Guerrillas - Luck of the Irish, The Old IRA 

Wow! That was nothing short of fantastic! Great video, thank you for the excellent content

A good friend of mine fought in the troubles. A book about urban sniping “FRY THE BRAIN” is a great Guerilla war summary.

Dan Breen is the man. The story of his life is incredible. There needs to be a movie about his life

I grew up in Dublin and the Ireland that I grew up in was a r republic in name alone. I am grateful to my forebares for fighting for a republic but it was turned into a theocracy. There are many lessons to learn from the Irish struggle for independence and one of them is to be circumspect and don't replace a tyrant with another. Hats off to Michael Collins our first and finest general.

Tough times made tough guys.

Amazing video. All that hard work and sacrifice now thrown down the drain by their grandchildren.

There was ambushes of British and Auxiliary forces across connacht also, Roscommon, Leitrim, sligo ,Galway and Mayo,

Another great video Salt Stack. I did some studying on "The Troubles" last year for a while. Interesting stuff, but spooky. I can remember as a youngster in the 70's hearing about the fighting over there, and not understanding any of it. These are great vids, and well put together. Thanks.

Our independence was a miracle that came from the hearts and souls of all the generations of Irish people, like all nations of people that have a natural homeland...... but the fight never stops...... in this overcrowded World........In this world there to no free lunch and the children must learn this and never forget.

My grandfather was a volunteer in the Cork No.2 Brigade, "Fermoy" Southern Division ira. Éire go deo 💚✊️.

Excellent history lesson!

My father fought and almost got killed by the black n tans!! The civil war broke his heart!

Thanks ! TAKE CARE..

"Go on home British soldier, go on home!" Do we know what percentage of Ireland actually fought in the war? I heard that it takes 3-5% of the population to win, but this can not be the same numbers for our modern day surveillance state etc

An excellent production. Well researched. Your attention to detail shows through. Never mind small specific pronunciations of names, you are correct, this is just local dialects. Hats off Sir, just subscribed. From the grandson of a Frongoch guest, IRB Volunteer.

Thank you for the truth 🎉🎉🎉❤💯🌎✌️✅️🏆🏆🏆👍♥️🌎✌️✅️💯well said and well done...Thanks.

Wonderful and extremely informative video. Thank. Great description and visuals. Thank you for all the hard work required to make this video. Off to see what else your channel offers!

For those who aren’t Irish, our government is pronounced Dáil (DAll) Eireann (Erin)

Damn good mini-doc!👍

Reasonably fair recounting. Tom Barry, commander of the Cork Column, had been a British noncom during the World War. One thing little noted is how many of the Active IRA were related to each other. My people are all from Munster, almost entirely Cork and Kerry. My grandmother was closely related to the great Irish revolutionary and founder of the IRB, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. Several of her cousins were in Collins's Squad. She smuggled guns for the IRA as part of the Women's Auxiliary. Many girls did the same. Some were captured by the Tans and Auxies; tortured, raped and murdered. Michael Collins was a distant cousin of my grandfather, from a neighboring parish in South Cork. He attended the Christian Brothers School in Cork three years ahead of my grandfather, who emigrated in 1913 after graduating to North America and never returned to Ireland. Many of these people from the South knew each other. Cathal Brugha aka Charlie Burgess and DeValera were Dubliners. Brugha, though a valiant patriot, was partly English in descent and DeValera the bastard son of a Spanish sailor. They were not part of the "mere Irish" majority in the Independence movement, which tended to isolate them. All these people and things are well remembered by my Munster relatives. You can still get into bitter arguments about the period in pubs there. I'm no different despite being a 4th generation Californian, perhaps because I ended up having pure Munster Irish ancestors. I'm always surprised by how closely I resemble the people in these photographs.

Great vid, very informative and well put together, nice surprise see grandads cousin Sean Mac Eoin mentioned 👍

Hard for the old ways to survive in the surveillance state, yes?

Just what I wanted to see. I will have to watch this 10 times.

Enjoyed the video, interesting and well narrated. Thanks for sharing 👍

Very informative! Thanks for sharing.

Excellent summary of the Irish war of Independence. I was disappointed with the link to the Provisional IRA which for many people have no relationship to the Old IRA. The Old IRA had a mandate from the Dail and whilst they used guerrilla tactics, only targeted RIC, British Army, auxiliaries and Black and Tans. Many attacks initially were to secure arms and ammunition but also to make Ireland difficult to rule for the British. The Provisional IRA on the other hand had no mandate from the people, used terrorist tactics and killed many innocent civilians both in Ireland and the UK. They like to pretend that they followed in the footsteps of the Old IRA but that is a completely false narrative. It is important that this distinction is made to honour the sacrifices made by those over a century ago.

Cool video

Many thanks for an unbiased report. It's funny how Dad's bring their sons to football games now, when I was growing up, me and Dad would be making explosives, going ooh, this one has more 'kick' but you need to keep it dry (hydroscopic), making reliable fuses was harder, any ejidt can mix a few tons of fertilizer, but you need more than a spark to set it off? Happy days....

Great video, mulcahy is pronounced mul kah Y.

It’s a serious mistake to view irelands struggle for freedom in isolation to the many, many wars, insurrection, rebellions and geopolitics which occurred around the world and in part in Europe following the end of WW1 and the treaty of Versailles. The reality is Irish got lucky which combined with determination and skill forced the British government to concede a free Irish state. Following the Great War the British were broke and they were tired of wars following the slaughter of millions of British empire soldiers in the Great War. Britain just could not afford to maintain a large army in Ireland. Collectively the British political class knew that they could not afford to alienate the USA by brutality suppressing a popular and long overdue desire for freedom by the vast majority of Irish people. The tragedy is that the British led by Churchill did everything possible to undermine the fledgling Irish state. The implemented a divide and conquer strategy. Despite the fact that the Irish with rudimentary arms fought the largest empire in the world the British ensured through the treaty that Ireland would always remain weak and despite the limitations of the treaty the Irish state survived but is still divided to this day. British and even English people are not so very different to Irish people but collectively British politicians of ever party are the most cunning, deceitful, ruthless, dishonest, predatory cynical, manipulative and greedy people that the world has ever experienced.

Sold out by the traitors in the Dail yesterday.

EXCELLENT VIDEO! A great summary of the first successful asymmetrical campaign of the 20th Century. What will the 21st bring us for asymmetrical war?

Whoever coined the phrase 'the luck of the Irish' obviously knew nothing about Irish history.

Book Reccomendation: _The Irish War of Independence_ by; Michael Hopkinson

Now on the EU ,

Michael Jackson said hee hee. He like another famous Michael liked Peter Pan too.

We could do with it now with what's going on in the country

And remember bush’s war against the Irish and Obama claimed they are brothers

A little bit of care when pronouncing the names of the Volunteers would be a good idea.

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Who killed the 'Big Man' Michael Collins? It's still a mystery to this day.

Can't watch because the second plantation has undone all their sacrifices.. in 90 years the population of Irish in schools will be 6%.

All for nothing, from one Empire to another. For what died the sons of Roisin, was it greed.

needs to happen again to tell the EU WEF UN ETCto clear off out of irland along with all those invading migrants

50 years Unemployment Poverty and Emigration Big price to pay for Green Postboxes

Baineann Éire leis na Gaeil 🇮🇪

🐑🐑🐑 sleepers awake 🦁🦁🦁

Barróg réabhlóideach agus deartháirach, ó chríoch na mBascach. Gora Herriak!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZIZMNCfsLyM.htmlsi=J0l_0ln1TkegGqwq

300 nationalist volunteers won the Troubles of today.

Free America from the colonising Irish. America for the Native Americans. Irish go home.

Wheres the defenders now?? The old gaurd would turn 8n their grave . You should be ashamed of your selfs

Tiocfaidh ar la 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

This guy is removing any comments calling him a glowie LOL

Lol he is deleting comments

Now look at ireland what a waste of lives .😡🇮🇪

You would think they would be fighting the illegal aliens.

Seems like their luck is running out 😂

Too bad Ireland now looks like South Africa. Or a typical slum in the U.S.