i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later. it's exciting to hear the nuts and bolts experience of discovery. and at the same time i know i heard from both of you that a very spiritual and unmeasurable experience happens of people come alive in the histories of your family's lives. i was wondering if you could bring alive for the audience the individuals or characters of your family's history and also if you can both reflect on this point that daniel's making of the importance in going to the lands and seeing what is there. what that experience was like for you personally. >> i thought i would read a bit at this point. i think this is a good point for that for me. and so you will hear a little bit of what my writings been like in this experience when i went to ireland for the first

it's also a civil war of irish people against irish people. it's a civil war within the british empyre over where the british empire extends to wherever its subjects go in the world, and finally it's involving native people on both sides of the border and of the war. now, ultimately by telling the story of the border land war, i want to say it is less about some sort of nationality understood as ethnicity than it is as a contest between a republic and an empire for the allegiance of diverse peoples who lived on both sides of the border. both republicans and here i'm talking about people who ideologically are committed 20 a republican form -- to a republican form of government, both republicans and loyalists, and here i mean anyone loyal to the mixed constitution of great britain. they both suspected the continue innocent was not big enough for their rival systems, republic and mixed constitution. one or the other would have to prevail in the house divided. like the revolution, the war of 1812 was a civil war between competing visions of americ

the company of the man they call max kaiser this edition of the show it takes a look at the stricken irish economy and us just how the emerald found itself in such a perilous financial position. and this is the kaiser report number one hundred that's right one hundred pure blissful episodes of markets finance and scandal and stacey erbert you're back in the studio how are you ok max keiser i have a headline for you crowds mob kaiser report star banky for autographed silver coins so if you recall did see this man in one of our crash j.p. morgan buy sell her videos let's take a look at it would turn out the crash j.p. morgan by a sure autograph signing today thanks to mexico you were told these were the motions to be the. old thank you all for all she's really drove me crazy i signed your show over. want to see you. know that's our demographic. that's like fox news a demographic a seventy seventy five years old and up that meter out the seven and under that's right so but speaking of this campaign i want to look at this one other little headline five hundred dollars silver if you want it now

people rise up and throw out their government if the irish people refuse to pay to take this loan from the i.m.f. if the portuguese people do if the greek people do if the spanish people do if they refuse these i.m.f. loans. you know the u.s. has your credit card details and they could add they can continue splurging at wal-mart on your behalf with your credit card details well this is it's a racket you know and it's forced debt pushing their debt pushers and whether it's hillary stealing your credit card so she can go buy a dimebag a smack or whether it's the i.m.f. or world bank trying to push billions of dollars worth of worthless junk loans on your books it all adds up to the same worthless pile of garbage banks there is ripping you off and use sitting there looking for the answers and the only answer is the answer we've provided on this show episode one hundred one hundred days your thanks so much for being on the kaiser report up with one hundred thank you all right don't go away we're going to be talking more about the maxus daisy bed in so stay right there. well. the latest in

the irish bank system has effectively become the anchor that is telling the irish government underwater. looking at it from a global financial-services point of view, if banks in ireland had been allowed to default on their debt, it could have sparked a major global financial crisis similar to what we saw following the collapse of lehman brothers. >> state intervention is slowly restoring stability to the sector. but there is still a long way to go. and with the general election due to take place soon, ireland is injuring the new year facing financial difficulties. mark simpson, bbc news. >> thousands of christian pilgrims and tourists are visiting the site where jesus was born. but there is a warning from local authorities in bethlehem that unless urgent repairs are carried out, the centuries old church of the nativity might have to restrict visitor numbers in future. >> christmas where it all started, in bethlehem. yet again this year, thousands of tourists and christian pilgrims come to this town, and to the place where they believe jesus was born more than 2000 years ago. the focal

attempts to liberalize irish laws have failed. some limited change may finally be coming. it follows a case that taken by a woman who left ireland to have an abortion in england. she had been suffering from cancer and wanted an abortion because of the threat to her own life. the european court of human rights ruled in her favor. they said that there should be an irish laws that allows a woman whose life is in danger to have an abortion in ireland. it used to be that people on the streets of dublin would be reluctant to show support for abortion. inot anymore. >> i certainly think the law needs to be changed. >> today's european court ruling does put pressure on ireland to take action. >> the irish government has other priorities at the moment. it is trying to cope with a financial crisis and is preparing for a general election next year. if ireland is going to introduce new abortion legislation, it is unlikely to be soon. pro-life advocate says that ireland should not change anything, no matter what they european court says. >> ireland is a sovereign nation. the people sho

that brings an irish voice to the immigration reform bedate. as other speakers here, the irish are in real terms a minority in this debate. there are approximately 50,000 undocumented irish throughout the united states. but we are a very vocal minority, and i thought i would share with you some of the things that has worked for us in lobbying on this issue. and to my colleagues who are here tonight on their issues, there is no substitute for direct lobbying of officials on this. do not leave it to the mayor or even this commission tonight to lobby on your behalf. take it up and go after it yourselves. one of the wolf things about american politics, whether you are legal, illegal, in status or out of status, you can walk through the doors of federal government, and knock on those doors, and find someone to talk to, and if you try hard enough, you will get to the cossak person or senate person sooner or later. we have brought on several occasion 2,000 irish undocumented to washington, d.c., held a holiday on the hill, and marched through the corr

>> it's clearly in the uk's interest that we have a stable irish economy. now i think the package put together on sunday will do that. the package involves the imf and other european countries and a bilateral loan from the uk. that will help take the sovereign out of the debt markets for a couple of years and also help fund a restructuring of the irish banking system which are absolutely key to getting some stability into the irish economy. and i thought it was important for the uk, although we didn't have to, to make a contribution to that package beyond just being an imf shareholder, beyond being a member of the eu. so we're offering a 300 quarter billion pound bilateral loan to the irish. and i expect it to be taken off as part of that international package. >> let me ask you about the euro membership because your party of course opposed the eu membership on the grounds signing up to a single currency would be a major loss of control to brussels. do you agree that this is actually an indication that we'll see europe's federalists push through a political

the irish government has other priorities at the moment. they're trying to cope with a financial crisis. they are preparing for a general alexian early next year. if ireland is going to introduce abortion legislation, it is unlikely to be soon. rights campaigners say that ireland should not do anything the matter what the european court says. >> ireland is a sovereign nation. we as a people should be allowed to decide, especially on something as a portent as abortion. >> the problem is that the irish people are divided with a strong feelings on either side. the irish government knows that whatever it decides to do, they're likely to face a backlash. >> the wife of the zimbabwe president is suing one of the country's newspapers over how reports from wikileaks session made profits from the country's diamond fields. they have one of the richest diamond fields in the world. she is clammy $50 million in damages. a court -- she is claiming $50 million in damages. according to marx says that protesters have suffered illegal deprivation of liberty

government promised a state guarantee on every side and within the irish banks sold the irish banking system. was virtually out of the state control and now they're paying for it because the bill is much much higher than it ever was and i slam them and watched it go i don't know if i. got last hour of a really fair report ok so iceland let the banks collapse and the chrono collapsed and there was a gut wrenching recession in iceland certainly and now having gone through this do you think that that was the right move to allow the banks to collapse yeah i think that was the right move i mean where not gone through with yet we're in we're still in the middle of it i mean it's been two years now and. we're still not seeing our way out of the recession it's much deeper and longer than what expect it and. you know new all bets on the banks are always sure christine we go through the finance committee and of the argument we we got up here yesterday for twenty five billion kroner because of state guarantees on loans that were in there all back then nobody actually knew of so we're still exper

the irish government now owns 18%. it is due to pump billions more into the firm which could see its stake baloon to 90%. the irish finance minister's methods are clear. >> i think the taxpayer is entitled to see that if a substantial investment must be made by the taxpayer's particular fibble financial institution. the culture obtained in the banks of the past are clearly stamped out. >> the bank argued it had contractual obligations to pay $53 million in bonuses to 2,500 staff. they gave back to 2008 before the global financial crisis. >> we had all been working to try to find some form of resolution to this. i would have to say, that the general mood at the board, which was unanimous in its decision, was wuven substantial relief and that -- was one of substantial relief that a way to not pay pay bonuses had been found. >> the irish government is looking to draft special legislation to ensure no bonus feses are paid. in a further move, the government is proposing a 90% tax on any future staff bonuses. >> a draft euro

the government has already nationalized anglo irish bank and irish nationwide building society and others. a german newspaper said several european countries, including germany, are working on a permanent european financial rescue mechanism which would include the creation of a new and independent institute a long sigh and european central bank. it would have the same independence as the ec bb. >> at the frankfurt stock exchange, christmas has seen investors the concerns about the eurozone debt crisis to the side for now. but behind the scenes, eu leaders are considering long- term rise of shielding the single currency from speculators. experts said of the german finance minister have drawn up proposals for european financial stability fund. officially, it is the case study, not a policy draft. but it could be floated at a january meeting of eurozone finance ministers. the fund would be a new institution, working parallel to and independent of the ec be. it would hold enough reserves to give emergency loans to struggling eurozone members. it would ensure that governments maintain a strict

this as you mentioned our irish bank. there was an interesting little note here is that while the uk the already is a reluctant fully nationalized a i b it will need significant new funds one option is that the state will be left with a ninety nine point nine percent stake in the bank there's a point one percent that's not. that's private and that of course max is where all of the good stuff stays right wall reminds me of the mortgage backed securities markets where they saw all toxic loans to banks around the world but they put in one or two percent of u.s. government aaa rated bonds and then moody's came around and said the whole thing is worth aaa based on one minority of the securities being u.s. government bonds and on that basis they were committing a massive fraud and enabled by moody's s. and p. fitch all the rating agencies and by the way these rating agencies are now coming into arlington downgrading their debt and they're saying that if you hold an election in ireland to try to get a new government in place tha

rates were three to four percent lower than they would have been had the irish kept the point i what that meant was that the property boom became the most massive speculative bubble and that's why the bust is as bad as it is and now our don't find ourselves in the euro where euro zone interest rates are going to head up over the next couple of years at the very moment that they're trapped inside a deflationary downward spiral or i will euro's have a closer look at it into their foreign may i mean look at the case of britain then as in an e.u. member signed up to take the benefits of european harmony isn't it right that they treat pain when times are hard you can't have a cake and eat it when you well let's examine what these benefits are show way i've been here for eleven years as an m.e.p. and i'm still struggling to find them because if what we're talking about is free trade is the ability of companies to buy and sell goods from our next door neighbor in countries look the swiss do that without being you members but all we do that without being e.u. members so if what the united ki

this poem goes into that and the last part is a translation from an irish song, the ring. >> i followed the winding coast road back from cove airny moore and her brother cast in branz at the center entrance head of a line at elis island looking as though they a choired dreksz in their own country. dim passage through american wait and coffinship the figures of a prior generation real to swells and sound effects each swollen in the ache of crossing. my father's ship united states streaming to the harbor, the way it steamed in the narrows below the rising towers of the bridge. above the keys, saint coalmans resided over the dock where my mother's mother waited and my father's forefather disappeared like vermon in the fields they flooded home. i can tell you where the to beins first landed that invited me to the patio in the house glass of whisky regard in luminous in the long twilight. if you drive east on the way to gonegarvin off to the right you will come on the ring road where there are to beins from norman times. the name [inaudible] into our own name now. i had known history but not

out from a press release they issued in the past week or so that hidden in this press release anglo irish bank will furthermore receive a guaranteed cover certain off balance sheet liabilities derivative is clear and transactions and transactional arrangements are its that will ensure that angle irish bank can continue its daily activities as a going concern so we know about the on balance sheet cost to the irish taxpayer of angle irish and that is about what seventy billion euros now that european commission alludes to our balance sheet derivative costs that they are covering at the moment i call this i've been calling us for two years even gordon brown you know in his recent book which he was talking about on t.v. he talked about a shadow banking system the shadow banking system trillions more in debt that they have yet to disclose that they're using as a way to extort more coercion with susan's very austerity measures so the bankers going joy salaries and bonuses until these governments. banks and start new banks with clean balance sheets and none corrupt executives who are not terrori

but the reality for the irish economy and for irish capitalism is that inside or outside of the euro. it faces i just because it is so we can label to develop a society but i do predict that the level of debt now is simply payable it is only questionably the case to there will be a default in the next it years so we say why wait for then i'm subject to our people to enormous pain and suffering for nothing but we should refuse to pay the bondholders now immediately that's the key point and then develop a plan to a jury develop our economy what we are making a sacrifice for in fact is international banks and billionaire speculators who rule the financial markets looking to make a quick buck we all of them nothing in terms of the irish people those speculative debts were in court by private bankers in private to deal with we say you cannot fix this system it is broken beyond repair you are just causing enormous suffering to tens of millions throughout europe the speculators are simply watching their next target which would be portugal or spain now to that got what they wanted it island.

taxpayer of anglo-irish that is about what seventy billion euros now european commission alludes to off balance sheet derivative costs that they are covering at the moment i call this i've been calling us for two years even gordon brown you know in his recent book which he was talking about on t.v. he talks with the shadow banking system the shadow banking system has trillions more in debt that they have yet to disclose that they're using as a way to extort more coerce from assume this is the austerity measures so the bankers can joy salaries and bonuses until these governments shoto these banks and start new banks with clean balance sheets and none corrupt executives who are not terrorists this problem will continue for years they will always show more debts there's another twenty trillion of bad debts to go through every quarter you have to go through this every quarter or they say oh we just found another trillion debt more austerity measures more bonuses more salaries what are we going to get smart and wake up and figure out what these guys all need to be fired tried but thank g

parliament voted on that toughest budget in irish history and that was in response to say that they would qualify and secured a one hundred fourteen billion dollar bailout from the i.m.f. and e.u. interestingly though we've heard in the papers this morning that allied irish banks which is one of the banks that's been bailed out they're planning to pay food scene million euros in bonuses to their employees take the fourteen forty million dollars in bonuses to be paid out next week immediately in the wake of that austerity budget so there's bound to be an awful lot of anger at it on top of the anger that there's already been we're also seeing anger in germany because of course the person who pays the most bailing out other countries including ireland and greece is the german taxpayer and germans are really starting to think to themselves it's not fair that we should be required to bail out these countries you haven't necessarily manage their money particularly well so we are not expecting this to be the final demonstration on the streets of london or indeed elsewhere in europe so even

well i think the irish crises are evidence for or for the problems that the. everybody thought that the greek crisis was just. exit burns on the part of crowded markets and the irish crisis shows that the eurozone has huge problems especially you are banks have a huge problem right now and the eurozone tries to pretend that they can go into the depths of everybody but i don't think it's. i think sooner or later some countries or some banks have to default because i don't think that taxpayer. strong enough or the economies are strong enough to foot the bill for the banks here i will say before they have to start and we should buy the paper process is four days before the euro cup is a list of the ensuite of economic and social studies thanks for joining us now live from bratislava tonight on our take. and remind that you can always keep up to date on our website with all the latest news blogs and analysis just some of what you looking at on our bunny website and all of the to accelerate into the twenty first century to put the story yes they didn't touch it bru

>>the shinty sticks of the scottish national team are pitted against the hurleys of the irish in a clash as fierce as any ancient battle. >>cooney: we're all celts and it's important that we would try and get a game together to play against each other. for our players its important because it gives them recognition at the national level, gives them the opportunity to play under the irish jersey. 14" >>reporter: although both sports come from the same distant root - the rules of this cross-code game are unique. >>daly: what we've had to do is compromise as best we can ... obviously the shinty players have a differentstick, the hurlers have a different stick so we believe the best way of achieving balance is to notallow the players to handle the ball with the exception of the goal keeper so the shinty players can keep the traditional skills of playing the ball on the ground, the hurling players can lift it andstrike but it is not permitted to take the ball in the hand. >>reporter: that significant rule change from the game of hurling can be hard to hold to as irish centre forward, neil mcm