DVD DESCRIPTION: This critically acclaimed documentary explores the 700-year history of [Black] Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula [Spain and Portugal]. Although generations of Spanish historians have portrayed the Moors as brutish occupiers, recent research paints a much different picture. The Islamic invaders actually brought stunning advances in science and art to their territories. Oxford-educated historian Bettany Hughes gives modern viewers a rich, nuanced understanding of Islamic history and culture while visiting such sites as the Alhambra Palace and the Great Mosque at Cordoba.
REVIEW: "The drama seems infused, suddenly, with important complexity, with great questions of war, peace, civilian casualties" -- The Wall Street Journal
"highly informative and entertaining" -- Memorable TV
Oppression of Irish was not limited to England; many were exported to the United States, where we exploited them for labor, called them "black," and relegated them to the lowest rung on the ladder and right out of the melting pot (or mortar Lady Liberty used her pestle to pound everyone else into one big All-American mash). Is it possible we (the USA) had Irish chattel slaves a decade before exploiting pre-African Black natives (in addition to all of the Indigenous "Red" American slaves no one seems to know about, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States), and African imports?
Don't go beyond The Pale, a safe zone
In the United States, the term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th century as a pejorative to derogatorily describe Irish refugees of the Great Famine [1].
This came after the potato blight when England was exporting all the food on the Emerald Isle to feed themselves -- because ALL famines are, in fact, manmade disasters of fearful hoarding and consequent skyrocketing prices (The phenomenon of famine - PubMed).
It later shifted into a term used to describe people of Irish descent who have black or dark-colored hair, blue or dark eyes, or otherwise dark coloring [2, 3] as scientifically measured by scientists doing scientifical stuff.
US Black Irish just means American
WHAT IS BLACK IRISH? The term refers to Black people who live in Ireland. But it is also a colloquial (common) term that refers to Caucasian people of Irish ancestry who have black hair—with noticeably black eyelashes and body hair may accompanied by pale skin and blue or green eyes, producing a particularly dramatic effect that is sometimes called "black Irish" like the American beauty Shannen Maria Doherty.
This meaning is not used in Ireland [1], where "Black Irish" more refers to Irish people of African descent [4]. The most common use of the term "Black Irish" is tied to the myth that they were descended from Spanish sailors [possibly during the Dark Ages when, according to British historian Bettany Hughes, Blacks ruled Europe until the Enlightenment] shipwrecked during the Spanish Armada of 1588 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].
However, no anthropological, historical, or genetic research yet supports this story. [Except perhaps the growing body of research, and that popular Discovery-like channel show, showing archeological/anthropological evidence that the first people in and around the Isle were Black, but perhaps that information is too new for Wiki to know anything about, even as it flooded mainstream U.S. media for a brief time.]
Some theorists assert that the term was adopted in some cases by Irish Americans who wanted to conceal interracial unions with African Americans, paralleling the phrase "Black Dutch" which was also used in the United States to hide racial identity [11, 12, 13].
Likewise, the concept of "Black Irish" was also used by some Aboriginal Australians to racially pass themselves into Australian society [14]. In the earlier parts of the 19th century, "Black Irish" was sometimes used in the United States to describe biracial people of African and Irish descent [9, 10].
By the 20th century, "Black Irish" had become an identity played out by Irish-American authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert E. Howard. In 21st-century Ireland Black Irish is used primarily to refer to Irish nationals of African descent, and the alternative meaning is not commonly used. More
TRUTH about the Irish - First slaves brought to the Americas - Forgotten History
(FORGOTTEN HISTORY) Feb. 13, 2023: ✪ Members first on Feb. 9, 2023: Slavery is perhaps one of the oldest profit-making endeavors in human history, and the Irish islanders were a special target for a thousand years, persecuted by one faction or another, to include enslavement, status as serfs and servants, and indentured servitude. But were they the first slaves in the Americas? Find out here. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. The Forgotten History Channel is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.
SOURCES: Public Record Office, London Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Vol. 1, 1574-1660, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1860.
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What if you can't feed your slaves? A Modest Proposal
It started with enslavement of St. Patrick - Don't call me Pete. It's mineral peat (coal). It's time to ban guns and Christianity or else. Who were the original "Aryans"? The Buddha's lineage comes from the region now called Iran (Ariyan), later called Persia, in the Buddha's time called the Middle Country (Majjhimadesa), referring to the Solar Race, as we read in Rhys Davids' translation of The Story of the Lineage (in his work Buddhist Birth Stories). Historian Dr. Ranajit Pal says the Buddha's mother was from Sistan-Baluchistan, now a region of Iran, and his father's family from Afghanistan (Kapilavastu, the capital cities one of which was Bamiyan, ancient Gandhara), Central Asia. The other country name related to Aryan is Ireland (Aryan-Land). Odd, no?
Forgotten History, 2023; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Old World Florida, July 25, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Hidden Irish History of Ancient America
(Old World Florida) Following the expulsion of the Moors [Black Africans] from Spain in 1492, Cristobal (Christopher) Columbus would set sail to the Americas on the most fateful of voyages.
While this narrative has been ridiculed, weaponized, and outright denied as propaganda, there is one aspect of the Columbus story that has never received the attention it deserves.
Is anyone aware of the fact that Columbus set sail with an Irish navigator? That’s right, it was an Irishman named Guillermo Herries, whom Columbus had met in Galway.
The identity of this man and the reasons for his presence on this voyage are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the hidden Irish history of ancient America.
In explaining the significance of this lone Irishman, a connection will be established between the Irish and the Phoenicians of antiquity (the civilization most capable of pre-Columbian transatlantic travel).
Why is it that an Irishman was needed to go where men were said to have never gone before? What comes to light is that a multitude of so-called Native American tribes in fact share genetic and cultural affiliations with ancient Celts and Britons.
(This of course includes the infamous “red-headed giants” scattered throughout the Americas and across the entire earth).
As the Irish presence in the Americas did not begin with Columbus, it certainly did not end with him. No academic has ever been able to give a satisfactory explanation as to why there are only 5 million Irish people in Ireland, yet the ethnically Irish (diaspora) in the United States numbers over 36 million.
Five million Irish versus 36 million Irish Americans, something is not adding up. The ominous “they” would have us believe that this is simply the result of potato shortages and a recent mass-migration.
The Irish, strangers to colonization and the subjugation of others, have themselves been kicked around for a long time.
This presentation is dedicated to the Land of Iron, the Isle of Emerald, and the fairest daughter of Atlantis.
The views expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the author's own.
0:00 Intro
3:50 Guillermo Herries
8:13 Ancient Celts, Tribes
14:33 Language, names, Duhar, deer
23:28 USA discoveries, linguistics, NC, Ireland
34:08 Ancient sites, mounds, Yamassee
37:55 Discovery of America by the Irish, Septs, Georgia, and Carolinas
47:18 Christmas cards in WY, runes
51:22 Astro Ogham in Colorado
56:43 Brendan's Voyage Part 1
1:18:25 Petroglyphs, West Virginia, stones
1:40:14 Christian navigation, Saint Brendan
1:47:24 Irish Arrivals in South America
1:53:35 Argentine, the Caribbean
1:56:30 Jamaican-Irish accent
2:01:04 Montserrat
2:37:00 Brendan's Voyage Part 2
"The legend of Saint Brendan, an Irish monk from what is now County Kerry, involves a fantastical journey into the Atlantic Ocean in search of Paradise in the 6th century. Since the discovery of the New World, various authors have tried to link the St. Brendan legend with an early discovery of America. In 1977, the voyage was successfully recreated by Tim Severin using a replica of an ancient Irish currach.
"At Fort Mountain State Park in Georgia a plaque formerly mentioned a 19th-century interpretation of the ancient stone wall that gives the site its name. The plaque repeated a claim by Tennessee Governor John Sevier that Cherokees believed "a people called Welsh" had built a fort on the mountain long ago to repel Indian attacks. The plaque has been changed, leaving no reference to Madoc or the Welsh.
"Biologist and controversial amateur epigrapher Barry Fell claims that Irish Ogham writing has been found carved into stones in the Virginias. Linguist David H. Kelley has criticized some of Fell's work but nonetheless argued that genuine Celtic Ogham inscriptions have in fact been discovered in America. However, others have raised serious doubts about these claims."
Join British historian Bettany Hughes as she examines a long-buried chapter of European history -- the rise and fall of Islamic culture in Europe in what is now Spain and Portugal [and the Basque region of the Iberian Peninsula?].
Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archeology and scholarship now shed fresh light on the Moors who flourished in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years.
This fascinating documentary destroys old stereotypes and offers shocking new insights.
Discover the ingenious mathematics behind Granada’s dazzling Alhambra Palace, trace El Cid’s lineage to his Moorish roots, and learn how the Iberian population left Christianity and willingly converted to Islam [to align with the power elite as many go Christian now] in droves.
Through interviews with noted scholars, see how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and agriculture helped propel the West out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.
What emerges is a richly detailed portrait of a sensuous, inquisitive, and remarkably progressive Islamic culture in Christian Europe. When the Moors Ruled in Europe (2005) - IMDb
We can blame 14th-century scholar Petrarch for believing the "Dark Ages" were a time of primitive living.
[Actually, as British historian Bettany Hughes makes perfectly clear, it was the time when for seven centuries Europe was ruled by "the Moors," Black rulers from North African, who prospered at this time then were assiduously erased from white history books.]
For centuries afterwards, historians repeated his idea that the early medieval period – roughly AD 400 to AD 1100 – was a dismal era when Western Europeans forgot the great achievements of classical antiquity in [Mediterranean] Greece, [Latin] Rome, [Middle Eastern] Persia, and beyond.
But many archeological discoveries found in the centuries since suggest that the Dark Ages weren’t so bleak after all. Join in the exploration of the surprisingly advanced civilizations of the not-so Dark Ages. More
This a documentary film presented by English historian Bettany Hughes, a two-part series on the contribution Black people from Africa and Spain (the part of Europe that borders Africa), the Moors, made to Europe during their 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal ending in the 15th century.
It was first broadcast on Channel 4 on Saturday Nov. 5, 2005, having been filmed in the Spanish region of Andalusia, mostly in the cities of Granada, Cordoba, and the Moroccan city of Fes in Africa.
The era ended with the Reconquista ("reconquest") during which Catholic authorities burned over 1,000,000 Arabic texts of wisdom, math, history, religion, and architecture. More
Enlightenment is far better than ignorance...even if it upsets our worldviews and comfort. Here British historian Bettany Hughes stands in front of the Bodhi tree in Enlightenment Grove (Bodh Gaya, India), where Siddhartha became the Buddha or "Awakened One."
When the Moors Ruled in Europe (Part 1/11) with British historian Bettany Hughes - the shocking truth.
This is a myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
[The "Dark" Ages, according to British historian Bettany Hughes, are said to have been when for seven centuries black Muslim Moors ruled Europe.]
Many of the innovations we think of as hallmarks of Western science actually had their roots in the Arab world of the Middle Ages, a period when much of Western Christendom stagnated in intellectual darkness.
Author Jim al-Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history in The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance.
Given current East-West tensions, his book could hardly be more timely.
With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question:
Why did the Islamic world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling flowering?More
Blacks ruled Europe?
Seven centuries of hidden European/African history
Join British historian Bettany Hughes as she examines a purposely-buried, hidden, and forgotten chapter of European history -- the risemof Islamic culture in what is now Spain and Portugal (bordering Northern Africa).
Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archeology and scholarship have shed fresh light on the black Moors who flourished in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years.
The fascinating documentary WHEN THE MOORS RULED IN EUROPE explodes racist stereotypes and offers shocking new insights.
Black lives used to matter
Discover the ingenious mathematics behind Granada's dazzling Alhambra Palace, trace El Cid's lineage to his black Moorish roots in Africa, and learn how the population of the Iberian peninsula in white Europe willingly converted to liberal Islam in droves.
Through interviews with noted scholars, see how Moorish advances in mathematics, science, astronomy, art, and agriculture helped propel the West out of its Dark Ages and into its Renaissance ("Rebirth").
What emerges is a richly detailed portrait of a sensuous, inquisitive, and remarkably progressive black African Islamic culture dominating Christian Europe.
[The Moors (the definition of these people is constantly changed to make them less African, less black, and less brilliant, and less Muslim/Islamic) were royalty beyond the peninsula. They ruled throughout Europe, as many artifacts and revealed histories show.]
obMind Unveiled, April 4, 2019; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
SECRET BLACK HISTORY: Moors, Fomorians, Lemurians (Tartaria)
There is so much more we don't know than we know. Nobody seems to know what actually happened. We are all brothers and sisters in the sisterhood of humankind. So rather than take anything in this video in a negative way, just teach me. Provide your information without negativity or assumptions. We all have much to learn. I do not claim to have the answers. This video is very simplistic when it comes to a history of the Moors (generally believed to be black European nobles) because I am not trying to be overly detailed or scholarly. I am a thinker, and all I want to do is question and help connect the dots rather than establish facts. Much love to ALL of humanity.
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