BBC's: The Story of Ireland 1of5 Age of Invasions

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Documentary about Ireland, published by "BBC"

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And what the fuck do you have now is ireland anything to be proud of, is it worth fighting for, dying for ? FUCK NO not me assholes.

TakeThatAayhole

Also its being played on a hurdy gurdy, not an irish instrument at all

KirillStorch

That song you guys use throughout this video is not Irish, it is a Slavic melody.

KirillStorch

Really thats interesting ,

Brendan M

But there were people living in wales THIRTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO!!! YES, WALES!!

1948DESMOND

The earliest evidence for the humans in Ireland dates to just after the Ice Age, many, many thousands of years before there was a Wales or a Scotland or any nation.

jratt2

Do people from outside all ireland looking at this have any difficulty understanding the irish accents herein?  just wondering. but could the producers of these s eries not introduce some sort of "voice slowdown" technology. that way, we could ALL understand a lilt. probably not a brogue but definitely a lilt. for example, the liverpool back street accent is UNINTELLIGIBLE. but to hear an educated liverpudlian speak in a LOVELY LILT is a delight to one's ears.

1948DESMOND

The first people to discover ireland were either the welsh or the scottish picts. full stop.

1948DESMOND

Why bother? We are neither Angles nor Celts, and there's already an island CALLED "Iona", just of Mull! It's where the Book of Kells was made/decorated and where St. Colm Cille/ Columba founded his monastery! The present name dates back to the earliest map of these islands in existence, by the Greek explorer Pytheas, from circa 320BC!

DonegalRaymie201

The british isles could be renamed the anglocelt isles. or even iona - islands of north atlantic. any suggestions, anybody?

1948DESMOND

Ar fheabhas! Go halainn! Go raibh maith agat. Beannacht leat agus beannacht De le hanamacha na marbh! Eireann go deo!

bheadh

I have no idea who you are referring to by the term "Celts"! But the REAL Celts, the Halstatt and La Tene Celtic Cultures were from Central Europe: Southern Germany, Austria & the Balkans.... WE of this North Atlantic island group are not even genetically related to THOSE Celts, ERGO, we are NOT Celts! And if peoples ARE "defined by language and culture", then that would mean we are Germanic, as English is a Germanic language.... And People leave behind evidence...wherever they existed!

DonegalRaymie201

Are we debating what the " celts" called themselves ? Because whatever names we have , are usually what someone else called them . Theyre not defined by name . Theyre defined by language and culture Ther settlers that came up from the balkans through Spain - Those settlers have been called "Celts" you said theres no evidence of humans in Ireland (from that era) That doesnt mean there were none

olliephelan

P.S. "We (78% tested ) are descended from Megalithic settlers " ?? I think you mean MESOLITHIC, (middle stone-age!). The 1st people to come to Britain as the Ice retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, circa 15-17,000 years ago! And the Welsh & Irish tested as high as 85-88% descended from those first post Ice Age settlers, according to Brian Sykes of the Oxford British Isles DNA mapping project. See "Blood of the Isles" for more details!

DonegalRaymie201

Try reading what I wrote: "And NONE of us are "Celts"! That's a complete crock of shite! The Celts lived in Central Europe and traded with the Greeks, who GAVE THEM THAT NAME "Keltoi"! "Pretanni" is the FIRST recorded name for the inhabitants of these islands, recorded by another Greek explorer called Pytheas, supposedly after what they called themselves. It became Latinised to "Britanni" or in Gaelic "Cruithne", the Oldest recorded people in Ireland! & if language defines us, we're Germanic!!

DonegalRaymie201

Wrong! "THE OLDEST human remains to be found in Britain have been unearthed in a Sussex quarry. Dating from between 520,000 and 480,000 years ago, the find is of immense importance to anthropologists - that period represents the time during which early humans, Homo Erectus, were evolving into an early type of more modern humans, archaic Homo Sapiens." In England there are well over 3,000 palaeolithic sites but this is the first time that any has yielded human skeletal material of this date."

DonegalRaymie201

NO The GREEKS called them KELTOI . We (78% tested ) are descended from Megalithic settlers . Thats the same people who built Newgrange . If they are Pretanni , fair enough , But theyre not . What generally defines a race is their language And we dont speak a Celtic OR Pretanni language

olliephelan

Theres no way of knowing that . No , human remains have been found from that era Like you said "theres no evidence " absence of evidence , isnt evidence of absence

olliephelan

More bollox! Scotland is the oldest, England is 2nd oldest, Wales is 3rd and Ireland is 4th, (1922 ffs!!) Cornwall and Brittany have NEVER been Nations, so can't really rank them!

DonegalRaymie201

The very term "Celtic" was only faked up in the 18th Century, by a Welsh linguist, Edward Lluyd, who was studying the commonality of the native languages of these islands, and came up with this Portmanteau word "Celtic" to describe them!! Sadly it stuck, and has been romanticised to death ever since, despite being a complete pile of bollox! We are not "Celts", we are descended from the "Pretanni", the oldest name for the native people of these islands, who the Romans would later call "Picti"!

DonegalRaymie201

How the fuk is Scotland an English colony, when Alba PREDATES England as a Nation, ya eejit?? ASK the Bretons if they are French or British?? They'll tell you they are Britons, culturally, ethnically, and linguistically!! And NONE of us are "Celts"! That's a complete crock of shite! The Celts lived in Central Europe and traded with the Greeks, who GAVE THEM THAT NAME "Keltoi"! Again, you know absolutely SFA!

DonegalRaymie201

WRONG!!! No it wasn't! The term "Wales", derives from "Walleis", which is what the SAXONS and later the Normans called the NATIVE peoples of Britain!! It means "foreigner" ironically, and was applied to ALL "Brythonic" speakers! The surnames: Welsh, Walsh, Wallis & Wallace, ALL derive from that same root.... The WELSH word for their country is "Cymru" ffs, and the OLDEST Native word for the country is "Albion", as recorded by Tacitus! You don't know much!

DonegalRaymie201

Ireland , a celtic state ? Ive never said it was . awww ...Brittany is not a French colony The isle of Mann is not a state . "celtic nationalism " ? By whose definition ? Theres no celtic nationalism except in Yeats poems

olliephelan

Brittany is a first cousin of both cornwall and wales. why, their national anthem is identical to that of wales. england is the youngest country in the anglocelt isles, or british isles. scotland or wales would be the oldest. dunno when cornwall or isle of man came in or even ireland. and brittany is STILL a french colony just as much as scotland is still an english colony. got that? good!

1948DESMOND

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