We sometimes think of terrorism as a modern scourge, but bomb attacks and assassinations have been a feature of life in Europe and America for at least 150 years.
To cite the RC chaplain at my American university, himself a native of Ireland: "Had the English remained Catholics, the Irish today would be the greatest Protestants in all of Europe!"
When the English first converted from paganism to Christianity the Irish were outraged that they chose the Roman Catholic Church over the then separate Celtic Church.
@@alaninsofloI guess you missed the insurgents waving their islamic flags recently, the stabbings they are trying to hide , wait for a few imams to get arrested, they just use vests and cars instead of barrels of gunpowder
it reminds me of how well enemies of britain are able to divert the attention of the brits onto ancient events while hundreds more modern enemies sail in to dover assisted and untouched by the domestic enemies within.
This was a fascinating listen. Some more videos on the Georgians, Victorians and Edwardians would be very interesting if there are similarities with today.
Can't argue with that. If I shared a cave with a bear, I wouldn't poke it in the eye. Hamas may have a plan in which their actions are sensible. Hard for me to believe now though.
Remember, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Modern America was created by a group of terrorists who started out as economic migrants and asylum seekers.
hamas knew the price their people would have to pay and considered it acceptable.we must not forget that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter and the thing about both of them is that they are not sheep, they are the lone wolves and tiny groups who create revolutions and bring down governments, terrorists of course are only terrorists until they win and then in some strange and miraculous way they become statesmen. how many dead/murdered/mutilated brits will it take before british "terrorists"/"freedom fighters" leave the flock to join the wolves?.
One of those arrested after Chester Castle fiasco went on to be elected to parliament. His last act in parliament was to resign in protest against the Boer War, then, he went to South Africa to support the Boers. He wrote a book about it.
@@snakeplissken83 Don't you think we were in the wrong during the Boer War? We invented the concentration camp for civilians, decades before the Germans.
But where are all the heroic black freedom fighters and their supporters? After all this is Black History Month. I shall have to ask 'Sir' Lenny Henry, I'm sure he can enlighten us.
The terrorist/freedom fighter Nelson Mandela has a statue near Parliament. Toussaint Louverture, the inspiring Haitian guerrilla leader may also be a BHM recommendation - but neither belongs in a British history syllabus.
I’ve never liked him even way back when I was a nipper watching kids tv he did my nut in 🤬 Black history month 😂 they don’t have one only since the Windrush migrants came is were their history as far as a British history goes SMH the stuff I’ve seen recently online that’s being taught to our kids is beyond ridiculous none more so than John Blanke the famous trumpet player for Henry the 8th 🤦🏼♂️ 😂 Keep up the great work Simon people need to know the truth 👌🏼 ✌🏼💙🙏🏼👍🏼🏴
@CliveofEngland Toussaint is part of Haitian History. Black History Month started in America but it was coined by George Washington Williams and it was known as Negro History Week. The UK just copy alot of things America do. I don't know why they have Black American things for so called Black British History Month.🤦
For America where I'm from we have Robert F Williams, Huey P Newton, Fred Hampton, Fred Ahmed Evans, Sam Younge Jr, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Fannie Lou Hamer, Grandma Janie G, MLK, Malcolm X, Charles Sherrod, Medgar Evers, Reggie Forte, Geronimo Pratt, Kuwasi Balagoon, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Cesar, etc. I'm just naming some Civil Rights Era figures.
I assume that you believe we should live under a socialist system so that everyone can be as poor as each other. Wouldn't like you to be sad by observing but not sharing their suffering.
To @@terrencewalker8219: Then you assume incorrectly, of course, and possibly you are too ignorant (I use the word in its true sense of 'lack of knowledge) to appreciate the biblical reference to the poor. For my part, I do not appreciate your snide, sarcastic comment. Have a good day.
@@Offshoreorganbuilder if I made a reference to a quote from The Lord of the Rings and you did not understand it, would that mean that you are ignorant? Why do you assume that anyone should recognise a reference to your book of fantasy?
@@terrencewalker8219 Look, idiot, I have already explained that 'ignorant' simply means 'lack of knowledge'. You don't seem to have read and grasped what I clearly said in my initial comment. And give me your quote from Lord of the Rings, by all means. I have read the books more than once, so am not ignorant on that topic.
long dead "nutters" drove the british political and establishment class out of all the old empire colonies and created freedom for themselves, nutters = terrorists or freedom fighters you brits have yet to decide which you are and what your own political and establishment class are
That was fascinating and very well explained. Thanks Simon. I've been a history buff since I was around 10 years old or so, and I'd never heard of that incident. I witnessed the Twin Towers fall in 2001. I was on the New Jersey side of the river when it came on the radio, and my coworker and I at my first job drove over and parked on the side of the highway in Jersey City. I didn't realize at the time that I was witnessing an historic event. It was another 8 years before I knew the truth.
@@jasoncdebussy No, I mean all of the details. Fore example I didn't know there were people dancing not far from me at the time, or about "Lucky" Larry.
Hello again , excellent story / report , thank you ! ….. modern police force still recruiting officers of the same intellect as PC Moriarty ! Standing uselessly doing nothing whilst witnessing the law of the land being broken , and don’t give a damn that their inaction has their reputation in the gutter
@leeanderironside1898 Poor old Moriarty had probably been instructed to 'stand there until you're relieved,' and that is what he did, unlike today's cops who would wander off for a cup of coffee and a doughnut.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbSimon, please make a video about the young Irish lady who has just been sacked by her Israeli employer (Wix) for criticising Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza. You're appalled, right? LOL
This was on the history curriculum when I was in school but not in that detail, thank you Simon. Love your videos, could you do one on a great Protestant patriot the Bold Robert Emmett pls? I was taught he was the first person to use urban guerilla tactics (he was unsuccessful) but he left a legacy in his famous speech from the dock. He said he would fight invaders on the beaches After Emmett's execution the Chief Secretary William Wickham resigned as he did not want to be compelled by the duty of his office to pursue to the death men such as Emmett 'for making an effort to liberate their country from grievances the existence of many of which none can deny, which I myself have acknowledged to be unjust, oppressive, and unchristian'
@@jharekcarnelian that's how it was taught when we learned of all the failed rebellions, of Emmett's trial and execution and of Shelley coming to Ireland to search for his burial place. We were told that he denied being an emissary of France, he said if the French came as invaders the people should meet them on the beach with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, and if he died the last spot he would hold, the last of liberty should be his grave
@@jharekcarnelian ok thanks for the info, I did look up sources including Patrick Geoghan, some historians disagreed with him. I noticed there is a gap in the online Hansard records for that period. Some sources said Emmett said that if the French invaded his countrymen should meet them on the shore (not the beach) and immolate them in their boats before they contaminated the soil
I've seen it said that Churchill took elocution lessons in New York and he was given Emmett's speech from the dock to recite. Hence, the apparent resemblance.
At the Waverley Cemetry in Sydney, there's a beautiful memorial space erected in 1898, to commemorate the 1798 rebellion against British occupation. It also commemorates the 1803 and1848 uprisings, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Bobby Sands Hunger Strikers, among others. The list of names from 1803 contains a blank space where Emmett's name should be. This is to honour his wish to 'Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.'
Political violence is never pleasant - when one goes back to the 19th century - and the “fraught” relations between the Irish and their rulers in Westminster - don’t forget, too - to name but one - the Castlepollard Massacre of 1831 (check out the Wikipedia entry) - it could be said to have been the forerunner of Bloody Sunday in 1972 - relations between most Irish and most British are now, thankfully, very good - we have “common cause” as regards the high levels of migration being experienced - also we have in common that our respective political classes don’t - by and large - seem particularly bothered by it - let’s concentrate on the current malaise affecting the ordinary peoples of both countries and not dwell too much on the unhappy (indeed tragic for the folk caught up in the Clerkenwell bombing) events of long ago.
@@IUsedToBeSomeoneElseXThe investigation was led by a Nigerian Chief Superintendent called David Olusooga, who had invented the police the year before . . . . Well, it is still black history month!
Interesting snippet of history, that proves terrorism hasn't changed much; more civilians killed and maimed than anyone else, and a hardening of public opinion against the cause said trouble makers were supposedly for.
If PC Moriarty was around today he would be made police commissioner for London, as he obviously was blind to wrongdoing just ike the muslim protest this week.
But who was really behind the Clerkenwell Outrage? One clue might be in the real identity of PC Moriarty. We must ask: Was he extremely tall and thin, with his forehead domed out in a white curve, and his two eyes deeply sunken in his head? Was he clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking and retaining something of the professor in his features? If so a good consulting detective could have cleared up the case in no time.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbNo doubt your father was writing about this at the time, Simon. Using links to Punch Magazine, he assured people that the Irish were genetically predisposed to killing and violence! LOL
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Do a video on the recent, extensive report by The Royal Society (your own source!) which states "unequivocally" that mask- wearing was an effective measure for mitigating the spread of Covid. C'mon Simon, what are you so scared of? LOL
Great piece, as always. Modern students of history would do better watching your channel than wasting time and money in a Marxist finishing school, aka a modern university.
Excellent recount of (Real) English History! I wonder HOW MANY of those affected by this blast were BLACK or Muslim!? (I trust we ALL know that already!) 😉 If they did that today theyd be lucky to get a single (white) Englishman 🏴🇬🇧
I rather enjoy your channel. I like your historical observations where they reflect modern times. It reminds me of a phrase. "Those who do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
Not the last one to be publicly executed. That was John Charles deMenendes, a Brazilian Illegal Immigrant, on the misinterpreted instructions of the then Commander Cressida Dick. Think history will judge her competency level but probably forget about PC Moriarty.
Niether S-Ireland nor Israel exist because of terrorism, rather in spite of it. The British had already decided on home rule for Ireland and a home for the Jews in the region then known as Palestine, long before the terrorist groups got involved. If anything; the terrorism slowed down both coming about, wrought unnessesary bad blood between groups, and made most of those involved worse off in the long run because of it. Terrorism has never achieved anything, unless you count death, destruction and the other side retaliating / hardening their bargaining position as an achievement 😂
@@doloresaquines1529Well Dominion status would have been a much better outcome for Ireland.Something that the Brits had given to Canada and South Africa by the 1920s.
You mean the ones where soldiers shot people who were attacking them? What is there to say, other than it's not a good idea to throw bricks at people with guns. Perhaps some posthumous Darwin awards are in order to drive home the point.
@@wingnut71 Guns against brick's? What's the matter with you? No wonder Britain had such a bloody colonial history, despite Webb trying to dress it up otherwise. Cop yourselves on!
@@tonymccaul7159 A brick is a deadly weapon. Don't believe me? I can name at least four occasions during the troubles where people were killed by a brick. If you throw a brick at me I am going to assume you are trying to kill me. Do you think a soldier should just stand there and take the risk? Of course not. He is well within his rights to defend himself with whatever means he has at his disposal. But it wasn't just bricks, was it? It was bottles full of piss or battery acid, or a nail bomb, or a petrol bomb. All of them potentially deadly, well, except for the piss that is. So you think these people were innocent? It's possible some may just have been there to watch the rioting, well watching a riot is almost as dangerous as taking part, they should have known better and went home to see it on the 10 o'clock news. Instead they ended up on the 10 o'clock news. Too bad for them. Play stupid games win stupid prizes as they say.
Meantime from ireland today (RTE). From Ireland today (RTE report): A report today suggests that the level of racism directed at black people in Ireland has increased over the past five years. The research also found that people of African descent in the EU "face ever more racism and discrimination". The 'Being Black in the EU' report was carried out by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. It examined the experiences of more than 6,700 people of African descent living in 13 different EU countries. This is the second such report, the first report was carried out in 2016. 524 respondents in Ireland were surveyed. More than half of them (55%) said they experienced racial discrimination over the last five years. This was an increase from 48% in 2016 and is higher than the overall level across the 13 EU countries surveyed (45%). the level of harassment in Ireland is higher than the overall level in the countries surveyed (30%). A total of 6% said they had experienced a racist attack, however 64% of people of African descent in Ireland said they worried about becoming a victim of a racist attack. This is far higher than the average across the 13 countries surveyed (35%).
@@sionnach.1374 Indeed. But no benefits and handouts in África. And neighbours much given to killing each other. Yet they bellyache about racism in Europe! Don't get me started about Black History Month in Ireland!! Talk about pushing an agenda.
"It enraged the public, causing a backlash of hostility in Britain which undermined efforts to establish home rule or independence for Ireland." Sounds like a certain 'voice' I heard lately.
Yup. As always the terrorists harmed the very cause they claimed to be for; it's almost like their only motive was murdering people and encouraging a crackdown 🤔 . Either way: Ireland would have got home rule much sooner and with less effusion of blood, had these terrorists never existed.
I loved the name of the PC... Sadly not the inspiration for a well known villain but I wouldn't be surprised if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had remembered the case. Truely a Lost world......
What exactly is the point of having a country like ours if it dont work for everyone Can we all be all people for everything and no one ever gets disapointed in any way by anything?
This was all new to me so I found it v interesting. It did in fact also remind me that I once read the WWII London blitz bombing was not only caused by enemy pilots but much death and damage was due to friendly fire through inefficient defence. I recall it was British ships firing at the 'enemy' and hitting their citizenry instead. Simon, any truth to this?
I recently read a novel called 'The Abstainer', set in Manchester in 1867, and concerning the events of Fenian activities. It's by the same author as the brilliant book(and TV series) 'The North Water'.
In the 19th century Ireland was governed, as one historian said "almost continuously since the Act of Union by Coercion Acts". A politician Joseph Chamberlain said "It is a system founded on the bayonets of thirty thousand soldiers encamped permanently, as in a hostile country" Rebellions had broken out over the previous centuries. Also shortly before, the people had endured the horrors of famine, so that attempted prison break doesn't really compare to the 9/11 attacks because they weren't carried out by people to free prisoners who wanted independence the Clerkenwell Explosion would be more comparable to a scenario where England was governed by another country that a minority group in England were loyal to, a minority who thought of the English people as being "Aliens in blood, in religion, and in language", which is how the Irish were described in the House of Commons (maybe, for example, if England was under Muslim rule and had been settled by a large number of Muslims, but this Muslim enclave did not outnumber the population of English Protestants) I bet in that scenario some English men would also plot some attacks to free their country
Ireland flourished and became rich as a constituent member of the union and Empire. A large part of the struggle was the Catholics wanting to oust a protestant monarchy.
@@ElBauldo64 The Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy flourished and became rich, the Irish Catholics who were a majority of the population, did not. Ireland was so poor that Starvation regularly was listed a cause of death, not just during the famine times Select Committees carried out enquiries and attributed the inflammable state of the population to "the extreme physical misery of the peasantry" Many visitors to Ireland wrote accounts of people living in destitution in mud cabins or even in holes in the ground when they were evicted, and of seeing Irish men in the fields who resembled living skeletons. One even described the Irish national dress as "rags": Writers such as Gustave de Beaumont, Johann Georg Kohl, Arthur Young, Henry David Inglis, Asenath Nicholson
The famine that had such a terrible effect on Ireland also affected much of Europe and was caused by guess what? Climate change - long periods of cold wet weather causing crops to fail. Strangely enough this just happens to coincide with the datum point quoted by the climate alarmists for global warming.
@@sb8163🎯Yes ancestors of mine died in that engineered " Famine". The occupation was evil and Tyrannical. The Gaels rose up in a Heroic struggle against overwhelming odds in 1916 and won their freedom. A great example of what a minority of determined European men can do. Hopefully it will inspire our people in future. I'm proud to be of majority Gael origin.
@@ElBauldo64Correct. Religion has been the millstone around Ireland's neck for centuries, alongwith their propensity for hate planking Protestants and other Brit's as somehow being the root of all their problems 😅 . (despite reams of evidence to the contrary) Saying this as someone who's family & clan have Irish ties predating the Norman invasion (yup; wasn't the e~vil English that invaded first; the Irish raiding and taking slaves from mainland Britain is also conveniently never mentioned 🤔), but am well and tired of all the distorsionist blarney the fenians put out.
![[60 fps] Laborers in Victorian England, 1901](/img/1.gif)
So PC Moriarty stood by and watched while doing nothing , nice to see police tactics continuing in 2023.
Some things never change!
To cite the RC chaplain at my American university, himself a native of Ireland: "Had the English remained Catholics, the Irish today would be the greatest Protestants in all of Europe!"
When the English first converted from paganism to Christianity the Irish were outraged that they chose the Roman Catholic Church over the then separate Celtic Church.
When you said ‘…terraced houses…’ I heard it as ‘terrorist houses’ - such is the influence of the times, I suppose!
What? No 'Hello again'?!
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Never heard of this before. Thanks for the information, but was sad to hear you using the slur 'Fenians'...
"Fenians" just means Nationalists in Gaelic. It's not a slur.
^ Agreed. Fenians is not a ""slur"" (despite what some daft Americans no doubt think), anymore than Proddie or Provo is.
Give it a couple of weeks and Simon and his followers will find a way to blame black people for this. 😂😂
Thanks Simon, a great history lesson.
I love the Fact Checker banner about 9/11 😂
If YT needs "context" for it you just know the official narrative is BS. Works every time
*Yes - another* _Alice Through The Looking Glass_ *story.*
@RichieReportsUK the one that started WWIII that we've been in for 20 years and it's coming home.
*starts dancing*
Is anyone still believing them ??
Fascinating history, beautifully presented. Thank you, Mr Webb.
But ultimately of no use to us today.
@@alaninsofloIt's history, you dullard.
@@alaninsoflo Oh shut up.
@@alaninsofloI guess you missed the insurgents waving their islamic flags recently, the stabbings they are trying to hide , wait for a few imams to get arrested, they just use vests and cars instead of barrels of gunpowder
I miss the "Hello again" otherwise, an informing post.
Indeed!
Ikr? It’s like the peace & warmth before the storm, lol:
👋🌞~Hallo, again…🌬️💨🌪️⛈️
History on this channel is back with a bang, an explosion of information.
Ignited my interest.
it reminds me of how well enemies of britain are able to divert the attention of the brits onto ancient events while hundreds more modern enemies sail in to dover assisted and untouched by the domestic enemies within.
This was a fascinating listen. Some more videos on the Georgians, Victorians and Edwardians would be very interesting if there are similarities with today.
One parallel with Victorians is the richest 1% hold 32% of all wealth.
Also most Victorians did not know what a Woman was.
that lot were not losing their country you are f-ck history.
^ #OKFemnaziCommunist 😂
Terrorists make life for those they claim to support so much worse.
Can't argue with that. If I shared a cave with a bear, I wouldn't poke it in the eye.
Hamas may have a plan in which their actions are sensible.
Hard for me to believe now though.
Hamas knew Israel would bomb Gaza
Remember, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Modern America was created by a group of terrorists who started out as economic migrants and asylum seekers.
I wonder how many of us if this country were invaded would fight back in exactly the same way? @@LukeSkywalker522
hamas knew the price their people would have to pay and considered it acceptable.we must not forget that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter and the thing about both of them is that they are not sheep, they are the lone wolves and tiny groups who create revolutions and bring down governments, terrorists of course are only terrorists until they win and then in some strange and miraculous way they become statesmen.
how many dead/murdered/mutilated brits will it take before british "terrorists"/"freedom fighters" leave the flock to join the wolves?.
I missed your usual "hello again".
I wonder why RUclips sees the need to add context (about 9/11) to this video.
Because we are deemed stupid & need their kind & benevolent hand.
Only lies need propping up, that's why.
One of those arrested after Chester Castle fiasco went on to be elected to parliament. His last act in parliament was to resign in protest against the Boer War, then, he went to South Africa to support the Boers. He wrote a book about it.
Wow thats so comical!
An enemy, in other words
What's the name of the book?
@@snakeplissken83 Don't you think we were in the wrong during the Boer War? We invented the concentration camp for civilians, decades before the Germans.
It's called "The Boer Fight For Freedom" written by fella name of Michael Davitt.
But where are all the heroic black freedom fighters and their supporters? After all this is Black History Month. I shall have to ask 'Sir' Lenny Henry, I'm sure he can enlighten us.
The terrorist/freedom fighter Nelson Mandela has a statue near Parliament. Toussaint Louverture, the inspiring Haitian guerrilla leader may also be a BHM recommendation - but neither belongs in a British history syllabus.
I’ve never liked him even way back when I was a nipper watching kids tv he did my nut in 🤬
Black history month 😂 they don’t have one only since the Windrush migrants came is were their history as far as a British history goes SMH the stuff I’ve seen recently online that’s being taught to our kids is beyond ridiculous none more so than John Blanke the famous trumpet player for Henry the 8th 🤦🏼♂️ 😂
Keep up the great work Simon people need to know the truth 👌🏼
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@CliveofEngland Toussaint is part of Haitian History. Black History Month started in America but it was coined by George Washington Williams and it was known as Negro History Week. The UK just copy alot of things America do. I don't know why they have Black American things for so called Black British History Month.🤦
For America where I'm from we have Robert F Williams, Huey P Newton, Fred Hampton, Fred Ahmed Evans, Sam Younge Jr, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Fannie Lou Hamer, Grandma Janie G, MLK, Malcolm X, Charles Sherrod, Medgar Evers, Reggie Forte, Geronimo Pratt, Kuwasi Balagoon, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Cesar, etc. I'm just naming some Civil Rights Era figures.
No "Hello Again! 😁".
This is going to be serious .....
Thank you Mr Webb. Everyday is a school day, very interesting.
It doesn't take a Sherlock to know that "PC" Moriarty was the mastermind.
& cunningly took his clothes off so he wouldn't be recognized
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Yes, how was it that ALL of his clothing was completely “blown off” while, uhm, _everything else_ miraculously remained “intact”? 🤨
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You mean his notebook and whistle?
@@luckybag6814 No, his "truncheon".
I just finished Mr . Webb's book on this topic. It is a fascinating look at an earlier time. Full of interesting details.
earlier times aye?,your children and grandchildren wont have any of them.
Next on my list to see if it is in the Library.(before it is privatized).
The Peasants burnt parts of London in the 1381 Revolt.
...and beheaded the chancellor of the Exchequer.
A little concerned that you omitted to start with:' hello again' Simon
Just another (but interesting) tale of nutters.
Like the poor, the nutters will always be with us, sad to say.
Thanks for the upload.
I assume that you believe we should live under a socialist system so that everyone can be as poor as each other. Wouldn't like you to be sad by observing but not sharing their suffering.
To @@terrencewalker8219:
Then you assume incorrectly, of course, and possibly you are too ignorant (I use the word in its true sense of 'lack of knowledge) to appreciate the biblical reference to the poor.
For my part, I do not appreciate your snide, sarcastic comment.
Have a good day.
@@Offshoreorganbuilder if I made a reference to a quote from The Lord of the Rings and you did not understand it, would that mean that you are ignorant?
Why do you assume that anyone should recognise a reference to your book of fantasy?
@@terrencewalker8219 Look, idiot, I have already explained that 'ignorant' simply means 'lack of knowledge'. You don't seem to have read and grasped what I clearly said in my initial comment.
And give me your quote from Lord of the Rings, by all means. I have read the books more than once, so am not ignorant on that topic.
long dead "nutters" drove the british political and establishment class out of all the old empire colonies and created freedom for themselves, nutters = terrorists or freedom fighters you brits have yet to decide which you are and what your own political and establishment class are
That was fascinating and very well explained. Thanks Simon. I've been a history buff since I was around 10 years old or so, and I'd never heard of that incident.
I witnessed the Twin Towers fall in 2001. I was on the New Jersey side of the river when it came on the radio, and my coworker and I at my first job drove over and parked on the side of the highway in Jersey City. I didn't realize at the time that I was witnessing an historic event. It was another 8 years before I knew the truth.
It took you 8 years to work out it was controlled demolition? 🤔
@@jasoncdebussy No, I mean all of the details. Fore example I didn't know there were people dancing not far from me at the time, or about "Lucky" Larry.
Love these little historical stories, you didn’t say Hello again
Hello again , excellent story / report , thank you ! ….. modern police force still recruiting officers of the same intellect as PC Moriarty ! Standing uselessly doing nothing whilst witnessing the law of the land being broken , and don’t give a damn that their inaction has their reputation in the gutter
@leeanderironside1898
Poor old Moriarty had probably been instructed to 'stand there until you're relieved,' and that is what he did, unlike today's cops who would wander off for a cup of coffee and a doughnut.
@@wjf0ne ha ha ! Thank you for your reply ! ( sad to witness the ever downward spiral !)
Detective Sherlock Holmes wasn't keen on him either.
Moriarty could have been an inside man? Truth will come out eventually
Good morning Mr Webb
Good morning!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbSimon, please make a video about the young Irish lady who has just been sacked by her Israeli employer (Wix) for criticising Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza.
You're appalled, right?
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@@candy-le4nh Nope, next question sweetie....
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PC Moriarty went on to give birth to all members of the Met. today.
Grandad worked in Clerkenwell, dad didn't tell me about what happened in Clerkenwell. Interesting history.
This was on the history curriculum when I was in school but not in that detail, thank you Simon. Love your videos, could you do one on a great Protestant patriot the Bold Robert Emmett pls? I was taught he was the first person to use urban guerilla tactics (he was unsuccessful) but he left a legacy in his famous speech from the dock. He said he would fight invaders on the beaches
After Emmett's execution the Chief Secretary William Wickham resigned as he did not want to be compelled by the duty of his office to pursue to the death men such as Emmett 'for making an effort to liberate their country from grievances the existence of many of which none can deny, which I myself have acknowledged to be unjust, oppressive, and unchristian'
Was he a Palestinian?
@@jharekcarnelian that's how it was taught when we learned of all the failed rebellions, of Emmett's trial and execution and of Shelley coming to Ireland to search for his burial place. We were told that he denied being an emissary of France, he said if the French came as invaders the people should meet them on the beach with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, and if he died the last spot he would hold, the last of liberty should be his grave
@@jharekcarnelian ok thanks for the info, I did look up sources including Patrick Geoghan, some historians disagreed with him. I noticed there is a gap in the online Hansard records for that period. Some sources said Emmett said that if the French invaded his countrymen should meet them on the shore (not the beach) and immolate them in their boats before they contaminated the soil
I've seen it said that Churchill took elocution lessons in New York and he was given Emmett's speech from the dock to recite.
Hence, the apparent resemblance.
At the Waverley Cemetry in Sydney, there's a beautiful memorial space erected in 1898, to commemorate the 1798 rebellion against British occupation. It also commemorates the 1803 and1848 uprisings, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Bobby Sands Hunger Strikers, among others. The list of names from 1803 contains a blank space where Emmett's name should be. This is to honour his wish to 'Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.'
Political violence is never pleasant - when one goes back to the 19th century - and the “fraught” relations between the Irish and their rulers in Westminster - don’t forget, too - to name but one - the Castlepollard Massacre of 1831 (check out the Wikipedia entry) - it could be said to have been the forerunner of Bloody Sunday in 1972 - relations between most Irish and most British are now, thankfully, very good - we have “common cause” as regards the high levels of migration being experienced - also we have in common that our respective political classes don’t - by and large - seem particularly bothered by it - let’s concentrate on the current malaise affecting the ordinary peoples of both countries and not dwell too much on the unhappy (indeed tragic for the folk caught up in the Clerkenwell bombing) events of long ago.
I assume the judge and barristers in the trial were all black, and the bomber was a black trainee architect?
Welcome to "Black History Month".
@@IUsedToBeSomeoneElseXThe investigation was led by a Nigerian Chief Superintendent called David Olusooga, who had invented the police the year before . . . .
Well, it is still black history month!
You poor bigot
Interesting snippet of history, that proves terrorism hasn't changed much; more civilians killed and maimed than anyone else, and a hardening of public opinion against the cause said trouble makers were supposedly for.
"Barret complained that the noose was a bit tight and could it be loosened" ....... Only an Irishman would come up with that . 😅🏴
@RR1-gn2hv It must be up there with 'Famous last words' 👍🏴
@@johnbowkett80 Ahhh, Spike Milligan's headstone - 'I told you I was ill'.
Captain Blackadder: "Could you leave a pause between 'aim' and 'fire'? About forty years or so."
Gallows humour.
I take it pc Moriaty was not endowed with much brain matter at birth, definitely not of the same genius as Sherlock Holmes’s fictional enemy 🙄
No, "hello again" at the beginning of the video.
Brilliant story well told Simon.I shall have to look up your books & see if any of them are availible in the local Library.
Luckily blacks of England had already invented the hydraulic water pump so the fires could be swiftly extinguished.
I used to work round the corner from this. It's a school now. There is a plaque on the wall with the names of the victims.
Excuse me.... No, "Hello again"?
Why do I need that context rubbish? I'm not reading it
"the bombers who died on the underground" not those shot in canary wharf then.
No doubt you will be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist for telling the truth.
Very interesting I'm 74 and never heard of this thank you
Excellent and very interesting.
I just hope this doesn't give the latest national threat any ideas!
they have already struck,several times,but you weren't directly affected so like most brits you don't really care about those who were.
@@thomasrobert4654 What a ridiculous, presumptive and wholly incorrect statement.
did you march with the EDL against islamic extremism and the grooming gangs?, if not you don't care.@@tappym9141
Funny that RUclips found it neccessary to pin a notice to this video called "context" where they explain what the 9/11 attacks were and who did it 😂
If PC Moriarty was around today he would be made police commissioner for London, as he obviously was blind to wrongdoing just ike the muslim protest this week.
But who was really behind the Clerkenwell Outrage? One clue might be in the real identity of PC Moriarty. We must ask: Was he extremely tall and thin, with his forehead domed out in a white curve, and his two eyes deeply sunken in his head? Was he clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking and retaining something of the professor in his features? If so a good consulting detective could have cleared up the case in no time.
PC Moriarty - clearly Met Commissioner material.
Islamist terrorists, not just bombers
Simon, you didn’t say “hello again “. Was the start of the video cut off?
Good morning
Good morning!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb ...good morning ye olde sausage. 🤣
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebbNo doubt your father was writing about this at the time, Simon. Using links to Punch Magazine, he assured people that the Irish were genetically predisposed to killing and violence!
LOL
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Do a video on the recent, extensive report by The Royal Society (your own source!) which states "unequivocally" that mask- wearing was an effective measure for mitigating the spread of Covid.
C'mon Simon, what are you so scared of?
LOL
very good slice of history
Very interesting history lesson,thank you Simon. Elements of 'Keystone Cops' about Moriarty, at least they gave chase....haplessly.!
Thanks for the history lesson much appreciated
You are most welcome!
Great piece, as always. Modern students of history would do better watching your channel than wasting time and money in a Marxist finishing school, aka a modern university.
Excellent recount of (Real) English History! I wonder HOW MANY of those affected by this blast were BLACK or Muslim!? (I trust we ALL know that already!) 😉 If they did that today theyd be lucky to get a single (white) Englishman 🏴🇬🇧
Is there such a thing as a non-wyte Englishman?
English only come in White
Anyone else would be just a UK citizen
Simon you missed out on our greeting and your catchphrase "hello again".😒😒
very informative
Simon, did you get part of your catch phrase from David Jacobs i always think you're going to say Hello There.
Silky smooth David Jacobs . A blast from the past . 👍
Yes, certainly a memorable broadcaster.@@johnbowkett80
@@Edith-t4j Mellifluous . 👍
And if this was another false flag, I wouldnt be surprised.
USS LIBERTY part 2 when Israel attacked the US survivor interview US NAVY CREWMAN PHILIP TOURNEY forgotten history channel RUclips?
This was done only 20 years after the 'Irish Famine'. No surprise.
I rather enjoy your channel. I like your historical observations where they reflect modern times. It reminds me of a phrase. "Those who do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
9:07 '... and he achieved immortality of a kind by being the last person hanged in public in Britain...'
Honest RUclips; we're just discussing that jovial Chinese fellow, Han'Ging 😏
Not the last one to be publicly executed. That was John Charles deMenendes, a Brazilian Illegal Immigrant, on the misinterpreted instructions of the then Commander Cressida Dick. Think history will judge her competency level but probably forget about PC Moriarty.
^ Nah. That doesn't count 😂
Where did they get a quarter of a ton of Gunpoeder? Amazon possibly.🤣
Nah. Fawkes had it imported. It was the incompetence of the authorities that allowed him to get as far as he did.
Same as the 7/7 bombers, they made it from a box of Daz and some shoe-polish.
Ahhh how history tends to repeat itself
This would make a good film, with Sir Lenny Henry, as one of the Irishmen. Support Black History Month.
When have Terrorists ever achieved anything ?
the old empire countries would still be colonies without them.
@@thomasrobert4654 Wrong
Jason. The answer is never. Thuggery aka terrorism only causes misery and maiming.
Niether S-Ireland nor Israel exist because of terrorism, rather in spite of it. The British had already decided on home rule for Ireland and a home for the Jews in the region then known as Palestine, long before the terrorist groups got involved.
If anything; the terrorism slowed down both coming about, wrought unnessesary bad blood between groups, and made most of those involved worse off in the long run because of it.
Terrorism has never achieved anything, unless you count death, destruction and the other side retaliating / hardening their bargaining position as an achievement 😂
@@doloresaquines1529Well Dominion status would have been a much better outcome for Ireland.Something that the Brits had given to Canada and South Africa by the 1920s.
Excellent listen, thanks for that 👏
I agree , I'd not heard of this before.
How about videos on the Ballymurphy, Bogside and Springhill massacres?
You mean the ones where soldiers shot people who were attacking them? What is there to say, other than it's not a good idea to throw bricks at people with guns. Perhaps some posthumous Darwin awards are in order to drive home the point.
@@wingnut71 Guns against brick's? What's the matter with you? No wonder Britain had such a bloody colonial history, despite Webb trying to dress it up otherwise. Cop yourselves on!
@@tonymccaul7159 A brick is a deadly weapon. Don't believe me? I can name at least four occasions during the troubles where people were killed by a brick. If you throw a brick at me I am going to assume you are trying to kill me. Do you think a soldier should just stand there and take the risk? Of course not. He is well within his rights to defend himself with whatever means he has at his disposal. But it wasn't just bricks, was it? It was bottles full of piss or battery acid, or a nail bomb, or a petrol bomb. All of them potentially deadly, well, except for the piss that is. So you think these people were innocent? It's possible some may just have been there to watch the rioting, well watching a riot is almost as dangerous as taking part, they should have known better and went home to see it on the 10 o'clock news. Instead they ended up on the 10 o'clock news. Too bad for them. Play stupid games win stupid prizes as they say.
@@wingnut71 Dont bother replying to trolls who are trying to just stir it. The "how abouts" soundbites. Just ignore.
@@doloresaquines1529 I just like to wind em up a bit. See if they want a debate.
Meantime from ireland today (RTE). From Ireland today (RTE report): A report today suggests that the level of racism directed at black people in Ireland has increased over the past five years.
The research also found that people of African descent in the EU "face ever more racism and discrimination".
The 'Being Black in the EU' report was carried out by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
It examined the experiences of more than 6,700 people of African descent living in 13 different EU countries.
This is the second such report, the first report was carried out in 2016.
524 respondents in Ireland were surveyed. More than half of them (55%) said they experienced racial discrimination over the last five years.
This was an increase from 48% in 2016 and is higher than the overall level across the 13 EU countries surveyed (45%). the level of harassment in Ireland is higher than the overall level in the countries surveyed (30%).
A total of 6% said they had experienced a racist attack, however 64% of people of African descent in Ireland said they worried about becoming a victim of a racist attack.
This is far higher than the average across the 13 countries surveyed (35%).
Maybe they should go to Africa
I'm sure they'd be safer there
@@sionnach.1374 Indeed. But no benefits and handouts in África. And neighbours much given to killing each other. Yet they bellyache about racism in Europe! Don't get me started about Black History Month in Ireland!! Talk about pushing an agenda.
clerkenwell also famous for karl marx and frederick engels the godfathers of order out of chaos
More like chaos out of order 😂
"It enraged the public, causing a backlash of hostility in Britain which undermined efforts to establish home rule or independence for Ireland."
Sounds like a certain 'voice' I heard lately.
Yup. As always the terrorists harmed the very cause they claimed to be for; it's almost like their only motive was murdering people and encouraging a crackdown 🤔 .
Either way: Ireland would have got home rule much sooner and with less effusion of blood, had these terrorists never existed.
That context link from YT though.....
I loved the name of the PC... Sadly not the inspiration for a well known villain but I wouldn't be surprised if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had remembered the case. Truely a Lost world......
Very interesting Simon , many thanks . I lived in Clerkenwell for eighteen years , never heard this account .
No hello again,standards slipping.
What exactly is the point of having a country like ours if it dont work for everyone Can we all be all people for everything and no one ever gets disapointed in any way by anything?
Fascinating report
as their country vanishes around them the brits are fascinated by ancient news.
This was all new to me so I found it v interesting. It did in fact also remind me that I once read the WWII London blitz bombing was not only caused by enemy pilots but much death and damage was due to friendly fire through inefficient defence. I recall it was British ships firing at the 'enemy' and hitting their citizenry instead. Simon, any truth to this?
Nice to see black people and muslim get a break for a few hours😅
It would be interesting to know where Simon's article originally appeared.
These are all my own words!
I took it for granted that it was Simon's work, just by the style.
I always open the context notices and advise youtube to piss off.
I expect Moriarty didn’t want to be seen as racist
I recently read a novel called 'The Abstainer', set in Manchester in 1867, and concerning the events of Fenian activities. It's by the same author as the brilliant book(and TV series) 'The North Water'.
06:13 I'm in stiches
It's as screwed up as a Clerkenwell Orange.
Thanks for this slice of history ,!
In the 19th century Ireland was governed, as one historian said "almost continuously since the Act of Union by Coercion Acts". A politician Joseph Chamberlain said "It is a system founded on the bayonets of thirty thousand soldiers encamped permanently, as in a hostile country" Rebellions had broken out over the previous centuries. Also shortly before, the people had endured the horrors of famine, so that attempted prison break doesn't really compare to the 9/11 attacks because they weren't carried out by people to free prisoners who wanted independence
the Clerkenwell Explosion would be more comparable to a scenario where England was governed by another country that a minority group in England were loyal to, a minority who thought of the English people as being "Aliens in blood, in religion, and in language", which is how the Irish were described in the House of Commons (maybe, for example, if England was under Muslim rule and had been settled by a large number of Muslims, but this Muslim enclave did not outnumber the population of English Protestants) I bet in that scenario some English men would also plot some attacks to free their country
Ireland flourished and became rich as a constituent member of the union and Empire. A large part of the struggle was the Catholics wanting to oust a protestant monarchy.
@@ElBauldo64 The Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy flourished and became rich, the Irish Catholics who were a majority of the population, did not. Ireland was so poor that Starvation regularly was listed a cause of death, not just during the famine times
Select Committees carried out enquiries and attributed the inflammable state of the population to "the extreme physical misery of the peasantry"
Many visitors to Ireland wrote accounts of people living in destitution in mud cabins or even in holes in the ground when they were evicted, and of seeing Irish men in the fields who resembled living skeletons. One even described the Irish national dress as "rags":
Writers such as Gustave de Beaumont, Johann Georg Kohl, Arthur Young, Henry David Inglis, Asenath Nicholson
The famine that had such a terrible effect on Ireland also affected much of Europe and was caused by guess what? Climate change - long periods of cold wet weather causing crops to fail. Strangely enough this just happens to coincide with the datum point quoted by the climate alarmists for global warming.
@@sb8163🎯Yes ancestors of mine died in that engineered " Famine". The occupation was evil and Tyrannical. The Gaels rose up in a Heroic struggle against overwhelming odds in 1916 and won their freedom. A great example of what a minority of determined European men can do. Hopefully it will inspire our people in future. I'm proud to be of majority Gael origin.
@@ElBauldo64Correct. Religion has been the millstone around Ireland's neck for centuries, alongwith their propensity for hate planking Protestants and other Brit's as somehow being the root of all their problems 😅 .
(despite reams of evidence to the contrary)
Saying this as someone who's family & clan have Irish ties predating the Norman invasion (yup; wasn't the e~vil English that invaded first; the Irish raiding and taking slaves from mainland Britain is also conveniently never mentioned 🤔), but am well and tired of all the distorsionist blarney the fenians put out.
What's the difference between i.r.a , a.n .c or Hama's ?
None whatsoever ...... All murderers of innocent people . 🏴
@johnbowkett80 Did they commit genocide like the British did in Africa, Tasmania and America
@@ashlibabbittcroakedit9108 Booooooooo Hoooooooooooo . 💪🇮🇱🏴
@@jharekcarnelian And ....... Your point being ????? 💪🇮🇱🏴
@@jharekcarnelian And ...... Your point being ???? 💪🇮🇱🏴
White English man arrested at Scampton RAF for having a Flashlight. Any thoughts?
You Are joking ru not !!!
A cough free presentation
Very interesting stuff
My neck of the woods 🪵 😮
Learned something new, ty.
Very interesting
My old manor
Read terror on the tube by, Nick kollerstom ..or 77 ripple effect . By mua d'ib ( video) ..regarding july 7 bombings eye opening .