God changed times eh. Last summer me and my wife went from Scotland to Ireland for a weeks visit on the way to Galway. We stopped in South Armagh Crossmaglen. My wife is American and didn’t know much about the troubles and she thought it just looked like another wee Irish town and I was like once upon a time this was an absolute Warzone here., but you’d never tell by looking at it now.
Dermi was my class mate. And a friend. I was in class with him at the CBS, when the Christian Brother, sneared at the death of 4 Volunteers who had just died that morning. One of them was Dermots brother. He tore out of the class, I shouted at the Brother and got strapped. I can't get over watching Dermot here.
I’ve been binging on this channel for days now. I was born in Lisburn in 1970 and left NI in 2000. Watching all of this brings back strange emotions. I don’t know how to describe them but my childhood was basically growing up in a catholic family in Lisburn. I never picked sides and all my mates were Protestant. So we were all mixed, but all these years later you realize how much you were affected by this. It goes very deep and sometimes it will come up and put me in a strange mood. Thank god my wife is a therapist😂
@@scottyb5039 no way! I grew up in barley hill. Low road was tough for a catholic growing up, more so the glen more lads. They were a bitter bunch, but then some boys that lived on the low road too. I don’t want to mention any names but there were a lot of UDA there. My mother got beaten up in the Hilden Inn by these big tough men. I knew personally a couple of Catholics who were murdered from there too, and I know who did it. The 80s were tough. Hill hall was also a rough place and sometimes they’d come across the blue bridge and start trouble. Me and my mates were all metallers and tried to stay out of it but no matter how much you tried trouble still found you. During the Anglo Irish agreement riots we had wet blankets and fire extinguishers all over the house. We were 100% expecting to get burnt out but there were a lot of men in my family and we all lived next door ext and the cowards were always too afraid to come up our culdesac. Having said all this, I had the perfect childhood playing down by the Lagan and over the fields by ballynaskea and that area. My mates and I never cared who or what anyone was. We just got on with it and though everyone who would hate you for religion were fucxiing losers and thickos.
Good job mate - I love it when you find stuff like this and then add it to your play list - as an ex Medic from my time in the British Army - I have enjoyed sharing these stories with my new wife who is Australian, but from Celtic heritage - the 7 part series on how it all started assisted me so much - despite my memories of discussing the conflict prior - it helps so much! Thanks again buddy / keep up the great work!
The Troubles series was a great find for sure. Putting a load of work into the channel of late - it is really pleasing to see it reaching far and wide. Appreciate the comment my friend, thank you.
I’m often impressed by the thoughtful responses that come from people who were there in a combatant role. Thank you so much, Geoff for your thoughtful perspective
@david ravemscroft9235 Is that the nine countries of Ulster that's not for sale? Or just the six counties that make up northern Ireland, that's not for sale???
Fantastic footage great interview with Dermot, a good lenadooner , we all grew up in this whole soup if you call it , but it’s great to see peace , but it’s true the English hadn’t a clue what was going on
I’m American too. I’ve been following the troubles since they started and this channel is the best!! It is a treasure of Troubles history. It is honestly the best source I have found!! And the loyal watchers also recommend great books that, sadly, are hard to find here! But there are still some good suggestions. Welcome to this wonderful channel!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚
@@sword-and-shield Welcome! I admit my interest might be obsessive, but each of these vids unpacks another story, another interpretation… so keep watching. Hope to see you when there is another live chat.
@@ATLmodK Hope to catch it...thx again. I know its not simple, and I have a lot to learn, but it seems the Brits should have just left it all to the Country to decide, on their own, by a majority voting process. In my limited exposure, its seems they just wanted to have a foothold in that Country so close to theirs just based on potential future security threat alone. The North already being there gave them the excuse. No disrespect, and not trying to flame anyone, just throwing out my early assessments. I am leaning Republican, because it seems they were just asking for simple Nationalistic rights, its reminding me of the movie Braveheart.
It’s very, very complicated as you will learn. I became interested when Bernadette Devlin came to the States in August, 1969. My husband and i had been involved with Civil Rights here and hearing how Catholics were treated in NI was appalling to this and to this day people in this country are shocked that people were denied rights because they were Catholic. Still hear that here. Anyway, I see it as three sides that are often just seen as two. The Nationalists, the Unionists and the Brits, and most of the time the Unionists and Brits were aligned. But you will discover much and my knowledge started over 50 years ago, but I keep learning new things. I’ll put my opinion this way, I’ve never sided with the over dog!
@@paddycaldwell3112 Tnxs Paddy - ATL is just an archive for our history to be stored. Not sure best YT channel suits it in my mind as it can put me and everyone watching in such a dark place sometimes. But I appreciate your comment my friend , very much ..
@@ononewheelladand your precious soldiers who killed innocent women and children? The whole British government itself and the oppression of Irish catholics till this day? Both sides aren’t innocent, but if we’re going to start pointing fingers…You don’t really have a leg to stand on. Much more important talking points in all this, none of these things have anything to do with your narrow minded views.
I grew up in Glasgow Scotland and my mother was born in East Belfast, I grew up with both Catholics and Protestants , 1 time when I was 17 years old me my mum and brother we were visting family in Belfast, - I was at a house party the RUC came and I was taken to Castlereagh holding centre with people who were at the party and I was in Castlereagh for 1 week and tortured, my teeth broken I WASNT EVEN PART OF ANY PARAMILITARIES,
Remember when the provos attacked Downing Street using pipe mortar bombs plus high explosives.I was in the West End and the building I was in shook think it was the mid 90s they launched the bombs from the back of a van with only half a roof.
As a British man, the English son that’s father was killed is completely close minded. He says it is not enough to say you need to start killing people because of your situation, all while never acknowledging that he has never been in such a position. The Irish people felt horrors and persecution no English man could comprehend, to say they are unjustified and place yourself morally higher just because you have a kushty life that allowed for said ideals to foster is completely ignorant.
You can't expect him to see his own tragic loss objectively. The victims of war can't be expected to acknowledge the objective political reality they're a part of.
Rich privilege. Amongst other things. It is like the rich people in California saying more should be done for the homeless on twitter and then won't even look at them when they walk past them.
@@MJ23915 not saying that he should congratulate them, but saying it’s not enough to be pushed to these extremes by an individual’s situation when you have never experienced said situation is ignorant because he saying how things should be without knowing what it’s actually right. If he said he just didn’t understand rather than condemning it is okay.
I mean, he technically wasn't wrong about understanding it all but being perplexed at the lack of responsibility. Human psychology tries to rationalize what we do, and human psychology tends to be very judgemental of that at the same time.
Great upload. Lived in Belfast during the worst of the troubles, in Belfast. I think you need to have experienced it to fully understand. Make no mistake. It was a war
so many memories of Crossmaglen and Bessbrook in the 70s . such beautiful areas , but so bloody scary . big mistakes back in 1921 . we should have given it all back . CYMRY AM BYTH .
@@JOsc4-v Yes , all back . Why give 3 quarters back and keep the rest ?. If it had been done then , i think it would have been accepted . No chance now . I served in NI . Welsh Guards . Hence the CYMRU AM BYTH .
I've always been detested by Loyalists. They would even make the old school Brit reprisal apologists blush. Fascist scum bags. The Engilsh don't want them as they are far too much if an embarrassing legacy, and ad for the Irish, well I think they would rather it be an English problem 😂 Just give them free booze, copious Union Jack's, and a few drums, but God knows where u will put them all. Not in England please 😊 Never mind, Enoch Powell may come back to guide the the promised land
It's a very good a powerful documentary. You can sense people are war weary and wanted an end to the conflict despite the fact the ceasefire did breakdown. I think the English guy who near end has a more pessimistic view when talks about seeing hope but then saying maybe it's easier to walk away from it. It's a very true sentiment in life.
I allways find it odd when a British person comes to the Island of Ireland interview an Irish person and asks them do they think they are a terrorist for fighting for political freedom...😮
@@sherlockgnomes8971 A very dirty war no doubt...while at the same time the U.D.A. L.V.F. U.F.F. were out and about machine gunnig bars and shooting random catholics all the while their police and military handlers pulled the strings...and for what? So that they could go on to be well off drug dealers with bad haircuts and worsd clothes....Ireland is Irish accross 32 counties and will be one country in the future that 100% certain and no amount of flag waving and flute band marches can stop that happening.
Brings back memories of my uncle who served numerous tours of Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s. Remember my dad telling me a story of when he came home on leave and wamted to fight everyone in the local Irish club. A friemd from the club told him to come and get your brother before he gets a beating. Used to get busted by the redcaps regular because he didnt wamt to go back. Used to hide in my grans loft lol. Never spoke about it though, my dad said it messed his head up badly, you never knew who your enemy was.
I worked with an ex-squaddie. He said one night on patrol in NI they happened upon two young couples, teens, snogging on the edge of the estate. They leathered the lads and carried on. I just thought what a cxxts trick... but that's soldiers for yer. I suppose they'd have been near school-leaving age or older but nothing to do with the troubles. Just kids in a quiet area courting...
@@TheScouseassassin why wouldn't you say that to his face when he openly admitted it? Also why would you be scared of him? He's not as hard as the media makes out evil yes 100% but more of a bully than hard and that is from first hand experience.
dont suppose we can move on from past horrors and just make what we have the best we can? look at the rest of the world. if we cant get it right here were all fucked.
I'm Irish and proud of it,i was a kid in the south during the bad days of the war 70's/80's and didn't quite understand the political situation,i got my information from An Phoplacht and seeing the pictures on the magazine made me realise a 5th of my Country was under british crown rule and ppl were been killed,as kid you think simple and i thought why can't the soldiers go back to their country and all the killing would stop,if only after nearly a thousand years of british brutality towards Ireland it runs deep in the Irish mind ☘️Tal 32
The ra killed more Irish people than any other organisation and has the highest kill rate of roman Catholics out of all the protagonists involved in the troubles. Perhaps you should have read something else?
I think most people in England & Wales wouldn’t care if Ireland was United, unsure if that opinion would hold in Scotland though. Also, I wonder what the percentage of southern Irish people would welcome N Ireland into a United country.
@@michaelcollins1211It's not though. Because of the financial burden of dole scum and other spongers it would entail. NI costs Westminster billions each year.
Eire will be re-united in time. The Nationalists got more from the peace process and it's on the cards. There'll be reports & briefing documents in Whitehall about this and the big give-away, imho, was Brexit and putting the border in the Irish Sea. It'll come... the British is divesting itself of all it's troublesome colonies.
The IRA was /is a political unit its ideology is not based on religion and some of its finest members were protestant....on the other hand the British system in the 6 counties was / is based on protestant superiority which included housing ,jobs ,voting rights .....the 6 counties was never a good place to be Catholic...
Absolutely wonderful documentary thank you, I am from Yorkshire. I remember the troubles thinking this will never happen to my community of Muslims then 911 happened.
Playing the victim as they always do... now their stabbing children in Southport... Ireland and UK.. we need our countries back!! We are power in numbers!!!
I went there because I was curios and wanted to see for myself, so one day I was on one side the next the other, was the only way to do it. It was all just crazy. both sides as bad as each other. Hatred taught from a young age, kids seeing terrible things. I found it safest to stand out, not go creeping about. Its very intimidating to round a corner and stare into a rifle, so was going through a turnstile into a bar as the heads turned with every click wondering what was coming if anything who would know?
These people were fighting this war surrounded by the enemy..soldiers in your front garden taking cover..army men with foreign accents calling kids bigot names..
The soldiers were getting much worse than getting called names or having someone in their front garden…..and it wasn’t a war. It was a dirty stinking terrorist campaign by the IRA who shot to kill, but cried when the army sometimes did the same to them. If it was a war, then the IRA committed thousands of war crimes.
my family was one them I could tell you tones of stories of the police being nasty my da my granda and my granny and all my uncels were arrested under interment im very proud of my family MC faddens 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
RIP Maria mcshane, she was still fighting for justice from her very deathbed. Anyone who has had any sort of relationship with Maria and her family knows that they’re good kindhearted people. Used to spend every summer in the caravan across from hers in bundoran, she was like family. A real character of a woman, a proper sense of humour and could chat the head off you for days. Over all those years the only thing changed was the hair do haha. RIP Maria, hopefully one day your family will finally get the closure they deserve.
I'm reading a book ( Bandit country ) about Armagh and the border . It's absolutely amazing how the English thjnk they are in the right and have the nerve to call people who will do ANYTHING to defend and protect their country and their heritage , culture , history , homes , religious beliefs , and to defend and protect their family from the tyranny and oppression of the British government. They never tell you about the extreme ways the British would try and hold them down.amd under their boots. This wasn't just about this instance but 1,000 years of constant tyranny and oppression which would cause anyone to use certain methods to fight back. They couldn't have a typical army because the British would have controlled it and threw money at it. Just like the RUC and Guarda ( even though many Guarda where IRA supporters or even volunteers ). What really misses me off is how the rest of the world sat back and did nothing. Especially the USA where many of It's political and military are of Irish descent.
@Stephen-Lyons-3ch, You should not expect anything different from the USA. The Irish were hated and looked down upon by the WASP"s and English Nativists. Only when the Irish of both stripes proved their worth in the Civil War were they given any respect, but only for a while. Look at the same and worse being done to Palestine today --so say now more about expecting some kind of justice from USA. The USA is run by the people who financially backed Cromwell in his Genocidel hatred of Irish Catholics. I can show historical evidence of this fact.
As an English man I am ashamed of this country and the attrocities it has carried out How fucking dare we do this ? Did you know also that England were responsible for the first concentration camps back in the Boer war Most of the stuff in our museums is pillaged from countries that couldn't fight back As a boy I remember Bobby Sands and it upset me that he died the way he did and the other hunger strikers too I was 13 back in 1981 A shameless shameful embarrassing empire this country has probably carried out some of the worst attrocities in living memory and it's so wrong ♥️🌊
The USA was creating concentration camps for Native Americans long before the Boer War, and exterminating them with biological warfare and ethnic cleansing.
An awful lot of tripe being discussed here about people claiming they are in love. Out of all the people in the world you love someone from the same tiny country 🤨. It's a choice they've made, but they claim it's some 'no choice higher pursuit.' Open and shut case of folie à deux.
It'll be a bright future if the English gave Ireland back it's land. Imagine stealing 1/2 a country and thinking the Irish citizens would accept that. Gosh, I wonder why they fought.
The British were the occupiers. Occupation is bad. If youve seen it , then you know. Resistance to it is something that is organic and necessary for humanity to rid themselves of occpation in all its forms.
@@markdavidson9743 Which bit? The fact that some of Ireland is part of the UK? Or the bit where most people on the island of Ireland do not want any of the island to be part of the UK?
Surly in this day and age a split country should be handed back to there rightful owners one land one country one day may god make it so that Ireland can live together as one in peace 🙏🇮🇪☘️
God changed times eh. Last summer me and my wife went from Scotland to Ireland for a weeks visit on the way to Galway. We stopped in South Armagh Crossmaglen. My wife is American and didn’t know much about the troubles and she thought it just looked like another wee Irish town and I was like once upon a time this was an absolute Warzone here., but you’d never tell by looking at it now.
Good to see
I agree. I went last year. Lovely quiet small town. Cant believe it’s the same place.
Dermi was my class mate. And a friend. I was in class with him at the CBS, when the Christian Brother, sneared at the death of 4 Volunteers who had just died that morning. One of them was Dermots brother. He tore out of the class, I shouted at the Brother and got strapped. I can't get over watching Dermot here.
I’ve been binging on this channel for days now. I was born in Lisburn in 1970 and left NI in 2000. Watching all of this brings back strange emotions. I don’t know how to describe them but my childhood was basically growing up in a catholic family in Lisburn. I never picked sides and all my mates were Protestant. So we were all mixed, but all these years later you realize how much you were affected by this. It goes very deep and sometimes it will come up and put me in a strange mood. Thank god my wife is a therapist😂
I'm from Lisburn. It's a shit hole now
@@scottyb5039 I’ve heard hard drugs have made their way in. Where in Lisburn? I grew up on the low road.
@@chanratt madness. I'm from low road
@@scottyb5039 no way! I grew up in barley hill. Low road was tough for a catholic growing up, more so the glen more lads. They were a bitter bunch, but then some boys that lived on the low road too. I don’t want to mention any names but there were a lot of UDA there. My mother got beaten up in the Hilden Inn by these big tough men. I knew personally a couple of Catholics who were murdered from there too, and I know who did it. The 80s were tough. Hill hall was also a rough place and sometimes they’d come across the blue bridge and start trouble. Me and my mates were all metallers and tried to stay out of it but no matter how much you tried trouble still found you. During the Anglo Irish agreement riots we had wet blankets and fire extinguishers all over the house. We were 100% expecting to get burnt out but there were a lot of men in my family and we all lived next door ext and the cowards were always too afraid to come up our culdesac. Having said all this, I had the perfect childhood playing down by the Lagan and over the fields by ballynaskea and that area. My mates and I never cared who or what anyone was. We just got on with it and though everyone who would hate you for religion were fucxiing losers and thickos.
@@chanratt I agree with you 💯. Did you know Jackie Thompson?
Good job mate - I love it when you find stuff like this and then add it to your play list - as an ex Medic from my time in the British Army - I have enjoyed sharing these stories with my new wife who is Australian, but from Celtic heritage - the 7 part series on how it all started assisted me so much - despite my memories of discussing the conflict prior - it helps so much! Thanks again buddy / keep up the great work!
The Troubles series was a great find for sure. Putting a load of work into the channel of late - it is really pleasing to see it reaching far and wide. Appreciate the comment my friend, thank you.
Ulster is not for sale!!!!!!
I’m often impressed by the thoughtful responses that come from people who were there in a combatant role. Thank you so much, Geoff for your thoughtful perspective
@david ravemscroft9235
Is that the nine countries of Ulster that's not for sale? Or just the six counties that make up northern Ireland, that's not for sale???
Easy to forget how it was here not that long ago. Crazy times. Thank you for these videos.
Another great documentary, fair play to ya ATL
ta chum
Fantastic footage great interview with Dermot, a good lenadooner , we all grew up in this whole soup if you call it , but it’s great to see peace , but it’s true the English hadn’t a clue what was going on
the engish dont know their asses from their elbows
These videos are compelling viewing. Well done. Here's to a brighter future for all in the emerald isle.
Thank You, I am an American trying to saturate myself with info. to learn about the troubles.
I’m American too. I’ve been following the troubles since they started and this channel is the best!! It is a treasure of Troubles history. It is honestly the best source I have found!! And the loyal watchers also recommend great books that, sadly, are hard to find here! But there are still some good suggestions. Welcome to this wonderful channel!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚
@@ATLmodK I know, its crazy just clicked on the channel vids button...so many vids, already subbed...thx for the heads up, Thank You Ma'am
@@sword-and-shield Welcome! I admit my interest might be obsessive, but each of these vids unpacks another story, another interpretation… so keep watching. Hope to see you when there is another live chat.
@@ATLmodK Hope to catch it...thx again. I know its not simple, and I have a lot to learn, but it seems the Brits should have just left it all to the Country to decide, on their own, by a majority voting process. In my limited exposure, its seems they just wanted to have a foothold in that Country so close to theirs just based on potential future security threat alone. The North already being there gave them the excuse. No disrespect, and not trying to flame anyone, just throwing out my early assessments. I am leaning Republican, because it seems they were just asking for simple Nationalistic rights, its reminding me of the movie Braveheart.
It’s very, very complicated as you will learn. I became interested when Bernadette Devlin came to the States in August, 1969. My husband and i had been involved with Civil Rights here and hearing how Catholics were treated in NI was appalling to this and to this day people in this country are shocked that people were denied rights because they were Catholic. Still hear that here.
Anyway, I see it as three sides that are often just seen as two. The Nationalists, the Unionists and the Brits, and most of the time the Unionists and Brits were aligned. But you will discover much and my knowledge started over 50 years ago, but I keep learning new things.
I’ll put my opinion this way, I’ve never sided with the over dog!
The McShane family breaks my heart.💔
❤
Special type of people, couldn’t meet nicer!
This has to be one of my favourites from this channel, thanx soo much ATL. 💚🇮🇪RIP Bobby Storrie. 💚
Tnxs Paddy - defo no where near enough of this type of documentary done on the conflict - a real shame
@@Bannedatl I know right, what would we do without u? ATL The best YT channel ever.💚💚💚
@@paddycaldwell3112 Tnxs Paddy - ATL is just an archive for our history to be stored. Not sure best YT channel suits it in my mind as it can put me and everyone watching in such a dark place sometimes. But I appreciate your comment my friend , very much ..
@@paddycaldwell3112Bobbie Storey was a thug, the dogs on the streets and all that, up there with King rat.
@@ononewheelladand your precious soldiers who killed innocent women and children? The whole British government itself and the oppression of Irish catholics till this day? Both sides aren’t innocent, but if we’re going to start pointing fingers…You don’t really have a leg to stand on. Much more important talking points in all this, none of these things have anything to do with your narrow minded views.
I grew up in Glasgow Scotland and my mother was born in East Belfast, I grew up with both Catholics and Protestants , 1 time when I was 17 years old me my mum and brother we were visting family in Belfast, - I was at a house party the RUC came and I was taken to Castlereagh holding centre with people who were at the party and I was in Castlereagh for 1 week and tortured, my teeth broken I WASNT EVEN PART OF ANY PARAMILITARIES,
You should sue them.
They didn't notice you had a Scottish accent?
Fly with the crows you get shot at
@@irishboer7124an Irish person suing an English government for there police’s wrongdoing? Youd get laughed at
Dá Irish Catholics suffered shocking under brit law🇮🇪
Thank you Bobby❤
Remember when the provos attacked Downing Street using pipe mortar bombs plus high explosives.I was in the West End and the building I was in shook think it was the mid 90s they launched the bombs from the back of a van with only half a roof.
Lol, I was in Central London too that day, it didn't bother me, but then I grew up in Belfast in the bad old days.
I sure do. 😊
My dad was searching downing street when it went off, also he was on front page news the day after with the transit van on fire in the background
As a British man, the English son that’s father was killed is completely close minded. He says it is not enough to say you need to start killing people because of your situation, all while never acknowledging that he has never been in such a position. The Irish people felt horrors and persecution no English man could comprehend, to say they are unjustified and place yourself morally higher just because you have a kushty life that allowed for said ideals to foster is completely ignorant.
You can't expect him to see his own tragic loss objectively. The victims of war can't be expected to acknowledge the objective political reality they're a part of.
Rich privilege. Amongst other things. It is like the rich people in California saying more should be done for the homeless on twitter and then won't even look at them when they walk past them.
His father was murdered and you say he’s ignorant? Was he supposed to congratulate his father’s murderers? Ridiculous.
@@MJ23915 not saying that he should congratulate them, but saying it’s not enough to be pushed to these extremes by an individual’s situation when you have never experienced said situation is ignorant because he saying how things should be without knowing what it’s actually right. If he said he just didn’t understand rather than condemning it is okay.
I mean, he technically wasn't wrong about understanding it all but being perplexed at the lack of responsibility. Human psychology tries to rationalize what we do, and human psychology tends to be very judgemental of that at the same time.
Great upload.
Great upload. Lived in Belfast during the worst of the troubles, in Belfast. I think you need to have experienced it to fully understand. Make no mistake. It was a war
Thank you for sharing❤
so many memories of Crossmaglen and Bessbrook in the 70s . such beautiful areas , but so bloody scary . big mistakes back in 1921 . we should have given it all back . CYMRY AM BYTH .
TIOCFAIDH AR LA 🇮🇪
All back? What are you talking about?
*Cymru?
@@JOsc4-v Yes , all back . Why give 3 quarters back and keep the rest ?. If it had been done then , i think it would have been accepted . No chance now . I served in NI . Welsh Guards . Hence the CYMRU AM BYTH .
@@8ballphil150It turns out Wales is batty land. Gareth Thomas, that rugby ref and Huw Edwards. Who would have thought?
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure
"All because the lady loves , milk tray"
Vol.dermot finnucane.😅
We were frightened to go into the North on white number plates, So very rarely did
good work bruv
Don't forget about 17 year old Shane McArdle murdered alongside Gavin by cowards.
Don't forget Bobby sands and comrades who died for the FREEDOM OF EIRE. 🇮🇪 .
@@garysmooth2189 Your eyes are looking a little pinned there lad.
@@IrishmushHe'd be spinning in his grave if he could see Ireland now , what a waste
I've always been detested by Loyalists. They would even make the old school Brit reprisal apologists blush. Fascist scum bags. The Engilsh don't want them as they are far too much if an embarrassing legacy, and ad for the Irish, well I think they would rather it be an English problem 😂 Just give them free booze, copious Union Jack's, and a few drums, but God knows where u will put them all. Not in England please 😊 Never mind, Enoch Powell may come back to guide the the promised land
Alan Oliver was the murderer of those young boys,wile working for special branch.
It's a very good a powerful documentary. You can sense people are war weary and wanted an end to the conflict despite the fact the ceasefire did breakdown.
I think the English guy who near end has a more pessimistic view when talks about seeing hope but then saying maybe it's easier to walk away from it. It's a very true sentiment in life.
I allways find it odd when a British person comes to the Island of Ireland interview an Irish person and asks them do they think they are a terrorist for fighting for political freedom...😮
They obviously wouldn’t ask such a question. The Irish government would also consider that Irish person a terrorist.
@@sherlockgnomes8971
A very dirty war no doubt...while at the same time the U.D.A. L.V.F. U.F.F. were out and about machine gunnig bars and shooting random catholics all the while their police and military handlers pulled the strings...and for what? So that they could go on to be well off drug dealers with bad haircuts and worsd clothes....Ireland is Irish accross 32 counties and will be one country in the future that 100% certain and no amount of flag waving and flute band marches can stop that happening.
He asks what she would think about some in the UK calling her that.
Amazing work PW
Brings back memories of my uncle who served numerous tours of Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s. Remember my dad telling me a story of when he came home on leave and wamted to fight everyone in the local Irish club. A friemd from the club told him to come and get your brother before he gets a beating. Used to get busted by the redcaps regular because he didnt wamt to go back. Used to hide in my grans loft lol. Never spoke about it though, my dad said it messed his head up badly, you never knew who your enemy was.
I worked with an ex-squaddie. He said one night on patrol in NI they happened upon two young couples, teens, snogging on the edge of the estate.
They leathered the lads and carried on. I just thought what a cxxts trick... but that's soldiers for yer.
I suppose they'd have been near school-leaving age or older but nothing to do with the troubles. Just kids in a quiet area courting...
They never learned, they made plenty recruits for the ra.
They never learned, they made plenty recruits for the ra.
Is johnny Adair gay?
Well obviously, mind you I wouldn't say it to his face!
Johnny mad dog adair
Woof woof hes a poof
Probably
He's bisexual! He's slept with men and women which is widely known in the North of Ireland.
@@TheScouseassassin why wouldn't you say that to his face when he openly admitted it? Also why would you be scared of him? He's not as hard as the media makes out evil yes 100% but more of a bully than hard and that is from first hand experience.
And they allowed stakeknife to murder at will
Is it true that these days in Ulster the majority of the population are now Catholic??
It is
Muslim
ATLmodK here. This is ridiculous, it certainly isn’t a majority Muslim and somebody who doesn’t know anything about Ireland could believe this comment
@@Bannedatlhe’s messing with your head ya idiot!!!😂😂
dont suppose we can move on from past horrors and just make what we have the best we can? look at the rest of the world. if we cant get it right here were all fucked.
I'm Irish and proud of it,i was a kid in the south during the bad days of the war 70's/80's and didn't quite understand the political situation,i got my information from An Phoplacht and seeing the pictures on the magazine made me realise a 5th of my Country was under british crown rule and ppl were been killed,as kid you think simple and i thought why can't the soldiers go back to their country and all the killing would stop,if only after nearly a thousand years of british brutality towards Ireland it runs deep in the Irish mind ☘️Tal 32
I DISLIKE THE PROTESTANTS BECAUSE THEY HATE US CATHOLICS ENOUGH TO BURN US ON THEIR BONFIRES 😮😢 18:15
The ra killed more Irish people than any other organisation and has the highest kill rate of roman Catholics out of all the protagonists involved in the troubles. Perhaps you should have read something else?
I’m from Scotland, and understood very little until my Irish partner took me home. Those who think they know, but know nothing are the worst
Can’t spell your native tongue???
Multi kulti will do what the Normans never could.
I think most people in England & Wales wouldn’t care if Ireland was United, unsure if that opinion would hold in Scotland though.
Also, I wonder what the percentage of southern Irish people would welcome N Ireland into a United country.
100% of us would ..silly question
@@michaelcollins1211It's not though. Because of the financial burden of dole scum and other spongers it would entail. NI costs Westminster billions each year.
Eire will be re-united in time. The Nationalists got more from the peace process and it's on the cards. There'll be reports & briefing documents in Whitehall about this and the big give-away, imho, was Brexit and putting the border in the Irish Sea.
It'll come... the British is divesting itself of all it's troublesome colonies.
betweeb 65 and 75 according to most of the polls.
There was int 1
Well explained in simple but factual terms by danny morrisson..
Were there any protestant or Jewish IRA members?
The IRA was /is a political unit its ideology is not based on religion and some of its finest members were protestant....on the other hand the British system in the 6 counties was / is based on protestant superiority which included housing ,jobs ,voting rights .....the 6 counties was never a good place to be Catholic...
Yes
@@peteringram476Nonsense
Wolfe Tone who founded The United Irishmen in 1798 was Protestant.
Plenty deluded ex-Scots,Campbells,etc...ironic as they were Scottish traitors...remember Omagh?
That diplomat looked like a Bond villain. If I started wearing a tinted monocle I would expect shadowy attempts on my life..
Bobby Sands, we always remember!
Absolutely wonderful documentary thank you, I am from Yorkshire. I remember the troubles thinking this will never happen to my community of Muslims then 911 happened.
sorry but what has this got to do with being a muslim? are you edging towards whats happened in israel because i'm struggling with your view
Playing the victim as they always do... now their stabbing children in Southport... Ireland and UK.. we need our countries back!! We are power in numbers!!!
Our btn 1 PPWRR was in omagh co. Tyrone in 1994
I went there because I was curios and wanted to see for myself, so one day I was on one side the next the other, was the only way to do it. It was all just crazy. both sides as bad as each other. Hatred taught from a young age, kids seeing terrible things.
I found it safest to stand out, not go creeping about.
Its very intimidating to round a corner and stare into a rifle, so was going through a turnstile into a bar as the heads turned with every click wondering what was coming if anything who would know?
It's simply: united Irland.
These people were fighting this war surrounded by the enemy..soldiers in your front garden taking cover..army men with foreign accents calling kids bigot names..
The soldiers were getting much worse than getting called names or having someone in their front garden…..and it wasn’t a war. It was a dirty stinking terrorist campaign by the IRA who shot to kill, but cried when the army sometimes did the same to them. If it was a war, then the IRA committed thousands of war crimes.
my family was one them I could tell you tones of stories of the police being nasty my da my granda and my granny and all my uncels were arrested under interment im very proud of my family
MC faddens 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
RIP Maria mcshane, she was still fighting for justice from her very deathbed. Anyone who has had any sort of relationship with Maria and her family knows that they’re good kindhearted people. Used to spend every summer in the caravan across from hers in bundoran, she was like family. A real character of a woman, a proper sense of humour and could chat the head off you for days. Over all those years the only thing changed was the hair do haha. RIP Maria, hopefully one day your family will finally get the closure they deserve.
I'm reading a book ( Bandit country ) about Armagh and the border . It's absolutely amazing how the English thjnk they are in the right and have the nerve to call people who will do ANYTHING to defend and protect their country and their heritage , culture , history , homes , religious beliefs , and to defend and protect their family from the tyranny and oppression of the British government. They never tell you about the extreme ways the British would try and hold them down.amd under their boots. This wasn't just about this instance but 1,000 years of constant tyranny and oppression which would cause anyone to use certain methods to fight back. They couldn't have a typical army because the British would have controlled it and threw money at it. Just like the RUC and Guarda ( even though many Guarda where IRA supporters or even volunteers ). What really misses me off is how the rest of the world sat back and did nothing. Especially the USA where many of It's political and military are of Irish descent.
@Stephen-Lyons-3ch, You should not expect anything different from the USA. The Irish were hated and looked down upon by the WASP"s and English Nativists. Only when the Irish of both stripes proved their worth in the Civil War were they given any respect, but only for a while. Look at the same and worse being done to Palestine today --so say now more about expecting some kind of justice from USA. The USA is run by the people who financially backed Cromwell in his Genocidel hatred of Irish Catholics. I can show historical evidence of this fact.
Don't ever try to outdo an Irishman. Especially if it comes to invading his territory/personal space.
You seen NOW HOW SCREWED the Republic of Ireland is with immigration? All done WITH sinn fein in power?
Get the British Govt out, it's not their country. Ireland for the Irish.
As an English man I am ashamed of this country and the attrocities it has carried out How fucking dare we do this ? Did you know also that England were responsible for the first concentration camps back in the Boer war Most of the stuff in our museums is pillaged from countries that couldn't fight back As a boy I remember Bobby Sands and it upset me that he died the way he did and the other hunger strikers too I was 13 back in 1981 A shameless shameful embarrassing empire this country has probably carried out some of the worst attrocities in living memory and it's so wrong ♥️🌊
The USA was creating concentration camps for Native Americans long before the Boer War, and exterminating them with biological warfare and ethnic cleansing.
Good man. An honest in his heart Englishman. Hard to come by too often!!!
God bless Bobby ♥️
Went back to Belfast this year what a change now full of immigrants
They prefer being called Ulster Scots
@@KimJong-101 was just going to say something similar.👍👏👏👏
Forgive and forget, it was all bullshit
Not to be superficial but everyone’s earrings are SLAYING
Define Slaying please - it must be slang I do not know..
@@Bannedatlooops sorry! It means: when someone looks impressively beautiful and slays it.
Example:
You are slaying in red babe!
@@SarahAnnSays Class !!
See you can talk normally, what is it thst makes you use slang like that? Is it only online you speak like that? Or in person too?@@SarahAnnSays
Channel banned, has ads 🤭
Both sides have just as much blood on their hands.
SLR 7.62 just like the AK unforgiving
An awful lot of tripe being discussed here about people claiming they are in love. Out of all the people in the world you love someone from the same tiny country 🤨. It's a choice they've made, but they claim it's some 'no choice higher pursuit.' Open and shut case of folie à deux.
It'll be a bright future if the English gave Ireland back it's land. Imagine stealing 1/2 a country and thinking the Irish citizens would accept that. Gosh, I wonder why they fought.
Your father fought for what he believed in....so did the north of Ireland
Guy Fawkes🎉
Why won’t British leave Ireland and let them live their lives?
Such a sin on that family in Dublin❤
Everyone has a right to defend themselves
27:28 think yous did
I guess people here would off been classed as far right back then.
No they were far left.
It's too late. The enemy has all but won. -Emd 12025
Rewriting history
The Irish have the right to be united and free of the crown. It's 2025 ffs.
Interment without trial breaks my heart😂
My heart ♥️☘️ goes to the Irish Republican army ♥️🇮🇪
❤❤ mind boys leave it alone don't be as bad as that orange mob❤❤❤
What would I have done
You can claim pride for being Irish, but most of us have done not hing.
Grace❤
Bobby Sands❤
No self respecting Provo would wear that cardigan...
Rip ♥️☘️ Bobby storey❤
Shaun the sheep 🏴 had a lawyer and court case 👍
The British were the occupiers. Occupation is bad. If youve seen it , then you know. Resistance to it is something that is organic and necessary for humanity to rid themselves of occpation in all its forms.
I for one want to be become a min ority in my own homeland, legally.
Invited by the catholics
No court case😂 no justice😂
You are all talking while the east Tyrone and Armagh brigade lost rebels .
For goodness sake put it to rest
So sad how people can hate each other for a religious or political belief. Why can't people just live peaceful and safe.?
It'd take a while to explain, but it's mainly because some of Ireland is occupied by a foreign government and we don't want them here.
@@ConnbineHarvesterNonsense
@@markdavidson9743 Which bit? The fact that some of Ireland is part of the UK? Or the bit where most people on the island of Ireland do not want any of the island to be part of the UK?
For Shaun the sheep 🏴
Death begets death begets death.
My granny Rembers the trouble's in the 1970's in ennis county Claire🤦♀️🇮🇪
Why run if so strong 😂😂😂
(Show of strength)
Law, practice,👍
Wow some old faces in here bai
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No where too be seen nowadays..
Lol people's front if judea bawhaha
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Law❤
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33 posts, calm down.
Faerie❤
Interment without trial is worse than racism in Australia 😂 this happens in the 1970's 1980's 😂❤
Surly in this day and age a split country should be handed back to there rightful owners one land one country one day may god make it so that Ireland can live together as one in peace 🙏🇮🇪☘️
Your country taken over by stealth ( by your EU masters) and not a finger lifted.
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Disgraceful 😂❤
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