Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Dubliners are not pronounced as Dublin-'neers'
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  2. Lets not forget how many Irish and other 'convicts' from the UK who as little as 8 years old 'stole Trevelyan's corn', stole an apple from an orchard, or skipped paying a train ticket; were indebted by the prison system and sent to Australia and other British colonies to work off their debt as indentured servants. Sure, for some it avoided starving miserably.
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  3.  @dog-ez2nu  No, no we are not. There is less than 5 weeks to a no-deal brexit that we never voted for and Northern Ireland (and Scotland) rejected.
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  4. It's history that's thoroughly taught to kids in Ireland, and glossed over in the UK.
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  5.  @mountainmaster4river398  Also add: 1993 introduced the free customs union that ended the necessity for customs and tax checks. Buses full of televisions and radios were often smuggled from north to south to avoid a 50% tax on devices. The more hated security checks remained until the GFA tore them down.
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  6. Fast forward today and we're basically saddled with a Tory-DUP brexit we never voted for.
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  7. As an Englishperson you are AlphaAlex, did your schools ever teach you about the Famine other than the date '1845'?
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  8. fun fact: the first time I googled what a Wendigo was, I had sleep paralysis that night and nights after.
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  9. Yes, but the Troubles cannot be separated from the apartheidist Northern Irish politics that came before it starting from the 1921 partition of Ireland.
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  10. Brexiteer fuel..... euch
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  11. Two months? It's less than 5 weeks, and yes anglo-Irish politics have soured quickly in the last 3 years.
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  12. An Gorta Mór, Black '47
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  13. take away THE FULL CAPS and you'd be more closer to the truth.
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  14. Having domestic narrators really pushes up the bar!
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  15. "To Hell or to Connacht" - The literal C-word
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  16. Ulster Irish/Scots in the 19th century. 'Hands off mei flegs 'nd ''kulchure''' DUP - loyalists in the 21st century.
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