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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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +35

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

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 Před 5 lety +2

      Swett contact me Gary hynes black pool cork city Ireland 0861686422

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 Před 5 lety +2

      Where can I find swett

    • @keithkeegan9776
      @keithkeegan9776 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

      N M true

  • @RiversXXVII
    @RiversXXVII Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +14

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

    • @joker1087
      @joker1087 Před 4 lety +22

      both share a similar history. Makes us kin

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +18

      Catholic brothers ❤

    • @Bthunder560
      @Bthunder560 Před 4 lety +26

      Irish and Spanish were usually on the same side.

    • @anwjuice
      @anwjuice Před 4 lety +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

  • @harmonymitcham2857
    @harmonymitcham2857 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety +11

      Thanks Harmony Mitcham 🇮🇪Much love🇺🇸 ✌

    • @maxgamer3121
      @maxgamer3121 Před 3 lety +8

      Yeah and beutiful people too.

    • @fradrake11
      @fradrake11 Před 3 lety +11

      Go raibh maith agat 💚

    • @lawliet2263
      @lawliet2263 Před 2 lety +2

      Potato famine sounds so funny

    • @oisinotoole9073
      @oisinotoole9073 Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @High_rise12
    @High_rise12 Před 4 lety +885

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

    • @jackbasquille5481
      @jackbasquille5481 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @nntflow7058
      @nntflow7058 Před 4 lety +23

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

    • @spartanx9293
      @spartanx9293 Před 4 lety

      @Unknown2234 Unknown they did not

    • @lililolo9304
      @lililolo9304 Před 4 lety

      Haha I couldn’t agree more

  • @MonarchPoolPlaster
    @MonarchPoolPlaster Před 4 lety +238

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

  • @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
    @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      That’s fantastic

    • @thebee8415
      @thebee8415 Před rokem

      That’s fantastic

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 Před 11 měsíci

      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 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 Před 11 měsíci

      @@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Oh lol well then you.

  • @thebee8415
    @thebee8415 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před 4 lety +43

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

  • @_space.monkey
    @_space.monkey Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @saxglend9439
      @saxglend9439 Před rokem

      That makes you Irish

    • @englishspacitel258
      @englishspacitel258 Před měsícem +1

      Sl@v€€€€€

  • @simonstewart5685
    @simonstewart5685 Před 5 lety +189

    100% irish and proud

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 Před 5 lety +1

      Word where can I find swett

    • @Snakexkiller1
      @Snakexkiller1 Před 5 lety +1

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

    • @Squiggles..
      @Squiggles.. Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

      I'm 100% Irish and not so proud.

  • @felixnite_2462
    @felixnite_2462 Před 4 lety +48

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

  • @mohamedly5557
    @mohamedly5557 Před 8 měsíci +3

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

  • @williamsullivan3702
    @williamsullivan3702 Před 5 lety +169

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

    • @richardrich1384
      @richardrich1384 Před 5 lety +26

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

    • @seanmurphy6106
      @seanmurphy6106 Před 5 lety +30

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

    • @richardrich1384
      @richardrich1384 Před 5 lety +13

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

    • @williamsullivan3702
      @williamsullivan3702 Před 5 lety

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

    • @kiannielsen
      @kiannielsen Před 5 lety +1

      @Judgement Day I was born in Ireland

  • @manusurboi3369
    @manusurboi3369 Před 5 lety +52

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

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

    • @Cola.Cube.
      @Cola.Cube. Před 3 lety +1

      Very doubtful.

    • @irosoqpsdvjj
      @irosoqpsdvjj Před 3 lety +2

      @@cigh7445 my god you're a dolt

  • @niggadeesiadugara3415
    @niggadeesiadugara3415 Před 5 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @brittanycostello8824
    @brittanycostello8824 Před 5 lety +10

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

    • @ellie2454
      @ellie2454 Před 5 lety +2

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

    • @trevorjacobs8302
      @trevorjacobs8302 Před 5 lety +1

      God bless parishes in Americans

  • @beanie9040
    @beanie9040 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety

      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

  • @barbarachase5824
    @barbarachase5824 Před 5 lety +2

    Thank you...

  • @bmxbandit5911
    @bmxbandit5911 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for saying Paddy's day. Great video

  • @BMoney8600
    @BMoney8600 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @aaronsmyth7943
      @aaronsmyth7943 Před 2 lety

      Researching Guinness doesn't count.

    • @BMoney8600
      @BMoney8600 Před 2 lety

      @@aaronsmyth7943 I didn’t even include that

    • @aodhanmorris3410
      @aodhanmorris3410 Před 2 lety

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

  • @mistalion1
    @mistalion1 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +18

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

    • @kingheffo
      @kingheffo Před 4 lety

      @@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 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @Zetsuke4
    @Zetsuke4 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @alexvictor3015
    @alexvictor3015 Před rokem +3

    LOVE FROM ROMANIA IRELAND

  • @freddyferret2313
    @freddyferret2313 Před 4 lety +11

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

  • @mech5
    @mech5 Před 5 lety +72

    You never say "Saint Paddy's Day"

    • @CrazyBrosCael
      @CrazyBrosCael Před 5 lety

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

    • @IRISHATLANTIC
      @IRISHATLANTIC Před 5 lety +29

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

    • @avabreen4684
      @avabreen4684 Před 5 lety +3

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

    • @chainmail5886
      @chainmail5886 Před 5 lety +1

      I thought it was saint pattys day..:/

    • @samconnolly3601
      @samconnolly3601 Před 5 lety +6

      Lalasong well ur not Irish
      I hope

  • @pillowprincess3673
    @pillowprincess3673 Před 5 lety +2

    Thanks! It was really interesting

    • @HISTORY
      @HISTORY  Před 5 lety +1

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    • @aidenfletcher6503
      @aidenfletcher6503 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @richardgillette5759
    @richardgillette5759 Před 4 lety +40

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

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 Před 3 lety +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

  • @sibealgrogan6899
    @sibealgrogan6899 Před 5 lety +8

    0:36 it’s called blight

  • @jaylavasser8089
    @jaylavasser8089 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @seanhiggins9806
    @seanhiggins9806 Před 2 lety +7

    100% Irish American 🇺🇸 🇮🇪☘️

  • @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540

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

  • @Sage-cs1bm
    @Sage-cs1bm Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety

      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 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @michaelconley2896
    @michaelconley2896 Před 4 lety +15

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

    • @KP-ej7gc
      @KP-ej7gc Před 3 lety +1

      It’s either or

    • @michaelconley2896
      @michaelconley2896 Před 3 lety

      @@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 Před 3 lety

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

    • @eamondo1076
      @eamondo1076 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @chrisod22
    @chrisod22 Před 2 lety +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 Před 9 měsíci +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 Před měsícem

      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.

  • @adamrasnic9652
    @adamrasnic9652 Před 4 lety +54

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

    • @johnnygreen200
      @johnnygreen200 Před 4 lety +4

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

    • @darragney623
      @darragney623 Před 4 lety

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

    • @gerardnolan2939
      @gerardnolan2939 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety

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

    • @MrBlabax
      @MrBlabax Před 2 lety +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.

  • @simplyamazing8902
    @simplyamazing8902 Před 3 lety +21

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

    • @bobbyburseth5861
      @bobbyburseth5861 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes we are! We relate on a lot of levels

    • @mactirethesonoflir1536
      @mactirethesonoflir1536 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +3

    I am 75% Irish🇮🇪🇺🇸🏰 💘 Ireland.

  • @Zetsuke4
    @Zetsuke4 Před 3 lety

    Very interesting .

  • @alicerivierre
    @alicerivierre Před 2 lety +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 Před 5 lety +7

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

  • @ethanetn
    @ethanetn Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

      Wasn't this in the 1800s

    • @patriciaotoole6508
      @patriciaotoole6508 Před 2 lety

      If that is true, yikes

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @yusuf3005
      @yusuf3005 Před 2 lety

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

    • @KeelsF2F
      @KeelsF2F Před 3 měsíci

      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.

  • @risteardwest3384
    @risteardwest3384 Před 3 lety +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
    ❤️🍀🇨🇮💯🍀

  • @EileanoirDaly
    @EileanoirDaly Před 4 lety +33

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

    • @diarmuidb50
      @diarmuidb50 Před rokem

      hah true

    • @sunshinenday3439
      @sunshinenday3439 Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @johnpatrick5307
      @johnpatrick5307 Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @jgdooley2003
      @jgdooley2003 Před 9 měsíci

      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 Před 9 měsíci

      @@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?

  • @devin5381
    @devin5381 Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem +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 Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @Peikkey
    @Peikkey Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @tarastafford9123
    @tarastafford9123 Před 3 lety +3

    pov ur in mr goffs history

  • @luishernandezblonde
    @luishernandezblonde Před 3 lety +11

    Respect these Irish. Really good people.

  • @xxari_grandegamingxxx9884
    @xxari_grandegamingxxx9884 Před 5 lety +24

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

    • @Rickky007
      @Rickky007 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @Damian-ex8qv
      @Damian-ex8qv Před 4 lety

      Present! We built everything even the pyramids

    • @Rickky007
      @Rickky007 Před 4 lety +1

      damo show You forgot the Great Wall of China 😂

    • @Damian-ex8qv
      @Damian-ex8qv Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

  • @heartbr8k
    @heartbr8k Před 5 lety +7

    I am Irish American

    • @liamforan4105
      @liamforan4105 Před 5 lety

      Cool. Me too.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 Před 4 lety +4

      No, you are American.

    • @thomasswanton9361
      @thomasswanton9361 Před 4 lety

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

    • @raleighburner1589
      @raleighburner1589 Před 4 lety

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

  • @TrueToMyNatureIndustries
    @TrueToMyNatureIndustries Před 23 hodinami

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

  • @briansisk2182
    @briansisk2182 Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @freckles9857
    @freckles9857 Před 4 lety +27

    100% Irish and proud

  • @annasinnott6930
    @annasinnott6930 Před 3 lety +1

    This is so interesting

  • @Patrickcom2011
    @Patrickcom2011 Před 2 lety +2

    2:52 a pint of guinness

  • @popxulture8067
    @popxulture8067 Před 3 lety +6

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

  • @timlinator
    @timlinator Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator Před 3 lety +2

      @One Thank you.

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 Před 2 lety

      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 Před 2 lety

      @@timlinator sorry to hear about that

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator Před rokem

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

  • @ShawnSullivan352ACR
    @ShawnSullivan352ACR Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

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

  • @member100xy
    @member100xy Před 2 lety

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

  • @lb2kxx
    @lb2kxx Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @mikewazooski5010
    @mikewazooski5010 Před 4 lety +5

    I'm Irish/American so lol

  • @janeheskin
    @janeheskin Před 4 lety +43

    The famine was the British fault

  • @terrymalloy3541
    @terrymalloy3541 Před rokem +2

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

  • @dutchvanderlinde8031
    @dutchvanderlinde8031 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @SofiaBerruxSubs
    @SofiaBerruxSubs Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @anthonym3351
      @anthonym3351 Před rokem

      @@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 Před 11 měsíci

      @@anthonym3351I doubt it pal,

  • @mt22l99
    @mt22l99 Před 5 lety +3

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

    • @aidenfletcher6503
      @aidenfletcher6503 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @TheAmericanCrusader
    @TheAmericanCrusader Před 3 lety

    This is the animated version of Knowledge Hub's video

  • @kellypolfleit3942
    @kellypolfleit3942 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @Makarosc
    @Makarosc Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @5n.k.l.312
      @5n.k.l.312 Před 3 lety

      9.7 percent of the population including me

  • @MeMe-pj8ve
    @MeMe-pj8ve Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +4

      Well done to your family, Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @MeMe-pj8ve
      @MeMe-pj8ve Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @JobHuntingAbroad
      @JobHuntingAbroad Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @thecreativeprocess-pureima3389
    @thecreativeprocess-pureima3389 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @caliscribe2120
    @caliscribe2120 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @ssmith5701
    @ssmith5701 Před 3 lety +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."

  • @laoch5658
    @laoch5658 Před 2 lety +3

    It wasnt a famine it was a genocide

  • @darylshanley2674
    @darylshanley2674 Před 4 lety +1

    East coast massive

  • @wk3820
    @wk3820 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @fiachoconnor
    @fiachoconnor Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner1589 Před 4 lety +9

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

    • @kahlilboi
      @kahlilboi Před 2 lety

      Along with his slaves 😂

  • @gambievkiller5843
    @gambievkiller5843 Před 3 lety

    The potatoes is original from Perú South América.

  • @joeduff8761
    @joeduff8761 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @philipyang9593
    @philipyang9593 Před 5 lety +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.

  • @Erojing12467
    @Erojing12467 Před 3 lety +3

    In fact im American but have some Irish decent in me

  • @usmarine51519563
    @usmarine51519563 Před 9 měsíci

    Work hard. You wlll succeed .

  • @leemurphy8710
    @leemurphy8710 Před 5 lety +9

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

  • @happytoday333
    @happytoday333 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @adammartin7007
      @adammartin7007 Před 2 lety

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

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay Před rokem

      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 Před 7 měsíci

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

  • @user-jb3ip6bi3p
    @user-jb3ip6bi3p Před 2 lety +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..

  • @ralph3428
    @ralph3428 Před 6 měsíci +1

    It’s basically what’s happening today in 2024 with our friends from the Middle East

  • @3D-PENS
    @3D-PENS Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @buzzaree
    @buzzaree Před 2 lety +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

  • @hannahnekelly9236
    @hannahnekelly9236 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @shortwannabeqb5510
    @shortwannabeqb5510 Před 5 lety

    I’m rush RIP

  • @shaebryant1916
    @shaebryant1916 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc Před 3 lety

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

  • @HerveyShmervy
    @HerveyShmervy Před 5 lety +37

    You dont see irish Americans today focusing on the past and think they're owed something

    • @HerveyShmervy
      @HerveyShmervy Před 5 lety +13

      @Skrooge Lantay weren't they enslaved in a different era? If so then I'm sure they would be complaining about that but don't

    • @HerveyShmervy
      @HerveyShmervy Před 5 lety +3

      @Skrooge Lantay but do they do it as much as other races that faced prejudice? Also others that complain about the past complain about stuff that happened in other areas of the world too

    • @edwnx0
      @edwnx0 Před 5 lety +25

      Irish Americans didn't have Jim Crow style laws working against them until the 60s

    • @HerveyShmervy
      @HerveyShmervy Před 5 lety +3

      @@edwnx0 read our conversation, I'm talking about in history as a whole

    • @randall10james47
      @randall10james47 Před 5 lety +6

      Skrooge Lantay You’re wrong do your research Irish people were first slaves in America don’t always believe the liberal curriculum 👍🏻.

  • @BrandyTexas214
    @BrandyTexas214 Před 5 lety +6

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

  • @jasminecommercemusic
    @jasminecommercemusic Před rokem +1

    The average adult ate TEN pounds of potatoes per DAY? 😂😂😂

  • @liambrowne2222
    @liambrowne2222 Před 3 lety +1

    I am Irish

  • @idisxgic7651
    @idisxgic7651 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @cofepaper9484
      @cofepaper9484 Před 3 lety

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

    • @iangallagher4135
      @iangallagher4135 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

      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 Před 3 lety

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

  • @osamabinlegend547
    @osamabinlegend547 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +4

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

    • @osamabinlegend547
      @osamabinlegend547 Před 4 lety

      @@oog2370 what countries did we help ?

    • @osamabinlegend547
      @osamabinlegend547 Před 4 lety

      No they don't

    • @Ru_1963
      @Ru_1963 Před 2 lety

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

    • @rohanmarkjay
      @rohanmarkjay Před rokem +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.

  • @tadhgallen1464
    @tadhgallen1464 Před 3 lety +2

    I'm Irish.

  • @Hugh_de_Mortimer
    @Hugh_de_Mortimer Před rokem

    For when oversimplified is too detailed.