IlleScrutator don't you have some American stuff to do like shooting schools?

    • @Shawn_Babcock
      @Shawn_Babcock 4 года назад +40

      Rocco Pio Saracino We can’t, it’s not a summer sport unfortunately. Sorry

    • @roccopiosaracino3681
      @roccopiosaracino3681 4 года назад +26

      @@Shawn_Babcock aw man, this sucks, when does the schoolers season start?

    • @Shawn_Babcock
      @Shawn_Babcock 4 года назад +21

      Rocco Pio Saracino Late August or early September

  • @matthorgan2208
    @matthorgan2208 4 года назад +667

    In english pubs they used have signs that said "no blacks , no dogs , no Irish"

    • @patsyoconner9506
      @patsyoconner9506 4 года назад +67

      the same signs on lodging house windows i saw a few when i came to England in 1959

    • @zrinkamariaradilj8017
      @zrinkamariaradilj8017 3 года назад +10

      There's a reason why...

    • @goheine
      @goheine 3 года назад +8

      Wow 🤩

    • @zrinkamariaradilj8017
      @zrinkamariaradilj8017 3 года назад +10

      @Billy McCarthyInteresting... just wrote there's a reason why were Irish hated like there's a reason for everything in life. Couldn't be bothered to explain why.

    • @tittitty9925
      @tittitty9925 3 года назад +17

      yeah because we were treated worse than dogs

  • @icharcoalz5011
    @icharcoalz5011 4 года назад +424

    Irish: You have freed us!
    US in the 1850s: Oh I wont say "freed" more like "under new management"

    • @donaghlynch9476
      @donaghlynch9476 4 года назад +25

      That's a Megamind reference

    • @gvtterslag
      @gvtterslag 3 года назад +6

      @@donaghlynch9476 Cookie for you

    • @apollyon1987
      @apollyon1987 2 года назад +5

      But America didn’t help Ireland

    • @apollyon1987
      @apollyon1987 2 года назад +3

      Like literally America didn’t do anything they just weren’t allowed to discriminate immigration

    • @076reynolds9
      @076reynolds9 2 года назад +2

      America did fuck all to help the Irish

  • @elfritobandito734
    @elfritobandito734 6 лет назад +1324

    We Wuz Potatoes n shit

  • @FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_
    @FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ 6 лет назад +397

    "Did the jobs no else really wanted" wow that seems to be a consistent thing in the US.

    • @delv213
      @delv213 6 лет назад +42

      And hating them seems normal too! Even though these poor immigrants often have zero power in political happenings lol.

    • @satantonioclinton5824
      @satantonioclinton5824 6 лет назад

      Anthony Long Im Sure every single american is like that.you should fix your teeth first before judging others...

    • @sstrykert
      @sstrykert 6 лет назад +1

      If it pays,& isn't immoral,I'd still do it. Always some1 claiming locals don't want work

    • @abebabua2821
      @abebabua2821 6 лет назад +1

      Sean STRYKER
      us Blacks in my Area like Irish people

    • @texasgun2731
      @texasgun2731 6 лет назад +8

      the problem is not that the job is too difficult or dehumanizing for european americans. the problem is that the pay is shit. notice the video says that the irish lived with blacks. that means they were being paid shit wages for hard labor. right now youre laughing, but just wait until your fields get outsourced and you have to compete by taking a pay cut. watered down wages is no joke and the real reason immigration is looked down upon

  • @gracezb1
    @gracezb1 5 лет назад +447

    england: become catholic
    ireland: ok
    england: no, not like that!

    • @johnnygreen200
      @johnnygreen200 4 года назад +32

      The Catholic Church didn't invade Ireland 🤦‍♂️ The Irish Willingly converted to Catholicism mainly thanks to St Patrick who did NOT force it on them. They chose Christ willingly. It also had nothing to do with England. The Irish were Catholics (Christians) long before England invaded Ireland.

    • @LuisRincon-wr4dm
      @LuisRincon-wr4dm 4 года назад +7

      @@johnnygreen200 Exactly. Most Anglosaxons don't know anything about history, specially their own history.

    • @dreamit7623
      @dreamit7623 4 года назад +1

      @Orlando Sages the anglo saxons were a germanic tribe

    • @dreamit7623
      @dreamit7623 4 года назад +1

      @Orlando Sages yes that is SAKS they are diffrent to anoglo saxons they are not the same at all

    • @dreamit7623
      @dreamit7623 4 года назад

      @Orlando Sages they might have migrated but i would love to see where u get all this info from

  • @664theneighbor5
    @664theneighbor5 5 лет назад +744

    Love to Irish from Russia 🇷🇺 🇮🇪

    • @onion7830
      @onion7830 4 года назад +14

      664 TheNeighborOfTheBeast where both crazy

    • @nickbrennan3389
      @nickbrennan3389 4 года назад +14

      Thanks...I'm Irish and a slayer fan !!...saw em in Dublin 3 times

    • @demoman8714
      @demoman8714 4 года назад +24

      Ah we are a similar alcoholic people

    • @Adam-yu1dv
      @Adam-yu1dv 4 года назад +8

      We love you!

    • @adambrown1654
      @adambrown1654 4 года назад +14

      Respect ❤️👌🇮🇪🇷🇺

  • @MaureenMurphy_
    @MaureenMurphy_ 6 лет назад +1636

    It's okay to be Irish

    • @mcveigh1579
      @mcveigh1579 6 лет назад +30

      Yeah. My great grandfather is Irish

    • @ulysses284
      @ulysses284 6 лет назад +60

      clockoff94 *scot detected*

    • @clockoff94
      @clockoff94 6 лет назад +16

      Dazer I'm Irish and what i was saying was a joke bc it was on April 1st

    • @mcveigh1579
      @mcveigh1579 6 лет назад +10

      clockoff94 oh

    • @clockoff94
      @clockoff94 6 лет назад +8

      Aidan, Commander of Nerdy Army. Lol it was an april fools joke so yeah (top ten anime twists)

  • @williamleerobles3526
    @williamleerobles3526 6 лет назад +141

    Well I'm partly Irish, mainly Mexican. So one part of my family tree was oppressed by the British, and the rest was oppressed by the Spanish. Nice to know.

    • @CaptainDecimus
      @CaptainDecimus 6 лет назад +3

      How did they start either?

    • @madra214
      @madra214 6 лет назад +1

      Salterino Kripperino i hate the brits too but how did Britain start either war ? They just joined them in response to their allies being attacked

    • @pshuckle7488
      @pshuckle7488 6 лет назад +11

      Serbia arguably started the first world war. Germany started the second world war.

    • @kalvincastro9042
      @kalvincastro9042 6 лет назад +5

      I'm half Italian and half Mexican.
      It sure makes me feel welcomed knowing both were oppressed (Mexicans, still somewhat oppressed by conservatives).

    • @cody1212143
      @cody1212143 6 лет назад

      Dillon Blair it goes back to the 60s where they needed an escape goat from all the republican mishaps,so they blamed the Mexicans of being bad poeple ,like the Irish and made up stories.pretty much lies are feed to poeple so Republican parties live on!(cough trump)

  • @adambrown1654
    @adambrown1654 4 года назад +233

    It brings a tear to my eye , as an Irishman I’m just so proud of my people with all the obstacles we had to face through history , persecution , famine , disease , colonisation , the Black and Tans , discrimination , we worked our ass’s off to get where we are today a nation of proud people who stand with each other in a shared proudness of our history, Ireland as a country today ranks high in the human development index , with a great quality of life and a very high gdp per capita , through our large diaspora which in some circumstances where forced to leave we have some of the most patriotic proud people found on all for corners of the globe , a people group that proud that st Patrick’s day is celebrated in near every country in the world , and through all that shit thrown at us throughout history we soldier on , you’ll never beat the Irish . love to every proud Irish person in the globe on this quiet paddy’s day ❤️☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👌

    • @kaitlynwhalen5961
      @kaitlynwhalen5961 3 года назад +4

      I have Irish in me.

    • @guineapigs5709
      @guineapigs5709 3 года назад +3

      @Christy Dolan Get a life

    • @Aeluron
      @Aeluron 3 года назад +1

      Ironic...and I guess history repeats itself.

    • @Aeluron
      @Aeluron 3 года назад +1

      Nah...not really

    • @zubair-rp1ie
      @zubair-rp1ie 3 года назад +2

      @Christy Dolan you are a cold-blooded psychopath

  • @tonysolar284
    @tonysolar284 4 года назад +158

    I'm still hated for my Red Hair.. I call it jealousy.

    • @dreamit7623
      @dreamit7623 4 года назад +3

      @The O'Neill well he just corrected u u were wrong move on instead of getting defensive and hes right there is no prof that red hair= celtic

    • @Slapnuts9627
      @Slapnuts9627 4 года назад +11

      @Special Wolf93 Red hair is a result of the Vikings raping Celts.

    • @monkeydank7842
      @monkeydank7842 4 года назад +2

      Rusty roofs often have wet cellars... ;-)

    • @azzzanadra
      @azzzanadra 4 года назад +1

      @Special Wolf93 the kabyle region in algeria and the rif region in morocco has redheads, I walked the street in algeria and saw a redhead man and a redhead little girl

    • @Mr.Fister.Roboto
      @Mr.Fister.Roboto 4 года назад

      @@azzzanadra How much were you charging back then?

  • @latterdaymoroni
    @latterdaymoroni 6 лет назад +170

    Another major issue is the Irishmen were often speaking Irish in the 1800s, which is about as closely related to English as Russian is. And that language was part of the stereotypes of being barbaric.

    • @drfeeelgoood5815
      @drfeeelgoood5815 6 лет назад +7

      Yeah they speak it a bit in northern Ireland and some parts of Scotland but that's about it

    • @freeeire564
      @freeeire564 6 лет назад +14

      WaKaWaKa Whisky They speak it more in the south than in the north especially along the west coast.

    • @donalshaw8271
      @donalshaw8271 6 лет назад +2

      latterdaymoroni is

    • @notamused3715
      @notamused3715 6 лет назад +5

      Grand Negus- there is a sizeable minority of fluent Irish speakers, the Gaeltachts are very succsessful,it is compulsory at school unless you have a valid reason for exemption and it is still the first language on all State documents! The only reason it is not spoken more widely is because of centuries of suppression and the fact that many people are not great at learning languages other than the ones they are reared to speak and would not be great at French nor German either!

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 2 года назад +3

      Its a language - one of the oldest languages. Indo European.

  • @barryoconnor9900
    @barryoconnor9900 6 лет назад +222

    They used to say an Irishman is just a black man turned inside out.

    • @---uf2zl
      @---uf2zl 5 лет назад +33

      It's mean but kinda funny to imagine.

    • @grimmfandango832
      @grimmfandango832 5 лет назад +16

      The Irish didn't experience 1/10 of what the African-Americans did, overall. I do hope you're not a democrat, otherwise your house is going to blow up!

    • @user-hi8vi4sl9w
      @user-hi8vi4sl9w 5 лет назад +2

      *When you turn on the inverted colors on your phone*

    • @user-hi8vi4sl9w
      @user-hi8vi4sl9w 5 лет назад

      *I can’t really say shit though. Ever since my birth in ‘96, I’ve had red hair as any Irish man would*

    • @uncreativ_1
      @uncreativ_1 5 лет назад +14

      Grimm Fandango actually, the Irish were treated SLIGHTLY better than black people. I’m mostly Irish, so I can pull the race card just like black people...

  • @deadaccount7303
    @deadaccount7303 5 лет назад +128

    And now, literally almost everyone in Massachusetts probably has Irish ancestry.

    • @Sean-jc6cu
      @Sean-jc6cu 4 года назад

      I would say Eastern Mass for sure but the rest is pretty Anglo and French

    • @sickymicky36
      @sickymicky36 3 года назад

      Actually your more likely to be Scots/English Protestant as the majority of Irish that emigrated was from that stock.

    • @deadaccount7303
      @deadaccount7303 3 года назад

      @@sickymicky36 Hm. Maybe. I mean I've never had a DNA test before.
      My dad has told me we do come from some area in Ireland. Can't remember where, but he did show me it on Google Maps.

    • @deadaccount7303
      @deadaccount7303 3 года назад

      @@Sean-jc6cu I guess that makes sense, I am pretty close to the coast.

    • @dejavucmail8176
      @dejavucmail8176 3 года назад

      And English

  • @adamcherkaoui
    @adamcherkaoui 3 года назад +48

    Love Irish people and love their behavior (even if it's savage). I love their accent and their culture. At least they have their own independence. In short.
    Morocco loves you 🇲🇦

  • @gerardo8av
    @gerardo8av 6 лет назад +778

    The Irish were and will be forever loved in Mexico -> St Patrick’s Battalion

    • @elidolo6993
      @elidolo6993 6 лет назад +56

      Gerardo Ochoa-Vargas
      As a Mexican, I love the Irish!
      I have 2 Irish Friends (wish I had more) who are the absolute greatest!

    • @canadiannavigator3346
      @canadiannavigator3346 6 лет назад +17

      Gerardo Ochoa-Vargas ... I remember the Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn ... I thought it a made up name until I realized his dad was Irish!

    • @nelsonrodriguez2085
      @nelsonrodriguez2085 6 лет назад +8

      There's a partir un México (can't remember where) that are predominantly red headed, as they are descendants of irish people

    • @jessicakelly6353
      @jessicakelly6353 6 лет назад +2

      Why? Just curious

    • @gerardo8av
      @gerardo8av 6 лет назад +10

      St Patrick’s Battalion

  • @HylianKilljoy
    @HylianKilljoy 6 лет назад +174

    I think you could have a very interesting conversation on the topic of assimilation with the Irish. Did the US get over it's anti-Irish sentiment? Or were the Irish forced to assimilate so much that they lost their Irish identity in the US?

    • @conormb5893
      @conormb5893 6 лет назад +70

      They lost their Irish identity Irish Americans today are nothing like the Irish

    • @guccimalcs
      @guccimalcs 6 лет назад +47

      My ancestors immigrated from Ireland back in like 1916 I think. I have no Irish traditions in my family now. So I would say yes they were forced to leave it behind

    • @jedimasterjoe5386
      @jedimasterjoe5386 6 лет назад +1

      Gucci Malcs its bad becuces your irish but good since you have no Irish traditions

    • @interstellarsurfer
      @interstellarsurfer 6 лет назад +6

      dogma01011951 Yes, i need more money for my IRA. No bombs though, if'n you don't mind.

    • @nivek326
      @nivek326 6 лет назад +22

      No, they were definitely forced to assimilate into American culture

  • @VanquishMediaDE
    @VanquishMediaDE 2 года назад +35

    I am not Irish (I am Ukrainian Jewish) however I have always had much respect for the Irish (and their descendants). Like many other immigrants in the New World The Irish were treated terribly even within their own homeland, the land of their father's and forefather's. I support Irish independence referendum. I have visited Ireland twice and I have always admired the beauty and scenery.

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Год назад +2

      So is Wolodymyr Zelens'kyj, a Jewish Ukrainian!

  • @yerda4221
    @yerda4221 4 года назад +124

    As a Mexican i am very fond of Irelands CELTIC-GAELIC culture. We never forgot st. Patricios battalion 🇮🇪🇲🇽 Éire go bragh. Viva la Mexico. Catholic brotherlands

  • @joemurphy6168
    @joemurphy6168 6 лет назад +320

    England, after conquering the Irish stole their farms and homes and gave them to themselves and the Scots. For centuries it was against the law to educate Irish children and the only jobs they were allowed to hold were as laborers on farms that were stolen from them, or as storekeepers. Who could expect anything to come of a civilization growing up under restrictions like that?
    A million or more Irish died in the potato famine, some of whom died on the roads next to the fenced farms teeming with vegetables and sheep that used to be theirs. Their potato crops on the scraps of land where they could plant them had turned black and rotten for two consecutive years.
    My paternal grandmother left Ireland at the age of sixteen to come to the U.S. to get a job so as to keep her family in Ireland alive with the money she could send them. She found work as a housemaid for families in Connecticut and later moved to St. Louis to marry my Grandfather. She raised a big family who helped her build houses for rentals.
    All the Irish people I have known were industrious and talented people and honest, religious people as well.

    • @maischaub7921
      @maischaub7921 5 лет назад +1

      Wow you learn something new everyday

    • @sirdrumgun8680
      @sirdrumgun8680 5 лет назад +4

      I mean most of the atheists and lazy people I meet are English but you know I seen plenty lazy Irish people but if you’re in America then you probably do meet those Irish people

    • @brigittebeltran6701
      @brigittebeltran6701 5 лет назад

      joe murphy True!!!

    • @jpat4637
      @jpat4637 5 лет назад +7

      Most of this is bullshit lmao. Literally just bullshit to play on emotions. "Many of them starved to death right beside fields full of crops and sheep they used to own" absolute bollocks. Trying to play the victim like a weasel, classic

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 лет назад +4

      Yeah in 1640 the Scottish had a famine And the people had to go to Ireland to be fed that's true And even to this day Ireland Is the biggest food producer in Europe And fifth biggest in the world imagine that from a small island to be a bigger food producer than China or India where 600 million people Starve on rubbish dump's

  • @juandiegoprado
    @juandiegoprado 6 лет назад +1057

    Ohh I hope no one EVER gets their hands on my Strawberry Smiggles! I'm keeping them all for me!

    • @rustydean772
      @rustydean772 6 лет назад +38

      Seeing Demons yet?

    • @myohmy9000
      @myohmy9000 6 лет назад +61

      *comes down through helicopter*
      I'm the Strawberry Smiggles man... IM the only one that's allowed to have Strawberry Smiggles...
      *Kicks Top Hat Jones*
      GET UP ON OUTTA HEEEEEEEEEEERE with my Strawberry Smiggles...

    • @mortarpestle.4267
      @mortarpestle.4267 6 лет назад +20

      *me Strawberry Smiggles

    • @xmm-cf5eg
      @xmm-cf5eg 6 лет назад +17

      Morty, I turned myself into an irish mongoloid morty!
      I'm IRISH RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!

    • @shabnam4804
      @shabnam4804 6 лет назад

      FutbolVinotinto21 Vocano on Mars 🌒 Amazing
      ruclips.net/video/bgwnsPJ41kQ/видео.html

  • @LyssaLou51
    @LyssaLou51 Год назад +28

    Proud American descendent of many Irish lads and lasses. And couldn't be more proud!!! 🍀🇮🇪 my great grandmother's name was O'Hara 🥰 I feel extremely connected in many ways to our family's Irish blood- those roots run deep! God bless you if you're reading this!!! I hope yinz have a wonderful day (my family hails from Pittsburgh PA!) 💚🤍🧡

  • @anapatriciag8510
    @anapatriciag8510 Год назад +12

    I never knew of this Irish ☘️ experience in the United States 🇺🇸, until a fellow man mentioned to me during a break- he shared his parents experience in NY - during the early and mid 1900’s- so difficult and challenging- and kids were shield from it- by getting them Americanized as fast as possible- and, yes in a matter of 60 or 70 +years, the Irish ☘️ experience in AMERICA 🇺🇸 was shelved and very little is known. So, today, history continues to repeat itself- with the NEW wave of “foreigners” mostly Hispanics..in USA

  • @darth1nsidious726
    @darth1nsidious726 6 лет назад +1456

    Watching a video
    *CLOSE IMMEDIATELY*
    And watches this video

    • @panamanianbootyscout1768
      @panamanianbootyscout1768 6 лет назад

      Darth1nsidious7 y

    • @daddybonez
      @daddybonez 6 лет назад +15

      Darth1nsidious7 I think you forgot
      *sees notification

    • @argenys8
      @argenys8 6 лет назад +18

      nigga what

    • @Healermain15
      @Healermain15 6 лет назад +22

      I think he means he closes another video to go watch this one?
      That, or lucky clovers are to the Emperor what garlic is to vampires.
      Which makes me think, did anyone ever check if the Emperor was a vampire? He seemed awfully pale...

    • @darth1nsidious726
      @darth1nsidious726 6 лет назад

      sander heutink yea I closed another video to watch this one

  • @jaymesyt
    @jaymesyt 6 лет назад +658

    I'm irish and I'm loving all these racial comments lmao keep them coming

    • @StormcloakGuard
      @StormcloakGuard 6 лет назад +13

      european_brother!

    • @JAKX091
      @JAKX091 6 лет назад +28

      Fellow Irish here. Keep the insults coming lol

    • @scouter1789
      @scouter1789 6 лет назад +51

      Stfu potato eating gremlin /s

    • @bigyin2586
      @bigyin2586 6 лет назад +13

      No racism from me.
      You're just another British people in just another British nation.
      Maybe with a rather elevated sense of self-importance, compared to the other 3 who share the mainland.

    • @King_Cova
      @King_Cova 6 лет назад +21

      When you say you are Irish do you mean you where born in Ireland and have at least one Irish parent? Cause if you where born in america you are american

  • @jasonwolfe5787
    @jasonwolfe5787 5 лет назад +50

    Of course not, we are different, we aren't Anglo Saxon, we are Celts! And couldn't be prouder

    • @RyAn-dj9gc
      @RyAn-dj9gc 4 года назад +5

      jason wolfe and we have a little bit of Viking blood

    • @kevinkenealy1179
      @kevinkenealy1179 4 года назад +3

      @@RyAn-dj9gc you probably mean danish and or Scandinavian.

    • @robertharris6092
      @robertharris6092 3 года назад +1

      @Jace Smith ones germanic paganism. Ones norse paganism.

  • @seanmcguire7974
    @seanmcguire7974 5 лет назад +40

    My grandfather came from irish n my other ancestor were mostly irish. I'm n always been proud of my irish ancestry.

  • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
    @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 6 лет назад +141

    This anti-Irish sentiment was beautifully illustrated in _Gangs of New York_

    • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
      @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 6 лет назад

      Burt Cocaine like _The Godfather: Part II?_

    • @zakalon123
      @zakalon123 6 лет назад +3

      And to a lesser extent in the film THE MOLLY MAGUIRES starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris and Anthony Zerbe. This ant-Irish sentiment lasted into the 1920's until Communism became the new bogie Man. Ireland did not Honour Martin Scorsese for highlighting the hatred shown towards the Irish in America. He should have been given citizenship in my opinion. The Irish were packed into ghettos and died like flies. Due to their harsh conditions.
      3000 people had to live in one street for example in New York. America has never apologized to the Irish community to to the shocking way they treated them.
      I think that an apology is long overdue.

    • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
      @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 6 лет назад

      zakalon123 too many generations have passed that it would be redundant because Irish Americans have become to entrenched as Americans. Would be redundant to apologize for the discrimination of almost 180 years ago (1840's)

    • @zakalon123
      @zakalon123 6 лет назад +3

      The ill treatment of the Irish existed long before the 1840's. The Irish were treated as slaves. Their living conditions were horrendous. Starting with the Cromwellian clearances of Ireland where at least 50, 000 Irish were EXILED to the " New World ". Irish lived in terrible conditions as " indentured servants "
      No other ethnic groups got an OFFICIAL apology so why not the Irish who were treated as scum in America. No the Irish should get an apology for the DISGUSTING way that they were treated in America.

    • @seanmcgouran4091
      @seanmcgouran4091 6 лет назад

      Possibly / probably, but the USA is still the Promised Land for most Irish people.

  • @B4CKWARDS_CH4RM
    @B4CKWARDS_CH4RM 6 лет назад +77

    My Grandfather was Irish, and he started a union in Boston, and later was elected to the council of the city. When the president at the time came to the city, he shook my grandfather's hand, and asked his name. When my grandfather responded his name was Jack Murphy, the president wiped off his hand.
    My grandmother also told me how everyone on the block would chip in money to send to the IRA to fight the brits and liberate Northern Ireland.

    • @TeslaHaxz
      @TeslaHaxz 6 лет назад +2

      Yes, is that hard to understand?

    • @fizpop01
      @fizpop01 6 лет назад +3

      Ben B Which president was that?

    • @madra214
      @madra214 6 лет назад +1

      Im only commenting so Ill get a notification when he answers cuz i want to know

    • @TheMilitantHorse
      @TheMilitantHorse 6 лет назад

      same

    • @marcusmachado3001
      @marcusmachado3001 6 лет назад +2

      Just a like for the final comment
      Ireland under British rule shall never be at peace

  • @iliadnetfear2586
    @iliadnetfear2586 2 года назад +16

    Fun Slur fact: police cars were often called "Paddy Wagons" cause there was either a 'Paddy' in the back seat or in the front seat.

  • @TheHylianJuggalo
    @TheHylianJuggalo 3 года назад +49

    The N's of Europe.
    No, not a joke - that's a real term they used.

    • @williamjones3945
      @williamjones3945 3 года назад

      Yes sir in deed sir

    • @rickrolld1367
      @rickrolld1367 3 года назад +7

      In the 1800s, a Russian went to Ireland and commented on their extreme poverty.
      During this time Russia was a brutal, poor, feudal society.

    • @jayyoung4534
      @jayyoung4534 3 года назад

      @The...No, I've been in earshot of its use. What is puzzling, however, is the propensity in contemporary media to capitalize "nigger," a noun I had always thought was an epithet, never meant as a compliment or respect as capitalization would suggest.

    • @TheHylianJuggalo
      @TheHylianJuggalo 3 года назад +1

      @@jayyoung4534 The word quite literally is rooted in the term 'ignorance'. That's all it is. Also, how the hell did you get away with spelling that out and it's gotten past the filter system?

    • @colonelpanic17
      @colonelpanic17 3 года назад

      @@TheHylianJuggalo there’s a filter system? Also, I had always thought the word was bastardized from the word “negro/negra” in Spanish. I could be wrong.

  • @adanvera2905
    @adanvera2905 6 лет назад +187

    I'm Mexican, and I love my Irish friends.

    • @daltonmorgan6464
      @daltonmorgan6464 6 лет назад +19

      Both good Catholic folk

    • @kieranbrennan4279
      @kieranbrennan4279 6 лет назад +30

      we love you too (no homo)

    • @prouddegenerates9056
      @prouddegenerates9056 6 лет назад +3

      I'm an orphan, I find the obsession with how my fathers farther was and where he stuck his dick to be weird, regardless most people tend to be nice if your take the time to know them.

    • @jessicakelly6353
      @jessicakelly6353 6 лет назад +5

      Yeah what's with mexicans and the Irish?

    • @joeoreilly1479
      @joeoreilly1479 5 лет назад +2

      +Jessica Kelly we love life Jesse be cool live long

  • @ben7122
    @ben7122 6 лет назад +539

    do what if the Easter rising (1916) was a success

  • @gerardfinnegan408
    @gerardfinnegan408 4 года назад +34

    Irish man: What's the craic boys?
    American police: You're under arrest!!!
    Irish man: Ah Feck it!

  • @alexanders562
    @alexanders562 4 года назад +17

    Irish + blacks = fantastic American music

  • @nabielw
    @nabielw 6 лет назад +733

    #IrishLivesMatter

    • @igloo614
      @igloo614 6 лет назад +31

      Burt Cocaine Yes,because you were alive in the 1850s

    • @inserttaghere3015
      @inserttaghere3015 6 лет назад +15

      #belguimlivesmatter

    • @omegathepig8105
      @omegathepig8105 6 лет назад +44

      Galvatron yes irish people came in as slaves they were cheaper and was treated worse

    • @Renegade-jk4ux
      @Renegade-jk4ux 6 лет назад +6

      OMEGA the pig if they were slaves...when were they freed? 🤔

    • @Renegade-jk4ux
      @Renegade-jk4ux 6 лет назад +3

      OMEGA the pig I will do more research on this African/Irish mixing, but I’m not buying it. You still didn’t answer my question though. When were the Irish freed then?

  • @jackjenkins168
    @jackjenkins168 6 лет назад +107

    Don't do this to me with those teeth man. I just watched the new It movie

    • @anthrax6685
      @anthrax6685 6 лет назад +1

      Professor Bear the was trash

    • @ReviewingMagnet
      @ReviewingMagnet 6 лет назад +1

      Clowns are based of Irishmen

    • @danepotmo2513
      @danepotmo2513 6 лет назад +4

      Pennywise is fuckin Irish, that's why he's so pale

    • @cihanemrebykl5821
      @cihanemrebykl5821 6 лет назад +2

      Georgie got eaten like a kfc grilled chicken wing

  • @shoheiohtani1935
    @shoheiohtani1935 4 года назад +22

    I’m Mexican-American and my Irish-American friend can relate a lot. 🇲🇽🇮🇪

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 2 года назад

      Irish American in California with many great Mexican American amigos. We celebrate Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's day (dia de San Patricio), Los San Patricios.

    • @handel1111
      @handel1111 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@timlinatorInclude Filipino-Americans as well

  • @Sergio-fu7mv
    @Sergio-fu7mv 5 лет назад +40

    I’m half Mexican and half Irish (from my moms side obviously). I actually kind’ve find it humoring that both my sides have gone or are going through the same thing. Lol. Even though my parents got married 30+ years ago and have been together ever since, it was never weird or a problem for them to get married on behalf that they where both devoted Catholics at the time. Which both my Mexican and Irish side absolutely loved. I’m a proud American 🇺🇸 But I sure do love my Mexican, and Irish people. 🇮🇪🇲🇽

    • @itsAurora-zq8cb
      @itsAurora-zq8cb 3 года назад +3

      Sounds lovely.. God bless

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 2 года назад +4

      You are bless to have such fine Irish and Mexican stock. We are blood brothers from the time of Los San Patricios, Mexican American war.

  • @shortbread9518
    @shortbread9518 6 лет назад +122

    The Green Scare

    • @baileymiller1056
      @baileymiller1056 6 лет назад +1

      Are we in the blue scare with police being seen as a threat? (I don't agree with that but it seems like a lot of others do)

    • @coldernice5523
      @coldernice5523 6 лет назад

      Canadian KKK Glad it makes you shit so . Keep that in mind, as you shit out a mouthful of teeth. Cowards like you haven't the simple guts to say that to an Irishman' s face. Gutless pukes.

  • @jameshobbins155
    @jameshobbins155 6 лет назад +189

    Early English accounts of Ireland are heavily biased and whilst the culture in the early Middle Ages was very different to many other parts of Europe including the church system, Ireland was at one stage between 600 and 800 AD a seat of academic learning and following this Irish monks are noted for establishing or assisting in the establishment of many of the prominent monasteries in Europe.

  • @gardini100
    @gardini100 4 года назад +57

    as a norwegian am always happy to mingle with the Irish, you know you gonna have a great time

  • @patrick.0.590
    @patrick.0.590 5 лет назад +128

    3:01 “in a time when entire wars were fought between catholics and protestants”
    Me: laughing, in a northern Irish manner

  • @kaiserchan4683
    @kaiserchan4683 6 лет назад +113

    Ireland is my city

    • @mrmaniac3
      @mrmaniac3 6 лет назад +1

      Ze Kaisar New England is my City on a Hill

    • @kylebyrne6916
      @kylebyrne6916 6 лет назад +5

      Ze Kaisar *county

    • @lelagrangeeffectphysics4120
      @lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 6 лет назад +1

      Ze Kaisar now we ask what were the other people the Irish got to enforce: the Italian ( I'm not Italian)

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 6 лет назад +1

      "Belfast is my kinda town. I feel like a native already!"
      Now, wonder who's going to get this reference...

    • @beaucaspar3990
      @beaucaspar3990 6 лет назад

      no, stop, please

  • @columbannon9134
    @columbannon9134 6 лет назад +122

    It was when Kennedy became President, he was the first Catholic President and had opened the doors for other people from Catholic countries (such as Italians, Polish, etc)

    • @LeaderofChickens
      @LeaderofChickens 6 лет назад +5

      actually before Kennedy Italians and Poles came overseas, one such example is the large amount of Italian immigrants during pre-WW2 due to political reasons

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 6 лет назад +7

      I’m old enough to remember how many Protestant Americans were actually afraid that Kennedy would rule as a puppet of the Pope. The one thing he did to debunk that fear was to defy the Vatican on the issue of government subsidies to private religious schools.
      Ironically, when John Kerry ran for President in 2004, the same party that had opposed Kennedy for BEING Catholic, and for allegedly planning to bring a Catholic theocracy to America, claimed Kerry was not Catholic ENOUGH since he would not go along with the (coincidentally same) Catholic and Evangelical position of banning all abortion. Kerry was being opposed by the same party for the OPPOSITE reason Kennedy was opposed!
      On other issues, however, extreme Evangelicals still hate Catholic theology and call the Vatican the “Whore of Babylon.” And converts to those churches sometimes say “I was raised Catholic but now I’m Christian.”

    • @mattutgetcare
      @mattutgetcare 6 лет назад +1

      First and only Catholic President.

    • @garygao6072
      @garygao6072 6 лет назад +1

      Well they still are technically correct in terms of still being Christian

    • @fizpop01
      @fizpop01 6 лет назад +2

      Allan Richardson If he doesn't agree with the church's teachings, then they had every right to say he is not Catholic enough. Ever heard of the commandment "Thou shall ot kill"? It's not a "coincidence" that Catholics and evangelicals are on the same page when it comes to abortion.

  • @RockinDbop1
    @RockinDbop1 2 года назад +5

    honestly didn't expect this video to be so thorough! Nice work

  • @Slippy100
    @Slippy100 4 года назад +52

    During the famine ireland was still exporting food to the english while forced to starve as they worked the land.
    Work houses were also established separating families subjecting them to forced labour in order to receive food, you also had to convert to protestantism and change your surname to a more english one losing the O's e.g. the surnames O'connor and connor.

    • @Slippy100
      @Slippy100 4 года назад

      @Action Jackson 700 years of getting shat on by the english may have made us a tad insecure of our public image 😅

    • @UnicornSiren
      @UnicornSiren 3 года назад

      @Action Jackson
      I also have Aferican American and Irish in my family.
      Is that what you tell victim's of
      sex slavery?
      Sex slavery is not cattle slavery either,
      it's still slavery, sex slaves are mostly sold in the country they were bought and resided in before they were sex slaves slave's.
      The reason you see Irish slavery mentioned with cattle slavery, is because before the Irish became indintured servants they were bought and sold forced to do psychial labor in potato field's in Irland.
      No differently than a slave.
      After Great Briten lost their Irish slaves to servitude in Irland, they started selling the Irish into other countrie's as indintured servants.
      Then Great Briten went into Aferica to find more slaves bought their new slaves to the United States with their indgured servants.
      Having Aferican American and Irish in my family doesn't negate documented facts the Irish were slave's in Irland.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Ireland

    • @UnicornSiren
      @UnicornSiren 3 года назад

      @Action Jackson
      Excuse me, l am a historian, l live in a free country.
      I will do as l please.
      You White Brits really need to stop suppressing every one.

    • @UnicornSiren
      @UnicornSiren 3 года назад

      @Action Jackson
      This is over the internet.
      My information has been correct.
      If it wasn't wouldn't you have yelled at me by know?
      Just be careful with the information you give out.
      People have gone to jail, for giving out the wrong information about the Irish because of the plite the Irish were in.
      They should do that when people get black American history wrong.
      There should be a law for both.
      Act like a professional historian being that's what you are.
      Take a deep breath relax and educate.

    • @williamfrancis5367
      @williamfrancis5367 3 года назад

      Ireland was a net importer of food during the famine and most of the exports were used to pay for cheaper food. The real issue was the starvation wages paid by the public works projects, due to a central government too miserly to raise taxes.

  • @haysikingmusic
    @haysikingmusic 6 лет назад +533

    The (add nationality/ethnicity) took our jobs!!!

  •  5 лет назад +201

    The Irish were welcome to my country, Puerto Rico and other Spanish colonies (which were catholic) as early as the 16th century. In the 1700s Dublin-born Alejandro O’Reilly was the mastermind that created Old San Juan’s magnificent walls and fortifications. After the potato famine, Spanish colonies again, welcomed thousands of Irish people.

    • @user-ky6vw5up9m
      @user-ky6vw5up9m 5 лет назад +7

      Admiral Brown and generalissimo Bernardo o Higgins !

    •  5 лет назад +2

      @@user-ky6vw5up9m That's right!

    •  5 лет назад +13

      @gamescentrel There are many descendants of Irish people here, but not many Irish people per se. I myself am a descendant of Irish immigrants, and I'm proud of my Irish heritage, but I do not consider myself Irish. I see myself more as a Latino of Irish heritage than an Irishman born in Latin America. I guess many Hispanics with Irish roots see themselves the same way.

    •  5 лет назад +5

      @gamescentrel Yes, I agree with you in that he Irish government should have more connections with the Irish descendants that live in the Caribbean. Also, it should educate the people of Ireland about a person from the Caribbean that was pivotal to modern Irish history. One such man was a Harvard high honor graduate from Puerto Rico named Pedro Albizu-Campos. Harvard University is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which in turn, is right next to Boston. The whole area has historically had a strong Irish presence. While attending Harvard in the 1910s and early 1920s, Albizu-Campos, of no Irish lineage whatsoever, became active with the Irish independence movement. Being so brilliant, he quickly moved to the higher echelons of the movement, and went so far up as to work side by side with Eamon De Valera who Albizu-Campos helped write the Irish Constitution. So yes, that same Constitution that protects the rights of the people of Ireland was partly authored by a Puerto Rican. There should be places in Ireland named after Pedro Albizu-Campos.
      Enjoy the Caribbean if you ever get to visit.

    • @mattbpatterson
      @mattbpatterson 5 лет назад +3

      Andrés O'Neill I’m mostly Irish but have a good bit of Spanish and Portuguese heritage as well. They’ve been pretty friendly with each other through the ages

  • @squishyplays1970
    @squishyplays1970 4 года назад +11

    I remember learning about this in school. Quite sad indeed. Love to 🇮🇪 from 🇺🇸

    • @Galidorquest
      @Galidorquest Год назад

      We didn't learn about the mistreatment of the Irish in *MY* schools...

  • @hanytelfah7069
    @hanytelfah7069 4 года назад +10

    It seems to me that a lot of people in this comment section misunderstood the history of Catholicism in Ireland. Ireland picked up catholicism through their interactions with the Romans in Britain. By the time the pagan Anglo-Saxons (founders of England and ancestors of the English people) arrived in Britain, the Irish were already catholic.

  • @grugnotice7746
    @grugnotice7746 5 лет назад +67

    Oh boy, I'm 50% victim!

  • @noneofhourbusiness
    @noneofhourbusiness 6 лет назад +85

    You have the English to thank for Irish immigration, English government wouldn't help them through the famine.
    So they got on the boat.

    • @abebauba6609
      @abebauba6609 6 лет назад +12

      CM
      us Arabs understand the Irish and I respect Irish people.
      my boyfriend is Irish from Dublin, Erin[ Ireland]

    • @BE_-lb6ul
      @BE_-lb6ul 6 лет назад +7

      Abeba Uba it think you mean Eire as the Irish for Ireland

    • @bradleygilmore5638
      @bradleygilmore5638 6 лет назад +21

      Famine my ass, it was an attempt at genocide.

    • @user-fu3fu4ye7j
      @user-fu3fu4ye7j 6 лет назад +13

      English government caused the famine!! Scum

    • @raflo7081
      @raflo7081 6 лет назад +2

      The famine was caused by a potato blight, the english did nothing, that gave us rice but never thaught us how to cook it, we ate it raw wich did nothing

  • @daisypeters3216
    @daisypeters3216 4 года назад +10

    With out doubt, You, Irish people builded a Nation! True heroes people. All admiration , love and blessings to you.😙💖🤗🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👍☘☘☘

  • @patrickmackin1417
    @patrickmackin1417 3 года назад +7

    I come from a large Irish American family. We owned a rambunctious mutt dog we named Nina. She was very difficult to train. Then we found an old factory sign somewhere that said "NINA - No Irish Need Apply" (for employment there). We decided that our dog was aptly named. :-)

    • @itsAurora-zq8cb
      @itsAurora-zq8cb 3 года назад

      Is that true ?? Haha 😄 how funny...aptly named indeed.. 🇮🇪

  • @brafianblackfyre9220
    @brafianblackfyre9220 6 лет назад +71

    English, not British for the medieval stuff, Britain wasn't a nation back then, so it kinda sounds weird.

    • @Joseph-mf3yi
      @Joseph-mf3yi 6 лет назад +6

      Brafian BlackFyre britain has never been a nation,its a geographic term refering to the island containg the three countries

    • @josephsheldon8582
      @josephsheldon8582 6 лет назад +15

      Don't be obtuse. Britain has always been a common short name for the United Kingdom since it's conception. I have no issue with it. Saying "British" in the Middle Ages on the other hand...

    • @brafianblackfyre9220
      @brafianblackfyre9220 6 лет назад

      Ok, but Ireland is part of the British isles, anyway so it still sounds weird saying using "Britain"

    • @josephsheldon8582
      @josephsheldon8582 6 лет назад

      No It doesn't. Stop being weird. Everyone says Britain or Great Britain as a shorthand, there is no issue.

    • @brafianblackfyre9220
      @brafianblackfyre9220 6 лет назад +1

      Yeah it does when your referring to Ireland, which is part of the British isles, and when your referring to medieval England, because it king Hennery didn't split all of Britain from the church, as all of Britain was Scotland England Wales and Ireland. People don't say the 100 years war was fought between Britain and France, because not all of Britain was involved in that war.

  • @iluvwhtchix
    @iluvwhtchix 6 лет назад +111

    My first white friend in the 1st grade was a kid named Sean Maloney. As an adult I have always had Irish friends and never really noticed it until recently when I thought "Heyyyyyy I get on well with Irish people" Now I know why.

    • @abebabua2821
      @abebabua2821 6 лет назад +21

      iluvwhtchix
      Irish people are nice.

    • @martinablanchfield2781
      @martinablanchfield2781 6 лет назад +5

      cause were awesome

    • @jessicakelly6353
      @jessicakelly6353 6 лет назад

      Why? If its in the video sorry I haven't gotten to the end yet and I'm impatient

    • @oisinolochlainn4437
      @oisinolochlainn4437 6 лет назад +7

      The Irish and the West Indian people in the UK get on great. Went to college over in the Uk most of my friends we Jamaican apart from the odd Irish

    • @bridgetown45
      @bridgetown45 2 года назад

      @@oisinolochlainn4437 I've served in the British Army alongside many Irishmen and we got on well together. I have done a tour of north Ireland and was treated like royalty by the Irish, so much so that after the tour, I returned there to fulfil the many previous invitations to homes.

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal5401 5 лет назад +28

    "I'm with the Catholic" - JFK 1960

  • @juliahart8593
    @juliahart8593 2 года назад +3

    Writing a book about something like this. So helpful! :)

  • @JohnnyReb
    @JohnnyReb 5 лет назад +25

    One thing I should mention for Cody is that during the Civil War the Irish were almost always in the thickest fighting like Fredericksburg and Gettysburg.
    And they gained a reputation as being hard fighters for both sides.
    But sadly the Union mostly used them as cannon fodder.

    • @craigherbert6640
      @craigherbert6640 5 лет назад +6

      Actually there's something else that the Irish Italians and Russians have in common along with the other Europeans when they came to this country they ask for nothing and we're giving nothing but a job and yet show love and respect for this country more than what I could say for a lot of our new wave of immigrants

    • @DumplingDoodle
      @DumplingDoodle Год назад +2

      @@craigherbert6640 love and respect that is not deserved. being a bootlicker isn't something to celebrate. sincerely, an irish guy.

  • @katherinevallo2326
    @katherinevallo2326 5 лет назад +16

    My grandma would tell me that when she was a kid it was better to be half minority than have a drop of Irish blood. She would say growing up that she could not mention she was part Irish.

  • @eddietuite732
    @eddietuite732 4 года назад +3

    Good to see some one bring this up

  • @joemahony4198
    @joemahony4198 2 года назад +8

    I have been called a dirty mick on one hand and a blue eyed devil on the other. Some times you can’t win.

  • @jaredrojo2201
    @jaredrojo2201 6 лет назад +281

    Yay, another great video

    • @fattshea8085
      @fattshea8085 6 лет назад +3

      Jared Rojo must be sarcasm, it's another American centric shitstorm

  • @RoccosVideos
    @RoccosVideos 6 лет назад +26

    They were the first group of immigrants that came in large numbers that were Catholic. There's always an excuse though with each new immigrant group.

    • @IWantToStayAtYourHouse
      @IWantToStayAtYourHouse 6 лет назад +1

      Yep, now its the muslims. People are claiming the muslims will build mosques and invade the American way of life etc. etc. Just like how he mentioned in this video that people thought the irish will build catholic churches and destroy the American way oflife. This is just one of life's inevitable cycles.

  • @jesus7618
    @jesus7618 3 года назад +30

    Random funny story
    When my dad was in 9th grade his history teacher said "i can tell what country's people's ancestors came from just by looking at them"
    So he pointed to my dad and said he must be Swedish.
    My dad's Irish......

    • @jayyoung4534
      @jayyoung4534 3 года назад

      @Oh...Funny, the mother of the first Mexican governor of California is listed as "una mulata."

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 2 года назад +1

      Yes, Americans don't even have an idea what the Irish even look like, but they pronounce on them!.....
      Fyi the Irish actually look North European (as your story illustrates)

    • @mariag2563
      @mariag2563 2 года назад +1

      If someone is an unmixed European, it is possible to tell where they're from, roughly.
      I can tell the difference between Slavs and Nordics, even if both have blonde hair and blue eyes, they've got different facial features. Southern Europeans are even easier to distinguish from Northern Europeans.
      Germans tend to have blocky/sharp features compared to Brits, which seems to either make them as ugly as sin or georgous.
      The Irish don't have natural blond(e) hair. If you see an Irishman with blond hair, he has British or other genes

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 2 года назад

      @@mariag2563
      The Irish don't have natural blonde hair?
      The British are less likely to have blonde hair than the Irish - they were colonised by Middle Eastern farmers, giving them sallow skin and dark features.
      British "gorgeous"? - give an example.

  • @purplecatloverrandompizza
    @purplecatloverrandompizza 4 года назад +30

    Fun to know my ancestors were called a mix between man and beast
    Great

    • @kikiloop5860
      @kikiloop5860 3 года назад +2

      Hey, at least you only have one set of discriminated ancestors. One side of my family is Irish but the other side is German.

    • @jayyoung4534
      @jayyoung4534 3 года назад +1

      Ah, another shared experience with black Americans. Curiously, I find it interesting that the four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing all had Celtic surnames. And now that I think about it, the number of black Americans with Celtic surnames is overwhelming.

    • @purplecatloverrandompizza
      @purplecatloverrandompizza 3 года назад

      @@jayyoung4534 hm, interesting

    • @purplecatloverrandompizza
      @purplecatloverrandompizza 3 года назад

      @@kikiloop5860 I'm also part german, basically anywhere in that area of europe I have at least a little bit of, I don't know any time frames though
      In other words I am white as fuck

    • @jayyoung4534
      @jayyoung4534 3 года назад +1

      @@purplecatloverrandompizza Isn't it, though? Ella Fitzgerald? Pearl Bailey, for starters! Would expect more understanding from Hannity. But c'est la vie, I guess.

  • @ivanoherlihy2509
    @ivanoherlihy2509 6 лет назад +189

    During the Irish famine the exports of food increased. It is believed the English were trying to weaken the Irish as much as possible

    • @JuanKuzov
      @JuanKuzov 5 лет назад +1

      no just those outside of the pale

    • @JuanKuzov
      @JuanKuzov 5 лет назад +1

      Eire 1916 and you quit sucken dem priests lado

    • @irishpickens6581
      @irishpickens6581 5 лет назад +4

      Hmmm... looks like a couple of keyboard warriors in here.

    • @thederp7690
      @thederp7690 5 лет назад +4

      @Hernando Malinche Well fuck you too

    • @Crowebar100
      @Crowebar100 5 лет назад +10

      When i was in 2nd year my history teacher took our class to a small museum about the famine. And at the end the tour guide told us that the english were deliberately trying to kill off the irish during the famine buy stopping import of food, kidnapping children off the streets and shipping them to America. They dont tell you this in class

  • @EyeDee98
    @EyeDee98 6 лет назад +39

    Most of my family were Irish immigrants that came here at the beginning of the 20th century. My great-great grandparents on both sides were born and raised in Ireland and came to America as adults with their children to start a new life. I'm proud of my Irish roots. 🍀

  • @melonlord4889
    @melonlord4889 5 лет назад +10

    When you said “ in Cincinnati”, I squealed because I live super close to Cincinnati.

  • @allglorytothefather4186
    @allglorytothefather4186 Год назад +5

    My ancestries include German, Irish, English, and Mexican, but after hearing about what happened to the Irish people during the famine, what they went through when they came here, and even fighting for people who once hated them, my Irish ancestry means as much to me as my German and Mexican ancestry.
    🤘😝🤘
    🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇲🇽

  • @Gus10271
    @Gus10271 6 лет назад +697

    What do you call a fake noodle... an impasta

  • @christopherkopke7593
    @christopherkopke7593 6 лет назад +66

    You need to do one on the Italians, and how they used Columbus to become well liked

    • @crazyponygirl
      @crazyponygirl 6 лет назад +1

      That's a good idea and their was also a famous author that was involved in that too.

    • @thenoodledrop
      @thenoodledrop 6 лет назад +2

      Christopher Kopke I think that's the next group he's mentioning at the end tbh

    • @christopherkopke7593
      @christopherkopke7593 6 лет назад

      crazyponygirl it was the author of sleepy hollow, arthur miller

    • @adrianazashen
      @adrianazashen 6 лет назад +1

      I was just about to write the same comment 😋 they were also thought to be the perfect race to play basketball 😂

    • @TheDragonborn97
      @TheDragonborn97 6 лет назад

      James McGill Yes, Italians become to arrive in the US in the 1860, 10 or 20 years after the Irish

  • @DoowopLover
    @DoowopLover 3 года назад +5

    I'm of Scots-Irish descent. My ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland, and I'm damned proud of my heritage.

    • @Sean-jc6cu
      @Sean-jc6cu 3 года назад +2

      Ulster Scots and Irish Catholics had very different experiences in America

    • @DoowopLover
      @DoowopLover 3 года назад +1

      @@Sean-jc6cu I know the Ulster Scots and Irish Catholics had a different experience. I was raised Catholic when I was young. The Irish side of the family was Catholic, and the Scottish side was a mix of Catholic and Presbyterian. I think the reason the Irish were treated so terribly is because they were immigrants and they were Catholics. But they eventually assimilated into the population and were accepted. And yes, I wear something green on St. Patrick's Day. By the way, my Scottish grandmother's maiden name was McMahon.

  • @radioheadlover09
    @radioheadlover09 3 года назад +10

    80 years from now: Why Were Latinos Once Hated In America?

    • @hailoweenhailoween5264
      @hailoweenhailoween5264 Год назад

      Because they don't know how to stay put in their own countries. End of story.

  • @TormentedToast13
    @TormentedToast13 6 лет назад +363

    Why did the Americans hate the Irish once? BLAME IT ON THE BRITISH!!!!!!!!!

    • @phlixcarbon
      @phlixcarbon 6 лет назад +11

      cuz americans are british eh eh eh

    • @susquehannaoutdoorsman3804
      @susquehannaoutdoorsman3804 6 лет назад +9

      Phlix Carbon not all Americans, I have ancestors back to the revolution and most of my family is German/Irish

    • @mrbrainbob5320
      @mrbrainbob5320 6 лет назад

      Phlix Carbon lmaoo no we are not.

    • @coolbeans887
      @coolbeans887 6 лет назад +5

      Blame everything on the british

    • @brandonlavis4095
      @brandonlavis4095 6 лет назад +8

      TormentedToast the original Brits were the Celts, (Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc), the English is to blame! XD

  • @morg3726
    @morg3726 5 лет назад +8

    My great grandparents on my mom's side were indentured servants from Ireland. This post reminded me of all the books I read growing up and how hard they worked.

  • @eeveegaming4798
    @eeveegaming4798 4 года назад +5

    My ancestor who was a Irish he came in the 1700s and fought it the revolution

  • @thuledragon6663
    @thuledragon6663 4 года назад +4

    I am american from german, french, and italian lineage and I don't celebrate st patty's day
    i celebrate on that very day about the heroes and their celtic cultures, the celtic had a badass past and I think we should drink on that.

  • @thehajduk6451
    @thehajduk6451 6 лет назад +65

    Great love from Romania to all Irish. Hope that this somehow brings some justice to the history that wronged you so much. As a Romanian I know how that feels.

    • @_Muzolf
      @_Muzolf 5 лет назад +6

      That's funny coming from the people who invaded the homes of others and made up a fantasy story they treated as history to justify their atrocities against other ethnic groups in their newly stolen land.

    • @zxsuccubuz28
      @zxsuccubuz28 5 лет назад +3

      @@_Muzolf what

  • @haagjohnson2773
    @haagjohnson2773 6 лет назад +40

    Uhhh because they pinch everyone for not wearing green ffs

    • @mrmaniac3
      @mrmaniac3 6 лет назад +4

      Haag Johnson never done that in my life, but for some reason people pinch me for not wearing green... I'll show them.. I'll paint my car green and get a green suit with a green bowler, and I'll wear green socks, and drink green tea (though Irish breakfast tea is way better) and play a green piano. Just you wait, you pickle pinching bastards.

    •  6 лет назад

      That's an American thing , it doesn't happen in Ireland

  • @mockdr
    @mockdr Год назад +5

    I find Ireland and the modern history of Irish people incredibly fascinating. Where I live, most people I know are Irish. I’m a very, very proud Irish American!

  • @jerryjohnson9734
    @jerryjohnson9734 5 лет назад +45

    another thing some of the Irish fought in the Mexican war against America because Mexico were Catholics

    • @j.a.pelaez6435
      @j.a.pelaez6435 4 года назад +4

      Aye, Saint Patrick's Batallion, in charge of John Riley

    • @waynewaldron3145
      @waynewaldron3145 4 года назад +1

      A bunch of Irish dudes fought against the Americans until all the bullets ran out then they were executed. So the Mexican people took the surnames of those Irish men so they wouldn't be forgotten

    • @eddiemorales2214
      @eddiemorales2214 3 года назад +1

      Pretty all Irish Mexican couples met in catholic school

    • @davefitzgerald4337
      @davefitzgerald4337 3 года назад

      correct!!

    • @jonathancoleman3003
      @jonathancoleman3003 3 года назад

      @@waynewaldron3145 as an irish person if that's true it's probably the most respectful,noble and appreciative thing I've ever learned🍻🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @APfub
    @APfub 6 лет назад +32

    8:57 sorry for the long video
    here's a potato

  • @MrRoboman333
    @MrRoboman333 6 лет назад +304

    I'm partly Irish, I hate that some of my ancestors had to go through this. They did pretty well though because I'm here and I think a lot of anti-irish racism had to do with the fact that they didn't modernize as fast as the rest of Europe, they were never conquered by the Romans and thus were never romanized nor were they as exposed to Anglo-Norman culture as much as the rest of the British Isles. A lot of still held on to a lot of those pagan ways and traditions for a while and that got them labeled as savages.

    • @sudocreme5080
      @sudocreme5080 6 лет назад +33

      Vintr I believe to an extent it was because they weren't that racist. As he mentioned, they socialised with black people, which would have been unthinkable back then. And more recently, back in Ireland, the Irish have been socially liberal and welcoming to refugees and immigrants, which may be seen as too much for some in the more conservative America.
      Just looking at the policy differences between politicians here and in the US, many Irish parties would be branded "Commies" in America, even the furthest right wing major party is still further left than the Democratic Party.

    • @starlite1100
      @starlite1100 6 лет назад +1

      Vintr how much irish?

    • @giorgiop890
      @giorgiop890 6 лет назад

      Vintr ireland war Romanized..

    • @sudocreme5080
      @sudocreme5080 6 лет назад +13

      TheManicMerc I agree, we weren't any more religious than England or America. And after the gay marriage referendum, it's obvious that the Catholic Church have little influence on the people of Ireland.
      And the xenophobia from the British was even more obvious than many could imagine, there were the Penal Laws which meant Irish people couldn't own land or marry Protestants. And up until the 1965, Catholics were systematically denied from voting in NI. I am aware anti-Irish sentiment ended in America long ago, but in NI, it was until very recently, very much alive.

    • @VintageLJ
      @VintageLJ 6 лет назад +3

      In NI, Anti-Everything sentiment exists on both sides.
      In both RoI and NI, anti-British sentiment is very much alive and well, and somewhat encouraged.
      It seems that everytime Ireland fucks someone or something, they like to remind people that at one point the British opressed them, then everyone forgets. Fuck the Irish government, and fuck blind nationalists. Michael Collins should've won.

  • @rrkwarmonger
    @rrkwarmonger 5 лет назад +13

    *White people starts hating Irish*
    Black people: Am I a joke to you?

    • @SirBojo4
      @SirBojo4 3 года назад +1

      Would that means that the only thing black people are better than everyone is to be opressed victims?
      That's what many people communicate by their racial obsession.

    • @rrkwarmonger
      @rrkwarmonger 3 года назад +1

      @@SirBojo4 that means learn to take a freaking joke.

    • @ek4380
      @ek4380 3 года назад +1

      @@SirBojo4 its a joke

    • @thecraplordsell4575
      @thecraplordsell4575 2 года назад +1

      @@SirBojo4 It’s a joke idiot

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 2 года назад

      @@SirBojo4 the racial obsession is by racist like trump and his cult.

  • @Rumpfunk
    @Rumpfunk 4 года назад +5

    It's great to see that America has learned from it's past and now welcomes you with open arms no matter your color, creed or religion.

    • @Rumpfunk
      @Rumpfunk 4 года назад

      @acammtt You know I was being sarcastic?

    • @Rumpfunk
      @Rumpfunk 4 года назад

      @acammtt Haha, no worries

  • @bangitybangbabang
    @bangitybangbabang 6 лет назад +104

    I'm Jamaican and my Irish boyfriend's family were absolutely delighted with him dating me cause they always said Jamaicans are black Irish 😅same as my grandad always loved Irish people cause when he came over they were the only people who'd work with him

    • @abebauba6609
      @abebauba6609 6 лет назад +2

      Maya-Louise Mcpherson
      yep

    • @abebauba6609
      @abebauba6609 6 лет назад +21

      Neil Hood
      fuck off racist

    • @abebauba6609
      @abebauba6609 6 лет назад +10

      Neil Hood
      we love our Irish Bois

    • @abebauba6609
      @abebauba6609 6 лет назад +4

      Neil Hood
      actually he kisses my feet so I'm the Massa[ Master ] 😂

    • @abebauba6609
      @abebauba6609 6 лет назад +2

      Neil Hood
      Scientists shown the DNA tests and many European Scientists tried to burn the information but some one took it and shown it to the World.

  • @andrewheil1158
    @andrewheil1158 6 лет назад +21

    Damn Leprechauns

  • @rydemk4168
    @rydemk4168 5 лет назад +56

    I’m 1/3 irish and my dad is 2/3 irish. He has a sign up in the living room that says “Irish need not apply” as a joke to mock the hatred of irish back then.

    • @sp00kybr1ana8
      @sp00kybr1ana8 3 года назад

      so does my dad 😹

    • @Holly-ro2sy
      @Holly-ro2sy 3 года назад

      how can you be 1/3 irish? lol

    • @yolomacswaginator3174
      @yolomacswaginator3174 3 года назад

      Wait, why do you have three parents?

    • @WhiteCamry
      @WhiteCamry 3 года назад +2

      How does that 1/3 - 2/3 thing work? (Please include visual evidence.)

  • @alisiamiller3750
    @alisiamiller3750 4 года назад +7

    My brother and son were both born on St. Patrick's Day, my mother's birthday was two days later, but we're black. Go figure