Last year, while my mother was cleaning out my grandmother's house, she discovered an old obituary for my great-grandfather, Patrick Deveny. The obituary revealed that he was involved in the Easter Rising.

living in England, with Irish parents i have never understood why the British have never seen through their own hypocracy in calling native irish citizans TERRORISTS.... ireland never invaded anybody but quite simply would not give in to a a hostile invader. tell me i am i deluded or wrong.

Davy thank you so much for that. We dont see enough documented footage with such detail. Love the channel keep up the good work. 🇮🇪

My Granda Cassidy, ( originally from Camlough, then met my Granny and moved to Belfast ), fought in the Rising, he was anti treaty and fought during the civil war. He's mentioned in a few books and pictured in one in his uniform too. But how Ireland is now, well ; " For what died the sons of Roisin " !

I'm English and find this terrible what we did to our neighbours! I'm from Irish and Scottish decent also

Great footage Davy! Thank you so much! Irish in Germany.

Great historical vid. Thank you. I would have loved to have seen this studying Irish History in school. Better late than never

How can you call someone a terrorist when they are fighting for freedom off their own country 🇮🇪

My grandfather came to Dublin with a Scottish regiment dispatched to quash the 1916 rising ,he met my grandmother on his tour, they lived after independence in Grenville street off mountjoy square where they had 9 children my mother being the youngest, there were many Dubliners fighting on the British side during the Easter rising, it was anything but straightforward which is the norm for Irish history and politics. Great video 👏

My grandfather was the compositer and printer of the 1916 Irish proclamation . He also was a volunteer and fought in the rising .

Thanks for this Davy. Amazing footage much of which I've never seen before

Our greatest generation , to one and all we Owe them . everything . to honour the flag and honour there memory . for its with Gold ink there names are wrote in the History of all Free nations . Ulster will return to us . the dream of Four green fields united once again . Proud Irishman Proud Dubliner

This was amazing.. seeing this actual footage .. we especially noted the expressions on the faces of the people.. their true feelings clearly show… How difficult and dangerous were these times.. seeing the actual footage puts us right back there.. So appreciated this Davy.. as the narrator said at the conclusion.. that Irelands troubles were not over., and the worst was yet to come.. We wondered if he was referring to the Civil War.. and if this documentation will follow.. And yes there were tears.. for all those who died by hunger strike.. and the hanging death of 18 year old Kevin Barry.. Also in the shots they showed of victims of the potato famine.. the Great Hunger.. could not help but wonder if members of my father’s family were among them.. His forebears immigrated to Canada.. and later to US.. which is how our family came to be in Michigan.. These documented videos press us to think and to wonder what their lives must have been like.. Thanks is not enough for what you do, Davy.. a valued service indeed it is..for all of us.. Slan mo chara..💜💙☘️

Excellent video, thanks for putting it together. Great Uncle (on my mother's side) Seán Howard was mortally wounded by the British in the 1916 Rising. Sean Bernard Howard, B. Coy., 1st Battn., 26, temple Cottages, Broadstone, Dublin, was only 17 years of age when he was fatally wounded at dawn in the Church Street area, 1916. He died in the Richmond Hospital. He was a student of brilliant attainments, taking first place in French and Irish in the Intermediate Examination. After this he went to London as a boy clerk in 1914, returned to the Land Commission, Dublin, in 1915, and transferred to the Congested Districts Board. Early in 1916, he left there and entered the Stanley Streeet Works of the Dublin Corporation. He was amember of the Fianna Pipers Band. The stone was unveiled on 24th November 1935. He was buried in the family plot in Glasnevin.

What the Irish nationalists achieved can never be underestimated...they took on the world's greatest empire and won. For all its short comings had they not done what they did Ireland would have remained a dependent backwater of the UK. The English like their Irish either comedic or drunk..Collins was to prove that they were neither.

Davy your videos are without compare.. we can feel the power and poignancy of the history you teach.. There we will be.. among others who desire to learn.. we thank you so much.. slan mo chara💜💙☘️

Great job unearthing this, Davy. Go raibh mile maith agat. One can and should read extensively to increase knowledge of this dramatic time in our history, but the ability to weave in some contemporary film footage really brings it all to life in a startling way. This was not that long ago. Thanks again.

highly informative, enlightening, sad, timely, thank you

Great video Davy thanks for sharing

Thanks for an informative and well researched video Davy.

Excellent documentary. Concise and informative

Brilliant upload......👍

WW-1 was the war for the "Freedom for Small Nations" but England exempted Ireland, despite the fact that 200,000 Irishmen fought in the trenches of France, believing that it was for the "Freedom for Small Nations".. (English Lies)

Fantastic archive!.

Love this. My second name is MacTreanor. We held sway over Monaghan for many years, our enemies were the O'Neills. The English invaded and one of the very few clans to refuse to bow were the MacTreanors. We banded together with the mckennas and the O'Neills, our old enemy. For centuries we rebelled and eventually our names became Traynor. During the Easter rising we fought against the british, got elected to government, and never once did we bow to English rule. It destroyed a lot of us, some left during the flight of the earls but many stayed. To this day my ancestors never gave in and same applies to the present day. I changed my name back to MacTreanor to bring back my old name.

Even Wolfe Tone was a Presbyterian in 1798

Very good to see old footage from back then and not alot around to be found. can't wait to see more of the same

The Irish will never forget. Ever.

Great footage

Thank you, Davy

And because of this we irish have a free state and Republic now .

Good documentary. Ulsterman here - probably Irish. I don't understand why the Irish get so exercised about the English occupation from about the 12th Century. That's just how things were done then all over the world. Why do you think the Indian population of South America speak Spanish? It's called Imperialism and nobody was better at it than the English/ British. Remember the old slogan "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because it was so extensive. Of course the suffering and theft of goods from occupied countries made Britain what it used to be - a rich land of c**ts. Britain is responsible for long standing trouble in the middle East and China and just about everywhere. It's important though to look at history in the context of it's time. The creation of Northern Ireland was a reaction to an Irish state dominated by the Catholic Church at grass roots level and the North was populated by me - well Presbyterians planted from Scotland. Thank God things have changed. The most recent Troubles have encouraged some Protestants/ Unionists to think of themselves as Irish and ironically Sinn Fein is not as popular in the 26 counties as they are in the 6 making up Northern Ireland. Enough people have died for Ireland. Let's do some living. xo

There never was a Famine as you say because there was food in the country. The Brits stole food and starved my ppl

That's hilarious It took us 700 years or so to get the British out of Ireland, and then what do we do in our drunken sense of freedom hand our country lock stock and barrel over to Europe. Way to go guys.

My grandparents lived next door to Kevin Barry on Fleet Street during their first married yrs . My grandfather knew him well because of rugby .

This is an outstanding video Davy, really interesting. Is this history taught to all republican children in school? I mean the treatment of the Irish by the British?

Because of you i learned more about Irish history than from any ither chanell. Thank you. Slan Slan

Edward Carson wasn't an Ulsterman. He was a Leinsterman from Dublin..

We never forget the mem and wemon who my grand dad was was and he did what he had to do proud Irish men he was a a lovely person who work hard all his life his family always first Willie

My uncle James Moran was posthumously awarded a medal for his part in the raid where Kevin Barry was arrested

Brilliant one day the British will have to hand the Irish back there land as they have a big job ahead now defending there own

Many persons who fought in 1916 were actually Protestant

Davey thank you I enjoy all your videos I do enjoy all Irish history but the 1916 means so much to me I have all my knowledge on 1916 hanging on my walls and I think now what these men and women died for we fought the English and won and what I see my country is now everybody from all over the world our gov would do good to be reminded of the 1916 heroes 29:30

My late maternal birth Grandmother's maiden name was Coll

Sinn fein translates as 'We Ourselves' not 'Ourselves Alone' as mistranslated by the film narrator.

Imagine all Ireland went through and to hand the country over to the European Union and open the borders is beyond comprehension Ireland is on a very very precarious path and it’s not going to be nice not one bit this nonsense will eventually blow up in the faces of those responsible

Hopefully sinn dein are now finished politically, although you still see the dumbest of the dumb out canvassing for them, you wonder.

Terrorists? What a sad joke. They were defending our country. The arrogance of these fools never ceased to amaze me 😡

That was because of the conscription for the first World War raging on in Belgium between Germany Ireland objected to the conscription and the rest is history

only the civilian infrastructure and the education of an entire generation sufferred as with every revolution

And yet to this day - 6 counties are still abandoned

The finest time from our uprising brothers and sisters who finally gave us our Republic and out of hands of British overloads. Over 700 + years of Colonial power was removed. We now have a stronge country with one of the best economies in the EU. This is down to the men and women who gave their lives for our Generation. Long live our Republic !!

I often wonder if the uprising was in 1918, just after the war. The British may have had less stomach for a fight

hopefully one day soon Ireland will be united again through peaceful means

Ireland reunited with the UK on 1 January 1973.

You forget the English had no right in Ireland. The Irish had the full rights to get these invaders out.

Really good documentary, where did you find it?

Ireland belongs to the Irish and not foreigners ☘

David, please do the Great Famine. It was genocide and had nothing to do with potatoes! Please 🙏 ❤

It sad to say , they would turn in their graves if they saw the state of the country now , so many Irish gave their life’s for our freedom, even the garda are against there own people now , the last time we saw that was under English occupation.

Im in the uk, 61 years old, and ill tell yas this, either from heaven, or minions on earth, its the same parasites that that are causing Division to this day.. love the video, its wonderful, and thank you

Irish Lives Matter #IrishLivesMatter

As much as I dislike Dublin in the modern day, hearing the narrator call Dublin a city of the United Kingdom genetically irks me 😂

Alan Rickman delivered a. Fantastic performance as dev in Michael Collins

My Gran from County Kerry had my mother in Ireland. During the time my mother grew up in a certain border village. My mother moved to Scotland after having me where I had been brought up. Growing up I watched ww2 movies then joined the Scottish regiments not knowing of the troubles, say my mother kept me sheltered. In the army I had been deployed to NI where family started to educate me on history. I found myself in trouble several times for not following orders. My greatest memory was pulling this disgusting excuse for a human out of his car with his driver. They wouldn't follow instruction. The whole time he had been spitting while shouting "dont you know who I am" face down in the mud at the side of the country road. That man had been a certain Mr Paisley. The worst piece of sh*t I ever met. He would have us arrested and jailed. I'm still waiting. My heart is still in the south where I visit family to this day. The way the uk is going and indeed Scotland I will be moving back to the Republic

1:03 that man must be 8ft tall at the least!

Thats because the dublin crowd where royalists

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Hi davy in 100 years i wonder will there be somebody like you posting content about how the irish have fought of the hordes of african and asian hell and won !!!! Regards , great videos

Ireland belongs to the Irish

In 1921 the British Army basically gave their uniforms and weapons to the new Irish Free Sate Army....100+ years later...nothing much has changed...the "Pale" remains... 🙂

What don't the British mess up

The Roman Catholic were no angels

do u know when this was first Broadcast

Often the words Tans and Auxies are used interchangeably. This is wrong as the Tans were part of the police force and the Auxies were a militia

Imperialist brutal occupation

The commentary and standpoint is fascinating in this. Calling the Republican army terrorists whilst the Auxies indiscriminately bombed and shot civilians. Context is key.

The Irish State was a Vassal state of the Empire ( Rome ( religion regardless & London ( military )& Finance, etc ) The Irish state was the aristocratic 'the ones at the races playing golf etc .1916 to 1923 was all about them maintaining POWER the enemy wasn't the English people the enemy was the aristocratic in England Ireland and every other land of the Empire 'this also included America 'Germany 'France etc Because Ireland wouldn't join in the Great Aristocratic War ( WW1) we had to be forced in like our English and German and other friends 'The working class ' 14 000 000 of our working class died in World War one so that the upper class could mantain power I note how all MY enemy all wore uniforms 'gorilla fighters don't ' There are no heroes in this video other than the men in blindfolds and corpses Brilliant video

11 oclock today 1-8 24 warsaw uprising 80 anniversaty 11 oclock 12 in poland hole country stand still.

This video says the trouble was between 1916 ? i thought that was the 80's belfast

Dev did not accept the Treaty

Davy you are an Irish gem. Thanks for the info.❤

Bring back the broke roads

ARE SF SAME TODAY AS THAN???...

The Blaclk and Tans were some shower!

Unfortunately Sinn Féin id noe mé Féin (myself not ourselves)

Through his Mother Kate Coll

So was Belfast the capital?

Phillip you said it right now look at our country tail wagging dog 😢😢

You mean Ireland in defence!!!

do'nt know who the singer is but he dose'nt know the words 28th day of November and the impolite (usual) version is made shite of the whole fucking lot

Davy im delighted to have found your channell we were not terrists vrown biggest terrorist of all

The ununists armed to stop a goverment/ crown order.. ?? "" So did the irish... " Wonder why.. pfft !

And now we are becoming a minority in our country, so this was all pointless.

Republic of Ireland

No change sins

Jesus, can the commentator pick up the pace a bit. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

in the end they went of to torment other countries

Just the Americans said they always come for your guns

Can see there, all the African and Asians there , like they've always been on Ireland for 10,000 years and more.