I'm second generation Irish Born on my father's side my mother's side came over during the potatoe famine and settled in Kentucky Appalachian hills I get tired of people saying us Irish Americans are plastic Paddy's 😞😠 We are not Irish because we were not born in Ireland but because Ireland was born in us I'm a Quinn I'm proud of my family name and I live in Monterrey Mexico and my second great grandfather's brother was one of the many Irish soldier's who fought proudly on Mexicos side during the Mexican American war these Irish soldier's are called the San patricios there is a movie called "ONE MANS HERO" about the Irish soldier's in Mexico and Mexico City celebrates st.patricks Day each year to honor the Irish soldier's who helped them during the war... "ERIN GO BRAGH"🇮🇪☘️🇲🇽💪
You are just as Irish as the rest of us born at home. There are many back here in Ireland who shun Irish-Americans as not being Gaelic, despite the fact that there is no people prouder of their heritage 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇦🇺🟢
I wish more people knew or cared about their family history. The Irish people are an incredible story, a story of perseverance. Humanity is messed up sometimes, but what a remarkable journey we are sharing. Cheers.
Amen brother. This moment in history humanity wants to shed heart for Africans Americans and butcher verbally anyone opposed to scripted movement. But…. BUT! The Irish were treated as slaves as the first immigrants into America. Our ancestors built and shapes this land! We hung from High-rises, put lives on line as police officers with a pittance worth of pay, and were expected to serve as second class/slave citizens. Our blood, our craftsmanship, and our honor are engrained into this land.
Coming from an irish-american you are exactly right I have spent the last 30 years learning about my family's history from Munster and Derry Ireland 🇮🇪🍀
This song breaks my heart but I love hearing it because it is about a people who have had to suffer unbearably to be free and dignified..Eire go bragh 💚☘️🇮🇪
I cannot listen to this song without crying or tearing up. Sad and beautiful song about land, countries, death, war, warning, regret, loss of young life, sacrifice and abuse of power from USA
They had done it all before a generation earlier, press-ganging newly-arrived immigrants into the Yankee imperialist army to go and steal half of Mexico. (see the Saint Patrick's Battalion).
"If we are to die, let it be with our faces to the enemy!" -allegedly the last words of irish general Patrick R. Cleburne, killed in the battle of Franklin.
101deadpuppys I wish all my brothers and sisters would come home, where they belong. They left for America and are now being replaced by Africans and Asians.
@@robertplant1760 fuckin' amen! I'm a 3rd Gen Irish in the US. The way things are in the U.S. and Europe are a travesty. we're simply pissing away our forefather's past dignities for a bunch of Diaper pissing, weak whining brats! No idea of work ethic or history, dignity, or anything greater than themselves!
One of the saddest experiences that the Irish who arrived in the United States in the middle of the civil war had to live was being recruited on both sides and having to fight brothers against brothers for a cause they did not know
She's actually playing with the mighty Irish group DeDanann, not The Chieftains. Great version by the way, probably the definitive version of this song. Thanks for sharing this
sometimes there's a war happening in your own backyard and you cannot see it we are SWIFTLY coming to the end of the Reconnaissance Era be courageous, I have hardened your faces at least as much as theirs
This song gives me a tear many Irish left their homeland in Ireland because of tyranny then they came to America where they were harassed more and throw into a cause they had no say in
Oddly "Paddy's Lamentation" is not a song composed in Ireland. It was collected in the Ottawa Valley, suggesting the author(s) were either American or Canadian by citizenship. The number of newly arrived and first generation Irish who fought for the "Stars and Bars" or "Stars and Stripes" was vastly disproportionate to their numbers in the Belligerent Nation's population. My Great Great Great Grandfather took a mini-ball in the leg at Gettysburg. His leg was stiff for the rest of his life, thus making most unskilled labor impossible. He got no pension for his service to PA, 116th Artillery, at the time part of the Irish Brigade. What he received was a short life of grinding poverty. Small wonder the Irish fought conscription in NYC until troops still stationed near Gettysburg were sent to quell the insurrection.
Sorry, Linda Thompson sings "Paddy's Lamentation" (with few verses excised) in the "The Gangs of New York" Don't feel badly. Martin Scorsese confabulated the "Dead Rabbits Riot of 1857 with NYC Draft riot of of 1863.
The so-called "Draft Riot" in NYC was in reality a racial pogrom against the Black population of that city. Mobs even attacked black orphanages. It was stirred up by CSA agents w/ talk of blacks from the South coming "to take your jobs if you don't fight" The "riot" was probably long planned & was meant to correspond w/ both the Morgan Raid & the Gettysburg campaign. They couldn't be coordinated b/c the NVA was soundly defeated in Penn. I guess the Confederates & Dem. Party leaders simply went along w/ it anyway.
There were horrendous attacks on Blacks individually and on institutions aiding Blacks, including orphanages, as Victor points out. Protestant Churches were also burned. The Irish underclass of NYC lashed out against anyone and everyone whom they felt had oppressed them. Why should the Irish fight for a country where anything but the most dangerous labour was denied them, the Irish mob reasoned. Skirmishes with Blacks over work were common. Victor, if you have a source for Confederate and Democratic Party collusion in planning the riots, I would like to read it.
Katherine-Anne McCloskey-Ross It is well known that Confederate agents were active in New York. I could find a RU-vid video of the historian @ the Gettysburg history conference where the professor posited a theory that the "Draft Riot" was originally to be coordinated w/ a successful Gettysburg campaign. The troops of Morgan in Southern Ohio were to join up w/ Gen. Lee assist the rioters. NYC had been dominated by Dem. politicians b/4 Lincoln. The Dem. Party was created by the wealthy plantation slave holding class. They used the promise of gov't jobs to lure the Irish into signing up w/ the Dem. Party. Many long established connections b/t the slave owning secessionists & Dems in NYC.
That set the stage for the bloody and brutal violence of July 14-17, 1863. "The draft riots, as they are called, were supposed by some to be the result of a deep-laid conspiracy on the part of those opposed to the war, and that the successful issue of Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania was to be the signal for open action. Whether this be so or not, it is evident that the outbreak in New York City on the 13th of July, not only from the manner of its commencement, the absence of proper organization, and almost total absence of leadership, was not the result of a general well-understood plot. It would seem from the facts that those who started the movement had no idea at the outset of proceeding to the length they did. They simply desired to break up the draft in some of the upper districts of the city, and destroy the registers in which certain names were enrolled," wrote Joel Tyler Headley in The Great Riots of New York City.5.
Y así fue como el pobre Paddy, hambriento y desesperado abandonó su querida Irlanda camino de de una prometedora América, abandonando a su amor, a pesar de sus ruegos... Y en vez de encontrar la prosperidad esperada sólo encontró guerra y dolor... Una guerra que no era la suya pero que tuvo que luchar, por Lincoln, por el Norte y perdió una pierna y sólo encontró dolor y cañones rugiendo.... Paddy sólo quiere volver a casa, Paddy sólo quiere volver a su querido Dublín...
"theres nothing here but war,where the murderous cannons roar." sounds familiar huh. weve been in a perpetual state of war for the last 100 years... when will this madness end?
only the dead will see the end of wars. And, in fact, the pax americana of the last 70 years was nothing short of miracle, as you are going to recognize in the coming ten years or so
Paddy's Lamentation Lyrics And Chords Trad. This one dates back to the 1870s and was popular in Canada before it made it's way to Ireland , it was recorded by Mary Black among others. Oh, it's (Dm)by the hush, me boys, I'm sure (C)that's to hold your noise, And (D)listen to poor Paddy's nar(G)ra(A)tion. I (D)was by hunger pressed and in (C)poverty distressed, So I (Dm)took a thought I'd (Am)leave the Irish na(D)tion. Chorus: (D)Here's you, (D)boys, (F)do take my advice (A)To A(D)mericay I'd (D)have you not be (G)com(A)ing. There is (D)nothing here but war where the (C)murdering cannons roar, And I (Dm)wish I was at (A)home in dear old (A7)Er(D)eein. Then I sold by horse and plow, me little pigs and cow, And me little farm of land and I parted, And me sweetheart Biddy Magee I'm afeared I'll never see, For I left her that morning broken-hearted. Then meself and a hundred more to Americay sailed o'er, Our fortune to be making we were thinking. When we landed in Yankee land, shoved a gun into our hand, Saying, 'Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln.' General Mahar to us said,'If you get shot or lose your head, Every murdered soul of you will get a pension.' In the war I lost me leg, all I've now is a wooden peg; By my soul it is the truth to you I mention. Now I think meself in luck to be fed upon Indian buck In old Ireland, the country I delight in, And with the devil I do say, 'Curse Americay,' For I'm sure I've got enough of their hard fighting.
Ships are sailing is the name of the reel but I also havnt been able to find another version of it with Paddy's lament on Spotify I can only find them on RU-vid. The version of the reel at the end of this song is the best I've heard of many versions and i wish i could find the same version as this one as just a single reel
3:23 to end is just amazing I agree David Smith make me wish I was alive when u had to manually load a rifle , and square up with a foe just like all brothers in history
If one of your grandparents is an Irish citizen who was born in Ireland, but neither of your parents was born in Ireland, you may become an Irish citizen.
