Historic Introduction to The Fields Of Athenry

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  • A historic introduction to the Fields Of Athenry which you can watch • The Fields Of Athenry ...
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  • @ChrisMcCandless77777
    @ChrisMcCandless77777 4 місяці тому +4

    We will never forget, long live the free people of united Ireland 🇮🇪
    Grettings from Italy 🇮🇹 ❤💪

  • @JohnClarke-lq4ko
    @JohnClarke-lq4ko Рік тому +7

    " It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most
    who will prevail."
    Philip Clarke. Irish Martyr 1916

  • @golferpro1241
    @golferpro1241 Рік тому +6

    My Dad was from Cabra, Dublin. My grandfather was a volunteer in Killanny. I am an American but Irish blood runs through my veins. God Bless Ireland!

  • @andyanderson5326
    @andyanderson5326 2 роки тому +97

    My ancestor was incarcerated here when he and his friends vandalised farming machines, so people would have work the next day. He was sentenced to life in Australia for stealing instead, because he took the blame for this young lad who was with them. The boy stole an apple and some bread. What a legend ! Over 2 hundred years later we now call ourselves New Zealanders.

    • @blueneptune825
      @blueneptune825 Рік тому +7

      💚Aw, it's great to hear of the happy result from such heartbreak at the outset of a long journey.☘️💚🇮🇪💚☘️

    • @jcharissesandberg333
      @jcharissesandberg333 Рік тому +3

      Thank you for that. I'm feeling pretty oppressed right now, & it helps.

    • @andyanderson5326
      @andyanderson5326 Рік тому +1

      @@jcharissesandberg333 thank you for taking the time to read our families story. I am overcome to hear it inspired you in such a time. Great things come out of sadness and despair if we don’t give up. God bless you during these days of giving. ❤

    • @andyanderson5326
      @andyanderson5326 Рік тому +2

      @@blueneptune825 thank you we have never forgot our roots and are proud to be connected to Ireland ☘️

    • @lloydpreston3602
      @lloydpreston3602 11 місяців тому

      You, Andy, are a disgrace to New Zealand

  • @annmarielyn1869
    @annmarielyn1869 2 роки тому +77

    I like that you said we with Irish blood in our veins are survivors. This attempt over centuries was to break the Irish spirit. Too many people in today's world want to be labeled victims. Not us. ☘

    • @shari9721
      @shari9721 Рік тому +6

      I dont understand when or why being a victim of something has become an insult or that the victim is somehow blamed for what happened to them . If someone gets raped then they are a victim of rape , if they dont get killed during that rape then they are a survivor of rape . It isnt an either or thing , you are both a victim and a survivor . Being raped is a horrific thing that is done to someone , it has physical , mental , emotional effects that last a lifetime and that can change and reoccur over time , at any time , for any reason or for "no" reason , to tell someone to stop crying about it or "get over it " or " move past it " etc and to "stop being a victim" is nothing but absolute sheer ignorance .

    • @Jesus_Resurrection_and_Life
      @Jesus_Resurrection_and_Life Рік тому +1

      Jesus Bless you dear. I’m half direct Irish. Wanna learn so much more about my heritage now :)) God Bless xx
      Edit: after listening, yes, it Did tick a lot of boxes for genocide, hard to grow up with, I’m England!

    • @blueneptune825
      @blueneptune825 Рік тому +2

      @@shari9721 I'd have set it myself but not half as well as you have done. Thank you.🇮🇪☘️💚✌🏼

    • @paultimmins7651
      @paultimmins7651 Рік тому +1

      Not us

  • @davidtroy8734
    @davidtroy8734 4 роки тому +27

    Derek has his PHD in Republican and Irish Studies...with a Major into its Songs and tales.

    • @MrConan89
      @MrConan89 2 роки тому

      PHD's are baloney. They started out for folks who split the atom, found the DNA spiral, not for folks who make notes in libraries.

  • @willemvanstaden3292
    @willemvanstaden3292 2 роки тому +18

    Many Irishmen joined the Boers in South Africa in their fight against the British Empire. Even though we lost the war due to genocide against our women and children - we still remember, with praise, those volunteers from Eire, Germany, Russia, the USA, Sweden, etc. who fought alongside the Boer militias. To a united Eire! Hail!

    • @milesbrown8016
      @milesbrown8016 2 роки тому +1

      Viva Ireland…laat hulle sterk staan soos Ukraini….🍀

    • @michaelcostello2592
      @michaelcostello2592 2 роки тому +1

      Who hasn't the irish helped fight in battle....Argentina, cuba,Mexico, Canada, france,spain, America, Iceland, Scotland, etc etc san patricios battalion in Mexico viva irlande!!!

    • @michaelcostello2592
      @michaelcostello2592 2 роки тому

      Che guerva was actually a Lynch not Guerva n was mostly irish ,ireilly with San Patricios in mexico....the wild geese n so forth the English enslaved irish n forced them to fight for them smh....bes example wen Braveheart the Frontline wen Scotland fought England, rhet weren't English nope they were irish ....so many countries used fighting irish men from Mexico, America, Canada, France, England, Argentina, etc I could go on all day long

    • @winterwolf9797
      @winterwolf9797 Рік тому

      Most Irish fought for the British, hence why the Irish guards were formed because of the bravery of Irish soldiers fighting in the boer war for the crown

  • @tonyireland1434
    @tonyireland1434 2 роки тому +4

    I'm a British man was raised in Ireland married here when I hear this it makes me ashamed of what the British did I apologise from my heart, but I cannot choose my country of birth.

  • @WildOwlFilms
    @WildOwlFilms 2 роки тому +8

    I have visited Killmainham Gaol and its an eerie place. As an English person I'm ashamed at what was done to the people of Ireland 🇮🇪 in the past. Not in my name!! Sadly history isn't taught sufficiently in English schools as this part of it is too embarrassing and shameful.

  • @johnwoulfe3118
    @johnwoulfe3118 Рік тому +4

    Thanks for the history lesson, I never knew the whole story behind this epic song "The Fields of Athenry"

  • @eddieMurphy11111
    @eddieMurphy11111 3 роки тому +19

    god bless you for telling this story and thanks you.

  • @matthew2008able
    @matthew2008able 2 роки тому +5

    Bless you. Good health & peace of mind your way. 🇮🇪

  • @markrhodes5474
    @markrhodes5474 2 роки тому +36

    It’s not the English people who did this the British establishment was doing it to it own people right up until the 1950’s Ten pound poms we stand together with our Irish friends

    • @007JHS
      @007JHS 2 роки тому +1

      Well I claim Irish ancestry.. but sadly before great grandparents (otherwise I'd apply for an Irish passport)... but also as a ten pound pom... though that was my parents... I was young enough to have gone for free.

    • @iersejounge
      @iersejounge 2 роки тому +1

      I have more friends in England than Ireland. Live in the North West. Love it

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Рік тому +9

      I’m sorry, @Mike Rhodes....I don’t remember reading about any English citizens who organized and protested against the genocide which was the Irish potato famine, nor am I aware of protests taking place to ease the harsh laws which sent starving people to Australia for stealing small amounts of food to feed their children. I am wholly of English descent, with an ancestor aboard the Mayflower and two more colonists who fought in the American Revolution-for the British. I married a man who is a third generation child of Irish immigrants on his mother’s side, and I got much of my information from his relatives, as well as reading every history book I could get my hands on. That’s how I know that the majority of English people did not do much in the way of protest for the Irish. Of course, I may be wrong, and would welcome any sources you may have that tell a different story.

    • @paultimmins7651
      @paultimmins7651 Рік тому +2

      Exactly Mark, English people were lied to and misled by the British Establishment about the mentality of Irish people (who are massively respectable and humanistic).

    • @paultimmins7651
      @paultimmins7651 Рік тому +3

      @@voraciousreader3341 I am of Irish stock as well having been born and reared in England during the worst anti Irish feeling. It was due to propaganda of UK media. I think the British people of the time of the famine were also starving and under oppression.

  • @ralphmurre8708
    @ralphmurre8708 2 роки тому +9

    Alas, 'tis only my heart that's Irish, but I thank you for this fine video and Pete St. John for the fine song, which I sing often, from my Irish heart.

  • @redelfshotthefood8213
    @redelfshotthefood8213 29 днів тому

    The song led me here to learn. What a great crime. Crying now. From Canada with love.

  • @shanedunne8488
    @shanedunne8488 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you so much for this. I’ve performed The Fields of Athenry countless times, but never knew the full historical context that you explain so eloquently here. My confirmation name is Éamonn, which was my father’s name, given to him by his father, who fought in Dublin in ‘16, in honour of his CO, Éamonn Ceannt, executed at Kilmainham Gaol. God rest his soul.

  • @DonybrookandBray
    @DonybrookandBray 6 місяців тому +1

    We will remember them.

  • @occidentadvocate.9759
    @occidentadvocate.9759 2 роки тому +8

    This makes me sad and angry what was done to my Gael people. My ancestor baring my surname, fled famine in Leinster in the 1840s. He married an Irish girl in Wales, then settled in N/E England. He has thousands decendents. Im one! Erin Go Bragh!

  • @thepiratepenguin4465
    @thepiratepenguin4465 9 місяців тому +1

    My father's side fled from Ireland to work the gold fields of the ZAR in 1895 & make a life for themself far from the British jackboot having survived An Gorta Mór, Trevelyan's genocide of the Irish people only to face the British again during Anglo-Boer, another shameful chapter in British history. Being a part of the Irish diaspora, your music has helped me learn about my history & keep intought with my roots. Hopefully, one day I'll be able to see the Republic So much martyr blood was shed for & Kinsealy, the town where my Great grandmother & other 4 Brothers lived before departing for the Cape of Good Hope.

    • @MsFishlegs
      @MsFishlegs 3 місяці тому +1

      I just noted above that I am of Irish stock and live in New Zealand. By a strange twist of filter my Grandfather fought against your lot in the Boer War. What a twist of fate that we were on the side of the British.

  • @moos5221
    @moos5221 Рік тому +11

    I'm german and as all germans I learned early in my life from stories of my grandparents and parents and from the lectures in school that our nation and people commited the worst crimes in history and that we all inherited the sins of our ancestors. It's something we all carry with us and we all are very wary of at all times: Our nation and forefathers have commited the worst crimes in history and we and our children and our childrens children will forever be seen and judged by what they did from all other people in the world. And it is true, whereever you go as a german, there will always be someone to call you a Nazi, even though they have never seen you before and they know nothing about you, just where you originate from. That is especially true when you travel in England. Only recently I learned about all the crimes the British have comminted - those aren't part of history lessons here. I have yet to meet an english person who feels guilt or shame for the actions of their ancestors.

    • @peterwerner651
      @peterwerner651 Рік тому +2

      Moose52,
      I am a citizen of USA. But my mother was entirely of Irish ancestry. And my father? Entirely of German ancestry.
      And so from the perspective of my unique collective DNA I found your reply to this Athenry clip intriguing. I also found it to be thoughtful and poignantly stated. Thank you.
      My response to your comment: Foremost to be kept in mind is the importance of recognizing the tragedy of past deeds, and from there learning from them so that going forward, all our actions conducted towards our fellow human beings are sincerely respectful. It looks like that is precisely what you are doing in your life. Kudos to you sir!

  • @johnstrohsnitter3037
    @johnstrohsnitter3037 Рік тому +3

    This is the best history lesson I've ever had

  • @paulfrancis8764
    @paulfrancis8764 5 місяців тому +1

    Thank you sir! I’m so proud of my ancestors! 🇮🇪🙏

  • @rabereno
    @rabereno 2 роки тому +10

    great lesson in history but dont forget the hiland clearens of scotland this is one of my old time songs

  • @adilaahmetagic5517
    @adilaahmetagic5517 Місяць тому

    Beautifully narrated

  • @jaghook
    @jaghook Рік тому +32

    I am an Englishman and it was happening here at the same time. The more i digest about the British empire, the more i feel saddened and disgusted about the way it worked and the way this world works, and the sins of our rulers. Every country in the world has to be ruled. Why can it not be done without viciousness and barbarity. All that ever does is breed more of the same.

    • @anajinn
      @anajinn Рік тому

      It's coming again. World wide food shortages orchestrated by the World Economic Forum - an entity controlled by globalists and royalty. Prince Charles is a founding member, and I believe Prince Phillip was too. Better start growing your own food. They are now trying to wipe out farms. They have started with the Netherlands, and Canada too. Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland - all protesting in support of Dutch farmers. They are not showing anything on the mainstream news. World protests are to take place 23 July 2022. Be there. Italians are already standing in bread lines. How can this be when people like Prince Harry and Justin Trudeau are expending jet fuel for their own pleasure while people cannot afford fuel to drive to work? Bill Gates is not your friend.

    • @MrRacing44
      @MrRacing44 Рік тому +2

      Because it’s the human condition . Sad but true !

    • @tubemonks
      @tubemonks Рік тому

      It's still happening mate. CV and CC is their new weapon and this time the war is against all of us.

    • @janm2473
      @janm2473 Рік тому +2

      Amen to that..

  • @MrTaylor498
    @MrTaylor498 Рік тому +8

    A history lesson from my favourite musician of all time,thanks Derek 👍🏻🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @gateway8833
    @gateway8833 2 роки тому +12

    Thank you for illuminating history so well.

  • @Wendigo_Hunter03
    @Wendigo_Hunter03 4 роки тому +15

    Thomas Francis Meagher would lead the 69th New York infantry (Irish Brigade) which was an all Irish brigade in the American Civil War.

  • @johnrutherford1650
    @johnrutherford1650 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you for this story! Never knew this but what a sad story for those that loved Ireland 🇮🇪.

  • @davecasey1582
    @davecasey1582 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for sharing this history lesson. Respect!

  • @disclosedascunardian2328
    @disclosedascunardian2328 2 роки тому +28

    Beautiful memories and a reminder that what we see today in UKRAINE is nothing new. Every one of us who is a descendant of an Irish person should keep the story alive so it is never forgotten. Thank you Sir for your great memories

    • @jimmyjohnstone5878
      @jimmyjohnstone5878 2 роки тому

      My thoughts too. Ukraine's people are being treated as disposable by Putin.

    • @wolfthequarrelsome504
      @wolfthequarrelsome504 2 роки тому +8

      What's happening in Ukraine is the relief and liberation of the Donbass.

    • @oneillcfc7921
      @oneillcfc7921 2 роки тому

      @@wolfthequarrelsome504 keep dreaming you fool. What should be remembered is what the Jewish well ill say israelis are doing to the Palestinians and getting away with it atleast ukraine has support. Alot of Ukrainians speak Russian and don't even speak Ukrainian.. that's how much its been ethnically cleansed. Both situations are equally not right. But cannot be any double standards.

    • @patricksheridan7899
      @patricksheridan7899 2 роки тому

      Get your facts straight. The propaganda that your swallowing is coming from the same fuckers that is being spoke of on this video

    • @williamjackson5942
      @williamjackson5942 Рік тому

      @@wolfthequarrelsome504 Freeing a part of a nation from itself for the benefit of Russia, LIAR!

  • @krabynaby123
    @krabynaby123 Рік тому +7

    I may not be Irish, but being of Vietnamese descent, I know the horrors of colonial genocide. May there be love and solidarity between our two peoples: survivors and victors over the bloodiest colonial empires of the world!

  • @shaneyaw4542
    @shaneyaw4542 Рік тому +4

    Thank you for this video. There was so much knowledge that it brought me to tears.

  • @bigmikehikez2927
    @bigmikehikez2927 2 роки тому +5

    God bless you sir.

  • @professorronin9648
    @professorronin9648 Рік тому +1

    It was a great privilege to hear you speak and sing along with The Young Wolftones yesterday at the Irish Hooley in Dubuque Iowa.

  • @karukun0212
    @karukun0212 Рік тому +2

    I love the Young Wolfetones (come again to Butte!) and their focus on Irish freedom, history and pride. Learning more and more of my ancestors--yes, they gave so much for Irish freedom for so very long. Every sacrifice is hallowed and sacred to those of us who now carry their blood in our veins. I strive to pass this on to my kids and grandkids now, and to continue to fight for freedom in my own ways.

  • @janm2473
    @janm2473 Рік тому +5

    Thank you for this!!! One of my favorite songs of all time.

  • @G0UDG
    @G0UDG 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you Derek we all love ya Many thanks fer all the live streams over lockdown yer all legends Tíocfaidh ár Lár

  • @Elmwood-ze3cr
    @Elmwood-ze3cr 2 роки тому +4

    Absolutely brilliant Sir

  • @danwoodcock4135
    @danwoodcock4135 2 роки тому +6

    Great video. People need to know this. On a side note, I've seen three great Wolfetones performances in my days, the first in the 70's in Bundoran and the 2nd and 3rd times by complete surprise in a park in Savannah in 2001 and then the young wolfetones outside Tampa Arena before a hockey game in 2015. Thanks for all the beautiful songs and music. The best in the world.

  • @ErikBlankenship
    @ErikBlankenship Рік тому +4

    My ancestors sailed from Cobh, County Cork for America, and a chance at a new life. Two of them never survived the journey, and were buried at sea. Flash forward to a younger me in my mid twenties, and discovering Irish music, and learning about my heritage. I had never heard the Fields of Athenry before, not a note of it. When I first heard the intro, I just fell into it, singing along, note-for-note, lyric-for-lyric. I'm 55 now, and I cannot explain it to this day. I'd like to think maybe my Irish immigrant family was reaching out and laying a hand on my shoulder.

    • @peterwerner651
      @peterwerner651 Рік тому +1

      Erik B.
      I too had not heard of the tune, and I too stumbled upon it recently. I found it while watching a YT clip about the Rugby team of Ireland and how their fans sing the song in the stadium.
      'Tis a beautiful ballad about an important event in history.

    • @mr.neqtan
      @mr.neqtan Рік тому +1

      Paddy Reilly arguably sings the best version.

    • @patriciaallan
      @patriciaallan Рік тому +1

      @@mr.neqtanThe best.

  • @MyName-mc7lv
    @MyName-mc7lv Рік тому

    Thank you for you sharing with love from your heart

  • @John-yi1mk
    @John-yi1mk Рік тому

    So powerful. Thank you.

  • @seanmcnamara1267
    @seanmcnamara1267 2 роки тому +1

    I’m irish and I’m still here ,but I live far away!

  • @RubbaDubbaDooskie
    @RubbaDubbaDooskie 3 місяці тому

    No drops of Irish blood in me. Just massive respect. James Connoly and Seamus Costello are some of my favorite people of all time.

  • @gregprice103
    @gregprice103 Рік тому

    Big up to you Derek. Legend.

  • @jmeyer3rn
    @jmeyer3rn Рік тому +4

    Very well said. I don’t think I have an ounce of Irish blood. We visited Ireland in 2012. Kilmainham goal was one of the places we visited, and I really had no idea about the Irish struggle against England. I’ve never been to England. Now after what I’ve learned of the story of Ireland’s struggle against the British I think England should be ashamed of herself and make reparations.

    • @davideldred.campingwilder6481
      @davideldred.campingwilder6481 Рік тому

      It was an established elite of the British Empire and not the English per se. In fact, look at WW1 and you will see the barbarity the English Elite used on its own English people the obsolete farmers who were being replaced by machines of the Industrial Revolution.

    • @IsThisAvailable550
      @IsThisAvailable550 Рік тому

      Question: Should a boy who owns nothing of any value whatsoever, handed down from his ancestors, be punished for his Great, Great, Great Grandfathers generation of wrong doing?
      Even if his Great, Great, Great grandfather had no influence, knowledge or input into that wrong doing.
      Arguably his only 'crime' was being born during that time!

  • @tpobrienjr
    @tpobrienjr 10 місяців тому

    I love Ireland, but I am saddened by this story, which is my ancestors' story. Dad offered to travel back to Ireland (and Wales), but grandpa said he had nothing to return for.

  • @zoeiraeduca1476
    @zoeiraeduca1476 Рік тому

    Sad Story indeed. Thanks for sharing this facts behind the song. Greetings from Brazil 🙏

  • @Monika-gl9ho
    @Monika-gl9ho 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks for this. Heartbreaking story of genocide and oppression.

  • @gillybertviernes2599
    @gillybertviernes2599 9 місяців тому

    Thank you for sharing the history of this song.. I love this song very much. I just breaks my heart so much that a boy or a man with young family was imprisoned for life just because of stealing a bread for his family during the famine. I feel so bad or disgusted to all the tyrannys that's happened in the world in the past.

  • @nancysherburne7445
    @nancysherburne7445 Рік тому +1

    I don't really understand why, but when I begin singing Irish songs, The Fields of Athenry is the first song I sing. When listening to the names of Irish patriots who willingly gave their lives in fighting for their country against the British army, Kevin Barry came to mind. Only 18 years when executed, his love for Ireland I heard in the song named for him, and I cried for that poor boy murdered because he fought for Ireland's freedom from British rule. When I listen to The Fields of Athenry, I cry for the countless men and women who were shipped to Botany Bay in Australia for life for stealing food so their children could live. The song does have a beautiful, haunting melody, but tells of what fate brings to many who are forced to steal food so they may live. I may be an American whose family tree is in Germany, but I could not love and admire the spirit of the Irish more than if I was born there.

    • @kathrynperry992
      @kathrynperry992 Рік тому

      New Zealanders ridicule Australians, they call us convicts, to embarrass and humiliate. They ignore the cruelty that was perpetuated against the Irish, by the English in Ireland, and the Australian penal colony.

  • @johnlocke7097
    @johnlocke7097 2 роки тому +3

    We tend to forget that the English criminal class as they were known were also sent to Australia as opposed to the Irish who were sent for political reasons. If you think people in Ireland were sent for stealing an apple I would suggest you are wrong, it was used as a way to keep people down. I came across an interesting number from the Australian government the other day, it was 50/50 Irish and English sent there. The problem is always with the government not the people.

  • @Bagpipe13
    @Bagpipe13 2 роки тому +1

    Well said good sir

  • @anthonysullivan3238
    @anthonysullivan3238 Рік тому

    well put

  • @boc234
    @boc234 Рік тому +1

    This man is a true patriot.

  • @danieloh950
    @danieloh950 2 роки тому +1

    Good fenian men, thank you mo chara

  • @roberto0848
    @roberto0848 Рік тому +6

    Living in the Netherlands I was no victim of British terror. But I've been in Ireland and heard the stories. I wish you all strength in your fight for freedom and independance.

    • @burn1898
      @burn1898 Рік тому +1

      Cheers rob but you’re 100 years late! Ireland is a free independent nation. Ireland beat the British! That’s why Ireland 🇮🇪 is in the EU 🇪🇺 and UK 🇬🇧 is not in the EU. Because they’re separate countries.

    • @roberto0848
      @roberto0848 Рік тому

      @@burn1898 and what about Northern Ireland??

  • @shirleyjenkins11
    @shirleyjenkins11 Рік тому

    My great great grandfather stole a cow and was sentenced at Killmainham and sent to Botany Bay and I love this song Fields of Athenry and I sing it with my band.

  • @andrewbennett9767
    @andrewbennett9767 2 роки тому +6

    The English are doing it to there own now as well

  • @thomascallaghan5960
    @thomascallaghan5960 9 місяців тому +1

    I just had a visit to this prison. Amazing and horrible place. To see where Irish heroes died.

  • @Charlie-cz3jh
    @Charlie-cz3jh 2 роки тому +2

    God bless you for bringing this evil place to light, and how mistreated these men and women were! People need to know! Now and always! They have great pride and were protecting their families and what was right! Heart- breaking💔. Now let's hope things will stay better and that we'll always have respect and deep honor for those that had strength to stick up for us all. 🇮🇪😘💔😭🤬😡

    • @Charlie-cz3jh
      @Charlie-cz3jh 2 роки тому

      Thank you for your beautiful music and information of history. It gives me hope and makes me know why I am an American who feels out of place.

  • @helensmart5136
    @helensmart5136 2 роки тому +3

    This genocide has been done to all indigenous people, all over the world. We currently live in the collective result😔

  • @mariapierce2707
    @mariapierce2707 2 роки тому +5

    How tragic to be sent to Australia for stealing an apple. So far away from their beloved country. 💔

    • @davidrixon3549
      @davidrixon3549 Рік тому

      Stole an apple in Ireland worked hard in Australia and owned orchards.

    • @mariapierce2707
      @mariapierce2707 Рік тому

      @@davidrixon3549 Excellent turn around.😉

  • @samsham8218
    @samsham8218 Рік тому

    AMEN.

  • @MrWhothefoxthat
    @MrWhothefoxthat 2 роки тому +1

    they locked the wrongs ones up, and their still in power, god save us, and god bless my ancestral blood.

  • @mgradiant
    @mgradiant 9 місяців тому

    Every time I watch this, I feel an overwhelming sorrow thinking about all of the people that were wrongly imprisoned & executed at this place. I love the song, of course, but this makes it hit my heart differently.

  • @milesbrown8016
    @milesbrown8016 2 роки тому +1

    🍀❤️🍀

  • @davidjacksonjackson3212
    @davidjacksonjackson3212 2 роки тому +3

    Yes a good history lesson, but it is history so treat it as such learn from it and move on

  • @surinbasnet8305
    @surinbasnet8305 2 роки тому +1

    Cheers man telling truthful historic facts about that inchicore south dublin jail, shameful who doesn't commited crime jailed there and exucuted

  • @MrGordonhaining
    @MrGordonhaining 2 роки тому +6

    Never underestimate the cruelty and manipulation of the English elite
    They invented propaganda and are still at it today
    It was not just Ireland you can include to a lessor extent Scotland India and South Africa and others
    underestimate them to your peril

  • @joedonnelly6721
    @joedonnelly6721 2 роки тому +15

    Tomorrow I will once again vote Sinn Fein.
    Never forgive, never forget.

  • @jennyb7745
    @jennyb7745 Рік тому +1

    I have Irish ancestry & although it was long ago,it makes me feel ashamed to be British!

  • @kathrynboyd4448
    @kathrynboyd4448 10 місяців тому

    A lot of English Politicians still show contempt for Ireland

  • @banjodeano2202
    @banjodeano2202 3 роки тому +33

    wow, very moving, damn i fucking hate all that the English did, and i am English myself, but i will tell you something, i am not the English that would do this to such a wonderful people, the English aristocracy are the ones that we should hate, respect from Yorkshire

    • @jimmyjohnstone5878
      @jimmyjohnstone5878 2 роки тому +1

      Unfortunately it was not just England. Scots and Welsh, plus Irish with pro British affiliations all contributed to the atrocities.

    • @doodles863
      @doodles863 2 роки тому +5

      Absolutely, I am English and I am ashamed of what we did to these lovely people, having said that, it was the royals and the aristocracy, the politicians that perpetrated these crimes not the ordinary men and women.

    • @lesblakeman
      @lesblakeman 2 роки тому +4

      It breaks my heart as an Englishman to witness this , these atrocities were not committed in my name , I will be eternally sorry for the sins of my ancestors

    • @normansidey5258
      @normansidey5258 2 роки тому +4

      And what about the Irish merchants that opposed any relaxation of the corn laws that would have made food cheaper for the Irish people, oh btw the push for changing the corn laws came from the English (British) The Irish merchants were more interested in profit than the well-being of their fellow countrymen. This is not a defence of what the ruling classes of Britain inflicted on Ireland, but an exposure that greed is universal and that there were plenty of Irish villains who oppressed their own people through corruption and profiteering.

    • @danbreen6946
      @danbreen6946 2 роки тому +3

      @@normansidey5258 Protestant Irish Merchant's Might I Add

  • @m.c.master4622
    @m.c.master4622 Рік тому

    WHY is the gentleman's name delivering this important message NOT identified? Have I somehow missed it? Bothers me a lot.

  • @donegalcharm
    @donegalcharm 2 роки тому

    Who is doing the commentary?

    • @m.c.master4622
      @m.c.master4622 Рік тому

      EXACTLY!!! How can they post such a wonderful video without it???

    • @lauranam5266
      @lauranam5266 Рік тому

      Derek Warfield

  • @Hendryhymer494
    @Hendryhymer494 Рік тому

    My great grandfather was from Killkenny. And I suppose my family are survivors of the potato famine. 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @lt.col.altongabrielrobicha4376
    @lt.col.altongabrielrobicha4376 3 роки тому

    Ernest morais duplessi

  • @ryadboulasbaa6335
    @ryadboulasbaa6335 2 роки тому

    inpaindaily

  • @davidellett9316
    @davidellett9316 2 роки тому

    Is that Louis CK at 4:50?

  • @oudekelt8619
    @oudekelt8619 Рік тому

    ++

  • @mfinn7185
    @mfinn7185 Рік тому

    Ireland forever!

  • @ratheanach5545
    @ratheanach5545 2 роки тому +10

    What everyone seems to forget is that the British were the Nazis of the 16th to the 19th centuries.......they invaded countries, enslaved and impoverished peoples, plundered their countries, and where necessary, murdered sufficient of their populations to assert their rule. Then, they imposed their laws, and made criminals of anyone who resisted them. In Ireland, they disposessed the native population, gave their land to English and Scottish planters, with the proviso that the cost of keeping the land was the suppression of the Croppies. That mentality still exists in the North of Ireland today........it's called the DUP and the TUV. How the Brits can criticise Putin is beyond me................he's doing exactly what they and other Imperial powers did centuries ago.

    • @AndyHullMcPenguin
      @AndyHullMcPenguin 2 роки тому +1

      This was as much a class war as it was an ethnic cleansing. The rich "British" land owners of the empire included English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh families.
      In Scotland of course there was not quite the same level of famine, but there were the Highland clearances, a brutal ethnic cleansing of a similar sort.
      "The Countess of Sutherland and her husband the Marquis of Stafford were regarded as the worst landlords of all. By 1811, some 15,000 of their tenants had been moved to make way for sheep, with huge social and economic consequences. The brutal work of thugs such as Sellar only served to increase their notoriety further."
      Look also to the Empires treatment of the populations of India and Africa. The biggest "crime" of empire was to be born poor, and therefore forced to tug your forelock to your rich landlord. Russia too had its empire, as did the Dutch, the Germans, the French, Italians, Spanish.
      Speaking of Spanish, as the much plagiarised, misquoted and mis-attributed philosopher George Santayana remarked, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

    • @ratheanach5545
      @ratheanach5545 2 роки тому +1

      @@AndyHullMcPenguinAbsolutely right Andrew........if you haven't read them already, I recommend The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham Smith, and Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor...................both should be compulsory reading for anyone with fond images of "Empire".

    • @AndyHullMcPenguin
      @AndyHullMcPenguin 2 роки тому +1

      @@ratheanach5545 You can add "The Highland Clearances" (John Prebble), to your reading list, and perhaps "Who Owns Scotland" might enlighten everyone to the true nature of land ownership, both in Scotland and elsewhere.

    • @AndyHullMcPenguin
      @AndyHullMcPenguin 2 роки тому +1

      @@ratheanach5545 Thanks for the suggestions. My wife and her family are Indian, and she is a historian, so I'm very much aware of the impact of Empire there and elsewhere.

    • @ratheanach5545
      @ratheanach5545 2 роки тому

      @@AndyHullMcPenguin Andrew, many thanks................just bought Prebbles book......will work my way to Wightman's in due course.

  • @billkenny853
    @billkenny853 Рік тому

    GOD MAY forgive them, but I never will

  • @suzannebanci6610
    @suzannebanci6610 Місяць тому

    I’m totally with you. But it was the British, not English

  • @blueXRPdynamite.
    @blueXRPdynamite. Рік тому +1

    Normans took England, them same people took Ireland...

  • @MrConan89
    @MrConan89 2 роки тому

    I perform from time to time "The Fields of Athenry" but the place in this video is miles away. Also, the line in the song, 'a prison ship lies waiting in the bay"....... the sea is ten miles away from Athenry. It is a great song but it does not relate to any particular place or incident so far as I can see.

    • @tonymolloy6165
      @tonymolloy6165 2 роки тому +1

      Pete St John choose Athenry because it rhymed with Fly in the song. No other reaason. It isn't about any particular incident just a general interpretation of events that happened during the famine.

    • @m.c.master4622
      @m.c.master4622 Рік тому

      Have you never heard of artistic license?

  • @lbshore
    @lbshore Рік тому +1

    And now the Irish people need to fight for their country again.

  • @bungobdesigns
    @bungobdesigns 2 роки тому +46

    Why do so many Irish people refer to 'The English' with such contempt. It was the English aristocracy, not the majority of English, who treated every one else appallingly. Think of the Scottish Clearings, the English people from the North who marched on London in despair etc. Huge numbers were treated badly and died because of the few who had the wealth. I know the Irish were treated appallingly but so was everyone else by the so called elite minority.

    • @ratheanach5545
      @ratheanach5545 2 роки тому

      You're quite right Pete, but the problem for most of the world is that the English people have allowed this "elite" to govern them (and the Welsh, and the Scots) for centuries, knowing what they are and what they do......in acquiescing in the brutality of Empire, and continuing to celebrate it, they have to share the guilt of the "elite's" excesses...............and we need look no further than the repeated electoral success of the Tory party to see that little has changed. If you can, check out how much of GB land is in private hands, then find out who they are, and how few of them there are........you might be shocked.

    • @Midland_Wolf_71
      @Midland_Wolf_71 2 роки тому +24

      Because it wasnt the French, The Austrians, or the Japanese… surely its fair to say the English as thats who it was… Nobody in their right mind would consider it to be the whole of the English people, thats ridiculous.. If you dont know why theres so much contempt for the English in Ireland (and most have moved on with their lives independently TBH) then I suggest you do more than a little reading, and perhaps look at what the “British” Empire got up to on their worldwide gallavants… particularly in Ireland. Erin go Bragh ☘✊☘

    • @Nckgdmn
      @Nckgdmn 2 роки тому +5

      @@Midland_Wolf_71 Like he said it was the English aristocracy, it's the equivalent of saying all Americans supported Trump

    • @keithrobertson5110
      @keithrobertson5110 2 роки тому +1

      Your paranoid .

    • @Nckgdmn
      @Nckgdmn 2 роки тому +2

      @@keithrobertson5110 about what exactly

  • @g7usl
    @g7usl 2 роки тому

    He is miles and miles away from Athenry!!!!

  • @Fernandwinnie
    @Fernandwinnie 2 роки тому +5

    Scotland’s saviour and hero, William Wallace, suffered worse for loyalty to his Nation at the hands of the English. 1305.

  • @anthonymctigue9038
    @anthonymctigue9038 2 роки тому

    GOOD MAN YOU WONT HEAR THAT NOW I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE BLACK AND TANS FROM
    MY GRANFATHER HE ALWAYS SED THE PITY WAS THAT SOME OF THEM GOT AWAY THE BASTARD S FORGIVE U MUST B JOKING

  • @davidedbrooke9324
    @davidedbrooke9324 2 роки тому

    No criminals? What tosh. Take off the rose tinted glasses.

  • @Jahson70
    @Jahson70 2 роки тому

    No no no. May God not forgive them for their wickedness until they repent of their sins and beg God and the survivors of their holocaust, the Irish people, for forgiveness. Only then will they have absolution.

  • @bobcrane9945
    @bobcrane9945 10 місяців тому

    The British imperialism was like many other countries imperialism, horrid and as unchristian as any terrorist action on earth. It still lingers in many ways in my country of Canada and is in fact supported by the system of government installed by the British.

  • @missdeedee53
    @missdeedee53 2 роки тому +2

    As I listen to this and read the comments As n American Patriot I am appalled at what I'd happening to our Patriots in DC in prison for over a year now with NO trial no rights ..our country is being
    overthrown by a government not of the people..I see my beautiful country in turmoil and lies an deceit and I think about my Irish ancestors the Finnertys and Lonergans who came here in the 1840s what amazing strong proud people they were and help make the proud Americans today. Just had to vent ..world please do NOT believe the current administration in the US..they are calling American mothers and fathers terrorists and Christian Republicans labeled terrorist..we are fighting so hard against the left idiocracy..we truly need help .

    • @trevordavies5486
      @trevordavies5486 2 роки тому +3

      You´re on the wrong side buddy !

    • @pablisimo666
      @pablisimo666 2 роки тому +1

      Stop drinking the coolaid!

    • @m.c.master4622
      @m.c.master4622 Рік тому

      Yes, you do need help but not of the variety you think. Please see the truth.

  • @MrThisistooeasy
    @MrThisistooeasy 2 роки тому

    Tiocfaidh at la

  • @inerlogic
    @inerlogic Рік тому

    tiocfaidh ar la

  • @othersv9758
    @othersv9758 Рік тому

    There was no difference from Hitler.