It's too cold, too wet and you can't grow wine or olives here. Hibernia basically means winter in Latin.

The conquest of Britannia is one of the greatest contrasts between Caligula and Claudius. While the first was a madman obsessed with becoming a god whose delusions brought him early death and damnation, his crippled uncle (whom he marginalized for years) achieved everything he could not, conquering Britain and being declared a god after his death. Without a doubt good old Claudius got the last laugh

There was an excavation in Charlestown, Ireland 🇮🇪 in Dublin where a few university historians discovered Roman coins and religious material .

Caligula's war against Nepture is such a shitpost lol

Julius Caesar wasn't named the "general in charge of conquering Gaul", in fact he did so against the wishes of the Senate and essentially on his own dime along with the support of Crassus and Pompey. He basically used a migrating Tribe entering Roman Territory as an excuse to conquer Gaul

A lot of people saying Ireland had nothing going for it, there was a lot of gold and jewellery being crafted in Ireland centuries before and after the Roman Empire

So a bit of rain and the mighty roman soldiers turned their boats around? They feared the Scots and probably met fierce resistance in Ireland but they would never write that.

"I'll tell you this. If the sword is all that you're prepared to show us Britons, then be prepared to carry it forever in your hand... and sleep with it forever by your side at night! For you will need it!" *Caratacus' speech in the Roman Senate*

As someone who lives in Ireland | couldn't imagine people coming from warm Italy and saying, I want to settle here

'British Isles' is a colonial and outdated term, and is particularly anachronistic when used in the context of the Roman Empire

It was king tuathal techtmar. One of the greatest irish high kings that ever lived. That mans story alone is legendary and deserves a movie. His family got massacred and he and his mother fled to Argicola when he was just a child. Argicola raised him as his own and educated him in the roman ways . He even hired a bunch of Irish exiled warriors to be his protection. These became known as the legendary na fianna. 600 of na fianna and tuathal reconquerd ireland. The romans thought they had a puppet in place but tuathtal turned on his roman paymasters and argicola . He invaded both wales and scoland and he started those rebellions in the Highlands. Argicola got recalled to rome over it. End of his career. As he had to withdraw from the Highlands. The legends of fionn mc cool and na fianna stories all come from tuathals dynasty. Some historian's point out that it was during tuathals reign that he was able to asert a lot of control over all the scotti tribes in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, that the romans never again invaded Scotland in that kind of force and Ireland was forever off the table of conquest. which ended up with the romans building hydrians wall . Even niall of the nine hostages " the guy in the saint patricks story" was a decendant of tuathals. Niall got wacked because he demanded tribune of king of leinster . A tribute that was paid since tuathals time. Most of the roman settlements and trading post's that have been found in ireland recently date back to tuathals regin. He kept trading with rome but turned on argicola and ousted him as governor of britianna. Argicola and tuathal need a movie. Its the strory when a great roman general was bested by a barbarian king. They never had a pitched battle. Tuathtal use to invade Britain wrile up the tribes. Then jump back on the boat and be gona by the time argicola come. Tuathals dynasty ruled part's of ireland right up till the ulster plantations. Even parts of king charles crown jewels are tuathals. History is written by the Victor's. However ireland and Scotland is one place they couldn't win. So they overlook it. All dowb to a guy named tuthal techtmar. A man that had been largely written out of history because he took on a superpower and won. He always does get a wee footnite in argicolas story. They always mention the exiled irish prince.

Hibernia does not mean "winter" in relation to Ireland. It's a derivation of Ivernia, as the island was named by the Greek Ptolemy, who drew the first known maps of Ireland and Britain around 100BC. Ivernia probably derives from Ierne, from the goddess Eriu.

Not only did the Romans ultimately decide that Ireland was not worth the cost of conquest, but Scotland, also, represented a poor return on investment. It was more profitable to wall it off (Hadrian and Antonius Pius) and enlarge the empire in other areas (Dacia/Romania and the Parthian frontier). Ultimately, Britain fell due to attacks from three sides, with attacks from Ireland and Scotland splitting the Roman defense allowing the Saxons to take over.

People talking about weather and climate of Ireland. Nope. It's the sea. England is relatively easy to get to from France. The Irish and celtic sea that divides Ireland from both landmasses are quite difficult to navigate for roman era sea faring technology. Just not worth it

They didn’t even conquer Scotland

I was visiting Wales and my friend and I decided to take a side trip to Ireland. Both she and I have taken many ferries. Irish Sea is unbelievably difficult which sailors would label confused. I never saw so many people throwing up at one time.

The leprechauns were to much to deal with

The Romans had no chance, Ireland couldn't even conquer Ireland...

It’s not that they couldn’t, it’s that they didn’t deem it worth conquering.

I realize that this is a very snapshot view of many events but all very interesting, well done and thank you.

And Irish monks played an important in christanizing northern Europe and Germania

Keep up the great content!

I enjoy your historical videos about European history. Keep up the good work, and I hope your channel gets support your channel.

I’m from Belfast and my family name goes back to the old Gaelic lords of Clanbrassil in Oriel under the Northern Uí Néill. In one of the earliest tracts mentioning the family name it says an ancestor was Toirdelbach ‘The Wine Drinker’. I thought ah sweet, he liked a drink just like we still do but then I realised it wasn’t on account of drunkenness but a status nickname because he was powerful enough to bring in wine from the Mediterranean, which shows there was trade between the Mediterranean world and Ireland for millennia.

👍👍 i had learn a lot from this

Co. Kilkenny is short for County Kilkenny, and the emphasis is on Ken.

Nice video! Well put together!

I look forward to the rest of the Roman Emperor videos. I was really enjoying that series. I wanted it to continue all the way to the fall of the Empire.

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁💯

Not couldn't. Didn't. They couldn't be arsed.

Too miserable raining all the time and windy, cold you are never guaranteed a summer

Real question is why didn’t Ireland conquer Rome

Curious history question: when you use the label "BCE" (before common era), what is the historical event that initiated the common era?

My answer is that Rome was overstretched logistically and spread too thin in terms of manpower.

"The worst Winter I ever experienced was April in Hibernia"-- Unknown Roman soldier.

They got to Dublin, thinking it would be great craic, then realised just how expensive it was. Then they went feck that lads, let's go and get smashed on mead in Londinium instead.

Could they have? Probably with a massive resource commitment that they would never see a return on investment for.

Even the Greenland Eskimos that paddled their kayaks there, looked around, and then paddled back to Greenland, the whole way back thinking, "Yikes, what were them freckly things?"

How do u make these animations and gather informations? I also want make vids like this

The archaeologists working on the roman remains of Chester came to the decision that the size of the town was significantly larger than they expected ; roman town planning was quite standardised . Chester was designed to hold a roman army Legion and all the people who supported the troops , it aught to have been the size of Caerleon , near Newport in Wales . The reason for the increased size was possibly that Chester was intended to be the main port for the invasion of Ireland . I did say possibly ......but that was the idea of the televised program archaeologists .

Short answer - not worth the blood it would take

My Irish ancestors were too tough mate

Thanks, Knowledge.

great segment

A lot of doubts about the seashell stories tbh.

Rather, why WOULDN'T the Romans conquer island. There wasn't anything to get in Ireland. Far away and just farm land. "We'll be back when you have potatoes."

What a very interesting video. Thanks for mentioning Wexford, where my father's people come from, and Carlow which is my mother's ancestral county. Also Arklow where I spent many happy summer holidays. Go raibh maith agat.

Because Emperor Domitianus had Agricola removed as Governor General of Britannia, Agricola wrote that he could subdue Caledonia with a couple of Roman Legions. Emperor Flavius Domitianus was obviously jealous.

Caligula attempted to force the God of the Sea to retreat?! Did he leave his brain in Rome or something?!

The Gaels were to cool and intimidation for the Romans. Who pretended they didn't know of their great warriors, yet conviently never ACTUALLY invaded.

I enjoyed your content. Also your graphics & use of other media to highlight your narration was great. It ties everything together nicely. I love history and really enjoy the documentary format. My particular interest however has to do with one image between 7:00-8:30. It’s a painting or photo of a sailboat on a body of water with a mountain range in the background. This is totally off topic. I mean really, really off topic. That being said. To the right of the boat and above the mountain…there seems to be a smudge that looks oddly like booster rocket or a cigar. Honestly WTF is that shit?!?

They came, they conquered and their lasting effect on Britain is still visible to this day. From ancient forts, roads and walls, to villas, palaces and spas, discover Britain’s Roman legacy. By Penelope Rance Technology, architecture, language, government, town planning - even a sense of national identity. The depth of the Roman influence on the British Isles was such that it survives to this day, seemingly unmatched by that of any of the invading forces that followed them. But then, the majority of those invaders, and the subsequent ruling elites, wanted nothing better than to be Roman themselves. These heirs to the Roman ideal - Saxons, Danes, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors, Georgians and Victorians - all tried to establish Britain as part of a wider empire, drawing on the example set by those first imperial overlords.

You should be using BC and AD, otherwise good video

Because boiled cabbage and mutton gave them the shits.

Great video, but you misspelled "Caesar" at 5:30.

A cool little detail I just noticed is that the Ijsselmeer doesn't exist in these maps. Instead you have Lake Flevo which is historically accurate. I'd love to see a short clip on how the history of that region as it was a Fresh Water lake up until St. Lucia's flood in 1287 which broke dams and caused a massive influx of water that basically turned it into a brackish bay, then fully into the Ijsselmeer proper. Also, Bruges in West Flanders used to be a bustling port until the Zwin channel started to silt up and it was overtaken by Antwerp as the key port of the area. Very interesting.

The Romans arrived in Ireland after they had secured Great Britain. The weather wass so bad they renamed Ireland: Hibernia which means land of eternal winter. Isn't that a grand little story.

Very interesting video. As an American I know very little about Europe and it's history. It is very hard to muddle through all the names and countries and timelines and it becomes boring really fast when you are trying to read it. However, your presentation is both interesting and informative without being dry and I learned a lot; just the maps alone were great since names of places you never heard of aren't wildly helpful. Thank you for this and you have a new subscriber.

Actually, Boudica's uprising was crushed after some initial success and lasted for about one year. Caratacus of the Catuvellauni on the other hand, managed to resist for about 10 years. After facing the romans head on and losing he employed guerrilla tactics. Now he was the major thorn in the roman boot.

It´s not Ceasar as written in the documentary, but CAESAR

You may take our lives, but you’ll never take our freedom! Caratacus' speech in the Roman Senate

The Roman scholars who wrote about Ireland had never set foot on the island. Their writings were probably strategic to dissuade Rome for embarking on another futile, costly war at a time the "empire" was fracturing. Let's not forget that Gaelic Ireland, pre and post 4AD was governed by four provincial kings subject to a high king. The island was rich in gold, tin, copper, and fertile land. The wealthy Gaelic kings had long traded with the Iberian Peninsula and mainland Europe. Rome was not a mystery. Gaelic chiefs were kept informed of Roman governance in the lands conquered, wars and opposition. Before plotting an invasion, Roman generals would have considered the cost of such an expedition, in money and lives. Ireland was heavily forested. Battle tactics used by Gaelic chiefs in tribal wars usually comprised hit and run guerrilla manoeuvres followed by the use of light and heavy calvary to subdue the enemy. The Roman armies were trained to fight in open terrain and in formations. As was the case when Rome fought Germanic tribes, their legions would have been annihilated in Ireland by Gaelic forces better equipped to fight in tight forested spaces and combine guerilla warfare with horse. Provincial kings in Ireland at this time were in constant friction with each other, each vying for the high kingship. Their soldiers were battle hardened, more than a match for Rome's mercenaries, who were seldom paid and routinely deserting. The main reason Rome didn't invade Ireland was cost and trouble brewing as the empire was failing. BTW, pre and post 4AD, Ireland's kings were sending "missions" across Europe to build churches, monasteries and colleges of learning (Europe's first universities) from Madrid to Kiev, from Bern to Aalborg, and Paris to Frankfurt. So not as "backward" as those scared Roman fiction writers might have one think.

Very informative

There are many inaccuracies in the first few minutes alone: - Caesar was never tasked with conquering gaul, that was his own private (and illegal) venture. If he had not kicked off the civil war he likely would have been executed for doing so. - Caesar's victory was pyrrhic, the Britons failed to drive him out, but he also failed to achieve a lasting foothold. The claim that he extracted a peace treaty from them is purely his claim with no confirmation in British history. It's entirely possible he reached the limit of his resources and they simply agreed to allow him to withdraw. - If his goal was to prevent them from interfering in the roman conquest of gaul he failed. They did so routinely eventually requiring his successor to mount another invasion of britain. As for Ireland it was simply irrelevant and likely beyond their supply chains could reasonably reach. They had no pressing reason to invade and doing so would have been unreasonably costly. Same reason they failed to colonise the north of britain.

Too many Irish

Caligula is funny as always

Rome ruled Britania for another 250 years after Agricola was recalled. It is not true to say the opportunity for conquest of Hibernia was lost at that point. It is more likely that because Britania finally became pacified and trade had already been established with Hibernia, the cost of conquest outweighed any perceived military or economic benefit, just as with Scotland and that, later, Rome had other priorities as the empire began to falter.

Cool new Video

wasn't it St Patrick, not the Roman Empire, who brought Christianity to Ireland? Also why do all your maps mark the Roman frontier well south of Hadrian's wall?

So basically, Ireland wasn't worth the conquest. Good to know

Been down the kilkenny a few times looking to go back down again soon must have a look out for the roman grave.

I think it would be easier to finish the conquest of Brittania and take over the Picts to the north than it would be to island hop _again_

Ireland would have had better roads and infrastructure.

The term "British Isles" is offensive to many Irish people. It is a term used by the invader to attempt to imply that Ireland is part of a British entity. Britain is an island, Ireland is an island. The Irish fought for hundreds of years to remove British control of the island. The acceptable term is ‘Britain and Ireland’.

Nice introduction

After watching this video (and now I don't remember if I watched it all the way through), I came to wonder if the Vikings from Scandinavia ever clashed with the Romans from the Roman Empire. I think that topic might be good for you to discuss in a video.

"Couldn't" ??? Seriously?😂😂😂

Couldn't conquer Alba nor Erin because the Gaels of both Scotland and Ireland were/are basically one people, a warrior people who value/valued freedom above everything. That love of freedom included freedom/independence from their neighbouring clans and from each other, an inability to work together against a common foe for any meaningful length of time. They organised many small raids on Roman Britain, not with intention to conquer, but because they enjoyed battle and skirmishes, 'blooding' young warriors and because it provided individuals with a way of making 'a name for themselves' (as warriors). Basically they attacked Hadrian's Wall and the Romans ... because they were there. In the present day this psychological strength/weakness is most evident in the desire of the Scots (and Irish) for freedom from the overbearing English and their inability (since the demise of the clans) to agree amongst themselves how best to do it, a lack of cohesion fuelled by misinformation by the BBC and the politically controlled 'British' media.

“I, Claudius” is one of the best historical TV series ever. Really great stuff. “Caligula” the movie, well, that is a whole different story. 😂

"Your island? You mean Ireland?" "Yea its moin"

The very question betrays a misunderstanding of Roman civilisation. Although generals were inclined to boast about their "conquests" the reality is that the empire spread more like the EU - by trade deals, harmonisation and infrastructure development. People queued up to JOIN the empire voluntarily and that is certainly true in Britain - the "invasion" was at the invitation of British tribes that were already important trading partners. The "pax romana" ultimately benefited everyone, which is why the whole country remained nostalgic about Roman union for centuries afte it collapsed (hence "King Arthur"). Its also why Rome had to build walls - including Hadrians - to keep illegal migrants out (and levy taxes on goods). Given that context, its obvious that Ireland didn't join the Roman empire because there was no money in it. Much of it was bogland after all. Same in Scotland. Neither battles nor rebels had anything to do with it. BTW, this view also explains why the Irish were so enthusiastic about Christianity at an early date - because it opened doors to the Roman and post-Roman civilisation they had previously been denied.

Caesar did not realise the range of the tides, but he could see the coast of Britain from Gaul. Even Agricola in Môn in north Wales, could not see Hibernia, over the horizon. The Irish Sea is too difficult a water body to cross militarily. Please lose your " British Isles " reference. There's Hibernia and Britannia, perfectly unambiguous to the Romans.

Couldn't or wouldn't? There's a beautiful video by Schwerpunkt answering that

theres a roman port in Dublin

Only a young Roman, son of a prominent leader, who was to become 'St Patrick', kidnapped from The Welsh Coast, can claim to've conquered Ireland; not militarily, but mentally. After escaping his Captors, he'd gone to The Vatican, was converted, and later returned to Ireland as a Monk who soon wielded great influence over The Tribes. If not for the subsequent Monasterys, none of Europe's academic knowledge would've survived The 'Dark Ages'. As for St Patrick drivin' snakes out of Ireland, a myth, given there'd not been snakes there.

"Couldn't"?

They couldn’t understand Gaelic.

Why wasn’t Scotland occupied either? In both cases, the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze in terms of resources.

no, they didn't left behind "Catholicism", because Catholicism didn't exist in the 4th century, the Christianity split in Catholics and Orthodox only in early 1000s ; they left in Britain simply Christianity

Me: (loads up good kid Honorius timeline of Crusader Kings 3’s The Fallen Eagle)

they did not want Ireland; very different from not being able to conquer it, they didn't even try!

Iceni is pronounced e-cen-e.

There are several Roman graves to be seen on the Arran Islands on the west coast. So it is only a half arsed effort at research...

Something I learnt recently: Caesar is pronounced like Kaiser. When Yulius Kaiser landed in Briton he said Wany Weedy Wiki (Veni Vidi Vici)

Simple. While Irish people can be marvelous, they are also determined!

Thanks!

They couldn't get planning permission for their Forts😂😂

Back then, Rome was basically discovering new lands that civilization never seen til that point

Correction: Roman Catholicism was in Britain when the Romans left. It was wiped out by the Anglo-Saxon invasions. It was Irish missionaries who started bringing it back. Also, the island was NEVER called England until after the Anglo-Saxon conquest, which changed the name of part of the island to England (Anglo-land).

Video about my homeland thank you