Right, 150 little "kingdoms" where anyone with power took what they wanted, stole, looted and hanged anyone who disagreed. When the English brought the rule of law, things were much better. Think of rogue US senate or Roman senate, where everyone is corrupt and stealing everything.
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@@globetrekker1670 Having Queen Elizabeth I as a brunette and having the Brits flying the Union Jack, a flag that wasn't adopted in it's earliest form for at least another century, are two obvious ones.
I'm Irish and you have perhaps exaggerated the period visuals, just a tad. Thankyou for trying though. It's a deep and painful subject for us , and it's still a trigger point for conflict. Think Spanish/ Scandinavian/ Tudor fashion.
Lots of the landscape does not look like Ireland and you are using the flag of the United Kingdom circa 1801 to 1921. The kingdom of Great Britain (with the English flag superimposed on the Scottish flag) would not be around for a century after the flight of the earls. Congratulations for doing the video though ☘️
It's interesting how the event uses Earl, which was a foreign title granted by a foreign ruler, instead of Taoiseach (chieftain.) It emphasises the fact that the last great chieftains of ancient bloodlines had abandoned their most ancient privileges and responsibilities in favour of a meaningless, worthless title that resulted in them emigrating with (metaphysically) nothing. They set sail with their own people on the shore cursing their names for their unspeakable betrayal. If I remember correctly, those families were accepted into the Spanish nobility and some of their descendants helped to free South America from imperial control. May my people witness another Flight of the Earls very very soon.
I was reading your comment, and for a moment thought maybe it was something I previously wrote and forgot about, as I thought the same thing. The Earls who fled do not represent the spirit of true Irish Chieftains, even Shane O'Neill is a better example of our at least once existent warrior spirit. The Earls ran showing it will take a Gaelic Revival and selection of new elites going forward, and those in FGFF are not leaders but at best minions of more powerful people in the EU, WEF and America.
It wasn't called Flight of the Earls until 1868, and that term was a translation of the diaries of Tadgh Ó Cianáin where he talks about Turas na dTaoiseach. The old Gaelic social order still existed until the Battle of Aughrim and the end of the Williamite War in 1691.
@@dbrennan6041 How you choose to interpret the word earl is your business and not something I particularly care about. I do want to be clear that prior to their departure they had ruled as traditional Gaelic chieftains, and the idea they had abandoned Gaelic culture is quite ridiculous when they had literally been fighting a rebellion four years prior. Now the Flight itself was poor decision-making and had disastrous consequences. The desire to see 'another flight of the earls' in whatever way you choose to interpret that is nothing short of lunacy.
@@Corc-Duibhne Your interpretation of clarity is irrelevant. They did in fact abandon their people and culture when they fled. To re-interpret that is ridiculous. Your interpretation of my commentary in no way negates or counters anything I've posted. If you think otherwise, well, I can just feel the ignorance seeping through the screen. If you actually want the current earls to remain in power, who is the lunatic? (That's a rhetorical question, in case you don't realise what I've actually typed.)
The Mustering point for the flight of the Earls was in Mid Ulster Stewartstown Lough. Near to Tullyhogue Fort ( A Celt high fort). This whole area was cleared to the West of Ireland for the lucky ones! Discovered later the Muster point was 50 yards from my front door. Near to ruin of an old castle at the Lough. Dare say it was sacked the by the English. A costume re-enactment did occur from the Lough dozens walked from Stewartstown to Lough Swilly 100 miles away North. No markers for the Spot, just a Stone memorial in the Village.
Ireland was made up of about 150 minor kingdoms. The concept of Ireland as one nation and one people wasn’t really understood, as it was a clan or family based society.
A reply to a comment. Thanks for sharing your views and your comment. Yes the alliances between the various Irish Nations were indeed complex and changed over time, but at no period was there a sovereign Irish government ruling the Island of Ireland. All the ducking and weaving in the world won’t change that fact. The English ruled Ireland by conquest and set out to ethnically cleanse the Irish nations into one nation loyal to them. Your comments on the English Pale in Leinster are a gross understatement of the role of the English invaders in this region. It is called a Pale because of the ditch and bank defence structures used to keep the Irish out. The “Statutes of Kilkenny”, passed by a Dublin administration, not London, demonstrate the extreme measures taken to exclude anything Irish from contaminating the English settlers of the English Pale, and its capital Dublin. The English Pale continues in its expansionist ambitions, targeting the last surviving Irish nation, Ulster. It is a betrayal of our Irish ancestors to use English propaganda to rewrite our history, so the current trend to distort historical facts to fit a political agenda, is a gross betrayal of Ireland. Thanks again for your comments.
They should never have gone they left behind their people and should have died for them if that what it took my great grandmother left north in 1920 the last her people pushed her of land. But made sure her kin don’t forget what their s .
if they had been called The Chieftains, the Brittish would have really been confused as they did not understand Gaeilge. They probably thought the Irish and even their own people were not articulating properly and so ignored their voices.
Strange, theres ONeils in Portugal from many centuries... like Alexandre O'Neill, the poet. We know he has Irish origins.His ancestor João O'Neill (Irish: Seán Ó Néill) had emigrated from Ireland in 1740. He lived in Porto and Minho.
That’s fascinating! The O’Neills have a long history of diaspora, and it’s amazing how their legacy spread to places like Portugal. Thanks for sharing this connection!
@@globetrekker1670 Looking the relation of Seán and João, it made me realize how the sound of the end of the word is similar. No other roman languages countries can say it well, the ão.
So sad that was hardly short of genocide the British erased their language culture and stole their land those earls were cowards to they should have fought back again
It's heartbreaking to see how much was lost, but the Earls were in a difficult position. After years of brutal fighting, they faced overwhelming forces and constant pressure. Leaving may have been the only way they saw to protect their people from more bloodshed. It was a complex, tragic time.
@Bowl_of_roses well the English then everyone knows they created trouble wherever they went and now complain that's those lands religions and beliefs and native people followed then home
They left in the hope of returning with Spanish army to help them take back the country they loved both O'Neill and O'Donnell never stopped pleading with king Phillip to come back and help them. They should have never acted on the Spanish commanders request to attack when they did they could have beaten the English at kinsale had they stuck to their plan. The scots planters were lowlanders not Highlanders or Gaels as the highlanders referred to themselves
Cowards? For living to fight another day? They sacrificed everything for Ireland their entire lives until the bitter end. It's because of these men and their likes, that Ireland never stopped fighting for freedom.
The flight of the Earls was the final defeat of an independant Ulster that had existed for centuries after the defeat of the Southern Irish by the English in the English Pale. Ulster had never been part of any sovereign Irish government, had always been independent, until conquered by the British. After the flight of the Earls. Dublin in the English Pale Kingdom of Leinster supervised the Ulster plantation ethnic cleansing of the Northern Irish, initially with English settlers which failed, eventually resorting to importing relatives of the Northern Irish, the Scots. Freedom for Ulster would be its own government free of English, Dublin and London proxies. Check the actual Irish history, not the Leinster English Pale version, invented to eradicate the Irish Nations once and for all.
Thank you for sharing such detailed insights! Actually, the history of Ulster and its relationship with the rest of Ireland is more complex. Ulster was indeed independent at times, but it also had deep connections with other Gaelic kingdoms and often allied with them against external threats. While the English Pale marked a specific zone of English influence around Dublin, Gaelic Ulster had its own alliances and even recognized some high kingship traditions shared across Ireland. The O'Neill dynasty of Ulster often supported the concept of an Irish High King, aiming to unite Gaelic clans across Ireland to resist foreign rule.
@@globetrekker1670 Thanks for sharing your views and your comment. Yes the alliances between the various Irish Nations were indeed complex and changed over time, but at no period was there a sovereign Irish government ruling the Island of Ireland. All the ducking and weaving in the world won’t change that fact. The English ruled Ireland by conquest and set out to ethnically cleanse the Irish nations into one nation loyal to them. Your comments on the English Pale in Leinster are a gross understatement of the role of the English invaders in this region. It is called a Pale because of the ditch and bank defence structures used to keep the Irish out. The “Statutes of Kilkenny”, passed by a Dublin administration, not London, demonstrate the extreme measures taken to exclude anything Irish from contaminating the English settlers of the English Pale, and its capital Dublin. The English Pale continues in its expansionist ambitions, targeting the last surviving Irish nation, Ulster. It is a betrayal of our Irish ancestors to use English propaganda to rewrite our history, so the current trend to distort historical facts to fit a political agenda, is a gross betrayal of Ireland. Thanks again for your comments.
The kingdom of Dalriada Consisted of North Antrim, The Western isles and the west of Scotland. One people. The Ulster Scots are not all planters. The ignorance and lack of historical knowledge is what has fed the divide. The Sorley Boy McDonnell was an amazing man and Ulster Scot here in Dalriada.
They left their people behind to the mercy of their new masters and hastened the demise of what was left if gaelic ireland no thing to be cekebrated or sung about about this shameful episode in our sad history these earls pride was more important to them than their country or people.
The 9 years war bankrupted Elizabeth and but for a blunder at Kinsale she would have lost. All the fighting was done on Irish soil, England could always be resupplied from its untouched Island. No mean feat for the Irish to fight them continously for over 400 years and inflict many defeats on them. Many English lordships also fought the Monarchy, Burkes, Kildare Fitzgeralds and Desmond Fitzgeralds were old English and all fought campaigns against the English. It's the nature of war in Ireland, but the Monarchy could never get the population to accept it even still.
Look at the middle ages in Europe, everyone fighting everyone, and tell me why Ireland is singled out as being different. Divisions of loyalty within the English nobility is one reason they fought their battles in Ireland.
Interesting thought! While the O'Neills didn’t return to reclaim their lands, similar events happened elsewhere-like the descendants of royal families in Europe occasionally pressing claims. In Ireland, however, the plantations and legal reforms made such claims almost impossible.
Make Ireland Gael again.
Right, 150 little "kingdoms" where anyone with power took what they wanted, stole, looted and hanged anyone who disagreed.
When the English brought the rule of law, things were much better.
Think of rogue US senate or Roman senate, where everyone is corrupt and stealing everything.
😂😂😂😂... You mentalist.
@@Occident. Deportation, genocide, ethnic cleansing? How would you like to do it?
Agree
Unfortunately the EU have different ideas. Islam is pouring in
Thank God still irish gaelic speaking in Ireland so still alive and kicking
Absolutely! It’s great to see Irish Gaelic thriving and being preserved as a vital part of Ireland’s heritage.
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@@globetrekker1670 Having Queen Elizabeth I as a brunette and having the Brits flying the Union Jack, a flag that wasn't adopted in it's earliest form for at least another century, are two obvious ones.
Many of the costumes look nineteenth century in style, whilst the Earls dress like Russian boyars.
I'm Irish and you have perhaps exaggerated the period visuals, just a tad. Thankyou for trying though. It's a deep and painful subject for us , and it's still a trigger point for conflict. Think Spanish/ Scandinavian/ Tudor fashion.
Lots of the landscape does not look like Ireland and you are using the flag of the United Kingdom circa 1801 to 1921. The kingdom of Great Britain (with the English flag superimposed on the Scottish flag) would not be around for a century after the flight of the earls. Congratulations for doing the video though ☘️
Same happened in Scotland 200 years later; part of me comes from a displaced Forbes.
Later?? Much earlier as well. The English crown has been worn by lots of total and complete bastards.
It's interesting how the event uses Earl, which was a foreign title granted by a foreign ruler, instead of Taoiseach (chieftain.)
It emphasises the fact that the last great chieftains of ancient bloodlines had abandoned their most ancient privileges and responsibilities in favour of a meaningless, worthless title that resulted in them emigrating with (metaphysically) nothing.
They set sail with their own people on the shore cursing their names for their unspeakable betrayal.
If I remember correctly, those families were accepted into the Spanish nobility and some of their descendants helped to free South America from imperial control.
May my people witness another Flight of the Earls very very soon.
I was reading your comment, and for a moment thought maybe it was something I previously wrote and forgot about, as I thought the same thing. The Earls who fled do not represent the spirit of true Irish Chieftains, even Shane O'Neill is a better example of our at least once existent warrior spirit. The Earls ran showing it will take a Gaelic Revival and selection of new elites going forward, and those in FGFF are not leaders but at best minions of more powerful people in the EU, WEF and America.
It wasn't called Flight of the Earls until 1868, and that term was a translation of the diaries of Tadgh Ó Cianáin where he talks about Turas na dTaoiseach.
The old Gaelic social order still existed until the Battle of Aughrim and the end of the Williamite War in 1691.
@@Corc-Duibhne Yet the English name for the event uses Earl instead, which I interpret as a deserved insult to them.
@@dbrennan6041 How you choose to interpret the word earl is your business and not something I particularly care about.
I do want to be clear that prior to their departure they had ruled as traditional Gaelic chieftains, and the idea they had abandoned Gaelic culture is quite ridiculous when they had literally been fighting a rebellion four years prior.
Now the Flight itself was poor decision-making and had disastrous consequences. The desire to see 'another flight of the earls' in whatever way you choose to interpret that is nothing short of lunacy.
@@Corc-Duibhne Your interpretation of clarity is irrelevant. They did in fact abandon their people and culture when they fled. To re-interpret that is ridiculous. Your interpretation of my commentary in no way negates or counters anything I've posted. If you think otherwise, well, I can just feel the ignorance seeping through the screen.
If you actually want the current earls to remain in power, who is the lunatic? (That's a rhetorical question, in case you don't realise what I've actually typed.)
The Mustering point for the flight of the Earls was in Mid Ulster Stewartstown Lough. Near to Tullyhogue Fort ( A Celt high fort). This whole area was cleared to the West of Ireland for the lucky ones! Discovered later the Muster point was 50 yards from my front door. Near to ruin of an old castle at the Lough. Dare say it was sacked the by the English.
A costume re-enactment did occur from the Lough dozens walked from Stewartstown to Lough Swilly 100 miles away North. No markers for the Spot, just a Stone memorial in the Village.
Wow, that's fascinating! It's amazing how history connects to personal experiences like yours. Thanks for sharing this insight!
I am from Scots/Irish in descent and only wish that the Irish settle the differences and make Ireland one nation once again.
To be the nation once again thata stood against him
Tiocfaidh ár lá!!
Ireland is being planted again but this time by the judeo empire
There was/is no difference Robert, the trouble was between the natives and the settlers.The land was taken from the natives and given to the settlers.
It was only one nation under English rule, but it can be one under Irish rule in future.
Good Presentation,
Glad you liked it!
Elizabeth I was known to be a redhead! Not as depicted.
Good catch! You're absolutely right-Elizabeth I was indeed famously a redhead. Thanks for pointing that out!
Not the right flag for the period. Also King James 1 was King James VI of Scotland.
You more interested in her hair, that what happened to the Irish people 😏
Ireland was made up of about 150 minor kingdoms. The concept of Ireland as one nation and one people wasn’t really understood, as it was a clan or family based society.
Appreciate hearing your viewpoint.
Nonsense
No it wasn't it was made up of two kingdoms. Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers.
@@desmondstewart3552 have a lol lad
No it wasn't it was a different system. It was united under the Brehon laws
A reply to a comment. Thanks for sharing your views and your comment.
Yes the alliances between the various Irish Nations were indeed complex and changed over time, but at no period was there a sovereign Irish government ruling the Island of Ireland. All the ducking and weaving in the world won’t change that fact. The English ruled Ireland by conquest and set out to ethnically cleanse the Irish nations into one nation loyal to them.
Your comments on the English Pale in Leinster are a gross understatement of the role of the English invaders in this region. It is called a Pale because of the ditch and bank defence structures used to keep the Irish out. The “Statutes of Kilkenny”, passed by a Dublin administration, not London, demonstrate the extreme measures taken to exclude anything Irish from contaminating the English settlers of the English Pale, and its capital Dublin. The English Pale continues in its expansionist ambitions, targeting the last surviving Irish nation, Ulster.
It is a betrayal of our Irish ancestors to use English propaganda to rewrite our history, so the current trend to distort historical facts to fit a political agenda, is a gross betrayal of Ireland.
Thanks again for your comments.
The are called Earls but are Prince's in their own Country before the Crown changed their titles.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
They should never have gone they left behind their people and should have died for them if that what it took my great grandmother left north in 1920 the last her people pushed her of land. But made sure her kin don’t forget what their s .
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and personal story.
if they had been called The Chieftains, the Brittish would have really been confused as they did not understand Gaeilge. They probably thought the Irish and even their own people were not articulating properly and so ignored their voices.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Couple of people on here more concerned about hair colour than what would be called ethnic cleansing and/or genocide today.
Muslims are the New Brits but they religion is far more devastating
Your thoughts are much appreciated-thanks!
Strange, theres ONeils in Portugal from many centuries... like Alexandre O'Neill, the poet. We know he has Irish origins.His ancestor João O'Neill (Irish: Seán Ó Néill) had emigrated from Ireland in 1740. He lived in Porto and Minho.
That’s fascinating! The O’Neills have a long history of diaspora, and it’s amazing how their legacy spread to places like Portugal. Thanks for sharing this connection!
@@globetrekker1670 Looking the relation of Seán and João, it made me realize how the sound of the end of the word is similar. No other roman languages countries can say it well, the ão.
@@FrankWeil-ib4fwI’m no expert on either language but I’m guessing they’re related to John in English?
always thought that they abandoned the ordinary Irish and left them at the mercy of the English
Appreciate you sharing your insights!
The Plantation of Ulster, the greatest la d grab in European history.
Thanks for your feedback.
What about the Russian land grabs forming the USSR?
So sad that was hardly short of genocide the British erased their language culture and stole their land those earls were cowards to they should have fought back again
It's heartbreaking to see how much was lost, but the Earls were in a difficult position. After years of brutal fighting, they faced overwhelming forces and constant pressure. Leaving may have been the only way they saw to protect their people from more bloodshed. It was a complex, tragic time.
Nobody was British until 1707 with the Act of Union binding England and Scotland.
@Bowl_of_roses well the English then everyone knows they created trouble wherever they went and now complain that's those lands religions and beliefs and native people followed then home
They left in the hope of returning with Spanish army to help them take back the country they loved both O'Neill and O'Donnell never stopped pleading with king Phillip to come back and help them.
They should have never acted on the Spanish commanders request to attack when they did they could have beaten the English at kinsale had they stuck to their plan.
The scots planters were lowlanders not Highlanders or Gaels as the highlanders referred to themselves
Cowards? For living to fight another day? They sacrificed everything for Ireland their entire lives until the bitter end. It's because of these men and their likes, that Ireland never stopped fighting for freedom.
Is this on netflix
Not currently. Thanks for asking!
Yes starring Denzel Washington
The flight of the Earls was the final defeat of an independant Ulster that had existed for centuries after the defeat of the Southern Irish by the English in the English Pale. Ulster had never been part of any sovereign Irish government, had always been independent, until conquered by the British. After the flight of the Earls. Dublin in the English Pale Kingdom of Leinster supervised the Ulster plantation ethnic cleansing of the Northern Irish, initially with English settlers which failed, eventually resorting to importing relatives of the Northern Irish, the Scots. Freedom for Ulster would be its own government free of English, Dublin and London proxies. Check the actual Irish history, not the Leinster English Pale version, invented to eradicate the Irish Nations once and for all.
Thank you for sharing such detailed insights! Actually, the history of Ulster and its relationship with the rest of Ireland is more complex. Ulster was indeed independent at times, but it also had deep connections with other Gaelic kingdoms and often allied with them against external threats. While the English Pale marked a specific zone of English influence around Dublin, Gaelic Ulster had its own alliances and even recognized some high kingship traditions shared across Ireland. The O'Neill dynasty of Ulster often supported the concept of an Irish High King, aiming to unite Gaelic clans across Ireland to resist foreign rule.
@@globetrekker1670
Thanks for sharing your views and your comment.
Yes the alliances between the various Irish Nations were indeed complex and changed over time, but at no period was there a sovereign Irish government ruling the Island of Ireland. All the ducking and weaving in the world won’t change that fact. The English ruled Ireland by conquest and set out to ethnically cleanse the Irish nations into one nation loyal to them.
Your comments on the English Pale in Leinster are a gross understatement of the role of the English invaders in this region. It is called a Pale because of the ditch and bank defence structures used to keep the Irish out. The “Statutes of Kilkenny”, passed by a Dublin administration, not London, demonstrate the extreme measures taken to exclude anything Irish from contaminating the English settlers of the English Pale, and its capital Dublin. The English Pale continues in its expansionist ambitions, targeting the last surviving Irish nation, Ulster.
It is a betrayal of our Irish ancestors to use English propaganda to rewrite our history, so the current trend to distort historical facts to fit a political agenda, is a gross betrayal of Ireland.
Thanks again for your comments.
The kingdom of Dalriada
Consisted of North Antrim, The Western isles and the west of Scotland. One people.
The Ulster Scots are not all planters.
The ignorance and lack of historical knowledge is what has fed the divide.
The Sorley Boy McDonnell was an amazing man and Ulster Scot here in Dalriada.
Appreciate your input.
The pre-Elizabethan ones weren't, Hugh O'Donnell's mother was from the Dunnyveg McDonnells in Scotland.
They left their people behind to the mercy of their new masters and hastened the demise of what was left if gaelic ireland no thing to be cekebrated or sung about about this shameful episode in our sad history these earls pride was more important to them than their country or people.
Understandable perspective-many do feel the Earls' departure was a painful and tragic chapter. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Tripe 😂
Ré fhuilteach i stair na hÉireann
Go deimhin, am corraitheach agus brónach i stair na hÉireann é gan dabht. Buíochas as do thuairim!
Irish Never could unite against Invaders Preferred to fight each other in clan battles Against organised English result inevitable
The 9 years war bankrupted Elizabeth and but for a blunder at Kinsale she would have lost.
All the fighting was done on Irish soil, England could always be resupplied from its untouched Island. No mean feat for the Irish to fight them continously for over 400 years and inflict many defeats on them.
Many English lordships also fought the Monarchy, Burkes, Kildare Fitzgeralds and Desmond Fitzgeralds were old English and all fought campaigns against the English.
It's the nature of war in Ireland, but the Monarchy could never get the population to accept it even still.
True, but England itself was the result of unification from conquest.
Look at the middle ages in Europe, everyone fighting everyone, and tell me why Ireland is singled out as being different.
Divisions of loyalty within the English nobility is one reason they fought their battles in Ireland.
Thanks for adding to the discussion!
Nonsense
Imagine if the O'Neills etc came back to claim their lands. Did this happen anywhere??????????????????
Interesting thought! While the O'Neills didn’t return to reclaim their lands, similar events happened elsewhere-like the descendants of royal families in Europe occasionally pressing claims. In Ireland, however, the plantations and legal reforms made such claims almost impossible.
Your country needs you vote Irish Nationalists
They can't be voted out. Their regime is part of the Globalist EU. The Irish will be a minority within 20 years.
Obviously not a native speaker. Russian Troll?