Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hungerstrike (Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2013
- The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during "the Troubles" by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners.
In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out", the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. In 1980, seven prisoners participated in the first hunger strike, which ended after 53 days.
The second hunger strike took place in 1981 and was a showdown between the prisoners and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. One hunger striker, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament during the strike, prompting media interest from around the world. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death-including Sands, whose funeral was attended by 100,000 people. The strike radicalised Irish nationalist politics, and was the driving force that enabled Sinn Féin to become a mainstream political party.
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I was brought up in a Protestant home , indeed it was an orange order home , I’ve never forgotten the sacrifices of those brave men , no matter where your aligencies lie , courage and strength were apparent , I left the orange order at 13 , much to the dissatisfaction of my family , I was very affected by the hunger strikes
You had a conscious and you acted on it, never feel ostracized or left out as you showed humanity to your fellow being.❤️❤️❤️. it's a pity that everyone cannot have the same compassion towards their fellow man that you express, stand up and speak for the world.
Hate has no positive future.
🙏😊
It takes a true great to give respect where its due regardless of your position at that time. Respect👌
Your heart lies with human beings no matter the politics or religion , just like myself
Joke
An elderly man's only son was in the Maze. He wrote to his son that he didn't have the strength to dig his garden and plant his potatoes. His son wrote back, "NOT THE GARDEN Da. Don't dig there, that's where the guns are buried." A couple of days later the British Army surrounded the man's house and began digging but didn't find guns. The old man wrote back to his son in the Maze and said, "Son there were no guns. What do I do now?". His son wrote back and said, "Plant your potatoes."
From porridge but a good one mate, we need a bit of humour on comment streams like this!!!!
Fionnuala McMahon .....loved this
I somehow read this in an Irish accent
brilliant !! ☘️
‘A nation that has such citizens will never surrender’
Ho Chi Minh 1920 - Commenting on Terence MacSwiney's death on hunger strike
TheOneWho Yawns but they did surrender when George Bush said “you’re with us or against us” after 9/11 prompting the start of the war on terror.
Raoul Duke your missing the point
Doesn’t ira stand for “I ran away”?
But they did surrender. The IRA were smashed.
That is very true good point. But it is also true that because of targeting of the IRA they forced them to negotiate rather than stick to never surrender and not even a bullet given up.
So my point remains, the IRA were smashed into peace talks. Yes they were given a bone or two but nothing like the unification they demanded . @@tonyt5919
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
He wasn't fighting for freedom, he was fighting against what the majority of people in northern Ireland wanted, which was to stay in the UK. If you can call covering yourself in shit fighting
@@Billy_MacBilly in a cell, not many tools to use. I though it was for political prisoner status. It was a shitty deal anyway.
@@Billy_MacBilly Up the sin fein to reunite the 32🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 and ur named after a man who committed slavery peadophila and rape😂😂😂😂
@@Billy_MacBilly of course he was fighting for freedom, he was fighting for his country to be free of British rule. Doesn’t matter whether it NI was majority unionist back then, nationalists still wanted to be free from British rule, and were willing to die for the cause.
@@bmacdonald3557 just ignoring the fact the majority of people in the country wanted to be in the UK
I’m a mixed race man from London half black and white born and raised on a council estate , I stumbled across this story and it haunted me .. for a man to go through so much torture pain and death for his own people is truly remarkable… I’ll never be half the man he ever was , and I want to pay my homage to him … if I ever go to Ireland I’d like to visit his grave and pay my respects ✊🏾
I'll never be half the man he was? Well if you were you'd probs weigh about 2 stone... Think ppl seem to forget when they hear the 'hero' Bobby story, they forget the man was a terrorist who would have played a part in harming innocent civilians.
Funny man aren't u, fu-cking wan-er
As u can see from that answer given by this twat above me we have our own bigots to contend with.
Think, the English League or BNP, that's loyalism for u.
If u come to Belfast just stay on the Falls road area, Sands is buried in Miltown cemetery.
Peace 🙂
@@AD270479 Said the asshole, who,s the ruling party, north & south.
I'm the same as you my brother. The Irish rebels are a great example of standing up for the people in the face of tyranny; we are doing the same against this terrorist British government in the Antifa, Solfed, and anti-raids groups. All to the people! ✊🏽🇮🇪🇯🇲🇵🇸🏴☠️
there are protestants who believe in a united ireland and dislike the way irish people have been persecuted by the crown for hundreds of years,Wolfe tone was one of them.RIP Bobby sands mp tiocfaidh ar la.
It's a great pity the rest of the protestant people can't live in a 32 county republic. Are there many catholic unionist people.
***** So the Irish have been just as vicious to their own people. The first republicans were protestant.
***** How come they are still in the Republic,then? The Protestant population has increased by over 60% in the last 25 years.
If it was that bad for protestants then how did they make a recovery at all?
Adam Martin Because firstly the Roman Church stopped insisting that the children of mixed marriages were brought up RC. Secondly because Ireland partly due to various scandals regarding the Roman church and general progress is a much more secular place then it was. And thirdly the economic progress we have had has resulted in inward migration from other English speaking countries many of them are Prods . But the minority in the North is a higher percentage then it was a partition here the minority two thirds lower then it was - fairly obvious that at least until the mid 80's who was looking after their minority !
whenever the hunger strike is mentioned n even in most comments, it's Bobby sands, it's like people forget the others who died. RIP ALL ✌️💚
Hughes, Lynch, Ohara, Devine, McDonnel, Doherty, McElwee, McCreesh, Hurson and Sands. Also all the other young men that were on the hunger strike with them
40 years ago today, Wed 5th May 2021.
*”They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken."*
*”We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused."*
*”I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.."*
*”I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom."*
*”Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected."*
*”All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.”*
*”Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something."*
*”I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul."*
_”Our revenge will be the laughter of our children."_
*~BOBBY SANDS~*
💗🕊️🌻
Sweet Jaysus.
Outstanding
Ah, so Mr Sands didn't just put his shite on the walls of his cell. He put it on paper too!
We always refuse to lie here in dishonor!!
NEVER NEVER!
My Grand mother hit black and tan with a dishcloth!!( Wouldn't give him the respect of using Capita letter's)
These men, I was only 12 at the time!!
Martyrs!!
My daughter attends terrence macsweny community college. Terrence macsweny died after 74 day on hunger strike. The same day as terrace macsweny in Brixton prison died Joe Murphy died after 75 day on hunger strike in Cork goal.
Thank you for sharing this
Although totally opposed to the hunger strikers ideology, politics and cause as a man I respect and admire their resolve and courage to give the ultimate sacrifice massively. I'm not here to argue tit for tat about the Troubles and their outcome,start or warring factions. I'm just glad this generation doesn't have to face the trauma and utterly depressing life we had to endure. Peace is precious and priceless...
So you are longing for Empire to return
Don't look now, but WW3 could be rearing it's ugly head.
I can see many comments being silenced. What about Carl Frampton? Absolute modern day legend he’s from tiger hill east Belfast. His wife Christine gets abuse all the time Carl is a great man before he’s the best ever Irish boxer. Carl is proud of his heritage that’s why I love him.
@@22grena where do you find this to be the case by this comment? This person sums it up well.
Freedoms taken for granted are due to these brave people,hundreds of years of oppression,countless heroes,is there a people with a stronger spirit and bravery.
+Bobby Sands; +Francis Hughes; +Raymond McCreesh; +Patsy O´Hara; +Joe McDonnell; +Martin Hurson; +Kevin Lynch; +Kieran Doherty; +Thomas McElwee; +Michael Devine; RIP
THEY REST IN POWER. PURE PATRIOTS
one more and we would had a good football team
@@roberttanner7278 Sure
UP THE FUCKIN RAAAAAAAAAAAHH🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
It's interesting to listen to the unionist politicans criticise the Catholic community for supporting the hunger strikers when they themselves had no comment to make when it came to the Loyalist community treating serial killers like the Shankill butchers as heroes. Bit of a double standard there don't you think.
And the way they supported the under workers strike which was whipped up by mi5 in order to depose Harold Wilson because he went against the EU for democratic and nationalist reasons which mi5 couldn’t accept because they serve a globalist canal rather than there country
That’s why I’ve never been religious it’s exactly the same as politics, it’s full of hypocrisy
The Loyalists have zero heart or integrity. They dont know how to handle people who have something to die for. Brits have nothing to die for but an old wrinkly queen.
@@tonz928 that’s why I’m not a royalist I hate the royal family for what they did to our beautiful princess Diana, it wasn’t until after they killed her that I realised what the royal family was all about and what I’ve learnt since Diana’s death about the royal family stinks, she was exposing them for what they are really about, a perverted group of lunatic weirdos and I ain’t gonna lay my life down for one of them so I haven’t got a clue as to what your on about
@Thomas Price I agree with you 100%, it was a dirty war as they called it, a very dirty war indeed.
RIP and big respect for these men who fought for the reunification of their country
@Anne Woodward Sure, whatever.
@Anne Woodward And know exactly what you are. I wouldn't speak to someone like you real life . Vile.
@@LilyD3353which country do you refer to? Our own here is it?
My Grandparents were Irish and never wanted to speak about "home" so watching things like this brings a tear to my eye and makes me imensly proud of my Irish heritage
It's great to be proud of being Irish, my eldest daughter & my youngest son have Irish heritage through their mothers, so I've slowly softened to the Irish as a result, but these prisoners were terrorists, nothing more, absolute scum, & while they didn't deserve to die, because I'm very much dedicated to the idea that no-one deserves to die, but they weren't executed or murdered, they committed suicide because they didn't want to be seen as criminals, but they were criminals. Its not like they were singled out, the Nazis were treated as criminals too, & they actually were a government, an army, these people weren't either, they were terrorists. They blew up parts of England on a near daily basis, & just as often they were blowing up parts of Ireland.. it's ironic (or moronic) that their actions while demanding an United Ireland is what made the other side so adamant to keep a divided Ireland.
@leighlowe1069
1 person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
Knowing Irish history I'm surprised they didn't blow up more in England and on the other side I can totally understand British soldiers during that time absolutely hating the Republicans. It's not so black and white as you portray it, Ireland en England have a long history together.
Micheal stone would agree 👍
@@leighlowe1069you're talking nonsense
Never a true saying you’ll never beat the Irish !! god bless you Bobby the laughter of children will be our victory 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I was wondering if anyone could give me the proper title of this documentary and the date it was released? I really need it for a project for my Leavjng Cert History in school and would really appreciate it. Thanks
James,I read Trinity in 1977 and have had my Irish Up ever since.Well said>
Up the ra
Tiocfaidh ár lá
Erin go bragh
anyone who starves themselves to death yet owns no land, is a hungry pawn.
For every freedom, there are legacies of sacrifices.
The saddest part was when his mother was interviewed and she saw her son for the last time.
Thought that was the best part
The 'Will' it must have taken to do this to themselves. No one can ever take that away from them🌹
Idiots.
Stick your thorny English rose up Thatchers dead arse
@@rockclimbingskills ya diddy get yourself an education. England are the original terrorists twat
Up a ra
@@donkey8473
Right up them ! 🇬🇧
I remember not eating for 3 days after a relationship breakdown young love I got ditched.I can’t imagine 60 days the conviction that would take.Bobby Sands earned his place in history becoming known along with the republican cause worldwide.No one can deny that he truly believed in the cause he represented.
I a. E glish support
he and the others starved themselves because they couldnt wear their own clothes, remember what many of these thugs did, from burning a girl to death and other sectarian attacks, these people were criminals and thus should be treated as criminals.
66 days
kevin lynch did 74 day i think
@@belfastorbustnever forget how it all started. You Brits with the lies you spread. Raping and pillaging and murdering us wasn’t enough… Pigs
Omg I cried and cried through the hunger strike 🍀
I'm just learning.... Sláinte , and Beannachtaí na hÉireann
I laughed 😜should of tryed a 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔Bobby lol
@@waynemufc4231 Fucking mutant, you should have TRIED a school classroom
Why? It was their choice. Murder is murder.
Whether or not you agree with the reason, the bravery and resolve these men showed simply amazes me . To believe in something so much that you are willing to not only die for it, but suffer slowly is really fascinating . I wonder if any of todays keyboard warriors with all their big talk would have the courage to back up their ideas this way? I highly doubt it.
Excellent comment .... as much as a supporter as I am of Irish Republicanism I can honestly say I don't believe I would have had the courage or the feeling of deep sacrifice to go on hunger strike to my death for the sake of freedom for my country & it's people... fight yes but hunger strike no... & I admit this with no question... so this is why I respect these men so whole heartedly...
but today we may all be facing the prospect of WW3, which is an infinitely bleaker prospect than the hunger strikes.
Ten Men Dead - Finest history book written on late 20th century Eireann history.
Greater love Hath no Man Than the Man Who Lays Down his Life for His Friends.
@@rabsmiff I believe that she's espousing the inordinate strength and courage that any human can possess to chose such a path for ones belief! Today we're inundated with too many individuals who talk a sad talk but this man and his nine friends walked it!
Greater love Hath no Man Than the Man who Lays down his life for his friends... #Bible
pasty o haras body was burned with cigerattes
Your channel name took me a while to comprehend you rarely get those words in that order
I wonder what the 10 brave hunger strikers would think of Sinn Fein’s Administration of brit rule in the north of Ireland now. And shaking hands with the Royal family. I think they’d be turning in their graves 🤔💚🇮🇪✊
It fucking disgusting, Bobby sands was a leader, not like that sin fien leader!
I remember standing in a blanket many years ago, I was cold and all I had was make up, I recall the middle class element of the group I was involved with not being happy, but reality was for me it was easy, those men truly suffered. my act was over in a few hours. May G-d love these people, they were brave, to walk eyes open into darkness is never easy.
why make up, can i ask.
Poof
You were conned into a Friar Tuck tribute show,
In fact, the British were better than the organisers of that protest-they never asked the prisoners in the H blocks to pay for their blankets
@@kennrobson2738 I am sorry that this has taken a year to respond, I have only just got a notification of your reply. The makeup was done to show the beatings and the dirt that would have been upon my body. You can imagine sleeping upon a wet sponge with filth covering your cell, you would not be looking like the Johnson baby. Under the blanket that cold January day, I wore just my underpants. So that was the reason for the makeup. It must be remembered that both sides benefited from the protest. Thank you for reading and asking a question.
It was actually a valid point the hunger strikers were making. They fought for their rights as POWs, under the Geneva Convention which put them under a whole separate "rule of law". The struggle against British rule in Ireland has always been a military struggle, it's prisoners are POW's, nationalist and loyalist alike. Suddenly Margaret Thatcher, under suggestion from an American - Ronald Reagan, decided to treat the prisoners as common criminals (Reagan's own bonehead idea), and deny them POW status yet still use the army to enforce the law and not the police. How the fuck does that work? If you use the army to enforce some arbitrary law instead of the police, then the people that resist the enforcement are NOT criminals, they are resistance fighters. Seems the label of terrorist and criminal is used only against the resistance fighters that are opposed to American and British empire building. You cannot use military troops as police, and then act like the people you are fighting against are common criminals, that's not how it works. The IRA prisoners were right to fight for their dignity against the status and label of criminal, I would. They are no more criminals than the Brit troops that were trying to enforce their will on them, American and British troops are bigger terrorists than any of them. WTF was "shock and awe" ?? Sounds like state-sponsored terrorism to me.
Another solid comment by your good self ..
Yes some ira units did make some catastrophic decisions over the years. Guerrilla/revolutionary movements are not bound in a sense by the geneva convention and in wars as bad as it sounds non combatants do pay a price. Lets not forget that the british gov have been also guilty of killing thousands of innocent men women and children ie ireland iraq afgan and so on. So instead of being blinkered and only seeing what you want to see try looking at causes for these events. you only have to scratch the surface to see where the blame lays. Then again i am not expecting you to open your eyes.
Ok eddie lets not remember the injustices of the current conflicts and past conflicts. Lets just remember what we want to remember. If you would like to elaborate on which operations you re talking about, i have a feeling you are talking of omagh or the second Warrington bomb, but in fairness most of their bombing bar bloody friday was targeted at security forces and killed security forces. I suggest you wiki search the bombings and see for yourself, all though many people have been injured few have been killed as a result. Aldershot barracks was where a lot of civillians workers were killed but again they could be seen as servicing the security forces so deemed a target. Eddie you have your opinion and have the right to express it so i will not go on and on.
How many people did loyalist and british army kill over the years including innocent nationalists and people all over the world. since when did killing innocent iraqis and afghans fit in with the geneva convention. we could debate all year long and still disagree like i said i respect your opinion and your right to express it whether we agree or not is far from relevant.
Well regards to what you say about savageminstal thats his decision to change his comment or delete it. Either way i see you are hell bent on this comment that the ira killed civilians and will not accept the fact that in all conflicts lots of people suffer so as far as you are concerned lets forget about all the other innocent people murdered across the world that were not killed by the ra. Keep spouting about the geneva convention as i couldnt really give to shits now as you are clearly some loyalist bigot who will only see some green conspiracy. your lack of response to the fact of iraq and other nations suffering at the hands of british and american terrorism speaks volumes to me, you never even acknowledged that fact. So keep banging ya drum eddie.
yeah they had to prove a point they were pows not prisoners so so sad ot had to go this way bobby sands and the other hunger strikers use no who im talking about must have been horrific watching ur loved ones go through that and the pain they must have went through before they died god bless them took courage too couldn't imagine what they went through and there familys gbnf may there souls rest in peace
Maggie and Winston never missed a meal in their life
Bobby your name and your sacrifice for your beloved Ireland 🇮🇪 will never be forgotten rest easy. the people of Ireland will always remember your name your a hero Erin go Bragh 🙏❤
What a man
Yes he did but it was entirely futile and cost lives in a struggle not winnable. Brave yes but idiotic too.
I am a protestant Scot and I will never forget the mothers and children killed by republicans Like Bobby sands.
They will rot in hell
@@stuartbarr5691 who ?
God Bless Bobby Sands and all the brothers who gave their lives for FREEDOM !
LONG LIVE IRELAND XXOO
LOVE SWAMPY IN CANADA !
What freedom ?
If one t was now 2022
And could
I'd be voting for ( if he still was alive)
Bobby.. Rest In Peace!! And I know it's over 40 years, and your not with us, but,
Congratulations..
From a 12 year old going on 54
Lads and gals so you feel the history watching this it's one podium I'll never forget.
Prison officer Dessie watermouth, was a brutal guard! Did what he could to make lives of young prisoners unbearable! Even loyalist prisoners tried to kill him!
Sadist
When you see the British politicians of the day, it makes me feel sick how out of touch they are. We're??
The fucking bastards aint changed much, have they? On any side. Sociopaths.
Yeah the bushy eyed politician whose name escapes me? He is so 1980s 🤣🤣
Sinn fein are genuinely out of touch vote 1 thing down in Dublin another in stormount United ired my bollox roll in yur graves boys
God bless bobby and his nine brave comrades
@Kenny Smith You're not wrong there Kenny...
@@billymcbeath7018 who replying to Billy no mates?
You having that cheeseburger Bobby?
What I don't understand is how they preserved without text messages from their friends.
I'll Not Wear a Convict's Uniform
Nor Meekly Serve my Time
That Britain may call Ireland's Fight for Freedom
Eight Hundred Years of Crime
This was so very sad 😭 It's a shame that it came to that I'm so sad watching this documentary 😱😥😥😥
does anyone have any idea what this documentary was titled or who directed it? been trying to find an upgraded copy to post.
You all need to go and read what Brendan Hughes said; look at how Brendan was treated by (some of) his old comrades, in the years leading up to his death. Then you may see what it's really been about since the 1980's
Read Richard ORaawe book called BLANKETMEN its eye opening
Brendan Hughes was a true Republican, it's hard to believe that he was treated in the way he was, !
Just read "Trinity" by Leon Uris... if even a small percentage of this novel is true, England should be ashamed for almost 1,000 years of oppression in Ireland!
Not just England but Scotland as well.
James Poplin ..we aren’t ashamed
@@urbanrider7981 well you fucking should be you bunch of pompous bastards,!
Thank you , James.
@@urbanrider7981 ignorance is bliss huh? You have blood all over your hands ignorant or not
I'm an English man now 52 years old but I remember so vividly the hunger strikes and Bobby Sands That always upset me a bit I was 12 and the news were all over this story for a long time and Bobby Sands died so did others and I remember being very sad when it was announced he had been elected but he was dead he was the same age as my best mates big brother Terry heck apart from Terry's moustache he looked similar to Bobby really He had a car a pretty girl friend a great job but that was here in tranquil East Anglia Ipswich actually and I thought it was so sad cause Bobby should've been doing the same obviously completely different life circumstances Even now I'm watching this vid on you tube and it brings all the sadness back The plain and simple fact is we had no right to invade their country How would we have responded if they'd done that to us? No Britain over the centuries has stuck its noses into too many pies and sometimes it gets bitten And in this case eaten whole Northern Ireland is England's Vietnam and its shameful the way our rulers have just given orders without thought or care to the victims and families on all sides we never learn Nearly even clocked up the Falklands what a sham that was Who the hell do we think we are certainly NOT Great Britain or a United Kingdom that's a total load of bollo
Bobby Sands killed himself. The UK didn’t kill him. The IRA killed more of their own members then HM Armed Forces did. The IRA also killed more Irishmen then HM Armed Forces did. If you want to go on about invasions. Gaels invaded Great Britain too. There’s a reason a part of our island is now called Scotland and there’s a reason Ireland’s patron saint was an Albione. He was kidnapped by Gaels. The Gaels also colonised and raided parts of what’s now known as England and Wales. Ireland was invaded by the Normans at the request of an Irish king. He requested the help of the very same people who one century earlier conquered England. Invasions have gone both ways so the last thing you should do is talk about how it’s the UK who is particularly guilty. That’s nonsense. The UK just wins more. More Irish people have served in HM Armed Forces then have fought against HM Armed Forces. More Irish people have served HM Armed Forces then they have the Irish Defence Forces. Northern Ireland is not the UK’s Viet Nam. Silly comment. Northern Ireland is the UK.
@@noodlyappendage6729 Ireland did not colonize Britain. To compare Celtic fights , with this is disturbing. I have respect to English people and never had a bad experience with one in real life, good people they are. Its Britain and the goverement and the army is what I hate. Millions died under british hands in ireland, no hiding from that.
@@cloudlymars3627 the Irish have colonised Albion pal. Later Albion colonised Ireland. That’s the way the world works
@@noodlyappendage6729 Could you give me credible sources to support the claim that we first "colonized" ancient Britain?
@@noodlyappendage6729 Its funny because I remember Celtics fighting and taking people , but not ireland colonizing ancient Britain. I highly doubt that we controlled ancient British as a colony. We have invaded countries as did every ancient country , but we enter sought to colonize.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to anybody. I've watched several documentaries about the troubles, and the conflicts between Ireland and British, but I still don't understand it. Was it a combination of issues, was it religious, the Catholics and Protestants, Ireland vs British rule, Ireland wanted their independence.
Let’s not forget the British tortured BobbySands his comrades and his community:: United Ireland now ☘️🇮🇪🇪🇺
A very interesting documentry ,
Very factual , and as a non judging person
So many good people died along these times
2 years later 38 of them some the same men here escaped . check that doc out . the maze escape 83
These times?-look up James Connoly 1916 and before-the fear of a Spanish invasion was over hundreds of years ago,but Britain kept abusing these great people
I was 12 when bobby sands and some other hunger strikers died and I remember feeling very sad at the time and even now there's a real melancholy feeling in me whenever I recall those days such a sad thing to happen and very sad times have we really progressed that far some would say not
we have 'progressed' to World War 3 by the looks of things.
Bobby sands and some other Hunger strikers. Maybe you could learn the names of those others who's names also are revered if you feel that way still.
Why is there no reference at all to Francis Hughes on this video
I know british soldiers that have said ireland should be free one day it will
No it won't 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
John Mcclung aye it will
@@johnmcclung6292 yes it will one way or the other ..
@@johnmcclung6292 it’s only a matter of time now 🇮🇪
Never forget them!
+bigbadredsox We'll never forget the Kingsmills Ten.
+Anthony Inger
I bet you won't. I bet you miss them at Christmas.
@@anthonyinger2867 yes, quite right not to, in fact, nobody should ever forget anything that happened during that conflict irrelevant of what foot you kick with, I am on the outside looking in, I kept out of the whole thing when it was happening, but it must have been like hell on earth for those who were involved and of course not to forget the victims and their families, what was it that the late David Irvine said,?, "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it", .
Sinn Fein shafted them more than Thatcher ever could have.. They died for nothing, an internal settlement that they could have had in 73..
Hunger striker's hadn't enuff shite left in them to make a full stop on their cell walls. ✊💦
How dare they call MP Robert Sands a terrorist. Man was a hero.
@Cillit Bang what Bobby sands and the others endured, loyalists and others benefited from, remember that dick head,!
I'm from Dublin born and reared, these men were heroes fighting for the freedom,rights and equality of catholics.This is our land our island.Brits out
Us Brits couldn’t care less about Northern Ireland,to us it’s another country.We have nothing in common with the unionists
Brits out....new faces in! What a waste of time that "battle" was.
And for got
Bobby Sands died on my grandad's anniversary!!
Another man I'd love to have met
He died 5/5/55.
Bobby
5/5/81!!
RIP MP Sands
@@stephenedwards3259 you wouldnt say that only your hiding behind a screen. If im wrong then prove me wrong
Stephen Edwards luv it 🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
@@stephenedwards3259 oh really. Why were so many afraid for there lives then. They were prisoners themselves. Do you want to meet me in dublin and show me how hard you are
@@stephenedwards3259 you must of did a good job. Prisoners shooting billy wright. World famous breakouts. Gards getting shot on the street. Hahaha. Before the maze was closed down it was basically ran by the prisoners. Hahaha.
@@tomceltic5502 Do you know what Sands was doing on the end, the big hard man , He was crying for his mummy, the fucking mick wanker, Mummy boo hoo funny as fuck
What the Irish suffered in the last three centuries is only camparable with the Nazi-Terror. Bobby Sands will remain in my heart forever.
the German bombing of London was really bad, even worse than the Troubles.
A hundred times worse than anything the nazis did if you include the famine 3 million people starved to death hundreds of years of a genocide ww2 only lasted a few years
I was just fifteen years old! Living and watching in Australia! Gail
I'm generally sympathetic to the Catholic Republican prisoners, but I'm not sure about spreading shit on the walls....
tear in my eyes after watching this.
Tears of laughter lol
@@gazzanorth4373 smoking on that Churchill pack 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬
Why? Was you chopping onions?
There was shit on the cell walls when Bobby was fasting in 81
Greater love haveth no man. Than he who lays down his life for his friend God bless the 10 brave men of 1981. Id love to know what they would think of the Sinn Fein leadership administrating a British internal settlement. And all that goes with it. 🤔. I couldn’t imagine any of the young new Sinn Fein MLAs or councillors being in a situation like the blanketmen were. As i know I wouldn’t have the courage to do what all them men and women did. Also as Bik was the OC during the hunger striker. I cant imagine how he felt having to pick volunteers to go on hunger strike. Id love to know how he actually went through that process.🤔💚 🇮🇪🙏🏻
imagine the smell at that place during the protests
While I disagree with their tactics.......their fight to be treated as POWs needed to be recognized on BOTH sides as outlined by the Geneva Convention.
Yeah, but do you know what every prisoner of war going back to WWII and carrying on wore? A prison uniform. Anybody who has ever looked at a map either supports Republicanism or is an idiot, but this was kind of a ridiculous hill to choose to die over.
@@podein011 Their requirements were very simple and might seem not worth dying over but it was about the fact that they were labelled criminal. That is a hill worth dying on.
@@podein011 give them nothing.
@@user-ys5yv2nz6w If they'd been fighting a war, army against army, then maybe you'd have a point. But the IRA mostly targeted innocent unarmed civilians by cowardly bombing them. In my book that's called terrorism.
Do you expect us to treat people like the ones who commit atrocities in the name of islam as "POW's" as well? Their reasons for killing are political as well. Doesn't make the killing any more acceptable. In fact I'd say it makes it even more unacceptable that they are willing to murder innnocent people just to make a political point.
It isn't. The Geneva Convention rules as specified are very plain, and they mean that neither Sands nor his fellow hunger strikers were entitled to be treated as political prisoners.
Bolands will always believe in a free Ireland Rest in peace Harry Bobby Sands and others who have gone to their rest defending this beautiful country
As a Brit you have to admire the bravery of these men.
And you should condemned the government that forced these men to make the ultimate sacrifice
The ira were & are cowardly vermin!
@@arthurjefferson6259 here here
Yep very brave to sit bollock naked and refuse to eat your sunday roast
It was sad bobby had to die for his country sad for his familymay he rest in peace
Please, is possible spanish subtitles???? Thanks!
When was this aired
The Irish People are most definitely a force to be reckoned with .
lets see how you fare if Putins tanks and missile launchers reach your shores.
@@rabsmiff It's not those who can inflict the most casualties wins any war, but rather those who can endure the most suffering.
Are they fuck, lost every war they've ever been in.
So brave they opted out of WWll
@johnmudd6453 The Irish fought so many Wars for other Countries including Britain, and in the End, had to fight for their own Independence on their Own .
Would anyone blame them??
Must go and eat a chicken fillet burger in memory of bobby lol
Bobby Sands was a HERO!! To more than just the Irish.
TÍOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ ! ! ! ÉIRINN AGUS ALBAIN GO BRÁCH ! ! ! MAIDIR, GORAIDH MAC A CHRUITEIR
And the other 9 men who starved themselves to death.
@@petergalbraith5652 Tá tú ceart, no déan dearmad orthu! ! ! Maidir, , Goraidh Mac a' Chruiteir
In the US, he’s a joke. Just a punch line.
@Jim McCartney STROLLM, GOBDENZ AND THE PHAEBRIËL - PHAELAPTNOSYS; THAT HURTS FER FUCK SAKE! !!!
My uncle pat was Irish and he would tell me the story of Bobby sands and the blanket men who starved themselves for political reasons..I once cried because I felt bad for them, that story of Bobby will never be forgotten. Never..Rip to them all. I'm sure the uda even show respect to them..
Absolutely not! They were murdering scum.
sands was no hero, he tortured the people of stewartstown road, suffolk and the greater dunmurry area, nothing but a dirty criminal
I.m a prod and from a young age i never felt anything but my utmost respect for these brave young men .As for that bastard Sheehy and Thatcher i curse you ..Ireland for the Irish
@@robbiebanks9182 so you respect a thug who along with his gang intimidated innocent Protestants from their homes in and around upper falls and dunmurry, a man who targeted protestant owned businesses in the same area, fuck him and fuck you NO SURRENDER
God bless Bobby Sands and all the others who died.
Saved someone the trouble of having to " deal " with them lol.
People have to be free in this World
Nobody in this world is free.
Tell that to North Korea. Where would you prefer to live? i know what my answer would be.
How right that gentleman Mr Stack was.
Not a fan of ANY person taking the lives of innocent people, but in the context of sacrificing your life, for the betterment of others, is still a pretty brave thing. Especially in the manner these men did, which I cant even fathom, if im honest.
Whether the IRA's prisoners deserved different treatment in prison or not, I dont think that changes the selfless acts of those ten men.
do you think they fought for ireland just as a pastime they loved their country you said you were russian you should know what that is all about Free Eire
We have so much to thank the British for........not
Did that guy sputter at around 10:00
My dad was friends with Kieran Nugent ,in the mid 70's he was living in Finglas Dublin and I would go with my da to see him I was only 8 or 9 at the time .He was on crotches at the time after falling off a roof getting chased by the Brits. I remember seen his picture in a book called "The centre cannot hold " Where it said he was the 1.st. man on the blanket
I watched the doc on netflix and i feel theres a lot of stuff that went on which isnt in the documentary. A lot of netflix docs are like that and i like youtube docs because they get straight to it. Its a very long doc and a waste of time
The priest gets my respect
You love a aul priest😜🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Bobby was never a member of parliament. You can't run as a British mp from prison.
So, it was a symbolic "election"? This whole affair is confusing to me no matter how much material I come across about it.
Bobby Sands is one of my political heroes, never forgotten.
Ol shitey hands
"Mountainclimber" was in fact an MI6 officer named Michael Oatly who, without official approval, opened some back channel contact with Sinn Fein in the mid 70s. Bobby Sands was aware of him and mentions his efforts to negotiate in smuggled out letters (written on cigarette papers). His most solid contact was via a Derry Catholic businessman named Brendan Duddy. After the end of the hungerstrike he kept this channel open through the 80s and 90s without any sanction from above and eventually led him to meet with Martin McGuiness which would turn out to be the first step on the road to the Good Friday Agreement.
Your right but he didn’t meet mcguinness, he ran him as an informer from 73
@@Felix-rising Mr Duddy was a key link - from the early 1970s to the early 1990s - between the Provisional IRA Army Council and the Secret Intelligence Service, acting on the orders of various British governments.
He even hosted talks in his own living-room involving a top British spy and Martin McGuinness - talks that would ultimately pave the way for peace in Northern Ireland in the 1990s.
@@jacquiewalton3022 I know, but mcguinness was an informer from 73
@@Felix-rising My information about their meeting came from a recent interview in a documentary where Oatley says he did meet Mc Guinness and related his first impressions of him. But in this shadowy world of smoke and mirrors who knows who is telling what and for what reason.
@@Felix-rising Evidence ?
I recall when this occurred but really did not know all the facts, back story etc..... I've always been proud of my Irish roots( both sets of grandparents were from County Mayo) but after seeing this my pride in the resolve n integrity of my ancestors have swelled... Proud to be an Irish American n thank u for posting 💚☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸!!
I was a young Scottish Pitlochry lad when this was all happening, I was a left wing Trotskyist & supported a United Ireland. That said I voted Scottish nationalist & do to this day, coming from a Scottish Presbyterian family of Rangers supporters of which I am one this may seem a contradiction, but why should it? I can't say I agreed with the PIRAs method's, I believe they caused more division than any chance of unity, that is only my opinion. That said, how brave were these men, they were immense & I have nothing but massive admiration for their sacrifices, it truly was the ultimate sacrifice & showed incredible valour & belief in their struggle.
The spirit of Bobby Sands puts Thatcher and her ilk to shame.
Thatcher didn't "get" Northern Ireland. The removal of Special Category status by Roy Mason in 1976 (when Labour was in government) was a mistake. When asked about Northern Ireland's situation Thatcher said the people have the vote, as if that solved everything. The Cathlic community might have had the vote but decades of gerrymandering meant it didn't count for much.
I remember all this when I was a kid,as a Brit all what was happening in Northern Ireland was another country to us,we didn’t care.But those guys were so brave.
Brave? Starved themselves to death for fuck all seems more stupid than brave
Thinking about myself at that time in Canada and all we cared about was the latest fashion and having fun Bobby and all those young men were like old souls ahead of their time
"Die with dignity.!!" Going blind, whilst covered in his own shite ..!!
*Is that dignity.???*
if u weren't such an idiot u would see it was a beautiful death
"Any human being ... was bound to be moved by hunger strike deaths". Really? Would this man be moved by al qaeda prisoners starving themselves to death?
jonoessex They saved a fortune on food bills.
I was radicalised as a 7 yr old, when the special branch turned up to my house in Crumlin, Dublin - the morning after a dinner my folks had with some Sinn Fein folks. The special branch turned up to our door around 9 am. I had to standback & answer questions I've also Knew to say: fuck all
Same up here in Tallaght 👍🇮🇪
Waaaaaaaaaaaaow, you bad boy Ian. Go stand in the corner. 😂😂
Thatcher starved plenty of folk from all corners.
Question,What is the entrance to the British embassy in Iran called? , Answer, "Bobby Sands Street".What did the Brits do about it? They built up that entrance and knocked out a new one onto a different street around the corner. I kid you not. So childish, ya couldn't make it up!
I'm British born and bred, I know my government, paedophiles, homosexuals, con artists, thieves, liars and cheats, so yes I do believe what ya said about that road and what they did Don Scott...quite easily!😑💨😜
TEN MEN DEAD - The finest history book 📙
God bless them one and all, Bobby Sands forever.
I was in the army and based in Londonderrry when Bobby Sands died. It was my birthday the next day i was only 20. I never heard those dustbin lids bang as hard as they did that night.
derry
Larry Fogarty Sorry i forgot. You are right when you say Derry. Its just that when in the army we had to call it Londendery.
steven paul dempster fair play to you..steven paul dempster
You got it right British soldier ...its Londonderry .
Why do you feel that you have to ingratiate yourself with murderers ?
Woofer59 Why do you feel you have to ingratiate yourself with trolls?
Respect to Mrs Mcalliskey
Bobby sands the only sand you cant make sandcastles with.
The Irony - the worms are spitting him 😳 out .