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For me the famine was the saddest, I watched a documentary about it on TG4 and I cried a lot, I remember one British governor of the time saying that Irish ware rats that disserves to die.

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

One of the saddest era’s for sure 💚

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

Yes that's so true, Europe now say we are good rats because we pay them a lot of tax. Thank goodness for our Independence and Republic freedom otherwise the country would be full of mice instead of rats.

@paulcurran5665

Жыл бұрын

Not a famine, genocide

@kaidenlettuce

Жыл бұрын

If you want to learn more about it you should read Under The Hawthorn Tree trilogy

@spilledcoffee383

Жыл бұрын

There was food other than the type of potatoe effected by the blight but the irish were forced to give it to the British and if they didn't they were charged with theft and imprisoned or worse

For me the saddest story is that we're srill living this out in our internal politics. Ireland has taken her place among the nations of the Earth. It's time to concentrate on the present and the future, without forgetting how we got here. But our minds should be on the next hundred years, where we can change things, and not the last hundred where we can't.

You can thank DeValera for the civil war

Thank you Davy for sharing this very sad history of our people that has always brought tears to my eyes and pain my heart our ancestors did not deserve this at all I will always keep them in my heart and prayers 🙏🏻😞 I watched a movie called Black 47 really sad movie about the famine 🇮🇪 🥔😢

As an Irish person I can confirm this was horrible.

I'm not Irish, but every time I hear or read about the history of Ireland and what the Irish went through I feel very sad and my throat rises. I love this country which has been my second home for 20 years, I have wonderful friends who are my Angels, I love them with all my heart. The Irish are loving and very friendly people. Thank you for sharing these valuable videos with us. A big hug🥰💓 🇮🇪☘️ 💓💓

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Im so happy that you are enjoying your second home here in Ireland 😁💚

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

Yes you are so right about that. The Irish are very loving and friendly people. They set up the IRA terror groups who planted bombs in any place they could in the UK where British people got in the way when the bombs had exploded. The Irish were so loving, especially when they put unmarried mothers and babies into workhouses to die and buried babies that died whilst in the care of the institutions into sewer tanks, making sure no records were kept about those acts of love and kindness you so rightly described the Irish as being. They also sold babies for fees and donations to nuns to childless Americans and any one with money without consent of the mother's they stole the babies from. Such warmth and love of the Irish melts your heart.

I'm half Irish quater English and Italian but my ❤ is always for Ireland.

Watching these videos makes me cry.. sad they are .. yes Also they are stories of great courage.. perseverance.. resilience.. and immense belief in the cause these brave and noble men paid the ultimate price for.. So proud I am to be descended from heroes like these.. and so grateful to you for reminding us of what happened.. Thank you 🌹☘️ Jen999💙

I've known this since I was 3, and I'm Irish And Patrick pearse married a woman named Grace in Kilmainham jail 2 hours before he was executed😭 There's a song written about them called Grace 😭😭😭

@tombyrne7784

Жыл бұрын

Just a correction my friend. It was the rebel leader Joseph Plunkett who married Grace a few hours before his execution - not Padraig Pearse.

@hytrtyyyf-pd2sj

Жыл бұрын

@Tom Byrne oh yeah sorry I made a mistake 😅

I'm from Ireland 🇮🇪 .Go Ireland ❤

Im irish thank you for spreading the love and kindness also for me the potato famine was the saddest ppl were dying because of a mushroom polution thing called blise im pretty sure thats what its called its an infection that spreads in the air from a mushroom

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@Manwithbomb678

Жыл бұрын

I’m also Irish 🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭

And this could have all been avoided if Dev had gone to london and help Collins broker a peace, but he did not. And Irishmen had to fight Irishmen... civil wars solve nothing, all it did was kill good men and let bad men live

Hi I'm Irish and I'm thanking you for the love for Ireland and spreading awareness of this horrible time, god bless you and everyone that lives in Ireland and everyone that died in this time

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Alan! 💚

The saddest day in Irish history is every day Ireland doesn't reunite.

@ninjacat4929

Жыл бұрын

You will have to wait till it does to find out if that's true or not .

@gio3061

Жыл бұрын

@@ninjacat4929 No, I don't. Fuck the English.

@caffrey9762

Жыл бұрын

The Island of Éire , is United, always has, always will be 💚☘️. I see no borders, nó borders on my maps, never has, never will be

@gio3061

Жыл бұрын

@@caffrey9762 We all see borders, though. But we welcome all Irish into the EU, when they wish to join

@SirMrShanks

4 ай бұрын

You's can't afford it 🙄

Michael Collins was the scapegoat…the Irish Republic would not have survived the British Invasion!

The Battle also resulted in the loss of many countless records. So much family history, lost forever.

Thank you for sharing more about Irish history, your videos are outstanding!

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁

@patwynne8373

Жыл бұрын

Yes Davy, it is indeed a very sad story, and I only hope that things improve all over 🙏 Ireland 🇮🇪 for the irish people 'God save Ireland '

i will forever be proud for my irish roots.🇺🇸🇮🇪

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

🇮🇪🇺🇸💚

@Pureblood32

Жыл бұрын

MAGA and MEGA

I’m proud of being Irish I’m proud of our culture

Bro your making me cry

That was the worst day but the worst years where the famine peoples starving dying of diseases and the British did little to help. When they went to America they were turned away from work and the only work the could do was extremely dangerous labour.

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Fact

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

Just like the mothers and babies that died and buried in sewer thanks. The British did little about that as well. The Irish made sure they we not caught murdering the babies or selling them for adoption.

Mick killed his own with the help of the British,I would love to talk more about this

There were a lot of worse days

Born in England but brought up in my Grannys house- essentially an Irish house, my Granny from Monaghan born in 1902 so my sentiments have always favoured the Irish not English. (Feel I need to explain!) I've been devouring documentaries on Collins, the Rising, civil war and I've discovered your films Davy. In everything I've watched or read I did not know that Collins was again threatened with war by the English if the four courts incident wasn't resolved. Thank you for teaching me something. 😊 I sit and imagine the pressure he & the other Irish signatories were under because of the Treaty- too much for anyone! And rightly or wrongly I'm despising De Valera for sending these men to do the dirty work instead of going himself which he should have done. Keep up the good work Davy 👍

I am from Ireland is so sad😢😢😢😢

I’m English born and British , while the Imperialists subjugated every people they ruled over including the British people themselves, Collins had no hate for the British only the ruling class. I believe he had friends in London who were English and the British Labour movement has historically been anti imperial. The Irish people, at least the Catholic and working classes , suffered terribly by either indifference or intended cruelty at the hands of the Imperialist class, Cromwell being the bogey man in chief . I listen to some of the great old Irish rebel songs they are a testament to a people’s struggle to find freedom . What we seen on that football pitch in Northern Ireland the other week and much of the Troubles was terror ,murder committed on both sides of the sectarian divide , beatings , drug rackets etc and the British governments making a complete mess of things . Let’s hope while never forgetting the past relations between Ireland and Britain can only get stronger 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🤝

@robertfry6783

14 күн бұрын

You make some good points. I’m British of Irish parents - I always find one thing strange: from What I can see the British working classes re actually no better off than those Britain subjugated - they were impoverished during colonial times working in terrible conditions in cities. It was the upper classes (directly Or indirectly) that led the subjugation of other poor peoples (often with their own upper classes being paid off to collaborate) across the world. In many ways the poor were merely pawns of mostly selfish uncaring ruling classes

I live in Ireland 😢 and I know the invasion 🇮🇪 ❤

the genocide against irish protestants was one of the saddest

When I grow up I want to travel the world and Ireland will be one of the first, I have a lot of heritage from Ireland and Scotland

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Hope you like it here 😁🇮🇪

@somebodythatiusetoknow2027

Жыл бұрын

Yeah come here! 🇮🇪

@danny100ization

Жыл бұрын

Hurry up , ireland is nearly gone, thousands of illegal,s being forced on the Irish nation, absolute disgrace

Big respect Michael Connils

Irish history is unbelievably sad

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I’m English and me girlfriends Irish and sometimes I think about the problems we would have had to face just a few decades ago

Collins did the Brits dirty work. Churchill stated in later years the threat they issued was a bluff

Anti treaty people were extremely short sighted unfortunately

@jordieg-us4ee

Жыл бұрын

The brits were bluffing, their economy was crippled after WW1, they could not afford to launch another invasion versus guerilla fighters. The fact that collins believed these bluffs at the negotiations and these threats over the four courts, and attacked his own men, is unforgivable

It’s definitely rough to think you were threatened for protecting your country.

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Tough times.. very rough times.

This was so sad we are learning about this in school but I already know this and I'm irish

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Really important history to know!

Idk what any of this means but the music makes me feel sad too

Hmmm the queen Victoria Era to me might be the saddest part of Irish history.

R.i.p michael collins

My great grandad fought in France for ww2

Was walking over where the men planned to retreat trough the underground tunnels but the tide had trapped them.

How could the British do? Such horrible things to Ireland?

@sigurdhastings6244

Жыл бұрын

Wait until I tell you about the overseas emipre they had😅😅

Worst event in Ireland was the famine or bloody Sunday

Any time I see people talking about Britain and Irelands relationship, I struggle to identify oppression, like people take it personal that Northern Ireland chose to remain and that the people who lived there made that choice, how is the right to choose oppression? Northern Ireland wanted to stay?

Born and bled in Monaghan

God rest your soul Michael Collins your my hero

Having grown up watching the carnage on both sides on the TV my question is. Was it worth all the death and destruction of innocent people, what has it achieved. Absolutely nothing except more hate..

"If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed." Pádraig Pearse

@TastySandwich100

Жыл бұрын

Paddy Pearse the deranged fanatic obsessed with blood sacrifice

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

Such reassuring words of Mr Pearse. Shame the same words did not extend to the Irish mothers and babies murdered by the nuns and buried in sewer tanks. Those Irish babies didn't get a chance to have passion or freedom . The British were to blame for dumping us with nuns.

God bless Ireland rip Michael Collins 🇮🇪🙏

Just 2 days ago on April 10 2023 was the 100th Anniversary of Liam Lynch In loving memory of Liam Lynch:November 20 1892 to April 10 1923 he died at the age of 30😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭 Edit:I don’t live to far from where he died 🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭🤧😭

What's the background song ?

I remember Michael Collins he was a great man.. May he rest in peace. 🕊

@colmmanley2678

Жыл бұрын

he died in 1922

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

You must have a painting of yourself in an attic. If you remember him that means you must be at least 120 years old

That’s my birthday😂

Anyone tell me what this song is called 😊

I thought it was bloody sunday

Worst day in Irish history??? Are you mad? Bad day in modern history is about it.

Why Ireland I live in Ireland 🇮🇪😢😢😢

And so was born the west FG rule we are stuck under

I went to glassnevin today and saw Micheal Collins grave and all the rest

@wargey3431

Жыл бұрын

Probably one of the worst things to happen to Ireland in the 20th century was the assassination of Collins

My grandad is Michael Collins

serve no King nor Kaiser

The Saddest day in Irish history is May 1st 1169.

This could have all been prevented if we had stayed in the union.

@BatTaz19

Жыл бұрын

That's the worst attempt at trolling I've seen in a long time 😂😂

@wargey3431

Жыл бұрын

@@BatTaz19 I agree even as a Brit Ireland staying in the Union wouldn’t have helped without significant concessions to the southern Irish pre WW1 after Easter 1916 that was never happening The saddest thing was probably Gladstone (I think it was Gladstone) being unable to pass the very first attempt at home rule The funniest thing is that was blocked by the nationalists not the unionists

@charles5553

Жыл бұрын

​​@@wargey3431hink it was Gladstone then Asquith but the first 2 home rules were vetoed by the House of Lords

@wargey3431

Жыл бұрын

@@charles5553 I believe the first under Gladstone was stopped in the commons It was weird because at that point the Irish parliamentary party had a large amount of Protestant support but the refusal to grant a special status for Ulster (probably having its own separate legislature and the like) meant that the Orange Order and Unionist immediately opposed the bill

@wargey3431

Жыл бұрын

@@charles5553 the interesting thing is in the late 1870s Home rule had broad support across the population of Ireland. A lot of the middle class and upper class supported it and the league had Liberals and Conservatives in it as well as a large number of Protestants Once Parnell took it over in the 1880s it started having a lot more feinians in it and they forced out the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Liberals

Though you were gonna say Italian 90

Nothing change

Another sad Irish crisis was the great potato famine. Many emigrated to America and lots of Irish people died due to starvation or on the way to America

@matthewcampbell8586

Жыл бұрын

😐

Eamon De Vallera was evil.

Find it more funny than sad. 🤣

@p.d6923

Жыл бұрын

Typical Brit by the sounds of it

@perhamill

Жыл бұрын

Idiot brit

@gerald1108

Жыл бұрын

I think it's funny now that we Catholics are now the majority in the north and SF the largest party, even hardline loyalists walking around with Irish passports now 😅😅😅😅

He still use English weapons on his comrades

He sold away his own ppl ffs

❤❤❤❤🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪❤❤❤❤kyle🇮🇪

Died for nothing Look what's happening now

im irish

Talk is cheap, "but" I like the idea of taking on the Tans, let them invade with their million troops. 🙋‍♂️🇮🇪

Brits out 3rd world country's in Ulster is Still British

@mrcoiganable2988

Жыл бұрын

GSTK

@gavindouglas7020

Жыл бұрын

@@mrcoiganable2988 as captain sensible would say WHAT

@gerald1108

Жыл бұрын

Ulster is British??, I don't think the people in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan would agree with you and last census last year showed that we Catholics are now the majority here .

@gavindouglas7020

Жыл бұрын

@@gerald1108 census done in ireland 🇪🇺 said most people are Pakistan 🇵🇰 and Eastern Europeans

@gerald1108

Жыл бұрын

@@gavindouglas7020 census done in the north of Ireland said more Catholics than prods that's all that matters , snarlene and her UVF friends have said they won't stay in a united Ireland, so hope your looking to having them back 😂😂

Keep up the good 👍 work

Full video on IG and TikTok 🇮🇪💚

So good davy

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Rule Britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

It's called yesterday and today lol

🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪

He attacked his old comrades who fought with him against the hated English, then sold out the six county’s in the north, some treaty that.

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

Yes the Irish still have special offers running in selling not just 6 counties for cheap money but a further 26 counties to Eurocrat nations ensuring the Irish remain independent whilst paying off their debts for the next many generations to come to Their Majesties Eurocrats in Brussels. Thank goodness we are still members of the Royal Commonwealth of Europe whilst enjoying our freedom as a Republic proud of our murderous history. Ireland is such a great and fair place to be especially if your a citizen of the Republic. Europe protects our Independent status by ensuring we pay billions of Euro to it. Imagine if we had to pay the British for our independence and Republic freedom. We would have problems like homelessness poverty debt etc which thankfully we don't have at all in Ireland as part of the United Europe we belong to.

@Upliftmofo89

Жыл бұрын

Dev sold out Collins he knew that he could never get the north so refused to go to the negotiations and sent him instead

@danny100ization

Жыл бұрын

@@Upliftmofo89 yes I agree , but still a shit treaty for anyone that had live in the occupied 6 counties.

@wargey3431

Жыл бұрын

@@danny100ization not really at that point the 6 counties of Ulster had a fairly large Protestant Majority forcing them into a United Irish Free State was not going to bring peace The British were about to try it before WW1 stopped Home Rule and a load of soldiers were literally saying they would mutiny the 6 counties became a non starter in 1922 to a free and peaceful Ireland

@danny100ization

Жыл бұрын

@@wargey3431 yes maybe so but the treaty was bad from the start , left us in the north abandoned

They couldn t attack again. They never left.

1690

Henry Wilson wasn't "murdered", he was assassinated.

As an Irish person I can agree that year was absolutely heartbreaking for us 😭💔

What utter lies lol

Yeah fight your own was better choice??? Disgrace

@perhamill

Жыл бұрын

It was the only choice

@perhamill

Жыл бұрын

Better than letting the British slaughter thousands again

@anthonymaher7196

Жыл бұрын

@@perhamill no it wasn't. Its what Collins chose. Should never have signed the treaty

@wargey3431

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonymaher7196 he had no choice but to agree to the treaty And apart from for like 2 or 3 clauses it had broad support 6 counties one of the clauses was never going to happen Not having the king same And not swearing allegiance was also never going to happen He was being forced to seek peace at home as well at times an unpopular compromise is better than a popular war

your last name is holden its am English name u do no this dont u

Is that makeup or are you just that tired

Yeah and the famine was genocide

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

Unlike the genocide of mothers and babies in Ireland. What term do we use for that?

@eithnamurphy8288

Жыл бұрын

@@williamc6564 Fuck Off is what I personally use

@eithnamurphy8288

Жыл бұрын

@@williamc6564 piss off

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

@@eithnamurphy8288 Classy answer. Thanks for proving the point of what you really are. C -harming U-nique N -ice T-alanted.

@eithnamurphy8288

Жыл бұрын

@@williamc6564 oh stop Willie

BRITS OUT OF IRELAND THEY LEFT ONCE LET EM DO IT AGIAN BOYSSSSSSS

fantastic 👏well done 👏

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

The saddest day in irish history is the day Dustin the turkey retired.

Very interesting thanks for uploading

Think the great hunger was the most sad story in Irish history.

@williamc6564

Жыл бұрын

More sad than the death of mothers and babies in Irish run institutions and dead babies hid in sewer tanks? I suppose the British were the blame for that as well.

@anthonydonlan3140

Жыл бұрын

The republican movement would have dismantled the Roman Catholic church, if possible, because it would mostly admonish uprisings from the pulpit.

❤️‍🩹

@davyholden

Жыл бұрын

💚

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