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.
You're right about the epigenetic changes from famine, however, while these changes can contribute to obesity, they are just one factor among many. Socioeconomic conditions, lifestyle, dietary habits, and stress also play significant roles in obesity rates.
@@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.
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 :)
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
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!
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.
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 🇺🇸
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
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!
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.)
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 , 🙏☘️😘
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
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😂😂
'Irish Stew' is indeed made with mutton, but is almost never eaten any more. Harland & Wolfe? Big point of pride to about half the people of Belfast; the other half remember that 'their sort' weren't welcome round there.
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?
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.
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’
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 CZcams channel post and I will view them every time. I’m a total Fact Geek.
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.
It's called LondonDerry not in some kind of "twinned with London" way but because it was planted by the City of London. On 2 March 1613, James I granted a charter to The Honourable The Irish Society to undertake the plantation of a new county. This county was named Londonderry, a combination of London (in reference to the Livery Companies of the Irish Society) and Derry (then name of the city). This charter declared that the "City of Londonderry" and everything contained within the new county shall be united, consolidated, and from hence-forth for ever be one entire County of itself, distinct and separate from all our Counties whatsoever within our Kingdom of Ireland-and from henceforth for ever be named, accounted and called, the County of Londonderry. So it's a bit like MatsushitaDerry, and they can fuck right off with that.
The original name was Doire Cholmcille and it was a monastic settlement. Doire in Irish is a grove of oaks and is a common part of many Irish placenames throughout the island. It is ironic that a Scotsman, James, was responsible for the plantation of Ireland. The naming of the city and county is a contentious subject in Ireland even today.
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.
There definitely was snakes. Most people call them Brits. Joking aside, I had a pet snake in Dublin for 6 years, so I’m doing my part to reverse history.
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.
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.
My uncle always said that only us Irish people would be incredibly proud of building a ship that sank and killed so many 🤦🏼♀️ Also a stereotypical Irish person is actually black haired and blue eyed. Red hair is Nordic.
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.
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.
1) it’s an island 2) it’s an island in the atlantic 3) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere 4) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth 5) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun 6) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system 7) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many solar systems 8) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way 9) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies 10) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe 11) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe, of which there is only one ☝️ 12) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe of which there is only one ☝️ and on this island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe of which there is only one ☝️ and in this one universe there’s this one WEE ISLAND and on this one wee island in this one immeasurable wee universe, there’s COUNTLESS CROWDS of men, women & children who are wiped out drunk at any given opportunity because The Universe isn’t a safe & sweet candy bar, it’s a huge fkn scary place with generational trauma that’s actually very conducive to having a sense of humour that nobody else gets for some unknown scary reason (except Reginald D Hunter), and trying to ‘turn IT off & on again’ is what we fkn do.
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.
Why do you only love Irish Americans? Why not Irish Canadians, like myself? I didn't quit either,my Nan's family sent her here to be adopted by Canadians,not my fault at all lol. Here's 2 facts that may blow your mind,I don't think you know this one, Chiari Malformation is more common in Celtic Decent,like myself, AND we have higher rates of ppl with the genetic issues, Ehlers Danalos Syndrome as well,which also makes us higher risk of Chiari. Is your mind blown? Be honest🤔 Anyhooo, I love your tiktoks and music 💕
Seems population of Ireland and England were not much different around 1800, maybe 20% less . So Id estimate we would be around 40 million but for the famine .
I understood the potato famine resulted because there was only 1 type, basically grown. If the varieties were more diverse, it may have been avoided. But I'm no expert.
What's funny is St Patrick wasn't even actually a Catholic Saint lol. ! Yeah same, I have never had Stew made with Mutton, only beef. Didn't know about the O and Mc thing. The queues in Penny's/Primark are long enough, thank God people immigrated lmao.
The theory of Irish being stupid and only growing potatoes was a belief not only among the English but also among the Americans who encountered the Irish in the 1840's. Anti-Irish sentiment was very high initialy in the US until the Irish rose up in the ranks of military and political circles and entered commerce and business in the early 20th century.
Walking my dog the other day and a guy yelled from nearby "you've got Irish up in you?" I was so confused. Everyone knows when you walk your dog, questions can only be about the dog and my dog is clearly some kind of German shepherd mutt with no Irish. And then I realized he meant me with my red curly hair going nuts in the wind and humidity. I told him yes just to get him to go away, but I'm more of a German mutt too, so I can't really claim the red hair is from my Irish ancestors.
Most of us'uns in Derry were saved, thanks to a bumper avocado and loganberry shake crop. We offered youse some, but apparently it wasn't gluten-free enough for ye.
Regarding car bombs that was an Israeli invention first used in 1947 in the Israeli war of Independence. Car bombs are a very sore subject in Ireland at the moment at the 50th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of 1974.
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.
You're right about the epigenetic changes from famine, however, while these changes can contribute to obesity, they are just one factor among many. Socioeconomic conditions, lifestyle, dietary habits, and stress also play significant roles in obesity rates.
@@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.
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
You sir are a gem, never change.
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
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!
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.
My grandparents left Mayo for Philadelphia in the early 1920s and returned when the economy got better.
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.
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
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!
"Half the stuff I say on my TikTok is just to piss people off." And this one reason you're delicious.
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 😂
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!
Great stuff lad
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 ,
🙏☘️😘
Keep up the good work, G.
Brilliant 😊
Fantastic video, thanks! From one of your Irish-American fans.
Also I super enjoyed this video.
We cannot get enough Garron in that tiny square. #needmoreGarron
Your accent makes everything funnier to me. Great video would be great as a podcast also
Just over 5 million ❤❤❤
You have a new subscriber! I really enjoyed your video. Will check out more of them!
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
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.
Definitely get up to do the Titanic tour!!! It was brilliant before the refurbishment……way better now. It’s a must!! 4:55
LOVE
“From 1945 to 1952!” 👌🤣🤣
My Mayo brother you are the undisputed king of taking the piss!! ❤❤
And as with most famines it could've been prevented 😔
My family started fleeing Mayo from around famine time. until about the 1950s.
Id like to see a video the best Irish chocolate
'Irish Stew' is indeed made with mutton, but is almost never eaten any more. Harland & Wolfe? Big point of pride to about half the people of Belfast; the other half remember that 'their sort' weren't welcome round there.
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?
Yup
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.
Plenty Snakes disguised as Politicians
Garron - my mind has remained unblown - I demand a refund.
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.
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 CZcams channel post and I will view them every time. I’m a total Fact Geek.
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
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Enjoyed learning about Ireland 👍🏻
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“O” and the longest name are such interesting facts as an Irish person ❤❤❤
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.
My partner left the mighty Mayo when cereal (cheerio’s ) hit 4.5 euro
5th like 😜😁
It's called LondonDerry not in some kind of "twinned with London" way but because it was planted by the City of London.
On 2 March 1613, James I granted a charter to The Honourable The Irish Society to undertake the plantation of a new county. This county was named Londonderry, a combination of London (in reference to the Livery Companies of the Irish Society) and Derry (then name of the city). This charter declared that the "City of Londonderry" and everything contained within the new county shall be united, consolidated, and from hence-forth for ever be one entire County of itself, distinct and separate from all our Counties whatsoever within our Kingdom of Ireland-and from henceforth for ever be named, accounted and called, the County of Londonderry.
So it's a bit like MatsushitaDerry, and they can fuck right off with that.
The original name was Doire Cholmcille and it was a monastic settlement. Doire in Irish is a grove of oaks and is a common part of many Irish placenames throughout the island. It is ironic that a Scotsman, James, was responsible for the plantation of Ireland. The naming of the city and county is a contentious subject in Ireland even today.
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
It’s what can grow in your land.
Interesting to see how your channel has changed from interestingly historical to don't give a fuck. Good mam.
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
#3: anyone know what street that is? Belfast somewhere?
I want garron's 12 most interesting Irish facts that will blow your mind
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 always thought O' was Irish and Mac was Scottish. Learned something.
There definitely was snakes. Most people call them Brits. Joking aside, I had a pet snake in Dublin for 6 years, so I’m doing my part to reverse history.
I was told it was that the Irish relied on one or two types of potatoes and that was the problem not that it was just potatoes in general.
Is the national dish not a chicken roll or the spice bag
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.
No snakes....but if you stand too long in one place you will be choked by moss.
There was lots of famines
What is the most famous castle in Mayo?
Historically every country had people with one name, that has nothing to do with a small population in any way
Definitely bacon and cabbage 😋 and stew is beef
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
My uncle always said that only us Irish people would be incredibly proud of building a ship that sank and killed so many 🤦🏼♀️
Also a stereotypical Irish person is actually black haired and blue eyed. Red hair is Nordic.
Actually red hair is only Nordic because the vikings kidnapped red haired Irish women
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.
Yes my parents left in early 70s no work .
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.
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.
You sound exactlly like my dad, he's from Bonniconlon, hi from Donegal, you are indeed delicious 👍
1) it’s an island
2) it’s an island in the atlantic
3) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere
4) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth
5) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun
6) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system
7) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many solar systems
8) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way
9) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies
10) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe
11) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe, of which there is only one ☝️
12) it’s an island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe of which there is only one ☝️ and on this island in the atlantic in the northern hemisphere of earth, orbiting the sun, in a solar system - one of countless many - solar systems in The Milky Way - one of countless many galaxies in The Universe of which there is only one ☝️ and in this one universe there’s this one WEE ISLAND and on this one wee island in this one immeasurable wee universe, there’s COUNTLESS CROWDS of men, women & children who are wiped out drunk at any given opportunity because The Universe isn’t a safe & sweet candy bar, it’s a huge fkn scary place with generational trauma that’s actually very conducive to having a sense of humour that nobody else gets for some unknown scary reason (except Reginald D Hunter), and trying to ‘turn IT off & on again’ is what we fkn do.
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.
Why do you only love Irish Americans? Why not Irish Canadians, like myself? I didn't quit either,my Nan's family sent her here to be adopted by Canadians,not my fault at all lol. Here's 2 facts that may blow your mind,I don't think you know this one, Chiari Malformation is more common in Celtic Decent,like myself, AND we have higher rates of ppl with the genetic issues, Ehlers Danalos Syndrome as well,which also makes us higher risk of Chiari. Is your mind blown? Be honest🤔 Anyhooo, I love your tiktoks and music 💕
All polar bears are direct descendants of the Irish bear
I fucking love me spuds id die today without them 😂❤
Seems population of Ireland and England were not much different around 1800, maybe 20% less .
So Id estimate we would be around 40 million but for the famine .
8:35 don't lie it was f or freeze and there was no telly
Descendant of quitters here.😂😂 I still can't take a little hunger.
I understood the potato famine resulted because there was only 1 type, basically grown. If the varieties were more diverse, it may have been avoided. But I'm no expert.
What's your favorite Irish whiskey & why?
West Cork single malt, it's soft and easy to drink.
Muccana idger daw hawlia
The great famine was 1845 not 1945
What's funny is St Patrick wasn't even actually a Catholic Saint lol. ! Yeah same, I have never had Stew made with Mutton, only beef. Didn't know about the O and Mc thing. The queues in Penny's/Primark are long enough, thank God people immigrated lmao.
Ok...Irish Whiskey...guaranteed date with the loo in the morning 😢
What kind of A-hole would call the people who suffered a famine that took a million lives stupid?? Yeeesh people never cease to amaze me 🤦🏽♀️
Can you timestamp it so we know if it's a legitimate moan?
it was the english
From cork
The english transported a lot to england also
They mustn't of liked us
Hello howiyegehhinon
People think Ireland were stupid for growing so many potatoes? It’s so obvious why didn’t they just grow bananas, famine solved. Ffs
The theory of Irish being stupid and only growing potatoes was a belief not only among the English but also among the Americans who encountered the Irish in the 1840's. Anti-Irish sentiment was very high initialy in the US until the Irish rose up in the ranks of military and political circles and entered commerce and business in the early 20th century.
we have Lizards....'')
Well we now have the false black widow which can still land you in hospital 😳
The clover fact was more of a fact about clovers than a fact about Ireland
Agreed we only got 11 true facts
The famine never happened you silly Paddy!
Signed,
Charles Trevelyan
Did you drop your accent for a second? You sounded very American. 😂 Also, I'm going to Titanic Belfast when I'm in Ireland.
My accent has always been Faked
@@Garron_Music Knew it.😂
Its1845 not1945.
Bore off
Walking my dog the other day and a guy yelled from nearby "you've got Irish up in you?" I was so confused. Everyone knows when you walk your dog, questions can only be about the dog and my dog is clearly some kind of German shepherd mutt with no Irish. And then I realized he meant me with my red curly hair going nuts in the wind and humidity. I told him yes just to get him to go away, but I'm more of a German mutt too, so I can't really claim the red hair is from my Irish ancestors.
Didn't the vikings bring us all the red hair gene?
Most of us'uns in Derry were saved, thanks to a bumper avocado and loganberry shake crop. We offered youse some, but apparently it wasn't gluten-free enough for ye.
Sorry my ancestors with quitters😢
12 facts about Ireland that will blow up your car.
Regarding car bombs that was an Israeli invention first used in 1947 in the Israeli war of Independence. Car bombs are a very sore subject in Ireland at the moment at the 50th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of 1974.
The most mindblowing fact was yours…. 80 Million, Jesus imagine that 🤔