Without a doubt this man is a true Christian and a great human being. It would be a wonderful day for Ireland and the world if everyone, Catholic, Protestant, dissenter and the rest, began to emulate his like. This life is short, and it is not the be all and end all, but the entrance exam for our spiritual eternity. Let's make the best of it. God bless you sir.
Well said, I was a Catholic now a Church of Ireland my Wife and I live in a small Protestant group in Southern Ireland and we get on great with all different groups
I was amazed to find out that there was a large amount of mixed marriage among people in Ireland in the past. I always thought that changing one's religion in Ireland was a very recent event. My grandmother and her mother and siblings changed their religion from catholic to church of Ireland. I also found out that my great great grandmother married a catholic and changed her religion from church of Ireland to Catholic. Religion in Ireland has generally been associated with one's ethnic and sub-cultural identity rather than one's faith in Christ.
I was a Catholic, now a born again Christian,... Im glad to see that there are many people of many religion's and faith's that hold dear wolf tones view, god bless all of you, (remember orr)
@@bloodboughtbigphilr8266 totally agree with you. I think we as Christians need pray for God to move right across this whole country. We need as God to help us look into our hearts and deal with any sectarianism baggage we maybe harbouring. 2 Chronicles 7. 14. It's crazy to think we were once known as the Land of Saints and Scholars. The Irish monks brought the Gospel of Jesus christ far and wide. We could do this again but I believe that we will have to undergo a period of repentance first for all the bloodshed. To be honest I don't trust new Sinn Feinn we need more Christians involved in politics.
@@anonralph7081 The Catholicizing of Irish republicanism was it's undoing and certainly not the vision of the United Irishmen. Sectarianism needs to be ditched and it's a contagion. To be Irish and a born again Christian does not mean you drop your Irishness and in the North, become a Protestant and a Unionist. I just call myself a non-denominational Gospel believer, neither Protestant nor Catholic. While there's a place for Christians in politics, the answer is first and foremost a spiritual one and may there may be a rich harvest of souls won for the Saviour in the island of Ireland. As long as we have the freedom to proclaim the message of life, assemble in the name of Jesus and be witnesses for Him, we got a lot to be thankful for. The Shinners have gone too woke and I wasn't happy with their about turn on the E.U. I'm for an Irexit. Much blessing friend.
I hope Mr.Montgomerymis well and still has a voice that's being heard. A way forward is what he is offering his his community and the whole of the island as well.
@@dlaalltheway7319 You said "Would ya like to try a wee cheese burger Bobby sands?" I Said: "Gnaw yir grand Sir, political status has been restored, thanks, and sands tend to grind on the enamels hi" P.S. You're a funny guy :)
Ulster Protestants don't have to be Unionist/Loyalists the Ulster Presbyterians where forefront of the Irish Republican movement in 1790s United Irishmen.
+Connell MacCool Just a wee factoid i managed to "suss" out, Presbyterian's is an anagram for Britney Spears!! I wonder if this is a "stage name" or if its "meant??".
I'm of Ulster-Irish stock, but I believe in uniting Ireland to end sectarianism. However the condition is that the Republic must become secular. There must be no state-funded religious education or health care; Catholics and Protestants must go to school together and abortion must be legalised.
St Pat I believe in a United Ireland,a New Ireland,with a new constitution,a new flag,a new anthem.I believe in no state religion.It is what will happen someday.But until there is an overwhelming call for a referendum in the north,I think peace and full reconciliation is what is most important.The new Irish state cannot resemble the current Irish state,or the old Northern Ireland statelet,it must mirror the future “Northern Ireland”
Yep exactly. State secularism. What is so hard about it. Germany is a country of Protestants (Lutherans and Calvinists) and Roman Catholics, they don't sit around and worry about abortion, religion, and they tax their churches, the state is strictly secular, although they fund some heritage related things surrounding the Protestant and Catholic traditions. The state is modern and many Protestants and Catholics are lapse, or atheist these days. The country is like the Japan of Europe, very into technology, development, and not really into religion, outside of family days. Religion both Protestant and Catholic, or otherwise has no place in public government forum. I come from both Protestant and Roman Catholic ancestors, in the USA of course of various ethnicities, I have German, and Norwegian Lutherans, Dutch and French Huguenot Calvinists and later French Huguenot ancestry English Methodists, Irish Catholics, English Anglicans, Scottish Catholics and Presbyterians, etc. I grew up in the Lutheran faith, and attended a Roman Catholic high school, and a Lutheran College. I consider myself a Social Democrat. I'm a secularist. I may attend a Lutheran Church for Christmas and Easter etc. but outside of that I don't care lol. In the US everything is divided more on Race, if your White your just seen as White American regardless of your Protestant or Catholic background. Which is funny because I don't care about that either as I date girls from various backgrounds outside my group Asian and Latina in particular. Just a secular humanist lol
It''s always really nice to see a Protestant who stands in solidarity with Republicans. Much Respect to all the Protestants who are like these men, and ofcourse Respect to the the Catholic, and even Atheist Irish aswell.
@George Madden Please pass my comment on to the Ministers. I was born a Catholic in County Tyrone, 1969- when the Troubles started. I have always been a firm Irish Republican. I've been fiercely attacked, been discriminated against, & seen many terrible things, on both sides, that have only sullied my soul. I pray for Peace in my own words. I've been an Agnostic Theist since age 17, after trying REAL hardcore Atheism, fearlessly. It's so wonderful to hear these views from those I usually fear. You are welcome in my land for then we get to the WHOLE POINT of the Irish Tricolour: Green & white, United in Peace 🇮🇪 Fair speed to you, sir.
Both the Provos and the INLA had high ranking prods in the 70s and 80s...don't forget the Shankill brigade in the 1930s...when the working class stuck together....just sayin
@@the_red_barron1002 read Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA. There's an entire chapter on this particular unit based in the Shankill Road. They were affectionately known as 'The Prod Squad'. Very interesting subject.
@@seanmolloy6884 Go on. Tell them about when they were attacked by the R & R Brigade (rosary & rifle) of the IRA at Bodenstown during a commemoration of Wolfe Tone. ah, I see. Thought not. After that, they basically disbanded, just like the United Irishmen 150 years earlier.
And the rest - they were chased when they went to a Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown. This clearly defines why Protestants should not want a united Ireland.
I've always thought the Monarchy used religion to divide and conquer both Ireland and Scotland! The ironic thing is that the Scots that were basically deported to settle the Ulster Plantation were considered undesirable by the English Monarchy which led to this nearly 400 years later.
My great great grandfather left Northern ierland for canada in 1910. He was a protestant Presbyterian republican. He was torn between his desire for a free ierland and his loyalist (most of whom were protestants) neighbors persecuting him. The family story goes that he smuggled a bunch of guns into the north for the Republicans. sold his family shop in bellfast and got enough money to buy three 3rd class tikets for Canada and for some land , one for himself, one for his eldest son, and one for his very pregnant wife (who had her baby a daughter on the voyage over). Once they arrived in canada, they made their way to Alberta and bought a chunk of farm land. They had one more son (my great grandfather) shortly after he volunteered to go and fight for Canada in WW1 (1914) he served until 1917 when he was mustard gased on the front lines he spent most of the rest of the war in the hospital and was sent home in early 1918. Having survived his injuries, he lived into his 90s long enough to have spent time with my grandfather as a child. Even here in canada, my protestant family has always followed the troubles, believing that ierland should be united and free (regardless of faith, we are all Christians). Although the republican Irish having allied themselves with the Palestinians in recent years has been a subject of conversation and distress around the family dinner table. Do people not understand that Muslims hate Christians regardless of whether you are a protestant or a Catholic
It’s worth noting that a lot of Irish served and heroically sacrificed for the British army/navy over the years and unfortunately don’t have there stories told as much. Men like Tom Crean were incredibly brave ethnic Irish that should be recognized even tho they were serving the British forces
Ireland would have united years ago if it had not been for 1916, DeValera and the IRA. A retired former stormont Civil Servant once told me that it was only natural for IReland to be United if Not for the politics of HATE on Both sides of the border!!
@@dlougha Yes, and also the atrocities perpetrated by the IRAagainst neutral, non-combatant Protestants during the Irish Civil War in 1922. This was mainly in Cork and Tipperary.
@@willfoster2635 yes I know, and I agree with you. But it was 1916 that sparked the ongoing division in Ireland because it gave legitimacy to a very small group of misguided idealists, led in part by people who were not even born in Ireland.
@@willfoster2635 Yes. The triumphalist politics have caused much division, and Even the comments are ignorant and misguided. Any Idiot who knows anything about Irish history, should know that it is only natural that Ireland is a United Country. However, Triumphalism on both sides of the Irish border have kept Ireland politically divided, even today. Glorifying the blood on the hands of those so called 1916 "heroes" who killed more ordinary Irish citizens than Soldiers, or the "heroes" in the IRA who shot dead fellow Irish men in the back of the head across Ireland during the war of Independence. Theirs was a war of hate and not a war of Independence. Ireland is part of a broader Gaelic culture that spans beyond Ireland, and it is to that fraternity that Ireland should have looked and not to the DeValera isolationism that nearly destroyed Ireland and mired it in ongoing ignorance and poverty for another 60 years after independence. The Unity that the minister talks about in the video, is such a unity of people, in tolerance, and love rather than to a political allegence, be it to britain or whatever.
If loyalist working class people would stop looking toward uppy's like jim allister jeffery donaldson gavin robinson arlene foster etc we would get somewhere
Essentially all protestants in the republic are irish. And Americans who have an irish great great grandmother aren't really irish are they as they havent been brought up in irish culture. When he get a united Ireland the British in the North will just integrate into being irish I'm certain.
+Mo Dolaghan Wolfe Tone himself was Anglican (and a Graduate of Trinity) most of the other United Irishmen like the McCracken's were as you say Presbyterians and Ulster Scot's- But the change in attitude was more that after 1798 Republicanism became sectarian and Catholic ,not that Prods became less Irish
I believe regardless of background if you do the appropriate reading you will come to the clear conclusion that the act of union of 1800 is a moral injustice and that Ireland should be reunified and independent
how many protestants actuallly go to church in both parts of ireland today? and how many catholix actually go to their c hurch today in north and south ireland?
Unionists fear and loathing of the South is entirely irrational. Doesn't it speak volumes when the Protestant Dubliner says she lives happily in the Republic with no baggage yet a Catholic in the North lived under discrimination. That's not to say there was never any discrimination in the south but the South had progressed far more into the 21st century than the North which remains a bit of a cold house for gays because of the unionist evangelicals there.
basically Ireland should be run by the Irish regardless of religious beliefs everyone must see that it is obvious, I'm an English catholic with half English and half Irish bloodline so I fall into a awkward category and although I'm well aware that Catholics in England have had it easy compared to Catholics in northern Ireland there is still an unfriendliness towards us here, it's a bit like this: everyone just assumes you are church of England without ever asking but when you tell them you're catholic because it crops up in conversation they can't hide that disappointed look from their face and they subtly step backwards and are never as friendly after that, it's pathetic, I pray for a united Ireland run by an Irish government where protestants and Catholics live side by side in a friendly state but if we still haven't achieved that here in England a country that accepts Muslims, Hindus and Jews as equals but still doesn't accept Catholics as equals then i fear there is an extremely long road ahead for Ireland
It's not a myth. It was very much the case that Catholic in the north were treated abhorrently for decades. They faced severe discrimination and during the troubles there over half of the people killed by British Forces were Catholic civilians. It's changed a lot now and the place is a lot more equal thankfully. The damage has been done, however.
George Reggie A United Ireland was always an inevitability. It was always a temporary schism of this island. Created due to sectarianism in the north. It will speed the process of unification and could possibly lead to the breakup of the UK as a whole with Scotland leaving.
***** I'm atheist. My religion of birth is not important. Being Nationalist/Republican has not religious attachment. All faiths have been associated with it. It's about freedom. Freedom from a nation that has abused Ireland, stolen land and persecuted and slaughtered Irishmen and women for centuries.
Good documentary. i m protestant and my friend catholic from ireland. He says all the time that catholics re in the right and protestants well not.. Im from Argentina always s good to look at this with positive eyes. i dont think so we need to fight against one another for religion. But i know we have an only True God and the God almighty in heaven is what matter. God s above all and Jesus his Son we have salvation. God bless
I was born & raised an Irish Catholic in New York... my views since I was a kid have changed very much so I wouldn't say dramatically changed but let's just say I have become disillusioned with many things within the Catholic Churches establishment as a whole... many things I just do not agree with any longer...
@@eileenvance6330 Oh believe me it hardly means I want to be a follower of any other faith... trust me I don't... I'm sick of the bullshit extremism in every religion.... it's garbage nonsense & I refuse to be a part of it any longer...
Ireland has thrown off the influence of the Catholic Church for good reason. The church is now proven to have been a deeply corrupt, abusive and power-mongering institution, from its parish priests to its bishops, archbishops, right up to the papal Curia. They all colluded for decades to cover up mass sexual abuse of children, buy the silence of victims, and reassign molesting priests so they could molest again. The sordid, tragic history of the Catholic laundries that ruined the lives of thousands of voiceless Irish girls and women, and stole their children; the horrible mass graves full of nameless orphaned babies; the arrogant priests who kept girlfriends and families on the side; the financial abuses; the political influence exercised behind closed doors - - to hell with the Catholic Church and all it stands for.
Covenantars fought to be free of state and crown, the Queen or Pope are no better than anybody else, Presbyterianism is about equality and electing your leaders, Scotland and Ireland should have a lot more that unite us than divide us,the crown as mass killers should have no part of any religion,or country. Alba agus Erin sith agus sona,gu brath.
Religion is differant to politics & the years & decades of bigots are deluded to think you have to be a Unionist your a protestant that’s B/S The only way we will move forward is to devide politics from religion United ireland or not what our religion is has nothin to do with it & it’s time for everyone to realise this
@@michaelking9772 Not really, since HM the Queen is head of the established church, an English Catholic would no more expect to ascend to the monarchy here than in an Islamic country. The role is mostly a placeholder, and the majority are secular materialists like the rest of the west.
An interesting video, but only really the last guy here could be called a republican. Ironically the presbyterian minister's views seem to be essentially about continuing the 'war' against Catholicism by other means, rather than fostering an ideal of an Ireland shared by two different religious traditions.
is letterkenny not the most presbyterian town in ireland....scotland wants away from the UK...and i think that speaks volumes about the whole debate.....
I am Church Of Ireland. I say to Rev David Montgomery you talk about being Born Again and an Evangelical but what do you say to the Roman Catholic Church who ruled the then EIRE who don't even believe the Protestant faith or being Evangelical and Born Again? The Roman Catholic Church does not have the same rule in Eire today but it's still there. I know that there are Protestants? who SAY that they are Protestants and Loyalists and then say that they are Atheists when they are seriously asked. I'm not one of them but I do support Northern Ireland being British. After all the British monarch is Anglican of which I am one. The United Irish Men were organised because of social issues not because if any religious one
The ignorant comments given overlook the context of what this great man said in the interview. he is not unique in what he says. I know Many people who have voted Unionist as the lesser of the two evils rather than from a loyalty to the British Crown. As Southern Irish people still mention the several hundred years of British subjugation in Ireland, Presbyterians and other non conformists were reminded of the genocidal massacres that occurred across Catholic Europe on those same people who espoused the same belief as this man in the interview professes. The fear of such genocide in Ireland was very real among protestants across Ireland during and after the war of Independence in the late teens and 1920's. The IRA of that time contributed to such fear of threats and murders against protestants in Parts of Ireland. So please learn some history and listen again to what this wonderful man said in the interview. His allegiance is not to "DeValera's Ireland or the British Royal Family" but to God and Christ!!. It is only logical that Ireland as a country should be united!!. You first have to accept what this man stands for rather than Claiming him as a republican of the 1916 Catholic Ireland brand!!
He's right that its more of a racial split tho. Religion is nothing to do with it. Its that the british in Northern Ireland want to be in the UK while the irish want to be reunited with the rest of Ireland. Thats the issue. Its a tough issue to solve but in all fairness surely the irish should have a say over what goes on it Ireland instead of the british who live in Ireland
Will Foster You'd love that Will, wouldn't you? But Timmy's day of 'jogging on' cos Billy says so, ARE LONG GONE.... Timmy will be calling this shots soon. You better hope he's more generous than Billy was between 21-69. "And Ireland long a province be, A nation once again!"
Ireland was once united and British........but you Presbyterians.. part of the United Irishmen helped to destroy that. Don't you realize that the Roman Catholic Church thinks that if you are not a ROMAN catholic then you are a heretic and it is their bounden duty to return us to the fold. I am Church of Ireland thank God and I am disgusted at your comments. Let the disobedient child who wanted to leave return just like the Prodigal Son
Na your not Church of Ireland,as part of my family were of that faith,and any of my friends that are of that faith,are christians,and you madam are no christian.
@@paullooney8960 you obviously don't know the meaning of the word CHRISTIAN. We true Church of Ireland do. We would never speak to a woman in that manner
@@eileenvance6330 That would depend on the woman,as far as I am concerned ,I never beleaved in that crap that anybody who was Irish,and of a diffrent christian faith was a hertic,that was crap invented by outsiders,to keep Irish people divided,so they could profit,off the country called Ireland,and its people,regardless of what christian faith,they belonged to.
The head of the protestant religion is the queen she apoints the archbishop of canterbury does she not you should choose a religion were you like the head of the religion lol be a good start
Other than the teachings of Jesus are Socialist. Also every time I hear an American say "God Bless America is sickening a country of greed founded through the annihilation of around 26 million Indigenous peoples and theft and the murder of millions across the planet especially since WW2 in the name of God and massively supported by the evangelical protestant population.
kcirdrab get ready small mind !!!! u are IRISH with a union jack in one hand and the Orange order in another hand the English people are sick of youse are you blind
Rab! Pull your bowler hat out of your bigoted arse. The 6 missing counties of the ancient province will be united with the other three and the rest of the country sometime in the future. Wake up man!
Without a doubt this man is a true Christian and a great human being. It would be a wonderful day for Ireland and the world if everyone, Catholic, Protestant, dissenter and the rest, began to emulate his like. This life is short, and it is not the be all and end all, but the entrance exam for our spiritual eternity. Let's make the best of it.
God bless you sir.
Well said..
It is with a breath of fresh air to hear this gentleman speak he is really a true good Christian man wish there were more people like him.
God Bless you abundantly
Wolfe Tone & Robert Emmett would agree, wholeheartedly.
Well said, I was a Catholic now a Church of Ireland my Wife and I live in a small Protestant group in Southern Ireland and we get on great with all different groups
No Irish person days "southern Ireland".
I was amazed to find out that there was a large amount of mixed marriage among people in Ireland in the past. I always thought that changing one's religion in Ireland was a very recent event. My grandmother and her mother and siblings changed their religion from catholic to church of Ireland. I also found out that my great great grandmother married a catholic and changed her religion from church of Ireland to Catholic. Religion in Ireland has generally been associated with one's ethnic and sub-cultural identity rather than one's faith in Christ.
Donegal part of "Southern Ireland" is it?/s lying/bluffing Muppit
Many Great Irish men
Who fought for Ireland were Protestants.
and many of William of Orange's Blue Guards who secured victory at the Battle of the Boyne were Catholics. history is funny like that.
@Schwatzgelber parnell. Pearse. Wb yeats. Sam maguire .proud irush protestant. God bless
Yes, the United Irishmen were Protestant
@@colleenmccracken828 You have a great name,always rember Henery Joy.
@@annabradis5549 Constance Georgine Gore Booth, Kathleen Lynn Sophie Bryce, Sean O' Casey.
wolfe tone was a protestant as well
No matter protestants or Catholics... Soon Southern and Northern Ireland will be united under Shariah Law...
Muslims would want to have their heads examined if the think they can tackle this lot.
That will be fun.
I was a Catholic, now a born again Christian,... Im glad to see that there are many people of many religion's and faith's that hold dear wolf tones view, god bless all of you, (remember orr)
No contradiction whatsoever my Brother in being ex-Catholic, a born again Christian and still remaining an Irish patriot. Erin Go Bragh.
@@bloodboughtbigphilr8266 totally agree with you. I think we as Christians need pray for God to move right across this whole country. We need as God to help us look into our hearts and deal with any sectarianism baggage we maybe harbouring. 2 Chronicles 7. 14. It's crazy to think we were once known as the Land of Saints and Scholars. The Irish monks brought the Gospel of Jesus christ far and wide. We could do this again but I believe that we will have to undergo a period of repentance first for all the bloodshed. To be honest I don't trust new Sinn Feinn we need more Christians involved in politics.
@@anonralph7081
The Catholicizing of Irish republicanism was it's undoing and certainly not the vision of the United Irishmen. Sectarianism needs to be ditched and it's a contagion. To be Irish and a born again Christian does not mean you drop your Irishness and in the North, become a Protestant and a Unionist. I just call myself a non-denominational Gospel believer, neither Protestant nor Catholic. While there's a place for Christians in politics, the answer is first and foremost a spiritual one and may there may be a rich harvest of souls won for the Saviour in the island of Ireland. As long as we have the freedom to proclaim the message of life, assemble in the name of Jesus and be witnesses for Him, we got a lot to be thankful for.
The Shinners have gone too woke and I wasn't happy with their about turn on the E.U. I'm for an Irexit. Much blessing friend.
@@bloodboughtbigphilr8266 thank you and God bless you.
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire. My sympathies extended.
Peace to all and peace for ever.
The United Irishmen were founded by Mainly Protestants. Wolfe tone. Robert Emmet. Ect ect.
I hope Mr.Montgomerymis well and still has a voice that's being heard. A way forward is what he is offering his his community and the whole of the island as well.
People seem to have forgotten that Irish Republicanism was largely created by Northern Irish Presbyterians. We thank you.
Wolfe Tone has founded on Irish Republicanism Presbyterians joined in later.
They were traitors
@@eileenvance6330 Ulster Unionists and Loyalists yeah to Ireland they are.
@@RobertK1993 true there was only 1 Presbyterian
Preaching to the wrong people
"So here's to those brave Protestant men who gave their lives to free our land "
Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪☘🇮🇪☘🇮🇪☘🇮🇪☘
Would ya like to try a wee cheese burger Bobby sands?
@@dlaalltheway7319 You said "Would ya like to try a wee cheese burger Bobby sands?"
I Said: "Gnaw yir grand Sir, political status has been restored, thanks, and sands tend to grind on the enamels hi"
P.S. You're a funny guy :)
Ulster Protestants don't have to be Unionist/Loyalists the Ulster Presbyterians where forefront of the Irish Republican movement in 1790s United Irishmen.
Im a presberyterian protestant irish man and a republican just like my ancestor Roger Casement.
+Connell MacCool Just a wee factoid i managed to "suss" out, Presbyterian's is an anagram for Britney Spears!! I wonder if this is a "stage name" or if its "meant??".
That's a pretty cool heritage to have! Would have been interesting had he made his case to the IRB had he not been arrested.
No Ulster Protesant supports United Ireland they hate Ireland.
Connell MacCool Presbyterian Republican in the 21st century.
Paul Looney Both Christian denominations are retarded.
Much respect to this man
I'm of Ulster-Irish stock, but I believe in uniting Ireland to end sectarianism. However the condition is that the Republic must become secular. There must be no state-funded religious education or health care; Catholics and Protestants must go to school together and abortion must be legalised.
St Pat I believe in a United Ireland,a New Ireland,with a new constitution,a new flag,a new anthem.I believe in no state religion.It is what will happen someday.But until there is an overwhelming call for a referendum in the north,I think peace and full reconciliation is what is most important.The new Irish state cannot resemble the current Irish state,or the old Northern Ireland statelet,it must mirror the future “Northern Ireland”
Yep exactly. State secularism. What is so hard about it. Germany is a country of Protestants (Lutherans and Calvinists) and Roman Catholics, they don't sit around and worry about abortion, religion, and they tax their churches, the state is strictly secular, although they fund some heritage related things surrounding the Protestant and Catholic traditions. The state is modern and many Protestants and Catholics are lapse, or atheist these days. The country is like the Japan of Europe, very into technology, development, and not really into religion, outside of family days. Religion both Protestant and Catholic, or otherwise has no place in public government forum. I come from both Protestant and Roman Catholic ancestors, in the USA of course of various ethnicities, I have German, and Norwegian Lutherans, Dutch and French Huguenot Calvinists and later French Huguenot ancestry English Methodists, Irish Catholics, English Anglicans, Scottish Catholics and Presbyterians, etc. I grew up in the Lutheran faith, and attended a Roman Catholic high school, and a Lutheran College. I consider myself a Social Democrat. I'm a secularist. I may attend a Lutheran Church for Christmas and Easter etc. but outside of that I don't care lol. In the US everything is divided more on Race, if your White your just seen as White American regardless of your Protestant or Catholic background. Which is funny because I don't care about that either as I date girls from various backgrounds outside my group Asian and Latina in particular. Just a secular humanist lol
How secular can it get already as secular it can go.
@@RobertK1993 The Church runs education and health care.
@@RobertK1993 It would seem to be a troll. Best not to give it any oxygen/attention.
It''s always really nice to see a Protestant who stands in solidarity with Republicans. Much Respect to all the Protestants who are like these men, and ofcourse Respect to the the Catholic, and even Atheist Irish aswell.
A breath of fresh air. Sick of this PAIN we see on tv all the time. Seventies to Nineties were the bulk of it and it was terrible.
Sergio C. Thank you!
Kelly14UK that was just against the northern British cultists, the orange protestants
What about catholic unionists.
@@jonathanmcaleece9834 too few to mention
@George Madden
Please pass my comment on to the Ministers.
I was born a Catholic in County Tyrone, 1969- when the Troubles started. I have always been a firm Irish Republican.
I've been fiercely attacked, been discriminated against, & seen many terrible things, on both sides, that have only sullied my soul. I pray for Peace in my own words. I've been an Agnostic Theist since age 17, after trying REAL hardcore Atheism, fearlessly.
It's so wonderful to hear these views from those I usually fear. You are welcome in my land for then we get to the WHOLE POINT of the Irish Tricolour:
Green & white, United in Peace 🇮🇪
Fair speed to you, sir.
Both the Provos and the INLA had high ranking prods in the 70s and 80s...don't forget the Shankill brigade in the 1930s...when the working class stuck together....just sayin
What happened
@Conor Fields what happened in the 1930s?
@@the_red_barron1002 read Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA. There's an entire chapter on this particular unit based in the Shankill Road. They were affectionately known as 'The Prod Squad'. Very interesting subject.
@@seanmolloy6884 Go on. Tell them about when they were attacked by the R & R Brigade (rosary & rifle) of the IRA at Bodenstown during a commemoration of Wolfe Tone. ah, I see. Thought not. After that, they basically disbanded, just like the United Irishmen 150 years earlier.
And the rest - they were chased when they went to a Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown. This clearly defines why Protestants should not want a united Ireland.
I`m a atheist Australian and believe in a United Ireland
I've always thought the Monarchy used religion to divide and conquer both Ireland and Scotland! The ironic thing is that the Scots that were basically deported to settle the Ulster Plantation were considered undesirable by the English Monarchy which led to this nearly 400 years later.
In my opinion you've always thought right as well. Religion is nothing to do with the split
@@mcfcfan1870 It was about religion and identity and about land grab of Ulster Plantation.
My great great grandfather left Northern ierland for canada in 1910. He was a protestant Presbyterian republican. He was torn between his desire for a free ierland and his loyalist (most of whom were protestants) neighbors persecuting him. The family story goes that he smuggled a bunch of guns into the north for the Republicans. sold his family shop in bellfast and got enough money to buy three 3rd class tikets for Canada and for some land , one for himself, one for his eldest son, and one for his very pregnant wife (who had her baby a daughter on the voyage over). Once they arrived in canada, they made their way to Alberta and bought a chunk of farm land. They had one more son (my great grandfather) shortly after he volunteered to go and fight for Canada in WW1 (1914) he served until 1917 when he was mustard gased on the front lines he spent most of the rest of the war in the hospital and was sent home in early 1918. Having survived his injuries, he lived into his 90s long enough to have spent time with my grandfather as a child. Even here in canada, my protestant family has always followed the troubles, believing that ierland should be united and free (regardless of faith, we are all Christians). Although the republican Irish having allied themselves with the Palestinians in recent years has been a subject of conversation and distress around the family dinner table. Do people not understand that Muslims hate Christians regardless of whether you are a protestant or a Catholic
Presbyterians in Scotland are nationalists and would be speaking gaelic/gaidhlig ...that must really piss off Loyalists.
Especially the most devout of them in the Highlands and Islands - 'the wee Frees' and 'the wee wee Frees'.
Yes they are and frowning they dislike cousins in Northern Ireland.
How Protestants and Catholics, two groups of people who worship the same god, same Jesus and use the same bible, don’t get on, just baffles the mind
It does. You know why?
Because religion is literaly nothing to do with the divide in northern ireland
It’s worth noting that a lot of Irish served and heroically sacrificed for the British army/navy over the years and unfortunately don’t have there stories told as much. Men like Tom Crean were incredibly brave ethnic Irish that should be recognized even tho they were serving the British forces
Nonsence. Crean was an agent.
Fair play to that man.
I love this. I am surprised how many Protestants I have personally met who are in favour of a united Ireland
Ireland would have united years ago if it had not been for 1916, DeValera and the IRA. A retired former stormont Civil Servant once told me that it was only natural for IReland to be United if Not for the politics of HATE on Both sides of the border!!
@@dlougha Yes, and also the atrocities perpetrated by the IRAagainst neutral, non-combatant Protestants during the Irish Civil War in 1922. This was mainly in Cork and Tipperary.
@@willfoster2635 yes I know, and I agree with you. But it was 1916 that sparked the ongoing division in Ireland because it gave legitimacy to a very small group of misguided idealists, led in part by people who were not even born in Ireland.
@@dlougha Not born here - like Erskine Childers, Thomas Clarke, Eamon De Valera & Maud Gonne? Ah, you mean the Fenian Society in America.
@@willfoster2635 Yes. The triumphalist politics have caused much division, and Even the comments are ignorant and misguided. Any Idiot who knows anything about Irish history, should know that it is only natural that Ireland is a United Country. However, Triumphalism on both sides of the Irish border have kept Ireland politically divided, even today. Glorifying the blood on the hands of those so called 1916 "heroes" who killed more ordinary Irish citizens than Soldiers, or the "heroes" in the IRA who shot dead fellow Irish men in the back of the head across Ireland during the war of Independence. Theirs was a war of hate and not a war of Independence. Ireland is part of a broader Gaelic culture that spans beyond Ireland, and it is to that fraternity that Ireland should have looked and not to the DeValera isolationism that nearly destroyed Ireland and mired it in ongoing ignorance and poverty for another 60 years after independence. The Unity that the minister talks about in the video, is such a unity of people, in tolerance, and love rather than to a political allegence, be it to britain or whatever.
If loyalist working class people would stop looking toward uppy's like jim allister jeffery donaldson gavin robinson arlene foster etc we would get somewhere
The Irish diaspora have not forgotten their Irish roots. Similarly, there is no reason Protestants can't be "British" in a united Ireland.
Essentially all protestants in the republic are irish.
And Americans who have an irish great great grandmother aren't really irish are they as they havent been brought up in irish culture.
When he get a united Ireland the British in the North will just integrate into being irish I'm certain.
@@mcfcfan1870 Aye, you would know /s
These people are great inclusionists, which is what we all need in Ireland .. the border certainly prevents that
Most Irish rebel songs are about Protestant hero's!!
+Mo Dolaghan really? I see your comments on lots of Irish related vids, just been doing research on my country.
Presbyterians are Irish republican heroes of 1798!
Ok cheers Mo chara :)
+Mo Dolaghan Wolfe Tone himself was Anglican (and a Graduate of Trinity) most of the other United Irishmen like the McCracken's were as you say Presbyterians and Ulster Scot's- But the change in attitude was more that after 1798 Republicanism became sectarian and Catholic ,not that Prods became less Irish
Republicanism never became sectarian that was introduced by the British indoctrination of loyalists via the orange masonic order
I feel happy when I hear this....very proud of him. God bless them.
united Ireland will happen
Really good to see you religious beliefs should not separate our nationally
I believe regardless of background if you do the appropriate reading you will come to the clear conclusion that the act of union of 1800 is a moral injustice and that Ireland should be reunified and independent
how many protestants actuallly go to church in both parts of ireland today?
and how many catholix actually go to their c hurch today in north and south ireland?
Quite a lot.
I give up. I don't know.. Pray tell... What's the answer?
SMALL HOUSE= big flag....BIG HOUSE= wee flag....United Ireland coming soon too you, Embrace the future.......
Unionists fear and loathing of the South is entirely irrational. Doesn't it speak volumes when the Protestant Dubliner says she lives happily in the Republic with no baggage yet a Catholic in the North lived under discrimination. That's not to say there was never any discrimination in the south but the South had progressed far more into the 21st century than the North which remains a bit of a cold house for gays because of the unionist evangelicals there.
basically Ireland should be run by the Irish regardless of religious beliefs everyone must see that it is obvious, I'm an English catholic with half English and half Irish bloodline so I fall into a awkward category and although I'm well aware that Catholics in England have had it easy compared to Catholics in northern Ireland there is still an unfriendliness towards us here, it's a bit like this: everyone just assumes you are church of England without ever asking but when you tell them you're catholic because it crops up in conversation they can't hide that disappointed look from their face and they subtly step backwards and are never as friendly after that, it's pathetic, I pray for a united Ireland run by an Irish government where protestants and Catholics live side by side in a friendly state but if we still haven't achieved that here in England a country that accepts Muslims, Hindus and Jews as equals but still doesn't accept Catholics as equals then i fear there is an extremely long road ahead for Ireland
***** have they? That's nice to hear I always get the impression that they are second class citizens over there, would you say that's a myth?
It's not a myth. It was very much the case that Catholic in the north were treated abhorrently for decades. They faced severe discrimination and during the troubles there over half of the people killed by British Forces were Catholic civilians. It's changed a lot now and the place is a lot more equal thankfully. The damage has been done, however.
+Old Skool Wax thanks for your response, do you think Northern Ireland will leave the UK now that they have clashed heads over the EU issue?
George Reggie A United Ireland was always an inevitability. It was always a temporary schism of this island. Created due to sectarianism in the north. It will speed the process of unification and could possibly lead to the breakup of the UK as a whole with Scotland leaving.
***** I'm atheist. My religion of birth is not important. Being Nationalist/Republican has not religious attachment. All faiths have been associated with it. It's about freedom. Freedom from a nation that has abused Ireland, stolen land and persecuted and slaughtered Irishmen and women for centuries.
Good documentary. i m protestant and my friend catholic from ireland. He says all the time that catholics re in the right and protestants well not.. Im from Argentina always s good to look at this with positive eyes. i dont think so we need to fight against one another for religion. But i know we have an only True God and the God almighty in heaven is what matter. God s above all and Jesus his Son we have salvation. God bless
So Hot xox
Si.
Thanks God made one Ireland so be it
I was born & raised an Irish Catholic in New York... my views since I was a kid have changed very much so I wouldn't say dramatically changed but let's just say I have become disillusioned with many things within the Catholic Churches establishment as a whole... many things I just do not agree with any longer...
Well said. Now you are beginning to see sense. Unfortunately Irish Catholics are not so wise
@@eileenvance6330 Oh believe me it hardly means I want to be a follower of any other faith... trust me I don't... I'm sick of the bullshit extremism in every religion.... it's garbage nonsense & I refuse to be a part of it any longer...
Eileen Vance
Yes Eileen, I'm sure your mumbo jumbo is so much better than the Catholic mumbo jumbo...
@@dunneincrewgear iutp
Ireland has thrown off the influence of the Catholic Church for good reason. The church is now proven to have been a deeply corrupt, abusive and power-mongering institution, from its parish priests to its bishops, archbishops, right up to the papal Curia. They all colluded for decades to cover up mass sexual abuse of children, buy the silence of victims, and reassign molesting priests so they could molest again. The sordid, tragic history of the Catholic laundries that ruined the lives of thousands of voiceless Irish girls and women, and stole their children; the horrible mass graves full of nameless orphaned babies; the arrogant priests who kept girlfriends and families on the side; the financial abuses; the political influence exercised behind closed doors - - to hell with the Catholic Church and all it stands for.
2:46 Very true. Its more racial than anything. Religion has nothing to do with the divide
WTF,..WTF,..Presbyterian's is an anagram for Britney Spears!! Conspiracy Theorists get yer tin-foil hats oot!!!,..lol
A true Christian, continue your good work
Covenantars fought to be free of state and crown, the Queen or Pope are no better than anybody else, Presbyterianism is about equality and electing your leaders, Scotland and Ireland should have a lot more that unite us than divide us,the crown as mass killers should have no part of any religion,or country. Alba agus Erin sith agus sona,gu brath.
The pope is elected.
@@Kitiwake by smoke? lol
Religion is differant to politics & the years & decades of bigots are deluded to think you have to be a Unionist your a protestant that’s B/S
The only way we will move forward is to devide politics from religion United ireland or not what our religion is has nothin to do with it & it’s time for everyone to realise this
Well when you go to England you're called what ......?? PADDIES .....surprise surprise ....,,you're only loyalty is crime .....lol
Aye, the corner shop man stares in disbelief as you hand him northern irish notes 'what is this? I cant accept this
YES AT LAST THE TRUTH
I am a British Roman Catholic loyal to the UK. Leave religion out of it.
So as an English Catholic you accept that no Catholic can be head of the Monarchy I call that Bigoted.!!!!
@@michaelking9772 Not really, since HM the Queen is head of the established church, an English Catholic would no more expect to ascend to the monarchy here than in an Islamic country. The role is mostly a placeholder, and the majority are secular materialists like the rest of the west.
We need to talk together ,
An interesting video, but only really the last guy here could be called a republican. Ironically the presbyterian minister's views seem to be essentially about continuing the 'war' against Catholicism by other means, rather than fostering an ideal of an Ireland shared by two different religious traditions.
Hardly Republicans. Or Nationalists. Or Unionists. Just pragmatists.
Interesting stuff...
Diversity... and respect of diversity is the only way we can move forward together...
I can't but call to mind this piece of Scripture, 2 Chronicle 7, 14.
When it is these people must be welcomed .
There very well to do people in the south. The captain of the rugby team sorts
Both sides have those to who are for the other
is letterkenny not the most presbyterian town in ireland....scotland wants away from the UK...and i think that speaks volumes about the whole debate.....
Nobody between u and god ,(queen of England or Pope of rome, Ireland one country! No one is better than god!
I am Church Of Ireland. I say to Rev David Montgomery you talk about being Born Again and an Evangelical but what do you say to the Roman Catholic Church who ruled the then EIRE who don't even believe the Protestant faith or being Evangelical and Born Again? The Roman Catholic Church does not have the same rule in Eire today but it's still there. I know that there are Protestants? who SAY that they are Protestants and Loyalists and then say that they are Atheists when they are seriously asked. I'm not one of them but I do support Northern Ireland being British. After all the British monarch is Anglican of which I am one. The United Irish Men were organised because of social issues not because if any religious one
A minister taking the Lord's name in vain ???
No pope no church no eucharist no church
His heeds full o fairies !!
Ian bigot Paisley jr are you looking
The only way to talk about politics is on all fours...
Ask the protestants who were burnt out their homes in Cork see how friendly the taigs are.
The ignorant comments given overlook the context of what this great man said in the interview. he is not unique in what he says. I know Many people who have voted Unionist as the lesser of the two evils rather than from a loyalty to the British Crown. As Southern Irish people still mention the several hundred years of British subjugation in Ireland, Presbyterians and other non conformists were reminded of the genocidal massacres that occurred across Catholic Europe on those same people who espoused the same belief as this man in the interview professes. The fear of such genocide in Ireland was very real among protestants across Ireland during and after the war of Independence in the late teens and 1920's. The IRA of that time contributed to such fear of threats and murders against protestants in Parts of Ireland. So please learn some history and listen again to what this wonderful man said in the interview. His allegiance is not to "DeValera's Ireland or the British Royal Family" but to God and Christ!!. It is only logical that Ireland as a country should be united!!. You first have to accept what this man stands for rather than Claiming him as a republican of the 1916 Catholic Ireland brand!!
I fully agree with you Dlouha. You are one of the few that understands what that protestant minister was talking about.
Religion spoils everything.
AN PHOBLACT ABU TIOCFAIDH AR LA
2:40 Is this guy insane?
He's right that its more of a racial split tho. Religion is nothing to do with it. Its that the british in Northern Ireland want to be in the UK while the irish want to be reunited with the rest of Ireland. Thats the issue.
Its a tough issue to solve but in all fairness surely the irish should have a say over what goes on it Ireland instead of the british who live in Ireland
Tiocfaidh Ar La
Bhealach ar ais go dtí Bhreatain go Uladh Aontachtach agus Dílseoirí
26x6 =1 lrelands 32
Jesus Stephen! You had one calculation to do and you made an arse of it! Lol! 26 + 6 = 1!
Check your math - it's wrong.
Will Foster
LOOK OUT!
WOOSH!
@@dunneincrewgear I'm still here Tim and going nowhere soon. Jog on in your shell suit and play elsewhere. GSTQ.
Will Foster
You'd love that Will, wouldn't you?
But Timmy's day of 'jogging on' cos Billy says so, ARE LONG GONE....
Timmy will be calling this shots soon. You better hope he's more generous than Billy was between 21-69.
"And Ireland long a province be,
A nation once again!"
United ireland its coming beleave me orange 26x6=1 free marian price now
John 3:16
;)
Ireland was once united and British........but you Presbyterians.. part of the United Irishmen helped to destroy that. Don't you realize that the Roman Catholic Church thinks that if you are not a ROMAN catholic then you are a heretic and it is their bounden duty to return us to the fold. I am Church of Ireland thank God and I am disgusted at your comments. Let the disobedient child who wanted to leave return just like the Prodigal Son
Na your not Church of Ireland,as part of my family were of that faith,and any of my friends that are of that faith,are christians,and you madam are no christian.
@@paullooney8960 you obviously open
@@paullooney8960 you obviously don't know the meaning of the word CHRISTIAN. We true Church of Ireland do. We would never speak to a woman in that manner
@@eileenvance6330 That would depend on the woman,as far as I am concerned ,I never beleaved in that crap that anybody who was Irish,and of a diffrent christian faith was a hertic,that was crap invented by outsiders,to keep Irish people divided,so they could profit,off the country called Ireland,and its people,regardless of what christian faith,they belonged to.
Protestants behave the same.
The head of the protestant religion is the queen she apoints the archbishop of canterbury does she not you should choose a religion were you like the head of the religion lol be a good start
jaymcaaa she is the head of the Church of England and the Church if Ireland but not the pyrsbetrisns
whos the head of the presbetrians ?or ever how you spell it
MrDarragh123456789 The Queen is not the head of the Church of Ireland. The head of the Church of Ireland is the Archbishop
This Guy is a hypocrite this man is not a Christian true love for God have no time for politics.
Other than the teachings of Jesus are Socialist. Also every time I hear an American say "God Bless America is sickening a country of greed founded through the annihilation of around 26 million Indigenous peoples and theft and the murder of millions across the planet especially since WW2 in the name of God and massively supported by the evangelical protestant population.
Wishful thinking Fenians, ... you're not getting your paws on Ulster.
kcirdrab get ready small mind !!!! u are IRISH with a union jack in one hand and the Orange order in another hand the English people are sick of youse are you blind
Rab! Pull your bowler hat out of your bigoted arse. The 6 missing counties of the ancient province will be united with the other three and the rest of the country sometime in the future. Wake up man!
Rab - Three of Ulster's nine Counties are in the Republic of Ireland.
Unfortunately for you they won
@@RobertK1993 No they didn't. & "Roberts" not a Paddy name either.
OPEN what bible?
ask where did the LAND of NOD come from if was just garden of EDEN !!!! did man go leave and find a WIFE ?????????????????????????how