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  • Today, Irish traditions are seamlessly embedded in American culture. But once upon a time, the American people rejected-even hated-those immigrating from the Emerald Isle. #HistoryChannel
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  • @NM-vw1fl
    @NM-vw1fl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1263

    There was also the part where there was plenty of food in Ireland during the famine but the British shipped the food out of Ireland. It was a genocide.

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Google up Irish beef exports to UK now the past Is the past now Ireland is the richest country in Europe

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Swett contact me Gary hynes black pool cork city Ireland 0861686422

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Where can I find swett

    • @keithkeegan9776
      @keithkeegan9776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      True the we're 6 British naval ships a day leaving Dublin port with other foods and grains it was a houlacast on the Irish by the British

    • @lisakelly2640
      @lisakelly2640 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      N M true

  • @High_rise12
    @High_rise12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +884

    "It all started with potatoes".
    It all started with the British

    • @jackbasquille5481
      @jackbasquille5481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Unknown2234 Unknown the fungus wouldn’t have done any damage at all if they didn’t steal the land , ship off the much needed grain to Britain and also wouldn’t allow foreign nations to help.

    • @James-hm3jk
      @James-hm3jk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Unknown2234 Unknown They didn’t create the fungus are you mad😂

    • @nntflow7058
      @nntflow7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      *ENGLISH. The scots have nothing to do with this genocide. They are being colonized themself.

    • @spartanx9293
      @spartanx9293 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Unknown2234 Unknown they did not

    • @lililolo9304
      @lililolo9304 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha I couldn’t agree more

  • @RiversXXVII
    @RiversXXVII 4 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    I’m a Latino American that has much love and respect for the Irish! I find there history extremely interesting.

    • @he.quetzal4
      @he.quetzal4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Woah! Me too! :) I'm Guatemalan-American what are you, if you dont mind sharing?

    • @joker1087
      @joker1087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      both share a similar history. Makes us kin

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Catholic brothers ❤

    • @Bthunder560
      @Bthunder560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Irish and Spanish were usually on the same side.

    • @anwjuice
      @anwjuice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@joker1087 I got good chunk of Irish but I am an American Mutt overall and we are all kin. I don't get why people don't get that we are a human beings and we have an ancestor long long long ago

  • @MonarchPoolPlaster
    @MonarchPoolPlaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    The population of Ireland has yet to reach pre-famine levels.

  • @harmonymitcham2857
    @harmonymitcham2857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +400

    The Irish are some of the kindest and most amazing people Ive ever met, the story of Ireland reaching out and repaying the Navajos for there help during the potato famine was inspiring, keep up the great work Ireland.

    • @joehannigan8367
      @joehannigan8367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thanks Harmony Mitcham 🇮🇪Much love🇺🇸 ✌

    • @maxgamer3121
      @maxgamer3121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah and beutiful people too.

    • @fradrake11
      @fradrake11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Go raibh maith agat 💚

    • @lawliet2263
      @lawliet2263 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Potato famine sounds so funny

    • @oisinotoole9073
      @oisinotoole9073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was technically the Chocktaw that sent us help during the famine.
      Is cuimhin linn.

  • @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
    @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I was born in America to Indian immigrants. I grew up on Irish folklore from a book my father bought when I was around 2-3 years old, so I have always loved Ireland.

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s fantastic

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s fantastic

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your father probably has the best conversation taking the time to learn so much about the world and others cultures. I really need to take the time to learn about Indian culture.

    • @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
      @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sunshinenday3439 my father doesn’t now anything about Irish mythology, lol he just got me the book.

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Oh lol well then you.

  • @thebee8415
    @thebee8415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I’m Irish and lived in the US for 8 years. Some of the best years of my life. I found the Americans are great, generous, friendly people and no way deserving of all the bad rap they get. I miss all the people I knew so much, my heart goes out you all during this Covid crises. My prayers are with ye. God bless from Eire ☘️🌈🌦🍖🥬🍻🎻🗽

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fact Checker Well I didn’t dominate anything but made a load of great friends. I just enjoyed my stay totally, the magnificent scenery, food, activities but the people were the best part of all, never to be forgotten it changed me for the better and forever. The diversity of cultures, personalities, totally amazing. Ye are portrayed incorrectly as raciest, bullies, unaccepting of diversity, not true in my experience. How could ye be when every 2nd person is a different race, coloring, creed, religion only God in heaven could run that smoother. Down on earth we’re always going to have some conflicts. Theres one thing wrong with America it is ye allow people to show their disapproval at the state of things there and ye do and that’s a credit to ye.

    • @beartheconfused6798
      @beartheconfused6798 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And from I’ve heard from the British specifically and there economy…
      *not great.*
      Still feel bad since there clearly not the same “give me everything you own for a 100 years eww what the heck are these spices go away” kind of people they used to be.
      I actually heard during the potato famine some British civilians gave Irish popes soup for there support for us but the popes declined.

    • @chrisputkamer3249
      @chrisputkamer3249 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ya I wish the irish were nicer to irish Americans I've seen to many comment sections hating on irish Americans for a multitude of reasons most being unreasonable

    • @Harrydoc02
      @Harrydoc02 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chrisputkamer3249 it’s because it’s getting annoying. Think about it, imagine acting like a stereotype in the streets of Dublin and having all these people look at you. Plus and I feel I need to make this clear its not really about heritage, no one cares about that. It’s the culture. If you understand the culture then you’ll be respected. If you Gowan about how much you love leprechauns and want lucky charms, news flash people aren’t going to take kind to that. Plus like I’ve never seen lucky charms ever here. So yea ino it seems like we hate on Irish Americans, it’s just annoying that’s all. I’d like if our culture was more well known around the world im sure there is no doubt but, we’re not all stinking drunks and live in the 1950s. Take care

    • @chrisputkamer3249
      @chrisputkamer3249 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Harrydoc02 respecting the culture and not following stereotypes I understand. But a lot of comment sections. I have seen a lot of irish people saying that Not only do Irish Americans have no right to call themselves Irish but they also have No right to be proud of their heritage because my ancestors betrayed Ireland by leaving(👈and alot more stupid reasons like thisone) . Now I get the whole since you weren't born in Ireland you can't call yourself irish. Look I just want to say I'm proud of my Irish heritage without a bunch of Irish people getting angry at me just because I don't know everything about their history and culture. I know some just not all of it

  • @aranbehan6940
    @aranbehan6940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Yeah the hardship faced by the Irish started long before the 1840s

  • @_space.monkey
    @_space.monkey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I've always loved the Irish and I'm African.....then recently I came to find out I was born on St Patrick's day !

    • @joshuabruce9599
      @joshuabruce9599 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good on ya, my friend. I hope you can appreciate and love the land of my father as much as I do. Irish folk music, in particular is amazing. On the surface level, it does sound similar but the lyrics always point to an inner sorrow present within all Irish people. But the tone, in contrast, is always cheerful and joyful. I honestly think its the best medium to tell the painful history of Ireland while also expressing hope and dreams of a better tomorrow. There's honestly nothing quite like it, imo.
      I know you commented this over a year ago but I'm responding in the hope that you happen to see it.

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Clint O'Connell Welcome to the family 🥰🧑🏿‍🎤🇮🇪 and you too Afro Gamer.

    • @saxglend9439
      @saxglend9439 ปีที่แล้ว

      That makes you Irish

    • @englishspacitel258
      @englishspacitel258 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sl@v€€€€€

  • @simonstewart5685
    @simonstewart5685 5 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    100% irish and proud

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Word where can I find swett

    • @Snakexkiller1
      @Snakexkiller1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i'm irish and i'm not proud at all

    • @Squiggles..
      @Squiggles.. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Why is everyone so salty here? It's just a thing we say. Where not really proud of anything it's just a saying that mean nothing. Stop getting into history your dissecting a very simple sentence and turning it into something insane like.

    • @columncreek6019
      @columncreek6019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is getting entertaining. I don’t get all but hurt though when people are being racist to my people. I’m Irish, but it is fun to listen to people argue with each other about which nationality is better.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm 100% Irish and not so proud.

  • @manusurboi3369
    @manusurboi3369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    If the famine never happened Ireland’s population would be between 20-30 million

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No it wouldn't you tool. We'd need to have had a lot more English, German, Scandinavian, Italian and Scottish immigrants, in their millions, we'd then have needed them to be attracted enough to sleep with some of us, and then maybe by today we'd have something close to the Irish Americans population and genes. We'd also need to have stopped all the Scots from leaving Ulster and had them make up half of the Irish population but for most of them to deny their not really Irish in an ethnic sense roots and call themselves Irish too. Then we'd have the Irish American population size here, and Dublin would be so big that Galway and Cork would just be suburbs of Dublin.

    • @nomadtripz5927
      @nomadtripz5927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@cigh7445 As an Historian, I tend to agree with Manus on this one. Irish Catholics intermarried people in the same communities, however when married often had a lot of children. due to lack of any idea about contraceptives (catholic policy), and needing children to help work the land (although this was drastically negated during the Famine by the small plot sizes given to them by greedy and unempathetic landlords). Ireland had a population of roughly 2.8 - 2.9 million in 1745. By 1845, the population was (according to research by UCC) ,8.75m. That is a massive increase. Even with a continual flow of outwards migration, both before and after the famine, the population would have continued to grow this way right into the 20th century. This certainly warrants a strong argument that it would have reached at least 20 million by today.

    • @emmetnolan7081
      @emmetnolan7081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rough estimate 18.05 million........fact !!!

    • @Cola.Cube.
      @Cola.Cube. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very doubtful.

    • @irosoqpsdvjj
      @irosoqpsdvjj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cigh7445 my god you're a dolt

  • @felixnite_2462
    @felixnite_2462 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I just wanna say me as an American I appreciate you guys

    • @Jake-bf5vf
      @Jake-bf5vf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Stan Talent Stan BTS 🇮🇪☘️

    • @stargirlabi_111
      @stargirlabi_111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      im both haha Irish American here !

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@stargirlabi_111 how?

  • @mohamedly5557
    @mohamedly5557 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I've been to Ireland once and the people were very kind and welcoming

  • @williamsullivan3702
    @williamsullivan3702 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    Mariah Carey? She's as Irish as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee 🤣🤣🤣

    • @richardrich1384
      @richardrich1384 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      William Sullivan she has Irish blood I think Carey is an Irish Catholic surname

    • @seanmurphy6106
      @seanmurphy6106 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@richardrich1384 if ur not born in Ireland you're not Irish

    • @richardrich1384
      @richardrich1384 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      chjcavzbzcsv ahjxgs I agree totally you no what I meant an American of Irish heritage.

    • @williamsullivan3702
      @williamsullivan3702 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Judgement Day Everyone here commented on the same vid. I guess it takes a fool to spot one 🤣

    • @kiannielsen
      @kiannielsen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Judgement Day I was born in Ireland

  • @niggadeesiadugara3415
    @niggadeesiadugara3415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you History Channel for this eye-opener. Hope the haters from the same community see this and learn 1% and become 0.5% better.

  • @emeidocathail7808
    @emeidocathail7808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Was in New York last year and saw an Irish Tricolour on the front of an FDNY ambulance .. bizzarre and quite cool at the same time.

  • @BMoney8600
    @BMoney8600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I did a whole research paper on this since my mom’s side of the family is Irish. I put my heart and soul into that paper. I watched documentaries and read a novel. After all the hard work I put into it I got a D! I’m still mad about it.

    • @downburst1
      @downburst1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Toe to toe, fight back my friend, no surrender and be Irish, life is short and you’ve not got much time to get through all of them

    • @BMoney8600
      @BMoney8600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@downburst1 I wish I could, I’m out of high school now but man I’m still not happy about it

    • @aaronsmyth7943
      @aaronsmyth7943 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Researching Guinness doesn't count.

    • @BMoney8600
      @BMoney8600 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aaronsmyth7943 I didn’t even include that

    • @aodhanmorris3410
      @aodhanmorris3410 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BMoney8600 maybe that's why you got a d

  • @freddyferret2313
    @freddyferret2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Native Americans, the rest European Heritage, respect each others culture.

  • @mistalion1
    @mistalion1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    During the femine, Ottomans sent many nutrition ship and money to Ireland but Btrits tried to prevent it and caused only 1/5 of support to be recieved.

    • @lepruchanwdc
      @lepruchanwdc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn’t know that.. I must research.. thanks👍

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's a myth, it didn't happen. Why would Muslim Turks help Christians when they murdered, persecuted, forcibly converted, overtaxed and undermined Christians at every turn in their own lands?

    • @itsmrmurraytoyou4924
      @itsmrmurraytoyou4924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@kingheffo it did happen..the turks sent aid to Ireland..educate yourself

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@itsmrmurraytoyou4924 no proof it happened, but what we do know is that Turkish pirates raided Ireland in the 1700s and enslaved, murdered, robbed, raped and plundered as much as they could. Baltimore in Co Cork suffered this. Any Irishman worth his salt would know this, so please educate yourself. The star and crescent on the drogheda crest dates back to the 1200s, long before the famine. Please educate yourself.

    • @skymaster4743
      @skymaster4743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kingheffo Why would Muslim Turk help Christians? That question you posed alone baffles me about your idiocy. For the same reason when Muslims rescued Jews facing Spanish Inquisition or Muslim Arabs sheltering Armenians condemned to death marches in the Syrian desert by the Young Turk government.

  • @beanie9040
    @beanie9040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I recommend reading 'A Slice of the Moon' by Sandi Toksvig, which is a story about a girl who immigrated to America to start a new life. I only managed to reach halfway through the book as it is an extremely emotional book, but I would recommend it if you can finish reading it in one piece 😭😭
    🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

    • @dreamit7623
      @dreamit7623 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yh there is also a good book called '' under the hawthworn tree'' about the famine if anyone would like to read it its about 3 siblings leaving home to live with their aunts when their parents leave and dont come back

  • @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540
    @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "Music, dance, and drink". How awfully lazy. Disappointing end to a concise video.

  • @richardgillette5759
    @richardgillette5759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    0:19 Ten pounds per day per person seems a wee bit much

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ten pounds per day is a load of bolloks I live in cork city now and there is no way I could eat 5 kilos of potatoes per day ...it's impossible

  • @bmxbandit5911
    @bmxbandit5911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for saying Paddy's day. Great video

  • @Zetsuke4
    @Zetsuke4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! conan obrien shown as the first image on this vidoe, I love this man !

  • @chrisod22
    @chrisod22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    More than 60% of Medal of Honor recipients are Irish-Americans. Also, in regard to Medals of Honor awarded to foreigners, the Irish rank first. When America calls, the Irish answer.

    • @jgdooley2003
      @jgdooley2003 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Republic as we know it today would not exist without the support of the Americans in the 1920's. Britain did not have the free hand they had in Ireland in previous centuries and had to be aware of world, and especially American, public opinion. This enabled Ireland to gain some modicum of independence from Britain which is a project that is still ongoing.

    • @Maidaseu
      @Maidaseu หลายเดือนก่อน

      As Irish this doesn’t make me proud. Being associated with the USA military goes against humanity it’s. It’s the British on steroids.

  • @Sage-cs1bm
    @Sage-cs1bm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm pretty sure the irish being drinkers is because of the guilt refugees felt for leaving their families behind and not being able to send enough money back to their families. Not to mention the horrific things they probably witnessed

    • @bud389
      @bud389 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was also because, as Catholics, they weren't against alcohol. Protestants are very strict about alcohol (or at least pretend to be), while Catholics have no problem with drinking, smoking, or gambling. Protestants were the primary reason for prohibition, and they themselves were the primary reason that it failed.

    • @bigbird6039
      @bigbird6039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They drank because they didn’t have enough money to send home? No they were drunken cretins. The video tells you that.

  • @brittanycostello8824
    @brittanycostello8824 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you! This helped me with my homework assignment. Best video I've found.

    • @ellie2454
      @ellie2454 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What was the assignment about, as an Irish person I could tell you were to get more reliable information 😊

    • @trevorjacobs8302
      @trevorjacobs8302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God bless parishes in Americans

  • @alexvictor3015
    @alexvictor3015 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    LOVE FROM ROMANIA IRELAND

  • @seanhiggins9806
    @seanhiggins9806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    100% Irish American 🇺🇸 🇮🇪☘️

  • @adamrasnic9652
    @adamrasnic9652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    It started way before the genocide. Ever heard of Oliver Cromwell. I suggest you do a little more research.

    • @johnnygreen200
      @johnnygreen200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      True. And Cromwell was nominated even recently as one of the greatest ever Brits by the Brits. Think about that one

    • @darragney623
      @darragney623 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Johnny Green not everyone likes hike though many do not like him

    • @gerardnolan2939
      @gerardnolan2939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Irish were going to America before the famine a large percentage Washington's army was Irish and Scots Irish the British lost America to the Irish

    • @Ru_1963
      @Ru_1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gerardnolan2939A lot of Scotch-Irish, but virtually no indigenous Irish.

    • @MrBlabax
      @MrBlabax 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gerardnolan2939 Those 'Irish' are not the indigenous Irish (Gaelic speaking). They are the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon protestants (Lowland Scots and English) first sent to the Irish plantations in the 16th and 17th century. The indegenous Irish catholics only started emigrating en masse to the states after the potato blight, culminating in around 2.5 million out of the total 4 million immigrants that had left Ireland for the states between the period of 1840 to 1910.

  • @barbarachase5824
    @barbarachase5824 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you...

  • @mech5
    @mech5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    You never say "Saint Paddy's Day"

    • @CrazyBrosCael
      @CrazyBrosCael 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      mech5 fab if someone does I’ll put them in a cell

    • @IRISHATLANTIC
      @IRISHATLANTIC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      We say Paddy's Day all the time in Ireland.

    • @avabreen4684
      @avabreen4684 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@IRISHATLANTIC exactly. We as irish say it but not others

    • @chainmail5886
      @chainmail5886 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought it was saint pattys day..:/

    • @samconnolly3601
      @samconnolly3601 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lalasong well ur not Irish
      I hope

  • @michaelconley2896
    @michaelconley2896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It is properly St. Patrick's Day rather than St. Paddy's Day.

    • @KP-ej7gc
      @KP-ej7gc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s either or

    • @michaelconley2896
      @michaelconley2896 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KP-ej7gc That is incorrect. Patrick's name was "Patrick". Patrick was not "Paddy". Learned individuals will properly and correctly say, "St. Patrick's Day". With respect.

    • @KP-ej7gc
      @KP-ej7gc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Conley Paddy has roots in the Gaelic spelling of Patrick.

    • @eamondo1076
      @eamondo1076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KP-ej7gc why does it matter, alot of people in irelane call it st paddies day anyway

  • @jaylavasser8089
    @jaylavasser8089 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow.......I need YOU to do my history project XD

  • @sibealgrogan6899
    @sibealgrogan6899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    0:36 it’s called blight

  • @simplyamazing8902
    @simplyamazing8902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Irish and black people are family!! I love Irish people.. celebrate are unique heritage..

    • @bobbyburseth5861
      @bobbyburseth5861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes we are! We relate on a lot of levels

    • @mactirethesonoflir1536
      @mactirethesonoflir1536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Fíonán Murphy thats a pile of sh*te, if we were anything we were Mediterranean looking not African.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "No blacks, dogs or Irish". My dad grew up in Ireland and said white racists treat black people the same way the English treated us and always empathized with blacks and Hispanics.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Lord Tyyranus Just your opinion. Irish have more in common with blacks, Hispanics and native Americans than we do with Anglos.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Lord Tyyranus Europe is made up of many ethnic, religious and cultural groups that have been oppressed by other European groups. Irish by today's standards are white but still ethnically Irish not Anglo. We have a different language, culture and national identity. What the English did to us can rightly be called ethnic cleansing.

  • @crazychicSHENA
    @crazychicSHENA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am 75% Irish🇮🇪🇺🇸🏰 💘 Ireland.

  • @alicerivierre
    @alicerivierre 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm a proud Irish American queen! Thank St. Paddy 4 my heritage! ☘🍀☘🍀🍀☘🍀
    I do luv potatoes & drinking a nice hot cup of tea heavy with cream! 🍵🍵🍵

  • @commonsenseveiws4860
    @commonsenseveiws4860 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i dont appreciate you saying "my love of the drink"

  • @devin5381
    @devin5381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Should have mentioned how the British exported food from Ireland while women and children were starving in the streets from the famine.

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah they committed a lot of Evil around the world but they still some how paint themselves as the good guys in the world. How they ever manage that I will never know. Irish Catholics, Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, Indians, Black people in the Caribbean West Indies, Boers in South Africa as well as blacks in africa to name a few have a different opinnion of British Colonial Rule and how they suffered greatly under it.

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rohanmarkjay
      They came up with Race theories - responsible for Hitler and Co.

  • @ethanetn
    @ethanetn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    During the census in england ( I refuse to capitalize it) during the Irish potato famine there was a note in the beginning that stated something like "it is my honor to inform the crown that the Irish population has diminished greatly"

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wasn't this in the 1800s

    • @patriciaotoole6508
      @patriciaotoole6508 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If that is true, yikes

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      “I refuse to capitalize it”
      That is the most pathetic thing I think I’ve ever heard lmaooo

    • @yusuf3005
      @yusuf3005 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nüfusunuzun azalması kraliçeyi çok mutlu etmiştir. Sayı da olsa rekabet rekabettir

    • @KeelsF2F
      @KeelsF2F 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Speaking as a mostly Irish mongrel, it's time to put the historical baggage behind and move on, don't you think? To forgive is not to forget.

  • @pillowprincess3673
    @pillowprincess3673 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks! It was really interesting

    • @HISTORY
      @HISTORY  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We’re glad you enjoy our channel! Be sure to subscribe and check out more of the content you love on bit.ly/History-Channel.

    • @aidenfletcher6503
      @aidenfletcher6503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HISTORY hay just to advise you on a more indebted account of what happened a book called the Irish holocaust by Chris fogarty would fill in any gaps and lists the British regiments by number who took the food supply out of Ireland by gun point In a lot of cases the same man is responsible for erecting many memorials on un marked famine graves he often runs into difficulties with the Irish government as they dont want to admit it was a genocide of the Irish people.

  • @briansisk2182
    @briansisk2182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You can’t ever beat the Irish. How do you beat a man that refuses to lose.

  • @timlinator
    @timlinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My dad grew up in Limerick and emigrated to America when he was 17 with his family. He saw sign that read "Help wanted, Irish need not apply" He told me about the sign and said "It wasn't a black, Jew or Puerto Rican who put up that sign, you know did" Yes I did some wasp. We were once hated like blacks and Hispanics are today.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @One he did until he passed away five years ago.

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @One Thank you.

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bob who cares it’s not happening now. It sounds like you like being a victim. What year did your family come to America?

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@timlinator sorry to hear about that

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MichaelOBrien71 Not happening to Irish but still happening to black and brown people so I will stand in solidarity with them.

  • @xxari_grandegamingxxx9884
    @xxari_grandegamingxxx9884 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    But Ireland 🇮🇪 build half of New York IRISH SQUAD WHERE R U?

    • @Rickky007
      @Rickky007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They probably help build 10 percent of it, Dutch and Italians did more of it

    • @Damian-ex8qv
      @Damian-ex8qv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Present! We built everything even the pyramids

    • @Rickky007
      @Rickky007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      damo show You forgot the Great Wall of China 😂

    • @Damian-ex8qv
      @Damian-ex8qv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We planted the amazon rain forest, dug the grand canyon, painted the white clifs of dover and built the titanic but that sank it was protestants who built that lol

    • @brazenlilhussy5975
      @brazenlilhussy5975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Damian-ex8qv Finally! A fella who knows his history!🤣

  • @luishernandezblonde
    @luishernandezblonde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Respect these Irish. Really good people.

  • @EileanoirDaly
    @EileanoirDaly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Good video. Thanks for acknowledging the British neglect of the Irish at the time of the Potato Famine.

    • @diarmuidb50
      @diarmuidb50 ปีที่แล้ว

      hah true

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They wanted the land. They needed population to drop for overtake.....

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats the stupid British name for it - disguising that there was plenty of other food.

    • @jgdooley2003
      @jgdooley2003 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The man responsible for that was Cornish man Charles Trevelyan , Home Secretary in the Peel government, had a belief in the wrath of God, laissez faire economics and self reliance in people. He viewed the Famine as Gods punishment for a sinful and barbarian race of people, the Irish.
      Similar sentiments were expressed against the poor in general including the English poor as vividly portrayed by Charles Dickens at that time.

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jgdooley2003
      So he was a racist, put in charge of the very people he was racist towards.
      So it was Britain that was behind it - he was just doing their bidding.
      Do you think the Irish are "sinful and barbarian" then? - otherwise why do you repeat his idiocy?

  • @ssmith5701
    @ssmith5701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You failed to mention that there was a potato famine through out Europe and the Brits were exporting other crops from Ireland causing starvation. It you want accurate info google the article "the Irish famine complicity in murder."

  • @risteardwest3384
    @risteardwest3384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's nothing like an Irish pub especially when they have a live band playing the music just puts chills through your body you sit there with a nice drink or Irish beer or maybe a hot Irish coffee with some good whiskey in it put the old jukebox on nothing but Irish music 100%. We never had anything to do if other people came into the bar and sat there we woke them everyone and everyone loved us for being kind and nice to them most of the boys always had policemen or firemen come in after work for a face drink and just take it easy for a while we used to love to see them just wonderful people and music it lives on forever
    ❤️🍀🇨🇮💯🍀

  • @Peikkey
    @Peikkey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me when I find out that I’m about 10% irish
    *irish drinking song*

  • @dutchvanderlinde8031
    @dutchvanderlinde8031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its really weird because im irish born in ireland live here but i have always viewed America as a really close friend of ireland like Americans and irish mostly get along i think

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah because Irish Catholics and Americans have a common bond in history they both rebelled against British rule.

  • @heartbr8k
    @heartbr8k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I am Irish American

    • @liamforan4105
      @liamforan4105 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool. Me too.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No, you are American.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devinpeirce7152 oh should all Americans leave since you should know that most Americans are from europe

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      James hoban from co Kilkenny designed and built the white house it doesent get any better than that

  • @happytoday333
    @happytoday333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In Australia not that long ago some pubs and businesses had signs that read 'no dogs and no Irish.' Despicable but another example of how first waves of immigration get treated very badly wherever they go.

    • @adammartin7007
      @adammartin7007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Really? The Irish were amongst the first settlers of Australia and a third of Aussie Prime Ministers have been of Irish descent.

    • @laoch5658
      @laoch5658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adammartin7007 the irish didnt settle in australia they were sent there because it was a prison colony

    • @adammartin7007
      @adammartin7007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@laoch5658 Yes, like the English, Scots and Welsh.

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay ปีที่แล้ว

      Problem is where ever the Irish immigrated to the English settlers immigrated too. Which means whatever grudges Irish and English had with each other they took it to countries they settled in like Canada, US and Australia. Yes there are many Americans, Canadians, Australians of Irish descent in powerful positions in those countries but also many Americans, Canadians and Australians or English descent in those countries. So they passed it on the generations in those countries which is why you saw signs like that in Australia most probably done by Aussies of English descent possible of Aussies of English people who were prominent administrators in the British Empire. Irish Catholics as we all know along with people in many other countries not just Irish Catholics had serious problems with British rule of their countries and rebelled just like Irish Catholics. The consequences of that supporters of the English or related to them would target those rebels of English colonial rule if they wre in those countries to they migrated to. On the other hand the English colonialists and their supporters were the first to ban slavery. So they were not all bad all the time we have to balanced in these matters. But Irish Catholics as well as people from other countries of British Empire who rebelled against English rule justifiably have some serious beef with the English right up to today its historical and deep rooted.

    • @samuelb2375
      @samuelb2375 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adammartin7007but it was all set up by the Scots English and Welsh lol

  • @freckles9857
    @freckles9857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    100% Irish and proud

  • @lb2kxx
    @lb2kxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i’m British/Jamaican and I have a weird relationship with Ireland. My grandfather was IRA and born in Belfast and despises me because i’m from England

    • @paullooney2522
      @paullooney2522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well I am Irish with English ancestors,I havent figured out yet which part of me I should hate yet.

  • @laoch5658
    @laoch5658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It wasnt a famine it was a genocide

  • @SofiaBerruxSubs
    @SofiaBerruxSubs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I have Scottish and irish ancestry as an american. Got to say they both faced a hundred years or more of oppression and invasion by the english.

    • @yusuf3005
      @yusuf3005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      İskoç ve Kuzey Irlandalılar referandum yapıp neden Birleşik Krallıktan ayrılmıyorlar. Celladına aşık mahkumlar

    • @anthonym3351
      @anthonym3351 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yusuf3005 Scotland held a refendum in 2014 but lost, the majority wish to be apart of uk. Northern Ireland will probably leave UK within 10 yrs

    • @jonhughes2346
      @jonhughes2346 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anthonym3351I doubt it pal,

  • @Makarosc
    @Makarosc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Americans can't hate them now pretty much every American has Irish ancestry

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      9.7 percent of the population including me

  • @TrueToMyNatureIndustries
    @TrueToMyNatureIndustries 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Took My Job😂😂😂 South Park never leave my life

  • @fiachoconnor
    @fiachoconnor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First ethic cleansing was in the 1600's and Cromwell. They the first Irish in the U.S. good video though.

  • @popxulture8067
    @popxulture8067 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Irish people are very kind and happy...love them..my partner is Irish too..😊

  • @member100xy
    @member100xy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    just wondering was Steve Bannon a refugee and a sharecropper too?

  • @Patrickcom2011
    @Patrickcom2011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:52 a pint of guinness

  • @ShawnSullivan352ACR
    @ShawnSullivan352ACR ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m American with my heritage being Half Italian and Sicilian on my Mom’s side and Half Irish on my Dad’s.. they came from County Cork and are very Pro Irish and Pro Catholic..my Dad’s sister married an English Protestant and they disowned her.. I never met my Aunt until my Father’s funeral when I was 18 years old.. I’m 44 now and while she and her husband have passed away years ago I have a great relationship with my cousins and their kids .. they all live in the Chicago area and we all live in Florida originally from Jersey and New York

    • @mariecait
      @mariecait ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow my moms Sicilian catholic and my dads Irish catholic. My parents met and raised us in south jersey. Went to catholic school my whole life. Still living in jersey. The Italian/Irish combo is very common here!

    • @ShawnSullivan352ACR
      @ShawnSullivan352ACR ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mariecait Yes it is.. my Dad was from Newark

  • @tarastafford9123
    @tarastafford9123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    pov ur in mr goffs history

  • @mt22l99
    @mt22l99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My great great great grandparents moved to Leeds because of the potato famine in around 1841

    • @aidenfletcher6503
      @aidenfletcher6503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was a genocide by that I mean the Irish people were left with no other food source as the British army took the food out of Ireland by the ship loads leaving only the potato when that failed the people had nothing the English offered them soup if they converted most refused and either left Ireland or died it's not really taught in school only that the food crops failed I ask you a land of farmers had no food why cattle grain all other vegetables taken out by force look for a book called the Irish holocaust by Chris fogarty.

  • @infinxte7710
    @infinxte7710 วันที่ผ่านมา

    History repeating itself

  • @caliscribe2120
    @caliscribe2120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "It all started with the potato. " The Irish are so loved in US because we Americans love us some potatoes, whether it be French fried, skins, or baked with all the toppings.

  • @mikewazooski5010
    @mikewazooski5010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm Irish/American so lol

  • @Erojing12467
    @Erojing12467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In fact im American but have some Irish decent in me

  • @terrymalloy3541
    @terrymalloy3541 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We didn’t eat over 10 pounds of spuds a day first of all.

  • @wk3820
    @wk3820 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think one of the more interesting aspects is that the discrimination was largely isolated to one particular wave of Irish immigration, those who flooded over during the potato famine. The millions of earlier Irish immigrants, many of whom predate the American Revolution, suffered no such discrimination. Parts of Appalachia were originally settled by the Irish and by Scots, and they were not discriminated against, other than willingly entering into indentured servitude to pay their fare (a practice later made illegal by the 13th Amendment). By the time of the potato famine, they had been absorbed into the larger culture so much that they weren't even considered "Irish" any longer, and so they mostly evaded being caught up in the reaction against the massive wave that flooded into America during the potato famine.

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Most of the 1700s emigration from Ireland to USA was Protestant Ulster Scots Irish, although some Catholics did make their way over. In the early 1800s, it was beginning to even out. The profile changed dramatically from 1845 onwards when it became vastly Catholic and in much larger numbers. 'Appalachian Irish' would be Ulster Scots Protestants, not Native Catholic Irish.

  • @leemurphy8710
    @leemurphy8710 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    you don't say saint paddy's day, it's either saint Patrick's day or just paddy's day.

  • @philipyang9593
    @philipyang9593 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's all making sense.
    I would like to hear more about the Irish establishing a stronger presence of Catholicism here in the United States.
    It may shed light on more recent events in terms of child abuse scandals in the church.

  • @darylshanley2674
    @darylshanley2674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    East coast massive

  • @gambievkiller5843
    @gambievkiller5843 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The potatoes is original from Perú South América.

  • @snidelywhiplash6889
    @snidelywhiplash6889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There are help wanted ads in the late 1800's and early 1900's New York Times and Boston paper and others that advertise for help stating Irish need not apply, coloreds welcome, Catholics need not apply, swedish need not apply. Discrimination of Irish was rampant!

    • @bigbird6039
      @bigbird6039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can make that statement but you have to ask why?

    • @snidelywhiplash6889
      @snidelywhiplash6889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bigbird6039 cuz people were discriminating against them. Blacks aren't the only ones being discriminated against and whites discriminate against other whites not on skin color but religious or class. This false claim that all whites have it made and have always had it made is pure BS.

    • @aichamangue8677
      @aichamangue8677 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You calling black ppl ‘blacks’ is all I need to know

    • @snidelywhiplash6889
      @snidelywhiplash6889 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aichamangue8677 Not if you want to be fully educated and widen your breadth and knowledge of the whole truth it's not all you need to know and to base your satisfaction thinking you know everything based on a particular description is short sighted!

    • @aichamangue8677
      @aichamangue8677 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@snidelywhiplash6889 yea I definitely know all I need to know about you💀 you’re probably one of those ppl who think white people are being discriminated against rn lmaooo

  • @buzzaree
    @buzzaree 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Lad's, Thank You For All The Love You've Been Sending To Us Irish People. Although I Do Sometimes Cringe At All Of Ye Doing Your Impressions Of Us, It's Nice To Know That Not All Americans Are Money Hungry Twats Waiting To Rob Someone At Every Corner You Walk By

  • @joeduff8761
    @joeduff8761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The average adult in Ireland ate 10 pounds of potatoes a day?!? That cant be right 🤣🤣🤣

  • @TheAmericanCrusader
    @TheAmericanCrusader 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the animated version of Knowledge Hub's video

  • @user-jb3ip6bi3p
    @user-jb3ip6bi3p 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We are Irish we are fighters and you will never break our spirits we will fight till the end 💪☘️ Slàinte Go raibh mile maith agat..

    • @pkiernan86
      @pkiernan86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sláinte* míle*

  • @idisxgic7651
    @idisxgic7651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Why do Americans say clover and st patty’s day no one in ireland sais this

    • @cofepaper9484
      @cofepaper9484 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're 2% Irish so that makes them believe that they're Irish...

    • @iangallagher4135
      @iangallagher4135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cofepaper9484 I am like 40% Irish but that does not really matter because you can’t be proud to be Irish apparently

    • @samiralhajeed350
      @samiralhajeed350 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      cause it's not about people that live in ireland, it's not to celebrate them, it's to celebrate the irish that came to america

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iangallagher4135 well your not irish there is a difference between being an irish person and having irish ancestry

  • @shaebryant1916
    @shaebryant1916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tries to give an Irish history lesson but still calls st Patrick’s day “st patty’s” day. Classic American

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paddy is a common shortening of Patrick in the Irish American community

  • @Zetsuke4
    @Zetsuke4 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting .

  • @hannahnekelly9236
    @hannahnekelly9236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Its wasn't a famine. It was Grenoside, there was oplenty of food but the British shipped it out.

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner1589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It was an Irishman who designed and built the white house in 1782

    • @kahlilboi
      @kahlilboi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Along with his slaves 😂

  • @kellypolfleit3942
    @kellypolfleit3942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is a lot of pride in our heritage. Perseverance!

  • @3D-PENS
    @3D-PENS 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who is the guy at 1:46 on the far left

  • @MeMe-pj8ve
    @MeMe-pj8ve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This is the exact story of my Irish ancestors. They fled the famine, were discriminated against, and now my family are a bunch of high-ranking politicians in Chicago.

    • @JobHuntingAbroad
      @JobHuntingAbroad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well done to your family, Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @MeMe-pj8ve
      @MeMe-pj8ve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JobHuntingAbroad thank you very much! It was because of their work ethic and the luck of the Irish, lol 🍀

    • @JobHuntingAbroad
      @JobHuntingAbroad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No luck involved just loads of brains and a shot of charm😁

  • @janeheskin
    @janeheskin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    The famine was the British fault

  • @usmarine51519563
    @usmarine51519563 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Work hard. You wlll succeed .

  • @user-sr3sf
    @user-sr3sf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Irish is the second biggest ancestry in USA , only behind the German ancestry

  • @osamabinlegend547
    @osamabinlegend547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    During the famine some African country tried to donate money to us despite having their own famine with their crops however the queen of England wouldn't allow them to as it would make them look bad for donating less
    The country still tried to ship a boat full of food over and the brits stopped it on the way over

    • @oog2370
      @oog2370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's why Ireland always helps countries worldwide when they have a Famine now

    • @osamabinlegend547
      @osamabinlegend547 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oog2370 what countries did we help ?

    • @osamabinlegend547
      @osamabinlegend547 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No they don't

    • @Ru_1963
      @Ru_1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't believe it. Do yo have a genuine reference for this?

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All people fighting against the British Empire had common cause. For example I heard of many Irish people went over to India in the 19th century to be part of the Indian Independence movement against British rule.

  • @mye-mail9375
    @mye-mail9375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Us IRISH Love Potatoes. RIP My Irish family's in Ireland & those of my family who died in Ireland much earlier on whom I've never met. My family on both sides came to NY then other close city's. I once was asked by an old man "Are you Irish?" Instead of saying Why? I said Yes. So,he started on me about about "The Irish" blah blah. It did not take me long to curse him,I enjoyed arguing with him,while all the time owning the fight with my words. Oh how some time as soon as the 1990's you could be approached and asked the same ques.
    We Irish came far in America. & I think there is more of us in America than in our Mother country.

    • @poke6013
      @poke6013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      U are American mate shut it

    • @vg9kaa-gun658
      @vg9kaa-gun658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@poke6013 man, I don't know why americans say they're irish instead of americans.

    • @Pessidog10
      @Pessidog10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vg9kaa-gun658 no he's Irish his aunts friend works with someone who's Irish that makes him Irish

    • @eirekelleher8366
      @eirekelleher8366 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are American , even by reading your comment I know you are nothing like us hahahah , have to be born and raised in Ireland to understand the culture in my opinion,

    • @Sngy9621
      @Sngy9621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eirekelleher8366
      When people in America ask “what are you?” they are asking what is your ethnicity, not your nationality. We are a nation of immigrants. Everyone who isn’t Native American has come from somewhere. When Americans say they are Irish they aren’t claiming they were born in Ireland, they are claiming ethnicity, which is sometimes tenuous (my great great uncle was Irish), but oftentimes well-founded (all of my grandparents were born in Ireland). It’s really disappointing how weird Irish people are about Americans trying to claim Irishness, and let’s be honest, it’s because you think you’re better than us. JFK has memorials in Ireland, but the average American who tries to claim they are of Irish descent? A plastic paddy. Maybe if Irish people were more receptive and didn’t sneer at every American of Irish descent then we would be more educated about your culture. Irish people are so caught up in gatekeeping Irishness that you’ve missed the opportunity to mobilize a huge segment of the population of the world’s most powerful country to Ireland’s advantage on the world stage.
      Let’s be frank, Irish-Americans have been more successful and influential on the global stage than Ireland itself, and it’s because you’re obsessed with gatekeeping.

  • @shortwannabeqb5510
    @shortwannabeqb5510 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m rush RIP

  • @thecreativeprocess-pureima3389
    @thecreativeprocess-pureima3389 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And yet today, Ireland is the most thriving country in the EU.

  • @YonoME
    @YonoME 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Maybe we Mexicans will be accepted like the Irish one day. who am i kidding,wear not white.

    • @iplaycod056
      @iplaycod056 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It could happen have hope 🤗

    • @elizabethmolloy9415
      @elizabethmolloy9415 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      We weren’t always accepted 😉 you’ll get there some day

    • @user-ur2kn8qy5t
      @user-ur2kn8qy5t 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ireland loves Mexico.

  • @BrandyTexas214
    @BrandyTexas214 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I did a dna test and found out I’m 40% Irish and I had no idea

    • @connorcreamer
      @connorcreamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was the hangovers not a clue lol

  • @Rickky007
    @Rickky007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It was because they were catholic the British & American didn’t like that Catholics put loyalty to the church first instead country , king & the people

  • @annasinnott6930
    @annasinnott6930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is so interesting