The Battle Of The Boyne 1690 - Why Is It Celebrated?

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  @josephblack2954 · 2 years ago

  "It was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne"

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  @HayleyChryseis · 1 year ago (edited)

  I'm a Honours Graduate historian who counts civil wars, and particularly the Great British civil wars, (1638 to 1715), as my specialty, but I still find it difficult to keep track of the shifting loyalties and complex cross overs which plague Irish affairs. I always keep my copy of John Childs' 'Williamite Wars in Ireland' close to hand. But great concise narrative history thanks.

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  @Bustedflat51042 · 1 year ago

  Power, greed and religion and it never ends. Great information and history insight. Thank you.

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  @staffofdagda6238 · 2 years ago

  A stunning well made video, one of the best channels on the internet.All our kids should see this channel.

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  @MichaelDobran-is7pr · 1 year ago

  As an Australian  my schooling in the 70s  glossed over many aspects  of English  history.  It never explained in depth the who what and where. Your series has been marvellous  insight into  answering  those questions that until  now  I didn't  have  answers to.  Thanks again for  educating me .looking forward to  your next post. From Mick.D.

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  @mosquitocoast25 · 1 year ago

  To send your men into battle armed with scythes and farming implements shows you may hate the enemy but you have nothing but contempt for your own troops.

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  @steveclark5357 · 2 years ago

  very well done sir

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  @Thurnmourer · 2 years ago

  While not Boyne related, when I went on holiday last year to Torquay and then did a day trip to Brixham, I was rather surprised by how involved it was with William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution.

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  @ProfessorM-s7r · 2 years ago

  Thank you for this post, much appreciated.

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  @ThomasFrazier-d8o · 10 months ago (edited)

  I am recommending this to my Mom.  She got into Scotland with the 1972 Scots Guard tour of N. America, "Amazing Grace" .  On her re-marriage to a Scotch-Dutch-German(?) man in 1981, Scottish and mostly Irish folk music displaced Jimmy Buffet from the family Hi-Fi.  I was always trying to comprehend "Grownups" via their music, so this presented a whole new Ball of Confusion.   Mom is entirely descended of flatcapped Continental peasants & labourers.  Thanks Chris, for some humour and explanation.

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  @ConservativeRevolutionary · 1 year ago

  As a proud Irish Catholic, I appreciate the unbiased overview from an Englishman, very good content 👍

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  @ciarandoyle4349 · 2 years ago (edited)

  A great re-telling of an old story!<br>Battles and campaigns in Ireland are like the paragraphs of an endless unpunctuated chronicle. The great punctuation marks of Aughrim and the Boyne seemed in 1691 and 90 to be full stops, after which Ireland was to be forever Anglo-Scots and Protestant. But they were mere commas in the story. Many paragraphs, and 230 years later, the fields where these battles were fought reverted to Irish control.

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