The Scotsman Who Was The Last King of Ireland
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2022
- So who was the Scotsman that was the last high king of Ireland? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey tells the tale or Robert the Bruce, his brother Edward and their invasion of Ireland in opposition to Edward II of England during the Scottish wars of Independence
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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"to fight each other, as God intended"-
This kind of analysis is EXACTLY why you rule, Mr. Fummey!
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Wrong end of the stick. Obviously a lot still to be learned 😉.
I'm Irish and went to College in Edinburgh many moons ago. I always found a deep connection between my Celtic cousins. Any trip down the west coast of Scotland and you could be forgiven for mistaking it with the Gaelic speaking west coast of Ireland.......brothers in arms........
The place names say it all - Oban, Kilmartin, Kilberry, Kilmory, Tralee Bay etc etc.
I'm a McAlister and a Galvin. Got a little German in me as well. My ancestors were good looking and smart! Lol
Im Irish and would love for you to do some videos around Irish history.
2nd that!
@@seanmcmanus8906 3rd
4th..
Absolutely
Why sure you all hated the Scots and their Presbyterian ways, the Irish persecuted the Scots and committed heinous crimes against them.
I live 5 miles from Faughart my dad used to take me to his grave as a kid. Another great video keep them up.
I’m an American studying in Ireland and I’ve had the privilege to visit Scotland! A great friend of mine hails from the Kingdom of Fife and I was able to spent a week there. Love your content! Keep up the amazing work!
Scottish and moved to Ireland 20 years ago. Still missing my homeland.
Don't miss the midges...or as my Lochaber and Glencoe cousins were wont to say...beasties...best wishes from the wirral...E
My parents born in 1903 & 1911 (RIP) are Irish, I was born in the US - been to Ireland, Scotland, Wales; England & N. Ireland. Very comfortable when visiting the 'old sod. I love your postings - Thank You!
im Irish raised in england (mum from Co Laois and father Limerick). worked in Elgin for a week back in 88 putting a phone system into a travel agents 'Lunn Poly'...remember them? fled to Australia shortly after. Visited again few years ago, got train to Fort William from London in winter, beautiful . Stayed for couple nights and then home again. loved it.
l've been in ireland 33 years, and still have the same accent as you bruce. all the best. william. ireland.
Born and lived in Ireland my whole life and have been a huge fan of the channel for a while! Ireland & Scotland, Celtic Brothers forever 💚💙
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Erie - Alba gu brath (Ireland-Scotland forever)
@@mikhailabunidal9146 yep....
@@mikhailabunidal9146 deluded, the Irish hated the Scots, sure you still hate us ulster_scots right until today
@@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251 My Protestant friends in Carlow with English names can’t be Irish then? They must be “Leinster English” 😂
A much overlooked part of SCOTTISH and IRISH history..always a blast Bruce..GGTTHB.
I am scot and irish and it is always a pleasure to see your posts.
I'm a Scot who spent time working in Ireland and found I was treated like a favourite visiting cousin by all I met. Definitely 2 linked nations
Yes lots of Scots in Ireland.
You can see them flying the Saltire ,marching about ,playing flutes and banging them big drums.
Singing their songs .
Definitely 2 linked nations.
@@billycaspersghost7528 As an Irishman, the idea of Irish/Scottish solidarity is a myth. The Scots unionised with the English during the act of Union in 1707. They went to war with the Irish and thri monarch (James VI of Scots) planted themselves in Northen Ireland after he took over the kingdom of England in 1603. They were hard-line Presybretarians and the ethnic component to the invasions is often overlooked (yes can you believe that? Scots seeing themselves as ethnically different from Irish!). Scotland certainly is not linked to Ireland, but we are geographically close, but Scotland is even closer to England, sharing a direct land border and their nation is part of the same island. Still we all have our own nationality and seperate identities, histories, origins and cultures etc. It's said Scotland is like the Japan of Europe, and if Korea is like the England of Europe, Ireland is like the China of Europe in terms of history and outward expansionist trends etc.
It's an idea that still to this day among some in Northern Ireland who look to Britain (especially Scotland) for help to crush any nationalist movements within the area. For some reason when I speak to protestant N. Irish/Scottish not all but quite a few try to profess their genetic admixture with England and whereever else in the world like it even matters against their native nationality??
If you were to say walk down a protestant street in some areas of Scotland with an Irish flag you can be sure to find yourself in a lot of trouble. I mean real big trouble. The Scots are far more extreme in their conviction for what is called the UK. The attachment to this idea is a lot greater on average than say your run of the mill Jack the lad from England. Ireland being intensely opposed to Britain this doesn’t make for good sentiment among Scots who see the Kingdom of Great Britain as a Scottish creation, which in a way they technically are correct at the very least in that.
It’s only until the Irish go on holiday to our so-called brothers in arms to find out they are despised by half the population. It's actually the Catholic Scots whose family were actually Irish immigrants during the famine who were always opposed to Britain rather than the actual Scottish majority who they saw as some ethnic quasi Germanic Celt and have an affinity towards Ireland. By the way, the Scots exterminated many a number of them during the clearances. In a sense they are more sectarian than the Northern Irish.
So to wrap it up, no, the Scots and the Irish do not see eye to eye and no we don’t have this brotherly love depending, of course, on what kind of a Scot you're implying ;). But ultimately its a myth. People took Brave Heart too seriously, especially the Yanks :).
Also on the last point, I don’t have a problem with Scots or English. I think its a load of rubbish.
But I will say that Ireland/Britain has a lot of texture and very deep complex aspects to it and I don’t want to make it so black and white. Please also refer to a comment made by Alistair Thompson which will give some context on this. I’m not trying to deflect I have a secret dislike for Scots I really have no issue with Britains of any region. What the dispute has devolved into today between Protestant and Catholics is beyond reproach but here is what Alistair said which should be noted for everyone as an example of the depth it goes:
The push and pull factors varied, because it wasn’t really one migration at all, but several. Some of the Scots who came to Ulster were planters who arrived because the king, James VI and I wanted them to put roots down in Ireland, some were Gallowglasses who were actively recruited by the Irish, some were brought over in a couple of private plantations which were organised by Scottish gentry who had bought land from impoverished Irish nobility and some were actually refugees from a famine in Scotland in the 1690s.
Some of the planters who took part in the official plantation with the king’s consent were less than willing to go to Ireland, because they were border reivers who were transported as convicts to Ireland in much the same way as convicts were later transported to the American colonies and after American independence, to Australia.
Many of the Scots in Ulster were Presbyterian (although some were Catholic, in particular those who started as the hired Gallowglasses). The Presbyterians in particular chafed under the Penal Laws after their support for William of Orange, so many of them voluntarily emigrated to the American colonies in the 1700s where they often became frontiersmen in the Appalachians for example and the artificially constructed “Scots Irish” identity in America almost to a man supported America’s war of independence, so great was their distaste for British rule.
You probably already know all about those who stayed in Ulster and were involved with the United Irishmen only a generation later. If only more “Ulster Scots” acknowledged the full history of their very complicated relationship with Britain. Some do of course (especially the Catholic nationalist ones like your Alasdair McDonnells and your John Humes). In my experience though, they are few and far between.
All too easy to pretend that all the Ulster Protestants have always been loyal British subjects and all the Irish Catholics have always been rebels. The full history is an awful lot more complicated, with Catholic loyalists and Protestant rebels galore.
@@steveburnside3242 I know.
@@billycaspersghost7528 Know what?
@@steveburnside3242 All the stuff you said.
Also, I don't think you're Irish .
Yank maybe.
Could be wrong.
Oh, FTP by the way.
I am a South African of Scottish decent and we visited Scotland twice. Hope to be back.
I'm Irish from Irish border and grew up in Dundalk! Great grandparents from Tyrone! Marching from Tyrone camped in dowdels hill (dundalk) and fought in the battle of the boyne. Been to Edinburgh before O like very much.
Im not scottish or irish, but native american and swedish / norwegian. I still have always wanted to visit scotland n ireland. ❤
I'm not scottish and as far as I know n9 scottish ancestry. Only know Scotland is the home of my heart. 🏴🏴
We will be in Scotland this upcoming June. Will be in Perth during our visit.
American here. Grandfather born in Elgin. Visited for a 2 week road trip/family reunion in 1999. Still have close contact with family in Oban and Edinburgh.
I have Scottish and Irish heritage. I cannot wait to come spend time in the islands!
I am Scottish-Australian, and have visited both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Both beautiful, with wonderful people. Can't wait to get back again.
I have been to both Scotland and Ireland. Both are beautiful places and I met some great people. Not a fan of Dublin but I think it's just too busy for me. I liked Inverness and Southern Ireland most of all. Can't wait to return.
Cool video! I’m Irish! Come to Ireland again and meet for a beverage :-)
Only Scottish by heart; lived there for over a decade, had to leave as the jobs ran out for me. Know I will be visiting again (too many friends there), but doubt I'll ever live there again. That time has passed.
I am a Riley (changed about 1900 from Reilly). Our home County is Cavan, part of the 9 Counties of old Ulster. My great great grandfather moved to the Nortn East of England arounx 1900. The past 22 years I have lived in Scotland with a Scottish wife and son. Been to Ireland a few times and always loved it. Hoping to go to Sligo in the Summer (mad on Yeats).
Clearly you have good taste...as a Derry native I,m a bit biased towards Seumas Heaney's work..
@ Jim Thistle
Unfortunately both of the spellings are anglicized phonetic spellings of your ancient name of
Ó Raghalligh. ( male)
Ní Raghallaigh ( unmarried female)
All the names / spellings of places and people in Ireland have been angilized and don’t have meaning but when the slime is removed and the original name is uncovered and used it has deep meaning .
It’s probably the same for Scotland and Wales which have also been angilized during the many years of colonization .
Glass -Scotland fought with Robert Bruce in the 1300’s. Blessings from 🇺🇸🇺🇸Atlanta, Ga
American of Scottish ancestry firmly planning to visit Scotland as soon as I can.
The amount of work that goes in to these videos is amazing. Fascinating history and really well told.
5:03 "To fight each other, as God intended..." 😂😂😂
A United Kingdom of Scotland, Ireland and Wales (or even a Disunited Confederation of the same) would certainly have changed England's fortunes.
Without the Scots and Irish soldiers, who would have claimed the Empire for our Saxe-Coburg-Saalfelden aristocracy?
Without Welsh Coal, the Industrial Revolution might have been more or an Industrial Revolt; and without Tom Jones, we'd not know that It's not unusual to be loved by anyone.
I looked up John de Bermingham, to see if he was from my home town, and now I've heard about the Braganstown Massacre. That's some Game of Thrones' level bloodshed and inversion of expectations.
I'm English, but I've been to Largs; probably where the Vikingar! Leisure Centre and Visitor Attraction stands today. It was cold and wet, and I was very drunk. Oh, to be young again, and to make better decisions.
True dat
The following excerpt is the translated word of John de Maupas on his account of Irish peer and earl of Louth John de Bermingham following the battle of Faughart in which the Irish (Hiberni in Latin) fought against the Scots (Scotti in Latin) after the Scots conquered Ireland (Hibernia in Latin) following their success in conquering the English after Bannockburn - a defeat that took England at least 20 years to recover from.
Robert I king of Scots sought to conquer Ireland and install his brother, Edward Bruce as high king of Ireland (which would be a Scottish take over of Ireland similar to what James VI King of Scots would do centuries later in 1603 with England). So when James VI of Scots took England in 1603, he also took Ireland as well, because Ireland was owned by the kingdom of England as a 'Papal possession' - which began with the Laudibiliter between Pope Adrian IV and Henry II of England - which further back was made possible due to Dermod MacMurrough the Hiberni (Irish) King of Leinster who wanted English help from Henry II to regain lost lands back from other rival Hiberni (Irish) petty kingdoms, therefore Ireland was effectively later owned by the Scottish royal house with a Scottish monarch having dominion over Irish land as well as English land and the early British colonies overseas by extension.
At this time following Bannockburn however, the real Irish of the time (Hiberni), did not see the Scots as much different from the English, they were also seen as colonisers, more so infact because what is now Ireland at that time was a Papal possession owned by the Kingdom of England, and so the Anglo settlers who were said to become more Irish than the Irish (Hiberni) themselves were allied with the Irish in their efforts against the Scots of the north on both islands.
Here >> people.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1988-9/nolan.htm
@@plasticpaddy985 More "Irish than Irish"? That'll be those Oirish you see around London. 🤭
@@euansmith3699 In Ireland we call them English Plastic Paddies.
A model of clarity and brevity Euan...clearly sober when you posted this...E
Brilliant video. I first went to County Cork in Ireland to visit my father's family when I was a toddler and I need to go back to County Cork at some point.
I'm not Scottish myself, if anything the furthest from it (English ;) ) but I love history and your passion about your country's history is infectious. Found your videos only a couple days ago, I think it was the Black Watch one, and have binged watched them ever since. You really deserve a big ol' TV contract for a history documentary or something!
Welcome on board
thanks again, Bruce for another great video. yes, I have been to Scotland. however, it was in 1973 and I must say I enjoyed my time there. perhaps, some day, I may return.
American here with Scottish roots stopping in to say I love your videos and look forward to learning more about Scottish history with some saltire in the mix.
You are a most excellent storyteller.... Bless you sir!
I am Scottish! I have learned so much from your stories. I want to visit!! Someday. I don't know where to go first.
EVERYWHERE !
Hi, went to Dublin, Cork on to the South West and traveled up the west side and accross to the giants causeway and down to Belfast.
Been, to Scotland afew times Saw a good bit of the country lovely country and people greetings from southern ireland
Aye I lived nearly all over Ireland Bruce, ended up in Athlone. To hell or Connaught as Cromwell used to say.
Scot with irish roots 🏴🇮🇪
I remember going to Carrickfergus Castle and learning about the bit where the defenders had to resort to cannibalism during Edward Bruce’s siege always thought it was something that they’d hide from kids but obviously they knew some of us were reading Horrible Histories
They told us , they kept scottish prisoners in the dungeons , so i went home and asked
"When were we at war with scotland " 🤔🤔
Scottish ancestry, via Ireland, and have visited both, and plan to do so many times yet.
I am Australian with Irish/Scottish heritage and have visited Scotland 3 rimes and Ireland once and am I itching to visit both again. Absolutely love both peoples, places and history.
Hiya Bruce, im a native to Fife (Kelty) , I met my to be wife in a school we were both working in.... a wee while later we moved to her home town of Coleraine on the north coast...(incidentally 2 US president were born here, and my wife's great uncle in 1891)
I'll buy you a coffee if you'd like... lol
Irish here, never been to Scotland so probably should make my way over at some point!
Get it done min
@🏴Scotland History Tours w/ Bruce Fummey
B. I'm neither Scottish nor Irish Bruce , but I will go eventually when the pandemic is over God willing
This is one of the big 'what ifs' in Scottish, Irish and I suppose English history and yet so few people know about it . Great choice for a video.
Thanks
Just last week I asked for a video about scots in Ireland. And voila! What nice timing
Another well made video that not only tells of Edward Bruce’s failed attempt but also adds background to the not exactly cordial historical relationship between the Scots and the Irish.
American with Scottish, Irish, and English ancestry. I have been to Scotland and Ireland. Enjoyed both immensely. Also, I am really enjoying the history lessons. Thank you!
Thanks for playing
Edward colonized Ireland a century before!! Damn he had a long life! Yes been to Ireland for my cousin's wedding we're Welsh and he married into a lovely Irish family who made us really welcome and still do! To my shame I still haven't been to Scotland but soon!
"To fight each other as God intended." 🤣😂
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I absolutely love your show Bruce, I’d say you have a Wee bit of the story teller in ya. I’m Irish and Scottish, best of both worlds, my parents immigrated to New Jersey years ago where I live today. Thanks for filling me in on the Celtic history I should know which sadly many Americans ignore….Keep on rocking…
Yes, I have been to Ireland. Just once. I think it was in 2003. I went there with a friend and we visited Glendalough, the Burren castle, the Dingle peninsula, the parliament of Dublin. It was fantastic! I'm not Scottish. I am French.
I'm Scots and visit Ireland every year to visit friends and family ,heading to giants causeway tomorrow,
Enjoy
Loved it Thankyou!!☕️🍪🤗
So glad!
American. Of Scots and Irish descent. Been to Scotland (well, Edinburgh anyway), want to tramp the highlands. Had a chance to go to Ireland in '77, but it was still in the troubles, so passed on it. Would love to go now though.
To be fair I think they'd be too busy shooting each other rather than you
I m Irish Tunisian mixed. Been to Scotland a few times. Love Inverness , Edinburgh, been to Orkney too. Fantastic place altogether . I might have Scottish ancestors (McDonnells in my family tree- there s some Irish septs of the name as well as Scottish ones)
I'm a confused Yorkshire man, farther from Hexham, mother from Dublin, and love visiting Scotland
LoughNeagh views are somuch appreciated along with cutting humor. Grandad came over 1903 from those parts. Grandson knows sword dancing. How I despise parliaments.
I was born in Perth, brought up in Donegal Ireland , Tapadh Leat.! March 10/2022
The feeling around Dundalk , is that the Scots over stayed their welcome, and people were happy when the war ended. There is a pub in the town that claims to have been built over were Edward was crowned.
I am American, with some Scottish heritage on my Dad's side, and Irish on my Mother's side. I would love to visit both, as well as England and Wales.
Irish to my core, but a big fan of this channel.
Seconded...
Robert the Bruce was a Gaelic speaker, his mother was a noble woman from the House of Fergus Of Galloway.
He wore Irn-Bru tartan and had so much sweg it make spodermen look swegless.🏴👍🏻
I'm from the USA. I have Scotch-Irish ancestry. I want to visit both Ireland and Scotland someday.
Yes, do it
Bruce, another great video. You are a most engaging storyteller. Tapadh leat
'S e do bheatha
I`m Aussie but of Irish descent and i`d love to go there too mate
I truly enjoy and look forward to each of your videos, always both informative and entertaining. Thank you Bruce!
Very welcome
I'm an American with Scottish roots from my second great grandmother whose maiden name was Keith.
Within my lineage of Scots (on both sides ) are Also the additions of French, Welch & Irish. Love your channel. 🕊💓🕊👌 thank you 😘
Love that!
I was born & raised in California, have Irish ancestry, and have been to Scotland five times. 🏴❤️
Another great video history lesson. Have a great week.
Thanks, you too!
Great post ,sir, Nigel Tranter did justice to this period in his novels, doing justice yourself to the shared history of ours...peace and love from the jubilant red portion of Merseyside....E
Well yes and yes. I'm Welsh and have been to awe inspiring Scotland.
Thank you for this bit of knowledge.
You're welcome
I'm American, my grandfather was born in Rosyth, Fife, he immigrated to the USA when he was 17, way back in 1919. I'm glad to have found your channel, i spent some time in Scotland about 30 years ago and would love to visit again. Thank you for your stories.
I'm glad you found it too
I live barely more than a mile or two from Edward Bruce's grave. According to historical accounts that I heard, Edward's passing wasn't greatly regretted through most of island of Ireland that he and his forces laid waste to. Those were tough times back then and armies, whether Edward Bruce's or their Norman/Irish/English enemies, tended to mete out cruelty to the people they met on their way. Irish peasants naturally didn't take kindly to marching armies stealing their produce for their own sustenance or their burning of towns and villages they might pass through. Had he been less cruel and less impetuous Edward Bruce's death might have been mourned more than it was, but he made his choices and so it was that he was largely forgotten to Irish history,
+what about the Scottish peasants left behind in scotia by a bunch of scotish norman crackheads, DeBruce was not successful in Ireland, he was defeated by his own kin, the Normans in Ireland , thankfully
in Ireland we were still under the norman yolk until 1916, you Scots are still under the Norman yolk until you kick them out, even now you scots are still ruled by the Normans = anglo saxons, norman De Bruce
Just another horrible footnote in Irish history. I believe the Irish sent Edwards's head back to the king of England with words to the effect "I think this belongs to you."
@@deborahh2195 The irish? That would be debatable since he was defeated by a combioned English/Norman army, albeit with Irish allies. One thing is certain, Edward Bruce did nothing to endear himself to his supposed Irish subjects.
I'm apparently 18-ish % Scottish and less Irish...and more English...have been longing to go to Scotland...and Ireland...according to my grandmother, we are Scots-Irish ...her stories were many.
I'm Scottish, transplanted over Hadrian's wall at a young age, bounced a couple of times around England and wound up in Michigan in my early 30s, married to a native. Only visited Ireland once, Dublin over New Years's Eve 2012/2013. Spent three wonderful nights in The Old Stand Pub in Dublin, which was reputed to be four hundred years old, or at least a pub had been there for four hundred years. I need to go back.
Me too.....
I'am Flemish and I did a motorbike tour of both Scotland and Ireland
Wonderful. I think I'd rather the comfort of a campbervan though
@@ScotlandHistoryTours is that a Camp(-beltown) -van Brucie? 😄
Thanks for the vid.. and have a good Sunday, Bruce...
Thanks, you too!
Well done ! You are a natural teacher using fun, and intrigue as enticing features of your teaching style.
Thank you very much!
Great video Bruce, you have a lovely way of telling the story. I'm from Tír Chonaill and I have a Great Grandmother from the Isle of Skye, never been to Skye but I hear it's beautiful
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks man ☘
First of your videos I've seen. Thoroughly engrossing. Have subscribed, will watch more. Thanks muchly.
What a bonnie channel. So happy i found you. Thankyou Bruce. Greetings from Inverness 😊👋🏴
Fàilte
I'm Scottish, Bruce. I've never set foot on the island of Ireland, though I've been on the Scottish side of the Causeway 😄 I do want to go, but the last time I was choosing a Euro city break it came down to Dublin v Berlin and I chose Berlin because I realised it was soon going to be a bit more difficult to get there (Brexit) and it appeared that it woud be quite a bit cheaper with better beer (sorry Guinness) and the whole dark fascination with WW2, the cold war era, the wall and everything. But I definitely will go to Ireland one day soon.
Pick anywhere in Ireland except Dublin
I live in Ireland. It s a good place. But apparently Berlin s a real party town
Fascinating as always 😊
I too am of Irish decent on my mother's side just as I'm of Scottish on my father's. To be fair I'm a collection of peoples from the Isle's. I'm planning a trip to visit Scotland when I retire in a few years. I want to visit the ancestral lands of Argyle. I need to do some more research on my mother's side to find out where to go in Ireland. Thanks Bruce, great story once again. Whence Saturday came and went I was saddened that no alert had warned me of a new video. But then low and behold Sunday arrived and with it a brand new educational and entertaining experience! Thanks mate, my week's now compete
Aye I'm still across the water and we had some uploading problems
@@ScotlandHistoryTours well Bruce, when the day comes that I make my way to the home of my ancestors I hope to have a cup of coffee with ya. In my younger years a pint or a dram was more like it but as I've aged alcohol is no longer my friend but I'd be honored to buy you a cup of Joe as we say in the colonies. You sir are my absolute favorite channel on UA-cam, good evening from America!
AlwYs a joy listening to your ‘stories’❤️
Thanks
Yes I plan on visiting both Scotland and Ireland. Ancestors from both. Love your videos!
Awesome! Thank you!
Happy New Year Bruce to you and yours. I love all of your videos which are so informative and fun at the same time, which helps me, at 79, to retain the knowledge you share. I so enjoyed the reveal of the DNA journeys, what a laugh and surprise for your family. My grandmother used to say, “We’re all Jock Tamson’s bairnies,” how true that is. We are all so much more than the sum of the parts, my belief. My results from Ancestry were 67% Scottish, 32% Irish 1% Norwegian which just about backed up my 20 year hobby spent on my family tree, but I wonder just how accurate this can be, seeing as many of the folk in the British Isles, as we know it today, were from Brittany, Normandy, Saxony and Scandinavia etc., so fascinating. Getting uppity about who we are gets us, as a human gene pool, nowhere. We are part of a rich diverse world, where respect, kindness and love should be our number one priority. You are a great teacher, doing a superb job, ignore the ignorant!
Great video Bruce. I watch Braveheart again a few days ago. It may not be 100% historically accurate. I do not care, I watch it for the atmosphere. The perfect landscape and the humor. "Do not forget about the rock." Continue to be you, friend.
The real story is a good one but not as funny as Braveheart.
Of course, for many of those perfect landscapes, you need to travel to Ireland 😍😆👍
Braveheart not being 100% historically accurate is putting it very very mildly, it's more like 98% Yank made garbage produced by an American foreigner called Randall Wallace who made William Wallace (who was a Welshman hired by Scotland) the 'Braveheart' instead of Robert I (who actually did more for Scotland) just because he had the same second name as him. It manages to get just about everything it portrays wrong with the history as a film.
Most of the landscape is infact irish since most of it was filmed in ireland.Many of the mountainous scenes were in the wicklow mountains ,the battles were on the plain of curragh kildare and the castle scenes were in meath all in a hours drive of dublin.The earlier scenes would have been scotland especially the intro
My grandmother spoke garlic as well as English, but she passed away when my mom was 9.
Well done Bruce. Another good one.
I have the distinct privilege of being boyh Scottish and Irish. My Mum's Scottish and ma Da's parents are Irish from Donegal. Grew up in Glasgow til I was 8 years old and then we moved over to Donegal. There's quite a big connection between Donegal and Glasgow actually
Craig Ferguson has the same Donegall and Scottish lineage...naturalized US citizen now....
@@eamonnclabby7067 there we go, another son of Donegal
@@Gallboynarossan I had some cousins, Duffy in Donegall...
@@eamonnclabby7067 aye plenty of Duffy's about the place, do you know what part of Donegal?
@@Gallboynarossan Inishowen I believe...
Fascinating as always
I would love to see videos on each of the Scottish Clans. As a member of Clan Matheson I would love to learn more about my ancestors.
Cli.t at Scottish Clans Podcast does sone good stuff about the clans
Thank you for the great video!
From the Scottish Borders here. 🙏🏻😎🏴
Another great video, thanks Bruce.
You're welcome