Stellar presentation! I thoroughly enjoyed the interesting details you included that are too often overlooked by instructors and historians. The Seventh Cavalry's adoption of Garryowen as their regimental song is often credited to Captain Myles Keogh. George Armstrong Custer wrote several books including, My Life on the Plains. As a student I couldn't get enough of this stirring era and the fascinating people. Keep up the wonderful tradition!
@aconsideredopinion7529 thank you so much! I hope you've also caught Part II! I'm visiting family in the states right now but when I get back to Cyprus I'll continue the series to cover stories of Irishmen in all companies of the Seventh Cavalry! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
Fascinating as usual Siobhan! Can’t wait for the next episode. I had no idea the military after the Civil War had so many Irish soldiers. God bless them! Take care now.
Great stuff, Irishman here from Waterford City (home of Thomas Francis Meagher). It is fascinating to learn about the lives of the Irish who went out west with the army.
@SiobhanFallon7 He is well known for sure. We even have a festival in his honour every March to celebrate the first raising of the tricolour. . There's a fine statue of Meagher on his horse in Waterford City. We also have a bridge named after him. There's a room in a local museum (Bishop's Palace) dedicated entirely to Meagher!. He lived quite a life! I would say all his life is remembered throughly here. He is someone people here really proud of. A very courageous man and a patriot. Always on the right side of history.
Learned a lot of new stuff on your people. Thanks for all of the time and energy you put into making these excellent videos and for sharing them with us!
as usual, a very interesting chapter of this Custer saga that is advancing to be one of the U.S. history episodes I know best! Armed Forces were always a chance to get employment, food, accommodation, and somehow "integrate" to the new land. My ancestors left Eire almost 200 years prior to the Great Famine, and did so because of the repression the Cromwellian administration unleashed (eviction, confiscation of land) upon the Kerry rebel clans involved in the Ross Castle episode (after the Spanish left Kinsale in 1602 until the rebellion of 1642, about 12500 Irish from Munster migrated to Spain). So my ancestors migrated to the Basque Country, Bilbao being an important port city that traded with Ireland (Cork, Galway). In Spain the Irish were welcomed and considered "as Spanish citizens", and their surnames were quickly hispanicized so it is not always easy to identify them as of gaelic or anglo-norman origin. Quite soon the younger of my ancestors made career in the Navy and were later detached to the colonies of Guam, the Philippines, and South America, where we as Basque-Irish now reside. As in the Army and Navy quite many Irish also served in the Spanish administration, a few even becoming very high officials (Governors and Viceroys) like O`Higgins (Peru, Chile), O`Reilly (Spanish Louisiana), O`Donnell (Cuba), O`Donohue, O`Connor (Mexico), etc. Later (1810-29) very many Irish were involved in the Independence struggle against the Spanish Crown, one of the very early examples being that of William Lampart (1642) which at this early age defended the Jews and proposed that Kings should be elected, issues that were absolutely "heretic" in catholic Spain and under the Habsburg absolutism!
LOVE THIS! Thank you! I knew Irish traveled wide and far, but I never heard these details before! 🍀 I did watch Spain absolutely dominate the Euros, though... 🇪🇸 ⚽️ 🎉
Siobhan, an excellent lesson in the persicution, poverty and desperation of the Irish population by the English landed gentry.Totally relevant to the recruits of the 7th Cavalry. As usual a brilliantly presented watch. Bring on part 2.
@stevengamble2956 True, but few were. The real problem were the absentee landlords (had estates in Ireland but also in Britain but rarely set foot in Ireland) who definately weren't Irish. These had agents and managers running their estates who only saw profit and loss. Things got particularly bad when the English parliament introduced the poll tax, this incentivised landlords (Any with no concience anyway) to "get rid" of people.
Thanks Siobhan your a star us your work is a great asset to knowledge us Irish should never have raised a hand against the native Americans we suffered in our own country
Hello there, Sean! Thank you for the kind words, and how lovely of you to share your insights with me. I think you might be seeing this with our modern hindsight and empathy, as we know what happened in later years to the tribes, and how unfair their treatment was. But those Irish soldiers had too often seen what happened to their comrades who died at the hands of warriors. The night before the Little Bighorn fight, they found that white scalp in the Sundance lodge, not to mention all the other instances of having found soldiers or pioneers hacked to pieces. (Google Sergeant Wyllyams death at Fort Wallace). If you read soldier letters, they often complain about how their enemies were being fed and weaponized by the US government. They knew they were up against a lethal foe. Few of them realized the plight the tribes were in. And really how could they? No Google. No TV. Teachers weren't teaching them anything about diversity, if any of them even got an education. These were mostly poor, powerless, and desperate men who needed work and a home, which the US Army provided. It was a matter of survival for both sides of this conflict
Indeed Siobhan what you say is true. Iv always had an interest in west growing up in Ireland in the 60s and 70s. Cowboy movies were always on tv around that time Johnny case came up With bitter tears ballads songs of the Native American. In Johnnys songs we learned the other side of the story. In recent times Marty Stuart recorded bad lands another a very reflective album Thanks again Siobhan god bless your making brilliant video’s xx
@Sean-fb7cy thank you, Sean! Love hearing your memories and hope to hear from you again soon, All best, Siobhan P.s. there's another Irish soldier video I just posted last night about individual men at the Little Bighorn, if you haven't seen, men from Galway, Dublin, and Tipperary... th-cam.com/video/oPB13rEchfk/w-d-xo.html
always a strong narrative. please come see us for more information out in powder river, tongue river and rosebud country. you will have a place to stay and lots more information. your research and narrative is superb.
@murrayterry834 thank you so much, Murray! I wish I could get out there in that beautiful country! We are stationed in Cyprus now so it might be awhile before I get back...
@markmitchell4967 Mark, I needed a comment like that!! Thank you! This video is not performing well, so it means a lot that those who are watching are enjoying it 🍀🙏🍀
I am a Swiss but have a great grandmother that was Irish American and I learned about the horrors of the potato famine from my father, including the cruelty and callousness of the English landlords before I could read or write.
@@SiobhanFallon7 My Dad had a record with the audio of the Australian tv series "The restless Years" which is about the beginning and the coming of age of Australia, that he liked very much. He would play that record, filled to the brim with a lot of the most beautiful songs, usually sentimental ballads full of graphic descriptions and passion, mixed with recitalsof texts, done with much emphasis on Irish accent for us and give us translations and explanations to every bit. Of course it started with the story of Botany bay, and the experience of the convicts, mostly Irish (Who could have guessed!!!). Since then Irish music has become one of my favourites and the song most dear to me is "the convicts lament" that describes the pain and injustice of the British penal colonies and ends with the beautiful lines: "and when from bondage we are liberated, our former sufferings shall fade from mind". I try to take that as a reminder to not cling to bitterness and vengeful thinking but to embrace the new day with its new chances and live life to the fullest. Anyway, that "rebellious spirit" is like the necessairy pinch of salt on a good meal to anyone who made up his mind that slavery and submitting to tyranny is not an option anyone should accept but instead stand up to fight injustice and oppression in all its forms.
There's a great book by Chris Fogarty, an Irish man that emigrated to America in the early 1900's, called "Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust and Who Kept it Perfect" that I would highly recommend if you are lookng to further flesh out your knowledge on this part of history. It's available for free as a pdf on his website which should show up if you search it.
Well done, Siobhán! GREAT presentation 🏆 PS Keogh rhymes with ‘go’ Think of it as KYO I grew up in Ireland 🇮🇪 but I’ve been out of there most of my life ☘️ PPS. Kearney rhymes with Killarney 😀
Again I'm spellbound. It' really difficult to take in all this history. But I do and from this glory becomes reality how those boys suffered. But they live on through your work. Is for me fabulous . I'm an Englishman obsessed with the little bighorn. But through your work I'm understanding so much more. Keep up the good work Siobhan your the best. 💐♥️♥️
@jameslee9315 oh how I needed a message like that! Thank you. I've been a bit down about the videos lately and how they aren't getting viewers, and my recent troubles with laptop etc. Your note means the world and makes me want to keep doing the work and presentations 🙏💕📚
Another wonderful video! I love how including the history of Irish politics helped me view the battle of the little bighorn in a global context. It's hard to not think of history as a series of isolated events. Have you ever considered doing a full indian wars history? I feel I lack an comprehensive overview of how each campaign led to the next.
Thank you for a very sobering story. I am always shamed when I hear of my ancestors treatment of the Irish. Ireland is a beautiful country with beautiful people. Respect from Canada 🇨🇦.
@keithagn lovely of you to say, Keith, but you are no more guilty of these past wrongs than I am. 🙏💕 The more I study this time in history-- post Enlightenment, post-Democracy, and yet so many human failings on display-- the more I see the flaw in all creatures, and recognize how magnificent and miraculous it is that good triumphs as often as it does. The Irish, and all immigrants, played a huge role in making America what it is today-- in all its messy and glorious imperfections. There's a line in the musical, Hamilton, that says, "Immigrants, we get the job done" that was playing in my head a lot lately. And Great Britain has it's own undeniably astounding history. History is one big knot, impossible to untie or judge 🤣🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ I always appreciate hearing from you, Keith. Thanks again 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Excellent presentation, Siobhan! Your pronunciation of the lrish counties were bang on. You've told me stuff about Irishmen who fought with Custer that I didn't know too! According to my Dad, who was from Cavan, Phil Sheridan was definitely born there (in a townland close to where he was from). Ill be paying my respects to my very distant ancestor Sergeant (Private at the Little Big Horn) O'Neill's grave when I'm in Washington DC this September. You also referred to Mike Madden from Galway, whom im sure you'll be following up on soon. He was a bit of a boyo who played up to the Irish stereotype alright lol
Another excellent video. I knew the Irish were a large part of our Army at the time. Some of the other countries represented in the ranks I was not aware of. Looking forward to your next.
My great grandfather was born in 1876, a date easily remembered. While clearly too young to have direct knowledge he read alot about the battle from publications available at the time and related stories to my brother and I as children. One of the books we inherited was a first printing of US Grants biography, and I believe it is autographed. Thx again for your research.
@Freedomfred939 wow! I hope you have that Grant book today! Thanks for your kind words once more. And for sharing about your grandfather and how he passed on his interest in the Little Bighorn to you 💕
Siobhan: another great video; the letter from SGT Cashan to his cousin reminded me of my letters to my cousin seeking information of a girl I dated and left behind. My daughter has now expressed interest in finding out more about the early Irish and what prejudice they endured and finally overcome. I have several of your video's on cue so I better catch up or I will be held after school. Again, thanks for the history I missed in school.😊
Merci Siobhan pour tes investigations et ton implication dans cette bataille mythique...je suis français et je suis fasciné par l histoire de little Big Horn et le 7eme de cavalerie....j ai lu beaucoup de livres à ce sujet et regarde avec beaucoup d intérêt tout tes reportages...quels plaisirs de voir toutes la diversité de tes narrations toutes intéressantes les unes les autres...j en apprends tout les jours.... Encore merci....un petit français qui t aprecie beaucoup.....GIL....😉
@gillouattias5071 My daughter takes French and she translated your lovely message! Thank you!! Merci beaucoup pour votre aimable réponse! Je suis contente que tu apprécies mes vidéos et c'est grâce à des gens comme toi que je continue à faire des vidéos! Merci!
Siobhan, I come from Co Kilkenny and Miles Kehoe was from Co Carlow, next door. The local news paper "The Kilkenny People" done some history on him about 15 or 20 years ago. His family still owned the family farm where he was born. As I recall they donated Miles uniform to an American museum. If you want you could find the story in the "Kilkenny People" archives. As I recall if contained old photographs too.
@Slievenamon oh!! I will search!! I found an article by Imelda Kehoe on the Kilkenny Archaeological website-- maybe that's the one? I think I put a link in the description box if you want to see it. But there were no photos. I will look for more!
@@SiobhanFallon7 I had a look at the article from the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and I am not sure that it was the same article from the Kilkenny People ? This was about 15 to 20 years ago.
Thanks, Siobhan, for recognizing our Soldiers of Irish heritage. Great story. Not sure if you've come across this yet. Myles Moylan military record shows him born in Amesbury, Mass and Ireland. He was actually born in Tuam, Galway, Ireland. He came to the U.S. to sometime in the 1850s to live with his brothers Thomas and Patrick who had immigrated from Ireland to the U.S. and lived near Amesbury, Mass. On a separate note, my Great, Great, Grandfather immigrated to the U.S. in the 1840s to Brooklyn, N.Y. and answered Thomas Francis Meagher's call to serve in 1862. He joined the 63rd N.Y. Infantry, Irish Brigade at the age of 40. He was Killed in Action at the Battle of Antietam on 17 Sep 1862. Love your stories. Thanks again Siobhan!
@ChrisMoylan-d9u Yes!!!!! Oh my gosh Myles Moylan from Galway is coming up in the video I'm posting on Friday!!! I thought I was on to something yet you knew this too!!
@ChrisMoylan-d9u Chris, I'm so glad you confirmed this. I was thinking people were going to tell me I was crazy about Moylan! What made you think Moylan was born in Ireland? I saw that his original enlistment papers said Galway, but from then onward he claimed MA. It looked suspicious to me 😉🍀🇮🇪
@@SiobhanFallon7 Thank you Siobhan. My GG Grandfather Private James Gaffney left behind a wife and three children in the slums of Brooklyn. His wife, my GG Grandmother, Winifred must have been one tough woman. After James death, she opened a small convenience store in her house and somehow survived on a pension of $8 month, about $250 a month in today's dollars.
@jimplummer4879 and yet the Irish triumphed. Incredible what a tenacious people can do, even with all the odds stacked against them. The human spirit is fierce.
I recently came across an explanation which said that the Irish in the 19th centuary were looked upon in a similar fashion to the way Latin American immigrants are today.
Oh, by the way, the Angles/Saxons/ English had designs on Ireland since first reaching the western coast of Great Britain. Armed conflict between Irish and Enlish and their surrogates continued until 1998.
Well, Strongbow arrived in 1176 under the auspices of Diarmuid McMurrough who was at war with Rory O'Connor, he put out the feelers to Henry II to help settle a internicine conflict. Strongbow's army did just that, McMurrough offering his daughter to Richard de Clare...here is where Anglo/Saxon (not English) control took hold, before that (100 years in fact) England had no such designs on Ireland.
@@Jamacianwoodbine He was, but quickly the Normans adopted that Anglo Saxon mantle within no time (Henry II was not a Norman) as 100 years had elapsed between the Norman Conquest and Strongbow's arrival in Ireland
I have such mixed emotions about this time Siobhan. Considering where we left it feels wrong that we battled against the Native Americans when the same happened to us in one fashion or another. However thanks for your time and input as history should never be shied away from good or bad, history is brought the World this far. Look forward to even more. Bless you for your efforts.
@nickyhenderson3746 thank you, Nicky! I agree that it was a dark and complicated time, with lots of grey areas. Thanks for keeping such an open mind and for taking the time to comment here! 🙏🍀
Van Diemen's Land was the original Dutch name for Tasmania - Australia initially being known as New Holland by Europeans. Captain Cook did not discover Australia, but explored it more than previous Mariners - the continent partially explored by Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and allegedly the Chinese in some five hundred years before Cook....
Siobhán, you have made an enthralling video series of US (and emigrant Irish) military history. There are so many emblematic themes to catch up on both from earlier videos, and, I hope from those yet to come. Everybody (at least of my age) knows the story: for the Irish and other Europeans fleeing disaster the United States very largely fulfilled its promise; for the Native Americans disaster was heaped upon them, but it's how you tell the story that captivates. It could be years before you exhaust the theme of the US 7th Cavalry. And if you ever do, perhaps you might research and share the baleful story of the almost completely forgotten 10th (Irish) Regiment of Tennessee, the only Irish regiment of the Confederate army.
@ciarandoyle4349 Ciaran, I would love to look into that. My interest was piqued as I did a bit of research into Irish units in the Union, but didn't have time to dip into the Irish in the Confederacy at this time. But it would really help see the entire Irish American experience when I do. Thanks so much for commenting and for your suggestion!
Just a short comment to let you know that Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford Ireland, not Wexford, as stated in the commentary. Video was very informative.
U r by far the most attractive, knowledgeable and gracious history teacher to bless my good fortune. In everyone of ur great and interesting episodes facilitates my good fortune to have been born in the early 1940s ergo wartime. U have given me such great insight 2 the devastation and hardship in the lives those Irish boys and having been in the army circuit Viet Nam era, causes me 2 reflect and realize how resilient, tenacious and brave those horse soldiers were 4 what they endured. I doubt, if it had not been 4 U I would never have fully understood or realized " but 4 the grace of God go I ". I have always been interested in the history of the 7th Calvery and its command constituents, U have given me so much more than I could ever have imagined, thank U, until the next edition. 😊
@stanleypelcak1806 Stanley, you are so wonderful!! Thanks for the compliments 🙏. I feel blessed to have someone like you appreciate my work! I hope you continue to find something of interest in my videos. You have made my night and I am smiling ear to ear from your generous praise. 🤗 All the very best to you, Siobhan
@jimplummer4879 It's a shame Sheridan distanced himself from his Irish background. I think he would be more fondly remembered today if he had embraced it.
A great show on Netflix is called "Derry Girls." It tells the story of how violence in Northern Ireland came to an end thru the eyes of teenage girls. It's also very funny.
T F Meagher was a Waterford man, who's grand father came from Ballingarry Co. Tipperary, the scene of a famous eviction, that the eviction of "The Widow McCormack"
@frankmurphy8786 wow, thanks for that. I did notice Tipperary had the highest eviction rate in Ireland during the Great Hunger and it made me wonder if that's why so many 7th CAV guys seem to come from there. 🇮🇪🍀
Jeremiah(Darby) Finley (Fennelly) also came from the Ballingarry (Slieveardagh) area where a rebellion took place in 1848. This will be remembered by a walk and music next saturday.
@michaelroche6181 I have heard him also called Finlay, but not Fennelly! Do you have any other "inside" info on him? 😉 I also saw he had served with the 17 Foot under Darby Finley. Why "Darby" would you know? I'm almost done with a video that includes his bio so any help, Michael, is much appreciated! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 The Irish name Diarmuid was Anglicised as Darby in the early Nineteenth century and Latinised as Jeremiah on Birth certs. That naming pattern changed in the twentieth century when Diarmuid and Dermort were re adopted . The name Jeremiah phased out in the mid twentieth century and was replaced by Gerard in most families. There are few or no Finlays in this part of Ireland but the name Fennelly which is most common in the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary is pronounced locally as Finley. I am of the opinion he was a Fennelly and according to The Little Big Horn forum Darby Finleys descendants in N Dakota mentioned that his cousin was shot during a rebellion (1848) and was a widow's only son. There was a young Mc Bride killed in the rebellion and also a Widow McBride living in the village of Ballingarry in 1852. I have yet to connect these families or find any descendants in the area as that line may have died out from emigration. He was said to have enlisted in the British army in Kilkenny after shooting a policeman in revenge for his cousin. When he arrived in the Crimea the war was over and he emigrated to the US via Canada. His widow re married another Irishman called Donoghue but the descendants of his first son still live on. Tim Finley and his Kota Hunting Bow company in Oberon North Dakota is a direct descendant and has an unmistakable Irish looking head on him.
@@SiobhanFallon7 He was from Tipperary close to Kilkenny where he joined the British army at the time of the Crimean war. In that area of Tipperary there are lots of Fennellys which is pronounced locally as Finley. I have come across no Finlays which is not a common name in this part of Ireland. Darby was the 19th century Anglicisation of the name Diarmuid which was written on birthcerts as the biblical name Jeremiah. He has a descendant in Oberon North Dakota. i havent managed yet to narrow down which family is related to him and its possible they may all have emigrated a long time ago. If they were still around I suspect they would be aware of their connection with the Battle of Little Big Horn.
My Grand fathers both and Grand Mothers both were the first of our family to come from Castlebar Mayo, Kenmare Kerry and Taum Galway. Kenmare Grand Parents were married in Kerry, Grand Parents, of Mayo and Galway meet in Brooklyn and married. My Father Served in 40th Infantry Division Korean War, My Brother served in Marines of 76 - 80. I served 2nd Armored Division 82 - 85. Our Grand Fathers wanted to make a go of it at working in America. There Son's served in WW II and Korea as their Grand Sons served in Marines and Army and Coast Guard. Irish Catholic family's and Proud of it and to be American Citizens. I was one of the first born in America to finally go back to Ireland the past May 2024 and so proud to See the Republic and how it has advanced to all aspects of education, farming, industry and infrastructure. So many people from all over the world there to visit the Republic. God bless all, who made sacrifices for a Proud Nation today.
Your message is beautiful. God bless you and your entire family of patriots. That is a long lineage of military tradition. So glad you got to Ireland and could see how it flourishes today. I don't think we can underestimate how great an influence Ireland had on America. In the last of this series I will touch on that a little bit. I am so proud to be Irish and American, and part of the military family. We have the best of all worlds, you and I! 😉 🇺🇸🇮🇪💕
The chart presented at the very beginning is a good tool but it should not be relied upon as biblical as it contains many errors. For example, there were not 15 but actually 29 Canadians with the Seventh Cavalry in June 1876. And three additional at the Little Bighorn fight when one includes the civilian New York Herald correspondent Mark Kellogg & the Jackson brothers who served as scouts. It should also be noted that for personal reasons many recruits lied about their birthplaces upon enlistment in the army. So the exact figures will never be known.
@josephinekush5056 Hello George! Great points, thank you! That first slide with the numbers is from the Little Bighorn Visitor's Center-- it could be quite old 😉 Glad you mentioned how soldiers might not want to reveal their birth places. In Part two I was going to touch on deserters who reenlist with different names-- maybe I should emphasize that more. Thank you for watching!!
Brilliantly done video👍,my parents came from kildare,i was born in london,,i did read that the english took any patatos that didnt have rot,and fed the brittish army with them,i can see why akl the irish left,another thingis madden lost his leg with water party,he was the only only one who didnt get a medel of honour,suppose it was pointless him arguing becouse he didnt hav a leg to stand on😉,🇮🇪
🤣🤣🤣 good one, Ken, may I steal your line when I cover Madden's story in an upcoming installment? I'll say it's from you 😉🇮🇪 Madden will be featured soon. I head home to visit my family for a bit so it might be awhile before I get to put up another video, but please stay tuned!! 🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪
Oh my goodness, Robert!! I am embarrassed by your generosity! Thank you! 🤗 so unnecessary and so very good of you. Thank you. Really. You just made my week. 🙏
Many things in mind after watching this episode 🙂 Try to find some keywords to it 🤔: 1. Code Nopoleon / Human Rights / Equal Rights 2. Times of Hunger and Poverty in many parts of Europe. 3. The Revolutionary movements there around 1848 4. So many Fleeing People to America in this timeperiode. 5. New Hopes, New Space, Maybe a New Language and Civil Wars or Indian Wars between the Fire Islands and Alaska 😢 aaaaaand 6. The Need of Soldiers for only a few Dollars more in Sergio Leones words 😅 If i‘ll go to America, than only as a swedish born Soloonboss in Deadwood with Wild Bill on my side 👋😂👍
@dieternowatius5062 yes! I hope to look at other countries' histories as well, especially German born soldiers, as they were a close 2nd to Irish in the 7th. And I actually have a booklet on Swiss soldiers too!
@@SiobhanFallon7 The prussians had deathlists for any revolutionary after 1848. Most coming from Baden or Rhineland Palatinate. A List like that for the Irish inside the 7th would be interesting to watch. Dublin or Cork maybe in Germany would be Karlsruhe, Freiburg or so … ? The Italian or Swiss Stories also had to do with hunger, poverty or revolutions. For many germans it was like coming from one civil war into another. In Union we stand for a Good thing 😉 Freedom, Equality and Healthy potatoes for all 👍 Please Pa ! Gimme some more Krautsalat ! 🤣 Thanks Siobhan, have my Fun in writing those comments from Time to Time 😉
Strike this off if you like: There is a Sp0tify p0dcast called "The 1rish Hist0try Podc@st" that goes into great detail about the Irish Potato Famine, which was the impetus for so much Irish emigration. Many Irish, of course, came to the US, many fighting in the US Civil War (both sides) and as Siobhan has illustrated, fought and died with Custer.
@@SiobhanFallon7 must be a lot of tom fallons', also dolans, garretys, mc hughs, clearys etc. only half my family is irish...although76% dna...pyne, reedy, o'connor, mc carthy..my sister melinda, rip, had a friend siobhan from ireland...not you i guess.
@@SiobhanFallon7 I suppose. I wonder why there are so few Sobhans in America. My sisters were/ are Mary, Katherine, Barbara, Melinda, and Diana, and my Dad's mom was Katherine, and his aunt was Margerite, and, well anyway, no Siobhan's or anything similar. I never knew a Siobhan in life, and I am 65.
I wonder why the Germans came over in such great numbers to the United States at that time. My family came over in the 1890s. I know that some Germans came over because they did not want to serve in the military of the new German empire.
I'll not tresspass further here except to mention The Irish Army's Cavalry School on The Chieftan's channel 07.20.2024: they're still making troopers in Ireland today.
great content Siobhan but as a Irishman and from the same county as GN.Phil his family originate from a place in county Cavan ,called Virginia please drop the Irish accents.
@shaymoose4538 ouch. Thanks for the feedback, Shay. Hard to differentiate a quote from an individual without attempting an accent, however bad it might be. I apologize for hurting your ears.
@Macbob-j6f no, I didn't delete anything. I'll check my page. Thanks for the heads up! I am taking a little break, though. It's been so much work, and my numbers are down. I was getting disheartened. I'll be back soon. This is a tough thing to break into, and I know my videos are a rather niche market. This September, I really threw myself into the videos and the outcome, though so many lovely viewers like you were so kind and supportive, was rather disappointing. The last three videos have some of my lowest viewership of all. I don't think I'm going to be a TH-cam sensation... or even be able to buy groceries from the tiny trickle of revenue here 😬😬😬🤣
@@SiobhanFallon7 looks like my reply disappeared. Maybe I didn’t click on send. Really sorry to hear that your recent videos have lower views and that you are discouraged. You do such a great job at researching, and presenting your videos. Yes, maybe niche videos whereas so many Custer videos on you tube might help cause limited traffic. But, I and many others really do appreciate everything you do. Maybe less videos knowing you do them for the pride of doing them, even though little income. I consider you a friend and a classy lady so I wish you the best, no matter what you decide. Let me know if I can help in any way. Robert
@shane7103 it is. I felt really unsettled and depressed after doing this research, and needed to focus on all the Irish accomplishments that followed in order to feel better.
@@SiobhanFallon7 I've read horrendous things like young girls losing their families on the way over then being forced into a life of prostitution on arrival. People from brothels would wait at the docks for unaccompanied minors. Imagine being a teenage girl, leaving Ireland because of all the death and hunger, losing your family on the boat over, then forced into that! I need to remember how lucky I am. Thank you for creating and uploading this, as hard as the details are, you did very well.
@shane7103 thank you, Shane 🙏yes, I've read similar stories about the girls-- some lived outside a British base in Ireland-- the Wrens I think they were called? The young girls/ teens had nothing with their families dead.
My Irish ancestors were Keogh's and they had an s load of siblings from my great great great grandfather, who married a Keogh, and then after she died and 11 kids later he married her cousin, a Keogh and had 10 more. I strongly suspect that survival in the new world and a chance to advance by way of the army had much to do with it. I also think the same of the civil war. I don't think many men really gave a damn about southern slaves. I wouldn't have.
@Doo_Doo_Patrol Irish men fought for both sides and I agree, idealistic or not, they had their own reasons, perhaps just basic survival or taking care of their families. We can see the larger issues today and pass our easy judgements, but ultimately many of these men needed a job and a paycheck and not everyone was hiring. Thanks so much for taking the time to join the conversation here!
Hello hello!!! Fluhanagh, Dromahair! I think I am spelling Fluhanagh wrong, but it's the tiny little stretch just outside the town of Dromahair. Lovely Leitrim!!! Where are you from, Adrian? 🍀🇮🇪🍀
@SiobhanFallon7 From Fenagh. Have an uncle in Drumkeerin, lot of Fallons there, next parish to Drumahair. I'm a history buff, one of your videos came up in my feed. Imagine my surprise when you mentioned Leitrim. Was wondering during the video who the casualty from little big horn was from Leitrim? According to Myles Dungan's book "Distant Drums" 32 Irish born men died at Little Big horn.
@adrianred236 I'm traveling now and don't have my books with me but will look as soon as I get back! 🍀🇮🇪🍀 so glad you are watching. Please let me know if you like any other videos! 🙏
Wait!! A friend just messaged me that Joseph H. Green was born in Leitrim, IRE, on Aug 9, 1849. He was a member of Captain Weir's D Company so part of the hilltop fight. He survived the fight. 🎉🍀
While Irish Catholics suffered from considerable hostility over here, the barriers to advancement want nothing like they were back in Ireland. Hence they / we kept coming in droves. Most of the hostility can be traced to the Protestant evangelical revival of the early 1800s.
If you like history of Ireland, Siobhán, try reading Labour in Irish History, a book by James Connolly also The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland, by Michael Davitt (if you have'nt already 🧐
We Irish are proud people of our ancestors whom had given so much to the world, now our country is under attack by foreigners who don’t care for our people or homeland.
So embarrassing to know that my fellow Irish men fought the Sioux and the Chyenne when they themselves knew what it was like to live in a country that was brutalised and colonised by murdering oppressors.
The unfortunate truth, it was a job to escape poverty for many. The Irish signed up to fight in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, Crimea, The Boer Wars (both sides), WW1. The Union Army for the Mexican -American War (Both sides), The Indian Wars, The Civil War (Both sides)
We can't judge them by the hindsight it has taken us nearly 150 years to arrive at. They were taking care of their families and, as you point out, Kevin, food and sustenance and survival were probably as far ahead as almost all human beings could contemplate at that time.
Hi there, Charlie. Thanks for commenting. Your comment seems to be judging your fellow Irishmen by standards and hindsight it has taken nearly 150 years for modern society to decide upon. They would have been reading the newspapers that told them about Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacks on homestead and forts, and seeing evidence of their own friends or soldiers having been scalped and mutilated and killed. Please Google Sergeant Wyllyam's body to see the sort of fear they would have felt toward their enemy. We can draw these connections and demand empathy as we know how unfairly it all turned out, but I am sure most of the Irish soldiers were just hoping to survive. The Sioux were a fearsome and lethal enemy on the battlefield. And your Irish countrymen were soldiers. That was their focus. However, if you want to read about those who advocated for the tribes, take a look at George Crook, Alfred Sully, Frederick Benteen, George Custer, and countless other military officers who gained respect for their foes and could see how the Indian Bureau was failing to live up to their promises, and spoke out in defense of the tribes. It's a dark and messy time for everyone. We make sense of it from the safety of today. I don't think these young Irishmen had the same luxury.
I agree, Barry. How can we fault them for survival? No one was teaching them how to view history through the lense of colonialism at the time. They were doing their best for their families. We can't judge them by today's standards, expectations, and very new worldview.
The weight thing with the calvary was because The united. States did not use line or heavy cav. Only light cav. Was used .with light cavalry everything you will use goes on the horse smaller quick horses not allot of weight left over for a rider after weapons and ammunition unlike the larger horses used in heavy and line cavalry
Siobhan - have loved these episodes. But please remember the normal / poor English, Scottish and Welsh were not having a grand time under lords and masters Kids working in lethal factories and living in slums. Why do you think Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist and a Christmas Carol? Believe me most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our gobs. I appreciate the Irish did get it the worst Looking forward to next episodes and other history from you ❤
Absolutely. Very few of any race or creed had a silver spoon or anything else shiny at this time. As someone so eloquently said in the comments here on this video, it wasn't the English people who were the problem, but the British government. And I think that distinction holds true of many conflicts. Day to day, regular people want to just survive and protect their families. Thanks so much for your insights and kind words!! 🙏💕
@@SiobhanFallon7 look up that song by the Dubliners - Lincolns Army =- I love that song I also love the song that should be England's National Anthem - Jerusalem, but us being military family - I vow to thee my country - it's my favourite . I'm an Englishman - born in London but English, Welsh, Scottish and Scottish parents and grandparents and Irish -a right mix - very proud of it. I'm a true Brit Love your videos lass total respect - I did 41 years in the military and as a police officer - best years ever. Carry on on Lass ❤️ love what you do and thanks for replying total respect to you and yours x
@richardprescott6322 thanks, Richard, you too! I will listen to Lincolns Army and Jerusalem too. Might try to do a video about the Brits in the 7th cav, quite a few, especially if we combine Canadians too (WW Cooke! Who was nicknamed the "Queen's Own" 💕) Always enjoy hearing from you. All best, my friend! Siobhan
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Just remember that the native Americans where the irish to the English, so do not celebrate any irish that took part to opress the native Indian people.
@darrencunningham1746 you are judging these men by the standards and the hindsight it has taken nearly 150 years for modern society to arrive at. They would have been reading the newspapers that told them about Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacks on homestead and forts, and seeing evidence of their own friends or soldiers having been scalped and mutilated and killed. Please Google Sergeant Wyllyam's body to see the sort of fear they would have felt toward their enemy. We can draw these connections and demand empathy as we know how unfairly it all turned out, but I am sure most of the US soldiers were just hoping to survive. The Sioux were a fearsome and lethal enemy on the battlefield. And these Irish men were soldiers. That was their focus: soldiering and living another day. However, if you want to read about those who advocated for the tribes, take a look at George Crook, Alfred Sully, Frederick Benteen, George Custer, and countless other military officers who gained respect for their foes and could see how the Indian Bureau was failing to live up to their promises, and spoke out in defense of the tribes. It's a dark and messy time for everyone. You can make sense of it from the safety of today but these men did not have the same luxury. You might want to take a look at my Washita series, Darren, for eyewitness accounts of these conflicts, from both sides, from the mid 1800s rather than condemning your countrymen through a modern lense.
@SiobhanFallon7 one reason the irish joined the army at the time, money not out of any loyalty. And I'm sure what the native Americans done in war, was to put the fear into the enemy. Tactics that are used throughout the world today. Just look at what Israel is doing in gaza, backed up by a hypocritical USA government. But getting back to the irish, most of them were illiterate, so doubt there were many reading the papers. They were probably lied to or made join the army of the time. Like alot of today's young men and women. Feed bs by governments to fight illegal wars proclaiming to be in the name of freedom. So to finish as I started the irish mostly done things for money, and because at the time they where really good at taking orders, good subjects and easily manipulated.
I think we need to settle on the debate (esp in the minds of Americans of Irish ancestry) that most English were not responsible for the conditions in Ireland. I am from Dublin, most of the people see a certain type of English person responsible for An Gorta Mor and do not level that at say people from Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow. 2 of Ireland's greatest political revolutionaries were not born in Ireland, James Connolly and my hero James Larkin. Most English were equally treated by the ruling class with utter contempt, and nothing has really changed. It does not help matters if most Americans still think all "English" were responsible for Ireland's woes, we indeed had our own Irish landlords under the Land Act to put us off our land, albeit Irish protestants. History is never one flavour to fit the prevailing narrative, sadly the Irish who rocked up to America didn't see the native Americans as what the ruling English saw them (Sheridan/Sherman) so it goes...
Who thinks this, Marcus? I can't imagine anyone who knows anything about history thinks "all" people, English or Irish or anyone else on pur far flung world, behaved or acted or thought in any one way. There are times generalizations are necessary when summarizing, but I know human beings are more nuanced and messy than that, and I try to express as much in all my work. I appreciate your insights and hope to hear from you again!
Well let's see, British,creek indians, Seminole Indians, Spanish,French,YANKEES, plains Indians, Spanish again, Germans, Germans again , Japanese, Koreans (Chinese), Vietnamese, Iraqis, poshtun Taliban and still ready. My family was always proud to serve but never have we forgotten who we are and our homes on the green isle.
They weren't all drafted. 🤷🏼♀️ I would like to look into the Irish who fought for the Confederates sometime. They had eloquent reasons too, and felt they were fighting for freedom. Mostly I'm amazed at how many embraced their fight on behalf of their new home, be it north or south.
I am from a unionist background the laws against the Roman Catholics was also against the Protestant Presbyterians, channels like yours never mention the Protestant people who died in the famine, most of the British Army Regiments in Ireland in the 1800s were Irish Regiments of the British Army,
@harry9392 Hi there, Harry. I always appreciate constructive criticism! No need to be combative and say "channels like yours never mention the Protestant people" as if I am a part of some conspiracy🤦🏼♀️ 🤣 ! However, of course the great Wolfe Tone was a Protestant, and I mentioned the United Irishmen and the 1798 rebellion in my first Keogh video. Please take a look at that. Thanks for watching!
@@harry9392 I will indeed be covering Irish men who fought in the British Army in the next installment, most notably Lt Henry Nowlan, Sergeant Darby Finley, and Sergeant Thomas Harrison.
@hector7187 I'm sure you know quite a bit about Ireland. But how exactly do you know every Irishman's heart? Sure you live in Galway now, and I am sure you have many wise insights, but only his great grandfather knows his family's immigrant experience in America. 🤷🏼♀️
The reason Remington forced his men to burn all of the food stock and bison robes is because he hated the men he was in charge of. Him and Harney were sadistic to any spainish goose they captured during the Mexican war
@brianferris8668 Enlistment paperwork didn't ask for religion, at least not any I have seen 🤷🏼♀️ It's a good question. If you find out please let me know.
The irish etc like other immigrat groups and they adapted and survived like immigrants beford and after. A small % went to crime. A larger % went into public service cops and firemen for example. They did manual labor jobs. The army was a way to get a roof and food as well as fast frack to bdtter assimilation. The newest wave of immigrants went through the same process in general. In some ways it continues.
@@SiobhanFallon7 My mother's maiden name is Daly...her family is from Cork! Here are some names you should know....Dan Daly, Michael J Daly, and of course Audie Murphy!
@sunnyjacksmack thank you so much. This video wasn't doing well when I first posted it and I was bummed. But it had a little uptick last night and now it is doing better, thanks to good folks like you 🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 I believe with the insanity that we are currently living through that current event sites have over shadowed the more historical sites like yous. Never let the moment let you down things are subject to change in the blink of an eye; If it doesn't I will give you your money back. LOL
Stellar presentation! I thoroughly enjoyed the interesting details you included that are too often overlooked by instructors and historians. The Seventh Cavalry's adoption of Garryowen as their regimental song is often credited to Captain Myles Keogh. George Armstrong Custer wrote several books including, My Life on the Plains. As a student I couldn't get enough of this stirring era and the fascinating people. Keep up the wonderful tradition!
@seantig479 thank you, I will!! 🍀
Excellent, I'm Irish and will use your channel as an education tool for my children
Wow, that's lovely. I'm honored 🙏
Thank you ! I cant wait for part 2 !
@talkietoaster4626 thank you!! I hope to work faster than usual and get it up in about a week! 🍀🇮🇪🙏
An excellent presentation, well researched, insightful commentary and expertly explained. Well done.
@aconsideredopinion7529 thank you so much! I hope you've also caught Part II!
I'm visiting family in the states right now but when I get back to Cyprus I'll continue the series to cover stories of Irishmen in all companies of the Seventh Cavalry!
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First rate work . Your social commentary is informative and moving . Thanks from Dundee, Scotland.
@@biglaw6278 you just made my day. Thank you!
Fascinating as usual Siobhan! Can’t wait for the next episode. I had no idea the military after the Civil War had so many Irish soldiers. God bless them! Take care now.
@oneida41859 thank you!! I need to work fast-- I'd like to get part two up next week! 🤞🙏
Hi Siobhan, great to hear about my fellow Irishmen being such an important part of your country's history
@@MultiAlanR you bet!! Good thing those Irish go far or else I would never have been born!! 😉🇮🇪💕
Thanks for watching and commenting 🎉🍀
Great stuff, Irishman here from Waterford City (home of Thomas Francis Meagher). It is fascinating to learn about the lives of the Irish who went out west with the army.
@robsmithadventures1537 Thank you, Rob! 🇮🇪
Is Meagher well known in Waterford? If so, is he mostly known for his activities in Ireland or for the USA?
@SiobhanFallon7 He is well known for sure. We even have a festival in his honour every March to celebrate the first raising of the tricolour. . There's a fine statue of Meagher on his horse in Waterford City. We also have a bridge named after him. There's a room in a local museum (Bishop's Palace) dedicated entirely to Meagher!. He lived quite a life!
I would say all his life is remembered throughly here. He is someone people here really proud of. A very courageous man and a patriot. Always on the right side of history.
@robsmithadventures1537 that's fantastic! So glad to hear that he is remembered by all. Thank you for sharing, Rob! 🍀🇺🇸🇮🇪
@@SiobhanFallon7 No problem Siobhán.
Learned a lot of new stuff on your people. Thanks for all of the time and energy you put into making these excellent videos and for sharing them with us!
Thank you! Lots I didn't know too until I started this research.
Thanks for your tremendous help, Dale 🙏🍀
as usual, a very interesting chapter of this Custer saga that is advancing to be one of the U.S. history episodes I know best! Armed Forces were always a chance to get employment, food, accommodation, and somehow "integrate" to the new land. My ancestors left Eire almost 200 years prior to the Great Famine, and did so because of the repression the Cromwellian administration unleashed (eviction, confiscation of land) upon the Kerry rebel clans involved in the Ross Castle episode (after the Spanish left Kinsale in 1602 until the rebellion of 1642, about 12500 Irish from Munster migrated to Spain). So my ancestors migrated to the Basque Country, Bilbao being an important port city that traded with Ireland (Cork, Galway). In Spain the Irish were welcomed and considered "as Spanish citizens", and their surnames were quickly hispanicized so it is not always easy to identify them as of gaelic or anglo-norman origin. Quite soon the younger of my ancestors made career in the Navy and were later detached to the colonies of Guam, the Philippines, and South America, where we as Basque-Irish now reside. As in the Army and Navy quite many Irish also served in the Spanish administration, a few even becoming very high officials (Governors and Viceroys) like O`Higgins (Peru, Chile), O`Reilly (Spanish Louisiana), O`Donnell (Cuba), O`Donohue, O`Connor (Mexico), etc. Later (1810-29) very many Irish were involved in the Independence struggle against the Spanish Crown, one of the very early examples being that of William Lampart (1642) which at this early age defended the Jews and proposed that Kings should be elected, issues that were absolutely "heretic" in catholic Spain and under the Habsburg absolutism!
LOVE THIS! Thank you! I knew Irish traveled wide and far, but I never heard these details before! 🍀
I did watch Spain absolutely dominate the Euros, though...
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Siobhan, an excellent lesson in the persicution, poverty and desperation of the Irish population by the English landed gentry.Totally relevant to the recruits of the 7th Cavalry. As usual a brilliantly presented watch. Bring on part 2.
@stevengamble2956 thank you so much, Steven!!
@stevengamble2956 some of those landed gentry where Scots.
@@lordjazoijua94 interesting!
@@lordjazoijua94 i believe that there were some Irish landlords also
@stevengamble2956 True, but few were. The real problem were the absentee landlords (had estates in Ireland but also in Britain but rarely set foot in Ireland) who definately weren't Irish. These had agents and managers running their estates who only saw profit and loss. Things got particularly bad when the English parliament introduced the poll tax, this incentivised landlords (Any with no concience anyway) to "get rid" of people.
Thanks Siobhan your a star us your work is a great asset to knowledge us Irish should never have raised a hand against the native Americans we suffered in our own country
Hello there, Sean! Thank you for the kind words, and how lovely of you to share your insights with me.
I think you might be seeing this with our modern hindsight and empathy, as we know what happened in later years to the tribes, and how unfair their treatment was. But those Irish soldiers had too often seen what happened to their comrades who died at the hands of warriors. The night before the Little Bighorn fight, they found that white scalp in the Sundance lodge, not to mention all the other instances of having found soldiers or pioneers hacked to pieces. (Google Sergeant Wyllyams death at Fort Wallace).
If you read soldier letters, they often complain about how their enemies were being fed and weaponized by the US government. They knew they were up against a lethal foe. Few of them realized the plight the tribes were in. And really how could they? No Google. No TV. Teachers weren't teaching them anything about diversity, if any of them even got an education. These were mostly poor, powerless, and desperate men who needed work and a home, which the US Army provided. It was a matter of survival for both sides of this conflict
Indeed Siobhan what you say is true. Iv always had an interest in west growing up in Ireland in the 60s and 70s. Cowboy movies were always on tv around that time Johnny case came up With bitter tears ballads songs of the Native American. In Johnnys songs we learned the other side of the story. In recent times Marty Stuart recorded bad lands another a very reflective album
Thanks again Siobhan god bless your making brilliant video’s xx
@Sean-fb7cy thank you, Sean! Love hearing your memories and hope to hear from you again soon,
All best,
Siobhan
P.s. there's another Irish soldier video I just posted last night about individual men at the Little Bighorn, if you haven't seen, men from Galway, Dublin, and Tipperary...
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I swear, just when I think your videos can't get any better, they get better! A very informative video. Looking forward to Part 2!
always a strong narrative. please come see us for more information out in powder river, tongue river and rosebud country. you will have a place to stay and lots more information. your research and narrative is superb.
@murrayterry834 thank you so much, Murray! I wish I could get out there in that beautiful country! We are stationed in Cyprus now so it might be awhile before I get back...
@markmitchell4967 Mark, I needed a comment like that!! Thank you! This video is not performing well, so it means a lot that those who are watching are enjoying it 🍀🙏🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 yes, hope your deployment is going well too. you will get back at some point.
I am a Swiss but have a great grandmother that was Irish American and I learned about the horrors of the potato famine from my father, including the cruelty and callousness of the English landlords before I could read or write.
@@kanonierable I was raised on Irish rebel songs myself 😉🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 My Dad had a record with the audio of the Australian tv series "The restless Years" which is about the beginning and the coming of age of Australia, that he liked very much. He would play that record, filled to the brim with a lot of the most beautiful songs, usually sentimental ballads full of graphic descriptions and passion, mixed with recitalsof texts, done with much emphasis on Irish accent for us and give us translations and explanations to every bit. Of course it started with the story of Botany bay, and the experience of the convicts, mostly Irish (Who could have guessed!!!). Since then Irish music has become one of my favourites and the song most dear to me is "the convicts lament" that describes the pain and injustice of the British penal colonies and ends with the beautiful lines:
"and when from bondage we are liberated, our former sufferings shall fade from mind".
I try to take that as a reminder to not cling to bitterness and vengeful thinking but to embrace the new day with its new chances and live life to the fullest.
Anyway, that "rebellious spirit" is like the necessairy pinch of salt on a good meal to anyone who made up his mind that slavery and submitting to tyranny is not an option anyone should accept but instead stand up to fight injustice and oppression in all its forms.
@@kanonierable that's beautiful! 🙏💕🇦🇺
There's a great book by Chris Fogarty, an Irish man that emigrated to America in the early 1900's, called "Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust and Who Kept it Perfect" that I would highly recommend if you are lookng to further flesh out your knowledge on this part of history. It's available for free as a pdf on his website which should show up if you search it.
@@Cardulionax Yes! I have been in touch with Mr. Fogarty!
Well done, Siobhán!
GREAT presentation 🏆
PS Keogh rhymes with ‘go’
Think of it as KYO
I grew up in Ireland 🇮🇪 but I’ve been out of there most of my life ☘️
PPS. Kearney rhymes with Killarney 😀
Again I'm spellbound. It' really difficult to take in all this history. But I do and from this glory becomes reality how those boys suffered. But they live on through your work. Is for me fabulous . I'm an Englishman obsessed with the little bighorn. But through your work I'm understanding so much more. Keep up the good work Siobhan your the best. 💐♥️♥️
@jameslee9315 oh how I needed a message like that! Thank you. I've been a bit down about the videos lately and how they aren't getting viewers, and my recent troubles with laptop etc.
Your note means the world and makes me want to keep doing the work and presentations 🙏💕📚
Thanks Siobhan.
Best video yet!😀
Whooo hooo!!! Thank you!! 🍀🎉🍀
Another wonderful video! I love how including the history of Irish politics helped me view the battle of the little bighorn in a global context. It's hard to not think of history as a series of isolated events. Have you ever considered doing a full indian wars history? I feel I lack an comprehensive overview of how each campaign led to the next.
@alohamatthewshields I should for my own edification do an overview of the Indian Wars. Thank you for suggesting that!!
Great idea.
Scotts-Irish, I'm told it's a common surname.
Thank you for a very sobering story. I am always shamed when I hear of my ancestors treatment of the Irish. Ireland is a beautiful country with beautiful people. Respect from Canada 🇨🇦.
@keithagn lovely of you to say, Keith, but you are no more guilty of these past wrongs than I am. 🙏💕
The more I study this time in history-- post Enlightenment, post-Democracy, and yet so many human failings on display-- the more I see the flaw in all creatures, and recognize how magnificent and miraculous it is that good triumphs as often as it does.
The Irish, and all immigrants, played a huge role in making America what it is today-- in all its messy and glorious imperfections. There's a line in the musical, Hamilton, that says, "Immigrants, we get the job done" that was playing in my head a lot lately.
And Great Britain has it's own undeniably astounding history.
History is one big knot, impossible to untie or judge 🤣🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
I always appreciate hearing from you, Keith. Thanks again 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
@@SiobhanFallon7 thank you for such kind words!
@@SiobhanFallon7The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of Class Struggle. 🌍☘️🕊️
Excellent presentation, Siobhan! Your pronunciation of the lrish counties were bang on.
You've told me stuff about Irishmen who fought with Custer that I didn't know too!
According to my Dad, who was from Cavan, Phil Sheridan was definitely born there (in a townland close to where he was from).
Ill be paying my respects to my very distant ancestor Sergeant (Private at the Little Big Horn) O'Neill's grave when I'm in Washington DC this September.
You also referred to Mike Madden from Galway, whom im sure you'll be following up on soon. He was a bit of a boyo who played up to the Irish stereotype alright lol
@niallfitzpatrick6568 thank you, Niall!! I keep waiting for folks to tell me how horrible my Irish accent is but so far so good... 🤞🤣🍀
Another excellent video. I knew the Irish were a large part of our Army at the time. Some of the other countries represented in the ranks I was not aware of. Looking forward to your next.
Thanks, Cash!! Working hard to get part 2 out there asap!! 🍀
I'm curious about other nationalities too...
Great quality as always
Thank you
Thank you, Chuck!! 🍀
My great grandfather was born in 1876, a date easily remembered. While clearly too young to have direct knowledge he read alot about the battle from publications available at the time and related stories to my brother and I as children. One of the books we inherited was a first printing of US Grants biography, and I believe it is autographed. Thx again for your research.
@Freedomfred939 wow! I hope you have that Grant book today!
Thanks for your kind words once more. And for sharing about your grandfather and how he passed on his interest in the Little Bighorn to you 💕
Fascinating & extremely well presented. Many thanks.
@@basicbrit1 thank you so much! 🙏
Siobhan: another great video; the letter from SGT Cashan to his cousin reminded me of my letters to my cousin seeking information of a girl I dated and left behind. My daughter has now expressed interest in finding out more about the early Irish and what prejudice they endured and finally overcome. I have several of your video's on cue so I better catch up or I will be held after school. Again, thanks for the history I missed in school.😊
@joesphmurphy4013 Joseph! Thank you thank you! And thanks for sharing with your daughter 🍀🙏
I just put up the latest Irish segment yesterday! 🇮🇪
Thanks, Siobhan! Great job again. ---Skye M.
@retriever19golden55 thank you, Skye!! 🇮🇪💕
Another great video. Love the detail and the maps.
@gator83261 thank you!! You are very good to comment and give me a smile 🍀🙏
Very Insightful and Respectful 🇮🇪🇺🇸
@richardlynch7321 thank you, Richard!!
Superb work again, Siobhan😊
@@RailfanDownunder thank you!!
Merci Siobhan pour tes investigations et ton implication dans cette bataille mythique...je suis français et je suis fasciné par l histoire de little Big Horn et le 7eme de cavalerie....j ai lu beaucoup de livres à ce sujet et regarde avec beaucoup d intérêt tout tes reportages...quels plaisirs de voir toutes la diversité de tes narrations toutes intéressantes les unes les autres...j en apprends tout les jours.... Encore merci....un petit français qui t aprecie beaucoup.....GIL....😉
@gillouattias5071 My daughter takes French and she translated your lovely message! Thank you!!
Merci beaucoup pour votre aimable réponse! Je suis contente que tu apprécies mes vidéos et c'est grâce à des gens comme toi que je continue à faire des vidéos! Merci!
The new one is up, my friend!! th-cam.com/video/zGH-0J3ldIo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XN4h5s1GZctv8llK
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I was born in England to full irish heritage, love you my Irish sister
@bobbirobin2051 thank you, Bobbi!! Back at ya! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
Great presentation 👏 👌 really enjoyed, greeting from Ireland 🇮🇪
@kierankiely why thank you, Kieran!!! 🍀🇮🇪
@SiobhanFallon7 Your welcome 🙏 my uncle went to U.S in early 70s and enlisted , he stayed in Fort Bragg and retired after 36 years in the Army.
@@kierankiely wow. That's quite a career 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Siobhan, I come from Co Kilkenny and Miles Kehoe was from Co Carlow, next door. The local news paper "The Kilkenny People" done some history on him about 15 or 20 years ago. His family still owned the family farm where he was born. As I recall they donated Miles uniform to an American museum. If you want you could find the story in the "Kilkenny People" archives. As I recall if contained old photographs too.
@Slievenamon oh!! I will search!! I found an article by Imelda Kehoe on the Kilkenny Archaeological website-- maybe that's the one? I think I put a link in the description box if you want to see it. But there were no photos. I will look for more!
@@SiobhanFallon7 I had a look at the article from the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and I am not sure that it was the same article from the Kilkenny People ? This was about 15 to 20 years ago.
Shay checking in from dublin Ireland thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hello Shay! Thanks for saying hello!!🍀🇮🇪🍀
Excellent as always Siobhan!
Will there be a similar video about the germans? Greetings from Germany :-) love your content! Great great work! Awesome
@@MilesWalterKeogh Yes!! Germans for sure!! How'd you guess? 😉 I found some wonderful photos and quotes already...
@@SiobhanFallon7 there were many germans in the 7th too. Chief Trumpeter Henry Voss for example :-D
@@MilesWalterKeogh yes!!
Great presentation,,never was thrilled with England, I being half French and Irish.
@@Jay_Hall thank you, Jay! 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 😉
Lol you couldn't have a more english surname than hall !!!!!!
You couldn't have a more english surname than HALL 😂😂😂
@@Jamacianwoodbine 🤣
@@Jamacianwoodbine Maybe "Hall" is not my real last name. :) 3 of my 4 Grandparents last names are LaFleur, LaPage, and Downs,,get it? :)
Thanks, Siobhan, for recognizing our Soldiers of Irish heritage. Great story. Not sure if you've come across this yet. Myles Moylan military record shows him born in Amesbury, Mass and Ireland. He was actually born in Tuam, Galway, Ireland. He came to the U.S. to sometime in the 1850s to live with his brothers Thomas and Patrick who had immigrated from Ireland to the U.S. and lived near Amesbury, Mass. On a separate note, my Great, Great, Grandfather immigrated to the U.S. in the 1840s to Brooklyn, N.Y. and answered Thomas Francis Meagher's call to serve in 1862. He joined the 63rd N.Y. Infantry, Irish Brigade at the age of 40. He was Killed in Action at the Battle of Antietam on 17 Sep 1862. Love your stories. Thanks again Siobhan!
@ChrisMoylan-d9u Yes!!!!! Oh my gosh Myles Moylan from Galway is coming up in the video I'm posting on Friday!!! I thought I was on to something yet you knew this too!!
@ChrisMoylan-d9u Chris, I'm so glad you confirmed this. I was thinking people were going to tell me I was crazy about Moylan!
What made you think Moylan was born in Ireland?
I saw that his original enlistment papers said Galway, but from then onward he claimed MA. It looked suspicious to me 😉🍀🇮🇪
@@ChrisMoylan-d9u and God bless your Great Great Grandfather 🙏
@@ChrisMoylan-d9u ha!! I see you LAST NAME IS MOYLAN!! 🤣🙌
And I just checked Moylan's Find a Grave page! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪n
@@SiobhanFallon7 Thank you Siobhan. My GG Grandfather Private James Gaffney left behind a wife and three children in the slums of Brooklyn. His wife, my GG Grandmother, Winifred must have been one tough woman. After James death, she opened a small convenience store in her house and somehow survived on a pension of $8 month, about $250 a month in today's dollars.
Well done ! (as always)
@johnashton485 thank you, John!! 🍀
Thank you for an excellent video and Irish history lesson. My ancestors: McNulty from Donegal, English from County Mayo, Carey from ??
Oooh... there's a 7th soldier, last name Carey, are you related 😉😍
For sure the Wasps despised the Irish Catholics .
@jimplummer4879 and yet the Irish triumphed. Incredible what a tenacious people can do, even with all the odds stacked against them.
The human spirit is fierce.
I recently came across an explanation which said that the Irish in the 19th centuary were looked upon in a similar fashion to the way Latin American immigrants are today.
Oh, by the way, the Angles/Saxons/ English had designs on Ireland since first reaching the western coast of Great Britain.
Armed conflict between Irish and Enlish and their surrogates continued until 1998.
Well, Strongbow arrived in 1176 under the auspices of Diarmuid McMurrough who was at war with Rory O'Connor, he put out the feelers to Henry II to help settle a internicine conflict. Strongbow's army did just that, McMurrough offering his daughter to Richard de Clare...here is where Anglo/Saxon (not English) control took hold, before that (100 years in fact) England had no such designs on Ireland.
@@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158strongbow was a Norman not anglo saxon
@@Jamacianwoodbine He was, but quickly the Normans adopted that Anglo Saxon mantle within no time (Henry II was not a Norman) as 100 years had elapsed between the Norman Conquest and Strongbow's arrival in Ireland
I have such mixed emotions about this time Siobhan. Considering where we left it feels wrong that we battled against the Native Americans when the same happened to us in one fashion or another. However thanks for your time and input as history should never be shied away from good or bad, history is brought the World this far. Look forward to even more. Bless you for your efforts.
@nickyhenderson3746 thank you, Nicky!
I agree that it was a dark and complicated time, with lots of grey areas.
Thanks for keeping such an open mind and for taking the time to comment here! 🙏🍀
really enjoyed this episode. my father's family from County Donegal, my mother's people from County Clare. Agus, is féidir liom Gaeilge a labhairt.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to tell me what you think! 🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪
Van Diemen's Land was the original Dutch name for Tasmania - Australia initially being known as New Holland by Europeans. Captain Cook did not discover Australia, but explored it more than previous Mariners - the continent partially explored by Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and allegedly the Chinese in some five hundred years before Cook....
@@RailfanDownunder oh I need to research this more!! Thank you. I think you need to do a video on Irish in Australia/ Tasmania 😉 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
@@SiobhanFallon7 I shall stick to trains on my TH-cam channel .... Leave that after those who know more lol
@@RailfanDownunder 🤣🙌
Siobhán, you have made an enthralling video series of US (and emigrant Irish) military history. There are so many emblematic themes to catch up on both from earlier videos, and, I hope from those yet to come. Everybody (at least of my age) knows the story: for the Irish and other Europeans fleeing disaster the United States very largely fulfilled its promise; for the Native Americans disaster was heaped upon them, but it's how you tell the story that captivates.
It could be years before you exhaust the theme of the US 7th Cavalry. And if you ever do, perhaps you might research and share the baleful story of the almost completely forgotten 10th (Irish) Regiment of Tennessee, the only Irish regiment of the Confederate army.
@ciarandoyle4349 Ciaran, I would love to look into that. My interest was piqued as I did a bit of research into Irish units in the Union, but didn't have time to dip into the Irish in the Confederacy at this time.
But it would really help see the entire Irish American experience when I do.
Thanks so much for commenting and for your suggestion!
Just a short comment to let you know that Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford Ireland, not Wexford, as stated in the commentary.
Video was very informative.
@@KenButler-f8l thank you, Ken! 🍀🇮🇪
Great vid, Thanks!
Oh you are so wonderful! Thank you so very much!! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
love this history. It's so interesting thank you.
@raymonddonahue7282 thanks for your kind words, Raymond! 🍀
Always a great presentation and it’s a reminder how sadly racism can be ingrained. Have me thinking on the movie, Gangs of New York.
@robertkramer8133 thanks, Robert!! Yes, it made me think of that movie too!
Very interesting, thank you.)
@@glenroan thank you, Glen!
No wonder the Irish love whiskey😋. Cheers again for this one. My ancestors escaped in 1845
U r by far the most attractive, knowledgeable and gracious history teacher to bless my good fortune. In everyone of ur great and interesting episodes facilitates my good fortune to have been born in the early 1940s ergo wartime. U have given me such great insight 2 the devastation and hardship in the lives those Irish boys and having been in the army circuit Viet Nam era, causes me 2 reflect and realize how resilient, tenacious and brave those horse soldiers were 4 what they endured. I doubt, if it had not been 4 U I would never have fully understood or realized " but 4 the grace of God go I ". I have always been interested in the history of the 7th Calvery and its command constituents, U have given me so much more than I could ever have imagined, thank U, until the next edition. 😊
@stanleypelcak1806 Stanley, you are so wonderful!! Thanks for the compliments 🙏. I feel blessed to have someone like you appreciate my work! I hope you continue to find something of interest in my videos.
You have made my night and I am smiling ear to ear from your generous praise. 🤗
All the very best to you,
Siobhan
Great stuff
@user-vl7qb5zf1q thank you!!
@user-vl7qb5zf1q the next installment is also up...
Personal stories of Irish soldiers!
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Sheridan is a very common Irish name. My mother's father was a Sheridan.
@jimplummer4879 It's a shame Sheridan distanced himself from his Irish background. I think he would be more fondly remembered today if he had embraced it.
@@SiobhanFallon7 yes.
Was he maybe ashamed of the Irish Catholic clergy child abuse?
And the English wonder why the Irish hated them. Probably still do.
@@frankperkin124 🤣 I personally wish the guy who said they ought to eat rotten potatoes and grass is still roasting in h*ll myself... 😉
A great show on Netflix is called "Derry Girls." It tells the story of how violence in Northern Ireland came to an end thru the eyes of teenage girls. It's also very funny.
@@Freedomfred939 oh, I will give it a try! Thank you!
The Irish seem to have quickly overlooked their own faults
Probably?
You know your history well and with the lovely name Siobhan your bound to have Irish blood, God bless you.
@@FinbarrAnderson I do! My father is from Leitrim!! Thank you! 🍀
@@FinbarrAnderson and God bless you too 🙏 🍀
T F Meagher was a Waterford man, who's grand father came from Ballingarry Co. Tipperary, the scene of a famous eviction, that the eviction of "The Widow McCormack"
@frankmurphy8786 wow, thanks for that. I did notice Tipperary had the highest eviction rate in Ireland during the Great Hunger and it made me wonder if that's why so many 7th CAV guys seem to come from there. 🇮🇪🍀
Jeremiah(Darby) Finley (Fennelly) also came from the Ballingarry (Slieveardagh) area where a rebellion took place in 1848. This will be remembered by a walk and music next saturday.
@michaelroche6181 I have heard him also called Finlay, but not Fennelly! Do you have any other "inside" info on him? 😉
I also saw he had served with the 17 Foot under Darby Finley.
Why "Darby" would you know?
I'm almost done with a video that includes his bio so any help, Michael, is much appreciated! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 The Irish name Diarmuid was Anglicised as Darby in the early Nineteenth century and Latinised as Jeremiah on Birth certs. That naming pattern changed in the twentieth century when Diarmuid and Dermort were re adopted . The name Jeremiah phased out in the mid twentieth century and was replaced by Gerard in most families. There are few or no Finlays in this part of Ireland but the name Fennelly which is most common in the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary is pronounced locally as Finley. I am of the opinion he was a Fennelly and according to The Little Big Horn forum Darby Finleys descendants in N Dakota mentioned that his cousin was shot during a rebellion (1848) and was a widow's only son. There was a young Mc Bride killed in the rebellion and also a Widow McBride living in the village of Ballingarry in 1852. I have yet to connect these families or find any descendants in the area as that line may have died out from emigration. He was said to have enlisted in the British army in Kilkenny after shooting a policeman in revenge for his cousin. When he arrived in the Crimea the war was over and he emigrated to the US via Canada. His widow re married another Irishman called Donoghue but the descendants of his first son still live on. Tim Finley and his Kota Hunting Bow company in Oberon North Dakota is a direct descendant and has an unmistakable Irish looking head on him.
@@SiobhanFallon7 He was from Tipperary close to Kilkenny where he joined the British army at the time of the Crimean war. In that area of Tipperary there are lots of Fennellys which is pronounced locally as Finley. I have come across no Finlays which is not a common name in this part of Ireland. Darby was the 19th century Anglicisation of the name Diarmuid which was written on birthcerts as the biblical name Jeremiah. He has a descendant in Oberon North Dakota. i havent managed yet to narrow down which family is related to him and its possible they may all have emigrated a long time ago. If they were still around I suspect they would be aware of their connection with the Battle of Little Big Horn.
My Grand fathers both and Grand Mothers both were the first of our family to come from Castlebar Mayo, Kenmare Kerry and Taum Galway. Kenmare Grand Parents were married in Kerry, Grand Parents, of Mayo and Galway meet in Brooklyn and married. My Father Served in 40th Infantry Division Korean War, My Brother served in Marines of 76 - 80. I served 2nd Armored Division 82 - 85. Our Grand Fathers wanted to make a go of it at working in America. There Son's served in WW II and Korea as their Grand Sons served in Marines and Army and Coast Guard. Irish Catholic family's and Proud of it and to be American Citizens. I was one of the first born in America to finally go back to Ireland the past May 2024 and so proud to See the Republic and how it has advanced to all aspects of education, farming, industry and infrastructure. So many people from all over the world there to visit the Republic. God bless all, who made sacrifices for a Proud Nation today.
Your message is beautiful. God bless you and your entire family of patriots. That is a long lineage of military tradition. So glad you got to Ireland and could see how it flourishes today.
I don't think we can underestimate how great an influence Ireland had on America. In the last of this series I will touch on that a little bit.
I am so proud to be Irish and American, and part of the military family. We have the best of all worlds, you and I! 😉 🇺🇸🇮🇪💕
@@SiobhanFallon7 Thank You.👍
The chart presented at the very beginning is a good tool but it should not be relied upon as biblical as it contains many errors. For example, there were not 15 but actually 29 Canadians with the Seventh Cavalry in June 1876. And three additional at the Little Bighorn fight when one includes the civilian New York Herald correspondent Mark Kellogg & the Jackson brothers who served as scouts. It should also be noted that for personal reasons many recruits lied about their birthplaces upon enlistment in the army. So the exact figures will never be known.
@josephinekush5056 Hello George! Great points, thank you! That first slide with the numbers is from the Little Bighorn Visitor's Center-- it could be quite old 😉
Glad you mentioned how soldiers might not want to reveal their birth places. In Part two I was going to touch on deserters who reenlist with different names-- maybe I should emphasize that more.
Thank you for watching!!
Outstanding!
@@IntheBlood67 thank you so much!! 🍀
Good factual doc. Not a bad Irish accent, either ! ☘️
@@richardlynch-sb1gr thank you, Richard!!! 🤣 I'll keep practicing 😉🍀
Thanks!
Wow!!! Thank you so much, Jade!! 🍀🎉🍀
Brilliantly done video👍,my parents came from kildare,i was born in london,,i did read that the english took any patatos that didnt have rot,and fed the brittish army with them,i can see why akl the irish left,another thingis madden lost his leg with water party,he was the only only one who didnt get a medel of honour,suppose it was pointless him arguing becouse he didnt hav a leg to stand on😉,🇮🇪
🤣🤣🤣 good one, Ken, may I steal your line when I cover Madden's story in an upcoming installment? I'll say it's from you 😉🇮🇪
Madden will be featured soon.
I head home to visit my family for a bit so it might be awhile before I get to put up another video, but please stay tuned!! 🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪
Thanks!
Not much, but hope it helps.
Oh my goodness, Robert!! I am embarrassed by your generosity! Thank you! 🤗 so unnecessary and so very good of you.
Thank you. Really. You just made my week. 🙏
Many things in mind after watching this episode 🙂 Try to find some keywords to it 🤔: 1. Code Nopoleon / Human Rights / Equal Rights 2. Times of Hunger and Poverty in many parts of Europe. 3. The Revolutionary movements there around 1848 4. So many Fleeing People to America in this timeperiode. 5. New Hopes, New Space, Maybe a New Language and Civil Wars or Indian Wars between the Fire Islands and Alaska 😢 aaaaaand 6. The Need of Soldiers for only a few Dollars more in Sergio Leones words 😅 If i‘ll go to America, than only as a swedish born Soloonboss in Deadwood with Wild Bill on my side 👋😂👍
@dieternowatius5062 yes! I hope to look at other countries' histories as well, especially German born soldiers, as they were a close 2nd to Irish in the 7th.
And I actually have a booklet on Swiss soldiers too!
@@SiobhanFallon7 The prussians had deathlists for any revolutionary after 1848. Most coming from Baden or Rhineland Palatinate. A List like that for the Irish inside the 7th would be interesting to watch. Dublin or Cork maybe in Germany would be Karlsruhe, Freiburg or so … ? The Italian or Swiss Stories also had to do with hunger, poverty or revolutions. For many germans it was like coming from one civil war into another. In Union we stand for a Good thing 😉 Freedom, Equality and Healthy potatoes for all 👍 Please Pa ! Gimme some more Krautsalat ! 🤣 Thanks Siobhan, have my Fun in writing those comments from Time to Time 😉
Was the one Texan Luther Hare?
@@jandrewhearne yes!!! 🤣🙌
Strike this off if you like:
There is a Sp0tify p0dcast called "The 1rish Hist0try Podc@st" that goes into great detail about the Irish Potato Famine, which was the impetus for so much Irish emigration. Many Irish, of course, came to the US, many fighting in the US Civil War (both sides) and as Siobhan has illustrated, fought and died with Custer.
Thank you, I'll check that out!!
buffalo has many irish as you may expect, if you know the erie canal. there was a tom fallon in my h.s.
@@Doo_Doo_Patrol I had an Uncle Tom Fallon! But not in Buffalo.
@@SiobhanFallon7 must be a lot of tom fallons', also dolans, garretys, mc hughs, clearys etc. only half my family is irish...although76% dna...pyne, reedy, o'connor, mc carthy..my sister melinda, rip, had a friend siobhan from ireland...not you i guess.
Lots of Sobhans in Ireland! 😉🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 I suppose. I wonder why there are so few Sobhans in America. My sisters were/ are Mary, Katherine, Barbara, Melinda, and Diana, and my Dad's mom was Katherine, and his aunt was Margerite, and, well anyway, no Siobhan's or anything similar. I never knew a Siobhan in life, and I am 65.
I wonder why the Germans came over in such great numbers to the United States at that time. My family came over in the 1890s. I know that some Germans came over because they did not want to serve in the military of the new German empire.
I'll not tresspass further here except to mention The Irish Army's Cavalry School on The Chieftan's channel 07.20.2024: they're still making troopers in Ireland today.
@ciarandoyle4349 good to know, Ciaran! I'll take a look. Thank you.
Where did Henry Ford's family originate from?
Summary. Henry Ford's ancestors had roots in County Cork, Ireland.
@@bobbygray496 Nice! I didn't know that. 🍀
great content Siobhan but as a Irishman and from the same county as GN.Phil his family originate from a place in county Cavan ,called Virginia please drop the Irish accents.
@shaymoose4538 ouch. Thanks for the feedback, Shay. Hard to differentiate a quote from an individual without attempting an accent, however bad it might be. I apologize for hurting your ears.
Siobhan, did you delete your current Custer video? Hope all is ok and you continue with new videos.
@Macbob-j6f no, I didn't delete anything. I'll check my page. Thanks for the heads up!
I am taking a little break, though. It's been so much work, and my numbers are down. I was getting disheartened. I'll be back soon. This is a tough thing to break into, and I know my videos are a rather niche market.
This September, I really threw myself into the videos and the outcome, though so many lovely viewers like you were so kind and supportive, was rather disappointing.
The last three videos have some of my lowest viewership of all.
I don't think I'm going to be a TH-cam sensation... or even be able to buy groceries from the tiny trickle of revenue here 😬😬😬🤣
@@SiobhanFallon7 looks like my reply disappeared. Maybe I didn’t click on send.
Really sorry to hear that your recent videos have lower views and that you are discouraged. You do such a great job at researching, and presenting your videos.
Yes, maybe niche videos whereas so many Custer videos on you tube might help cause
limited traffic. But, I and many others really do appreciate everything you do.
Maybe less videos knowing you do them for the pride of doing them, even though little income. I consider you a friend and a classy lady so I wish you the best, no matter what you decide. Let me know if I can help in any way. Robert
@Macbob-j6f i think you are absolutely right. I need to create them expecting only a few views, rather than hoping to hit the big time! 😉
@@SiobhanFallon7 Hi Siobhan. Hope all is well. Any new videos on the horizon? Thanks
@@Macbob-j6f trying to finish one now!! Sorry I have been so slow!
So difficult to listen to the details of the Irish famine. The suffering was unimaginable
@shane7103 it is. I felt really unsettled and depressed after doing this research, and needed to focus on all the Irish accomplishments that followed in order to feel better.
@@SiobhanFallon7 I've read horrendous things like young girls losing their families on the way over then being forced into a life of prostitution on arrival. People from brothels would wait at the docks for unaccompanied minors. Imagine being a teenage girl, leaving Ireland because of all the death and hunger, losing your family on the boat over, then forced into that! I need to remember how lucky I am. Thank you for creating and uploading this, as hard as the details are, you did very well.
@shane7103 thank you, Shane 🙏yes, I've read similar stories about the girls-- some lived outside a British base in Ireland-- the Wrens I think they were called? The young girls/ teens had nothing with their families dead.
@@shane7103 it is a great reminder to be grateful to be born today. 🙏
My Irish ancestors were Keogh's and they had an s load of siblings from my great great great grandfather, who married a Keogh, and then after she died and 11 kids later he married her cousin, a Keogh and had 10 more. I strongly suspect that survival in the new world and a chance to advance by way of the army had much to do with it. I also think the same of the civil war. I don't think many men really gave a damn about southern slaves. I wouldn't have.
@Doo_Doo_Patrol Irish men fought for both sides and I agree, idealistic or not, they had their own reasons, perhaps just basic survival or taking care of their families.
We can see the larger issues today and pass our easy judgements, but ultimately many of these men needed a job and a paycheck and not everyone was hiring.
Thanks so much for taking the time to join the conversation here!
Hi from Leitrim. 😅. I'm guessing that you Father was probably from Drumkeerin?
Hello hello!!! Fluhanagh, Dromahair! I think I am spelling Fluhanagh wrong, but it's the tiny little stretch just outside the town of Dromahair.
Lovely Leitrim!!!
Where are you from, Adrian?
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@SiobhanFallon7 From Fenagh. Have an uncle in Drumkeerin, lot of Fallons there, next parish to Drumahair. I'm a history buff, one of your videos came up in my feed. Imagine my surprise when you mentioned Leitrim. Was wondering during the video who the casualty from little big horn was from Leitrim? According to Myles Dungan's book "Distant Drums" 32 Irish born men died at Little Big horn.
@adrianred236 I'm traveling now and don't have my books with me but will look as soon as I get back! 🍀🇮🇪🍀 so glad you are watching.
Please let me know if you like any other videos! 🙏
Wait!!
A friend just messaged me that Joseph H. Green was born in Leitrim, IRE, on Aug 9, 1849. He was a member of Captain Weir's D Company so part of the hilltop fight. He survived the fight.
🎉🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 Thanks Siobhan. Where did they source the info on Joseph Green. I'd like to find out as much as I can about him. Thanks.
While Irish Catholics suffered from considerable hostility over here, the barriers to advancement want nothing like they were back in Ireland. Hence they / we kept coming in droves. Most of the hostility can be traced to the Protestant evangelical revival of the early 1800s.
@eugenesullivan2863 thanks Eugene. Good information. I will look into that 🙏🍀🇮🇪
If you like history of Ireland, Siobhán, try reading Labour in Irish History, a book by James Connolly also The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland, by Michael Davitt (if you have'nt already 🧐
@@richardlynch-sb1gr ooohh, I will add them to my list! Thank you!
@@SiobhanFallon7 also 'Ireland Her Own....' by T. A. Jackson. Regards and Fan Slán ( stay safe ),, 🕊️☘️🌍
Wow ! Seven from little Rhode Island.
@@jimplummer4879 🤣 I went to college in that little state!
@@SiobhanFallon7, awesome. We are small but with a lot to offer.
@jimplummer4879 I'm trying to convince my teen to think of Providence College herself. Go Friars! 😉
@@SiobhanFallon7 great school
Check out Meaghers fellow Young Irelander John Mitchell his views on slavery and his reception return to Ireland Won two Elections Tipperary
@@johnpurcell7525 I will take a look, thanks, John.
Ireland Belongs To The Irish 🇮🇪✊✊
@@seano3811 🍀🇮🇪🍀
We Irish are proud people of our ancestors whom had given so much to the world, now our country is under attack by foreigners who don’t care for our people or homeland.
@laurencefarrell2775 I've seen a little of this in the news but I need to pay closer attention... 🇮🇪🙏🇮🇪
So embarrassing to know that my fellow Irish men fought the Sioux and the Chyenne when they themselves knew what it was like to live in a country that was brutalised and colonised by murdering oppressors.
The unfortunate truth, it was a job to escape poverty for many. The Irish signed up to fight in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, Crimea, The Boer Wars (both sides), WW1. The Union Army for the Mexican -American War (Both sides), The Indian Wars, The Civil War (Both sides)
We can't judge them by the hindsight it has taken us nearly 150 years to arrive at. They were taking care of their families and, as you point out, Kevin, food and sustenance and survival were probably as far ahead as almost all human beings could contemplate at that time.
Hi there, Charlie. Thanks for commenting.
Your comment seems to be judging your fellow Irishmen by standards and hindsight it has taken nearly 150 years for modern society to decide upon. They would have been reading the newspapers that told them about Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacks on homestead and forts, and seeing evidence of their own friends or soldiers having been scalped and mutilated and killed. Please Google Sergeant Wyllyam's body to see the sort of fear they would have felt toward their enemy.
We can draw these connections and demand empathy as we know how unfairly it all turned out, but I am sure most of the Irish soldiers were just hoping to survive. The Sioux were a fearsome and lethal enemy on the battlefield. And your Irish countrymen were soldiers. That was their focus.
However, if you want to read about those who advocated for the tribes, take a look at George Crook, Alfred Sully, Frederick Benteen, George Custer, and countless other military officers who gained respect for their foes and could see how the Indian Bureau was failing to live up to their promises, and spoke out in defense of the tribes.
It's a dark and messy time for everyone. We make sense of it from the safety of today. I don't think these young Irishmen had the same luxury.
I agree, Barry. How can we fault them for survival? No one was teaching them how to view history through the lense of colonialism at the time. They were doing their best for their families. We can't judge them by today's standards, expectations, and very new worldview.
Why did Indian scouts assist the army in subduing other tribes?. They were fond of a battle with their enemies.
The weight thing with the calvary was because The united.
States did not use line or heavy cav. Only light cav. Was used .with light cavalry everything you will use goes on the horse smaller quick horses not allot of weight left over for a rider after weapons and ammunition unlike the larger horses used in heavy and line cavalry
@jamesdixon35 yes indeed! Poor horses! 🐎
Siobhan - have loved these episodes.
But please remember the normal / poor English, Scottish and Welsh were not having a grand time under lords and masters
Kids working in lethal factories and living in slums.
Why do you think Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist and a Christmas Carol?
Believe me most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our gobs.
I appreciate the Irish did get it the worst
Looking forward to next episodes and other history from you ❤
Absolutely. Very few of any race or creed had a silver spoon or anything else shiny at this time. As someone so eloquently said in the comments here on this video, it wasn't the English people who were the problem, but the British government. And I think that distinction holds true of many conflicts.
Day to day, regular people want to just survive and protect their families.
Thanks so much for your insights and kind words!! 🙏💕
@@SiobhanFallon7 look up that song by the Dubliners - Lincolns Army =- I love that song
I also love the song that should be England's National Anthem - Jerusalem, but us being military family - I vow to thee my country - it's my favourite
. I'm an Englishman - born in London but English, Welsh, Scottish and Scottish parents and grandparents and Irish -a right mix - very proud of it. I'm a true Brit
Love your videos lass total respect - I did 41 years in the military and as a police officer - best years ever.
Carry on on Lass ❤️ love what you do and thanks for replying total respect to you and yours x
@richardprescott6322 thanks, Richard, you too! I will listen to Lincolns Army and Jerusalem too.
Might try to do a video about the Brits in the 7th cav, quite a few, especially if we combine Canadians too (WW Cooke! Who was nicknamed the "Queen's Own" 💕)
Always enjoy hearing from you.
All best, my friend!
Siobhan
IRELAND BELONGS TO THE IRISH. 🇮🇪✊
@@Occident. they have fought a long, hard fight for it. 🍀
@Occident, Not since a long time ago...and maybe never. Not now, nor does any country under the "globalist regime."
And now it's been given away out government have sold Ireland
@@SiobhanFallon7 tanx Siobhan we certainly did
But sadly my very vocal fellow countrymen use this
Slogan and fact to deny the right of others to
Seek refuge and obtain citizenship probably because
Of their complexion or religion
I hate nativism no matter what country or era and Irish people should
Know better
But I wanna commend you on your video I've never seen or heard you before
I know yer Irish origin probably pointed your interest but you educated my
So tanx girlie 🤔👏😉🇮🇪💚👍
Plus I'm Soo impressed with your pronunciation Im in awe of ur effort
Well done young wan 👍
As me nephew would say
Keep banging gangstarr 😉🇮🇪💚👍
@noelmcinerney8411 thank you, Noel!! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
Being Scott Irish, i appreciate the history lesson.
Thank you, Gary! 🍀 I'm working on the next installment now!!
Hey there, Gary!
The latest in my Irish series is up! 🍀
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OMG!!!! I'm a descendant of John Briody!!!!
@@patrickmcnamara2869 No way!!!! 🇮🇪
Just remember that the native Americans where the irish to the English, so do not celebrate any irish that took part to opress the native Indian people.
@darrencunningham1746 you are judging these men by the standards and the hindsight it has taken nearly 150 years for modern society to arrive at.
They would have been reading the newspapers that told them about Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne attacks on homestead and forts, and seeing evidence of their own friends or soldiers having been scalped and mutilated and killed. Please Google Sergeant Wyllyam's body to see the sort of fear they would have felt toward their enemy.
We can draw these connections and demand empathy as we know how unfairly it all turned out, but I am sure most of the US soldiers were just hoping to survive. The Sioux were a fearsome and lethal enemy on the battlefield. And these Irish men were soldiers. That was their focus: soldiering and living another day.
However, if you want to read about those who advocated for the tribes, take a look at George Crook, Alfred Sully, Frederick Benteen, George Custer, and countless other military officers who gained respect for their foes and could see how the Indian Bureau was failing to live up to their promises, and spoke out in defense of the tribes.
It's a dark and messy time for everyone. You can make sense of it from the safety of today but these men did not have the same luxury.
You might want to take a look at my Washita series, Darren, for eyewitness accounts of these conflicts, from both sides, from the mid 1800s rather than condemning your countrymen through a modern lense.
@SiobhanFallon7 one reason the irish joined the army at the time, money not out of any loyalty. And I'm sure what the native Americans done in war, was to put the fear into the enemy. Tactics that are used throughout the world today. Just look at what Israel is doing in gaza, backed up by a hypocritical USA government. But getting back to the irish, most of them were illiterate, so doubt there were many reading the papers. They were probably lied to or made join the army of the time. Like alot of today's young men and women. Feed bs by governments to fight illegal wars proclaiming to be in the name of freedom. So to finish as I started the irish mostly done things for money, and because at the time they where really good at taking orders, good subjects and easily manipulated.
I think we need to settle on the debate (esp in the minds of Americans of Irish ancestry) that most English were not responsible for the conditions in Ireland. I am from Dublin, most of the people see a certain type of English person responsible for An Gorta Mor and do not level that at say people from Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow. 2 of Ireland's greatest political revolutionaries were not born in Ireland, James Connolly and my hero James Larkin.
Most English were equally treated by the ruling class with utter contempt, and nothing has really changed. It does not help matters if most Americans still think all "English" were responsible for Ireland's woes, we indeed had our own Irish landlords under the Land Act to put us off our land, albeit Irish protestants.
History is never one flavour to fit the prevailing narrative, sadly the Irish who rocked up to America didn't see the native Americans as what the ruling English saw them (Sheridan/Sherman) so it goes...
Excellent comment.
Who thinks this, Marcus? I can't imagine anyone who knows anything about history thinks "all" people, English or Irish or anyone else on pur far flung world, behaved or acted or thought in any one way. There are times generalizations are necessary when summarizing, but I know human beings are more nuanced and messy than that, and I try to express as much in all my work.
I appreciate your insights and hope to hear from you again!
Please don't forget America has her own complicated history and paternal relationship with England/ Great Britain too.
Well let's see, British,creek indians, Seminole Indians, Spanish,French,YANKEES, plains Indians, Spanish again, Germans, Germans again , Japanese, Koreans (Chinese), Vietnamese, Iraqis, poshtun Taliban and still ready. My family was always proud to serve but never have we forgotten who we are and our homes on the green isle.
@joedyer5486 that's lovely Joe.
They fought because they were drafted.the Irish who fought for the confederacy were volunteers.
That's a big blanket that you're casting.
They weren't all drafted. 🤷🏼♀️
I would like to look into the Irish who fought for the Confederates sometime. They had eloquent reasons too, and felt they were fighting for freedom.
Mostly I'm amazed at how many embraced their fight on behalf of their new home, be it north or south.
I am from a unionist background the laws against the Roman Catholics was also against the Protestant Presbyterians, channels like yours never mention the Protestant people who died in the famine, most of the British Army Regiments in Ireland in the 1800s were Irish Regiments of the British Army,
@harry9392 Hi there, Harry. I always appreciate constructive criticism! No need to be combative and say "channels like yours never mention the Protestant people" as if I am a part of some conspiracy🤦🏼♀️ 🤣 ! However, of course the great Wolfe Tone was a Protestant, and I mentioned the United Irishmen and the 1798 rebellion in my first Keogh video. Please take a look at that.
Thanks for watching!
@@harry9392 I will indeed be covering Irish men who fought in the British Army in the next installment, most notably Lt Henry Nowlan, Sergeant Darby Finley, and Sergeant Thomas Harrison.
I wish then that Unionists and Loyalists would stop singing songs about the famine then considering Protestants died in the famine!
His grandfather wasn't living there either. I live in Galway. Over 30% of the British army at the time were Irish..
@hector7187 I'm sure you know quite a bit about Ireland. But how exactly do you know every Irishman's heart? Sure you live in Galway now, and I am sure you have many wise insights, but only his great grandfather knows his family's immigrant experience in America. 🤷🏼♀️
The reason Remington forced his men to burn all of the food stock and bison robes is because he hated the men he was in charge of. Him and Harney were sadistic to any spainish goose they captured during the Mexican war
I'll look this up. Thanks for the insight!
Just out surgery have to watch later.
I'll say a prayer for you! Rest and feel better soon! 🙏🍀
How many of the 7th Cavalry were Irish Protestants?
@brianferris8668 Enlistment paperwork didn't ask for religion, at least not any I have seen 🤷🏼♀️ It's a good question. If you find out please let me know.
@zingwilder9989 thanks Kevin, I think you are right
The irish etc like other immigrat groups and they adapted and survived like immigrants beford and after. A small % went to crime. A larger % went into public service cops and firemen for example. They did manual labor jobs. The army was a way to get a roof and food as well as fast frack to bdtter assimilation. The newest wave of immigrants went through the same process in general. In some ways it continues.
Absolutely
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@bobbygray496 great video, thank you, Bobby! 🍀🇮🇪🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 My mother's maiden name is Daly...her family is from Cork! Here are some names you should know....Dan Daly, Michael J Daly, and of course Audie Murphy!
@@bobbygray496 You bet!!! 🇺🇸🇮🇪
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@@sunnyjacksmack why hello there, Sunny Jack!!
@@SiobhanFallon7 Nice work kid. Always worth to time listening to you relate these wonderful insights.
@sunnyjacksmack thank you so much. This video wasn't doing well when I first posted it and I was bummed. But it had a little uptick last night and now it is doing better, thanks to good folks like you 🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 I believe with the insanity that we are currently living through that current event sites have over shadowed the more historical sites like yous. Never let the moment let you down things are subject to change in the blink of an eye; If it doesn't I will give you your money back. LOL
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