hey everyone we reached the land of
one-eighth of my own heritage ireland
which means i'm probably a far-off
distant cousin of our favorite irishman
potter for those who don't know potter
has helped us out with many of the
animations in the past and potter has
been such a great guy so we decided to
fly
potter out here to literally be in
potter's own country's video potter you
rock man
it's pronounced potter
it's time to learn geography now ah too
late i've been calling you potter for
like two years now i'm not changing my
mind
anyway we've reached ireland and i'm
here to correct him if he gets anything
wrong so don't worry lads
yeah that is so true potter
so that's what that feels like
ah the emerald oil europe's rain shield
the mech nugget ireland is loaded with
so many notable spots and regions
and there's a town called dingle first
of all ireland is the third largest
island in europe located in the north
atlantic ocean separated from great
britain by the north channel the irish
sea and st
george's channel ah did you notice how i
deliberately avoided british isles uh
yeah a good call now here's where things
get a little confusing ireland's
subdivisions let's just get it over with
quick and fast
so when discussing the independent
soviets say most people are referring to
the republic of ireland
which makes up these five six of the
island and unless mentioned otherwise
this is the ireland we'll be mostly
discussing in this episode to this day
the last fifth northern part of ireland
here is actually part of the uk
and it doesn't even quite know exactly
what to label itself some call it a
province some say it's a region some say
it's a constituent country but the point
is the uk holds on to it which as you
can imagine has created some
interesting feelings in the past with
the irish it's weird though because the
people here can choose their own
citizenship be it british
irish or both on the west side the north
ireland border just juts into the
farmland ending at a small village
called manger and provides a seven
kilometer wide quarter to the town of
bundoran for the rest of the republic to
enter into donegal county and then you
have the strange penny
enclave right across the finn river with
only a tenth of a kilometer wide
entrance that ireland grabbed and is
still part of monaghan county this in
return gave a small exclade to the uk
an unnamed patch of plant with only
three small farming homes the only way
to get in besides swimming across the
river would be by taking the most
name-switched international
road on the island the irish n54 which
turns into the a3 highway once you cross
into northern ireland then it switches
back into the n54 once you cross into
the exclave then it reverts back to the
a3 again for about two kilometers and
then back to the n54 once you cross back
into the republic of ireland so
literally it's like irish british irish
british irish or as i like to call it my
dating life
also the uk was like ah instead of
following the foil
river all the way up to the foil lock
why don't we just swerve left through
farmland to take the entire city of
derry because hey logic
basically to an irish person the entire
island of ireland including
northern ireland is just ireland so if
you consider the administrative
divisions the republic of ireland is
divided into 26 counties however many
also include the extra six from northern
ireland and call it 32 but then there's
the two city and county councils
limerick and waterford and the three
city councils doubling
galway and cork making 31 local
authorities in the republic of ireland
and technically 37 again if you include
northern ireland's counties and the
capital of dublin sounds am i right
okay yeah i got that right historically
though ireland was also kind of split
into four provinces that many people
still refer to today they are conoct
leinster munster and ulster northern
ireland is often referred to as
ulster as it encompasses most of the
counties that make up the historical
province otherwise the largest cities
after dublin are cork and limerick with
the largest airports being dublin cork
and shannon airports keep in mind if
northern ireland was included in this
belfast would take the number two spots
on each of those lists in addition to
being on islands itself ireland also
hosts hundreds of smaller little islands
and
islets the most populated ones being
great island by cork ackle island and
mayo and goruna and the iron islands in
galway finally some places of interest
across ireland might include places like
trinity college the guinness storehouse
the neolithic tomb of newgrange which is
older than the pyramids of giza at the
rock of castle glendalock and wicklow
blarney stone of cork that island that
was filmed at the end of star wars it's
called skellig michael tory island which
kind of has like its own king
scotia's grave where an egyptian
princess is buried supposedly i didn't
know about that one you didn't even know
that well i just found it off of atlas
obscura the mound of hostages decatur
fields the sky garden
hook headlight is the oldest
continuously used lighthouse still
operating in europe do you live right
next to it yeah
sean's bar the oldest surviving pub and
possibly the entire world and of course
way too many churches abbeys castles
dolmens tombs everything else to list
way too many of them way too many oh and
avoid temple bar right in dublin that's
like a tourist trap and you can't
actually meet any
real irish people there it's just don't
go there don't go to temple give them
this go to coppers
coppers ah beer you guys know your way
around the pint don't you oh well irish
people do but i don't actually drink no
okay after that manical oh yeah
ireland is very green the end
uh all right so there's a little bit
more to it than that ireland is a
post-glacial carved mineral and
sandstone island with about 12 small
mountain ranges the majority of which
are located in the north west and south
you'll notice looking at the map that
the east coast of ireland seems to be
relatively smooth and straight whereas
the west coast of ireland seems to be
all choppy and serrated with inlets and
peninsulas almost like if you took a
ball of clay and just spread it across a
flat surface in one direction
in one direction anyway the tallest beak
is mount current tool at about a
thousand meters
and the longest and most important river
being the river shannon and a large lake
on the entire island being lochnay and
northern ireland however if we're
talking about the republic of ireland
the largest would be loch corb
in west galway the west side is also
home to the most notable natural
landmark
the cliffs of mohr that rise about 120
meters straight up from the ocean
otherwise you have to slave the cliff a
bit further up north and into the uk's
northern ireland you still
you have the giants causeway a series of
hexagonal volcanic plug steps that just
jut into the ocean side i love how you
say that
hexagonal hexagonal hexagonal hexagonal
now despite being located fairly north
in latitude ireland
actually experiences a strange weather
phenomena in which it actually kind of
acts like a rain shield for the uk
it takes all the warm air released by
the north atlantic gulf stream that
starts all the way from the caribbean
this means that although ireland is on
the same relative latitude as new
finland canada they remain about 9
degrees celsius or about 17 degrees
fahrenheit warmer
rarely reaching the freezing point which
in return means they hardly ever get
snow
however that again in return means
ireland gets a ton of rain like
seriously over half the year is drenched
you only get like two months of sunshine
and then it's back to the downpour i
mean wouldn't that make you guys like
kind of depressed
why do you think drinking's a thing in
ireland speaking of which the abundance
of rain allows
ireland to actually flourish in flora
and agriculture giving it its trademark
green color common crops being spuds
sugar beets and grains like barley oats
and wheat which as you can imagine has a
large portion that goes for
ireland's most famous product beer beer
ireland without beer is like mexico
without tacos koreans without kimchi
argentinians without salsa bob saget
without his telekinetic laser vision
yeah beer culture is such an integral
part of being irish that even priests
and nuns get in on the action and share
a point of guinness which by the way the
bible never condemns alcohol just
drunkenness so know your limits
yeah we go to confessional a lot
otherwise some top notable irish dishes
might include things like
boxty potato bread brown soda bread
bacon and cabbage
too many souza lists like cuddle and
irish jew black pudding oysters and
guinness and overall you can find
potatoes cooked various ways with like
everything in addition ireland is also
the perfect habitat for about 26 species
of mammals like the red fox european
hedgehog the stoat pygmy shrew and
badger and the one land reptile that is
native to the country the viviparous
lizard speaking of which
no the story of st patrick driving all
the snakes out of ireland was probably
not true ireland most likely never had
snakes due to his geographic isolation
from the rest of europe and
also saint patrick probably wasn't i or
she was welsh yeah lots of
misconceptions when it comes to irish
people which brings us
to hey so potter
uh sorry patter so what does it mean to
be irish oh we're all about the crack in
ireland so we are yeah crap
crap crap crack every day and night of
the week we love the crack sawyer
freeze has worked see him oh common
misconception see we're not actually
talking about drugs we're talking about
statistical arrests
first of all ireland has about 4.8
million people over 6 million if you
include northern ireland and has the
highest birth rate in the eu
about 83 of the country identifies as
ethnically irish whereas about 9.5
are white of other nationalities whereas
remainder of the country is other groups
like asians blacks and who knows
probably some magical wizards or
something
so the country uses the eurozone
currency they also use the type g plug
outlet
and they drive on the left side of the
road now thanks to modern media everyone
probably has at least
a little bit of exposure to the
stereotypical irish culture one way or
another you know like river dance or
leprechauns or
river dancing leprechauns but there's an
entire world to the deep-rooted irish
identity first of all
the language technically ireland or at
least the republic of ireland is a
bilingual country that uses both irish
and english although english is used
far more often than irish ever is the
irish language is related to other
celtic-based languages spoken in
scotland wales and to some extent
brittany
in france just when you thought you were
safe after the iceland episode irish
comes along and suddenly
m and h make a v sound d and h make a g
or y
sound b h and f sometimes make like a w
sound
all right paul let's say you take a shot
at saying these words all right
are i again nope i really glad it means
go on
tav talk uh nice try it's talk duck it
means important
lei trey letras nah lehers it means
toilet
failed actually that was just one i made
off but i stray
for a long time the language was
suppressed and discouraged by the
english-speaking rulers to the point
where a couple of generations were
greatly affected and grew up barely
knowing their own native tongue today
language has seen a huge resurgence and
is one of the core subjects in most
primary and secondary schools although
less than half the population claims to
be fluent on irish and only a few
communities actually speak it regularly
in daily life the irish language is
still survives into the 21st century
all the public signs are posted in both
languages they even have an
irish-speaking tv channel
radio station and even an online
newspaper in order to get a real feel of
ireland though you kind of have to know
a little bit of history which will take
way too long to explain but in the
quickest way we can put it
stone age celtic culture comes in
chieftains high kings christianity
vikings
normans castles got built black death
henry the a split from the catholic
church and attacked
ultra plantation and quasi-english rule
oliver cromwell wars theobal wolf who
led a failed rebellion potato famine
tons moved to the us and scotland gaelic
revival north doesn't agree
conflict and persecution against
catholics home rule home rule suspended
world war one eastern rising ira fights
higher civil war free status won world
war ii they remain mostly neutral 1969's
civil rights marches northern ireland
gets more drama they join the eu good
friday agreement
celtic tiger financial crisis but they
still grow and move forward and here we
are today as mentioned the largest
ethnic group of people in ireland
the irish come from the long line of
people known as the celts or the celtic
it's celtic boston caltic
not celtic thousands of years ago the
celts roamed all across continental
europe however the rise of empires and
warring people groups kind of pushed
them all the way west into the isles and
the celts had an incredibly complex
system of tribes or clans of families
that dominated certain regions with
their own chiefs and kings this is
partially why
so many people in ireland have mech or
the almost exclusively irish used all
prefix prefixes in their last names
which translates to sun
or descended prior to christianity celts
were primarily farmers and cattle
herders with pagan undrew roots with
some controversial practices recorded by
the romans
christianity came in and then
catholicism played a huge role even to
this day however certain ancient
traditions still lived on like the
festival of
soven sounds really what i thought m and
h make a v
sound that depends sometimes it does
sometimes it doesn't
your language sound later became known
as halloween which became popularized
and is celebrated all across the world
today however
originally they used to use turnip
lanterns not pumpkins folklore and
tradition is strong we've all heard of
leprechauns but there's also fion mccool
and athena of the fenian cycle who call
him the hound dearborn and grania
similar to the princess ezult and
tristan and arthurian legend and so much
more and the two most popular sports
which are almost never played anywhere
else in the world
gaelic football and hurling oh yeah
that's like a irish
uh quidditch or something right don't
call a quidditch oh yeah this is a hurl
oh wow that's pretty cool how do you
play with that
why don't we ask jason statham
speaking of which there is no universal
irish accent you get different dialects
from different regions
for example moses tosser thinks he's
great now he's on youtube i'll wrap this
whole round his neck big fat head on him
well we came home hallo monday night as
drunk as trunk could be i don't know
who you are or where you are and i will
find you
and return this wallet dude thank god
you came here because i would have
offended the entire country and gotten
stabbed within hours of upload if i
attempted that
otherwise some famous people of irish
dissent might include people like
oscar royal james joyce braun stoker
samuel beckett chemists robert boyle
graham norton terry hogan the irish
pewdiepie guy you two on bono the script
the dubliners
phil lynette whom i incorrectly refer to
as philly not in the guyana episode
sorry about that stories the crown
breeze enya hozier the rubber bandits
the dude from one direction colin
farrell
killian murphy brendan gleason sergio
ronan i got that
nail it maureen o'hara richard harris uh
northern ireland liam neeson and michael
fassbender is half irish so i guess it
kind of counts yeah yeah
some guy called conrock yeah conor
mcgregor oh and according to that one
malaysian guy from flag friday west life
and boyzone
otherwise we could go on and on about
the rich complex layers of music dance
literature symbolism artifacts
traditions festivals clothing customs
and legends but that would take way too
long and if you want to know more just
watch any episode of fair city or father
ted or you could just like talk to an
irish person as well
nah tv's better tv never gets anything
wrong sure in the meantime ireland's
friend zone in three
two one
no matter where you find them in this
world you know you're gonna be lucky
when you find an irishman
first of all as an eu member state
ireland has strong ties to many of their
continental neighbors specifically the
catholic countries
like france and spain the french and the
irish have a long history of joining up
in the squabbles against the british and
about 60
of students in secondary school learn
french spain is not only close and does
good business but it's also the number
one tourist destination for the irish as
about a quarter of their entire
population visits at least once a year
surprisingly the lithuanians have been
flocking to iran since the 90s after the
collapse of the soviet union and make up
the third largest immigrant group after
the british and the polish but keep in
mind the polish they like go everywhere
so it's no shocker i mean remember how
they made up like eight percent of
iceland's population
now despite the past drama ireland gets
along pretty well with the uk
a lot of their imports come from them
and the irish are on almost integral
part of the common british atmosphere as
so many of them lived there nonetheless
the best friends of ireland would
actually probably be scotland in the uk
and the usa scots and the irish are
celtic brothers that have shared
cultures since the beginning as well as
some of the same stripes and struggles
tons of irish moved to liverpool after
the potato famine and were generally
welcomed by their cousins i mean
horrible accents asides have you seen
that one scene in braveheart where the
irish mercenaries backstabbed the
british and joined their scottish
cousins
yeah like that right yeah the usa though
is like their favorite younger
cousin who is a lot bigger and stronger
not only do about 30
of their exports go to the us but after
the potato famine hundreds of thousands
of irish came flocking into ellis island
and to this day about 35 million
americans tend to have either partial or
full irish heritage the large
concentrations on the east coast in new
england that's about seven times the
population of ireland itself it even got
to me somehow
thank you grandpa i never met in
conclusion i'm actually gonna give this
to you man
take it away thank you paul in
conclusion ireland has had to conor
mcgregor its way through
war famine economic recession terrible
leprechaun
rapping and gerard butler's horrible
accent in p.s i love you seriously man
you're scottish
it shouldn't be that hard but through
all that we've managed to be the coolest
kid on the block despite a few emotional
issues here and there we're pretty rad
if i say so myself go on ireland you
beautiful
drunken mess of a nation you and you
know what in honor of your 1 8 irish
lineage i've decided to bestow on you
the title
of kind of irish i guess here's
1 8 of an irish shamrock tied on with a
piece
of cello tape wow thanks potter even
though i always get your name wrong
so yeah you do oh title revoked no no no
okay come on we've been through this
okay so it's it's like
ladder but pat patter right patter
patter right better better okay
score stay tuned
israel is coming up next oh this is
going to be good
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