I was born in Derry City in the north and got a BA in Archaeology and Greek and Roman Civilization in UCD Dublin (even took a specific class on the High Kingship of Ireland) and I feel you did a fairly good job portraying the snapshot of Ireland and the political situation there in 1066. I am actually a descendant of Domnall Ua Lochlainn, who is depicted in the game as being the ruler of Oriel (not accurate of course as you explained). Unfortunately, the start date of 1066 was a really messy time for the Kingdom of Aileach (pronounced like the name Alec by the way). So it looks like they decided to try to simplify it a bit. An Áed Ua hUalgairg was King of Aileach in 1066 but he is gone only a year later, replaced by Domnall mac Néill (the Poor) in 1067 who himself was replaced in 1068 by another Áed, Áed mac Néill who lasted until 1083 when Domnall Ua Lochlainn, my ancestor, finally became King of Aileach (after a very brief stint by a guy named Donnchad mac Néill who didn't even last a year). The real king of Airgíalla (Oriel is the anglicized name so not accurate at this point) in 1066 was a certain Leathlobair Ua Laidhgnen. Don't know anything about him specifically. So I can forgive the game developers saying screw it. lol

This is such an excellent concept! Using crusader kings, and other titles, to teach history! You nailed the execution! Do you have any idea on what you’re doing next?

With the Rite tenant added to Insular as well, it's now more focused on the idea that it's simply a slight deviation from Catholicism itself. They still recognize the Pope as their head of faith within the current game state, which brings certain advantages and disadvantages.

@History in Bits I'm the developer of the Improved Insular mod. Check out the TIP Vol. II mod - play it with no other mods enabled. I think you'll enjoy Ireland in that; hope you decide to make a vid!

Just a heads up, the language spoken in Ireland isn’t typically called Gaelic, I think that’s more so for Scotland. Far as I’m aware it can be called gaelic, and is included in that group of languages, but typically is referred to by another name. Irelands language is called Irish in English, and Gaeilge in Irish. It’s closely related to Scottish Gaelic but it’s not the same. Your pronunciation for Irish words seemed pretty good to me overall though

I saw someone else had corrected the Gaelic bit and your pronunciations are generally very good for a non-speaker, but my one clarification would be that Irish people just call the state Ireland, it's only Brits that call it Republic of Ireland (which is a football team, not the proper name for the country!) Great video, thanks!

this man deserves so much more subs that he has, so much effort obviously put into this

Nice to see Ireland getting some attention. I've made a number of videos on Ireland in CK3 on my channel, including one on Murchad. I'd be interested to know what sources you have that say he ruled until 1068 as all the ones I've read say that Toirdelbach ruled Munster from 1063. Paradox copied the Munster Kings list from Wikipedia and Murchad was added to that as the result of a misreading of an Irish academic text. Toirdelbach was the ruler of Munster in the 1066 start in CK1 but later games took heavily from Wikipedia, for which I think they can be criticized. 6:56 You say you couldn't find any characters in Meath that reflected real historical figures. The guy on screen as you say that, Conchobar Ua Máelshechlainn, defeated Murchad (King of Dublin) in 1070 (which resulted in his death) and then killed his father, Diarmaid mac Máel na mBó (King of Leinster/High King) in 1072, after which Toirdelbach rose to the High Kingship. The guy who made the improved insular christianity mod also did one where Toirdelbach starts as King of Munster. If you haven't check out forvo (.) com, it has recordings of native speakers of various languages pronouncing words. Lots of Irish names and place names there.

It makes so much sense to explain the historical backgrounds of the game, because you understand so much more about the roles and the context! Great! And very entertaining!

If you do another breakdown like this, I highly suggest Armenia and the Caucasus as a whole, Paradox seems pretty confused when choosing rulers there. For example, in 867 they have the historical Bagrationi ruler of Tao-Klarjeti be the ruler of Kakheti for some reason, when in reality Kakheti was ruled by the independent Donauri dynasty. The guy they have ruling Tao-Klarjeti should actually be ruling in the principality of Daron/Taron, which doesn't even exist in-game!

Really interesting idea for video and way to learn something new about history, keep it up mate 👍🏼

You are mocking (a bit :) ) the comments about Insular Christianity, but one of the main historical critics is valid : in the 9th century (and pre Gregorian Reform catholicism in general) lot of places in Europe would have their own flavour of catholicism and are not in the game as a Faith, and Insular Christianity is in CK3 only because it is well known in an english speaking country.

I've been playing Ireland as a majority of my games since before Holy Fury in CK2 and love the setting, hoping one day I'll be able to visit and see Eire for myself. Great video, btw.

Great video! I'd love it if you would make more videos comparing CK3 to actual history. Great stuff!

While I struggled my way through playing as the Rurikid dynasty before playing as Count Eudes of Anjou, Ireland is such a relaxing way to get into the game. I’ve been messing around with Norse invasions of the British Isles and it always ends up that Ireland just chills while we all duke it out

Changes were made in both 1.5 and 1.6 versions that make Insular seem more like a regional branch of Catholics. 1.5 made polygamy an Irish cultural tradition rather than a tenet of Insular. 1.6 made the Pope the spiritual leader of Insular.

As an Irish person, I have to compliment the pronunciation of Old and Middle Irish names and places! I haven't a clue if you used the IPA in order to accurately pronounce them but it was really well done!

With Struggle for Iberian DLC, insular shares religious head of the pope with the Catholic church with mozarab (new faith). Definitely think it is odd to have a new faith represented in the game yet no mozarabic culture in.

Just an idea, but if you do decide to do more of these kinds of videos for CK3, you should also consider adding the characters you talk about to the "Interesting characters" page on the Crusader Kings 3 wiki. Lots of players check there for ideas of whom to play, and I imagine you could add quite a bit to it with your research.

This video was excellent! It was really fascinating to see all the detail put into this little corner of the map. I think I want to do some more research of my own in a similar vein, particularly with Novgorod, as that was the first region I ever played as in CK3.

Great video!

Would be excited to see more videos such as this relating to what we see in CK3 and its accuracy, historical background etc.

i'm not irish, but i'm Scottish and speak Scottish gaelic(Gàidhlig), a language that roots off irish(Gaeilge). As a Gàidhlig speaker i think your pronouncations were brilliant.

My first game of CK3 was on Murchad. I remember conquering that island in like 10 years county by county without acknowledging the "broke a truce" debuff. Everyone hated this guy and I was like why the fuck??? My domain limit was like 12/4 and probably all of them had 0 control. Game finished with a rebellion that took the Irish throne.

Brilliant work, thanks for the video and very good effort on all the pronunciations too. You clearly put a lot of effort into this and when I spotted your number of subscribers I was shocked, really solid start to your channel and wishing you the very best of luck in growing it

The subtitles when you try to pronounce things is brilliant 😂

Really good video, just want to say although our system was similar to feudalism, It was very different in many ways too, mainly in the structure of command as a chieftain didn’t have an heir, instead that heir would be voted upon by the entire family including everyone but the lower class, slaves and serfs. The chief also held less power than for example an English feudal lord as there was a council between the upper class of the clan called a „derbfine“ which could often overrule the decision of a chief.

I'm just discovered your channel and I already know that is going to be one of my favorites! Keep doing this man is awsome!

You're gonna be big in the future, I can already tell. GREAT content.

This was so good, itd be cool if you also did something similar for other factions too and make a series out of it. Keep up the good work

I adored my time with the Petty Kingdom of Munster which I turned into the Kingdom of Ireland...my greatest achievements was adopting to Catholicism and participating in the crusades, I basically carried the team and installed my benefactor, my brother as King of Jerusalem. Shortly after I had a somewhat unsuccessful conquest of Iberia(tried to revived the celtiberians) and eventually installed my sister as Queen of Galicia. Then my character died, meaning Jerusalem's and Galicia split of from Ireland as per inheritance laws, and my new character had a bad relationship towards his uncle and aunt. And finally, as a noob I thought I could conquer England with the help of my ally, my brother in law, the holy roman emperor, but refused to join, so I quit...tried coming back to that save after the Royal Court update released, but it's corrupted...Regardless and TLDR, there will always be a spot in my heart for Ireland in CK3, regardless of slander.

I been seaching for this kind of content for so long. It's awelsome play ck3 knowing better the history of that place, i hope to see more ck3 videos.

You really could make a series using CK3 to explore different historical kingdoms. Great video

I did Gaelic Studies at University (albeit focussing on Scotland rather than Ireland), and you honestly don't do a bad job of the pronunciations, doubly so for someone with no other exposure to the language. Really refreshing and a far cry from the absolute butcherings I'm used to from much of elsewhere in the CK/Paradox KZfaq scene. Obair dhiongalta, cum ort!

I want to let you know that Paradox has modified Insular Christianity in the “Fate of Iberia” as part of the free patch. The new Rite tenant allows a faith to have the Catholic Pope as their head of faith while having different doctrines. It does give the Catholic Pope a -10 opinion of characters of faiths with Rite. Mozarabic Christianity which was the focus of the DLC was given a unique decision to either bind to Rome or break with Rome. I have not played as Irish since the update so I don’t know if they have a similar decision, but I hope they do. I would also like to see your opinion on Irish Culture as represented in the free update that accompanied the Royal Court DLC. As Ireland is a small part of my family history I am always curious to learn more.

The second he called Irish Gaelic I realised this video would be tough to sit through

This video is amazing! Hope you keep making more ck3 videos like this.

Very nice video! Part of my love of CK3 is because it fuels my love of medieval history, so dives into what aspects of the game are historical vs. strictly mechanical are always welcome in my book. RE: the subject of "Insular" Christianity in the game, it's worth noting that the devs have stated they aren't fully satisfied with current religious mechanics in CK3. There have already been some changes (perhaps most notably in the form of allowing multiple faiths to share a single spiritual head, so as to more accurately portray the Islamic world), and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a future religion-focused update that includes making the dynamic between the two Catholicisms a bit more nuanced.

This might be a stretch but is your intro the Seikilos song? The 8-bit remix throws it off a bit but it sounds just like it. Great video by the way!

Oh this is fantastic! I've been working on a project concerning Ireland from 1263 to 1324 and this helps a lot! The project by the way is about Dame Alice Kyteler, the Flemish Irish woman who was among the richest women in Ireland in her day, welded much influence and power, and was accused of witchcraft. Also was maybe one of histories first serial killers. Fascinating lady and knowing Ireland in the middle ages is very useful.

as an Irish person I can say this is a really great representation of my countries history, although it might have been better to describe the differences between mainland feudalism and pre Norman Irish Brehon law because the Irish was based a lot more in pre Christiaan Celtic customs and laws and was almost democratic in a way definitely look it up it's very interesting. over all though an-maith buachaill

Seeing how well informed your videos are, I would like to know what starting date (and why) you would like to see being added to ck3 ? Any intriguing kingdom / potential characters you thinks would made adding another starting date relevant. Thanks 👍

Fun Star trek connection, in one episode of DS9 O'Brian and Bashir are heading to the holodeck to reenact the Battle of Clontarf. When Bashir asks why O'Brian gets to be the High King, O'Brian claims that he is a direct descendant of Brian Boru.

Very interesting video and original concept. I really like that you took the time to look for actual information and contrast it with the game, what a brilliant idea. I hope that you keep making this kind of videos.

I had multiple campaigns in Ireland in CK2. I conquered the entire island and even became Holy Roman Emperor, taking Iceland, parts of Scotland...it was a weird game. This video brought back memories.

I think in recent updates having insular have the pope as head of faith helps a lot

Your pronunciation is amazing! So impressed, can tell you really tried 👏

(Watches this while I wait for my MacBook to offload files so I can play CK3 and have my Greco-Egyptian empress of Rome annex Ireland into the Empire)

I enjoyed this, would love for you to look at other regions, you've earned a sub!

Excellent stuff sir 👏

Subscribed! Great content, that's what I'm here for. Looking forward to the next one!

Great video, and I do appreciate the huge effort made in the pronunciation. I started in Wexford, to play as Leinster since Dublin is Norse. And I have to disagree that Insular is a net negative, polygamy is a huge boon in dynastic system of Ck3.

Great video. Could you make a similiar one about Kingdom of Croatia?

In every game, I always start off with a low ranking, nobody character, who slowly rises through the ranks through Machiavellian scheming, opportunities, battles, good relations with the lords..etc It's just more satisfying and relateable, instead of starting off immediately as a king or emperor.

800 hundred years! *slams table*

I recently did a video on Vic3s Africa with a similar premise to yours. I am very impressed with this video and will probably take some inspiration of you for my future content. All I can, very impressive!

Honestly I can't remember what my first game of CK3 was like, I just phased that out of my mind lol

Just stumbled on this channel. really cool and I hope things go well.

Cant believe you're under 500 subs! Great content :)

You didn’t need to say the English names for the Irish provinces in a modern Irish accent haha. That’s like saying New York, California and Texas in an American accent.

I always start in Ireland. I love working my way up from Desmond, uniting the Irish and then taking out the norse populations. Then I slowly work my way through Wales and Cornwall. My favourite way to completely taking over Brittania 😊😊❤❤

I always wondered if we unified early, Ireland didn't become a kingdom until 18 June 1542, and that Kingdom was a client state of the Kingdom of England from its inception until 1 May 1707 when the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to Great Britain until 1 January 1801 was when Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merged to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

I'm Kinda sad I can't play as Olaf the White like in CK2, Always found it more fun to unite Ireland as him rather than Ivar the Boneless. But oh well maybe one day I will come around and do that and form a Norse-Gaels Kingdom/Empire

with the upcoming landless DLC coming later this year it would be a really interesting(and I assume difficult) start to paly as the guy at 3:57 and try to get the kingdom of Ireland before your death

I think the funniest thing here is that CK3 finally actually made Ireland not the best place to start for a new player.... and then immediately reversed that with it's first major DLC by making the kingdom of mann just stupidly OP. Sure, you either need a custom ruler or to "start" somewhere else, but most norse factions can extremely easily just pop a varangian adventure and go move to Ireland. And a lot of the smaller norse factions start in nearly the same exact situation as most of the Irish leaders, especially places like Iceland, etc. At launch, everyone was actually super excited for the fact that you were generally better off starting off somewhere like Italy as a vassal of the HRE, but then they just had to go and give the british isles not just the single most overpowered decision in the game, but also a second major decision that gives you a huge de jure empire that you can VERY easily jump into from the first decision. And now we're just straight back to "yeah, just start in ireland lul".

This brings me back to one of my first playthroughs where I started as munster and accidentally created a kingdom of dwarf geniuses

Well that was weird, first actual footage of ireland (clocktower) in the clip is about 200 steps from my front door. I swear we are not that small of a country.

a new favorite niche channel

Similar to Murchad, when I was looking into Welsh history I found the first prince of Wales is alive at the start of the game, but unlanded and comes to power with foreign help not long (15 years) after the game start. I would like to play as the real first prince of wales but it's not normally available.

Great idea for a video propped up by great research, narration, and editing. Liked, subscribed, and waiting for more videos like this one. Especially from CK3.

i like dis especially the voice you used to read the paradox forum comment

Could you compare the Seljuks in-game and the Seljuks in real life?

Instant sub It’s cool that KZfaq supports smaller channels now

I played in Ireland bc my family descend from mayo try to bring my family name back in ck3 is a blast

I started as a tiny county in Africa. Realm devide scared me half to death, but after the third time it happened, I finally figured out what was happening, but had no idea how to stop it. After killing serveral generations worth of siblings and vassals to keep my domain, I was finally removed from power shortly after I establised the Empire Of Guinea. What brought me down, you ask? War? Rebellion? No. I just didn't know what matrilineal marraige meant. So my son was not from my dynasty.

Nice video and all, but I need to bring attention to something far more important. You have Edge Scrolling enabled. What kind of maniac subjects themselves to that annoyance?

I don't understand why paradox didn't include a start date for Brian Boru given Ireland is their recommend starting nation. Brians story is exactly what most ck3 play is rags to riches but more importantly historically significant especially in viking age

In 1066, I started out with Petty King Murchad of Munster, and eventually unified the High Kingdom of Ireland. Now, it is 1390, the Briain dynasty unified Britannia after the conquests of Scotland, Wales, and England. Under the watchful eyes of the Irish Emperors, the realm claims land from the frosty volcanic wastes of Iceland, to the barren deserts of Egypt and the Holy Land. The Irish persisted, even as the Mongols waited across the English Channel whilst they pillaged Europe for all it was worth, and eventually disintegrated. House Briain has endured wars, infighting, foreign invasions, uprisings, plagues, and even put all of Christendom's holy sites under it's watch to mend the Schisms and evangelize the Levant and Egypt to the one true faith, doing what numerous crusades could not and establishing its glory across the world. Emperor Donnúcan 'The Justicar' has nearly 70,000 troops to his name and was last seen, at the age of 51, leading his armies in carving out a kingdom in Jerusalem for his kinsmen to rule and convert. Not bad for the tutorial start.

Could you make a seperate video of the history and tales, of the mod that you mentioned "tales of Ireland". It's such a cool mod, but I and probably alot others are overwhelmed by all different invasions and folktales and just get confused

Wasn't a feature of the struggle for Iberia patch that insular now has an odd status where they still consider the pope head of Faith?

I always liked how in one start time, you're playing the grandson, or great grandson of Brian Boru if you picked the correct county in the SW of Ireland. Oh you covered it. I thought there was one descendant you could play. Of course, I was talking about CK2 whereas you are talking about CK3.

First part of video hits hard. I remember my struggle with spanish Jimena's

My first playthrough in ireland lasted less then a month before the chess with death event fired and gave me a game over.

Thanks for shedding more light on the little known history of the Irish church

Great ! More History Please !

Its nice learning about Èire

Ireland seems fine from what you've said. Anatolia is honestly one of the biggest historical inaccuracies in terms of culture, in the game. There's just a sea of Greek rather than it being separated into Greek which occupies mainland Greece and the coasts, Cappadocian which occupies the middle of Anatolia and is a hybrid culture, Pontic which occupies areas of the Black sea coast of Anatolia and is a hybrid culture between Greek and Persian and lastly Italiot which exists mainly in southern Italy and Sicily. It's weird that Paradox chose to split every other previously monolithic culture other than Greek.

Never played in ireland in ck3. Would be a fun multiplayer challenge for everyone to be a different irish lord and try to unite ireland under ones own rule. Also idk if its just me but i think that another good ”noob” start for ck3 is as a duke in the hre since theres alot of opportunities naturally progress and become the ruler of the hre and expand your empire. Also the elections are quite fun for me to manipulate the results of in my favor

A bit late to the party, but recommend checking out the Ireland mod

Very good video, thank You! Why not do other similar videos about other CKIII areas?

Okay. But how historically accurate it is that, one way or the other, Ireland always becomes one with Iceland? One always seems to conquer the other. (Even though Island is just a Duchy)

I think it would be fun and interesting if you did cover Tales of Ireland and compare that to historical evidence.

one of my first ck (2) gameplays was as Laughlin, i turned it into an empire spanning across all of Britain and a huge chunk of france before the sunset invasion landed on ireland itself. i was tempted to quit st that point but i pushed through. what i did was come under the wing of the aztec empire and essentially destroy it from the inside out. safe to say i pushed them back to the spanish peninsula where they remained to this day

It's a great island to start out on to learn how combat and wars work, and has many choices for growth. Most of the terrain being marshlands stinks for development, but if you have royal courts there are culture core values that can negate some of it. Regardless great video.

I subscribed in hopes of more ck3 content like this.

Pronunciation was actually pretty damn good. Not quite perfect, of course, but clearly researched and not just looking at the word and trying to use English phonics.

4:50 you can technically do this, just land the guy, and switch to him, then do the whole coup thing

I came into CK2 prepared, having watched who knows how many tutorials, so I hopped directly into Muslim Spain. Started as Count of Garnatah and fucked around from there. My first four CK2 campaigns were all from that same start, cuz I’m an Andalusia fanboy

Eh, I think the only funky thing about Insular Christianity is that it often spreads and becomes popular elsewhere, and it's SUPER bizarre seeing an "insular" religion go mainstream in Continental Europe.

Ireland is a tutorial island. I played it after I started to play as Litovoi the count of Succeava and vassal of Izaislav Rurkid. My neighboring pechengs were looting me in 1.0 and Izaislav was in mass revolution. Eventually I defeated them even with 3 sinful personalities. And took land in moldova. Then I died and game over cause my son was of Rurkid dinasty. I restarted it several times and one time I managed to create duchy of bukovina and help my liege play wars and profit from them. And lastly I revolted in another playthroug and made Kingdom of Moldova. It was a better way of learning than being in an island and play 50 years then afk 400.