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Hey guys

In this video

we’re gonna talk about 5 interesting things about the Irish.

Let’s look at the list.

Number 1

The Irish invented Halloween.

Halloween gets its origins back from the Gaelic festival

of Samhai

A harvest festival held on the 31st of October

to mark the end of summer.

According to Irish mythology it was also the time

when the doorways to the underworld opened up.

Number 2

Ireland has no snakes.

You may have heard the story of Saint Patrick

chasing all those slithering snakes off the Emerald Isle.

Well it isn’t true.

Due to its isolation from the European mainland

Ireland lacked several species common elsewhere in Europe

such as moles

Weasels

polecats and even roe deer!

Most scientists point to the most recent ice age

which kept the island too cold for reptiles

until it ended 10,000 years ago.

After the ice age

surrounding seas may have kept

snakes from colonizing Emerald Isle.

Number 3

Saint Patrick isn’t Irish.

Saint Patrick himself

is like the only person who isn’t Irish.

The Patrick Saint of Ireland

who has a global holiday named after him

was a Roman born in Britain.

Legend has it that he was kidnapped in Britain

and brought to Ireland cause he was a slave

and he had to herd some sheep.

Number 4

Leprechauns are real?

Leprechauns were the offspring of fairies

who were deemed defective children

because of their shape and disposition.

There are no female ones.

Initially they were depicted as an old grumpy man

who loved to fix shoes

and was really greedy with his pot of Gold.

And number 5

Irish people are all over the world.

There are more Irish people living outside of Ireland

than in the country itself.

It is estimated that more than

80 million people of Irish descent

live outside of Ireland .

34 million alone are in the United States

But in top of that there’s Australia

United Kingdom

Canada

Argentina and Mexico

And New Zealand

they also live in South Africa and all over Europe.

The population of Irish people all over the world

is 14 times than that of the population of Ireland

and that’s if you include Northern Ireland.

And out of all these people

three million of them hold on to their Irish citizenship.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Be sure to watch my next videos.

Goodbye.