General Martin Dempsey acceptance speech at Irish America Hall of Fame 2016

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  • Опубліковано 18 жов 2024

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  • @johnsylvester951
    @johnsylvester951 Рік тому +3

    Everything about this gentleman is brilliant he deserves his moment of greatness.

  • @D10RC
    @D10RC 3 роки тому +8

    Im Irish and Proud God Blesss Martin Dempsey.

  • @aido3335
    @aido3335 4 роки тому +8

    This guy is awesome 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @Sh3eHaN
    @Sh3eHaN 5 років тому +8

    Im From Sligo. Love to see it.

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner1589 5 років тому +16

    GOD bless Martin Dempsey and God bless all the Irish soldiers who fought for America over the last 200 year's who were the most ethnic group who fought for America in fact in the civil war of 1860 to ? The Irish fought more than anyone for black freedom

    • @eringobragh236
      @eringobragh236 2 роки тому

      Thank you. I take great comfort from your last sentence and I hope and pray you are right. I am Irish and my heart has been broken over the last 6 years because of the Irish Americans disgracing their homeland and their Irish ancestors. It appears many of them who have lost their Irish hearts..so despicable and shameful. 🇮🇪 💚☘️

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 2 роки тому +1

      @@eringobragh236 because of ignorance, they very little about Ireland, its history and probably never visited.

    • @eringobragh236
      @eringobragh236 2 роки тому

      @@timlinator I suppose you're right..yet they're happy to trade on their Irish names. Those are the kind of Irish traitors we sing about in our Irish songs. A Parcel of Rogues, ( Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 Rabbie Burns, performed by Luke Kelly,) sums too many of them up perfectly. 🇮🇪☘️💚🇮🇪

    • @joekhatib3798
      @joekhatib3798 Рік тому +1

      @@eringobragh236You ever wear A UNIFORM BUB! Four years serving under this great soldier sonny boy including a deployment in Iraq! 🤨🇺🇸

    • @eringobragh236
      @eringobragh236 Рік тому +1

      @@joekhatib3798 what on earth are you talking about?

  • @johncrawford7312
    @johncrawford7312 2 роки тому +1

    Really thrilling I hope you can pay many visits to the old country,they will love you.j c Liverpool.

  • @tonylakis6107
    @tonylakis6107 3 роки тому +3

    Awesome, general Dempsey 🇺🇸🇦🇺❗️

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner1589 5 років тому +15

    The fighting Irish is real audi Murphy is the most decorated American soldier of all time

  • @bla855
    @bla855 4 роки тому +5

    Magic ☘☘☘☘☘

  • @VMA225
    @VMA225 7 років тому +7

    Well Done !!!

  • @lynnemclaughlin2238
    @lynnemclaughlin2238 3 роки тому +2

    So proud to be 2nd generation Irish American and retired military

    • @douglas.mfrazer2210
      @douglas.mfrazer2210 3 роки тому

      Thanks for your likes and support ❣️
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  • @mbluetraining
    @mbluetraining 3 роки тому +2

    Fantastic!

  • @johngeoghegan363
    @johngeoghegan363 2 роки тому +1

    Brilliant

  • @Roselleg
    @Roselleg 4 роки тому +3

    after that song...Hooah, Sir. I'm sad I never served under you.

  • @dannyrhee8448
    @dannyrhee8448 6 років тому +1

    GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY ACCEPTENCE SPEECH at IRISH AMERICA HALL of FAME - 20160408

  • @sb8163
    @sb8163 Рік тому

    I've not heard this song before but I recognise the melody from the old song 'Hot Ashphalt'
    Well, good evening all my jolly lads, I'm glad to find you well
    If you'll gather all around me now, a story I will tell
    For I've got a situation, and begorrah and begob
    I can whisper I've the weekly wage of nineteen bob
    'tis twelve months come October since I left my native home
    After helping them Killarney boys to bring the harvest down
    But now I wear a geansaí, around my waist a belt
    I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot ashphalt
    Chorus:
    We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat
    And if it doesn't last forever, sure I swear I'll eat my hat
    Well I wandered up and down the world but sure I've never felt
    Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt
    The other night a copper comes, and he says to me 'Maguire,
    Would you kindly let me light my pipe down at your boiler fire?'
    He planks himself straight down in front, with hobnails up till late
    Here, says I, my decent man you better go and find your beat
    He ups and yells 'I'm down on you, I'm up to all your pranks,
    Don't I know you for a traitor from the Tipperary ranks?'
    Boys, I hit straight from the shoulder, I gave him such a belt
    And I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt
    Chorus
    We quickly pulled him out again and threw him in the tub
    And with soap and warm water we began to rub and scrub
    But, divil the thing, it hardened and it turned him hard as stone
    And with every other rub sure you could hear the copper groan
    I'm thinking, says O'Reilly, that he's looking like Old Nick
    And burn me if I'm not inclined to claim him with my pick
    Ah now, says I, it would be easier to boil him till he melts
    And to stir him nice and easy in the hot asphalt
    Chorus
    You may talk about your sailor lads, ballad singers, and the rest,
    Your shoemakers and your tailors, but we please the ladies best
    The only ones who know the way their flinty hearts to melt
    Are the lads around the boiler making hot asphalt
    With rubbing and with scrubbing, sure I caught my death of cold
    For scientific purposes, my body it was sold
    In the Kelvin Grove Museum, my boys, I'm hanging in my pelt
    As a monument to the Irish making hot asphalt

  • @TheMBDESIGNSTUDIO
    @TheMBDESIGNSTUDIO 8 років тому +5

    hard not to like u Marti.

  • @jonathantucker9626
    @jonathantucker9626 2 роки тому +1

    haha great singer and outlook on life

  • @KON4444
    @KON4444 3 роки тому +1

    Excelent - best o luck to ya m8

  • @emeidocathail7808
    @emeidocathail7808 8 місяців тому

    People and ceremonies like this make me wonder how my life would have worked out if I’d taken up that green card.

  • @jimmymalone9139
    @jimmymalone9139 3 роки тому

    IRELAND AND DUBLIN FOREVER . AND OUR IRISH CULTURE. Typical paddy keeps on hand on pocket in case prods steal from it. That tune is the hot asphalt. Listen to luke kelly singing proper version

  • @tommurphy4094
    @tommurphy4094 3 роки тому

    Must’ve raised some dough for the ‘RA at this event. Good pub singer though.

    • @mkeibergin3775
      @mkeibergin3775 Рік тому

      Shut up you little tosser, you probably are not good enough to be his boot man, why is it you always get little crackheads like you making comments about a real man , while you hide under your bed like a fart in the wind, just go away, away and fade into non existence where you came from, yours Audie Murphy

  • @artmcpharlin6730
    @artmcpharlin6730 5 років тому +3

    President Clinton left and I say "GOOD".

    • @Roselleg
      @Roselleg 4 роки тому +2

      fook you.

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 3 роки тому +1

      @@Roselleg why he's right, clinton is a creep, do you think he was on epstein's jet all those times because he enjoyed flying ? wake up ffs

    • @timlinator
      @timlinator 2 роки тому +1

      @@shutup2751 trump is a bigger creep also a buddy of epstein.

  • @Gaosullivan10
    @Gaosullivan10 7 місяців тому

    Someone is proud of this lad, the irish are not!

  • @jrice610
    @jrice610 Рік тому

    not Irish American. Ulster Scots. check your history

    • @jeromeconvery267
      @jeromeconvery267 Рік тому +2

      What you talking about?

    • @mkeibergin3775
      @mkeibergin3775 Рік тому

      Rice, my god ulster scots are Really Normans, check it out billy - who intermarried with the lowland scots and became the most bitter miserable people on earth would you please just go away, you people just hate everything and everyone, it is your nature to hate, just go and hate elsewhere, Dutch Billy, your favorite king.

    • @caedmonnoeske3931
      @caedmonnoeske3931 Рік тому

      All four of his grandparents were born in Ireland. That would make him about as Irish-American as it gets, not Ulster Scots/Scotch Irish. He's also, from my understanding, Roman Catholic, not a Calvinist.

    • @johndoe-ss9bz
      @johndoe-ss9bz Рік тому

      Ulster is Ireland.

    • @johndoe-ss9bz
      @johndoe-ss9bz Рік тому

      @@caedmonnoeske3931 :None of his ancestors are from the Trans-Planted 6-counties of 9-county Ulster.