I also notice how Cavan always refer to themselves as Breffni but I think the Breffni kingdom was much bigger than that, it also included Leitrim. Then there is Monaghan calling themselves "Farney". Farney is only a part of co.Monaghan. for example Clones isn't in Farney.
Cavan is east and Leitrim west Breffni. The barony of Farney is the south eastern part of Monaghan and Oriel/Airgialla is a kingdom that fluctuated in size from mostly Monaghan to Monaghan and Louth
Go on Antrim, going swimming as a kid at Andytown Leisure centre the very close by Casement Park GAA ground was emblematic of most Nationalist areas, run down, impoverished and deprived and neglected by design so its great to see the improvements.
@@Backpfeifengesicht45 For those who don't know the suffix "een" in Hiberno English indicates the diminutive as in small. So Jackeen means small supporter of the Union Jack... i.e. you're not an Irish nationalist...
@@culaterw41pr further to this, it originated in Cork when news travelled of Dubliners waving the union jack during the visit of the famine queen, aka Victoria to Dublin.
I've heard of two other explanations for the "Banner County". The first is that Daniel O'Connell held one of his gigantic public demonstrations for Irish self-determination in Ennis town, where hundreds of thousands of Clare people gathered in groups, each with a banner showing the name of their village or town. The second comes from the Clare Dragoons, a regiment of heavy cavalry that served the British Crown in the 17th? century. They were all from Clare, wore Blue and Saffron uniforms, and made a habit of stealing the war banners of their opponents. They were renowned soldiers, famous for their "Banner Shout" or warcry when charging.
Targeting your enemies colours was standard practice at the time to the extent that a colour guard were specifically tasked with defending the colours. Often armed with fairly medieval weapons like axes. So I doubt that their taking of banners was notable enough for the name to stem from that. I think the O’Connell story is far more plausible.
He missed the most important one about Dublin, the moat popular nickname for the Dubs for a long time was the Jack's, or Jackeens, how he didn't know that one is astonishing .
@@robertkennedy7456plenty of them down in Cork loved that flag ye sap. Protestant aristocracy held that butchers apron, none of my ancestors or any other true Dubs would have.
Tyrone like to think they are the only region associated with the red hand/O'Neill's but that is oversimplifying history. South Co.Derry and the majority of Antrim were also ruled by O'Neills up until the plantation. To complicate the matter even further the 'Ui Neill' were originally based in Inishowen Donegal before they moved east over 1000 years ago.
The O'Neill surname is all over Ireland through its cadet lines like O'Connell and O'Donnell, plus 6 other surnames. Niall Noighallach was the first O'Neil and he was the root of 9 different clans, however the O'Neill rulership was most prevalent in Tir Eoghan and the Kingdom of Midh.
Good man... And while we are on the subject for no Irish people it's tricolour (pronounced try colour) NOT TRICKCOLOUR... Amazing how many English people cannot properly pronounce their own language... 🤬🤬🤬
Dublin GAA team is called The Jack's short for The Jackeen's. As in the old football song, the Jack's are back, the Jack's are back let the railway end go barmy, for hill sixteen has never seen the likes of Heffo's army.
Officially in GAA nomenclature, Waterford is the gentle county. When you meet a Deiseach, they will take your hand warmly and then wait for you to speak.
Interesting, I think the south of Monaghan also used to use Oriel, but honestly hear it more it in North Louth now due to Dundalks stadium name Oriel park.
Um, with Dublin you forgot to mention the Jacks? Or Jackeens if we're talking about the women's team? From the time King George VII came over in 1905 for a royal visit and loads of people in Dublin came out to greet him with Union Jack flags...people in the rest of the country werent too happy and called people from Dublin 'Jacks' for short and the name stuck, alas. Mind you, as we Dubs like to say, we're the city that took on an Empire in 1916 😀!
Dublin was the only city in the Republic to have people waving Union Jacks in the street until QEII visited Cork in 2011. Also colloquially, going to the toilet is referred to in Ireland as going to the Jacks. Why? So you can p!ss and sh!t on the Union Jack...
Offaly used to be called Kings County in honour of Philip II of Spain and Laois was called Queens County as it was shired by Queen Mary, seeing as 'the pale' made the cut.
My 2 grandfathers were an ONeill from County Tyrone,Northen Ireland and a Macdonald from Dundee,Scotland! Cant get much more Irish/Scottish names than that!😄
@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 cork also known as the rebel county for more or less winning the war of independence single handed while the dubs had those jackeens waving. Its all about timing lad
The Kilkenny Cats. That also came from medieval times. It’s gruesome though. There was two cats from Kilkenny. Each thought that there was one too many. They fought and the slit. They scratched and they bit, till in the end there wasn’t any. That came from a brutal medieval blood sport. Two Tom cats were tied by their tails to a line just near enough for either of them to strike at each other. Far more brutal than dog fighting or cock fighting. It wasn’t an original Celtic sport but had been imported from Europe as Kilkenny was a very cosmopolitan city in medieval times. Now we’ll go on to the Goose Milkers, The Heron Stranglers, The Sheep Stealers, The Stone throwers, Cute Cork Hoords, Tunnel Tigers, Jackeens an the Mane Caavan B^$t€rd$. Niall Ó Toibáin got it right. Quote: “Ireland so the geographers tell us, is a land 350miles long and 150 miles thick. 😂😂😂 in among that space we have many peoples species and sub species……””. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the ability of us Irish ☘️ to laugh at ourselves gives us the strength when others mock us. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣☘️🇮🇪
5:22 funny you mention youve never heard that one before. Like the first nickname I'd think of for Carlow is the scallion 'aters. Also to add, another nickname for Laois is the "Poor County". Im not sure why but I've heard it being called that
