Short history of the famine : Some rich guys arrived and said, "this is all our land now and you all work for us, looking after our cows and wheat. We'll pay you by letting you live in a corner and eat this handy new root we found while we were taking someone else's land". A couple of hundred years later, a disease killed all the roots, and people got hungry and couldn't work so hard. The rich guys realised that sheep eat grass and they could make more money if there were less hungry people and more sheep on the land, so they evicted people from the places they'd lived in for a thousand years. The cattle and wheat exports were joined by mutton and lamb exports, the rich guys recovered their losses, and a million people died starving and destitute on the side of the road. The system works!
@@discontentedcitizan6046 I was being sarcastic! I don’t think it’s very sensible to have plugs in a bathroom and I am Irish too but I live in Dublin and have been an electrician for over forty years!
The deaths related to the Great Hunger were entirely due to The British who owned most of the land and chose to send their crops to England rather than feed the Irish during the potato blight,they were also responsible for the same thing in India as well,their is a song called ,The Fields of Athenry,which is about the famine and is sung at many of Ireland,s international sports events,the food as always been great in Ireland because it is farming country and the produce is fresh and local,and as for peoples mental health i think that may be related to the younger generation always having their heads buried in their phones or their laptops,why would anybody when on holiday and surrounded by beautiful panoramas and history be bothered about the speed of your broadband.
To say British is a little unfair as it was the British overlords, the gentry, the powerful, the politicians and industrialists that followed to be specific. The British working people suffered too at the hands of their "betters". Anyone who worked the land led nothing short of owned and abused lives by the well to dos. Human value was much the same to the wealthy and powerful everywhere. 2 families in my ancestry travelled from Cork to London during those appalling times to improve their lot, to survive and live in hope for a better life but ended up in poverty working as rag sorters and chopping bundles of wood for fires a few strides from the Royal Mint and Tower of London, living in awful slum courts, nothing more than passageways or courtyards. Poverty and the rich divided by a few yards and an attitude that viewed the poorer in society as justly deserving their fate.
Dia dhuit as Éireann 🇮🇪☘️ Hello from Ireland, we have regions called An Gaeltacht where Irish is the first language. Also Gael Scoile ( Irish language schools) all over our towns and cities now where everything is thought through the Irish language . So the Irish language has not died which is a miracle after England’s attempt to eradicate everything Irish . We still have our national language , sports , music , Irish names like Sinéad , Saoirse , Seán , Eoin , Aisling ect , though our surnames were anglicised, there are people like myself that still have the Irish version of their name , Ó Donnchú which means of the brown hound ( O’Donoghue ) in the anglicised version . My mother is Uí Donnchú and my sisters Ní Donnchú. Ó and Mac or Mc was only for the males of the family . Check out more info on the Irish famine , Irish slavery and Irish myths and legends . Barróga mór ( big hugs ) Pilib
I'm Irish and I found this funny. Europe in general is safer and has better food than the US. Haggis is Scottish. If you read up on Irish history or watch RUclips videos you can learn about the 1840s famine and the depopulation of the country and the resultant depletion of Irish language speakers.
That was true about ten years ago before America bombed every country in the middle-east now were taking everyone in and all suffering for it. Have you noticed the triple rent and triple electric bills? my last electric bill in dec for dec was 1500 euro.
It's definitely warmth & genuine friendliness, but we're definitely not innocent lol. The Irish were fighting the English & being persecuted for 800 years. We've a got collective generational PTSD. It's the reason we don't take life too seriously & are pretty laid back. We know compared to our ancestors, we've got it sweet. (Because of them). And the Potato famine was a genocide. Ireland produced plenty of other food to survive the back Potato crop. But the English were loading it onto boats bound for England. They're murdering thieves
first thing DON'T EVER call the Great famine the potato famine people didn't die because the potato crop failed there was plenty of food in the county ,but our british overlords let the markets rip and most of that food was exported.To put it this all though ireland was frequently rebelling against british rule ,the famine was the last straw and is why most of the island broke away from the UK.
Yeah. Basically farming was a lucrative business if you owned land and had serfs. A lot of the viable farm land was owned by English lords who would have their produce exported from Ireland for better market pricing. Potatoes were just the cheapest calorie dense food most serfs could afford. It's part of their historic beef with England since the potatoes fungus blighted all the poor peoples' food, but the country was still exporting cash crops. Locals starved while food was still grown and exported for profit. A whole lot of needless death and despair due to greed.
I've been on holiday to Ireland a few times, its a beautiful country. Both myself and my partner have Irish descent, my family came over to the UK during the famine.
What’s she talking about with the wifi issues? Load of bull. Dublin gets perfect speeds. Way out in the sticks it might be less so of course, but that’s the same everywhere. 🙄
I cant stop laughing 😂 thinking Ireland in dark ages 😅 dublin is known as the silicon valley of Europe... all technical bustling with American multinationals its the getway to Europe for America
Ireland is very advanced country!! In some ways more advanced than the USA , the education system in Ireland is workd renowned ,inly very recently ireland came too in the world for children's readung abilities. Yes SOME people have mevtal health issues bug its not everyone , ireland is a wealthy country with many oppertunities ... We have fibre broadband thats very fast , our electricity voltage is higher than the US so thats why theres no sockets in bathrooms. Ive never hadcto fkag down a bus , there's bus timetables & they stop ... There are definitely better videos about irelahd than this one yoy reacted to ,also look up the Wild Atlantic Way videos .
lol you insulted the Irish in so many ways🤣can you do a roast of Norway next... perhaps you should react to a video made by an Irish person, to get a better understanding of the emerald island
I'm from Ireland we have one of the best economy in Europe. We were the first country to bring in equal marriage and abortion rights through a referendum. There are some mental health issues and sometimes the proper help is not available. Dublin is also one of the more expensive places to live in the world. An average house or apartment in Dublin is 350,000 euros to rent a one bedroom apartment will cost on average of 700 euros a month. A coffee will set you back 6 dollars. A lot of irish are immigrating because of the cost of living.
Thanks guys, great and funny reactions. Ireland spent most of her time under British rule. Landlords threw families out of their homes etc. There was never a famine, the genocide was caused by the greedy British empire, not the good British people. There was lots of food in Ireland, however their lands and crops were taken, the poor were shot if they were caught fishing, their animals and crops were taken and exported, they died of starvation, that is genocide, not a famine, caused by the greedy. The internet in hotels, shops etc can be slow, as they don't want to pay more for faster internet, while most homes have high speed fibre broadband, as it is a must in every home, where that is not the case in a lot of hotels, stores etc. If you come to Ireland, sure, spend a few days in Dublin, however to see the Irish countryside is a "must" and castles like Powerscourt, Ashford Castle, Kylemore Abbey etc but to name a few. The Cliffs of Moher, Trinity College, the Ring of Kerry etc are beautiful. Thanks again guys, love from Ireland
The term “Gaelic”, as a language, applies only to the language of Scotland. If you're not in Ireland, it is permissible to refer to the language as Irish Gaelic to differentiate it from Scottish Gaelic, but when you're in the Emerald Isle, simply refer to the language as either Irish or its native name, Gaeilge. Google.
I have been once on vacation to Ireland. And it is such a beautiful country. ❤ We had lots of fun and the locals were very friendly and helpful, like pointing us to the really interesting sites, towns, restaurants, pubs with traditional Celtic music, sport events. It was one of my best holidays.
Glad you had a good time,but its traditional irish music not celtic music,scottish trad is very similar,but aside from ireland and scotland the folk music from other celtic nations is very different.Even within Irish trad each area has its own style.
Very modern are you taking the piss go to Leitrim, cavan or any part of sligo outside of the town and tell me its very modern It's litteraly like the early 90s
It’s a European safety rule not to have electric sockets in bathrooms. The except is the shaving connection in the light strip over the wash basin.🇮🇪🥳🙏🏻
I'm not sure why she says the Internet is terrible here. I'm in a city in the west of the country and I get 200-250mbps on my phone. About 500mbps on my broadband. It's slower in the countryside, but it's generally WAAAAY better than she's saying.
A perfect example of how the uninformed (especially the guy) should not vlog. He sniggers his way through his ignorance. Not a good look. Around 1 million people in Ireland starved to death during that horrific period- and he sniggers!
I started making this comment from Dublin on 13th Nov, but the internet speed was so slow it only made onto RUclips today (14th). But I was lucky to even make it at all ... my leprechaun that looks after me only gives us a bit of electrickery when it's not raining. In fairness, youse had a good laugh at your own reactions ... good sports.
Im sure the mental health thing is universal. Irish people are very kind and generally speaking don’t want to be blunt or unkind to others even if feeling crap themselves. I’m Irish and I think we’re a happy bunch compared to Americans.
There is a unique aspect here though. The housing crisis and general stigma don't help. The feeling of desolateness and lack of opportunities has been a constant since British occupation, even till today. Yet we do nothing to solve it.
Well, Dublin is the capital of Ireland, and its the city where the hipsters want to live - and where the good jobs are (yes, they do have modern companies, because Ireland is also a tax haven for big corporations). So everything is expensive, especially housing. Its the same all over Europe - London, Paris, Berlin, Rome ect., if you want to be at the pulse of modern life it will cost you.
Very enjoyable and just wondering if you guys get on - I am in Ireland and you guys need to chill out a little, We understand you not knowing that we are a modern country with headquaters of google and facebook etc here. That is the fault of american movies about Ireland as they think of us in the past.
You won't find electric plugs in Uk bathrooms , because it's considered to risky to have them with the voltage here of 240 volts . Hopefully now Kristen is living in Manchester,UK she's learned how to catch a bus .❤
@@gallowglass2630 Well I've made your day haven't I ,given you a chance to be offended where non was intended Not happy unless we're playing the oppressed minority are we ,get inline wait your turn ,your way behind Ukraine and Israel/Gaza etc in the oppressed people's rankings.
It's easier to say they are banned. But Sockets are allowed in UK bathrooms. They have to be more than 3 meters (10 feet). From the bath, shower or basin. I have yet to encounter a bathroom with that much spare space.
100/110 volts in America, usually won't kill you if you get a shock. UK/Ireland it's 220/240 volts and will give bad shock or death. Water in bathroom and electricals don't go. Hairdryer in bathroom good way to leave this earth, hence why no sockets there (apart from 2 pin shaver sockets). Also I the reason why we have switches on our plug sockets. My advice to anyone from outside the UK/Ireland, is not to put your wet finger or tongue in a plug socket. It won't hurt, it will burn or kill.
The further you get from Dublin, the more likely, you will hear Irish/Gaeilge spoken there are place called Gaeltacht Regions where Irish is spoken. We don’t call it Gaelic because there are several languages that are Gaelic Scottish, Isle of Man so it’s specifically called Irish or Gaeilge. Because of technology, amongst the young. It will be a secondary language, but that’s OK. Irish language rules are actually easier than English. Today everyone learns Irish in schools, but there were school. Specifically we are only Irish spoken. A majority of the people can speak it, but might not be confident enough to speak it, but they can understand it.
Mental health is no better or worse than equivalent countries, the winter months can be a downer, the wi fi has improved dramatically, the famine was British genocide.
Dublin is the tech one of the tech capitals of Europe. Every 600 international companies European headquarters there. It’s one of the wealthiest countries in Europe
It's wealth is based on those companies. It's a façade to pull money out of the country in the UN pockets. the entire country is underdeveloped and now with the insane mass-immigration there is a staggering amount of homeless Irish but immigrants stay in hotels. It shocked me the lady in the video was getting promotions from my government to come to Ireland. They seem to think we can hold 6 billion people here on social welfare.
living in Ireland for the last 2years i wouldn't exactly agree - Ireland is a country that made big GDP jump quickly and it's visible - big chunk of infrastructure quality, urban planning, digitization etc lags behind lot of EU countries. Being from Poland it feels as if you moved ~15years back in time (electric cars are the only exception)
to be fair if the famine didnt happen our population is estimated to be similar to polands, so 35 million instead of 7 million (yes i include the north) @@GdzieJestNemo
@GdzieJestNemo that's certainly true, we're still catching up re Infrastructure. We have about 80k Polish people living here so that's saying something! 😉
New York,London ,Dublin capital cities are usually expensive places in most respects ,re Ireland being very green, Ireland is sometimes known as the Emerald Isle ,large amounts of rainfall will do it every time ❤.
Paddy is from Liverpool, but I think he has Irish heritage. Mental health issues are top of a lot of peoples agenda here. it is exacerbated by extremely high housing costs and the fact that even working people are unlikely to be able to afford even meagre accommodation and so are still at the parents gaff into their thirties. Ireland is one of the richest countries on earth, but that is only because of all the multi national companies that baser themselves here for tax reasons. Most people here are just sound people. the country looks glorious and there is stuff to do for almost everyone. culture. countryside, city. Ireland has a lot of it.
In terms of when she was talking about mental health in Ireland, we definitely have an ongoing mental health crisis which then is of course amplified by the housing and homelessness crisis' that are only worsening. It tends to feel like all government funding goes into tourism with more and more hotels being built, replacing spaces of cultural importance to young people. Rent is so high in Dublin that I have a friend who quit his job and moved back to his family in a different county because it just wasn't worth working a full time corporate job just to be broke but living in Dublin.
also outside of Dublin, while the cost of living can be cheaper, they get even less government funding for their communities and the local transport is basically nonexistent in certain areas. And another thing that adds to the general frustration is that, being within the EU, we can so easily travel to other European countries where their quality of life is much higher and how cheap it is to simply exist there.
I would suggest watching a video on the Famine as it's a long and very detailed story but basically the potato crop failed in many countries, but unfortunately Ireland was reliant on potatoes and under British rule, so the British had control of virtually all Irish produce, purposely averted all attempts at aid from other countries and starved the Irish as well as treating the people extremely inhumanely in other ways. (Also in Ireland we call the Irish language Gaeilge not Gaelic. Pronounced Gael-ga, gael-geh or gael-guh usually 🤭💚)
for the plugs in the bathroom the irish voltage in plug sockets is twice the American ones in usa typically voltage is 115 in ireland its 225 so electrocution risk is a lot higher. thats why there is no plugs in the bathroom. it used to be illegal to speak irish in ireland.
i reserve ''shock'' for things like alien invasion , real dinosaurs , the apocalypse , stuff like that.......minor differences in way of life might raise an eyebrow perhaps but this american ''SHOCK'' is an extreme reaction 😆
Alright guys, Wexford girl here, south eastern tip. Yep we are friendly, love to chat and take the piss. If you have any kind of a good sense of humour you will be grand and entertained no matter where you end up. 😅
Languages in the british isles... irish, scots, manx, welsh and cornish... all considered to have had the same roots... similar but different. These remain in the geographical extremes compared to the invaded parts of the islands where the old languages were pushed out during the roman invasion. Irish is taught in schools in the Republic of Ireland, although not commonly spoken as more than a party trick for Irish living abroad or for the benefit of American tourists who might tip more generously. Welsh is less often spoken in the south of Wales, but more common in the North (especially where English folk have bought holiday homes, and the locals want to remind you what country you're in). Never heard scots or cornish spoken and not been to the Isle of Man.
Brian leaning away from Lynda. As if he's anticipating a whack around the head from Lynda! Electric appliances in a bathroom. Were there is an abundance of water??? Roads in Ireland! My mum told me that she was driving on a road that warned her to "Slow" it then warned her "NO! SLOWER". These were painted on the road. Love you guys. ❤🇬🇧
I'm from Dublin and my 5g on my phone does be around 300mbs, and my WiFi in my house is usually anywhere from 250mbs to 500mbs. You can have anything up to 1000mbs or 1GB. Ireland has some of the best Internet services in Europe Edit - alot of the names of places are named by the English by how the pronounced or heard the name in irish, so like dublin was dubh linn (pronounced dove lin) so the English during colonisation named it dublin. This is the same with alot of the areas
If you where to compare Ireland to the U.S, nature wise, by moving Europe over to the U.S. Ireland would end up sitting right across the northern border of Washington state on top of Canada's British Columbia and both of those areas are vary green just as Ireland is. The only main difference is that Ireland sits in a different northern area of the planet.
The climate of Ireland is in general a little warmer in comparison to most other places along the same due to the gulf stream bringing warm water / air from the gulf of Mexico.
The mental health issues amongst young people I think has a lot to do with the housing crisis over here. House prices have just outpaced young people’s ability to buy, and as rental properties are also in short supply, this has allowed landlords to raise rents to ridiculous levels. This difficulty in both renting and trying to purchase, contributes to a feeling amongst young people that they will never own their own house. Many young people in their twenties to thirties are still living with their parents, which is a very depressing scenario and so different from what their own parents experienced when they were young. The world wide financial crisis in 2010 bankrupted most developers in Ireland and house building on the scale necessary to keep up with demand , didn’t really return for about five years. Then in the middle of it all, Covid arrived and further delayed building developments. We are still struggling to catch up and the huge influx of immigrants fleeing war etc has put great strain on available accommodation and is almost overwhelming us, so it will take years to get totally back on track…a circumstance not lost on the young who are caught in the middle of all this.
As half-Irish descendant of refugees from two different half-Irish parents, it very much feels like a lot of the mental health issues are far older than that. Both of those grandparents were malignant narcissists whose mission in life seemed to be ruining their children, and I suspect that generational trauma was very much involved. The effects of British occupation still hadn't left them 100 years later, and it remains to this day. When you tell people that they're stupid useless drunkards for generations it has effects, and the children of genocides have long memories.
So Gaelic is the branch of celtic languages Irish, Scottish and Manx sit on. Its not what the language is called. Americans are very very bad for making that mistake. Its Irish or Gaeilge. Think of it like this, Celtics the tree, Gaelics the limb, and Irish and scottish are branches. Then the leaves are the different dialects in each region. Welsh actually sits on a different limb and isn’t a Gaelic language at all although it is Celtic. Hope that helps!
Ireland is a very modern country with all the up to date tech, much of the tech that is used in the state isn't all from American companies and don't be surprised it could be Irish tech. Some of American slang words used in the states is Irish like foods like pancakes our traditions such as Halloween, the headless horse man ect all come Ireland.
short history of the Irish language: the Brithish outlawed the Irosh language and and the teaching of Irish history and folklore and outlawed the Catholic faith in Ireland in an attempt to crush the Irish identity in order to better control the population and to abolish the various Irish rebel groups a they were using our Irish identity as a way to rally support.......
We call the language irish not gaelic.If someone says gaelic in ireland it refers gaelic football or generally gaelic sports.Yes the majority don't speak it however its still the native language and many do speak and have great passion for the language.Most of the people who died in the famine spoke irish predominantly which is one of many reasons people no longer speak it as an everyday language
The lack of opportunities and the mental health struggles caused by that is universal. Even with all the work related laws and workers protection the companies are getting americanized. Also, even with a good salary, is never enough to live alone without struggling
nothing to do with war in the country for 850 years 800 years of slavery, alcohol abuse, church abuse, domestic violence, gambling addiction, and lack of development of services outside Dublin.
Check out Irelands history via the Irish Potato Famine and The Troubles for example.This will remove any thoughts you had about it being a sleepy backwater.
Psychiatric problems because we were so opressed by colonisers and the church and because our grandparents great grandparents generation married their 2nd 3rd cousins etc. especially if land was involved people also never moved around much again because of land mostly.
Since Dublin it's around from the 9th century I think it should be no surprise that it's a pretty big and advanced city :) Anyway, media and movies do all kind of tricks like this to the rest of the world :)
@@gallowglass2630 it did? it looks nothing like London (perhaps some of the residential areas?), don't you perhaps mean Belfast? it has way more London'like architecture
@@GdzieJestNemo Heuston station and areas around dublin castle are used quite often.The great train robbery staring Sean Connery was filmed mostly in ireland particularly heuston station,but the whole film was filmed in ireland in and around dublin.Belfast had a period from the early 70s to the late 90s where due to the troubles it wouldn't have been safe to film there.
@@gallowglass2630 when i think about it they use Kraków and Prague as stand for Paris in Bollywood movies so Dublin spots working as London doesn't seem as far fetched :D
My guess (before watching) would be the dislike or sometimes hate of Britain, the amount of beers being drunk, the amount of pubs, the low population, the amount of folk music, that everything closes down on Sundays, the friendly (mostly) police, that many tech companies (like Dell) has, or at least had, lots of production there... Oh well, at least I got one, perhaps two, right.
We don't hate the British we hate the British government and therefore hate our own government because it's the same thing. Left-wing lunatics that think the can invite 6 billion people here to destroy our heritage and steal our hard earned money all the while profiting from the whole thing. Besides that we are grand.
Thats not exactly the case what it is more accurately is that people are very friendly but we dont like people get Trying rto get too close to to us. We are a little bit stand offishise
One of the things many of the names are in the transliterations to English so the town Cill Airne in Irish is spelled in English Killarney . Well, there’s a literal translation, which makes no sense in English like the name of the town she mentioned, but makes perfect sense in Irish
The mental health is a massive problem over here aswell as alcoholism in rural areas anyways cocaine's everywhere too aswell as benzos Theres also very few services outside of Dublin for either mental health or alcoholism Hence the fairly high suicide rates Also as you can imagine living in a village with lets just say less than 1000 people where everyone knows everybody and everyone's business it gets pretty difficult and if you're seen to be suffering from any of these things stated above EVERYONE KNOWS Which brings allot of shame to individuals and families And in rural areas bringing shame to the family is about as good as being dead its a serious thing Also somebody mentioned boredom thats a massive part too
Paddy the Baddy is a scouser from liverpool .....if he hears you saying he's a Londoner he might hunt you down dude.😂😂..BTW Linda is just as cute as ever
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It was never a famine, it was a Genocide committed by the British!
Short history of the famine :
Some rich guys arrived and said, "this is all our land now and you all work for us, looking after our cows and wheat. We'll pay you by letting you live in a corner and eat this handy new root we found while we were taking someone else's land".
A couple of hundred years later, a disease killed all the roots, and people got hungry and couldn't work so hard. The rich guys realised that sheep eat grass and they could make more money if there were less hungry people and more sheep on the land, so they evicted people from the places they'd lived in for a thousand years.
The cattle and wheat exports were joined by mutton and lamb exports, the rich guys recovered their losses, and a million people died starving and destitute on the side of the road.
The system works!
It is against regulations in Ireland and I think in Britain too to have electrical outlets in bathrooms
Yes water and electricity are so good together!
@@Andy-ix2ox We use different voltage than the US. That is why we only have shaving plugs in bathrooms .I am Irish born and bred now living in London.
@@discontentedcitizan6046 I was being sarcastic! I don’t think it’s very sensible to have plugs in a bathroom and I am Irish too but I live in Dublin and have been an electrician for over forty years!
The voltage is much higher in Ireland and the UK compared to the US. That's why electric outlets are not in the bathroom but outside. 👍
@@ClaireQuinn566 just because they have 110 and we have 240 doesn’t mean they are not going to be electrocuted if water and electricity mix.
Look up the video “how Britain starved Ireland” by the gravel institute if you want a good comprehensive lesson about the famine
The deaths related to the Great Hunger were entirely due to The British who owned most of the land and chose to send their crops to England rather than feed the Irish during the potato blight,they were also responsible for the same thing in India as well,their is a song called ,The Fields of Athenry,which is about the famine and is sung at many of Ireland,s international sports events,the food as always been great in Ireland because it is farming country and the produce is fresh and local,and as for peoples mental health i think that may be related to the younger generation always having their heads buried in their phones or their laptops,why would anybody when on holiday and surrounded by beautiful panoramas and history be bothered about the speed of your broadband.
To say British is a little unfair as it was the British overlords, the gentry, the powerful, the politicians and industrialists that followed to be specific. The British working people suffered too at the hands of their "betters". Anyone who worked the land led nothing short of owned and abused lives by the well to dos. Human value was much the same to the wealthy and powerful everywhere. 2 families in my ancestry travelled from Cork to London during those appalling times to improve their lot, to survive and live in hope for a better life but ended up in poverty working as rag sorters and chopping bundles of wood for fires a few strides from the Royal Mint and Tower of London, living in awful slum courts, nothing more than passageways or courtyards. Poverty and the rich divided by a few yards and an attitude that viewed the poorer in society as justly deserving their fate.
That is the stereotypical view of Ireland you find in the US generally 😂
So true, to an American, if it’s in a movie, it must be true!
it´s bit like "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king" 😅
So true I'm amazed leprechauns didn't get a mention
@@Irish780That's because they don't exist.
Leprechauns are fictional characters from children's stories.
Dia dhuit as Éireann 🇮🇪☘️ Hello from Ireland, we have regions called An Gaeltacht where Irish is the first language. Also Gael Scoile ( Irish language schools) all over our towns and cities now where everything is thought through the Irish language . So the Irish language has not died which is a miracle after England’s attempt to eradicate everything Irish . We still have our national language , sports , music , Irish names like Sinéad , Saoirse , Seán , Eoin , Aisling ect , though our surnames were anglicised, there are people like myself that still have the Irish version of their name , Ó Donnchú which means of the brown hound ( O’Donoghue ) in the anglicised version . My mother is Uí Donnchú and my sisters Ní Donnchú. Ó and Mac or Mc was only for the males of the family . Check out more info on the Irish famine , Irish slavery and Irish myths and legends . Barróga mór ( big hugs ) Pilib
I'm Irish and I found this funny. Europe in general is safer and has better food than the US. Haggis is Scottish. If you read up on Irish history or watch RUclips videos you can learn about the 1840s famine and the depopulation of the country and the resultant depletion of Irish language speakers.
That was true about ten years ago before America bombed every country in the middle-east now were taking everyone in and all suffering for it. Have you noticed the triple rent and triple electric bills? my last electric bill in dec for dec was 1500 euro.
It's definitely warmth & genuine friendliness, but we're definitely not innocent lol. The Irish were fighting the English & being persecuted for 800 years. We've a got collective generational PTSD. It's the reason we don't take life too seriously & are pretty laid back. We know compared to our ancestors, we've got it sweet. (Because of them). And the Potato famine was a genocide. Ireland produced plenty of other food to survive the back Potato crop. But the English were loading it onto boats bound for England. They're murdering thieves
first thing DON'T EVER call the Great famine the potato famine people didn't die because the potato crop failed there was plenty of food in the county ,but our british overlords let the markets rip and most of that food was exported.To put it this all though ireland was frequently rebelling against british rule ,the famine was the last straw and is why most of the island broke away from the UK.
Yeah. Basically farming was a lucrative business if you owned land and had serfs. A lot of the viable farm land was owned by English lords who would have their produce exported from Ireland for better market pricing. Potatoes were just the cheapest calorie dense food most serfs could afford. It's part of their historic beef with England since the potatoes fungus blighted all the poor peoples' food, but the country was still exporting cash crops. Locals starved while food was still grown and exported for profit. A whole lot of needless death and despair due to greed.
Did anyone notice how the lady presenter keeps looking very annoyed at the man presenting?
I've been on holiday to Ireland a few times, its a beautiful country. Both myself and my partner have Irish descent, my family came over to the UK during the famine.
The irish built America especially new york
What’s she talking about with the wifi issues? Load of bull. Dublin gets perfect speeds. Way out in the sticks it might be less so of course, but that’s the same everywhere. 🙄
I cant stop laughing 😂 thinking Ireland in dark ages 😅 dublin is known as the silicon valley of Europe... all technical bustling with American multinationals its the getway to Europe for America
She seemed to be 'shocked' and 'surprised' about so many things!! Obviously her first time ever away from Florida!!!!
Ireland is very advanced country!! In some ways more advanced than the USA , the education system in Ireland is workd renowned ,inly very recently ireland came too in the world for children's readung abilities. Yes SOME people have mevtal health issues bug its not everyone , ireland is a wealthy country with many oppertunities ... We have fibre broadband thats very fast , our electricity voltage is higher than the US so thats why theres no sockets in bathrooms. Ive never hadcto fkag down a bus , there's bus timetables & they stop ... There are definitely better videos about irelahd than this one yoy reacted to ,also look up the Wild Atlantic Way videos .
lol you insulted the Irish in so many ways🤣can you do a roast of Norway next... perhaps you should react to a video made by an Irish person, to get a better understanding of the emerald island
I'm from Ireland we have one of the best economy in Europe. We were the first country to bring in equal marriage and abortion rights through a referendum. There are some mental health issues and sometimes the proper help is not available. Dublin is also one of the more expensive places to live in the world. An average house or apartment in Dublin is 350,000 euros to rent a one bedroom apartment will cost on average of 700 euros a month. A coffee will set you back 6 dollars. A lot of irish are immigrating because of the cost of living.
Thanks guys, great and funny reactions. Ireland spent most of her time under British rule. Landlords threw families out of their homes etc. There was never a famine, the genocide was caused by the greedy British empire, not the good British people. There was lots of food in Ireland, however their lands and crops were taken, the poor were shot if they were caught fishing, their animals and crops were taken and exported, they died of starvation, that is genocide, not a famine, caused by the greedy. The internet in hotels, shops etc can be slow, as they don't want to pay more for faster internet, while most homes have high speed fibre broadband, as it is a must in every home, where that is not the case in a lot of hotels, stores etc. If you come to Ireland, sure, spend a few days in Dublin, however to see the Irish countryside is a "must" and castles like Powerscourt, Ashford Castle, Kylemore Abbey etc but to name a few. The Cliffs of Moher, Trinity College, the Ring of Kerry etc are beautiful. Thanks again guys, love from Ireland
The term “Gaelic”, as a language, applies only to the language of Scotland. If you're not in Ireland, it is permissible to refer to the language as Irish Gaelic to differentiate it from Scottish Gaelic, but when you're in the Emerald Isle, simply refer to the language as either Irish or its native name, Gaeilge. Google.
I have been once on vacation to Ireland. And it is such a beautiful country. ❤ We had lots of fun and the locals were very friendly and helpful, like pointing us to the really interesting sites, towns, restaurants, pubs with traditional Celtic music, sport events. It was one of my best holidays.
Glad you enjoyed it. thanks for choosing Ireland.
Glad you had a good time,but its traditional irish music not celtic music,scottish trad is very similar,but aside from ireland and scotland the folk music from other celtic nations is very different.Even within Irish trad each area has its own style.
Hey yank , you do realise that Ireland has a far higher gdp per capita than the USA, we are a cosmopolitan nation and we are very modern!
Gowan Andy at least his 1 was embarrassed by and for him😮😮😮
Very modern are you taking the piss go to Leitrim, cavan or any part of sligo outside of the town and tell me its very modern
It's litteraly like the early 90s
Hey Brian, some companies have their headquarters in Ireland. You might have even heard of them in America, do you have Google there?
It’s a European safety rule not to have electric sockets in bathrooms.
The except is the shaving connection in the light strip over the wash basin.🇮🇪🥳🙏🏻
I'm not sure why she says the Internet is terrible here. I'm in a city in the west of the country and I get 200-250mbps on my phone. About 500mbps on my broadband. It's slower in the countryside, but it's generally WAAAAY better than she's saying.
Haggis is in Scotland, not Ireland
Let's say that: Dublin is not Ireland like London is not the UK or Berlin is Germany.
The internet thing is not true, internet it super fast here I have about 300mps but I can get 1GB if I want.
A perfect example of how the uninformed (especially the guy) should not vlog.
He sniggers his way through his ignorance. Not a good look. Around 1 million people in Ireland starved to death during that horrific period- and he sniggers!
I started making this comment from Dublin on 13th Nov, but the internet speed was so slow it only made onto RUclips today (14th). But I was lucky to even make it at all ... my leprechaun that looks after me only gives us a bit of electrickery when it's not raining.
In fairness, youse had a good laugh at your own reactions ... good sports.
Im sure the mental health thing is universal. Irish people are very kind and generally speaking don’t want to be blunt or unkind to others even if feeling crap themselves. I’m Irish and I think we’re a happy bunch compared to Americans.
There is a unique aspect here though. The housing crisis and general stigma don't help. The feeling of desolateness and lack of opportunities has been a constant since British occupation, even till today. Yet we do nothing to solve it.
I am an Irish psychiatrist and we have very high rates of psychiatric problems
There are electrical outlets in bathrooms in Ireland and U.K. for razors toothbrushes etc .
Well, Dublin is the capital of Ireland, and its the city where the hipsters want to live - and where the good jobs are (yes, they do have modern companies, because Ireland is also a tax haven for big corporations). So everything is expensive, especially housing. Its the same all over Europe - London, Paris, Berlin, Rome ect., if you want to be at the pulse of modern life it will cost you.
Dublin is the capital city our country is beautiful watching from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
The norm in the UK outside of London to say thanks to the driver too, and in London that’s often because you get off the bus further down
sure your granny would beat the shite out of you if you dont think the bus driver.
Very enjoyable and just wondering if you guys get on - I am in Ireland and you guys need to chill out a little, We understand you not knowing that we are a modern country with headquaters of google and facebook etc here. That is the fault of american movies about Ireland as they think of us in the past.
You won't find electric plugs in Uk bathrooms , because it's considered to risky to have them with the voltage here of 240 volts . Hopefully now Kristen is living in Manchester,UK she's learned how to catch a bus .❤
Or republic of ireland,but of course you didn't say that just lazily assumed that is the same as the UK
@@gallowglass2630 Well I've made your day haven't I ,given you a chance to be offended where non was intended Not happy unless we're playing the oppressed minority are we ,get inline wait your turn ,your way behind Ukraine and Israel/Gaza etc in the oppressed people's rankings.
@@trevorlsheppard7906 not really i am totally hibernocentric not i don't care ,i stick to what i know.
It's easier to say they are banned. But Sockets are allowed in UK bathrooms. They have to be more than 3 meters (10 feet). From the bath, shower or basin. I have yet to encounter a bathroom with that much spare space.
@@grahamsmith9541Yes you're right, went for brevity .
100/110 volts in America, usually won't kill you if you get a shock. UK/Ireland it's 220/240 volts and will give bad shock or death. Water in bathroom and electricals don't go. Hairdryer in bathroom good way to leave this earth, hence why no sockets there (apart from 2 pin shaver sockets). Also I the reason why we have switches on our plug sockets. My advice to anyone from outside the UK/Ireland, is not to put your wet finger or tongue in a plug socket. It won't hurt, it will burn or kill.
No haggis in ireland doesn't exist
The further you get from Dublin, the more likely, you will hear Irish/Gaeilge spoken there are place called Gaeltacht Regions where Irish is spoken. We don’t call it Gaelic because there are several languages that are Gaelic Scottish, Isle of Man so it’s specifically called Irish or Gaeilge.
Because of technology, amongst the young. It will be a secondary language, but that’s OK. Irish language rules are actually easier than English. Today everyone learns Irish in schools, but there were school. Specifically we are only Irish spoken. A majority of the people can speak it, but might not be confident enough to speak it, but they can understand it.
Mental health is no better or worse than equivalent countries, the winter months can be a downer, the wi fi has improved dramatically, the famine was British genocide.
Dublin is the tech one of the tech capitals of Europe. Every 600 international companies European headquarters there.
It’s one of the wealthiest countries in Europe
It's wealth is based on those companies. It's a façade to pull money out of the country in the UN pockets. the entire country is underdeveloped and now with the insane mass-immigration there is a staggering amount of homeless Irish but immigrants stay in hotels. It shocked me the lady in the video was getting promotions from my government to come to Ireland. They seem to think we can hold 6 billion people here on social welfare.
Ireland is part of the EU, so it's very much as modern as any other countries in Europe!
living in Ireland for the last 2years i wouldn't exactly agree - Ireland is a country that made big GDP jump quickly and it's visible - big chunk of infrastructure quality, urban planning, digitization etc lags behind lot of EU countries. Being from Poland it feels as if you moved ~15years back in time (electric cars are the only exception)
to be fair if the famine didnt happen our population is estimated to be similar to polands, so 35 million instead of 7 million (yes i include the north) @@GdzieJestNemo
@@GdzieJestNemo I bow before your experience.
Poland has also made a huge step in the last 30 years!👍 Very impressive
@GdzieJestNemo that's certainly true, we're still catching up re Infrastructure. We have about 80k Polish people living here so that's saying something! 😉
Man, those mental health problems and bathroom sockets, the first things I look out for when I land somewhere new
New York,London ,Dublin capital cities are usually expensive places in most respects ,re Ireland being very green, Ireland is sometimes known as the Emerald Isle ,large amounts of rainfall will do it every time ❤.
Friendly interpersonal relationships in the US have suffered from trump - GOP - newsmax - fox and christian evangelism !!!!!!!!!!!
Paddy is from Liverpool, but I think he has Irish heritage.
Mental health issues are top of a lot of peoples agenda here. it is exacerbated by extremely high housing costs and the fact that even working people are unlikely to be able to afford even meagre accommodation and so are still at the parents gaff into their thirties.
Ireland is one of the richest countries on earth, but that is only because of all the multi national companies that baser themselves here for tax reasons.
Most people here are just sound people. the country looks glorious and there is stuff to do for almost everyone. culture. countryside, city. Ireland has a lot of it.
In terms of when she was talking about mental health in Ireland, we definitely have an ongoing mental health crisis which then is of course amplified by the housing and homelessness crisis' that are only worsening. It tends to feel like all government funding goes into tourism with more and more hotels being built, replacing spaces of cultural importance to young people. Rent is so high in Dublin that I have a friend who quit his job and moved back to his family in a different county because it just wasn't worth working a full time corporate job just to be broke but living in Dublin.
also outside of Dublin, while the cost of living can be cheaper, they get even less government funding for their communities and the local transport is basically nonexistent in certain areas.
And another thing that adds to the general frustration is that, being within the EU, we can so easily travel to other European countries where their quality of life is much higher and how cheap it is to simply exist there.
I would suggest watching a video on the Famine as it's a long and very detailed story but basically the potato crop failed in many countries, but unfortunately Ireland was reliant on potatoes and under British rule, so the British had control of virtually all Irish produce, purposely averted all attempts at aid from other countries and starved the Irish as well as treating the people extremely inhumanely in other ways.
(Also in Ireland we call the Irish language Gaeilge not Gaelic. Pronounced Gael-ga, gael-geh or gael-guh usually 🤭💚)
for the plugs in the bathroom the irish voltage in plug sockets is twice the American ones in usa typically voltage is 115 in ireland its 225 so electrocution risk is a lot higher. thats why there is no plugs in the bathroom. it used to be illegal to speak irish in ireland.
There are regions in Ireland and Wales where their language is mainly spoken. eg Bangor in Wales or Belmullet in Ireland.
I would also add, if in Ireland go west. Dublin will drain you of your money.
i reserve ''shock'' for things like alien invasion , real dinosaurs , the apocalypse , stuff like that.......minor differences in way of life might raise an eyebrow perhaps but this american ''SHOCK'' is an extreme reaction 😆
Alright guys, Wexford girl here, south eastern tip. Yep we are friendly, love to chat and take the piss. If you have any kind of a good sense of humour you will be grand and entertained no matter where you end up. 😅
I’m Irish and live in Dublin and of course there are people with mental health issues but it’s no worse here than anywhere else.
.omg she has nothing nice to say and most of her facts are wrong BTW I'm irish so I would know.
13:40 I like to joke that they made their spelling as complex as possible to piss off the English.
please watch more videos about ireland maybe history videos
Languages in the british isles... irish, scots, manx, welsh and cornish... all considered to have had the same roots... similar but different. These remain in the geographical extremes compared to the invaded parts of the islands where the old languages were pushed out during the roman invasion. Irish is taught in schools in the Republic of Ireland, although not commonly spoken as more than a party trick for Irish living abroad or for the benefit of American tourists who might tip more generously. Welsh is less often spoken in the south of Wales, but more common in the North (especially where English folk have bought holiday homes, and the locals want to remind you what country you're in). Never heard scots or cornish spoken and not been to the Isle of Man.
Ireland is not a British Isle ,Ireland is part of the islands known as the irish Isles that include Britain
Irish language is simply called...Irish. The Irish for Irish is Gaeilge(gu-ayl-geh). Gaelic, pertains to culture; gaelic sports, music etc.
Hi from Ireland you need to checkout Wexford coastline. It's beautiful ❤❤❤❤
Brian leaning away from Lynda. As if he's anticipating a whack around the head from Lynda!
Electric appliances in a bathroom. Were there is an abundance of water???
Roads in Ireland! My mum told me that she was driving on a road that warned her to "Slow" it then warned her "NO! SLOWER". These were painted on the road.
Love you guys.
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I'm from Dublin and my 5g on my phone does be around 300mbs, and my WiFi in my house is usually anywhere from 250mbs to 500mbs. You can have anything up to 1000mbs or 1GB. Ireland has some of the best Internet services in Europe
Edit - alot of the names of places are named by the English by how the pronounced or heard the name in irish, so like dublin was dubh linn (pronounced dove lin) so the English during colonisation named it dublin. This is the same with alot of the areas
Powerscourt has been used in several movies, most notably The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Counties Wicklow, Kerry & Donegal are a MUST-SEE... the most beautiful counties here
Respect & Peace ☘
If you where to compare Ireland to the U.S, nature wise, by moving Europe over to the U.S. Ireland would end up sitting right across the northern border of Washington state on top of Canada's British Columbia and both of those areas are vary green just as Ireland is. The only main difference is that Ireland sits in a different northern area of the planet.
The climate of Ireland is in general a little warmer in comparison to most other places along the same due to the gulf stream bringing warm water / air from the gulf of Mexico.
Ireland is now the richest country in the world.
The mental health issues amongst young people I think has a lot to do with the housing crisis over here.
House prices have just outpaced young people’s ability to buy, and as rental properties are also in short supply, this has allowed landlords to raise rents to ridiculous levels.
This difficulty in both renting and trying to purchase, contributes to a feeling amongst young people that they will never own their own house. Many young people in their twenties to thirties are still living with their parents, which is a very depressing scenario and so different from what their own parents experienced when they were young.
The world wide financial crisis in 2010 bankrupted most developers in Ireland and house building on the scale necessary to keep up with demand , didn’t really return for about five years.
Then in the middle of it all, Covid arrived and further delayed building developments.
We are still struggling to catch up and the huge influx of immigrants fleeing war etc has put great strain on available accommodation and is almost overwhelming us, so it will take years to get totally back on track…a circumstance not lost on the young who are caught in the middle of all this.
As half-Irish descendant of refugees from two different half-Irish parents, it very much feels like a lot of the mental health issues are far older than that. Both of those grandparents were malignant narcissists whose mission in life seemed to be ruining their children, and I suspect that generational trauma was very much involved. The effects of British occupation still hadn't left them 100 years later, and it remains to this day. When you tell people that they're stupid useless drunkards for generations it has effects, and the children of genocides have long memories.
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Oh I see we are all peasants who live in thatched cottages with pigs in the parlour.
So Gaelic is the branch of celtic languages Irish, Scottish and Manx sit on. Its not what the language is called. Americans are very very bad for making that mistake. Its Irish or Gaeilge. Think of it like this, Celtics the tree, Gaelics the limb, and Irish and scottish are branches. Then the leaves are the different dialects in each region. Welsh actually sits on a different limb and isn’t a Gaelic language at all although it is Celtic. Hope that helps!
Ireland is a very modern country with all the up to date tech, much of the tech that is used in the state isn't all from American companies and don't be surprised it could be Irish tech. Some of American slang words used in the states is Irish like foods like pancakes our traditions such as Halloween, the headless horse man ect all come Ireland.
13:43 It's "Gaeilge", not Gaelic, Garlic would be Scottish, Gaeilge is irish
short history of the Irish language: the Brithish outlawed the Irosh language and and the teaching of Irish history and folklore and outlawed the Catholic faith in Ireland in an attempt to crush the Irish identity in order to better control the population and to abolish the various Irish rebel groups a they were using our Irish identity as a way to rally support.......
I think you pair must of had a row before you made this video
We call the language irish not gaelic.If someone says gaelic in ireland it refers gaelic football or generally gaelic sports.Yes the majority don't speak it however its still the native language and many do speak and have great passion for the language.Most of the people who died in the famine spoke irish predominantly which is one of many reasons people no longer speak it as an everyday language
The lack of opportunities and the mental health struggles caused by that is universal. Even with all the work related laws and workers protection the companies are getting americanized. Also, even with a good salary, is never enough to live alone without struggling
nothing to do with war in the country for 850 years 800 years of slavery, alcohol abuse, church abuse, domestic violence, gambling addiction, and lack of development of services outside Dublin.
Paddy is from Liverpool..a lot of irish influence in Liverpool 🇬🇧😁👍
Check out Irelands history via the Irish Potato Famine and The Troubles for example.This will remove any thoughts you had about it being a sleepy backwater.
Yes, 😮 terrorism funded and supported by US plastic patties.
Psychiatric problems because we were so opressed by colonisers and the church and because our grandparents great grandparents generation married their 2nd 3rd cousins etc. especially if land was involved people also never moved around much again because of land mostly.
Top 5 GDP per Capita in EU:
Luxembourg: €161,000
Ireland: €98,562
Denmark: €77,000
Netherlands: €68,000
Austria: €60,000
She met one man who tells her he's depressed.
Ireland 🇮🇪 best health care options universal health
Our WiFi is great. Don't know what she's been smokin
Since Dublin it's around from the 9th century I think it should be no surprise that it's a pretty big and advanced city :) Anyway, media and movies do all kind of tricks like this to the rest of the world :)
Dublin is used a lot in movies as a stand in for london ,so it is shown however the movies storylines are set in london
@@gallowglass2630 it did? it looks nothing like London (perhaps some of the residential areas?), don't you perhaps mean Belfast? it has way more London'like architecture
@@GdzieJestNemo Heuston station and areas around dublin castle are used quite often.The great train robbery staring Sean Connery was filmed mostly in ireland particularly heuston station,but the whole film was filmed in ireland in and around dublin.Belfast had a period from the early 70s to the late 90s where due to the troubles it wouldn't have been safe to film there.
@@gallowglass2630 thx, nice to know
@@gallowglass2630 when i think about it they use Kraków and Prague as stand for Paris in Bollywood movies so Dublin spots working as London doesn't seem as far fetched :D
My guess (before watching) would be the dislike or sometimes hate of Britain, the amount of beers being drunk, the amount of pubs, the low population, the amount of folk music, that everything closes down on Sundays, the friendly (mostly) police, that many tech companies (like Dell) has, or at least had, lots of production there...
Oh well, at least I got one, perhaps two, right.
Closing down on sundays no longer the case,irish society is very secular nowadays
@@gallowglass2630 I was kind of expecting that, my experiences are not very recent
We don't hate the British we hate the British government and therefore hate our own government because it's the same thing. Left-wing lunatics that think the can invite 6 billion people here to destroy our heritage and steal our hard earned money all the while profiting from the whole thing. Besides that we are grand.
Richest country in the world......do your research..........
Thats not exactly the case what it is more accurately is that people are very friendly but we dont like people get
Trying rto get too close to to us. We are a little bit stand offishise
One of the things many of the names are in the transliterations to English so the town Cill Airne in Irish is spelled in English Killarney .
Well, there’s a literal translation, which makes no sense in English like the name of the town she mentioned, but makes perfect sense in Irish
My comment keeps getting delete 🥺 is it because I'm recommending a video?
Why do they not smile?
You subconsciously miss Brownsville Brian!!! 🤪 #texasvibes 🎉😘🫶🏼
Haggis is Scottish
The mental health is a massive problem over here aswell as alcoholism in rural areas anyways cocaine's everywhere too aswell as benzos
Theres also very few services outside of Dublin for either mental health or alcoholism
Hence the fairly high suicide rates
Also as you can imagine living in a village with lets just say less than 1000 people where everyone knows everybody and everyone's business it gets pretty difficult and if you're seen to be suffering from any of these things stated above
EVERYONE KNOWS
Which brings allot of shame to individuals and families
And in rural areas bringing shame to the family is about as good as being dead its a serious thing
Also somebody mentioned boredom thats a massive part too
Paddy the Baddy is a scouser from liverpool .....if he hears you saying he's a Londoner he might hunt you down dude.😂😂..BTW Linda is just as cute as ever
Paddy is from Liverpool…
I’m a asshat yet still polite to people in service jobs like drivers and waitstaff. It’s basic manners seems USA doesn’t use then
She has a tell … or a tick
This guy is slow 😂😂
Guy is a ringer for Emre Çan