The SNLA were a small left wing republican group that was active in the early 1980s. It was not active in any organised way after the mid-1980s, but the name could be used by individuals for "lone wolf" activities. There was circumstances, particularly in working class communities suffering deindustrialisation, that could have facilitated the SNLA (revolution as an escape from the hopelessness and powerlessness of some of Europe's most alienated communities), but it was incapable of recruiting and growing without attracting the attention of special branch spies. Those who continued to use the SNLA name made several false claims of activity long after the groups ceased to be active and became a bit of embarrassment for the wider republican movement. It had largely disappeared from public consciousness by the late 1990s, but then reappeared in cyber form with the growth of the internet. I personally knew some of the former members of the real organisation that were active 1982-1984, their lives were significantly damaged by involvement and there was no political gain.
They were seen as a joke by the vast majority of Scotland and were ridiculed. It was a few sad and lonely folk who weren't tough enough to face anyone directly so did everything via the mail and phone calls.
@@gazwel83 They were ridiculed via media. I remember it, and i believed it at the time. Now i am older and wiser, i see the tactics used by state and media first hand.
This is fascinating stuff - as a Scot myself, I've only ever vaguely been aware of some of this history and being able to go a bit more in-depth has been welcome. A video covering what the SNLA got up to would be interesting.
As a 37yr old now , i can confirm that growing up just outside glasgow there was a huge ira element long established in society personally i blame football for a lot of it however with the close locality to northern ireland there clearly is other factors involved, my own great grandfather who like many many others was a catholic from northern ireland and moved to glasgow around the late 1800's, early 1900's to settle and find work with his family. There are many strong links between west of scotland and northern ireland
Blaming football is like blaming the church or blaming social media. It's hoping others won't notice it's a popular movement of the people, and instead blaming the places the people congregate.
@@attemptedunkindness3632 no it's not it's taking into account how easy it is for young guys who support either Celtic or rangers to be bombarded with dangerous propaganda brainwashing many of them to join in on sectarian violence continuing to this very day , I didn't imagine it all as I grew up mate!
Since there's been an Irish Disporia in Scotland there's been aid and recruitment from the Fenians onwards and it has nothing to do with football, its to do with a love of Ireland and a desire to see it free from english then british rule ,if you Google the Scottish Battalion I.R.B I.R.A ,you'll find it wasn't just the West ,and probably surprised at the scale and membership of the movement, there was a detachment from Scotland that fought in the 1916 Rising with one paying the ultimate price Charles Carrigan from Denny , and the only women to actually take up arms Margaret Skinnider from Coatbridge who said Scotlands my home but Ireland my country
@@attemptedunkindness3632 the majority of people that get up for sectarian nonsense have been exposed to it via football and religious family members. I've lived in the West coast for 30 years and it's all complete bollocks. The anti-irish or anti-english sentiment is almost always ignorant and based on pure hatred and good old fashioned tribalism. These people are idiots that repeat the same historical rhetoric over and over but have no interest in history or discussing it, it's just an excuse to vent their particular hatred. It's the same sentiment that still drives the majority of the separatist nationalist movement.
Hi Hilbert, can’t believe how close to home this video is. My grandad William Murray was jailed (part of the Boothby led group I’m sure) back in the day. According to my family tree on Ancestry his folks were a Dublin / Donegal mix. He was a QS all his days. He died in 1990, brain tumour. My Da and me took him round Scotland in a hired Montego just before he passed when I was 10 or 11. Anyhow my knowledge ends there but if you’re ever researching this further I could probably dig some shit out to send you. I realise of course he didn’t change or even contribute much to history but all the same yourself and other folk may be interested. Anyway I love your videos thanks and keep it up!
I’m from central Scotland which I think is the lowlands although my town is built on seven hills & there’s nothing low about it we are surrounded by mountains also.
You could cover the FLQ, Front de Liberation du Quebec, they had the same goals as these fellows, but it didn't work out so well. Canada responded rather harshly.
Jerry Sadowitz "the thing I hate about Canada is one half speaks French and the other half let's them". When he performed in Canada he walked on stage and said "Hello Moosefukkers " and got hit with a bottle right in the head 😂😂😂
The UVF still recruit to this day in Scotland, I know that for a fact because I went to a mates band night , he's a mental Loyalist and I'm not and we went back to one of their gaffs for a drink and they were asking me to join the Red Hand adjacent band they were all in. I said no flat out then they were kinda pestering me with questions , I just said I didn't have the time to do it . I didn't mention i went to a Catholic high school or anything and neither did my mate , thank god . He was quick enough to say i went to his school, i think they check that when you join or something . But according to them , they still recruit because apparently Derry is still "under siege" . I'm sure if you go there you won't see Jean Claude Van Damme fly kicking people . Just my opinion.
@@Juan-qu4oj I think'' the wandering one'' is referring to the ''angry brigade'' who carried out a short bombing campaign in Britain between 1970 and 1972.
The thing I want to know now is if Sinn Fein are actually Communists . They seem to be betraying the Irish people are always proclaiming that Ireland was for the Irish , but they seem to be as far left as the SNP who say anyone who appears even if it's from the farthest corners of the Amazon jungle that they're now Scots lol
Hello Hilbert. I reckon the main point about Scotland being different to Ireland was that it was not split up and it joined with England to form a union and was not conquered. It can vote to set up a Parliament, which it did and it can vote for independence, which by a majority it did not. It would be hard to convince people to take up arms against the expressed will of the people.
@@LS-jv9hp The Jacobites were trying to put a different king on the throne of the union. "Oh come all ye faithful" Christmas carol is seen as an English Jacobite song in disguise, for example.
@@alansmithee8831 Yeah na, you're being pretty uncharitable now. The Jacobites wanted to literally end the Union itself, one of it's main principles and draws of support amongst non catholics in Scotlands(Because contrary to your belied, Acts of Union was NOT by the will of the Scottish people and had seen massive demonstrations against it at the time). It was much more than just "put a different king" it was seen as removing a foreign German regime.
@@LS-jv9hp The Act of Union was the will of the Scottish Parliament. Back then the English people were no more able to vote than the Scottish. Who knows what the people wanted. Plenty in Scotland saw Union as a way to keep Scotland from bankruptcy or the Jacobites might have won.
@@alansmithee8831 lmfao, A parliament which was bought out on English gold (Funny how you missed that part ;) ) Who knows what the people wanted? It's pretty fucking well established the Scottish people didn't want The Act of Union. You're a joker and clearly shouldn't be taken seriously, especially the last part, the jacobites lost because they waged the war conventionally against a larger, better trained, more experienced army with greater logistics capacity. Nothing more, nothing less.
Hi Hilbert there was a Scottish Nationalist group back in the 80s that went to Gruinard Island and deposited Anthrax infected soil from there outside Porton down and uninfected but still soil from Gruinard outside the Tory party conference. Which quickly made Maggies government clean up Gruinard.
Great video. Would love to see a full video on the SNLA. One wee point though: the way you pronounced Sìol nan Gàidheal sounded more like Gaeilge / Gàidhlig na h-Èireann than Gàidhlig to me. Sìol should be pronounced more like “shee-yol”, the final n in nan should be more pronounced, and Gàidheal should be pronounced more like “gay-el”. Chan eil Gàidhlig agam on ghlùn, ge-tà. Ma bhios duine sam bith ann a th’ aig Gàidhlig on ghlùn / bho thùs ‘s mi ceàrr, cuiribh ceartachadh shìos mas e ur toil e. I’m not a native speaker, so if anyone here is and disagrees, please let me know.
Not a native speaker but I had a discussion about SnG with a native speaker from the Isles who knew some lads involved in it and he pronounced it the same way.
Protestants in NI are largely of Scottish descent and from the lowlands, not Celts. Highland Scots are Celts. Scotland was never conquered or colonized in the way Ireland was. Scots were enthusiastic imperialist s in the empire. But thanks nonetheless for not exporting the conflict.
Wrong on practically every account. Firstly, all lowlanders are Celts, so f off with that regardation. Just because Lowlanders aren't descended from the Irish Scotti Settlers doesn't make them not Celtic (Especially when a good majority would still be able to speak Cumbric and Scottish Gaelic at the time) But calling the Ulsters lowlanders isn't really accurate as well, they were Largely of Border Reiver stock (A whole different distinct culture from the Lowland/Highland divide and pre-dates this distinction, just to point out the Scottish crown had little control until the clearences where before the borders were seen as a lawless land on both the English and Scottish side with practically no control) Built from Celtic Tribal raiders customs mainly of Northumbrian origin loyal only to their liege, reminisent of early Celtic Hill Fort Britain. It wasn't until the clearences that the borderlands were even truly integrated into Scotland and this culture was stamped out. Also the Irish largely participated in Empire as well, numerous officers, officials, landowners and a bulk of the British army coming from the Emerald Isles as well just to mention as well.
@@LS-jv9hp The Irish participation in the empire has been played down even more than Scotlands has it’s actually mental. The Emerald Isle revolutionaries weren’t so fond of revolution when it came to their slave plantations in the British West Indies
@@LS-jv9hpalso the lowlands isn't a great way to divide the land. As there are 3 major distinct regions due to the history of the area. Only the south east was ever in Saxon control for a bit. The north east wasn't, it was Pictish lands. Very much Celtic even in names of the land. And then south west people forget a kingdom of Cumbric peoples was there till some time in 900 Srafecylde was real. It isn't a fantasy land. And this is ignoring the fact that England themselves are also the descendants of Britons. The Saxons never replaced the people they went to they either assimilated into local culture or the local culture assimilated to the invaders
@@-._A2._- Agreed on every point, only reason I didn't go more into depth on the S.W and N.E is I know not all that much of Strathclyde area before Industrialisation outside of the bare minimum. Alongside majority of the Central Belt and N.E being the traditional area of being seen as Lowlanders (Granted wish there was a better defining of former areas of Pictland). Also fully agree on the English being Celtic, I meant Northumbrian in a more geographical sense (and for brevity) due to it being the specific kingdom that covered all of Border Reiver territory on both sides of the border over listing four or five Celtic Kingdoms predating it beforehand which helped tie these peoples together.
As far as I'm aware the snla only have 2 members, 1 in jail in Scotland the others hiding in Ireland somewhere, the other group soil na geal were close to forming a paramilitary group but it got broken up in the 80's
You gained a subscriber. I done higher level history for the leaving cert and received an (A grade) in the subject . Not every part of history interests me . Even the era or subjects i do like not everything involved in the subject interest me . Lets say you love learning about the irish uprisings and paramilitary groups and leaders from 1896-1996... Youve to learn alot about the English , Spanish, French as they helped us alot . But for that reason i never went down the road of doing courses in history as i found it hard to learn subjects i didnt have interest in . Wales also had a rebel group that bombed ER mail services ect. PS catholics were only a minority in certain areas , as a whole the catolics were more. The irish army at one stage had troops on the border ready to go into belfast to defend catolics . But it didnt happen. ( Even though it was Northern Ireland and The Irish army would be invading another country which the british empire ruled but it was at a point catholics in the north were screaming for help and as people from the south looked on people fwlt we should help them , after all .. it was our land and people and we stood by and watched) Instead they smuggled guns the catolic areas . They were caught doing it and a few people were caught up in the scandal .
Scotland chose to join the union...or at least their lords did. As such they really should be able to choose to leave if they wish without the permission of the UK government. It's not really a union of equals if Scotland has to ask Westminster to be allowed to decide its own fate but that's a different topic. Ireland was conquered and has seen many failed rebellions against the British Crown. There have been times when Irish lords have supported one British ruler over another (Catholics) and even during times of acceptance of the reality of the situation, the resentment and desire to forge its own path never left Ireland or its people. Independence-minded Scots and Welsh will say that the union doesn't feel equal and with cause but it's still been a lot more equal than the relationship between Britain and Ireland was when Ireland was part of the UK. The Great Famine is considered to be a genocide in Ireland and is a prime example why Ireland could never be an equal part of a UK that was happy to let its people starve to death. A separation between Ireland and the UK was the only solution. The only questions were how and when?
I do think a lot of Scottish nationalists play up the whole victim card. Sure bad things were done to us... by ourselves, in the name of the Union, sure, but hardly a majority of what went on in the highlands were done by English people, though the worst proponents of the clearences were English and as someone who has family in Skye, I've heard the term "butchers apron" to describe the Union Jack, it definitely was a cultural genocide but it was mostly carried out by lowlander, Protestant Scots. We also did terrible things to the people of Ireland and are one of the main factors as to why Northern Ireland exists, most Scots were as complicit in the horrible crimes of the empire as much as the English or Welsh were. If anything, we got the empire we formed the union to have and then got a really bad deal out of it, Wales got no say in the matter, England literally conquered them, multiple times might I add. Oh yeah, and the blight happened in Scotland too. The only reason nobody hears about it is that all of the preventative measures that could've been done in Ireland happened in Scotland to a degree, it was another factor that the lords used to kick crofters off their land.
I think Scotland actually can leave the Union at any time if they wanted . But I think the vote in 2014 was just going through the Democratic process. But I'm sure there's something in the Acts of Union that says the Union isn't forever basically and any nation can kibosh it and leave any time they want . I'm sure its in there somewhere, I'm certain it was a talking point in the run up to the referendum.
@@ScotsmanGamer Shows you know nothing. FWA fought (often violently) in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s ensuring greater autonomy for Wales. They also demanded the Welsh language be legitimised and preserved through education and media - which resulted in pretty much the ONLY Celtic nation (within the UK) whose native language is officialised.
@@ScotsmanGamer Hey bong, being from Donegal I can appreciate the distance I have from the anglo huns and can safely say I am in "easy difficulty" mode for resistance, north of Hadrian is "medium difficulty"... but Wales? That's "hard difficulty" mode, the fact that they still even exist should be a national embarrassment after all the attempts by the bongs. U.S. had "tutorial" mode btw.
Rather misleading title of video when 90% of video is talking about Scottish armed groups and not the IRA which indeed had a presence in Scotland from its inception at one time numbering in the thousands and still having a decent number of people involved right the way through the so called troubles involved mainly in arms trafficking and providing safe houses but a number of Scottish born republicans fought , died or were imprisoned during the conflict
@@martinondrus6344 and the term Scottish IRA would lead you to believe the video would be about the Scottish brigade of the IRA or the wider involvement of the Irish in Scotland in the struggle for Irish freedom , not about Scottish Republican or nationalist armed groups , the video would have been better named was there a Scottish equivalent of the IRA
@@saor4340I came here for this comment. I know very little about this conflict, didn’t watch the video (and won’t) but could clearly tell the title was wrong.
@@saor4340 interesting way of thinking and i think you got problem with english grammar. There cant be scottish ira since ira means irish republican army. Stottish brigade of ira would still be ira in scotland. What you said would be ira in scotland
The IRA you’re talking about are the ‘provisionals ‘ or Provisional IRA and have no connection with the original IRA who are now the Irish army involved in UN peacekeeping in Lebanon etc . And again you make the same lazy mistake , they weren’t involved in a sectarian war ( this is lazy lazy bbc propaganda ) they saw themselves as fighting a war for civil and human rights against the illegitimate British state in Northern Ireland … therefore there was no Scottish IRA because Scotland accepted, consented to and participated fully in British imperialism .
The provisional ira has just as much of a connection to the old ira as the defence forces have, both originate from the civil war (provos split from the anti treaty ira in 1969)
Interesting. You could also cover a video on the Welsh equivalent that set off bombs in Wales in the 1960's , who's acronym was *M.A.C* There was also a group active throughout the 1980's called *Meibion Glyndwr*
The IRA used to recruit maniacs at Republican marches in Catholic strongholds like the Gorbals , Calton , Gallowgate , Blackhill , Royston and even Coatbridge which is called Little Ireland and chock full of supporters and back in those days full of members of the IRA.
Paul Ferris' pal Jaimba McLean for example was recruited at a Republican march and he done a lot of dirty work for them. Said he hung a spy up by his ankles , sl't his throat and let his nutter of a dog lick the blood off the guy...think he was telling porkies on that one but he was definitely recruited , think it was in Royston.
An official religious census in 1851, which was taken along with the Statistical Census, by the UK Government, recorded that there were "no Papists" in the Burgh of Denny and Dunipace.
Ireland was an unwilling colony of the British empire that suffered as a result. Scotland was an enthusiastic creator and participant of that empire that benefited greatly. Totally different.
Hilbert! Please make a video on Welsh nationalist paramilitaries, which were also active during these same years for similar reasons to that mentioned in this video - they were much more destructive and organised. Would really aporeciate the story being told - diolch!
I think Hilbert you mean Adam Busby was disenchanted with the conduct of the devolution referendum in 1979 and not disenfranchised although some people called the 40% hurdle ( introduced to parliament by a Scots Labour MP sitting for a London seat ) a form of disenfranchisement.
Scotland don't ignore Wales, no matter how the UK media want you to believe, we are celtic cousins and most Scots are very sympathetic to Welsh independence
please do a video in the SNLA. I was also wondering during the troubles that Scotland was involved was wells ever involved in the troubles or a freedom movement for whales and Welsh Golic yes same with Cornwall and Devin where any of those areas affected by the troubles or had their own freedom movements? I'd be interested to see any freedom movements or separation movements from of whales and Cornwall from the rest of England or Great Britain? If so can you do videos on them They can be combined or separate however you feel fit to do it. but it be interesting to see why the various Celtic groups that felt depressed by the English did not combine together and do a conservative attack upon say London or against the crown? Because I would think together they would stand stronger than separate and I really don't feel it's a question of Catholic versus Protestant I think it has more to do with Celtic identity versus Anglo Saxon Norman identity. what are your thoughts on this?
It's pretty strange for Scots to complain about English imperialism when many Scots were active participants in the subjugation of Ireland. Ulster Scots exists for a reason after all.
There is no homogenous Scottish mentality which has existed across the centuries. As many Scots fought with the Irish, against the settler English and Scots of the Ulster plantations. Scotland of the 1600s was deeply divided along religious and cultural lines, with many Scottish Gaels still actively supporting the native Irish backlash against London's Ulster plantation. There is a diminishing hardcore of Scottish Britons who still support Unionism in the Six Counties; a majority of Scots are for Irish unification, and increasingly, for Scottish Independence.
I am glad that the democratic way was the way chose in 2014. We should always strive for bloodless conflict solutions. Kinda miss these things nowadays.
A youtube short would suffice... there's not much of interest. SnG have a much deeper history and published a lot/did a lot of activism so at least there would be something to discuss there.
There wasnt a Scottish Resistance in the 19th or 20th century, but there was a Scottish Battalion of the I.R.A , some fought in the 1916 rising and had the Biggest Sinn Féin club outside of Ireland, in Gourock, and it wasnt just in the West of Scotland and had considerable support from Scotsmen like John McClean and other Socialist movements,
@@CF-oz9lh tried to find it. But can't it might have been in a Stephen Coyle book ,Sorry if you Google Scottish Battalion I.R.B -I.R.A , you might come across it Gourock was 5th Battalion B coy , they did a raid on a Navy traing base stole 50 -60 rifles , I might have got mixed up with Greenock who had 1000 Sinn Féin members ,but I am sure I read Gourock had 3000 ,
Alot of Irish paramilitary prisoners who got released during the good Friday agreement ended up here coz Scotland was the only country who'd welcome them. Mad dog, The late Sam mcrory all stay down my way or Sam did til he took a fall down some concrete steps 🤔😂
@@ElDubz420 I could be wrong tho I'm from cork don't keep up with my loyalist terrorism it could be ira I just know there is a mad dog uvf commander just don't know if he survived or not.
colors...what they describe as chakras (which have been changed recently i guess ) ilija ra- i ra (perun grows, flower grows). more or less. ili(ini) also means others (like other peoples).
Ira passed a bill stating no attacks in Scotland due to them being gaels Only Scott's who serve the crown were left to be targeted Wales was usually not targeted either because ira viewed them as also occupied.
The MOD decided to send in Scottish troops during the troubles, and these young lads went in with the belief that they were peacekeepers. Look how that turned out...and ,most of them had Irish roots. The |Irish will never be forgiven for what they did. @@Dhdh-cf3mb
@@emstirling-is4nu What? Are you dumb or something? Come here as a peacekeeper or a fairy it does t matter they were shot as invaders Scottish who aren't the traitors like most of your nation all traitors were not targeted in scottland If the Scott joins british army or police or deploys here under either of the two well then the traitor becomes a target.
@@emstirling-is4nu Irish will never be forgiven? When did we ask for forgiveness from traitorous Scott's? Ye cant even keep your language from going extinct you worship foreign rule and call joining a invading occupation army in Ireland and call it peacekeeping Better question is who's going to forgive the Scottish? Cowards and traitors only ever showns as brave while in the kings army the Scott's gaurd the highlanders in kilts in reality a larping English man Ira were very easy of Scott's in reality Scots aren't gaels ye aren't irish and ye aren't allies
@@emstirling-is4nu Ye came to protect your mastas intrest. Peacekeepers don't funnel weapons to the UVF your traitor soldiers are traitors to gaels and were shot for that exact reason Ye will know better next time.
Scotland was never conquered by England and our balls, Mr Macguiness, were big enough to beat the English on the battlefield and win campaigns providing us with total independence instead of attacking civilian targets as our main tactic. Scotland is in a union with England even though I voted for independance I except the fact more scots want to be part of the united kingdom with the English.
They conquered us mate, don't you worry about that. Did you live through the Thatcher era? If you didn't, she treated us like second class citizens, just like the nationalists in the North of Ireland. I think what Martin McGuinness meant we didn't have the balls to do anything in that moment. Historically, we've held our own against the English. And look where that got us.
@@patronsaintofhorses1747 I loathed Thatcher and her Scottish Grand Committee filled with English Tories because there wasn't enough Scottish Tories. I and my family voted Labour, SNP even Liberal as a tactical vote in 2014 we all voted for independence. The sad reality for us is that the majority of Scot's for a long time might not vote for the English Tories but do vote for UK Labour party and thus we can't be conquered if the majority of Scot's want to remain part of the UK. I would never advocate for violence just because other people vote for outcomes I don't agree with.
@@markmacdonald3260 Lad what are you talking about you have a gaelic name you are no different to me in munster your gaelic Wheres you language? Our is dying yours is dead its set to go extinct As our founders said " who will run this country the invader or the sons of the invaders both are no different" James connelly " a people won't grow with another's foot on their neck even if that other wishes them well" You have completely rolled over and seem to have forgotten everything you are missing because of that other Here in Ireland we don't think like you this has cost us everything including our language and we will let the sectarian loyalists know what the price of a language is Your comments about targeting civilians says enough we have 1000 years of resistance which for those 1000 years Scott's were part .
@@Dhdh-cf3mb I have not rolled over I have until very recently voted for the SNP and in our recent referendum in 2014 voted Yes to independence. However I believe in Democracy and more Scots want to remain part of the UK then I have to except it. There is a change in the West to destroy all our cultures. Today the people of Ireland have led the way against a much bigger possibility of tyranny and the people England have joined them. Us Scots have remained disappointingly quiet on this one i.e. the issue of mass immigration. I lived beside where James Connolly was born as a student added to which my favourite fitba team is Hibernian.
@@patronsaintofhorses1747 we've been conquered by SNP socialists, well and truly a destroyed nation which was once the leader of intellectuals in Europe . Absolute shame .
Can you do a video about the 700 year period of history in which the Irish raided England to capture English people and then sell them into slavery in Ireland?
There was no troubles in Scotland because it's just Scottish people, why would they fight with each other. The conflict in Northern Ireland was ethnic NOT religious, Irish v British, it was an old unsettled tribal conflict brought into the modern era due to the native Irish being treated as second class citizens by Brits who will always be deemed as outsiders, foreign colonizers
God the claims made by the IRA member in this video are utterly absurd. Scotland has never been conquered or oppressed by England after the Act of Union. It was a Scottish led process, acting as if England colonised Scotland is a moronic idea. England has also never suppressed Scottish culture, the Highland clearances were done by SCOTTISH noblemen for purely economic reasons not in an attempt to genocide highlanders. The Jacobite wars were internal rebellions not wars of independence, they just wanted a Stuart king to lead the UK rather than a Protestant one. Acting as if Scottish culture was suppressed when for 300 years highland dress has been an iconic part of the British army and bagpipes are played at every monarchical event is just ludicrous
It's annoying isn't it . Imagine trying to explain this to a Yank who believes Scotland are slaves to England and oppressed to this day . I've tried hundreds of times , people just don't believe you . Even if you send a link to the UK government's website which explicitly states that Scotland was never conquered by England pmsl 😂😂😂
When I was a kid in Glasgow in the 70s the SNLA were a fringe lot barely able to muster even a passing interest. Their claim to fame was fire bombing the main post office distributing centre in Glasgow that only pissed people off as they didn’t get their giros that day.
Fund raisers etc I know a guy from the Gorbals whose cousins were caught smuggling machine guns and bombs into Northern Ireland , think that was about 10 years ago. Big Gorbals family related to Bobby Sands family, Bobby Sands nephew is over here regularly with his Gorbals family .
The pubs in question were linked to the republican movement, people associated with them were also linked to low level fundraising, but there certainly were no weapons stored there!
PIRA did not decide to leave Scotland alone because it would upset their supply of arms, equipment, personnel. They got little or nothing from Scotland and were supplied from the USA, Libya and other places. The UVF and the UDA ,on the other hand, had nowhere else but Scotland to get explosives, weapons and indeed supporters. Research would reveal that quite a dew Scottish UDA members were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, in addition to those UVF convicted of the Glasgow pub bombings.
True but there was a lot of Scottish IRA members . There was a Glasgow IRA cell that were given the task of hunting down an MI5 double agent who ended up writing a book about it , he was in hiding in Bolton and a cell from Glasgow went down and shot him repeatedly, he survived though so the Glasgow cell probably got their bollocks chewed over that 😂
6:25 @historywithhilbert146 how Dare You Sir! The 4th Sealer of the Declaration of Arbroath was No Noble! But a Royal! Since Earls were Considered Royals in those Days before Dukes! It was the 1st Official Ross (a name once protected by Law Across the Empire!) the Chief of the Great Clan Ross the 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross (1st to take on the Surname Ross) who Sealed the Declaration of Arbroath 4th, his daughter would go onto becoming Queen Consort of Scotland to the 1st Stuart King! The 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross is the Direct Ancestor to the Majority of Ross in the Wester World because we were So Good in Our Generation, plus had a head Start on the Surname to later name adoptions from numerous sources.
The conditions were not the same in Scotland as in the North of Ireland that sparked the Troubles. The sectarian divide did not extend much beyond Glasgow and just was not an issue in the Borders, Highlands and Islands or along the East Coast. The main political parties were British Unionist in as much as they wanted Scotland to remain in the U.K. Scottish nationalism also had an anti-Catholic and anti-Irish strain at the time that would have been off-putting for Hiberno Scots. Even in Glasgow, working class Protestants sympathetic to the Unionist cause in Northern Ireland had largely switched to voting Labour just like their Catholic counterparts had been doing for a long time. The sectarianism too wasn't a 24/7 variety but tended to only come to the fore at Old Firm matches and Orange or pro-Irish Republican marches. That is not to say that there were diehards on either side whose zealotry even exceeded the worst bigotry found across the water. However, their influence was not that far-reaching and viewed with distaste by most Scots considering one side as bad as the other.
"Provisional" is one of those useful terms for militants of any and all stripes politically. "Patriot" is one too you can attach to all stripes of non-state actors.
The level of grievance wasn't there in Scotland , neither was the institutional apartheid system that existed in NI. Neither was the will to fight. The SNP have had all the running for the last 10 years, a huge majority in Holyrood, an incompetent clown show in Westminster, Brexit et al. Conditions could have not been better, still they got nowhere with independence. Scotland will never be properly independent, unless a nuke hits England. The majority of Scots are quite comfy with the current arrangement, the rest simply don't want independence enough, and search for any excuse to avoid pushing for it. It's off the table for the next 20 years now anyway, with the recent demise of the SNP.
The Scottish suffered greatly fighting the English. Their national anthem, Flower of Scotland is a beautiful song. However unfortunately the majority of Scottish decided to go along with the English and stop fighting them. They are now ruled by an English government who gives zero ffs about them or their past. Their language and traditions largely destroyed or reinvented to suit their masters the English.
They were not known as the Scottish terrorits…they were the tartan army…and one of the leaders was Mc pherson…they all served large sentences in peterhead
@@chiefgilraythe UVF still recruit in Scotland to this day because apparently Derry is still "under siege". I doubt Jean Claude Van Damme is going around flykicking people in Derry. Just my opinion lol
Was that not the time when "Not The Nine O'clock News" coined the phrase, "Come home to a real fire, buy a holiday cottage in Wales"... A spin off from the National Coal Board adverts. 🤣🤣🤣
@@pobthecat that was Meibion Glyndwr who also came about in 1979 alongside the SNLA though Meibion Glyndwr targeted Holiday Homes more than Politicians (though bombs were sent to Politicians)
Most people miss the point about the Kingdoms of the Scots and England, The King of Scots is King of the people and the King of England is King of the land, legally Scotland is independent of England and were brought together politically in 1707, although Scotland kept it's own legal system, a smart move by the Duke of Hamilton! Basically countries like The USA Canada etc maybe politically independent but legally they are still controlled by the crown and since legal is what really matters and and politics is just a sham and the majority of people believe in this sham this enables the real controllers to stay hidden from view and legally fuck the majority of these populations over and they don't even realise how this is done ie the majority of people believe we speak using the oxford English dictionary the real dictionary of speaking is the blacks law dictionary and this is what enables a small class of people to fuck everybody over legally speaking. . .
I'm pretty intrigued about the SNLA, I had never even heard of it before this
The SNLA were a small left wing republican group that was active in the early 1980s. It was not active in any organised way after the mid-1980s, but the name could be used by individuals for "lone wolf" activities. There was circumstances, particularly in working class communities suffering deindustrialisation, that could have facilitated the SNLA (revolution as an escape from the hopelessness and powerlessness of some of Europe's most alienated communities), but it was incapable of recruiting and growing without attracting the attention of special branch spies. Those who continued to use the SNLA name made several false claims of activity long after the groups ceased to be active and became a bit of embarrassment for the wider republican movement. It had largely disappeared from public consciousness by the late 1990s, but then reappeared in cyber form with the growth of the internet. I personally knew some of the former members of the real organisation that were active 1982-1984, their lives were significantly damaged by involvement and there was no political gain.
I too am intrigued about the Saturday Night Live Army
They were seen as a joke by the vast majority of Scotland and were ridiculed. It was a few sad and lonely folk who weren't tough enough to face anyone directly so did everything via the mail and phone calls.
@@gazwel83 They were ridiculed via media. I remember it, and i believed it at the time. Now i am older and wiser, i see the tactics used by state and media first hand.
Created by special branch
A video about paramilitaries in interwar Europe would be awesome, the subject is fascinating.
This is fascinating stuff - as a Scot myself, I've only ever vaguely been aware of some of this history and being able to go a bit more in-depth has been welcome. A video covering what the SNLA got up to would be interesting.
Take a look at "The Death of Willie McRae " there's a short interview with Adam Busby. He was a top man in the SNLA
As a 37yr old now , i can confirm that growing up just outside glasgow there was a huge ira element long established in society personally i blame football for a lot of it however with the close locality to northern ireland there clearly is other factors involved, my own great grandfather who like many many others was a catholic from northern ireland and moved to glasgow around the late 1800's, early 1900's to settle and find work with his family. There are many strong links between west of scotland and northern ireland
Blaming football is like blaming the church or blaming social media. It's hoping others won't notice it's a popular movement of the people, and instead blaming the places the people congregate.
@@attemptedunkindness3632 no it's not it's taking into account how easy it is for young guys who support either Celtic or rangers to be bombarded with dangerous propaganda brainwashing many of them to join in on sectarian violence continuing to this very day , I didn't imagine it all as I grew up mate!
Since there's been an Irish Disporia in Scotland there's been aid and recruitment from the Fenians onwards and it has nothing to do with football, its to do with a love of Ireland and a desire to see it free from english then british rule ,if you Google the Scottish Battalion I.R.B I.R.A ,you'll find it wasn't just the West ,and probably surprised at the scale and membership of the movement, there was a detachment from Scotland that fought in the 1916 Rising with one paying the ultimate price Charles Carrigan from Denny , and the only women to actually take up arms Margaret Skinnider from Coatbridge who said Scotlands my home but Ireland my country
@@bernardinglis4232 you're a fucking fantasist mate
@@attemptedunkindness3632 the majority of people that get up for sectarian nonsense have been exposed to it via football and religious family members.
I've lived in the West coast for 30 years and it's all complete bollocks. The anti-irish or anti-english sentiment is almost always ignorant and based on pure hatred and good old fashioned tribalism.
These people are idiots that repeat the same historical rhetoric over and over but have no interest in history or discussing it, it's just an excuse to vent their particular hatred.
It's the same sentiment that still drives the majority of the separatist nationalist movement.
Hi Hilbert, can’t believe how close to home this video is. My grandad William Murray was jailed (part of the Boothby led group I’m sure) back in the day. According to my family tree on Ancestry his folks were a Dublin / Donegal mix. He was a QS all his days. He died in 1990, brain tumour. My Da and me took him round Scotland in a hired Montego just before he passed when I was 10 or 11. Anyhow my knowledge ends there but if you’re ever researching this further I could probably dig some shit out to send you. I realise of course he didn’t change or even contribute much to history but all the same yourself and other folk may be interested. Anyway I love your videos thanks and keep it up!
No one asked no one cares
@@StuartAnderson-xl4bobit rude
@@StuartAnderson-xl4bo no need to be a dickhead mate =)
@@StuartAnderson-xl4bo I care, and I asked.
@@XQQ-qm8ow you never though hero where did you ask? And BTW no one cares what you care about and no one asked ? Who cares who asked? Noone
Long story short there wasn’t a Scottish ira because the majority of Scotland supported the uk and Protestants
No it's because there isn't any troubles in Scotland.
It’s actually simpler than that. Scots and English share the same ancestry. The Scots language is Germanic.
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Where tf did you go to school 😂😂😂😂
Scott's is Latin word for irish numb nuts.
I'd say it's because we're no Irish
Language is not ancestry. The English are far more Germanic than the Scottish. The Scottish are not Anglo Saxons at all.
You should do a video on the differences between the highlands and lowlands of Scotland
I’m from central Scotland which I think is the lowlands although my town is built on seven hills & there’s nothing low about it we are surrounded by mountains also.
Would love to see a SNLA video.
Didn't know skiing was this popular in Ireland and Scotland.
I always thought it was likely because of the accent.
Eddie the eagle be like
@beng4647 let's go skeen 😂
baseball as well, we sell lots of baseball bats....especially in Glasgow
@@punk46664 I'm surprised no one got my joke 😁
I have always had this Question. Thanks for making a video about it
You could cover the FLQ, Front de Liberation du Quebec, they had the same goals as these fellows, but it didn't work out so well. Canada responded rather harshly.
Jerry Sadowitz "the thing I hate about Canada is one half speaks French and the other half let's them".
When he performed in Canada he walked on stage and said "Hello Moosefukkers " and got hit with a bottle right in the head 😂😂😂
Very interesting. Would like to hear more on the SNLA and what if any was the Scots involvement in Loyalist Paramilitaries.
The UVF still recruit to this day in Scotland, I know that for a fact because I went to a mates band night , he's a mental Loyalist and I'm not and we went back to one of their gaffs for a drink and they were asking me to join the Red Hand adjacent band they were all in. I said no flat out then they were kinda pestering me with questions , I just said I didn't have the time to do it . I didn't mention i went to a Catholic high school or anything and neither did my mate , thank god . He was quick enough to say i went to his school, i think they check that when you join or something . But according to them , they still recruit because apparently Derry is still "under siege" . I'm sure if you go there you won't see Jean Claude Van Damme fly kicking people . Just my opinion.
There was an English version of the IRA in the 80s that had Maoist leanings. They were republican but also English nationalist.
Really? Never heard of them can you link?
@@Juan-qu4oj I think'' the wandering one'' is referring to the ''angry brigade'' who carried out a short bombing campaign in Britain between 1970 and 1972.
@@Juan-qu4oj They were well poisoners. Largely staffed by MI6.
So were confused as 2 year old doin highers
The thing I want to know now is if Sinn Fein are actually Communists . They seem to be betraying the Irish people are always proclaiming that Ireland was for the Irish , but they seem to be as far left as the SNP who say anyone who appears even if it's from the farthest corners of the Amazon jungle that they're now Scots lol
Hello Hilbert. I reckon the main point about Scotland being different to Ireland was that it was not split up and it joined with England to form a union and was not conquered. It can vote to set up a Parliament, which it did and it can vote for independence, which by a majority it did not. It would be hard to convince people to take up arms against the expressed will of the people.
Its more it happened a lot earlier. The Jacobites had a larger army than the IRA
@@LS-jv9hp The Jacobites were trying to put a different king on the throne of the union. "Oh come all ye faithful" Christmas carol is seen as an English Jacobite song in disguise, for example.
@@alansmithee8831 Yeah na, you're being pretty uncharitable now. The Jacobites wanted to literally end the Union itself, one of it's main principles and draws of support amongst non catholics in Scotlands(Because contrary to your belied, Acts of Union was NOT by the will of the Scottish people and had seen massive demonstrations against it at the time). It was much more than just "put a different king" it was seen as removing a foreign German regime.
@@LS-jv9hp The Act of Union was the will of the Scottish Parliament. Back then the English people were no more able to vote than the Scottish. Who knows what the people wanted. Plenty in Scotland saw Union as a way to keep Scotland from bankruptcy or the Jacobites might have won.
@@alansmithee8831 lmfao, A parliament which was bought out on English gold (Funny how you missed that part ;) ) Who knows what the people wanted? It's pretty fucking well established the Scottish people didn't want The Act of Union. You're a joker and clearly shouldn't be taken seriously, especially the last part, the jacobites lost because they waged the war conventionally against a larger, better trained, more experienced army with greater logistics capacity. Nothing more, nothing less.
Great video!
Hi Hilbert there was a Scottish Nationalist group back in the 80s that went to Gruinard Island and deposited Anthrax infected soil from there outside Porton down and uninfected but still soil from Gruinard outside the Tory party conference. Which quickly made Maggies government clean up Gruinard.
Missed opportunity then
Awesome thanks. Brilliant content.
Do you upload to another platform? I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before.
Great video. Would love to see a full video on the SNLA.
One wee point though: the way you pronounced Sìol nan Gàidheal sounded more like Gaeilge / Gàidhlig na h-Èireann than Gàidhlig to me. Sìol should be pronounced more like “shee-yol”, the final n in nan should be more pronounced, and Gàidheal should be pronounced more like “gay-el”.
Chan eil Gàidhlig agam on ghlùn, ge-tà. Ma bhios duine sam bith ann a th’ aig Gàidhlig on ghlùn / bho thùs ‘s mi ceàrr, cuiribh ceartachadh shìos mas e ur toil e.
I’m not a native speaker, so if anyone here is and disagrees, please let me know.
Not a native speaker but I had a discussion about SnG with a native speaker from the Isles who knew some lads involved in it and he pronounced it the same way.
I've got a pretty decent knowledge of the language and yeah that's how I'd pronounce it.
Video on SNLA please
Good vid!
Protestants in NI are largely of Scottish descent and from the lowlands, not Celts. Highland Scots are Celts.
Scotland was never conquered or colonized in the way Ireland was. Scots were enthusiastic imperialist s in the empire. But thanks nonetheless for not exporting the conflict.
Wrong on practically every account. Firstly, all lowlanders are Celts, so f off with that regardation. Just because Lowlanders aren't descended from the Irish Scotti Settlers doesn't make them not Celtic (Especially when a good majority would still be able to speak Cumbric and Scottish Gaelic at the time) But calling the Ulsters lowlanders isn't really accurate as well, they were Largely of Border Reiver stock (A whole different distinct culture from the Lowland/Highland divide and pre-dates this distinction, just to point out the Scottish crown had little control until the clearences where before the borders were seen as a lawless land on both the English and Scottish side with practically no control) Built from Celtic Tribal raiders customs mainly of Northumbrian origin loyal only to their liege, reminisent of early Celtic Hill Fort Britain. It wasn't until the clearences that the borderlands were even truly integrated into Scotland and this culture was stamped out.
Also the Irish largely participated in Empire as well, numerous officers, officials, landowners and a bulk of the British army coming from the Emerald Isles as well just to mention as well.
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The Irish participation in the empire has been played down even more than Scotlands has it’s actually mental. The Emerald Isle revolutionaries weren’t so fond of revolution when it came to their slave plantations in the British West Indies
@@LS-jv9hpalso the lowlands isn't a great way to divide the land. As there are 3 major distinct regions due to the history of the area. Only the south east was ever in Saxon control for a bit. The north east wasn't, it was Pictish lands. Very much Celtic even in names of the land. And then south west people forget a kingdom of Cumbric peoples was there till some time in 900 Srafecylde was real. It isn't a fantasy land. And this is ignoring the fact that England themselves are also the descendants of Britons. The Saxons never replaced the people they went to they either assimilated into local culture or the local culture assimilated to the invaders
@@-._A2._- Agreed on every point, only reason I didn't go more into depth on the S.W and N.E is I know not all that much of Strathclyde area before Industrialisation outside of the bare minimum. Alongside majority of the Central Belt and N.E being the traditional area of being seen as Lowlanders (Granted wish there was a better defining of former areas of Pictland).
Also fully agree on the English being Celtic, I meant Northumbrian in a more geographical sense (and for brevity) due to it being the specific kingdom that covered all of Border Reiver territory on both sides of the border over listing four or five Celtic Kingdoms predating it beforehand which helped tie these peoples together.
@@LS-jv9hp aye, I agree with ye too. I was just expanding yer point lol. Anti Celtic sentiment i hate
Really interesting, thanks for making it. BTW, I don't think that Sìol nan Gàidheal were ever known by the acronym SNG.
Great video. Interesting topic as well.
Great video
SNLA video would be good
Would love to see a video on the Norse Gaels!
As far as I'm aware the snla only have 2 members, 1 in jail in Scotland the others hiding in Ireland somewhere, the other group soil na geal were close to forming a paramilitary group but it got broken up in the 80's
Please put out s video on the snla
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I done higher level history for the leaving cert and received an (A grade) in the subject .
Not every part of history interests me .
Even the era or subjects i do like not everything involved in the subject interest me .
Lets say you love learning about the irish uprisings and paramilitary groups and leaders from 1896-1996... Youve to learn alot about the English , Spanish, French as they helped us alot .
But for that reason i never went down the road of doing courses in history as i found it hard to learn subjects i didnt have interest in .
Wales also had a rebel group that bombed ER mail services ect.
PS catholics were only a minority in certain areas , as a whole the catolics were more.
The irish army at one stage had troops on the border ready to go into belfast to defend catolics . But it didnt happen. ( Even though it was Northern Ireland and The Irish army would be invading another country which the british empire ruled but it was at a point catholics in the north were screaming for help and as people from the south looked on people fwlt we should help them , after all .. it was our land and people and we stood by and watched)
Instead they smuggled guns the catolic areas . They were caught doing it and a few people were caught up in the scandal .
Nearest thing to Scottish IRA was defeated at Culloden most Scots became Protestant Loyalists
Ah, the traitorous Scots who went on to fight for English government over their own country... Not much has changed since then
Not most.
Had been plenty of Scottish involvement for Irish independence. If you knew anything about the history of Ireland 😊
😂😂😂😂😂, republican isn't synonymous with Catholic
Scotland chose to join the union...or at least their lords did. As such they really should be able to choose to leave if they wish without the permission of the UK government. It's not really a union of equals if Scotland has to ask Westminster to be allowed to decide its own fate but that's a different topic.
Ireland was conquered and has seen many failed rebellions against the British Crown. There have been times when Irish lords have supported one British ruler over another (Catholics) and even during times of acceptance of the reality of the situation, the resentment and desire to forge its own path never left Ireland or its people.
Independence-minded Scots and Welsh will say that the union doesn't feel equal and with cause but it's still been a lot more equal than the relationship between Britain and Ireland was when Ireland was part of the UK. The Great Famine is considered to be a genocide in Ireland and is a prime example why Ireland could never be an equal part of a UK that was happy to let its people starve to death. A separation between Ireland and the UK was the only solution. The only questions were how and when?
I do think a lot of Scottish nationalists play up the whole victim card. Sure bad things were done to us... by ourselves, in the name of the Union, sure, but hardly a majority of what went on in the highlands were done by English people, though the worst proponents of the clearences were English and as someone who has family in Skye, I've heard the term "butchers apron" to describe the Union Jack, it definitely was a cultural genocide but it was mostly carried out by lowlander, Protestant Scots. We also did terrible things to the people of Ireland and are one of the main factors as to why Northern Ireland exists, most Scots were as complicit in the horrible crimes of the empire as much as the English or Welsh were. If anything, we got the empire we formed the union to have and then got a really bad deal out of it, Wales got no say in the matter, England literally conquered them, multiple times might I add.
Oh yeah, and the blight happened in Scotland too. The only reason nobody hears about it is that all of the preventative measures that could've been done in Ireland happened in Scotland to a degree, it was another factor that the lords used to kick crofters off their land.
I think Scotland actually can leave the Union at any time if they wanted . But I think the vote in 2014 was just going through the Democratic process. But I'm sure there's something in the Acts of Union that says the Union isn't forever basically and any nation can kibosh it and leave any time they want . I'm sure its in there somewhere, I'm certain it was a talking point in the run up to the referendum.
Super interesting, what about Wales?
Same Welsh that literally bent the knee to England so as they came to conquer?
@@ScotsmanGamer Shows you know nothing. FWA fought (often violently) in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s ensuring greater autonomy for Wales. They also demanded the Welsh language be legitimised and preserved through education and media - which resulted in pretty much the ONLY Celtic nation (within the UK) whose native language is officialised.
@@EmsionProductions I'm talking about when England in the medieval ages came calling ya muppet!
@@ScotsmanGamer Hey bong, being from Donegal I can appreciate the distance I have from the anglo huns and can safely say I am in "easy difficulty" mode for resistance, north of Hadrian is "medium difficulty"... but Wales? That's "hard difficulty" mode, the fact that they still even exist should be a national embarrassment after all the attempts by the bongs. U.S. had "tutorial" mode btw.
@@ScotsmanGamer Go comment on a medieval Wales video then. You dense or what?
Rather misleading title of video when 90% of video is talking about Scottish armed groups and not the IRA which indeed had a presence in Scotland from its inception at one time numbering in the thousands and still having a decent number of people involved right the way through the so called troubles involved mainly in arms trafficking and providing safe houses but a number of Scottish born republicans fought , died or were imprisoned during the conflict
Did he change the title? Cause it says scottish ira, not ira in scotland
@@martinondrus6344 and the term Scottish IRA would lead you to believe the video would be about the Scottish brigade of the IRA or the wider involvement of the Irish in Scotland in the struggle for Irish freedom , not about Scottish Republican or nationalist armed groups , the video would have been better named was there a Scottish equivalent of the IRA
@@saor4340I came here for this comment. I know very little about this conflict, didn’t watch the video (and won’t) but could clearly tell the title was wrong.
The title is fine, I think. Before watching the video, I assumed it would be about Scottish equivalents of the IRA
@@saor4340 interesting way of thinking and i think you got problem with english grammar. There cant be scottish ira since ira means irish republican army. Stottish brigade of ira would still be ira in scotland. What you said would be ira in scotland
As a Scottish catholic with parents from each side I found it interesting growing up in a loyalist town during the 80s
Shetlander here, i’m honestly shocked i never heard about that!
Aye, let’s see the SNLA film.
I second the motion.
The IRA you’re talking about are the ‘provisionals ‘ or Provisional IRA and have no connection with the original IRA who are now the Irish army involved in UN peacekeeping in Lebanon etc . And again you make the same lazy mistake , they weren’t involved in a sectarian war ( this is lazy lazy bbc propaganda ) they saw themselves as fighting a war for civil and human rights against the illegitimate British state in Northern Ireland … therefore there was no Scottish IRA because Scotland accepted, consented to and participated fully in British imperialism .
The provisional ira has just as much of a connection to the old ira as the defence forces have, both originate from the civil war (provos split from the anti treaty ira in 1969)
Provos were fighting for “civil and human rights”….. 😂😂😂
We consented to it so much that we rioted intensely when the union was formed and many of the bribed nobles who signed it were driven out the country
Interesting. You could also cover a video on the Welsh equivalent that set off bombs in Wales in the 1960's , who's acronym was *M.A.C*
There was also a group active throughout the 1980's called *Meibion Glyndwr*
There was no ira in Scotland because they had almost zero support .Scotland is very Protestant and know what side their bread is buttered on .
Scotland has a large catholic community do your talking nonsense.
The IRA used to recruit maniacs at Republican marches in Catholic strongholds like the Gorbals , Calton , Gallowgate , Blackhill , Royston and even Coatbridge which is called Little Ireland and chock full of supporters and back in those days full of members of the IRA.
Paul Ferris' pal Jaimba McLean for example was recruited at a Republican march and he done a lot of dirty work for them. Said he hung a spy up by his ankles , sl't his throat and let his nutter of a dog lick the blood off the guy...think he was telling porkies on that one but he was definitely recruited , think it was in Royston.
OMG yass thanks for doing a video on this i litery asked and received yipiee
There was never a Scottish IRA because the I stands for Irish.
Found a SNLA device once; four cans of McEwans in a bag. No timer.... 😁
If you have been Hilbert who are you now?
An official religious census in 1851, which was taken along with the Statistical Census, by the UK Government, recorded that there were "no Papists" in the Burgh of Denny and Dunipace.
Ireland was an unwilling colony of the British empire that suffered as a result. Scotland was an enthusiastic creator and participant of that empire that benefited greatly. Totally different.
The acts of union were against the will of the Scottish ppl. They were stabbed in the back by politicians made fat on English gold.
@@Sonny-m1f 😂
Hilbert! Please make a video on Welsh nationalist paramilitaries, which were also active during these same years for similar reasons to that mentioned in this video - they were much more destructive and organised. Would really aporeciate the story being told - diolch!
Interesting idea - I'll look into it ;)
@@historywithhilbert why did I get an ad for ketamine on this video? Are you aware that RUclips is using your channel to push drugs?
I remember the odd Postbox being defaced and a couple of electricity pylons being blown up!!
I think Hilbert you mean Adam Busby was disenchanted with the conduct of the devolution referendum in 1979 and not disenfranchised although some people called the 40% hurdle ( introduced to parliament by a Scots Labour MP sitting for a London seat ) a form of disenfranchisement.
Be good if you touched on the various Welsh organisations who were very active, which included bombings across UK. Everyone ignores Wales though
Donegal doesn't. I don't.
Scotland don't ignore Wales, no matter how the UK media want you to believe, we are celtic cousins and most Scots are very sympathetic to Welsh independence
please do a video in the SNLA. I was also wondering during the troubles that Scotland was involved was wells ever involved in the troubles or a freedom movement for whales and Welsh Golic yes same with Cornwall and Devin where any of those areas affected by the troubles or had their own freedom movements? I'd be interested to see any freedom movements or separation movements from of whales and Cornwall from the rest of England or Great Britain? If so can you do videos on them They can be combined or separate however you feel fit to do it. but it be interesting to see why the various Celtic groups that felt depressed by the English did not combine together and do a conservative attack upon say London or against the crown? Because I would think together they would stand stronger than separate and I really don't feel it's a question of Catholic versus Protestant I think it has more to do with Celtic identity versus Anglo Saxon Norman identity. what are your thoughts on this?
*Devon
In Wales there was a terrorist attack by Welsh nationalist in response to the flooding of a village to provide more water for Liverpool
Wales had a lot of involvement , The IRA took the cell structure from the Welsh groups , the IRA also supplied bomb stuff.
Very shortfall, like 2 seconds
It's pretty strange for Scots to complain about English imperialism when many Scots were active participants in the subjugation of Ireland. Ulster Scots exists for a reason after all.
There is no homogenous Scottish mentality which has existed across the centuries. As many Scots fought with the Irish, against the settler English and Scots of the Ulster plantations.
Scotland of the 1600s was deeply divided along religious and cultural lines, with many Scottish Gaels still actively supporting the native Irish backlash against London's Ulster plantation.
There is a diminishing hardcore of Scottish Britons who still support Unionism in the Six Counties; a majority of Scots are for Irish unification, and increasingly, for Scottish Independence.
I am glad that the democratic way was the way chose in 2014. We should always strive for bloodless conflict solutions. Kinda miss these things nowadays.
The difference was presbyterian level headedness.
Two of my uncle's were in the Clelland Bar the night it was bombed & were lucky to escape uninjured, the bomb was planted behind a cigarette machine.
We NEED a video on the SNLA
They didn't do anthing
A youtube short would suffice... there's not much of interest. SnG have a much deeper history and published a lot/did a lot of activism so at least there would be something to discuss there.
FLQ next ?
There wasnt a Scottish Resistance in the 19th or 20th century, but there was a Scottish Battalion of the I.R.A , some fought in the 1916 rising and had the Biggest Sinn Féin club outside of Ireland, in Gourock, and it wasnt just in the West of Scotland and had considerable support from Scotsmen like John McClean and other Socialist movements,
Do you have anymore info on this club in Gourock?
@@CF-oz9lh tried to find it. But can't it might have been in a Stephen Coyle book ,Sorry if you Google Scottish Battalion I.R.B -I.R.A , you might come across it Gourock was 5th Battalion B coy , they did a raid on a Navy traing base stole 50 -60 rifles , I might have got mixed up with Greenock who had 1000 Sinn Féin members ,but I am sure I read Gourock had 3000 ,
Weell, yes a prisoner in Duke Street is, damn, a bomb at a firm making baton, rounds
Make a video on Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Muhajir Qaumi Movement pls
Alot of Irish paramilitary prisoners who got released during the good Friday agreement ended up here coz Scotland was the only country who'd welcome them. Mad dog, The late Sam mcrory all stay down my way or Sam did til he took a fall down some concrete steps 🤔😂
Mad dog?
He's not ira lad he's a ex uvf commander.
@@Dhdh-cf3mb I'm clueless towards who's who in all that carry on mate. Apologies, cheers for the correction 😎
@@ElDubz420
I could be wrong tho I'm from cork don't keep up with my loyalist terrorism it could be ira I just know there is a mad dog uvf commander just don't know if he survived or not.
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Could of would of should of didn't then surrendered choccy melted la about as much use as a chocolate fire guard
colors...what they describe as chakras (which have been changed recently i guess ) ilija ra- i ra (perun grows, flower grows). more or less. ili(ini) also means others (like other peoples).
martin McGuiness was working for the British throughout most of the troubles
The Dark Harvest Commando should have had a mention, they were a serious group who Even the Westminster government bowed to
The ira had no interest with Scotland. In England it was economic targets.
Ira passed a bill stating no attacks in Scotland due to them being gaels
Only Scott's who serve the crown were left to be targeted
Wales was usually not targeted either because ira viewed them as also occupied.
The MOD decided to send in Scottish troops during the troubles, and these young lads went in with the belief that they were peacekeepers. Look how that turned out...and ,most of them had Irish roots. The |Irish will never be forgiven for what they did. @@Dhdh-cf3mb
@@emstirling-is4nu
What?
Are you dumb or something? Come here as a peacekeeper or a fairy it does t matter they were shot as invaders
Scottish who aren't the traitors like most of your nation all traitors were not targeted in scottland
If the Scott joins british army or police or deploys here under either of the two well then the traitor becomes a target.
@@emstirling-is4nu
Irish will never be forgiven?
When did we ask for forgiveness from traitorous Scott's?
Ye cant even keep your language from going extinct you worship foreign rule and call joining a invading occupation army in Ireland and call it peacekeeping
Better question is who's going to forgive the Scottish? Cowards and traitors only ever showns as brave while in the kings army the Scott's gaurd the highlanders in kilts in reality a larping English man
Ira were very easy of Scott's in reality Scots aren't gaels ye aren't irish and ye aren't allies
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Ye came to protect your mastas intrest.
Peacekeepers don't funnel weapons to the UVF your traitor soldiers are traitors to gaels and were shot for that exact reason
Ye will know better next time.
Scotland was never conquered by England and our balls, Mr Macguiness, were big enough to beat the English on the battlefield and win campaigns providing us with total independence instead of attacking civilian targets as our main tactic. Scotland is in a union with England even though I voted for independance I except the fact more scots want to be part of the united kingdom with the English.
They conquered us mate, don't you worry about that. Did you live through the Thatcher era? If you didn't, she treated us like second class citizens, just like the nationalists in the North of Ireland. I think what Martin McGuinness meant we didn't have the balls to do anything in that moment. Historically, we've held our own against the English. And look where that got us.
@@patronsaintofhorses1747 I loathed Thatcher and her Scottish Grand Committee filled with English Tories because there wasn't enough Scottish Tories. I and my family voted Labour, SNP even Liberal as a tactical vote in 2014 we all voted for independence. The sad reality for us is that the majority of Scot's for a long time might not vote for the English Tories but do vote for UK Labour party and thus we can't be conquered if the majority of Scot's want to remain part of the UK. I would never advocate for violence just because other people vote for outcomes I don't agree with.
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Lad what are you talking about you have a gaelic name you are no different to me in munster your gaelic
Wheres you language? Our is dying yours is dead its set to go extinct
As our founders said " who will run this country the invader or the sons of the invaders both are no different"
James connelly " a people won't grow with another's foot on their neck even if that other wishes them well"
You have completely rolled over and seem to have forgotten everything you are missing because of that other
Here in Ireland we don't think like you this has cost us everything including our language and we will let the sectarian loyalists know what the price of a language is
Your comments about targeting civilians says enough we have 1000 years of resistance which for those 1000 years Scott's were part .
@@Dhdh-cf3mb I have not rolled over I have until very recently voted for the SNP and in our recent referendum in 2014 voted Yes to independence. However I believe in Democracy and more Scots want to remain part of the UK then I have to except it. There is a change in the West to destroy all our cultures. Today the people of Ireland have led the way against a much bigger possibility of tyranny and the people England have joined them. Us Scots have remained disappointingly quiet on this one i.e. the issue of mass immigration. I lived beside where James Connolly was born as a student added to which my favourite fitba team is Hibernian.
@@patronsaintofhorses1747 we've been conquered by SNP socialists, well and truly a destroyed nation which was once the leader of intellectuals in Europe . Absolute shame .
Can you do a video about the 700 year period of history in which the Irish raided England to capture English people and then sell them into slavery in Ireland?
There was no troubles in Scotland because it's just Scottish people, why would they fight with each other. The conflict in Northern Ireland was ethnic NOT religious, Irish v British, it was an old unsettled tribal conflict brought into the modern era due to the native Irish being treated as second class citizens by Brits who will always be deemed as outsiders, foreign colonizers
God the claims made by the IRA member in this video are utterly absurd. Scotland has never been conquered or oppressed by England after the Act of Union. It was a Scottish led process, acting as if England colonised Scotland is a moronic idea. England has also never suppressed Scottish culture, the Highland clearances were done by SCOTTISH noblemen for purely economic reasons not in an attempt to genocide highlanders. The Jacobite wars were internal rebellions not wars of independence, they just wanted a Stuart king to lead the UK rather than a Protestant one. Acting as if Scottish culture was suppressed when for 300 years highland dress has been an iconic part of the British army and bagpipes are played at every monarchical event is just ludicrous
It's annoying isn't it . Imagine trying to explain this to a Yank who believes Scotland are slaves to England and oppressed to this day . I've tried hundreds of times , people just don't believe you . Even if you send a link to the UK government's website which explicitly states that Scotland was never conquered by England pmsl 😂😂😂
When I was a kid in Glasgow in the 70s the SNLA were a fringe lot barely able to muster even a passing interest. Their claim to fame was fire bombing the main post office distributing centre in Glasgow that only pissed people off as they didn’t get their giros that day.
There still is volunteers in Scotland
Fund raisers etc I know a guy from the Gorbals whose cousins were caught smuggling machine guns and bombs into Northern Ireland , think that was about 10 years ago. Big Gorbals family related to Bobby Sands family, Bobby Sands nephew is over here regularly with his Gorbals family .
it wasnt 2 Catholic pubs it was 2 pubs that were strongholds for Republicans. They were stroring weapons and raising money for the IRA
The pubs in question were linked to the republican movement, people associated with them were also linked to low level fundraising, but there certainly were no weapons stored there!
PIRA did not decide to leave Scotland alone because it would upset their supply of arms, equipment, personnel. They got little or nothing from Scotland and were supplied from the USA, Libya and other places. The UVF and the UDA ,on the other hand, had nowhere else but Scotland to get explosives, weapons and indeed supporters. Research would reveal that quite a dew Scottish UDA members were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, in addition to those UVF convicted of the Glasgow pub bombings.
True but there was a lot of Scottish IRA members . There was a Glasgow IRA cell that were given the task of hunting down an MI5 double agent who ended up writing a book about it , he was in hiding in Bolton and a cell from Glasgow went down and shot him repeatedly, he survived though so the Glasgow cell probably got their bollocks chewed over that 😂
6:25 @historywithhilbert146 how Dare You Sir! The 4th Sealer of the Declaration of Arbroath was No Noble! But a Royal! Since Earls were Considered Royals in those Days before Dukes! It was the 1st Official Ross (a name once protected by Law Across the Empire!) the Chief of the Great Clan Ross the 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross (1st to take on the Surname Ross) who Sealed the Declaration of Arbroath 4th, his daughter would go onto becoming Queen Consort of Scotland to the 1st Stuart King! The 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross is the Direct Ancestor to the Majority of Ross in the Wester World because we were So Good in Our Generation, plus had a head Start on the Surname to later name adoptions from numerous sources.
The conditions were not the same in Scotland as in the North of Ireland that sparked the Troubles. The sectarian divide did not extend much beyond Glasgow and just was not an issue in the Borders, Highlands and Islands or along the East Coast. The main political parties were British Unionist in as much as they wanted Scotland to remain in the U.K. Scottish nationalism also had an anti-Catholic and anti-Irish strain at the time that would have been off-putting for Hiberno Scots. Even in Glasgow, working class Protestants sympathetic to the Unionist cause in Northern Ireland had largely switched to voting Labour just like their Catholic counterparts had been doing for a long time. The sectarianism too wasn't a 24/7 variety but tended to only come to the fore at Old Firm matches and Orange or pro-Irish Republican marches. That is not to say that there were diehards on either side whose zealotry even exceeded the worst bigotry found across the water. However, their influence was not that far-reaching and viewed with distaste by most Scots considering one side as bad as the other.
please do one on the irish national liberation army or one on a breakdown of each of the northern ireland paramiltaries
"Provisional" is one of those useful terms for militants of any and all stripes politically. "Patriot" is one too you can attach to all stripes of non-state actors.
You've got your facts wrong about Siol . You've given them credit for SNLA activities .
The level of grievance wasn't there in Scotland , neither was the institutional apartheid system that existed in NI. Neither was the will to fight. The SNP have had all the running for the last 10 years, a huge majority in Holyrood, an incompetent clown show in Westminster, Brexit et al. Conditions could have not been better, still they got nowhere with independence. Scotland will never be properly independent, unless a nuke hits England. The majority of Scots are quite comfy with the current arrangement, the rest simply don't want independence enough, and search for any excuse to avoid pushing for it. It's off the table for the next 20 years now anyway, with the recent demise of the SNP.
Interesting I've never heard about any of this
Wales had the “ free Welsh army”
Luckily England feared that an Irish style uprising will happen in wales and gave wales proper rights
2:41 Neither did the IRA ever plant a bomb in Wales
There was also Anthrax contaminated soil dumped around England by Scottish freedom fighters (not terrorists)
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lived through the troubles in belfast dads family were Scottish protestant mum irish Catholic. more video more in depth.
The Scottish suffered greatly fighting the English. Their national anthem, Flower of Scotland is a beautiful song. However unfortunately the majority of Scottish decided to go along with the English and stop fighting them. They are now ruled by an English government who gives zero ffs about them or their past. Their language and traditions largely destroyed or reinvented to suit their masters the English.
Your remarks about the Shetlands were inaudible.
They were not known as the Scottish terrorits…they were the tartan army…and one of the leaders was Mc pherson…they all served large sentences in peterhead
There was loads of IRA volunteers in and around central Scotland in the 1950’s
Most were of Irish descent but also some Italians.
In 2024 there are a hell of alot of uvf/UDA supporters in Scotland, just see ibrox
@@chiefgilraythe UVF still recruit in Scotland to this day because apparently Derry is still "under siege". I doubt Jean Claude Van Damme is going around flykicking people in Derry. Just my opinion lol
As the saying goes: Scotland Forever
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British armed forces and their paramilitary allies? who are they?
SNLA video would be interesting
Next video: was there ever a welsh IRA?
Do a SNLA video
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Welsh had their own. Not really sectarion as much as national.
You should cover the Welsh paramilitary organisations of the 1960s. They blew up several bombs in Wales and, I believe, in England.
Was that not the time when "Not The Nine O'clock News" coined the phrase, "Come home to a real fire, buy a holiday cottage in Wales"... A spin off from the National Coal Board adverts. 🤣🤣🤣
@@pobthecat that was Meibion Glyndwr who also came about in 1979 alongside the SNLA though Meibion Glyndwr targeted Holiday Homes more than Politicians (though bombs were sent to Politicians)
Was there a welsh 1 i think there might have been
Like this comment to count as a vote for the SNLA video.
Most people miss the point about the Kingdoms of the Scots and England, The King of Scots is King of the people and the King of England is King of the land, legally Scotland is independent of England and were brought together politically in 1707, although Scotland kept it's own legal system, a smart move by the Duke of Hamilton! Basically countries like The USA Canada etc maybe politically independent but legally they are still controlled by the crown and since legal is what really matters and and politics is just a sham and the majority of people believe in this sham this enables the real controllers to stay hidden from view and legally fuck the majority of these populations over and they don't even realise how this is done
ie the majority of people believe we speak using the oxford English dictionary the real dictionary of speaking is the blacks law dictionary and this is what enables a small class of people to fuck everybody over legally speaking. . .