Belfast 1969 : The Dawn of the Troubles ( Shankill / Falls R 

Why you only have 2 likes is beyond me !! You encapsulate the cure by referring readers to him. His words and attitude could 'cure' ills & thoughts of retaliation, in so many similarly based revenge attacks anywhere in our world! I'm glad of your comments anyway.

Yeah this was a good interview.

26:30 -- Right on. I've got Irish ancestry and Catholic faith, but I'll take living & working with the Calvinists I've known over a gang of murderous thugs.

It's Northern Ireland not Ireland 🙄

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Rich men sending poor men

"When we were in Ballymurphy, we had those people really fed up with us; terrified, really. After every shooting we'd order 1,500 house searches. 1,500. Skiing or mountain climbing has got nothing on a cordon and search when you're kicking old Snodgrass out of bed at 4 in the morning and going through his house. It really makes people think." -remembrances of a 2 PARA Cpl. Civilians are a different matter, but I'm hard pressed to find a more destabilizing, harmful and biased actor in the entire fiasco of the Troubles than the Parachute Regiments. They created nothing but new IRA members and Catholic civilian corpses wherever they went, and were a drastic net negative for the cause they hamfistedly attempted to intervene for.

+Alex Tocqueville. the PARAS were the cause of one of the largest recruitment drives for the IRA after they slaughtered unarmed men and boys in the Bog side. TAL32

Aye

The audio starts from 16:39 👍

Truth & Justice Really, when 50,000 people die in a period of a mere 30 years that is a full on war, not an occasional occurrence of violence. And, I had visited many times during the Troubles, I'm not even old enough to have been there in the early years but in the early 90's it was terrible still. Bombings, Rocks being thrown daily, people being shot dead in the streets. I was even there during September of 2001 when I saw pre-school girls from Holy Cross crying and running away from a bunch of Protestant scum who were throwing rocks at them.

Truth & Justice I did not delete it. And I re-read my comment, I meant to write when 50,000 are injured, not killed. So what I meant to say when 50,000 are injured, in thirty years that is a war. And you are not really going to believe it was really only 3,600 that were killed are you? The PIRA killed well over 5000 alone.

1) No need to get snappy with me. 2) Like I said, I meant to say 50,000 were injured, which is a fact. 3) The 3600 didn't count in many deaths that occurred because of Irish Republic terrorists groups. 4) No, I was born in the US and then at 17 I left for seminary to become a priest, and moved to France where the SSPX had accepted me. After a year, I left, moved to England and began working for a priest along with a nun. He many times sent me to Ireland on business and I spend much time in the Irish Republic but did many times have to work in Northern Ireland (mainly Belfast and Dungannon). During the time I would serve the faithful there, Protestants would see my cassock and throw food at me. The tension was horrible, and many times I saw acts of violence.

tinman749 God bless you.

Seamus666Seamus I don't listen to people who have the number of the beast in their profile name.

+John Maddin He's got the right idea though.....don't you know?

+John Maddin He speaks probably the most sense out of everyone, in between all the "don't ya knows"! He had a very modern viewpoint for the time, very progressive. He had the right idea, and if more people had have thought the same way he did back then, maybe the "troubles" wouldn't have dragged on for so long, don't ya know? ;) Respect from Davey

+stuart parkinson They knew was going to last a long time in fact in still ongoing it just died down.

These civilians, only thought it would last afew years. We don't hear what's going on, here in England, its kept quiet.

stuart parkinson Not during the troubles anyway 1969-1999 it was headlines in England IRA started bombing in N.I in 69 followed by the loyalist UVF and UDA basically if IRA bomb Protestant area UVF would bomb Catholic area went on and on it wasn't until 72 that IRA bombed England.

The 'IRA' bombings in '69 were in fact UVF false flag bombings. The UVF (formed in '66) sought to discredit the civil rights movement, and end the reforms being made by the O'Neil administration, by leading people to believe the IRA was carrying out a bombing campaign, and that this was all part and parcel of what was happening in the late 60s. The bombings weakened O'Neill to the point where he was forced to resign. The bombings convinced the unionist/loyalist community that they were facing an IRA insurrection (they already believed the civil rights movement was a Republican Trojan Horse). This was a major factor in the vehemence of the Aug 69 Belfast riots when loyalist mobs burned out entire Catholic streets, and thousands of people were displaced from their homes. It was in response to this violence that the IRA remobilised, with the more militant members splitting off to form the Provisional IRA in Dec 69, to take a more 'proactive' role in events. They started 'defensive' operations in early '70, moving to a full insurrection against the security forces by '71. The UDA formed in response to the upswing in Republican violence. (The UVF had formed in 66 after Easter Rising 50th anniversary celebrations convinced them a Republican campaign was on its way).

The old folks seem to have come to some accord. As far as I've seen, the fighters in the Troubles were a pretty youthful bunch.

Definitely, must have been when he got involved in politics!

He said well

No arrests either.....for... The protestant families burned out of their homes in Thistle Court, Duncairn Gardens or Farringdon Gardens.......nor for the protestant families ethnically cleansed from the border counties in the 80s......or the 40,000 protestants forced out of Ireland in the space of 3 years after partition.

They were correct, that extremism with the lack of direction from the British government made the place a war zone. The UK government wasn't really going to make the place equal, it was in the interest of the history of occupation. Now the protestants are British or cling onto that identity.

arfer -G'day. Just wondering. What's a stickie?

Sam Quail burned out of Kells Ave ?

your a liar sam