1972: Caught On Camera - IRA Hotel Bomb
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- 'On This Day 1972: Caught On Camera - IRA Hotel Bomb'
The Europe Hotel in Belfast was attacked by the IRA, who detonated a bomb in a hijacked van.
It endured 36 attacks during The Troubles - making it the most bombed hotel in the world at that time.
#Belfast #EuropaHotel #IRA #Troubles #Interview #History #Short
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Bombed 36 times and still open for business? Those hotel clerks are really dedicated lol
Yup, I stayed there a few years ago....
I work here, great place!
Irish people 🥱
@@u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_eYou feeling sleepy old chap?
Different staff obviously
When you ask for an 8am wake up call from the hotel we take is seriously in belfast 😂😂😂😂😂
Still wouldn’t have woken my 16 year old son. That inanimate urchin would sleep through anything! 😂
😂
Like that alarm clock on Family Guy.
Have some respect.
😂
Least violent day in Northern Ireland:
So true
No, thank you.
tip: thanking people for likes will only reduce the number of likes you receive
bonus tip: keeping an eye on the number of likes you receive can only have negative effects on you and never positive- the public opinion is almost always wrong, thus should not be considered of any value to you
@@variaxi935 Thanks
@@variaxi935it’s also just embarrassing and reflects how your perception of self value derives from how people think about ur words. In conclusion, just cringe…
Props to the cameraman. That guy has balls of steel.
Before steady-cams were big. It was probably a mounted camera, and he was behind the frame.
@@kyloren3693 you can tell it's being held
That’s because he’s Irish
@@thedrifter9814 he's a brit
Camera man never dies
If your mate was selling his car and it was rough looking they would say " ffs its been hit more times than the europa hotel " lol
Never buy a used car from an Irishman.
Im in the states and i said that to someone the other day looking at a work truck and he had no clue what i was talking about lol. I study history in my free time lol
Casually having my volume up to hear the interview AND THEN
bro i see u everywhere wtf
@@pacermanthefan mr pacer why are you here
none of your fucking buisness
ong rip
@@sceneshootergirl88 Oi why do you like the molotov rippentrop pact
"Half the fookin armys out here Franky"
The Devil's Own?
@@christopherbrown6523 Yep!!!
Most bombed hotel in Europe still offering rooms at exorbitant rates.
Definitely not getting that security deposit
* Dresden has entered the chat
free explosiives... where else could you get that thrown in
@@isaacschmitt4803Dresden was a city that was bombed, not a Hotel. I am sure there was Hotels in Dresden, but they weren't the target of the bombing rather the Entire City was. 👍
Mark steel joked there may be a hotel in sareavo kicking itself, that it's one behind.
Man the Irish are so nice to me despite being a Brit they even bought me a car
I just got that. 🤔😲😁😆🤣
Lul
They felt sorry for your confusion.
@@frasermckevitt2417 was it a Citreon... cos it's full of C4 😏
My great aunt was blown up by the IRA. Was a catholic too
Story goes:
An ira man stole her next door apartment neighbors ID, robbed a nearby store then dropped it to frame him
In his apartment (they had already kidnapped and murdered the man) they rigged bombs that would go off upon opening the door
My great aunt decided "I havent seen him in a while, im gonna go check on him" so she went with another neighbor, knocked on the door and didnt get a response
Eventually she just tried entering, turned the handle and was immediately blown to bits, only my granny was allowed to see the body to identify it and said it was beyond words, and that there was so so little left of her yet it was so clear who it was
That's so sad. 😢 peace brother.
@@england1413 nah I never met her like
Very sorry to hear that. The IRA killed over 400 Catholics.
@@hush3956 like your a asshole 😅😅😅😅
Lies
*knock knock*
Who is it?
Car service
Car service? We're in a hotel, don't you mean room service?
... Ah yeah sure whatever, open the door please.
"Oh Ireland is a very funny place, sir,
it's a strange and a troubeled land"
The daily mail is still full of shite. Some things never change.
'Oh the Irish are a very funny race sir -
Every woman's in Cumann na mBan!'
"The IRA just sent me a time bomb in the mail! And I am shaking in me shoes as I am typing the news, said the man from the daily mail"
Thanks to the fucking British
The cameraman barely flinched and the person being interviewed dived behind the cameraman!!😂😂
unlikely. probably the camera was on a Dolly. he ducked but still kept one hand on it. still impressive. if you've been there. no fun. no fun at all...
Well built hotel …. They don’t build them like that anymore
More likely it was targeting someone in the hotel not the hotel itself
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863no they were targeting the hotel. Hence why it was bombed so many times.
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863British hotel
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863not it was the hotel itself I think. All the British and international journalists stayed there so it got back headlines
Surprising for a building of that style to be well built
The IRA tried recruiting the stoic cameraman the next day
He said I stick to filming the conflict until it's resolved it be High Definition
I don't think 'stoic' and IRA go together
"Hey kids do you want to live forever?"
Reddit
@@GDNotMe yep
Same
No
I think you're getting your countries,religions and political allegiances confused pal
I served in Belfast in the 90s and when off duty on a Sunday I used to go to the nightclub that was in the basement of this hotel. On one side of the night club was Loyalists, the other Republican. Never seen any fights. Great nights in there.
Wow thats crazy
That must've been tense.
I'd say in my 50 years on this earth I've been on a night out in Belfast at least 100 times, I'm yet to see a fight break out.
They must of had an unofficial gentleman's agreement.
Paradise lost
We stayed in this hotel. It was a present for my wife, a few days in Belfast. As we went to bed , I asked her what she thought of the Hotel. "Lovely" she said... I then told her it was the most bombed hotel during the troubles....
And did the floor and bed shake much ❤
So you're divorced now? 🤪
The earth moved
And now Ireland has removed its borders to the rest of the world , as instructed by the EU. Strange times.
Its funny how he literally looks like the photo every nothern irish person has of their uncle/grandad, they all looked like that 🤣
There was only one Irishman in the 70s. We had to pass him around a bit. You might have seen him playing for Manchester United in the 70s as well. It was the same in Wales.
There is nothing beautiful in war except its end
Holy hell that's fire
Anorak with Hoods Up was the go word! Doh!
*come out ye Black and Tans intensifies*
In the 70s, a terrorist was portayed a pale white man with an Irish accent and ginger hair.
In the 2000s, a terrorist was a tanned man with an Arab accent and black hair.
I wonder what the next terrorist staple will be.
Edit:
It seems most of you have completely missed my point.
My point that I was trying to make is the stereotype on TV and in Movies. Not what they actually are.
Again. Stereotype. Not Reality.
Jesus Christ, I can't believe I had to come back and explain this to many of you.
Ginger hair has nothing to do with Irish people ffs. Theres ginger knuts in Russia
has everything to do with Ireland and Scotland@@TheSubpremeState
Wow, yet all my Irish family are Jet black haired ..what a generalisation to make
@@daisybelle1025 yes... daisy. That is precisely the point I am making. People stereotyping what a terrorist looks like.
It’ll be white women
POV: most peaceful day in a tv soap
Lucky the whole building didn’t completely collapse in on its own footprint like a controlled demolition type of thing hey! 🤔🤔
It was designed to stop blasts. And it was using improvised weapons - I believe at this point Gaddafi's socialist Libya had not sent their weapons to support the IRA yet (like Semtex). Only the USSR did, and it was only small weapons, not explosives. (and it was not to the provisional IRA i think.)
another mouthbreather who doesn't understand that steel doesn't have to melt to lose its structural integrity
@@ryann3487seeing an aluminium plane, cut through steel like a hot knife through butter on TV though plays with your brain. If you’ve got one, blame the teletubbies. It’s easier to dismiss, the eyes tell NO lies. Oxygen thief😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@numbnutz7832 Yeah that's what happens when you accelerate 200,000 lbs to 500mph and point it at a building dumbass. It's ok though, not everyone has a knack for high school physics. If you even made it to high school that is.
@@ryann3487Building 7.
Me and my mates were in the town centre when this hotel was blown up it was manic the ground moved under our feet we fell to the ground I was 17 at the time too close for comfort I left Ireland at 18 couldn't take it no more I go back to see family still love my beautiful Ireland and the people I'm proud to be irsh,
That’s a shame 🥺 sorry that happened to you and you had to witness such destruction to your beautiful Ireland…. 😔
@@InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb Google amd the rest of silicon valley are destroying it more than the Britsh Army ever could, permanently.
Heard the new immigrants are troublesome
I see you left your punctuation behind.
@@Cola64Yeah, there's too many of them and they think they own the place.
When we heard a bomb go of in the city we used to try and guess where it happened, it was so casual for us.
Two things 1. Never anger the irish. 2. never think you can corner a scotsman.The crown really did not learn that through the years.
Scotland has been a part of the Crown for over three hundred years.
@@petebondurant58 agreed but they have always retained their identity.
@@RandyFrench-z4cTheir outgoing First Minister is a Pakistani who hates Scottish people. 🤣
These so called Irish were deluded.
They were in Northern Ireland not Ireland the cowardly bastards.
The IRA killed more catholics than anyone and most of them white British agents
There'll be no Scotsmen in any corners in Germany after yesterday... 😂⚽
This was just how we grew up.
None of us realised how savage it was til we left
Thankfully today we have peace at home, albeit still tainted with historical differences, but as a u ited Ireland grows closer, I fear more trouble in future as the orange men will resist a united Ireland til death.
Sadly, our politicians are erasing our culture, and the enemy is now the hostile invaders
You won't have to worry about Orangemen, when Ireland is filled with Africans and Middle Easterners.
Irish people have a lot more to be worried about than Orangemen these days.
That's an issue that both Ireland and the UK share now. I have no problem with a united Ireland but I do have a problem with Northwest European islands having their unique cultures slowly erased.
@@Wulfyr Slowly erased? They're being erased rather quickly.
Lol, what nonsense is this, pivoting from The Troubles to right wing nonsense imported from America.
They told folks to leave the building first
sad times for everyone and belfast is a changed place ,too many innocents on both sides got killed
NO ONE IS INNOCENT WHEN SOMEONE IS INVADING YOU......AGAIN!!!!
What were these people like?
Were they masked?
Anoraks with there hoods up🙄
They had there hoods up?
They had there hoods..... EXPLOSION!!!
Had me rolling on the ground 😂🤣🤣
'Most bombed hotel in Europe ' is a phrase I've heard countless times, as if hotels in Europe were constantly being blown up !
You're gonna need a bigger hotel.
“Hello and welcome to the Europa hotel. Here is your room key. You’ll find your room on the third floor with a ticking noise coming from under the bath.
That’s just normal sir.
Will you be wanting breakfast?”
Meanwhile maggie thatcher is having dinner on ground floor
The result of an empire that was too selfish to give up a whole island and just had to keep a tiny bit.
Ulster Scots were crying in 1912 threatening terrorist violence including killing Roman Catholics Irish Republicans should play the Rains of Castamere at Ulster Unionists
The result of selfish assholes who signed a peace treaty in 1921 that gave them 4 fifths of the island, but they continued to break said peace treaty killing thousands so they could get the last 6 counties that wanted to stay British. The Palestinians would be more than happy to have just half of the Irish got.
It's quite a bit more complicated than that funnily enough.
Yet when they held a referendum on the issue republicans force a boycott under threat of death as they knew they had no chance of winning. Even today that fact remains
@@NPC_28621 Ha ha - the United States didn't 'win' Texas - the Texans did, setting up their own sovereign country soon after that. If Mexico wants it back, just let them try and take it back.
Would love to see the trivago reviews.
'I had a really lovely stay here at the
Jesus the Irish knew how to make bomb's, nearly dropped my phone with the fright i got,
😂
If that was my alarm clock I'd still sleep in
I ❤ Belfast.
Only bad thing about Belfast is the expensive hotel costs....
Tourists to Belfast need to be rich.
I was there a year earlier before it opened as a contract Electrician (for Rotary Electrical) & the on site Shop Steward when it was being built, the angle of the building was a few degrees out of line, so our multi-way ceiling Trunking was out of line too, terrible winter conditions as I remember it, but I was young then.
I bet the wages were better back then. Adjusted for inflation
The boys didn't mess about back in the day Jesus
Would you say the same about Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and ISIS?
Have to be Irish to understand mate
This hotel became a tourist attraction later on, so people could say they stayed in the most bombed hotel in the world.
"am I a good demoman, well if I weren't i wouldn't be sitting here talking to ya now would"
Was there last year and it’s still going strong
reddit got me here.
I thought i was the only one, i assume you read the one post of the BHS elevator incident?
@@TheLonelyX word
@@TheLonelyX yep
@@TheLonelyX i did, this is what u found
@@TheLonelyX i couldn't find
Seems like the cameraman was expecting it.
The hotel had been evacuated because the men with hoods up had walked in and left the bomb so everyone was expecting it
I remember seeing this news report I can't believe it's over fifty years ago now.
How to make sure people dont support your cause.
I may not be Irish, but I all of a sudden feel very patriotic for mother Ireland
Brings a tear to my eye
So those straving and murdering a whole nation of people.
@david gallagher Conjunctivitis
Loyalist
@@Captain_hadley_49Waa waa waa famine that happened centuries ago, cry me a fucking river,
Brings a tear to my eye that Ireland fought like hell with the British only to allow Africans to invade Ireland.
Looks like a Chicago crack house.
“Oi, it’s tuesday, innit?”
Why bomb a hotel? Why not something more.... Important? Did they not get their deposit back?
FREEDOM FOR IRELAND!
Clown
Breakfast included. If you can find it lol
Hi reddit
Maybe leave our country if you wanted that to stop 😂
It’s a shame these things happened, but all the Brits ever had to do was leave.
You want me to leave my home? Go feck yerself pal. The Irish signed a peace treaty in 1921 and have been breaking it every year since then. You break the treaty then you are the guilty party.
A majority of people in Northern Ireland ARE BRITISH.
@@petebondurant58 If they’re from Ireland, North or South, then they’re Irish. It doesn’t matter what they’re brainwashed to believe.
@@vampiricagorist6979 It really is up to them to decide what they are, not you.
@@petebondurant58Ulster has around 2.2 million people, with 700,000 of them identifying as British/Northern Irish and the rest identifying (or being) Irish.
I was generous by only including Ulster there.
Ireland unfree will never be at peace
ireland united also wont be peaceful would it now, loyalists would "reverse IRA" it.
@@hhyzigy 🤦🏻♂️
@chill boi the Republic of Ireland are the ones making a scene, NI wants to stay as part of the U.K. and they can’t accept that.
Erin go bragh
@@kallumcoekin3401 shut up! Dirty Brit’s holding your tail between your legs! -Sun Tzu
Every english person that has been to belfast, and hears that im from there, proudly tells me that they stayed in the europa, and that it was the most bombed hotel in western europe
And each and every time i have to put on my best surprised face and act like i didnt know
COME OUT, YE BLACK N' TANS!!
Im learning about IRA history, and this, this is scary.
IRA history in a nutshell, Target civilians including children with bombs and guns, even a school bus full of children in Fermanagh was fair game for IRA cowards.
“Hey kids do you want to live forever?” Ya’ll know why you’re here
Where is that quote from ?
@@connorcraig1598a guy and his gran went into a elevator at BHS (British Home Stores), what followed next was the entire store being blown up by a Fenian bomb
Note to rememebr he was in Belfast when it happened
@@redactedagentdataexpunged9431fenian 😭
Tiocfaidh ár lá ❤
You'd think after it was bombed once people might be tempted not to stay there again 🤔
🇮🇪 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Sounds like lego bricks
irish people such pure heart and nice people, im very sad that they faced alot of heartbreaking eras 🥺
No surprise that centuries of war and violence ended when the Brits were kicked out
Northern Irish**
@@Andy7907 thus was happening in the North and South during this eara and for generations before. Hence Irish people
Eras?! I blame Taylor Swift for the casual stupidity on the internet.
And the Irish not in the north ARE NOW. And they're ALSO taking matters into their own hands
Our tour guide in belfast said as a joke if security didnt find a bomb on you when you go to the europa they would give you one
I'm just curious what the previous most bombed hotel in the world was
The Cambodiana in Phnom Penh.
Brighton.hotel.in.england.i.think.ask.tatcher.x.pm
Awful days at the hands of coward's
I'm Mexican, go Ireland!!
@msmissy6888Did you know that many Brits have settled there? The Irish should decide. This area belongs to the Irish not English, Welsh and so on. 🤷♂️
@@andreasallin2616 it should and must .
So your tyrant?
Becoming independent meant absolutely nothing. "independent" countries, even the US, are beholden to multinational organizations.
Cheering the bombing of hotels is crazy
I was born on a Dublin street
Where the royal drums they beat
And those loving English peep,
They walked all over us
Belfast will be free
Already is clown
@@Markosbourne24 Touched a nerve, did I?
@@NothingSubversive no I live in livady it’s fine here as it is don’t want to be with Irish
They've just planted a bomb inside the hotel so let's stand out it and do an interview
@@daddysfatsausageinyourbumb4419 are you serious?
Normal day back then
Cameraman hardly moved.
And people still stayed there, eh?
tiocfaidh ár lá🇮🇪
Allah is apparently already there.
@@BeeRich33nobody mentioned Allah
Knock knock
Whos there?
Tick tick
Tick tick who?
Tick tick BOOOOOOOOM
Erin go Bragh! Never attack innocent civilians!
This is literally a video of the IRA bombing a civilian target. How clever are you😂😂😂😂
@@richardpotts7902 Not really. In civilian warzones with foreign military occupation, there are few military targets - it's a case of people rebelling for their freedom. The Europa was once the most bombed hotel in the world, yet there was not a single fatality. That's because the bombs were always pre-warned, evacuations were allowed beforehand, and key buildings targeted to ensure a big statement was made.
@@skeletalwreck the Europa wasn't even the most bombed hotel in Europe never mind the world. In northern Ireland there were plenty of military targets for terrorists to choose from. But as these would have had a security presence, it was easier to choose a soft target. Over 10.000 bombs were detonated in the war over here. Most of these were used against civilian rather than military targets.
@@richardpotts7902 I really don't care about how many times the place was bombed or what title it claims to hold in many publication. I am sure there were other hotels bombed more. Feel free to crown them the champion. The Loyalist paramilitary modus operandi was to go into actual civilian catholic homes, masked, and murder directly. That was an intentional strategy that was specifically confirmed as a strategy by Billy Wright and Johnny Adair during the height of the troubles. Especially when targetting the West Tyrone brigade of republican's. At the time, I lived just next door to Kathleen O'Hagan. In the middle of the night while her husband was not at home, the UVF broke in and murdered in her in front of her children. She was pregnant. Her 4 sons aged from 4 to 8 held her bullet riddled dead body for hours until their father returned. This was part of a long list of similar home invasion murders carried out by loyalists - who were also in collusion with the official authorities in the country at the time. There is evil on both sides of any war, but the loyalist tactics far outweighed republican freedom fighters in their savagery against civilians. Growing up surrounded by this environment, bombings of an evacuated hotel really barely raised an eyebrow - so I really couldn't care less if it ever held any titles for being the most bombed or not. ✌
The Brits did and didn’t care at all
“Hey where’d my windows go?”
-Chap in Northern Ireland
My mate was killed during the troubles in Ireland by a terrorist tree.
The IRA planted it....
😂😂 the Irish would have been great if they were in the middle east
Amazing
The most bombed hotel in the world thankfully there wasnt too many high buildings to blow up in Belfast🙏
Tiocfaidh ár lá - Our Day Will Come in Irish ☘️
Taco Fart Allah 🇮🇪
@@harryburrows2112 Ironically your country is full of Allahs (Englandistan)
@@harryburrows2112mad brit
@msmissy6888if only the DUP respected democracy...
Leave Northern Ireland alone. They voted for this.
Hotel has a 5 star rating according to Trivago
26+6=1
Under one banner 🇬🇧
You're really bad at maths...
seems like "hoods up" was the signal ..... 🤔
Did it have lots of illegal immigrants in at the time ?
Hah. Ironically both sides suffer from that now.
@@BeeRich33 true
"We were unlucky today but remember we only have to be lucky once you have to lucky everytime"
Most rooms with a view
Long live free Ireland. Long live the Irish people. Freedom! United Ireland. Greetings from Serbia.
Free from Irish men blowing up Irish women and children .
Average day in northern ireland
Tiocfaidh ár lá
So how's that going for you
eireann abú
Damn, I'm looking up IRA and 401k strategies and this comes up. Haha. Wrong IRA
TIOCFAIDH AR LA 🇮🇪
🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
The guy they were interviewing had seen this play before
Dude was out of there