History of Modern Ireland (1500-2000) | Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Following our first history of Ireland video, in this video, we look at the island from the end of Henry VIII's reign to the modern day.
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As an Irish descendent living in the US who's family come from Cork. I truly appreciate the work you put into these two videos. I just sat and binge watched them both. Thanks again
This is so sad. I can’t believe what this country has endured. Thank you so much for this two-part on Ireland
My family came to America from Belfast, Derry and cork. My grandfather was a very proud Irishman who told me we just live here,American is not what I am. Then he proceeded to teach me Gaelic. Before his death I had a full conversation with him in Gaelic. He died proud knowing I didn’t forget my native tongue. Éirinn go brách 🇮🇪 beo na sinsear le fada
Have you ever thought about coming to Ireland? A lot of people here are trying to learn Gaelic Irish, after hundreds of years of colonization you can guess is not working as well as most wished .
Tiochfaidh ar la!
An-mhaith ar fad. Maith an fear!
Man it is great to hear this. Pass it on to your children? Will you?
That's cool but it's gaeilge not gaelic!!
Thanks for the amazing video!
We should never forget the amazing generosity and humanity of the Choctaw tribe in America who sent the Irish people $170 to ease their suffering during the great famine, even though they were themselves being persecuted and living in poverty
and it was just repaid lol
@@VoltismProductions I hope that the Irish donors don't consider it as repaying a debt but as continuing a good relationship with these people with whom we share an understanding of a history of persecution
This video is absolutely brilliant. Anglo-Irish relations are incredibly complicated.
@@dosran5786. No, it is complicated. The whole oppression narrative thing I see people from this country spin onto the British just because it makes them feel nice makes me sick. Accepting oppression is giving up and is weak. We where wronged, but are not eternal victims who's short comings can be blamed on a non prevalent foreign influence. Conquering things is not exclusive the the Brits or Europeans (they where just the best at it). Have some perspective.
@@judemorgan9362 really your anglican ancestors took the islands from the romanized celts. youre country ended the age of chivalry in the hundred years war and then endangered all of christiandom by supporting protestantism. you angered half the world by declaring as ancient rome did that any land without government was suitable to conquer... so please tell me how its inaccurate? youre ancestors copied rome and rome had to force society on people to feel comfortable.
@@dosran5786. The British are not my ancestors lad. I am fully blooded Irish. The whole "Brits out 3rd world in" attitude that comes alongside blindly and ignorantly hating Brits is designed to stick our head in the dirt as our politicians sell this country down the river. The colonial oppression narrative of the 3rd world is a false one. Both our country and Britain are in the same boat. Infighting is not an option. We have new enemies.
J M indeed, those of us on both sides of the channel (and border) need to quit this incessant bickering and focus on the more pressing issues at hand.
All this anti-British (English) bile is rather moot and hollow coming from those that didn’t experience historical events. Eternal victim hood is slavery of the mind, the English are often bemused by the vitriol from some others in the rest of the home nations, it seems all consuming from the outside when we tend to have fond thoughts (even envy) that you (Irish, Welsh, Scottish) still have a semblance of national identity and culture (as ours has been systemically demolished and shunned by the powers at be for the last half century).
@@NZAnimeManga England and the English will always have a rich culture and history even if some of your own kind refuse to acknowledge it.
Thank you for your work. And for the Irish, a big hug from Argentina. And please, don't let your language die.
Nì beidh sè
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam 💕
from an irishman, Honestly, please let it die, it would be so much simpler..
@@duckles426 from an Irishman, don't listen to this lad he's a gobshite
@@tubbyrainbow111 I mean yeah, Irish can be a pain in the hole but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep it going, to piss off the twats that don’t want it if for no other reason
I lost the count of how many wars happened in this small island
Too many sadly and to such lovely people.
The British have so much to answer for , all over the world
4,327 actually !
I’m Colombian, born and raised in NYC. Being in a heavily Irish area, Woodside Queens, I have been exposed to the culture and was always fascinated by the mystery of Ireland. Who they are always seemed so fresh and their history still so relevant, now I understand why I felt this way. They are, indeed, still living their history. Truly amazing Doc! Thank youuu. I feel I can relate w my Irish neighbors more 🤍
Two great videos keep up the good work. I was looking forward to this part Although the first video was my favourite. Much about ancient Ireland is lost but with RUclipsrs like yourself what we have left won't be.
Thank you for such a brilliant Documentary. Most Irish history I have learned is through my parents and little reading but this most comprehensive post is just awesome. Born in Dublin 1963, emigrating with family to Australia 1969. My home is Australia but I am Irish. Both my Grandfathers were involved in the uprisings around first world war. One in the Easter Rising, serving some prison time after capture and the other, Sean Kavanagh, was involved with Roger Casements attempt to bring arms to Dublin from Germany. He, Sean, even met and married a German woman, my Grandmother, bringing her back to Dublin where she remained for the rest of her life. Falling in love with the country too, she studied Irish history and knew more about Ireland than most.
I was born in Ireland and moved over to the states when I was 5. I never knew any Irish history other than what was taught by American history classes and I always felt embarrassed that I didn’t know anything about the struggles. Thank you for sharing this and giving me a new found understanding of my home ♥️
Ireland has had a hard ride to the modern era. I hope the future holds better times. Have a good day everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
I've travelled through Ireland a few years back. It was a group travel with a bus. I'm German and the group was German as well. We had a city tour of Dublin and the places of the rebellion during WW1 were featured prominantly. Then we continued to tour a great part of western and southern Ireland. Kilkenny and a monastery where Patrick was celebrated featured strongly in that excursion as well. We visited a predominantly Irish speaking area in the west. I had a bit of a problem with my throat and visited a pharmacy declaring my health conditions which prohibited the use of some medicine. I was polite most of the time and had a great time speaking with almost everybody. Though Irish people sometimes tend to claim that they don't speak English, a German speaking English (for lack of speaking Irish) always found somebody to answer in English. Thank you to the people of Ireland - you have been truly nice to a foreigner visiting your country and your culture.
Of course I have been treated to some Irish food and drinks. My throat was often treated by some "hot whiskey" (which really helped a lot). I tried some Irish stew and some other national treasures.
I enjoyed my time there and if possible I would like to spend more time in the Irish rural area (especially close to the western coast). It truly is a green country and much to my personal taste.
My greetings and best wishes to you and your people!
Did you know that Adolf Hitler's older half brother Alois Hitler married an Irish teen (Bridget Dowling) and worked in Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin as a kitchen porter?
@@azmatkirmani94 man why did you bring that up
Thats because more people in ireland know English than irish
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i truly respect the impartiality of the 2 videos on this subject. a lesson in learning, not ideology.
The greatness of this documentary is an understatement.
Thank you!
This is by far the best educational channel on you tube. Thank you
I really enjoyed this truthful look at Ireland's history, and it makes me so proud to be irish decent ( both my parents migrated to england in the early 60s )
Obviously we were never taught irish history at school !
Seeing and hearing what we have endured (despite the divisions with in and with out) as a people gives me inspiration that one day the Irish dream will be realized .
Lot of inaccurate details in this
@@martinasplunkett180 care to correct them then?
@@Dlúith them, not you. Go research 👌
@@martinasplunkett180 if you’re going to claim there’s lots of inaccuracies in this, the burden of proof is on you. Put your money where your mouth is and prove it, or shut up and leave the man be
Thank you for this review and explanation of events. As a foreigner, it helps me greatly to get some more insights on the underlying reasons for the long-standing struggle on the island of ireland.
I am from Ireland and this video does Justice to the fascinating dark and beautiful history from my country.
"my country" ??? Really?
I got into FoL videos starting with Rome and Byzantine about a month ago. I love world history and is a college student on history. As much as I love those videos, the Britain and Irish ones are my new favorite. I really enjoy them and FoL for telling them. I definitely want to share this one since most of the people I know are of Irish descent and I have a bit in me as well (along with British). I also hope to donate to FoL's Patreon in the future.
Watched pt 1 & pr 2. Very informative and very interesting it also filled in many gaps, thankyou for the lessons.
This was amazing. I was born in America but I’m Irish in all sides, at least tracing back to my great grandparents 3x. Some of my ancestors came over during the Death, some just in 1960 for no particular reason. My family has intertwined history in the fight too. Part of my family were fiercely pro IRA, part literally served in the Royal Constab during the Independence War. Personally, I want the British to leave Ireland entirely, but it’s always interesting seeing the complexities in relationships.
The people of Northern Ireland decided to stay in the union (which makes them British by choice) and you want them out, while you continue living in a land conquered and occupied by british Irish (and others)! Just remember your great grand parents chose to go occupy someone else's land before criticizing those that chose to stay in Ireland, theres little difference from you're situation to theirs. Sorry this is so late I've only just found this video, was very interesting and complicated, the history in Ireland!
After watching all of your documentaries covering the History of England, Scotland & Ireland ... I have to say, You've done an Incredible Job !!
- AND with so much complexity, in-fighting, twists & turns involved with the relationships of all three countries + outside influences....You actually remained very Neutral. THAT, I very much appreciate & Applaud !
Thank You for all of your hard work.
Thank you again. It is very important to keep your heritage and I hope everyone tries to learn the language and the history. I went to your country and that trip was very special to me and would love to go back.
Excellent documentary! Thanks!
two long videos but definitely worth watching, I have a strong sense of Irish pride and I wanted to learn more about the isle's history, thank you for making them
4th time watching!! 2nd in the past week. Well done on this I think it's a masterpiece 👏👏
Very informative. I never learned much about medieval Ireland at school, just Bronze and Iron age Ireland and from 1890 to modern times. Go raibh mile maith agat
Hey doc on Ireland , really enjoyed it , and quite accurate mate !!!!
You are so right that school history curriculum barely touches on the Irish. Thx for such a brilliant in depth documentary.
Thank you very much. I recently discovered a large part of my DNA is Irish so I thought it was about time I familiarized myself with the history.👍👍👍
Same here.
Thank you for this excellent series. My father was from Belfast and mother from Dublin, I was born 1949 the year of the birth of the Republic of Ireland. The series and your balanced and detailed commentary has allowed me to understand more, and appreciate the characters involved, of the relationship between the islands.
great video thanks for putting the time in making it 2 hours to watch a lot longer to make. I'm from n. Ireland and know a lot of the history you talked about but this was still very informative. things a lot better here now that it was 20 years ago
Here some Irish names translated to English:
Liam = William (Lee-am)
Séamus = James (Shame-us)
Séan = John (Shawn)
Úna = Agnes (Ooo-na)
Máire = Mary (Moy-irr-ah)
Dónal = Donald (Dough-nal)
Peadar = Peter (Padder)
Áine = Ann/Anne/Anna (Awn-yah)
Éoin = Owen (Oh-in)
Daithí = David (Dah-hee)
Aiobhán = Evan (Ayy-von)
Niall = Neal (Nile)
Bríd = Bridget (Breed)
Caitríona = Catherine (Cat-ree-on-ah)
Caitlín = Kathleen (Kate-linn)
Ciarán = Kieran (Keer-on)
Éamonn = Edward (Ayy-mon)
Ruairí = Roger (Roor-ee)
Máiréad = Margaret (Marr-aid)
Pádraig (nickname "Paddy") = Patrick (Pod-rig)
Thank you, that's very interesting.
Also Siobhan=Joan (Sha-von) Sinead = Jane or Jean (Shin-ade). My dad's eldest sister was named Moira which is the Scottish form of Mary and although they hailed from Scotland, I'm pretty sure my grandmother's family came from Ireland based on her family name (Macguigan). Anyway, thanks for posting the list of names. Cheers!!
Roisin = Rose
Thank you for making this video! You did indeed achieve your purpose, at least for me!
Good stuff but “An Gorta Mór means The Great Hunger not The great death
"Gorta" also means famine. "An Gorta Mór" is commonly translated as The Great Famine.
How interesting, because the obvious Latin language structure is apparent in that saying. Being of Irish, Spaniard, & Greek ancestry, it just amazes me how it can all be connected together
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Exactly!
There's a number of inaccurate details. Our first recorded trade was with the phoenicians, of tin thousands of years before he says 🙇♀️
As a 100% organic Irish person, I approve these videos!
Do you like guiness beer?
I wish I were organic Irish, I find it hard to feel patriotic about any other part of my heritage aside from being a born Canadian, so I really do connect with my Irish side. MacShane and proud, even if I'm only a quarter MacShane anyways!
@@Spongebrain97
It's 'Guinness', and it's not beer..
..it's stout.
Full of inaccuracies
@@Spongebrain97 Drink of champions lad 💪
Very good documentary. Well done.
I really enjoyed this documentary. I have a much greater understanding of the history of Ireland. Thanks 😊
19:56 I would say that James didn't really change his mind, his only surviving children when he took the throne were Protestant Anne and Mary so there was an uneasy arrangement where Parliament (and most of the country) didn't really like him and especially his religion but were willing to tolerate him since he was fairly old and the throne would move to a safe Protestant, Mary and her husband William, who was seen as a champion of the Protestant cause in Europe, and James knew that it was unlikely that this would change unless he had another child. The thing is, that's exactly what happened, he had a son, also James, that nobody really expected since James was 55 when he was born. By basic succession law this younger James would overrule his sisters as the next in line for the throne since he was a boy, as you might imagine James was ecstatic and basically told everyone that he fully intended to raise the boy as a Catholic and create a long lasting Catholic Dynasty. That was absolutely unacceptable to Parliament and the other vested interests in Britain so that's when they support William and Mary. I think If you look at the situation with an unattached, legalist approach, James really was in the right and got screwed over by parliament and William acting well outside the laws of the land and essentially overthrowing their rightful monarch and instead inviting a foreign invader.
It's great to find a personal connection to some of the people involved.
I had no idea about Irish history regarding the wars since I've always found it too difficult to understand. I didn't even know what IRA was about or why the country wanted to separate. This truly opened my mind and I'm thankful that you're such a good teacher.
It can be very difficult to decipher, even for the natives,..for a more romantic view of Ireland,..watch the film THE QUIET MAN with John Wayne.......Ireland.
learned so much in the last 2 hours.. thank you 😊
Huge respect for ireland. A proud nation that inspires.
True cheers mate I love the book of kells
@James Furey I really wish all of Ireland leave the uk it will benefit Ireland alot
@James FureyYou are a British new -account troll spamming Irish-related RUclips content obsessively. All facilitated by RUclips administrators. Sickening.
@@washerdryer3466😅😅 II
I'm a descendent of the Maguires of fermanagh. One left with O'Neill, one changed his religion, my direct descendent. And one stayed and fought and died
pssst! your ancestor
My grandparents immigrated here from Ireland, and I've got tons of Irish ties on the other side of my family too.
I've been to Ulster and the Republic, and my sister even spent about a year in Derry. From my experience and her experience we've both found that a lot of the new generation of Irish don't carry as much of the resentments as their protestant or catholic family before them did.
It actually even seems like the older generations have been cooling down a lot too, but what I'm most excited about is that the overall forgiveness of any atrocities committed by either side during the Troubles and beforehand would hopefully come with a united Ireland some day in the future.
And with how well Ireland has been doing for itself so far as an independent nation I believe it'd be really beneficial to both the Republic and Ulster, since Ulster looks almost like a shadow of what it could be after not receiving the growth and rebuilding that the rest of Ireland had.
Isnt the protestant/catholic divide in northern Ireland pretty mellow now? Especially since they didnt want the UK to leave the EU
There are 9 countries in the province of Ulster and only 6 are Northern Ireland....
Só technically its not Ulster, nó matter what the loyalists say.
Donegal is in Ulster and is part of the Republic of Ireland. Not all ulster is Northern Ireland. So there is a bit of technical inaccuracy.
When you go to the north and there's a orange parade chant ooh ah up the ra (rangers)
Wonderful documentary.
I love the rebellious Irish spirit
The was brilliant, thanks for teaching me about my own country man ha!
Also, looking forward to Part II of Germany!
Great history videos! Awesome!
I appreciate these videos so much. As a child I learnt English history and I am a great lover of history, yet my knowledge of my own country North and South was at best patchy. This has really filled in gaps. Thank you Samantha Co Antrim
Very good video's well done. Of course some bits are sketchy, only because there was so much information to cram in.
Thank you for showing us the map and how it changed over time. That was so instructive along with the story you told.
Great documentary. Thank you for posting.
Good video. Hard subject to cover with the opposing views of the same events that exist, but that probably comes from people who haven't read a history book.
I've read the comments on this before viewing, looking forwards to watching.
Great video. As a Mexican National, i want to thank Ireland and the Irish soldiers back in 1847 that died in Mexican Soil, fighting againts the US for the Mexican Cause. Those Men did not have to get involved with Mexico nevertheless did what back then they tought was right...Thanks and Respect to the Saint Patrick´s Mexican Batallion. September 1847..Viva Irlanda.
Wonderful documentary! Thank you so much; you very clearly put a lot of effort into this presentation, and I learned so much. Love your channel!
My great, great grandfather came from County Tyrone to Toronto area in 1847. I’m 67 and make my first journey this summer. My heart knew I was home.
Excellent 2 part documentary
Just subbed. Amazing content. Loads of effort seen and very detailed. Absolutely brilliant.
Fantastic information! My grandmother’s family was from Kilkenny. What tough nation of people!
Fun fact, my great-grandfather was an illegitimate son of the Earl of Spencer. He and his wife came to the U.S. and their son homesteaded in Montana where David Spencer and his wife, Wilma, died in the flu epidemic of 1917 three yrs after my mother and her twin were born. They we raised by a paternal aunt.
I as a mexican American would like to thank the Irish for fighting long side Mexico in the mexican American war yes I'm a patriot of America but your brave actions going against discrimination and show that Irish man should not be ignored paved the way for equality thank you the Irish battalion the fight still go's on fighting Irish!!!!
That's so cool that you know this. And is very true. I have Irish, Spaniard, Greek & Polish ancestry myself so I find all of this interesting.
We're definitely fighter's lol
Mexican american? Is that a thing?
@@OrochiCr Since Mexico once controlled ~1/3 of current USA, I'd say yes, Mexican American is a thing.
Thank you so much for these videos!!!
Ashamed to say I'm Irish (living in Ireland) and knew fuck all about most of this. Thank you for taking the time to look at a relatively insignificant countries history and making it easy for us Irish to learn from an unbiased outsider.
There is no Unbiasedness England shouldn’t have taken our land end of
Did you miss secondary school it goes into detail about this
@@christiankalinkina239 I was not criticising the education Irish schools give us in the topic, I was commenting on my own knowledge. Even if my 14 year old self had listened attentively to all my history lessons which at the time I didn't care for, I doubt I'd remember most of the information, so excuse me if I've taken to learning more on the topic in my adult years.
@@jonathancooper5104 I'm just saying most people who went to school should at least know more than 60% on this video sorry if it came off has a insult or being rude
As an historian I appreciate your balanced and informative approach to this complicated subject. My Irish decendency comes through the Gallegher's from County Cork aka the "rebel county." I'm proud to have some Irish in me.
Excellent videos. Thanks for making and uploading.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
The Conquest of Ireland arguably wasn’t fully completed until the Act of Union in 1800 when the Kingdom of Ireland (after centuries of constitutional and regime changes) was forcibly merged into the British state (though our civil service and courts remained separate, and we retained our legislative representatives). Those representatives forced to sit in London instead of Dublin, but went back to Ireland in 1919 and declared independence in a reconstituted Irish Parliament (copying the Hungarian walkout of the Austrian parliament in the 1860s).
European history is very complicated as you can imagine !
I think that in your attempt to be fully neutral in the telling of the troubles that you missed out how persecuted catholics in northern ireland were and how despised they were by the protestant northern irish government. For example, you failed to mention how catholics were not able to vote due to needing to be a homeowner, business owner or main tenant, something that catholics were usually denied by the state, and also how if you owned several businesses or properties that you recieved multiple votes. Catholics were also systemically denied rights when it came to housing and jobs where they were usually denied housing in favour of protestants and where jobs were given by protestant business owners to protestant people. I feel that you also failed to include a lot of the detail needed to get a grasp on the beginnings of the troubles such as the riots of '69, bloody sunday, and internment (with particular emphesis needed on how loyalist mobs would burn catholics out of their homes). The army weren't brought over to defend against nationalists, quite the opposite, the army were brought over as a mediation force and were thought to help catholics against the loyalist mobs that would terrorise their communities. Another big ommission on the starting of the troubles was gerrymandering, which was used as well to get hold of as much power for protestants. I really enjoyed this 2 part documentary and i appreciate the effort put in but the troubles needed a bit more work in my opinion.
Don’t forget the tank that ran though the Gaelic pitch cause Bloody Sunday
Could be why it's not a five hour documentary, lol! I imagine in any documentary there are things that people "wished" were pointed out, but time is the final determination of what is and is not presented. I am really glad that you thanked and appreciated their effort. I thought the visuals really added to their efforts too.
It's a 2 hour overview of Irish history from the neolithic period up until the current day, not a treatise on the troubles. In which he already devoted an entire 7 minutes. Furthermore, the things you mention are entirely one-sided. It's far better that he didn't get into any of the tit-for-tat blame game nonsense that kept the North divided for decades and still lingers today.
@@aidanjt I recognise that this isnt a troubles documentary, hence why I dont have a huge problem with the overview, but the points I raised are ones that I feel are essential when it comes to understanding why the troubles broke out. I understand that I didn't bring up many protestant concerns in my reply, but that is mainly because most historians agree that they aren't too important when it comes to the starting of the troubles. I think it's pretty well understood by historians who study the troubles that the breakout of the troubles was mainly the fault of the protestant elitist state and the deeply bigoted loyalists at the time. Most republican action in this early period was mostly defensive and reactionary. The tit for tat of course came after this which cannot be defended. I also want to reiterate that I thought this documentary was really well done.
@@sheaormsby3421 Don't get your history from films. No tank went onto the pitch and nor did the British enter the stadium with the intent to kill. The British went to the stadium to collect some suspects. As they arrived, the ticket sellers ran into the stadium. Fearing that they would reveal that the British army was there before they had the chance to surround the stadium and prevent the suspects from escaping, soldiers chased after the ticket sellers. During the chase, shots were fired, most likely by one or more soldiers in chase (it has been argued that they were warning shots, but who knows). The gunfire caused panic in the stadium with people fleeing for the exits, this is when the army opened fire onto the crowd.
Another excellent video about very complex history.
best documentaries I´ve seen so far about irish history
Great and thorough video. What was that sound byte at the last 5 seconds?
Excellent and informative, well done
This was brilliant. Thank you . You have explained Irish history so well.
Wow. I watched both segments.
My 2nd great uncles James, William, Bryan, John & Patrick O'Hanlon worked in Kilkenny Castle.
Cheers for putting this together, it was an excellent watch, I'm an Irish man myself, hailing from one of the old Viking cities of Waterford, my great grandfather was an officer during the fight for freedom and five other members of my family, my grandmother now is very patriotic and will never let me forget our recent history, although I have left the Emerald isle to live in Lithuania, who also have a great history.. something to consider for a future video. :)
I was born in Waterford on the Mall beside Reginald’s Tower, where StrongoBo and Eva were Married, I left Ireland at 17 to do Nursing in London
But with a wonderlust and a childhood desire to travel I found my self in Singapore not that long after they got their independence from Malaysia
After 10 years in that great Country I returned to Britain , where in time I met an English / Lithuanian who was with the British Army, we got married and within a year we were posted to Germany, Having served 8 years there upon retirement , we went to live in Spain for 3 years, my husband got restless so we returned to London, neither of us fitted back in London, as we had no purpose , so we took off for France and lived in a quant country house with 3 acres of land, that only lasted 2 years,
England once again has become home , so when they sing that song the Irish Rover , I am one of them ☘️
Thank you, I have learned a lot. My family is from County Clair
It's very difficult to put 800 years into a few hours on video, these history programs a quite well done. I was born & raised in the Irish Republic in 1956, thank God it was in peace times. I lived in a small town on the east coast of Co Meath, Laytown & Bettystown by the sea. All around the area is full of history, Castles & runes of Castles & the small river Nanny that rises from the Hill of Tara out to the Irish Sea. The whole area is littered in history & you can feel it, there is not a house in Ireland that has not been affected by our past. It is said that the Irish are storytellers, that's true. We have learned from our parents like they have, etc. We have learned our history in schools, what a pity our neighbours didn't do the same.
I live in Northern Ireland, a place where the ghosts of the past haunt the present on a continuous basis. Even mentioning some of this stuff can still cause a row here, with two versions of history being taught at schools depending on whether they be Catholic or State schools.
In my view, Northern Ireland's future lies in the abandonment of religion and outdated ideas of "nationality". The planters have been year 100s of years now, they are not going to vanish, but the idea of cultural segregation is incredibly unstable. A united modern irish identity must be formed leaving the divisive relics of the irrational past firmly in the history books.
Good comment.
Many Irish Protestants of the past wanted this united Irish identity. Most of the leaders of the 1798 rebellion were protestants, there were protestants in the North at the time who actually liked Irish people and culture, they learned the language and everything. This is something which would seem unfathomable to people in the North today, although it's true that they were not a majority of protestants.
There were protestants involved in the 1916 rising also. They didn't fit into DeValeras vision of a fundamentalist Catholic Ireland ruled by the Vatican sadly, and their names were not mentioned by the state propaganda when the rising was spoken of.
Having said all this, in the Republic of Ireland today there is no difference between a Catholic and a Protestant. It's a non-issue. Everybody is equally Irish. Sadly the same cannot be said for all of Northern Ireland, not yet anyway.
Honestly the irish deserve reparations from the english the english have bastardized and desecrated ireland and her people. But thats wild man im from the states but from what ive seen there are parts of northern ireland that are like the middle east in how crazy they are
NI Is very divided always will be even a thousand years from now it will be divided when Scotland had a famine in 1640 the Protestant people came to Ireland And were fed oh how that bit us in the bollix
I wish you and your fellow citizens the best of luck with that. I would love to see real peace in the island. Especially with the changes that may happen if Brexit goes through.
Agreed. That is the problem though, I don't think that will ever happen. The only way to totally control society is to strike some sort of fear into people that they can't disprove.....i.e. Religion, Global Climate Disaster, Aliens....things that no individual or group of humans will ever be able to disprove without a doubt. Things like racial supremacy and stuff can be disproved by science, we can all agree that there is somebody else of a different race or gender or whatever that is smarter than you or more athletic than you regardless of whatever stereotypes exist....but nobody can prove that this God is real and that God isn't.....so those types of disputes won't ever come to an end unfortunately. The powers that be know this unfortunately so they will never allow it to happen.
This was very good. I am very happy I found this channel. My family has been in Colorado since the 1870's. Prior that we cannot find our history.
Thank you! I'm from there too, actually. I left when I was about 4 but I was born near Denver.
I am 3rd generation Denver native. We had one of the last hobby farms in Denver. Sorry I bragging about Denver.
Go Aves... Nathan Mackinnon will bring the Cup to the mile high city. :)
Same my family's from New York but my dad side never really spoke about were were from so I know about half the halfs a mystery I really want to find out. 50 % Irish 50% Italian but 100% American 🇺🇸
Alright, what in the world was that at the very end?! lol ;}
I waited until the end of the video, after reading your comment ,because I wanted to know what you were referring to.
Do you mean when he said thank you? haha (go raibh maith agat)
Scared the heck out of me!
Those damned goblins.
An alien swatting a fly
My 10th Great-Grandfather was Sir James Ware I, whose son Sir James Ware II was Ireland's foremost historian in the 1600s. I gather you drew from his work. Thank you for this excellent series.
Good job on this ☘🟢⚪
Could you do a documentary video about the history of South Africa?
Beautiful documentary 👍👍👍👍 keep it up and try Eastern and middle eastern civilizations
Thank you. Good work!
cool that you're family that was involved in the subject of your own ytchannel! and a great subject too that!
This was a great documentary. Thanks
I'm American born, and I found this documentary in an attempt to reverse engineer what exactly is going on with my lineage after a massive offense from my mother's side of the family in the wake of my father's passing. I feel enlightened and empowered with this new knowledge and will continue my research.
Fantastically documented, very much high regards for your input to help all our young scholars around the globe fulfill their potential. Thankyou, kind regards. Gregory John Junior Goodwin. ❤❤
Well done, need more like these 👍🏻
An Gorta Mor translates to the Great Humger not "Great Death".
Great series, love your work 👏👏🇮🇪
Very well done.
Have to say though, your great grandfather was alive in 1600? Are you a highlander?
Great one! More Ireland stuff please. Also, I'm not sure if it's in your area, but I'd like to see more on African and Asian histories.
I've enjoyed the two videos very much. I missed the mentioning of the entry of Ireland in the EU at the end, though. Like for many other countries and communities, I believe the entry in the EU has played a very important role in the economic prosperity of Ireland and in the preservation of peace.
One correction- The Irish Citizens Army was set up by James Connolly in 1913 to protect citizens participating in the Strikes during the Dublin Lockout
That was really great 👏👏