The Bloody History Behind Conor McGregor's Walkout Song: The Easter Rising
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In this historical analysis of “The Foggy Dew,” we'll see that the song is a lot more than Conor McGregor’s walkout song. The history behind this hundred-year-old song is a long and bloody one. To fully understand the Easter Rising and the emotions of the lyrics in “The Foggy Dew,” we first take a very general overview of some of the atrocities that occurred in Ireland under British rule. We then cover the 1916 rebellion for Irish independence, called the Easter Rising, and the song’s sorrowful commentary on the event.
As always, there’s only so much we can fit in each video, and a lot of interesting information gets left on the cutting room floor. Check out our sources for more info!
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Yes, Conor has also walked out to 50 Cent's "I Get Money," but there's an unfortunate lack of historical scholarship on that song 🤔
EDIT: At 2:23 the date should be "1169" not "1196." Figured it would be hard for Henry II to launch an invasion after his death in 1189!
I thought he walked out to Hypnotize by The Notorious B.I.G. which plays after The Foggy Dew 🤔
@@JamaaLS Usually goes with the "Hypnotize", but I believe went with the "I Get Money" only on the Madison Square Garden card
@@AlexSanchez-tj4ph He gave El Chapo a go as well
Bravo! Excellent!
Paidraig Pearse, not Patrick!
And Mc Gregor's ancestors were of the Scots that took the northern lands from the Irish!
Just saying....
Good job on the video though!
Watch Michael Collins
From a born and bred Irish man, I am overwhelmed you spoke the truth of the British genocide in Ireland and not referred to it as a potato famine. You sir have gained my subscription and respect. 🇮🇪
I am Indian but We Indians love you Ireland 🇮🇪 Jai Hind Jai Bharat... Long Live Ireland 🇮🇪
He didn't say it was genocide, because it wasn't.
@@liberalirishman1425 I’ll think you’ll find it was. Read a book mate.
@@GCCFUJ which book do you recommend? Because every single book and article from every single Irish historian and historical society says it was absolutely NOT genocide. So I'd be very interested to hear what books you think support the genocide conspiracy theory?
@@liberalirishman1425 don’t be so stupid. You’re no Irish man if you think there was a famine in Ireland. The British sent all food to the British mainland and that’s why the Irish starved. Their crops were ruined by the British. You just haven’t got a clue you muppet.
I’m 100% Mexican and I love this song due to Conor’s relation but had no idea what it was for, thank you for the explanation. The irish are a fighting group of people 👊🏽💯
Jon Hernandez you speak sence stay safe my friend
Irish switched sides in the Saint Patricks battalion in the war in Mexican American war because they knew the Americans were doing wrong 🇮🇪🤝🇲🇽
@@malachydobbin7776 'Twas 1846, when we abandoned company K, we left the Yankee infantry and said goodbye to the USA, a country whose grand promise we never got to know to fight for Santa Ana and the freedom of Mexico'.
Joe bet your bollix we are
The irish love the Mexicans even when we were beaten in the workd cup by Mexico we took it right
"Our Revenge Shall Be The Laughter Of Our Children"
Bobby sands TAL
Irish hero
Charlie Ferreira damn, that hits hard
Pagan Squaddie your a sick evil bastard and the perfect example of why Britain isn’t welcome in Ireland, rot in hell
Marty B You mean Bobby Sands MP! 😁👍🇮🇪 TAL
As an Indian, I can relate. Much respect to those that refused to lie down to British oppression.
Yet you speak pretty good English, way to protest :D
@@raphwalker9123 Speak it better than the English. Just like we play cricket better than them.
@@MadhavRSub jiminy Cricket is a legend thats for sure.
@@MadhavRSub oi bruv wat you saying? nah we won the world cup though
@@kaisermccheese6486 check the test match scores baby boi
I’m Hungarian but like the Irish ☘️ people. Hungarians have suffered Too. Much love to my IRISH brothers and sisters.
God bless!
The Irish remember Hungry's brave stand in 1956 against oppression from the Soviets. It was much the same as 1916 Easter rising.
@@Dom-fx4kt your govt is a last stand against liberal ideology(globalism)if I'm not mistaken so keep it up!
Greetings Hungry. Thank for the lovely comments, means a lot. yes, we share similar history. Hungry's Colonel Pal Maleter was our James Connolly. Pal asked his men not to call him sir, but rather 'Comrade' or 'friend'. Colonel Pal Maleter was executed on the 16th of June 1968. We remember with pride.
Long live Visegrad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Death to islam and communism.. FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you. As an Irish person, I thought this was going to be awful. You did the song, our history and us proud.
Ye actually called "the famine" what it was. A genocide
@@niallyshere So true ☘
@@mattwilliams5386 Tiocfaidh ár lá people will hear our calls.
what are some of the tropes which you've encountered time and again?
@@MH-ms1dg what I've encounter most often which is not related to this is the condemnation of the IRA and the linking of the past and current IRA. While yes today's IRA are terrorists the old IRA fought for Ireland independence. If you like history Ireland's history is very interesting
Could you do one on Mick Conlan’s entrance at Madison Square Garden to “Come Out Ye Black and Tans?”
The Black and Tans were a British paramilitary force during the Irish War of Independence. They were sent into Ireland to crush the Irish Republican Army and the fight for Irish freedom using "shock and awe" tactics. Many of them fought in WW1 and saw Ireland as the "wild west" were they were encouraged to do whatever they want. They are the most despised group of British soldiers in the history of Irish/British conflict. The burnt Cork city to the ground, shot numerous innocent civilians (including Eileen Quinn, a 24 year old mother of three who was seven months pregnant at the time). They raped women, tortured prisoners before executing them and got paid for it. They were called the Black and Tans because of their uniforms. They were technically part of the police force: Royal Irish Constabulary, and the British army simultaneously, so the uniforms were black (police) and tan (British army). The song mocks and ridicules them and states no matter how "brave" they were in other wars, the IRA defeated them. "Come out ye Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders, Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away, From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra." Recently Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar tried to create a ceremony commemorating the Black and Tans and RUC, in the spirit of "they weren't ALL bad". This has caused such fierce backlash, among other problems in Ireland, that a general election has been called, this resulted in the ceremony being cancelled, and "Come out Ye Black and Tans" by the Wolf Tones became a #1 single in Ireland and the UK!
@@gelliott127 of course he did sure the free state executed more Irish than the black and tans
Yes
PLEASE on the black and Tans RIC
@@HT-gv1be I think ur mixed up. Talking about something else
@@HT-gv1be cross Barry just 1. The bombing and burning of innocent was by crown forces. Simple fact
Newfoundlander here of Irish decent proud of my heritage and hope to get to visit Ireland some day soon ☘️
This song gives me goosebumps. Love from Denmark.
The Ottomans wanted to send a bunch of food to Ireland during the famine but they British prohibited it.
Drogheda United fc use the Ottoman insignia in there crest as tribute
If I'm not mistaken, the Ottomans managed to get some support through. What was scummy about it was that the British reduced the amount of aid Ireland was able to recieve by 90% because the Sultan wanted to send £10,000, which overshadowed the amount of aid the Queen Victoria sent (£2000) were sending. Respect for the Ottomans, they still secretly sent five ships of food.
www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/generous-turkish-aid-irish-great-hunger
@L C a war of conquest that every powerful empire had done.
Genocide, not famine
Because you couldn’t be more generous than the queen, and the queen was a bitch...
I’m not Irish but this story and song make me feel a certain way. Perhaps this is why the Irish are such strong supporters of the Palestinian cause
Of course. Free Palestine - their days of freedom will come.
Yo, fuck Israel
How on earth is it anything like Palestine ? Its totally the opposite both Jews and Palestinians lived in that area for as long as history has been recorded. The Brits came over 600 years ago. Not the same at all.
It’s funny because this is true , there’s an old broken down building that’s near my house that’s been there since the 80s , had this message saying “free Palestine” sprayed on the side never understood it as a kid but as I grew older I understood history more , this just reminded me of that !
@@johnharris3335 racist spotted
Finally someone did their homework, bualadh bos 👏👏👏
@bshe77 bet ur a right giggle at party's
bshe77 link it I actually wanna see myself
@bshe77 yawn
Great video dont think James Connelly was in the IRB though?
“England’s difficultly, is Ireland’s opportunity”
It's weird to hear an American accent describe our history correctly.
A lot of Irish went to America though
@@thomaskendell8146 Our history isn't part of the school curriculum though and nowadays not many Americans that have Irish ancestors care to learn their history. The one's that do are rarely taught the real story.
What do u mean he's Irish, his ancestors looked at Ireland on a map
@@Pessidog10 who are you referring to?
do you honestly believe that all 120 million americans are ignorant on irish history? lmao...do u know how many americans are irish immigrants? your comment exposes your own ignorance
I get chills every single time I hear that song. Especially during a McGregor walkout! Amazing video. It makes me proud to have Irish blood in my veins.
I believe generally they didn't have long to live in Barbados
Im one proud irish man that is lucky enough to speak irish fluently and will speak it to the day i die🇮🇪
Lucky
but you support a Scottish football club eh? Scots speak "gaeilge" (its not "Irish") as well. its one language gaelic.
@@AAA-fh5kd Gaeilge is Irish, Gáidhlig is what western Scots speak and Celtic is an Irish club in Scotland, literally formed by Irish immigrants
Bullaí fear, Gaeilge meas féidir agus béarla meas gá!
@@padraig6200 "Scottish Gaelic" is "Erse" is Gaelic, period. Seltick
Christ, never heard of these things during history classes in school.
Because most country’s mainly England don’t want people knowing that mainly England because it puts them in bad lights
Same. I'm from the US (for context) and I was never taught a single word of this beyond "The Potato Famine brought havoc upon Ireland."
No mention of cutting aid, or that the English thought it was "God's punishment for the Irish."
Being completely honest, I don't blame the IRA for wanting Britan the fuck out of their country, and they had every right to fight back.
@@FalonGrey and they successfully won in the end we are now an independent country they only got 6 counties because of a peace treaty
There's only so much K-12 history classes can teach in a year so unless you live in Ireland or the UK, where this is taught, specifics of the Irish War of Independence likely isn't a priority for general world history classes. Details like this are covered in specialized classes like British, 20th century European and/or Irish history for those outside Ireland and the UK.
My great grandfather was arrested in the rebellion and held prisoner, he was arrested after his brother turned him in because he was in the British army. I actually have a series of letters my great grandfather wrote while in prison including some to his brother
Was taught this song in national school many years ago. Some great versions recorded - Dubliners, Luke Kelly, Wolfe Tones - but Sinead O'Connor really does this song justice.
And still today in Ireland, the Angelus still ring out at 12pm in churches, and on Irish TV on RTE 1 AT 6PM COYBIG.
Dj Billy Bop Dj Billy Bop Yas☘️
Why follow a Scottish football club then? Make up your mind.
They weren’t indentured servants, indentured servants do it voluntarily the Irish were forced to work.
And often worked to death.
Usually called by the name "slave". Not sure why he felt the need to sugarcoat ir
There is a huge push by the far left to erase the history of irish slavery in both the carribean and the states. You need to go outside of google for a real answer.
@Tony Montana yeah to call the Irish racist and claim we were never slaves..
@Tony Montana Lol. Its the truth. That is why nobody likes you..you are an idiot leftist.
Edit : checked out his playlist about white supremacy..fail busted. Gonto safe space now ⬆️
Thank you mo chara.
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I thought you stopped using your channel
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Respect to you choochoosGaming MO CHARA 26 + 6 =1✊
Go raibh maith agat mo chara
To my grandparents who came to the states in the late 1920's, Emily Clarke, Martin Neary, Francis Kelley and Ellen Mulcahy, i miss you. Thank you for teaching me this while I was a very young boy, as it's stuck with me for the entirety of my life.
This rendition leaves out my favourite verse:
"Oh the night fell black and the rifle's crack,
told perifidous albion reel.
'Neath the leanin' rain seven tongues of flame,
did shine o'er our lines of steel
By each shining blade a prayer was said,
that to Ireland her sons would be true,
and as morning broke, the war flag shook out its folds in the foggy dew."
Great video, great to see non-irish folk learning irish history and the meaning it has to a lot of us. GRMA, Mo Chara.
An absolute perfect video essay. I've got goosebumps
Great video, your channel will go far you're making great content. Keep up the hard work
The British was so cruel to their immediate neighbors, now imagine what did they do to people from far away land that shared nothing with them....
The crime of the British Empire is one of the most downplayed events still till this day.
I sincerely hope one day they will get their due
How do you believe that is supposed to happen considering all the people that did it are dead, what do you mean you hope one day, like the people that are there now and had nothing to do with it?
Just one thing though: pádraig pearse is preferred
Have this song on my playlist. I play it when I’m alone in the gym warming up. Sends chills down my spine everytime.
Great Job defending the Irish! Very well done, love the maps and the graphics. Have you seen the movie Michael Collins? The full version used to be on TH-cam many years ago but was removed but we do not know why? Was is copyright laws? We learned a lot about the Irish history of our family by watching that movie! That movie tells the story of the separation of the 6 counties in the North of Ireland. Would like to know more about the Penal laws that the British enacted that outlawed the Holy Mass. Uncle Rob
TheWay Tours fooking great film.
@bshe77 That's the problem with most people. To lazy to read a fucking book, so they would rather just gobble up anything from movies.
bshe77 my old history teacher when I was in school said the Michael Collins movie is a load of “shite” and not accurate at all
Many of our Barbadian neighbours have Irish ancestry. Greetings from Trinidad. Thanks for this
thanks for covering this.
it's in our DNA, those who understand the meaning of it
I grew up listening to this and a lot of other Celtic music (Lorena mckinnet, Steve MacDonald, forgive my misspelling). I always resonated with the struggle of the Irish and highlanders in Scotland.
I may not be Irish but I have much love for your history and the Irish people in general. 🇺🇸❤️🇮🇪
@06:09 the line about wild geese is worth your time researching. it has deep significance
You have earned a like and subscribe, my good man. Great content! Cheers from the Philippines, as we ourselves had our own bloody road to independence from Spanish, American, and Japanese rule.
Thinking about doing a Phillippines video at some point in the future, as we're both a quarter Filipino!
The Philippines are f'd. That place is filled with corruption. Reality check.
Wow history is amazing Irish such a strong and proud people
Up the Ra, 🍀💚🇮🇪
One of the “ra”’s most idolised figures was defeated by a cheeseburger
CELTIC HAMMER up the fuckinh ra son
Lol. The ‘RA’ lost pall. Briton owns the republic.
@@bigcyril8500 Britain doesn't even own itself
Plastic paddy hasn't a clue , Winston Churchill offered northern Ireland to the South if they joined the fight against fascism, but they declined , the Ulster protestants would decimate the South if their destruction was even a serious notion . Fuck the ra .
Irish people real gangsters, respect to all the Irish from a Circassian living in diaspora!
Lord rest the brave men and women who gave their lives in the name Ireland
"in death we are finally free" Damn that hits hard
And this song is about My people and the fight for Our survival! Not 1 person should be bothered by my fellow irish playing a song about US and I thank you for this video and the way you showed the truth about what we have suffered through. Erin Go Bragh
Its Sean Mac Diarmada, not Sean McDermot, also its Padraig Pearse, never Patrick Pearse. That being said its still a very good video
Why do you expect a non irish speaker to write in irish?
For example, why have you written your name as Gary Fitzpatrick and not Gearárd Mac Giolla Phadraig? Hypocrisy! We cannot expect foreigners to know Irish!
@@cjon6898 nope not gearàrd, that would be gerard, my name as gaeilge is Gearòid mac giolla phàdraig, dont talk about hypocrisy if you dont know your own native language, Amadàn.
@@cjon6898 still is is there names
Here in Ireland we learn about all of this in school, as we should it’s our history , but those in the UK do not, bit strange huh?
America is similar. Lie to us since grade school
Bullshit. I learned all this at school. In England. You have no idea what your talking about
heeggie fair enough, but it’s fair to say the majority don’t learn about it
I’m English and I’m pretty sure we skimmed over this subject pretty quickly, I’ve only learnt about this stuff off my own back now I’m older
I think my school does learn about it in the history classes. But in some schools in Canada you have the choice to switch those history classes with Indigenous history classes. I obviously picked those because of my Aboriginal background.
Excellent video
Personally i prefer luke kellys version but the chieftiens are great though sinéad is a bit of a mad one
Sinead's a fecking icon of Irish madness so she is.... The little shaven-headed hoower!
Luke’s is the best by miles
@@pauljamessquibbs.3945 even with her conversion to islam?
@@ganjalfthegreen5312 Lol.... She's eccentric!!!
How similar is what English did to Irish to what Russians have been doing to my country, since 18th century.
I completely understand what Irish have been through.
I'm Polish and grew up in a patriotic family. Before all ye leftist lads and lassies brand me a nationalist, bear in mind to love one's country and countrymen is not nationalism. Nor it is racism of any kind.
It was really hard to learn the history of my country without all the grief there is. My people were repeatedly slaughtered by Germans and Russians, but as many times we were beaten, we rose up and stood proud again. In Catholic Polish culture there was no place for laws instituted by our oppressors and although our religion is originally peaceful to the point of being radically pacifist, the people were longing for human-made justice out of their hearts. That's why there are so many uprisings in the history of Poland; unfortunately most of them failed due to lack of resources and allies.
When I learned about the history of Ireland I immediately felt a connection, like if my dead brother was still alive. I started to learn more and became inspired by Irish music, literature and culture. I realised that it compliments Polish culture and it's the other way around as well. I started to translate Irish and Polish patriotic songs (unfortunately English-to-Polish and Polish-to-English, because I couldn't learn an Gaeligh without studying it at the university).
This is my interpretation of the Foggy Dew; after watching this clip I felt I had to put it out here. Let it be my small contribution to our everlasting friendship, so to speak. Stay safe and free, people of Ireland and Poland.
Poranna mgła
Kiedy doliną raz w wielkanocny czas do miłego miasta szedłem w dół,
Biegły tuż obok mnie uzbrojone tyraliery mężczyzn pośród pól.
Nie słyszałem dud, ani bębnów huk z dali nie dobiegał mnie,
Tylko dzwon ponad Liffey, rzeką mą, Anioł Pański bił w porannej mgle.
Wyżej niż dachów szczyt rozwinięto dziś sztandar wojny w miłym Dublinie;
Przecież lepiej jest, albo chociaż fest, temu kto w ojczyźnie ginie.
Zaś od jasnych pól hrabstwa Meath ich sznur ciągnął się jak najsilniejszy wąż,
Gdy brytyjski Hun śród ognistych łun ciągnął ku nam wraz z poranną mgłą.
Pognał Anglik precz dzikie gęsi, lecz wolność innym ludom lot ich niósł,
A od Sulwy [/Suwli] fal aż na Północ w dal, szereg mogił bez ustanku rósł.
O, czy poległ ten, walcząc pod Pearsem, albo tam gdzie Cathal Brugha,
Ich imiona są gdzie fenianie śpią, pod opieką mgły wydarte złu.
Najmężniejszym zgon wieści żalu dzwon, co nad miastem czysto bije,
Wiosna idzie przez świat i na wiele lat zapamięta ją, kto przeżyje;
Kiedy niebo znów waliło się w dół na głowy najdzielniejszych jak zły czar,
Walki podjęli trud, by niewoli chłód razem z mgłą wolności rozdarł żar.
W górę doliną raz w wielkanocny czas szedłem z sercem pełnym smutku,
Bo opuścić mi przyszło ludzi tych, dzielnych i których nie ujrzę już.
Lecz do miasta bram w moich snach wciąż gnam, i za was nadal modlę się,
By niewolny czas już zostawił nas w tej porannej ukochanej mgle.
We all had to struggle to get to where we are. Irish, English, American, German, French... Freedom ain't free and it shouldn't be taken for granted. If you don't protect your freedom someone will take it away from you.
The film Michael Collins from the 1990s got me originally interested in this topic, it's opening sequence is the Easter rising being quelled and the fallout from it. It's good to get the historical background of the Easter rising. Particularly by using the context of this very cool song. one of the best tours I got to take in Ireland revolved around the 1916 Easter rising. Highly recommended.
Great channel!
They ruled with a iron hand 🇮🇪
And brought their reign of terror to our land..
Quick left- crazy Connor McGregor
And than turned into terrorists
That is how you guys know how to differentiate between a war and genocide. Im so grateful that the majority of you Irish support Palestine. To the people of Ireland, thank you so much. Love from Malaysia. ❤
I was born on a Dublin street where the royal drums did beat
And the loving English feet they went all over us
And every single night when me dad would came home tight
He'd invite the neighbors out with this chorus
Come out ye Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Come tell us how you slew them poor Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How you bravely you faced one with your 16-pounder gun
And you frightened them natives to their marrow
Come out ye Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Come let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell
When you thought him well and truly persecuted
Where are the sneers and jeers that you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of '16 were executed?
Come out ye Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Come out ye Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
@Landsman Admiral Ravioli uno the british army killed thousands prob millions of children
@Landsman Admiral Ravioli I dont support what the ira did in the troubles at all but if u think about it the ira were only really bad for like 30, years still dont support that but still and the brits werr at us for like 800 years so just saying
@Landsman Admiral Ravioli tbh I cba either lets just agree to stop
@Landsman Admiral Ravioli good luck
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Its sad, as irish fled during the genocide to America the harsh realization that our struggles were just beginning must have been the proverbial jumping from the kettle into the frying pan. And now as there are more Irish in America it is heart breaking to see the cycle of tyranny continue knowing so many of us are decendants of genocide survivors. And now are so willing to commit the same crimes against others.
Unusual to hear the straight facts on this matter. Well done.
The foggy dew always gives me chills 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I'm glad you mentioned Tom Clarke
I dont watch fighting sports, but I do get adventurous with my music. I was freaking out when I recognized this song for the first time on national TV
I’m proud to be a family descendant of James Connolly. Ty for this video!
My girlfriend is a descendant of James Connolly as well where abouts are you from
Hi my girlfriend is a descendant of James Connolly where are you from
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao killed/massacred less than Cromwell as a percentage of the national population.
And as for Churchill's footprint on death in Ireland, he was equally as bad.
Sorry Chris Taylor, that is not a valid point you make.
Well I was prepared to debate with you but I've just spotted you said Hitler was worse than Stalin and Mao🙄Therefore I've come to the conclusion that you are like the majority of idiots who try to debate such matters through tinted and uneducated glasses. You think Hitler is worse because of the plentiful literature available on the deeds of the Nazis. Instead of watching too much discovery, research. Read, read and read. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
And Ireland supported the Nazis? I'd love to hear your explanation but at the same time I don't😂
@@Oxnaforda eh like the distorted depiction of History that is thought in Brittish schools, the Republic of Ireland was not an entity during or for that matter after the ending of WW2. Also the "Free State" not Republic didn't support Germany but supported their stand on neutrality as did Switzerland and other European countries... but hey I'd not expect a twat like you to comprehend or have the capacity to research your facts first! Muppet!
@@annamhaid4047 no point in engaging with a twat like Chris Taylor, he's ignorant to the facts and brainwashed by the distorted picture of History thought in Brittish schools, hell they have no idea that Churchill was convicted of genocide in India and killed over 1 million...
proud to come from an Irish heritage 🇮🇪
Incognito Seán What the fuck are you talking about? Magic word here is heritage, he never claimed to be Irish. As an Irish person I’d say he’s more than welcome here in Ireland.
Also great research and excellent video, but you missed out on some plantations/ invasions
Edit: also the wild geese were those Gaelic rulers who fled.
Also research IRB
Rip Sinead , very sad loss to Ireland 🇮🇪
NOW ITS LOCKDOWN BLUES! I Love Foggy Dew.. And I was born in England with Nass Co Kildare Ancestors.. Living back in Eire for 20yrs.. RIP Martin McGuiness. (I had the Pleasure of Meeting Him. Lovely Man) Blessed are the Peace Makers.
Brilliant video, was expecting a badly explained history lesson but you got it perfect. 🇮🇪 go raibh mile maith agat🇮🇪 (thank you very much) and Subscribed and Liked!
Hamilton. Scottish PLANTER name.
That’s gangsta! Fightin for what u believe in and what’s rightfully yours at any cost!!! Salute the Irish☘️!! 😂😂😂😂😂
I love how the battle of the boyne was left out of the history lesson lol
O'Neill wrote this after attending the first session of the new Irish parliament in 1919. He was struck hard hearing so many times the response "locked up by the English" when the names of each elected official was announced. Soon after, he wrote The Foggy Dew to commemorate the Easter Rising and the sentiments that many now felt, that the Irish soldiers should have stayed to fight for Irish independence rather than join Britain in WWI.
Great video 🙏🏼
Take note of drums at start... That is the sound of the british gun ship on the liffey firing at the gpo.
I’m Irish American and i feel for my ancestry’s that had to go through this pain
johnperry91 bro you have the whole squad wheezing 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Respect
And then I prayed I yet might see our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be a nation once again.
It is worth noting that the tune of the song originates from John McCormack's song - also named "The foggy dew" from 1913. John's earlier version was a love song tough, hardly close to what it later became.
Respect Ireland from Serbia! FREE NORTHERN IRELAND!! 🇮🇪🇷🇸
Yung Boi respect
up the IRA It’s because they’ve got shite for brains. It’s all they know. 🇮🇪TAL
Informative video of a chapter of history I was unaware of. Thank you.
I’m proud to be Greek and Irish
1:12 That isn't a reference to British troops, it's to the columns of the Old I.R.A marching towards Dublin. They didn't have Fife or Drum as they were a Guerilla Army.
I'm ugly face crying. This was brilliant. Thank you!
Never seen a more accurate video well done
Very well researched , excellent quality and respectfully presented. I'm sure many non-Irish and even some Irish have most certainly benefited from this video.
I was in Dublin recently in a pub McGregor offered me a drink I thought I better accept otherwise I’ll get a smack around the chops ha ha??🏴
Very well put together video honestly awesome, that's a like from me sir
Leave it to Conor mcgregor to teach us a full history lesson in 40 seconds!!!
Great video, not all accounts of what happened are as honest as this, great job on your research.
Fun fact! If you go to the gpo in Dublin there is still bullet holes in the walls and several other landmarks around it
Very well done. It's rare to hear "The Great Irish Famine" being described as it was, genocidal. Grand job boy, grand job!
The third genocide by the Brits
Well said
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao killed/massacred less than Cromwell as a percentage of the population. And as for Churchill's footprint on death in Ireland, he was equally as bad.
If the Irish hadn't joined the Vikings in trying to kill off the English, and very nearly succeding, then the English would have probably left them alone.
@@4BCJesus I've literally never heard that in my entire life, sources?
I highly recommend the film “The wind the shakes the barley” if you’re of Irish heritage or interested in Irish history. ☘️ 🇮🇪
RoadRunner very true, Wind That Shakes the Barley is a masterpiece of a movie ☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪
It's a good film regardless of the historical aspect
Top movie
Beautiful movie😧
Watch “Michael Collins” as well
I remember hearing this for the first time in Irish class. The teacher goes "alright boys, are ye ready. This will make your heart stop and yer blood boil!!". And it's effects haven't worn off every time I hear it 12 years on.
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Irish class, I have it tomorrow. Please kill me
Tiocfaidh a'r la!
Viva Los San Patricios!
HokaHe'
THERE!'
The Gaelic drums and instruments in the sing still send a chill down to my bones
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None of these are "gaelic" only the Clarsach (harp) is 'gaeilic' all the other instruments and song forms are not native to ireland. Period.
@@AAA-fh5kd it’s called a bodhran you muppet 😂 Irish drums
@@csv9454 that is one word for them in gaelic culture but frame drums are not exclusive to irish culture (just like the whistle, banjo, bouzouki, etc were all recent borrows to fake ass cartoon plastic irish) you fudbake. You're a moron not an ethnomusicologist. sit an spin ya blatherskite.
@Nano T. I'm an ethnomusicologist and its all researched. Facts are facts, you cant make up a disneyland culture and call it 'trad'. There are deeper traditions in the u.s. than in fake ass 'itm'.
We irish people are a very proud people that song means alot to the irish people and conor as been a proud irish man knows it.🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Why did he wear a poppy then ? He’s full of shit
@@saoralba5114 yup
Keith Keegan we Irish WERE a very proud people, look around today, Chief
Its wasnt sold to protestants it was sold to th turncoats an given to the protestants .... from what we understand ..... they had no mobile fones back then for everybody to record things an watch it on utube to see th truth ... 🤣😂🤣😂🇮🇪🇮🇪
McGregor's a knacker.
1st time an American has got Irish history right. Great job
We have had similar issues that you Irish have went through we should all know about this history glad to know someone has done their homework and shared it with all
He is Irish and you can hear an accent there but he might live in USA and it made his accent less apparent.
Gustaf no part of his accent sounds irish
@@eggwhite1100 He doesn't sound american at least, he sounds much more canadian which has more Irish influence in their accent.
@@eggwhite1100 eggwhite Not really I got friends from Canada as well and they have a different intonation then americans. He probably lived some time in thle USA so there are only slight differences in his way of speaking.
You can hear it when he for example is saying city which sounds a bit different from how most americans pronounce it.
If blood never dried up, The whole world would be red.
Texas Rising I highly doubt there exists any nation that has no history off ever subjugating another and if there is than the one they formed out of probably did.
Edrich louw woe to the vanquish
Blood is still red even when it dries
it washes away not dries up
The rain washes it away
I believe two flags were raised over the GPO in 1916; one was the tricolour and the other was a green flag with a harp and the words 'Irish Republic' in gold/orange and white lettering on it. This (now tattered) 'Irish Republic' flag was captured by the British and was displayed in the Imperial War Museum in London for many years but was returned to Ireland in 1966 (the 50th anniversary of the uprising) and is now on display in the museum in Collins Barracks Dublin.
And somehow Brits are all bad according to nationalists
@@etherealhawk Yes, the old education system in the Republic taught a virulent Irish nationalism that was very anti-British in its outlook. This has changed now I believe. The Catholic Irish were oppressed by Britain for many years, but then again the working class in Britain, England, Scotland and Wales were also oppressed and mistreated too by the same powers that ran the Empire. I think the new generation in Ireland have a healthier more confident outlook on life without the need to look for oppressors or someone outside to blame.
The flag in my profile pic was also popular with the ICA
@@hunteressthompson5878 i think my great grandfather faught in the Irish citizen army.
Correct
Irish people have warrior blood in their veins. Never kneeling to nobody. Big respect from an Italian dude that loves your history 🇮🇹🍻🇮🇪
Mexican here that loves and respect Ireland, there is also a history of bravery and righteous heroism between Ireland and Mexico; when the Irish Saint Patrick’s battalion turn against the US army that was invading Mexico and fought along side México to avoid US Troops to advance to Mexico City. We shall never forget such an act of heroism shown to our people and country. Vamos Hermanos Irlandeses!!! Vamos!!!!
The Irish hate to see Injustice, having suffered it for centuries from the British. 800 years of it. So they will naturally stand side by side with those being oppressed. Viva México
@@scallywag100 Eh..... :/ invasion is a stretch.. the U.S. had a claim of territory down to the Rio Grande, and Mexico didn't like that, so they shed U.S. blood on the disputed independent territory that was trying to join the U.S, but Mexico wanted the land up to the Nuece River, when the U.S. had a rightful claim to make the Rio Grande the border. The people mad about the Texas dispute still think it rightfully belongs to Mexico.. I can't say that the U.S, with all of it's faults, was responsible for what happened in this instance.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman The land rightfully belonged to Mexico. When land-hungry American settlers started settling in Mexican-owned Texas, Mexico let them; with the exception that slavery would be prohibited. As more land-hungry Americans started to fill up the land of Texas, President Polk further took this opportunity to take the land away from Mexico knowing the US was a stronger nation, and that Mexico had just gotten done fighting off it’s war of independence against Spain and another war against France. Mexico was able to defend itself against two gargantuan powers. The US knew it was weak in that moment and took advantage.
@@Lovemesomemetal yeah.. not quite, but I guess the history is in the mind of the teller, and the truth is in the tale.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman Not quite? What do you mean not quite? Did that part of history just not happen because you choose to not accept it? I simply retold history, nothing about it is made up; yet you still have the nerve to say that.
I'm Greek but I love Ireland! I love its people history and culture and I think we have a lot in common!!! 🇮🇪🇬🇷🇮🇪
Thank you brother 🇮🇪🇬🇷
Appreciate the love brother but when it comes to history, Greece is a colossus staring down at Ireland's "colourful" but bloody past. The philosophies and politics that brought about our Irish Republic can be traced directly to the Greek men who shaped the world as we know it.
@@GerryBolger When you think history, you think Greece well I do for sure. From the myths to the laws the brought us.
I love Greece 🔥🔥🔥 the food the people its like a second home 💯💯💯💯
Marty Mc and the peoples who brought that to Greece came from the east
i’m irish and this brought tears to my eyes, thank you
Ben Lonergan I’m Portuguese and this brought tears to my eyes as well
@@SirFatDuck sort it out 🤣
@@bfc2155 how bout you get a life
@@bfc2155 the amount of comments you have on this vid is a show of how sad your life is
Makes me want to watch The Wind That Shakes the Barley again
If u like that check out Micheal Collins with Liam Neeson
@@keithdeegan462 great movie.
HUP THE BAIS
Great movie!!
Cant watch it anymore it infuriates me!very hard watch
Our blood is the blood of hero’s and martyr’s. When the final day dawns, Ireland will belong to its people. Erin Go Bragh
Sounds like something the Islamic state would say.
The world recognises that the Provisionals are the greatest guerrilla fighters the world has ever seen.
@@SamTheManWhoCanTwice sounds like something an Anglo would say
lá amháin mo chara
But even Mallin prayed for both sides before his execution.