How The Irish Got So Good At Smoking British Soldiers
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Sure thing babe
I downloaded GroundNews but was immediately turned off when I found out that they use third-party fact-checkers.
probably unfair, but fact-checkers are part of the info war these days and I would have preferred they simply stuck to collating and comparing news articles.
no lol
@the dude Don't be so braindead ironic.
Hey mman what happened to the Russo Ukraine war video? An absolute bangert
Its kind of depressing that it took financial damage to finally convince the British government to begin negotiations and not the thousands of people who died.
Its the only way ordinary people win. Its what I call the French Method. The French, well known for protests, block ports, transportation hubs etc. with tractors/lorries hitting the wealthy in their pockets. They dont care about civilians dying, but touch their money and they'll capitulate quickly.
tells you a lot about how colonization is really a plan to expand economical domination of the owning class and. Not really about "elevating the native civilizations and elevating the metropolitan people"
@@Turisteiro291 🙄
Bruv the people keep fucking, the wealth is finite, royal more. Skill issue
OH SHIT IM FEELIN IT
When I was working on my undergrad degree, I took an Ireland in the Middle Ages course and one quote from the professor has always stuck with me: "The trouble with conquering the Irish is that you have to do it all over again every week"
🤣👏
To be honest they've given their country away anyway. May as well have stayed under England at this point.
@ZALA_Lancet didnt say England was any better. Difference is Ireland fought a war recently for ethnic autonomy.
Most popular name in UK as well.@ZALA_Lancet 😠
@ZALA_Lancetits the most common name for all country’s allowing illegals and their anchor babys in in Europe atleast the south americans are a little more original when they name their anchor babys in america
you're missing a key detail about the Irish Potato Famine, Ireland itself had more than enough food supply for themselves. The issue was the British Exportation of that food to its own country. It led to a LARGE resentment to the British.
And missing the details of how the English lords then stole the farmers land.
So uh.. Can we still say sorry or no
It's a real testament to the failure to learn from history or a lack of care. Empires regularly recycle the same events. Just like the potato famine, there was a famine in the Roman-controlled area of Britain and, like the British in later millennia, the Romans chose to export the foodstuffs out of Britain and to the home provinces.
@@BingleFlimp Same thing happened in British controlled India, multiple times actually, both the exportation of food, as well as the deliberate destruction of farm land replaced with cash crops, such as opium poppies, cotton for textiles etc. The British were more concerned about making money than caring if people died.
Yeah and guess what ....the average British peasant didn't see any of the food....they starved along with everyone else...
Is the sheep a terrorist for deciding he will not allow the wolf to eat him anymore?
Belter
The sheep stay sheep because they are too stupid and weak to stop fighting amongst themselves.
That's why they stand in solidarity with Palestine
Depends on if the sheep is kneecapping his neighbours.
@@gdes4063 sheep don’t kneecap their neighbours wolves do
The idea of IEDs going off in close proximity to medieval castles is just wild.
Only in Ireland for ya
The absurd and funny consequences of human nature
Castles built by the english in the 12th century. Still being fought by the locals 800 years later.
Man there's castles all over the place here we use to go drinking and smoking many a morning I woke up in one
@Black_Knight15 I mean if you're gonna hide anywhere I'd take Roman fort over no fort. It's survived war till now.
“We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always.” That has be one of the most unsettling lines you could hear as a target.
Gangster as hell😅
Therefore British shall have addressed them "accordingly". The NAMES were well known. But the British wanted to play it fair.
Honestly, terrorists do not play fair, so you shall not as well.
The Brits didn’t play fair. They used unionist terror groups as proxies, they went after lawyers and journalists who were critical of UK govt and army and there was a shoot to kill policy so…
But she did get lucky every time. She died of a stroke and the IRA went defunct. Common Irish L.
@@IAmTheStig32 Though she did spend most of her life having to look for some c4 explosives underneath her car every day of her miserable life
Irish person from the north here, I was really hoping you’d make this video after watching your videos on Iraq and Vietnam. I think it would have been best to describe the pre-troubles conditions Irish Catholics were in: 99.9% Protestant police force that brutalised Irish people and assisted Protestant supremacists in committing pogroms, low Catholic employment despite high levels education, Catholic families of 20 or more being crammed into small homes while social houses were given to lone Protestant young adults, a property rate-based voting system that gave an entire Catholic family 1 vote between them while wealthy Protestant business owners got 7 votes to themselves, rampant gerrymandering, rampant state sponsored loyalist violence against Catholics from 1967 onwards, and more. It shows how a population that largely admired MLK and his peaceful methods ended up waging a 30 year guerrilla war that claimed thousands of lives. Also it was the Continuity IRA who did the Omagh Bombing, not the Real IRA. Apart from those two small notes this video was great. It’s refreshing to see someone talk in depth about the IRA without “filthy terrorist” this and “filthy terrorist” that.
IRA and the ANC had the same struggle
Pure apartheid, if you just switch the group names you could just be describing israelis and palestinians.
A lot of us in France got mad respect for the irish people fight, thanks for the context and precisions.
small correction my friend, those of the state of Israel are referred to as "Israelis" in English, though you used the correct word for Palestinians so I can understand the slight confusion, bonne journee mon ami@@0Escogriffe0
Going to war with soldiers is one thing, but blowing up shopping centres filled with women and children for a political aim is literally the definition of terrorism.
That’s what I love about this channel! It keeps an professional unbiased attitude towards documenting these horrible events in history, I’ve learned so much from his videos.
It was genocide (the deliberate starvation of Irish) You'll still today find that British surnames have a hold over the most fertile lands.
It was 120 years ago at the start of The Troubles. Why did 600 innocent British civilians have to die for that?
@@traffecone The video got the details of the 'Famine' wrong. Your question is not related to my comment on the 'Famine'. If you wish your question to be answered I can't help you with that.
@@traffecone well life loss is a sad event. But perhaps you propose the same question to the British government? What's wrong with being a sovereign nation?
It was not a genocide. It was idiotic policy and a grievance alright but bear in mind that whilst the Liberal Party were tossers the Tories were sympathetic to the Irish.
As an Irishman who loves his country dearly, I would like to mark out a few points:
1. No British lords actually starved their Irish labourers. They were mainly evicted or forced to emigrate.
2. The British poured a lot of money to resolve the famine. The only problem was that money was used to give foods the regular Irish didn’t eat on a regular basis.
3. Many of those carrying british surnames tend to be Anglo Irish descendants who are also citizens of this country.
Get your facts straight before you make an accusation, this is the 21st century
When you look into the history of Korean resistance to Japanese colonization. You see a lot of Irish last names that assisted them. These men went beyond helping. There could be an Irishman who absolutely hates Koreans, ill still run up and try to hug him after reading all the stories. 😘
"The Antung company manager was an Irish terrorist whom we Koreans called "Sao." He hated the Japanese almost as much as he hated the Britsh, and supported the Korean independence movement enthusiastically at great risk to himself." - Kim San, Song of Ariran by Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow)
I'm Korean who is a direct descendant of one of so-called "100 most notable Korean resistance figures", and we deeply acknowledged of Irish helping of us during Japanese occupation. Irish, Czech legion, Canadians, and Chinese, they're one of the most notable foreign helpers of Korean resistance. They helped us without wanting reward or recognition in return. In fact many of those helpers persecuted in their home for helping us. Mad respect.
this book looks really cool, just preordered it thanks to ur comment
We also have a fine fine legacy of fighting Colonial bastards in South America
@@xrayjohnson6972 You have form for blowing up women and children as well.
I don’t think this is true. Cool if it were.
historians calling my carefully assembled bomb I spent hours working on an 'Improvised' explosive device
Its over (for them)
My?
It counts as improvised instead of bespoke until the factory you build it in is big enough to be considered an identifiable strategic target. - Historians, probably
That's kind of and by kind of I really mean LITERALLY the definition of an IED.
Do you think the durka durkas weren't spending hours on theirs during the US Invasion?
It's an improvised because it's designed and built to that specific situation and scenario. Time building it doesn't mean squat in this scenario
It’s an art and should be recognized as such
'' they're barbarians '' -every colonist
The 12th century invasion of Ireland was caused by an invitation by a disgruntled Irish King of Leinster making a deal with some Welsh Norman lords from Pembroke-shire who landed in the South of Ireland and captured Wexford and Dublin which were then Norse city states. A Welsh Scholar, Geraldus Cambrensis wrote an account about the Irish calling them barbarians and not able to practice their religion properly. An English Pope Adrian issued a proclamation called Laudabiliter granting the Title Lord of Ireland to the English King Henry II who came to Dublin in 1170 to copper-fasten the initial 1169 invasion by the Welsh Cambro-Normans and forestall any attempt by these Lords to form a separate Norman State in competition with the English Norman State at that time. This invasion started 800 years of a violent bloody and complex relationship between these 2 islands which has consequences and tragic results to this very day.
@@jgdooley2003irrelevant
Depends on the ideology and how dark their skin is, honestly.
@@Mr_Schizorace goes so, so much deeper than skin.
@@SK0LDR1I'm just making a joke here. But alright.
I hate what the British establishment did to my ancestors. Not , and never the British people. I have no time whatsoever for the royal family
blame the normans, they created what we have today. it was the normans who invaded ireland not the english.
don’t worry many of us in the uk have no time for them either
@@Success4u247 I’m English and feel exactly the same way.
Royal Family need to be stripped of their wealth
Turns out all the British had to do was let a few huge drug shipments get into the country and you all would kill yourselfs lol
As an irishman, the scary part about the IRA is, considering the amount of weapons and explosives they had, in hindsight, we could say they were actually quite restrained in their attacks. Because they had a shit load more in their arsenal than was ever used.
And now that Ireland is rapidly sinking due to treasonous government flooding the country with mass immigration. Where are the IRA ?
True
Clown
Too much and it's war and Ireland is flattened, they're not stupid.
@@patkearney9320 I know you're all over here glorifying terrorists and murderers
Nobody could be as ruthless as the British so I'm not surprised that the Irish gave the British a taste of their own medicine.
Absolutely, each country they colonized should take their turn on them.
@@Deathtrooper27so we should punish the children for the sins of their parents?? Hmmmmm that’s just a “wonderful” idea
Trvth. Total angloid death
@@S0meassh0leyou are already getting punished
@orange8420 stay mad your backwards little sheep farm got conquered and didn't accomplish anything in history
Yes, if you occupy another people, they might actually fight back.
British/Irish relations are very very complex. You can't really genetically tell the difference between people in Northern Ireland for a reason. There is a reason the Gaelic spoken in Scotland is so close to Irish. Scotland is less than 9 miles away from Ireland and before the 19th century it was far far easier to travel by sea than over land. Yes there should be a united independent Ireland. But the British and the Irish are genetically and culturally pretty similar. With the sad truth being that the Soldiers the British sent to die in Ireland probably had more Irish blood in them than most Irish Americans.
@@davedavids57 any non British person who helps the British occupiers has forfeited all rights to mercy and dignity.
@@danielaramburo7648 Yer when 6 million people in Britain qualify for an Irish passport and 1 million British residence were born in Ireland there has to be common sense. Hopefully there will be an united Ireland one day but silly slogans that belong in the hopeless days of the 1970s don't help at all. The future is one of cooperation and consensus. Sadly some of the biggest obstacles of a unified Ireland are those who don't understand that there will need to be some compromise. Added to the understanding that Britain and Ireland have a very very close historical relationship that will likely endure for ever. In a similiar way that Britain has with France, or the USA with Canada.
@@davedavids57 Yeah huge relation of course .... one of the filthiest relation I read about
@@danielaramburo7648 And British occupiers themselves somehow deserve better?
The Irish never colonised, plundered and massacred any nation. But taught a good lesson to the terrorists who tried to bleep with them.
Salute 🫡
One thing I learned from history, everyone is the plundering aggressor is they can be.
Between 900 and about 1100 Dublin had the biggest slave market in Europe. Irish pirates raided up and dwn the West coast of Britain taking plunder and slaves. Even to the point that there is a record of an ENTIRE village of people taken... So yeah, if I was a child I could say "You started it" But I won't. St PAddy was an English Slave in Ireland. I think it was William 2 who finally invaded, and then released all the British slaves in Ireland. SO you know, how far back do you want to go? Have a great day.
@michaelcave6581 I understand, however nothing can compare to 'Mother England' and her global destruction of all that is good. And still continues....
@@andy8862
Saxons didn't send anyone packing 😂
Irish left
Instead they created Scotland saxons did nothing about irish invading the north and saxons done nothing about irish invading Wales how could they do something about cornish land .?
@@michaelcave6581
That's a lie lad keep your loyalist bs to yourself
Dublin was created by norse the norse slave trade started in 900 ad
Irish raiders taking a slave isn't a slave trade if I go to London and take someone as slave that not a slave trade
Irish slave trade was over 1000 years ago estimated between 300 400 bc the same time eating people was normal in Europe and human sacrifice was regular
You compare that to the 20 century
British Government when Civilians are killed: I sleep
British Government when Economic buildings are destroyed: REAL SHIT!?!?!
Bruh it was the tories what do you expect 💀
@@average_peanut_fan3059 labour is a different kind of poison.....
Not the British people though - we never would agree to the suffering
Apparently the Omagh bombing was actually carried out by Mi5 with the sole purpose of killing civilians and blaming the IRA. That'll show you what value the British Government has on their own civilians.
@@EpicAelflaed *looks at the Great Hunger, the election of Margaret Thatcher, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, Brexit, and Israel for the last 75 years*
I understand the spirit of this comment, but it still produces a mighty side-eye response in me. The British majority has an awful track record when it comes to its leaders.
I'm American. I can't remember the last time we had a president who wasn't a war criminal and didn't base foreign policy around the suffering of other human beings,
and since I came of age politically in the early 2000s, your leaders have been right there alongside mine.
I worked with an Irish man that was arrested on the job site. A couple days later my boss told me he was arrested for being an IRA petro bomb boy back when he was 14. Apparently he did some gnarly stuff that caught up to him. There was one incident on a hot summer day that we were driving back to the shop in just skins and I noticed he had IRA tattooed on his solar plexus and had some burn scarring on his shoulder. Never saw him again, but my experiences with him were nothing but good times. He ran to states to escape his fate...or at least he hoped.
No true member would have a tattoo like that on him only low level non members, he was a wannabe a foolish boy.
@@patkearney9320 Loyalist spotted
So a organisation that works in total blackout under the radar inks RA on his body truly he no ra man
@@PeachBoi_Realthat was easy
@@patkearney9320 No true Scotsman: Irish Edition
It’s important to note that during the so called “potato famine” or what republicans call“the great hunger” Ireland was producing enough food to feed the population but it was being exported to England. This is another instance of deliberate colonial genocide
follow the money, that is the culprit.
wasnt it the irish landowners who send the food to england?
most if not all land owners were British. @@oldboyengineer9794
@@oldboyengineer9794Much of the potato famine involved landowners leasing the land to a chain of subletters who extracted as much rent as they could from whomever was desperate enough to farm it.
It's worth mentioning that one of the UK Prime Ministers at the time was convinced that famine was natural economic phenomena. Starvation was merely 'market adjustment'.
I love how you don't discriminate on whose getting smoked lmao
Common Irish W
My thoughts exactly
ah yes, innocent civilians being bombed😂
@@jboydayzall funded by the us
if i recall correctly, they lost
@@lennox142Ireland deserves independence but how anyone thinks the tactics of the IRA would achieve it is beyond me.
Btw the IRA of the 1920s-30s was mostly absorbed into Irish Army. The IRA of the troubles was mostly based in the 6 counties and border counties, but also had cells in Dublin/Cork, etc and the UK.
bullshit
@@johndalton6236 Proof?
The Irish had an army?
I mean master of the universe and the universe is fucked up and always will be all bullshit and more bullshit and more bullshit
@@johndalton6236 I am the Master of the Universe, not the Master of Fixing Disabilities. I couldn't decrypt what you said even if I wanted to.
My father was responsible for planning routes for soldiers travelling to and from a Barracks in N. Ireland. He couldn't reuse the same route too often or risk their lives.
Sounds about right. My granda used to paint their vechiles. He told me a story one time about how a young british corporal turned up in his factory yard in full uniform - he went balastic and chased him off the premises lol also threatened them if it happen again he would stop
The English invaders got what they deserved
This video, yet again is providing no links. I enjoyed the video but I can only view it as entertainment. I hate that he says his sources (so he clearly could link them) yet doesn't provide them
My purpose in posting this is not to say this is not real or downplay issues, but instead I believe ANY news or information source should provide evidence to back up claims.
Ohhhhhhh 18 brits on the Warrenpoint Road
So did he shoot anyone who was just walking down the road
ONE ISLAND ☘️ ONE IRELAND 🇮🇪
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@@420YOUKNOWHO 🥾💥🇬🇧
one arsehole
@@420YOUKNOWHO Scotland out of britain, Britain out of Ireland, soar alba🇮🇪🏴
And it's still never going to happen.
The soldiers were there as targets. We faced a similar problem in Afghansitan, men in uniform vs men in civvies who could disappear into the local population. Repeated throughout history, the US in Vietnam, the Germans vs the French Marquis etc
Men in uniforms killing on behalf of a fascistic state against innocent civilians trying to defend their homes.
Excuse me if I care nothing for your "problems".
Tiocfaidh ár lá
It didn’t help that you couldn’t shoot until you’d already been shot at.
@@370530e thats called peacekeeper duites that what the UN do with the blue helmet effectively they are the military police
You'd think occupying forces would learn from history, but it keeps repeating itself.
Occupiers are often ultra nationalistic with a superiority complex . They always underestimate enemies and overestimate their own.
in the context of Northern Ireland, London could just never get it through their thick heads that the war was about civil rights. The Troubles would've ended in the early 1970s if London had decided that ALL the people of Northern Ireland were equal and then ENFORCED that notion on the Loyalist majority. Eventually they did get it into their heads when Blair & Ahern came up with the Good Friday Agreement. It only took 30 years for the Brits to understand common sense.
Anglo arrogance. Same case with American and all their failed invasion.
@@metokur85 🇬🇧 government arrogance not English people - we didn’t like it as much as the Irish - killing is wrong regardless of religion
one day the english will pay
Ahh so now the Brits are just English? Well what about the Scottish, Welsh and yes Irish?
You were getting smoke from ALL the four nations but you had to pick just one 😉
The Brits are Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh - get your facts correct
What exactly are you going to do about it?
How will who pay exactly?
Of course as usual ‘nothing’ just keyboard warriors the lot of you 😂
An argument that completely ignores one side. A bit strange and also a bit ignorant of history. The good Friday agreement was only possible as the IRA/INLA were forced to the table by the failure of the long war, and the SAS taking out one cell too many.
I know it's not much but keep doing what you are doing
@@iwanevans5716 very rude.
@@iwanevans5716 You never donated anything in your entire life time for you to man up and stop freeloading off your parents.
@@iwanevans5716 infinitely more than your generous donation of $0
@@iwanevans5716I don’t see you donating anything
@@iwanevans5716if you have problems, donate aswell
Imagine thinking it’s “terror” to attack your oppressor lol
Last I checked children watching parades and poor people in Liverpool weren’t oppressors
@@tastybeetz1511 By which measure you should be furious with your own country for using concentration camps AFTER WW2?
Plenty of innocent people there who were shot without question or saw snakes inserted up their pregnant wife.
"If we are to sin like the Nazis ,we must not be seen doing so."
British commander in Kenya.
^ These are the people we were up against in our country.
Terror is more describing the tactics used. It's not just another word for bad guys.
Something being defined as terror doesn't necessarily make it morally wrong. The ira were terrorists regardless of if they were justified or not.
@@tastybeetz1511 damn, then maybe the ruling class, out of concern for the safety and wellbeing of those scousers, should have left Ireland alone huh?
The 12 apostles is by far the hardest shit I've ever heard in my life.
Fr
Michael Collins was the hardest man
@@okahhj55 fr, he was bricked up
They were a murder gang and they could get it wrong.
As an irishman i have to say fair play for spending the time to get all the history right and very well put together and narrated, i really enjoyed the vid and like you said at he end thank god this place is a whole lot better than when i was growing up. Dea-phost Go raibh maith agat.
love from Dublin ❤🇮🇪🇮🇪
May I ask in your opinion what does the IRA mean to you I don't mean it as a party or as a political thing while I know it is I mean what your feelings towards them as an entity
@@fancyfox5847 there the reason I don’t call myself English right now,brave heroic men against all the odds held back the mighty British army of a never ending supply of British troops.true icons of this country
@@fancyfox5847 I'm an Irish catholic but I must admit the IRA are terrorist scum. Any Irishman who supports them is an idiot who is blinded by religion/politics.
@@fancyfox5847
I hate them, personally, not that I'm much in favour of most of Ulster being under British rule, I'd rather Ireland was unified, but terrorists can't be allowed to operate if such a thing is to happen because all they do is disrupt the peace and divide communities with their unreasonable hatred of an entire nation and it's people, which they very effectively pass onto the youth, because they want more recruits, and then radicalised teens throw bricks and bottles at police and wonder why they drive in armoured cars. Nobody in Britain really cares at all unless they're Irish themselves or a politician, there are issues over here they'd rather be thinking about.
Some people call them freedom fighters still, but it's not 1916 anymore, no death squads are shooting up stadiums in Dublin, but the IRA (RAAD) are carrying out exrtajudicial killings of random people in Northern Ireland on the mere notion that they might be drug dealers, they don't really verify if the people they shoot are innocent, they just go through with it. They're the death squads now, just not in Dublin.
My opinion, they stopped being freedom fighters when they started a civil war with the Irish government.
Never ask: -A man his salary
-A woman her age
-The Brits where their ford ivecos go
I recall that one of those truck bombs was assembled in Ireland and driven across to the UK by way of a car ferry. If that bomb had gone off on the ferry en route to its final destination potentially 100's if not 1000's of passengers could have been killed.
Another horror was the use of civilians to drive up to army barracks in their own cars which would have a bomb installed by an "operative", the civilian would be threatened to do what he was told or be shot. Once the car was approached by the inevitable soldier on checkpoint duty the car, the civilian and soldier would be blown up. The IRA and their loyalist counterparts did not care about innocent civilians as long as they got their intended targets. These bombs were known as proxy bombs.
@@jgdooley2003the real horror is the Irish famine where millions died not 100 civilians . Read some history for once. British ships taking out cattle and other food , sending it to Britain while the Irish starve . Britain refusing to send aid and blocking other countries ships with aid from landing in Ireland . Never mind India. Let’s stop with the pity party for the British who killed more people than at other empire on earth
@@JoeRogansForehead And while you are about it, don't forget the wealthy Irish farmers on the East Coast who didn't give a damn about their fellow countrymen and exported all their wheat to Britain.
@@stevebarlow3154 most of those farmers were actually just caretakers working the estate for their British owners who still lived back in Britain . So of course they didn’t care . They made more money off cattle and sheep which used huge plots of land while the Irish Catholics had nothing. Never mind the Irish Protestants who were given more favorable treatment than their “brother” Irish Catholics . This ultimately led to the Irish war of independence and ultimately the troubles.
The British had the means to help all the starving Irishman with ONLY the non potato and livestock raised/grown in Ireland itself. They refused to do because as their own writings and diaries said , they thought the Irish were subhuman and they WANTED them to die. So I don’t feel bad for any British person dying in Ireland. If any one deserves it is them. You can only have your boot on a persons neck for so long before they rebel. And you don’t get to cry terrorism when it happens because that’s exactly what you were doing to them for centuries.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Collins wasn't in the IRA or Sinn Fein during The Irush Civil war. He was Fine Gael(Pro-Treaty aka Freestater). Sinn Fein split into Fine Gael and Fianna Fail(Anti-Treaty) led by DeValera. Only reason DeValera wasn't shot after the Easter Rising in 1916 was because he was an American Citizen and Britian were allies of the US.
If history tells us anything, it's that any invading force is at an inherent disadvantage if they're fighting locals on their own turf. As an invading force, if you don't know every nook and cranny of the location you're trying to invade plus all local intel, you're better off just staying home.
That disadvantage becomes even higher in the modern day, when invading nations often label their actions "military operations" or "humanitarian efforts" and focus on "winning hearts and minds" rather than total subjugation of the populace. The Assyrians, Romans, and Mexica probably had a much easier time conquering other peoples given that they didn't cloak their imperialism in a myth of humanitarianism.
but....Northern Ireland is still British....so they won.
@@_boracic_atreus_23not for much longer
1. They wernt invaders, northern Ireland was british and the british army came in to protect Catholics
2. They won
If one side wears uniforms and the other does not, the uniformed side will be highly vulnerable to ambush.
This is why I always tell people that history is one big grey area. Reason I say this is because I was speaking to someone about the issue of racism and colonialism. I made mention of Ireland as an example of why we cannot just reduce a complex problem down to just skin color. The person disregarded all that I had said simply because Irish people are white.
Tbf the Irish lost their struggle it can be argued and there's been no real well reason to begin again. Also there's been Irish whom have died in Ukraine old IRA would have called these people or dealt with em ages ago. But to play devil's advocate, many Africans or Non whites feel a lack of support and protests and marches aren't going to cut it. But you are right in the grand scheme of things.
Can't really blame people for thinking that
This’s partly true because the British started WWII because of German colonisation of Central and Eastern Europe yet it had entire continents colonised but filled with brown and black people instead of white people.
@@kiuk_kiks What weird parallel universe do you occupy? Germany started world war 2 by invading a sovereign nation state and provoking a justified response. Germanies subsequent genocidal behaviour reinforces the justification. While the British Empire was evil it in no way matched the evil of the Nazis.
The whataboutery doesn't really work because Germany also enthusiastically colonised Africa, China and the Pacific. Just because they were not very good at it and Britain took all its colonial possessions after the last World War ( which Germany also started ) does not make the Nazi aggression equivalent to the British Empire.
@@hopedream11
Why would the IRA call Irish that died in Ukraine?
Can you explain that in detail?
@@kiuk_kiks
The British started WW2 ?
😐 How do you come up with that?
Have I been reading the wrong books for 50 years?
Like I've read German, Russian, Croatian accounts of the start of WW2 and this is a first.
You need to take this chance to enlighten me.
I can tell you a couple of locations were those weapons were hidden. Scrap yards in fridges, barrels buried into river banks, in garden beds of old wonderful ladies with beautiful roses, in post offices in packages that never seem to be picked up.... Bakers were very very important to Northern Ireland. Not only for their ability to mix bread and move flower lol...
I remember playing in some bunkers as a child when they where emptied of course
you might just be one of the most interesting people i have ever encountered on the internet.
Don’t forget graveyards
There was large underground bunkers built too, they were used to store the Libyan gear. There’s pictures of one and it it’s a tidy job with electric and a large drainage pipe 100yds long coming off one side that could be used for test firing or sighting rifles.
My granny always had guns under her bed😂
So, basically Israel is doing to Palestinians what Britain did to Irish people..
Where do you think israel learned it from ? The British empire and monarchy are a spawn of the devil,hope the get flooded by more immigrants
The RIC were sent to Palestine after they were ran out of Ireland from 1916 to 1922. It's literally the same occupiers
@@fhdk227hitler actually learned concentration camps from the British (against the boers)
Yes
Ireland will stand with our Palestinian siblings forever.
IRA style IED's were found to be used in Afghanistan during the Russian "invasion" from 1980-89. The British Govt thought that the IRA were there helping the Mujahideen. Turns out it the SAS who were showing them how to build IED's modelled on those built by the IRA.
The first British soldier killed in Iraq by an IED using technology MI5 lost to the IRA in a failed sting operation. It was light-sensitive diodes which the IRA used camera flashes to detonate(in Iraq lasers were used instead) as command wires and could be detected by helicopters and the British used frequency jamming technology.
@@stuartstein7495 reminds me of during the battle of Britain, unexploded German bombs, especially those dropped on London had an uncanny ability to go off whenever disarming was attempted.
It wasn't till one cracked open on the bottom of the Thames during a night raid and didn't go off did the British realise why.
Many German bombs had secondary charges linked directly to photosensitive diodes inside the casing.
So if a bomb didn't go off, you weren't gonna try to disarm it during the night anyway, you'd leave it to morning.
And when you tried taking it apart in the daylight to disarm it.....well.
@@Palemagpie The IRA were being trained in Mozambique by British/Operation Gladio forces and that one I cannot comprehend to this day, except playing and directing both sides?. The engineering dept of the Provos had at their highest level were stationed there and the CIA were involved also???
@@stuartstein7495 Nonsense
@@feargal2433 I am not sure what book it was in that I read that(as I read so many) but it was a good source when I read it so possibly in the book "The Defence Of The Realm : The Authorized History of MI5 Christopher Andrew".
18:06 the original Bloody Sunday was in 1920, where the British opened fire on spectators at Croke part during a Gaelic football match.
How utterly British of them... A question, HTF did a clown like Varadker get the top job in Ireland?
@@geoffheard5768 He inherited party leadership, like Useless in Scotland, neither for them have led their party to an outright win yet.
Well it was actually the RIC. The Royal Irish Constabulary. The local Irish police. The film Mcihael Collins (great film btw) changed it to the British Army
The Anglo-Irish war was also similar to a civil war because of the amount of Irish people that fought on both sides.
In the Michael Collins movie they depict the events. For whatever Hollywood's version is worth.
@@shizlittlebam except Bloody Sunday didn't happen like that.
There was an armoured car, except it didn't drive onto the pitch. It was outside and only fired in the air. The police entered from one side and started firing into the crowd and chased them while firing rifles and revolvers.
1:48 "for the better part of a century, the Irish have resisted occupation." Em, I think you might want to check that again man, it has been a *little* bit longer than that...
However, thank you for pointing out the fact that Ireland was "Britain's colonial experiment" as it's often called. Elizabeth specifically ordered the Earl of Essex to make the plantation of Ulster (the colony in the Northern part of Ireland, Munster plantation was the south, Laois was central etc you get it) the model for their colonies in the Americas because they would be led by private enterprise to reduce the use of state revenue. Debt incurred by wars with the Spanish and her refusal to raise taxes made it necessary to make these private affairs so only 2 of Ulster's 9 counties were planted on the state's dime. This is exactly how they colonised North America. Ireland is genuinely the world's oldest and longest running colony as many of these policies (including prohibiting the language and culture) date back to the 1300s! eg. Statutes of Kilkenny
Did you watch the whole video?... just 4 minutes in, he starts covering the stuff you commented.
@@gwynbleidd1917 He probably meant to say eight centuries. And did you read the part where I said "thank you for pointing it out?" I then added details that he didn't mention.
@@TheAnthraxBiology I think he was talking specifically about the Irish Volunteers and the original IRA as the organised armed resistance, rather than just the length of occupation. I did a double take myself when I first heard it but it makes sense when he gives context.
"HOLDING OUT FOR A MILLENNIUM OF OPPRESSION!!!" - The Fighting Irish
Yeah, homie definitely meant millennium, I caught that too
Never give up your weapons!!!
They were only allowed shotguns and bolt actions. America and the Soviets gave them good weapons
As a plastic paddy you should take a trip to Belfast, if you want a true experience of Irish culture you should go into a flat roof pub and call yourself Irish and express your political opinions.
Britain today does not want to be in Northern Ireland, we are just terrified off restarting the troubles. If a similar amount of political violence happened in America at the same time, there would have been over 500,000 fatalities.
Northern Ireland will probably join Ireland in my lifetime, and it will do it peacefully because of the willingness of the northern Irish people to give up their guns.
Northern Ireland would bankrupt Ireland at this point. Things are fine the way they are tbh many Irish benefit from shopping over the border. This country's government suckkkkkkkks so bad.
no just no those are for killing people not for "protection" if you really need it for some civil war type shit go ask the russians they set you right up
It took the Irish 1 whole year, from the very invention of TNT, for them to start using it against British invaders.
Thanks Nobel. Really helped out the Irish.
Let's hope the aboriginals don't find out a out it or the Irish colonists will be getting a taste as well
@@laptv2144 We're happy to help
@@brendasg155 What aboriginals???
TNT is much more stable than dynamite so it took a while for people to figure out it could explode. It was previously used to dye clothing yellow.
Fun fact: A lot of the litter bins in English cities are made from wood to this day due to the IRA bombing campaign.The wood would splinter, whereas a metal bin would become shrapnel making the bomb more deadly.
Ive never seen any wooden bins. But around areas in the city and on the London underground, the bins are either just a clear plastic bag mounted to the wall, or there are no bins at all.
We still have metal bins in most cities too
Ive never seen a wooden bin,
its always been metal.
Maybe in northern ireland, but not mainland
Never seen a wooden bin
This may have been the case 30 years ago, but most of the wooden bins have been replaced with permanent metal bins again.
The Guardian called for military intervention then blamed the innocent people that were murdered on bloody Sunday for "marching".
that day the british were being fired at from the crowd, the protest woulda been fine, and it was (serving no threat to the forces) until some IRA militants let rounds fly from within the crowd, the british forces were placed under sudden danger and fired back while tryna move out, the militants used the crowd as a meat sheild knowing that if one of their shooters was downed, they could just pick up the gun from the body and remove any evidence, the IRA being an unorganised and undocumented force meant soldiers were not registered as such, and would be classed as "civilians" unless there was solid evidence to prove they were a shooter (any evidence was cleared by other IRA members b4 the crowd dispersed) gunshot residue would have been on all the surrounding people anyway so thats useless as evidence, colateral is bound to happen in an incedent like this im not saying all the protesters were shooters, most were excersising their rights and were caught in the crossfire. Body cams and action footage didnt exist either. Why would the brits kill protesters like that if they were in no threat? It would be kinda obvious how ppl would react too, seems pointless to shoot yourself in the foot like that. Bloody sunday is a big lie twisted by pro-IRA
@@amberfox21or it could’ve been a British actor who fired the first shot, truth is, we will probably never know, either way, shooting into an unarmed crowd is not the right thing to do, regardless of if you’re taking fire, you’re never going to get the guy you’re aiming for by shooting in a crowd, you’ll always hit bystanders
@@burtreynolds8030 what would you suggest they should have done? They were pinned down by gunfire from open shooters, in a place where cover was scarce and retreat was difficult, and even so, you always cover your retreat as when retreating you are an easy target if cover fire is not provided. Returning fire is the only way to escape safely, it's not like the IRA werent used to killing civilians, and in this case the protesters killed were collateral, not women, kids and inocents killed by pipe bombs outside London pubs
Bollocks
@@amberfox21 Good luck trying to get a balnced response from this bunch!
800 year fight for freedom and we're still going
I grew up through the entirety of the Troubles. People have no idea what it was like and thank you for your great information on it
These "How [locals fighting imperialism] Got So Good At Smoking [Western invaders]" series is actually so good.
technically the british would be an eastern invader
@@sogmeat4670 I admit, you got me here...
Maybe he will make a video about how the Ukrainians got so good at smoking Russian invaders next.
@@Shane10871🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
@@Shane10871hell yeah, that will be a good video.
as an Irish person, I did not think it a likely scenario to be informed about my history by an American. I stand corrected. Great video
We have a lot of war nerds
Americans are obsessed with you lot it doesn’t surprise me at all
@@arthriticgrandpa2875That's because about 40 million of Americans are of Irish decent
@@matthewjamison And there’s even more of English descent, yet you don’t see anything of the like.
@@arthriticgrandpa2875 Because they never clung to their roots, like the persecuted immigrants like the Irish, Italians etc.. coming out of Ellis Island. As the ruling class. They never had any affiliation or loyalty to the crown. Especially after fighting for American independence. They distanced themselves from Englishness
“Today we were unlucky. But remember we only have to be lucky once, you have to be lucky always” might be one of the coldest historical quotes
I was born in 1970 and grew up in Dundalk, very close to Warrenpoint. I remember this day so well as a 9 year old…my grandfather was in the Irish Army and I remember him being suddenly in fatigues and armed that Sunday, which was unusual for his rank. This analysis is accurate and stoic.
Literally everyone outside of the anglosphere: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!
Still gonna lose
@@johnhenry4844 cope and seethe
I don’t know whether your talking about the tactic or the cold ass quotes they were giving 😂😂
@@kakhuuu
Says the constant losers, even after Britain left its colonies the 3rd world is 🗑
@@johnhenry4844afghans didnt lose, viets didnt lose
Irish Explosive devices
Made me laugh so hard
In the early 2000s, I served in Ireland with the British military during a time when many of the strict security measures we were trained to follow were becoming outdated due to the Good Friday Agreement. It was a strange atmosphere-despite the formal peace process, tensions were still high, and hostility toward us was palpable. To be honest, it was clear why we were hated. We couldn't and wouldn't have any association with loyalist paramilitaries, as they were just another gang with their own violent agendas. For me, it wasn’t about any particular cause-I went because the pay was good.
Serving there made me think a lot about Britain’s history in Ireland. For centuries, British elites plundered and oppressed the Irish, using the island as a testing ground for the expansion of their empire. People like me, ordinary soldiers, were just pawns-expendable grunts in their broader schemes. In a way, I knew what I was signing up for, but it didn’t make it any easier. The IRA, especially the Provisional IRA, were very effective at keeping us on edge. Even though there hadn’t been any killings in a few years when I arrived, we were constantly aware of the threat. They had a way of reminding us that we could be targeted at any moment.
Now, my life is much different. I’m married to an Irish woman, and I visit the Republic frequently. It’s ironic in some ways, but my father-in-law, who I’m fairly sure was active during the Troubles, seems to be the reason I’m still safe when I visit. It’s a strange world, but that's where my life has taken me.
English lads from Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle etc.. who were the cannon fodder of the English elite had far more in common with the ordinary Irishman than the English upperclass who sent them to kill, or die.
That's a fascinating story!
I learnt from this video that if you see a white ford transit in ireland, run
It is to Ireland what the Toyota hilux is to the middle east
@@nicholascharles9625 yes
True😂
With some dirty inbred nacker driving it
Or an irish registered ford transit in canary wharf
Nothing but love to the Irish people
Go raibh maith agath.
@@seandoyle2983 Nani
Cheers. 🤜🏻🤛🏽
💚💚
IRA = Trash
Never give up your weapons. You lose the ability to negotiate
Meh, honestly weapons are fairly trivial to fabricate from whole cloth or acquire for any large movement of people, who will include smart, skilled and motivated members. Even knuckleheaded street punks easily acquire (though could not fabricate) illegal arms. At any rate, in the future cyber-warfare will be the force multiplier of choice for the clever.
turns out with what is going on in Ireland now, they may be regretting that decision
@@drew2it733 what's going on in Ireland rn?
@@tomato9349 flood of migrants by the british empire.
Lmao the Irish gave them up as soon as new conquerors moved in, here’s the thing if you are an average person you will always be ruled
"And youll never beat the Irish, no matter what you'll do, sure you can pull us down, and keep us out, but we'll come back again. You know we are the fighting Irish, and we'll fight until the end, you know you should have known, youll never beat the Irish."
I could literally browse through youtube for an hour ... just searching for content like yours.
Keep going, your docus are some of the best I've ever seen, and cover much-needed topics. The world needs more content like this.
i love these "got so good" style videos, you do a very good job at making the story digestible while making sure to add interesting details!
Helps when there is a pack of Digestives as recoilless launcher's countermass
29:18 I feel like this is a statistic that is easy to underestimate. When he says ~20 heavy machine guns he doesn't mean an m249, m240, or an rpk. No, it's .50 caliber or probably the Dishka .51 caliber. Modern armoured vehicle like an MRAP or MaxPro can withstand some .50 caliber fire... Some. These are the guns that make pink mist.
mad to think that there is a least one unaccounted DShK just lying around here somewhere, pretty sure not all of them could be confirmed destroyed/ decommissioned
Those are light machine guns.
@@Texan_BoyKisser no they're not they're classified as hmg
13:54 bruh Gaddafi really just gave anyone weapons if they asked 😂
Total CHAD
common W Gaddafi
18:58
Did you actually say the IRA don't get enough credit for inventing *car bombs*?
In England, the IRA are primarily known for two things: the phrase "up the 'RA!" and car bombs.
I imagine he meant globally.
Most Americans probably think it's a Middle Eastern invention.
He must be the only one to think that. My local pub (in Canada) has a drink called an Irish car bomb
@@filthyshoggothNo? Most people I know associate it with the IRA. Sure terrorists use it, but the IRA were infamous for it.
Lmao car bombs were a thing when they still used carriages, the guy who made this vid doesn’t know shit
The IDF/Israel could learn a lot from this conflict. Blood drunkeness is not the way forward.
German bombs never discouraged the British public, massacres in Northern Ireland never discouraged the Catholic Irish, Napalm in Vietnam never discouraged the Vietnamese and Israeli bombs will never discourage Palestinians.
Incredible story of bravery and selflessness.
A friend of mine visited Belfast 15 years ago. He had bought books about the IRA on amazon and when he landed, they gave him and his gf a thourough cavity search where they had to stand naked for a couple of hours. He's not even Irish and a history student.
I was part of Task Force Iron Claw in Baghdad during OIF2. The intel we were given by the group we replaced was that former IRA were teaching the Iraqis how to make IEDs. The British were part of the coalition forces in Iraq. It was just bad luck for the rest of us. By the time we left the Iraqis had graduated from the IRA school of bomb making. The largest IED found while I was in country was a 1000lbs aircraft dropped bomb with US Air Force markings salvaged from the desert. Luckily it didn’t go off.
Man you are making me love the Irish even more as an Iraqi
My understanding was the ied technology was straight from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and was significantly more sophisticated then IRA technology - remotely controlled shaped charges able to penetrate light armour. MFs
@@19nick55 Those evolutions would only come later. During the opening days of the conflict IED's were fairly simple, the evolutions came about as NATO coalition IED detection methods became more advanced and complex, forcing the Iraqi's to try to adapt as they could no longer get away with just making IED's out of old unused landmines or supplies you could buy at a Walmart that were common "under the sink" household products - like homemade astrolite.
@@ehabl8816The irish have a simple yet effective logic. Anyone opposing the angloids is already doing a good deed❤
@@bfc3057
Wow. I didn't realize we were all graced with the presence of someone with a PhD in geopolitical politics everyone! It truly is an honor!
Big congratulations for passing 100k subscribers! May this channel continue providing RUclips with actually valuable knowledge and hit more milestones as soon as possible!
His channel is literally shitty propaganda with no sources to back up what he says LMAO. Keep coping though.
Fr he talks about things that people hide or don’t talk about
@@harharharharharharharharha240 No he doesnt lmao "im 17 and this is deep and insightful"
@@DonnellGreen i haven’t seen anyone talk about the iraq war to the depths he did
a brutal regime was met with brutal guerilla tactics and the brits were surprised lmaoo
They never learned from 1776. They're dumb as hell.
@@TheGuruStudbig fan of 1776 america
Cry about it , swarthoid
what was so brutal about the British in your words ?
@@jazz322alllwaysswingballymurphy Bloody Sunday
"In Derry"
I once worked for a North Irishman, I got the sack for calling it Derry and not Londonderry
Good thing u got out of there
Lol you should have called it free Derry
I keep hearing "shitment" instead of shipment 💀
Try getting the shit cleaned out of your ears.
meal time watching GDF, chill time.
Best time
23:01 "Digestive *Cookies* " How to trigger an English bloke in a second
Im Irish and that had me raging!
@@johnners911 I’m English and we can agree on that if nothing else haha.
@Falkriim probably a psy-op 😂
@Falkriim I spent many years in England and you're all a bunch of cnuts 😂
Seriously joking though.... Made some great friends there
Terrorism is defined when the violence of the oppressed finally matches that of their oppressor
I just feel compelled to say, the content you’ve put out recently has been nothing short of stellar. The Palestine and Israel video, as well as the videos on Vietnamese and Iraqi insurgencies were so informative and gave info that was entirely new to me. Maybe I don’t follow the right channels, but I haven’t found many other creators that go so in depth(using quotations, references to officially documented info, etc) to qualify their statements. Also, as someone who is part Irish, learning more about this chaotic time in history is so intriguing, especially with the semi-longer formats these videos take. Truly, well done. You cover under-highlighted events and conflicts that many people should be exposed to. Much love 🤙
So you like content where someone makes a bunch of claims and then doesnt link videos or where he got his info from?
@@danieltoft2116 pay attention to the video
@@danieltoft2116 use your eyes and see the authors' names and research
the difference between rebels and terrorist is that one targets anyone one targets only soldiers and officials
13:10 the two in the middle, right side of the Browning M50, are what the IRA more commonly used. Which is the Armalite 180, a is a cost effective variant of the Armalite 18. Majority of the rifle (down to the hammer inside the trigger assembly) is made of stamped and folded sheet metal to cut in manufacturing speed and cost.
Fun fact: The plastic barrel shroud and stock is made by the same company that makes Barbie.
Thank you. As a fellow gun nut, this bothered me terribly
Any girl that played with Barbie in her younger years already knows Barbie is a stone-cold killer, so the fact that the company that makes Barbie also makes gun parts does not surprise me in the least
Citation needed about the Mattel plastics being used for the AR180.
mattel has never made any offical gun parts for Ar15s, Ar18s, or Ar180s, stop spreading these lies. If it was true when we would know what manufacturer code mattel used when producing them but we dont, every single discreet manufacturer code for anything ar15 related has been figured out and traced for years and mattel aint one of them
thank you japan.
I was taught in america that the potato famine was a result of soil overuse and an emphasis on one easy to grow potato strain becoming susceptible to disease.
Nothing was ever said about exportation by the British. It was taught as an agricultural failing. How startling.
Génocide by allies usually is taught like that....soon they will teacher you Gaza was not flattened by 83000 tons of american bombs but rather by a Hamas rocket that exploded....and how many Times have i heard that most Indians were killed by diseases and poor hygiene, or too much walking on the trail of tears or infighting not by American design.....also the benghal famine, yes very unfortunate, the rice must have gone bad.
Occupiers don't concede power without armed resistance.
Err most of the British Empire was ceded back to native rule without violence. That's why there is a British Commonwealth in existence.
@@alexdeere9722"native rule", Canada and Australia are still run by colonizers, at least in Canada, violence on women is 6x more likely for native women. Residential schools were only closed by 1997. Even now, rights are still being infringed, such as with the wet'suwet'en.
@@snek1973Canada and Australia aren't run by colonizers.UK would and hasn't intervened in Australia or Canada!
@@marioncharleston I think that by "colonizers" they meant the population of european descent which was borne it the Americas by colonization.
Note that this not an endorsement of her comment, I'm just trying to clarify what they said.
@@alexdeere9722 canada and australia had native population into oblivion, while india did a lot of armed struggle especially in 1857. after ww2 britain was weak to hold any foreign territory heck they could not even control suez canal.
free Ireland free palasine
Ireland is free
@@adambarker173 what about the northern part?
@@444prometh they voted to stay british so yes they are free. It would be you oppressing them if you forced them to leave
Israel for the win
Damn the irish wer badass I must admit. Honorable people and sad to hear that 30% of its population were wiped out at one time and then the potato famine.
hahahahah honorable? do you know what the word even means? the ira and pira were a bunch of scumbags who lost nearly all engagements that werent an ambush
The IRA was many things but honourable is not one of them lol. any organisation that knowingly and willingly blew up civilians cannot be considered an honourable organisation. Not to mention constantly telling the british to "fight like men" while simultaniously refusing to engage the british army "like men" lol
@@datcheesecakeboi6745the IRA out killed the British Army significantly. What are you talking about?
@@Hiberno_sperg then how comes 2/3s of all the people the ira killed were civilians?
@@Hiberno_sperg 2/3 of those the ira k*lled were civilians
Before emigrating to Canada, my grandfather served in the Irish Free State Army in the 1920's.
Ireland belongs to the Irish. Not the English.
Plastic paddy
Belongs to the north Africans now. Black and Tans are back , just not the ones you cry about constantly.
@@todimotska 😂😂😂😂
Irish minority in Ireland projected 2035 lol
@@todimotskaIs that right? The one per cent African population of Ireland? The UK’s African population is over three times as large.
There's a horrible lesson here. People don't matter, money matters.
To imperialists and capitalists. Money is all that matters
This is around 100 year ago 😮
Look around now 😢 not so different eh
@@jamaicanjock6305this only ended 20 years ago😂
@@Irishman0855 irishheshe wi the wrong flag is bent
In 19 hundred an 16 the forces of the crown came tae capture Orange White n GREEN bombarded...... where ya fga
Hello from Ireland. A good video. I didn't like the way you covered the issue of the partition of Ireland. You need to mention that partition as a solution was not acceptable to the people of Ireland and would have been rejected by around 85% of the voters. It was then imposed at gunpoint against the wishes of the voters. It's pathetic to listen to the British gutter press today (BBC etc) as they talk about the situation in Ireland as if it were "democratic", as if there were a "majority" in favour of continued British occupation. You can call any group of people a majority if you draw a border around them. You can create a majority anywhere if you assume the right to draw a border across someone else's country. Ireland is still under occupation.
@@fallschirmjager0000 Good Friday agreement has changed that though. Majority - north & south - have agreed to accept that NI’s status won’t change unless majority there (& separately down south) vote for it
or unless occupiers are kicked out by force,@@Conorguill .
You do realise though that unlike the 'loyalists' in the north, the majority in England and Wales (maybe not Scotland) don't want the province, they'd be more than happy to let the thorn in their sides go tomorrow, it's just the majority of the 6 counties who want the status quo to remain. Obviously you won't hear that on the BBC, but that organisation never represented the majority of the UK's population since it's inception in 1922.
Edit: Being an Englishman who spent many happy years living in Co.Waterford, I'm not convinced that the majority in the Republic would want reunification either as it would wreck the Republics economy, it currently costs the UK (population 69 million) £15 billion per year net in subsidies, for the Republic (population just 5 million) to come anywhere near half that figure, it would crucify thier economy.
@@brythonicman3267 I doubt that the North would require subsidies if it became part of the Republic. A lot of the economic depression has to do with the partition and people's response to it. Belfast is quite the manufacturing center.
@@sbreheny Yeah but much of England has lost manufacturing too.
We touched on Irish history, faintly, in college. Apparently, there was a time that any Irishman caught outside at night could be killed out of hand by an Englishman as a de facto thief. The head of the "thief" could then be redeemed for a bounty...so...there's that.
Its crazy seeing footage from 1919 and recognising buildings that I still see today.
I'm of Scottish heritage. I have mad respect for the Irish.
Yeah it shows what you know - the people who cause trouble in Northern Ireland are Presbyterian Scots - when you say you have Scottish heritage does that mean 300 years ago one of your relatives once knew a Scottish person when they moved to the USA to murder north American natives?
Translation: I'm a permanently online dork from North America who thinks having some vague European ancestry is somehow relevant to the discussion
Check out the Irish Blue Shirts.
@@walker9893as an actual Irish person (ethnically, born and raised) this comment is so real
As an Irish person, I appreciate your respect of our people. Scotland and Ireland were once the same country called Scotia major (Ireland) and Scotia minor (Scotland) 😃🤝🏻
Much love to our American brothers and sisters too, of Irish and Scottish heritage/ethnicity ❤️
never thought i would be learning about a group of paddies that made an RPG out of digestives, fair play
They were jammed in with J-cloths and allowed them to be fired from derelict houses etc without the flashback which could do serious damage to those firing them. Also, they were too fast at upgrading their bombs with booby trap technology to try to kill those trying to disarm them which they were successful in doing. The British hadn't quite worked out how the latest ones were constructed when a new type was deployed. They would sometimes leave notes inside them also for the bomb disposal trying to defuse them that there was another detonation method on the device. I celebrated so much at their attacks at the time but looking back now it saddens me, except for the ones which hit the government and financial institutions but with the exceptions when civilians were killed. It would have been more informative if he had mentioned how the Officials after the split morphed into the INLA as they did some pretty ruthless stuff killing Airey Neave(who was the first to escape Colditz) as his car drove out Westminster's car park.
Thanks!
You should do a video on the chechens, their guerilla tactics lasted them a long time despite being outnumbered by an insane amount
I doubt GDF would cover that since it isnt anti western.
You are from the few channels that i don't miss its videos
Peace from Ireland ✌🏼🇮🇪🇮🇪🇵🇸
Tiocfaidh ár lá!!! My parents are from Ard West, but my Grandpa and Grandma helped smuggle rifles in crates of fish and moved them to Dublin to aid in the Uprising and subsequent fighting against the English. My Grandma would deliver messages between the IRB fighters on her bicycle, traveling miles and risking her life. My other Grandpa had to flee Ireland because the Black and Tans were going to kill him. We are not fans of the English. We are proud members of Sinn Fein and proud of our country and our fellow countrymen.
Also, random fact, James Connolly the Irish Revolutionary, is a direct relative of mine (my last name is Ní Conghaile/Connolly) and when he was caught by the English, he was beaten so badly by the English that when he was executed by a firing squad, they had to tie him up to a chair because he couldn't stand. The genocide of the Irish people by the English should never be overlooked or forgotten.
It is so fascinating to hear all these stories that are fairly recent, such as The Troubles, but also date way back, and how people are still connected to them now. Thank you for your comment! Going through the comment section has provided so much extra information
Respect to our irish brothers from a Palestinian
We learned from you and the resistance in iraq and Palestine used your tactics
Long live the resistance and fuck colonization
Last time I checked Northern Ireland is still part of the UK
also Hava Nagalia!!
@@aclown36your user name is very appropriate
Palestinians are the colonists, you colonised from Arabia. You are just mad you are so weak now
This is why my father and his family moved to Australia at 12 he had seen the worst humanity is capable of.he rarely spoke of it.
@shanehunt7700 better over here for Irish than America where prejudice was very high, still hard tho'
@@philippacrowe8499this, in Australia the Irish got the be the colonialists and oppressed the native population
I once knew a man who happened to know and PIRA leader. Not a major leader, but led a few Insurgents. I don't know his name, but I do know he disappeared into Canada to avoid arrest.
Cracking story.
Amazing. I knew a man who swears that he was told by another man that this brother in law once fought a tiger that escaped from a zoo, and then he made friends with it and used to ride it around town.
Did ye aye
I'm currently doing my leaving cert and this video taught me everything I learned in class and much more!!! thank you for this amazing video
makes you understand why Ireland supports Palestine
Because they're both terrorists?
@@thechaosbringer858maybe resistance against foreign colonization
One struggle against colonization.
@@Lykemthic ah yes resistance by... killing innocents?
the IRA blew up and killed innocents in ireland, northern ireland and the british mainland thats not fighting for freedom
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 The British government we're given warnings of time and place of bombs but the British government allowed them to go off to blow up their own people to gain more support in fighting what they called the war on terror.
Videos about the Chechen and Yugoslavian wars would be also great!
I wish someone would cover the Beslan massacre and what happened afterwards.
Anything on Chechnya would be great too
Agree
My whole family is from the bog area and I basically grew up around there, I was born in the 90s so luckily I didn’t have to really experience it, growing up where I’m from the history was force fed to us by family members to the point you take an interest in it (obviously in that area everyone has some sort of connection to the provos). I spent my younger teenage years obsessing about all this stuff and the history of my country, my city and area. The younger generations these days haven’t been as brainwashed and don’t really care about it all, sad to see because I’m very proud of our history but at the same time I don’t fancy living in a warzone and being at war. 😂😂
Sounds familiar me too only we moved South after most of the men in my family interned as a kid it became normal to have men from the North of our land laying low in our home. Going to school you’d never know who you’d meet in the kitchen for some reason they always had beards and mam always held money for them. Took 3 years before we got a raid then it was every second week. I walked into manhood wanting to be as them. Eire Nua.
Lol the younger generations parents came from India, no Irish left soon lmao, turns out the Irish are best at genocideing the Irish