Irish Gaels - Brian Boru (1/3)

[pattipants]

Excellent, thanks for posting these. Now if someone would make a feature length, I would be very pleased.

[mayoireland]

what was the name of the native Irish sword? how do you spell it?

[TheFionuir]

@mayoireland the name of the Irish swords were called a cloidem and the large sword was called cloidem-mor. Its anglicised name claymore. A shorter sword was called a scian,a dagger or knife.

[squirell1952]

PUB QUIZ:# 1: which irishman was king of scotland for a while? who were thetwo scottish brothers who were both kings of ireland? which irishman was the PM of England at one stage? Where was Lord Kitchener born? Where was the duke of welllington born? Lloyd George was English - TRUE OR FALSE????? the first people to set foot into ireland were welsh - true or false? or were they from scotland? trueor false? name the nearest country to Ireland. who is our oldest province? oldest townland

[ClannCholmain]

@squirell1952 Brian Boru, Imperatoris Scotorum? Edward & Robert Bruce? Wellington. Kerry. Dublin. False, Welsh. Welsh. Scotland. Mide? Don't know. I didn't consult anyone or thing, how did I do? :)

[squirell1952]

@ClannCholmain - hi, you got most right. I hope i got t hem right, too, before i put them onto the YT>Anyway, as far as i know, boru was king of scotland, the brothers brucie were both kings of ireland, wellieboots was from dublin and became pm of england and colonies; kitchener was born to english parentsin ballyhlongford, county keary (dunno when); lloyd george was welsh celt; the firstdiscoverfes of ireland were welsh, folfflowed by the scots;SCOTLAND NEAREST; ulster oldest; coleraine town.

[squirell1952]

what does GAELS mean? does it mean people who speak the irish lingo? or does it mean CELT? if it means the latter, then, as a SOUTHERN Irishman, I find it offensive. WE IRISH ARE NOT THE ONLY CELTS.

Ditto with England.

THE ENGLISH THINK THEY ARE THE ONLY BRITS!!!!!

Study the g eography, please of the anglocelt isles.

[TheFionuir]

@squirell1952 We are not Celts at all,none of the ancient Irish ever considered themselves Celts. We are Gaels. The O Nelis,Boru etc never considered themselves Celts. The Celts never invaded Ireland.

[Headwave]

I have been told this was done in 1995 by an English company, Seventh Arts Productions for The Learning Channel, a subsidiary of the BBC. It was bought the Discovery Channel, a USA based company. It still stinks though!

[Headwave]

Boru beating the Vikings is all wrong, a product of a nationalistic agenda to rally us all against the 'new' invaders, The English. The Norse had well established towns at this point and were here to stay. Boru wanted to subjugate them, he was never going to get rid of them. The Norse and Gaels were all Christian by now as well. Limerick and Dublin Norse had a feud going on, Boru got Limerick to side with him to take on Leinster challenge to his rule and to take over Dublin.

[jimmy27paul]

@Headwave He still won at clontarf though thats history.Written by the vikings themselves in their annals.

[jackeenjim]

HELLO!!!! Brian Boru had Norsemen on his side and fought Leinstermen aided by other Norsemen. It was not as cut and dried as is made out.

The Irish did not have the system of primageniture,i.e, the king's eldest son was not necessarily the next king- this was decided by election among the noble families. (Ri-Abahar-,Kingly material)



[TheAltaltalt1]

@jackeenjim delighted you said that friend people never get the history right.

[jackeenjim]

HELLO!!!! Brian Boru had Norsemen on his side and fought Leinstermen aided by other Norsemen. It was not as cut and dried as is made out.

[Headwave]

This is terrible. Nearly everything in it is wrong! First 2 mins are especially out of it. There are some facts correct but it's hard to watch with all that is wrong between.

[miche30584]

I'm related to Brian Boru :))

[MrRicharddale]

@miche30584 im related to him also!

[TheClarenceter]

@MrRicharddale That wouldn't be possible.

The royal blood of Brian Bóruma is already spent.

[TheClarenceter]

@miche30584 Highly unbelievable.

One cannot trace ancestry as far back to the 10th and 9th century.

Besides, the blood of Brian Bóruma is LONG gone.

[SuperAbraham1234]

@thepeterlong in what way is it historically inaccurate?

[TheAltaltalt1]

@SuperAbraham1234 in every way friend

[giancarlosushi]

This is soo good