and i know colorado has more equipment like helicoptors tanks hummers trucks morter etc. than any other state and idaho has the 2nd most and texas is the 3rd,ohio 4th and california 5th
@sexy6125 most military forces are currently stationed in texas A SOUTHERN STATE along with that texan training is harder and better than the rest of the united states if the south were to rebel again the north would have a third of the military the rest would be southern
@blaines100 Actually if you look at how many troops each state provides to the military California beats out Texas by about 50,000, on top of that US troops don't train by state, troops from every state are sent to training camps and train together, so sorry, your training is the same as everyone else in the US. Southerners always think they are so special and so much better than the rest of us. Also I doubt soldiers from other states stationed in Texas feel any loyalty to that treasonous state.
@Lambchop08 what about national guard troops? i thought they were under the governor's control. maryland doesnt even need one with all of the military forts around here near dc, but states out west probably train national guards state by state
@mackshayster They are under the governors control, I'm not sure which statement of mine you were refering too, but if it was the one about California having 50,000 more than Texas then I factored the NG of both states into their military numbers, you can search how many troop each state provides, and Texas falls just short of California, which makes sense, since California is the most populous state by about 12 million.
Who volunteered? My relatives were drafted as they stepped foot on the dock at Philadelphia the moment their ship from Cork tied up. Then they got killed at Gettysburg. Their younger 14 year old sister went into such a state of depression she refused to speak english until her death 90 years later.
@lolackay The Daughertys and Blankenships from Cork got drafted at the dock and John Grace dodged the British draft and came to Philadelphia a decade after the civil war after his father fled to America from Cork for allegedly blowing up a British barracks and shooting a cop.
@dudekin This particular song about the Irish Volunteers was for the Irish who fought on the side of the Union. The Irish Brigade song was for the Irish on the side of the Rebels. It was brother against brother, even for the Irish-Americans!
@dudekin What music did the South have during the Civil war that was so much better? Dixie was written by a Northerner before the war, and many of the southern songs were Northern songs that were so good that Southerners adopted them and changed the lyrics
@MSfeller My pity to yyou, but if she's your girl, she's your girl, righ'? An' I have to say, the only good things to come from that place was Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. For a decent long while of generations, the Anglians have lied to and cheated us Celts. I'd love to see Anglia taken over by us Celts. I'd love to see All o' the Celtic nations join together under one flag, and one country. That will be the greatest day o' me life, maybe all of our lives. But, for now, Only Our Rivers Run Free.
I take it there were Irish on both sides. North, South, I don't care. All I say, Fuck the english. America was right to hate them. I'd love to learn Irish Gaelic, so I didn't have to speak the language of those dreadful people all the time (and because of pride for the country i trust most, also, it's a beautiful language. =P). And as awesome as I find David Kincaid, I think Mick Moloney's version of this song is the best. How i'd love to see england erased from the map...
@EvilFollowsUs Good on ya, bud. I'm learning Gaelic, albeit Scottish, but still a Goidelic language like Irish, and I love my Celtic blood. I was just in England the other day, 'cause unfortunately my girlfriend is from there, but I tell ya, what a dump that place is. Nobody would miss it, I seen horrible, weird things there, what a waste of good land. Here in Scotland, the nationalist party won by a landslide and soon enough, we will break free from the British Empire and England will be alone.
i may not be of the Irish blood however i would like to thank thous of both sides of the Mason - Dixon line of said descent. GOD BLESS the north and south and hopefully thous tragic days of 1860-65 don't happen again.
And in the case of the Northern states there were a large number of Irish Americans clinging to the idealized beliefs of the "Grand American Dream" only to arrive here in and see the "evil"south trying to disassemble the nation piece meal. At the battle of Fredricksburg Irish met Irish across a bloody field, and southern Irish wondered why the 69th NY Vols. would fight for the North after the brutality suffered at the hands of the tyrannical British
@GCIAsecurity your point is true and depending on which side you were on(Irish) in the south you saw what u said rebelling against tyrannical rule if you were in the north you saw landed gentry(of most English decent) rebelling to keep slaves, but despite this they did come together for the Fenian Raids after the war
many of the Northern soldier's loved McClellan. He was called little Napolean and was one of the men's favorite generals. He was the one that organized the army early in the war, and he cared so much about his men that he was unwilling to commin them to slaughter like all the other Union generals. But it took the slaughter to win the war. Still he was loved by many of his men, interesting enough though barely any of them voted for him in the election of 64.
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ireland - truly a resistant nation im not going to lie they have all these songs and all this about fighting back for freedom but until the day you actualy win something to the world your just an island full of losers... sorry its the truth
@MRAK47ification By "win something to the world" do you mean mean win a war? I'm not really a believer in the notion that winning wars are what makes a people great. It makes them strong, definitely, but great? Who is greater, the man who fights to expand his nation's territory with a 'great' army behind him? Or the man who knows he can't win but fights anyway so his country might eventually take her place alongside the others of this world, even though he might not live to see it?
@cameramanAL I don't think the second man is deserving of the title 'loser,' as you put it.
But then if it is only military prowess, or rather 'winning' that impresses you, I suggest you look up the 69th New York Infantry, the San Patricios, the Connaught Rangers, the Siege of Jadotville, or the Battle of Fotenoy.
@cameramanAL ok think about what you just said???? how did Britain become so powerful...... did we just begin with the worlds biggest empire and the richest currency??? no. think now do you know what im getting at??? we British are Great because we poored blood sweat and tears into our empire and worked for it we werent just some spoilt child we went from the bottom to the top ireland however just didnt prosper at all because there dumb idiots
@MRAK47ification I think you're missing my point, but that's okay, you're obviously a chauvinist so there isn't really any point in me continuing.
Although I have to point out that a great deal of the blood sweat and tears you mentioned came from Irish, and the soldiers of other occupied nations, who joined the in the British army due to the economic strangle hold the empire had on many of its vassal nations leaving very few alternatives to earning a living.
@cameramanAL Personally I'm glad I'm from a country that didn't traipse around the world uninvited in the name of imperial expansion, and if that makes me a 'dumb idiot,' well, there are worse things to be called.
(Incidentally I don't hate anyone or think less of them for being who they are or because of where they're from, I just have little time for people with tunnel vision who make short sighted statements like yours. No offense.)
@cameramanAL i realy dont understand what you said..... no irish didnt like the British any who joined the British armed forces was probbably due to the large number of British heritage in ireland because of the plantation etc,etc,etc
@MRAK47ification I'm not overly surprised that you don't know about any of this. I once had an English girl ask me why Irish people in the Republic got their backs up about what happened in the north when the British had never been in the south... I swear that's what she asked. I was speechless.
But you should really do some research into the regimental history of the British Army. 400,000 Irishmen served in the British Army in the first World War. 50,000 regulars, 350,000 volunteers.
@MRAK47ification you prospered through the murder of children , be proud !!! ... the blood of 100s of millions smears your flag and you are to ignorant to see it because you are blinded by your feeling of superiority to other people. By the way , your empire is gone !! , it was rejected by those whos fathers mothers where murdered by your people. Your country is now a second rate nation with low education and has world stage only when allowed to by the united states. BR PROUD !!!
@fhossi i am 100%irish live here all my life ,who the fuck are you to say whos irish or not that guy can get a irish passport if he wants so leave him alone wanker
still taking the English pound Paddy ??? about 8 billion of the fecker's .... lol , pmsl ..
my parents were both born and raised in ireland they moved to the usa right before i was born you mean to tell me because i was born in the usa im not irish.
you are born and raised in USA? you´re not Irish you are a yankee....and you are talking like a yank....you are NOT IRISH...greets from ireland bastard
@fhossi.....Anyone that descends from Ireland has Irish blood in them, no matter where they live. I'm a "Yankee", and I am basically Scottish and Irish with a minor amount of English. Just because our ancestors decided to make a trip across the ocean, doesn't mean we can't be proud of where we originated.
@fhossi i am 100%irish live here all my life ,who the fuck are you to say whos irish or not that guy can get a irish passport if he wants so leave him alone wanker
@mwgroves1961 you are never going to beat the north we beat you once we will beat you again this time you guys will not have all the states that you had pry because of sherman I'm a north dakotan Of 75 percent german and other europun anceterys includin irish wich my grand ma on my dads side is 100% irish!!!!!! so no offense we will beat you any time
@sexy6125 The majority of World War II soldiers were Southerners, and don't forget that we whooped the hell out of you krauts in Germany. Twice. You just can't beat the strong Celtic spirit the South has, and the sense of pride that exists in each Southern state which alone, would be greater than all the northern and wannabe northern states put together. And I come from Scottish and Dutch stock, I would be more than glad to fight a German/Irish Unionist. I say, bring it on! We got more guns too.
Ah only one state can actually secceed and if they decide to then there is nothing the North can do about it. Within the state charter for the grand state of Texas and the state constitution ratified in the early 1800's by congressional order was the ability to Seccede with honor and to fight any who cross our borders. Our only mistake during the War of Northern Aggression was siding with the south instead of seccedeing on our own separately.
@Janus79413 Actually thats not true, Supreme Court cases have made secession invalid no matter what, and Texas's charter does not allow it to leave, but it does say it can break into 4 states if it wants to to gain more representation in the senate
@Lambchop08 Actually not quite for the first shot of the war was actually fired over the walls of Fort sumter by the union warships. Fort Sumter where the flag flew to the end and despite allefoorts remain free of capture til the end of the war.
@Janus79413 Where did you read that? I have never heard that a Union Warship fired first, it makes no sense for them to fire first because they did not want armed conflict to break out. I have read many books on the Civil War and every single one has said the first shots were fired by rebel artillery on the Star of the West as it tried to resupply Ft. Sumter. I see you are a Lost Causer who excells in revisionist history, Youtube is infested with Lost Causers
@Lambchop08 Oh you read some propaganda books? Well that changes everything. Think about the motives. The Confederacy had their way and wanted to continue doing that. The Union were nationalistic fools that wouldn't have separation, and would force everyone to their beliefs. It's just the way it rolls. The North always started conflicts. They even attacked Canada. For what, more states? They got it I suppose, there are, what, 46 states in USA?
@DionysusFTW The North attacked Canada during the Revolution and 1812, not The ACW, but using that logic it was the South who attacked Mexico to expand slavery into the west during the Mexican American War, there was also a Southerner who tried to invade Cuba, Nicaragua, and Mexico to expand slavery in the years before the Civil War but he was eventually captured during one of the attempts and executed. I have read many books on the civil war, but mostly I read what people said at the time...
@sexy6125 That isn't the irish spirit, we are very competitive, but we arn't a violent bunch unless provoked into it. The south and north need to get along, be about the celebration, the booze and the spirit of the Irish. Corse we will beat the north anytime when it comes to beer, but my ancestors are the loving bunch. The civil war is dead and gone. lets all get along and drink till we are under the table. Go the Irish Rugby World Cup 2011!!!!
@mwgroves1961 you are never going to beat the north we beat you once we will beat you again this time you guys will not have all the states that you had pry because of sherman I'm a north dakotan Of 75 percent german and other europun anceterys includin irish wich my grand ma on my dads side is 100% irish!!!!!! so no offense we will beat you anny time
@TheIrishryan thanks, i thought it would be a way to honor the 69th, in fact, for the flag our squad is now known at Bing (where we play airsoft) as "The Fighting 69th"
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@protosswannabe: The Irish were all then, as ever, Democrats. The GOP was founded on a devil's bargain w/ the Know-nothing Party. The aptly named Know-nothings were an anti-immigrant & anti-catholic party, those two things defining the Irish then swarming in their impoverished masses to America. McClellan was a Democrat & ran against Lincoln for his 2nd term.
@jmoyer92 - Nope, it wouldn't have been. So many Union troops would have died for nothing and the rebs were nearly beat. I sometimes think McClellan was a Southern Sympathizer. He didn't need to be anyone near the White House or be in charge of the U.S. Army.
@Zeeboe If Lincoln was no longer in charge you know the war would have ended a lot quicker. McClellan would have actually listened to the people in the North and ended the foolish war to keep invading the southern states who just wanted to be left alone. If the South had won the war....Slavery would have been naturally abolished WITHOUT BLOODSHED like it was in every other part of the world.
@jmoyer92 - President Lincoln did not let the South peacefully leave in the 1860's is because he feared it would create in one word: anarchy. How can you claim to be a Democracy or even a Republic if you take the results of a legal and correct election and throw out the results simply because you don't like them?
@jmoyer92 - If more Northerns wanted the war to end, they would have voted for McClellan. But they didn't. They voted for Lincoln. The war had been going on for four years and the South was nearly whipped. If the Union just quit, thousands of Union troops would have died for nothing.
I can also admit slavery was a minor issue. I agree it would have faded away on it's own and such a bloody war would not be needed, but slavery wasn't the big issue. Preserving the Union was the big issue.
@Zeeboe Oh, and if you "disapprove of treason" then you cannot call yourself an American. Our founding fathers were some of the biggest traitors in the 18th century. It's all in the perspective. History is written by the victors, and resistance to tyranny is one of the things that made this country what it is.
@jmoyer92 - The difference between what our founding fathers did and what the traitors of the south in the War of the Rebellion tried to do is, our founders were NOT seeking to maintain the status quo or turn back the clock. The founders sought to open doors, not maintain monopolies of power.
The rebels were lso not fighting for freedom, although many in the south at the time (and still do today) falsely believe they were fighting for freedom. What they were fighting for was a fascist government where only rich white male bible thumpers would have power.
@Zeeboe Our founding fathers declared independence due to the British government become detrimental to the needs of the American people. Great Britain did not like this and decided to invade and miraculously, we won that war and became independent. In the War of Northern Aggression, the South declared independence after seeing their way of life being demonized in the North and having no say in the Federal government. Therefore the US government had become detrimental to its Southern citizens.
@jmoyer92 - At some point, there HAS to be order, authority and control or otherwise a country will not survive and we will forever be fighting with one another over power and control.
I should also add that many states in the South stated one of their reasons leaving was slavery and rather you like it or not, there was racism in the south and it lasted all the way until the 1960's when the Federal Government put a stop to it and I'll explain more in my next comment.
America is one nation under a Constitution. Although the Constitution sets up a representative democracy, it specifically was amended with the Bill of Rights in 1791 to uphold individual and minority rights. On constitutional matters we do not have majority rule. For example, when the majority in certain localities voted to segregate blacks, this was declared illegal. The majority has no right to tyrannize the minority on matters such as race, gender, or religion.
Now IF the Federal Government did not help the black people in southern states in the 1960's and just let the states govern themselves, black people may STILL be victims to racist rich white men in the south and there would probably be a lot of violence on both sides.
@jmoyer92 - If secession were admitted as a legal device, then the future of the United States was easily written. The preamble to a Union Southern Rights Meeting in Stuart County, Georgia in the 1860's, warned, "If this confederacy is destroyed all is lost! Separation will follow separation, until the whole country is divided into little petty States and fractions, who, too weak to defend themselves, will become the prey of military leaders and demagogues."
Unionists realized that once secession was permitted, there was no stopping the process of fragmentation because any group with a complaint could then announce its intention to separate unless its wishes were fulfilled. Secession was the "squeal" of those who "must be allowed to do what [they] please." Caving in to secessionists would positively destroy any central government: "the inevitable consequence will be, that the Federal authority will cease to be respected at home."
In Alabama in the 1860's, a unionist believed "if the doctrine of `peaceable secession' is recognized, and the false pride or unreasonable whims of a State are deemed sufficient reasons for its exercise, no year would pass without some one of the States throwing the whole machinery of government into a score of weak but hostile communities."
Again, I ask: How can you claim to be a Democracy or even a Republic if you take the results of a legal and correct election and throw out the results simply because you don't like them?
@Zeeboe It wasn't a democratic election that was the probllem. The country was clearly split between free states and slave states and because of the legislature in place by the Republican controlled government, there were to be no more slave states. The South saw this as completely UN-democratic and knew secession was the only way to create a government that they needed and could have fair representation in.
@jmoyer92 There were multiple high ranking Jewish officials in the Confederacy so that throws out your "white christian" argument. Yes it's a fact that most Southerners were white Christians, but so was the whole country.
@jmoyer92 - I've read letters of Union troops and plenty were either atheist or they just weren't that into it, but don't let this one comment speak for thousands and thousands of men. I have no doubt there were plenty of Christians in the Union Army.
@Zeeboe That's true he did say he wouldn't stop slavery where it existed but the problem was that this only meant that the South would lose all political standing. This is proof the South didn't secede to keep their slaves and only left when they were no longer being treated fairly. They saw no need to stay and try to argue in Washington when it was clear that they would be ignored. The South didn't want to be ruled by a government in Washington that had nothing in common with them.
@jmoyer92 - Again, I repeat: At some point, there HAS to be order in a country to move on. If the South won, whos to say that in less then a hundred years after gaining their freedom that there would not be a Civil War among the South and the C.S.A. would be fighting "rebels" next. If a country is to survive and if the human race is going to move on, a government has to say "no" at some point to a state wanting to leave or then everyone may want to leave and then there is no countries anymore.
@Zeeboe I agree there always has to be order or else anarchy but the North/South differed in so many ways it would have been better for the Mason-Dixon Line to have become an actual border dividing 2 countries. We would be even closer than US/UK today and the conservative South and liberal North wouldnt worry about all the current political issues
@jmoyer92 - And what about the liberal people from the South or the conservative people from the North?
And again, if we just let the conservative south runs things, white male redneck bible thumpers would have all the power and try to make everyone else their victims. For the good of the people, it's better if we are all one nation protected by Uncle Sam.
@jmoyer92 u got to realize the parties were almost flopped the republicans were in the north =) and the democrats were predom. south . Breaking off from the anti feds and feds =). I agree even my History professor who is a far left liberal said the line would been better =). But we must realize the manufacturing and yeoman farmer was in the north as well, thus making the line useless then =)
@jmoyer92 - Yes, exactly. Lincoln was anti-slavery and didn't want to extend slavery into the new states. However, he said he would not mess with slavery where it already existed. But the South wouldn't even give Lincoln a chance. They REFUSED to compromise and they started the war when they fired on Fort Sumter.
@Zeeboe Abe Lincoln didn't like this and decided to invade and by using war crimes, illegal blockades and "total war", the North won. Of course slavery was a minor issue, and the idea that the South was fighting to establish a "fascist government" is absurd.
@jmoyer92 - The people in the C.S.A. who wanted to become "independent" are not interested in lower taxes or the education or health care for all. The people who wanted to set this up wanted to create a Christian government, much like Iran is an Islamic state. If the C.S.A. existed, it would be Fox News's/KKK's dream country where only white Christian men would have all the rights.
@jmoyer92 - You have been sold a bill of goods by theocratic fascists and fallen victim to that "lost cause" myth. The C.S.A. was destroying the very thing they falsely claim to be fighting for. They didn't want freedom for everyone, they wanted a monopoly of power and their black slaves would have just been one of it's many, MANY victims.
Actually this song is NOT Garryowen--it is The Irish Jaunting Cart, and it is indeed very old. I know at least 4 Civil War versions. The Bonny B Flag is best known, but the cleverest and funniest is "The Arms of Abraham." Garryownen is also a very old song used in the Civil War and into modern times. The best version of this on Ytube is found at "97th Reg. String Band--Garryowen.' It is a beauty!
The funny thing is that the Irish had more in common with the Southern cause than the Northern one. The Irish who came to America fled British oppression and other problems in their home country and came here and were pressed into service for the United States. You can tell this song was written at the beginning of the war, when the Army of the Potomac hadn't yet turned to conscripting all the Irish, Germans, etc. as soon as they came off their boats.
@StonewallJackson92: This song actually references an incedent after the war, when a leader of the Irish troops refused to honor the "Prince of Wales" & was nearly court-marshalled for his stand. The vast majority of Irish went North. There was no work for them South. The economy was overwhelmingly agrarian & most entry level positions were taken by...some other people.
The Republicans, the Democrats, and the Tea Party will not save this country,,,,its songs like this that will save this country. People lets us down, they pretend to be our friends and tell us what's best, but our souls make song likes this. When Humans stop making songs like this, then we're truly dead and deserve no succor.
The south didn't fight to save their homes they fought to save their economy , a majority of their profit coming from agriculture slaves, to the south, were almost a necessity. Whereas the North was becoming increasingly industrialized so slaves were not needed to uphold the economy.
Union boy here, but McClellan was a bitch. Grant FTW!
agbaune 6 days ago
rip ryan timothy wolf a brave irsh lad who was killed on dday while fighting for the country he loved.
MrCreeperAstley 1 month ago
Erin Go Bragh! Slainte!
voivodvlad1 2 months ago
and i know colorado has more equipment like helicoptors tanks hummers trucks morter etc. than any other state and idaho has the 2nd most and texas is the 3rd,ohio 4th and california 5th
raitheegames 3 months ago
im from ohio and
i know for a fact that texas has the most strongest militias and national guard than any other state and i know
ohio has more
nukes (federal control not state lol) than any other state and has one of the strongest militias in the country and has a pretty big guard
raitheegames 3 months ago
@sexy6125 most military forces are currently stationed in texas A SOUTHERN STATE along with that texan training is harder and better than the rest of the united states if the south were to rebel again the north would have a third of the military the rest would be southern
blaines100 4 months ago
@blaines100 Actually if you look at how many troops each state provides to the military California beats out Texas by about 50,000, on top of that US troops don't train by state, troops from every state are sent to training camps and train together, so sorry, your training is the same as everyone else in the US. Southerners always think they are so special and so much better than the rest of us. Also I doubt soldiers from other states stationed in Texas feel any loyalty to that treasonous state.
Lambchop08 4 months ago
@Lambchop08 what about national guard troops? i thought they were under the governor's control. maryland doesnt even need one with all of the military forts around here near dc, but states out west probably train national guards state by state
mackshayster 3 months ago in playlist Union Civil War Songs
@mackshayster They are under the governors control, I'm not sure which statement of mine you were refering too, but if it was the one about California having 50,000 more than Texas then I factored the NG of both states into their military numbers, you can search how many troop each state provides, and Texas falls just short of California, which makes sense, since California is the most populous state by about 12 million.
Lambchop08 3 months ago
Proud to have Irish blood in me!
CAPace09 5 months ago
What album can I find this on? I love this version!!!
bcbonstage 5 months ago
This song is awesome. The Bonnie Blue Flag sucks.
thegoodspringguy 5 months ago
@thegoodspringguy I agree with ya.
Antihippie24 5 months ago
Who volunteered? My relatives were drafted as they stepped foot on the dock at Philadelphia the moment their ship from Cork tied up. Then they got killed at Gettysburg. Their younger 14 year old sister went into such a state of depression she refused to speak english until her death 90 years later.
doggydimepicker 6 months ago
@doggydimepicker Cork ancestors here too. Lackey Clan, Virtutis Praemium
lolackay 6 months ago
@lolackay The Daughertys and Blankenships from Cork got drafted at the dock and John Grace dodged the British draft and came to Philadelphia a decade after the civil war after his father fled to America from Cork for allegedly blowing up a British barracks and shooting a cop.
doggydimepicker 6 months ago
7/2/2011 12 people trembled in their fears when they met the Yankee boys and Irish Volunteers!
TheDapperdan75 6 months ago 12
Long live good old Ireland!
piergiorgiospinolo 7 months ago
I don't care what your political stance on the Civil War - the South had the better music!
dudekin 7 months ago
@dudekin hell yeah mofo
well rise again i tell ya
REfanboys1 7 months ago
@dudekin This particular song about the Irish Volunteers was for the Irish who fought on the side of the Union. The Irish Brigade song was for the Irish on the side of the Rebels. It was brother against brother, even for the Irish-Americans!
TheDapperdan75 6 months ago
@dudekin What music did the South have during the Civil war that was so much better? Dixie was written by a Northerner before the war, and many of the southern songs were Northern songs that were so good that Southerners adopted them and changed the lyrics
Lambchop08 6 months ago
@MSfeller My pity to yyou, but if she's your girl, she's your girl, righ'? An' I have to say, the only good things to come from that place was Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. For a decent long while of generations, the Anglians have lied to and cheated us Celts. I'd love to see Anglia taken over by us Celts. I'd love to see All o' the Celtic nations join together under one flag, and one country. That will be the greatest day o' me life, maybe all of our lives. But, for now, Only Our Rivers Run Free.
EvilFollowsUs 8 months ago
I take it there were Irish on both sides. North, South, I don't care. All I say, Fuck the english. America was right to hate them. I'd love to learn Irish Gaelic, so I didn't have to speak the language of those dreadful people all the time (and because of pride for the country i trust most, also, it's a beautiful language. =P). And as awesome as I find David Kincaid, I think Mick Moloney's version of this song is the best. How i'd love to see england erased from the map...
EvilFollowsUs 8 months ago
@EvilFollowsUs Good on ya, bud. I'm learning Gaelic, albeit Scottish, but still a Goidelic language like Irish, and I love my Celtic blood. I was just in England the other day, 'cause unfortunately my girlfriend is from there, but I tell ya, what a dump that place is. Nobody would miss it, I seen horrible, weird things there, what a waste of good land. Here in Scotland, the nationalist party won by a landslide and soon enough, we will break free from the British Empire and England will be alone.
MSfeller 8 months ago
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trisgilmour 7 months ago
@trisgilmour What in the HELL are you talking about?
EvilFollowsUs 7 months ago
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EvilFollowsUs 7 months ago
@trisgilmour what!?
DrAggie58 7 months ago
@Ghigo333 ohhi i catch your drift
yea i guess the saxons liked us gaelic people
kill them damn Normans and says that one man living oxford thats an actual saxon
TheMuffinator100 8 months ago
i really have no clue why the the Americans hated the Irish
we hated the British this gave us things connect to that along with that in common
TheMuffinator100 8 months ago
@Ghigo333 you mean Normans
the saxons were killed off
TheMuffinator100 8 months ago
Bonny Blue Flag
chrshammer 8 months ago in playlist Music Civil War
i may not be of the Irish blood however i would like to thank thous of both sides of the Mason - Dixon line of said descent. GOD BLESS the north and south and hopefully thous tragic days of 1860-65 don't happen again.
theJudgeofdread1 8 months ago
@theJudgeofdread1 now you are a man of complete sense
TheMuffinator100 8 months ago
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bockmaker 8 months ago
And in the case of the Northern states there were a large number of Irish Americans clinging to the idealized beliefs of the "Grand American Dream" only to arrive here in and see the "evil"south trying to disassemble the nation piece meal. At the battle of Fredricksburg Irish met Irish across a bloody field, and southern Irish wondered why the 69th NY Vols. would fight for the North after the brutality suffered at the hands of the tyrannical British
GCIAsecurity 9 months ago
@GCIAsecurity your point is true and depending on which side you were on(Irish) in the south you saw what u said rebelling against tyrannical rule if you were in the north you saw landed gentry(of most English decent) rebelling to keep slaves, but despite this they did come together for the Fenian Raids after the war
naughton101 9 months ago
i heard this in history class today
NativeEagle7 10 months ago
Erin Go Bragh!
Jameswaterflower1 10 months ago 8
erin go braugh long live william and padraig pearse faugh a ballaugh
CHS1488 11 months ago
many of the Northern soldier's loved McClellan. He was called little Napolean and was one of the men's favorite generals. He was the one that organized the army early in the war, and he cared so much about his men that he was unwilling to commin them to slaughter like all the other Union generals. But it took the slaughter to win the war. Still he was loved by many of his men, interesting enough though barely any of them voted for him in the election of 64.
zmachine159 11 months ago
why did the irish love mclelen so ?
mtpj9654 11 months ago
you know what the irony is that mclellen didn't lead us to victory at all lol
TsumeBeta038 11 months ago
10 people who heard this must be Confederates, lol
irishcatholicladdie 1 year ago 4
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bockmaker 1 year ago
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ireland - truly a resistant nation im not going to lie they have all these songs and all this about fighting back for freedom but until the day you actualy win something to the world your just an island full of losers... sorry its the truth
MRAK47ification 1 year ago
@MRAK47ification By "win something to the world" do you mean mean win a war? I'm not really a believer in the notion that winning wars are what makes a people great. It makes them strong, definitely, but great? Who is greater, the man who fights to expand his nation's territory with a 'great' army behind him? Or the man who knows he can't win but fights anyway so his country might eventually take her place alongside the others of this world, even though he might not live to see it?
cameramanAL 11 months ago 2
@cameramanAL I don't think the second man is deserving of the title 'loser,' as you put it.
But then if it is only military prowess, or rather 'winning' that impresses you, I suggest you look up the 69th New York Infantry, the San Patricios, the Connaught Rangers, the Siege of Jadotville, or the Battle of Fotenoy.
cameramanAL 11 months ago
@cameramanAL ok think about what you just said???? how did Britain become so powerful...... did we just begin with the worlds biggest empire and the richest currency??? no. think now do you know what im getting at??? we British are Great because we poored blood sweat and tears into our empire and worked for it we werent just some spoilt child we went from the bottom to the top ireland however just didnt prosper at all because there dumb idiots
MRAK47ification 11 months ago
@MRAK47ification I think you're missing my point, but that's okay, you're obviously a chauvinist so there isn't really any point in me continuing.
Although I have to point out that a great deal of the blood sweat and tears you mentioned came from Irish, and the soldiers of other occupied nations, who joined the in the British army due to the economic strangle hold the empire had on many of its vassal nations leaving very few alternatives to earning a living.
cameramanAL 11 months ago
@cameramanAL Personally I'm glad I'm from a country that didn't traipse around the world uninvited in the name of imperial expansion, and if that makes me a 'dumb idiot,' well, there are worse things to be called.
(Incidentally I don't hate anyone or think less of them for being who they are or because of where they're from, I just have little time for people with tunnel vision who make short sighted statements like yours. No offense.)
Anyway, I'm out.
Slan abhaile
cameramanAL 11 months ago
@cameramanAL i realy dont understand what you said..... no irish didnt like the British any who joined the British armed forces was probbably due to the large number of British heritage in ireland because of the plantation etc,etc,etc
MRAK47ification 11 months ago
@MRAK47ification I'm not overly surprised that you don't know about any of this. I once had an English girl ask me why Irish people in the Republic got their backs up about what happened in the north when the British had never been in the south... I swear that's what she asked. I was speechless.
But you should really do some research into the regimental history of the British Army. 400,000 Irishmen served in the British Army in the first World War. 50,000 regulars, 350,000 volunteers.
Google it.
cameramanAL 11 months ago
@MRAK47ification you prospered through the murder of children , be proud !!! ... the blood of 100s of millions smears your flag and you are to ignorant to see it because you are blinded by your feeling of superiority to other people. By the way , your empire is gone !! , it was rejected by those whos fathers mothers where murdered by your people. Your country is now a second rate nation with low education and has world stage only when allowed to by the united states. BR PROUD !!!
kargwain187 10 months ago
I'm not Irish, so excuse me for asking this.
But who is dat "Erin" you are talking about?
I would like to go to Ireland once in my life.
ndkblackhawk 1 year ago
@ndkblackhawk Erin is the Hiberno-English (English spoken in Ireland) version of the Irish word Éirinn which is Irish for Ireland.
DXMorpheus 1 year ago
@ndkblackhawk Erin means Ireland.
Monopoly907 11 months ago
ERIN is ireland in gaelic get ERIN=ireland
TheIrishryan 11 months ago
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@fhossi i am 100%irish live here all my life ,who the fuck are you to say whos irish or not that guy can get a irish passport if he wants so leave him alone wanker
still taking the English pound Paddy ??? about 8 billion of the fecker's .... lol , pmsl ..
woodenz 1 year ago
@REfanboys1 yeah both this and Bonnie Blue Flag are sung to the melody of the older song "The Irish Jaunting Car"
MarkBowes1 1 year ago
this sounds like the bonnie blue flag
REfanboys1 1 year ago
@REfanboys1 a bit I would say
kingnikolaj 1 year ago
@fhossi
my parents were both born and raised in ireland they moved to the usa right before i was born you mean to tell me because i was born in the usa im not irish.
munchaotz 1 year ago 3
@CMaxwell08 someone finnaly said something
Gaurdsman221 1 year ago
Hats off to my Irish ancestors who fought for the Union during the Civil War!
aminamaynamenom 1 year ago
I bet the nine people voted down for the drive the rebs to blazes comment rofl. reb sympothizers
Mr19thIndiana 1 year ago
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RonPaulHatesBlacks 1 year ago
you are born and raised in USA? you´re not Irish you are a yankee....and you are talking like a yank....you are NOT IRISH...greets from ireland bastard
fhossi 1 year ago
@fhossi.....Anyone that descends from Ireland has Irish blood in them, no matter where they live. I'm a "Yankee", and I am basically Scottish and Irish with a minor amount of English. Just because our ancestors decided to make a trip across the ocean, doesn't mean we can't be proud of where we originated.
CMaxwell08 1 year ago 12
@CMaxwell08 HEAR HEAR!
Well said, and I couldn't agree more. As for fhossi... unfortunately there are fools in every nation. If only closed minds had close mouths.
You are what your soul tells you you are and there's none can say otherwise.
Greets from Ireland, mo cara.
cameramanAL 1 year ago
@fhossi i am 100%irish live here all my life ,who the fuck are you to say whos irish or not that guy can get a irish passport if he wants so leave him alone wanker
KNOCKASH 1 year ago 2
@mwgroves1961 you are never going to beat the north we beat you once we will beat you again this time you guys will not have all the states that you had pry because of sherman I'm a north dakotan Of 75 percent german and other europun anceterys includin irish wich my grand ma on my dads side is 100% irish!!!!!! so no offense we will beat you any time
sexy6125 1 year ago 18
@sexy6125 why do i get the feeling that next time things will change lol
TsumeBeta038 11 months ago
@sexy6125
whats with all the conflict im from Dublin and people get along down here the north should try and make peace
Davitt4life 10 months ago
@sexy6125 tell me when the North beat the south
you know who beat slowed us down after 30 years
a country that doesn't even LIKE the north thats right
to some english people all Irish are the same
stupid fenian bog wog bastards
and the sooner you northerners relize this the better
the brit's never liked you and never will
TheMuffinator100 8 months ago
@sexy6125 I agree with you, but please use punctuation and correct spelling when you type. Otherwise, it makes you look stupid.
GSeward 8 months ago
@sexy6125 The majority of World War II soldiers were Southerners, and don't forget that we whooped the hell out of you krauts in Germany. Twice. You just can't beat the strong Celtic spirit the South has, and the sense of pride that exists in each Southern state which alone, would be greater than all the northern and wannabe northern states put together. And I come from Scottish and Dutch stock, I would be more than glad to fight a German/Irish Unionist. I say, bring it on! We got more guns too.
MSfeller 8 months ago
@sexy6125
Ah only one state can actually secceed and if they decide to then there is nothing the North can do about it. Within the state charter for the grand state of Texas and the state constitution ratified in the early 1800's by congressional order was the ability to Seccede with honor and to fight any who cross our borders. Our only mistake during the War of Northern Aggression was siding with the south instead of seccedeing on our own separately.
Janus79413 7 months ago
@Janus79413 Actually thats not true, Supreme Court cases have made secession invalid no matter what, and Texas's charter does not allow it to leave, but it does say it can break into 4 states if it wants to to gain more representation in the senate
Lambchop08 6 months ago
@Janus79413 also calling it the War of Northern Aggression is a fallacy, the South fired first making them the aggressors
Lambchop08 6 months ago
@Lambchop08 Actually not quite for the first shot of the war was actually fired over the walls of Fort sumter by the union warships. Fort Sumter where the flag flew to the end and despite allefoorts remain free of capture til the end of the war.
Janus79413 6 months ago
@Janus79413 Where did you read that? I have never heard that a Union Warship fired first, it makes no sense for them to fire first because they did not want armed conflict to break out. I have read many books on the Civil War and every single one has said the first shots were fired by rebel artillery on the Star of the West as it tried to resupply Ft. Sumter. I see you are a Lost Causer who excells in revisionist history, Youtube is infested with Lost Causers
Lambchop08 6 months ago 3
@Lambchop08 Oh you read some propaganda books? Well that changes everything. Think about the motives. The Confederacy had their way and wanted to continue doing that. The Union were nationalistic fools that wouldn't have separation, and would force everyone to their beliefs. It's just the way it rolls. The North always started conflicts. They even attacked Canada. For what, more states? They got it I suppose, there are, what, 46 states in USA?
DionysusFTW 5 months ago
@DionysusFTW The North attacked Canada during the Revolution and 1812, not The ACW, but using that logic it was the South who attacked Mexico to expand slavery into the west during the Mexican American War, there was also a Southerner who tried to invade Cuba, Nicaragua, and Mexico to expand slavery in the years before the Civil War but he was eventually captured during one of the attempts and executed. I have read many books on the civil war, but mostly I read what people said at the time...
Lambchop08 5 months ago
@sexy6125 Your only 1/4 Irish... HA!
NightofKnights4 6 months ago
@sexy6125 That isn't the irish spirit, we are very competitive, but we arn't a violent bunch unless provoked into it. The south and north need to get along, be about the celebration, the booze and the spirit of the Irish. Corse we will beat the north anytime when it comes to beer, but my ancestors are the loving bunch. The civil war is dead and gone. lets all get along and drink till we are under the table. Go the Irish Rugby World Cup 2011!!!!
mordustine 4 months ago
@mwgroves1961 you are never going to beat the north we beat you once we will beat you again this time you guys will not have all the states that you had pry because of sherman I'm a north dakotan Of 75 percent german and other europun anceterys includin irish wich my grand ma on my dads side is 100% irish!!!!!! so no offense we will beat you anny time
sexy6125 1 year ago 4
The song is appropriate in comparing the ideology of the Union with that of Irish Republicanism.
tj2tone 1 year ago
Erin Go Bragh! Ooh Ah Up the RA! we are the fighting Irish!
CaptLCPD 1 year ago
Óglaigh na hÉireann
marineman1996 1 year ago
some of the best soldiers in the world!!!!!!!!!!!
gobearcubies 1 year ago
Erin Go Bragh!
TheConorCampbell 1 year ago 4
hurrah for the bonnie blue flag! hurrah for for the clover!!!
REfanboys1 1 year ago
everytime my squad plays airsoft, we carry the Flag of the 69th into Battle. Erins golden harp flies over the field, and at our tent.
generaltodd2 1 year ago 5
@generaltodd2 thats actually kinda cool
TheIrishryan 1 year ago
@TheIrishryan thanks, i thought it would be a way to honor the 69th, in fact, for the flag our squad is now known at Bing (where we play airsoft) as "The Fighting 69th"
generaltodd2 1 year ago
@generaltodd2 Where do you play Airsoft at.
mrbrownstone123 1 year ago
@mrbrownstone123 Bing Field Airsoft Park, Edwardsville, Illinois.
generaltodd2 1 year ago
So this is the Union version of The Bonny Blue Flag?
SevenSons7 1 year ago
@SevenSons7 no and its bonie
Monopoly907 1 year ago
@Monopoly907 i almost got it. but you didn't get it right either. its 2 Ns. and it ends with a "ie" not a "y" like i put it.
so i suppose were both right.
SevenSons7 1 year ago
@SevenSons7 ya i noticed that after i replyed to ya :p
Monopoly907 1 year ago
This is an awesome song. And the Irish fought with absolute valiancy for the Union.
SecularTechnology 1 year ago
Erin Go Bragh!
Monopoly907 1 year ago 46
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bockmaker 1 year ago
Erin Go Bragh.
TheRealCelticKnight 1 year ago
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TheRealCelticKnight 1 year ago
I'll love to hear this song sung by by the the the true son's of Eire not De Valera's excuses
hawickman 1 year ago
im not even form america however i am irish and i gota say this is great song
iradan64 1 year ago
@iradan64 amen to that all hail the knights of erin
TsumeBeta038 1 year ago
What kind of fool would think that fighting tyranny is treason? BTW, how are those freed subhumans working out for you?
vanguarder 1 year ago
Beautiful!!
jolien58 1 year ago
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BubbaLee2 1 year ago
@BubbaLee2 blah is right lol
123americangamer 1 year ago
success to meagher and nugent
I'm a native of the isle meself :)
irishcatholicladdie 1 year ago
GIVE ME THE LYRIC PLS I CANT UNDERSTAND NOTHING XD
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princecharles014 1 year ago
I'd fly the harp of Erin any day.
CMaxwell08 1 year ago 42
@CMaxwell08 but will you fly the flag of the true irish republic. the 32 county socialist republic. up the reals. fuck britain and sinn fein.
iradan64 1 year ago
@CMaxwell08 amen to that
TsumeBeta038 1 year ago
@CMaxwell08 amen lol
TsumeBeta038 11 months ago
@CMaxwell08 me too
TsumeBeta038 11 months ago
Hurrah, Hurrah, for southern rights go deo, Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag what bears a single star!
vegsdraugr 1 year ago
Thank god for the Irish...they have allways made for excellent bullet sponges!!
ayf43 1 year ago
*Looks through lyrics*
What.....the....
"Now here's to ***brave McClellan*** whom the army now reveres....."
....PFFFFFFFFFT!!!! Hahahaha........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
protosswannabe 1 year ago
@protosswannabe: The Irish were all then, as ever, Democrats. The GOP was founded on a devil's bargain w/ the Know-nothing Party. The aptly named Know-nothings were an anti-immigrant & anti-catholic party, those two things defining the Irish then swarming in their impoverished masses to America. McClellan was a Democrat & ran against Lincoln for his 2nd term.
VictorLepanto 1 year ago
@VictorLepanto: If only McClellan had won that election. It would've been best for the North and South if he had.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - Nope, it wouldn't have been. So many Union troops would have died for nothing and the rebs were nearly beat. I sometimes think McClellan was a Southern Sympathizer. He didn't need to be anyone near the White House or be in charge of the U.S. Army.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe If Lincoln was no longer in charge you know the war would have ended a lot quicker. McClellan would have actually listened to the people in the North and ended the foolish war to keep invading the southern states who just wanted to be left alone. If the South had won the war....Slavery would have been naturally abolished WITHOUT BLOODSHED like it was in every other part of the world.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - President Lincoln did not let the South peacefully leave in the 1860's is because he feared it would create in one word: anarchy. How can you claim to be a Democracy or even a Republic if you take the results of a legal and correct election and throw out the results simply because you don't like them?
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - If more Northerns wanted the war to end, they would have voted for McClellan. But they didn't. They voted for Lincoln. The war had been going on for four years and the South was nearly whipped. If the Union just quit, thousands of Union troops would have died for nothing.
I can also admit slavery was a minor issue. I agree it would have faded away on it's own and such a bloody war would not be needed, but slavery wasn't the big issue. Preserving the Union was the big issue.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe Oh, and if you "disapprove of treason" then you cannot call yourself an American. Our founding fathers were some of the biggest traitors in the 18th century. It's all in the perspective. History is written by the victors, and resistance to tyranny is one of the things that made this country what it is.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - The difference between what our founding fathers did and what the traitors of the south in the War of the Rebellion tried to do is, our founders were NOT seeking to maintain the status quo or turn back the clock. The founders sought to open doors, not maintain monopolies of power.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
The rebels were lso not fighting for freedom, although many in the south at the time (and still do today) falsely believe they were fighting for freedom. What they were fighting for was a fascist government where only rich white male bible thumpers would have power.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe Our founding fathers declared independence due to the British government become detrimental to the needs of the American people. Great Britain did not like this and decided to invade and miraculously, we won that war and became independent. In the War of Northern Aggression, the South declared independence after seeing their way of life being demonized in the North and having no say in the Federal government. Therefore the US government had become detrimental to its Southern citizens.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - At some point, there HAS to be order, authority and control or otherwise a country will not survive and we will forever be fighting with one another over power and control.
I should also add that many states in the South stated one of their reasons leaving was slavery and rather you like it or not, there was racism in the south and it lasted all the way until the 1960's when the Federal Government put a stop to it and I'll explain more in my next comment.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
America is one nation under a Constitution. Although the Constitution sets up a representative democracy, it specifically was amended with the Bill of Rights in 1791 to uphold individual and minority rights. On constitutional matters we do not have majority rule. For example, when the majority in certain localities voted to segregate blacks, this was declared illegal. The majority has no right to tyrannize the minority on matters such as race, gender, or religion.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
Now IF the Federal Government did not help the black people in southern states in the 1960's and just let the states govern themselves, black people may STILL be victims to racist rich white men in the south and there would probably be a lot of violence on both sides.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - If secession were admitted as a legal device, then the future of the United States was easily written. The preamble to a Union Southern Rights Meeting in Stuart County, Georgia in the 1860's, warned, "If this confederacy is destroyed all is lost! Separation will follow separation, until the whole country is divided into little petty States and fractions, who, too weak to defend themselves, will become the prey of military leaders and demagogues."
Zeeboe 1 year ago
Unionists realized that once secession was permitted, there was no stopping the process of fragmentation because any group with a complaint could then announce its intention to separate unless its wishes were fulfilled. Secession was the "squeal" of those who "must be allowed to do what [they] please." Caving in to secessionists would positively destroy any central government: "the inevitable consequence will be, that the Federal authority will cease to be respected at home."
Zeeboe 1 year ago
In Alabama in the 1860's, a unionist believed "if the doctrine of `peaceable secession' is recognized, and the false pride or unreasonable whims of a State are deemed sufficient reasons for its exercise, no year would pass without some one of the States throwing the whole machinery of government into a score of weak but hostile communities."
Zeeboe 1 year ago
Again, I ask: How can you claim to be a Democracy or even a Republic if you take the results of a legal and correct election and throw out the results simply because you don't like them?
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe It wasn't a democratic election that was the probllem. The country was clearly split between free states and slave states and because of the legislature in place by the Republican controlled government, there were to be no more slave states. The South saw this as completely UN-democratic and knew secession was the only way to create a government that they needed and could have fair representation in.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 There were multiple high ranking Jewish officials in the Confederacy so that throws out your "white christian" argument. Yes it's a fact that most Southerners were white Christians, but so was the whole country.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - I've read letters of Union troops and plenty were either atheist or they just weren't that into it, but don't let this one comment speak for thousands and thousands of men. I have no doubt there were plenty of Christians in the Union Army.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe That's true he did say he wouldn't stop slavery where it existed but the problem was that this only meant that the South would lose all political standing. This is proof the South didn't secede to keep their slaves and only left when they were no longer being treated fairly. They saw no need to stay and try to argue in Washington when it was clear that they would be ignored. The South didn't want to be ruled by a government in Washington that had nothing in common with them.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - Again, I repeat: At some point, there HAS to be order in a country to move on. If the South won, whos to say that in less then a hundred years after gaining their freedom that there would not be a Civil War among the South and the C.S.A. would be fighting "rebels" next. If a country is to survive and if the human race is going to move on, a government has to say "no" at some point to a state wanting to leave or then everyone may want to leave and then there is no countries anymore.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe I agree there always has to be order or else anarchy but the North/South differed in so many ways it would have been better for the Mason-Dixon Line to have become an actual border dividing 2 countries. We would be even closer than US/UK today and the conservative South and liberal North wouldnt worry about all the current political issues
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - And what about the liberal people from the South or the conservative people from the North?
And again, if we just let the conservative south runs things, white male redneck bible thumpers would have all the power and try to make everyone else their victims. For the good of the people, it's better if we are all one nation protected by Uncle Sam.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 u got to realize the parties were almost flopped the republicans were in the north =) and the democrats were predom. south . Breaking off from the anti feds and feds =). I agree even my History professor who is a far left liberal said the line would been better =). But we must realize the manufacturing and yeoman farmer was in the north as well, thus making the line useless then =)
paseggiato 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - Yes, exactly. Lincoln was anti-slavery and didn't want to extend slavery into the new states. However, he said he would not mess with slavery where it already existed. But the South wouldn't even give Lincoln a chance. They REFUSED to compromise and they started the war when they fired on Fort Sumter.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@Zeeboe Abe Lincoln didn't like this and decided to invade and by using war crimes, illegal blockades and "total war", the North won. Of course slavery was a minor issue, and the idea that the South was fighting to establish a "fascist government" is absurd.
jmoyer92 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - The people in the C.S.A. who wanted to become "independent" are not interested in lower taxes or the education or health care for all. The people who wanted to set this up wanted to create a Christian government, much like Iran is an Islamic state. If the C.S.A. existed, it would be Fox News's/KKK's dream country where only white Christian men would have all the rights.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
@jmoyer92 - You have been sold a bill of goods by theocratic fascists and fallen victim to that "lost cause" myth. The C.S.A. was destroying the very thing they falsely claim to be fighting for. They didn't want freedom for everyone, they wanted a monopoly of power and their black slaves would have just been one of it's many, MANY victims.
Zeeboe 1 year ago
Actually this song is NOT Garryowen--it is The Irish Jaunting Cart, and it is indeed very old. I know at least 4 Civil War versions. The Bonny B Flag is best known, but the cleverest and funniest is "The Arms of Abraham." Garryownen is also a very old song used in the Civil War and into modern times. The best version of this on Ytube is found at "97th Reg. String Band--Garryowen.' It is a beauty!
EMesaros 1 year ago
Great song
gomersrule 1 year ago
The funny thing is that the Irish had more in common with the Southern cause than the Northern one. The Irish who came to America fled British oppression and other problems in their home country and came here and were pressed into service for the United States. You can tell this song was written at the beginning of the war, when the Army of the Potomac hadn't yet turned to conscripting all the Irish, Germans, etc. as soon as they came off their boats.
StonewallJackson92 1 year ago
@StonewallJackson92: This song actually references an incedent after the war, when a leader of the Irish troops refused to honor the "Prince of Wales" & was nearly court-marshalled for his stand. The vast majority of Irish went North. There was no work for them South. The economy was overwhelmingly agrarian & most entry level positions were taken by...some other people.
VictorLepanto 1 year ago
So what`s new? Same old story over and over again.
heliodor001 1 year ago
The Republicans, the Democrats, and the Tea Party will not save this country,,,,its songs like this that will save this country. People lets us down, they pretend to be our friends and tell us what's best, but our souls make song likes this. When Humans stop making songs like this, then we're truly dead and deserve no succor.
MSgtWolf1960 1 year ago 21
GO U.S.A
ODST81 1 year ago
I LOVE THIS SONG
SarahSnowyful 1 year ago 4
anyone know who Nugent is? I'd love to know....., being one myself.
andrellen 1 year ago
Nugent was an officer in the Unions Irish Bridaged
orckiller91 1 year ago
Nugent was a Colonel who led the Irish brigade after Meagher resigned
KingOfConnacht90 1 year ago 3
Any idea what his first name was? Makes it easier to look up.........
andrellen 1 year ago
Robert Nugent was his name
KingOfConnacht90 1 year ago 2
Wow- you know your stuff. Mahalo.
andrellen 1 year ago
thank u, glad i could help. Slainte
KingOfConnacht90 1 year ago
The south didn't fight to save their homes they fought to save their economy , a majority of their profit coming from agriculture slaves, to the south, were almost a necessity. Whereas the North was becoming increasingly industrialized so slaves were not needed to uphold the economy.
Thejazzmusicman 1 year ago
im northern man
i disaprrove of slavery but i fly a rebel flag
id fight for the outh thats were i intend to move to
and yes the north fought to free the slaves
and the south fought to defend thier homes
pwnsome1 1 year ago
@pwnsome1 - I'm from the south, but I disapprove of treason, and I fly the stripes and stars. I fight for Uncle Sam.
Yes, the rebels fought to defend their homes, but the Union fought to save the country, and free an entire race of people.
Long live the U.S.A.
Zeeboe 1 year ago 33
From north of the boarder...long live north America.
heliodor001 1 year ago