The True Story of the Irish in Boston | History

[@ryannolan7122]

I’m Irish and I love that Boston embraces their Irish culture love from Ireland 🇮🇪x🇺🇸

[@gumby8274]

Welcome anytime

[@johnleed6774]

Too bad they [State of Massachusetts] don’t really embrace their culture well enough, I mean Boston does but not other areas that were historically touched by Ireland. Half of Massachusetts should be able to speak Irish Gaelic since there’s actually more Irish living there than in New York and California combined, sadly only Boston does but not the other towns, cities, or neighborhoods like the so called “most Irish town of MA”: Scituate.

[@zyx7478]

Although I am American I have more relatives in Ireland than I do here in the United States, my family originally came from Cork.

[@crs19191919]

@@zyx7478 Cork is great. I'm a Cork person. Come on over there's nothing stopping you

[@zyx7478]

@@crs19191919 God Bless Ireland 🇮🇪 and Cork. I do hope to go there before I pass on to the next life

[@zyx7478]

I know people from Massachusetts are not fond of New Yorkers, But as an Irish American from New York I still feel a kinship with Boston Irish. We are Irish Americans have had a very interesting history

[@brianbrady4496]

I'm from Boston. I always respect ed my NY brothers

[@notmyname9625]

Honestly it isnt even like that. There will always be a rivalry between the two cities but we actually got mad love for ny out here we just know that we got better sports teams… and pizza… and pretty much everything else. Aside from disagreeing on those few things we like ny tho.

[@barbaravance6774]

Too weird. My Great grandparents all hail from Ireland. 1/2 from NY and 1/2 feom Boston. Best of both worlds.💕🙏🇺🇸

[@JackNapier420]

You're still both not Irish. You're Americans.

[@inconnu4961]

@@JackNapier420 LOL Thank you! And you are NOT Irish, you are British! Cheerio!

[@VirtualFeats]

Thank you for sharing this. I am trying to learn more about Irish people in America. Sending love from Ireland 🇮🇪 liked and sub

[@catdooley4616]

As an Irish American, I hate to say that most that I know are now part of those that oppress others and are very racist.

[@barbaravance6774]

Lovely to hear. I know many Irish dislike or even Hate Americans. I know bloodlines mix and many people have 1 ancestry they pick as an over riding choice. But, many of us, our Great Grandparents etc. Are pretty dated Irish. At least many East Coast Irish. I did my DNA test and wss pretty shocked at how Irish I truly am. I thought I was 3/4 Irish. Because one of my Great Grandfathers came to the US via Germany. Come to find out, 98.7% Irish! 🤯 It's intestinal how many American-Irish love to learn of Irish history. But, rarely do I hear the opposite. It's really great to hear! 💕🙏 from 🇺🇸

[@inconnu4961]

@@catdooley4616 Care to offer some examples? If you are willing to be open-minded you will find hatred & racism in every community! I lived in black communities as a non-black person and it was there. I know blacks who have lived in Latino communities, and they experienced it there. it is part of the human condition and no one is immune to it!

[@crazychicSHENA]

I am 7 generation Bostonian from South Boston Massachusetts and have lots mix irish🇮🇪🇺🇲🇬🇧🙏😇 blood ancestors Dating Back to Colonial Boston☘️ Thank you so much history channel for this Get video Documentary.

[@RonnieBlueeyesOfficial]

☘️🍀

[@Macatac68]

Thank you Julie for sending me to this film , we just celebrated St Patrick’s Day here in South Boston 2023 and it was a wonderful day hundreds of thousands of people of all nationalities enjoyed a great day to be Irish , our ancestors would be proud of what South Boston has to offer , what a lucky man I am to live in such a wonderful place, Southie is My Hometown

[@LisaNH934]

☘️ love to the Boston Irish ☘️

[@chrisquirke5235]

In Ireland now,glad you prevailed.

[@BigPapiCapone]

My Irish ancestors immigrated through Baltimore and Long Island, New York, not Boston. Still respect how Boston imbraces thier heritage.

[@notmyname9625]

They were likely different waves of immigration. Most of bostons irish arrived earlier than the rest of the country. Ship rides from ireland to boston were cheaper than any other city during the first waves of migration. Once prices evened out amongst cities immigration did too. Boston had a massive amount of irish immigration but it certainly wasnt the only place they were going.

[@enishalihoward8119]

Lol you know I’m Ireland they dislike Irish Americans and don’t consider them to be real Irish 😂

[@dangercat9188]

​@@enishalihoward8119that's why they say they're irish AMERICANS and not just irish from Ireland. I'm not irish descended but I get what they mean. It's like me, I'm a Hispanic American but in latam, people don't make a big deal about this. I still speak Spanish so they respect me. It's usually the ones that don't speak Spanish that get some mean looks.

[@Declan_Moriarty]

love to all my irish americans!!

[@simplyamazing8902]

the Irish immigrants are my hero's.... I never knew they were in enslaved too.... or oppressed.. I Love Irish people! Irish and black people have common heritage.. history of discrimination and injustice...

[@fredeaston3988]

Very true. The soulfulness of both peoples in the face of hatred is an inspiration

[@billcostigan6520]

Same with Italian

[@uzkhan9803]

What about the Native Americans??

[@simplyamazing8902]

@MsMissy depend on your prospective!

[@simplyamazing8902]

so true!

[@Berkannon1]

Please keep coming to Massachusetts. I love my Irish Neighbors and family. ❤

[@LisaNH934]

☘️☘️☘️

[@gatheringleaves]

My Irish ancestors immigrated to Jamaica and Montserrat (the OTHER Emerald Isle) still interesting to see the Boston experience

[@mjjp97]

My family landed in Boston from Cork in the 1840's and never left. Regardless of the gentrification.....we're not going anywhere!

[@trippy2910]

I used to hate being irish, im from boston but now i respect it

[@JohnDoe-rt4jz]

Hmm, well I learned something today. Thank you history channel, and thank you to the Irish!

[@oisincole8477]

Your welcome

[@fradrake11]

Go raibh maith agat

[@gattenk]

The pleasures all mine

[@thelunarsimulationleague]

I love how boston makes the irish culture part of there's!!!!!

[@mikeserrano734]

What if McGregor was a leading activist rallying his Irish people to fight back during this time?

[@i_know_youre_right_but]

….. What?

[@Mihiro-o9u]

I’m Japanese but I have interest for Irish immigrant culture so this video is precious document for me.Thank you.

[@chrisquirke5235]

Good for you ,I'm glad stay safe and well this new year

[@justinfresnido3860]

Ows I see... That leprechaun and four-leaf clover at TD Garden! 🍀

[@RonnieBlueeyesOfficial]

Charlestown. Somerville

[@crs19191919]

Too bad USA is no longer a democracy. Maybe we can return the favour. Come to Ireland and relive your country's lost freedom

[@crs19191919]

@Chad Mcchad no your not your financial slaves. Even middle class families go bankrupt if someone gets cancer. You're not free atall

[@crs19191919]

@Chad Mcchad sleepwalking to extinction

[@crs19191919]

@@juice8431 Your an oligarchy. A few wealthy control all prosperity and make write the laws. You vote when they want you to vote

[@juice8431]

@@crs19191919 Democracy isnt perfect. That is the case for America as well. We do have a problem with giant co-operations influencing our democracy but compared to the struggles some of the other democracies go through I would call myself and America lucky. You talk as if America is like the Netherlands or south Africa in terms of wealth distribution, nah bro, We have one of the largest household incomes in the world. I am proud of my Irish heritage but I love my country even more

[@crs19191919]

@@juice8431 America is the 4th worst inequality country in the world. The difference is Netherlands has a true democracy not influenced with bribes or as your law makers call them lobbying. You have a law that allows your leaders to be bought by anyone or thing. This is not democracy atall.

[@PODSMPSG1]

Pahk the cah at the bah that's fah from the yahd.

[@whatsgoingon07]

STEVE P it’s not fah from the habah

[@inconnu4961]

@@whatsgoingon07 Sadly we dont hear this accent much any more.

[@411chronicles]

I love history i always read history books it inspires me alot finaly i found a channel which is giving me satisfaction.. I also make videos on facts and figures and have made channal for this purpose..wish me luck for my success.

[@TheCarolSong]

I was born in 1945. My grandmother professed to be English all her life. At my father's grave at age 96 I found out for the first time that my grandparents were tinkers and ashamed of it. My Dad who hated everybody had all the slang words for every ethnicity. I was raised to think english. Too bad. In my twenties in Boston I was helping someone find an apartment. stopped a man on the street. Did he know of any place. With a thick Irish brogue he said conspiritarially, well darlin, people use realtors to keep out the "Coloreds". Yep that's Boston in 70.s

[@eirelullaby6374]

Tinkers you say? Thinkers were hated by most other people as tinkers were known for making stuff out of tin. Tinker is a descrimitive slur.

[@TheCarolSong]

@@eirelullaby6374 Duh

[@eirelullaby6374]

@@TheCarolSong and theres other slurs like knacker pikey mink. The group your grandparents belonged to is Irish travellers or Irish gypsies. Im also one.

[@TheCarolSong]

I'm a musician who loves improv. I love the gypsy way of teaching music to the children. They gave them an instrument and they played along. Best way ever to learn music. It's in my blood and I teach that way myself.

[@eirelullaby6374]

@@TheCarolSong well the gypsy way of doing things will always be better thats why were hated its not just music but our way of living is also better be proud of your heritige i can assure you if your grandparents where still living in Ireland they would have been here to see us all come together and climb up through forms of wealth as for the hatred be a little less be a easier life then they originally had Godbless them and i hope that the life they made wherever they went was more accepting.

[@groyper6567]

“Maguire’s lasting political legacy is showing that the Irish people, or really, any immigrant people, can have a home here and that they will have a political voice.” Completely wrong if that were true than this documentary is irrelevant hence it seeps to a “average level” for an immigrant. Wrong, Irish immigrants actually created something…

[@L1vR-1948]

thanks 👍👍 :-)

[@RonnieBlueeyesOfficial]

North end is Italian. Southie is Irish ☘️ 🍀

[@adaav7959]

Wait? Does anyone know the story of Timothy Lynch and Michael Ryan? Did they die in the hands of the police? Also is there full version of this documentary?

[@paddysmith461]

We’re are the Irish American in Boston’s now days ? I went to southie and wasn’t manny about

[@Sean-jc6cu]

In the surrounding areas...some still live in Boston though

[@trevor_phillips213]

I thought the North End was the Italian neighborhood

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Irish Catholics were there before the Italians and then it became an Italian area

[@neuroseptember1020]

Yeah it was Irish first. Just generally a historic immigrant neighborhood

[@fredeaston3988]

It was Italian but it got gentrified. High end yuppies now.

[@Z33-t6d]

Basically every neighborhood in Boston was at some point Italian/Irish or still is lol

[@anthonytokar3961]

Same with NY

[@Tacoman1967]

Go Celtics!!☘️

[@raphlvlogs271]

back then the Irish was not considered a part of the white race.

[@kadenelijah9329]

@@juice8431 That’s simply not true. The Irish were treated very poorly but not as badly as African Americans

[@GODHATESADOPTION]

@@juice8431 absolute fact. The irish were the first slaves in 1619

[@T0mat0_S0up]

@@kadenelijah9329 Umm the Irish were treated as badly as us African Americans…

[@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344]

@@kadenelijah9329 Yes ye got enslaved ( still treated badly) while our people were r*ped and slaughtered for no reason other than our religions, language and rebellious warrior personalities in our own country, ethnic cleansing was a common thing in Ireland until the 1860s. And then upon fleeing we were faced with more shite from the American public system. We weren't considered white, and we don't identify as white because of it. We are Irish

[@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344]

@MsMissy Ahhh Black's were enslaved. I don't know what rock your living under scan

[@troyevitt2437]

This didn't start with a Dropkick Murpheys or Flogging Molly song? Sacrilege.

[@nikolavukicevic6925]

MCGREGOR!!!

[@aubreylindsey1206]

I'm Learning About My Ancestry (I'm Irish American BTW And This Is A Great Way To Learn About Ireland And Some People's Irish Heritage Including Me And My Dad's Side For Example)

[@RevivedPromotions]

Watch the film the wind that shakes the barley starring cillian murphy

[@inconnu4961]

@@RevivedPromotions Thank you!

[@italishgirl5601]

Slainte☘️

[@andrewlally7828]

Those cops would probably have been irish themselves

[@Sean-jc6cu]

A small percentage yes, but the majority of them were not Irish until the 1900s

[@ToquzOghuzKhaganatekhan]

I always go with Irish gangstas to russian clubs 🤙🤙🤙

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

The irish☘️❤

[@Cornflakes234]

Worker’s rights unions all founded by Irish men.

[@hoytdavis8667]

I promise you all it went nothing like this

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Cillian?😆 1:31

[@MarkMcLaughlin-qj9ed]

"The True Story…"? It was with ward boss Michael Matthew Cunniff (1849-1914) alliance that Hugh O'Brien became the first true Irish-American (O'Brien was actually born in Ireland, as was Cunniff) mayor of Boston. O'Brien's election would never have happened with out the alliance with Michael M. Cunniff. Why this massive ommission? It's been in the public record for almost 150 years now.

[@MarkMcLaughlin-qj9ed]

Michael Cunniff was a personal advisor and confidant of Hugh O'Brien's. It was both he and Maguire who approached O'Brien about running for Mayor. And again, O'Brien would never had beome mayor without the help of Cunniff's. Irish-American's should really learn to care more about their history. This glaring omission on the part of the "The History Channel" constitutes a lie, and not the "...True Story..." that they proclaim.

[@mithrandirthegrey7644]

The true story is that we're a bunch of drunks who like to watch football and brawl.

[@admiralbirdcrap661]

I'm making cabbage and fried potatoes right now.. Leprechauns eat 4 free.. 🌈

[@alexojideagu]

Where are the Aliens?

[@paulhughes4790]

You’re only Irish if you’re born and bred in Ireland! This ‘Oirish’ thing in the US is ridiculous! You’re AMERICAN..that’s it!!

[@kratosboy5557]

Alba your fellow Celts

[@scandalouschannel]

RonnieBlueeyes

[@williamlouie569]

Now the Irish discriminate others minorities.

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Every ethnic group as a whole discriminates but it doesn't mean everyone in that ethnic group is racist...

[@theflyer68]

Can it Nancy

[@crs19191919]

Do the American irish really discriminate?

[@Cybernetic800]

Every group has idiots in it.

[@zyx7478]

As Irish Americans we should never discriminate because I know my grandparents suffered terrible discrimination. We should all be mindful of the past

[@ToquzOghuzKhaganatekhan]

And italian gangstas

[@RonnieBlueeyesOfficial]

☘️🍀🇺🇸

[@ToquzOghuzKhaganatekhan]

Yankee Yankee

[@RobertK1993]

Irish Americans fought American Revolution American Civil for patriot US army both wars

[@JamesDCornette]

Boston math 26 +6 = 1

[@warrentv9902]

firat comment

[@panterafanloco1600]

Did you know that the Irish weren't slaves but slave owners? Yeah, that means that the Irish Americans are also guilty for their participation of the slave trade.

[@LisaNH934]

So are black people - ALL over the globe. What's your point?

[@ToquzOghuzKhaganatekhan]

And deutsch gangstas

[@eoghanceallachain7041]

Tf is that accent

[@rahmatillah1616]

Second comment

[@dawnhock4545]

You can’t count at Patrick’s day silly

[@Raven-ne9cg]

Lol what

[@ibrahimchip6252]

So the Irish were the muslims back then, i mean struggling

[@zeytun4290]

Most Muslims in American upper or middle class

[@dawae2162]

Not that comparable i think, back then the reason to hate catholic was down right silly. And overall catholic and protestant still a christian belief. Different with islam that many still has strong backlash againts it. And the forming of isis and taliban didnt really much help.

[@inconnu4961]

@@dawae2162 Not as silly as you would think! The Catholic church considered protestants to be wayward (there is a better word for this, but cant recall it) Catholics. it was their intent to bring protestants back to Catholicism, by force if necessary! So, the fear & mistrust was real & palpable. Not a trivial thing! The catholic church WAS the super power back in the day.

[@JosephWax]

Love the german,italians americans, Got to love them Jews. Cant stand them boston irish.

[@ciaranmaguidhir7858]

Why?

[@mjjp97]

Boston, namely the Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods, had the largest population of Jews outside of NYC till the 60's and they lived side by side with the Irish without problems. Then they got blockbusted.....

[@thebloodroseofengland4203]

Back when the US was based af

[@JosephHolness-u2m]

Those cousins; FROM BOSTON...

[@4houndswhoheal479]

Wrongly titled. There's a 'little' bit more to Boston Irish History than 'one man ran for mayor'.