03 The Irish in America: Long Journey Home: Up From City Streets

[@margaretbright3988]

I am so proud to be Irish. We Irish will always look out for each other jo matter were we live world.

[@aprc1977a]

I always knew the Irish played a role in shaping the United states of America. Growing up in the 80s in Dublin when times were hard and even more so outside the City, there would be endless stories of people emigrating to the US. over the years. But I never knew they played such a huge and vital roll in it's history. They built America, they fought for their lives in doing so. They reached the top in all parts of society and NEVER forget their roots. Brilliant documentary. Very proud of them

[@leighbeec]

I am so proud of them! I am so proud of my Irish ancestry! The Irish have never had it easy, but they still manage to smile and their "quick Irish wit" never fails to make us all laugh and feel good.

[@richardbullis6263]

Really everyone comes after the Native Americans and Africans. Wasp took from everybody. Think about.

[@jennifergalberth1240]

BLACK BUILT AMERICA.

[@jennifergalberth1240]

Irish rode the wave

[@odonnabhainiverssen5006]

Jennifer Galberth Not mutually exclusive, two or more things can be true at the same time. We are discussing the Irish experience of a specific man, Mr. Smith, here and not interested in your race exclusive revisionism. What are you doing today to make your family and community better? Internet trolling to attempt to divide Americans is a pathetic endeavor. If you want to support or advance African Americans you don’t have to diminish another race or ethnic group’s contributions.

[@kenreeve6549]

Lovely thank you . from an Irish lass in France

[@LordPeaceFrog]

Al Smith's story is an incredible one!🍻

[@paulazemeckis7835]

Both of my grandparents immigrated during the great immigration in 1909 and 1919 from Lithuania. Went thru Ellis Island and settled in the Lithuanian neighborhood in Chicago. Love clips like this albeit heartbreaking.

[@elizabradley4797]

Hard Times. The Meat Yards & Horrifying Discrimination ~ God Bless Them ~ My lineage is of the Famines ~ 12 year old orphan shipped to Pittsburg ~ She is my spine when I get weary ~

[@aprc1977a]

"Oh danny boy" always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I suspect it does for most Irish men and women and particularly those who had to leave here to find a better life and long for a return one day to the land their forefathers left behind. I always think of my beloved grandmother who used to sing this to me when I was a young lad.

[@rebeccalankford2652]

It is a romantic longing. It is not based on realities. You can never go back. You can only move foward. It is not land per say as it is family ties, values and a sence of community. They left the land due to British land owners and blight destroying potato crops.

[@darlatc1169]

Especially when my Rosemary Clooney sings it !

[@colinhalliley111]

Many families would raise money and choose one to go first . You hoped to see your family again but knew the odds were not good. To leave everyone behind was heart wrenching during the famine .

[@christinalock9937]

Please keep these videos updated every year we must not forget history

[@katnip198]

Thank you for this wonderful, interesting video.

[@IrishDescendants]

Brilliant, just brilliant

[@miriamasimmonds3878]

❤❤ Thank you. I of Irish descent who migrated to Australia then on to New Zealand. My father who married my mother of Maori tribe of Kati Mamoe from the South Island New Zealand 💕💕 proud of my ancestory from both sides.❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing 😊

[@raleighburner1589]

Hard breed the Irish very hard working nice people the world would be very boring with out that small island that Is Ireland

[@georgeloquvam2550]

well done, thank you

[@BlackRose1101]

Just the intro to this brings me back... the FBI Warning... I miss VHS

[@sissyrayself7508]

Part 1 of this series was too heartbreaking me, I couldn't watch that.

[@matthewj0429]

As a Protestant Irish American the part about Ale Smith changing the names on the train list really got me 😂😂😂😂😂

[@thomasluczak2868]

THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD. LOOKS PRETTY GOOD FOR VHS.

[@jenniferwarnock1294]

Didn't know all this about Al Smith, very interesting!

[@VMA225]

Grand; Isn't It All Grand, Now !!!

[@user-cy4vw1qj9m]

Brilliant Documentary

[@janeathome6643]

My forbears abandoned the Democratic Party after the Al Smith lost. The bitterness was real. The dark side of tribalism.

[@christcurley8161]

That vidios for me get better the irish will mAke it anywhere if they cant get over it or around it or under it if they fail they will go trough it thays the irish for where there is a will there is always a way i again thank the people for the chance to learn about the history when they where dieing in there100from the potato blight they went over seas we learn trugh the vidios thank you

[@paul1x1]

I'm not Irish but I've been there it is a beautiful place almost at times surreal and they do like a drink but the Brits if you're ever over the pond you have to go drink with the English to whom projectile vomiting is a sport it is an amazing thing to be in the middle of a modern European city watching people throwing up to make room for more ale

[@izzymeadows1748]

paul1x1 your ignorance and generalisation of the uk is gross. Your prejudice, disgusting. How dare you... you are no better then the people who's discrimination and stupid views cause holocaust . Ignorance and generalising a nation is hateful and causes nothing good.

[@paul1x1]

zoe benson I can only tell you what I experienced to me England is the drinking capital of the world pints shorts the east of Europe the Baltic states and Germany are a very close second but watching people on the high street as they called it on camera because there were cameras everywhere cops loading their vans or trying to ascertain levels of inebriation jail or home oh and curry on French fries at one o'clock in the morning it was fun to visit

[@izzymeadows1748]

paul1x1 then you have experienced very little of the UK Paul and need to educate yourself. Visit Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Dorset, Yorkshire... to name a few places, then make your call. Every country/nation has people who 'let the side down'. If I was thick and believed proper-gander, I would have believed that all Irishmen get drunk, spend all the wages at the pub, throw it up and then confess their sins on Sunday..... thankfully- I know better then to be narrow minded. My heritage is Irish/ English btw... my great grandad was Irish, fled Ireland- and yet I judge no nation as a whole.

[@paul1x1]

zoe benson okay boss I'm telling you about my experience in England I meant no insult and I'm sure you're right about the rest of England tea only

[@Meemeeseecoo]

Agreed. I've been to Ireland and UK... the English put Americans to shame with booze.

[@debraperez7171]

unless you are a shareholder or head a corporation I have no idea why anyone would disparage efforts to raise the working Americans at least to earn a wage worthy of their labor, have a safety net against the collapse of the companies they work for as well as the the collapses ( yes collapses as in plural) of the economic system.

[@dante040]

worthy of labour is a loaded term. if you will work for a wage then that is what you are worth. the term is known as the market value of labor

[@TheMrhycannon]

The big chiefs get their big salaries and big bonuses every year.. They could be spreading that around to the workmen/women who are the real reason for the success of the companies..

[@toddsmith4735]

Mrhycannon, that's not how it works. You can believe the tooth fairy is coming but in all reality you must do for yourself.

[@noraemma6809]

I grew up in the Fifties in A small town great time but then we were to go to America But thank god I Could listen to A Irish Hour On the Radio And loved the Irish songs I would be Back home I missed it so much But we Should keep our Songs Cause that’s all we have All my Family from Ireland Are gone to Heaven except my Two brother I miss Boston when I came to Boston In the Fifties I loved Boston Nothing like it scollay Square Filenes Basement I loved Dresses for two bucks I have to put my Spuds on for Supper Two Spuds and Sweet Stop and Shop peas Love them Hated the Irish Peas. Funny I’m kinda fussy with food Love to go to Dorchester to get Irish Sausages And Cream puffs And green hills Bakery I love Dorchester But I live in Salem as my family live her So Salem and the Witches Did you know They looked for Papish As well as Witches too Brigid Bishop spoke Gaelic so the Puritans Hung her I don’t think there was many Irish in Salem Ifvthey did the Went to see

[@noraemma6809]

went to sea

[@casper98204]

Maternal grandfather was right off the boat from County Cork.

[@steveweinstein3222]

I get the bitterness because of the nastiness when Smith lost, but it was as inevitable in 1928 that, no matter whom the Democrats nominated would lose to Hoover, as it was inevitable that, no matter whom the Democrats nominated in 1932 would defeat Hoover.

[@Irishpaine]

Ireland is the 52nd state boyo

[@adamhauskins6407]

Irish Paine what's the 51st?

[@vivien2088]

The McCourt's!

[@CarlosGutierrez-ef2pd]

33:50 wow such elegance

[@flex3580]

What states have the most irish and what percent have irish heritage?

[@Meemeeseecoo]

New England mostly... Mass, Maine, and I think Rhode Island have the highest percentages in the U.S. Although Chicago & New York City have a massive amount due to the large population of those cities. Philly has a large population as well but there's way more Germans in Pennsylvania than Irish.

[@BlueDebut]

There are quite a few Irish here in Arizona

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Massachusetts...and Middlesex county is the most Irish county in America or at least it was for a really long time...my family is from Lowell, MA

[@jennifergalberth1240]

Washington State

[@Unborn-Stillborn]

@@jennifergalberth1240 really ? Washington state has a lot of people of irish decent ?

[@casca1964]

I challenge anyone to check out the real facts of the Irish in America and not think that this was not the real place that gave them a break

[@danpatrick9080]

You'd think the Irish only came to NY...

[@LazlosPlane]

A word about Barney Fagan and Chauncey Olcott would have been appropriate.

[@sammavacaist]

Russell brothers cancelled! Wonder if they whined "people cant take a joke anymore!"

[@timrobinson7519]

I wonder if Al Smith had become president in '28 and if the Market fell the way it did in '29 how would he have handled it guess will never know

[@steveweinstein3222]

With a lot more empathy than Hoover, although that's a low bar.

[@조금성-c8n]

제가 조금 있다가 자야 되어 멈추고 다음에 다시 보겠습니다.

[@PhiloAmericana]

Well, they certainly did better here.

[@charleslynching]

27:23

[@staticintheattic1984]

21

[@gardenglory6624]

this was so interesting, but then the whole documentary started to get really boring. Who was ths smith guy anyway. ?

[@karencole2584]

On

[@OldTexasRed]

What the hell does that even mean?

[@lilytreacy9795]

7

[@kellyjustus]

al smith plug. democrats plugged. I thought this was about the Irish

[@aquastar4336]

..... that's what history based programs typically do. You know.. report facts of history.

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Irish Catholics were overwhelmingly Democrat because that was the main party who helped them. Republicans tended to discriminate against them

[@johngilmore6688]

@@Sean-jc6cu Is that the same under DJT?

[@richardbullis6263]

Correction nobody had it worse than Africans. 400 years slavery and oppression, and still we hope for reparations.

[@aquastar4336]

.... Native Americans were killed off in the millions. Their numbers are still low to this day. They live their lives on impoverished reservations.

[@sissyrayself7508]

I'll buy you a ticket back to Africa.

[@patsyoconner9506]

correct me if i am wrong but were not the Irish banished to some parts of the West Indies as slaves before they brought the Africans there

[@joebyrne3159]

@@patsyoconner9506, they where sent to alot of different countries, worldwide, children working in the cold mines in America too!

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Who said we had it worse than anyone? Funny you came to a video our history to say that. Anyway, our struggles cannot be compared and it's not a competition.

[@bobbymoore9224]

I just wish the Irish would stop voting for the corrupt Democrat out of tradition from the old days like their parents and grandparents. Other than that I like the Irish and their culture and traditions and sympathize on how badly the British treated them and then the Protestants here in America.

[@lmtt123]

I'm Irish and this is just paddy wackery by yanks

[@davidcross701]

57:30 socialist BS

[@sissyrayself7508]

This entire thing is a little bit too left leaning for me.

[@carmelmulroy6459]

How is it socialist? Do you think we should go back to being serfs? Have our kids working in factories from the age 7. Poor people back then had no rights . Bosses could even hire private militia or a police force that could shoot people and they got away with it. It was like people owning other people. Disgusting. Part 2 of this series is very interesting

[@pearlobrien2274]

I am an old women. My Grandma Marie immigrated From County Cork to the Hills of Virginia. When my mother and I would visit grandma would bake cream puffs. So good . Grandma always told me, " There are two kinds of people. Them that are Irish and them that wish they were." 🤗

[@patsykitko2293]

Amen

[@3monsters014]

What I have always seen in the USA it's those with native heritage and those who wish they were.

[@richardbullis6263]

Or really I like the Kennedys who are Irish.

[@cindyobrien9270]

Truth!

[@jenniferwarnock1294]

Your granny was right! Irish and proud!

[@philt5329]

I am an Italian. They had it rough. But nobody had it rougher than the Irish. Those poor starving parents and children from the Irish Potato Famine. That was real tough to watch. Then to come to America and get treated like that. People think they are tough. The Irish are tough! I am very happy for the Irish and all immigrants from all nationalities who came to America to make a good life for themselves! They should use this series as required viewing in the education system. Phil Canada

[@jamesscott7944]

Hey Phil as an Irish i feel a special connection with you Italians due to our similarities in culture

[@Mrpachuko13]

Phil T unlike now, immigrants then, would pride themselves to assimilate towards the American way. there wasn't any signs in irish language hanging in stores or streets. everything was in English. now everything is in Chinese and Spanish. and they don't attempt to assimilate at all. plus immigrants have privalages and more rights than American citizens. it's not even equal

[@adamhauskins6407]

Wrong the wasps had to get Europe the start in North America

[@3monsters014]

Are you serious nobody had it rougher then the Irish haven't you heard of slaves

[@jimflynn7785]

Thank u for your kind words phil,3 little children from my family died within 12 weeks of each other of starvation, and were buried in skibbereen in a famine graveyard,with many others,may God bless them all ,and shame on those who helped it happen.

[@finn6861]

So well done-This was the period my grandfather came to the US-joined the military 1917 raised a family in New Jersey.Such a rare treat to be able to see some of the sights he may have seen.US on it's way to reach it's peak.Al Smith was born too soon we need him now.

[@SixxFootThree]

So I'm guessing that it's safe to assume that Al Smith and not FDR was the ''Father of the American Progressive Movement''?

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

When I was growing up I was always proud to be from England and I still am. I’m now in my 50’s and just learning that I have a large number of people in my heritage that are Irish. I have an entirely new reason to be proud. Lol

[@DaveSCameron]

Good comment

[@ohno2112]

Right off the bat ! BROOKLYN IRISH !

[@susankenneally4618]

So interesting to see the progression of someones entire life from this era ( al smith) with so many photographs and film footage. I had never heard of him before.

[@michaeltoohey1385]

Previously I only ever read of Al Smith in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novels, otherwise knowing nothing of him, this documentary is an enlightenment.

[@frankknudsen842]

He had been an uneasy ally of Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt, had stumped for smith for governor & president. During Prohibition he was soaking wet as they'd say & hated Prohibition. Between that & being an Irish catholic was more damning than anything else . For that he never got president. Franklin Roosevelt stumped for smith for president which smith lost,but got Roosevelt elected governor which ,Smith thought Roosevelt would take a backseat while smith pulled the strings. Roosevelt fired everyone on smith staff once got elected . There's more but thats the condensed version

[@brettmanley4944]

The Irish. White, Christian, English speaking immigrants largely thought of as another race. They lived in the crummiest tenements and worked the lousiest jobs. And they were despised for it

[@tammythomas860]

absolutely love these videos. As a descendant of irish immigrants, it makes me feel so connected and proud of my irish heritage. I have never learned more about this topic than I have from these videos.

[@doriemckay6935]

me too Tammy Thomas... its gteat to binge watch them all.

[@annemariewillingham7949]

Great to learn about the history of the irish, how ignorent the youth of the Irish is today, some how it's it's important that they know about the history of Ireland take it serious, they are the ancessestors of there families and country, At Least Pray for three Souls RIP

[@cherifew3485]

Amen I agree so whole heartily! I having been the granddaughter of a full blooded Irish Grandma, I having had a Great Gramma who spoke the Irish Gaelic! When my Gramma was a small girl my Great Gramma cleaned for rich folks!

[@lindadeal3344]

God bless the Irish and the ScotIrish both great warriors and men of the United States!

[@TheDustysix]

.....Corned beef, cabbage and beer......

[@TheSophiedoyle]

Is that a metaphor used to describe your daily life? You knuckle dragging ignorant sack of shite go research more about us Irish before you waste more of my time you ass biscuit!

[@xyz12383941]

+Sophie Doyle Can you be a little clearer?

[@padraigkavanagh1663]

NO ONE in Ireland eats that shit

[@TheDustysix]

I'm in Florida.

[@padraigkavanagh1663]

read my name...where do you think i live...i eat bacon every week....have NEVER EVER seen cornbeef and cabbage being eat by ANYONE in Ireland.

[@travisbickle8748]

Have to give it to my brothers and sisters who went to the States, they really made good on their efforts.

[@elizabradley4797]

I cannot believe these pictures of the shanties in Central Park ~

[@MagicMarker447]

Good video, just wish they would spend less time on Al Smith. I'm not sure he was really as good as this video make it sounds. Many of these policies he enacted were a complete disaster for poor New Yorkers, but this video makes it like he never made mistakes.

[@edhartgrove7552]

Let me see if I've got this right. At (somewhere around) 16 minutes into the video, it tells the story of Al Smith's father's death. It said that Al Smith, at the time of his father's death, was "not quite" 13. Then, it goes on to talk about Al Smith's mother, and, what she was going to do, with 6 children at home. It said, a young Irish widow, 24 years old, with children at home. So, she was 24 when the husband died. And, her son was "going on" 13? That means she was 11/12 years old when she became pregnant with her son, Al. My, my, my! How things have changed.

[@crochetwithapril]

Edward Hartgrove That was a story about a different widow. She said, my grandfather never knew his father. So she wasn't talking about Al Smith.

[@3monsters014]

Babies getting married was all to common in many cultures and still common in parts of the world

[@rebeccalankford2652]

Girls were married off when they hit puberty, started their period. That was, at that time, the transition from child to women. It is a shame that this happened and still happens across the world. As having children young, to young, limits the education of both mother and child. A mother cannot teach what she has not learned or does not know.

[@davidasher8718]

This is great!!! If you play it in reverse you can make them go away!

[@ericpanissidi6761]

Irish heritage, American born. I only have 1 child, i know not anybody, that has more than 4. The time for dirt poor neglected families of 10 are over. I am lapsed catholic.

[@walterkelly]

Oh How I Wish There Was Still an America Oh how I wish there was still an America, Where me and me ma could call home. It would be a place so sweet, so lyrical, Me poor pa would cease to roam. Oh how I wish there was still an America, With jobs and land and every meal is a feast. With no fat capitalist landlords to tear at ya, Where a man can drink and fuck and fight in peace. Oh how I wish there was still a land of hope and opportunity. Where all men are equal and willing and able to raise their own to be free. And in this land I wish, I wish, oh how I wish it could be, That all men were green-eyed, crazy-wild and funny and Irishly Irish as me.

[@Jaycub_Hess]

Do you know the title of this song?

[@Jaycub_Hess]

It's beautiful

[@Peterhistoryman69]

God love the Irish, a frase i heard in a movie is it an real expression? ❤

[@Gatsby_OW]

This isnt a rickroll

[@ByGriPhone]

The Irish only looked out after themselves and when they fell from grace, others didn't want to look out for the Irish

[@DaveSCameron]

FREE BORN MAN IF THE 🇺🇸

[@irish89055]

the postman should be ashamed of himself... and I assume he died by the time Kennedy was elected... Educated Irish knew it was not time yet for a Catholic, Smith was a poor choice and a throw away candidate.. the economy was booming, no Democrat could have been elected. I fly an Irish flag each St. Patrick's Day..

[@macpduff2119]

Smith wasnt Irish. His father was Italian and German

[@richardbullis6263]

His mother was Irish.

[@davidpryle3935]

@@chuolchuol363 He grew up in an Irish district, and was very much identified with the Irish. I suppose that’s why. Apparently a lot of Italians and Germans voted for him though, because of the connections on his father’s side.

[@lumpy0100]

Thanks vhsclassic90s.:)