Poverty in great Britain at that time and know shocking tories and labour brutal

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My fam are from killaloe co clare!

What isn’t said that in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which partitioned Ireland, had a stipulation that Ireland had to pay annual land annuities for the monies granted in the Land Acts of the previous few decades. So, Irish people had to repay money for accessing the land that was stolen in the centuries before. In 1932, Fianna Fáil came to power and decided to stop paying the land annuities, which meant the start of the Economic War, a cause of great hardship to the farming community at the time. In 1938, another Anglo-Irish Treaty removed the need for land annuities, in exchange for a once-off payment of £10 million from the Irish Free State to the UK.

That's wonderful that you want to bring all your family back together again. I hope you succeed in building up your family tree with your cousin

Lovely recent outcome. From experience, sometimes there are unacceptable treatment or behavior that gives reason for the others to move far, far away and break contact. However, the children of those people are completely different personalities with different experiences, and might get along fantastic.

ストゥCreaTorr YES, PLEASE PLEASE Do!

You can look up the list of episodes on the Wikipedia page.

It would be so simple to mark the videos as they follow, and be able to view them in context x

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They do now! Take a look at the 'playlists' section and they're all on there. So easy now to select 'play all' on the playlist you want to watch of a particular person.

That’s none of your business.

Greed, they did it all over the world. they did not see them as equal humans, this is an idea that still exists, they don't consider us as equals in Europe.

You obviously have only heard the Irish republican version of history in the British Isles. BTW Ireland was not a colony, as some like to pretend. They had their own Irish parliament in Dublin etc. They also were very much responsible for the British Empire, just as much as English, Scots and Welsh. There are loads of primary sources and documentation showing Irish catholics, not only as soldiers in the British army but also as plantation owners and overseers. Pre Henry VIII separation from the Catholic Church, The majority of Catholics supported the monarchy and sometimes raised armies to support them. The UCL slave owners database makes interesting reading, showing loads of Irish, Welsh and Scots owning slaves. It even gives their addresses so the old blarney and victimhood is starting to be shown for what it is.

Because they could! Power corrupts.

@@purplepoppyz The Irish you mention who sat in the Irish Parliament were not "Irish" per say. They were Anglo-Irish, the educated, elite descendants of Norman lords who married into Irish ruling families and also English/Scottish/Welsh settlers . Also as you mentioned the Parliament was in Dublin, the singularly most Anglophile city in Ireland during British rule. Taken from the Wiki for the Irish Parliament. Only the "English of Ireland" were represented until the first Gaelic lords were summoned during the 16th-century Tudor reconquest. Under Poynings' Law of 1495, all Acts of Parliament had to be pre-approved by the Irish Privy Council and English Privy Council. Parliament supported the Irish Reformation and Catholics were excluded from membership and voting in penal times. So your ideas that most Irish Catholics supported the Monarchy are simply not true. True the Catholic lords might have, as they had vested interests in being seen to side with the Crown, hence raising forces to fight in Britain's wars. As for common Irish man serving in the military, most would have served as private soldiers simply as a means to support themselves, as jobs for the majority of catholic Irish, were little better than menial labor and at least you could grab some plunder or prizes if you served. You could if lucky, even survive long enough to gain a promotion to an NCO rank or in exceptionally rare instances you might earn a Commission (more likely in a Naval career than the Army). I agree with you that some of the Irish did ape the British and either ran plantations or in the more rare cases (given the money it would require) actually owned one. But given the times they lived in it was considered the "normal" thing to do if you wanted to improve the lot for your children and grandchildren. That is a stain from our past if I'm honest and I don't deny that it was not something any sane person today could be proud of. No nationality has an unblemished history. But none of the above ever makes the things done to the Irish people under English and later British rule right. The ruling elite back then were bar-stewards to a one. Admittedly they were not much better to anyone else either. Thankfully we live in better days and hopefully we can all put the BS of our respective past behind us. The only reason to learn about the past is to not repeat the mistakes of our ancestors, after all if you want to get to "Tomorrow", it makes no sense to open the door marked, "Yesterday" does it?

@@calh655Indeed. Irish soldiers were prized as excellent fighting men, and were present not just in the British Army but also in the French, Spanish and Austrian Armies, amongst others. An Austrian emperor once remarked that he would rule the world if only he had enough Irish in his ranks (Vienna had the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in the 18th century due to the prominence of Irish soldiers there). The Irish have their share of imperialism to own up to, but ultimately the spoils of empire largely did not return to the country. The Gurkhas and Maori have had battalions fighting for Britain over the centuries, yet I don’t hear anyone accusing them of being responsible for the Empire.

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Omg...that was my same thought. I had this first visceral reaction as she did her layered "reveal"...like her ancestry must be all good that's why she was so comfortable in revealing the "bad" news to Julie.

She took her through the events leading up to his trial. It shows how being an activist could bring about trumped up charges against someone.

OMG

So, your grandpa?

@Spooky Moo true!!

Uncle could be her aunt/uncles husband.

Sometimes people refere to someone as an uncle or aunt but in reality, that person is perhaps a rather distant uncle or aunt not direct uncle or aunt.

Julie and her husband have one daughter, and no sons

His grave is unmarked. There's no knowing where he was buried.

I was thinking the same thing. I hope she was able to buy at least the parcel of land that the cottage was on. And I hope he and his wife, true Patriots, get a hesdstone- even if it is not where they are exactly buried. A memorial. What an incredible story. Maybe one day we will be graced with a book or screenplay about their lives from Julie. I'd love to partake in that! Thank you for sharing this important history with us! Love from America (Jackson, Ohio). 💜

Irish....

apoplectic seizure not epileptic seizure

@@siramea yeah, my bad

@@ryacalico7648you don’t get to mock someone and then apologize.

Probably because they can only show so much in a documentary

Just your username tells us all we need to know about you. Feminist spinster.

Bit of a coincidence he lived for 75 years without dying of a seizure but died the day after being attacked by Julie’s big brave grandfather. Karma that he didn’t ever own a piece of Ireland.

Lemme guess... you're English 🙄

Now, now, none of that.

No more than any other actor/actress. They have to have certain qualities in order to have the confidence to act.

JustTryingToHelp bizarre comment.

@@mediolanumhibernicus3353 How?

@@heliotropezzz333that’s called alcohol.