Tintown 1939-1946
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- NOTE: missing a minute in the middle and the end.
On the 14th of December 1940, five hundred Irish citizens interned without trial rioted in their prison camp, burning a large part of it to the ground. The Irish government crushed the insurrection without mercy. It was the last battle of the Irish Civil War.
An ill-thought out attempt to escape by setting fire to the camp backfired when their network of escape tunnels was discovered. When a second attempt to tunnel out failed, and a 50 day hunger strike left the Government unmoved, morale was broken. Hundreds left the IRA and by the time the camp closed in 1946, there was no IRA.
In an adjoining camp, the Allied and German internees lived the life of Reilly, allowed to leave the camp on parole to attend dances, spend the pay forwarded from Berlin and London on drink and women. They had free passes to attend the races at the Curragh, and enjoyed life so much that when the day of release came, some tried to hide to avoid going home.
The Irish government was satisfied that they had won.
The Minister for Justice, Gerald Boland said: The IRA is dead and I killed it.
10:45 Dan Keating at the time of his death in Oct 2007, was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
Was there a reason for the 1 minute drop in the middle? O
Funnily enough that was the 1 min ite I was looking for. It was my Grandfather telling the story of his brother.
We need TG4 to release the full original
Does anybody have the 2nd part to this documentary?
Great documentary. Concentration Camp came to have a very definite meaning and place in the popular imagination after 1945 and we now know the reality of the socialists' Gulag. Comparing this place to them detracted from an otherwise great explanation of what happened.
VaucluseVanguard And what else was it but a concentration camp. The British were the first who had concentration camps during the Boar War.
I get what you're saying but it's a concentration camp/gulag just the same in scale and intent, when you consider it was internment without trial. Obviously, countries who continued to use such methods today shy away from using those terms so as to detract away from their activities.