Northern Ireland troubles | Strabane | IRA | British Army | 1974
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- This is a shortened version of the original programme that was broadcast.
Almost a thousand people have died in the five years of violence in
Northern Ireland.
Despite the political initiative of the past few months there seem to be no signs of an end to the bombing and the shooting.
Strabane is a small town of ten thousand people tucked away in a far corner of Northern Ireland. Over the past five months Strabane has, for a place its size, suffered more than any other community in Northern Ireland. Nineteen people have died, the city centre has been destroyed by the bombing campaign of the Provisional IRA, and the bill for the damage has reached nearly £5 million. Strabane is a border town. The Irish Republic lies across the river - five hundred yards away the Provisionals have a base of operations.
Peter Taylor Reports.
First shown:11/04/1974
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I grew up in N. Ireland. Like many. Being born in the late 60s we knew nothing else. That was life. I seen my fair share of violence and had many friends and acquaintances killed. I witnessed numerous explosions at a very young age. Witnessing and experiencing the tragedies makes it so you don't sweat the small stuff. In the face of danger I sometimes think I felt more alive. It brought out the worst in those who would seek violence, but the best in the majority of people who were good law abiding citizens who wished for peace. We made the most of a difficult life. I don't think I will ever experience such a strong sense of community anywhere I go. I miss that genuine kindness, compassion and sense of humor now that I live elsewhere. I get to experience it a bit when I go home. Many who lived through it are still there and their positive spirit of endurance lives on. I hope that future generations inherit the same spirit. I haven't talked much with those born after the troubles, but it appears they have the same good sense of humor as their parents.
I totally agree I lived in Belfast during the troubles for over five years and actually had a great time made some fantastic friends. Sometimes it got just plain bizzare but you adapt to that environment as you don’t have any other choice. Strange but good times. God bless.
It's a shame we don't have real journalists like Peter Taylor anymore.
Those two girls at 5.29 barely broke stride when that shooting started.
Strabane girls for yee
Wow how sad that they became that used to it.
Imagine they're just deaf from hearing it all the time
Women are just so strong.
Michael Kaine get them to open a jar! Stop white knighting whoever you’re trying to protect or impress with your chivalry it won’t work. She won’t suck fuck or even touch you whoever she is
I'm from a neighbouring town, and it's often referred now to as strabanistan
@Klaidi Rubiku If he's using the term the way it is by some groups for some towns in GB it's not a comparison to the conflicts there, more a statement relating to the ethnic mix of the town being predominantly SE Asian Muslim (e.g. the derogatory use of Bradistan for Bradford, etc) - but he needs to clarify if that's what he meant
Kalergi plan.
Pakistan don't play football cos everytimr they get a corner they build a shop on it BOOOM BOOM or giggity giggity if that's more your thing .
Oh my lord. That shouldnt be funny but it is.
@@whitewolfo2715 Yep we are fucked
Eamonn McDevitt's mother: what a beautiful person. Her poor son playing like a child would around soldiers and she forgives the moment. I hope she is with him. 1976. Year of my birth. Wow.
British army shot Deaf Man Eammon McDevitt....Real shame
@DML1888 no they weren't. If you riot you run the risk of danger.
Quando estiver contra mim vou acabar uniforça e Botafogo no mundo todo Botafogo todo o todo o isso que estão contra mim apanha não ele vai Botafogo spider bota todo mundo contra ele
1974, not 1976.
I was struck by her dignity.
Glad to see your comment😊
"... afterwards, there was a routine stone throwing session at the troops"
as you do I guess
It shows that the invasion is not welcome
Don't forget the regular Saturday afternoon shooting incident....work up a nice sweat before dinner and a pint
@@archdukehamburgervononionr1948 And people still say the north wants to be British
A way of life for bored teenagers who didn't even know or care what "the troubles" were all about.
Anyone else wondering why a deaf mute guy was out at a riot?
@@wattage2007 thank you for your intelligent input, how quaint! Usual keybord heckler!. Give Ibiza a miss for ur next hol, go to Strabane, visit up north it really is beautiful . Meet the people , chat and have a pint.... then come back and comment on the whys. póg mo thóin a chara
Peter felt it, a true professional and a great human being.
One would assume that the Provos had the third biggest supermarket in Strabane... .
Peter Taylor the reporter did an incredible job, became trusted by the republicans and ended up a go between the Irish and British , if you want an unbiased report on the troubles then watch peter Taylor's reports on it
Peter taylor supported the Irish Republicans never had anything good to about the security forces or unionists
He recognises the discrimination & persecution of nationalists/catholics
Don't know about that. Having watched Provos, Loyalists and Brits he has a go at them all and denounces or challenges killing by all sides. I think personally he would look to peace first as opposed to any political agenda. That said, agreed he is the man when it comes to quality reporting on this period of history.
Peter Taylor was a great journalist. He covered Vietnam as well as Northern Ireland and unlike today's journalists was only really interested in the truth rather than pushing his own political agenda.
The thing that strikes me about this report was the sheer nihilism of the bombers. Regardless of whether you were a Republican or a Loyalist what was to be achieved by wantonly blowing up property and people like that!
A young Peter Taylor. Perhaps the finest journalist and commentator of his generation regarding the Troubles.
Not really. Plenty of better ones about.
Do name some then sweetheart....
@@gazzanorth4373 No one to top Peter Taylor.
I like Peter Taylor. He looks & sounds so young here!!
I'd have to agree with you there.... I have his book on N.I. the first one he did in fact... "The Provo's The IRA & Sinn Fein"...
I,m from Wales and I lived there for a while, so sad to see how people suffered there in the 70s, i found older people to be on their guard with me on times with lots of questions, I can see why.
Well, I hope the people here were civil to you. Even if we can be a bit rough around the edges.
So sad that it would have taken another 25 years for peace to come to Strabane after this film was made.
Still hasnt happened.
Fergxson true one of the biggest shit holes in the entire country, full of druggys
Agreed, but unfortunately the Provos and others saw fit to carry on their futile campaign of murder and destruction for all those years until it eventually dawned on them that they had no hope of achieving a united Ireland and British withdrawal through the "armed struggle" and so they gave up. You'll notice that Northern Ireland is still part of the UK and will remain so until a majority of voters in NI and in the Republic say differently. No change there really.
@@paddy864 That's all changed now a majority on both sides of the border want a United Ireland now. Tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@pauldunneska Fine, if that's the case (I don't think it is actually.) Glad you recognise that the 35 years of murder inflicted on the people of NI largely by republican terrorists was completely and utterly pointless though, since in the end a UI could only be achieved by democratic means.
Looks like the dentist was the first to leave the town.
Rufus Chucklebutty hahaha, u win the internet today mate.
He withdrew his business, he had to "pull it" out quick
Gobshite
With a few other gobshites on the same wavelength apparently
@@seanbaite47 says the son of a squaddie
I'm English, my dad was bron and raised here. He grew up here, walking to school past the soldiers every day. I've always wondered what his daily life would have looked like. Thank you for preserving this piece of history.
Just leave your not wanted in Ireland it's not your country just leave then you don't have to do something with your kid what your da had do with u
The Thames's intro makes me go search for Benny Hill Show
Or Rainbow 🌈
Green t-shirt, red socks, sixteen and has an Armalite? What a description, could be ANY guy around goddammit.....
Grey slacks, not red socks.
"When the troubles end, which they will soon" Well, in a quarter of a century.
Peter taylor is by far the best in his trade. Totally unbiased
Dont talk shite. Hes bias as hell. Loves the sewer rat provos.
Northern Ireland crisis was horrible. Sorry to see how the educated people can do this to one another! Sad. We human beings are the worst animals. Thank God it is over now.
Good point. I heard a quote a long time ago. It goes like: "All wars turn all sides into monsters."
Thank no body it’s not over yet
Very well put and i always say no good will ever come from evil and you cant expect killing one another to bring anything positive only bad negatives
Education is not an answer to stupidity.
Lol it's not over go back to school
Her first thought was for the British Soldiers and their mummy's so kind
I lived through this but in omagh 20 miles away but I never realised how bad things where until I started to go to pubs and my mums advice for going out was if a gunman comes into the pub get on the floor he will shoot from hip height
I would never have thought there was so much damage and devastation caused by the troubles. I was very narrow minded in those time's, I'm fron the Republic. Neve gave a second taught to this part of the Troubles. I do now . ☘️
I was born and raised in Strabane. I am a Protestant and grew up feeling under seige and intimadated. As a Protestant, I was unable to us use the local leasure centre, at age eight I was pulled aside and asked if I was a Protestant, or a Catholic because I was not recongnised as a local, My mother bought me a Ski Coat, it was red white and blue. The colour meant nothing to me, but my mother had to sew green cloth over the blue because people kept spiting on me in the street, I only aged ten. I grew up with INLA marches that took over the town and rioting. I went to the local High School, it was mixed, but percieved to be a Protestant School. I was unable to go into town wearing my School uniform for fear of being attacked and beaten.
In later years, I left Strabane because my car was attacked outside my home and I was threated by someone with links to terrorism because I worked for the British Goverment, I was not in the Police nor the Army, but this town was so bitter I had to move out of Strabane. Strabane, was nothing, but an evil sectarian nest of people who cannot move on. I have never seen a town that is so vile and bitter. I was glad to leave Strabane, anytime I am in the town I cannot relax and still feel threated even after twenty odd years. The town is nothing but a ghost town now, republicians destroyed this town , it used to be a great Shopping town but the IRA and INLA bombed, extorted murdered and intimadated the town into the ground! They targeted Protestant shops and some Republicans refused to give Protestant shop owners their business.
Sectarianism is like a cancer that eats people from the inside. Strabane is a prime example of the damage that sectarianism can do to the prosperity of a town and the wellbeing of its people.
Funny I know protestants in Strabane and they have never had any bother 🤔 and I live here aswell.. Nothing wrong with Strabane now it is a wonderful place ❤️
@@thatraboy147 I am really glad that Strabane has changed so much and is now doing so well! It is importaint that there is an end to all sectarianism and everyone feels welcome to live in peace.
that is awful in fairness and I agree,sectarianism is shit.I am from ROI by the way.
How many of the business owners were also part time UDR or RUC part timers ? If it's similar to the rest of the North I'm sure that it's about 70% plus ...As for your experiences sorry you went through them. Terrible.
Well that's exactly what we went through when you walked down the town they had posters outside there shops saying catholic May not apply its was fucking terrible
The fire positions are dreadful.. RIP to all those who lost their lives in this area.
Shots fired, soldier shouts... "Green t.shirt grey slacks 16 years old he's got an armalite! 😆
@@robertcmcnamara you support terrorism you will never get a job
@@lowetastic8723 They are also freedom fighters trying to free Ireland from loyalist occupation so fuck of you proddy wanker
He didn't say that, you did.
@Lemin. well said 🤣, damn proddy wankers pmsl .
@@h7283 wish it was me that had said it!! 😘
Frightening times in which I grew up :(
In the early to mid 70's my biggest worry was if the chain fell off my bike.
While we did grow up at the same time (sadly you would've had to grow up A LOT faster than I did) we did so in two vastly different worlds. Living with that daily violence had to have messed with your head, both at the time and throughout your life. I hope you came out of it ok.
was 6 year old back then, but lived up north , bushmills !
@@aberamagold7509 it must have been hellish growing up back then in the troubles
@DML1888 I am glad you came through all that madness ok. I am British and I have lots of friends in Belfast,i have been to many places in NI and I have never met nicer people,from both sides of the divide. I can understand your dislike for the establishment but I am glad that you dont see the ordinary British person in the same light because any normal human being could not fail to be moved by what was happening to ordinary people. You are right what you say about young men given a uniform and a gun. Things are different know of course,because people are better educated and there are a lot more opportunities for young people,most of those young lads were in the Army because there was nowt else. I also agree with what you said about that awful day in Derry. It has always been my opinion that it was state sponsored Murder. Ballymurphy too. I just hope the peace is permanent and all the people of NI live a happy prosperous life.
@DML1888 Thanks Declan for your comprehensive reply. I just do not understand why people who are basically brought up together,to believe in the same values of right and wrong cannot live together without the bitterness,bigotry and hatred that the minority want to shower each other with. Britain and Ireland are each others closest neighbors, i am of Irish descent myself on my grandmothers side. My very good friend in Belfast always taught her son never to have any sectarian views but to be proud of what you are also,its a thing any sensible human being would want to see,from everyone. Sadly there are too many that lack that vision and are just Blinkered and to my mind,brain washed. Our only hope is that the young people that are going to shape tomorrow,will have more success. I am born and bred in the city of Liverpool and lived,worked and went to school with both Catholic and Protestant. Ignorant people think its all about religion,of course we know its not. I just hope at the very least,they can form a shared Government again and assure the people,of some definite stability. Good luck to you all mate.
Lucky enough i was a young child playing like a child should not a care in the world. Then i see in these videos of poor children trying to playing normally through the horrors of this and i realise how lucky i was
Can't believe I grew up through all this!
Get real..... IRA murdering filth
@@gazzanorth4373 up the ra ya dirty prod taking our land ya huns
@@ghostdog733 Big tough ra killing defenceless female journalists. The world can see what scumbag sewer rats the cowardly IRA are.
@DML1888 innocent ? what like you? so with a catholic majority what and how will you treat poddy's in ireland?
"Dirty prods" formed the United Irishmen, helped save the gaelic language and believe it or not the provos were formed in Victor Fagg's house who was another "dirty prod". Wolfe Tome, Henry Joy McCracken, David Russell, John Turnley, Ronnie Bunting, Noel Little and many more were what you might call "dirty prods" but they done a hell of a lot more for their beliefs than yous armchair sectarian bigots ever done for your political beliefs. But sure carry on in yer wee small sectarian bubble as you were and ignore history. I know it may not suit any of yer narratives but its the truth. Guess what the orange in the tricolour represents?
Terrorists on both sides of the communities have no place in any society. Violence solved nothing! They murdered innocent people and injured others with the guns and the bombs 💣 destroying their Own towns and cities. Yes I grew up in the Northern Ireland troubles. The only way forward is forgiveness. There’s too much hate in this world.
The man interviewed at the beginning looks like a grey haired Michael Palin from Monty Python..
Thought the same thing. 😆
Oddly enough, Michael's ancestral roots are just 8 miles outside of Strabane.
Small World!
Ah, I knew he reminded me of somebody but I couldn’t figure out who.
@@coolmacatrain9434 is Palin an Irish name? I think that most people in the UK have some distant ancestors and predecessors who came from Ireland.
I have at least two separate branches of Irish ancestors on my mother's side (named 'Grant' from either Cork or Galway, and 'Canovan/Cannovan' family from the East coast or Dublin). Most of the people who I know have the same Irish Great Great Grandparent and Great, Great, Great Grandparent etc that I have.
@@simonyip5978 Well, Michael's Irish ancestors would have been, in all likelihood, Anglo-Irish themselves.
I'm from Strabane it's a beautiful town now come and see
Thought that first fellow on was dave Allen, kept expecting him to brush his knee with three fingers and crack a joke
shop fast while the shops last.
Another good one was "Throw well throw Shell"
Remember the man from Strabane.. what a voice
Peter Taylor made the best documentaries about the Troubles. Of the epic ones he did, ‘Loyalists’ was the best. How he got those guys to admit to the atrocities they committed! But then he regularly turned out little gems like this one. By 1974, most people in Great Britain were sick of hearing about Northern Ireland. Peter was there to remind them that it was regular people like themselves, who were doing the suffering.
Home of the famous aftershave of the 80s. Paco Strabane.
Strabane was only one small town there ware many others in Northern Ireland you can never force people against there will takeing 30 years for some to understand this .
The first guy who talks on camera. Is this the guy John Oliver had on his Brexit III episode? The guy who said people would shoot at the border posts.
I live 5kms away from Strabane and seeing it in the 70s is mad
My mum Carmel Devine explained that her shop had been seen serving British Soldiers (in civillian clothes-they would never have been served in uniform)- Her family were staunch nationalists and explained to the hotheads that it would never be done intentionally. A week later the delivery van driver was hijacked and they put a bomb in the back and forced him with threat of death to him and his family to drive back to the shop and to " give a warning" ...which he did ..20 minutes later it destroyed what you see in part of this excellent doc. Her old home a farmhouse was sold and became the golf clubhouse...bombed three times..dunno for sure why..maybe just cos they had semtex and felt they had to bomb something..tragic! bombed the soul out of their own wee town.
Served there over Christmas 1986, we had a saying "Shop now while shops last". Head of town estate and Ballycolman estate were no go areas to security forces. The RUC wouldn't enter without army support.
the audio is so crisp
I’m watching this from Strabane lol
my condolences lol im in omagh
Why were the IRA attacking the town?
@@thewhitedeath586 They were trying to terrorise a democratic country into getting what they wanted. (They would've said: They were trying to hurt the UK economy.) When you look at this, they were only hurting local small businesses and families.
@@dl4350 My dad took me fishing in Lower Loch Erne probably 30 years ago now, the British Army Patrol stumbled upon me taking a shit in the woods! Between his English License Plates on his car and me backing one out we had a pretty good chat with the troops!
@@hishonoursirdrinksalot1916 to be honest had it not been clear they may have at worst beaten you, that area is predominantly catholic and nationalist, hence their presence, also around that area there was 'ethnic cleansing' where the IRA killed local protestants indiscriminately. (I'm trying to take a neutral standpoint on the troubles here)
Lets give Peace a chance!
yes let do that Paul
I agree.
The troubles won't start again because no one goes out anymore!
There will never be peace on this earth...
You know what I'm a nationalist and I'm all for an Ireland where everyone is treated equal. My parents came from Tyrone but I never knew the IRA blew the fuck out of Strabane. Peter Taylor continued to be the person that the BBC used to document the troubles and he did a good job of showing what your usual news footage wouldn't show. He's very young here in this clip.
I can understand why the IRA bombed certain buildings in Strabane because it was as they pointed out about 90% Catholic area with protestant businesses thriving off the blatant wealth that the unionist politicians allowed them.
I'm no way condoning what the IRA done, it was a dirty war I've never been a fan of the bullet and bomb but more an X in a ballot box. It's fucking crazy really when you see what went on not too long ago.
Stargreened you are the second person ever after a very good mate of mine when we served in NI to say about putting an X in the ballot box. And we served over thirty years ago, with 9 tours apiece. Fair play to you for your honesty, A very dirty “ WAR ! “ indeed in the loosest sense of the word. Peace comes at a price.
what a troll @iamsoldier
An 'x' in the ballot box is a lovely concept. If our grandparents had been allowed to put an 'x' in the ballot box there would be no border in Ireland at all. The British government put a border across our country against the wishes of the voters to create the bogus majority that we have today. That's a border that has claimed 3,600 lives in my lifetime alone.
You have an unusual outlook on things. The government could not "allow" protestant business owners wealth. Thriving business is never a good reason to bomb a town! It a twisted view of the world to think that bombing the town did not ruin the lives of both sides of the community.
Spain with ireland
IRA with ETA?
That still won't give you Gibraltar,ya 4king poge...
Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Don’t talk fucking nonsense you fucking ponce.
Hard to imagine this
That bloody Armalite...
BubbleGumBabeFace hiding in a ditch with me Provo company..
@@cal-qw8ov A comrade on me left and another one on me right
Can someone, who knows this conflict better then I do, explain to me, why would IRA make so much damage on civilian infrastructure (petrol stations, cinema...etc) in a town that is like 90% Catholic? Doesn't that make life worse for... their people? This is genuine, not a rhetorical question, thank you.
To cause fear and show tht they where strong. Pretty much to show the English government look what we can do and this can happen to u
@@burnerphone6673 So... Pretty much. "Well bomb our own people to show we can do the same to you because freedom?"
Idiotic.
@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 wasn't there people.prossi buildings and prossi people
You got lots of wrong answers. Long story short, they weren’t targeting Irish Catholic shops or cinemas or whatever. They targeted property belonging to the British Protestant 5% who made up most of the upper class.
@@Guy-hd5lx 👍
I love in strabane mad how different the town looks compared to now
My Uncle was a teacher in Strabane all his life and lived there all his working life and until his death 3 years ago.
I spent a week's holiday there in 1977 and remember witnessing the IRA carrying out an attack on the RUC Station from the roof of the school across the road from where he lived.
Crazy times.
was born 1968,, but lucky lived up in the north coast , bushmills,,
I suppose there were safe areas in the Province?
The real Ulster Scots territory
Bushmills? Thanks for the whiskey!
@@luisllorens70 lol was there at the brewery in feb,nice treat.
bushmills ia shit hole,rather be in syria,.even the whiskey is piss,union jacks every where trying too hard to btitish...........wankers one and all
9:55 Gollum the shop keeper
Strange for me because Strabane is 20 mins down the road.
12min in there was 2 girls walking past a check point when machine guns started fireing and the troops start running but the girls didint react and looked confused why didint they react to the script?
What a dump. I patrolled in Strabane on a rotation of 3 years when I was at Omagh. Not representative of the rest of NI. The people were just the pits and seem to wallow in the benefit system and the minging streets. I paddled down the river in my kayak years later. Had a couple of pints in one of the roughest republican pubs in the town. Back in the day they would have tried to tear my limbs apart if I went into that pub. I left with a smug grin. Crack on Strabane :)
@@martinecoyle8223 f the Pope and the ira
Am sure your town is lovely lol
@@waynemercer26 It's superb. Thank you .
All I can say is a nice leyland
Lol
My granny used to live here she told me it was a lovely place before that
I grew up at this time in his town and I’d forgotten how bad it was. My parents said it was a fine town when they were young.
I patrolled Strabane many ,many times in the 70s always drama but some of the propellers ok to be honest ,and times back then ,let's hope every one has moved on a space
Okay I am from Strabane and obviously don't like you because you were an ex Brit in an occupied country but do you remember Ballycolman?
@@thatraboy147 i remember the Ballycolman, is that where you live? i patrolled there as well.
@@bengunns9500 Yeah still there yet has changed a lot now 👍
@@thatraboy147 i hope its changed for the better, i can imagine it has now, with no troops etc. I remember the Hump VCP with cars coming over from Lifford, its good thats gone. Anyway Peace be with you.
Why did the IRA hate golf so much?
Because they were black balled
@@stephenhulme6583 ..another brit troll
@@jangowan5742 Troll. how is this a TROLL You plank
Golf clubs and bowling clubs costs a few quid to play I dare say that's where Ruc men had a beer"or shot a few rounds " . In Glasgow* my local masonic Hall iv seen catholics in it but the cunts run for the karzi when GSTQ comes on drink the cheap alcohol but can't show 2 minutes of respect it only causes trouble.
@@stephenhulme6583 Ha ha "plank"..that gettin me wet,lol..no but seriously,the kinda shit I've been reading lately,..well to put it mildly,indicates that there were abuses..now I don't know F all,I admit,but I'm willing to learn..and it would be great to hear it straight from the Horses mouth?..no this is serious ,and you can call me anything you like,as I'm interested in dialects too.
There is so much fake news,I'm gettin traumatised..so shoot,lol
Nice Capri at 05:10
While he's sitting there listing off this was the biggest supermarket, this was the next biggest, this was the bank, I suddenly understood where Monty came up with How not to be seen. I am hoping things calm down for all of us. Nobody sane wants to go back to this.
So bizarre seeing a western European country like this
It's called the u.k love,we ain't European were British..
@@cal-qw8ov 🤦🏼♂️Europe is not only a political union but also a geographical and cultural area where Britain is certainly part off, if say otherwise your just being ignorant.
Max yeah and soon as brexit is over and done with,they'll be 55.98 million agreeing with my comment....
@@cal-qw8ov Your to dumb to shit out of the right hole
Max whatever you must be from Alaska....you know that Canadian province...
Yeah, returning to this, isn't worth anything. Peace is peace. Brexit with no backstop cannot go through. The risk of upsetting that fragile, hard won peace isn't worth it.
@Anglo Commando Amanda, wise up ffs!
best comment on here,from irish catholic descent.
@@jamesdowson3673 Wise up where? How old are you? Did you ever serve in either so called Armies? Are you just another gobshite CZcamsr that thinks they know better?
"Green t-shirt, dress? slacks, 16 years old, he's got a Armalite."
Conflict in time as a place with history to a Britain.
Can we have that in English please.
Yeah.... I had no idea what you said.
Well, I’m glad it’s 2019
Rory Quinn why ? We have similar terrorism if not worse all over the world which kills much larger amounts of people. It’s sad that this had become a normal part of life over the decades.
You are not going to like 2020
@@mikemcgee4298 on another night,this time austria.r.i.p to all.watch our big cities over the next couple of days before lockdown.praying for peace...
@@mikemcgee4298 Wait until 2021, and beyond. Good luck, gasun.
@@kiradelong9698 How is Strabane now?
Spent a lot of time in strabane 78-79 3rd Royal Green Jackets, lovely place durch
Tony - Justice for Soldier F - Please find out more
Ya hun . Hp the ra
UP THE RA
Justice for the innocent victims of Bloody Sunday
@@leod-sigefast Are you honestly getting that emotional over things that happened in Roman antiquity?
The politicians said it was not a war. Ask any soldier that question.
find Twin Towns as much possible ! partnership between towns !!!
Why are these brutally violent times so innocuously referred to as "The troubles"?
Probably an attempt to downplay the seriousness so that outside countries don't try and get involved. Personally I think it should be called a dirty war as that is exactly what it was.
I’m from the Republic , and we don’t use that British term in general conversation - we just call it “the war” - and because the Republic was neutral during WW2 , we all know what war you are referring too.
@@gx2music No, you don't call it "the war" unless you're a Provo supporter. The commonly used term is "the Troubles" especially in the Republic, the same term that is used for the period 1919-22 in fact. It's an Irish term, not a British one. Your bias is obvious, "the war" is Shinner-speak, nothing else.
It's called that because in 1958 the IRA started killing soliders and attacking army Barricks on the borders and the British knew that something was going to happen later. Then the British started taking the rights of the Catholic people by economical discrimination by taking some of their voting rights and stopping building housing in 1962. Then it led to 1968 with bombay Street and then the IRA hijacked the Catholic civil rights movement and turned it into a lot of trouble. Fact
@@ulsterscotsman6648 Rambling, historically inaccurate nonsense, you haven't a clue what you're talking about. How old are you, 12 or something?
In 1973 - 1974 I was one of seven complete with Saracen, at times mechanised grunts, at others grunts with a multitude of tasks. We had just finished a long weekend of constant VCP's and generally making a nuisance if ourselves, and being hungry went into Moy to the chippy, outside of Moy we stopped to eat. A couple of days later the chippy was blown up, because it served soldiers, Moy high street looked in a right state, it was our shout to present there for some time.
Thanks to some good intel we paid the address an early morning visit, the guy who was the bomber was a pimply faced adolescent aged 16, but he was still capable of causing A & D, thankfully no one was killed, but that said the fish and chips was very welcome after a very tiring operation.
correct me if i'm wrong here but until recently wasn't the joining age of the british army 16 whats the difference
@@johnj.anthonymcquade6876 you're not 16 by the time you finish training!
@@johnj.anthonymcquade6876 Read the post.
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Thumbs up.
Its not all history, you can feel troubles in the air.
and near 50 years later there still at it
Edited comment and yet still you post "there still at it". Were your parents illiterate as well ?
Faces of the people are so like the older generation of Australia pre 1960. Very few remain now .
Looking at the comments below people views that its reglion ??? no no its about ...Its about foreign british tresspassers Ulster is irish ...
Ulster is British until the PEOPLE in ulster vote other wise.
@@stephenhulme6583
Thats is the only way. all that killing for no united ireland. only heart ache and suffering.
amy sands shoot to kill
Really Donnacha. Well why do a significant majority of people in Northern Ireland want to remain in the UK according to the recent polls - given the current religious breakdown of the population in Northern Ireland this would mean that at least half of the Catholics in Northern Ireland also want to remain in the UK?
the various crown kept this traget brewing and erupting over 50 years.
Ahh, British tv, the paragon of truth.
This is a documentary by Peter Taylor, one of the most unbiased and respected journalists on the troubles, you should look him up before commenting
That is your testimony stranger, and I am unimpressed with it.
Taylor is very unbiased
could someone tell the uneducated commentary team to get their placenames correct,Derry is Ulsters second largest city.
Londonderry you mean?
Derry is still legally called Londonderry and has done since 1662. However since 2009 it has been legal to use either name on legal documents including passports when recording place of birth, and the local authority are called Derry city council. The county is called Londonderry while the district is called Derry and Strabane. It's all a bit complicated.
Call it what you like.
free derry now!
My God looks like Syria!
we call it strabanistan, (only half jokingly) i live nearby
@Klaidi Rubiku what in a time machine back to 1974? Why don't you fuck off!
You fuck off you silly wanker I couldn't give a shit about Syria I was commenting on 1974 northern Ireland. You idiot. Now jog on you dry. Lunch.
@Klaidi Rubiku did you not hear me you silly wanker I couldn't give a fuck about Syria.
@Klaidi Rubiku listen meathead I care about the British isles, I'm interested in the troubles in Northern Ireland. Which indirectly led me to joining the British Armed forces RRF. I have no connection to Syria it was used as an example of a war zone. Your an idiot.
4:40 Diamond
Ah,a wonderfull town Strabane..With the prittiest girls in Northern Ireland..i hope to visit again some day,God willing☺🎇
Pointless deaths. And some want it to continue. The IRA bombing a catholic town. Speechless.
Wasn’t about religion it was about Britain colonising land wasn’t there’s to take Irish being Roman Catholic majority have not wish be ruled bigoted Protestant monarchy or government.
@@RobertK1993 it was both
That’s foolish. They weren’t bombing Catholics. They were bombing Protestant shops and shooting Protestant soldiers.
1:46 it’s just Derry
@JP Collider well considering derry means oak grove because derry was covered in oak and the british just stuck london infront of it
@JP Collider definitely no 'london' prefix.
Londonderry mate
They say idle hands throw stones , well with 25% unemployment among men and almost 40% of youth under 25 unemployed at that time it’s no wonder there was a rebellion, the Unionists had a deliberate policy of non- investment in Nationalist areas west of the river Bann for generations, resulting in an economic apartheid state in Northern Ireland since the inception of the bastard state , the Unionists reaped what they sowed but unfortunately the legacy of their shortsightedness still persists as Strabane and Derry still top the list in Western Europe in child poverty, social deprivation, lack of housing or the longest waiting lists for housing , longest waiting lists to see health specialists and still the highest unemployment rates too as well as highest rates of emigration per capita in Northern Ireland . As of recently they’ve also had the highest rates of COVID 19 in the UK with little or no extra measure to mitigate the outbreak from either Stormont government in Belfast or from the British government, the Derry/Strabane area is ignored by the British government and shamefully treated as though it doesn’t exist by the Dublin government even though it’s a border community with all the interaction commercially and socially one would expect on such a partitioned small island .
Strabane is mad as fuck I love the people and the town
Wouldn't be any troubles if england would stop the occupation of Ireland
The British are not in Ireland.
@@monkeyspankerful
Brits just hang on,scaring mothers n children..
@@jangowan5742 I served 3 tours there. Don't remember kneecapping or tar and feathering any kids or mother's... We left that to the cowardly IRA.
@@monkeyspankerful who starved themselves to death during the hunger strikes? nothing cowardly about that.Everyone knows in Ireland that the British fought a very dirty war.Collusion,martial law,internment,torture and atrocity after atrocity.Do you think the provos popped out of a vaccum? long before the PIRA existed the likes of Gusty Spence and his minions were killing innocent catholics for nothing.These same organisations that worked hand in hand with british intelligence to kill relations of known republicans.Sure the IRA were bad but the British were no altar boys either and well you know it!
@@greglyons2526 I never said we were angels, and I know we weren't... I simply stated the fact that we were the British Army, were never in Ireland.... Maybe the English Army popped across the border, but that was before my time.
If the hatred hasn't diminished in over 800 years...I'm not too optimistic it will happen in our lifetimes or for generations to come...karma. My family was dispossessed under the wrath of Cromwell and will insure our hatred for centuries to come.
Thats sad, maybe the English should hate the Romans,saxons,Vikings,Norman's.....or better still give it up,grow up and get on with life.
Wonder what Strabane is like today?
Oh yeah, under LOCKDOWN!
Ptsd is a real problem
I remember Strabane 14/1/1977 8.30pm Arggo corner . Still got the bullet wound. 30 yards away should be doing better boys. But leaving packages in shops and killing women and kids and then running away is far more easy. Not as many people in strabane were pro I.R.A. as you would like to think. Even got some get well cards Which made me think at the time.
Curse on both..
you lot gave the glenane gang more than enough help even security force members lost their lives killing civilians and let's not forget the slaughter of civilians in Dublin / Monaghan bombs ..
Let's face it what ever you think of the sinn fein they got votes in the thousands ..
That can't be explained away either
@@imedi What has this rant got to do with anything. Who started the shooting match. The I.R.A Haijacked the rightfull issue of civil rights in 1969. And if they thought that they could kill , bomb and maim people Without any response. Well good luck with that.
@@stephenhulme6583 amazing sometimes how people who served there have such a low understanding of the troubles and it's origins ..
You do know that the Provos didn't even exist in the late 60s and in fact came in to existence because many Catholics thought the official IRA that was there in the 60s were absolutely powerless to stop loyalist mobs burning and murdering Catholics out of their homes .
Or Murphy's gang in Belfast who would kidnap Catholics coming home from the pubs and slit their throats .
Or the first member of the security forces to die ,
The first sectarian murder
McCurks bar the first mass slaughter of civilians with a bomb . All loyalist attacks .
The reason I mention the glenanne gang who were responsible for the slaughter of dozens of civilians women and children which contained members of the security forces ..
Yet looking at your first post as usual it was all the IRAs fault .. you must be joking I remember Ian paisleys bigoted speeches lol
That might work with people on the uk mainland .
I remember what went on .
I remember neighbors afraid to leave their homes at night and it wasn't afraid of running into an IRA checkpoint that had them afraid now was it
@@imedi Unless you where a member of the Officials or the Provos, You would have NO idea what went on behind the scenes. Both sides in the I.R. A. were killing each other. And as for not having a understanding of the Troubles i was up the sharp end . And saw what was going on from both sides. The civil right marches were used by the IRA for they own agenda. And you might try and spin and twist what went on. But that will not work, The WHOLE world knows who committed the MAJOCITY OF atrocities .And if you think that the police army and the loyalist were not going to Retaliate then you are not to bright.
@@stephenhulme6583 oh don't pull the I was at the sharp end BS on me .
Your view of nationalists areas of northern Ireland is through the British army .
The same people who retaliated by planting bombs on the body's of dead teenagers to make it look like they were throwing pipe bombs instead of stones ..
That's from one of your own justices on bloody Sunday
Or UDR blowing themselves up while planting a bomb in the van of a showband who no doubt would have been called IRA monsters transporting bombs had it not gone of prematurely ..
I'm well aware the IRA were no angels but spare me the holier than thou rubbish I know too much about want went on
I served in Strabane in 1978 I could never understand why they destroy their own town and people,
English don't usually understand,or so they say,lol..do they learn history?
@@jangowan5742 Cry more Jan.
The way I see it, it's what people do when the state gives you no other way to express yourself. Elections in the North at the time were gerrymandered and Catholics systematically shut out of good jobs. If you've nothing to lose, chaos and destruction is at least some way to draw attention to your situation.
@@FabianMacGintyONeill its true,as i know a lot of Catholics who came around Limerick at this time,and people of mixed marriage,who had been forced out,..it seemed crazy,but it was like that
True, killing and maiming the very people they should have been trying to get onside to change the way things worked.
The PROVOS were from Down and Derry.
why are the ladys teen so thin?
No food
God bless Ireland.from 🇺🇸
@OceanBlue
How can you be a terrorist if someone is in your YARD ? an DEFEND your land. ? Brain washed ? WTF
Northern Ireland*
@@mikeyob4271 maybe when you're killing innocent civilians because you can't get your way?
@@NorthernIrishman
Well get out of my back yard !
(Ireland) an in WAR Bad things happen.
On both sides good people get hurt.i pray it gets better an never gets worse.
GOD BLESS IRELAND !!
Best regards.
@@mikeyob4271 how can I get out of your backyard if you're from America? That doesn't make any sense. I say god bless Northern Ireland, don't add Ireland (republic of Ireland) into this. Fuck Ireland and Britain.
My home town🇮🇪
Why wouldn't people just evacuate a town like that? Nowhere to shop, no grocery stores, no gas stations, constant violence, I would run like hell!
Como digo, en este país hacemos las cosas de manera diferente: no necesitamos una entidad externa para reducir nuestra comunidad a escombros. Una diferencia divisoria en Irlanda del Norte es el idioma: gaélico e inglés. Bueno, estoy trabajando en ello. Digamos que hay una docena de paquetes de software en las entidades gubernamentales. Pueden tener fácilmente interfaces multilingües. Entonces todos funcionan y existen en sus propios idiomas, mézclalos y luego cuáles son las diferencias restantes. Por supuesto, ¿el gaélico está a la altura del trabajo? ¿Tiene las palabras modernas? 🤐👄😶
Stærðfræðingarnir á Íslandi eru meðvitaðir um að halda sér við efnið.
Paul Dunne your like a kid in the play ground " They started it:"
Over and over again like a stuck record .
Edward Tanner and you are like a stuck record too micky ... is it still "one name and one account" despite 'Alan Beggs AND 'paddy864' AND Straight White British Protestant AND 'lordmickroach' AND 'You're Right But' AND numerous others being part of your sad bigoted attempt at offending .
@@jacquiewalton9744 thats me put on the naughty step miss
to be fair to you paul dunne is very close to shouting ali akkba soon hes a troll id advise you not to even engage with this so called person on youtube
He is a bigot from Southern Ireland, he doesn’t even have a say in NI’s future because he lives in another country!! I’m still laughing at him.
@@edwardtanner6393 You can come off the naughty step now ...I seem to have kicked most of the above off here !