Irish History - American Revolution and Ireland Part 1 of 6

Irish history with Pat Flannery. This was filmed 1/7/08. This was one of Pat's most interesting lectures, unfortunately my camara broke half-way through it and I didn't get the last part. For more about Pat, check his website - http://patflannery.com/index.htm

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Education

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• ireland
• irish
• history
• american
• revolution
• catholics
• protestants
• ulster
• gaelic
• celts
• ira
• militia
• britain
• famine

[zyzor]

this is fascinating. I love to learn about the american revolution and this is a topic i knew nothing about. Although I do know there was a loyalist regiment called the loyal volunteers of ireland which was comprised of irish emigrants who fought for the british.

[malarky321]

5218bunny..eh?

A. yer pulling me on a post i made a year ago

B. yes i'm well aware of the fact he is banging on about Ireland,i live in Belfast and i stand by my comment that he isnt at all biased when talking about the island of ireland when his background is dine out in green,white and gold!....is there only certain colours of paint sold down south?

[napalm69]

@5218bunny ........ It wasn't until the mid 1800's that the New York St. Patrick's parade became an almost wholly Irish Catholic Nationalist event organized by the A.O.H . even though most Protestant churches honour St. Patrick. Today, many Protestant Irish in America wear orange on St. Paddy's day. Hatred for anything is not something to be proud of, maybe it's time to lose the chip on your shoulder.

[napalm69]

@5218bunny There may have been 'significant' numbers but they were much lower in number to Irish Protestants. The St. Patrick's parade in New York was started in the 1760's by Irish regiments of the British Army and was done in honour of the king. To this day Irish regiments of the British Army still mark St Pat's day with parades. Early Irish societies like the Friendly Sons Of St Patrick and the Hibernian Society participated in later parades and they were mainly Protestant at the time also.

[5218bunny]

@malarky321 biased. He's talking about Ireland. Not Scotland.

[5218bunny]

@napalm69 There were significant numbers of irish-catholics here during revolutionary times. The st. Patrick's Day Parade in New York pre-dates the revolution. The famine or starvation, sent hordes of irish-catholic peasants to america. Many came with nothing but their hatred of England.Some of us still feel that way. My famiily came here in 1929.They lived through The Tan War and the War of Independence.

[napalm69]

@ironhead455 I don't doubt you. There certainly wer some native Irish Catholics in America before the Revolution. All I am saying is that the huge majority of Irish in America at that time were of Scottish protestant descent. It wasn't until later that 'native' Irish started coming in large numbers.

[monzarela]

Populations in the American Colonies of 1775 [14][15] Ancestry Percentage during 1776 and clearly english american largest ancestry. English 48.7% African 20.0% Scots-Irish 7.8 % German 6.9% Scottish 6.6 % Dutch 2.7% French 1.4% Swedish 0.6% Other 5.3% Note - If the Scottish and Ulster Scots (known as Scots-Irish) are added together they form 14.4%.

[msbeth20]

so true napalm69, pity the old fart reading didnt know that.

[napalm69]

FightingIrish2... the Great Famine was in the mid 1840's, around 70 years after the American revolution. The population of Ireland fell from around 8 million to around 6 million during that time (or about 20 - 25 percent.) Many native Irish fought during the American civil war but very few during the American Revolutionary war.