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Firefighters and a Funeral Procession: The Boston Riot of 1837

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  • čas přidán 15. 08. 2024

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  • @BuzzinVideography
    @BuzzinVideography Před 3 lety +47

    Thank you for being the only person to not politicize history.
    You're a true gentlemen, and a very well liked man

  • @majorlee76251
    @majorlee76251 Před 3 lety +36

    I used to work at 89 broad st. This is Boston's financial district. Had no clue this happened. Another tale of old Boston.

  • @davidwhite2011
    @davidwhite2011 Před 3 lety +47

    I went to a riot and a hockey game broke out.

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Před 3 lety +2

      Good one :D

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Před rokem

      Meh, ya know that doesnt happen very often! Rioters dont like hockey very much!

    • @notmyname9625
      @notmyname9625 Před 2 dny

      @@inconnu4961u clearly dont know hockey culture well then. I remember there being riots at my local highschool rink like every few years. Ppl would throw dead squid’s and fish and stuff on the ice and then all the fans of both teams would break out into an all out brawl. It happened like at least 4 times while growing up. I moved away from that area long ago but im willing to bet rioting fans are still a problem there today. They loved hockey the way ppl in texas love football. Mfers were crazy

  • @christopherseivard8925
    @christopherseivard8925 Před 3 lety +12

    Brilliant story. Long ago,I was hired as a production assistant to work for WGBH TV. The day we showed up to cover a bussing protest in South Boston, I was surprised to be handed a helmet& bulletproof vest ( very old, no Kevlar yet) I was informed that any bussing protest could be a riot in a second, and a reporter had been shot before. I went anyway,very afraid, but my college loans were looming….

  • @2paulcoyle
    @2paulcoyle Před 3 lety +9

    Irish is walking down a street. Sees a fight spill out of a bar. Gets close and asks a guy, "Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?"

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Před rokem

      LOL Was he drunk or sober at the time? My friend and i are taking bets!

  • @Odin029
    @Odin029 Před 3 lety +67

    "after the dust and feathers settled"... ok, this should be a good one.

    • @sayeager5559
      @sayeager5559 Před 3 lety +2

      Hoping for pirates.

    • @Dirtzoo
      @Dirtzoo Před 3 lety +2

      I think that's a quote from The clash and which song let me see

  • @googiegress7459
    @googiegress7459 Před 3 lety +17

    Could you imagine being Fire Company 14, answering a fire alarm bell, and you round the corner and get attacked by hundreds of randos and discover a war is suddenly happening

  • @Neil-Aspinall
    @Neil-Aspinall Před 3 lety +36

    HG you are everything that is great about YT.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před 3 lety +48

    Yeah you see a similar scene in the movie Gangs of New York. When the two volunteer fire companies came to a fire at the same time and began to fight over who had the honour of putting out the fire.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Před 3 lety +33

      That happened all over the country. Volunteer companies were commonly called "rowdies."

    • @orno8906
      @orno8906 Před 3 lety +8

      … while the building they were going to save burned to the ground…

    • @kmlammto
      @kmlammto Před 3 lety +9

      Actually, many departments had a fighting group and a fire brigade so the fire could be battled while the other companies were kept at bay. This was not for honor but rather to collect pay for saving the building.

    • @memathews
      @memathews Před 3 lety +1

      Free market fire fighting...emphasis on "fighting"

    • @vbscript2
      @vbscript2 Před 3 lety

      ​@@memathews That really bears no resemblance whatsoever to a "free market." "Free-for-all fire fighting" would probably be a more apt description. "Free market" would require an actual market with voluntary transactions, not street fighting over who can provide a service by force.

  • @tomthedespoiler
    @tomthedespoiler Před 3 lety +55

    Listen to "Riot on Broad Street" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, on the album Pay Attention. A good song on the subject.

    • @smgibb
      @smgibb Před 3 lety +8

      I hadn't listened to that song in ages. Once I saw this video title I had this nagging feeling that I knew a song about it. Looked it up and once I head the first few notes, it all came flooding back.

    • @mzmegazone
      @mzmegazone Před 3 lety

      czcams.com/video/trSLI4kEXKg/video.html

    • @mohammedcohen
      @mohammedcohen Před 3 lety +1

      ...thank you...I will my paternal grandfather's folks were from Kerry; my maternal grandmother was from Kinnegad, West meath

  • @scottmaag1
    @scottmaag1 Před 3 lety +6

    I can’t thank you enough for this video. I moved to the NYC area in 1989 at the age of 20 from the mid west and I learned a lot about the Irish problems from “off the boat” Irish. Irish Need Not Apply was real. It may be the time for me as an Irish descendant to stop saying my people had problems and think about how many of us all have. How about we take a breath and talk about it. Again, I love you history guy.

    • @c.j.rogers2422
      @c.j.rogers2422 Před 3 lety +1

      Remember that at that time, the term Irish was synonymous with Catholic. Religious bigotry was at least as prominent in these events as any cultural bias.

  • @docclabo6350
    @docclabo6350 Před 3 lety +6

    Speaking as a born and bred Bostonian with Boston-Irish roots and as a former volunteer firefighter, congrats on another excellent video.
    BTW, "Quincy" is pronounced "Quinzee" in Massachusetts and "Charlestown" is pronounced as written, not like Charleston.

  • @seanshea8596
    @seanshea8596 Před 3 lety +7

    "Against the law at the time to sell alcohol on Sunday." Heck as i recall there were STILL some laws against some sales of Sunday alcohol when i lived in Mass in the late 1990's

  • @ericveneto1593
    @ericveneto1593 Před 3 lety +14

    I'm a lifelong resident of Boston's suburbs and I'd NEVER heard this story!

    • @theuglyfriend
      @theuglyfriend Před 3 lety +2

      I’m from Quincy. I’m learning something new every day.

  • @miketemple7686
    @miketemple7686 Před 3 lety +5

    Why do I get the feeling that everything happening today, has already happened before. There’s very little, if anything that is “unprecedented “. Thanks History Guy.

    • @googiegress7459
      @googiegress7459 Před 3 lety +1

      It's partly because the events back then affect events now. And partly because people haven't changed, so they'll do the same bigoted selfish violent stuff they always have.

    • @miketemple7686
      @miketemple7686 Před 3 lety +1

      @@googiegress7459 the story stays the same, but the names of the actors change.

  • @clevermcgenericname891
    @clevermcgenericname891 Před 3 lety +58

    Fiery but mostly peaceful funeral procession.

    • @4dosmohos
      @4dosmohos Před 3 lety +10

      Shots fired 😆

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Před 3 lety +2

      Outside a family one

    • @Colonel_Overkill
      @Colonel_Overkill Před 3 lety +4

      One standard issue Irish funeral.
      The thing is, I doubt the star of said funeral would have been dissapointed. Irish are Irish after all.

    • @jtgd
      @jtgd Před 3 lety +1

      No no, they were just patriots trying to save america

    • @clevermcgenericname891
      @clevermcgenericname891 Před 3 lety +2

      @@jtgd snarky but mostly agreeable comment

  • @dirtcop11
    @dirtcop11 Před 3 lety +62

    I was expecting you to say, "The riot was so brutal that a hockey game sprang up." The Irish were a marginalized population for some time. It is a history that became important during the Civil War a few decades later.

    • @dirus3142
      @dirus3142 Před 3 lety +13

      They were marginalized in a young United States for a time. however English Rule over Ireland is more like passive aggressive, bureaucratic, cultural genocide.

    • @craigsullivan80
      @craigsullivan80 Před 3 lety +9

      “Marginalized populations” continue to feel the brunt of discrimination and violence today.

    • @stephen4036
      @stephen4036 Před rokem

      @@dirus3142 not just ireland, Canada, Jamaica, Indonesia, Australia. Ironically or expected, most of us that built Canada and Australia are Irish immigrants and our countries are being handed over to China and India so england and isreal can make money. England and isreal are the worst rhings to ever happen to humanity. I loathe them... damn the English lol

  • @kylebarton778
    @kylebarton778 Před 3 lety +10

    Another great one History Guy. Thank you.

  • @deandupont5503
    @deandupont5503 Před 3 lety +10

    Am I the only one who views the idea of Catholics and Unitarians working in conjunction hilarious? 😉

    • @elcastorgrande
      @elcastorgrande Před 3 lety +1

      God must have a sense of humor.

    • @deandupont5503
      @deandupont5503 Před 3 lety +1

      @@elcastorgrande Of course he does. I mean, look at Australia.... "Hey Darwin! Suck on this!"

    • @diarmuidbuckley6638
      @diarmuidbuckley6638 Před 3 lety +2

      I can't think why not? Unitarians and Catholics in Ireland in the 1700s were both not Established churches i.e. the state religion was Anglicanism; similarly the Presbyterians who were prominent in promoting Enlightenment ideas and promoting an Irish Republic fought for in 1798. There is a famous Unitarian Church in Dublin and one founded in 1770s in Cork whose community still exists.

    • @elizamccroskey1708
      @elizamccroskey1708 Před 3 měsíci

      I grew up as a Unitarian in Atlanta and then moved to Boston for college. I was happy that there seemed to be so many Unitarian churches in Boston. The Boston congregations were far more Christian than the secular humanist congregation I grew up with. I never did find a church in Boston.

  • @frankgulla2335
    @frankgulla2335 Před 3 lety +1

    As a born and bred Bostonian of Italian-American extract, I remember some of the after effects of this 19th-century surge of the Irish. A great tale well told, sir. Thank you.

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Před rokem

      As someone of Scots heritage, I am sorry for my drunken cousins!

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 Před 3 lety +16

    So what you're saying is, we have an enormous riot to thank for the establishment of the judicial system that formed the tableau for William Shatner's greatest role in Boston Legal. 😂
    Thank you THG, you always connect more of my dots!:-) 🙏😽🖖

  • @lorenapena5518
    @lorenapena5518 Před 3 lety +1

    Again, such a great and informative video!

  • @lizj5740
    @lizj5740 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you for mentioning the Corn Laws, which I have seen mentioned many times but with no explanation. Now I'll finally go have a look for more info.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Před 3 lety +1

      "Corn" meant any important cereal grain, not just corn.

    • @lizj5740
      @lizj5740 Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thank you. I gathered that from your discussion, and I'm also familiar with that use of corn from my farming experience.

  • @garrisonnichols7372
    @garrisonnichols7372 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm from Massachusetts and I've never heard of this. Thanks

  • @sidneyw5040
    @sidneyw5040 Před 3 lety +18

    An interesting video subject: The actual migration of the Irish to America.

  • @stevenpine1939
    @stevenpine1939 Před 3 lety +1

    ABSOLUTELY........."Scott Fisher
    1 day ago
    Thank you for being the only person to not politicize history.
    You're a true gentlemen, and a very well liked man"

  • @schlirf
    @schlirf Před 3 lety +18

    Aye that be a real Donnybrook....😁

  • @shawnharrington9548
    @shawnharrington9548 Před 3 lety +7

    This is my morning coffee.

  • @darraghmckenna9127
    @darraghmckenna9127 Před 3 lety +27

    Those pesky Fire fighters are rioting again

  • @kevinbarry71
    @kevinbarry71 Před 3 lety +5

    I've always found it interesting that the Irish, coming from a extremely agrarian society, when arriving in the United States essentially said, "screw that". We're living in the city

    • @outinthesticks1035
      @outinthesticks1035 Před 3 lety +1

      A lot had only enough money for passage , but not enough to go any farther.

    • @c.j.rogers2422
      @c.j.rogers2422 Před 3 lety +1

      What other choice did they have? Buy land? With what? Like any immigrant group, they followed their countrymen who went before them.

    • @kevinbarry71
      @kevinbarry71 Před 3 lety

      @@c.j.rogers2422 not all immigrant group stayed in the city; lots of them moved out west and became farmers. Personally I think the Irish made a better choice

  • @avnrulz8587
    @avnrulz8587 Před 3 lety +9

    In the 1950s, my mom was not hired as an operator because she had an Irish Brogue.

  • @kennyhagan5781
    @kennyhagan5781 Před 3 lety +5

    I've been to Boston once, and the weight of centuries can be felt in some places there.

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Před rokem

      Its a modern city as well! Hope you get to visit again!

  • @persephonelipuma9691
    @persephonelipuma9691 Před 9 měsíci

    thanks for all this boston content! as someone from boston this is great to learn about where i come from

  • @johnrust592
    @johnrust592 Před 3 lety +1

    This incident is a good example of the phrase, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

  • @yoinkhaha
    @yoinkhaha Před 3 lety +4

    Great episode. Love Boston history. Too many ads, I'm afraid...

  • @Pfsif
    @Pfsif Před 3 lety +61

    Hence the birth of the Boston Bruins.

    • @matt_neo
      @matt_neo Před 3 lety +4

      Honestly, the most realistic rumor surrounding this

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 Před 3 lety +2

      That's why they're called the "Broad Street Bullies"! Oh wait....

    • @FFGANDALF
      @FFGANDALF Před 3 lety +1

      You mean all Boston sports teams

    • @leemaxwell8228
      @leemaxwell8228 Před 3 lety +3

      The Broad Street Bullies were/are the Philadelphia Flyers NHL franchise.

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 Před 3 lety +1

      @@leemaxwell8228 I know. That's what the "Oh, wait..." was all about. LOL

  • @chocolatte6157
    @chocolatte6157 Před 3 lety +2

    I remember when you had a couple thousand subscribers. My how times have changed.

  • @johnstevenson9956
    @johnstevenson9956 Před 3 lety +7

    I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that funeral processions are almost invariably escorted by police.

    • @vbscript2
      @vbscript2 Před 3 lety

      I don't think so. That has more to do with just helping to control traffic to allow the procession to stay together through intersections and such. It's also not universal. Some cities have stopped police escorts of funeral processions.

  • @blueisnotgreen7258
    @blueisnotgreen7258 Před 3 lety

    I've never seen it said but I don't think I've ever seen history guy use a single stock photo or stock video clip. It must be so tempting to use them when historical media is so hard to find ..as it is. Hats off!

  • @nilo70
    @nilo70 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you , History Guy , for another interesting tale !

  • @georgehartshorn9018
    @georgehartshorn9018 Před rokem +1

    My great, great grandfather would have lived in Boston at this time. But with a name like George Henry Sage, I’m sure he wasn’t Irish but had immigrated from Scotland.
    He would make a good subject for one of your videos. He hung out and did business with Andrew Carnegie and family lore has it that he built all the railroad bridges in Costa Rica.

  • @gwenp3450
    @gwenp3450 Před 3 lety

    I had never heard of this before. Well told and extremely interesting. Thank you!

  • @laserbeam002
    @laserbeam002 Před 3 lety +1

    And yet another fantastic post. Thank you.

  • @scottthomas6202
    @scottthomas6202 Před 3 lety +3

    Well, Sundays are usually kind of slow....

  • @chrisdoesnotcare
    @chrisdoesnotcare Před 3 lety +16

    When I was having a beer at Boston International waiting for my flight some random dude from Jersey started talking shit about the Bruins at the bar and let’s just say airport security had to pull quite a few people off of this man haha

    • @GrumpyMeow-Meow
      @GrumpyMeow-Meow Před 3 lety

      As a former Jerseyan, I can say…what an idiot.

    • @robertbeirne9813
      @robertbeirne9813 Před 3 lety

      Must’ve been when the Devils were good.

    • @Michaelbos
      @Michaelbos Před rokem

      No such place as Boston international.

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Před rokem

      @@Michaelbos He was talking about the airport, in case you couldnt understand. Why didnt you just mention the correct name of the air port instead of your silly rebuttal?

  • @matthewpoplawski8740
    @matthewpoplawski8740 Před 3 lety +1

    AS ALWAYS THE HISTORY GUY, AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! Forgot there's a Broad St. in Boston (have a Broad St. here in Charleston, S.C. )
    Didn't know, beforehand, about this riot. Sounded like a scene from GANGS OF NEW YORK which was mentioned in the comments.
    Since I subscribed, I've been made aware of history I didn't know existed. Continue your OUTSTANDING WORK!!!👏👏👏💪💪💪✌✌✌✌

  • @Rickertsred
    @Rickertsred Před 3 lety +4

    A drunken brawl at an Irish funeral? I never heard of such a thing.

  • @steveshoemaker6347
    @steveshoemaker6347 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent video and the....Video quality and sound was all so Excellent as well....Thanks very much indeed !

  • @lauramiller8665
    @lauramiller8665 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for feeding my mind with history. I enjoy your stories so much!

  • @kingoliever1
    @kingoliever1 Před 3 lety +2

    Just wanted to say great channel your doing.

  • @ops1994
    @ops1994 Před 3 lety +3

    Oh Danny boy.

  • @steveb6103
    @steveb6103 Před 3 lety +5

    Why do I keep thinking about Blazing Saddles?

  • @22grena
    @22grena Před 3 lety +2

    Irish history is never boring

  • @davidcooper701
    @davidcooper701 Před rokem

    Love your videos! Keep 'em coming!

  • @navret1707
    @navret1707 Před 3 lety +7

    Are you sure this isn’t a description of Seattle and Portland this year?

    • @jtgd
      @jtgd Před 3 lety +2

      I wonder if you only care about rioting if it’s from left wingers.
      Seems like a common thing to complain about left wing rioting, but crickets when right wingers do it.
      Mind you, the video has nothing to do with Portland or the present, but you and other right wingers feel the need to only complain about left wing rioting.

    • @GrumpyMeow-Meow
      @GrumpyMeow-Meow Před 3 lety +1

      @@jtgd yeah…ok. 🙄

  • @MichaelLivingston-me
    @MichaelLivingston-me Před 3 lety +1

    Another interesting presentation of history.

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter Před 3 lety +5

    Erin go brawl.

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 Před 3 lety +3

    5:40 He looks like GW without that powdered wig !

  • @tomjustis7237
    @tomjustis7237 Před 3 lety

    A little known and relatively insignificant point of history. Many "volunteer" fire departments in larger cities back then DID get paid by the city, but ONLY when they were the FIRST to respond to a fire. (Just a little incentive to encourage the volunteers.) Due to that, there was actually a competition between those 'volunteer' companies as to which company would be considered 'first' on the scene and therefore be the company to get paid. As a result, many 'volunteer' fire companies had several large, brawny and violent men who, at the first alarm, were dispatched to the scene to guard the fire plugs and prevent any other fire company from using them until their own company arrived. That is where the term "plug ugly" originated.

  • @troynewly
    @troynewly Před rokem

    Thank you. I enjoyed learning something new about my hometown. Wow, this speaks volumes of the Irish struggle at a time when Irish Need Not Apply.

  • @JackGordone
    @JackGordone Před 3 lety +11

    The Boston suburb is pronounced "CHARLES - TOWN," not "Charleston" as in the video.

    • @heard3879
      @heard3879 Před 3 lety

      And Quincy is pronounced Quin-zee, not Quin-see. I was really shocked to learn this when I moved to Boston from the Midwest a few years ago!

    • @johnmonk66
      @johnmonk66 Před 3 lety +1

      then they should spell it right

    • @2005kmcollins
      @2005kmcollins Před 3 lety +2

      Charlestown is not a suburb of Boston, it is formally a part of the City of Boston since 1873.

  • @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt
    @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt Před 3 lety +2

    thank you !!!

  • @manicmechanic448
    @manicmechanic448 Před 3 lety +2

    "Broad street's just not broad enough, and you just don't love God enough. And if that isn't hard enough we've taken to much crap. You poke, provoke, and prod enough somethin's gonna snap."
    The mighty mighty boss tones.
    Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket, bottle, ax, or cobble stone.

  • @wooderdsaunders6801
    @wooderdsaunders6801 Před 3 lety +1

    Great job well done

  • @izzywatashi371
    @izzywatashi371 Před 3 lety +1

    History reminds us that rising above ones manipulated ignorance and arrogance is an unattainable human endeavor.

  • @sandrablanchette2239
    @sandrablanchette2239 Před rokem +1

    Congratulations on pronouncing Bangor Maine correctly. Due to the fact I come from there, I noticed that a lot.

  • @vonfragesq7145
    @vonfragesq7145 Před 3 lety +1

    Fire hydrants used to be called "fire plugs" and the term "Plug Uglies" is derived from these competing fire companies. Whichever company put the fire out got paid and when the alarm sounded more than one company might show up. Whoever got there first would guard the fire plug until their company arrived and these guys were called "Plug Uglies". There was usually a fight going on while the building or house burned over the fire plug.

  • @darrellrotramel3110
    @darrellrotramel3110 Před 2 lety

    Great history snapshots.

  • @raydunakin
    @raydunakin Před 3 lety +7

    In so many of these historical accounts, it seems like England was almost intent on making as many enemies as possible. It's no wonder the empire crumbled.

  • @ericw270
    @ericw270 Před 3 lety +1

    Andrew jackson was born in my home county! Lancaster, SC

  • @francisgerace883
    @francisgerace883 Před 3 lety +1

    From the Boston area, and wasn't aware of this history.

  • @jimmyyu2184
    @jimmyyu2184 Před 3 lety +4

    "... as many as 15,000 people...", Now, that's what I call a Boston (Tea) Party!! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️😂

    • @jimgavin1761
      @jimgavin1761 Před 3 lety +1

      15,000 is just a Southie keg party

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Před rokem

      @@jimgavin1761 Yup! Doubt there was any tea there.

  • @Tallness1000
    @Tallness1000 Před 3 lety +2

    I’d love to hear any and everything regarding Native American cultures and events. Love the channel

    • @JC-mm8wn
      @JC-mm8wn Před 3 lety

      "The Trail of Tears" would be a good start.

    • @MrScobane
      @MrScobane Před 3 lety

      On youtube - Lakota Sioux Massacre of Pawnee Indians - remember this video next time you watch dances with wolves.

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 Před rokem

      @@JC-mm8wn why

  • @markymark3075
    @markymark3075 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks!

  • @declanoleary1
    @declanoleary1 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you,

  • @NuncNuncNuncNunc
    @NuncNuncNuncNunc Před 3 lety

    Should clarify that Corn is not maize but grains, i.e. the stuff bread is made from.
    Quincy Market was not named Quincy Market at the time. It was and still is Fanueil Hall Market. Quincy Market is recent branding.

  • @VictorianTimeTraveler
    @VictorianTimeTraveler Před 3 lety +1

    My dad was a volunteer fireman. It's odd for me to think of them as being undisciplined

  • @uwusmolbean
    @uwusmolbean Před 3 lety +13

    A mostly peaceful protest then

    • @navret1707
      @navret1707 Před 3 lety +2

      And only looting bread for their families. 🥴

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Před 3 lety +2

      by today's standards

    • @jtgd
      @jtgd Před 3 lety +2

      Yup. Just like the “patriots” who broke into the Capitol building trying to overturn an election while chanting to kill the VP and assaulting police officers.

    • @jtgd
      @jtgd Před 3 lety +2

      @@navret1707 yup. Reminds me of people trying to “save America” by stealing laptops from representatives’ offices while rioting

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Před 3 lety

      @@jtgd no they did worse back them

  • @samhianblackmoon
    @samhianblackmoon Před 3 lety

    Everyone of your videos are really good bub

  • @62forged
    @62forged Před 3 lety +1

    My great-grandparents came though customs in Boston in the early 1900s.

  • @brothertheo2677
    @brothertheo2677 Před 3 lety

    Fascinating as always

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT Před 3 lety +1

    And some things never change...
    When I was attending TEEX (fire school at A&M in College Station Texas) we were briefed and warned early Not to cause trouble, that the locals were long since over admiration for firefighters excusing bad behaviour.
    😳🙊🙀

  • @Kenniii3
    @Kenniii3 Před 3 lety

    Thank you History Guy!

  • @phillipstoltzfus3014
    @phillipstoltzfus3014 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow crazy stuff!

  • @cliftondean4333
    @cliftondean4333 Před 3 lety +1

    It is of note that Peter Faneuil, of Faneuil Hall fame, did not pronounce his name as we do today. We seem to be careful, as was The History Guy, to pronounce the name as "fan-you-el." Peter himself spoke it as "fannel."

  • @outinthesticks1035
    @outinthesticks1035 Před 3 lety +2

    Had a great grandfather and great uncle both died " accidentally" , "fell out of the wagon while drunk and hit their head on a rock" . Just another dead Irishman

  • @clintward3532
    @clintward3532 Před rokem

    Would love to see you do an episode on the 504 Parachute Infantry Regiment, the Devils in baggy pants.

  • @f3xpmartian
    @f3xpmartian Před 3 lety +3

    I am sadden no one has written of the guest host. Bob Ross, up there on the top shelf. Ready to “wash the brush, and just beat the devil out of it ”......

  • @woofwgn
    @woofwgn Před 3 lety

    "🎶 Youah cousin from Baw-stun...🎶" 😄

  • @dennisud
    @dennisud Před 3 lety +1

    It wasn't just The U.S., South American was flooded with Irish too as my Great-Grandfather was 1 of 5 brothers who emigrated to Both North and South America!

    • @lizj5740
      @lizj5740 Před 3 lety

      Gosh! I never even thought of Irish people emigrating to South America because of the language barriers.

  • @dangagne3347
    @dangagne3347 Před 2 lety

    Have you considered making an episode on the founding and early years of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Scotland Yard, … ?

  • @benjaminbrewer2569
    @benjaminbrewer2569 Před 3 lety +5

    Here to feed the algorithm. Book recommendation about Vikings because unknown to most the word Viking translates to pirate and as we know on this channel all good stories involve pirates. Children of Ash and Elm. By Neil Price. One of the best history and discussions of the culture in Scandinavia before written history. Published in 2020 it benefits from the huge amount of research and excavations made in the last 30 years.

    • @lizj5740
      @lizj5740 Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks for the book recommendation. I've reserved it through our regional library group.

  • @deanfordcreative
    @deanfordcreative Před 3 lety +4

    What? No pirates? Surely there was a pirate in the fray!

    • @f3xpmartian
      @f3xpmartian Před 3 lety

      But do mine eyes decieve me? There be a painter upon the top shelf...... "let's get crazy".....

  • @robertnordtvedt88
    @robertnordtvedt88 Před 3 lety +3

    Suggestion
    History of copyright and patent.

  • @adamallen1097
    @adamallen1097 Před 3 lety +3

    Andrew Jackson was Ulster Scots

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Před 3 lety

      Interesting, according to a relative's reasarch an ancestor's came from there and the thing that birthed me had the Celtic curse, and the moment I became interested in family's trees they all vanished but a simple swipe of a swab or a spit nowadays will tell more than years of research. so to the thing that tried to hide things you failed.

  • @DGHdeeo
    @DGHdeeo Před 3 lety

    Very interesting, well done.

  • @cmandc301
    @cmandc301 Před 3 lety +2

    Drunken volunteer firefighters, aren't they all?

  • @marklittlehale5756
    @marklittlehale5756 Před 3 lety +4

    Love your video's, but in Boston Quincy is pronounced Quinzy market, zee sound not cee

    • @RockinRobbins13
      @RockinRobbins13 Před 3 lety

      We are proud Americans, with God-given right, and perhaps obligation, to massacre any language we wish, including our own! God bless America!

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 Před 3 lety +1

      "In fact, there are places where English completely disappears.
      In America they haven't spoken it for years!"
      Prof. Henry Higgins

    • @RockinRobbins13
      @RockinRobbins13 Před 3 lety +1

      @@rabbi120348 Lololololol! Truer words were never spoken. We have risen above language, above meaning, above grammar, above expression to pure, rampant, mayhem! America the beautiful!

    • @googiegress7459
      @googiegress7459 Před 3 lety

      Then he should pronounce it Baastin instead of Boston.
      When we talk about Louisville, we don't say Lewvul. It's "New Orleans" not "Nawlins".
      I'm not going to tell you your accent is crazy, and you're also welcome to stay in your lane.

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 Před 3 lety

      @@RockinRobbins13 Life reduced to a meme.

  • @rnedlo9909
    @rnedlo9909 Před 3 lety +2

    The 'Good Old Days'

  • @mikesamyn7054
    @mikesamyn7054 Před 3 lety +1

    How about the 1967 riots in Detroit. I was there on the eastern side.