The Heartland of Northern Irish Loyalism - Shankill Road, Belfast, 1976
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2023
- A visit to the Shankill Road Belfast to gain an insight into the heartland of loyalism in Northern Ireland.
The Shankill Road stretches around two miles through West Belfast. Nicholas Coffey and the ‘7 Days’ production team met the people that live on the Shankill Road to hear their stories of life in the loyalist stronghold.
This excerpt from the report shows various shots of the Shankill Road with voice overs of residents. The report also features a scene from the loyalist Bayardo Bar where a performer is singing
"We’re proud to be red, white and blue."
The Bayardo Bar is frequented by people living in the thick of the North’s bloodiest violence.
Just a year ago five customers were machine-gunned to death in this very bar. But undaunted the music spells out a no surrender message of loyalty to Queen and kingdom from a most loyal community.
Former MP John McQuade comments on the belief that Unionists have in “The Road” and “The Union”. Shankill residents also talk about the changes that have taken place on the road over the years. According to one resident the redevelopment of the Shankill Road has caused as much damage as the bombings and shootings.
The Divis flats, synonymous with Republicans dominate the new housing developments on the Lower Shankill, placing two communities who have been at each others throats for generations side by side. However, one thing common to both communities are the poor living conditions. The loyalist community who have lived on the Shankill for generations are not happy about these changes.
This episode of ‘7 Days’ was broadcast on 12 October 1976. - Zábava
They show an un dieing love for a country and a monarchy that couldn't care less about them
😂😂I know
To be fair. Our own government doesn't give a shite about us either
They show an undying love for British government handouts. Unionists and their fabled loyalty is conditional
@@tom79013 true say
Another way of looking at it is their complete distrust of the way the Irish Republic was run from a political point of view - looking at the way Dublin Castle treat the people n 2023 , who've voted them in, I can understand them!
Great video, piece of history 👌
It's amazing to see how desolate the Shankill Road was then. Of course, it was at the height of the Troubles and Lenny Murphy and his cronies were roaming around the local shebeens and the Windsor Bar and Brown Bear. Today the Shankill Road is a much more vibrant and colourful place. But old ghosts still roam the Shankill and not all the bad boys are gone away. But still it's good to see tourists there in what was the famed Loyalist heartland 🇬🇧🔥🌻
Thank the peace process for that and thank John Hulme, a very good man!
Was in the Shankill road in 2017, it was absolute tip. It made the falls road look nice. Little kids were throwing stones at a former British army man as he stood by plaque marking the spot where 9 people had been killed by an IRA bomb placed in a fishmongers shop, he was explain to a group of tourist what had happened in this spot and little kids no older than 12 were throwing stones at him and the tourists. Very hostile and unfriendly atmosphere compared to the falls road I must say
@@daraghdalton956 there is a great pint in the Rex Bar 🍺☎️
@@raygreen5926 i'm from cork, i'd be run out of the place
Wow, no one had a thing to say?
I always heard of Shankill Rd, but I have never been there and had no idea it was that desolate.
You would think they would wake up and realize it's The Crown that did that to them.
Just ordinary working class people like any other ordinary working class people , placed in an extreme environment as pawns for an empire.
The beginning sounds like a poem
Ah poor loyalists me heart goes out to them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They may be British but they live in Ireland, not Britain. Shankill is an Irish name.
It means old church
Shankill is a suburb of Dublin.
It was a dump then and still is today
You're a dump mate, you absolute gack
02:55 Jasus!! Them people are in that house for a long time. Longest living people in the world)))
The comments on this thread explain perfectly why Ireland had decades and even centuries of horrific sectarian violence. You can’t fking change the past- Irish Loyalists are part of the island of Ireland; they’re part of the Irish Story now, not the British Story. Britain isn’t interested. They’ve a right to be here. Mocking them and wishing them ill is an idiot’s game; these people are part of our country. They’re not leaving and neither should they. Ireland is their home too. Jesus, they’re even honoured in our flag. As even Ian Paisley once said “I’m an Ulsterman, but to be an Ulsterman you first need to be an Irishman”.
Not sure what kind of comments you were expecting. Loyalists hate all things Irish so why would we recognise them as part of our country? Yes they live on the island of Ireland, but that is where it ends.
These people burn our flag every 11th July. They want to be British- well then let them. We do not want those bigots associated with our country.
Loyalists murdered innocent people in Monaghan, Dublin, Cavan, et al - they are terrorists, nothing more and nothing less.
Undying loyalty to a system and monarchy which couldn't care less about them. The irony!
@@Jackthefilmfanatic Yep, keep telling yourself that.
Why don’t they all move to England,the place they love so much and couldn’t care less about their loyalty.🇮🇪
✌️🙏🍻✊✊💚☘️let's pray lol but these evil people have a stronghold there. look at their bonfires and orange( free masonic) parades terrorising my people. haha I used England for two degrees and a master's and they're getting nothing back
We will even give them grant money to get to Scotland if they prefer
because they have lived there for nearly 500 years. But cant wait to see Ireland reunified and you and the rest who called for it getting this lot on your doorstep, laugh i nearly bought a beer.
@@GJ1607. no you wouldn't, you are only saying that to impress your fellow republicans on here.
@williammohan9784 When a United Ireland happens and it will probably be in 25/ 30 years, everything will be on the table for discussion that has been confirmed by pro UI politicians, and if unionist reps asked for repatriation grant for those who would want to leave im sure the new state would look at that in all honesty I'd rather they stay and make a go of it but there will be some who will leave and some who have left already because of demographics
The Shankil, the place where those who cant walk upright and make fire, go to live.
Ulster Unionist Really Are A Strange Breed
That’s your opinion!
This really wasn't that long ago at all, crazy stuff.
1976 wasn't that long ago? Catch yourself on it's nearly 50 years ago!!!! I think you'll find a lot of loyal people from the Shankill are now doing very well for themselves in the suburbs and they're still as loyal and proud to be British as ever! Suck it up!!! 😄
The good news is, that there are fewer and fewer of these dinosaurs holding us back with each new generation, and the appetite for reunification just gets stronger and stronger.
Oh great, Leo, refugees, higher prices, no national health service.
As a Catholic from Fermanagh, who managed to get out of that shite hole many years ago, i cant wait to see the reaction of the South, when a million disgruntled Prods are shoe horned into the ROI. Along with your mix of asylum seekers etc etc. I fully expect the ROI to self combust in a few months after reunification. I will be getting the pop corn ready in front of my telly here in Malta and watching all the fun.
I'm no fan of my government believe me but you're far better off with the HSE than the notoriously underfunded NHS
God Love 'em. Pawns in that favoured English pastime of partition & plant (see Pakistan/India for more evidence)
The fact is Muslims and Hindus in India have major differences just like Gaels and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland. Considering the current demographic transition of Ireland via mass non-European immigration, something openly encouraged by the supposedly ‘Nationalist’ SF btw, this ancient conflict in Ulster seems terribly shallow and antiquated by comparison.
@@CosmicHyperborean This comment was paid for by MI6 presumably
The conflict is more about the Lowlanders.
We had our conflicts over land, but we are intermarried and have been for eons.
@@Thomas-nd2om , yours was paid by the sellouts in Dublin making Ireland more African.
@@johnoneal1234 , go tell members of The Orange Order that.
2:16 Guitarist appears to be playing a Silvertone Guitar from Sears catalogue made by Mosrite
We want a New 🇮🇪
It must stick in their craw that they actually speak with "Irish" accents. 😀
Wnnder were they pro or anti Eec/ EU.
Knuckle draggers
They don’t like you either 🇬🇧🏴
Yeah, but not smart enough to reject their oppressors.
@09weenic They are pathetic ball lickers the brits couldn't give two fucks about them
Diddly idle doh
sorry to burst ur bubble,if ur in ireland ur irish ,no debate no grey area U are irish simple,,,,,,,,,,,,get over it