The Irish in Australia

[@marycahill546]

Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful programs. I am Canadian of Irish descent and it all resonated with me.

[@maryreardon6512]

How do you do, Mary Cahill. I'm a Riordan.

[@robertogrady2798]

Really beautiful... thank you for this footage... I am off to counties Cork and Kerry soon, and I'll carry this information with me on my beautiful journey to the homeland.

[@tomduckworth8961]

fuck up

[@jamesokeeffe3216]

How did you get on 👍

[@toddgardner6355]

Tears are in my eyes, from the first episode. An affinity for that noble failure. The wren and the oak are sunk deeply into my heart and soul.

[@mick411411]

Inspiring series. Helps me to understand a lot about myself. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@elizabethmurray5781]

I am born Irish in Ireland 🇮🇪 beloved Ireland 🇮🇪 is been destroyed by illegal immigration government doint caire about the Irish people the media won't speak wath is happening to the Irish ancestors fought and died for Ireland 🇮🇪 so we would have a future now Irish eyes not smiling nearly 15thousand homeless Irish on the streets and ilegal immigrants are put in hotels if you are Irish and have Irish ancestors come home and help Ireland 🇮🇪 your birth right Ireland 🇮🇪 is calling her children to save her god bless Ireland 🇮🇪 and the Irish people ❤❤❤❤

[@kirsteimartin]

Thanks for sharing, we are moving to ireland from australia. Its good to have a greater understanding of our irish history

[@aviationiceman9549]

Good luck ! You’re gonna need it 🤣

[@22grena]

Great series. Thanks for the upload Pollypot.

[@johnsheehan1594]

Great show for the Irish throughout the world.

[@GottliebGoltz]

I'm curious to see if the name Thomas Francis Magher shows up "He escaped Australia while serving a life sentence for giving the "Sword Speech" in Parlament the Queen sentenced Him to be hung drawn and quartered for that but on Her advisers' suggestion She had Him transported as I tread in a great book written by Tom Keneally. Then He escaped to New York and at the civil war led the (Irish Brigade), after the war He was appointed the first acting governor of the Montana territory. We still have a county named for him here in Mt. USA. Yup.

[@vincentrobinson9325]

WOW🤘🙂🍀

[@keithfidock-casey7330]

Legendary!!!🍀☘️

[@eunicestone6532]

I imagine these Irish felt like displaced people all of their lives. A road went thru the little town I was born and raised and there's nothing left ...except the longing in my heart for what used to be.

[@Mercmad]

One of my GGGgrandfathers was transported here to Australia in 1835 for the term of his natural life. He was accused of uttering unlawful oaths and whiteboy activities . he was 12. There's little left in Ireland of the records of those who had left under similar circumstances but i found him mentioned in a very old newspaper when several convicts managed to escape from the prison ship they were held on. But in new South Wales, good records were kept and looked after so i could trace his life to small extent .He had been flogged for insubordination, had to report to the Sherriff occasionally and had been sent to the Hunter valley to a infamous prison camp. He had gotten married to the daughter of other convicts and fathered a few children before dying at age 34. When he was transported he was 12 years old. twelve. And today one more foreign outfit is taking ireland again...

[@louiskeithwills5976]

My 3x GreatGrandma was forced into marriage at age... 13!!! Mary Catherine Casey. Her father was Irish got killed by Aborigines moving sheep from NSW to SA in the early 1840s

[@elizabethbennet4791]

so sad!!!! that poor boy, i wish someone had taken him in hugged him and given him a decent life!

[@deanwhale367]

My 4 time grandfather been discriminated by the English British send to Australia Congo new south wales because he couldn’t speak English by the age 30 spoke native Gaelic Irish.

[@miralong8501]

We came through it and we will always come through it.

[@imh9524]

I remember singing on this doco, and singing 'The West's Awake' at the launch party in the pub at the Rocks in Sydney. Seems like a lifetime ago.

[@imh9524]

@Noel Ryan I am listed, yes, for 'The Garton Song', but I believe I also sang Roisin Dubh over the opening credits which seems to be missing here. I do still sing! Thanks for your interest.

[@patriciacorcoran4582]

Love Australians great character knew some in dublin in the 70ts finnigans they where in dublin for a year great people Patricia Whitehall x

[@andrewsteel61]

Enjoyed... My great grandfather at 14 immigrated from Ireland to Australia and made his fortune....

[@louiswills475]

I can trace my irish heritage from atleast 1839 my great great great grandmother was born to a Mr and Mrs Casey. She married at 14...😮. She had more than 10 children.

[@GigHarborRay]

Thank you for posting this Video, it was most interesting, informative, and enlightening !

[@nbenefiel]

e Enough food left Ireland every day to feed the entire population. The English looked on it as a chance to diminish the population.

[@Denis-tg6jw]

Nancy Benefiel aided and abetted by IRISH merchants who grew rich from exports to Britain. Many of their descendants are still operating in Cork, Waterford and Dublin.

[@Denis-tg6jw]

Mary Marshall the sad truth is many of them weren't Anglo Irish. They were a well to do merchant class who happened to be Irish and Catholic. They sold to the highest bidder, turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to their starving compatriots. For a more modern example look at the actions of developers, lawyers and government officials who fleeced Ireland in the period leading up to the economic crash in 2008. Many of them now live abroad with their ill gotten gains.

[@Denis-tg6jw]

Noel Ryan The merchant class I refer to are those who make their living from dealing in agricultural produce. Wasn't it O'Connel who said of Wellington, being born in a stable does not make one a horse?

[@fiachoconnor]

@@Denis-tg6jw what your point? Is that supposed to lesson the blow? Or say that we did it to ourselves? Let the English of the hook? Of course there are always a minority of people who sell out but millions didn't, millions died, were evicted and turned to exiles. The people were too poor to buy the food. Another reason to export. But yeah you're right some irish merchants exported goods. Good man, fair play to ya

[@johndoe-ss9bz]

@@Denis-tg6jw ::: Crops and livestock were heavily guarded by the English Army while transported overland to the docks for export to England. England was fed with cheap food extorted from the Irish. In Scotland where the population was also living off potatoes as Tenant Farmers to Absentee Landlords, the Government made special provisions to prevent starvation. In Ireland, a Catholic had to change their religion for a bowl of soup. The English invented Cruel forms of death on a mass scale. They also invented Sadism a form of Sick-Satisfaction after "Hang-Drawn and Quarter were looked at as Barbarian by Civilized Society.

[@geffyryan6305]

I am a very proud Irish/Australian Aboriginie

[@Pollypot]

Yes i have a few friends that have same heratage it is so good to have this in common

[@vinryan3267]

@Mary Marshall intermarried ?

[@vinryan3267]

@Mary Marshall It's the marrying, I'm querying, Mary. It depends upon when you are referring to. In the mid 1800s records weren't always kept, particularly in the Bush and the Outback. Back then, many marriages either didn't occur or weren't recorded if they ever did. In Colonial times, white men didn't marry black women.

[@longreachkirk9765]

You feel pride over something YOU yourself have achieved. How can you be PROUD over ancestoRY? What an absolute crock of shit

[@keithfidock-casey7330]

@@vinryan3267 One of my cousin's nickname was Darkie . I think 🤔 that meant he was of indigenous descent.

[@jameskiffin502]

i am a scouser living in sydney .loads of irish here along with scousers out here you have a job. football /beer .good weather come over

[@Angus1966]

I too am a scouser Living in Sydney . Cant wait to get back home

[@jameskiffin502]

@@Angus1966 yes go back for a visit but do not live there again .the weather is enough to put you off .i love liverpool but i would not live there again .sydney has more to offer

[@songbirdx-cu9uz]

im from the area where this was shot in Garten my father was doherty went to england in the 60s to work and earn the price of a farm while there i was born in england he broughts us back in the 70s and later returned to the area where he was born but i having an english accent although i was born to galic parents i endured a terrible time at the local school as an English Bastard really the bigotry was on both sides of the coin allthough the bitterness was very raw even in the 1980s i was Doherty not seen as irish but as a brit yet for thousands of years i was a direct desendant i learned very quickly to mimic the irish accent but the bigotry i endured will stay with me fore the rest of my life.

[@maaamaaaoto2723]

In their lives, the Irish suffered greatly from oppression, war and poverty, God merciful on his slaves.

[@Geshreeyeh]

You've got to love KZbin: docs on pretty much anything that tickles your fancy. Thanks for the upload!

[@loredelore7286]

The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley No kitchens on the run, no striking camp - We moved quick and sudden in our own country. The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp. A people, hardly marching - on the hike - We found new tactics happening each day: We'd cut through reins and rider with the pike And stampede cattle into infantry Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown. Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave. Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon. The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave. They buried us without shroud or coffin And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.

[@irishaware]

The Irish around the world should be proud.But learn a little more than Doherty who admitted he only got curious late in life, better late than never, but it is sad that he did not even know himself most his life.His ideas on Ireland and history are therefore basic and limited.he also commits the usual mistake and sin of giving the English /british far too much credence!Fact the British never existed 800 years ago, The very French speaking Norse Viking Normans conquered parts of Ireland after it had conquered near all of what is now England.English language as you know it today never existed until the 14thcentuty and not widely spoken until the 16th in England. Not widely spoken in Ireland until the late 19th century, today we commonly speak a first US American hybrid, which is cool for me!!!!Fact the british never existed until the 17th century even in print let alone common name, that never happened until the worold wars, many today on the island of Britain do not consider themselves as british.At time of Vinegar Hill Hanoverian (germans) were running the show in Britain, having lost their American colony they used extremes of crimes to hold onto Ireland.So do not give these supposed enlgish or supposed british more credence than they deserve. they are both a mongrel hybrid of European mafia families, monarchies that are more German and French in origin.Oh and as for the commentator who thinks he is English and a anglo saxon, more utter myth nonsense.A few south eastern counties have a dna basis that is around 10% peak which could be credibly labelled as originating from these Germanic tribes.Most of what is todays England and has always has been so are more Celtic and Norse.The Irish in MILLIONS have been arriving all over Britain for hundreds of years, the traffic was very much one way, west to east!UP THE IRISH

[@petercartwright-poet529]

Yep, lazy thinking.

[@beeohel6787]

@Charles Martel is that happening to this day

[@Denis-tg6jw]

This is 2020 not 1820. The problems facing Ireland now aren't English landlords, but multi nationals using Ireland as tax havens. Meanwhile ten thousand Irish people can't find an affordable house so sleep on the streets. Leo Varadkar and his cronies aren't going without.

[@redsword1659]

thats fine. you dont understand the ancestry which is "Probably Irish". just continue the oppression, Pure Irishman

[@redsword1659]

Respects to our Father Dunlea who mentored us protestants and reassured us that we all belonged to the Brotherhood of Man adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dunlea-thomas-vincent-10070

[@Maulderin]

thanks for uploading this. is really interesting

[@Pollypot]

You're welcome

[@retrothingz]

Many thanks for making this available. Certainly explains or, rather, clarifies quite a few things. The Irish situation in Australia was quite different in some ways to their experience in America.

[@cathycarthy6271]

I do not agree, I think the Irish experience in both counties is very similar.

[@melissagreen_]

I'm English/Australian and can't believe how horribly the Irish were treated. I never really knew much about all the issues in Ireland, was just a kid when we left England. I'm just shocked by what was done to the Irish people, it was so utterly wrong. Really despair for humanity sometimes. Will we ever learn?

[@longreachkirk9765]

I think we are ok now. No need for further drama

[@longreachkirk9765]

Now we hate white people equally, great progression

[@Lee-nh5bb]

No we won't ever learn unfortunately. As a species, we just don't have enough love, compassion, and wisdom, but individually, there's some good 'uns out there!

[@cynthiabowkett4082]

GRATITUDE FOR THIS PRECIOUS HISTORICAL VIDEO. GOD'S BLESSINGS TO THIS AMAZING VIDEO. I AM ALSO FROM A HUGE IRISH FAMILY FROM COUNTY MAYO ON DAD'S SIDE. MOM'S FROM COUNTY CLARE MOM'S SIDE ARE THE FAULS THERE ARE MANY FAULS STILL IN COUNTY CLARE. THE FINNERTY FAMILY ARE PLENTY AND STILL LIVING IN IRELAND COUNTY MAYO HOWEVER MANY FINNERTY'S LEFT FOR U S A. THIS VIDEO TRULY CAPTURED MY HEART/SOUL GOD'S BLESSINGS TO ALL THE IRISH WHO ARE LOVED ALL OVER THE WORLD. LOVE GOD'S BLESSINGS JOY PEACE PROSPERITY TO ALL. CYNTH U K.

[@sstarklite2181]

They have the best music ever!

[@Caseyyoustud]

Long Journey Home by Elvis Costello is one of my favourites.

[@acohen1980]

fantastic...thanx for this

[@noelconroy3647]

Hi from Ireland 🇮🇪☘️

[@mauricevandraanen4286]

Does anyone remember that chocolatebar Violet Crumble commercial with Ned Kelly back in the early 80´s?

[@gatheringleaves]

Ned Kelly!

[@louiswills475]

I just found out on my mother's side the old Irish name Casey is present thanks to my Great Great grandmother Mary Catherine Fidock nee Casey.

[@martinhalpin3455]

Well Done, Australia !!!

[@elizabethbennet4791]

this is so, so wonderful- love from Florida, and remember to destroy capitalism, racism and fascism!!!!

[@Lee-nh5bb]

Consider it done! 👍

[@simonyip5978]

The name Doherty is pronounced with a 'k' in the part of England where I am from. IE "Dokertee" instead of "Dohertee" in this video. I'm not sure how it is actually pronounced in Ireland though.

[@simonyip5978]

@Michael Halligan thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of that fact, but I have noticed English people often pronounce it as if it has a 'k' instead of an 'h'.

[@huub1989]

The pronunciation of O’Doherty was awful. In Derry and Donegal, it sounds more like Daw-herty, or Dordy, depending on the area. The local historian lady May McClintock says it properly while welcoming the Australian priest.

[@simonyip5978]

@Michael Halligan out of interest, how are names like Kennedy, Kelly, Keegan, etc pronounced? Is the K more of a hard G like the G in Gallagher? Another question is do you know if the place near Dublin, Dun Laoghaire is the proper Gaelic spelling of the name Leary? Just curious to know if Leary and Laoghaire are the English and Irish spellings of the same word.

[@nbenefiel]

Newgrange is 5,200 years old.

[@thebee8415]

I’m at home in Ireland and find these facts so insightful. I would sit down in any country in the world and totally enjoy a conversation with any English person ( I’ve had so many English friends)and funny they are the same towards us. Sadly if either ever banded together against the other, even in 2020 we would still sad to say, but we would still kill each other. I don’t know why we can never fully forgive each other.

[@chrisclark1761]

If this was broadcast in the USA they would have to subtitle it.

[@dollyrawlins5470]

Oh bullshit

[@kellymurphy6642]

Just fine understanding without subs lol

[@louiswills475]

My great great great grandmother was named mary catherine casey she married when she was 14....wonder if she spoke gaelic was ☝ of the 1st settlers born of south australia 1839

[@niallconneely5645]

She likely did, especially if she came from the Gaeltacht region.

[@garyodriscoll7988]

Where was she from?

[@vinryan3267]

@@garyodriscoll7988 I'm curious, too, 'was ☝ of the 1st settlers born of south australia 1839' The first settlors arrived in 1836. It's doubtful that there were any Irish among them, but was she born in South Australia ?

[@louiswills475]

It turns out she was born in Ireland Bally More, Tip, Ireland so I got it wrong the first time my bad.

[@trainsandbusesirelandandbeyond]

I'm Irish. I have never been to Australia. But my Nana and Granda have friends in Australia who are Irish and so does my mum. One of my mums friends, Jennifer is from Belfast City in Ireland. Jennifer departed Ireland for Australia when she was 3. When she was in her teenage she came back and a few years after she went back to work and live with her Aussie husband. For as long as she's been living in Melbourne as long as she's had a strong Australian accent. My Nana and Grandads friends are from Belfast who are Joe Quinn and Barbara Quinn live in Victoria but still have an Irish accent. Ireland and Australia shall live together in peace. We will fight alongside each other as part of both of our armies in war and I mean help each other not fight each other. Oh it was brilliant when Australia faced Ireland in a Rugby test match in 2018.

[@Lee-nh5bb]

Dave Allen would have loved that rugby game! He was a massive rugby fan all his life but died in 2005. What was the score, by the way?

[@fintanrafferty1818]

I think an opportunity missed , during the British inflicted genocide in 1847 ,Ireland was as it is today an over producer of food ,all the best food was exported to Britain under armed British military escort , the Irish people starved to death .

[@keithfidock-casey7330]

Happy Belated St Paddy's Day☘️😇.Up the Irish and who wish they were Irish wish you a lucky day ☘️.

[@Lee-nh5bb]

Thanks! I do wish I was Irish!

[@Caseyyoustud]

​@@Lee-nh5bbl miss JB O'Reillys pub

[@Lee-nh5bb]

​@@Caseyyoustud Where was it?

[@Caseyyoustud]

@@Lee-nh5bb West Leederville bless all at JB O'Reillys 🍀💚

[@Lee-nh5bb]

@@Caseyyoustud Perth?

[@jippaincel1]

Proud Australian Irish Catholic convict stock, I have been looking at my ancestry, Galway mob it appears.

[@michaelorourke3674]

Half of it is half true. In the 1840s the Irish almost reached a majority in Australia. But by the end of the 1800s most were self identifying Australians. The concept of Irish-Australian never caught on. Once rhe Irish Civil War began, the few who restrained any interest in Ireland lost it. The real story is *inside Australia*: the march to socio-economic parity by Catholics (as distinct from Irish).

[@keithfidock-casey7330]

Hey y'all I'm poonslayer actually KING 👑 POONSLAYER!!!!.😎👍

[@foxhoundr3364]

I'm 66% percent English and 20% Irish and the rest is west to northern European. I'm not a royalist however, I believe we should keep up our British traditions

[@LRJS1794]

Europeans: bUt yuOR NoT IrISh

[@Brian1Graves]

Think how much better the Irish would have prospered without the oppression, abuse and thievery of the RCC,

[@quinnthereaux7719]

What year was this documentary released? Edit: I just thought to look at the end credits, looks like 1987, if I'm reading the roman numerals right. MCMLXXXVII.

[@anthonythistle1465]

I relate more to the Irish story. It's sad what the British did to them on top of the oppressive RCC

[@jippaincel1]

I yearn to see the old country of Ireland

[@joannemcguire1710]

Saint patrick was Cumbrian.

[@trainsandbusesirelandandbeyond]

He was

[@lukehunt9666]

This is how a pub should be, reminds me of Fitzgerald's from Bally k

[@sstarklite2181]

Those evil oppressors the British monarchs and “rich elites” were horrible! And still are today in 2023! I hope someday (soon) to see the end of all oppression, like it says in the Bible. Isaiah 24:14-17 and many places because GOD despises oppression!

[@thetruthhurts5902]

Ahh yes the English back then were pure class will forgive but never forget Up the Republic

[@paulinethomas5688]

Everyone a victim , laa dee dar. Breaking news all of our kin go back thousands of years ,otherwise we wouldn't be here, its called survival.

[@liam9072]

Must be a brit

[@kenrehill7235]

“I went to australia to find the source of our irishnesh “.............eerrrrrr, Ireland?

[@The1ByTheSea]

If you are Irish how easy is it to move to Australia or New Zealand ?

[@Pollypot]

I have no idea sorrry

[@wyattfamily8997]

Apply to the Australian immigration department or visit Australia House in London, they have all the requirements including how to "visit" to help on farms during the picking season. This will give some idea to those that are considering applying to emigrate. There are also YOutube postings from the Immigration Department.

[@jameskiffin502]

tell them you are a convict who stole a loaf of bread to feed your family& wish to come to the new colony

[@fauxmanchu8094]

James Kiffin 😜😜😝😝😅😅😂😂

[@permaculturedandfree2448]

Tell them you are whit..e

[@Cruella_DG]

Tis how I ended up here in WA

[@louiskeithwills5976]

Me and too☘️😎👍

[@feltongailey8987]

If you enjoy uncontrolled raging wildfires...then Australia's the place for you.

[@maceain]

Post den scoth, an-súimiúil.

[@trainsandbusesirelandandbeyond]

Maith thu

[@Eriu-88-88-]

☘

[@gerardoneill1513]

It's pronounced dock, er, day, or dor, e, day.

[@travisbickle8748]

Good one.

[@tkkellerman1]

The catholic church has immeasurable guilt in the troubles of all Irish. It is wonderful that people are leaving the evil institution in droves. The riches of the of the catholic church should be appropriated for the poor of the world. Catholicism was forced on me as a child but I knew at a very young age that it was a soulless institution. Till the day I die I will tear at it in every way I can.

[@izzy9132]

@Beth Thank you for stating the truth so well.

[@Kitiwake]

@Beth that's correct.

[@michaelking9772]

I was born a human being batisted a Catholic because my parent's where Catholic but it was never forced on me it's your choice to believe.!!!!

[@geraldneary1948]

Are you gay or something troll.

[@liamloughman212]

Thats a cruel assersion. The church made a wonderful contribution to Ireland also.

[@Brian1Graves]

The Irony of a priest, who's colleagues caused more grief, pain and death than the famine, being welcomed.

[@graemesydney38]

This vid lives up to the Irish tradition of been able to spin out a yarn. a.k.a. its long and boring.

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

Th Irish make a good living out of being The Most Oppressed People in History.

[@graemesydney38]

@@bernardmcavoy1864 The Irish, nor any other race on earth, would hold a candle to the Jews for that title.

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

@@graemesydney38 And the terrible events of the 1930s and 40s?

[@graemesydney38]

@@bernardmcavoy1864 wtf

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

@@graemesydney38 Yes , and....?

[@keza3250]

To all the idiots in the comments saying AUSTRALIA WAS BUILT by the English ha ha your totally wrong Yes England settled Australia but the fleets had more irish,Scottish and welsh people than actual anglo Saxon people That's why modern white Australian's are called anglo Celtic -Anglo German Because of the large numbers of irish,Scottish,welsh,German and dutch an mainland European people who immigrated to Australia Over half of the 4 first fleets were Celtic peoples an later mass Irish immigration halfcasted the anglo Saxon people in Australia Over 8 plus million people out of Australia's 16 million European population is of Irish and German decent The poms still think were there overseas territory an treat us like shit REPUBLIC TIME AUSTRALIA

[@sgam3646]

Was Late Shane Warne a German Australian

[@Caseyyoustud]

​@@sgam3646He's mothers side.

[@fyrdman2185]

Scottish and Welsh people are British and they're more genetically closer to the English than to the Irish. Also the Irish are one of the most unaccomplished people in Western Europe with barely any contributions to mankind. I don't know why anyone would be proud of having Irish ancestry at all.

[@jellobiafra4660]

Boring

[@mattnolan5527]

Australia was built by the british not the irish

[@ubslo5405]

So it wasn't you?

[@ubslo5405]

@napper tandy Does the British half wit have a name?

[@anthonythistle1465]

Actually it was built by Irish convicts who suffered tyranny and oppression under the British aristocracy

[@imh9524]

Australia was in great shape before either lot came along 😔

[@anthonythistle1465]

@@imh9524 The Irish were forced to come here as convicts initially