i've been making a series of short
videos about the ethnic cleansing of
james vi
and in this video i'm going to try and
summarize those actions that more than
any other still resonate to this day
which is why i've brought you
to ireland
britain northern ireland oh
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let me tell you the story
the difficulty in knowing what to call
this place shows just how traumatic the
impact of a policy implemented by our
cute and cuddly james vi of scotland
after he'd become the heinous and
horrific
james the first of england so remember
as we go anything good
scottish anything bad english
if you're not sure
british
if it makes you want to cry sing or
cross an ocean
it's probably irish
joking aside if you've watched my other
videos in the ethnic cleansing of james
6 you'll have worked out that the events
i'm about to describe weren't unique
they were a continuation of something
that started when he was king of scots
he didn't think much of the gaels a
barbarous people with a barbarous tongue
that needed to be civilized or
extirpated now until 1603 the gaels that
he hated were in the highlands and
islands of scotland
when he became king of england he had a
whole new bunch of girls to civilize
through dispossession
but why here
why not in the south of ireland why i'll
start
let me explain
the english crown began irish
colonization way back in the time of
henry ii whose son was richard the lion
of the crusades his brother would become
king john or robin you get the picture
the english power base was in and around
dublin controlling the rest of ireland
was always challenging and here in
ulster the o'neills of tyrone were
particularly challenging
they'd brought scots over to get rid of
the english during the reign of robert
the bruce i've got a video about that
250 years later at the end of elizabeth
of england's reign hugh neal earl of
tyrone was at again
which begs the question
when's the right time to give in to
invaders
when should the people of ukraine give
up
at what point do you say
okay
i accept the change
i'll speak your language instead of mine
wear your clothes follow your rules and
customs
how long should we hold out
if hitler had successfully invaded the
british isles
should we have put up resistance
or just accept nazi rule
how long does it make sense to resist
a year
two years
ten years
not a generation surely
if your dad was killed by nazi invaders
you should be over it by now right
i'm not positing an answer
i'm posing a question
i don't know the answer
now you might say that i've chosen an
extreme example i'd say i'm choosing an
example that's recognizable
which invading regimes didn't
demonstrate brutality romans mongols
normans
spanish french british americans
russians chinese
o'neill certainly committed brutal acts
hugh o'neill that we're on about
committed brutalities duplicities and
authoritarian policies
he cited first for and then against the
english government
the bait that was against was the nine
years war which lasted
a while
now we don't have nine years so long
story short o'neil and his irish allies
enlisted the support of the spanish
against the english but it all ended
with hugh and neal as the last hold out
finally surrendering to queen elizabeth
representative on the 30th of march 1603
not realizing that she died six days
earlier damn it
always check for a pulse
enter james vi
now first the man credited with the
plantations in ulster the ulster scots
scotch irish call them what you will
the ones that ultimately led to orange
men in ireland and hillbillies in
america pick your favorite
we've all got one
now james wasn't the first attempt to
plan english protestants in ireland
elizabeth had tried it before him with
brutal methods and disastrous results
james himself had tried the same tactics
against his gayles in the highlands and
islands
if you want to know how you'll need to
watch my other videos in ethnic
cleansing of james vi
all i'll say is he was now more cautious
james liked the idea of planting
protestant english and now scots in this
troublesome northern part of ireland so
recently cowed after the nine years war
but hugh neal and the other
rebels had been allowed to keep their
lands as part of the surrender
conditions
so where would james get the land to
settle these
civilized english-speaking protestants
if you watch my video who started the
scotch irish i talk about the private
plantation and settlement that was
making the eastern counties of down in
antrim the most scottish and ulster
and two of the guys that are mentioning
it were the english deputy governor of
ireland and the scotsman who would be
appointed bishop of derry and between
them
they made life more and more difficult
for hugh neal earl of tyrone and his pal
the earl of tarconnel now remember this
was the time of guy fawkes and the
gunpowder plot catholic protestant
tension was at a high james's trust that
catholics was at a low
eventually whether through exasperation
of the humiliation or possibly genuine
fear that the crown were going to come
after their lives the earl of tyrone the
earl of tarconnel and around 60 of their
followers set off on a ship to europe on
the 4th of september 1607
and they never came back
they call this the flight of the earls
it couldn't have worked out better for
james with the gaelic nobility gone
these department earls could be
convicted of treason and their lands
seized now james had land to hand out to
those warm cuddly english-speaking
protestants even better than next year
the lord of insurance was as wits ends
with a governor of derry and he started
another hopelessly doomed rebellion
did we decide when the right time of
giving was
james now had more lands to hand out so
in an arduous process up to 1610 a
scheme was worked out whereby big chunks
of ulster were divided up into states
which would be taken over by scottish
and english gentlemen of means
not an ability but layers
they were called undertakers they had to
bring in scots and or english tenants to
settle and farm the land but no irish in
fact it was a stipulated condition that
the undertaker had to build a defensible
castle tower or strong house to protect
against the locals
each county would be divided roughly
into five precincts two for the scots
and the rest for the english you see
james wanted each county to contain a
mixture of scots and english you see he
wanted to show that these two kingdoms
could come together and by civilizing
the irish girls and english-speaking
protestants preferably episcopalians
forced them in a single unified culture
of britishness and if this social
experiment could be made to succeed in
the most difficult of his three kingdoms
then why not all over oh what a glorious
legacy of unity he'd leave and this
symbol of unity and harmony would be the
north of ireland
now if you're in scotland the trip
across the irish sea seems easier than
if you're in england
let's be honest alone scott probably has
less opportunities to hold him back than
his english counterpart so uprooting
yourself to cross the iris c
seems more attractive to the scots
and they applied in large numbers
now that doesn't mean that a new start
across a sea was easy
it still takes a special type of person
have you ever watched one of those tele
programs where a family have to try to
decide whether to emigrate to australia
or new zealand and they're trying to
work out if they can afford it what the
lifestyle will be like and then they're
made to watch some video footage of
their family greeting in the camera show
not don't leave us let your man go alone
he was never good enough for you we'll
look after the burns he snog your sister
the wedding reception
i still live in the same county today as
i grew up in and barton my college days
i've never lived more than a 50 mile
radius from my birthplace
you won't catch me leaving scotland for
sunshine in a better way life screw that
but imagine what it would have been like
going to where they don't speak your
language
to cut new land where the landlord was
required by law to build a big
protective house for himself because the
locals are so hostile they've only just
finished a killing war because of folk
like you
and to top it all
when you get there
it'll still be raining
now if that sounds challenging
would you rather be one of the
indigenous people
thrown off the land replaced by those
foreign tongued haughty nose sharp elbow
teeth being interlopers as you try to
scratch survival in the edges
400 years later the descendants of those
locals still resent the loss of
independence and cultural change that
migration brought
of course the descendants and the
migrants have now been there for 400
years and they fear a swing back and
aren't they entitled to be there and
protect their culture and where life as
they have done for 400 years
when is the time to accept change
it's compromise defeat
don't know
truth be told large chunks of both of
these groups have buggered off around
the world and face change anyway
as a tour guide a few years ago i was
driving a lovely elderly american couple
around sky and they couldn't understand
the big problem resolving the current
brexit problem in that particular week
i explained that if the uk left the eu
then there had to be customs borders
between the uk and the eu
but that meant a customs border between
northern ireland and the republic of
ireland to the south
well
one side in the northern ireland debate
would never let that happen
so the suggestion was
why don't we do the customs checks and
the boats crossing the irish sea
in between great britain and ireland
leaving the whole island of ireland as a
single unit
well
the other side of northern ireland would
die before the delay with that
the situation was that a decision made
by voters in england and wales meant
that people in ireland face the
potential of a violent and embedded
stalemate because of a flood of
presbyterians from scotland 400 years
ago
one of the most interminable problems of
brexit faced by the government of the
united kingdom
was coping with james's attempt to
create
the united kingdom 400 years ago
it was really just a continuation of the
policy of plantation and ethnic
cleansing of gaels on isla lewis a
decade before
i'm going to leave a link to my video on
that in a second but first
a question
brexit irish unity scottish independence
aboriginal land rights cultural
imperialism highland clearance racial
oppression imperialist oppression class
struggle name your hot button issue of
choice
at what point
is it right to accept defeat
if you want to know about the ethnic
cleanse and james's six
then there's another video coming up on
screen now in the meantime
how many doc is going to be a llama live
cheery andrasta