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I love the way you pull quirky little things out of history! I love listening to all the little excerpts you give us don't stop! Love from Austin Texas😘 I feel like they dropped the ball in school when it comes to teaching history. Kids become bored with what they're teaching it's a shame. They need to just put you on the screen in a classroom! Thanks again

Going back to watch some of your earlier episodes. I want to say a huge thank you for clearly stating you were not going into controversy! Few would demonstrate such restraint, an outstanding testimony of your ethics

I have a degree in......nothing. My history teachers ,with the exception of one, left me with no interest and wondering why we studied the past. Live in the now. Live the moment. Live YOUR life. You make the world's history compelling and interesting History Guy. Thank you!!

Despite the mainstream popularity of Cinco de Mayo and St. Patricks day. In this age of digital information, more people are learning their respective histories than ever before, and part of that are because of channels like yours 💘

You really have the facts!! My now deceased Dublin Aunt, who outlived all her siblings including my mother, told me several times decades ago: We Irish do not celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the republic. It's different nowadays, unfortunately with the liquor in mind. Also, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, an aged monument, belongs to the Church of Ireland which is protestant (British)!! During British rule in centuries past, most of the Catholic Churches in Ireland, existing then, were taken over by British Protestant rule and are still currently protestant!! The Irish Catholic Faith appears to have never demanded them back after the 1916 Rebellion and 1922 freedom from Britain. A quirky side of the Irish I say.

I loved St. Patrick's Day in NYC. I have some Irish in me. St. Patrick's Cathedral does have a relic of St. Patrick on display. It is in a crystal cross. There is a large statue of St. Patrick by the alter but above. There is the famous stained glass widow of him and they bring out a famous painting of him. They also have a statue of St. Brigid since they celebrate everything Irish.

I grew up in my grandparents house. They were both from Belfast. I spent my St Patricks day at mass.... some traditions are hard to give up. We're Catholic, we are supposed to feel guilty anyway

As an American of largely English heritage, I wear green on St. Patrick's Day and wander around in the crowds. They take no notice of me, though I infiltrate these Irish celebrations with wanton abandon. I play Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly in my car as I drive by, a casual thumbs up or two cast my way by those who know not my ethnic origins. As my nefarious plan unfolds, I find that most holy of relics, the elusive Green Beer, and I bask in the glow of another year's success. Whah hah hah!

My favorite Irish joke. What is the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral? One less drunk!

God bless you sir. My one grandmother would light a candle for you and ask the Lord to protect you for spreading knowledge.

Here's a couple of items that I had heard, tell me if you think they are correct: 1) The "snakes" referred to snake worshippers, he drove out the practice of worshipping pagan idols which often included representations of animals as spirit beings 2) He set up the system by which monks in monasteries copied ancient texts so as to preserve them, which is why today we still have the texts of ancient Greek plays and Roman orations

No bow tie‽‽ I found a video where you had a tie… I don't know what to do with my life now 😂🤣

Love your channel. I'm slowly catching up on older stories. And I was with you all the way until the part about the shortest St Patricks day march. All well told and believable history. But I just cannot get my head around the fact that a pub in Ireland closed its doors.....

Although this is a four- year-old video, AS ALWAYS THE HISTORY GUY, AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! Glad to see you mentioned Boston and New York for their St.Patrick' Day parades ,and, not the alcohol-fest that goes( or did go on) in Savannah,Ga. One year, the good.folks there tried to dye green the Savannah River (just like they dye the Chicago River in Chicago). Unfortunately, the dye wouldn't take because the river currents were too strong,and, washed away the dye.🌞🌞🌞🌄🌄🌄✌✌✌✌

Happy St Patrick's day 2019 Sir!!!! Loved this and i have subbed.Im in Texas and have a corned beef with potatoes carrots and cabbage in the crockpot.God bless and look forward to seeing all your vids.☺🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍻

I've read that St. Patrick was actually sold as a slave to an Irish clan during his youth. He learned their ways, their language, and their religion. Several years after he escaped to England, he became a Christian priest and was sent back to Ireland to convert them.

1:50 and following. Just as "driving snakes away" actually refers to pagans, St. George the Palestinian killed a dragon: the Emperor Diocletian.

I think I've watched most, if not all, of the "History Guy's' KZfaq videos. Those have been some of the most interesting treatments of history I've ever read - in fact, your stories often serve as the impetus to do further research. I would be most interested in hearing you discuss the history of the "Northwest Angle" that separates the U.S. from Canada along the Minnesota /Canadian boundary. Again, many thanks!!

Great video! My grandmother would love this!

I've watched a bunch of your videos, and have enjoyed them all. I would love to sit in one of your classes, though I'm sure the production in much easier for a 10 minute presentation. These are just so well "put together" that I wish everyone would watch a couple. I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate them into my CC classes for medical/technical focus. Cheers!

Back in high school in the 60s, I used to have to march in both the St. Patrick's and Columbus days parades, while some of my neighborhood friends would go up to 5th Ave. just for the giggles. SoX!

We honor St Patrick's Day in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. One of our past royals was born on that day. So we honor both.

Great video.. I live in shamrock, Texas. We have the official St Patrick's day parade for the state. They still take St patricks.day somewhat more seriously than most places

Like the way you pull up things that are relevant to current events. My fiancée grew up in Erin,TN where the Fighting Irish are the local mascot and the annual Irish parade is big news. A little bit of Ireland in Tennessee.

Pretty much spot on the only thing I would disagree with is the idea of St Patrick being ''British'' Keep in mind that during the middle ages the idea of the British identity had not really formed yet. St Patrick in his confession states that he is a Romano-Briton, meaning someone of Latin ancestry who lived on the island of Britain. Remember that st Patrick was born in a period when many people of Britain still considered themselves Roman citizens.

I would like to see a presentation about Jacque DeMolay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templars during the crusades.

Just coming back for a second watch three years later in Autumn because I love history too and this is the channel for me.

I'm not a history buff. Yet, if you'd been my history teacher, I may have taken a different route in life. Thank you for taking a boring subject, to me, and making it interesting.

My paternal grandmother was an O'Malley straight off the boat and was also a Shiite Catholic. I grew up hearing about my Sainted namesake and Ireland.

I thought he was captured and brought to Ireland as a slave from the British Islands ?

Interesting as always and full of new info.

ST Patrick set off for Ireland from Liverpool. There is a monument in an area completely missed by the tourists as it's in a residential location. But the monument is there none the less!

Great story History Guy; thank you

We went to the Belleville St Patrick's Day parade every year when we lived there. It was a good time. A German town was Irish for a day :)

I remember reading that in one battle in the American Civil War, men born in Dublin, Ireland fought each other on opposite sides. Some of the men had migrated to the North and some to the South. They saw it as their duty to fight for their new country. Strange things occur in history that no fiction writer can dream up. Also, I have read that Patrick and his followers would fight the Druids in what we can call "Power Encounters." The Druids would call on their gods in the spiritual battle and Patrick would pray and ask for help from the Christian God. If you look at 1Kings 19:22-38 in the Old Testament, God answers those type of prayers.

Ya. We celebrate St. Patricks day. On low key. We remember him, and we eat an irish meal. We dont do the all out over the top, or drink green beer. We honor his memory. And we like the Irish.

I can't think of anything more Irish than a 24 meter parade from one pub to another pub.

i always love coming back to your videos on holidays ❤️

My great granddad was from Northern Ireland. St Patricks day was a day of prayer for him. He wanted to be alone until it was time for family dinner.

I went to St Patrick’s grammar school in Charleston SC

I love any holiday that gives me an excuse to drink, and Irish music is my jam :) Also there's a very interesting book connecting my place to theirs, called The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland. I would've never considered that there was a parallel, but it sort of makes sense. My anti-alcohol mom also died on St. Patrick's day, which is just extra irony :)

St. Paddys day in the us is a celebration of Irish heritage.

What I like most about St. Patrick's Day is, unlike most all other ethnic holidays, everybody can participate on an equal bases. That is, on St. Patrick's Day EVERYBODY is Irish. All you have to do is wear green, a smile, and a badge that says, "Kiss me, I'm Irish".

I look forward to your videos. Love the content

The little rhyme at the beginning was a bit corny, but everything we else was superb! I subbed

If you really want to know in depth who St. Patrick really was... Look up At. Patrick's Breast Plate. This was a truly Spiritual Man with Great Love for the Holy Trinity.

You make fantastic history videos. I watch lots of them. I would be super excited to see more about Irish history, in particular the song " The Wind That Shakes The Barley" and the legend, and facts about that song. But I must state this one protest, you see, the snakes did come back, the black and tans, HM's 22nd special air service regiment, and quite a few others. Jus sayin.

Ask for a Green Beer on St Patrick’s day in Ireland and wait for the weird looks

The stories about 'wild irish' eating shamrock may be a result of confusion with wood sorrel which is sometimes called 'false shamrock' and has been eaten by people around the world from ancient times.

I like this! Thank You!!!

Minor correction on a great piece. The shamrock is associated with Ireland but the harp is the symbol of Ireland. It’s also the symbol of Guinness but if you look closely they each face the opposite direction.

ALWAYS great, thank you

St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland ….. The snakes migrated to the USA and became politicians! ……. (cymbals & drums} …… ;D Luv your videos History Guy! :) How about a video about "How the Irish Saved Civilization"? U R right about St. Pat's Day having once been a quiet, religious holiday. I remember it as such (Christmas too - No trees, Santa or Father Christmas)

You want to celebrate St. Patty's. Go to Mexico! During the Mexican/American War, many Irish soldiers, went over to the other side. Just like in the Philippines during the Spanish/American War, American soldiers of minorities could not tolerate the unjust treatment of a struggling people who's only crime was to be their own selves. Many Irishmen died fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Mexicans for freedom. We built statues in their honor and wrote songs about them. Some who survived went on to marry and raise families. Even today Irish blood course through Mexican veins. Very few Irish know this, and even less Americans.

People who have Irish ancestry please make Saint Patricks Day more Christian wear Celtic crosses and wear a Mitre a bishop hat and have a icon of Saint Patrick like a orthodox one

Interesting. In Wales, instead of having a parade to proclaim our national identity, we would hold an Eisteddfod - a come together involving a musical and poetic artistic festival.

love this guy and his none political influenced facts of history. love your vids History guy

Will the 12 guys who disliked this video please stand up now? Thanks. Just wanted to see if you were all wearing orange....

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

You didn’t even mention his kidnapping, escape and the dream he had to go back to Ireland! I love you History Guy! But I think you missed the mark on this one....

I hail from Butte, Montana. We have a large Irish population who helped mine the rich copper deposits from "The Richest Hill on Earth." People from Butte have been warmly received (as I assume have people from other areas.) Many Butte people are asked if they know my cousin so-and-so; they live in Butte, and often times they do know them.

A couple interesting things here... It is estimated that there be currently be more "full blood" Irish in the US than in Ireland. The odd thing about apocryphal story St. Patrick using the 3-leaf clover to explain the holy Trinity to the Irish is weird, because the pagan Celts had many "triple" deities - three gods or especially goddesses - that were also considered one. The Irish/Celts were probably THE people most culturally prepared to accept the idea with much to any explanation at all.

Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf.

Erin go Bragh !

St Patrick is recored in Irish and French literature from the 5th as a slave captured from the west coast of France by Nial of the 9 hostages. He was reported as the son of a prominent roman ruler.

Thanks again history guy from an irish-american who is very proud of his heritage and his people please do one on the Dempsey Gibbons fight that financially destroyed Shelby Montana I have been finding out all I can about it it has quite a history❤🇺🇸⚓

The wearing of green, or orange has religious significance , which is how it transferred to political significance. Green is the traditional color of the Catholic Irish, and orange was adopted by the protestants. On religious holy days, one wore either green, or orange to signify your religious affiliation, and thus whether you were permitted to engage in certain activities. As an example, a shop, farm, or pub owned by a Catholic could not work (beyond what was absolutely necessary) on a Catholic holy day, but Protestants could work normally on those days, and vice versa. Initially, the wearing of green, or orange was with an armband, or scarf, but grew into more elaborate clothing. In the Irish Army, and British Army units drawn from Ireland, the Catholic, and Protestant troops were kept separate to avoid conflict on holy days, primarily regarding duty on such holy days. This went so far as to have green, or orange facings on uniform tunics, the color of trousers, or even the color of sashes on Officer uniforms. As the HG mentioned, green is now often associated with the Irish independence movement, but that movement was initially about whether Ireland could continue to practice Catholicism. As Henry VIII had banned Catholicism, and created Anglicanism, or "The Church of England" as a way to deal with his issues with the Pope, the Irish, and Scots had both tried to hold onto their Catholic faith. Several wars were fought over this issue, and one of those many wars lead to the partitioning of Ireland, which still stands today. Northern Ireland being primarily Protestant, and the rest being primarily Catholic. The Irish independence movement is really about (at it's heart) the re-unification of all of Ireland, as a Catholic nation, and being independent of any English "interference".

PS, you've never experienced a real St. Paddy's Day, unless you spent one in pre-1980s Butte, MT where men with big floor squeegees cleared the beer, vomit, blood and broken teeth from the streets on the day after. They knew how to St. Paddy's, they did.

Sir, was it an oversight to omit the Orangemen? Do people know that the Protestant colour is Orange? Not green. (Or have I been misinforned?) [I am married. I am correctable.]

The story I read stated that St. Patrick was a Scotsman . He was enslaved by the Vikings who dropped him of to a monastery where he was taught how to make wine , beer , and whiskey . After leaving the monastery he ventured back to Scotland and Ireland where he actually did get rid of the snakes ! Along with the pink elephants and pink giraffes . I think it was because they finally were able to have pure alcohol instead of the nasty crap they had been use to drinking. .

Wow. I say behind every myth, urban legend, & or folklore has at the least 2% truth. Thanks 4 taking time & sharing this information. Informatively educational.

St. Patrick's colour is actually blue, at least it is now. Look at the coat of arms of ireland and the plumes worn by the Irish Guards for example. (True) It is also interesting to note that Ireland is the only place in the world not to have "Irish pubs" - It has ordinary pubs! (Mostly true)

Oh yes buried near me, along with Saint Columcille. I was there a wee while back, lovely protestant cathedral in Downpatrick, Co Down, and there were three nice American tourists and they asked me to take a photo and all that. I was laughing and they asked why, I said something tells me, its 'for such as you" Really nice they were. Hey ho.....

Thanks so much, I am homeschooling my 9 year old daughter and we appreciated this video!

Don't want to praise the St. but thank you for the info

Gracias por la información de San Patricio de Irlanda Yo nací el domingo 17(3)1957 a las 5:00 a.m. en bayamon Puerto Rico

The Augustine Institute produced a nice audio drama with big named actors called The Trials of Saint Patrick

Love your green shirt

I've never lived in a state where even the Catholics, who I knew, called themselves Christians, and no one thought of them as Christians. Catholics were only known as "Catholics", religious, devoted, or not devoted in accordance with their own personal assertions. They were also considered to be rather heathen due to their association with the pope, for praying to Mary, and other practices. I remember that, even as kids, we discussed differences between religions and denominations with each other at school as early as 6th grade. These things were through our local knowledge and experience as we got to know each other.

I march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade here in Toronto. It has become very popular lately. My grandfather would be outraged, his parade was July 12th aka The Glorious 12th.

💋🇮🇪☘ Happy St Patrick's Day ☘🌈

Irish early medieval scholar here. The snakes were literally meant to represent snakes. It is copied from the life of a French saint. It was a way of explaining the absence of snakes in Ireland and attributing it as a miracle on Patrick's behalf. Paganism is still widely mentioned or alluded to in texts for 300 years after his death. He neither brought Christianity, nor did he convert any significant portion of the population (given there were up to 150 independent kingdoms at that time period). Claiming he did was the result of his hagiographers trying to inflate his legend to make him the primary saint. Drinking has actually been associated with the festival since at least the 1600's. The sombreness was a late 19th/early 20th century addition

☘️☘️THE FIRST ST. PATRICKS DAY PARADE WAS IN ST. AUGUSTINE IN THE YEAR 1601.

No snakes, who does that lawyering stuff.

I'm so Irish ........ MY LIVER'S GREEN!

Ironic how a holiday in the name of a man who saved people from pagan practices is now associated with drunkenness and commercialism.

Best Irish band? Rory Gallagher, U2, My Bloody Valentine and the best Tin Lizzy

The original colour for Saint Patrick is actually Blue and not green.

My last name is Anglo-Saxon-ized German, but biologically I'm a British Isles mongrel with a good chunk of Irish (maternal great-grandfather from Cork). I am proud of my barbarian heritage.

Saint Patrick's is also the commemoration day for the political unification of my country, Italy (17th March 1861).

I am going to be celebrating my Irish side of my family this Sunday with both a faith based movie and some Irish cream and maybe even a movie about leprechauns Tiffany Clarke Grever☘🍀🍻✝💚🌈.

We still pinched people not wearing green when I was a kid in the 1960's and into adulthood. I'm retired now and don't know if young people still do or not. Silly stuff back then.

Excellent!

Thanks!!!!

Actually, the shamrock could be one of several plants one of which is clover and one of which is wood sorrel. Wood sorrel has a slightly sour taste and is often eaten in small quantities as a kind of snack. I've sometimes eaten it myself, as have many children.

St Patrick did rid Ireland of snakes. My uncle, a merchant marine, brought soil back from Ireland when his work took him there. When back home he formed the soil in the form of a ring. He put a snake inside the ring and the snake would not traverse over that soil.

Very interesting

I watched and celebrated St. Patrick's day 2021

St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland and Cromwell brought them back.