Why the Irish Came to America: Scots Irish, Plug Uglies and Dead Rabbits

[@HistoryisAwkward]

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[@thatgalfromheck6032]

Great work as always! It's fascinating how much unfluence the English Civil War had in both the formation of the United States and the exodus of the Irish population over the centuries.

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Thank you

[@iainballas]

Commenting to boost video loving your channel, please keep it up until you're big We need people who tell the less-likable parts of history.

[@HistoryisAwkward]

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[@josephedixon3449]

if the documentary begins with Lincoln quote, you know its a great documentary

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Hope you enjoyed it

[@verybadatmc]

How on earth do you only have 600 subscribers

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Thanks for watching and the positive comment, hopefully the channel keeps growing.

[@deborahberger5816]

I've always felt that "freedom of religion" to many meant "freedom of the right kind of protestant religion."

[@HistoryisAwkward]

I would say their religion, of whatever stripe, but I agree. Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@IM-pm9nz]

Excellent doco. Puts the gangs of new York movie in a better context. I'm decended from one of those irish immigrant waves, thank the flying spaghetti monster we didn't end up in the hell hole that was 1840s USA

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Ramen, glad you enjoyed it.

[@cenid2011]

A very fine presentation. Could it, however, be re-recorded with the presenter reading rather more slowly while giving greater care to clear and distinct elocution? Honestly, many sentences are indistinct to the point of unintelligibility.

[@HistoryisAwkward]

At some point if the channel ever takes off I'll get better equipment, a better editor and maybe even a better presenter. But for now I'm all I got and this is a side hobby by one person so...maybe one day. But thanks for watching and for the feedback!

[@deborahberger5816]

Hey - it's a helluva lot better than an IA voice!

[@deborahberger5816]

Anybody who thinks history is dry hasn't seen one of your videos! Now I know I'm raisin-slicing here, but the American Revolution began in 1775, when the first blood was shed at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and King George declared the colonies to be in rebellion.

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[@hoerimchoi4461]

Did Lincoln really say that? Is the quote 100% fact-checked?

[@26cheesecake26]

google is free and through using it, i found this quote published in the university of michigan’s collection of abraham lincoln’s writing in less than a minute. why make a comment questioning a creator’s integrity and/or research skills when you could so easily just verify it for yourself? maybe i am being overly harsh and you were genuinely just asking, but in any case it is really easy to simply use the resources at your disposal and quickly fact check it yourself. i know there are many false/misattributed quotes that get circled around of historical figures, and i am all for making sure that historical and educational content creators are held accountable to not spread that type of misinformation. but in this case as ive said you can easily see it is a real quote.

[@hoerimchoi4461]

@@26cheesecake26 Liz, I appreciate your well-thought comments. FYI, I really meant the question literally since I came across that quote for the first time in shock. Maybe that shock did me in asking that simple and blunt question. I wanted a quick response. No offense taken because I do understand your suspicion on my true intention. This content just popped up probably out of KZbin’s algorithm because I am a history buff. Pardon my ignorance on the subject and thanks again for kindly fact checking for me… and opening my eyes on this newly found fact.

[@26cheesecake26]

@@hoerimchoi4461 of course and thanks for such an understanding response given that i did come off as pretty accusatory- I was also pretty surprised to see that the quote was real, from my perspective because these days I think lincoln is portrayed as much more pro-equality/abolition than he was in reality, so seeing that he said something like this was new information for me as well!

[@hoerimchoi4461]

@@26cheesecake26 once again, thank you. I knew there were some controversies circulating around this topic regarding Lincoln. What I find this fascinating is that the actual smoking gun, I mean the direct quote was presented… my first response to this content was “What!?”, then to your response, I go “Wow”…

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Yes. Cite below. www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/knownothingparty.htm

[@evanslupe9298]

NICE

[@HistoryisAwkward]

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[@jaydaawg.8191]

It's four provinces .

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Thank you for the correction!

[@claires9100]

Province. Not providence. Otherwise interesting story thanks.

[@HistoryisAwkward]

Apologies from across the pond and thank you for the correction.

[@claires9100]

@@HistoryisAwkward no problem. A common error. Thanks for your content.

[@richardhinman3183]

This video seems to have a pro-Catholic bias. For instance, during the English Civil War, the Gaelic Irish sided with King Charles I. (In other words, against a representative form of government). It's my understanding that Cromwell invaded Ireland to fight the English Royalist soldiers who fled to Ireland at the end of the war. Cromwell's atrocities are exaggerated.

[@HistoryisAwkward]

That you are framing it around Catholicism is interesting. I've been told in other vides that talk about the Spanish Inquisition or the Spanish Mission system I'm being Anti-Catholic. What appears to be happening is you have a "side" you want to defend. I don't. Charles was a horrible king, Cromwell was a horrible tyrant, the Gaelic Lords who came before all of them generally came to power as warlords and probably also committed horrible atrocities. The next video I'm working on touches on Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears, but I also will be including that the "Five Civilized Tribes" as they were called were in part viewed as "Civilized" because they had adapted to plantation style practices, including adopting slavery. If you take a side and feel the need to defend that side, particularly in matters involving people who died long before you were born, you will find yourself defending atrocities somewhere along the line. Because history is awkward. If, on the other hand, you simply look at history to understand why things happen, so you and I and others can learn from the mistakes of others, you can learn a lot about human nature and what kinds of systems and people are dangerous to empower. But if you want to put people in the past on pedestals, defending the indefensible because it was done by "your side" then I think you are missing the point I'm trying to make. I do appreciate the feedback even if I disagree with it, but I don't think the video was pro or anti-catholic. I think in this area of History the Catholics happened to be the minority group for the majority of the video. And I think if you watched to the end you would find what they did when they finally achieved power kind of kills any argument one can make that this video is "Pro-Catholic"