I'm a Scot married to an Northern Irish gal and we eventually moved back to her hometown when yer father's health was failing nearly 25 yrs ago, and the view from our bay window is the Mourne mountains. It's where C.S Lewis got his inspiration for his The Lion, the witch & the wardrobe series of books. So technically we live in Narnia.😂 The fairy stuff died out over a century of so ago but Scots & Irish are still a superstitious kinda folk. They're full of life and friendly ppl and there's loads to do in the entire UK & Ireland.✌
The Giants Causeway is a volcanic feature. The columns are the result of slowly cooling Basalt rock. This rock makes up most of the ocean seafloor. It forms into hexagonal shapes because that is the natural crystal structure of the mineral it is composed of.
That guy in a red coat standing on the cliffs above the giants causeway was me. The hexagon rocks are formed when lava cooled, it cracks along the crystalline structure of the rock
Clans are generally extended families including cousins up to fifth cousin.Generally clans were aristocratic and noble once you fell out a certain amount from the chieftain in terms of blood relationship you were no longer a mamber of the clan and therefore you were a commoner.
This rant was amazing. The amount of Brits that seem to forget this is astonishing. We should learn and remember our past so we don't make the same mistakes
Thank you we deeply appreciate the uk and its culture, for every castle fort, watch tower how many battles how many graves ? Britain has tried to be conquered by everyone including theirselves lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures tell me about it, Cymru has been invaded countless times. You guys should check out Capel Celyn; an entire village in North Wales was flooded just so the English had more water, the funny thing was, after they built it, they no longer needed it
@@Trippingthroughadventures To answer your question which side was bono on during bloody sunday 1972,well neither as a protestant from dublin republic of ireland he doesn't fit into either camp neatly.Protestants in the northern ireland are probritish unionist overwhelming whereas protestants in the south are generally loyal irish citizens not harbouring any desire as such toward the UK,however the march was for catholic civil rights and bono is a protestant so all these factors make him neutral .
@@Trippingthroughadventures As regards the folklore in ireland while leprechauns are kind of seen as very american,the folklore and belief is still very strong a motorway was rerouted around a fairy bush as recently as 2009 in limerick in the republic.
Ireland used to have bears, wolves & lynx. But we hunted them to extinction before the world was enlightened to wildlife protection because they were a danger. And when you were talking about the mythical big foot, we don't have that. But we do have the myth of the Banshee (a supernatural woman of the fairies) that wails at night to foretell the ⚰️ of a family member.
The fairies or Sidhe (pronounced Shee as in Banshee meaning fairy woman) were as the Poet Yates says “ The gods of old Ireland who through lack of worship have shrunk to no more than the span of a hand” They were two tribes, the Tuatha Dé Danann (the people of the goddess Danu) and the Fomorians (the people of the abyss). The old legends tell of the great war they fought.
Next time you guys are over you should definitely take the short trip over to Belfast. Full of history, great restaurants and cool pubs/bars. The people are very friendly also.
It’s supposed to be a pathway from Ireland to Scotland. Built by the giant Finn McCool. You’ll find the hexagons in Scotland also which adds to the folklore.
Just to back you up, I live in Haworth West Yorkshire and some times I might feel down or lonely so I get me and the dog dressed for out side and with in 10 minutes of walking we are on Peniston Hill looking out on the beautiful country side and then I breath in the fresh air and feel fine. 😊😊😊😊😊 In Yorkshire we call it gods country because no one else could create such magnificent scenery. ❤🎉❤
Just a thought - if you want an in depth dive in to the geology and folklore of The Giant's Causeway, don't get mad that you chose a ten minute B-Roll video talking about 13 different places.
Hi, I am from Northern Ireland although in England over 30 years. I would say "British Isles" for all the islands. The difficulty comes about because of language and history. The term British has become an anathema to an Irish person who hates what the British did to Ireland. The question then becomes who are the British? Jack
I think the UK equivalent of Big Foot is The Lochness Monster (aka Nessie) in Scotland. Sightings and photographs seemed to go on for many years. All sorts of theories about what it could be and there are people who claim to have seen it etc. Also around the UK there are “thin places”. Locations where the separation between our existence and another existence is very thin, enabling us to partially see, hear or feel the life on the opposite side. Some speculate that it’s the trapped souls of the dead, others say it could be fractures between quantum universes where the people on the other side are very much living.
When I lived in England the place where I lived, the place where I worked and the county's small city very roughly formed a triangle with the points about 8 miles apart. All 3 places had slightly different accents. It was subtle and people from other parts of the country might not hear the difference but it was there.
A further comment. Just after the dinosaurs, about 62 million years ago, huge eruptions of basalt lava covered parts of eastern Greenland, western Scotland, and northern Ireland. (They were all joined together then.) There were volcanoes, but there were also eruptions along great fissures, such as the one now taking place in Iceland. Just sometimes, these lava flows cooled in such a way as to form perfect hexagonal columns. Not only did this happen at the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, but also on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. In particular, just off Mull, on the tiny island of Staffa, is a spectacular sea cave, its walls being formed of hexagonal columns. The sea pinds up and down this cave, which is called Fingal's Cave.
The term 'Britain' or 'British' extends beyond England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The 'British Islands' actually comprise approximately 6,000 islands, which include the Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly, Orkney Islands, Isle of Wight, Shetland Islands, as well as the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, and many smaller isles. This broad scope often leads to Irish results in searches for British items. I trust this clarifies the matter. PS The term "Great Britain" is used because it is the largest island among the British Isles.
Yea it does actually because I assumed Great Britain was another term for the uk. But it’s referring to basically wales England and Scotland. That makes sense. Thank you 🙏
Being born in Belfast as an Irish Citizen, I would disagree the B.I's are very little to do with Ireland, just some made up words of some exciting typographer. There you go TTA, that should get the comments flying I hope. All about the numbers😂😜.
@Trippingthroughadventures the British Isles used to be an acceptable geographical term for Britain, the small islands and all of Ireland. Now the concensus is Ireland should not be included in the geographical term. West European Archipelago?
Some nice spots to visit but it's the kindness of the people similar to the Scottish, another beautiful place especially the highlands. I'd spot you to a mug of tea & biscuits if you happened to be close by. Been enjoying your videos
The Romans referred to the two big islands as Britannia and Ivernia. (In mediaeval times Ivernia was often called Hibernia.) So Britannia refers to the island of Great Britain, not Ireland., which was Ivernia/Hibernia. For many years the whole archipelago has been called the British Isles. However, this irritates some of the Irish, and the phrase British/Irish Isles is sometimes now used. Because of 'The Troubles' (1969-1998) there are still enormous sensitivities. There are some good UA-cam videos on The Troubles.
Hi, i get the point about everywhere has bad places too.....sadly it is inevitable. What i do not understand here in the uk is - generally even in big cities you are 15 minutes away from something beautiful. Yet people do not go. And prefer to sit Infront of a game console or TV. What a waste. All the best.
Walking around Londonderry or Derry is where you will experience the starkest feeling of the conflict and segregation between the Republicans and Unionists. The Republican murals are down in the Bogside beneath the city walls. And then within less than a mile you will find Unionist streets with pictures of William Of Orange and sidewalks painted with red white and blue.
Hi saw a video I'm Wayne from Yorkshire,and Yorkshire is a county and York is in Yorkshire and you are saying it right but our accent is like Emmerdale a TV show 😂
Ive worked for the National Trust. I can assure your Wife mate the Rope Bridge in Northern Ireland will be checked on a Regular basis by the Correct experts.
You guys continue to fully entertain me and make me smile! Northern Ireland is part of the UK by the choice of the people who live there. The people are as warm and welcoming as any others in the British Isles and the countryside is without doubt some of the finest in the world. I'm quite sure you would love to visit! Yet another fine video! 😄😄😄
The borders were drawn around the unionist population though ,it was made for Protestant unionists as they were and still are the minority in the north of ireland so an area was set aside where they were the majority not any more though its 50/50.
@@JohnCraig-y6f What Referendum told you the majority want it to be part of the UK? The Unionist leadership refused Ulster because they wouldn't have been a majority & then took 6 counties to gain a majority.
You can talk about Ireland no problem. The politics is when it gets difficult and there would probably not be a problem looking at it, as long as it is not partisan in any way and just for understanding history. Everybody needs to understand history
as regards wildlife ,all the dangerous top predators have been gone for centuries ,the last wolf was killed in the 18th century .There is talk of reintroducing the bear,wolf and lynx but thats a long way off.
just because your on ireland, so many people came from ireland, before the split into republic and northern, so many to britain, and the americas, my mother who has just retired at 84 years old due to an accident, for last 15 years has taught people how to create there own family tree, not the swab and gene stuff tells you where your from, im from england, over 15 years my mother has traced my family tree back to 1430, before anyone went to america, thats great great great grand parents uncle and cousins and all that, she could not get back, any futher, because the lack of records, which were destroyed during the troubles in ireland
@@Trippingthroughadventures no, we got back 3000bc with stone henge, also the roman invasion, the vikings and the saxons, these 3 invaders defined our place names, if it ends in cester like bicester where i was born, its roman, things that end in other formats are from other invaders, from 1066 to 1320s the upper class spoke french not english
@@seanmc1351 I was watching a video on that the other day talking about how a lot of English words came around because the lower class couldn’t pronounce French words like bouf the lower class called beef so we all say beef now lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures records that were lost were like families, birth deaths and marriages, with out that in ireland, you cant be pointed to the town or village, where they died and buried, to get names, as most head stones will have falmily members mother to bob and dave. no way to find and match up
"We have a connection to Titanic as Americans, solely because of Leonardo Dicaprio ".... wtf does that mean!!!😂 absolute dribble, omg I don't know where to start with that. Are you saying that Leo is the only American connection to the Ship?? I'm going crazy, must be that..
It took Tiffany’s family a good year to understand that im joking 90% of the time. My sister in law recently got engaged…. The rest of the family “ congratulations!?!?” Me “ oh so you think you’re a woman now? “ lol 😂
the island you talk about, there are many, and they all come under the united kingdom, but there are like the ilse of man, are there own island, so to speak, but the uk is responsible for there defence and such like, like the some isles in the english channel, to put it in short terms, they have there own money, taxes and laws, but the UK is resposible for their defense, so they would be known as part of the british isles in a so to speak way
@@Trippingthroughadventures its what is called a crown dependancy, but self governing on the other spectrum you have the ilse of whight in the english channel, the UK's biggest island, which is part of the uk in full, you reach it by hover craft, or catermeran or car ferry, i lived there for a year back in 2001, thats governed by uk laws, as being part of the uk
Bloody Sunday was when the British Army opened fire on a peaceful Civil Rights march through Derry in 1972. Twenty Six people were shot. Fourteen people died, many shot in the back or when trying to help the wounded. Army and Government cover ups followed slandering that people had been armed. Only in 2010 after a 12 year inquiry was it proved, in every case, that there were no guns involved. To this day there are attempts to prosecute the soldiers for their murders. Please understand the Troubles was about oppression. Oppression on the same scale as segregation in the southern USA and apartheid in South Africa by the two thirds majority British over the indigenous Irish, completely restricting an Irish person's life chances such as career and housing and no chance of a democratic majority to change things.
It is the British Isles including Republic of Ireland geographically only. Ireland was once ruled by Britain & got independence in 1949. Northern Ireland wanted to remain part of the UK. Protestant British & Catholic Irish live there, hence the troubles. Those wanting to be British & those wanting a united Ireland. Fairies, gnomes, wizards, witches, unicorns, trolls, giants etc were common myths in most of the isles, however Ireland was renowned for some other little critters.. Leprechauns!! lol. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Ireland got its independence in 1921 as the free state which was similar to australia and canada now.Ireland became a republic and left the commonwealth in 1949 but it was independent long before that.
Me again. There are 3 Bloody Sundays in Irish History, Dublin 1920, Belfast 1921, Derry 1972, also the far lesser known Bloody Friday, A family friend & former neighbour & Mother of 7 was killed by one of the bombs. Her 11 year old daughter was badly injured but survived. Margaret was supposed to come to stay with my family in Co.Cork less than a month later. My Mum lost one of her best friends that day & Margaret's husband Hugh came to stay with us in London for a weekend just to remove him from the stress of the events. R.I.P Margaret x P.S Clans would be ancient families O'brien Lynch, O'neills. Surnames losely speaking really started with O'xxxx son of O'brien originate from Brian Boru Halloween Samhain pronounced Sa wain
Things to see in Ireland, Slieve Liag, The Wild Atlantic way, Inis Mor, mizen & Malin heads, most southern & Northern points of Ireland & both in the Republic(South) cliffs of mother, not as good as sleeve league( Slieve Liag), Cobh(cov) harbour(Titanics last stop before the Iceberg, Newgrange which is older than Stonehenge & Egypts pyramids, Croagh Patrick,(Croke), Granuaile's Castle (Grace O'Malley) The Pirate Queen who sailed to England to petition the Queen Elizabeth first of England for the release of her sons & brother, Hook Lighthouse The oldest working lighthouse in the world. Fastness Rock, last lighthouse before America. I replied to your live video in London about the monument statue & Irish/British history over the North. Plenty of stunning places in Ireland to react to, or stories to be learned. Make sure to do the Antrim cost road. P.S My own personal favourite Owenahincha Rosscarberry Galley Head lighthouse & a derelict( now restored castle) where I grew up. Castlefreke was visible from grandparents summer bungalow. PPS Giants Causeway isn't that great. If you see it you've seen it but it's not inspiring. Kilmarney & the ring of Kerrry are stunning
The British Isles includes all the islands, even the Republic of Ireland. Just how maps are done and history, even though the Republic isn't part of the UK. The unofficial flag of Northern Ireland is the Ulster flag in the thumbnail. The tri colour of the Republic flag and Ulster flag has been flown together lately, with certain things going on. Which was a pleasant site to see. Celtic and Gaelic spread between Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The Rangers and Celtics thing in Scotland is kinda a touchy subject. But all in all; all are pleasant green lands, with old and new history. Recent history has made a few sides come together through common sense/knowledge and common grounds.👍
British ordinance survey maps that have no jurisdiction in the republic of ireland.The Irish ordinance survey doesn't call it a british isle so its not
@@Joseph13163 The British ordnance survey maps won't show Ireland because Ireland has their own maps for mapping Ireland, Britain has maps for mapping Britain. British Isles, group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe. The group consists of two main islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands and island groups, including the Hebrides, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Man. The Channel Islands are also sometimes included in this grouping. There is Britain or Great Britain that consists of England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom is the previous three and Northern Ireland. Ireland and Northern Ireland are classed as Ireland, but if you add all the ones mentioned here in the post/comment together you get the British Isles.
@@zuppymac-xi8rk I've not heard anyone call Irish people or their culture British, media or otherwise (I've lived here for nearly 40 years). They are the Irish, Northern or not. Some obviously do class themselves as being part of one of the three countries or British through ancestry and such. Irish culture is just that, but it might have origins from one of the three countries of Britain. Usually from a from a certain region/area, or even down to a specific place. So I'm not sure what you're on about. The tearm is geographical, but can get geopolitical in certain situations. If I remember correctly, it was just Britain first that included Ireland at the time before Ireland split into two, then British Isles came. Also I've always heard it been/being called and known as the British Isles, never the Islands.
@@zuppymac-xi8rk That would be themselves calling themselves British or being called it depending on context, plus it's a joke. From a small clip the interviewer sounded foreign in that interview from the short look I've done. Plus I don't think he'd spoken and that was the beginning of the video/interview. The BBC is the BBC, but did the said person's have British citizenship? Also who watches the BBC lately, it's been going down hill for some years now. It might do state it, but that is probably for numpties and most likely for Americans. Over time there has been a back and forth with people; through migration, wars, marriage (even royalty) and so on. Even invaders of England that settled here over time went over to Ireland. Many castles were built by the British, before things got heated. But for the most part it has been a one way thing until kinda recently in the grand scale of time and things, then the Irish properly started to come over. The British Isles is the geographical term that everyone knows, British Islands is the political and law side of things. So no, people without a certain position won't call it that. It's not that we refuse to say it, it's just that we don't. If I may ask, where abouts are you from?
@@zuppymac-xi8rk Jonathan Ross is a numpty and a half in getting things wrong, even Ricky Gervais has called him out on Jonathan's programme. As for the not British thing, there has been Northern Irish and even Irish people saying they are both Irish and British in context. True about the Normans, but via a certain path. For the majority of the DNA in Ireland not being from old stock in both senses of the meaning over time is mixed, going back some great time. Many Irish folk did come over to Britain over time, my Grandad being one. Also many friends and acquaintances. Catholic rule and Christian rule is kinda similar, and has changed hands many times over the centuries. Here and there. The main thing with not marring into different parts of the Christian Church is a long and complicated one, can be even worse in the in some Counties in Ireland and the States. Many went by the KJV Bible when they were over in the States, even though he kinda liked the Catholics through his upbringing, but some to many hated Catholics over there. The witches thing went abit mental in the States, and the Gunpowder Plot in trying to end any Irish folk in the States, even though Guy was from the North of England and was Catholic. Kinda hence why Bonfire Night was banned in the States because of the weird attitude towards the Irish over there. The Scottish king that called himself the British King wasn't liked by some, but the coining of the term British was earlier. If you go further back you get Britons and such. As for the terminology of certain things pertaining to the differences, you need to look a few things up. Britain is an Island that has Isles and territories that makes it the British Isles. That's the geography. On a kinda personal note, you seem knowledgeable in/on certain bits. But using the zuppy mac thing, maybe a zoomer that might be from Scotland and cherry picking things..? Just saying. But have a good one.👍
To say Ireland is in the EU is not equivalent of saying Northern Ireland is in the UK, Ireland is a Sovereign and Independent Country, UK was in the EU, so if UK voted to remain then it would be difficult to say Ireland is in the EU, because if Ireland left the EU ( won't happen, it is a hypothetical) you couldn't say Ireland is part of the EU, I know I'm being picky but to me it not the best way to make a distinction. The whole of Island of Ireland was under United Kingdom Till Ireland become independent.
scotland is very patriotic and very very proud of our country that's surprisingly not that small especially our lochs , with over 790 islands and over 30 thousand fresh water lochs 1 lake the only one of its kind in the world falkirk wheel the kelpies and ben nevis we have dolly the sheep first ever cloned mammal , we invented half the world and well we are older by 84 years to england the romans never invaded us and the blood line to the royal family is Scottish and european not English , london has stolen our wealth our oil and gas our history our renewable energy our whisky profits and our freedom , edinburgh Scotland's capital hosts the largest festival in the world , London was built on opium prostitution and scotlands gas and oil thatcher stole our oil and gas and profited it to london providing london as a capital of wealth but thats how england has always got their money of other country's fortune ,
Ireland is one of a handful of EU members that aren’t in NATO. I bet they’d be eager to be part of the British Isles if we start seeing Russian armed forces coming over the horizon.
@@Millennial_Manc You do know that Sinn Fein is based on Leninist Marxist writings & philosophy don't you. The Russians won't be attacking the Irish as it has continually called out Britain for its occupation of 6 counties of Ulster's 9
Why? The English /Brits terrorised the Irish for 800 years. If the Russians ever started coming over to the horizon it would be the Yanks that got involved. Just like they saved you Brits in World War II, and have done ever since. Remind me, how many Yankee air bases are there still in Britain? You can't do anything without there say so.
I'm a Scot married to an Northern Irish gal and we eventually moved back to her hometown when yer father's health was failing nearly 25 yrs ago, and the view from our bay window is the Mourne mountains. It's where C.S Lewis got his inspiration for his The Lion, the witch & the wardrobe series of books. So technically we live in Narnia.😂
The fairy stuff died out over a century of so ago but Scots & Irish are still a superstitious kinda folk. They're full of life and friendly ppl and there's loads to do in the entire UK & Ireland.✌
The Giants Causeway is a volcanic feature. The columns are the result of slowly cooling Basalt rock. This rock makes up most of the ocean seafloor. It forms into hexagonal shapes because that is the natural crystal structure of the mineral it is composed of.
Nooo the giants built it 😂
I love your reviews, I'm from North East England and if you ever get the chance to visit you will find the area and the people second to none.
Thank you for coming back. Your'e very welcome again!
You both appear to know more about the UK,then most Americans. Good on you.
That guy in a red coat standing on the cliffs above the giants causeway was me. The hexagon rocks are formed when lava cooled, it cracks along the crystalline structure of the rock
Clans are generally extended families including cousins up to fifth cousin.Generally clans were aristocratic and noble once you fell out a certain amount from the chieftain in terms of blood relationship you were no longer a mamber of the clan and therefore you were a commoner.
This rant was amazing. The amount of Brits that seem to forget this is astonishing. We should learn and remember our past so we don't make the same mistakes
Thank you we deeply appreciate the uk and its culture, for every castle fort, watch tower how many battles how many graves ? Britain has tried to be conquered by everyone including theirselves lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures tell me about it, Cymru has been invaded countless times. You guys should check out Capel Celyn; an entire village in North Wales was flooded just so the English had more water, the funny thing was, after they built it, they no longer needed it
@@Trippingthroughadventures To answer your question which side was bono on during bloody sunday 1972,well neither as a protestant from dublin republic of ireland he doesn't fit into either camp neatly.Protestants in the northern ireland are probritish unionist overwhelming whereas protestants in the south are generally loyal irish citizens not harbouring any desire as such toward the UK,however the march was for catholic civil rights and bono is a protestant so all these factors make him neutral .
@@Trippingthroughadventures As regards the folklore in ireland while leprechauns are kind of seen as very american,the folklore and belief is still very strong a motorway was rerouted around a fairy bush as recently as 2009 in limerick in the republic.
Ireland used to have bears, wolves & lynx. But we hunted them to extinction before the world was enlightened to wildlife protection because they were a danger. And when you were talking about the mythical big foot, we don't have that. But we do have the myth of the Banshee (a supernatural woman of the fairies) that wails at night to foretell the ⚰️ of a family member.
The fairies or Sidhe (pronounced Shee as in Banshee meaning fairy woman) were as the Poet Yates says “ The gods of old Ireland who through lack of worship have shrunk to no more than the span of a hand” They were two tribes, the Tuatha Dé Danann (the people of the goddess Danu) and the Fomorians (the people of the abyss). The old legends tell of the great war they fought.
Next time you guys are over you should definitely take the short trip over to Belfast. Full of history, great restaurants and cool pubs/bars. The people are very friendly also.
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It’s supposed to be a pathway from Ireland to Scotland. Built by the giant Finn McCool. You’ll find the hexagons in Scotland also which adds to the folklore.
Just to back you up, I live in Haworth West Yorkshire and some times I might feel down or lonely so I get me and the dog dressed for out side and with in 10 minutes of walking we are on Peniston Hill looking out on the beautiful country side and then I breath in the fresh air and feel fine. 😊😊😊😊😊
In Yorkshire we call it gods country because no one else could create such magnificent scenery. ❤🎉❤
Just a thought - if you want an in depth dive in to the geology and folklore of The Giant's Causeway, don't get mad that you chose a ten minute B-Roll video talking about 13 different places.
Hi, I am from Northern Ireland although in England over 30 years. I would say "British Isles" for all the islands. The difficulty comes about because of language and history. The term British has become an anathema to an Irish person who hates what the British did to Ireland. The question then becomes who are the British? Jack
I like how the answer to the question is just call it that not everyone will like it but just call it that 😂🤣😂very British answer I guess
@@Trippingthroughadventures you are quite an interpreter of culture! 😉
I think the UK equivalent of Big Foot is The Lochness Monster (aka Nessie) in Scotland. Sightings and photographs seemed to go on for many years. All sorts of theories about what it could be and there are people who claim to have seen it etc.
Also around the UK there are “thin places”. Locations where the separation between our existence and another existence is very thin, enabling us to partially see, hear or feel the life on the opposite side. Some speculate that it’s the trapped souls of the dead, others say it could be fractures between quantum universes where the people on the other side are very much living.
These islands including the republic of Ireland are all amazing for natural beauty. Such diversity. Fantastic scenery/places to visit. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
The diversity of each area of the uk is really amazing. From the languages to the architecture to culture in such a small area is very kool.
When I lived in England the place where I lived, the place where I worked and the county's small city very roughly formed a triangle with the points about 8 miles apart. All 3 places had slightly different accents. It was subtle and people from other parts of the country might not hear the difference but it was there.
A further comment. Just after the dinosaurs, about 62 million years ago, huge eruptions of basalt lava covered parts of eastern Greenland, western Scotland, and northern Ireland. (They were all joined together then.) There were volcanoes, but there were also eruptions along great fissures, such as the one now taking place in Iceland.
Just sometimes, these lava flows cooled in such a way as to form perfect hexagonal columns. Not only did this happen at the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, but also on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. In particular, just off Mull, on the tiny island of Staffa, is a spectacular sea cave, its walls being formed of hexagonal columns. The sea pinds up and down this cave, which is called Fingal's Cave.
So glad you are coming back to the U.K. next year 😀👍🏻.
What is your theme music? I love it!! 👍🏻
We are super excited to it’s going to be a lot bigger than our London vlogs Our theme music ua-cam.com/video/jIoHSY8_x44/v-deo.htmlsi=3Le4NO-OpHYStoOK
The term 'Britain' or 'British' extends beyond England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The 'British Islands' actually comprise approximately 6,000 islands, which include the Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly, Orkney Islands, Isle of Wight, Shetland Islands, as well as the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, and many smaller isles. This broad scope often leads to Irish results in searches for British items. I trust this clarifies the matter. PS The term "Great Britain" is used because it is the largest island among the British Isles.
Yea it does actually because I assumed Great Britain was another term for the uk. But it’s referring to basically wales England and Scotland. That makes sense. Thank you 🙏
Being born in Belfast as an Irish Citizen, I would disagree the B.I's are very little to do with Ireland, just some made up words of some exciting typographer.
There you go TTA, that should get the comments flying I hope. All about the numbers😂😜.
@@pjtufty66 🤣😂 it’s all about the controversy lol
@Trippingthroughadventures the British Isles used to be an acceptable geographical term for Britain, the small islands and all of Ireland. Now the concensus is Ireland should not be included in the geographical term. West European Archipelago?
@@Trippingthroughadventuresforgot to mention, Dublin has different accents within the city.
A couple of folklore channels you might enjoy are The Jolly Reiver (British & Irish tales) and Icy Sedgwick (a podcast available on YT)
Some nice spots to visit but it's the kindness of the people similar to the Scottish, another beautiful place especially the highlands.
I'd spot you to a mug of tea & biscuits if you happened to be close by.
Been enjoying your videos
Thank you so much who knows maybe one day we will lol
The Romans referred to the two big islands as Britannia and Ivernia. (In mediaeval times Ivernia was often called Hibernia.) So Britannia refers to the island of Great Britain, not Ireland., which was Ivernia/Hibernia.
For many years the whole archipelago has been called the British Isles. However, this irritates some of the Irish, and the phrase British/Irish Isles is sometimes now used.
Because of 'The Troubles' (1969-1998) there are still enormous sensitivities. There are some good UA-cam videos on The Troubles.
Hi, i get the point about everywhere has bad places too.....sadly it is inevitable. What i do not understand here in the uk is - generally even in big cities you are 15 minutes away from something beautiful. Yet people do not go. And prefer to sit Infront of a game console or TV. What a waste. All the best.
And you are pretty clued up well done most Americans can't understand a word we say
@@waynekelly9410 especially when drunk 😊
@@gerardflynn7382 you should listen to Irish and Scottish people when drunk I'm English and i have trouble 😂
Walking around Londonderry or Derry is where you will experience the starkest feeling of the conflict and segregation between the Republicans and Unionists. The Republican murals are down in the Bogside beneath the city walls. And then within less than a mile you will find Unionist streets with pictures of William Of Orange and sidewalks painted with red white and blue.
Hi saw a video I'm Wayne from Yorkshire,and Yorkshire is a county and York is in Yorkshire and you are saying it right but our accent is like Emmerdale a TV show 😂
Ive worked for the National Trust. I can assure your Wife mate the Rope Bridge in Northern Ireland will be checked on a Regular basis by the Correct experts.
Geographically Nth Ireland is on the island of Ireland
Politically it is part of the UK
Best way to describe The 2 Islands.
The little Island next to the bigger island 20 miles east of Mainland Europe.
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Irish history is a complex thing
You guys continue to fully entertain me and make me smile! Northern Ireland is part of the UK by the choice of the people who live there. The people are as warm and welcoming as any others in the British Isles and the countryside is without doubt some of the finest in the world. I'm quite sure you would love to visit! Yet another fine video! 😄😄😄
Thank you we will make it there eventually lol.
The borders were drawn around the unionist population though ,it was made for Protestant unionists as they were and still are the minority in the north of ireland so an area was set aside where they were the majority not any more though its 50/50.
@@JohnCraig-y6f What Referendum told you the majority want it to be part of the UK?
The Unionist leadership refused Ulster because they wouldn't have been a majority & then took 6 counties to gain a majority.
You can talk about Ireland no problem. The politics is when it gets difficult and there would probably not be a problem looking at it, as long as it is not partisan in any way and just for understanding history. Everybody needs to understand history
as regards wildlife ,all the dangerous top predators have been gone for centuries ,the last wolf was killed in the 18th century .There is talk of reintroducing the bear,wolf and lynx but thats a long way off.
just because your on ireland, so many people came from ireland, before the split into republic and northern, so many to britain, and the americas,
my mother who has just retired at 84 years old due to an accident, for last 15 years has taught people how to create there own family tree, not the swab and gene stuff tells you where your from, im from england, over 15 years my mother has traced my family tree back to 1430, before anyone went to america, thats great great great grand parents uncle and cousins and all that, she could not get back, any futher, because the lack of records, which were destroyed during the troubles in ireland
Thethe British isles probably lost more history than than America has
@@Trippingthroughadventures no, we got back 3000bc with stone henge, also the roman invasion, the vikings and the saxons, these 3 invaders defined our place names, if it ends in cester like bicester where i was born, its roman, things that end in other formats are from other invaders, from 1066 to 1320s the upper class spoke french not english
@@seanmc1351 I was watching a video on that the other day talking about how a lot of English words came around because the lower class couldn’t pronounce French words like bouf the lower class called beef so we all say beef now lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures records that were lost were like families, birth deaths and marriages, with out that in ireland, you cant be pointed to the town or village, where they died and buried, to get names, as most head stones will have falmily members mother to bob and dave. no way to find and match up
@@Trippingthroughadventures i was born bicester you will say
bi cester
we say
bis ter
Great Britain
@@waynekelly9410 it’s the United Kingdom not GB
Bless you....😅
the u2 song is about bloody sunday, terrorism more than a independance war, tsk, was 9/11 independance war, ?
Giants Causeway not bridge.
"We have a connection to Titanic as Americans, solely because of Leonardo Dicaprio ".... wtf does that mean!!!😂 absolute dribble, omg I don't know where to start with that.
Are you saying that Leo is the only American connection to the Ship??
I'm going crazy, must be that..
Nothing haha it was a joke lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures thank god for that! 🤣 are you sure you're not british, with such a dry humour... we have that.
It took Tiffany’s family a good year to understand that im joking 90% of the time. My sister in law recently got engaged…. The rest of the family “ congratulations!?!?” Me “ oh so you think you’re a woman now? “ lol 😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures haha that's hilarious 😂 I would have laughed, defo.
Does that mean that the English has a connection with the Titanic because of Kate Winslet😀😃😄
Scotland is beautiful
The Giant Causeway.
the island you talk about, there are many, and they all come under the united kingdom, but there are like the ilse of man, are there own island, so to speak, but the uk is responsible for there defence and such like, like the some isles in the english channel, to put it in short terms, they have there own money, taxes and laws, but the UK is resposible for their defense, so they would be known as part of the british isles in a so to speak way
So like the Isle of Man, does it fall under its own country or just a uk territory?
@@Trippingthroughadventures its what is called a crown dependancy, but self governing
on the other spectrum you have the ilse of whight in the english channel, the UK's biggest island, which is part of the uk in full, you reach it by hover craft, or catermeran or car ferry, i lived there for a year back in 2001, thats governed by uk laws, as being part of the uk
Ireland does not fall under the defence of the UK.
Ireland is a Neutral Country & as such if attacked would be defended by more than the u.k
@@pjtufty66 if i typed ireland im sorry, it should have said islands, which im sure is what i said, applogies if i miss typed
Think Everyman and his dog has heard of big foot no fairy’s in irealand r taken seriously
Bloody Sunday was when the British Army opened fire on a peaceful Civil Rights march through Derry in 1972. Twenty Six people were shot. Fourteen people died, many shot in the back or when trying to help the wounded. Army and Government cover ups followed slandering that people had been armed. Only in 2010 after a 12 year inquiry was it proved, in every case, that there were no guns involved. To this day there are attempts to prosecute the soldiers for their murders.
Please understand the Troubles was about oppression. Oppression on the same scale as segregation in the southern USA and apartheid in South Africa by the two thirds majority British over the indigenous Irish, completely restricting an Irish person's life chances such as career and housing and no chance of a democratic majority to change things.
Thank you for the information we like to learn from the people, on that only thing I will say was segregation was not limited to the south.
It is the British Isles including Republic of Ireland geographically only. Ireland was once ruled by Britain & got independence in 1949. Northern Ireland wanted to remain part of the UK. Protestant British & Catholic Irish live there, hence the troubles. Those wanting to be British & those wanting a united Ireland. Fairies, gnomes, wizards, witches, unicorns, trolls, giants etc were common myths in most of the isles, however Ireland was renowned for some other little critters.. Leprechauns!! lol. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Ireland got its independence in 1921 as the free state which was similar to australia and canada now.Ireland became a republic and left the commonwealth in 1949 but it was independent long before that.
@@Joseph13163 Sorry my mistake there 👍
Some of these are pronounced wrong 😂
Me again.
There are 3 Bloody Sundays in Irish History, Dublin 1920, Belfast 1921, Derry 1972, also the far lesser known Bloody Friday, A family friend & former neighbour & Mother of 7 was killed by one of the bombs. Her 11 year old daughter was badly injured but survived. Margaret was supposed to come to stay with my family in Co.Cork less than a month later. My Mum lost one of her best friends that day & Margaret's husband Hugh came to stay with us in London for a weekend just to remove him from the stress of the events.
R.I.P Margaret x
P.S Clans would be ancient families O'brien Lynch, O'neills.
Surnames losely speaking really started with O'xxxx son of O'brien originate from Brian Boru
Halloween Samhain pronounced Sa wain
I can't deny it. We do like a fight, lol 🏴🙂
It's "the British Isles",
Britannia is an old term.
@@zuppymac-xi8rk thanks zupp-ster! 😀i'll try and fit in this pointless and confusing fact or caveat with my usual studies! byee
@zuppymac-xi8rk haha exactly. Confusion can also appear in many forms and certain context.
Dangerous wildlife hunted out of existence
Celtic archipelago
Things to see in Ireland,
Slieve Liag,
The Wild Atlantic way, Inis Mor, mizen & Malin heads, most southern & Northern points of Ireland & both in the Republic(South) cliffs of mother, not as good as sleeve league( Slieve Liag),
Cobh(cov) harbour(Titanics last stop before the Iceberg, Newgrange which is older than Stonehenge & Egypts pyramids, Croagh Patrick,(Croke), Granuaile's Castle (Grace O'Malley) The Pirate Queen who sailed to England to petition the Queen Elizabeth first of England for the release of her sons & brother, Hook Lighthouse The oldest working lighthouse in the world. Fastness Rock, last lighthouse before America.
I replied to your live video in London about the monument statue & Irish/British history over the North.
Plenty of stunning places in Ireland to react to, or stories to be learned.
Make sure to do the Antrim cost road.
P.S My own personal favourite Owenahincha Rosscarberry Galley Head lighthouse & a derelict( now restored castle) where I grew up.
Castlefreke was visible from grandparents summer bungalow.
PPS Giants Causeway isn't that great.
If you see it you've seen it but it's not inspiring. Kilmarney & the ring of Kerrry are stunning
His girl is stunning. congrats
The British Isles includes all the islands, even the Republic of Ireland. Just how maps are done and history, even though the Republic isn't part of the UK.
The unofficial flag of Northern Ireland is the Ulster flag in the thumbnail. The tri colour of the Republic flag and Ulster flag has been flown together lately, with certain things going on. Which was a pleasant site to see.
Celtic and Gaelic spread between Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The Rangers and Celtics thing in Scotland is kinda a touchy subject.
But all in all; all are pleasant green lands, with old and new history. Recent history has made a few sides come together through common sense/knowledge and common grounds.👍
British ordinance survey maps that have no jurisdiction in the republic of ireland.The Irish ordinance survey doesn't call it a british isle so its not
@@Joseph13163 The British ordnance survey maps won't show Ireland because Ireland has their own maps for mapping Ireland, Britain has maps for mapping Britain.
British Isles, group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe. The group consists of two main islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands and island groups, including the Hebrides, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Man. The Channel Islands are also sometimes included in this grouping.
There is Britain or Great Britain that consists of England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom is the previous three and Northern Ireland. Ireland and Northern Ireland are classed as Ireland, but if you add all the ones mentioned here in the post/comment together you get the British Isles.
@@zuppymac-xi8rk I've not heard anyone call Irish people or their culture British, media or otherwise (I've lived here for nearly 40 years). They are the Irish, Northern or not. Some obviously do class themselves as being part of one of the three countries or British through ancestry and such.
Irish culture is just that, but it might have origins from one of the three countries of Britain. Usually from a from a certain region/area, or even down to a specific place. So I'm not sure what you're on about.
The tearm is geographical, but can get geopolitical in certain situations.
If I remember correctly, it was just Britain first that included Ireland at the time before Ireland split into two, then British Isles came.
Also I've always heard it been/being called and known as the British Isles, never the Islands.
@@zuppymac-xi8rk That would be themselves calling themselves British or being called it depending on context, plus it's a joke.
From a small clip the interviewer sounded foreign in that interview from the short look I've done. Plus I don't think he'd spoken and that was the beginning of the video/interview.
The BBC is the BBC, but did the said person's have British citizenship? Also who watches the BBC lately, it's been going down hill for some years now.
It might do state it, but that is probably for numpties and most likely for Americans.
Over time there has been a back and forth with people; through migration, wars, marriage (even royalty) and so on. Even invaders of England that settled here over time went over to Ireland. Many castles were built by the British, before things got heated. But for the most part it has been a one way thing until kinda recently in the grand scale of time and things, then the Irish properly started to come over.
The British Isles is the geographical term that everyone knows, British Islands is the political and law side of things. So no, people without a certain position won't call it that. It's not that we refuse to say it, it's just that we don't.
If I may ask, where abouts are you from?
@@zuppymac-xi8rk Jonathan Ross is a numpty and a half in getting things wrong, even Ricky Gervais has called him out on Jonathan's programme.
As for the not British thing, there has been Northern Irish and even Irish people saying they are both Irish and British in context.
True about the Normans, but via a certain path.
For the majority of the DNA in Ireland not being from old stock in both senses of the meaning over time is mixed, going back some great time.
Many Irish folk did come over to Britain over time, my Grandad being one. Also many friends and acquaintances.
Catholic rule and Christian rule is kinda similar, and has changed hands many times over the centuries. Here and there.
The main thing with not marring into different parts of the Christian Church is a long and complicated one, can be even worse in the in some Counties in Ireland and the States.
Many went by the KJV Bible when they were over in the States, even though he kinda liked the Catholics through his upbringing, but some to many hated Catholics over there. The witches thing went abit mental in the States, and the Gunpowder Plot in trying to end any Irish folk in the States, even though Guy was from the North of England and was Catholic. Kinda hence why Bonfire Night was banned in the States because of the weird attitude towards the Irish over there.
The Scottish king that called himself the British King wasn't liked by some, but the coining of the term British was earlier. If you go further back you get Britons and such.
As for the terminology of certain things pertaining to the differences, you need to look a few things up.
Britain is an Island that has Isles and territories that makes it the British Isles. That's the geography.
On a kinda personal note, you seem knowledgeable in/on certain bits. But using the zuppy mac thing, maybe a zoomer that might be from Scotland and cherry picking things..? Just saying.
But have a good one.👍
To say Ireland is in the EU is not equivalent of saying Northern Ireland is in the UK, Ireland is a Sovereign and Independent Country, UK was in the EU, so if UK voted to remain then it would be difficult to say Ireland is in the EU, because if Ireland left the EU ( won't happen, it is a hypothetical) you couldn't say Ireland is part of the EU, I know I'm being picky but to me it not the best way to make a distinction.
The whole of Island of Ireland was under United Kingdom
Till Ireland become independent.
scotland is very patriotic and very very proud of our country that's surprisingly not that small especially our lochs , with over 790 islands and over 30 thousand fresh water lochs 1 lake the only one of its kind in the world falkirk wheel the kelpies and ben nevis we have dolly the sheep first ever cloned mammal , we invented half the world and well we are older by 84 years to england the romans never invaded us and the blood line to the royal family is Scottish and european not English , london has stolen our wealth our oil and gas our history our renewable energy our whisky profits and our freedom , edinburgh Scotland's capital hosts the largest festival in the world , London was built on opium prostitution and scotlands gas and oil thatcher stole our oil and gas and profited it to london providing london as a capital of wealth but thats how england has always got their money of other country's fortune ,
Ireland is one of a handful of EU members that aren’t in NATO. I bet they’d be eager to be part of the British Isles if we start seeing Russian armed forces coming over the horizon.
They're trying to rope us into it. So the military industrial complex has another tax base to steal from.
@@Millennial_Manc You do know that Sinn Fein is based on Leninist Marxist writings & philosophy don't you.
The Russians won't be attacking the Irish as it has continually called out Britain for its occupation of 6 counties of Ulster's 9
Why? The English /Brits terrorised the Irish for 800 years. If the Russians ever started coming over to the horizon it would be the Yanks that got involved. Just like they saved you Brits in World War II, and have done ever since. Remind me, how many Yankee air bases are there still in Britain? You can't do anything without there say so.
As a Englishman never understood why the northern Irish copy our flag 🤔