The time that Julius Caesar tried to land down at Ringsend The coastguards couldn't stop them, so for the Dublin's they did send And just as they were landing, lads, we heard three ringing cheers "Get back to Rome like blazes, here's the Dublin Fusiliers" From the song - The Dublin Fusiliers

@Zebred2001

4 жыл бұрын

@ Do you know what a humorous folksong is (that I didn't even write)? Most definitely not!

@dunneincrewgear

4 жыл бұрын

BenjaminFranklin99 WOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHHHH...... LOL!!!

@nanasdad100

4 жыл бұрын

@ They are military units that favour a particular type of pasta

@mjscorn7943

4 жыл бұрын

@ oh my.

@davidbofinger

4 жыл бұрын

I think if you have a gladius and they have firearms then retreat seems a reasonable course.

Brilliant! Thank you Dr. McLaughlin. I look forward to further historical videos.

Well researched and referenced, really enjoyed this subject

Really enjoyed this! Was very thorough and we'll researched!✍️📑📚💻📜⚔️🛡️🎭😊👍❗

thank you - excellent presentation and will most deffo be chasing up your books :)

Interesting material. Thank you for sharing it!

I do believe that the Roman's did land in Ireland , had one look at the weather and went home. Rain , rain and more rain . Great channel, just subscribed.

@elgranlugus7267

4 жыл бұрын

They did landed. There is evidence of their presence in places like Brú na Bóinne. But they never conquered the island, they came mostly for trading.

@elgranlugus7267

4 жыл бұрын

@Tracy Sharp Boudicca is a iceni queen, and her tribe was settled in Britain, not in Ireland.

@bethbartlett5692

4 жыл бұрын

The Phonecians did - for certain and traded for Tin.

@twatmang1

4 жыл бұрын

The Stutterer Boudicca was from Norfolk.

@elgranlugus7267

4 жыл бұрын

@@twatmang1 Still in Britain

My new favourite channel. Nice one!

I love this channel!!!!!

Very informative!.

Thank you Dr McLoughlin, fascinating!

Thanks for the amazing history lesson Raoul.

I read this as "Did the Ramones Attack Ancient Ireland." I actually wanted to see that.

@pattheplanter

4 жыл бұрын

That invasion would have been very energetic but would have ended unexpectedly quickly.

@Fromard

4 жыл бұрын

@@pattheplanter Hahaha

@irishelk3

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, thats the best comment of all time, and they kind of did, they were in Ireland at least 3 times, attacking one venue per visit and then having the nerve to charge people for it.

@donkeyslayer4661

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up and drink your soy.

Education with breakfast. My distant Roman and less-distant British and Irish ancestors are nodding in approval.

Well done, real history, love it!

Thank you!!!

Good show. Even back then we had Irish traitors selling us out. ✌🏻☘️

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

You could consider the Roman army an early EU delegation.

That coin at 15;30 is awesome

Very interesting, thank you. Also for consideration is that Ireland two thousand years ago was a very different landscape. It would've been apparent to any Roman scouting parties that Ireland at that time was riddled with boggy and marshy wetlands which would've been of little or no use to their Empire. Scotland's rugged landscape was equally as inhospitable, its terrain wasn't worth the effort to occupy as there wasn't anything there of real mineral value to Rome. The Roman's did trade with the ancient Picts and Irish however, as more recent archaeological evidence has uncovered.

Very interesting, the planned Roman invasion of Ireland was also responsible for the enhanced building Deva (Chester). Supposedly, had Ireland come under Roman rule, Chester would have become the centre of power in the North West of the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire conquered Ireland in the guise of the Church of Rome.

@rkevo9112

4 жыл бұрын

But they are 2 completely different entities

@cyril6574

4 жыл бұрын

@@rkevo9112 Not really, Roman Church is kind of the continuity of Roman empire management. For exemple the diocese in its best known sense, it is a subdivision of the Roman Empire proper to late antiquity, which includes several Roman provinces under the authority of a vicar. The vicar was a high official appointed by the emperor himself to manage the diocese and today the Vicar is appointed by the Pope. The pontifical term, from the Latin pontifex, etymologically "which makes the (sacred) bridge", is used in ancient Rome to designate the members of one of the four priestly colleges of the Roman religion, the pontifical college, this title designates by extension, a person with a sacred ministry, the minister of a religion. Most of the roman emperor got many power like Imperator (victorious general and leader of all armies), Augustus (Moral authority), Princeps (First among the Senator), Pontifex maximus (in charge of religions), .... Today the title of Pontifex maximus is reserved for the Pope - also known as Sovereign Pontiff (Summus Pontifex: Supreme Pontiff) or Roman Pontiff (Pontifex Romanus) - Bishop of Rome, heir to the power of the Roman emperors.

@anthonywhelan4660

4 жыл бұрын

@@cyril6574 thanks. Great information.

@pattheplanter

4 жыл бұрын

@@cyril6574 The Catholic Church still has a ceremony at the beginning of the year where a door is opened by the Pope, just as the Ancient Romans did to celebrate Janus, the god of doors and January.

@DrCorvid

4 жыл бұрын

I read that St. Patrick's claim to fame was really Roman army dressed as Holy men who closed 300 Druid universities that all the who's who attended for 2 millennia and threw the Druid priests into the sea, effectively shutting down higher education in the region. This campaign?

Could you forward me your references, I can’t seem to find them

@eifionjones559

3 жыл бұрын

they do not exist is why

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

@@eifionjones559 You're full of it, and it's leaking.

Very interesting and informative. Many thanks. Ignore many of the stupider and more ignorant comments here. Clearly you have many who appreciate and are interested in your work. Best of luck.

@eifionjones559

3 жыл бұрын

well it helps sell his book anyway

Excellent

Interesting....thank you.... I am also related to the McLaughlin family.... I am from the Gilchrist and Beatty line....my family oldest and traceable to Eochu of Tara 360 ad... Craig Goldsberry /O'Briant

I always thought since I was a boy that the Romans would have came to Ireland, I was born in Meadowbank ave ., Donaghadee which is below an escarpment on top of which is a fortified wall, the fort would have been about 100 yds square and a ideal defensive position over look ing the coast. Only 18 miles from Portpatrick.

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, there have been Roman finds at Donaghadee. A cremation grave of a Roman woman was found near the town. I will post a short video about the artefacts which were taken by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

@kevwhufc8640

3 жыл бұрын

Artifacts and coins from Rome have been found in Ireland, but all from trading. Like Roman artifacts, wine vessels, coins brooches etc have been found in Britain dating to 50 years before Caesar tried invading. Trade trade trade .... I've excavated Celtic sites in England and found early Republican coins, and other things, from trading Britain wasn't a backwater like some people have written, Britain had been trading with European mainland for centuries before Caesar tried.

@geoffhunter7704

6 ай бұрын

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 Who gave the Ashmolean Museum permission to take these NI Roman Artifacts they should be 0n display in Belfast?

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

6 ай бұрын

I think we can get them back 🙂@@geoffhunter7704

Thank you

Some say, the irishman who was expelled from Ireland and found Agricola, is Tuathal Teachtmhaire.

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly right. Dr Richard Warner, the former curator of the Ulster Museum suggested the link. He has put some of his research studies online: independent.academia.edu/RichardWarner

@elgranlugus7267

4 жыл бұрын

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 Could it be, that Tuathal, introduced and idea of a well structured pantheon of Gods in Ireland? I read Dr. Warner's article, and if Tuathal's army were romanized irish, perhaps they came with the concept of a pantheon.

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

@@elgranlugus7267 Have a look at what Julius Caesar says about the Gauls before the Roman conquest in his Gallic War, book 6 passage 17 penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Caesar/Gallic_War/6B*.html

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

​@@elgranlugus7267 Lares (Figurines of Roman Household Gods) have been found at ancient sacred sites in Ireland - www.museum.ie/The-Collections/Documentation-Discoveries/September/A-Roman-figurine

@elgranlugus7267

4 жыл бұрын

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 Thank you so much

Do you have a podcast?

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

No plans for a podcast at present. But my third book - 'The Roman Empire and the Silk Roads' - is being released as an audiobook... www.amazon.com/Roman-Empire-Silk-Routes-Ancient/dp/B07X8QQPC3/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

@richardc7721

4 жыл бұрын

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 very well done. Thank you. Can you tell me if Creel is an Irish family name?

"Incredible etched in concrete/marbled statue/figure'Roman shoulders. . .As usual quite colorful art,picturesque,Historical:2--8--2021

brythonic survives today as welsh

you can not believe any thing any Roman writer has to say about any of the people they called barbarian . the way they tell it every time a they showed up the other people just pissed them selves and fell down in fear

@OlympianGift

4 жыл бұрын

Thats cause they all did fall down in fear from seeing such a large organized Force.

@bruceparr1678

4 жыл бұрын

What did the barbarian writers say? Oh that's right, they could not write, so no one knows what they thought. History is written by the people who can write, not by primitive illiterates.

@OlympianGift

4 жыл бұрын

@@bruceparr1678 exactly lol

@jbussa

4 жыл бұрын

Only the literate that win can write history. If the illiterate win, they can only tell poems about it. And those change over time. lol

@blazer4999

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry about the wanna be Centurion retards responding here David. They have not a fecking clue what they blabber about. Even Julius Caesar got some things correct when he wrote that the Britain's are the most dangerous foe for they do not appear to fear death at all, as if they are simply changing clothes. Those who did actually piss and shit themselves stupid were the pathetic skirt wearing pansy roman 'soldiers'. Most of the time the Celts used guerrilla warfare tactics. You never know where or when your enemy is going to strike, and most often it's when you are at your most vulnerable. I'm pretty sure no roman toy soldier relished the idea of being sent to the British 'frontier' where, on cold misty mornings, the naked, tattooed woad painted forms of the Celtic warriors (both men and women) came rushing silently out of the gloom to slit your throat before you even had time to take a breath. Have no doubts, the romans were terrified of the Celts. And in regard to the illiterate, that would include virtually all the roman army, bar the odd senior commander. Most of what was 'written' was done so by scribes and historians of the time who traveled about with armies to observe battles etc. And lets understand the romans were in fact the barbarians themselves, with gladiator rings, genocide and extremely evil ways of executing people. They did invent crucifixion after all. Tyranny was the oil that lubricated the wheels of the roman empire. Not just for all those who they butchered, enslaved, raped, occupied and subjugated, but also to themselves. If you were a military officer and failed in battle, they punished not just you but your family back home. Lovely lot the romans, said no one ever.

Caracalla.... Unlike his father Septimus CEverus was born and raised in Italy after the death of his father he ruledj jaiintly with his younger brother Geta until the latter’s death in 211 AD caracalla’s reign was notable for the constitution antoniniana Granting Roman citizenship to Freeman throughout the Roman empire that act made a foundation for a peaceful multi cultural empire that Rome was to become

@geoffhunter7704

6 ай бұрын

Caracella was a murderous Sociopath he killed his half brother Geta to become Sole Emperor he did allow his step mother Julia Domna to live under close supervision he himself was murdered in AD217 by his ADC who discovered his name on a death list.

How come you don't mention the Annals and Tuathal? It was a typical Roman tactic, ahead of an invasion, to install a puppet king and interfere with internal politics. It is possible that this actually happened - around 80 AD - and upset the balance of power in Ulster, to the degree that the Ui Neill rose to such dominance. Ireland at that time, as a cultural entity, was a finely balanced system with stable borders. It wouldn't have taken much outside interference to throw this off kilter. As seen later with the Vikings and Normans. I don't understand why you wouldn't cite the Annals on this very specific topic.

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the Tuathal Techtmar thesis is by Dr Richard Warner. My own theory, based on events and tribal names, is that Tuathal led an invasion force of Irish exiles and renegades from Celtic Britain. Máel Mac Rochruidhe might have been the displaced king who sought aid from the Romans. I may post a Lecture on this subject...

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

A link to Dr Warner's articles: www.academia.edu/7149513/Tuathal_Techtmar_a_myth_or_ancient_literary_evidence_for_a_Roman_invasion

Isn't that statue of the Gaul leader Brennus who died attacking Delphi in 279 BC? To my understanding it's a Roman replica of a famous Greek statue depicting Brennus dying from a poke to the ribs

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s the ‘Dying Gaul’. The original polished bronze statue must have been spectacular. The Irish ‘Cattle Raid of Cooley’ describes the battle-rage of the High Hero Cuchulain when the ‘spiked bristle of his hair stood up on his scalp’ (the lime-wash?). And here’s what our Torcs looked like: www.museum.ie/Archaeology/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/The-Treasury/Gallery-1-Iron-Age-to-12th-Century/Broighter-Collar-(1)

@kaloarepo288

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that the Dying Gaul statue was commissioned by the kings of Pergamum(in present day Turkey) to celebrate the defeat of the Galatians.(Celts who had crossed over into Asia).Existing statue is a Roman copy.

@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr

2 жыл бұрын

The statue was excavated in Rome in the 17th century, so identifying it is speculation. Pliny the Elder wrote of a bronze statue he called the ’Tumpeter’ by Epigonus of Pergamum. The Roman marble could well be a copy of this, in which case it depicts an Anatolian Gaul (Galatian).

Only one Roman emperor probably attacked Ireland in response to raids in 303-305. Constantine's fleet in 306, 310, 311, 312, and 314 may haved raided the eastern coast of Ireland (see Rance, Philip. "Epiphanius of Salamis and the Scotti: new evidence for Late Roman-Irish relations." Britannia 43 (2012): 227-242 and Eusebius' Panegyric of Constantine and on coins of this period). Could have Agricola's fleet not done the same or that of Hadrian?

How close are the bretons and the irish?

@DrCorvid

4 жыл бұрын

When I searched original MacDonalds and Stuarts I came up with Norman inputs, so probably Merovingian...

@HCT-lq8xj

4 жыл бұрын

Actual french Bretons are more related to peoples from insular Cornwall. Back in pre-roman time the tribes from Cotentin and northern Bretagne formed a separate military alliance(separated from Central Gaul alliance...). I don't think Irish were closer than those Cornish.

@nanasdad100

4 жыл бұрын

They are British so closer to Welsh

@alanpennie8013

3 жыл бұрын

@@nanasdad100 Arguably they ARE Welsh in origin There was a good deal of British settlement in Fifth Century Armorica.

@nanasdad100

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanpennie8013 I class the British and Welsh as the same There were Irish settlements in Wales even during roman times but Welsh/British as opposed to Saxon Wallace is a Stratclyde name Welshman/Britan

There was NO Ireland in the 1st to 4th century it was called Scotia (Scotland) by the Romans and Greeks, eventually it was called Hibernia then Ireland.

Also Latvia,Lithuania, Estonia and pinimundi where Roman colonies, Riga one of the city.

@domdegood5376

4 жыл бұрын

The names are latin and some of them means latin, like Latvia.

@domdegood5376

4 жыл бұрын

You a full of shit, the Germans use the word wasser, in English water. you are a person of bad faith.

@cuhurun

4 жыл бұрын

Dom... utter rubbish.

@domdegood5376

4 жыл бұрын

You don't know any thing, Poto comes from the greek.

@volkerwendt3061

4 жыл бұрын

@@irrsch Sir, don't care. As far as I can see, you are right in any single detail. How does it feel to teach an obvious moron like this Dom guy who knows nothing and doesn't want to listen?

I turned the auto-generated closed captions on thinking might help with any terms I didn't hear clearly........LLOL! I thought Casey Stengle murdered the English language. Now, I find it's KZread.😄

Why are displaced Irish kings always trying to bring the Romans or normans to kill us 😂😂👑

Ptolemy map shows the mull of Kintyre inhabited a tribe known as Epidii, this tribe was P Celtic and not Q Celtic.

@geoffhunter7704

6 ай бұрын

The P Britons of Strathclyde managed to retain their independence to the mid 10th C but were absorbed by the Scots whose King designated his heir as the Prince of Strathclyde a title that lasted into the 12th C.

Surprised Rome didn’t try to conquer Caledonia first and then Ireland.

@krispalermo8133

4 жыл бұрын

Roman did try, but they though building a wall between Caledonia and Britain was a better ideal.

@PackHunter117

4 жыл бұрын

kris palermo Interesting. If I were in charge I would’ve kept sending in troops to eventually conquer Caledonia and then Ireland.

@krispalermo8133

4 жыл бұрын

Well the island people were not a military treat at that time. And there was problems in the eastern part of the empire that needed those legions instead. Then there was more problems in the east, with a minor plague , then a couple of emperors being change in and out. Follow by a really bad plague and civil war.

@PackHunter117

4 жыл бұрын

kris palermo Yeah that’s true. But it’s like leaving your work half finished

@podlodialgilap3490

4 жыл бұрын

@@PackHunter117 Scots led a guerilla warfare .. keep sending troops , and you will end up with bankruptcy , no manpower and lots of unrest in other parts of the empire.Besides, Scotland didn't have anything of value , as said in the video , no mines, no fertile lands , no gold .. just lot of woods, and you can guess that the cost of conquering it vs the profit is not worth it

I reverse the question. Did the Irish attack/invade the Roman Empire?

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Ammianus Marcellinus, History, book 20.1.1 (events of AD 360) - "In Britain raids by savage tribes of Irish (Scotti) and Picts broke the arranged peace and devastated the frontier regions. Terror filled the provincials who were worn down by frequent calamities".

@nanasdad100

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Just think of St Patrick The Irish even settled peacefully in parts of Wales as well as raiding

@trevormcmanus6670

4 жыл бұрын

Saint Patrick was taken as a slave from Roman Britain. Absolutely, the wall in northern England was built to keep out the Scottish Picts. Could they have taken Ireland/Scotland? Probably, did they think it was worth the risk? From what I have read no.

@trevormcmanus6670

4 жыл бұрын

From what I have read also, the Romans said that the Irish/Scottish were an unfriendly and war like people, who would wipe the blood of their enemies on their own face, and did not know right from wrong. That Ireland was a land of fog and death, and that the land was cold and almost uninhabitable.

@claudiussmith8798

3 жыл бұрын

@@trevormcmanus6670 of cause they wiped the blood of their enemies on their face, what would you have done, do you know how expensive propper aegyptian makeup was these days??? Just kidding 😜.

Yes they went into Scotland which was Irish control.

@dukadarodear2176

3 жыл бұрын

I would say the Irish/ Dal Riadians held Western Caledonia especially the islands. When St.Columba/Colm Cille was banished from Ireland by the Árd Rí (case of copying the illustrated book -"To ever cow her calf, to every book its copy") he established his new monastery on Iona which was part of his Clan's territory.

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

Better to say Galloway was closely tied to Ulster and shared families and even individual personalities. As late as the early 1300's Robert the Bruce's mother was a de Burgh (ancestors of the Burke), the then Earls of Ulster. He invaded Ireland after the victory of Bannockburn in alliance with a confederation of the native Irish to drive the English out and make his brother Edward the new Celtic High King. My clan from Munster were among his allies. While he ultimately failed, he did severely disrupt English rule until the time of Henry VIII, and allowed the restoration of most native Irish kingdoms (like my own family's Desmond, which was about the size of most German Dukedoms and Electorates). Many Highland Scots clans have Irish connections. My paternal uncle was a MacKenzie and it turned out the foundational MacKenzie ancestor was a member of the Eoghacht tribe, which the MacCarthy are a branch of. I'm sure they mixed with the native Picts and any other groups, but there are kinships, borne out by language, common physical traits and genetics.

Maybe we had greater forces on our side.

Sir you are writing untruths Agricola was of no lineage to Tactitus, he was two hundred years later, Agricola and the Ninth Legion were in what is now South Wales Agricola at Glevum the Ninth? They were never in Caledonia the only mentions of the Ninth Iberian are on Stone Markings at sites between Margam and Bontfaen (Cowbridge) there are Thousands of Roman Burials in that area, the first major Road Building was to what is now York ( Eboracum) in Cymric Efrog that is where the name comes from he was the King of the Brigantes. Sir, the Major Population of what is now Scotland were Brythonic Celts or British or as the English call us Welsh, there were Irish Tribes in some of the Western Isles but NOT on the Mainland. the Scots were still in Iwerddon ( Hibernia) till the late 8th Century when together with Saxons and Vikings they invaded the Celtic Kingdoms of Ystrad Clwyd and Rheged ( Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire) while leaving Elmedd ( Elmet) to Saxons and Danes, the name places in Scotland will tell you its Brythonic past , Aberdeen, Don, Perth, Cam(Buslang) Glasgow, Edin(Burgh) Lanark Fal(Kirk)Biggar Dundee Dunfermline and many more the name Caledonia comes from the leader of the Brythonic Pictish King Caledon, whilst the name for the whole area of What is know Scotland north of the Caledonian line was Alban, Picts as they were called are the same Tribes as the Silures and Dematiae of the South of Cymru ( Wales) in Armorica they were called Pictones, they spoke Brythonic as did the Belgae and Parisi that is why you finf Celtic Cymric names all over Northern France and Western France, Caen Dieppe Carentan Boulogne Calais Ghent Bruges Ypres Lille Arras Paris and thousands of names in Brittany of Brythonic Celtic Bretons arrived there in the late 5th early 6th Century mainly from South of what is now Wales and the areas around Cornwall and Devon. The River names in Scotland to keep the Cymric influence Clyde ( Clwyd) Don (Don) and so on. They did not go to Iwerddon ( Iberia) many Brythonic people did and so did Gaels come to Prydain ( Brittania ) comes from That Celtic name, ( Trading ) also the Ancients traded their Daughters in Marriage, there is more to link us than just being Celtic our Gods and Legends are much the same, Druids are very much to the fore, Sir Fon was the site of a Massacre of Druids ? Possibly it may well have been in another area of North West or Mid Wales, but it was known that TWO Roman Legions were required to Massacre them they were important that is for sure, the Druids of Gaul certainly did travel to Britain. Much is given to the Languages, Brythonic and Gaelic had subtle differences but the Genus of both Languages are more Ancient than the Romans , I am old very old in fact a Centenarian, I speak the Ancient tongue of the Britons, I hate the Term Welsh and Wales, both are Saxon Germanic terms for us. I did not like the English either much like my friend JRR Tolkien who found them " Stilted in Common sense and Bullshit in their faces from gloated so called Superior Class " he loved the Celtic Peoples and our yearning for just a life, . Your using Tacitus as a benchmark in much of what you say, but I have to say many even when I was at Oxford in the late Thirties Scholars were already questioning his motive some Two Hundred Years after the actual events, these writers of that time would Glorify their Roman Conquests and forget their defeats, I would question the reasoning of why they would have gone to Iwerddon, they had enough in Britain, much of what they required was on the main roads that they had built Grain on the Flatlands of Britain, Iron, Lead, Gold,Silver, Copper, Zinc, not forgetting Coal which the Celts of Cambria as the Romans Called Cymru (Wales) had been mining and forging Iron and Bronze ans smelting other metals for over a Thousand years prior, as too Bronze age and Iron Age sites in the Neath Valley and other sites, this is why the Greeks were Trading with the Celts of Britain and Ireland in goods, much earlier than the Romans. Julius Caesar knew of Britannia before he started his conquest of Gaul, why because he knew there were Celts with the Etruscans from Britain, they had a Celtic City at Caeau on the Coast near Rome also an Etruscan City by the way, also he knowledge from the Greeks who had talked about a great Migration of Celts from the West to the East as far as Sria and possibly Lebanon and Certainly Macedonia and what is nnow Turkey, the Celts named Albania because of its rugged Mountains, noted that the Ancient Brythonic name for Scotland is Alban and today many Scots or Gaels call it Alba, this name I would say comes from the Ancient Legends of Giants, with their rugged mountains. In Turkey you had the Galatians who were Celts that arrived there in the late 3rd early 4th Century BC, interesting is the fact that even Turks today know the Ancient story of their Capital and even on maps as early as the 16th Century the names persist, a Celtic Fortress at Gaer on the plain at Yn Caerau ( Ankara) these ancient sites are still there, my Ancestor Sir Arthur Evans of Knossos fame did much work on the Celtic sites of the Celtic Kings before Brennus in Latin in Celtic Brynfor, also at Troy where he opined there were Celts there. These Celts were from Britain Ireland and Gaul and settled in many Lands it was thought that up to Eleven Thousand Celts were on that March including their families, even Alexander the Great at Celtic blood. They also fought against him and travelled and fought with him. Certainly there were Celts with the Spartans at Thermopylae with Leonidas and died alongside him against the Persians. The Roman name for what is now Wales was Cambria also Cumbria is the same name why is it that name, obviously because the name Cymru, means a Brotherhood, the Celts of the east were called the Khymri also a Brotherhood it was not the Romans or Greeks that called them that it was what the Celts called themselves. We are all Celts and be proud of it, the later English Yolk is still upon us and I will Die a Celt proud and good, Good fortune to all the Irish of whom I had many many Friends. Diolch yn fawr, ich i, Prynhawn da. My Grandfather has dictated this on a Voice recognition computer, I have the honour of being one of the Family to look after him, he is very old and his mind and Cognitive powers are very much still intact, he opines on many History sites, or on War Historians, please do not think he is being rude or Pompous, he has a genuine love of all Celtic peoples and Languages, he is well known in many quarters and please do not be put off by anything you disagree with, he would welcome a reply, also his age has meant he has now become Virtually Wheelchair and bed bound. He found the Computer very late in life but he has loved the way he can interact with peoples of differentopinions and views , he has a Doctorate in Ancient Languages and was Educated in later years at Magdalene College Oxford, he speaks the Ancient Middle and Modern Cymric and also Gaelic as does my wife his Granddaughter. Yours Meredydd Harries Diolch

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

Жыл бұрын

Fàilte. Thank you for your comments and welcome to my Channel. You mention J.R.R. Tolken as someone you knew at Oxford. Now, did you ever meet my countryman C.S. Lewis?

@EIREriddick13

9 ай бұрын

Interesting read A+

Julius Caesar described Ireland as the Ancient lands.

@kevwhufc8640

3 жыл бұрын

Julius Caesar didn't know anything about Ireland, he didn't know much about Britain, except for parts of Kent in south east England, but he didn't know about protected harbours a few miles north and south of where he ended up beaching his ships, both times!!? Crazy considering that he writes about having people who new about the tracks and sheltered harbours of eastern Britain ( England) That's why the Celts destroyed most of the Roman fleet, because it was at the mercy of the tide . Read his books, they are full of contradictory stories, blaming the weather for destroying his fleet once is iffy , blaming it twice is a downright lie , it's only a few miles from Dover to Calais , you can see France from England, so its nonsense that he blames the weather, if it's a nice day and blue skies it's not suddenly going to get rough enough to destroy his fleet , let alone twice. Nobody would cross in bad weather.. Spanish armada made that mistake, even William of Normandy centuries later had to wait weeks for the weather to calm. So why would Caesar do such a stupid thing, twice. His books regarding Britain are lies. where the only absolute evidence exists of his landing and digging ditches to defend his men horses and other equipment, those huge ditches are literally the only evidence for mid first century bc Romans on Britain. Caesar never crossed the Thames never defeated the catuvellauni, wasn't ever given slaves or tribute, and thet definitely didn't stop invading their neighbouring tribes land ( which was part of the reason why Caesar went to Britain) Within a few years the catuvellauni invaded and controlled most of middle Britain north of the Thames and to the eastern coast including colchester which they made their secondary capital. That's why Rome didn't attempt to invade Britain again until almost a century later, when Claudius invaded successfully.

Tf is "Ivernia"

Answer is NO. They did explore it

st patrick = patricians of rome

The Cruithnigh survive.

@finneire2081

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I am a lawlor we are of cruthini stock as to the o,Moore and the 7 septs of ligos county laois

you have a great imagination

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously, what is your problem? Did he fail you in a class when you were both still in a university? Or do you object to an academic doing anything other than teaching? Was he a romantic rival? I'm trying to figure out why you seem to hate this guy in your scattered comments. I appreciate his intellect and his subject mastery, plus his willingness to offer it to the public, but aside from that he seems kind of a reclusive boring guy (sorry Doc). What did he do to arouse your negative passions? It's clearly not intellectual disagreement.

@eifionjones559

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianmccarthy5557 perhaps because he is talking from the wrong orifice, the world is full of academics who have got it so wrong, too lazy to do original research so simply repeat Roman propaganda over and over again

According to Book 3 of the Ogygia, in 90 AD the Plebians of Ireland rose up and massacred the nobility of the Irish. The rebellion attributed to the Attacotti may well have been sponsored by the Romans, but did not result in increased Roman pressure. NO such effort to invade Ireland is mentioned by O'Clerigh, O'Flaherty or O'Donovan.

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

"Plebians" of Ireland. Have to stop, I'm laughing so hard!! Can't you come up with anything more original than 1930's era Soviet propaganda?!! It's like leftists trying to describe Al Quaeda and ISIS as "agrarian reformers", the 1940's Communist terminology for Red Chinese Communists. Haven't you an original thought bouncing around in the empty attic of your brain? Have you just opened your windows to the modernist storm and let it blow any remaining sense from yor head? Try studying, thinking and perhaps even praying for assistance. Until then you're playing the fool in a comedy.

Ancient Hibernia was saved from the Roman invasion because of political events in Rome? them lucky Irish Celts!!

@davec5153

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like they were saved by the tribes of northern Scotland, planning an attack and the subsequent fighting from then on in Scotland. I don't know how you got that conclusion from watching this.

@blazer4999

4 жыл бұрын

No not really. That's probably roman propaganda. They had another 300 years of occupation to pull off an invasion into both Ire and Scotia but never did.

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

Septimus Severus seems to have avoided Ireland like it was a plague, preferring his fruitless rampaging around the Highlands in the early 200's. Perhaps there was a reason for this that we don't yet know about.

Ireland at a cross roads United ireland for the good of the people

Appreciate your work. We were Irish, Garlic of Basque and if they were Celts, then we were as well. The early English were largely like us, but they were heavily killed off by the Anglos and Saxons. Thus today, only low traces of the original English can be found from the Male gene DNA, yet the Female lineage is quite apparent. Being of USA Birth, its hard for me to conceive the aggression that was and remains apparent in the History of the past 500 years. What was it that we had they so Coveted? How did they justify the aggression to steal and control, on every continent they could reach? The desire of Power by 1, yet supported by the Masses - and even those whom did their military tasks were themselves treated with lack of value. The "Serf Caste System" of Royals - to Imagine .the human Ego Mind in such an Adolescen state - Rape, Steal, Enslave, Abuse, and Murder - participation of Ego ... We over this Yet? Best be - its the Ego Mind they use to bait and control -

@blazer4999

4 жыл бұрын

The Irish (Gaels) are Celts too. They migrated from northern parts of Spain. Celt is an umbrella term for a language group with shared religious, social, and cultural practices. The latest research appears to indicate the Saxons did not in fact war with or kill off the Britain's they encountered. The Saxon's were an agrarian culture and were more focused on farming than warring, so it seems from years of archaeological digs. There is next to no evidence of battles or conflict, bones having virtually no signs of battle wounds etc which one would expect to find plenty of if the two groups were fighting on mass. Its far more likely each group kept themselves to themselves and if anything merged and intermarried, especially on the boundaries of each one's territory. It's also likely that just about no one remained living in lowland England after the Romans left. Any Celts had most likely become so Romanised (if not slaves anyway) that they left with their 'masters'. Other Britain's less Romanised, lived in the west, Cornwall, Wales and in the north, Scotland. The Saxons pretty much did not venture into these areas.

@pattheplanter

4 жыл бұрын

You know the history of the USA? Genocide of most of the Natives of that continent by European invaders who wanted their land and resources. You are surely benefitting from that, are you willing to give the land and power back to the Natives and the descendants of the surviving slaves who made your country rich? If not, then you can understand why people have and always will fight for a piece of the wealth of the future for their children. Horrible but it is the way of the world.

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

@@pattheplanter The Native Americans dissapeared? Can't wait to inform my part Cherokee brother-in-law, the spirit of my Panguitch grandaunt, my part Blackfoot cousins. Not to mention all of my Mexican American neighbors, not one of whom appears to have any European ancestry. Then all my part Mexican relatives. Then I'll drive to Palm Springs and tell the natives I know there, who own most of the city's land and get exorbitant rents, that they are an extinct people. I'll tell my coworkers and the hundred other Native and part Native Americans I know that they're extinct. How will I break it to my part Narragansett wife? In short, idiots, Native Americans didn't die off or get exterminated. They just became part of the larger population. In fact, much of what foreigners, especially Europeans, find either hard to understand or objectionable about Americans is due to the influence of what we all used to be able to call Indians. The way many of our towns and cities are laid out resembles early villages far more than Roman towns. Our warlike behavior, much of our food, even the behavior of our leaders, like Donald Trump, teflect Native influence. If you look at an accurate map of the United States you'll find vast Native controlled reservations. Take a good look at crowds of average Americans from the center of the country. Whether white or black, a large percentage will have Native American physical characteristics. The genes are everywhere. Any American whose family has been here over four generations,and is not from the heavily urbanized Northeast Coast, is probably part Native American. The entire nation of Mexico and most of Central America is mostly Native American. Do you even know any of the places? What ignorance!! As for your stupid comments about blacks, I'd urge you to avoid the outside a university lounge bulllshit session or you'll get your head handed to you. All I can hope is that you're some ignorant foreigner and not one of our homegrown idiots. STFU!

@pattheplanter

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianmccarthy5557 Most, I wrote. Do you not understand English or History? I also specified the USA, not the other countries you mention. Your fantasy that you can tell most rural folk are descended from Natives because of the way they look is hilarious. The "Cherokee great-grandmother" is more likely to have been black, like that of the deluded Johnny Depp.

@geoffhunter7704

6 ай бұрын

@@pattheplanter The late actor James Garner mother was a Cherokee Lady.

Tacitus' account has to be taken with a large grain of salt. He wrote it as Agricola's son-in-law and authorized biographer. He wanted to glorify his family. He also wrote it after Domition's death and degradation. What better way to curry favor from Domitian's successors than to portray him as failing to assure a victory. What really happened is a matter of conjecture, but by Tacitus' own admissions the Caledonians committed great damage to the separated Roman forces, escaped with most of their army intact and stymied further offensives. Domitian may have relocated the legions because he, and his advisors, didn't want them severly damaged any more in useless campaigns for the individual glory of a governor, but available for use on vital frontiers of the Empire? Agricola's career may have been damaged, rather than enhanced, by his Caledonian and Irish campaigns. He doesn't seem to have risen to the greater prominence one would expect for Tacitus' ever victorious governor. As for the "one legion to conquer Irelan" boast, it's a familiar one in military history by vainglorious and usually somewhat unsuccessful generals. Often it's a prelude to disaster. Isn't it possible Tacitus was acting as a cheerleader for another upcoming Roman invasion, possibly in the waning years of Trajan's reign, when he wrote the "Agricola"?

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

3 жыл бұрын

Those are excellent points. Yes, the Legions were vulnerable. The Ninth Legion suffered high casualties in the Boudicca rebellion (AD 61) and narrowly escaped destruction when the Caledonians attacked their camp (AD 82). But there may have been a change in Roman attitudes by the early second century. Juvenal was writing around the time of the Emperor Trajan and he ends his second satire with the lines: “Indeed Our arms we have pushed beyond Ireland’s shores, to the new-conquered Orcades and the short-nighted Britons”. Trajan annexed the Nabatean Kingdom and established a Roman military base on the Farasan Islands, guarding the entrance to the Red Sea. Were others in Roman government suggesting greater control over the Irish Sea?

seems they never feel any interest in Ireland

Ah grEE cola ... not Ag ric AHla. Think Italian.

Many peoples tried to conquer Ireland, no one has succeeded!!

@SunnyDementia

4 жыл бұрын

Vikings, Normans, English/Scottish Protestants. Sure, no one managed to do so.

@nigelsheppard625

4 жыл бұрын

Like Northern Britain, Ireland had nothing the Romans wanted or needed. They were looking for fertile agricultural land not forest or pasture land. The reason they never developed towns and cities in Caledonia was that the expense outweighed the return, the same goes for Ireland. In the end Northern Britain was as Uganda to the British empire, Ireland was Somaliland. It just wasn't worth it to the bean counters that always hold the purse strings of the military.

@forlegalreasonsthatwasajok7608

4 жыл бұрын

Bear Nunnemaker offer ever man and woman a pint of whiskey and you can walk right in

@markusass

4 жыл бұрын

Why are they speaking English then?

@rkevo9112

4 жыл бұрын

@@SunnyDementia neither vikings nor protestants conquerd ireland

We know the Romans were in Britain for many years but never taught the British any ancient knowledge. THEY TALKED VERY NEGATIVE ABOUT THE BRITS.

@DrCorvid

4 жыл бұрын

The Khumry already had a bible, the Kolbrin....that was more informative than theirs...

If ever did for record recorded life n king's king or independence side Ireland self I n Rome or legions most Roman law for self power pleasing n did hear a Rome got lost in light n takes all lights to goodnight not the run off of a back behind right n win law or all power that's thirst or alls

@sedanta01

4 жыл бұрын

What ? This is unintelligible.

@philliphoneysett9039

4 жыл бұрын

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@sedanta01

4 жыл бұрын

@@philliphoneysett9039 still unintelligible, nobody has any idea what you are trying to say.

@philliphoneysett9039

4 жыл бұрын

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@philliphoneysett9039

4 жыл бұрын

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The romans were afraid of the Irish

Alot of wishful thinking from this man.

A chain of "it's possible" and "could have" and "might be" don't add up to evidence. Peer reviewed publication only demonstrates a coherent argument not acceptance of it. At best you have shown the viability of a hypothesis that Agricola's forces undertook military operations in the western islands, nothing more. You then proceed into speculations well beyond the bounds of your evidence.

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you maybe right about Academic Peer Review. But I believe it is important to take new research out from behind Academic Paywalls www.jstor.org/stable/26246065?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=raoul&searchText=mclaughlin&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Draoul%2Bmclaughlin%26amp%3Bacc%3Doff%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-4929%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A5a93fd0134c0d189bd1acf678e010b80&seq=1

@drraoulmclaughlin7423

4 жыл бұрын

Have a look at passage 24 in Tacitus. The Translator has inserted the name ‘Clota’ (Clyde) into the text, but it’s not in the original Latin sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, please. Like I never read an academic paper before. By this standard 2/3 of all papers shouldn't be published. Of course, you might be right at that! I think the term reasonable inference might apply here.

@eifionjones559

3 жыл бұрын

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 and it sells books for you

Before Septimus severeus There have been other Roman born black emperors of Rome

@bruceparr1678

4 жыл бұрын

Who were they? You might be right, the Roman empire seems to have been the ultimate meritocracy.

@lf1496

4 жыл бұрын

@s Exactly like Nubia, Axum, Ancient Mali, Songhai, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Congo and Egypt. Egypt influenced Greece and Rome through Nubia who brought Egypt enlightenment says the Egyptians themselves and Herodotus and Strabo. Enlightenment is continuem

@Catubrannos

4 жыл бұрын

@@lf1496 lol

@Catubrannos

4 жыл бұрын

His mother was Italian and his father was of Punic ancestry, meaning his father's ancestors likely came from Israel. He's also thought to have Berber ancestry from Libya from his father. Libyan Berbers are caucasian, some have darker skin but they range all the way to looking like northern Europeans. A portrait of him exists showing a tanned man with brown eyes and dark hair with caucasian features - not black.

@lf1496

4 жыл бұрын

@@Catubrannos Libya is in AFRICA, and during the time of the Punic Wars there were many black populations all over North Africa and even today that is true. The Romans referred to these black people and others like them as "Ethiopians." The Greeks like, Herodotus, Strabo, Plato etc and the Romans like Hadrian etc..wrote about the many Ethiopian tribes of Libya with their "painted skin and gold jewelry."These people lived and married Berbers making a population similar to modern day Mauretania which is black Africa. The Greeks and Romans even said the Egyptians looked like the "Ethiopians". The oldest mummy in Africa was found in the Libyan dessert, 5600 years old. It is called "the Black Mummy" a mummified body of s black African boy covered with necklaces made of decorative beads. He is a precursor to the pharonic culture of Egypt. These people lived in North Africa when it was greener and went into Egypt with their culture as the Sahara became dry. The link is below of this black mummy, the beginning of Egyptian culture. www.crystalinks.com/mummies.lib.html

If they had they wud hv stayed no one to stop them the irish arnt the fighters they like to think they are

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

What the hell? And I speak as a namesake.

Did rome attack Ireland,, NO THEY DIDN'T .. ...End of. The Romans didn't have ships capable of crossing the Irish sea, their ships were built for the Mediterranean, which is more like a mill pond in comparison to the Atlantic, or Irish sea, In 3rd century the Romans had to build ships capable of defending the merchant ships crossing the English channel, north sea, from Saxon pirates , who not only raided the ships but killed their crews and kept the ships & everything on board. Carausius was in charge of this new fleet. But , Nothing was attempted regarding travelling around southern to western Britain and then crossing to Ireland, Explain how they got to the Irish sea !! Travelling north and around the top of Britain before coming south then west across to Ireland Or thr southern route, which destroyed many attempts from the Spanish armadas to invade Britain, the seas destroyed their ships, which were much tougher than anything the Romans had.

@edcarson3113

3 жыл бұрын

Rubbish They didn’t need to attack. The southern tribes had an alliance with Rome, there was no need to invade. They were only after the northern Scotti.

@kevwhufc8640

3 жыл бұрын

@@edcarson3113 why didn't the Romans invade Ireland ,? Nobody knows the answer to that, probably because it was too far away to risk losing everything . Its not like crossing the English channel, that's only a few miles, loads of people have swam the English channel, Jeremy Clarkson ( top gear car show presenter) actually crossed it in a Toyota pickup truck with an outboard engine.

@edcarson3113

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevwhufc8640 you should have listened to the 2 parts of the lecture. Did you ever play cluedo?

@kevwhufc8640

3 жыл бұрын

@@edcarson3113 cluedo , yes when I was a kid. Why ? As for part 2 no I didn't bother , mainly bc I know the Roman's didn't invade Ireland. Did you ever play cluedo ?

@brianmccarthy5557

3 жыл бұрын

The Romans had inherited existing merchant and war fleets from the Atlantic coast tribes they had conquered. Obviously there were fleets capable of transporting large groups of people over the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel, the Irish Sea and the North Sea. Otherwise most of the trade and migration we definitely know happened couldn't have occurred.

The answer is no. And the narrator is a boring dullard. UNITED IRELAND!

@tauruswinds37

4 жыл бұрын

You need to study your history better dear man .... Ireland is a part of the EU machine now ....