as a redhead I can safely say the reason you don't see too many of us is because we're indoors avoiding sunlight, the natural enemy of gingers everywhere
Not to forget the tons of food shipped out by the british. The fact that they were so devestated by the potato blight was because the small patch of potatoes was all they were allowed to grow for themselves! Tons of food shipped out. Thats why they starved.
The wealthy (Brits of course) were also not allowed to help the Irish with donations or support. Some of the kinder ones started vanity building projects on their estates for locals to work on, as a means of paying them something. I only learned that from a Blindboy pod.
He hasn't a clue accuses people of having no backbone for emigrating during the famine man couldn't understand the meaning of hunger everything is delicious to him😂😂
He hasn't a clue accuses people of having no backbone for emigrating during the famine man couldn't understand the meaning of hunger everything is delicious to him😂😂
Its absolutly amazing that an Irish man does not know that this was genocide!! Shame on our education ministers and education system. There were loads of crops and beef yet they were only for export by greedy landlords. When the potatoes crops failed our oppressors continued to export and let the people die, watch Black 47 which gives an idea of what our ancestors had to put up with.
People scoff at me when I tell them this, but Ireland's famines (and famines generally) are in part responsible for the obesity crisis. DNA studies have shown epigenetic changes in ONE generation that alter how our bodies process calories. So, if your mother spent any part of her pregnancy starved, YOU (the baby she carries at the time) will have a DNA change that you will then potentially pass on to your own children. It's harder to prove in Irish descendants, because starvation occurred long ago and multiple times over multiple periods of time, but in the Netherlands there was a period near the end of WW2 where the population was totally starved. It's called the Dutch Winter Hunger if anyone wants to google more. Studies on those generations showed these changes.
@Josef-EU Of course these things are all in combination, but still we all know people who can eat crap, so no exercise and still maintain a healthy weight. I'm married to one and gave birth to one. The availability of food, and the unnatural eating habits society has created contribute greatly, but they don't explain metabolic differences.
@@interneteditor5258I have Irish and English family and the "Obesity Epidemic" seems to be on the same scale in both places. Any idea why? I know that through the 19th century the average Brit was hardly well fed etc but they hardly had it anywhere near as bad either.
I'm from Derry and grew up during the Troubles and hunger strikes. It is actually pretty cool that some teenager in Iowa was thinking of us and the chaos we were living through back then. So I at least appreciate it, at the time it felt like we were all alone and ignored by the world. Thank teenage you for caring about people far away :)
Never forget it was not just the potatoe blight alone which caused starvation of many poor Irish but also the fact the British crown making it near impossible for poor Catholic Irish to obtain food. Aid being sent from other countries was intercepted and deprived of mainly poor catholic Irish individuals. Iv often heard phrase "that family took the soup" when referring too Protestant families who supposedly had changed from Catholic to Protestant in order to be given food from soup kitchens enforced by British crown
Proud of my dad who made sure I knew my history even from the US. My grandparents (and dad) and all their siblings came here in the late 40s and 50s after the war.
Time to get over it... Litterly no one involved is alive today... You're holding a grudge when it has zero to do with ya.. You don't give a fuck about most of the people that surround ya in you're daily life
I love when people are like oh God here we go again and I don’t bother to entertain them, but I do think to myself. I wonder how my grandpa would feel Jimmy Thompson pond hearing that comment or seeing someone about it considering he watched his family be slaughtered entire village by the British for breaking the crown law, he barely escaped his life. A British officer sliced off two of his fingers when he was six for having a piece of bread in his pocket with knowing around to say he didn’t steal it… You keep telling my friend even if people like this exist but I bet you when you talk about slavery or the Jews and Nazi Germany she cries and rips at her clothes.#IRISHHISTORY
Twas great craic growing up as a picky eater with a dad from Moycullen, Galway. I quote: "what we neeeeed is another famine". If I'd a spud for every time I heard that!
Firstly, love the vids…you’re hilarious. I get the feeling you’re into your history, if you could do some longer form history videos, with your comics take, I think it would be good
Hazel ☘️ Be careful … if all our Irish descendants came to visit at the same time 1) there would standing room only on this Emerald Isle 2) we would SINK 😂😂😂 SO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR DELICIOUS , 🙏☘️😘
I've just stumbled upon this video, but it's great to finally see a regular Irish guy talk about Ireland, as opposed to the "ho di hi, hor r ya mi owl flower" kind of act. We just don't go on like that with each other and it's so pander-y to 'Muricas. It would be great to see a video debunking myths, stereotypes or lists like this! New sub anyway!
I absolutely loved the facts. It is so much fun learning more about Ireland, seeing the sights, learning about the food. I am proud to say that I’m 25%🍀❤from 🇺🇸
My dad is absolutely obsessed with our Irish ancestry. He thought he was 3rd generation until he was in his 70s, only to discover that for several generations back our people were coal minors on the east coast of America (we grew up in the west coast). He was crushed, but still believes strongly that the heart of our family is Irish. But yeah my name is Peggy Kelley, so something was going on there. When I visited Ireland I didn't mention any of this because it seems embarrassing to claim a country you didn't grow up in, but a rather creepy older man bought me drinks on Kilronan because of my name. I'm sure that's why I got all of those free drinks. He also wanted me to give him a hair cut, but that's another story.
Also, there's a great book called How the Irish Saved Civilization. It's about how the monks in said country copied down and protected literature during the Middle Ages when everyone else was brutish and didn't care about reading.
@lesleymccolgan5797 it was an attempt to get me back to his house, which I did not take him up on. I was with friends and they went. From their stories about vodka, I'm glad I skipped the "haircut." Looking back, it's the most bizarre way to invite someone to your place. His name was Colm, and he was pretty old at the time - 20yrs ago, so either island life did a number on his looks, or he's at least 80.
My grandads family left Galway for England during the famine aa they were farmers and couldn't survive. I still have the deeds receipt for the sale of their farm land in Coill Sáile. Which was huge.
You forgot the part where the British forced the tenant farmers to surrender what meager crop they brought in so that they could export it. They did the same with grain and when people started dying they helped subsidize ships to the US to get rid of the Irish troublemakers. Unfortunately they took all of the Irish guns in the previous uprising.
Would you, with respect Garron, think about a small shout out to the Chocataw and their links to ourselves which have lasted to do this day? Just a thought?
And back during Covid when the Irish raised millions for the Native American peoples in memory of the Choctaw. There's a great story for a video there alright
You can get the pronunciation by reading the irish. Muckanna eder daw hawlia Muk-ina-edder-daw-hawlia Mukin-edderda-hawlia Muckin/edder/d/hawlia It rhymes with " fuckin better than all-of-ye"
Potatoes are incredibly hardy, so they make loads of sense! As a staple, they’ve helped the poor all over the world stave off starvation. No shade thrown at Ireland for relying on such a good choice!
Yeah, Irish farmers were renters of land taken by the English, they didn’t get the luxury of choosing the crops they grew. Potatoes grew fast and sold well for export, so that’s what they were forced to mainly grow. And then when the blight came and fucked every potato crop, they didn’t exactly turn around and go “well, that was a bad choice let’s see how we can help”, they pretty much just went “well you can’t pay your rent so you can fuck off and die or hey, here’s a sweetheart deal to fuck off to Australia or Canada and die there”.
(I’m the descendant of an Irish famine victim transported to Australia, and a Scottish family who lost their own farms during the Highland clearances, which was the same fucking set of events exactly but in northern Scotland.)
The British used the famine as a way to control the native Irish and poor farmers and tennets to establish a stronger British presence in a way it was efnic cleansing.
Interesting ... my parents were born before 1945 & were around in 1952, but never mentioned living through the Famine. There was rationing during the war apparently, and they did mention that, but never the Famine.
The longest place name is pronounced VERY approximately as "mwikkin-yukh-idjir-ghaw-hawlya" (muicineach idir dhá sháile), known locally as just "muicineach"
And down here in Wexford we’d pronounce it differently, but since it’s from galway, the connacht dialect pronunciation is probably best. Isn’t the muicineach from the word Muc, for Pig? Doesn’t that make the town name piggy or porky or something like that?
Interesting. What's the full spelling? Would like to look it up on maps and see where in Galway it is exactly? I courier in Connemara and I think I might have actually delivered a parcel there 😅
@@Lepanto2024 ah ok cool yeah I did see a parcel for that place alright but I gave it to the other driver that covers the south of Connemara. I cover the wild wild north part.
I live in Chicago And I remember a good handful of Irish who were in Chicago and working returned to Ireland I think it was early mid 90’s There were a large community in the s/w suburbs , so many the local white hen pantry actually sold the sausage and pudding and bacon , I loved that stuff, not sure where they went but they’re not there anymore, but a few I personally knew went back don’t know why but they were in they’re late 20’ early 30’
The tragic thing about Irish Whiskey is that it depended largely on export to the US in the early years of the 20th century. Prohibition in the US killed the industry of Irish distilling which did not happen to the Scottish version as severely. At one time there were distilleries in every town in Ireland but many closed down, ending up with only 2 distilleries. Bushmills and Irish Distillers. Now many small craft beer and whiskey makers are making a comeback.
Also, there was a paper published that said the famine would have had the same impact on us as it had on the UK and the rest of Europe if we didn't have the penal laws
Well I hope you're happy... just sent this to my whole contact list in my phone. So if you're out there Briana from the bar that left me with the tab and never called again, this one's for you. Not sure why it's for you though... Anyway love your channel Garron. Cheers from Oklahoma.
I prefer Irish whiskey. I was in a lesbian bar in San Francisco (it was really an open, neighborhood bar, but it’s a traditional lesbian hangout.) I ordered a shot of Jameson. Bartender says she’s out of that. Bushmills, then. Out of that, too. Any Irish whisky? Afraid not. What kind of bar are you running here? The bartender said I could go get a bottle from the liquor store across the street. I said, “Really? Is that OK?” She said it was fine. I go out and come back in with my bottle. I’m sitting out on the back patio and a waitress walks by and sees me with this bottle and shouts, “What’s that?! You can’t bring outside alcohol in here! Get out! Get out!” I was about to object because the bartender had given me permission to do this, but I realized that this might get her into trouble, so I kept my mouth shut. So I’m walking out and pass a buddy sitting at the bar and he asks me where I’m going. I said, “I just got kicked out.” I’m standing outside on the sidewalk and my buddy comes out and asks what happened. I said, “It’s a long story.” He asked, “Are you alright?” I replied, “Well, it’s after midnight; I’m standing on the streets of San Francisco; I just got 86’ed from a lesbian bar; and I’ve got a nearly full bottle of Jameson. All things considered, things are going very well.” He says, “Alright, so a pretty typical night for you.”
I think more specifically the reason Ireland (and to a slightly lesser extent Britain which is where I’m from, I know, I’m sorry, it wasn’t me) is light on reptiles is because the last time they weren’t islands it was an ice age and reptiles are famous for not liking the cold. This is why we used to have all the big mammals that they have on the mainland but Britain only managed three snakes and a couple of lizards and Ireland only the one lizard.
I mean, lots of things were grown but the Irish would be openly killed by the British 'owners' if they ate that stuff, that was exclusively for export to/for them. Hence the anger towards the British over that, mentioned on that point in the article.
My ancestor left Ireland because he was as a Patriot and the British put a price on his head. Not making that up. The family came from Cork. When I visited the Irish Center in San Francisco, people who hadn’t heard me speak would ask what county I came from and I would tell them resulting in total embarrassment for my friends who brought me there. California has Counties but they mostly have Spanish names. That might fall into the gob shite category I suppose.
Random suggestion since you asked for them, and since you're from the west of Ireland... You should do a video on something related to the Irish language. I'm doing my Masters in Irish and it'd give me something close to heart to laugh at for once because everything else about Irish is so friggin serious and academic all the time.
This is a fantastic idea. I've been trying to learn some Irish for just over a year with little resources - duolingo, focloir, abair youtube - since there aren't many options in Canada unless ya have the grade and money to study, which I do not. Formal study was never really my thing anyway but trying to learn Irish has been one of the best things I've ever done. 😀
@@drewc981 I started learning Irish on Duolingo five years ago, actually. That's a great way to start! I have a love/hate relationship with it at this point, because at a certain point, I realized if I was serious, I'd have to treat it like a second full time job in order to actually learn it. Since I can't find anyone in a Gaeltacht to adult-adopt me, I've done it largely on my own. Now I'm doing my MA from UCC Cork, so if you're serious about it, you can really make a lot of progress (schedule in a few mental breakdowns to swear in English and Irish though). I definitely commend you for learning it because it truly deserves to be saved in my opinion (or destroyed altogether because it's so insanely horrible... Depends on my mood that day 😂).
@@pixiwix I absolutely agree Irish deserves to be saved and encouraged. I could never claim that Irish is my language even despite ancestry dating back to 1900 but it's worth the effort - even and especially if part of the point of it is to understand wonderful and often historical music as Gaeilge.
@@fieldagentryan interesting bit of history there, though not exactly sure why you posted it Edit. Oh now I see. Well he had a differing opinion of Irish and that's okay and he's dead and Irish still lives.
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
@@Garron_Music Actually, I learned from a Father Ted episode once upon a time that the Church in Ireland secretly had loads of potatoes during the famine, and hid them in pillows and sold them abroad at potato fairs. The Pope closed the factories making the potatoes and turned them into prisons for children. So really, when you factor in everything, the causes were Legion...
@@Garron_Music but your video title was “..Facts..” I luv facts. Just luv them! I can eat them with a spoon. Put “Facts” in a TH-cam channel post and I will view them every time. I’m a total Fact Geek.
Thankfully we had the majesty of uncle Garron to blow our minds, since the subject matter did not. Gotta go watch it through again, I'm only on my 7th, buh-bye.
That 11th one is inaccurate. Fixed surnames were a thing in Ireland long before most of Europe. The whole point of "Ó" in names is to claim descent from some significant ancestor, after all. Nah, the funny thing about names, and you'll find it in the west in particular, is that it's not uncommon to have "family first names" that are completely different from their actual names. And these wouldn't be nicknames; they'd be first names that've somehow gotten associated with a particular family. And there's something similar with surnames where to distingush two families with the same surname, one of them might get referred to with a completely different surname and it can be for the oddest of reasons like the fact that the land they're on used to be owned by a family with that name or they've a neighbour with that surname.
We were a net exporter of food during the great potato famine. The English wanted their cut. If you didn’t give the tax, you’d be kicked off your farm. Half the population died of starvation
My ancestors came from the McDoodle Googin clan. We are from Cork. I’m so gaddam Irish I can’t get enough of my self. I eat lucky charms every day. We just love the Irish.
I'm actually Irish and live in Cork and I've never heard either of those names before. I just looked it up and Googin is English from Kent. McDoodle is Scottish. Lucky Charms are not Irish they are American.
Defo have snakes where I live there are two on my patio as we speak each around 4 foot long. Why dont I move to ireland immediately ..... Oh I know I can't get to the gate
as a redhead I can safely say the reason you don't see too many of us is because we're indoors avoiding sunlight, the natural enemy of gingers everywhere
thats not redheads thats just irish people in general
Most other crops at that time were shipped to England and that's why so many people died.. when I say "shipped" I mean taken!
Britain, not just England. Don't let the Scottish off.
Along with cattle, sheep, and fowl, barley and oats were shipped everyday.
The blight that caused the Irish potatoe famine is called Britain.. thats why they call it old Blighty 😂 I think I made that last bit up
Sounds good to me!
@@brilafable It’s an example of typical post-imperial British self-effacement.
According to Wikipedia.
What a beautiful sentence
Pretty good though
Funny it's actually named Galar in Pokémon - the Irish word for disease or blight.
If that's your level of makey uppy, feel free to make up anything at any time. It was very clever.
Plenty Snakes disguised as Politicians
Not to forget the tons of food shipped out by the british. The fact that they were so devestated by the potato blight was because the small patch of potatoes was all they were allowed to grow for themselves! Tons of food shipped out. Thats why they starved.
The wealthy (Brits of course) were also not allowed to help the Irish with donations or support. Some of the kinder ones started vanity building projects on their estates for locals to work on, as a means of paying them something. I only learned that from a Blindboy pod.
He hasn't a clue accuses people of having no backbone for emigrating during the famine man couldn't understand the meaning of hunger everything is delicious to him😂😂
He hasn't a clue accuses people of having no backbone for emigrating during the famine man couldn't understand the meaning of hunger everything is delicious to him😂😂
@@YourDad-h8uyou do realize he was very clearly joking about that right?
@@YourDad-h8u Dude, get a grip.
Its absolutly amazing that an Irish man does not know that this was genocide!! Shame on our education ministers and education system. There were loads of crops and beef yet they were only for export by greedy landlords. When the potatoes crops failed our oppressors continued to export and let the people die, watch Black 47 which gives an idea of what our ancestors had to put up with.
The british stopped & stole aid at sea coming to Ireland from America
People scoff at me when I tell them this, but Ireland's famines (and famines generally) are in part responsible for the obesity crisis. DNA studies have shown epigenetic changes in ONE generation that alter how our bodies process calories. So, if your mother spent any part of her pregnancy starved, YOU (the baby she carries at the time) will have a DNA change that you will then potentially pass on to your own children. It's harder to prove in Irish descendants, because starvation occurred long ago and multiple times over multiple periods of time, but in the Netherlands there was a period near the end of WW2 where the population was totally starved. It's called the Dutch Winter Hunger if anyone wants to google more. Studies on those generations showed these changes.
@Josef-EU Of course these things are all in combination, but still we all know people who can eat crap, so no exercise and still maintain a healthy weight. I'm married to one and gave birth to one. The availability of food, and the unnatural eating habits society has created contribute greatly, but they don't explain metabolic differences.
You are right about people scoffing these days (hence the obesity) but sadly not about much else.
@@extramild1 Well I am sure you've read the research and made a fully informed opinion, which we are all entitled to do.
Yep
@@interneteditor5258I have Irish and English family and the "Obesity Epidemic" seems to be on the same scale in both places. Any idea why? I know that through the 19th century the average Brit was hardly well fed etc but they hardly had it anywhere near as bad either.
"Half the stuff I say on my TikTok is just to piss people off." And this one reason you're delicious.
As an American who is passionate about our history, I want to thank you Irish for coming to settle our family disagreement in 1861-1865.
As a teenager in Iowa I was obsessed with "The Troubles" & Bobby Sands. I even kept a scrapbook. Why? No idea. It was just me then.
Troubled teenager
Smooth!
Without historians who are we ?
well done
I'm from Derry and grew up during the Troubles and hunger strikes. It is actually pretty cool that some teenager in Iowa was thinking of us and the chaos we were living through back then. So I at least appreciate it, at the time it felt like we were all alone and ignored by the world. Thank teenage you for caring about people far away :)
They all went blind shat themselves and died horrible deaths, for uniforms and prisoner status. Prides a horrible thing, but so was Maggie thatcher
1945 to 1952. Christ I lived through the famine, so that’s why I had no spuds with the Sunday roast.
You sir are a gem, never change.
Never forget it was not just the potatoe blight alone which caused starvation of many poor Irish but also the fact the British crown making it near impossible for poor Catholic Irish to obtain food. Aid being sent from other countries was intercepted and deprived of mainly poor catholic Irish individuals.
Iv often heard phrase "that family took the soup" when referring too Protestant families who supposedly had changed from Catholic to Protestant in order to be given food from soup kitchens enforced by British crown
Proud of my dad who made sure I knew my history even from the US. My grandparents (and dad) and all their siblings came here in the late 40s and 50s after the war.
1942-1952. Might need to redo that one
My grandparents left Mayo for Philadelphia in the early 1920s and returned when the economy got better.
No Famine it was Genocide
And we're off....
But it was though. You can't cover your ears forever @Soosmoo69
Time to get over it... Litterly no one involved is alive today... You're holding a grudge when it has zero to do with ya.. You don't give a fuck about most of the people that surround ya in you're daily life
I love when people are like oh God here we go again and I don’t bother to entertain them, but I do think to myself. I wonder how my grandpa would feel Jimmy Thompson pond hearing that comment or seeing someone about it considering he watched his family be slaughtered entire village by the British for breaking the crown law, he barely escaped his life. A British officer sliced off two of his fingers when he was six for having a piece of bread in his pocket with knowing around to say he didn’t steal it… You keep telling my friend even if people like this exist but I bet you when you talk about slavery or the Jews and Nazi Germany she cries and rips at her clothes.#IRISHHISTORY
@@kellylittke3560 Here we go again... and we're off!
Such a great video!!! Thank you, Nicha!!!
Fantastic video, thanks! From one of your Irish-American fans.
Twas great craic growing up as a picky eater with a dad from Moycullen, Galway. I quote: "what we neeeeed is another famine". If I'd a spud for every time I heard that!
Love your show. Visited North and South had a really good time.
Thank you for this! You are such a joy to listen to for humour and this educational video probably hits some people stronger than you know. Peace!
Firstly, love the vids…you’re hilarious. I get the feeling you’re into your history, if you could do some longer form history videos, with your comics take, I think it would be good
Keep up the good work, G.
Hazel ☘️
Be careful … if all our Irish descendants came to visit at the same time
1) there would standing room only on this Emerald Isle
2) we would SINK 😂😂😂
SO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR DELICIOUS ,
🙏☘️😘
I've just stumbled upon this video, but it's great to finally see a regular Irish guy talk about Ireland, as opposed to the "ho di hi, hor r ya mi owl flower" kind of act. We just don't go on like that with each other and it's so pander-y to 'Muricas.
It would be great to see a video debunking myths, stereotypes or lists like this!
New sub anyway!
Brilliant 😊
Great stuff lad
I absolutely loved the facts. It is so much fun learning more about Ireland, seeing the sights, learning about the food. I am proud to say that I’m 25%🍀❤from 🇺🇸
Which 25% of you is Irish? I'm mostly Irish in my feet which is evident by the way I walk.
@@middlemore-brendonMy Irishness percentage is mostly in the sausage area, which is why I'm hung like Shergar. I call it my Irish third leg.
@@mattkinsella9856funnily enough, Ireland has one of the lower average penis sizes in the west, so that’s probably not the boast you think it is.
My dad is absolutely obsessed with our Irish ancestry. He thought he was 3rd generation until he was in his 70s, only to discover that for several generations back our people were coal minors on the east coast of America (we grew up in the west coast). He was crushed, but still believes strongly that the heart of our family is Irish. But yeah my name is Peggy Kelley, so something was going on there.
When I visited Ireland I didn't mention any of this because it seems embarrassing to claim a country you didn't grow up in, but a rather creepy older man bought me drinks on Kilronan because of my name. I'm sure that's why I got all of those free drinks. He also wanted me to give him a hair cut, but that's another story.
Also, there's a great book called How the Irish Saved Civilization. It's about how the monks in said country copied down and protected literature during the Middle Ages when everyone else was brutish and didn't care about reading.
As a retired hairdresser I insist you spill the tea!
@lesleymccolgan5797 it was an attempt to get me back to his house, which I did not take him up on. I was with friends and they went. From their stories about vodka, I'm glad I skipped the "haircut." Looking back, it's the most bizarre way to invite someone to your place. His name was Colm, and he was pretty old at the time - 20yrs ago, so either island life did a number on his looks, or he's at least 80.
Many top European universities were founded by Irish monks.
irush were literate and in a mission to spread Christianity to Europe.@@pilgrimonfire
Also I super enjoyed this video.
80 million. You would never get a taxi in town on a Saturday night. Plus the national dish is spice bag.
Your accent makes everything funnier to me. Great video would be great as a podcast also
Love your videos, Garron. I'm from the Irish border area, but consider myself 100% Irish.
Definitely get up to do the Titanic tour!!! It was brilliant before the refurbishment……way better now. It’s a must!! 4:55
You have a new subscriber! I really enjoyed your video. Will check out more of them!
My grandads family left Galway for England during the famine aa they were farmers and couldn't survive. I still have the deeds receipt for the sale of their farm land in Coill Sáile. Which was huge.
Oh my word please do more longer videos
LOVE
5:46 I nearly pissed myself laughing and totally agree!
You forgot the part where the British forced the tenant farmers to surrender what meager crop they brought in so that they could export it. They did the same with grain and when people started dying they helped subsidize ships to the US to get rid of the Irish troublemakers. Unfortunately they took all of the Irish guns in the previous uprising.
Would you, with respect Garron, think about a small shout out to the Chocataw and their links to ourselves which have lasted to do this day? Just a thought?
And back during Covid when the Irish raised millions for the Native American peoples in memory of the Choctaw. There's a great story for a video there alright
My family started fleeing Mayo from around famine time. until about the 1950s.
Id like to see a video the best Irish chocolate
Just over 5 million ❤❤❤
You can get the pronunciation by reading the irish.
Muckanna eder daw hawlia
Muk-ina-edder-daw-hawlia
Mukin-edderda-hawlia
Muckin/edder/d/hawlia
It rhymes with " fuckin better than all-of-ye"
Potatoes are incredibly hardy, so they make loads of sense! As a staple, they’ve helped the poor all over the world stave off starvation. No shade thrown at Ireland for relying on such a good choice!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Apostles_of_Ireland
He didn't mention that most of the food produced in Ireland was exported to England during this time (not by choice of the Irish).
Yeah, Irish farmers were renters of land taken by the English, they didn’t get the luxury of choosing the crops they grew. Potatoes grew fast and sold well for export, so that’s what they were forced to mainly grow.
And then when the blight came and fucked every potato crop, they didn’t exactly turn around and go “well, that was a bad choice let’s see how we can help”, they pretty much just went “well you can’t pay your rent so you can fuck off and die or hey, here’s a sweetheart deal to fuck off to Australia or Canada and die there”.
(I’m the descendant of an Irish famine victim transported to Australia, and a Scottish family who lost their own farms during the Highland clearances, which was the same fucking set of events exactly but in northern Scotland.)
People wonder why we love watching the English get their arses handed to them in any sporting event with any other country 😂
The British used the famine as a way to control the native Irish and poor farmers and tennets to establish a stronger British presence in a way it was efnic cleansing.
We cannot get enough Garron in that tiny square. #needmoreGarron
Your expressions are ticklers to me!!! The spicer the better.!!!
Enjoyed learning about Ireland 👍🏻
Yup
Interesting ... my parents were born before 1945 & were around in 1952, but never mentioned living through the Famine. There was rationing during the war apparently, and they did mention that, but never the Famine.
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We used to have wolves and Bears they have some bite boyo.
The longest place name is pronounced VERY approximately as "mwikkin-yukh-idjir-ghaw-hawlya" (muicineach idir dhá sháile), known locally as just "muicineach"
And down here in Wexford we’d pronounce it differently, but
since it’s from galway, the connacht dialect pronunciation is probably best. Isn’t the muicineach from the word Muc, for Pig? Doesn’t that make the town name piggy or porky or something like that?
Interesting. What's the full spelling? Would like to look it up on maps and see where in Galway it is exactly? I courier in Connemara and I think I might have actually delivered a parcel there 😅
@@Lepanto2024 ah ok cool yeah I did see a parcel for that place alright but I gave it to the other driver that covers the south of Connemara. I cover the wild wild north part.
And as with most famines it could've been prevented 😔
I live in Chicago
And I remember a good handful of Irish who were in Chicago and working returned to Ireland
I think it was early mid 90’s
There were a large community in the s/w suburbs , so many the local white hen pantry actually sold the sausage and pudding and bacon , I loved that stuff, not sure where they went but they’re not there anymore, but a few I personally knew went back don’t know why but they were in they’re late 20’ early 30’
That was when our economy started to improve. Irish people always want to go home.
Irish whiskey spelled with a -key at the end, Scottish whisky just -ky at the end. How did they miss that one?
The tragic thing about Irish Whiskey is that it depended largely on export to the US in the early years of the 20th century. Prohibition in the US killed the industry of Irish distilling which did not happen to the Scottish version as severely. At one time there were distilleries in every town in Ireland but many closed down, ending up with only 2 distilleries. Bushmills and Irish Distillers. Now many small craft beer and whiskey makers are making a comeback.
“From 1945 to 1952!” 👌🤣🤣
My Mayo brother you are the undisputed king of taking the piss!! ❤❤
Also, there was a paper published that said the famine would have had the same impact on us as it had on the UK and the rest of Europe if we didn't have the penal laws
Oh shucks! St Patrick must have come to Kodiak Alaska, too! We also are snake- & serious bug-less!
I used to ship stuff to Ireland when they didn't (apparently didn't, anyway) have postal codes at the end of their addresses.
Well I hope you're happy... just sent this to my whole contact list in my phone. So if you're out there Briana from the bar that left me with the tab and never called again, this one's for you. Not sure why it's for you though... Anyway love your channel Garron. Cheers from Oklahoma.
More town reviews
My son has just emigrated to Ireland.
The smallest area name is in County Offaly it’s called,The wood of “O”.
I prefer Irish whiskey. I was in a lesbian bar in San Francisco (it was really an open, neighborhood bar, but it’s a traditional lesbian hangout.) I ordered a shot of Jameson. Bartender says she’s out of that. Bushmills, then. Out of that, too. Any Irish whisky? Afraid not. What kind of bar are you running here? The bartender said I could go get a bottle from the liquor store across the street. I said, “Really? Is that OK?” She said it was fine. I go out and come back in with my bottle. I’m sitting out on the back patio and a waitress walks by and sees me with this bottle and shouts, “What’s that?! You can’t bring outside alcohol in here! Get out! Get out!” I was about to object because the bartender had given me permission to do this, but I realized that this might get her into trouble, so I kept my mouth shut. So I’m walking out and pass a buddy sitting at the bar and he asks me where I’m going. I said, “I just got kicked out.” I’m standing outside on the sidewalk and my buddy comes out and asks what happened. I said, “It’s a long story.” He asked, “Are you alright?” I replied, “Well, it’s after midnight; I’m standing on the streets of San Francisco; I just got 86’ed from a lesbian bar; and I’ve got a nearly full bottle of Jameson. All things considered, things are going very well.” He says, “Alright, so a pretty typical night for you.”
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“O” and the longest name are such interesting facts as an Irish person ❤❤❤
The Irish were the first people in Europe since dark ages to have surnames based on family as opposed to trade
5th like 😜😁
My partner left the mighty Mayo when cereal (cheerio’s ) hit 4.5 euro
I think more specifically the reason Ireland (and to a slightly lesser extent Britain which is where I’m from, I know, I’m sorry, it wasn’t me) is light on reptiles is because the last time they weren’t islands it was an ice age and reptiles are famous for not liking the cold. This is why we used to have all the big mammals that they have on the mainland but Britain only managed three snakes and a couple of lizards and Ireland only the one lizard.
Garron djanowhot. Your fiersh shayrt
I always thought O' was Irish and Mac was Scottish. Learned something.
I want garron's 12 most interesting Irish facts that will blow your mind
Not a famine if food exports increase year over year. Not only that, but steerage berths to from Cork to the US and Canada were provided for free.
Ngl, wish my ancestors had stuck with it instead of dipping out during hard times bc I'm not good at managing during this 38°C weather
I want to move there. ❤❤❤
No snakes or spiders and everyone is a funny smartass. I love it. Its green. Is weed legal in Ireland?
I mean, lots of things were grown but the Irish would be openly killed by the British 'owners' if they ate that stuff, that was exclusively for export to/for them. Hence the anger towards the British over that, mentioned on that point in the article.
My ancestor left Ireland because he was as a Patriot and the British put a price on his head. Not making that up. The family came from Cork. When I visited the Irish Center in San Francisco, people who hadn’t heard me speak would ask what county I came from and I would tell them resulting in total embarrassment for my friends who brought me there. California has Counties but they mostly have Spanish names. That might fall into the gob shite category I suppose.
In 2020 an irish man actually had the first recorded snake bite in ireland.
#3: anyone know what street that is? Belfast somewhere?
Random suggestion since you asked for them, and since you're from the west of Ireland... You should do a video on something related to the Irish language. I'm doing my Masters in Irish and it'd give me something close to heart to laugh at for once because everything else about Irish is so friggin serious and academic all the time.
This is a fantastic idea. I've been trying to learn some Irish for just over a year with little resources - duolingo, focloir, abair youtube - since there aren't many options in Canada unless ya have the grade and money to study, which I do not. Formal study was never really my thing anyway but trying to learn Irish has been one of the best things I've ever done. 😀
@@drewc981 I started learning Irish on Duolingo five years ago, actually. That's a great way to start! I have a love/hate relationship with it at this point, because at a certain point, I realized if I was serious, I'd have to treat it like a second full time job in order to actually learn it. Since I can't find anyone in a Gaeltacht to adult-adopt me, I've done it largely on my own. Now I'm doing my MA from UCC Cork, so if you're serious about it, you can really make a lot of progress (schedule in a few mental breakdowns to swear in English and Irish though). I definitely commend you for learning it because it truly deserves to be saved in my opinion (or destroyed altogether because it's so insanely horrible... Depends on my mood that day 😂).
@@pixiwix I absolutely agree Irish deserves to be saved and encouraged. I could never claim that Irish is my language even despite ancestry dating back to 1900 but it's worth the effort - even and especially if part of the point of it is to understand wonderful and often historical music as Gaeilge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell
@@fieldagentryan interesting bit of history there, though not exactly sure why you posted it Edit. Oh now I see. Well he had a differing opinion of Irish and that's okay and he's dead and Irish still lives.
I’m with bacon and cabbage
Potato 🥔? Not the only reason for the famine.
Lets just tip toe around the ol genocide sure
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
@@Garron_Music Actually, I learned from a Father Ted episode once upon a time that the Church in Ireland secretly had loads of potatoes during the famine, and hid them in pillows and sold them abroad at potato fairs. The Pope closed the factories making the potatoes and turned
them into prisons for children.
So really, when you factor in everything, the causes were Legion...
@@Garron_Music but your video title was “..Facts..” I luv facts. Just luv them! I can eat them with a spoon. Put “Facts” in a TH-cam channel post and I will view them every time. I’m a total Fact Geek.
You sound exactlly like my dad, he's from Bonniconlon, hi from Donegal, you are indeed delicious 👍
EM-igrated. Very important difference.
Thankfully we had the majesty of uncle Garron to blow our minds, since the subject matter did not. Gotta go watch it through again, I'm only on my 7th, buh-bye.
What is the most famous castle in Mayo?
600000 tons of food shipped out in the first two years of the famine. The urish grew a lot if food. However they did not own.
Oh jaysus, I know that place name! Phonetically it's "micky-knock-idger-guh-haulya" (again, the Galway father)
A hill between two sea loughs.
For the algorithm #moneyforgarron
It's Derry 😂
Howya gettin on. 500,000 of the Irish emigrants live in my province and still have strong Irish culture, music and sayings.
Descendant of quitters here.😂😂 I still can't take a little hunger.
Yes my parents left in early 70s no work .
Interesting to see how your channel has changed from interestingly historical to don't give a fuck. Good mam.
That 11th one is inaccurate. Fixed surnames were a thing in Ireland long before most of Europe. The whole point of "Ó" in names is to claim descent from some significant ancestor, after all.
Nah, the funny thing about names, and you'll find it in the west in particular, is that it's not uncommon to have "family first names" that are completely different from their actual names. And these wouldn't be nicknames; they'd be first names that've somehow gotten associated with a particular family. And there's something similar with surnames where to distingush two families with the same surname, one of them might get referred to with a completely different surname and it can be for the oddest of reasons like the fact that the land they're on used to be owned by a family with that name or they've a neighbour with that surname.
We were a net exporter of food during the great potato famine. The English wanted their cut. If you didn’t give the tax, you’d be kicked off your farm. Half the population died of starvation
My ancestors came from the McDoodle Googin clan. We are from Cork. I’m so gaddam Irish I can’t get enough of my self. I eat lucky charms every day. We just love the Irish.
I'm actually Irish and live in Cork and I've never heard either of those names before. I just looked it up and Googin is English from Kent. McDoodle is Scottish. Lucky Charms are not Irish they are American.
Well played
Some places still use famine as a weapon. Could point to a place but Im sure anyone with a soul knows where.
Defo have snakes where I live there are two on my patio as we speak each around 4 foot long. Why dont I move to ireland immediately ..... Oh I know I can't get to the gate