Homeland : Ireland Irish Culture Documentary Part One

[1997seanmac]

not a violent country but one of the highest crime rates ok??

[kuldeepgautam828]

amoung we indian and u r brotherhood becauseof england.carryon.ur clip r excellent.

[Annieob1978]

what makes me laugh is irish people and second generation irish are still facing prejudice ..... i have seen this first hand!!!! in england and it's completley ignored yet other cultures are listened to!!! it's still there unfortunately and no one does anything to fight it!

[tigerspuds]

Fuck America....

[BastardOnParade760]

@tigerspuds Fuck you

[tigerspuds]

@BastardOnParade760 You'd like to... lol mwahhhhh.... come get me big boy..... lol

[BastardOnParade760]

@tigerspuds even if i was gay i would never fuck you

[MrAgarack]

@Freshhhhh1982 Maybe you should look up your history. It was the Normans, French, not the British who invaded in 1171.

[oceallaigh2003]

I was going to go on and on about this eejit gettin outta Dublin more as he seems oblivious to the north of Ireland still under British colonial domination but I see others beat me to it.

[Amunication]

why are they all constantly talking about america?

[sebaz1982]

@Amunication Maybe because they are being asked about it? perhaps the makers of this documentary are americans (or american audience) Man, try to learn to think for yourself....

[mirx3007]

Beautiful series, I would have loved to know this Ireland of the 90's. People have have very strong opinons and are passioate about it. Some are quite young and from unpriviledged backgrounds. One guy said he was 23 and he was working in construction. I could ask most 23 year-old construction worker and they are incapable of understanding words with more than three syllables. The Recession has given Ireland the great opportunity to look in the mirrror.

[aaa333ify]

Same here, and I love the Irish language

[JJRage420]

I am an American, but I love Ireland.

[Irishfianna]

british are still here..tiocfidh ar la

[greenerable]

Excuse me? 500 years? and OK THERE NOT THERE ANYMORE,? jaysus wheres this fella from? Pull the needle out of his arm .Fucking eedjit knuckle head. Irish youth are a disgrace for the most^part now. We are a great people and a great country. Beautiful in grace and in landscape but there are elements . Not all Irish youth and all credit to them. The british still try and hold six counties of our nation and its 800 years not 5 ya balloon head. Smoke some more grass hippy. Sorry but thet annoys me..

[rottwieler20]

True America is like a different world..But the Unique thing about Ireland is that the Culture is so Extremley different to everywhere else in the World..Its like a world of its own where you can just be Local.

[KidsOnCrack33]

not a voilent country? i live in dublin...and i swear to fuck theres plenty of volicene. its bang outta order

[MegaDeff7]

@KidsOnCrack33 yeah but compared to america its probably not as bad as you think

[Freshhhhh1982]

That idiot dosent even know his own history. Try 800 years instead of 500.

[AnIrishGerman]

800 or 500, whatever!

Brit's out!

Tiocfaidh ár lá

Greetings from germany to all irish!

[ItsBalderDasH]

Weviel taschengeld bekommst du im monat?

[dazpatreg]

and they ARE still here!

[MrAgarack]

@Freshhhhh1982 Maybe you should look up your history. It was the Normans, French, not the British who invaded in 1171

[Pastradamus1985]

@Freshhhhh1982

No he is right. Its 500 not 800. The English took over from the normans and vikings.

[sirchristian12]

@Pastradamus1985 it's 800 lol

[StansRunOutofMeds]

@Freshhhhh1982 try 700 you dipshit.

[al1059351]

when the fuck was this made the people talking about drugs are living in graystones what the fuck would thay know living out there

[irishbuy]

come on ireland

yup ye boy'e

[conorlewandowski]

how times changed? we became racist, consumerist(like americans and nothing like our fellow europeans) and overall a joke of a country.

hopefully the reccession will take us back so we can take 2 step forwards

[MrGreensChannel]

"nothing like our fellow europeans"

The Flemish Interest , National Front ,Party of Croatian Rights ,People's Party of denmark etc etc would disagree.

:)

[remedy63]

But they are still here. Britain still occupies 6 county's of Ireland.

Tiocfaidh ar la!!

[dunderandlitnin]

ye wel sed up de IRA

[conord123]

whiskey

[AntqueenP]

I am an American curious about the part of Irish culture that Americans, and other foreign outsiders, haven't learned. Is there an Irishman out there who could tell me the true spirit of the Irish people?

[lughlamh]

C'mon, you have to formulate a more coherent question

[AntqueenP]

Thank you. . . however since that question was asked, DGIproductions has already producted an answer.

[lughlamh]

an answer among a possible plethora...

[AntqueenP]

What I was really curious about was: is there a common sence of loyality to country amoung the Irish people and what do most Irish consider that loyality to to represent. I was directed to a video that answered many questions about Irish culture. However, if you interested in starting a discussion you could share some thing about your homeland.

[AntqueenP]

I know that there are separate communities and different loyalties to towns . . . I like studying cultures; I was trying to open a wide range discussion.

[lughlamh]

you mean the 'imagined community' as the anthropologists call it. Shared history, for some of us shared language, this is at least tokenistically important to everybody. Much identity was formulated against, but this was necessary in contradistinguishing. I suppose it's an ongoing project, as garibaldi said about Italy, - we've made italy now we must make Italians.

[lughlamh]

Have a look at Kiberd's 'Inventing Ireland'

or try desmond fennell or Joe Lee

[AntqueenP]

Thank you sounds interesting

[lughlamh]

Listen to sean nós singing and have a look at the book of kells, or read the Táin in Kinsella's translation. And tell me what you think the spirit running through it is. There's plenty of paddwhackery around for the tourist market, so look/listen to something authentic and try to trace common threads, in my opinion the chieftains are something special. In my opinion the most Irish thing we have is the Irish language (Gaelic).

[Freshhhhh1982]

Serious loyalty. Me personally and everyone I know would die for our country and culture in a heartbeat.

[Cloigeann]

The occupying power is still there up the road and I'm not small in character you ballbag.

[k88musa]

indeed a very lovely and beautiful country. love you irish.

greeting from korea

[susanstar1234]

Jean Mercy O'Connell Sha'aouni.  Hello Carolyn Connelly. I got the munchies and eat the potato famine.

zen?

Cindy