14 million tons of food where exported from Ireland at gun point! The potato famine story is a coverup for one of many examples of Englands 16 century long genocide of the native Britons (Gallic peoples).
Also: Under British rule, Irish Catholics were prohibited from entering the professions or even purchasing land. Instead, many rented small plots of land from absentee British Protestant landlords.
Right that. The Brits engineered that genocide. During the height of the famine, something like 220.,000 tonnes of wheat were force-exported from Eire to UK. UK papers even mused whether or not to let Irish keep some of their wheat and corn, and English had the nerve to say the Irish should starve because allowing food would let the Irish "breed up" again!
I'm from Derry and grew up during the Troubles and hunger strikes. It is actually pretty cool that some teenager in Iowa was thinking of us and the chaos we were living through back then. So I at least appreciate it, at the time it felt like we were all alone and ignored by the world. Thank teenage you for caring about people far away :)
as a redhead I can safely say the reason you don't see too many of us is because we're indoors avoiding sunlight, the natural enemy of gingers everywhere
I love redheads, no idea why? I myself am not (though when I had a beard there was this red spot?) but as a normal guy, all these spandex things that young women wear, you can't help looking? The downside of this smorgasboard of young. fit beautiful women is the people who should definitely NOT be wearing such things, big saggy arses and a camel rearing to go, oh no,t my eyes, my very eyes!. I'm getting older now and I predict a change in how people dress, not only that 'shabby cl Mique, will be gone, replaced with any last living artisans that that made sense.m forgetting what I previously said,
The English land thieves would let the poor workers take the potatoes to feed their families as part of their wage, and all other products that were grown were shipped over to feed the English or distributed among the upper classes. Plenty of other farm products were grown, barley wheat etc. A British member of Parliament, Sir Charles Trevelyan, stated "The Irish potato blight was sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson"!☘.....Oh and another Irish favourite dish,(here in the North) is Champ n smoked fish. We had large families because we were Catholics who feared, and revered the Church, who were against all types of contraceptives.
The Quakers helped feed the starving Irish opening up soup kitchens.As an Irish person I have a lot of time for the Quakers. The Turks sent food ships which were blocked by the British navy.
Hi Sir. I'm a South African man working in Tipperary. You won't believe how many towns in South Africa has Irish names. There is Belfast kilarney bredastown tipperary Douglas and many more
Never forget it was not just the potatoe blight alone which caused starvation of many poor Irish but also the fact the British crown making it near impossible for poor Catholic Irish to obtain food. Aid being sent from other countries was intercepted and deprived of mainly poor catholic Irish individuals. Iv often heard phrase "that family took the soup" when referring too Protestant families who supposedly had changed from Catholic to Protestant in order to be given food from soup kitchens enforced by British crown
True. For all but two years of the disaster, Ireland was a net exporter of beef, mutton, cheese, wheat and other crops that were controlled by the British landowners. Irish activists begged, protested and sometimes resorted to riots in vain attempts to change the Brit policies.
My da was from Limerick. Bacon and cabbage was his absolute favourite. He loved stew too. He always tried to tell people bacon and cabbage was the Irish dish. Irish whiskey is far superior because we do it properly. I don’t drink scotch. Powers all the way for me 😁. Dads favourite was paddy’s. I’ve been to the famine memorial in Co Mayo and it’s such an amazing place. So haunting and sad. Anyone who hasn’t been should go and see it.
I love Ireland. I met my wife as a soldier on a 6-month roulement tour in Belfast. There I was, looking good, wearing riot gear and holding the line. Then I spotted a beautiful woman across the divide as she lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it at me, winking. Oh my... nothing much has changed in 34 years, and that cheeky wink of hers gets me every time.
How? I mean just how was that relationship possible? Would love to hear how your wife’s community and security said “yep go ahead no issues here” now that would be a story worth hearing 😮😂😮
@@sheenavaughan2717 Maybe I should write about it. Our wedding was scheduled to take place in Lisburn Catholic Chapel (safer than Belfast), but when the IRA discovered that, they threatened to bomb, so we got married in the multi-denominational church, St Columbs Thiepval Barracks (Also Lisburn). We had to get 136 Irish guests through security clearance in two weeks so they could get onto the base. We had the Army Catholic Priest marry us, with my wife's catholic priests attending, and then we had our reception in the UDR bar on base. Still married 34 years later.
I've just stumbled upon this video, but it's great to finally see a regular Irish guy talk about Ireland, as opposed to the "ho di hi, hor r ya mi owl flower" kind of act. We just don't go on like that with each other and it's so pander-y to 'Muricas. It would be great to see a video debunking myths, stereotypes or lists like this! New sub anyway!
Ireland never had a famine. A famine is defined as an extreme scarcity of food. We were growing plenty of food in Ireland at the time, it was just taken from us. If I took all your food and stopped you getting more, you starving to death as a result wouldn’t be described as you dying due to a famine now would it? I starved you to death. That’s exactly why its real name is An Gorta Mor, The Great Starvation. Let’s not make it sound like a natural disaster when it was in fact mass genocide of the Irish people by the British.
An Indian guy on Radio 4 a couple of years ago mentioned that there's never been a famine in a democracy. I certainly can't think of one. Ethiopia in the 80s had a military dictatorship, Mao caused a huge famine in China after the great leap forward policy. Big famine in Ukraine in Stalins time. The common theme seems to be that the authorities didn't give a shit about all the people starving to death. Foods getting short in Palestine this past year, as we speak.
Talk about “ revisionism “ you do realise that this comment is absolute bollox, right? Not only did we have a famine in Ireland we had quite a few over the centuries, probably the worst was the 1845 to 52 one which decimated the population due to the failure of the potato crop which was the main source of food for the majority of the population.
There was more than enough food to feed everyone in the country during the famine, even without the potatos, we just didn’t have access to it because the brits exported it all and actually made it illegal for the lower class to buy it.
No crops were taken, Ireland was used as the breadbasket for Britain. The "famine" was an economic disaster caused by Westminster Policies, antiquated Irish agriculture and antiquated food production and distribution. In 1847 there was more food imported into Ireland than exported. People relied on the potato not only as a food source but as a source of coin too. We tend to think of modern economic practices when it comes to the mid-1800s but this is not the case especially in the rural parts of Ireland for example the West Coast of Ireland. Mistakes from Westminster thinking the "blight" was over in 1847 led to the closing of the British Relief Association in 1848 was also another bad move as this helped Ireland in 1847 bringing much-needed aid and money.
I’ve lived 45 minutes from the tx renfest for 32 years. So much fun. Always get the nice schedule of events! We usually go over it, referencing the adorable map. You get the most of each day- from the shows to food bathrooms and drink. Dressing up makes it more fun.
You can get the pronunciation by reading the irish. Muckanna eder daw hawlia Muk-ina-edder-daw-hawlia Mukin-edderda-hawlia Muckin/edder/d/hawlia It rhymes with " fuckin better than all-of-ye"
Irish-American of quitter descent here... My "O'Berry" family immigrated to the states in 1850. My paternal grandmother is Choctaw "Indian" (her words and I will respect them until I die) She was the last of us born on a reservation. I was raised to be very wary of government and taught that it was a necessary evil. The Irish-Indians, and there are a lot of us, are REALLY hard-headed and proud as you can imagine. My favorite meal is and has always been bacon and cabbage and my grandmother's was the best.(truth!)
My grandmother was one of the Ga berry clan. We had always been told that we had an Indian great great great great great grandmother somewhere back there.
Why do you have to use so many really foul nasty vulgar words. Live your broadcasts otherwise, but I cut you off when the filth starts. You are so talented, & I do not mind so much the mild cursing. But are you still a 13 year old trying to impress your older clansmen?
Firstly, love the vids…you’re hilarious. I get the feeling you’re into your history, if you could do some longer form history videos, with your comics take, I think it would be good
Hazel ☘️ Be careful … if all our Irish descendants came to visit at the same time 1) there would standing room only on this Emerald Isle 2) we would SINK 😂😂😂 SO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR DELICIOUS , 🙏☘️😘
Proud of my dad who made sure I knew my history even from the US. My grandparents (and dad) and all their siblings came here in the late 40s and 50s after the war.
Twas great craic growing up as a picky eater with a dad from Moycullen, Galway. I quote: "what we neeeeed is another famine". If I'd a spud for every time I heard that!
Not to mention anyone who tried to take the food that wasn’t potatoes was promptly exported to a penal colony instead.. hence the song lyrics in the fields of Athenry “He stole Travelyan’s corn, so the young might see the morn, now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay”
Potatoes are incredibly hardy, so they make loads of sense! As a staple, they’ve helped the poor all over the world stave off starvation. No shade thrown at Ireland for relying on such a good choice!
Yeah, Irish farmers were renters of land taken by the English, they didn’t get the luxury of choosing the crops they grew. Potatoes grew fast and sold well for export, so that’s what they were forced to mainly grow. And then when the blight came and fucked every potato crop, they didn’t exactly turn around and go “well, that was a bad choice let’s see how we can help”, they pretty much just went “well you can’t pay your rent so you can fuck off and die or hey, here’s a sweetheart deal to fuck off to Australia or Canada and die there”.
(I’m the descendant of an Irish famine victim transported to Australia, and a Scottish family who lost their own farms during the Highland clearances, which was the same fucking set of events exactly but in northern Scotland.)
I absolutely loved the facts. It is so much fun learning more about Ireland, seeing the sights, learning about the food. I am proud to say that I’m 25%🍀❤from 🇺🇸
@@culllyI met a lady in Australia who was a world authority on the Langer. She said that North American Indians had the longest and Irish had the thickest, and then asked me my name. "Tonto, Tonto O'Reilly miss".
My dad is absolutely obsessed with our Irish ancestry. He thought he was 3rd generation until he was in his 70s, only to discover that for several generations back our people were coal minors on the east coast of America (we grew up in the west coast). He was crushed, but still believes strongly that the heart of our family is Irish. But yeah my name is Peggy Kelley, so something was going on there. When I visited Ireland I didn't mention any of this because it seems embarrassing to claim a country you didn't grow up in, but a rather creepy older man bought me drinks on Kilronan because of my name. I'm sure that's why I got all of those free drinks. He also wanted me to give him a hair cut, but that's another story.
Also, there's a great book called How the Irish Saved Civilization. It's about how the monks in said country copied down and protected literature during the Middle Ages when everyone else was brutish and didn't care about reading.
@lesleymccolgan5797 it was an attempt to get me back to his house, which I did not take him up on. I was with friends and they went. From their stories about vodka, I'm glad I skipped the "haircut." Looking back, it's the most bizarre way to invite someone to your place. His name was Colm, and he was pretty old at the time - 20yrs ago, so either island life did a number on his looks, or he's at least 80.
Its absolutly amazing that an Irish man does not know that this was genocide!! Shame on our education ministers and education system. There were loads of crops and beef yet they were only for export by greedy landlords. When the potatoes crops failed our oppressors continued to export and let the people die, watch Black 47 which gives an idea of what our ancestors had to put up with.
In that case you admit the USSR also committed genocide in Ukraine, and the PRC commited genocide in China. Also the famine didn't only kill Irish Catholics, as the propagandists would have you believe, it killed protestant 'settlers' too. Not to mention people in Wales, Scotland and England also died from the famine. And France, so France is genocidal as well, right?
@@alliedatheistalliance6776I don't think people realise how badly the British aristocracy actually treated the British people too, and many other countries were just as bad, if not worse. The saddest thing is that it still goes on to this day😢
@@susangarvey9415 Yup. Irish Nationalists seem to think they were uniquely victimised, but life was shit for everyone poor back then, in every country, especially by modern standards we apply. I'm not excusing what the Brits did in Ireland, and worse, in India and other parts. But they need to get past this idea that Ireland was some unified utopia until the evil Brits came along with no other intention than to make the Irish suffer. That's a very propagandised and simplistic view of history.
I was going to mock you calling hand-to-hand combat head-to-head combat. Then I remembered I have been to Irish pubs and you are 100% correct. My apologies.
Would you, with respect Garron, think about a small shout out to the Chocataw and their links to ourselves which have lasted to do this day? Just a thought?
And back during Covid when the Irish raised millions for the Native American peoples in memory of the Choctaw. There's a great story for a video there alright
My grandads family left Galway for England during the famine aa they were farmers and couldn't survive. I still have the deeds receipt for the sale of their farm land in Coill Sáile. Which was huge.
The fact that Ireland suffered a famine doesn't surprise me, but you reporting that it occured between 1945 and 1952 does blow my mind. Yes many other crops other than the potato were grown in Ireland, but if you were Irish Catholic and had not sworn loyalty to the Crown of England you could not own the land you farmed, instead you farmed it for the British landlord whose land Irish worked on kind of like America's post Civil War sharecroppers, the only difference was that the only crop that the indigenous Irish could share in was the potato, so when it failed the British landlords shipped the grains, beef, lamb and pork their farms produced by the labors of the Irish to the rest of Europe and Great Britain feeding the English while the Irish starved.
You forgot the part where the British forced the tenant farmers to surrender what meager crop they brought in so that they could export it. They did the same with grain and when people started dying they helped subsidize ships to the US to get rid of the Irish troublemakers. Unfortunately they took all of the Irish guns in the previous uprising.
You got some of your facts wrong there, Garron. Brits BANNED Irish from keeping wheat or corn crops they grew, but had to pay almost all of their crop to their landlords. There was nothing natural about the famine. It was a genocide engineered by Brits to kill Irish. During the height of the famine, something like 220,000 tonnes of wheat were forcibly exported to UK. Brits even mused whether or not to allow Irish to keep some of the corn and wheat crop, and then editors wrote that Irish should be left to starve because allowing Irish to keep crops would allow Irish to "breed up" like rats. Blatantly genocidal and hateful.
It's not comparable. Other countries were able to live off other produce and livestock. The Irish weren't because of the British. Exporting was banned in all countries during this period. The British ignored this and exported around 7 ships of produce from Ireland each day
I prefer Irish whiskey. I was in a lesbian bar in San Francisco (it was really an open, neighborhood bar, but it’s a traditional lesbian hangout.) I ordered a shot of Jameson. Bartender says she’s out of that. Bushmills, then. Out of that, too. Any Irish whisky? Afraid not. What kind of bar are you running here? The bartender said I could go get a bottle from the liquor store across the street. I said, “Really? Is that OK?” She said it was fine. I go out and come back in with my bottle. I’m sitting out on the back patio and a waitress walks by and sees me with this bottle and shouts, “What’s that?! You can’t bring outside alcohol in here! Get out! Get out!” I was about to object because the bartender had given me permission to do this, but I realized that this might get her into trouble, so I kept my mouth shut. So I’m walking out and pass a buddy sitting at the bar and he asks me where I’m going. I said, “I just got kicked out.” I’m standing outside on the sidewalk and my buddy comes out and asks what happened. I said, “It’s a long story.” He asked, “Are you alright?” I replied, “Well, it’s after midnight; I’m standing on the streets of San Francisco; I just got 86’ed from a lesbian bar; and I’ve got a nearly full bottle of Jameson. All things considered, things are going very well.” He says, “Alright, so a pretty typical night for you.”
The British used the famine as a way to control the native Irish and poor farmers and tennets to establish a stronger British presence in a way it was efnic cleansing.
We were a net exporter of food during the great potato famine. The English wanted their cut. If you didn’t give the tax, you’d be kicked off your farm. Half the population died of starvation
Ireland’s loss was Australia’s gain. Aside from those fleeing famine, and the odd pig thief or rapist, we also gained political prisoners. United Irishmen, Fenians, participants in the 1798 Irish Rebellion and 1848 Young Ireland skirmishes etc were convicted and transported to our sunny shores. Strangely, some couldn’t wait to get off them and, lacking the fortitude to make a go of it in a warm and picturesque antipodean penal colony, kept trying to get back to Ireland. But it’s a long way to swim so only a few made it.
The tragic thing about Irish Whiskey is that it depended largely on export to the US in the early years of the 20th century. Prohibition in the US killed the industry of Irish distilling which did not happen to the Scottish version as severely. At one time there were distilleries in every town in Ireland but many closed down, ending up with only 2 distilleries. Bushmills and Irish Distillers. Now many small craft beer and whiskey makers are making a comeback.
My great great grandparents decided to immigrate to Australia, with toddlers in toe. So this red head is indoors between 10-4 for six months of the year. This skin tone is, believe it or not, suited to Australia
Did u also know that as well is not having any snakes, we also don't have any leprechauns anymore too, they all drowned in the Atlantic trying to swim to America.
My ancestor left Ireland because he was as a Patriot and the British put a price on his head. Not making that up. The family came from Cork. When I visited the Irish Center in San Francisco, people who hadn’t heard me speak would ask what county I came from and I would tell them resulting in total embarrassment for my friends who brought me there. California has Counties but they mostly have Spanish names. That might fall into the gob shite category I suppose.
My people immigrated to avoid being charged with the murder of an English magistrate. Two different ancestors, two different Englishmen, two different MOs. One came from Traylee, if I remember correctly.
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
@@Garron_Music Actually, I learned from a Father Ted episode once upon a time that the Church in Ireland secretly had loads of potatoes during the famine, and hid them in pillows and sold them abroad at potato fairs. The Pope closed the factories making the potatoes and turned them into prisons for children. So really, when you factor in everything, the causes were Legion...
@@Garron_Music but your video title was “..Facts..” I luv facts. Just luv them! I can eat them with a spoon. Put “Facts” in a UA-cam channel post and I will view them every time. I’m a total Fact Geek.
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Not a famine.. a genocide. The English exported all our food and we were left to starve! Love you garron
14 million tons of food where exported from Ireland at gun point!
The potato famine story is a coverup for one of many examples of Englands 16 century long genocide of the native Britons (Gallic peoples).
Also:
Under British rule, Irish Catholics were prohibited from entering the professions or even purchasing land. Instead, many rented small plots of land from absentee British Protestant landlords.
Right that. The Brits engineered that genocide. During the height of the famine, something like 220.,000 tonnes of wheat were force-exported from Eire to UK. UK papers even mused whether or not to let Irish keep some of their wheat and corn, and English had the nerve to say the Irish should starve because allowing food would let the Irish "breed up" again!
Lads im English and can i just say....Sorry! We really are sorry. Wont happen again the lads learned what they did was wrong.
That's why it's the ENGLISH famine.
And enforced starvation is working in a current genocide in Gaza.
As a teenager in Iowa I was obsessed with "The Troubles" & Bobby Sands. I even kept a scrapbook. Why? No idea. It was just me then.
Troubled teenager
Smooth!
Without historians who are we ?
well done
I'm from Derry and grew up during the Troubles and hunger strikes. It is actually pretty cool that some teenager in Iowa was thinking of us and the chaos we were living through back then. So I at least appreciate it, at the time it felt like we were all alone and ignored by the world. Thank teenage you for caring about people far away :)
They all went blind shat themselves and died horrible deaths, for uniforms and prisoner status. Prides a horrible thing, but so was Maggie thatcher
"Half the stuff I say on my TikTok is just to piss people off." And this one reason you're delicious.
Fantastic video, thanks! From one of your Irish-American fans.
as a redhead I can safely say the reason you don't see too many of us is because we're indoors avoiding sunlight, the natural enemy of gingers everywhere
thats not redheads thats just irish people in general
I love redheads, no idea why? I myself am not (though when I had a beard there was this red spot?) but as a normal guy, all these spandex things that young women wear, you can't help looking? The downside of this smorgasboard of young. fit beautiful women is the people who should definitely NOT be wearing such things, big saggy arses and a camel rearing to go, oh no,t my eyes, my very eyes!. I'm getting older now and I predict a change in how people dress, not only that 'shabby cl
Mique, will be gone, replaced with any last living artisans that that made sense.m forgetting what I previously said,
As a redhead who grew up in Florida-Hallelujah!😂😂😂
...avoiding sunlight, ridicule and abuse.
Yes. We hates it.
The English land thieves would let the poor workers take the potatoes to feed their families as part of their wage, and all other products that were grown were shipped over to feed the English or distributed among the upper classes. Plenty of other farm products were grown, barley wheat etc. A British member of Parliament, Sir Charles Trevelyan, stated "The Irish potato blight was sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson"!☘.....Oh and another Irish favourite dish,(here in the North) is Champ n smoked fish. We had large families because we were Catholics who feared, and revered the Church, who were against all types of contraceptives.
The Quakers helped feed the starving Irish opening up soup kitchens.As an Irish person I have a lot of time for the Quakers. The Turks sent food ships which were blocked by the British navy.
@@brianbreen1026 what would you except from the Brits💯💚🇮🇪
Hi Sir. I'm a South African man working in Tipperary. You won't believe how many towns in South Africa has Irish names. There is Belfast kilarney bredastown tipperary Douglas and many more
Never forget it was not just the potatoe blight alone which caused starvation of many poor Irish but also the fact the British crown making it near impossible for poor Catholic Irish to obtain food. Aid being sent from other countries was intercepted and deprived of mainly poor catholic Irish individuals.
Iv often heard phrase "that family took the soup" when referring too Protestant families who supposedly had changed from Catholic to Protestant in order to be given food from soup kitchens enforced by British crown
Truth. England was trying and succeeded in wiping Ireland out. ( in terms of starvation and people being forced to leave)
True. For all but two years of the disaster, Ireland was a net exporter of beef, mutton, cheese, wheat and other crops that were controlled by the British landowners. Irish activists begged, protested and sometimes resorted to riots in vain attempts to change the Brit policies.
They were shipping all the other food to england under armed guard etc. Was a hol*caust.
Did the “f” word add anything to your comments? I think not! I would have enjoyed this much more without the curse word!
@@jackiesaunders9301 You're not familiar with Garron, are you? The f-word is the least of his linguistic excesses.
My da was from Limerick. Bacon and cabbage was his absolute favourite. He loved stew too. He always tried to tell people bacon and cabbage was the Irish dish.
Irish whiskey is far superior because we do it properly. I don’t drink scotch. Powers all the way for me 😁. Dads favourite was paddy’s.
I’ve been to the famine memorial in Co Mayo and it’s such an amazing place. So haunting and sad. Anyone who hasn’t been should go and see it.
Agreed, Power's or Paddy's!
@@SharonBoland-ui3ns it’s not a museum in mayo it’s a memorial. It’s at the foot of croagh Patrick
I love Ireland. I met my wife as a soldier on a 6-month roulement tour in Belfast. There I was, looking good, wearing riot gear and holding the line. Then I spotted a beautiful woman across the divide as she lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it at me, winking. Oh my... nothing much has changed in 34 years, and that cheeky wink of hers gets me every time.
Can't beat that spark.
How? I mean just how was that relationship possible? Would love to hear how your wife’s community and security said “yep go ahead no issues here” now that would be a story worth hearing 😮😂😮
@@sheenavaughan2717 Maybe I should write about it. Our wedding was scheduled to take place in Lisburn Catholic Chapel (safer than Belfast), but when the IRA discovered that, they threatened to bomb, so we got married in the multi-denominational church, St Columbs Thiepval Barracks (Also Lisburn). We had to get 136 Irish guests through security clearance in two weeks so they could get onto the base. We had the Army Catholic Priest marry us, with my wife's catholic priests attending, and then we had our reception in the UDR bar on base. Still married 34 years later.
If my wife is a sleeper agent, I think I've broken her will 😂😂
Someone should make a movie about that amazing love history, it has everything, love , politics, adventure, fear and a happy ending❤🎉
The blight that caused the Irish potatoe famine is called Britain.. thats why they call it old Blighty 😂 I think I made that last bit up
Sounds good to me!
@@brilafable It’s an example of typical post-imperial British self-effacement.
According to Wikipedia.
What a beautiful sentence
Pretty good though
Funny it's actually named Galar in Pokémon - the Irish word for disease or blight.
If that's your level of makey uppy, feel free to make up anything at any time. It was very clever.
I've just stumbled upon this video, but it's great to finally see a regular Irish guy talk about Ireland, as opposed to the "ho di hi, hor r ya mi owl flower" kind of act. We just don't go on like that with each other and it's so pander-y to 'Muricas.
It would be great to see a video debunking myths, stereotypes or lists like this!
New sub anyway!
Ireland never had a famine. A famine is defined as an extreme scarcity of food. We were growing plenty of food in Ireland at the time, it was just taken from us. If I took all your food and stopped you getting more, you starving to death as a result wouldn’t be described as you dying due to a famine now would it? I starved you to death. That’s exactly why its real name is An Gorta Mor, The Great Starvation. Let’s not make it sound like a natural disaster when it was in fact mass genocide of the Irish people by the British.
UK government* not the British. We weren't alive dipshit.
An Indian guy on Radio 4 a couple of years ago mentioned that there's never been a famine in a democracy. I certainly can't think of one. Ethiopia in the 80s had a military dictatorship, Mao caused a huge famine in China after the great leap forward policy. Big famine in Ukraine in Stalins time. The common theme seems to be that the authorities didn't give a shit about all the people starving to death. Foods getting short in Palestine this past year, as we speak.
The British wanted the land not so much the people.
@paulmorgan5655 open a book
Talk about “ revisionism “ you do realise that this comment is absolute bollox, right? Not only did we have a famine in Ireland we had quite a few over the centuries, probably the worst was the 1845 to 52 one which decimated the population due to the failure of the potato crop which was the main source of food for the majority of the population.
Most other crops at that time were shipped to England and that's why so many people died.. when I say "shipped" I mean taken!
Britain, not just England. Don't let the Scottish off.
Along with cattle, sheep, and fowl, barley and oats were shipped everyday.
Come on bai
There was more than enough food to feed everyone in the country during the famine, even without the potatos, we just didn’t have access to it because the brits exported it all and actually made it illegal for the lower class to buy it.
No crops were taken, Ireland was used as the breadbasket for Britain. The "famine" was an economic disaster caused by Westminster Policies, antiquated Irish agriculture and antiquated food production and distribution. In 1847 there was more food imported into Ireland than exported. People relied on the potato not only as a food source but as a source of coin too. We tend to think of modern economic practices when it comes to the mid-1800s but this is not the case especially in the rural parts of Ireland for example the West Coast of Ireland. Mistakes from Westminster thinking the "blight" was over in 1847 led to the closing of the British Relief Association in 1848 was also another bad move as this helped Ireland in 1847 bringing much-needed aid and money.
I’ve lived 45 minutes from the tx renfest for 32 years. So much fun. Always get the nice schedule of events! We usually go over it, referencing the adorable map. You get the most of each day- from the shows to food bathrooms and drink. Dressing up makes it more fun.
Ireland is one of the most fertile countries in the world and was a net exporter of food all through the Famine. Take a bow England.
You can get the pronunciation by reading the irish.
Muckanna eder daw hawlia
Muk-ina-edder-daw-hawlia
Mukin-edderda-hawlia
Muckin/edder/d/hawlia
It rhymes with " fuckin better than all-of-ye"
howlin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fantastic! @@Beansidhe-jm2qh
Brilliant
Irish-American of quitter descent here... My "O'Berry" family immigrated to the states in 1850. My paternal grandmother is Choctaw "Indian" (her words and I will respect them until I die) She was the last of us born on a reservation. I was raised to be very wary of government and taught that it was a necessary evil. The Irish-Indians, and there are a lot of us, are REALLY hard-headed and proud as you can imagine. My favorite meal is and has always been bacon and cabbage and my grandmother's was the best.(truth!)
I'm an Irish Native too! Double the stubbornness 😂
Oh here we go - another 'Irish American" 🤡
My grandmother was one of the Ga berry clan. We had always been told that we had an Indian great great great great great grandmother somewhere back there.
Why do you have to use so many really foul nasty vulgar words. Live your broadcasts otherwise, but I cut you off when the filth starts. You are so talented, & I do not mind so much the mild cursing. But are you still a 13 year old trying to impress your older clansmen?
Brilliant 😊
My grandparents left Mayo for Philadelphia in the early 1920s and returned when the economy got better.
My grandfather left Leitrim in 1905 and returned with my German American grandmother in 1928. She refused to leave. He went to NY.
Firstly, love the vids…you’re hilarious. I get the feeling you’re into your history, if you could do some longer form history videos, with your comics take, I think it would be good
Hazel ☘️
Be careful … if all our Irish descendants came to visit at the same time
1) there would standing room only on this Emerald Isle
2) we would SINK 😂😂😂
SO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR DELICIOUS ,
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There’s a lot of Irish in Massachusetts red haired as well. My family including
My Da's family settled in Massive Chew Set's 👍
Proud of my dad who made sure I knew my history even from the US. My grandparents (and dad) and all their siblings came here in the late 40s and 50s after the war.
Twas great craic growing up as a picky eater with a dad from Moycullen, Galway. I quote: "what we neeeeed is another famine". If I'd a spud for every time I heard that!
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Not to mention anyone who tried to take the food that wasn’t potatoes was promptly exported to a penal colony instead.. hence the song lyrics in the fields of Athenry “He stole Travelyan’s corn, so the young might see the morn, now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay”
I must play that one again.
Yes exactly. They were only allowed potatoes and there were no potatoes and they were denied any other type of food.
4:00 My father used to call "Derry/Londonderry" Stroke City.
Potatoes are incredibly hardy, so they make loads of sense! As a staple, they’ve helped the poor all over the world stave off starvation. No shade thrown at Ireland for relying on such a good choice!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Apostles_of_Ireland
He didn't mention that most of the food produced in Ireland was exported to England during this time (not by choice of the Irish).
Yeah, Irish farmers were renters of land taken by the English, they didn’t get the luxury of choosing the crops they grew. Potatoes grew fast and sold well for export, so that’s what they were forced to mainly grow.
And then when the blight came and fucked every potato crop, they didn’t exactly turn around and go “well, that was a bad choice let’s see how we can help”, they pretty much just went “well you can’t pay your rent so you can fuck off and die or hey, here’s a sweetheart deal to fuck off to Australia or Canada and die there”.
(I’m the descendant of an Irish famine victim transported to Australia, and a Scottish family who lost their own farms during the Highland clearances, which was the same fucking set of events exactly but in northern Scotland.)
People wonder why we love watching the English get their arses handed to them in any sporting event with any other country 😂
Definitely get up to do the Titanic tour!!! It was brilliant before the refurbishment……way better now. It’s a must!! 4:55
I absolutely loved the facts. It is so much fun learning more about Ireland, seeing the sights, learning about the food. I am proud to say that I’m 25%🍀❤from 🇺🇸
Which 25% of you is Irish? I'm mostly Irish in my feet which is evident by the way I walk.
@@middlemore-brendonMy Irishness percentage is mostly in the sausage area, which is why I'm hung like Shergar. I call it my Irish third leg.
@@mattkinsella9856funnily enough, Ireland has one of the lower average penis sizes in the west, so that’s probably not the boast you think it is.
@@culllyI met a lady in Australia who was a world authority on the Langer. She said that North American Indians had the longest and Irish had the thickest, and then asked me my name. "Tonto, Tonto O'Reilly miss".
@@culllySo a few "foreign lads" couldn't fit in your gob?
Thank you for this! You are such a joy to listen to for humour and this educational video probably hits some people stronger than you know. Peace!
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1942-1952. Might need to redo that one
The graphic was correct, he just mis-spoke
@@johnc3403 mishpoke
My dad is absolutely obsessed with our Irish ancestry. He thought he was 3rd generation until he was in his 70s, only to discover that for several generations back our people were coal minors on the east coast of America (we grew up in the west coast). He was crushed, but still believes strongly that the heart of our family is Irish. But yeah my name is Peggy Kelley, so something was going on there.
When I visited Ireland I didn't mention any of this because it seems embarrassing to claim a country you didn't grow up in, but a rather creepy older man bought me drinks on Kilronan because of my name. I'm sure that's why I got all of those free drinks. He also wanted me to give him a hair cut, but that's another story.
Also, there's a great book called How the Irish Saved Civilization. It's about how the monks in said country copied down and protected literature during the Middle Ages when everyone else was brutish and didn't care about reading.
As a retired hairdresser I insist you spill the tea!
@lesleymccolgan5797 it was an attempt to get me back to his house, which I did not take him up on. I was with friends and they went. From their stories about vodka, I'm glad I skipped the "haircut." Looking back, it's the most bizarre way to invite someone to your place. His name was Colm, and he was pretty old at the time - 20yrs ago, so either island life did a number on his looks, or he's at least 80.
Many top European universities were founded by Irish monks.
irush were literate and in a mission to spread Christianity to Europe.@@pilgrimonfire
Kelley is.......a surname from the Isle of Man
Its absolutly amazing that an Irish man does not know that this was genocide!! Shame on our education ministers and education system. There were loads of crops and beef yet they were only for export by greedy landlords. When the potatoes crops failed our oppressors continued to export and let the people die, watch Black 47 which gives an idea of what our ancestors had to put up with.
The british stopped & stole aid at sea coming to Ireland from America
In that case you admit the USSR also committed genocide in Ukraine, and the PRC commited genocide in China. Also the famine didn't only kill Irish Catholics, as the propagandists would have you believe, it killed protestant 'settlers' too. Not to mention people in Wales, Scotland and England also died from the famine. And France, so France is genocidal as well, right?
@@alliedatheistalliance6776I don't think people realise how badly the British aristocracy actually treated the British people too, and many other countries were just as bad, if not worse. The saddest thing is that it still goes on to this day😢
@@susangarvey9415 Yup. Irish Nationalists seem to think they were uniquely victimised, but life was shit for everyone poor back then, in every country, especially by modern standards we apply. I'm not excusing what the Brits did in Ireland, and worse, in India and other parts. But they need to get past this idea that Ireland was some unified utopia until the evil Brits came along with no other intention than to make the Irish suffer. That's a very propagandised and simplistic view of history.
This guy is a total, uneducated fool. Boring!
I just love that you make my days with great laughs!
Great stuff lad
Very delicious video, Garron. Thank you 😂
Love your show. Visited North and South had a really good time.
We cannot get enough Garron in that tiny square. #needmoreGarron
You are so engaging and funny, You are a natural comedian x
True, but I still wish you'd sing more than you do. Your voice is stunning. I could listen to you forever.
Such a great video!!! Thank you, Nicha!!!
I was going to mock you calling hand-to-hand combat head-to-head combat. Then I remembered I have been to Irish pubs and you are 100% correct. My apologies.
Dude you mentioned going to see the docks in Belfast, that’s a great idea for one of your longer videos
Would you, with respect Garron, think about a small shout out to the Chocataw and their links to ourselves which have lasted to do this day? Just a thought?
And back during Covid when the Irish raised millions for the Native American peoples in memory of the Choctaw. There's a great story for a video there alright
I'm Scottish with a Scottish father,Irish mother from Carlow.My name is Eamonn.Guess who wore the trousers in that marriage?😂
Your accent makes everything funnier to me. Great video would be great as a podcast also
My grandads family left Galway for England during the famine aa they were farmers and couldn't survive. I still have the deeds receipt for the sale of their farm land in Coill Sáile. Which was huge.
Also I super enjoyed this video.
Irish whisky is not just the brewing technique but also the spelling which the website missed lol
Keep up the good work, G.
The fact that Ireland suffered a famine doesn't surprise me, but you reporting that it occured between 1945 and 1952 does blow my mind. Yes many other crops other than the potato were grown in Ireland, but if you were Irish Catholic and had not sworn loyalty to the Crown of England you could not own the land you farmed, instead you farmed it for the British landlord whose land Irish worked on kind of like America's post Civil War sharecroppers, the only difference was that the only crop that the indigenous Irish could share in was the potato, so when it failed the British landlords shipped the grains, beef, lamb and pork their farms produced by the labors of the Irish to the rest of Europe and Great Britain feeding the English while the Irish starved.
He obviously mis-spoke by accident
You forgot the part where the British forced the tenant farmers to surrender what meager crop they brought in so that they could export it. They did the same with grain and when people started dying they helped subsidize ships to the US to get rid of the Irish troublemakers. Unfortunately they took all of the Irish guns in the previous uprising.
Plus the land was de-forested for lumber to build British ships, sadly.
Buddy love what your doing.....I'm from the east but ya make me want to move west cuz use seem like use know the crack......also a hardy bucks fan
80 million. You would never get a taxi in town on a Saturday night. Plus the national dish is spice bag.
Or chicken fillet roll
Love your videos, Garron. I'm from the Irish border area, but consider myself 100% Irish.
You got some of your facts wrong there, Garron. Brits BANNED Irish from keeping wheat or corn crops they grew, but had to pay almost all of their crop to their landlords. There was nothing natural about the famine. It was a genocide engineered by Brits to kill Irish. During the height of the famine, something like 220,000 tonnes of wheat were forcibly exported to UK. Brits even mused whether or not to allow Irish to keep some of the corn and wheat crop, and then editors wrote that Irish should be left to starve because allowing Irish to keep crops would allow Irish to "breed up" like rats. Blatantly genocidal and hateful.
There was a potato blight/ famine across most of Europe at the same time. The difference was how those in authority responded.
It's not comparable. Other countries were able to live off other produce and livestock.
The Irish weren't because of the British.
Exporting was banned in all countries during this period.
The British ignored this and exported around 7 ships of produce from Ireland each day
Two juristicions, one occupied, one not, One Nation!
I prefer Irish whiskey. I was in a lesbian bar in San Francisco (it was really an open, neighborhood bar, but it’s a traditional lesbian hangout.) I ordered a shot of Jameson. Bartender says she’s out of that. Bushmills, then. Out of that, too. Any Irish whisky? Afraid not. What kind of bar are you running here? The bartender said I could go get a bottle from the liquor store across the street. I said, “Really? Is that OK?” She said it was fine. I go out and come back in with my bottle. I’m sitting out on the back patio and a waitress walks by and sees me with this bottle and shouts, “What’s that?! You can’t bring outside alcohol in here! Get out! Get out!” I was about to object because the bartender had given me permission to do this, but I realized that this might get her into trouble, so I kept my mouth shut. So I’m walking out and pass a buddy sitting at the bar and he asks me where I’m going. I said, “I just got kicked out.” I’m standing outside on the sidewalk and my buddy comes out and asks what happened. I said, “It’s a long story.” He asked, “Are you alright?” I replied, “Well, it’s after midnight; I’m standing on the streets of San Francisco; I just got 86’ed from a lesbian bar; and I’ve got a nearly full bottle of Jameson. All things considered, things are going very well.” He says, “Alright, so a pretty typical night for you.”
Deadly story
This is so interesting and pleasing to hear from an Irish person! I’m trying to visit Galway in the next year or so 😁
Just over 5 million ❤❤❤
And as with most famines it could've been prevented 😔
The potato is originally from Peru! It makes sense that it would grow in your climate.
Greetings from Sunny South Australia Gammon 👍
This is super super interesting as well as funny
My family started fleeing Mayo from around famine time. until about the 1950s.
Id like to see a video the best Irish chocolate
The British used the famine as a way to control the native Irish and poor farmers and tennets to establish a stronger British presence in a way it was efnic cleansing.
I want to move there. ❤❤❤
No snakes or spiders and everyone is a funny smartass. I love it. Its green. Is weed legal in Ireland?
We were a net exporter of food during the great potato famine. The English wanted their cut. If you didn’t give the tax, you’d be kicked off your farm. Half the population died of starvation
To Hell or to Connaught
5:46 I nearly pissed myself laughing and totally agree!
We Irish Americans blame the English for the famine.
Leitrim Da always called Mayomen "Cute Boyo's"!. Lol.
Ireland’s loss was Australia’s gain. Aside from those fleeing famine, and the odd pig thief or rapist, we also gained political prisoners. United Irishmen, Fenians, participants in the 1798 Irish Rebellion and 1848 Young Ireland skirmishes etc were convicted and transported to our sunny shores. Strangely, some couldn’t wait to get off them and, lacking the fortitude to make a go of it in a warm and picturesque antipodean penal colony, kept trying to get back to Ireland. But it’s a long way to swim so only a few made it.
luckily you're not such a fussy eater Garron, I always grow a few carrots next to my spuds and maybe the odd turnip or even a cauliflower
“From 1945 to 1952!” 👌🤣🤣
My Mayo brother you are the undisputed king of taking the piss!! ❤❤
Famine ? Garron, if there was no potatos in Ireland today, would it be a famine, if you say no, why (?)
LOVE
Oh shucks! St Patrick must have come to Kodiak Alaska, too! We also are snake- & serious bug-less!
Irish whiskey spelled with a -key at the end, Scottish whisky just -ky at the end. How did they miss that one?
The tragic thing about Irish Whiskey is that it depended largely on export to the US in the early years of the 20th century. Prohibition in the US killed the industry of Irish distilling which did not happen to the Scottish version as severely. At one time there were distilleries in every town in Ireland but many closed down, ending up with only 2 distilleries. Bushmills and Irish Distillers. Now many small craft beer and whiskey makers are making a comeback.
You have a new subscriber! I really enjoyed your video. Will check out more of them!
Ireland is beautiful.
We used to have wolves and Bears they have some bite boyo.
My great great grandparents decided to immigrate to Australia, with toddlers in toe. So this red head is indoors between 10-4 for six months of the year. This skin tone is, believe it or not, suited to Australia
600000 tons of food shipped out in the first two years of the famine. The urish grew a lot if food. However they did not own.
Oh my word please do more longer videos
As an American who is passionate about our history, I want to thank you Irish for coming to settle our family disagreement in 1861-1865.
Your expressions are ticklers to me!!! The spicer the better.!!!
Irish stew is now made with lamb, plus lots of vegetables and of course spuds..
1945 to 1952. Christ I lived through the famine, so that’s why I had no spuds with the Sunday roast.
He was only 100 years out on both dates!😊
Time travel now...would ya stop 😂.
Is this channel dedicated to irish and americans only? its an observation from following you for sometime from insignificant Australia
Did u also know that as well is not having any snakes, we also don't have any leprechauns anymore too, they all drowned in the Atlantic trying to swim to America.
It wasn't a famine it was a genocide 😢
I’m with bacon and cabbage
Same a wee dash of brown sauce
Being a Dub, I'd say a bowl of coddle, a mug of tea and a big slice of Gur cake afterwards..
Yes my gr grandparents moved over to Glasgow so i have me irish roots
My ancestor left Ireland because he was as a Patriot and the British put a price on his head. Not making that up. The family came from Cork. When I visited the Irish Center in San Francisco, people who hadn’t heard me speak would ask what county I came from and I would tell them resulting in total embarrassment for my friends who brought me there. California has Counties but they mostly have Spanish names. That might fall into the gob shite category I suppose.
My people immigrated to avoid being charged with the murder of an English magistrate. Two different ancestors, two different Englishmen, two different MOs. One came from Traylee, if I remember correctly.
The
“O” and the longest name are such interesting facts as an Irish person ❤❤❤
The Irish were the first people in Europe since dark ages to have surnames based on family as opposed to trade
Potato 🥔? Not the only reason for the famine.
Lets just tip toe around the ol genocide sure
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
Famine is a complicated subject. This is not a video about the famine. It’s not correct to say it was a genocide though without getting fully into the subject .there is a reason I didn’t get into it, I was addressing the fact as it was laid out in the article… which is that potato blight was the catalyst for the famine.. which is true . A video about the famine would have to be 45 minutes long at least. And would require a fairly lengthy discussion about 100s of years of history leading up to it. I’m not defending British actions during the famine, I am irish after all. But to just drop that into a video like this wouldn’t be useful. I did mention famine being used as a weapon in this video for that very reason.
@@Garron_Music Actually, I learned from a Father Ted episode once upon a time that the Church in Ireland secretly had loads of potatoes during the famine, and hid them in pillows and sold them abroad at potato fairs. The Pope closed the factories making the potatoes and turned
them into prisons for children.
So really, when you factor in everything, the causes were Legion...
@@Garron_Music but your video title was “..Facts..” I luv facts. Just luv them! I can eat them with a spoon. Put “Facts” in a UA-cam channel post and I will view them every time. I’m a total Fact Geek.
Enjoyed learning about Ireland 👍🏻