The fist step for the modern Gaels is the revival of our language. There's a reason the English were so adamant about eradicating the Irish and Welsh languages going so far as to beat children in school for speaking there own language. Language is part of the very foundation of a culture. The fact is they beat the pride out of us, the pride for our own language and now Ireland and the descendants of the Gael have a complicated relationship with our language and there is even a debate in Ireland as to weather the language is even worth reviving but thankfully that seems to have shifted in favor of Gaeilge in recent years more young people have taken interest and the internet is breathing new life into the language but its up to us to save it. There is no Gaelic culture without Gaeilge.

This is a legitimately great documentary. As an Irish person, and Irish speaker, i usually groan when i see Irish "history" vids. But this is actually terrific, i cant imagine the time it took. Cheers for takng the effort, and not doing the usual "ah faith and begora, leprechaun and potato!"

Poor Irish, the persecution they suffered. It’s actually a heartbreaking history, especially after the English arrived. To know who you are is to know your roots. Ireland is so beautiful with friendly people. What a fascinating history, but also quite heartbreaking.

In 2010 we took lakota and anishinabe students to ireland and stayed at the glendalough hostel. Many of our lakota people have irish last names. Kelly, wright, moran,and trimble to name a few. Many spiritual similarities. Among our super hosts were eugene o''halloran and rosie o'connor. We ❤️ Ireland! Thank you for your hospitality 👍 hope to see ireland again!!

My maternal grandmother came to America through Ellis Island, from County Clare, Ireland. She instilled in me, a very deep love and appreciation of my people. God bless

Unreal documentary, where are you from? As an Irish man with a decent grasp of our history, everything in this video was spot on and obviously very well researched. This should be shown to all Irish kids in our school system. Well done, unreal doc 👏

Я заочно люблю Ирландию , возрождайте свой язык и культуру пожалуйста❤ вы ценны для всего мира 🙌💓 С уважением из Кавказа ❤

That was fascinating I myself being English is shocked about how history reveals such horrors great reporting 👍

Ireland is one country I cannot wait to visit, iv always loved watching documentaries that showcase the beautiful landscapes. Iv worked with many Irish men and they are absolute gentlemen. Hard working buggers to.

Thank you for this fascinating delve into our origins and your attention to the correct pronunciation of the language itself.

Thank you for this! My family were fishermen who moved from Ireland to Newfoundland. I want to learn more

I am so amazed with all of this new history to me of Ireland, so excited to learn more, from the indigenous citizens of Ireland thank you for all you all do to share the history of the country I love . Am so proud to have my ancestors from such a beautiful Ireland 👀💚💯🍀🇮🇪💚🙏💯💕🍀

My parents were Scottish and I was born in England in 56 when they first came here then we went back until 1963. The accent I had was very much unappreciated by the mentally sick “teachers” and I was forced into many fights by the ignorance of narcissistic haters of anything different. I am 66 now and have a real problem with authoritarianism of the kind that seeks to shape me. I never bend or bow to anyone.

Ireland for the the Irish

this is a bit random, but as an avid admirer of Tolkien's work I knew his elven languages have been constructed with old languages of the Isles, but having heard modern Gaelic, it didn't really click. However hearing these old names made me immediately associate them with Quenya and the Legendarium and it's wonderful :)

You are absolutely right about the modern government not caring about the Irish or any ethnic Eiuropean group. They are the worst, most dangerous of all threats the Irish have ever faced.

The Irish are the people we all need to be. Music, drink, family, the craic and being friendly to strangers no matter colour' creed or religion.

I sometimes wonder if the myths about the Underworld, the Land Beneath the Waves, holy wells, etc. are memories of the rising seas at the end of the Ice Age. It makes sense that the Bell Beaker people would've lived in the lowlands (incl. Doggerland) and would've had to migrate. It has always fascinated me that such memories can still be found, even in records written by monks that transcribed things they didn't really understand in a then-new Christian perspective that didn't quite fit. A culture that buried older monuments like Newgrange with reverence, avoided being civilised by the Romans, incorporated and fostered Christianity, precluded Norse domination, and survived imperial rule into the mid-19th century when Irish cultural/linguistic domination began to fade with the emigrant boats. I wish we had a political class that didn't hate us with such fervour. What could we do then?

This was a beautiful and thorough presentation!💜 THANK YOU!!!! In all my life have been curious as to how the Irish came to be in Ireland. Again, thank you!

Man! This contradicts most of the popular myths I was told about the Irish and the Vikings. I am so glad I stumbled across this content creator.

2nd Generation born in the U.S. but both sides of my family were Irish. Still a lot of mystery surrounding our history, but this was interesting and informative. To the creator: Slainte!

Your understanding of Ireland in 44 minutes ,as well as our present betrayal is as well done as any Irish patriot could have done.

What a beautiful language and fascinating history! 😇💖🙏🙌🇸🇪

my friend this video is a delicious morsel of knowledge. everything about it from the way you speak to the level of detail is just so satisfying. please keep doing what your doing. with people actively trying to rewrite history we desperately need people like you.

This was an absolute brilliant piece of work. Interesting from beginning to the end. And I could listen to this gentleman's voice and the way he tells a story, all day. With the massive amount of Muslims immigrating to Ireland right now. There will be a huge change in the country and the people very soon. Liked, Saved and Subbed....

Well done Sir. The passion really comes through. I so respect such intellect. Thank you.

I watched it again today, Keveen. Excellent production and as close to the actuality that we can know from the records of man. History where history exists & well told Lore from that which was recorded. Discerning Intuition serves ye well. That is the realm of the Poets. Your interpretations are spot on. Keep the Sacred Fire both in your Mind & in your Heart. It shows.

Your passionate point of view I think is correct and appropriate. Certainly realities must be faced. A simple thing. But to acknowledge this is to concede power further. Keep up the good work with facts and heart.

Few mispronunciations but well done overall,as an irish person i can say you covered this topic well

Amazing. History remembered and retold by memory. From generation to generation is captured. Gaelige is mo chroi ❤ My father would tell me stories from when a was kid in Ireland ❤

Your grasp on the Irish language is better then my own. Beautiful..👍🇮🇪

Thank you for your videos! I’m taking a class on Irish folklore and mythology and I got to go to Ireland a couple of months ago. You’re videos help reinforce what I’m learning and I’ve learned so much from them. Keep up the great work!

the way you explain Irish history is how I see myself today. thank you

You always make well researched videos. I can tell you do from what I already know and the bullshit ive seen other people try to state as fact. Thank you for taking the time to do it right :) its much appreciated for those of us who are trying to learn more.

Sadly in Ireland we are now being betrayed by our own establishment politicians and legacy media. Our culture is slipping away before our very eyes. Not casting any shade on the many thousands of migrants flooding our nation, but on the Irish administration that refuses to adopt a practical approach to immigration. Our island is tiny and our political elite seems to be trying to squeeze the entire continent of Africa here. Africa into Ireland won't go. It's causing a great deal of hardship for both the hoards of people arriving and the displaced Irish natives who are being forced into poverty.

That was amazing ! Thank you, I'm 3rd generation Irish / Maori now that's a mix ! Also descendant of Brian Boru loved the ending/ language ' catapulted me into the Forest of Lord of the Rings - fabulous presentation, Well done 🍀🌿

This is fantastic!!!! So often the “history of Ireland” is centered on the Celts. I really appreciate your research and presentation, particularly your matching, where possible, events handed down by bards with historical accounts. Brilliant.

Brilliantly and movingly done. My family had difficulty speaking about those ancestors forced to flee Ireland for the United States. I think now that I have a bit more of an understanding of the pervasive sadness (and deeply buried rage) we shared. Perhaps its time to go home.

Great video! As a native of Tongeren in Belgium I just like to point out that the depiction of Ambiorix is a 19th century romantisation, hence the winged helmet and such. He was the co-leader of the Eburones tribe. Later the Romans made the more docile Tungri settle in that area, hence the city's name Tongeren.

You painted a visual picture in narration, I appreciate it. Certainly through my Mom's side, I like to imagine what my forebears looked like.

I just found out recently that Lughs burial site is in a town called Neale in Mayo, had you heard of that before? It is just a standing stone sitting right beside a house. I was actually pretty shocked to see that one of the greatest god kings of Ireland is being remembered that way. My folks have a cottage near there and the next time I visit I am going to plant a Yew tree by his standing stone.

In my childhood home " beyond the pail" referred to chores one did round the farm rather than in the yard/garden or house. We referred to the 'outhouse' as "the pail".

Really fascinating and informative video, thank you

The Conquest of Ireland arguably wasn’t fully completed until the Act of Union in 1800 when the Kingdom of Ireland (after centuries of constitutional and regime changes) was forcibly merged into the British state (though our civil service and courts remained separate, and we retained our legislative representatives). Those representatives forced to sit in London instead of Dublin, but went back to Ireland in 1919 and declared independence in a reconstituted Irish Parliament (copying the Hungarian walkout of the Austrian parliament in the 1860s). European history is very complicated as you can imagine .

Thanks you so much!❤️This was wonderful but heartbreaking…cried and now sharing with other Irish descended friends, & family.❤️

Wow my friend, this is great!! Firstly you have a very relaxing voice with nice cadence. You know how to pronounce English. Lol. And your content is very interesting, and well researched. With great maps and visuals. Damn mate, I'm going to subscribe now! 😁😎✌️

This was amazing to watch!

this is absolutely beautiful work, Kevin. Bravo.

Thank you! We have just discovered your channel and enjoying it.

I wish I could send u a thousand likes! Amazingly researched, great footage, u deserve mad props

A question that has been close to my heart for ages. Thank you Kevin for your latest composition. ❤️🌹😊

Fascinating, thank you for sharing

Thank you for this excellent video! I loved it! I'm Irish Canadian and learning of my roots.

Marvelous stuff, i thoroughly enjoyed this, your gift for bringing historical context to our modern perspectives.

Love learning more about my heritage thanks!

Excellent, excellent video, Well done & thank you.

👏👏👏 awesome documentary. Thank you for posting.

This was so interesting ! Thank you.

This is my favorite video so far. Great job!

What a brilliant video. Top class work again

I enjoyed your telling of the story of my country Ireland ot was very interesting and your pronunciation of Irish names perfect really enjoyed the history of it all thanks❤

Great docu thank you and also appreciate the goodbye in Irish at the end :)

My dad's family went from Limerick to Virginia in 1690; they removed the O' from our surname and assimilated with the Scots-Irish and Irish already in what would become the southern United States. Thanks for your informative channel, I'm a new subscriber.

Well done! I love how the narrator is not an AI bot, and that he can actually pronounce words correctly in at least two languages.

Overall a very fairly researched and well presented video for the most part, especially for the first 2/3rds of the video. I do have some critiques, though. Firstly, for many of the important names mentioned in the video, especially for those from earlier periods in the history, it would have been good to give their names in written form. For example, when you mention Érimón towards the end of the section dedicated to the Bell Beaker people, it would have been nice to see how his name was written. I was Googling 'Airevon' and things like that and it took me more than a good few minutes to find the Wikipedia article as for who exactly you were referring to, since there are a few different results which appear when one Googles 'Who was the first (high) king of Ireland?'. You did remember to do this later in relation to Nuada Airgetlám, though - so just being more mindful for consistency with these kinds of things would make your documentaries stronger. Secondly, you spend what feels like a lot of time for most of the video detailing the prehistoric, ancient, and mythological origins of the Irish people, and this is all quite well done, but then towards the end from when you begin discussing the Normans and the English/British thereafter, it seems like you condense a lot more, sometimes leaving out relevant and vital information and even presenting with less objectivity in comparison to how you did earlier on. So there's something of both a noticeable contrast and a clear tone shift from that point onward. For example, when you mention the plantations and the policies that began under Henry VIII all the way through to your mentions of Cromwell, you make no mention of how religion was the driving motivator behind these policies, and you then essentially present it as malicious ethnic cleansing for the sake of simply ridding Ireland of the Irish. You also take this rather questionable stance of making the Irish Catholic Confederation into sounding like the primary recipients of Cromwellian violence, which you likewise present as coming only from the fact that said group swept across Ireland save for Dublin - you make no mention of the fact that Cromwell's army initially invaded Ireland because of how the English Royalists fled there because of the fact that they had considerable support there. By not mentioning this, you effectively make it sound like Cromwell randomly assembled an army together and brought it to Ireland with the explicit goal of eradicating the Irish, which of course is completely removed from the far more complicated truth. That, and you only give the estimated maximum figure for approximately how many died from the Cromwellian war in Ireland. The lower end of the estimate is considerably lower (several times lower, in fact), and you should be more honest in allowing your audience to know what historians do not know for certain, rather than only sharing what is the worst possible number was, which is still uncertain and debated amongst historians today. In addition to this, you mention how the lands of the Gaels were seized as if it was because they were Gaels, again completely missing the fact that it was specifically because they were Catholic! When Henry VIII established the Church of England and severed diplomatic/political/etc. ties with Rome, the Papacy not only of course declared him and the followers of Anglicanism to be heretics, but it also tasked and implored Catholics to overthrow and reinstate a Catholic monarchy/nation. Not all Gaelic-speaking, natively Irish lesser lords sided with the Roman Catholic Church either - some did in fact become Anglicans, and they were not deprived because of course being Anglicans proved to the reigning authorities that they would be loyal and not concerned with overthrowing them. Throughout this part of the video, you also speak with considerably more condemnation, which stands out a lot compared to the first part, which was presented with far less emotional language and with far better objectivity. It almost comes off as if you believe that what the ancients did with all of their violence was fine, but more modern acts are just far more reprehensible simply because they were more recent. Earlier instances are essentially presented with the language of "Oh well, you know, those kinds of thing happened!" while later ones are described with far more censure. Furthermore, on the briefly discussed famine, you even give credence to the idea that the famine might have been purposefully orchestrated. This, I think, is really irresponsible of you, especially since not a single historian in Ireland today worth their salt believes this, and they virtually unanimously agree that it was not at all an engineered process. That, and while you mention that some (which should have been said as 'some few' for more accuracy) intolerant and bigoted British politicians dismissively waived their hands at the suffering Irish, I couldn't help but notice that you simultaneously also made no mention whatsoever for all the relief efforts that were in service during the period, which included the establishment of the British Relief Association, which became the biggest charity in the world at the time of its conception and which was specifically patronized by Britain's wealthy and socio-political elites for giving aid to Ireland during those years. This is again something which contemporary Irish historians today are far more objective and responsible about when it comes to discussing the famine, and which you also should be if you're going to be making a documentary like this. I also couldn't help but notice you didn't even remotely mention the 1740-1741, which historians widely acknowledge to have had an even more disastrous loss of life than the famine of a century later. A bit odd, I think, not to mention something that was even more devastating for a population group, only to then mention a later event of the same kind and give a nod to the widely academically rejected notion that it might have been intentional. You basically catastrophize and exaggerate every instance of Irish suffering post-Norman invasion, and from that point onward you drop the presentational objectivity which made the first part of this documentary so strong. I was very happy to give this video a like up until that point in the video - the point at which you abandoned objectivity and exchanged it for what was at times heavily biased and at others an even dishonest presentation of the history. I understand that this was a video on the history of who the Irish people were, and I'm not saying you need to mention everything I just did, but it seems to be something of a disservice to the Irish people not to present their history with less bias and more accuracy.

Man I cant imagine how much time you spend on pronunciation, very hard worker you must be.

Heads off to you sir. I really enjoyed your biblical link and view regarding the origins of the people, migration and language. God bless

My Dad came from Ireland on boat to CANADA but he was 7 saddely lost his mother and father to illness they've never finished the journey....so he was raised as his two sisters and one brother.....in a convent of the meanest nun's in CANADA.....his last name was not Rocheleau but Russell here in Quebec change his last name so we were all born Rocheleau instead ... I'm 61 myself but there's to many mysteries and my Dad and Mom both died at 58 years but 5 years apart...... that's all I know back then you didn't ask questions about your parent before your birth and most of the time after also

Wow. I was enjoying this very much but was not expecting such a poignant and affecting climax. Surprised, impressed and moved. Well done. Maith an fear. Bualadh Bos.

Love the videos, any chance of putting subtitles here and there for those harder to pronounce words?

🇧🇪 Is that Ambiorix? Nice choice for the Thumbnail--He was hard to kill and a wild man like most the Irish so he fits the video....The Belgae and Ambiorix were considered the most fierce and untamable by Caesar himself....

Those last words gave me goosebumps. Powerful.

This is fantastic, if only the one or two people that are stuck in their ways here watched this they might learn something and realise there is much more history than the past 50 years.

Great work. Well done.

Nice to see one of my local monuments in this. Grianan of Aileach

Outstanding! Subscribed.

Celtic culture fascinates me on a level I can't exactly describe, so little is known now of it, makes it mysterious.

Thank you for this amazing educational video. I’m English and love my Irish & Scottish cousins❤ It’s fascinating the rich history of our countries and how our rulers were at war for power over each other. At least us the people love & respect each other as we share similar culture/traditions living so close together even if our current governments seem to not care about anything but their own wealth & greed.

My mother's family, The Magennises, fought the English tooth and nail for control of County Down. We lost all our lands. We lost everything. Even our beloved priestly friend and consolation, Oliver Plunkett, was captured, falsely accused, tried, found guilty, and then hung, drawn, and quatered. We even lost our name to some jumped up Englishmen who stole our name and began brewing their stout under the name Guinness. The hands of the English are still covered in blood. My dear mother once said to me of the Protestants and the English in Northern Ireland, "Their hearts are black, and their hand is ever raised against us."

Brilliantly told. Thank you

Thank you great research 🙏

Excellent video!

Accordin' to works of prof. Barry Cunliff, You (Irish) , are The Oldest Folk Of The West. Greetings from the far-East!

Love your work.

Very informative, thank you

What is it you speak in Gaelic at the end of the video? Have pity on us not Irish subscribers :). Great video, learned a lot, although I'm not Irish I fell in love with Ireland a long time ago and It's always a great pleasure to learn more about the country and the people.

Thank you for this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 most of the time it's frustrating because so many other channels that go through Irish history mess up things. Good video 🥃 Sláinte 🇮🇪

Super cool to hear about Niall of the Nine Hostages in this video! I was always fascinated with the legend surrounding him as my family supposedly descends from him because of our last name 😁

It is well known that Ireland is the very centre of the universe the 40 shades of green blessed on Ireland by Johnny Cash helps to make it even more so I love my homeland ❤❤❤😊

40:04 how cool is that? Just from a design perspective, it's awesome. They put trees of different colored leaves to create that symbol. Wow. I wanna do that! Lol

I'm really I'mpressed by your skill and information. I remember a certain amout of what you've said about the English kings

Learnt so much here - Thankyou

Well done! ❤

A very important historical document, very well researched and very well presented. Go raibh mile maith agat.

Hopefully some day in the future they play this in schools for an intro into the history of Ireland.

In Ireland and in Armenia grave stones are very similar, Im not trying to say that they are related ,but grave stones and Stonehenge are very similar. , Stonehenge in Armenia are more than 7000 old. For information

Thank you for this. I learned a lot. It was a very interesting documentary. You have a new subscriber.

27:38 is a shot of a Napoleon era fort built on Dalkey Island off the south Dublin coast in the late 18th / early 19th century to repel the expected Bonaparte invasion. Kind of odd to include it in a piece about BC Irish history.

You have such a awesome Documentary voice

Cheers! I'm a foreigner, but I love Ireland and feel some hard-to-explain connection to it and its culture. Enjoyed this one big time!