The Life of a Fenian On The Run

[@sandidavis820]

Davy, your history lessons are the best. I really appreciate them and all the work you put into doing them for us. Thank you, Davy

[@davyholden]

Thanks so much Sandi 😁

[@ZooScott]

a lads a lad fir awe that aye . 🫡 ta : 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💞 🇮🇪 …….

[@Fenian1213a]

Davy, this is by far the best produced piece you have offered to date. The extra time you used paid off. Keep up the good work.

[@davyholden]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that 😁

[@morgainedepolloc4161]

Thank you for these videos. This is US history as well as Irish history--and we don't hear much about it here in the states. I enjoy the videos on the old Irish history as well--helps me understand when and why my ancestors left for America. And the ideas and culture they brought with them.

[@davyholden]

Thank you so much 😊

[@MsLovieGirl]

Excellent video. You are a great teacher. Thank you!

[@davyholden]

Thank you so much 😁

[@chuckyx934]

Little fun fact. The Ballina Stephenites in Mayo were named after James Stephens.

[@davyholden]

Yes indeed. And James Stephens GAA club in Kilkenny

[@Indigenous-Rights]

Spoke my first Irish poetry in public at the Feis there.

[@Truffle_Pup]

A gem for you friend, if you care for it - listen to Farewell to Tarwathie by The Ballina Whalers. Don't cry.

[@aidengranahan3598]

I'm was born in Kilburn London and spent my summer holidays in Crossmolina and Doodaun bringing my young family back this summer for there first trip and I plan on going up Cro Patrick for my first time. Really looking forward to it and to doing some research on the Ballina Stephenites 👍

[@chuckyx934]

@@Truffle_Pup I will when I have a chance too. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

You're a wealth of knowledge young man. Absolutely fantastic..

[@marikatrt2480]

A really interesting story, thanks for telling it to us. Your videos are always very interesting. Thanks a mil sharing them

[@davyholden]

Thank you!

[@camilelcoyne]

Marvelous video! I love this longer format and the production quality is top notch. As always, your presentation puts it over the top and makes your videos so compelling. Fine job, well done, and I'll look forward to what comes next.

[@davyholden]

Delighted you enjoyed it! Thank you so much 😁

[@remydaitch9815]

Brings tears to my eyes to think about all the brothers that fought each other in the American Civil War.

[@larrydee8859]

Thanks again Davy, for another great, fascinating history lesson; This is really fascinating, because of this time period, of the Irish revolutionary movement of the 1800s, in both Ireland, Europe, and the US. As always, your history lessons are great!

[@davyholden]

Thank you so much!

[@the_hazel_nut]

Once again, fascinating stuff! Thank you, Davy. I am learning so much.

[@davyholden]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@kid--presentable]

In these particular times in our beloved country I am very glad you are doing the work you are doing .. god bless from drimnagh.. the fight is neigh

[@davyholden]

Thank you pal!

[@lukeconnolly5709]

@davyholden, do you know how old Diarmuid Hurley was when he was killed in May 1921? He was the Commandant of the 4th Battaltion 1st Cork Brigade IRA that was wiped out at Clonmult.

[@melodymacken9788]

Brilliant, brilliant and brilliant. Rotorua, New Zealand

[@davyholden]

Thank you 😊

[@Jen999]

Incredible video.. Davy.. the ethereal beginning is epic.. the bird song.. the dynamic background music., the poignant silence.. awesome way to begin a video.. And as you are walking.. showing the house where James Stephens was born.. was haunting as well as historic.. This video literally brought on the goosebumps.. This man worked very hard .. and things just seemed to work against him.. his life was sad.. especially at the end .. Lesson learned.. maybe he didn’t do everything he wanted to.. but he did what he could.. he did his best.. Btw.. must have been grand to know the school you went to was attended by many Irish heroes.. This is an extremely excellent video.. one of your best, I would say.. you indeed have a gift in videography.. thank you for all the hard work in making this.. your work.. and you.. are much admired and appreciated by us🌹☘️ Jen999💜💙

[@davyholden]

Jen, thank you so much! Really delighted you enjoyed this one. I really want to improve my KZbin videos in 2024 and this was the very first one. Hoping I can keep improving my content here and just get better and better as time goes on 😁

[@Jen999]

@@davyholden Davy.. we believe in you.. this one was excellent.. and we are confident of seeing more in the future.. your work is first class all the way :)☘️🌹

[@remydaitch9815]

I did not know the Irish tricolor borrowed the pattern from the French. As a Franco-American I have ALWAYS stood for a free & independent Ire.

[@davyholden]

Yes indeed. We have the French people to thank for our beautiful tricolour 😊🇮🇪🇫🇷

[@davidpryle3935]

Personally, I’d much prefer the traditional Irish flag, of the golden harp on the green background. I do accept though, that the tricolour has developed it’s own momentum.

[@spirit1259]

"A missing piece of the puzzle" My great great grandfather was the captain of the state ship Catalpa which gave chase to Fenian Irish political prisoner's aboard a whaling ship in what was the first jail break recorded in Western Australia from the Round House prison, a converted whaling station and first building built in the colony, he was reprimanded for not catching the whaling ship and blowing it out of the waters, as his orders stated in what was a far superior and cannon armed vessel to that of the U.S whaler, in recent years letter's have emerged between the captain of Catalpa and the Fenians and revealed a lifelong friendship between the two. ( My Irish ancestry can be traced back on both sides of the family over 400 years to County Clare where records end due to fires) Kim Torpy nee Congdon 💫🙏💞

[@zipperzoey2041]

Absolutely fascinating. Great contribution.

[@MarieRyan-ym3bv]

Love everything you do Davy thank you so much 🙏🇮🇪🙏🇮🇪🙏

[@tylermcafee1081]

Another awesome video. Thanks so much.

[@davyholden]

Thanks so much!

[@isabeauseaghdha9265]

I like the new, longer format, and the information provided was new to me. Thank you!

[@davyholden]

Delighted you enjoyed it!

[@shaneshankly4518]

Excellent video thank you for your work 👍

[@cjdgod7]

Brilliant video, very informative. Thanks for this

[@juststuff930]

Excellent work my friend. This has been thoroughly researched and well presented. Keep up the good work!

[@jefferykubitz4510]

Interesting Irish history. I like learning about this history.

[@phillipnoone8044]

Fantastic! Thanks for putting this together!

[@gfg890]

Really good video and I liked your adjustment of the historical info on the plaque and your quest for accuracy.

[@SectionSixteen]

I love your fast paced presentation. I'll want to see the video again to absorb more, but I find that a brisk telling of a story actually makes it easier to get the overview right away. Then I can rewatch the video, taking in more of the details. Also, I like that you walk us through the setting of the story. The other visuals that you provide I also appreciate. You deserve a growing following. ☘️

[@garygallagher7269]

That was class 👏 well done

[@davyholden]

Thanks so much Gary 😁

[@AndreaPick]

Excellent, thank you.

[@stefbaxter]

This is excellent and well told. Thanks.

[@thomasseery7570]

Always good to see your videos Davy. Very informative and interesting ☘️

[@fergusbroderick3291]

Nicely done.

[@davyholden]

Thank you!

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Davy Holden the history man, your videos and very interesting and full of the best information that can be understood very well, excellent and very well done

[@johnphelan8300]

An excellent presentation delivered with impeccable research. You are to be congratulated.

[@peterallison-ex4yy]

Another amazing video Davy and a great insight to a lesser known part of Irish history covering a large era of events in such a short Video. Go raibh maith agat 💚🇮🇪🍀👍

[@jofasable]

Great video, thank you Davy

[@johntracy1369]

Brilliant story ..loved it

[@jaydunno8266]

Maybe a segment on Fighting Tom Sweeny and the Fenian raids on Canada.

[@mylesomahony5651]

Many thanks from the great great grandson of John O’Mahony here in the U.S. from what I know, John was a colonel in the civil war, ran a Gaelic newspaper in NY and published a translation of the history of Ireland. Interesting person. I might be wrong but as I understand he gave the Fenians their name.

[@carolynlindstrom7232]

My great great grandfather was part of The Fenian Brotherhood. John James Clancey. He raised 13 children, along with my grandfather, who lost his parents at a young age. He worked into his 90’s.

[@ATLmodK]

Are you still selling workshop tickets? I ended up missing the last one, due to family stuff but deeply appreciate the materials that I’ve been able to go through! Do not want to miss the next one 🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚☘️☘️

[@davyholden]

I surely am! They’re on my website right now 😊www.davyholdenhistory.com

[@Vincent-dx1vx]

Excellent video very informative keep up yer good work

[@joewelsh8979]

Good man Davy, good shtuff!!

[@davyholden]

Thanks Joe!

[@brianfeely9239]

Excellent work. Thank you.

[@baselsh100]

Davy you're some man for the history lessons, i studied some of this for the leaving cert but I must say you've done an even better job than most, keep up the good work! Excited for the upcoming video :)

[@seanohare5488]

Well done big bad Davey Holden

[@davyholden]

Thank you buddy 😄

[@adrianhutchinson2894]

Great video davy keep up the good work pal

[@davyholden]

Thank you Adrian!

[@dexocube]

Excellent history lesson, thanks

[@seankeating9717]

Class video man.

[@karukun0212]

Man, are these incredible. Appreciate the detail--so much to learn and be proud of. I have 6 direct Irish-American ancestors that fought for the Union in the several war, 2 of whom died in combat. I have often wondered what the atmosphere was surrounding their service. The stories of my ancestors and those of your listeners through the ages are all over your presentations.

[@davyholden]

Thank you 😁

[@thelolguy007]

Great video Mo Chara 👏🇮🇪. You’ve earned a new subscriber here

[@zipperzoey2041]

Great video. Could you do a follow up on the Fenian raids on Canada?

[@davyholden]

Absolutely!

[@mastermark24]

I'm not sure if you have already, but you should make a video about the hellfire club, I once went there and there's a story about it's history

[@lisaryan7500]

Thank you for making this video. I appreciate learning the lessons of the past. I am an interested " historian" of sorts, who's been working on never before read, stash of Fenian Brotherhood letters for the past 3 years. I have Just finished transcribing all 144 of them. I would like to go back through and see if I can not find anything that matches the dates you mentioned. I have letters from him, and I have an according of him in America. Are you familiar with the great Irish fair? It was one of the most successes of it's time, and raised over 50,000.00 dollars. James Stephens worked along side the Deputy Chief (Henry O'Clarence McCarthy) of the FB in America. I look forward to anymore history you have to share from this era.

[@quirkygreece]

Good Man, Davy. Keep it up.

[@cainebarrettduggan5337]

I found out i'm related to Austin Stack who's father was William Moore Stack, the fenian

[@carolynlindstrom7232]

He may have known my great great grandfather. John James Clancey who was part of the Fenian Brotherhood

[@homestead44]

That was excellent.

[@jocklynch8911]

Great story David

[@davidquinn7898]

This is great stuff davy!! id love you to do one about after the signing of the treaty more so about what happend in the north of Ireland (if you havent done it already and ive missed it)

[@noelbyrne8735]

Great video Davy. I don’t remember them covering this in History class when I was at Kieran’s 😂, god forbid they might have in-stilled national pride in the students that attended there…. Then again, I might have been mitching the day they were teaching about him. Like most Irish people I’ve learned and continue to learn more about our history reading books outside the national school curriculum and watching videos such as the this. Keep up the good work 👍.

[@nigelhamilton815]

Good content well presented.

[@Slievenamon]

My Grandfather was a member of the Old IRA 7th Battalion Kilkenny Brigade, the most active in all of Kilkenny. They were based in the West Kilkenny area and part of South Tipperary. Looking at what Ireland has become now, it was a waste of time. How long more will Native Irish people even exist ?

[@wreckfestman1600]

The fenian raids into canada are what lead to Canadian confederation. Also The wreck of the lady elgin is a really interesting story from this time period.

[@CDev2184]

Great channel

[@malkydow4359]

Love from the north of Dublin

[@skyking8420]

You are really catching your stride young man!! Great video and production! Keep it going!!

[@davyholden]

Thanks so much 😁

[@TheNoreen59]

Just a comment on why Irishmen in the US got involved with the civil war here. At the 5:40 mark you mentioned a couple of theories. The actual fact is that the Confederacy instituted the draft in 1862, followed by the Union in 1863. The Irish in NYC engaged in one of the biggest riots in the city's history. They did this because, as usual, the more wealthy families could purchase a proxy to go in their stead. After the war, Tammany Hall turned into one of the most corrupt governments in NY. Google Boss Tweed for that info. I love your videos by the way❤

[@alexrivera716]

I saw this in the movie gangs in New York. Where they rioted. Your right

[@simonwood1402]

Your presentation style is very good keep it up 🎤 📹 😊👍

[@lillywildflower]

Oh! William smith Obrien….. I have seen the name on records called the William smith Obrien appeal? The names are supporters I believe and contributing $$. Is it same to assume that someone who contributed would be a supporter of the IRB? Thanks. Asking because I have family members mentioned

[@blackdeeplake]

Very good thank you.

[@berniefpsmith1]

Davy: Are you an engineer? You seem to be wearing an Engineer's ring we wear in Canada. Great videos, too, so thank you

[@nigelglassey4838]

Thanks

[@james-83]

Have you done anything on O’Donovan Rossa yet?

[@paddyt4043]

Empty stomachs and Empty pockets , and people say we owe the world something.

[@cruelycruel1032]

Thankyou

[@Puca_Patchworks]

my left ear enjoyed this video

[@patrickduffy2744]

I named my son Fenian

[@mikemcdonagh2049]

I like your content bro.

[@taproot381]

I used to get bothered that all the “ movements “ in Irish history ended in failure but then I discovered that all the main players were Freemason agents working for the crown which had created the movements in the first place.

[@ProudChieftain]

Outstanding comment.

[@washerdryer3466]

Lol. So Daniel O'Connelll was a Freemason was he... Get off the internet you clown. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@genevievedolan1288]

They didn’t really fail, given what they were up against, and in that they formed and reformed until they actually succeeded in forming the republic.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

​@@genevievedolan1288Not really. They failed because they constantly did not have popular support. 1798 for example was primarily a bunch of presbyterians with a dubious view of Catholicism whilst the British government was willing to concede Catholic Emancipation with Union. Most of them were led by protestants which did not make it exactly popular.

[@genevievedolan1288]

@@johnnotrealname8168 yes, it is very complicated, more than my comment suggested, mostly I just wanted to get away from the sometimes thinly veiled attitude that Irish rebellions were almost comic if not completely pathetic in their constant failings. After all the republic exists.

[@cd87104]

What happened to the prison gaurd/worker?

[@tangerinedreamer50]

He stole the $26000 flag and got knee capped

[@stansirlmkhope2312]

The Scottish are Irish who couldn’t swim. Me Da told me that wee funny line

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

Interesting. As a Glaswegian born to second generation Irish I was never taught anything about this in my Catholic school education.

[@thepm3972]

Green white and orange. Every day is a school day. Thanks bud keep it up

[@Loppy8]

Good job.

[@jimmccormack7507]

The best of the best 😊

[@jonathanborchardt891]

How about John Devoy?

[@noctisthehumanslayer777]

Lordy, they pulled a Pearl Harbor but on Canada. I'd say they should've done what the chinese did and hide in the mountains instead and resupply/gather more men, buuut given how they were too blood thirsty for english blood...probably wouldnt have worked so well.

[@kratosboy5557]

I refuse to Apologise for my Gaelic Heritage even if it means my death

[@magpie6648]

Jasus lad, slow down the commentary.. it's not a race😅 good video though, well put together..

[@davyholden]

Sorry man 😂 I'm working on it. I'm terrible for talking very fast. It's a bad habit!

[@bullseyeify1]

Long live the Fenians

[@ThePurpleLlamaGetsIt]

That was grand

[@jmo8525]

Davy, I know this sounds crazy but given Stephens' actions over the years, do you think there's any possibility he was a plant all along? Heading up a rebel group in 1858 after the failure of the 1848 one, that outs those in the population who would want to join who have just watched over a million of their own people starve to death and at least another 2 million flee for survival. The British always had to keep an eye out for Irish rebellions and after The Great Hunger, they must have been well aware of the heightened danger against them that was triggered on a large scale amongst the Irish population and possibly, preemptively, come up with ways to thwart a future rebellion. Either by creating an organization themselves, or infiltrating a real one, IRB, from the start, so they can control it? Given Stephens always managed to escape capture, except the one time he spent two weeks in jail before being broken out, and his actions in the U.S., promising year after year a rebellion that never happens, under his watch anyway, to eventually just go home? Why lie about going back to Ireland then stay in New York. Was he there to control the movement and string it along with the end result that the timing for a rising just was never the right time? I don't know. So much of it doesn't make any sense and the British had spies in Ireland and America to watch the Irish in both countries and infiltrate the Fenians in America to thwart the movement after the famine. My g-g-grandfather was IRB, my grandmother's grandfather. She talked about him. He was involved in the 1867 Fenian Rising in Limerick, was arrested, charged with treason-felony, and deported to America, not allowed to return. He settled in Chicago. I found the record of his arrest in Irish records, I have a photocopy of the written log book of his arrest. Under the column that says "Specific crime charged with", it is written, "Levying war against the Queen and attacking Ardagh Barracks".

[@kevinluby4783]

Ever consider your g-g-grandfather could have been a Crown plant; Stephens definitely wasn't.

[@jmo8525]

@@kevinluby4783 No. My g-g-grandfather was not a Crown plant. He was arrested, charged, convicted and deported. He was only 19 and nowhere near the leadership of the movement. He lost his country, everything he knew, and never saw his parents again. And what is your problem exactly? I was looking at it from an objective, intellectual, historic, perspective. How do you know Stephens wasn't? He may not have been but given his actions and inactions, some of them inexplicable, it is certainly worth asking. Wouldn't you want to know either way? You can't defeat your enemy if you think they can never get one over on you. The Brits have done this through the centuries, and unfortunately quite effectively. I was asking the question based on Stephens' actions as a leader and the actions of British Intelligence at that same time in history, in Canada and inside the U.S., planting British spies inside the IRB-Fenian movement. Stephens obviously may not have been, but to never ask the question given his actions and repeated failure to launch the rising he himself called for seems a bit neglectful. There are many examples but have you never hear of Henri Le Caron, a French, Fenian Republican high up in the organization, Clan na Gael, inside the U.S., the sister organization to the IRB? He was in it for 25 years, connected to the dynamite campaign in London that was organized out of Chicago in the 1880's. One day Le Caron showed up in London in 1889 to testify in the Parnell Commission against Charles Stewart Parnell that Parnell knew of the campaign of violence against Britain. Oh and his name wasn't really Henri Le Caron. It was Thomas Miller Beach, a British spy who had been under cover spying for British Intelligence for over 25 years. He initially entered the U.S. from France in 1861 during the U.S. Civil War under his fake name and fake nationality to spy for the Brits against the U.S.. Great Britain took the side of the Confederacy, the South, in the hopes the Confederates would win and the British could break up the United States republic, a republic that did not serve British imperialist interests. It was also British spies inside the U.S. govt. that maneuvered and manipulated the U.S. into WW1, (Colonel House, top advisor to Pres. Woodrow Wilson, and longtime British spy) and WW2 for British interests which were the total opposite of American, isolationist, anti-imperialist, anti-British, anti-foreign intervention interests. And my U.S. govt. has been doing the bidding of the British corporate imperialist, world police project, ever since the end of WW2. That is the total opposite of what my county was founded on and for and against our American interests. But it certainly has served theirs. Pardon me for looking at how they operate and where they have been successful in thwarting both of our republics. But if you don't investigate where things have gone wrong and who and how and why, you never get to the other side. Don't let blind emotion override thoughtful, intellectual, patriotism.

[@alfredroyal3473]

And if you call someone a Fenian bastard the polis in Scotland huckle you. Funny old world.

[@grlfcgombeenhunter2897]

For what died the sons of rosin I’m sure if our leaders seen Eire today. They probably would’ve stayed in bed 🙏🏻🇮🇪🙏🏻.

[@grlfcgombeenhunter2897]

Canada that’s a mad one bud.

[@KyleTheShaman]

💚

[@gailday7636]

Amy you are going to come home❤

[@unojayc]

But independence would come without violence like Canada or Australia. Look at Wales ,, I'm. Welsh and happy being in the Union with England , Northern Ireland and Scotland. They are our compatriots. We are brothers.

[@zipperzoey2041]

Each to their own. Ireland was only ever held in the Union at the point of a sword, musket, gun and cannon. If Scotland had kept control of its North Sea oil revenues instead of westminister it would be sitting on a sovereign wealth fund the size of Norways by now. Also a million people were let strave to death in Ireland from 1845-52 while Britian was one of the of most industrialised and wealthy countries in the world at the time. By late 1700s 95% of the arable land in Ireland was in the hands of the British while the natives were pushed into serfdom by the penal laws.

[@terrymurphy3269]

Indigenous people would disagree about the violence

[@MelanieRuck-dq5uo]

'Only $500'? A century and a half ago, how much was $500 worth in today's money?!

[@danielalexandermclachlanga3781]

brilliant work Lad tha story line / life of Stephens is kinda comical not quite a hero , not quite tragic and tha way Ya tell and film helps with seeing how Stephens life was tha Guy inspired , showed a path Slainte from Escoyondy , Ontario Canada

[@davyholden]

Thanks so much buddy 😁

[@gailday7636]

Amy❤ I'm not going to give Up On you❤