I wanted to tell you young man that I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed that little documentary you could be our Michael Palin of the future and I just thought that for such a young man as you are you are very knowledgeable and have a deep understanding of faith humanity I also loved your little documentary of the life and times of local artist LS Lowry- truly captivating I think your work is special
Wow! Thank you so much Martin that’s a really kind comment. I really appreciate you taking the time out to watch the video and I’m glad that you enjoyed it. I loved filming the Lowry video and hopefully I will be doing another one on him in the future. Thanks once again and take care buddy 🙌🏼🌟
That’s really kind of you Peter. Funny you should say that, this video actually made it on the telly. A channel called Irish in the uk. I’ll leave the link below. Take care mate 👍🏼👇🏼 ruclips.net/video/1zvrKxpaZFA/видео.html
Excellent emotional story of people long forgotten who built the foundations of Manchester thanks for reminding us of the Irish heritage..keep these videos coming DM 🐒
I was raised in Manchester. In the 1950s Partly Irish decent from Mothers side (Ancoats) Fathers side Hulme. You have touched my heart with this documentary. Very unusual to stumble upon A young man who has taken the time to project part of Manchester's history with a passion. Excellent work.
Thank you so much Moll, your kind words have truly touched me. I’m so glad you could connect with the video and I’m so happy you enjoyed it. Thank you once again and take care 🙌🏼⭐️
I’m Mancunian born and bred of Irish stock. I was educated at a Catholic convent and learned about Fredrich Engels. I was doing my homework and my Mum pointed out to me that the poor unfortunate people I was writing about were probably my ancestors. It really brought it home to me (I was 13) that there but for the grace of God I could have been one of them. We must have been strong to survive and bring up a family, most of whom would have died, and that we should be proud to have descended from such a valiant people. Thankyou love for bringing it into focus for today’s children. I’m pretty sure it isn’t taught in school anymore. Xx
Absolutley loved this. I walk past little Ireland everyday and the first time I noticed the plaque it sent shivers down my spine and I needed to know more about the area. I reflect every day when I see it and think about what life was like. I feel like you have brought this alive. Thank you.
Enjoyed this video tremendously. The average life expectancy for a labourer in little Ireland was 17 years old. My family worked as brick burners in Manchester. Every brick there tells a story.
Thank you so much mate, im really glad you enjoyed the video. Thats very true, every brick really does tell a story! thanks for watching Kelvin. Much appreciated!
You are a very good film maker. This film was riveting if like me you are descended from an Irish immigrant to Manchester in the mid 19th Century. My Great Great Grandmother moved on to New Mills in Derbyshire but the family later went back and settled in Gorton . I also have an ancestor who lived in Salford and was a butler in a large house in Higher Broughton, he died aged only in his 30s from TB in 1844. I've researched a lot about Manchester and Salford during this time and I share your fascination . Very atmospheric. You also deserve more subscribers.
Wow thank you so much Anne your kind words really do mean a lot! Yeah i am of Irish decent on both sides of the family. Mulligan and Molloy the Mulligan clan settled in Ancoats and moved to Salford and little hulton over time. I know a bit about Broughton too, a well sought after area back in the day, huge big houses. I love finding out things about family trees, the all tell some fascinating tales in there own way. Thanks once again Anne👍🏼
My mums family moved to Salford from County Wexford just after WW1. Grandad had been a British soldier and got gassed and later on died of TB along with one son and two daughters. My great uncle got drunk and fell off a gangplank and died in WW1 too.
I loved your video your compassion shines through, and your knowledge of Manchester is vast , I Doth my cap to all the folk of little Ireland, some of whom were my ancestors, I love our Manchester, but don’t like that our heritage is being erased for skyscrapers and money barons , keep up with your research, you need to be on television x
Great video....I love the history of Manchester, my hometown. A city that's still full of energy both good and bad. I used to love walking around alone....so much history at every turn. I've been all over the world many times and Manchester still has an authentic vibe...I love the place ❤
Fantastic video. Thank goodness people like you are recording Manchester's history. I am a Mancunian in Malta and like many other Mancunians have Irish ancestry but haven't been able to visit for two years due to illness and now Covid19. I was shocked when I saw the Manctopia documentary and for the first time I am worried that when I get back I won't recognise the city of my birth. We have to keep our history alive and you are definitely playing your part.
Wow thanks so much for the kind words Denise! They truly mean a lot! I hope you get better soon and can come over to your birthday town. It’s definitely going through a transition period and I think I sort of capturing that at the minute. The old Manchester was much better, real historical places and solid Building to match now sadly being replaced by these glass building that look like something from a major city in America. Thanks once again for the kind words of encouragement! Take care 👍🏼🐒
was same in Bradford to be honest. As here in Bradford they pulled down the old houses to build modern shoe box houses. If only they modernised the old better built and better looking buildings. Awesome video
Wow m8 that was absolutely fantastic I honestly cannot speak highly enough of your work this my friend was out of this world I think this is the best vlogumentary to date me my wife and 10 year old daughter just watched this together and we all felt the same. Your passion and knowledge and the way you put these vlogumentarys together so respectfully is admirable congratulations on such a fantastic piece of work well done👍🏻
Wow! That really does mean a lot! I just speak from The heart mate and those people deserve the upmost respect. It must Have been so hard for them. Nice to hear you watched it as a family as well that honestly does mean the world. Made my day 👍🏼
You speak with SUCH emotion and knowledge. The way you weave our history into your vlogumentaries and bring those ancestors back to life is truly special. You have such a gift for social history and your an inspiration to watch and listen to. This brought me to tears, I am just like you, that connecting to the past through the history that sits around us, from the cobbles and who walked them, to the names carved into stone, the wooden St signs...its all there, it resonates through our DNA. it moves us. Thankyou...absolutely awe inspiring. I'm so enjoying your vlogs...amazing stuff x
That’s really kind of you to say! Thanks so much for watching. This video really does take me back to that era. How hard it must have been to survive ⭐️👍🏼
Just about to watch this Monkey. It’s the English Aussie here again. My Grandad came from Ireland as a very young boy due to the famine in Ireland. His family went to Manchester. He fought for England not only in WW1 but also after having a few down his local with his mates one day he went and signed up for WW2. I truly hope he’s watching me watch this. Bless you and your channel. It’s awesome…👍🏼🇦🇺🇬🇧
@@daftmonkey7296 I’ve just left you another comment on the Little Ireland one. You are so good at this, keep at it and do more of the old murders and other old places with history attached to it and youll go a long way with this channel. PS my family goes back to Angel Meadow. I got the book sent to me by one of my cousins. The poor darlings really went through back then didn’t they? 🇦🇺🇬🇧👍🏼
@@pamelawright502 thank you so much Pamela that really does mean a lot. Yes, the hardship they went through is on a unprecedented scale. So much pain. 🙏🏼
That’s made me cry….and you clearly love history……me too. I’ve always said if I had my life to live again, I’d either be a history teacher or do criminal forensics….both would be so interesting….Another video so well done……I got chills when I saw the original wooden street name….so cool. I’m surprised no one’s pinch it yet…..🤷🏼♀️😂😂🇦🇺🇬🇧
Thank you so much for watching the video! I honestly really do appreciate it and I’m so glad it connected with you. Thank you once again and take care ⭐️
What a truly compassionate and caring account of the hardship the Irish immigrants faced in Manchester. Your footage and photos of the bygone era was very moving. I think you would make an amazing history teacher. Thanks for sharing daft money. Your channel is a joy. 🔴🟡🟢
Wow thanks so much for the kind words Ruth. I really appreciate all the support you give me. I’d love for children to take an interest in some of these vids as. Maybe a career change could be on the cards. Thanks once again ✌🏼🐝
Im a Dubliner and just came across your Chanel After listening I’m actually crying for my ancestors Thank you 🙏 so very much for remembering all these poor souls may they rest in peace Your fantastic a great story/ history teller. ( seanchaí ) Keep up the great work your heart and soul are well tuned into the past 🇮🇪🙏☘️🇮🇪
Wow! Thank you so much Rosemarie! Your words really have touched me and I honestly can’t thank you enough! I’m so glad that the video has resonated with yourself. I feel such a connection to these people…it was the least I could do! Thank you once again and take care 🇮🇪 ❤️
I have never ever been so fixed on a video. You young man should have your own television programme. I just love anything to do with my Hometown by someone who cares and understands Manchester. Thank you so much. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
As a Mancunian,would like to congratulate this very talented guy, for making such a brilliant, enjoyable, educational film. Well done. I really enjoyed it. How sad, some of our history was. The struggles, and desperate plight of these innocent people. My father was born in Angel Meadows, and he experienced hardship in his very young life too.
I have Irish immigrant ancestry from Wigan, they worked in the cotton mills, but for a while they lived in Ancoats. There's so little on RUclips that covers this subject, so I'm so grateful for your beautiful, sensitive documentary, I just sat and cried my eyes out for all those poor, suffering souls. Thank you❤ Yes, Manchester has lost so much of it's character since I lived there in the late 1980s.
my irish ancestors came to manchester in the 1900's from dublin, they lived on store street piccadilly, john hanley was his name he had 5 sons a daughter, they were all shoe and slipper makers, the daughter became a merchant and married a solicitor, she was called mary anne hanley, they worked their way out of squalor, two sons married the daughters of john boslow the landlord of the manchester arms pub, they were married in a double ceremony at manchester cathedral, the other sons moved to glasgow and opened a shop, they had sons themselves and where sent to war, i'm still proud to have irish blood in my body, a proud bunch we where.
A great work pal,and you spot on there we should cherish Manchester history and let’s not forget Tory’s trying to run to grand if we let them viva Manchester viva familia
Brilliant, I left Manchester around twenty five years ago, we return home once a year to see family and friends.. Every year I recognise the place a little less. Nice to see one of my old haunts, The Salisbury is still standing. Nice one. 👍
I watched this over a year ago and was captivated by the history and the passion that came forth from you 'Daft Monkey'. I lost the link but now found I can share and educate those who still today have little good to say about the Irish and the part they played in building not just Manchester but many major cities here in England. I am an English Protestant but grew up in Manchester with an Irish family to my left and to my right. The Griffins and the Lonergan's. No better neighbours could you ever want. Not forgetting one of my long standing best mates Dave Kelly no truer mate you could ever find.
Thanks so much Barry! I’m glad you found the video again. Thanks so much for the kind words, the history of the city is so important to who we are as people, I just wanted to pay homage to the people that paved the way for us. Thank you once again and I hope you and your family are a brilliant Xmas! Take care mate 👍🏼
Mate I don't usually comment on platforms but I have to say how much I am enjoying your videos. I came across your blog from watching the film about the Scuttlers and I am really impressed with what you have introduced me to. I love the history of Manchester and what it stands for, and can see how passionate you are to share forgotten stories.
Thank you so much Paul! And it really does mean the world to hear people like yourself enjoy the vids! Manchester is full of hidden history and there’s so many tales to unearth it’s incredible! Thanks Once again mate and take care 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
What a great watch was told about this by a mate from Manchester ( I am Irish by birth ) and we both live in New Zealand and was well worth the watch keep up the good work
Thanks so much mate! Really glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks so much for watching and please pass my thanks on to your mate. Much appreciated, especially all the way over in New Zealand ❤️👍🏼
Expat living in Adelaide ,love these trips down memory lane, makes the hairs stand up on the back of me neck ,will certainly pop down here on my next visit, thanks mate great job
Wow thanks so much Michelle, can’t believe my video made it all the way over to Australia! Thank you so much for the kind words, it really means a lot to me. Yeah, I’d defo take a trip down to Little Ireland next time you visit. Take care and thanks once again👍🏼🐒🐝
your work is so inspiring and it makes it even better your a young lad who you can tell loves his history i have watched all you work and its like watching a tv program, you can tell care and it all comes from the heart, keep up the great work looking forward to the next one
I'm speechless. A brilliant vlogumentary. Thanks for taking me into this world briefly to help understand what our forbearers went through to build the Manchester we inherit today. Looking forward to the next one!
My family were Irish catholics and ran the Exile of Erin pub in Angel Meadow . Pub long demolished now . My dad has the old front step from the pub in his garden . After my grandads parents died he had to go live with his uncle who ran the pub. He didn’t have a easy childhood but his life got better when he joined the RAF just before Second World War . I recently did a genealogy DNA test and I’m 48% Irish
thanks for this i loved it from irish manc .i learned more about where im from ..and my sons the irish put the roots in and so forgot about i live in salford so proud when i came on the ferry to now my town .. keep up the great work as the people need too learn .to many people forgot or dont know where they came from
My name is Frank from Cork City Ireland, my partner is from Manchester and Irish... I have to say we thought this was a fantastic documentary, absolutely class. So well made and narrated... I could hear the passion in the lads voice... Well done to all involved. Shared in Ireland
Frank Carroll thank you so much Frank, I’m really glad that you enjoyed it. It really does mean a lot that the people from Ireland enjoyed this video! Thanks once again mate! 👍🏼🇮🇪
What a brilliant and moving documentary! The horrific conditions they must have endured is hard for us to imagine. This is one of the best historical videos I've seen. Well done on your research and your emotive production, I think you've captured it really well. A pleasure to watch! Kevin.
This just popped up on my feed. Why you haven’t got 10x more subs I can’t fathom! Fab history doc. I’m a scouser so it’s unusual for me to acknowledge anything Manc 😂… I’m Liverpool Irish… but my grandad was born in Manc… in the 1890s. His parents were Irish born and lived around the centre of the city… I think my great-grandmother had a shop… we’re all connected. Plus us peasants who came from these Irish folk have strong genes to have survived. Thank you for this. (Subscribed)👍👏👏👏
Haha, maybe I will one day and thanks so much for checking out the video. I really do appreciate it. Great to have you on board. I hope you enjoy the content 👍🏼
What an amazing insight into the lives of the Irish immigrants living in Manchester at that time. I shall be following your footsteps and going on my own pilgrimage to visit Little Ireland. Thank you
Thank you so much for watching the video Sally! I really appreciate the kind words. I’m so glad that you found it enlightening and I hope you enjoy following in the footsteps in the remarkable people that once lived their. Take care Sally and thanks once again ⭐️✌🏼
Your work just gets better and better my friend! You are one of the few keeping history alive for future generations, who otherwise may never have known! Your vids should be used at the Peoples History Museum!
thanks so much Nick! much appreciated that mate and thank you for the kind words. if they are ever shown in the future to help educate, then it will have all been worth it in the end. Thanks once again nick!
Great as always my mum and dad came over in the 60s to work from lreland, Manchester always had a great lrish past I go and see little lreland next time I in Manchester
Thanks a lot for watching the video Paul it really does mean a lot. I’m glad you found a connection with it. There’s always been huge Irish impression in Manchester that’s for sure. Thanks once again mate👍🏼
Wow... Thought provoking, visually breathtaking and a well thought out, well presented work of art! Worth sharing with everyone and anyone who has a historical and sentimental posture.
Just came across this fella and would like to thank you for documenting Little Ireland 🇮🇪 for us Irish. And you know what side your bread buttered. God bless 🙌 and thank you much appreciated.
That honestly means the world to me Barry. Thank you so much for leaving a nice comment like that and also taking the time out to watch the video! Take care pal I🇮🇪 🙏🏼
You have an amazing talent! Your videos are priceless. Thank you for sharing history in a such an incredible way!! I so look forward to them. Thank you and stay safe!
I stumbled across this by accident and wanted to congratulate you for an absolute top rate film. As a student in 2000, I had been walking passed Oxford Road train station and drinking in the Revolution student bar without realising it's history, despite having felt it every time, which might explain why I was so drawn to it. We also have a great deal in common. In 2000 I moved over to Manchester from Ireland to study Media Production at the University of Salford. I landed at a backpackers hostel in Ancoates of which I later became one of the managers during my studies. It was Woodies Backpackers, 19 Blossom Street. I'll never forget the day I arrived there. It was like I had stepped back in time as I gazed across the abandoned old Victorian mills and cobbled streets. No sooner had I dropped off my bag, I set off to explore. I was warned about exploring the old mills as they may be dangerous, but I didn't care. I would stand in them and outside the little old abandoned corner shop, reminiscing and visualising what it must of like. When it came to making a film as part of my studies, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Originally I wanted to make a documentary about Jack The Ripper. I was finishing off a film at a nearby night club called Sanky Soaps, when a young Australian guest at the hostel excitedly told me how she had stumbled across an abandoned Victorian Police Station down the street. That evening the two of us went off exploring the Ancoates Mills again. The following day, I dropped into the hidden police station on Newton Street that I had passed by every day on my way home to the hostel from uni. I had never even noticed it until my little friend, Caroline told me about it. When we walked in that day, it was empty and quiet and we thought we'd been transported back in time. A gentleman emerged out of nowhere and caught us by surprise. It was the curator. As I introduced myself and question him about the building, he told me about the local history of the area. When I asked why the building was so quiet, he explained that nobody knew about it and was only used for film locations such as Edward Woodward's "In Suspicious Circumstances" for Carlton TV and by Granada TV for, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett". I excitedly asked the curator if I could make a film documentary about the Newton Street Police Station. After I had assembled a film crew, we began shooting not long after. I wanted to make it look as authentic as possible, but having no budget, I had to improvise the whole shoot, so when recreating the era, I borrowed a dry ice machine from Sanky Soaps nightclub to create the smog effect and filmed in black and white using yellow gels to give a sepia effect and added a crackled film effect in post production. Sadly, when taking an nostalgic trip to Ancoates via Google Street view, I can see that the greedy parasitic property developers have now ruthlessly destroyed the area. These bastards have absolutely no shame in their greed for profit.
Wow thank you so much for the detailed reply Glenn and I’m sorry for the delay in mine. I’ve been up to my eyeballs trying to get my lasted video sorted. I’m so glad you enjoyed the video and that you felt a connection to it. That whole area is deeply historic and steeped in immense history! It’s absolutely fascinating. It’s as though you can feel the history pulsate out of the cobbles. Glad you hear that you like exploring too! There’s so many adventures to have right on our very doorsteps! Thanks once again for watching the video mate it really does mean a lot ! Take care 🙌🏼
I love your videos and your passion for Manchester. My great great grandad came over from Ireland 1848 and my dad has the birth certificate of his daughter who was born in 6 Angel street which is now the Angel pub.
Outstanding documentary and you're right, so many probably don't know any of the history of what you've shared. However, this has been viewed 48k times, so we're learning and we're all better for what you've shared. I'm moving to Manchester tomorrow (I'm from Chicago but have lived in Lisbon for the past 5 years) and will raise a Guinness at O'Shea's to the memory of those who came from Ireland to help build the great city of Manchester. Thanks, great job!
@@Kevin-lp1xl haha thanks a lot Kevin! Much appreciated mate. I’m really glad you enjoyed the video and good luck with the move tomorrow🙌🏼 take care buddy!
@@daftmonkey7296 Mind if I use it in my GCSE History lessons? We're teaching the new unit called "Migrants to Britain 1250-present" and this is great for the 1800s.
Excellent well put together .Memeories of Manchester will always be remembered .I lived in the slums .And We had Irish Brickies in all the pubs coming in after Mass at St Wilfrids .Great places and memories .Manchester biorn and Bred and Proud to be a Manc .
Wow! Thank you so much for watching the video Lorenzo! I can’t believe my video has made it all the way to Italy! Thank you so much for taking the time out to watch it. Take care 🇮🇹 ❤️🙌🏼
❤ thank you. This is beautiful. My mother was born on Princess Street, 1947, close to the centre, and my father grew up on Oak Road, Old trafford. 1944.
This channel is brilliant lad I live in bury and have always been fascinated by the city centre all though never really notice too much, suppose it's when you actually stop and look you see the finer details that tell a story.
Thank you so much Chris! That really does mean a lot to me and I’m so glad you’ve found the channel mate. It makes it all worth while when people “get it” and understand our history and heritage is something to admire. The remnants are everywhere, we just have to look a little harder from time to time. Thanks once again Chris and take care mate 🙌🏼👍🏼
That was breathtaking. Thank you. I'm so glad to have found someone who feels the same way about Manchester as I do. My great gt grandparents came over to Manchester from Ireland in the 1840's and I'm so proud of my heritage. I too walk those streets and keep their memory alive ✨🕊️
My Dad was born and raised in Salford 1934. He passed away this year. You described him to a tee. Hard working and understood tough times especially during the war. His family were all hard working in engineering, the Mills, merchant navy and one uncle a well known footballer, Fred Ramscar. My Dad's granny was Irish, a real grafter. My. DAD taught me how to use his carpentry tools service a car, ride a bike and swim. I think your video is fantastic and it made me so proud to know more about my roots. Thank you.
Great video! This would have beena video my friends mom would have really been interested in, she was Irish and very proud of it. Amazing that the streets and layout are still there. It's also kind of surreal how thousands of people probably pass this spot every day, but probably don't know the history and hardship associated with it.
Thanks Paul, yeah it’s amazing to think that all those years go there’s still some evidence on what used to be their. The history around this area is unbelievable, it’s just waiting to be revived. Thanks once again buddy! 👍🏼🐒
Absolutely fascinating and engrossing and so well narrated and presented. Have family there to this day but never knew of this history of the city. Thank you.
my great great grandfather, john hanley came over from dublin 1908 with 3 young boys and his brother in law, they where all shoe makers, they lived on store street, then moved into ancoats, then blackley, john went on to own his own shoe shop and had another 5 children, two of the daughters married into wealth, some where married at manchester cathedral, some at saint Stevens collyhurst, one married saint peters blackley, one daughter married john bolswworth son,he was the landlord of the manchester arms in chester, 3 sons moved to glasgow and opened there own business, one son became a Sargent major and served in the first world war,most of the family still live around glasgow, and others like myself lost the name, but not the struggle,i was born in openshaw m11 1960, times where hard then, god knows what it was like then, i give you full credit on your work young man, you should and could be a TV history reporter, put your work forward to some big players, i think you might be surprised. good luck,
Wow, you've some fascinating family history there Kevin! thanks for enlightening me, I throughly enjoyed reading it. Thanks so much for the kind worst mate it really does mean a lot to me. Cheers, take care :)
Very interesting vlog. Over here in Liverpool we had an equal measure of Irish immigrants who lived in equally dire conditions and there was much division and hatred between Catholics and protestants. My own father was Irish and contributed to the building of Britain's motorways and bridges. Excellent vlog once again.
Oh yes I totally agree with you mate. Liverpool had its fair share of Irish immigrants...probably more so than Manchester did. They helped build these cities into what they are today. We owe them a lot that’s for sure. Thanks for watching the video mate and take care 🙌🏼
Sorry for the delay in reply. Thank you so much, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video and thank you for the kind words. It really does mean a lot. Take care
Incredible So emotive too in parts. I am so glad that we have you to take an interest in our history and log it for future generations to know the struggles of our ancestors Well done I loved it !! x
I am both humbled and touched by what I have just watched. Thank you. I am a second generation son of Irish immigrants. I was born and raised in Manchester. I have worked in Manchester City centre for the last 17 years. I adore the city with a passion. I was absolutely glued to your vlogumentary. If, I may be so bold I would love you to make a similar short film specific to the mills of Ancoats and the men, woman and children (many of whom were Italian) who once worked there. Also, if you could include the grim history of Angel meadows. Manchester industrial history is unquestionable born from a grim past which needs documenting. Ideally by a young man like you.
Wow! thank you so much for the kind words. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it. I have a few videos lined up including once I will be releasing today at 6:00pm which documents the hardship of Angel Meadow and also includes the grim drinking dens & pubs that are no longer around. Thanks once again and take care :)
I wanted to tell you young man that I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed that little documentary you could be our Michael Palin of the future and I just thought that for such a young man as you are you are very knowledgeable and have a deep understanding of faith humanity I also loved your little documentary of the life and times of local artist LS Lowry- truly captivating I think your work is special
Wow! Thank you so much Martin that’s a really kind comment. I really appreciate you taking the time out to watch the video and I’m glad that you enjoyed it. I loved filming the Lowry video and hopefully I will be doing another one on him in the future. Thanks once again and take care buddy 🙌🏼🌟
Wonderful, totally enjoyed, my family came to Manchester for work from Ireland but much later, thank you I enjoy your videos x
Totally agree,
❤hear hear I live in salisbury lad😊
@@daftmonkey7296 His narrative his very good as well:)
This guy needs to be on TV . marvelous
That’s really kind of you Peter. Funny you should say that, this video actually made it on the telly. A channel called Irish in the uk. I’ll leave the link below. Take care mate 👍🏼👇🏼
ruclips.net/video/1zvrKxpaZFA/видео.html
IF YOU HAD BEEN MY HISTORY TEACHER, I WOULD NEVER OF SKIPPED A LESSON. THANKYOU
Haha! Thanks a lot mate! That means a lot buddy! No detention for you 😄✌🏼
Forget history. Start with grammar.
Absolutely agree!! History should be brought alive for kids to appreciate it and soak it all in 👏🏻👏🏻
Excellent emotional story of people long forgotten who built the foundations of Manchester thanks for reminding us of the Irish heritage..keep these videos coming DM 🐒
Thanks a lot Dad! A lot to be proud of! 💯 👍🏼🐝🇮🇪
I was raised in Manchester. In the 1950s Partly Irish decent from Mothers side (Ancoats) Fathers side Hulme. You have touched my heart with this documentary. Very unusual to stumble upon A young man who has taken the time to project part of Manchester's history with a passion. Excellent work.
Thank you so much Moll, your kind words have truly touched me. I’m so glad you could connect with the video and I’m so happy you enjoyed it. Thank you once again and take care 🙌🏼⭐️
I’m Mancunian born and bred of Irish stock. I was educated at a Catholic convent and learned about Fredrich Engels. I was doing my homework and my Mum pointed out to me that the poor unfortunate people I was writing about were probably my ancestors. It really brought it home to me (I was 13) that there but for the grace of God I could have been one of them. We must have been strong to survive and bring up a family, most of whom would have died, and that we should be proud to have descended from such a valiant people.
Thankyou love for bringing it into focus for today’s children. I’m pretty sure it isn’t taught in school anymore. Xx
On behalf on my Irish ancestors, thank you so much for this excellent and inspiring vlogumentary. What a wonderful young man you are x
Lesley Dantinnes thank you so much Lesley! That really does mean a lot! Take care ✌🏼🇮🇪
Absolutley loved this. I walk past little Ireland everyday and the first time I noticed the plaque it sent shivers down my spine and I needed to know more about the area. I reflect every day when I see it and think about what life was like. I feel like you have brought this alive. Thank you.
That honestly means so much and that’s what i wanted out of the video! I’m so glad you enjoyed Amy! Thanks once again ⭐️👍🏼
Enjoyed this video tremendously. The average life expectancy for a labourer in little Ireland was 17 years old. My family worked as brick burners in Manchester. Every brick there tells a story.
Thank you so much mate, im really glad you enjoyed the video. Thats very true, every brick really does tell a story! thanks for watching Kelvin. Much appreciated!
You are a very good film maker. This film was riveting if like me you are descended from an Irish immigrant to Manchester in the mid 19th Century. My Great Great Grandmother moved on to New Mills in Derbyshire but the family later went back and settled in Gorton . I also have an ancestor who lived in Salford and was a butler in a large house in Higher Broughton, he died aged only in his 30s from TB in 1844. I've researched a lot about Manchester and Salford during this time and I share your fascination . Very atmospheric. You also deserve more subscribers.
Wow thank you so much Anne your kind words really do mean a lot! Yeah i am of Irish decent on both sides of the family. Mulligan and Molloy the Mulligan clan settled in Ancoats and moved to Salford and little hulton over time. I know a bit about Broughton too, a well sought after area back in the day, huge big houses. I love finding out things about family trees, the all tell some fascinating tales in there own way. Thanks once again Anne👍🏼
My mums family moved to Salford from County Wexford just after WW1. Grandad had been a British soldier and got gassed and later on died of TB along with one son and two daughters. My great uncle got drunk and fell off a gangplank and died in WW1 too.
I loved your video your compassion shines through, and your knowledge of Manchester is vast , I Doth my cap to all the folk of little Ireland, some of whom were my ancestors, I love our Manchester, but don’t like that our heritage is being erased for skyscrapers and money barons , keep up with your research, you need to be on television x
Great video....I love the history of Manchester, my hometown. A city that's still full of energy both good and bad. I used to love walking around alone....so much history at every turn. I've been all over the world many times and Manchester still has an authentic vibe...I love the place ❤
Thanks a lot! Yeah I agree, full of character and charm. Very street tells a story! Thanks so much for watching 👍🏼☘️
Fantastic video. Thank goodness people like you are recording Manchester's history. I am a Mancunian in Malta and like many other Mancunians have Irish ancestry but haven't been able to visit for two years due to illness and now Covid19. I was shocked when I saw the Manctopia documentary and for the first time I am worried that when I get back I won't recognise the city of my birth. We have to keep our history alive and you are definitely playing your part.
Wow thanks so much for the kind words Denise! They truly mean a lot! I hope you get better soon and can come over to your birthday town. It’s definitely going through a transition period and I think I sort of capturing that at the minute. The old Manchester was much better, real historical places and solid Building to match now sadly being replaced by these glass building that look like something from a major city in America. Thanks once again for the kind words of encouragement! Take care 👍🏼🐒
Hello denisa how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
was same in Bradford to be honest. As here in Bradford they pulled down the old houses to build modern shoe box houses. If only they modernised the old better built and better looking buildings. Awesome video
Wow m8 that was absolutely fantastic I honestly cannot speak highly enough of your work this my friend was out of this world I think this is the best vlogumentary to date me my wife and 10 year old daughter just watched this together and we all felt the same. Your passion and knowledge and the way you put these vlogumentarys together so respectfully is admirable congratulations on such a fantastic piece of work well done👍🏻
Wow! That really does mean a lot! I just speak from
The heart mate and those people deserve the upmost respect. It must Have been so hard for them. Nice to hear you watched it as a family as well that honestly does mean the world. Made my day 👍🏼
You speak with SUCH emotion and knowledge. The way you weave our history into your vlogumentaries and bring those ancestors back to life is truly special. You have such a gift for social history and your an inspiration to watch and listen to. This brought me to tears, I am just like you, that connecting to the past through the history that sits around us, from the cobbles and who walked them, to the names carved into stone, the wooden St signs...its all there, it resonates through our DNA. it moves us. Thankyou...absolutely awe inspiring. I'm so enjoying your vlogs...amazing stuff x
That’s really kind of you to say! Thanks so much for watching. This video really does take me back to that era. How hard it must have been to survive ⭐️👍🏼
Just about to watch this Monkey. It’s the English Aussie here again. My Grandad came from Ireland as a very young boy due to the famine in Ireland. His family went to Manchester. He fought for England not only in WW1 but also after having a few down his local with his mates one day he went and signed up for WW2. I truly hope he’s watching me watch this. Bless you and your channel. It’s awesome…👍🏼🇦🇺🇬🇧
Aww thanks so much for the heartwarming comment Pamela. I’m so glad you enjoyed this video to watch it again. God bless your grandad💯⭐️
@@daftmonkey7296 I’ve just left you another comment on the Little Ireland one. You are so good at this, keep at it and do more of the old murders and other old places with history attached to it and youll go a long way with this channel. PS my family goes back to Angel Meadow. I got the book sent to me by one of my cousins. The poor darlings really went through back then didn’t they? 🇦🇺🇬🇧👍🏼
@@pamelawright502 thank you so much Pamela that really does mean a lot. Yes, the hardship they went through is on a unprecedented scale. So much pain. 🙏🏼
@@daftmonkey7296 your most welcome…👍🏼
That’s made me cry….and you clearly love history……me too. I’ve always said if I had my life to live again, I’d either be a history teacher or do criminal forensics….both would be so interesting….Another video so well done……I got chills when I saw the original wooden street name….so cool. I’m surprised no one’s pinch it yet…..🤷🏼♀️😂😂🇦🇺🇬🇧
As a irish woman thank you I live in Salford my grandad came here when he was 17 to work 💪
Thank you so much for watching the video! I honestly really do appreciate it and I’m so glad it connected with you. Thank you once again and take care ⭐️
Hello beautiful how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Hello beautiful how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
What a truly compassionate and caring account of the hardship the Irish immigrants faced in Manchester. Your footage and photos of the bygone era was very moving. I think you would make an amazing history teacher. Thanks for sharing daft money. Your channel is a joy. 🔴🟡🟢
Wow thanks so much for the kind words Ruth. I really appreciate all the support you give me. I’d love for children to take an interest in some of these vids as. Maybe a career change could be on the cards. Thanks once again ✌🏼🐝
Oh, young man. You are a credit. I'm Rusholme born of County Mayo parents. They missed home but they loved Manchester. May you thrive,son.
Thank you very much Paul, that’s extremely kind of you! Thanks for watching and take care mate 👍🏼⭐️
Im a Dubliner and just came across your Chanel
After listening I’m actually crying for my ancestors
Thank you 🙏 so very much for remembering all these poor souls may they rest in peace
Your fantastic a great story/ history teller. ( seanchaí )
Keep up the great work your heart and soul are well tuned into the past
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Wow! Thank you so much Rosemarie! Your words really have touched me and I honestly can’t thank you enough! I’m so glad that the video has resonated with yourself. I feel such a connection to these people…it was the least I could do!
Thank you once again and take care
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Your ancestors moved to Manchester?
I think it hits hard for us working class Irish! What a great documentary at least someone is willing to tell the story!
I have never ever been so fixed on a video. You young man should have your own television programme. I just love anything to do with my Hometown by someone who cares and understands Manchester. Thank you so much. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thanks so much, that’s really nice of you to say! Maybe one day lol. Thanks for watching 🙏🏼👍🏼
@@daftmonkey7296 my pleasure and please more. 🙋🙋♥️🇬🇧🇬🇧
How truly brilliant from the bottom of my Manchester ♥️
Thanks so much Paula! 🙏🏼
I'm an academic, an historian, and I love your passion and share it mate.
Thanks a lot Sean. Nice to hear from someone whose on the same wavelength👍🏼
Another brilliant piece of film making. Your enthusiasm shines through in these videos. All the positive comments are well deserved!
That is so kind of you Chris! Thank you very much mate, I really do appreciate that. Take care buddy 🙌🏼
Absolutely brilliant .
This is living history and the narrator is as overwhelmed by it as we all should be.
Outstanding work! Thank you.
Thank you so much Tim! I really do appreciate the kind words mate 👍🏼
One of the best documentaries i have ever seen.Wonderful job young man
Thank you so much jimbo! I really do appreciate that 👍🏼⭐️
Great work on history gone but not forgotten. Dubliner.
Brilliant mate. I’m an Irish Mancunian who went off to Canada years ago. Avid historian and you lads did an amazing job 👍
As a Mancunian,would like to congratulate this very talented guy, for making such a brilliant, enjoyable, educational film. Well done. I really enjoyed it. How sad, some of our history was. The struggles, and desperate plight of these innocent people. My father was born in Angel Meadows, and he experienced hardship in his very young life too.
Thanks so much Julie for taking the time out to watch the video and your heartfelt comment! It really do mean a lot
I have Irish immigrant ancestry from Wigan, they worked in the cotton mills, but for a while they lived in Ancoats. There's so little on RUclips that covers this subject, so I'm so grateful for your beautiful, sensitive documentary, I just sat and cried my eyes out for all those poor, suffering souls. Thank you❤ Yes, Manchester has lost so much of it's character since I lived there in the late 1980s.
That’s great to hear and thank you so much for the kind comment liz, I’m really glad you could connect with the video 🇮🇪⭐️
Top man the navvies as we were called worked hard and played harder
my irish ancestors came to manchester in the 1900's from dublin, they lived on store street piccadilly, john hanley was his name he had 5 sons a daughter, they were all shoe and slipper makers, the daughter became a merchant and married a solicitor, she was called mary anne hanley, they worked their way out of squalor, two sons married the daughters of john boslow the landlord of the manchester arms pub, they were married in a double ceremony at manchester cathedral, the other sons moved to glasgow and opened a shop, they had sons themselves and where sent to war, i'm still proud to have irish blood in my body, a proud bunch we where.
You've done a brilliant job making such an interesting, professional factual documentary about the lives of the Irish in Manchester, well done mate.
Thank you so much John! Really glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼 🇮🇪
A great work pal,and you spot on there we should cherish Manchester history and let’s not forget Tory’s trying to run to grand if we let them viva Manchester viva familia
Another belter mate, even more fascinating that my grandparents were originally from Ireland-wexford top stuff again 👏
Craig Doran nice one mucca! Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you and the fam are well mate👍🏼🍺🇮🇪
Same Craig. My wife's ancestors came from Wexford too.
Brilliant, I left Manchester around twenty five years ago, we return home once a year to see family and friends.. Every year I recognise the place a little less. Nice to see one of my old haunts, The Salisbury is still standing.
Nice one.
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Thanks a lot Gary, I’m glad you enjoyed it mate and it brought back some good memories for you 👍🏼 take care buddy!
@@Hgv.scania thanks a lot Mikey! Your spot on mate! Thank for watching 👍🏼
@@Hgv.scania I really appreciate that Mikey, thanks a lot mate 👍🏼
I watched this over a year ago and was captivated by the history and the passion that came forth from you 'Daft Monkey'. I lost the link but now found I can share and educate those who still today have little good to say about the Irish and the part they played in building not just Manchester but many major cities here in England. I am an English Protestant but grew up in Manchester with an Irish family to my left and to my right. The Griffins and the Lonergan's. No better neighbours could you ever want. Not forgetting one of my long standing best mates Dave Kelly no truer mate you could ever find.
Thanks so much Barry! I’m glad you found the video again. Thanks so much for the kind words, the history of the city is so important to who we are as people, I just wanted to pay homage to the people that paved the way for us. Thank you once again and I hope you and your family are a brilliant Xmas! Take care mate 👍🏼
Love your vids you are so passionate about history 👍
Thanks so much for the kind words. It means a lot 👍🏼🐒
Mate I don't usually comment on platforms but I have to say how much I am enjoying your videos. I came across your blog from watching the film about the Scuttlers and I am really impressed with what you have introduced me to. I love the history of Manchester and what it stands for, and can see how passionate you are to share forgotten stories.
Thank you so much Paul! And it really does mean the world to hear people like yourself enjoy the vids! Manchester is full of hidden history and there’s so many tales to unearth it’s incredible! Thanks Once again mate and take care 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
What a great watch was told about this by a mate from Manchester ( I am Irish by birth ) and we both live in New Zealand and was well worth the watch keep up the good work
Thanks so much mate! Really glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks so much for watching and please pass my thanks on to your mate. Much appreciated, especially all the way over in New Zealand ❤️👍🏼
Expat living in Adelaide ,love these trips down memory lane, makes the hairs stand up on the back of me neck ,will certainly pop down here on my next visit, thanks mate great job
Wow thanks so much Michelle, can’t believe my video made it all the way over to Australia! Thank you so much for the kind words, it really means a lot to me. Yeah, I’d defo take a trip down to Little Ireland next time you visit. Take care and thanks once again👍🏼🐒🐝
your work is so inspiring and it makes it even better your a young lad who you can tell loves his history i have watched all you work and its like watching a tv program, you can tell care and it all comes from the heart, keep up the great work looking forward to the next one
That’s such a nice thing to say Gail, thank you so much and thanks for always supporting the channel. It means a lot. Thanks 🙌🏼👍🏼🐒
Now it's a horrible concrete jungle ☹️Amazing you are brilliant at making these story's/video's look forward to many more 👍..
Thanks so much Tracy! I'm glad you enjoy them :)
As a born and bred Manc with Irish heritage on my mother's side, I applaud your work.
Kudos my friend 🥇✅
Thank pal! Much appreciated 🇮🇪❤️
Loved it and brilliantly presented, thanks .
Thanks so much Keith! I'm glad you enjoyed it buddy! take care :)
I'm speechless. A brilliant vlogumentary. Thanks for taking me into this world briefly to help understand what our forbearers went through to build the Manchester we inherit today. Looking forward to the next one!
Thank you so much Mark, I’m really please you enjoyed it mate! Cheers 👍🏼🐝🇮🇪🐒
This is so well done! I can hear your passion for history 😊👏👏
Thank you so much Sue! 🙌🏼🌟
Hello sue how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Well done, you should be extremely proud of this documentary. Hope you get the break you truely deserve.
Thank you so much Jonny! I really appreciate that. Take care and have a great Christmas 👍🏼🎅🏼
Beautifully told Anthony, this is my favourite to date ...amazing x
Thanks so much Dotty! That means a lot 🙏🏼
My family were Irish catholics and ran the Exile of Erin pub in Angel Meadow . Pub long demolished now . My dad has the old front step from the pub in his garden . After my grandads parents died he had to go live with his uncle who ran the pub. He didn’t have a easy childhood but his life got better when he joined the RAF just before Second World War . I recently did a genealogy DNA test and I’m 48% Irish
Truly an amazing Vloger/ local film maker. Well done Daft Monkey. Another gem of a vlog.
Thank you so much Lee! That means a lot pal 🙌🏼👍🏼
thanks for this i loved it from irish manc .i learned more about where im from ..and my sons the irish put the roots in and so forgot about i live in salford so proud when i came on the ferry to now my town .. keep up the great work as the people need too learn .to many people forgot or dont know where they came from
Thanks a lot mate. Really glad you enjoyed the video ⭐️👍🏼
What a fantastic vlog. Love your style. A tragic tale well told and very watchable.
Thanks for the kind words Tony! I'm glad you enjoyed it mate :)
My name is Frank from Cork City Ireland, my partner is from Manchester and Irish... I have to say we thought this was a fantastic documentary, absolutely class. So well made and narrated... I could hear the passion in the lads voice... Well done to all involved. Shared in Ireland
Frank Carroll thank you so much Frank, I’m really glad that you enjoyed it. It really does mean a lot that the people from Ireland enjoyed this video! Thanks once again mate! 👍🏼🇮🇪
What a brilliant and moving documentary! The horrific conditions they must have endured is hard for us to imagine. This is one of the best historical videos I've seen. Well done on your research and your emotive production, I think you've captured it really well. A pleasure to watch! Kevin.
Wow that’s a real nice compliment! thank you so much Kevin I’m really happy that you enjoyed it. Take care mate 👍🏼
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello rosalind how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
This just popped up on my feed. Why you haven’t got 10x more subs I can’t fathom! Fab history doc. I’m a scouser so it’s unusual for me to acknowledge anything Manc 😂… I’m Liverpool Irish… but my grandad was born in Manc… in the 1890s. His parents were Irish born and lived around the centre of the city… I think my great-grandmother had a shop… we’re all connected. Plus us peasants who came from these Irish folk have strong genes to have survived. Thank you for this. (Subscribed)👍👏👏👏
Haha, maybe I will one day and thanks so much for checking out the video. I really do appreciate it. Great to have you on board. I hope you enjoy the content 👍🏼
Your strong feeling of connection is wonderful. That us what makes your videos so absolutely fantastic.
Thanks so much Mandy! It’s hard for me not to feel a connection in some way. Also thanks for jumping on the live. I really appreciate it 🙏🏼
Great video. You really can tell a tale. Nicely produced with lots of atmosphere and told with feeling.
Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks so much barney, that really does mean a lot mate 👍🏼
I love and respect my city and i’m so grateful. Never forgotten🇮🇪💚🇮🇪💚🇮🇪
Brilliant ♥
Thanks a lot Audz!🙌🏼
Fantastic work my. Mate well done
Thanks so much Martin 👍🏼🙌🏼
What an amazing insight into the lives of the Irish immigrants living in Manchester at that time. I shall be following your footsteps and going on my own pilgrimage to visit Little Ireland. Thank you
Thank you so much for watching the video Sally! I really appreciate the kind words. I’m so glad that you found it enlightening and I hope you enjoy following in the footsteps in the remarkable people that once lived their. Take care Sally and thanks once again ⭐️✌🏼
Your work just gets better and better my friend! You are one of the few keeping history alive for future generations, who otherwise may never have known! Your vids should be used at the Peoples History Museum!
thanks so much Nick! much appreciated that mate and thank you for the kind words. if they are ever shown in the future to help educate, then it will have all been worth it in the end. Thanks once again nick!
Thank you for telling this story!
No problem Christopher, thanks for watching it mate, it’s much appreciated ✌🏼
Hello Christopher how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Great as always my mum and dad came over in the 60s to work from lreland, Manchester always had a great lrish past I go and see little lreland next time I in Manchester
Thanks a lot for watching the video Paul it really does mean a lot. I’m glad you found a connection with it. There’s always been huge Irish impression in Manchester that’s for sure. Thanks once again mate👍🏼
No problem keep up the good work and thanks again for the lnfo
@@pauldevine2932 no problem mate 👍🏼
Wow... Thought provoking, visually breathtaking and a well thought out, well presented work of art!
Worth sharing with everyone and anyone who has a historical and sentimental posture.
Wow thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words Rob, it means a lot mate. Cheers 👍🏼🐒
Had a walk around there today. First time in a long time. Then came across this vlog, excellent.
Thank you so much for watching John. The whole area has so much history. Hope you had a great day mate. Take care 🙌🏼
Good presentation...take a look at the work houses we're they were and the people in them
Just came across this fella and would like to thank you for documenting Little Ireland 🇮🇪 for us Irish. And you know what side your bread buttered. God bless 🙌 and thank you much appreciated.
That honestly means the world to me Barry. Thank you so much for leaving a nice comment like that and also taking the time out to watch the video! Take care pal I🇮🇪 🙏🏼
You have an amazing talent! Your videos are priceless. Thank you for sharing history in a such an incredible way!! I so look forward to them. Thank you and stay safe!
Thats very kind of you Kelli, thank you so much. Take care
hello kelly how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Brilliant, informative and very sad. Love your videos of the history of Manchester/Salford.
Thanks so much Linda, I’m glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼🐒
hello linda how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Beautiful video and beautifully told. Very emotional. Well done Daft Monkey. Videos just keep getting better!
Thanks a lot Al, xx
hello alex how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
I stumbled across this by accident and wanted to congratulate you for an absolute top rate film. As a student in 2000, I had been walking passed Oxford Road train station and drinking in the Revolution student bar without realising it's history, despite having felt it every time, which might explain why I was so drawn to it.
We also have a great deal in common. In 2000 I moved over to Manchester from Ireland to study Media Production at the University of Salford. I landed at a backpackers hostel in Ancoates of which I later became one of the managers during my studies. It was Woodies Backpackers, 19 Blossom Street. I'll never forget the day I arrived there. It was like I had stepped back in time as I gazed across the abandoned old Victorian mills and cobbled streets. No sooner had I dropped off my bag, I set off to explore. I was warned about exploring the old mills as they may be dangerous, but I didn't care. I would stand in them and outside the little old abandoned corner shop, reminiscing and visualising what it must of like. When it came to making a film as part of my studies, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Originally I wanted to make a documentary about Jack The Ripper. I was finishing off a film at a nearby night club called Sanky Soaps, when a young Australian guest at the hostel excitedly told me how she had stumbled across an abandoned Victorian Police Station down the street. That evening the two of us went off exploring the Ancoates Mills again. The following day, I dropped into the hidden police station on Newton Street that I had passed by every day on my way home to the hostel from uni. I had never even noticed it until my little friend, Caroline told me about it. When we walked in that day, it was empty and quiet and we thought we'd been transported back in time. A gentleman emerged out of nowhere and caught us by surprise. It was the curator. As I introduced myself and question him about the building, he told me about the local history of the area. When I asked why the building was so quiet, he explained that nobody knew about it and was only used for film locations such as Edward Woodward's "In Suspicious Circumstances" for Carlton TV and by Granada TV for, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett". I excitedly asked the curator if I could make a film documentary about the Newton Street Police Station. After I had assembled a film crew, we began shooting not long after. I wanted to make it look as authentic as possible, but having no budget, I had to improvise the whole shoot, so when recreating the era, I borrowed a dry ice machine from Sanky Soaps nightclub to create the smog effect and filmed in black and white using yellow gels to give a sepia effect and added a crackled film effect in post production.
Sadly, when taking an nostalgic trip to Ancoates via Google Street view, I can see that the greedy parasitic property developers have now ruthlessly destroyed the area. These bastards have absolutely no shame in their greed for profit.
Wow thank you so much for the detailed reply Glenn and I’m sorry for the delay in mine. I’ve been up to my eyeballs trying to get my lasted video sorted.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video and that you felt a connection to it. That whole area is deeply historic and steeped in immense history! It’s absolutely fascinating. It’s as though you can feel the history pulsate out of the cobbles.
Glad you hear that you like exploring too! There’s so many adventures to have right on our very doorsteps! Thanks once again for watching the video mate it really does mean a lot ! Take care 🙌🏼
I love your videos and your passion for Manchester. My great great grandad came over from Ireland 1848 and my dad has the birth certificate of his daughter who was born in 6 Angel street which is now the Angel pub.
Hello Valerie how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Outstanding documentary and you're right, so many probably don't know any of the history of what you've shared. However, this has been viewed 48k times, so we're learning and we're all better for what you've shared. I'm moving to Manchester tomorrow (I'm from Chicago but have lived in Lisbon for the past 5 years) and will raise a Guinness at O'Shea's to the memory of those who came from Ireland to help build the great city of Manchester. Thanks, great job!
@@Kevin-lp1xl haha thanks a lot Kevin! Much appreciated mate. I’m really glad you enjoyed the video and good luck with the move tomorrow🙌🏼 take care buddy!
Brilliant documentary, very interesting, informative and professionally done. Thank you!
Thank you very much! That is really kind of you mate! Much appreciated 🙏🏼
@@daftmonkey7296 Mind if I use it in my GCSE History lessons? We're teaching the new unit called "Migrants to Britain 1250-present" and this is great for the 1800s.
@@dafyddhumphreys3021 by all mean Dafydd! It would be an honour 🙏🏼
Knew nothing of this. Excellently produced and reported. Really nicely done thanks. 🇮🇪
Thank you so much Chris, I'm glad you enjoyed it
I’ve watched you mesmerised and in awe of your knowledge . Your a fantastic wonderful young man and I thank you for caring the way you do xxxx
@@crimper264 thank you so much! Thats such a kind thing to say! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video! It really does mean a lot! Thank you ⭐️👍🏼
Excellent well put together .Memeories of Manchester will always be remembered .I lived in the slums .And We had Irish Brickies in all the pubs coming in after Mass at St Wilfrids .Great places and memories .Manchester biorn and Bred and Proud to be a Manc .
Excellent video exceptional presentation and compelling to watch.
Greetings from Italy.
Wow! Thank you so much for watching the video Lorenzo! I can’t believe my video has made it all the way to Italy! Thank you so much for taking the time out to watch it. Take care 🇮🇹 ❤️🙌🏼
@@daftmonkey7296 Your welcome. I truly enjoy seeing the pride taken towards ones' history and towards passed generations.
❤ thank you. This is beautiful. My mother was born on Princess Street, 1947, close to the centre, and my father grew up on Oak Road, Old trafford. 1944.
Thank you so much for watching 👍🏼
This channel is brilliant lad I live in bury and have always been fascinated by the city centre all though never really notice too much, suppose it's when you actually stop and look you see the finer details that tell a story.
Thank you so much Chris! That really does mean a lot to me and I’m so glad you’ve found the channel mate. It makes it all worth while when people “get it” and understand our history and heritage is something to admire. The remnants are everywhere, we just have to look a little harder from time to time. Thanks once again Chris and take care mate 🙌🏼👍🏼
That was breathtaking.
Thank you.
I'm so glad to have found someone who feels the same way about Manchester as I do.
My great gt grandparents came over to Manchester from Ireland in the 1840's and I'm so proud of my heritage. I too walk those streets and keep their memory alive ✨🕊️
@@judymay9801 thanks so much Judy! That really does mean a lot! So glad you enjoyed it ⭐️
@daftmonkey7296 💫
Your words are poetic and passionate. Beautifully done
That’s very kind of you. Thanks very much ⭐️👍🏼
Best yet mate, your passion shows though so much. Can't wait for your next one 👍
Thanks a lot mike! I really appreciate that buddy!
My Dad was born and raised in Salford 1934. He passed away this year. You described him to a tee. Hard working and understood tough times especially during the war. His family were all hard working in engineering, the Mills, merchant navy and one uncle a well known footballer, Fred Ramscar. My Dad's granny was Irish, a real grafter. My. DAD taught me how to use his carpentry tools service a car, ride a bike and swim. I think your video is fantastic and it made me so proud to know more about my roots. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the kind message. Really glad you could connect with the video . Take care Lisa 🙏🏼
Classic vlog and very good research. i know that area pretty well, but did not knowabout the Little Ireland
well done DM , bravo
Thank you so much Rob and cheers for watching mate 👍🏼🐝
Great video! This would have beena video my friends mom would have really been interested in, she was Irish and very proud of it. Amazing that the streets and layout are still there. It's also kind of surreal how thousands of people probably pass this spot every day, but probably don't know the history and hardship associated with it.
Thanks Paul, yeah it’s amazing to think that all those years go there’s still some evidence on what used to be their. The history around this area is unbelievable, it’s just waiting to be revived. Thanks once again buddy! 👍🏼🐒
Absolutely fascinating and engrossing and so well narrated and presented. Have family there to this day but never knew of this history of the city. Thank you.
Peter Keenan thanks a lot for taking the time out and watching the video peter, I’m glad you enjoyed it mate. 👍🏼
Great video mate, thanks for the effort you put into these
What a wonderful and truly compassionate account and history of life in a bygone era.
@@t_ruth555 thank you so much Ruth! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🐝👍🏼
Thanks a lot mate! I’m glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼
@@daftmonkey7296 you're more than welcome 👍
my great great grandfather, john hanley came over from dublin 1908 with 3 young boys and his brother in law, they where all shoe makers, they lived on store street, then moved into ancoats, then blackley, john went on to own his own shoe shop and had another 5 children, two of the daughters married into wealth, some where married at manchester cathedral, some at saint Stevens collyhurst, one married saint peters blackley, one daughter married john bolswworth son,he was the landlord of the manchester arms in chester, 3 sons moved to glasgow and opened there own business, one son became a Sargent major and served in the first world war,most of the family still live around glasgow, and others like myself lost the name, but not the struggle,i was born in openshaw m11 1960, times where hard then, god knows what it was like then, i give you full credit on your work young man, you should and could be a TV history reporter, put your work forward to some big players, i think you might be surprised. good luck,
Wow, you've some fascinating family history there Kevin! thanks for enlightening me, I throughly enjoyed reading it. Thanks so much for the kind worst mate it really does mean a lot to me. Cheers, take care :)
Blown away! Brilliant is all i can say.
Apollo mission thank a lot, I really appreciate it 👍🏼
Excellent History presented in a vibrant way. Many thanks from Ireland
Thank you so much Austin, that honestly really does mean the world to me. Take care and thanks for watching the video 🙌🏼👍🏼
Powerful and heartfelt. Beautifully narrated, really brilliant !
Thank you so much Robert! That honestly means a lot to me. Thanks for watching the video! Take care buddy 🙌🏼🇮🇪
Very interesting vlog. Over here in Liverpool we had an equal measure of Irish immigrants who lived in equally dire conditions and there was much division and hatred between Catholics and protestants. My own father was Irish and contributed to the building of Britain's motorways and bridges. Excellent vlog once again.
Oh yes I totally agree with you mate. Liverpool had its fair share of Irish immigrants...probably more so than Manchester did. They helped build these cities into what they are today. We owe them a lot that’s for sure. Thanks for watching the video mate and take care 🙌🏼
great documentary, thankyou! can sense your passion for history and discovery from how u talk. keep it up bro
Sorry for the delay in reply. Thank you so much, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video and thank you for the kind words. It really does mean a lot. Take care
Incredible So emotive too in parts. I am so glad that we have you to take an interest in our history and log it for future generations to know the struggles of our ancestors
Well done I loved it !! x
Thanks very much Lorraine! That really does mean a lot 🙏🏼
I am both humbled and touched by what I have just watched. Thank you. I am a second generation son of Irish immigrants. I was born and raised in Manchester. I have worked in Manchester City centre for the last 17 years. I adore the city with a passion. I was absolutely glued to your vlogumentary. If, I may be so bold I would love you to make a similar short film specific to the mills of Ancoats and the men, woman and children (many of whom were Italian) who once worked there. Also, if you could include the grim history of Angel meadows. Manchester industrial history is unquestionable born from a grim past which needs documenting. Ideally by a young man like you.
Wow! thank you so much for the kind words. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it. I have a few videos lined up including once I will be releasing today at 6:00pm which documents the hardship of Angel Meadow and also includes the grim drinking dens & pubs that are no longer around. Thanks once again and take care :)
My Great great grandparents came over from Kilkenny in about 1849 and settled in Ancoats, now I can imagine how they lived
For a young lad I'm very proud of ya keeping our manchester alive, bloody fantastic video pal, cheers
Thank you so much mate! I really do appreciate it 👍🏼⭐️