Who was the real Saint Patrick? And the origins of St. Patrick's Day.
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- The History Guy remembers the historical Saint Patrick and the forgotten history of St. Patrick's Day.
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The best thing about history are the stories. But history textbooks are more like encyclopedia articles. than anthologies of stories. Plus they are too much about politics and too little about more important things.
I have a degree in......nothing. My history teachers ,with the exception of one, left me with no interest and wondering why we studied the past. Live in the now. Live the moment. Live YOUR life.
You make the world's history compelling and interesting History Guy. Thank you!!
Going back to watch some of your earlier episodes. I want to say a huge thank you for clearly stating you were not going into controversy! Few would demonstrate such restraint, an outstanding testimony of your ethics
I think it's youtube ethics....
I loved St. Patrick's Day in NYC. I have some Irish in me. St. Patrick's Cathedral does have a relic of St. Patrick on display. It is in a crystal cross. There is a large statue of St. Patrick by the alter but above. There is the famous stained glass widow of him and they bring out a famous painting of him. They also have a statue of St. Brigid since they celebrate everything Irish.
Despite the mainstream popularity of Cinco de Mayo and St. Patricks day. In this age of digital information, more people are learning their respective histories than ever before, and part of that are because of channels like yours 💘
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oh, it's interesting like encyclopedia brittanica of days of old besides a one stop shop or references and sources listed as well as further reading, maybe the history guy will cover it in a few weeks on the fifth if may? 🤗 mainstream popularity relevant none the less as well as the national calendar in America and evidentally only pretty recently by a few decades as well ...
In addition I don't think or feel that anything is racist, religious, or political as well as we are all human beings with fundamental core needs, that is unless you make it that way or want it to be imhop, you do not elevate or better yourself by standing on someone else's back or cutting them down as well as by lighting someone else's candle yours will not be diminished, you are either a good person (with a moral compass) or you are not ... there are two wolves in us all, one good one bad, which one wins? the one you feed
@@preshisify you tell him, sis.
I grew up in my grandparents house. They were both from Belfast. I spent my St Patricks day at mass.... some traditions are hard to give up. We're Catholic, we are supposed to feel guilty anyway
You really have the facts!! My now deceased Dublin Aunt, who outlived all her siblings including my mother, told me several times decades ago: We Irish do not celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the republic. It's different nowadays, unfortunately with the liquor in mind. Also, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, an aged monument, belongs to the Church of Ireland which is protestant (British)!! During British rule in centuries past, most of the Catholic Churches in Ireland, existing then, were taken over by British Protestant rule and are still currently protestant!! The Irish Catholic Faith appears to have never demanded them back after the 1916 Rebellion and 1922 freedom from Britain. A quirky side of the Irish I say.
I think if Catholic churches were stolen by the Protestants, they should be returned to their rightful owners. Its the Christian thing to do.
My Irish ancestors were Church of Ireland, and were not British.
The Republicans were often not very Catholic in their thinking.
It surprised me that both of the big cathedrals in Dublin are Church of Ireland. I thought before going on a tour that like Liverpool one would be Catholic and one Protestant. What I was surprised to find out recently whilst doing some ancestry research that Newry, which I thought was more of a British garrison town even before 1921 has a Catholic Cathedral and as far as I'm aware doesn't have a Church of Ireland one, or if it does it's a small, less imposing church type building.
God bless you sir. My one grandmother would light a candle for you and ask the Lord to protect you for spreading knowledge.
I think I've watched most, if not all, of the "History Guy's' UA-cam videos. Those have been some of the most interesting treatments of history I've ever read - in fact, your stories often serve as the impetus to do further research.
I would be most interested in hearing you discuss the history of the "Northwest Angle" that separates the U.S. from Canada along the Minnesota /Canadian boundary.
Again, many thanks!!
No bow tie‽‽ I found a video where you had a tie… I don't know what to do with my life now 😂🤣
I agree it's not the same without the bow tie
Lol
As an American of largely English heritage, I wear green on St. Patrick's Day and wander around in the crowds. They take no notice of me, though I infiltrate these Irish celebrations with wanton abandon. I play Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly in my car as I drive by, a casual thumbs up or two cast my way by those who know not my ethnic origins. As my nefarious plan unfolds, I find that most holy of relics, the elusive Green Beer, and I bask in the glow of another year's success. Whah hah hah!
I'm sure one or two people have gotten a whiff of you and thought, "Hey what's that smelly, shaven headed Chav lout in the dirty soccer shirt doing here?"
@@themaskedman221 I’ll have you know, sirrah, that my full head of hair grows past my shoulders as befits a true metalhead. As for the rest, pretty accurate, actually! 👍🤘
@@catjudo1 lol!
I was trying to think of an English stereotype, and could only come up with two:
The effete, metrosexual who nibbles on cucumber sammiches while spouting off poetry..
and the (more modern) image of the drunken Chav at the soccer matches.
I went with the second one.
i always love coming back to your videos on holidays ❤️
Great video! My grandmother would love this!
We honor St Patrick's Day in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. One of our past royals was born on that day. So we honor both.
Interesting as always and full of new info.
Although this is a four- year-old video, AS ALWAYS THE HISTORY GUY, AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!
Glad to see you mentioned Boston and New York for their St.Patrick' Day parades ,and, not the alcohol-fest that goes( or did go on) in Savannah,Ga.
One year, the good.folks there tried to dye green the Savannah River (just like they dye the Chicago River in Chicago). Unfortunately, the dye wouldn't take because the river currents were too strong,and, washed away the dye.🌞🌞🌞🌄🌄🌄✌✌✌✌
Just coming back for a second watch three years later in Autumn because I love history too and this is the channel for me.
My favorite Irish joke. What is the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral? One less drunk!
Not to defend him, but my Irish buddy tells me the same sorts of jokes.
Ever heard of Irish Alzheimer's? It's when you forget everything, except the people that wronged you.
Probably a little more specific than the other, but my point stands. If an Irish (and damn proud) can laugh at it, maybe you could to.
Funny🍀
@@themaskedman221Get a grip, dude, it’s just a joke.
I look forward to your videos. Love the content
Happy St Patrick's day 2019 Sir!!!! Loved this and i have subbed.Im in Texas and have a corned beef with potatoes carrots and cabbage in the crockpot.God bless and look forward to seeing all your vids.☺🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍻
Nobody in Ireland eats that. We have bacon fried or boiled with cabbage & spuds. Every day. Corned beef is an English fetish.
Love your channel.
I'm slowly catching up on older stories.
And I was with you all the way until the part about the shortest St Patricks day march. All well told and believable history.
But I just cannot get my head around the fact that a pub in Ireland closed its doors.....
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Lots of pubs and businesses went bust in the recession 08 to 17 in Ireland. Many have stayed closed.
There is a lesson there...be the pub that the parade ends in, not the one people leave from.
Great story History Guy; thank you
I've watched a bunch of your videos, and have enjoyed them all. I would love to sit in one of your classes, though I'm sure the production in much easier for a 10 minute presentation. These are just so well "put together" that I wish everyone would watch a couple. I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate them into my CC classes for medical/technical focus. Cheers!
joel1239871 I haven’t taught classes for almost twenty years.
I would like to see a presentation about Jacque DeMolay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templars during the crusades.
ALWAYS great, thank you
Like the way you pull up things that are relevant to current events. My fiancée grew up in Erin,TN where the Fighting Irish are the local mascot and the annual Irish parade is big news. A little bit of Ireland in Tennessee.
My paternal grandmother was an O'Malley straight off the boat and was also a Shiite Catholic.
I grew up hearing about my Sainted namesake and Ireland.
Back in high school in the 60s, I used to have to march in both the St. Patrick's and Columbus days parades, while some of my neighborhood friends would go up to 5th Ave. just for the giggles. SoX!
Here's a couple of items that I had heard, tell me if you think they are correct:
1) The "snakes" referred to snake worshippers, he drove out the practice of worshipping pagan idols which often included representations of animals as spirit beings
2) He set up the system by which monks in monasteries copied ancient texts so as to preserve them, which is why today we still have the texts of ancient Greek plays and Roman orations
The Snake was a religious symbol that dates back maybe ten thousand years or more. Maybe that is why the snake appears in Genesis,
No,in this case it was meant to explain the absence of snakes. Not paganism or anything else.
Great video.. I live in shamrock, Texas. We have the official St Patrick's day parade for the state. They still take St patricks.day somewhat more seriously than most places
I like this! Thank You!!!
I'm not a history buff. Yet, if you'd been my history teacher, I may have taken a different route in life.
Thank you for taking a boring subject, to me, and making it interesting.
You make fantastic history videos. I watch lots of them. I would be super excited to see more about Irish history, in particular the song " The Wind That Shakes The Barley" and the legend, and facts about that song. But I must state this one protest, you see, the snakes did come back, the black and tans, HM's 22nd special air service regiment, and quite a few others. Jus sayin.
St. Paddys day in the us is a celebration of Irish heritage.
We went to the Belleville St Patrick's Day parade every year when we lived there. It was a good time. A German town was Irish for a day :)
ST Patrick set off for Ireland from Liverpool. There is a monument in an area completely missed by the tourists as it's in a residential location. But the monument is there none the less!
I went to St Patrick’s grammar school in Charleston SC
The little rhyme at the beginning was a bit corny, but everything we else was superb! I subbed
1:50 and following. Just as "driving snakes away" actually refers to pagans, St. George the Palestinian killed a dragon: the Emperor Diocletian.
Excellent!
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
I love any holiday that gives me an excuse to drink, and Irish music is my jam :) Also there's a very interesting book connecting my place to theirs, called The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland. I would've never considered that there was a parallel, but it sort of makes sense. My anti-alcohol mom also died on St. Patrick's day, which is just extra irony :)
I thought he was captured and brought to Ireland as a slave from the British Islands ?
Exactly! In fact, back when I was reading primary sources it was a source of great amusement to me and angst to every Irish person I knew that St. Patrick didn't actually turn out to be Irish in origin. After he returned home, it was actually a long struggle of patience in Britain before his church authorities agreed to send him back there. There is no doubt that he absolutely loved Ireland and the Irish people and became profoundly one of them in those later years, though.
Reflected Miles
Sorry, I have to disagree. As an Irishman I have always known the story of St Patrick. Everybody in Ireland knows he was kidnapped from somewhere in Britain (no one knows where). There was absolutely no angst for me or anyone I knew!!!
It's impossible to find the truth on St Patrick. I read king Niall had him as a slave. He escaped, went to Rome n come back to save Ireland. But that's only 1 of the many stories.
Kevin O'Neill thanks cousin Kevin🍀
@Wisty Boy He also left out the fact that St Patrick was a Roman and really British.
Wow. I say behind every myth, urban legend, & or folklore has at the least 2% truth. Thanks 4 taking time & sharing this information. Informatively educational.
love this guy and his none political influenced facts of history. love your vids History guy
Ask for a Green Beer on St Patrick’s day in Ireland and wait for the weird looks
Thanks again history guy from an irish-american who is very proud of his heritage and his people please do one on the Dempsey Gibbons fight that financially destroyed Shelby Montana I have been finding out all I can about it it has quite a history❤🇺🇸⚓
Very interesting
Love your green shirt
Thanks!!!!
Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf.
I hail from Butte, Montana. We have a large Irish population who helped mine the rich copper deposits from "The Richest Hill on Earth." People from Butte have been warmly received (as I assume have people from other areas.) Many Butte people are asked if they know my cousin so-and-so; they live in Butte, and often times they do know them.
The stories about 'wild irish' eating shamrock may be a result of confusion with wood sorrel which is sometimes called 'false shamrock' and has been eaten by people around the world from ancient times.
Thanks so much, I am homeschooling my 9 year old daughter and we appreciated this video!
Erin go Bragh !
I remember reading that in one battle in the American Civil War, men born in Dublin, Ireland fought each other on opposite sides. Some of the men had migrated to the North and some to the South. They saw it as their duty to fight for their new country. Strange things occur in history that no fiction writer can dream up.
Also, I have read that Patrick and his followers would fight the Druids in what we can call "Power Encounters." The Druids would call on their gods in the spiritual battle and Patrick would pray and ask for help from the Christian God. If you look at 1Kings 19:22-38 in the Old Testament, God answers those type of prayers.
Pat Cleburne was one of the best Southern generals. Of course, there was Georgia’s Scarlett O’Hara.
Don't want to praise the St. but thank you for the info
💋🇮🇪☘ Happy St Patrick's Day ☘🌈
Thank ya.
Well, the problem with history during St. Patrick's time is that much of western Europe was ruled by tribes that preferred their traditions to be oral and not written. This led to the term "the dark ages" to refer to the early middle ages, as the information on it is very limited, leaving posterity in the dark about how things were.
The Augustine Institute produced a nice audio drama with big named actors called The Trials of Saint Patrick
Interesting. In Wales, instead of having a parade to proclaim our national identity, we would hold an Eisteddfod - a come together involving a musical and poetic artistic festival.
Lots of caps,even helmets but I haven't noticed any hats(ie slouch,fedora,bowler,etc),is there a reason for this?Thanks,enjoying the channel!
No snakes, who does that lawyering stuff.
Gracias por la información de San Patricio de Irlanda Yo nací el domingo 17(3)1957 a las 5:00 a.m. en bayamon Puerto Rico
I can't think of anything more Irish than a 24 meter parade from one pub to another pub.
LOL......and in extreme rural County Cork
That's because you're an imbecile who's probably never left his town, let alone visited another country.
Learn some cultural history so that you don't sound stupid around sophisticated people.
Ya. We celebrate St. Patricks day. On low key. We remember him, and we eat an irish meal. We dont do the all out over the top, or drink green beer. We honor his memory. And we like the Irish.
Pretty much spot on the only thing I would disagree with is the idea of St Patrick being ''British'' Keep in mind that during the middle ages the idea of the British identity had not really formed yet. St Patrick in his confession states that he is a Romano-Briton, meaning someone of Latin ancestry who lived on the island of Britain. Remember that st Patrick was born in a period when many people of Britain still considered themselves Roman citizens.
Yeah, this is a modern bias and a bad habit. "British" is a political identity that didn't exist until the 18th Century. The more proper way to describe him is "Briton" or, more exactly, "Romanized Briton".
St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland …..
The snakes migrated to the USA and became
politicians! ……. (cymbals & drums} …… ;D
Luv your videos History Guy! :)
How about a video about
"How the Irish Saved Civilization"?
U R right about St. Pat's Day having once been
a quiet, religious holiday. I remember it as such
(Christmas too - No trees, Santa or Father Christmas)
But they came back, At least in the form of Viking invaders,
@@johnschuh8616
Or, perhaps, English armies
and EU politicians.
St Patrick is recored in Irish and French literature from the 5th as a slave captured from the west coast of France by Nial of the 9 hostages.
He was reported as the son of a prominent roman ruler.
My great granddad was from Northern Ireland. St Patricks day was a day of prayer for him. He wanted to be alone until it was time for family dinner.
I watched and celebrated St. Patrick's day 2021
What I like most about St. Patrick's Day is, unlike most all other ethnic holidays, everybody can participate on an equal bases. That is, on St. Patrick's Day EVERYBODY is Irish. All you have to do is wear green, a smile, and a badge that says, "Kiss me, I'm Irish".
☘️☘️THE FIRST ST. PATRICKS DAY PARADE WAS IN ST. AUGUSTINE IN THE YEAR 1601.
You didn’t even mention his kidnapping, escape and the dream he had to go back to Ireland! I love you History Guy! But I think you missed the mark on this one....
@David miorgan St Patrick was certainly a slave captured by Irish pirates. This is generally accepted by most historians.
Joe Doe, all good stories have.pirates in them. ARRRRRR!!!😝😝😝😝✌✌✌✌
Oh yes buried near me, along with Saint Columcille. I was there a wee while back, lovely protestant cathedral in Downpatrick, Co Down, and there were three nice American tourists and they asked me to take a photo and all that. I was laughing and they asked why, I said something tells me, its 'for such as you" Really nice they were.
Hey ho.....
I march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade here in Toronto. It has become very popular lately. My grandfather would be outraged, his parade was July 12th aka The Glorious 12th.
The deranged madness of hatred surrounding the collapse of Dál Riata/Lord of the Isles hurts us all to this day, the distortion of the view that the Irish are not of our people is simply the way Poltiricers have lied to us
The "glorious 12th" also refers to the opening of the grouse season in August.
Great vid... WHERE'S THE GREEN BOW TIE? ?
Love this… God Bless you!
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to be sure!
A couple interesting things here...
It is estimated that there be currently be more "full blood" Irish in the US than in Ireland.
The odd thing about apocryphal story St. Patrick using the 3-leaf clover to explain the holy Trinity to the Irish is weird, because the pagan Celts had many "triple" deities - three gods or especially goddesses - that were also considered one. The Irish/Celts were probably THE people most culturally prepared to accept the idea with much to any explanation at all.
Took me all the way to 8:19 to notice you're wearing a green shirt!
My birthday is on St. Patrick’s Day and I have been celebrating my birthday first for 71 years!
There's a legend that St Pat was related to St Martin of Tours.
Saint Patrick's is also the commemoration day for the political unification of my country, Italy (17th March 1861).
I really love st patricks day especially for someone who likes green and is named patrick
as alwas verywell don and said. I enjoy that you normally stay neutral on the political issues. please continue with your fantastic work
Sir, was it an oversight to omit the Orangemen? Do people know that the Protestant colour is Orange? Not green. (Or have I been misinforned?)
[I am married. I am correctable.]
Do not forget that The Bruce went to Ireland to call on his Brothers, as they truly were, to fight against the English? Take off your Sash, put on your Brain, Brother
Cheesy There is nothing wrong about his question. It was a question, not a statement, not worthy of your brain statement. Take your own advice.
Mac - just pointing out the Sectarian nature of the sash, celebrating as it does the Dutch takeover of England on the back of a pan European religious war, is based on a fiction - unless you have the balls to claim Gerrymandering, B Specials and Carsons planned slaughter are all outward signs of Orangemens unique world view and thus deserving of honour
The Orange Order is Protestant fraternal order, named after William of Orange. I don't think that, at least historically, there was much love lost between the Orangemen and Irish Catholics.
djolley61
You're correct. The Orangemen HATE Catholics with a vengeance. The tenets of Organism abhor everything about Catholic theology and strictly forbid their brethren from associating with Catholics or attending Catholic services or (God forbid) marrying Catholics. They do not see themselves as Irish. They refer to themselves as British reflecting their original cultural and geographical origins. Irish Catholics hate Orangemen, but no comparable restrictions exist on their fraternization with protestants (or Orangemen for that matter).
The original colour for Saint Patrick is actually Blue and not green.
I mention that in the episode.
Tá brón orm ("I'm sorry", or more accurately "Sorrow is on me", in Irish)
Love your channel.
I'll go back to eating clover.😀
There is also another legend which makes perfect historical sense. During that period in the middle of the 5th century, western Britain was being marauded by Irish pirates called Scots. Patrick was then captured as a slave and taken back to Ireland. Patrick’s mother tongue would have been Brythonic like Welsh, Cornish or Breton. There he learned to speak Gaelic the language of Ireland at that time. He then subsequently escaped and returned to Britain which was already a Christian country until the coming and the invasion of the English soon after. Patrick then decided to return to Ireland to spread the gospel.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel (in line with what you said) the coat of arms of Armagh, the slave-home and evangelization-target of St. Patrick is blue. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Armagh
@David miorgan Orange seems a but too 17th century
I'm so Irish ........ MY LIVER'S GREEN!
If your Irish why have you got an English last name? Maybe your as Irish as saint Patrick , another bloody Englishmam
Litchfield sounds awefully english to me
@@frankmacintyre5191 sounds like a german name to me, just english-fied to fit in with the yanks
Hmmm....no green bow tie? Nice video....
The story I read stated that St. Patrick was a Scotsman . He was enslaved by the Vikings who dropped him of to a monastery where he was taught how to make wine , beer , and whiskey . After leaving the monastery he ventured back to Scotland and Ireland where he actually did get rid of the snakes ! Along with the pink elephants and pink giraffes . I think it was because they finally were able to have pure alcohol instead of the nasty crap they had been use to drinking. .
A st Patrick parade in Ireland. A few tractors etc... I saw one the other day
PS, you've never experienced a real St. Paddy's Day, unless you spent one in pre-1980s Butte, MT where men with big floor squeegees cleared the beer, vomit, blood and broken teeth from the streets on the day after. They knew how to St. Paddy's, they did.
@Mitsubishi F-2 dagnabit, I thought Gawdamit was going to correct it for me. Okay, it's fixed. Slainte!
You want to celebrate St. Patty's. Go to Mexico!
During the Mexican/American War, many Irish soldiers, went over to the other side. Just like in the Philippines during the Spanish/American War, American soldiers of minorities could not tolerate the unjust treatment of a struggling people who's only crime was to be their own selves. Many Irishmen died fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Mexicans for freedom. We built statues in their honor and wrote songs about them. Some who survived went on to marry and raise families. Even today Irish blood course through Mexican veins. Very few Irish know this, and even less Americans.
As an Irishman that's great to hear!!! Ireland and Mexico have a lot in common when you look at their histories. Viva los San Patricios!
I found an Irish pub in Puertoviarta
I didn't know that good for them! Standing with oppressed people, they knew what it was like to be oppressed. I have to research that.
It wasn't just Irish soldiers who defected to the Mexican side during that war. This is another myth.
Fun fact: the American officer who presided over the court martial of the San Patricios was also the son of two Irish immigrants (Bennet C. Riley, the namesake of Fort Riley in Kansas).
Minor correction on a great piece. The shamrock is associated with Ireland but the harp is the symbol of Ireland. It’s also the symbol of Guinness but if you look closely they each face the opposite direction.
St. Patrick's colour is actually blue, at least it is now. Look at the coat of arms of ireland and the plumes worn by the Irish Guards for example. (True)
It is also interesting to note that Ireland is the only place in the world not to have "Irish pubs" - It has ordinary pubs! (Mostly true)
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I’ve never eaten clover but wood sorrel is delicious, I can definitely see why cows would like it