Plumbing the depths of Irish and Celtic mythology, legend, and folklore. This is the companion RU-vid channel to IrishMyths.com, home of the mythological musings of Celtic fantasy author I. E. Kneverday.
As a proud black woman i know black people discovered the Americas. Irish people stop trying to steal our history by pretending you were slaves alongside us. And by the way the original celts were black yet again you steal our history. The Irish were slavers for 700 years stop this mad history
Cant wait to see these merikans an british faces when irish get to educate you about the irish for first time in our lives. Yea dont even know your own history an yea think yea know ours? An no back sass'n its mo abhaile mo croí mo bhreithe de áit, rugadh agus tógadh, gléas!
Good video, but I'd use the word 'Gael' rather than 'Celt'. The Celts are a modern invention - In the early 18th century Edward Lhuyd came up with the theory and even if there was a unified European culture from that supposed Celtic period, we Irish had nothing to do with it anyway - Barry Raftery (1944-2010) professor of Celtic archaeology at University College Dublin, admits an enormous problem in justifying his subject: "there is no archaeological evidence for a Celtic invasion of Ireland". Over the period from about 450 BC to AD 450 when some scholars agreed that there were Celtic societies and civilisations in western and Central Europe, hardly any material evidence has been found here to substantiate the notion of Celtic Ireland. There is no Celtic pottery - or pottery of any kind until well into the Christian period. Only 40-50 such swords or other military instruments are extant, six decorated brooches, eight scabbards - compared to the hundreds of thousands excavated in western France alone. The Irish language is probably much older than previously thought - so labelling it Celtic as well is also misleading. In fact, what both archaeology and genetic studies show is continuity - broadly the same people who built Newgrange continuing to inhabit the island, speaking a version of the language of the Atlantic seaboard from which they had originated. The first farmers moved westwards from Anatolia (modern day Turkey) populated the Iberian Peninsula before finally moving north to Britain and Ireland. There is no evidence of any change in genetics in Ireland until the arrival of the Vikings.
There's a possibility that one of the lost ships of the Milesian Gaels that left Ancient Gallaecia to Ireland eventually landed in America. Just a thought.
Why is the currach the only "boat" mentioned when this topic comes up? The Venetii, a Celtic tribe from before Ceasars time, is just one of an entire province of Celtic tribes who built massive sea worthy sailing vessels . These ships were admitted by the Romans to be so robust and able to take on the open Atlantic ,that the romans were scared to wage a naval battle against them. Also Concerning these tribes, The area in Gaul of the Venetii and others was named "Armorica". Venetii is Venetian or Phoenician . And the genetic history of the celts leads back to the levant! Irs pretty much an open secret the "phoenecians" used the Arlantic and the Americas for their playground...Is this "definitive proof"...of coarse not. But its curious as hell !! Not to mention the "debunks" of some of the more intregueing things in this video are hardly solid....
We can see the modern evolution of language and culture by the way we speak now compared to even 20years ago, especially with the internet. Gamer terms become commonplace.
My great-grandmother, born in County Clare and moved to America when she was 17, always pronounced it Saw-whin with slightly breathy wh sound. That is how a pronounce it.
According to ancient canon Druids were taught and trained on the Holy Island of Iona in Britain one of the reasons why the Romans wanted to destroy the Druids.
They are offspring of the river goddess Danu (which is mentioned in Rigveda) and identical with the Danavas of the Hindu texts which are also said to be offspring of the goddess Danu. The river Danu was the now mostly submerged river which the Greeks and Romans called Eridanus, which separated Europe from Hyperborea. That means he was flowing in the south of Great Britain and Ireland between them and Europe. This identification is confirmed by the story of the war between the Danava king Salwa and Krishna. Salwa had attacked Dwaraka, the capitol of Krishna in northwest India from the air while Krishna was not there. When he came back and heard what happened he decided to attack the Danavas and defeated them, which is also reported by the Irish tradition though without naming Krishna. In this connection is said that the Danavas lived to the north of India on an Island in the sea which fits the location of Ireland.
The first Celtic inhabitants of both Britain and Ireland probably first spoke Proto-Celtic or perhaps even Common Celtic - they seem to have diverged into Brythonic and Goidelic respectively some time in the Bronze Age…
How are you confusing the tuath de déanann with all these "god"... these are not gods...please stop..this is just misrepresentation of my culture and misunderstanding what things are. Please stop.
I'm not going to criticise all the mangling of Gaelic words and names, I will only say that I live in Ireland and underground rivers are a common phenomenon here, a wall was built near near my family home and in digging the foundation they hit bedrock very early and caused a fissure that water immediately started rising from it took them a full month to plug it up and the wall was moved slightly to avoid the spot, twenty years later a contractor was building maybe thirty foot from the spot and did the same but made an actual hole, the water bubbled up furiously and they couldn't stop it, they tried filling it with concrete, tons of the stuff and quick setting, but the water kept coming, six months of trial and error followed with the pumps going day and night to prevent flooding before eventually they managed to stop it, so a lake appearing from nowhere is not mythology it's a risk you run if you dig in the wrong place.
You should check out the word and eponym, Turlough. A lake which appears in the Rainey season 🤘🏼 I’m not one of these people that get offended with mispronunciations and fair play to ye having a craic but if you ever want help with it I’d be happy to phoneticise it for you. It would bring another layer of polish to your already brilliant content Thanks, really enjoyed that