The British Army enters Northern Ireland, 1969
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- On 14th August, 1969, the British Army first appeared on the streets of Northern Ireland. This report from Póilín Ní Chiaráin looks at those twenty years.
Report shows troops in Derry, welcomed with tea by local women. Troops standing on guard beside burning building.
Aftermath of riot, armoured cars, guns and bombs. Rossville flats in Derry. Burnt out Bombay Street in West Belfast.
Interview with with Anita Currie in Gormanston camp.
Soldiers on street, group of youths with bus used as barricade. Armoured cars. Explosion.
Curfew, July, 1970, Falls Road, fire on street, tanks and armoured cars, women chanting.
February, 1971. Soldiers lining road.
May, 1971. Soldiers baton man.
Bloody Sunday. Father Edward Daly with white flag.
Bloody Friday in Belfast. Explosion.
Operation Motorman, Derry. Officer explaining operation to remove barricades.
Army in street in 1980s during hunger strikes.
August, 1979, aftermath of Warrenpoint explosion in which eighteen soldiers were killed.
August, 1989. Soldiers darkening their faces.
Interview with Ken Magennis, Ulster Unionist.
Interview with Séamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
The reporter is Póilín Ní Chiaráin.
I was born into the Troubles in Belfast, very early on. Lived through it. Lost loved ones and thought it was acceptable or just normal. It wasn’t until after 1998 that I realised we could have some sort of normal society.. When I remember back now, it was shocking, every day there was killings on the news, funerals, always funerals of people who went before their time.. I accepted it back then but I could never accept it again. Our side, their side, the Brits, all fucking hating and killing each other, for what?.. I have kids & Grandkids now that take the peace for granted, and so they should. I look at them and think to myself, that’s the way I should’ve grown up. Without the violence.. Good luck to everyone.. 👍
God bless 👍
It might be better if they didn't take peace for granted because that's pretty much how you can sleepwalk into more conflict, but at the same time it's understandable to take something for granted if it's all you grew up knowing.
All to be diversified by multiculturalism 20 years later.
God bless you John I love you in Jesus my Irish bro
beannacht agus Dia beannaigh
My granny was born in Fermanagh when there was no border before Irish independence. She lived through the Rising, partition, the war of independence, the Irish civil war, and the troubles. Sadly she died in the early nineties so she never got to see peace in her time
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My relatives have horror stories to no end. Seeing distant relatives walk with a "limp" at funerals ......we knew why. We just never understood. Still don't. But then again, us Americans have our own trivial grievances with one another as well. Sad, regardless where the hate comes from
Oh, come on. Of all the people in the world, Americans understand the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland the least. I should know, I’m an American. From Boston, the city noted for having the largest number of Irish descendants. I also have a very Irish name (my RUclips name is not my real name). But I absolutely cannot stand all the anti-British, anglophobic nonsense and wannabe Fenian moanings from delusional plastic paddies who somehow think Irish republicans were these glorious heroes. They were anything but! And I’m not necessarily calling you personally a “delusional plastic paddy”, so please know this. I just don’t understand the obsession with these Marxist thugs (yes, the many IRA factions/Sinn Fein were all radical leftists who promoted violence. They were also the ones who drew first blood and ultimately brought the violence onto their own countrymen. If you want to blame any single group, blame them!
Relatives of mine (Aunt, and husband, Catholic and Protestant) had to leave back then and moved to Bath in England and finally Cork. They were burned out of their home in Belfast. Sadly they are dead and gone. R.I.P. 🙏
Your Aunt & Uncle were one of the lucky ones...Several couples from so called "mixed marriages" were executed by paramilitary groups..
@@sentimentaloldme i know. Thank you
@@choctaw6838 Just before the troubles I had a relationship with a young lady from a loyalist area of Belfast...We went out together for six months until she decided to bring me back to her home one night. That was the end of me....Luckily in hindsight...I remember the last words she said to me..."Michael...I have to be cruel to be kind"....How right she was...Broke my heart at the time....but it would never have worked out.
We’re they Protestants who were driven from their homes in Suffolk, lenadoon ? My partner lived with her widowed mother and 3 sisters and were driven out by their catholic ‘neighbours’, republicans would have you believe that it was only catholic families this happened to.
@@edwardcooper5479both sides lived together in relative peace before the civil rights movement and nationalists beaten off the streets like the blacks in USA at the time
Protestant homes were bombed by catholics just as they were burnt out. Shooting none stop from Irafrom Springfield road onto the Shankill. . Both sides suffered. Both sides were brainwashed into believihg . Into thinking ohe side had it better than the other which washt true. I felt sorry for the BA as they were stuck in the middle. Im happy there is peace now. I and lots of ppl suffer from PTSD.
At 0.21, they are the RUC - the police. Not the British Army.
My brother in law was in Ireland right from the start I've spoke to him about it and some off the story's he has told me wld wobble you're mind .things went on there that I had a hard time believing but I now know how they make soldiers and it ain't done in a military camp the crene off the crop comes out things like this and a little top is think about the yrs between peace and political edges and people who die mystery mysteriously
British army messed up in Northern Ireland neutral peace force they where not bias sectarian army for Ulster Unionist/Loyalists who couldn't fight Irish Republicans on there own.
“for the individual solider, life isn’t easy.”
boo fucking hoo
Wat were troubles alll about Irish celtic Christians fighting each other
Some say that this is where Margaret thatcher learnt how to mobiles her police forces and army. She took everything shed learnt that dealt with the UK miners picket lines. How would Ireland 🇮🇪 be peaceful even if the British wasn't tgat because of their religious . I say to all my keltic cousins , the Welsh, the irerish, and the Scots. The Saxtons which are the English
They set fire to their homes which is a mad thing to try and wrap ones head around. Divis flats and the lowwr falls road where hit the most I believe. R I p to all who died on both sides and soldier Robert Mcormic who went under cover but failed the I.R.A 3 step test and was killed in a field. They still haven't given up the whereabouts of where the body still is. God bless all and goodnight
And the cowards in leinster done nothing
How are people of Leinster cowards.
@@RobertK1993 sorry lad left out house
@@peteraldridge5210 Leinster or Dublin was powerless stop British army
Well they can send troops 2 Lebanon 2 keep the peace, a d other countrys, Syria libera but not up north, now their banging in about Ukraine, where were they when ppl up the north were bn butchered, 2 name bloody sunday, and even bono is given a concert, a bunch of 2 faced shit heads
Always contimplated if the UN had of went into the north instead of the British would there have been less bloodshed and a earlier solution
the army the victims ?? HA