The Nine Years War: The Final Act of Gaelic Ireland 

Thank you for the suggestion! I'll have a look into the subject and see if I can piece together an interesting video on it.

I'm currently researching the lead up to 1641 but after that yes of course!

I have a few topics I need to finish up first but I'll be sure to look into it. Thanks for watching!

That would be great

They’re not gonna shag you, m8

I'm glad you found it interesting. Thanks for subbing!

Imagine a computer game about it, telly series, or film

Good point

Shoulda, coulda, woulda.

I have auburn hair and a red beard . I am O’Neill

Key words "considered themselves"

The Dal Rialta straddled areas of Ulster and the Western Scottish isles.

No. The language of Na Dal Ríada at this point in time had evolved into an early form of Scottish Gaelic, a different form then to the Irish spoken in Eastern Ulster. It would have been pretty mutually intelligible with Classical Irish just like it basically is intelligible with Modern Irish now, but they would still have been a different language

So,did they just sail back to Spain,or were they captured ,and imprisoned?. Being from w.cork,and local legend has it that many stayed and were married off to local girls ,from mainly the o'drscolls,and other clans..as i'm familar with Baltimore yrs ago,some families were called o'driscoll spanaig,etc

If I'm remembering correctly, most of the Spanish were permitted to sail home bar a few officers.

@@historicaldelving5426 ..ok,must have been after the Armada then

@@jangowan5742 Armada was 1588, if you go on to UCC CELT online project you can read a letter sent by Francisco de Cuellar a captain of one of the ships that washed up on the West Coast, its a fascinating letter in which he describes the beauty of the Irish women, the food they eat but also the terrible state of the country. He was helped by the Mac Clancy and the O Rourke and eventually made it to Scotland and home. The English were actually in peace negotiations with the Spanish at the time of kinsale, some say the Spanish King only sent the force to strengthen his hand in the negotiations although the leader of the force seems to have been scolded for not assisting the Irish when he got home.

​@@jangowan5742Much of the Armada was vanquished by Irelands stormy coast

You're welcome to it John, but you'll have to fight the other Leitrim men.

Ill take Maguires country ( Fermanagh ) haha

Good luck Jamie haha

Hi Aodhfinn, When it comes to an Irish identity, that's something which was always present. The actual idea of a unified Irish nation however, is much more recent. In the classical and medieval sense, the various Irish tribes would have a common culture, but different identities. The idea of an Irish nation only begins to emerge in the early modern period. Before that, people would have thought of themselves as members of their local community, rather than members of a nation which had a claim to the whole island. Its a lot like Ancient Greece, where people would have referred to themselves collectively as "Greeks" but identified more strongly with the city they were citizens of.

Ach weel, the infighting of the "clannad nan gael" proofed their undoing by the "sassenach" - united we stand, divided we fall... t'was ever thus! 😢

If they're own writings are anything to go by, they saw themselves as Gaels. They referred to themselves as Gaedheala (Gaels), their language Gaedhilge (Gaelic) and their culture as Gaedhlach (Gaelic). Éire (ie Ireland) was simply the island of the Gaels, a name derived from one of their old goddesses. The term "Irish" is what the English invaders called them.

I think you might be a little young to be his grandson!

@@historicaldelving5426 well great , whatever , and that's a fact mofo

You're entitled to your beliefs

@@historicaldelving5426 I'm I'm decent of the O'Neills, Hugh O'Neill specifically but I don't think that would give me right to claim a long dead title

Ease off the liquor son😂❤

Hi Martin, I have a few videos on the wars of the three kingdoms which loosely covers events from the bishops wars in Scotland, the 1641 rebellion in Ireland, the Catholic Confederacy, and the reconquest of the island by Cromwell. I haven’t really got much in the way of material on the English Civil war, which was the largest war in the overall conflict. This is because the focus of the channel here is mainly on Ireland.

@@historicaldelving5426 mhaith an bhfear tá se go hiontach.is breá liom.

@@historicaldelving5426 cian i would be very grateful if you would be to talk about the siege of derry in 1688 and the battle of the boyne i found the treaty of limerick gó hiontach anois