The war of independence started in Tipperary and the Civil war ended in Tipperary..

This was Robert Kees documentary I believe broadcast by the BBC,another similar documentary was produced by ITV,the ITV documentary was more factual.

A Great show, but they don't seem to mention Gaelic Ireland much do they? Pre Vikings.

English are stupid. My uncle was in Kenya/ They only knew how to bully and punish. I think they are a bit more human these days. The executions after the 1916 uprising only caused more resentment. Stupid government. Brutall repression in Kenya didn't do more than postpone the inevitable. Mind you - if they had to execute someone, it could have been deValera who mis-maged Ireland for decades. My opinion/ Michael Collins was a hero; de Valera was not.

Recently found out I was part Irish.

onward christian soldiers a common hymn used by protestants was ironically written by a catholic priest

Can't stand the 2 of them

and now its 2024... the new plantation of ireland is taking place, by traitors from within

😢😢😢😢❤IRELAND FOR THE IRISH PEOPLE GET OUT AS USUAL YOU LOT !!! UP IN WINDSOR CASTLE OR UP A CASTLE . SO FAR OF YOUR AROGANCE AND BULLSHIT WITH YOUR OWN OLD KING OLD HENRY T 8TH SO CALLED DEFENDER OF THE FAITH BROKE THE TRUST OF THE HOLY CHURCH AS HENERY'S DEVORCE TO QUEEN 1 😂 ENDED IN HIS EXCOMMUNICATION BY THE HOLY FATHER .... THE ELECTING OF THE HOLY FATHER BY CANON LAW THE POPE IS BY DEVINE RITE DIRECT DISENDENTANT FROM THE FIRST POPE PETER .. SAINT PETER WAS AN APOSTLE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Faith , Glory Be To our LORD ..... AND SO IF THE POPE. HAD HIS WAY THE KING OF ENGLAND WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED BY A FRENCH CATHOLIC FAITH TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH = BY HIS EXCOMMUNICATION WAS A DEAD KING IN WAITING, ONLY FOR THE SINS OF HENRY TUDIOR WHO WAS ONLY by the grace of his New version of Christian ✝️ faith PROTESTANTS FAITH ONLY TO HAVE HIS 5 OTHER WIVES .... ONLY TO HAVE A GIRL 1st BLOODY MARY AFTER THE ANOTHER Girl and a Weak Boy who was barely alive to RULE... only to die as a boy king THEN THE 1ST VIRGIN QUEEN was A HORRIFIC BITCH 💔 TO THE IRISH PEOPLE 💔 , GOD DAMMED THE QUEENS AND KINGS ALL WHO RAN OUR IRISH LANDS, SO THAT 1 DAY IN THE 1800'S TO FORCE IRISH TO STARVATION OF AL.OLD IRELAND'S PEOPLE WERE 8.5 MILLON ONLY AFTER THE GREAT HORRIBLE FAMMINE KILLING MAN WOMEN AND ALL THEIR CHILDREN DYING IN THEIR HOMES 🏡 😢😢😢😢 THIS WHY WE STILL HAVE MEMORY'S OF OUR GRANDPARENTS PARENTS PEOPLE OF STORIES OF THE GREAT HUNGER AND THE DYING OF ALL IRISH CATHOLIC PEOPLE... HEARTBROKEN 💔 😥 😔 😟 🙁

It always amazes me how we are viewed by the English as this problem land and how will be deal with it its such a problem for us. What a load of utter nonsense. Imagine if you never invaded in the first place imagine if you never committed Genocide in Ireland not once but twice 1649, 1845-1850. England created the problem over and over again the majority of Irish people never ever wanted to be ruled by the English and its nothing to do with Religion its to do with self determination.

People shouldn’t fight about differences in religion. But they always do.

Clongoes woods. Jesuits. That's funny like guy faulkes was not a Jesuit. The problem with Britain and Ireland is not Catholic and protestant. It's Jesuits and Mason's. They triangulate ,blackball each other in order to divide and rule. Shitheads. With no concern for real people.

Good series with some flaws but this episode is almost a total whitewash. The penal codes were no joke in many many places in Ireland. For a LONG time.

Thank you so much for sharing this series. I vaguely remember watching it with the family when I was a child. Much better now I'm old enough to understand it.

To think that our closest neighbour who helped us thro a world war north and south and we couldn't come up with a compromise says alot about the ruling class not about the working class who in general have more important things to worry about on a day to day basis than what side of the divide they found themselves on its been done for years divide and rule shame that peoples eyes could not be opened to the real ememy to me they were all used and are still being used to others ends

The Church...is Corrupt as Hell...And i can prove it

i am an old man and i remember this time. i can never forgiver the british dserting peaceful demontrators.

Truly weird. This is not a history of Ireland but a history of England's opinon of Ireland. Start getting perturbed whae the script goes on about the makeup of the Irish which is described by reference to blood rather thaan DNA,

Bullies And Brigans...Threatened by All the Facts of...only Injure themselves....In Attempting to Obscure and Negate The Brilliance of....Thru the only Pathetic Tools they have....The Devils Dealings of course!

And So too The Very High Kings

BTW...The Irish And Ireland is a Land of Saints and Scholars🥁☘️✨️👍✨️☘️

So A: Respect your Fellow Citizens as Citizens...And B:Respect international Law.Oh I Know "it's A "NEW PLAN"....But Facts Are..it's Either That...or A Complete WASHOUT!

Consider The Offer of "international Law" Gracious....Or Select your Calamity!ideas?...search the O.T. there are Lots!

Happy Canabis Day!🇨🇦📂🫂🌎👍☘️🥁✨️

Don't Like it?/I Don't Care

Here's The Solution...Respect international Law

Demonstrate to me The Kindness of Any " British King"...and I will Call you a Liar./Such is The Lot of The Irish./The Crown Cares only Ultimately for itself.

1980 so easy. Ireland is losing its white identity. Fast.

Those are not Union Jacks; they are Union flags. They are called "jacks" only when they're at sea. This is how much the English know about their own history.

47:06 "Hey, Father. I bet you can't say the word 'adultery' 30 times in your next homily." "You're on!"

praying this saves my a levels 🔥

35:38 I love the combination of horror and jolly upbeat medieval music.

The root of the problem is absolutely early British colonization, and the centuries of typical racist propaganda justifying such colonization by demeaning the colonized as "savages" needing to be "civilized", same BS justification again and again, especially coming from England.

I don’t blame the people that were not happy about the Free State and loyalty oath nonsense. I think it was done on purpose by the British who knew full well what would happen. A last parting embarrassment by a pedantic, stuffy bunch of jerks, who cared nothing for the Irish people except as cannon fodder for their wars. On another note however the Irish were not ready to be a real modern republic. We saw this when they let the Catholic Church have free rein over their country for decades. A reaction, of course to being denied their religion in prior times. Just a mess all around

I’ve often wondered if the Phoenix Park murders were carried out by provocateurs who did not want Home Rule to succeed. Certainly killing a Gladstone relative and an Irish Catholic was at cross purposes to their stated cause

God, Ian Paisley’s voice makes me want to vomit and I have no dog in this fight. I’m American. Although I am from Appalachia so Paisley unfortunately is probably Scots Irish like many of my ancestors. I’m ashamed

One of the most harrowing episodes I have seen in any documentary series. Aloha 🍀🙏🏼

Very interesting discussion of the penal laws and how the State turned a blind eye to violations of the religious laws. Aloha ☘️🤙🏼

Sean Tracey one of the best...

In the future ryan would go on to take big bonuses and paul would go on to stand by knife wielding thugs like nkencho and murderers like steo wall

At 49.29 Harry Besumont says K Company were responsible for the looting of Cork. He was actually in K Company (Auxiliaries Division RIC) but it shouel be supposed he didnt know thr papers would eventually be released.K Coy was broken up which is why he was sent to Dublin to F Company. The K company was also involved in the nurder of Csnon Magner prior to its disbandment. .

Around 16 mins how the Catholics were chased out of the shipyards in Belfast. Very sorry , it is very difficult or probably impossible to accept the Protestants from the northeast into Ireland. So fuck off back to Scotland. There is fuck. All of you left now.

I think it fair to say while Ireland was officially neutral in action it accommodated the Allies. Especially after America came into the war

DeVelera was anti Free State till he was elected in control of it. Then DeValera turned on the IRA

Europeans went too the Great War like lemmings. Because it was the ‘right thing to do’

The American colonial gentry were aware how the Irish were treated. Once the American war of independence was begin they knew how the colonial subjects would be treated if the war was lost!

Cromwell’s New Model Army was Europe’s first professional army.

Man, watching this over here in Canada. Just jaw-dropping what the Protestants were allowed, by the British, to do the the Catholics for 70 years. As to the response that became the Troubles, how can I express my feelings succinctly? I think Chris Rock said it for me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmWvnX2EfLd8pcUsi=-qPZf6xGUjykx92p&t=319

35:20 What humbug. The Crown is nothing to these people but the means to an end. It's the tool they've used for three hundred years to maintain their privilege and shut Catholics out. It only worked because the English had the same bigoted attitude toward Catholics as they had, and the minute it ceases to be effective in that regard, you'll see just how "loyal" these people actually are. Because at that point, they won't change their minds to be "loyal" to what the Crown tells them to do-they'll flush it down the toilet and try to declare Northern Ireland's independence. At the end of the day, the ONE thing, the ONLY thing that really matters to them is not having to share power with the Catholics or risk being under THEIR thumb. And that's it.

28:26 What a fatuous old idiot. Why did they give a job that important to anyone that vacuous, oblivious, and stupid? No wonder things turned out the way they did.