This video was voted on in the last poll and shows how the rebels might have won if they had the weapons and manpower to defeat the British. #history #alternatehistory #ireland #irishhistory
We forgive you at least you're trying, nobody ever gets it 100% right and you can never keep the two camps happy (as you can see it can be a hot topic🤣). Keep up the good work man I really enjoyed it. Sláinte 🍻
Wasn't meant as a dig Paul. So no need for that. I was just replying to his apology and I hope what I said didn't offend him. You on the other hand can get stuffed 😘
Ulster is a province, not a county, there are nine counties within Ulster: Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan are in the Republic of Ireland while the remaining six, Tyrone, Derry, Fermanagh, Armagh, Down and Antrim are in the modern borders of Northern Ireland.
Sorry for the misidentification of administrative subdivisions in Ireland, if I had the option to to edit the video without taking it down I would re record to say provinces instead of counties, but thank you for the feedback.
@@syrupdogstudios like I say trying to help. I love the subject matter and your delivery is excellent. Keep up the good work. This was the first video of yours that I saw and watched it all the way through.
.According to the constitution irish and indeed the irish translation has primacy its the first official language so the 1916 rising would not have changed anything in that regard the same bungled attempts and poor teaching that has hampered its revival would probably be the same so thats a complete red herring.I doubt if the rising succeeding would have changed anything at all there would still have been a war for independence and anglo irish treaty and war between the pro and antitreaty except it would all have happened quicker.
@@syrupdogstudios My feeling is the second. A more plausible scenario is the reverse.- that the British were more politically astute in dealing with the tiny uprising and avoided inflaming Irish public opinion. In WWI at last 80,000 Irish Catholics volunteered for the British armed services (there was no conscription). Tens of thousands more volunteered elsewhere in the UK. By contrast, there were at most 350 people in the Dublin post Office. One gets the impression that the British Government spectacularly mismanaged a manageable situation, especially as Home Rule was already on its way.
@@syrupdogstudios Any straight-up military confrontation between the IRB and the Volunteers and the British was inevitably doomed to failure. Please learn how to produce Irish names, it is painful to listen to you trying to pronounce some of these names. I appreciate the enthusiasm behind this production but you really need to learn a LOT more about this topic before embarking on a history video about it. The Irish Volunteers had no such rank as 'Lieutenant Colonel.' Thomas MacDonagh held the rank of Commandant. This presentation shows a poor knowledge of Irish history and the inability to produce Irish place names or the names of people involved underscores that. You can do much better if you work at it than this. Combine the enthusiasm with some deeper research.
Interesting idea but you are lacking some serious cultural context and have made a few fairly big blunders. Ireland was not independent before the acts of union, there was a devolved parliament with more autonomy which the acts abolished bringing Ireland under more direct rule from Westminster. Further, there had been no partition in 1916 and there was no 'home front' in the north as groups would have risen up across Ireland. 'Tá labhair againn anois agus cló fionnuar' doesnt mean anything and there's no reason to think the Gaelic revival would have succeeded to create any kind of demographic change given that the language had been declining for many years at that point and has continued to decline to this day. Also why the French national anthem in the background?
Sorry for the Poor context at the beginning of the Video about irelands union, I never really intended to portray Ireland as independent before the acts of union but had more freedom than before the act. Also in the alternate timeline I just made the partition to make a change to the map, although very unrealistic and a fault on my part, but for the north I based it off of the aborted attack in county Tyrone and Donegal by James Mcnulty and Dennis McCulloug.
And for the Gaelic revival that’s Mb as i learned that many of the leaders were apart of the revival moment without taking consideration how dead the language was, also for the French anthem is that I just wanted it there as it goes hard.
@@syrupdogstudios fair enough I still think it was an interesting video overall but it's definitely hard to have a nuanced view without a good historical or cultural understanding. I understand why you would think that about the Gaelic Revival in specific. It's a view I imagine many have that with different historical circumstances, it could have made great changes to Ireland but it's my opinion that the movement could never have really enacted any major change to Ireland's linguistic landscape. I hope you learn more about Irish history it would be interesting to maybe see more things like this viewed from a unique perspective.
Ireland was never united, not before the declaration of the union either. What you had was a USSR backed proxy that fail, it was tony Blair who devolved the union against the wishes of northern Irish people (see: referendum
That first part of your argument is silly. That would be like saying England was never united before the Romans arrived. So what? Some times it takes an external threat to unite a people. It's the evolution of a nation since time began. The second part is just ridiculous who was a USSR proxy exactly? During the Easter Rising? Soviet Union wasn't founded till 22. You talking about the P.I.R.A? Doubt you can make any credible link between the two. That said a free AK is a free AK.
@@9n3- Well we got Aks from Libya who got them from Russia. We got armalite rifles from the US of A and our timers from Switzerland it was a multi nation effort.
@@justaguy2742 lybia was a proxy of the USSR, abit like how Israel sold Argentina weapons through Peru in the Falklands war (Argentina never owned the Falklands, different war scenario than the Irish civil war)
@@9n3- You can't call Libya a Russian Proxy just because they got the majority of their weapons from them or other soviet bloc members it would be like calling the UK an American proxy because they bought the F-22 from them. But on your point you calling Argentina a Proxy of Israel kinda Ironic considering the sort of people who settled in Argentina post WW2. We could go on about the Falklands but let's stay on topic and take it one island at a time. I'm enjoying this.
