Why Ireland Is Now Empty

[@FactVoyageYT]

Hello everyone! I just released a new video about the Irish famine and how the Irish recovered, feel free to watch : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqWxkqGEbLqcmsk

[@Mr09DJ]

What century are ye looking at? 🤔 When ya have nothing to say 🤐

[@Juicexlx]

Thumbed-down. Go take a remedial Maths course, troll.

[@Richard1A2B]

Dude, get your facts right! My country is called Ireland, not the Republic of Ireland. Article 4 of our Constitution clearly states that the name of the State is "Ireland". No where in my passport will you find the words "Republic of Ireland"... on our cars, the blue rectangle has the letters IRL, not ROI. And the name of our country registered with the United Nations is Ireland. Fix your poorly researched video!

[@andrewmellon5072]

I am 70 years old. The population of the Republic of Ireland has doubled in my life time.

[@Finglesham]

You must live in Dublin.

[@andrewmellon5072]

@@Finglesham I live in County longford, between censuses 2016 and 2022 there was a 14% increase in population which is higher increase than Dublin. Possibly the housing in County Dublin is so expensive that immigrants are being forced to move to rural areas where homes are cheaper. The increase is due to immigration. Our family size has dropped from about 4 to 6 per family when I was young to 1.6 per Irish woman which is less than replacement which is 2.2. You did not take into account that prior to 1922 the census and figures were for the 32 counties, whole island, the figures you used later were for the 26 counties, of the Irish Republic. Which are about 1.5 million lower than the 32 county population.

[@henkvandervossen6616]

ROI was founded after the 1840ies famine and following emigration

[@andrewmellon5072]

@@henkvandervossen6616 Dear Henk, Ireland all 32 counties was governed as part of the union of Wales, Scotland,England and Ireland from the act of Union about 1800 until 1922. Then the 26 counties became the Free state, independent of the Union which became The Republic of Ireland, or Eire, the other 6 counties remain with the Union. Best wishes Andrew.

[@luciamacakova7516]

Ireland was one a farming shithole producing only cabbage and potatoes and still was able to feed 8.1 milions of people. Till potato plight came and people were unable to pay rent nor to feed themselves. This did not stop greedy landlords. Now Ireland is a Celtic Tiger, tax haven for international corporations, with huge GDP...but..only two centres of industry - Cork and Dublin, no real or reliable public transport, no improvement of life with modern technologies, no planes for urbanisation. Landlords make from from basic human needs. This time they are not English, they are fecking Irish, mostly. People live in dispersed setlements, transport on their own way, feeding on their own way. O.K., Boomers, during your life time the population of Ireland doubled, unfortunetely nothing else doubled except the price for living. Its is your fault.

[@alii303]

I live in Ireland and I tell you its very hard to go anywhere in Ireland without seeing a house

[@dreelix5689]

*seeing an empty house

[@Gshshe-ux1kv]

Every 2 mins there's a small town with 500+ people (and i live in a rural area)

[@dechannigan2980]

Ireland is not empty. There are 5.5 million people on a relatively small island. England /Wales is very over populated, Holland is also densely populated..

[@margaretmorrissey4540]

Yes exactly we are well over the five million mark and climbing

[@paulmcgorian5712]

Well we can take up to 22million and feed ourselves into the bargain .

[@MarcMacPhilib]

22? Ah shtop 😅

[@asanulsterman1025]

If you are talking about the island of Ireland (as you are) the population of Ulster needs to be added, so 5.5 + 1.9 = 7.4 million i.e. roughly what it was before the famine. Despite Ulster having 2 of the most densely populated counties on the whole island it is still only 50% of England's population density.

[@asanulsterman1025]

@@paulmcgorian5712 If the EU says you can take 22 million then that's the plan.

[@gearoiddom]

There is nowhere in Ireland where people 'don't live'. There are barren mountain lands and bogs that you can't build in. The rest is agricultural land and that is where food comes from - kind of important to us! Ireland is starting to overload now due to excess immigration with no planning for resources.

[@LeonVEKH]

Immigration, asylum seekers and refugees are not proble, poor planning is and not having adequate rent caps and if you took your fingers out of your ears you would have heard that there are, by now, over 190K homes left vacant, 40% of which, again probably higher by now, have been vacant for over six years. Just like there is built in obsolescence in tech these days there is purposefully built scarcity in regards to homes to buy and/or rent, why? Well to drive up house prices and rents. Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees are not the problem. There are more Irish immigrants around the world then there are in Ireland. The largest group of immigrants are Irish nationals returning home most of which were born in Ireland. The largest immigrant group in Ireland by nationality are from Great Britain, 2nd largest are EU/European and the rest are non European, most are from english speaking countries. Immigrants and especially asylum seekers and refugees are not the problem. At any given time there are about 10K asylum seekers/refugees, that's it, one of the lowest in Europe. The main problem are those that keep voting in the same two parties every other election and/or decade expecting a different result whilst also acting all shocked and surprised that the two parties they keep flip flopping on are the problem to Irelands problems due to ineptitude and inaction. Voting for the same two parties expecting a different result is the sign of insanity. Stop doing it. Try something different. Christ on a bike 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

[@earthsmoke9450]

@@LeonVEKH Irish nationals returning home are exactly that, they’re not “immigrants”. Immigrants from UK have almost identical cultural values and beliefs. As do most Europeans. Neither Irish returning home, UK nationals nor European immigrants are stabbing children in broad daylight.

[@Sionnach1601]

@@earthsmoke9450 Well said. He's a clown, as is the creator of this video. ÉIREANN is for na hÉIREANNAIGH AND WE WILL FIGHT AGAIN FOR IT.

[@gearoiddom]

@@LeonVEKH Those Irish who left went chiefly to large empty new lands where they were crying out for manpower. They neither used deceit to enter, nor received handouts on arrival. Some weeks now Ireland takes in 500 unskilled people. A portion don't speak English properly and are economic basket cases. 20% of people in the state were not even born here. Through border mismanagement we're adding on something like the population of Limerick City yearly. There is no hope of keeping up with schools places, hospital beds, sewerage capacity etc. so we are digging a dreadful hole for ourselves going towards 2040. What crisis do people in power require to cop on? That count of 'empty' homes involves a huge amount of holiday homes, a right afforded to ordinary people even in the most niggardly misery of Soviet Union. Anyway, homes are required for our own youth in the coming decades. How foolish to give over housing stock now to any old opportunist flotsam and jetsam.

[@noeldoyle4501]

​@@LeonVEKHLeon, three times or more you dogmatically stated that immigration is not the problem. Please open your eyes when you are out shopping, 10% of the population are visibly non-European, and another 20% are not Irish or British, the numbers of these foreign immigrants is rising quickly! Every Western country is having its identity, culture, sovereignty, and homeland quietly stolen from them by a government that puts destructive mass immigration as its longterm priority, even above the democratic will of the people. I think that you are not Irish and want to reassure yourself by diverting attention away from the immigration crisis.

[@andyhinds542]

Ireland is far from 'empty'. I'm British and I love visiting Ireland. If I wanted to live there then buying a property would be very expensive. I have Irish friends who used to live in Dublin but it became so expensive to live that they moved outside of the city to commute in.

[@Kitiwake]

And we always you

[@EpicAelflaed]

It is empty though, population is only 5.5 million .. about the third of Londons population

[@EpicAelflaed]

@JamJam0189 yes I was referring to the republic which is projected in the next year or so to be over 5.3 million so I said 5.5 as we are still at the beginning of 2024. Also I was comparing it to London which has a far larger population than the whole of Ireland. And before you send another ‘rude arrogant’ text - I am referring to London and Greater London population. I thought the Irish were friendly? You know - a thousand welcomes

[@EpicAelflaed]

@JamJam0189 so I said that Ireland is empty - well it isn’t full by any stretch. So I can’t see how that’s mocking Ireland. I don’t know the figures for England though around 57 million. We still have space in England and perhaps a little larger than the whole of Ireland. So yes Ireland has certainly got lots of space to a growing population. Ireland could easily absorb 10 million extra. That may sound ridiculous to you but it’s not if you realise that England has taken this many in the last 20 years. It’s likely that Ireland will take in another 1 million in the next 10 years. Who would have believed what’s happening now in Ireland? Immigration is unprecedented all over Europe right now not just the UK and Ireland

[@xotan]

While people died of hunger there was more than enough food being produced in Ireland to feed everyone. But deliberate British policy insisted on exporting it to Britain. At least a million people died the horrible death of starvation. In London it didn't really matter. They were just peasants. And in the main, the culprits, apart from British policy, were landlords,: those who had taken over Irish land and reduced the people to reliance on the potato to keep alive. But then the potato crop failed over several years and pitiless slow murder of a people was the result. Irish hearts still go out to the Choktaw Nation for the assistance they, in their own distress, gave to the starving Irish. It is hard not to see the Great Famine as the uncaring failure of Britain to save the lives of those it ruled. Indeed there are those in Ireland who see it as a casually and cynically exploited natural disaster that conveniently got rid of a lot of undesirables - Irish people - in what became a convenient genocide. Genocide is a harsh word. But what do you call callously letting a million people die and forcing another million to flee to escape death. by starvation. The final outcome is telling. A population of 8,000,000 in 1840 was reduced at the time of my birth (1943) to 4,000.000. So it is not acceptable simply to gloss over the matter and say that the Irish relied on the potato without saying why this was so, and why food was being exported in the face of mass starvation.

[@mirowestmaas4566]

Funny how the report didn't mention that. The Ottomans also helped the Irish during the famine.

[@jerrymyphone5849]

​@@mirowestmaas4566look at it again it mentioned them but never told the full story, the sultan tried to donate 10,000 pounds but the British government refused to accept it as queen Victoria had only gave 1,000 and they didn't want to embarrass her so they only accepted 1,000 😡

[@mirowestmaas4566]

@@jerrymyphone5849 wow thanks very interesting. I did think 1000 was a bit low.

[@elauadeinsf]

The most telling thing is when we hear that 4 ships of grain where sent by the Ottoman Sultan but the British stopped them. One only got through. Imagine being in the British Navy and ordering the ships to return. For me that's a picture of hell.

[@ZiggyZou]

5 million is extremely small. My state is larger than your entire country

[@nendoroiddancing7361]

I live in in Ireland and hardly anybody has a holiday home the only people that do is the government

[@eileencorcoran3090]

My daughter has gone to live in Dublin....from Birmingham City UK....she loves it 6 mins from beach... and now expecting a little irish baby...xxx

[@EpicAelflaed]

Dublin is going to be like Birmingham uk very soon with the immigrants you’re receiving

[@EpicAelflaed]

You mean she’s expecting a baby - we are aware she will be born in Ireland My daughter was born in England though I wouldn’t say we’re expecting a little English baby 😂 too funny 🤣

[@Kk-bq8sw]

Lol

[@EpicAelflaed]

@@amoxzi Though it is weird. If I posted on social media that I’ve just had a daughter - then posted “a little English baby” they would ask why I had to add that part in. People never say “I’ve just had a little Sudanese baby” or I’ve just had “a little German baby”. It’s something we never hear because it makes no sense to. Yeah a very odd thing to say. Why didn’t she just say “a little bundle” or something like everyone else? What does an Irish baby mean? Lots of babies are born in Ireland and the parents are from different countries

[@chelseacharger]

Under any such video , where the famine is mentioned, there inevitably are comments from Brits getting defensive. Look, the blame isn't against the people themselves but the government in Westminster. in those times Do remember that the ruling classes had millions of English, Scots and Welsh living in grinding poverty too, even at height of the empire. An empire that was largely built on hundreds of thousands of British military casualties while a relative few actually benefitted. The British authorities also didn't cause the potato blight. It was something that happened across Europe. But the catastrophic consequences in Ireland were down to discriminatory laws that resulted in so many people becoming dependent on that one crop. Remember too, that in the 1840's, Ireland was actually a part of the UK (or was supposed to be) yet quite clearly was treated differently. Again, ordinary British folk are not being blamed as their own forefathers struggled with oppressive laws that crushed workers rights and true democracy.

[@kristinebailey6554]

Bravo for a factual comment. The British Government PLUNDERED and colonized many countries. They were eventually eradicated from America and India, but the Irish are still struggling to be free of that burden. A shame too because Ireland is a beautiful country, quite capable of standing on their own.

[@Kitiwake]

we love the ottomans and Choctaw in Ireland

[@EpicAelflaed]

The Irish, Scottish and Welsh won’t have heard what you have said. You’re English and therefore to be blamed for your past countrymen’s behaviour - and they require apologies from the English - our answer - I will apologise to ‘absolutely’ no one

[@chelseacharger]

@@EpicAelflaed I'm Irish. And as I said, it's the past actions of the government that have been criticised, so apologies are neither asked or expected from ordinary folk..

[@GrenvilleP710]

Discriminatory laws that caused dependence ? Not really . The biggest factor was the size of the average Irish family.Growing a population from 2m to 8m in a short time.The result was inability to feed people at a time of famine. ... The English provided many thousand of tons of aid.Shipswere constantly passing taking food one way and peoplr the other my Family were part of that The common idea that the English government was to blame was all part of the Irish authorities off loading some of the blame.

[@brianbozo2447]

Ireland's population has increased by 20% in the past 10 years, mostly through migration and immigration.

[@Scotia6261]

And asylum seekers, fakeugees, scammers etc.

[@IrelandAbu]

Yes it's the worst plantation in irish history passing the Ulster by far

[@toneschofield4609]

Here's to another 20% increase to shithole Ireland.

[@wailingalen]

Had no idea Choctaw Nation and Ireland had a connection!!

[@19erik74]

Yes and during the recent C19 pandemic when we were suffering on the Navajo Nation to get water and other basic supplies, Ireland made much appreciated donations.

[@robsmithadventures1537]

@@19erik74 We respect the native american nations a lot and we see that they suffer from the US government negligence.

[@mjh5437]

There was a lot of Irish and Scottish and Welsh slave traders,in fact per head of population those countries combined had more slavers than England.

[@noelfleming3567]

Going back most countries had slaves

[@paulduffy4585]

​@@mjh5437what is a "slaver" - and why were the English so bad at it?

[@banglabanger3300]

Ireland's full , we need affordable housing , hospitals,schools, and care services for our own people. Charity begins at home. Food has to be grown , wake up , our woke politicians are a disgrace. Vote no no , then vote them out.

[@Richard1A2B]

It not foreigners driving up the prices of our homes... it's the greedy Irish.

[@dazza9859]

I’m 52 and population has increased by 2 million people since I was 9.😮 🇮🇪

[@brackloon4584]

Look at the figures in the latest NDP which was released by the government to little fanfare during the panic and confusion of the so-called pandemic. 😩☘

[@andrewmoran357]

We have mass imigration but no affordable housing we have a huge problem incoming. The gov are obsessed with asylum seekers and are trying to spread them all across the land. The people are getting annoyed with it all and there will be big trouble.

[@georgebarnes8163]

Sure Ireland has had the highest number of Migrants in all of Europe, are the Irish all going to go back home?

[@briankelleher2156]

Two corrections. The British evicted the Irish when they couldn’t pay rent. These unfortunate people were given a meal a day but made to construct roads and other civil works to get this meal. In short they were used as a slave labour. Thousands of Irish worked lived and died at the side of the road. The British then presented this food distribution as “famine relief” to the rest of the world. The ottoman sultan donated 10,000 pounds towards famine relief. This was rejected because, despite plundering the wealth of the world, the murderous Victoria donated only 2000 pounds. As this looked very bad for her the British reduced the sultans donation to 1000 pounds. These are important facts that show the deliberate murderous intent of the British towards the Irish.

[@nickjung7394]

Where did the Sultan get the money? Plunder and enslavement!

[@briankelleher2156]

@@nickjung7394 the sultan had no financial, military or political interests in Ireland. I don’t pretend know where he got his money from but he was willing to share the modern equivalent of millions to help a nation that he had absolutely no connection to. That’s the polar opposite of what the British did.

[@briankelleher2156]

@@nickjung7394he also sent three ships of food. Only one got through the British blockade.

[@catfootball592]

@@briankelleher2156 Just the usual British bashing from feins. The Potato blight affected the whole of Europe. The Sultan wasn't the only one to set up aid. Britain set up soup kitchens and aid. It's funny that we forget the barbary slave trade so quickly.

[@catfootball592]

@@briankelleher2156 Excuse me? The British send a lot of aid. The potato effected the whole of Europe it was nearly 200 years ago. It was a very different world. Mostly the Potato famine has been used to generate anti British hate for the republican movement, an excuse for their murdering!

[@johnpower9550]

Very well put together, I enjoyed it. On the Turkish Sultan who donated £1000, he actually donated a lot more but because his original amount was more than Queen Victoria had donated, he was advised to downscale it so not to insult the monarch..

[@FactVoyageYT]

Yes, I read about that whilst doing my research! Very interesting...

[@Stand663]

What the same Ottoman Turks who massacred hundreds of thousands Armenian Christian’s ?

[@tedcrilly46]

Local flag of Drogheda had an Islamic crescent in it as an honor to the sultan.

[@tedcrilly46]

*has

[@catfootball592]

People forgot the Barbary slave trade very quickly. The whole of Europe, had the potato blight, food was hard to get. There was a lot of food sent by the British Government maze from the new world, soup kitchens. The way the law was in Ireland-the local land owner had to pay for the poor, in his parish. That's why they had to sell their grain to England. The potato famine was complex, a lot of BS talked about it as it was used as propaganda to stir up anti British hate.

[@KibyNykraft]

The little natural ice age mentioned from the 1300s to the 1800s is important in understanding how the slight global warming since the mid 1800s , is not "man-made". The IPCC only counts from the mid 1800s and onwards. Several regions in Scandinavia were colder than usual in october and parts of september this year btw according to scientific data. The media tried to say otherwise

[@updistant705]

from 1300's to 1800's was before the Industrial Revolution. Man made global climate change has occurred since then. What you say makes no sense (but you already knew that)

[@elliegreen4738]

KibyNykraft Great comment and true, the fake health emergency and fake climate emergencies are being used by those behind the UN as a means for them to take the world for themselves with mass Genocide planned.

[@jgg59]

Ridiculous statement there are 8 billion people on the planet today. During their time they were probably about 450 million people on the planet. You guys just don’t stop with this ridiculousness that don’t have an effect on the climate and today’s day and age, sit down buddy.

[@markreid1932]

What bullshit, have a look at the graph that he showed at 3:10. The big spike on the right is natural??? Keep your head buried in the sand.

[@donfalcon1495]

What point are you trying to make? Nobody claims man made climate change predates the Industrial Revolution!

[@waqasahmad8015]

I was at the Manchester children's hospital few years ago and met a wonderful Irish nurse she told me how life was difficult in Ireland eventually she chose to move to the uk 🇬🇧 just hope ireland as a nation can do well they are wonderful human beings

[@mjh5437]

hahahahaha,I`m Irish and I assure you there`s lots of really terrible Irish people too🤣

[@tedcrilly46]

Speaking of childrens hospitals, Ireland has one of the most expensive in the world. That doesnt mean its one of the best, just one of the most expensive. Its our Berlin airport, one of those money pit projects that just wont win.

[@waqasahmad8015]

@@tedcrilly46 thank you for your kind information

[@catfootball592]

The North has wonderful human beings the south not so.

[@spencerburke]

​@@catfootball592 Yes, all those DUP Neanderthals with their bonfires and effigies - good people.

[@BlueBaron3339]

Far less controversial than the other comments I've read is the undeniable beneficiaries of it all - the United States and Canada. The contribution of Irish immigrants and their descendants to both nations cannot be overestimated. Nor can the opportunities both nations have afforded people of Irish origin. Often the best things happen for the wrong reasons.

[@joelyons886]

Please use the accurate and now accepted term, there was never a "famine" it was an early example of ethnic cleansing and one of the first acts of genocide.

[@FiveLiver]

What a nasty bacteria.

[@Johnnyfive55]

My island is not empty. It's full, it's a rainy cold island you guys wont like it here

[@marklittle8805]

You have palms in some parts of your island. It rarely snows...you can golf year round. Tell me how this all sucks? I live in Canada, we lose 5 months a year to winter in some places

[@frankthefrankly8055]

with the most expensive housing on the Planet, ireland is not empty. It is full.

[@danocinneide1885]

The revised census of 1841 was more like 8.8 million and the probable real population in 1846 was 12.5 million...

[@mojophe1617]

Agree with your figures. Census were unreliable and Children aged 5 and under were not counted. This whip through Irish history portrayed a very mild version of what occurred. They were purposely starved to death. They needed the land, it's what is underway today. The template of what was done to cleanse a people have and is being used by tyrants today.

[@jaynekirsopp7123]

No evidence to support your assertion. You seriously think that the population could increase by 3.7 million in 5 years? Give your head a wobble

[@Ionlytellthetruth]

The 8 million number is probably not accurate given that the census takers couldn't document the whole country, the actual population size before the famine was probably closer to 11 million.

[@noelpucarua2843]

It is veery likely that the census was incomplete.

[@catfootball592]

No wrong!

[@colincampbell4261]

Church records

[@jaynekirsopp7123]

There is absolutely no evidence to support your assertion. To suggest that the census was out by three million is a nonsense. The Catholic Church also kept scrupulous records of their parishoners.

[@McConnachy]

Ireland suffered terrible famines, but the population has recovered. Scotland also suffered massive depopulation. When I visited Ireland I noticed the population is fairly evenly distributed, whereas in Scotland 80% of our country is basically empty and still in decline, the Scottish people having been marginalised from their land into the cities.

[@FactVoyageYT]

there is a video on scotland's emptiness on the channel too! :)

[@McConnachy]

@@FactVoyageYT I saw it and got a heap of abuse from English nationalists, 😂 but thanks, it was worth it

[@laoch5658]

population hasnt recovered..pre famine the population was 8 million

[@damionkeeling3103]

Ireland traditionally had a population density similar to that of England which means today there should be at least 30 million Irish living there but it's less than a third of that.

[@trishloughman5998]

and yet we have the "Gerremow!" idiots.

[@IainMcGirr]

For the famine that never was there was enough food exported to feed everyone up to 26 million in fact that's why we're refer to in as An Ghota Mhór or the great hunger

[@noelfleming3567]

EXPORTED TO ENGLAND

[@catfootball592]

@@noelfleming3567 WTF are you on about?

[@A190xx]

The food was not taken by Britain, but exported by Irish landowners. The subtle change in wording lends itself to propaganda.

[@antaibhshaglas3737]

I dont your ordinary Paddie has any grief with sharing the space with other nationalities,they were even curious about other cultures,and supporting at all times the "underdog".However,the totally irresponsable behaviour of the people in power in induntating the country without any forseen plan how to integrate the hordes arriving,unfortunately has changed that because people have become confused by this treccerous behaviour

[@Sionnach1601]

There are simply FAR too many coming in. It's as simple as that. We are a hair's breath away from completely losing our country. If it keeps going thus, in 20 years Ireland will NOT be Irish any more. It will be just another landspace filled with ghettos of ethnic clumps who do not mix nor want to mix, all living on minimum wages, keeping the billionaire classes in absolute power. There will be no middle class.

[@themadfarmer5207]

Hogwash.... Ireland has enough people for its size and geographic structure. There is a type of celebration for Ireland reaching a 5 million population milestone, and with asperations for the population to go on increasing, mainly driven by immegration The last time the population reached such heady numbers resulted in the people living in sod walled cabins in the bogs and hills, with pigs in the kitchen to keep them warm

[@mikavirpiranta7552]

Uneatable lightly potato blight infected potatos can become distilled into vodka. Same goes with barley. People saved from the crops what they could by means what they had.

[@daviddavis7710]

Interesting video. Emigration to North America is frequently mentioned in videos and books on the Irish Potato Famine, but many more emigrated to Great Britain at that time, (source: "The Great Hunger. Ireland 1845-1849" by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Chapter 11.) The reason is pretty obvious when you think about it.

[@denisescally7090]

There was never an actual famine in Ireland. Masses of food were produced in Ireland and exported. The poor were just left to starve.

[@daviddavis7710]

@@denisescally7090 Quite right but my point is also correct. Between 1845 and 1850, many more Irish people migrated to Great Britain than to America to escape starvation.

[@denisescally7090]

@@daviddavis7710 I'm Irish descent living in Scotland. Certainly a lot of us about 👍

[@straighttalking2090]

@@retiredbore378 You're old enough to have a dictionary. You're old enough to know better. Look up famine - it won't say anything about politics.

[@straighttalking2090]

@@retiredbore378 What a presumptuous bore you are (of course that could mean anything in your mindscape). So you 'knew development aid workers'.. is that an an attempt to impress or hold some relevance? You're 'old enough to have studied economics' - wow! What does that make you.. 16? You are a perfect example of how talk can be meaningless. You need more than a decent dictionary. Oh and as for disasters - I lived through two.. but what would you know.

[@lancehobbs8012]

the very next video being suggested to me on the right hand side of screen is "ireland is full"

[@martinafitzgerald1610]

I live in red ! As do hundreds of thousands of my fellow Irish citizens. Where did you get this information and coloured graphics ???

[@Paul-eb4jp]

I keep seeing KZbin videos of Irish people saying Ireland is full.

[@eireraid9816]

It's not really full though, more so just broken like its healthcare which has been in tatters for over a decade now but groups are trying to accuse migrants for that despite the fact migrants make up a lot of healthcare staff - there's a ton of empty houses in the countryside that are just left forgotten, more like owned by older people that passed on and are now owned by their children or family that live elsewhere or abroad.

[@m.p.7075]

And Irish politicians actually standing in parliament telling the Irish people that they need to admit their "white privilege"!!!!!! The country was almost third world until the end of the 20th century.

[@niallwalshe4473]

The British obviously did not cause the potato blight but they did cause the famine by “confiscating” all other crops grown and exporting them to England so the Irish had nothing left to eat.

[@eleveneleven572]

Everyone seems to forget that it was the Americans who sold them blighted potatoes. That blight also hit the rest of Europe but was not as damaging as the rest of Europe had a more diverse agriculture. Land had been repeatedly subdivided due to the population going from 3 to over 8 million in around 55 years. This caused a focus on potatoes, esp in the West, due to its nutritional value and ease to produce esp on low grade land. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Recently Dublin based historians are revisiting the complex reasons for the famine.

[@johnkelly313]

Need to get a better understanding of the disease.As descendants of potatoes who shifter to the best potato growing area in the world in 1850s and continued to grow potatoes in perfect soil and rainfall.With the right foggy atmosphere and humid conditions you still got blight here.Then the fungus was in the soil for years.Dispute that it was imported with seed but caused by replanted seed potatoes from crops grown in same soil year after year.Small plots of land dictated this problem.

[@valiantval6539]

And guess who is going to make the population swell again.

[@mjh5437]

Abdabs & Afros...And they already have.

[@foxgirl1822]

@@mjh5437 Irish Gypsies are worse

[@MICHAELCAMPBELL69]

Blacks Asians and Brazilians

[@ClannCholmain]

@@MICHAELCAMPBELL69😂 Read the latest census. Making stuff up is all you have.

[@jasonknight5863]

@@ClannCholmain People imported from 3rd world countries.

[@sparkesman1980]

It wont be empty for much longer with all the illegal immigrants that are now turning up😢

[@geoffowens9770]

It's up shit creek

[@ClannCholmain]

‘illegal immigrants’ 😂

[@ClannCholmain]

@@geoffowens9770it’s never been better.

[@hector7187]

​@@ClannCholmainnearly a quarter of the population has no Irish heritage, will be closer to 50 % in another 20 years, and u think that's a good thing?!

[@ClannCholmain]

@@hector7187 and there are about 100,000,000 people who identify as Irish diaspora. Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland states: ‘The Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.’ Get a life.

[@robert6106]

Today most of Ireland's food production is for export no different to the famine really and will likely be repeated again.

[@sarahann530]

Irish people are not dependent on potatoes anymore so please explain ?

[@robert6106]

@@sarahann530 Most of Ireland's land is used for livestock production, the bulk of which is for export. It was the sale of food on the open market that was the nail in the coffin for many when the potato crop failed. Today Ireland south and north can't even house the population in the good times, what do you think will happen when bad times hit in the future?

[@sarahann530]

@robert6106 When the bad times hit people will emigrate like they did before. During the famine the land was owned by the English and they exported their crops . If you are worried about starving in the bad times I suggest you learn a skill of value now .

[@robert6106]

@@sarahann530 I'm not worried about that, just pointing out historical parallels with today, rather striking when you think about it.

[@sarahann530]

@robert6106 Ireland is an Independent Country today with an educated workforce and an open economy ,what parallels do you see with the 1800s Ireland ?

[@emmetsweeney9236]

Bullshit. The red areas are rather heavily populated with small family owned farms. Only a relatively few remote and mountainous regions are genuinely uninhabited. I know. I live in Ireland.

[@paulk9306]

Anyone who thinks that a famine killed millions in Ireland, needs to read the Perfect Holocaust, by Chris Fogarty, The Food was removed at gunpoint by the British Army, dont believe me , he has a full breakdown of British units in Ireland at the time, fully corroborated and documented.

[@jacquelinegosnell5340]

It's in our Irish history books , well know fact. The brits try to hide. What they did to Ireland is unforgivable cowardly b..t..ds

[@TheHorsebox2]

A well put together video, and you got the pronunciation of Drogheda pretty much spot on!

[@albertnash888]

The largest island in Europe where most of the United Kingdom resides is called Great Britain.

[@ikigai47]

That's right Albert! (pats head) Now go out and play!

[@hugojames85]

This is actually true. All Irish people were wiped out by an ultra-specific plague last Tuesday. There are now absolutely no human beings in Ireland at all.

[@brexitgreens]

You are right on the wrong premises. Ireland is, indeed, uninhabited. All Irish people have died 150 years ago. Those calling themselves "Irish" today are transients: they only pass through the country in cars and never feel Ireland on their skin.

[@blaircorral8158]

I was there on a Thursday and it looked fine to me 😊

[@hugojames85]

@@blaircorral8158 So where da hell did they get this story from? And don't tell me that people on KZbin are lying sacks of shit who are pushing a crypto-fascist agenda. I mean, are they? ARE THEY?

[@bloodspartan300]

What are you talking about?

[@hugojames85]

@@bloodspartan300 I am taking the piss out of the original ludicrous statement that "Ireland is empty".

[@LNixon-d2r]

Because the weather is terrible. Was there in the middle of summer, the temperature never went above 20c! And it was cloudy alot too.

[@LNixon-d2r]

Still love the nation tho

[@hughoconnor8769]

Isn't it strange to talk of grain prices when people were starving to death. Tons of food was exported from Ireland while people were dying. The land was controlled by wealthy English landlords. The people were not allowed to hunt or fish. They were effectively slaves, living in dire poverty. Why else would they depend on one crop for sustenance? So climate and blight were major factors but since England still profited, while the Irish starved, blame can't be overlooked. Ireland isn't empty by the way, and you won't find abandoned land there. You will find expensive land.

[@sopissedoff]

Money talks and always will ,if anything can be sold for more elsewhere it will,that's the way the EU works

[@catfootball592]

Yawn Yawn! the same old BS straight from the IRA propaganda play book. The reason the IRISH landlords (yes some owned estates in England too, but not many!) sold their grain was: In Ireland the law for the poor had not changed for centuries. It's your responsibility as the landlord to give money to the poor in your parish. The Landlords had to sell the grain to get this money. However, facts don't make anti-British morons, to do your biding!

[@A190xx]

The term English and British is disingenuously changed by some historians. The landowners were almost exclusively Irish, but a greater proportion were Protestant rather than Catholic, so termed "English as in Church of England or Anglican. It was the British (all 4 nations) that undertook the greatest efforts and eventually resolved the famine by over-rulling the Irish landowners.

[@hughoconnor8769]

It would be interesting to hear someone better versed on the historical facts than I am, debate you on this. I would question the Irishness of the landed gentry as opposed to the labouring tenants. Whatever their original heritage, they had the backing of the British Empire. As you say decisions were made across the water. While the subject was being debated in parliament, counting the cost to the English taxpayer, people were eating grass in a vain attempt to stay alive. Those who got the 'opportunity', boarded sickness-ridden "coffin ships" across the Atlantic. Not much credit due for letting an eight of the population starve to death. @@A190xx

[@VincentBlackLightning]

@@A190xx They followed British policy. 5/8 of the british army were stationed on the island over the 4 years with the sole purpose to ensure food extraction. Over 1 million cow, sheep and pig were taken off the land in that time. They call it a famine to cover up the truth. This video is far from factual. Most Irish dont even know a fraction of what really happened having been taught a watered down British white washed version of what they created. Irelands problems ultimately stems from the balls of king henry.

[@patrickjordan7670]

It's well populated now the government is importing silum sequels since 2010 there coming in by the plane load and se🤔🤔

[@harveyneedleman817]

Immigration will ruin your culture Patrick.

[@foxgirl1822]

True but Irish Gyspies are much much worse then any of them and multiplying at a crazy rate while the regular population shrinks.

[@geoffowens9770]

Ireland is up shit creek

[@RobertTrombley-g6l]

I moved to rural Ireland from the uk ,in a quiet rural part of the west coast,been here 2 years,and love it.

[@jgg59]

The reason why the Irish was so dependent on the potato is because the indigenous Irish were pushed off the Midlands, which has the best farming. That was all owned by absence heat landlords. The only things that Irish could grow on their soil on the West Coast were potatoes.

[@flynnjp19]

Over 5 million died in the great starvation, not 1 million as reported in mainstream.

[@sarahann530]

Which mainstream are you talking about ?

[@flynnjp19]

@@sarahann530 All mainstream including education system and news media

[@sarahann530]

@@flynnjp19 What evidence do you have to back up your claim ?

[@flynnjp19]

@@sarahann530 a friend of mine thoroughly researched this topic, by accident as he was originally researching his ancestry,, and wrote a book, "The Perfect Holocaust"

[@sarahann530]

@@flynnjp19 Provide links to the source material your friend found so we can independently verify . Just because your friend wrote a book means little . There are books written by people saying the World is flat . Provide evidence

[@andygaffney8352]

Go away , we're full .

[@clairejeannette8454]

Thank you for this overview! I look forward to more of it.

[@bazthejazz]

In recent times, Ireland is far from empty. Just like Great Britain, thanks to "asylum seekers", the island north & south has been inundated with immigrants. Contrary to what you say, there is a serious housing shortage - particularly in the cities - which has been worsened by these new arrivals, as have the health services, schools, etc. This situation will only get worse, unless there is a curb on immigration, as the increasing world population seeks to move to "wealthier" (aka better benefits) countries.

[@dlogan3099]

It didn't take long for the first dogwhistler to appear in the comments. We wouldn't have a health service without migrants, and our economy would revert to its pathetic performance in the 50s

[@Caambrinus]

Immigration has added to Ireland and will keep doing so, just as Irish emigrants have added to their new homeland. Government neglect of housing problems is a more serious problem.

[@brexitgreens]

​@@Caambrinus Why must the Irish wait for the government to do something for them? Are they babies? They clearly are. I've recently tried to buy bricks at B&Q. They were out of stock. Sums up what's wrong with this island.

[@brexitgreens]

OP is a perfect example of delusional Irish thinking. Reality: there's no place in Western Europe more empty than Ireland.

[@geoffowens9770]

It's a powder keg waiting to go off

[@andrewdunne1735]

The Genocide started in 1845 and is described in this video as a Famine,How can a country exporting vast amounts of corn and meat be described as suffering from Famine?

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

At 0:30 the island is called Great Britain not United Kingdom.

[@PhilShnider]

Came to Ireland about 25 years ago since then immigrants and refugees overwhelmed Irish population. Unavailability of housing is a bigger problem for everyone. Brining more people in will create larger cities and much loved emerald Isles might disappear gradually.

[@FionanUaMurchadha]

Can you not see the irony in what you're saying? You an immigrant are criticising other immigrants coming here 🤦

[@kareliask]

I didn't know about the 18th century famine, thank you for this.

[@antokent]

It was not a famine. It was a genocide. We had plenty of food, but the brits stole it

[@malahammer]

It was more than a famine, it was Cromwellian in nature

[@mjh5437]

Were you born yesterday? 😆

[@kareliask]

@@mjh5437 Are you a dickhead? See, we can all ask questions.

[@catfootball592]

@@malahammer OMG! only the Irish suffered in history? Things were tough for everyone! As an Irish Protestant whose family had to move from Co Kerry in the 20s. I think Cromwell did a good job in Ireland considering there was 4 separate armies in a constant war. He brought peace. The whole of Europe was at war over religion!

[@michaelstanbrook7194]

Can confirm I live in the Red Area ,not sparsely populated at all,rural but like most neighbours live maybe 20/30 metres apart

[@ciaran6309]

Some of Irelands biggest towns are in the Red area

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

This vid glosses over the refusal of the English to help the Irish during the famine of 1841-1842, even to the effect of removing the scarce food still available and prohibiting other nations to offer relief to the Irish. It is at par with the death camps in the South African desert during the Boer Wars, later known as "concentration camps" in Nazi times.

[@TP-om8of]

@23:00 There was not “colonial rule” at the time of the Famine. Ireland was an integral part of the United Kingdom. The Irish Parliament, which had existed since before 1300, had voted itself out of existence in 1800 in favour of representation in the Westminster Parliament.

[@nickjung7394]

And, of course, the Irish colonised what is now Scotland. Way of the world, it seems!

[@A190xx]

Nice to see comments from those that read proper history and not the propaganda.

[@spencerburke]

The Irish Parliament - which consisted of how many Irish members?

[@TP-om8of]

@@spencerburke All of them were Irish; about 300 in the House of Commons.

[@spencerburke]

@@TP-om8of The parliament in Dublin represented the English in Ireland. For most of its history it excluded Gaelic members and Catholics. You might as well say the Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete was a Polish parliament.

[@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766]

A friend of mine from Chicago Illinois USA did the ancestry test. She’s 71% Irish lol she’s originally from Pennsylvania and they have about 2 million Irish Americans there. I swear everyone is Irish or Mexican

[@paulgorman1305]

Its not fuckin empty its poxy full, and there's a housing crisis, go and ask me bollox

[@iainpattison903]

Ireland is full, too much immigration.

[@luciamacakova7516]

@@iainpattison903 Irish just wanted to drain profit from emmigrants and have no responsibility. No investment. No plans. Like public transport in Dublin, outdated, unreliable, with not enough capacity, but more people who needs it = more money. Let make most country for sheep to graze, this is genius plan.

[@jasonknight5863]

English please…

[@paulgorman1305]

@@jasonknight5863 ok stay away how about that, you understand that don't you

[@ralsharp6013]

Wonderful upload thanks. Quite a few free settlers went to Australia during the 1840's and became spud farmers. Koroit, Victoria, Australia still grows best 🥔's. Some of families dropped the O & Mc of their surname. For eg, The O'Dwyer became Dwyer and the O'leary's became Leary's. McNeil might be simply Neil. Handy to know that if you're working on a family tree🧐

[@Antoward]

Our way of live was forced on us by England they only wanted Ireland for beef and agricultural products then and to a lesser extent now we only ate potatoes because all other food stuffs were unaffordable Irish people’s small land holdings could only feed them if they sold all other crops to pay there rent and lived on potatoes also the good land was taken by the English you can still see the lazy beds going up the sides of mountains were no one would farm but we had to may Trevelyan burn in hell he had half dead people building roads to no were he refused help because it would embarrass the crown if not for the Quakers the death toll would’ve been a lot higher. Ireland has never recovered from it population wise. During the famine, the Anglican church offered food in exchange for renouncing Catholicism There is a saying from that time “God brought the famine but the English were responsible for the hunger” Ireland exported over 1000 tonnes of food a week during the famine.my grandfather born in 1915 heard the stories of an gort more at his grandfather knee as a child my grandfathers grandfather only lived because a Quaker feed him as a young child the only survivor of his family.if I sound angry I am sorry but it hits a nerve to see an old man so sad because of hearing such stories as a young child

[@chesshooligan1282]

Correction: the United Kingdom is not an island. It's a country that includes England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and more. Great Britain is an island, the largest of the British Isles.

[@biulaimh3097]

To the Romans, Britania consisted of England and Wales only. It did not include Scotland (and wouldn`t have mattered if it had) and it certainly did not encompass Ireland. So Britain is part of an island and not an island in itself. So, the British Isles can only mean islands that are part of England or Wales, like the Isle of White for example. Of course, if Taiwan is not part of China, then England`s provenance over the isle of White is at best, a matter of opinion.

[@muhammadurrehman4221]

Working as doctor in republic and later northern ireland I was made aware of many stories about the suffering of irish people by english and unionist population .I am an absolute outsider in both religious and ethnic terms but it is hard to deny the suffering of irish people at so many levels and over such a prolonged preriod.

[@geoffowens9770]

Ireland is changing by the day. And not in a good way

[@A190xx]

Following independence, Irish governments disingenuously and subtly changed the teaching of its history to ensure anti-British sentiment to avoid calls to rejoin Britain. While the gentry in charge of the 4 nations has changed, 95% of those in the British Isles have the same and mingled ancestry. The movement for independence was driven by the educated middle classes with little support across the country (independence candidates polled less than 18% prior to 1916). And following independence, Ireland remained one of the poorest nations in Europe until the Celtic Tiger - ie capitalism. Some points to add to the video to dispell the myths: 1) Famines also occurred in Europe and indeed England at the same time, but Ireland was more susceptible due to its proximity to the Atlantic winds. 2) Relief from each famine came predominantly from Britain (all 4 nations). 3) The potatoes were not "taken by England" but exported by the Irish landlords (only a handful were not Irish). 4) The population surge is ignored when looking at the Great Famine, but it was a major factor as the population was over-reliant on bumper harvests. 5) Britain brought new farming techniques to Ireland that mitigated future famines. 6) Irish landlords stopped the Ottoman imports to Irish ports and it was Britain that forced open the ports to receive aid. 7) Irish (and other British) settlers were part of US forces that relocated (among other things) Indian tribes as they colonised the USA. 8) Ireland experienced a post-independence minor famine in 1924-25. 9) Following the Credit Crunch, Britain bailed out Ireland for £40bn, as most of us in the 4 nations still see them as family. 10) To answer the question in the video title, Ireland remains under-populated due to poor urban planning that continues to focus on Dublin for most of its employment (IT firms). Developers were allowed developers to build homes, but were not obliged to build the related services to support them, so demand died after the Credit Crunch.

[@foxgirl1822]

Very good points and Ive always felt we are too quick to point the finger elsewhere but we are still better off being our own country then under British rule. That loan was paid off with interest btw.

[@NmpK24]

Few things you overlooked. Irish independence might have had little support before 1916 but then Home Rule didn't, there had been calls for this since 1874 and several bills put forward in Westminster. And public opinion shifted dramatically as a result of the executions after the 1916 Easter rising. As for Irish landowners, did they still have to convert to another religion to own land at that time? And probably more viable to export your crop when the vast majority of local populus are kept poor for so long, limited in their opportunities etc. Was the Irish economy at that time set up to serve its own people first or was the country just a huge farm for 'mother' country? If there was a devolved Irish government in power they might have resisted those exports.

[@brexitgreens]

I'm inclined to believe you because I witness delusional Irish thinking every day. But what motivates you to spend your time to combat Irish myths? Why do you care?

[@simonbarter326]

Quick polite correction - The island of Ireland is not to the west of the island of the UK, it is the island of Great Britain.

[@peterwhitaker4038]

first settlers in Ireland thought it was cold and at first uninhabitable so they called it HIBERNIA, like as in winter animals Hibernate. there is a Scottish football team in Edinburgh called 'Hibernians' closely linked to Irish history. at the same period of time Scotland was called CALEDONIA. wales was CAMBRIA and England was ALBION. just some history for you.

[@brendansweeney5644]

The Romans called Ireland 'Hibernia'. We have no idea what the first settlers called the island. No one even knows what language they spoke.

[@catfootball592]

@@brendansweeney5644 The Celts never wrote anything down. The whole Irish culture was invented by rich Dublin Victorians

[@brexitgreens]

It is still uninhabitable. There are no people living here. Irish winter is one long cluster storm from October until mid-May. Those called "Irish" are actually transients: they only pass through Ireland in cars and they never experience real Ireland.

[@johnpatrick5307]

@@catfootball592 But you say they were never Celts - get your story right. The Irish was actually a great centre of learning - and led to the Irish saving Western civilisation. They wrote plenty down.

[@jasonknight5863]

@@brexitgreens well it’s cold 95 % of the year, no summer to speak of and rains and is cloudy about 300 days per year on average.

[@editorrbr2107]

Because the flood of immigrants don’t farm or herd, and that’s largely agricultural producing land.

[@lightningspirit2166]

Nonsense......ireland has a house shortage.....there's plenty countryside remote houses.......but their too expensive for a lot of irish to buy ....even a small country cottage will set you back 250,000 euro...!

[@lindanorris2455]

My British (maternal) family relocated to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland from Britain. The women, it is ALWAYS the women who turn their backs on others. My (paternal) British family did everything thye could to help others. I grew up in total racism towards other races from the maternal line, NOT from the British (paternalL line!

[@Richard1A2B]

Despite this video showing you otherwise?

[@catfootball592]

@@Richard1A2B The video was the normal anti British rubbish to be honest. The BS about the potato famine is mostly told by fein scum, to justify their hatred of England. It a more complex issue than... blame the British narrative.

[@hollyharps]

Not a feminist, I take it.

[@johnmitchell4043]

the ottoman's sent 10,000 not 1,000. which was refused and not alowed by britain on the grounds it was insulting for anyone to offer more than the Queen who only gave 2,000.

[@marynadononeill]

Ireland is not empty! Those red areas on your map are not accurate. It is lightly populated. Farmland and many many villages. There's another channel that is making these videos about empty areas as if the standard is somehow a crowded city! There isn't hardy a single area that is truly wilderness in Ireland. Man has lived in Ireland for 9000 years. It is true that the famine and economic oppression depopulated and suppressed growth in Ireland. The beauty of Ireland is the rural inhabited areas.

[@jimbob9205]

Lots of talk about alcohol but no mention of all the food stolen and taken to britain leaving thousands to starve to death.

[@Bxrben_Dr1p]

i really want Ireland to recover from that famine 😩😩

[@AndrewBoland-ju4ls]

I really want us to aswell

[@Bxrben_Dr1p]

@@AndrewBoland-ju4ls ?

[@Cianthebean]

Sure Ireland isn't a bit empty it's just an illusion

[@vickyingramnymann8543]

​@@CianthebeanFilling with Muslims as we speak. Then the population will soar.

[@noelfleming3567]

It's getting full now look around u 😮😮

[@AlphonsodeBarbo]

My ancestors (All!) left Ireland in the 1860's, and Thank God they did!

[@Wanamaker1946]

Dump the EU pronto.

[@TauCeti973]

Yep, Ireland is empty, no humans, no wildlife, no trees, just some moss on a few rocks and somehow spuds manage to grow randomly about the place.

[@jacquelinegosnell5340]

😂😂😂

[@lindanorris2455]

You forgot the imiigration to BOston, Massachusetts.

[@starmon763]

Took the pledge when I was 12 was completely forgotten about a few short years later for a long time this video just reminded me of it🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂

[@johnhough7738]

Well narrated, in fact well done all 'round~! We live and learn, no? Thank you ...

[@billytollerton4220]

Yes and our overlords only allowed this type of patato to be grown ,knowing how susceptible it was to cold and frost.😮😡🤬.barstewards.

[@michaelcostello6019]

Put more succinctly, and traditionally: 'God sent the blight, English sent the famine'

[@FiveLiver]

Thank you for your Italian point of view.

[@philipsmith530]

America sent the blight England set barley

[@LockerMart]

Take out Trudeau. Zero relevance.

[@CormacMaher]

The Temperance/priest thing you tacked on at the end was all a bit random

[@mjh5437]

There`s a lot of quite ignorant generalisations in this.

[@jaynekirsopp7123]

It did draw attention to the vast amounts of money spent on alcohol that could have been used to buy food though

[@michaelgray7768]

Some very strange claims here . Ireland empty ?? Heaps of empty houses ?? Seriously ?? Our goverment would be delighted if the housing situation was anything like this . We're bursting at the seams here given our lack of hospitals etc .

[@fredjimbob2962]

7:18 It's not Dya - Spora, it's Dai - ASpora

[@fredericklee4821]

Israel is looking for a country to export 2 million Gaza Palestinians. And Ireland has all these vacant houses. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[@tomsurrey2252]

Good video!!

[@jakeconnah]

hi im your 5000th sub from before congrats on 11 thousand youve grown so much

[@JimmyN48]

Justin Trudeau, come on. Canadians don’t even like him.

[@The_Resistance_1961]

We have sheep and cattle stations bigger than Ireland. It's no wonder the Irish flee Ireland. Like the Croatians, there are more Irish living overseas than live in Ireland. We parochial Aussies don't mind the Irish - they at least have a sense of humour. The English not so much.

[@irishravr632]

A very interesting & informative video, you have got another subscriber, today's population are not having large families, this could also add to the decline in the population, for instance my maternal grandmother had 13 children, my paternal grandmother had 9 children, my mother had 9 children, you would be hard pushed to find couples today, married or not having a large family, it takes two wages coming into a home these days.

[@straighttalking2090]

Informative? And you are Irish? Maybe there is something true about those jokes people make about the Irish. In the first forty three seconds he claims the Island of Great Britain is the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland is a country! You can't be that uneducated that you can't see how wrong that is. Can you?

[@irishravr632]

@@straighttalking2090 I'm well aware Northern Ireland is not a country, I don't need a geography lesson from a smart arse like you.

[@bejtabej]

As an albanian I wish the best of to your nation. We may be in different parts of europe but we can understand your grief and tragic history. Love ALB♥IRE

[@johnpearcey]

Empty?! What complete BS. I live here in the "empty" country and there are plenty of people. Just enough in my opinion.

[@hanwellfoxfoxy5008]

Apparently there is a bit of a kerfuffle in Eire at the moment with the invasion of, how can I put this, non Celtic darker skinned folks (almost exclusively young males) this does not bode well for social cohesion and a peaceful existence.

[@asanulsterman1025]

In the 17th & 18th centuries most of those emigrating from Ireland to America were Ulster-Scots, not Irish. Irish emigration to USA didn't really start until the potato famine in the mid 1800s. The earliest emigration was "The Eagle Wing was the first emigrant ship to leave Ulster for America. She sailed from Groomsport in September 1636, carrying 140 Presbyterians in search of a life free from persecution in the New World". This was just before the 1641 rebellion when around 12,000 Ulster-Scot men, women and children were massacred by the irish catholic rebels.

[@seandoherty925]

Well Cromwell cleared up your grievance on that last score hopefully. 850,000 Irish Catholics slaughtered I think this video said by the man whose statue stands outside the national Parliament of the UK. Even Netenyahu would probably be satisfied with that scale of retribution as a punishment for the Irish having the temerity to try and liberate themselves from their oppressors.

[@asanulsterman1025]

@@seandoherty925 There you go trying to make it all about poor innocent Irish Catholics. Actually there was a war going on, Roundheads vs Royalists and your lot picked the wrong side. I think Cromwell and Netenyahu are to be admired for their ability to get the job done, don't you?

[@tulyar57]

Your hubris in this throwaway comment has highlighted your natural vindictive nastiness. Well done, sir.@@asanulsterman1025

[@asanulsterman1025]

@@tulyar57 Do you really think so? Or are you just trying to paint any pro Israel comment as beyond the pale given the Irish tendency to support terrorists like the IRA and Hamas? I'd really like to know.

[@tulyar57]

An interesting reply. I really have no strong views on the Irish question (which I presume is what this video is about). However, your tendency to interpret everything through a prism of partisanship is quite illuminating.@@asanulsterman1025