Reminds me old joke: What's the only word in english with six silent letters?? Londonderry Greetings from Poland Dave! Love your videos!

Love the vid. My fathers parents migrated to wales from newry in the 50s my surname is scottish and i now live in england. The real history of the world is we've all been taking from each other since time began. The only real hope for people is that we can all accept that and just move on with our lives, in peace with each other

Davy, Mo dheartháir, Your post is thought-provoking and greatly appreciated! GRMA!!

You were born to do this - great content - from England 👍

First generation American, my family immigrated to Philadelphia during the Troubles. Staunch Irish Catholic lad who instilled a staunch patriotic love for my country- 🇺🇸. He also instilled a Patriotic love for my heritage and Irish people who i was collectively raised by, i was blessed with an amazing childhood. My da passed a few years ago from Colon Cancer, but its because of him i deeply appreciate your work and i know he would have absolutely loved it as well. 🇮🇪 🤝 🇺🇸

These videos are great, thanks for your hard work

Davy, I have been following your channel for a while. You have taught me more than I ever learnt from school. Thank you so much.

Davy, this one is the best yet. Very well produced and informative. You should be commended. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for the history lesson and the time and energy you take to make your videos.

Brilliant work..

Excellent video. Very informative.

Very informative thank you for making these videos..

Very good, good telling of history, good camera footage, video editing and everything I seen kept my attention. Love it, you have a great talent and I hope you keep sharing it.

Brilliant video would love more like this

Great watch thank you 👍

Enjoyed the video. Thanks

Very interesting. Great videos.

Awesome this is .. excellent editing .. and those pics are amazing .. Still ., my favorite thing is your personal touch.. being there where it happened ., is what makes these shine..🌟☘ Btw ., your accent is beautiful.. one of the best parts of these videos .. brilliant touch ⚘☘ Jen999💜💙

Keep up the great work Mo chara . Great video's

Greatly appreciate this. While there are a lot of history channels that discuss and go over this topic, there are few that are from someone native to the culture and history being talked about.

Davy, I sure appreciate you doing this. You look so cold, I'm sure it is. I know it's cold here and I want summer back so much. Thank you, Davy

Great content, I know a lot about the rising, war of independence, the troubles etc. However, I knew very little about the history prior to those times and the first English settlement on Ireland. This was great, will have to watch it a few times to take it all in. :)

Great video once again! Love from Finland

You are a beautiful man. These videos you create are succinct, well produced and properly presented. Well done. Thank you

Great video 🇮🇪

Very interesting, thank you for explaining history in such clear and detailed way. Looking forward for more episodes like that. For me as a person who immigrated to Ireland about two years ago is very important to know the history.

Wow! These videos are on fire. So love learning this amazing history. And, you go right there and show everything. It's really something how deep these stories run within us. I see my own g-gpa Owen Donal O'Sullivan Beare escaping about 1654 from Dursey Island at the tip of Ireland to France and then America, one of the last stands against Cromwell; just one small part of a nation's 800 year struggle for freedom. So many gave so much.

Great channel and very honest .

A very well done synopsis of over 800 years of Irish history. My late father would have enjoyed this and your efforts to educate and inform others about critical historic events which at their core demonstrate the resilience and strength of a people that have endured enormous hatdship and injustuce over the course of their history. My great aunt used to say that we should never do to others what was done to us, a lesson she learned from her father, my great grandfather. Many thanks, Davy. -Séamus Byrnes

New subscriber ..Brilliant narration friend..is there a part 2

Nice to see ya in my parish down in baginbun keep doing your great work

Excellent.

I'm so grateful for you and your channel Davy, it's about time someone began to spread the truth! 🇮🇪

Mighty going as usual Davy, could you cover some of the war crimes from the civil war?

I'm loving the longer-form content, Davy! I would like to make a suggestion however. I find it difficult to follow a lot of the events when you're talkign about the kingdoms and all the events between them. I believe the way you speak so fast could cause me some issue. I think the speed you talk at works really well with the reels and shorts, but in longer form content like this, I'd believe that the people looking for longer form content like myself wouldn't mind a slower pace to help us soak in what you're explaining. Anyhow, not trying to sound the arse! I'm loving this form of content from you and can't wait to watch more ❤

, The North and the south of Ireland will always be a different way of life, just like the North and the south of England, that is also a different way of life, but it is one country,, it is time for England to do the right thing by Ireland and bring independence to Ireland once and for all...

Class work Davy, well produced. Who's the man speaking at 04:35? Interesting accent has a similar pitch to de Velera.

It's the sense of superiority for me that permeates throughout history in settler colonialism that I am frustrated about. I'm learning the history of global oppression world wide. Thank you

Love your vids Davy.... Im English by birth but Irish in blood.. Dad from Limerick Mum from Co Down.. Erin Go Bragh!

That first 4 minutes is one of the best & most concise summarys on the 800 year conflict I've ever seen, thanks Davy for the work you're doing to spread our important history

A wonderful and concise description of invasion of Ireland.

Thank you for these videos, Davy, in helping make sense of a very complex situation and, more importantly, shining a light on an important part of history not taught in England. My hope is that, in time, we can be honest with ourselves in that which we perpetrated against our nearest neighbour over hundreds of years - then industrialised as a model for other lands in which we were an occupying force. In time, the narrative must change around the 1840's to 1860's - a time referred to, by some, as the Great Famine - by others (and more accurately) as The Great Hunger. The more precise description, if one considers the UN definition, is Genocide.

May all those who fought and died in the cause of irish freedom Rest In Eternal Peace

Ghéin here from Ireland here and I will check out what you are talking about, no hate here. Slán du foil.( by for now).😊

Would have been nice to hear about modern day and the future friendly relations the 2 countries have

I have just recently come across your videos, Davy, and had been very impressed UNTIL I heard your reference in this video to that god-awful term "British Isles" (@ 10:57). I have to say that I was gobsmacked that you should have used that term, which you must know is a hugely offensive term that is normally only used by Brits and West-Brits to describe the islands of Ireland and Britain.

Hiya davy can you do some deep diving into the history of propaganda that was used against the irish ?

As an English man with Irish ancestors on both my parents sides, I have long been a proud plastic paddy. You have to admire the men of a country as small and poor as Ireland was to take on the might of the then British Empire. I don't know if any of my ancestors from Kildare and Roscommon fought against British rule but I hope they did.

When talking about modern Ireland, one thing that needs to be mentioned was how a Protestant Irish Parliament successfully gained independence for Ireland between 1782 and 1800, during which time Catholics got most of their rights back, with most Irish people of different faiths uniting under the ideologies of either constitutionalism or Republicanism, with both in favour of varying degrees of Irish sovereignty/autonomy and increased personal rights. This independence ended when a failed Republican Revolution in 1798 led British prime minister William Pitt to intimidate and bribe the Irish Parliament into merging the Kingdom Ireland into the UK after an initial Union vote failed. Ireland’s Parliament was forced to merge with The British one (though the courts and civil service of Ireland remained separate, but nominally subject to Westminster from now on). People on both sides seem to have completely forgotten this chapter in Irish history, because Protestants and Catholics fighting together for an independent Irish Kingdom doesn’t fit anyone’s narrative, and yet it had a major impact on the island. Unionism, Republicanism and Constitutionalism all originate from the original Irish volunteers that used the opportunity of the American Revolution distracting Britain to revolt in 1782. This heralded the independence and has shaped all aspects of Irish politics ever since

Of course, the Norman invasion changed England’s demographic. As did the Viking invasion, the Anglo- Saxon invasion and the Roman invasion.

The only thing wrong is using the Union flag with Henry VIII, as England and Scotland were separate empires back then and not joined by Crown and Parliament

1:12 & South Africa.

Oright love fae Scotland

That was brilliant and so concise that it can't fail to hold our attention, I'm English and we were not taught as much as we should have been about our shared history, when you consider around half our school were second generation Irish it should have been high on the curriculem.

Terrific work, slow the delivery down a bit though.

And so the Sassenach came pouring in by Hook or by Crooke.

Time to realise we have more in common and understand there is a far greater enemy at, and inside, our gates.

Fascinating video of a less talked about episode of history. I find it fun to imagine Henry II 's reaction when he heard that a descendent of William the Conqueror was building up a nice little kingdom in Ireland! 1066 and all that must have weighed heavily on his mind.

Didnt start with henry the second started with strongbow who was invited over as a mercenary ,

It goes back further to the Irish slave raids but you like talking about that bit .

This is not the British Isles

Físeán deas Davy! Tá ceist agam duit, an labhraíonn tú aon Gaeilann?

I figure its hard to claim you have the greatest civilization ever when your neighbors are way cooler.

go raibh maith agat as an obair iontach a dhéanann tú agus go dtógfaimid nóiméad ciúnais do na saolta ar fad a cailleadh ar an dá thaobh sa troid ar son Saorstát Éireann ba cheart a bheith ann fadó.

This is an awesome short history I found really educational and made me resent English arrogance and bigotry!!!!

It’s all Britain together we are the British islands 🇬🇧👍

The only thing i remember is Britain staverd Ireland that what i read in histroy

04:37 -- still waiting for the order to stop. 🇮🇪☘️

1500's would seem to be picking a period of time that creates it's own narrative. What if I were to say 'Ulster' became part of Scotland at the formation of Scotland 600 years before that and that for hundreds of years before then the Irish had been invading and carving out a kingdom on the west coast of Scotland. Ireland and sometimes Scotland were fronts on a religious proxy war. Maybe if we'd held to the old druidic ways things would've panned out entirely differently. (likely the rest of Europe would've invaded all of us)

I live in ferns

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as a german I very much connected with the english by our common Saxon ancestry......they are our cousins.....and I would say the present english are not responsible for that harm done to the irish.....but I also wish Ireland a united and free Country without british rule....💚.....

At least there is a silver lining for us descendants who were lucky enough to end up in beautiful Australia!!!

It did not begin in the 12th century, more like the 6th, when the Irish first raided then settled in parts of Western Britain. The Scots (Scotti) were, for instance, originally a tribe from what is now Ulster.

Just a comment, the Norman kings were not English kings they were French. England was also a conquered territory. Enjoyed your work.

It’s complex but we’re closer than some people care to admit 🇮🇪🇬🇧

Why does the thumbnail show the RoI as having Northern Ireland? It would be like having a thumbnail showing the UK having Southern Ireland?

Never mind the conflict with the UK..Your now in the battle of Irelands history with Afghanistan.. Pakistan.. Albania..Syria..Iran.. Romania... Kurdistan..ect....If you don't win this battle Ireland will be lost...😎

Great video as always David. Well done. But I don't really buy into the tagline. We have very very many reasons to be "irked" with our neighbours. You're going through relationships between islands, not nations. I could talk for hours why I have a skeptical appraisal of the Sasnach. But I only somewhat dislike the crown and the UK government in and around Brexit. There should be no more anger . And doesn't the make us better?

My ancestors were Ulster Scots but they came from the Scottish Highlands not the Lowlands

I don't think its fair to say its an 800 year struggle, hell it dates back before England and Scotland even existed with each side raiding and settling the other... It's not without irony that St Patrick was a Roman-Briton likely from what would now be classed as the English-Scottish borderlands. The Scots themselves started in Ireland and that's before we even talk about the various Viking groups that happily raided and settled up and down both coastlines.

Tiocfaidh ar la, Ireland belongs to the Irish.

Actually it began much earlier after the Romans left Britain and the Irish started raiding England and Wales and taking slaves, you know like that St Patrick fellow!

Irish Hellfire club and farther ted? Barings Bank?

It's time we came together before our country's are lost to migrants 😢🇮🇪🤝🇬🇧

Good job and well done. I am from Tipperary, but would love to know about The Ulster Plantations from the Protestant perspective. By all accounts the O'Neill's held 100,000's of acres of land which they as good as stole, taxed the hell out of their tenants to pay for their endless feuds, and brought endless destruction. In fact, their willingness to seek an alliance with Catholic Europe was the final straw and is there an argument that the Plantations were actually the fault of the flight of the earls and not because of it? Just a thought!

"As Eirlund fights for it's freedom" lol the Irish tried to invade first. Even with help from the Vikings.

Ahh Normans..viking ancestors..didn't speak our language for some 300 years, look to many so called 'Elites ' names in Britain today..see where the originate..Norman French what they spoke & speak..not Anglo-Saxon English 😮

This ancient conflict started with Anglo-Normans or Anglo-Irish and native Irish, not Ireland vs. Britain. There was movement back and forth for thousands of years between the Celtic nations. Presenting the Ireland England battle as Ireland vs Britain to an audience trying to learn about a complex history is not fair. People less knowledgeable on this history will think the 800 years of colonization was by the entire island of Great Britain when it was in fact not! Talk about history with all its complexities, it started off as Anglo-Irish or Anglo-Celtic issue in the islands of Britain and Ireland. It wasn’t just the Celtic nation of Ireland that was struggling with the Anglo-Norman invasions! Of course during the height of the British empire the Celtic nations apart of the island of Great Britain were swallowed, assimilated, reformed like play dough, being spoon fed propaganda and even then some “British” still fought back against the empire and would have never wanted Irish domination. Even the plantations, it was Britain who was involved but it was royals of England whose scheme it was to dominate the Gaelic culture, it was economic opportunity for the lowland Scots who had been nearly entirely assimilated after being (less violently) cleared from their ancestral land. Nearly all the place names and last names of people in lowland have been anglicized, and this is anglicized from Gaelic language which wasn’t even the Celtic language of the lowland Scots, they spoke Cumbric in the South which was wiped clean by the Gael-Pictish unifications in attempt to drive out the Anglos from Scotland. The Scotti came from Ireland, the tribe that Scotland is literally named after “Scotti land” it wasn’t Scotti land though it was other Celtic tribes. the Irish tribe from Northern Ireland wiped clean the ancient culture and languages of Scotland before Scots language took over, which was easier to do since their native language aka generational memory (as it was oral tradition) was already lost by that point. You see the history of the Celtic nations is extremely complex and the story has ALWAYS been dominated by the England-Irish battles. Scotland is the nation that had their native Celtic culture entirely wiped out by other Celtic groups and Germanic groups, now everyone says Ireland is the only true Celtic nation left.

So us up North have always been rebels ...... Ireland 32 baby

Starved by the British.

You didn't mention the Genocide of the famine...a huge factor

Really ! when millions Irish work, and live in the U.K. since Ireland independence. Were they forced to , even the present day ?

They were not neighbours they were thieves who entered your house, ate your food, restricted you to one small room in your home, brutalised you if you complained that your small room in your home, oppressed your idea's your will your existence ,no they were not neighbours

We're just a family at odds with each other, that happens to be in the best part of the world, green patchwork fields , coastal beauty and the fauna ain't dangerous just the inhabitants.

A good summary. Ireland has never understood Englands paranoia about continental invasion, after all their land was taken away from them by the Norman French It was sad that Irish Kings and chieftains ganged up with continental predator states. Even de Valera tried to persuade Roosevelt to keep America out of the war Had he succeeded, there would not be a Jew alive in Europe today

You are missing out a huge amount of history with unpleasant acts being committed by both sides. Ireland we need to remember was catholic and always sided with catholic countries against the English which was problematic for England for strategic reasons making them a threat. The Irish harboured the Spanish armarda survivors and tended to side with Englands enemies. Im unsure of the voracity of this fact but its claimed that Ireland harboured and helped German U-Boats during WWII. Another odd fact which suprised me was that Dublin was the largest white slave market in the UK, selling UK citizens to Scandinavia.

“British Isles” - I think you mean Britain and Ireland.

After Bannockburn in 1314, Robert Bruce King of Scots invaded Ireland and made his younger brother Edward as High King of Ireland in 1315.

Britain is only 320 years old everything about this is wrong