QI | Name A Saint From Ireland

[@SeafoamBoi]

0:45 How strange that I discovered the first Gamer Girl Bath Water in QI of all things.

[@KitMcIntoshSJ]

Dammit, can't get away from Belle Delphine comments anywhere 😤

[@biggiefish8223]

St.Belle Delphine

[@xandermichels8336]

belle delphine ain’t got shit on this saint, fellas stay away from thots and stick with saints, they give you beer

[@aseemsharma4964]

St. Belle does have a nice ring to her. Uhh

[@user-ln2go4xp6d]

@@xandermichels8336 the simps buying that bathwater are the thots, not her.

[@nissangtr6772]

I love how amazed Stephen is at the Irish education being so catholic I'm 15 and Irish and mine was very similar to daras

[@dearbhlaryan]

Nissan Gtr I'm 23 and same!

[@memisemyself]

I'm 56 and mine wasn't like that, I suppose it depends on what school you went to. I learned none of those stories.

[@realGeorgelucas18563]

Did he read Alive-O?

[@kitkatmulan2333]

Me too. I'm 14. My primary school principal was a racist cunt who once told everyone in my class who wasn't Catholic that we should move school.

[@SoulessNinja]

That isn't racism, you can't be racist against a religion. Please learn what racism means instead of doing the popular thing and apply it to every instance that you do not agree with.

[@lexigrimhaive]

I love Alan with his longer hair!! It’s so adorable. :):)

[@Halinspark]

Ooh, I know! Saint Ó'Briain of Megabus!

[@barbarajoseph-adam8337]

Halinspark Patron of Monsoon Poultry Hospitals!

[@BlueBagger83]

Patron saint of penis sausages!

[@chelseafcrocks82]

Hahahahaha top comedy

[@jessicalee333]

Those paintings of Saint Sebastian really do look like Alan!

[@blueraven3315]

Saint piran (patron saint of Cornwall and tin miners ) came from Ireland.

[@jmorrison230582]

as did St Columba, who introduced Christianity to Scotland.

[@jacobcurrie9033]

jmorrison230582 Do Go On podcast?

[@thelogicofcheese90]

@@mrspone1000 Nope but St Columba told the Loch Ness Monster to clear off and not eat any more people as well. Strangely Thats the first historical recording of Nessie.

[@India.H]

St Piran, patron saint of Cornwall, came over here from Ireland, floating on a millstone across the sea. Still faster than travelling down the A30 as well 😂

[@chokinonashes61]

Indi Heaton 😂😂

[@India.H]

chokinonashes61 I presume you live in Cornwall so can sympathise.

[@mrspone1000]

was he sainted for inventing pasties ?

[@amyshaw893]

@@mrspone1000 i believe he was sainted for throwing a rock onto a fire, and making liquid metal come out of it

[@williamfullofwood7421]

Matthew Shaw making tin come out of the rock cos it was melted.

[@tim.a.k.mertens]

I went to catholic school for my entire education before university, and we barely learned about any Saints, it's a little disappointing actually. I love saint stories.

[@NegativeAccelerate]

Lol I remember being thought about St Brigid. I was like 8 and asked my teacher if it was real cuz most ppl can’t do that. She was like “if you believe in it it’s real”. I got rly confused

[@octaviancaesarhibernicus4447]

Unfortunately for us in Ireland a lot of the ancient pagan stories were co-opted by Catholic Rome, that's why you have these crazy stories around our saints, to be fair this happened everywhere.

[@oskarmartin6486]

So if it were a pagan woman who could turn bathwater into beer that would be totally sane?

[@jeetking1157]

Oskar Martin he’s not saying that at all

[@Kitiwake]

A lot are legends... And all baptized in Christ are saints anyway.

[@moccus3466]

@youcometome9 no, it's just irish myth and most of celtic myth for instance alongside germanic and norse myth at its roots are more odd and unbelievable than what Catholicism will have you believe, they just toned their eccentricity down because it would challenge the concept of God as a whole and create the risk of people idolizing their ancestors

[@caralama08]

Octavian Caesar Hibernicus Do you mean “corrupted “???

[@thetooginator153]

The trick to getting points on QI is to not answer anything unless you know not only the obvious answer (which is always wrong) but the obscure answer as well.

[@scottetanner]

Rich always looks like he is having a bad day.

[@Maximillian-Tiberius-Rex]

and instead of crushing the fecker with hand and getting on with his day. Daira is so funny

[@richardw64]

My eyes were glazing over, just like Rich looked.

[@matthewnewell4517]

The Welsh patron saint is actually from Wales. The others weren't born in the countries.

[@tashazalinski5250]

24th of august?! that’s both mine and stephen fry’s birthdays!

[@daithiokeeffe7444]

And mine!

[@Kaziklu]

St Brigid wasn't a real person.. she is a Goddess that the Irish refused to stop worshipping. At best there was a lady name Brigid and the church said.. well lets just say she did all these things, call her a Saint and give her the same holidays and purpose as the Goddess Brigid. If we get them drunk enough they won't notice.

[@WesMontrose]

Happy to see someone bring this up. Also not an uncommon practice when bringing catholicism to new cultures.

[@bingola45]

See 'Easter' and 'Christmas', for instance.

[@lohphat]

See: Mother Teresa "Isn't she wonderful!? She did all these great things for the poor!" Um....no. She didn't.

[@theRhinsRanger]

They did it with all our ancient customs, from Scotland

[@kylenetherwood8734]

In Britain, Romans built churches over Pagean shrines to force locals to pay respect to Christ. They also changed the gods to saints like you mentioned about Ireland.

[@TheHutchy01]

Dara and St. Kevin are opposite ends of the county Wicklow calmness scale.

[@angrytedtalks]

Yeah. St. Pirran. From Ireland, washed up on the beach in Cornwall.

[@jean-lucwalker3690]

st Bartholomew was the apostle nathanaël, bar-tolomai meaning son of tolomai.

[@mrspone1000]

was he gay too ?

[@michaeldukes4108]

Spone Mr ... No, stupid.

[@kirkhamandy]

Don't be silly, St Sebastian looks nothing like Alan Davis but does look a lot like Jonathan Creek :)

[@thomasblethyn9639]

I know this is old but, if you look at him in this photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Sebastia.jpg/215px-Sebastia.jpg They do look quite similar.

[@MrBizteck]

Thomas Blethyn google Jonathan creek m8...

[@garethaethwy]

0:11 St David (Wales) is from Wales.

[@tairneanaich]

That's because Brigid was a goddess, but the Christians made her a saint to facilitate the conversion of pagans to christianity- she has all these amazing powers and stories because she was from a whole separate religion

[@ByrneMJames]

kiara woolfe that's popular opinion but its not true. We have an indigenous concept of feminine divinity that wouldve carried over during conversion 1500 years ago thats true. Noone qualified ever said the goddess called The Brig was the same as Saint Brigid though. Thats too simple and the idea is around because unqualified people heard we have that concept of the feminine divine and thought that the names look similar. The two cults arent the same. The Brig was a goddess of a mountain people called the Brigantes. The Saints cult is in the flat wetlands in the plain of kildare. There are no water reeds in the mountains, the saints cross is all made from reeds. The stories about The Brig and The Brig is about Law, Hunting and mourning. Shes a jurist in brehon law, she invents a way of communicating through whistling when hunting and she invents keening when her son dies. Its what youd expect a goddess of a people who had to hunt and gather because no farm land to be like. The saints medieval cult was about typical generic female traits then. Minding cattle, minding the house, brewing beer, abortion, conception, beauty. Its all over emphasized femininity. Stuff youd expect from people who deliberately had a female saint instead of a male one.

[@Kitiwake]

And.... The probably sacrificed babies to baal before they became Christian. In fact human sacrifice was common inre Christian Ireland.

[@spencerkindra8822]

"Der's more to oireland den dis!" Alan partridge anyone?

[@guywilcox736]

How's The Edge?

[@eamonahern7495]

No we'd use the correct vowel. We'd say "der's more t'Ireland dan dis"

[@johnmc3862]

Dara O eh…Briain

[@mizofan]

Not only was St Patrick Welsh but St David was born in Wales.

[@xotan]

Iechydd dda!

[@RasPutintheGreat]

From Shelter is St. Bernard came from.

[@jaredlind2888]

1:00 😄"croosh the fecker"

[@specialized29er86]

Who's the guy on the sticks, farqing priceless.

[@aegg9915]

The picture Alan was on about library.bc.edu/venetianart/items/show/1563

[@binaway]

Patrick was a Romano - Britain. The location of his birth is unknown. It is often said Wales or Iona in Scotland but given modern England occupies most of Roman Britain there's a good chance it could have been there. But that wouldn't make the Irish happy

[@garyleonardteacher5162]

Some say he was French

[@glensargent647]

Doesn't that make him roman considering Britain was around back then.

[@binaway]

@@glensargent647 Probably. But I still don't think Irish Nationalists would like it if his birth location is in curent day England.

[@Burn-nf3fo]

It was wales. The English want to change his origins but it was always wales.

[@lngvly22]

Sounds like Irish children spend as much time learning about saints as British children do on kings and queens and Americans do on founding fathers

[@_Saracen_]

I think it depends where you went to school, I never got any of that. Though my Secondary Education/A-Levels/High School was at a catholic school, it wasn't really hammered into us, we had a religion class but it was kinda half arsed and didn't just focus on Christianity. To this day I couldn't tell you much about the church. I'm of a few generations after Dara though.

[@Burn-nf3fo]

Primary school, yes. Secondary school, not so much.

[@corcaighogormghus4618]

St Brendan

[@eligibbons2155]

0:40 Isn't that just Dido (mythical Queen of Carthage)'s backstory but with God?

[@MysteriumArcanum]

Wouldn't surprise me, Christianity "borrowed" a lot of stuff from Greco-Roman and other Pagan religions

[@Karma-qt4ji]

So the patron saint of England is in fact Palestinian? Nigel will be well pissed when he hears that.... :P

[@TheClassicWorld]

Muslims think Jesus was a Muslims, Christians think he was white, in fact, he was a brown-skinned Jew, and to top it all off, Jews don't believe in Jesus. Just remarkable, only humans could be so stupid to invent all of this tripe.

[@ismail3913]

Warhammer Workshop actually Muslims believe he was a jew

[@TheClassicWorld]

Okay, sorry, *some* Muslims think he was a Muslim. But, for the most part, they accept he's meant to be a Jew? Anyway, thanks for the insight, I've not yet read the Qur'an/studied Islam so I don't know too much, the other book was hard enough.

[@MhmdRdam]

It is a common belief among muslims that all prophets were muslim (which means one who submits to God). Prophets such as Jesus, John, Joseph etc were from the Children of Israel. The Jewish people. Not jewish as in, followers of judaïsm.

[@Kaziklu]

0 Muslims think he was a Muslim (in the sense of the modern Islamic Faith) He is seen as a Prophet 600 year before Mohammad. Much like Christians see Jewish Prophets as Prophets in the Christian Churches too.

[@haikumagician4363]

The saint Bernard joke is best

[@georgealderson4424]

Agreed

[@Twinrehz]

These days they don't even bother turning their bathwater into beer, they just sell it as it is.

[@jedimasterjoe5386]

st,georege was born in turkey to greek folks

[@cv4809]

Jedi Master Joe Anatolia,not Turkey

[@MrRamazanLale2]

@@cv4809 now turkey

[@marcweeks9178]

A real miracle would be if Rich Hall would contribute something once in a while. He seems out of his comfort zone and in other clips.

[@sav7568]

Saint Brendan

[@gavincurtis9758]

As an Irish person, in Britain do they not have to learn about the Saints and their miracles/stories?

[@gwishart]

Maybe if you go to a church school, otherwise - no.

[@gchecosse]

No, even in a church school you don't learn about British saints.

[@markoforeskin3597]

Snakes were only a metaphor

[@sheilaghbrosky4150]

My understanding is the Druids had snakes tattooed around their wrists.

[@noeldown1952]

He never answered the question though, did he? Which saint came from Ireland?

[@Burn-nf3fo]

Brigid and Columba

[@stvp68]

Guy on the sticks-!!!!!

[@macsnafu]

Rich Hall is staring stone-faced like he always does, and I'm sure he's wondering 'what the heck are these people going on about?" ;-)

[@georgealderson4424]

He is not alone! I think he is too good for this programme though I do like most of the panel except for the Irishman

[@Laudon1228]

St. Bridget was actually the pagan Irish goddess Brighid, just appropriated and repurposed by the Catholic Church. Just about every early culture that was Christianized was allowed to bring one of their gods along to be repurposed.

[@John_Ridley]

"became a monk, he wanted" - wait did he just say he became a monkey?

[@hugsandcurses]

ok why did Alan not just say dara's mom? then if he got the klaxon dara would fight for it

[@TheHutchy01]

I want to see Dara's nature programme "Crush the fecker, and feed him to tha' bastard, and get on wi' your day"

[@samcarmichael2371]

St Piran

[@themonkeyhand]

Bath water into beer.... she had one hell of a yeast infection.

[@Fcutdlady]

I'm Irish, my. Mother was a typical Irish Catholic woman. She had breast cancer and had a lumpectomy on 1/2/2001. later she visited her oncologist with me for a check up. He was reading mom's notes and read the date of her operation. Mom replied with yes that's the feast of St Brigid. Both the oncologist and I burst out laughing and I look, at the oncologist and replied I'm sure you really needed to know that!

[@ishouldhavetried]

The way he said Bernard....

[@flipperfille]

to watch this on 0.75 speed is beautiful! Drunk QI

[@NegativeAccelerate]

I’m Irish and the public schools are catholic. But during my confirmation, I discovered that someone wasn’t catholic and I immediately thought they were a weirdo with parents that were the type to believe that 5G caused coronavirus. I’m now 17 and an atheist and so are all of my friends. Ireland has changed a lot quite quickly. 5 years ago I was scared of gay and transgender people but now most of my close friends are gay and it’s also trendy to be bi in my school. I still attend a catholic school where teachers give out to you for not praying in the mornings but most students are very open minded

[@TheZapan99]

2:56 My actual face, whenever Jo Brand in onscreen.

[@nathan6116]

The og gamer girl bath water

[@marthas8108]

Stephen is astonished at the Irish education, but I'll bet he studied the Greek and Roman gods and legends. Why is one group's mythology any better or different than the other's?

[@Burn-nf3fo]

If you’re British, ‘Irish = bad’

[@eoinh1]

Alan Davies seems to think that Ireland is in Britain

[@shmookins]

"Cast out snakes". Are there any snakes at all in Ireland- let alone to be a problem?

[@Norway604]

Not anymore!

[@crazyphan18]

Shadow Heart “cast out Snakes” didn’t refer to real snakes. It was in reference to the Pagans whose main symbols at the time were snakes.

[@rachelring2542]

Used bathwater to beer?

[@georgealderson4424]

I have known beer turn to bathwater when I have had too much!

[@themeat5053]

Why is it okay to be sacrilegious in public, always now?

[@garyleonardteacher5162]

St Patrick could have been French and not Welsh

[@daithiokeeffe7444]

He was British.

[@ggff3761]

Patron saints of Britain?? I don't think Irelands in Britain

[@mrspone1000]

are you not part of the British Ilse ? are not the original people of Britannia only now found in Ireland and the Highlands ?

[@DMNDR]

Only Northern Ireland is part of the British Empire. The rest of the great country is the Republic of Ireland.

[@TelecastPropellor96]

At no point in the video does anyone suggest Ireland is part of Britain. Find something else to whinge about.

[@DMNDR]

@@TelecastPropellor96 for a Positive Comment username, that's not exactly positive.

[@Burn-nf3fo]

@@TelecastPropellor96Alan does allude to it. But trust the brits to get sour bout this issue all the time. You lost the war 😂

[@egbduf]

Do u think they ask Alan to be wrong so they can have explanations lool

[@lesliehall7683]

I soon as I saw joe horrible brand I switched off

[@doggfite]

Holy shit guys, Bella Delphine is secretly St Bridget, that's why she's selling her bathwater!

[@NatureLover-ji4gl]

Respect to all those who fought & still fighting for Irish independence & freedom from english control!✔💯☘💚

[@Burn-nf3fo]

@@TY-gh2yfyeah, the Irish beat the British well over 100 years ago 😂😂 no need to keep rubbing it in.

[@derekcrymble9085]

I don't want to think about what she might have turned her toilet water into . .........Eww .

[@doggfite]

That's where their get whiskey from, that's why it's a brown lol

[@torfrida6663]

Pay attention! It was BATH water!

[@michaelnewman2343]

st. deez nuts

[@owengibbonz99]

If its about religion then it isnt true

[@TheClassicWorld]

Has to be a joke, nobody is 'raised atheist', they are born atheists (as is he, I think), also, what kind of idiot doesn't know that which every human being knows. Maybe... extreme homeschooled atheist. The only one in existence. Amazing, haha.

[@TheClassicWorld]

I know, I said that. :P

[@starlinguk]

Warhammer Workshop My son was raised atheist by his dad who kept going on about how God doesn't exist. I was born and stayed atheist, my parents never mentioned God.

[@Tysto]

I like how Rich says “Saint BER-nerd” rather than “Saint Ber-NARD”. Know your audience…

[@heather75]

His wife is from London, so I'm sure that helps.

[@Strawberry-12.]

I’m American and my family says ber-nerd it really depends on the region

[@realGeorgelucas18563]

St Brigid was also said to have hung her cloak on a ray of sunshine. Utter bollocks, it pisses rain here non stop.

[@dippegalant]

That's the miracle then, innit?

[@ggff3761]

realGeorgelucas18563 fuck up you bollox

[@mrspone1000]

Saint Palin can see Russia from her house !

[@ByrneMJames]

realGeorgelucas18563 That bit of saint brigids story is copied from an italian saint who was huge in the medieval. Santa Lucia/Saint Lucy. You sussed the bollox lol

[@juanpablorobayo3437]

Dude the rain became the sunshine, obviouslyyyy I mean I’m catholic and I have no idea how the fuck that happened

[@TranscendentLion]

St. Edmund was once England's patron saint, and though little is known about him, it's probable he was actually born on English soil.

[@daithiokeeffe7444]

I'm Irish and live in San Sebastián and my my birthday is on the 24th of August, the feast of Saint Bartholomew. There is a neighbourhood here called San Bartolome.

[@pseudonayme7717]

"Who's the guy on the stick? Is he the same guy that was in the shed?"😄 As an atheist raised in a very Christian culture, this was both baffling and amusing.

[@DiamandaHagan]

Aww no-one mentioned how Saint Columba battled a giant water monster in Ulster and then went to Scotland where he was the first recorded person to see Nessie (and battled her). I'm guessing it was the same monster and they'd had a messy breakup.

[@_Saracen_]

Dara mentioned Saint Colmcille, isn't that the same one? Columba/Colmcille? All I remember about him is that he held a big holy flag or cross during battles, makes me wonder how much of the conversion to Christianity was voluntary!

[@tobysinbad]

I love that Stephen just let Alan describe St Sebastian - the saint most adopted by gay men for his handsome, porcelain features, melodramatic posing and washboard abs in nearly every depiction of his likeness, then politely agreed that Alan was just like him.

[@selsig_dwp]

the only patron saint in Britain that is actually from the country which he is the patron saint of is Saint David of Wales

[@AmcG22]

Now that's genuinely interesting

[@djhalling]

Yes. Deduct some (more) points from Alan for saying none of them were!

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

"Saint Sebastian" by Sodoma (Giovanni Bazzi) is a spot on look-alike!

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Andrea Mantegna did three paintings of St Sebastian, one of which is indeed on display in Venice, where Alan said he saw it, although that one looks nothing like Alan, whereas the other two which are housed in Paris and Vienna, do resemble him somewhat. The Sodoma version is in Florence.

[@anotheraccount7637]

Turning bath water to beer might be a yeast infection

[@davidb3979]

St. George is not Palestinian he was Cappadocian Greek from what's now Turkey!

[@Amateur0Visionary]

Is that where he was born or what his familial ethnicity is? Just curious.

[@Sam-gf6ue]

Saint Columba abbot of iona

[@thedj9553]

Saint George was from Cappadocia, in modern day Turkey. He wasn’t “Palestinian”

[@PureZOOKS]

"Al-Tha`labi states that he was from Palestine and lived in the times of some disciples of Jesus. He was killed many times by the king of Mosul, and resurrected each time. "

[@smartgenes1]

@@PureZOOKS Both ineresting, the Greek version says "his mother returned with George to her homeland of Syria Palaestina"

[@daetoris4473]

Palestine was the name for the region at the time, the Romans called the region “Syria Palaestina” so yes he would’ve been Palestinian, just as anyone born in Britannia at the time would’ve been a Briton rather than British, or someone born in Dacia a Dacian rather than a Serb or a Hungarian or a Romanian. The state of Palestine and it’s sovereignty may be a modern concept but the province (or the name of the province that is) has existed in one form or another for over 2000 years. Hell the BRITISH even called it Palestine to distinguish it from the Holy Land

[@daetoris4473]

I’m not here to debate the ethics of the state of Israel. I am simply here to tell you George was Palestinian since he lived in the region of Roman Palestine

[@Jay-in6dl]

St David is welsh, not all British patron saints aren’t from their respective countries.

[@daithiokeeffe7444]

Ireland is not British.

[@dogwalker666]

What about St. Kevin St. Brendan the Navigator Or the very famous St. Oliver Plunkett.

[@I.KUchiha]

to be honest St Brendan should be the most famous one

[@veidro]

0:45 so that's where Belle Delphine got the idea from

[@thanrose]

My favorite Irish saint is St Dymphna, patron saint of the insane.

[@dearbhlaryan]

thanrose yeah it always made me wonder about people who called their kids dymphna!

[@RockyRoader]

Our local psychiatric hospital was St. Dympna's

[@thomasellis445]

St David was from Wales

[@mrspone1000]

did he have the power to change Lava bread into something nice ?

[@sunderwood121]

St Paddy was from Banwen, it’s claimed.

[@hayden-ln1li]

St Brigid is like belle Delphine

[@tomatoplantsgonewild1470]

Sri Krishna was reportedly also shot with an arrow by a hunter that had mistaken him for a deer. His last words were, "Thank you for giving me a way out."

[@marycanary86]

im kinda proud that i actually knew a proper irish saint :D

[@Septimus_ii]

Saint Patrick was English or Welsh, St George was Palestinian, St Andrew was Jewish, but St David was actually Welsh

[@Irish780]

Saint Patrick was Welsh

[@kristapitchford6718]

Is this the Catholic Church? No, it's Saint Patrick.

[@eckligt]

According to legend, Saint Sunniva, the patron saint of Western Norway, came from Ireland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunniva

[@tahutoa]

I hit pause as soon as the video started so I could say "DON'T SAY PATRICK" in the comments _right_ as I heard Alan pronounce the "Patr".

[@tahutoa]

I actually learned that fact from fuckin' VeggieTales.

[@Dendarang]

Saint Brigitte sold her bathwater before it was cool.

[@brendansmith8567]

She can turn her bath water into Beer ? Now thats a yeast infection !

[@caralama08]

CAPTIONS PLEASE!