I was looking forward to hearing the background to the Dubs being called "the jackeens"
@jamesmccarthy72288 ай бұрын
I fondly remember as a child my late Father shouting, "come on the blood & the bandage" for his beloved Cork during hurling and football matches !!!
@doylersafl87288 ай бұрын
Yeah, I've heard Cork being called 'the Bloods' a couple of times
@dhayes39639 ай бұрын
Thanks for noting that the Ardsmen is the correct term for Down’s hurlers. So many lazy journalists call them the Mournemen.
@Hertog_von_Berkshire9 ай бұрын
Thanks for that. I learned a lot.
@ailisbergin75889 ай бұрын
Tipperary is known as the Premier County because they won the first ever hurling All Ireland championship
@tmcg547123 күн бұрын
Kerry won the first ever Hurling Championship; their only Hurling title to date.
@tomaslynch96219 ай бұрын
Cork are also sometimes called the blood and bandage for the colours of the jerseys
@interestingeire9 ай бұрын
Cool never heard of that one
@Alasdair374489 ай бұрын
I love the many art clips included in this video!
@chuckyx9349 ай бұрын
Tipperary are also known as the stone throwers. This was due to Tipp fan's throwing stone's and opposing fans during a game in the early 1900's.
@liamquinn19819 ай бұрын
who else skipped right to their county and then when back to the beginning to watch them all?
@graham33689 ай бұрын
Very politically correct about the Dubs...no mention of the biggest nickname
@PatsyCrew9 ай бұрын
Champions of Ireland? The Capital? Civilised, and not sheepshagger muck savage inbred coulchie?
@Backpfeifengesicht459 ай бұрын
@@PatsyCrewOK, jackeen.
@culaterw41pr3 ай бұрын
@@Backpfeifengesicht45 For those who don't know the suffix "een" in Hiberno English indicates the diminutive as in small. So Jackeen means small supporter of the Union Jack... i.e. you're not an Irish nationalist...
@Backpfeifengesicht453 ай бұрын
@@culaterw41pr further to this, it originated in Cork when news travelled of Dubliners waving the union jack during the visit of the famine queen, aka Victoria to Dublin.
@JMc-ki7kq9 ай бұрын
I also notice how Cavan always refer to themselves as Breffni but I think the Breffni kingdom was much bigger than that, it also included Leitrim. Then there is Monaghan calling themselves "Farney". Farney is only a part of co.Monaghan. for example Clones isn't in Farney.
@beaglaoich44189 ай бұрын
Cavan is east and Leitrim west Breffni. The barony of Farney is the south eastern part of Monaghan and Oriel/Airgialla is a kingdom that fluctuated in size from mostly Monaghan to Monaghan and Louth
@HimWitDaHair989 ай бұрын
I think parts of North Longford fell in Breffni too. Hard to know
@emmagracecowan87019 ай бұрын
Would be great if there were subtitles like on the Instagram video! It helps with the Gaelic words in particular. Great stuff!
@interestingeire9 ай бұрын
Thanks good suggestion, you can stick on Closed Captions (the CC button) which put subtitles on the video
@whoisnooners8 ай бұрын
Colin Ryan won the all Ireland with Clare and now he teaches in my school
@1969JohnnyM9 ай бұрын
Go on Antrim, going swimming as a kid at Andytown Leisure centre the very close by Casement Park GAA ground was emblematic of most Nationalist areas, run down, impoverished and deprived and neglected by design so its great to see the improvements.
@Getting-On8 ай бұрын
Excellent vid, thanks.
@cacamilis84779 ай бұрын
I've heard of two other explanations for the "Banner County". The first is that Daniel O'Connell held one of his gigantic public demonstrations for Irish self-determination in Ennis town, where hundreds of thousands of Clare people gathered in groups, each with a banner showing the name of their village or town. The second comes from the Clare Dragoons, a regiment of heavy cavalry that served the British Crown in the 17th? century. They were all from Clare, wore Blue and Saffron uniforms, and made a habit of stealing the war banners of their opponents. They were renowned soldiers, famous for their "Banner Shout" or warcry when charging.
@interestingeire9 ай бұрын
Fascinating, thanks for sharing
@Dreyno9 ай бұрын
Targeting your enemies colours was standard practice at the time to the extent that a colour guard were specifically tasked with defending the colours. Often armed with fairly medieval weapons like axes. So I doubt that their taking of banners was notable enough for the name to stem from that. I think the O’Connell story is far more plausible.
@jeremiahcrean64179 ай бұрын
Do you not know that the Irish flag is green white and orange NOT gold?😊
@Kitiwake9 ай бұрын
Thomas Davis wrote a famous song about Clare's Dragoons who's boast is capturing the English banners and Claresbridge is partially there.
@cacamilis84778 ай бұрын
@@jeremiahcrean6417 Did you reply to the wrong comment?
@poetrybypatrickmitchell63697 ай бұрын
Kildares Lilywhite nickname gets it from the Ardreigh Mill in athy where they used to produce the lily white flour.
@eimhingalvin88649 ай бұрын
forgot the 'goat suckers' and 'gardeners' for Wicklow
@Dubhfinna4209 ай бұрын
The tricolour is Green White and Orange
@culaterw41pr3 ай бұрын
Good man... And while we are on the subject for no Irish people it's tricolour (pronounced try colour) NOT TRICKCOLOUR... Amazing how many English people cannot properly pronounce their own language... 🤬🤬🤬
@user-de1zt3pm9p9 ай бұрын
Limerick city is known as the treaty city.limerick hurlers on the other hand are known as the shannonsider,.
@tommybhoy15819 ай бұрын
Waterford is also know as the blaa men , because of a small flat bread roll a Blaa eaten at breakfast
@paulsheridan63209 ай бұрын
Great video, really enjoyed that!
@paddybrennan70938 ай бұрын
I never heard Dublin called anything but the jacks
@FionanUaMurchadha7 ай бұрын
Usually just call them Jackeens
@johnmc38624 ай бұрын
And Culchies everywhere else! @@FionanUaMurchadha
@JMc-ki7kq9 ай бұрын
Tyrone like to think they are the only region associated with the red hand/O'Neill's but that is oversimplifying history. South Co.Derry and the majority of Antrim were also ruled by O'Neills up until the plantation. To complicate the matter even further the 'Ui Neill' were originally based in Inishowen Donegal before they moved east over 1000 years ago.
@eamonlyons83188 ай бұрын
The O'Neill surname is all over Ireland through its cadet lines like O'Connell and O'Donnell, plus 6 other surnames. Niall Noighallach was the first O'Neil and he was the root of 9 different clans, however the O'Neill rulership was most prevalent in Tir Eoghan and the Kingdom of Midh.
@esmonde18 ай бұрын
Tipp also known as the Stone Throwers.
@daveeol19878 ай бұрын
Bulmers suckers
@Pjvenom19858 ай бұрын
Go raibh maith agat, thanks for sharing.🌱🌠🍀
@cormacbrowne95719 ай бұрын
Wexford; as I understood got the yellowbelly title from the buff waistcoats worn by pike men in 1798.
@nevillesynnott28179 ай бұрын
Offaly also known as the BIFFO's
@weeeeehhhhh8 ай бұрын
Only by people outside Offaly :)
@connaire1417 ай бұрын
Is the picture you use when refering to Monaghan as the drumlin county not a photo of the Lower lough Erne? Great Video by the way👍
@emmetoconnor51054 ай бұрын
Officially in GAA nomenclature, Waterford is the gentle county. When you meet a Deiseach, they will take your hand warmly and then wait for you to speak.
@emmettobrien14218 ай бұрын
Ye broke your heart with Louth, but a good video all the same 👌🏻
@HimWitDaHair989 ай бұрын
Perfect local pronunciation of Turles and Wahterford 😂
@ronniew32299 ай бұрын
Without taking the time to read all the comments I remind you of County Kilburn... 😉
@seatroutking75558 ай бұрын
That’s the first time I every heard Sligo men references at Yeats men or magpies 🤣🤣
@PGPyramid18 ай бұрын
Donegal is the forgotten county due to the lack of investment in, well, everything. But don't get me going!
@michaelhannan35179 ай бұрын
Um, with Dublin you forgot to mention the Jacks? Or Jackeens if we're talking about the women's team? From the time King George VII came over in 1905 for a royal visit and loads of people in Dublin came out to greet him with Union Jack flags...people in the rest of the country werent too happy and called people from Dublin 'Jacks' for short and the name stuck, alas. Mind you, as we Dubs like to say, we're the city that took on an Empire in 1916 😀!
@culaterw41pr3 ай бұрын
Dublin was the only city in the Republic to have people waving Union Jacks in the street until QEII visited Cork in 2011. Also colloquially, going to the toilet is referred to in Ireland as going to the Jacks. Why? So you can p!ss and sh!t on the Union Jack...
@datman2200019 ай бұрын
Dublin GAA team is called The Jack's short for The Jackeen's. As in the old football song, the Jack's are back, the Jack's are back let the railway end go barmy, for hill sixteen has never seen the likes of Heffo's army.
@tipptop99 ай бұрын
Are you sure its not for waving little union jacks 🤔 😃
@bernieone19 ай бұрын
Jackeenns!
@johnmc38624 ай бұрын
@@tipptop9No that was Cork for the queens visit!!
@michaelosullivan7249 ай бұрын
Offaly also known as Kings county and Laois known as Queens county
@interestingeire9 ай бұрын
Yes thanks to Bloody Mary Tudor
@kevkeary47005 ай бұрын
I would have thought for Co. Cork that one of their names would be the Langers!!
@culaterw41pr3 ай бұрын
The Langers County... superb... I'm going to reuse that if you don't mind...
@shaundonovan88162 ай бұрын
History of Bruff and Bruree please? County Limerick.
@stockroomtim8 ай бұрын
Waterford are known as the blaas due to their fondness for weird bread
@Orielparadise9 ай бұрын
Interesting, I think the south of Monaghan also used to use Oriel, but honestly hear it more it in North Louth now due to Dundalks stadium name Oriel park.
@interestingeire9 ай бұрын
Yeah you are right, Airgíalla (Oriel) was a medieval kingdom that spanned parts of Armagh, Monaghan, Louth, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry.
@JMc-ki7kq9 ай бұрын
The Airgialla is what the modern Armagh diocese is. I live in one of the most northern parishes of it.
@garymacdonald71659 ай бұрын
My 2 grandfathers were an ONeill from County Tyrone,Northen Ireland and a Macdonald from Dundee,Scotland! Cant get much more Irish/Scottish names than that!😄
@LolLol-cq4bh9 ай бұрын
“NI names” …well they’re either Irish or Scottish mate
@garymacdonald71659 ай бұрын
@@LolLol-cq4bh 😄 Ive typed too fast! Changed it now!
@STHFGDBY8 ай бұрын
He missed the most important one about Dublin, the moat popular nickname for the Dubs for a long time was the Jack's, or Jackeens, how he didn't know that one is astonishing .
@eoinf27738 ай бұрын
Yeah, muckers love calling dubs that!
@robertkennedy74568 ай бұрын
Well ye did hold on to that flag the longest
@eoinf27738 ай бұрын
@@robertkennedy7456 northern Ireland?
@robertkennedy74568 ай бұрын
@@eoinf2773 fair point i was referring to county's no longer governed by Britain.
@eoinf27738 ай бұрын
@@robertkennedy7456 I know, I was just being a nob !
@Sage501479 ай бұрын
Kildare are also know as the flour bags
@420Tombstone9 ай бұрын
Offaly used to be called Kings County in honour of Philip II of Spain and Laois was called Queens County as it was shired by Queen Mary, seeing as 'the pale' made the cut.
@carmelmhennessy97384 ай бұрын
Fabulous
@tipptop99 ай бұрын
Tipperary is named the premier county as it was the first county to be incorporated. Although i guess this type of thing is always disputed! Hon Tipp
@interestingeire9 ай бұрын
Tipp could have had its own video for the amount of origins stories I found for their nickname 😄
@gallowglass26309 ай бұрын
@@interestingeire I was going to add fighting cocks for carlow ,but i think thats just one club rather than the county.
@bernieone19 ай бұрын
Hon the Premier!
@brianhardrada12979 ай бұрын
Tipp is also known as the smelly poo poo heads.😂😂
@secretarykilkennychoir71379 ай бұрын
Dublin Jackeens (Jacobites), Wicklow Goats ...
@brianhardrada12979 ай бұрын
A guy told me one time that kildare are also known as the flower bags because one time they used flower bags playing Dublin.
@Mancozeb1006 ай бұрын
Think you’ll find that it was Flour Bags ! From all of the flour mills.
@bppmurphy9 ай бұрын
5:22 funny you mention youve never heard that one before. Like the first nickname I'd think of for Carlow is the scallion 'aters. Also to add, another nickname for Laois is the "Poor County". Im not sure why but I've heard it being called that
@workmail7259 ай бұрын
Mayo also known as the rhubarbs.
@culaterw41pr3 ай бұрын
Never heard that one... Is that because of the jersey colour?
@workmail7253 ай бұрын
@@culaterw41pr red and green and tend to turn to crumble when under heat.
@seamusphelan2285 ай бұрын
The Kilkenny Cats. That also came from medieval times. It’s gruesome though. There was two cats from Kilkenny. Each thought that there was one too many. They fought and the slit. They scratched and they bit, till in the end there wasn’t any. That came from a brutal medieval blood sport. Two Tom cats were tied by their tails to a line just near enough for either of them to strike at each other. Far more brutal than dog fighting or cock fighting. It wasn’t an original Celtic sport but had been imported from Europe as Kilkenny was a very cosmopolitan city in medieval times. Now we’ll go on to the Goose Milkers, The Heron Stranglers, The Sheep Stealers, The Stone throwers, Cute Cork Hoords, Tunnel Tigers, Jackeens an the Mane Caavan B^$t€rd$. Niall Ó Toibáin got it right. Quote: “Ireland so the geographers tell us, is a land 350miles long and 150 miles thick. 😂😂😂 in among that space we have many peoples species and sub species……””. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the ability of us Irish ☘️ to laugh at ourselves gives us the strength when others mock us. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣☘️🇮🇪
@Roisin18988 ай бұрын
You forgot the dubliners other name, THE JACKEENS, they got the name for coming out waving their little union jacks at the king of england.
@AnnesleyPlaceDub708 ай бұрын
Just like the Corkies down in their Queens Market 👍🏻
@daveeol19878 ай бұрын
@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 cork also known as the rebel county for more or less winning the war of independence single handed while the dubs had those jackeens waving. Its all about timing lad
@eoghancarpenter85468 ай бұрын
@@daveeol1987The squad would like to have a word....
@daveeol19878 ай бұрын
@eoghancarpenter8546 what 10 dubs run by a corkman compared to hundreds of men in flying columns. Doesn't really compare does it
@eoghancarpenter85468 ай бұрын
@daveeol1987 I'm no Dub but like it or not they wiped out the Intelligence service in Ireland giving us a fighting chance
@deanmulroy43329 ай бұрын
Tipperary was known as ( the stone throwers) long before it was known as the premier county Dean o maolruaigh Clueing meala
@garybyrne46638 ай бұрын
Green, white and orange
@John-cn9bq9 ай бұрын
Offaly are called the faithful due to the settlers being faithful to the king of England, hence there nickname the kings county
@420Tombstone9 ай бұрын
Kinda wrong, it was a Spanish king not and English king
@dhayes39639 ай бұрын
Philip II was married to Mary Tudor.
@420Tombstone9 ай бұрын
@@dhayes3963 He sure was, but was not King of England
@Kitiwake9 ай бұрын
Clare after the victories at Ramillies and Fontenoy, no?
@keelanmurphy99418 ай бұрын
Wait a minute, Clontarf's in Dublin, what does Clare have to do with it?
@stockroomtim8 ай бұрын
Brian Boru, the high king of ireland was killed in battle there. He hurled for Smyth O'briens as a younglad
@bilboabbans9 ай бұрын
Laois is the queens county
@brianhardrada12979 ай бұрын
Queens as is gay men, 😂😂
@Tafuh45108 ай бұрын
Northern Ireland
@johnobrien7179 ай бұрын
Co. Kerry The kingdom GOD , and the kingdom of kerry. ❤😁👍
@Shay-bp7yt8 ай бұрын
Im not Tir Connel , im Inishowen. The o doherty clan. Inishowen need its own county.
@johnmc38624 ай бұрын
Lol! Johnny Doherty was from Ardara.
@heffo67Ай бұрын
Offaly wear green, white and gold. The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange, there is no connection.
@Dabhach19 ай бұрын
The "ZEEbras?"
@mf3909 ай бұрын
Will you stop saying gaa like some young calf calling its mother. Its G A A
@daveeol19878 ай бұрын
Are you irish?
@mf3908 ай бұрын
@@daveeol1987 Why do you ask?
@daveeol19878 ай бұрын
@@mf390 because anyone who is irish says gaa unless your a prod