Lee Mack Uncovers Family Were Caught Up In Irish Civil War

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Lee Mack Uncovers Family Were Caught Up In Irish Civil War

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@kevinwhelan9607 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't surprise me one bit that Lee Mack has Irish blood-- his gifts as a comic writer with Not Going Out--easily as good as Fawlty Towers-- his puns and quips on Would I Lie to You?: a very Irish, razor sharp wit. And he is very clever of course. If he was an Oxbridge grad he would be treated much more seriously by the British media, but no harm: he has brought a lot of joy and laughter to millions. On a side note-- my mother's people the Gallagher's (pronounced "Gallaher" in Ireland--the second g is silent-- and "Gollaher" in Mayo) was born not far from Ballina, and I can recall many a happy holiday on the family farm near Moygowna. My family lived in of all places the Cotswolds, but that part of Mayo holds a special place in my heart. Well done, Lee, and thank you to whomever posted this.

@gazurtoids1 2 жыл бұрын

'Ancestors can be abstract people'......it's a great quote and very true for most of us, but they were very real people who in many ways shaped who we are

@mcm0324 2 жыл бұрын

I became addicted to Ancestory during COVID lockdown. I already knew so much about my family from Ireland. I wish it was easier to travel from the US to Ireland and find very distant relatives. My 2x great grandparents came through Ellis Island from Connaught in the mid-1800s and settled in Northeast Pennsylvania where we all still are -- Conlin, Gillespie, Maloney, Dunlavey... we're very Irish!

@DLM440 2 жыл бұрын

You should try to come to Ireland. Especially travel Connaught- it’s fabulous this time of year. 💚

@davidpryle3935 2 жыл бұрын

Your ancestors probably landed straight on the dock. Ellis island didn’t open until the 1890s. I hope you make it to Ireland in the not too distant future.

@JC-gm3zs 2 жыл бұрын

@@DLM440 The name of the province is Connacht, not the Connaught. The British left 100 years ago.

@DLM440 2 жыл бұрын

@@JC-gm3zs 🙄

@Chilavertish 2 жыл бұрын

@@JC-gm3zs chill out ffs

@breenwalshe7667 2 жыл бұрын

Always liked Lee Mack,now I no why,he's one of our own..................

@raymonddixon7603 2 жыл бұрын

Ye I always he had a hint of Irish in his humour.

@paulbromley6687 2 жыл бұрын

Oh no he’s not he’s one of ours at least half of him is.

@raymonddixon7603 2 жыл бұрын

@@paulbromley6687 A very, very funny man anyway.😄😄

@Supreme_321 2 жыл бұрын

Here we go... 🤦🏻 One side of his family and only one great, great, great etc grandparent. So bugger all Irish blood in him.

@Supreme_321 2 жыл бұрын

@@paulbromley6687 Probably about 1/96th or sumat irrelevant like that 😂

@celticlofts 13 күн бұрын

It staggers me to see how many British celebrities have Irish backgrounds.

@eoinmaguire6691 2 жыл бұрын

The civil war had repurcussions 4 yrs to follow up until the 1980ees my great uncle fought with Michael Collins he died aged 94 in 1989 and he only talked very little about it like many of those great men and women who fought for our freedom but they brought an awful amount of pain and suffering to there graves...May they all rest in peace 🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@nacekozo 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same here, and the family splits still persist. My grandmother had 9 brothers and sisters, one brother was allegedly very close to Michael Collins, and another was allegedly 'on the British side' - I'm the only one who has tried to find out nore, but if I attempt to dig any further about that brother, I've always been met with silence, or even hostility. Probably not surprising, but I'm not sure of the truth in it.

@eoinmaguire6691 2 жыл бұрын

@@nacekozo If you keep digging you'll only end up in Australia so just let sleeping dogs lie, I learnt that along time pal👍

@davew4998 2 жыл бұрын

@@eoinmaguire6691 Ah yes, there are lots of people of Irish ancestry in Australia.

@eoinmaguire6691 2 жыл бұрын

@@davew4998 Never knew that's news 2 me😜👍

@Drifty40 2 жыл бұрын

@@eoinmaguire6691 Ruling America for decades aswell, when surely they should be returning North America to the indigenous natives, similar to what they demand in Ireland.

@JHatLpool 2 жыл бұрын

A really great piece of film.

@phil2003ashleigh Жыл бұрын

Loved to have listened to Lee at the proclamation !

@dublinsfaircity 2 жыл бұрын

I think if you dig a little deeper into Lee Mack's Mayo roots he's probably related to Buzz from Hardy Bucks 😄

@annied9864 2 жыл бұрын

Watch “The Wind That Shook The Barley”

@Simonmc78 2 жыл бұрын

The wind that shakes the barley.

@annied9864 2 жыл бұрын

@@Simonmc78 Regional dialect Officer 👮‍♀️

@bentuber1 2 жыл бұрын

Lee should be honoured to have met Dermot. And I'm sure he was.

@RazorMouth 2 жыл бұрын

Diarmuid

@jamesrichards3842 2 жыл бұрын

Regime historian

@paulgorman1305 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesrichards3842 no not just a regime historian, a historian off all Irish history

@nancybingham7298 2 жыл бұрын

Good program.

@johndonohoe6764 2 жыл бұрын

You have to tell me where it is as well, it's not a quiz!

@gerardmccartney3186 2 жыл бұрын

Ballina. He reads his GG grandfather's location from the record and that his Grandfather was 12 when the house in Ballina was shot at. Ballina is in Mayo

@59jalex 2 жыл бұрын

Like Lee, I was waiting for a direction to the street 🙂

@katharina... 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, very recently I had a similar interaction with a wee German girl, here in Ireland. We were passing each other by and she asked: Do you have time? And I said: Yes, I do. To which she said nothing, and just waited, so I said: What for? 😁 I wanted the earth to swallow me whole when she said her dad had left his phone at home and they had no idea what time it was! 😁

@bluesmaster9896 2 жыл бұрын

haha .I t was really Irish .But if you think about it ,he never asked where it was.

@TheBenzer9 2 жыл бұрын

Lee Mack one very funny bloke 🤣

@karlbrowall5832 Жыл бұрын

What happened to Delia in Canada????

@MachineThatCreates 2 жыл бұрын

An Irishman selling sly grog...just doesn't make sense.

@TheLastAngryMan01 11 ай бұрын

“Drink is the curse of this country: it makes you quarrel with your landlord, it makes you shoot at him, and worse, it makes you miss.”

@shanelycnh2255 2 жыл бұрын

Lee and the lad he was asking for directions from are the head off each other

@harbourdogNL 2 жыл бұрын

Ballina and Kilmoremoy...that's where my Gran's people came from before her grandfather ended up in Liverpool! Rogan, Feeney, and Ruane were the family names then...Rogan was anglicised to Regan in Liverpool.

@JC-gm3zs 2 жыл бұрын

Where did you get that nonsense from? From Wikipedia: "The O'Regans of Meath were a branch of the southern Ui Neill and one of the four Tribes of Tara. Before the Anglo-Norman invasion, they were lords of south Breagh and the north of present-day County Dublin."

@jackthelad5366 2 жыл бұрын

Regan is definitely an irish name as is rogan

@Drifty40 2 жыл бұрын

It seems the Irish can't get out of Ireland quick enough.

@jackthelad5366 2 жыл бұрын

@@Drifty40 div

@Drifty40 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackthelad5366 div............ersity. ? div.............ide ? div.............ine ? div ...........erge ? Are there any stories of Irish who actually stayed in Ireland......or is it just about the millions who moved to the UK, Australia or America, but still claim to be "Irish".

@ainekearney9041 7 ай бұрын

Is every british person in showbusiness of irish decend.

@trishaprett7721 2 жыл бұрын

I have always thought Lee Mack,had Irish Banter.

@dannymcintyre3819 2 жыл бұрын

No he's English, from North of England.

@Irish780 2 жыл бұрын

@@dannymcintyre3819 he was talking about his banter ..... not his nationality

@JonathanReynolds1 2 жыл бұрын

That’s the Irish blarney !!

@weneverstop.4640 2 жыл бұрын

@@dannymcintyre3819 he gets his humour or craic from his Irish ansestors. Well done lee u have Irish blood in you 😂💚🇮🇪

@dannymcintyre3819 2 жыл бұрын

@@Irish780 his crack is from the north of England

@katharina... 2 жыл бұрын

6:07 Goodness, is this Grafton Street?

@smith5796 2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@aspenade 2 жыл бұрын

It is, think its a Getty image of a group of IRA men at the bottom of Grafton Street.

@paulgalligan1916 2 жыл бұрын

Tis

@user-hm8wf2jf1h 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@daviddrew7852 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that. I think it shes some light on Lee's wicked sense of humour, too. It's in the blood.

@barryohara2099 2 жыл бұрын

God we still have (shebeen) in glasgow eastend at parkhead .but its run by orangeman not fenien .. so I don't go there even tho anyone is welcome if from eastend and old Alfie runs it knows not copper lol

@JakeSpeed69 2 жыл бұрын

I thought we were French, turns out we are more English than the Queen 👸 but I guess so are the majority of people.

@proinseasokiellig4388 Жыл бұрын

Erm..the civil war was'nt just about swearing allegiance, the Brits kept 1/3 of the country...

@thesunrising4982 2 жыл бұрын

Keep sbs hands above water It's a hefty fine

@johnmc3862 2 жыл бұрын

Automatic dogs?

@johncahalane7327 Жыл бұрын

Of course this area is now famous in April 2023 for the visit of another famous emigrant, Joseph R Biden 46th President of the United States of America 🇺🇸 who's people came from the same place.

@lindahughes4409 2 жыл бұрын

Dev was a coward

@paulbromley6687 2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Eamon ?

@JHatLpool 2 жыл бұрын

Whether he was or was not, only matters for the history books. The fact that Ireland became an independent republic in the end, that is what matters.

@dontmesswithcrows 2 жыл бұрын

@@JHatLpool We abandoned our own in the Six Counties, and left them suffer under the rule of Britain, supported by sectarian bigots that is still continuing. So no, it's not what matters.

@JHatLpool 2 жыл бұрын

@@dontmesswithcrows OK. I hear you.

@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720 2 жыл бұрын

@@dontmesswithcrows amen brother 🙏🏼 TÁL 🇮🇪 26+6=1

@barryohara2099 2 жыл бұрын

Well name ..O'HARA IS BIG FENIEN REPUBLICAN NAME THATS INTRENCHED IN TROUBLES OF MY MOTHELAND ... MY ANCESTORS MOVED SCOTLAND DURING WW2 .. BUT OHARA IS GREAT REPUBLICAN ANCESTOR NAME .. IM SO PROUD MY FENIEN BACKGROUND (AND I CAN CALL MYSELF FENIEN) BUT NOT BE OFFENDED AT IT ..

@anthonyoneill9053 2 жыл бұрын

Be ok if you could spell FENIAN properly

@garechmurphy6348 2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyoneill9053 Or Motherland,or entrenched.

@mcm0324 Жыл бұрын

Why are you screaming?