Divided and Damaged: Northern Ireland's Peace Walls (Borders Documentary) | Real Stories 

Unfortunately alot of the southern counties have restricted information on the teaching of the troubles as it is no doubt a very dirty war do you know about mariead farrell

@Evan Scollan I will! Planning to head up afew good few times this summer

As a half bread English man. Anyone from the south should be ashamed that you still l Allow your land to be occupied by Brits. Free Ireland.

@Evan Scollan What do you mean by a 'free stater'?

@@matsimmons6461 As a half bread English man too. STFU.

That’s nice and all, but I’m actually a lizard.

No Pat the world is not in shambles. To say it is deflects the responsibility that both sides have in perpetuating this conflict.

Not a country occupied irish territory by the English

@@miakeogh6844 Cope.

@@miakeogh6844 You still love supporting terrorists?

@@carwyngriffiths ?

@@carwyngriffiths You still support a crooked corrupt regime/ government who created and maintained an apartheid state, who promoted divide and rule?

And the poison jab

From Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤ ♥ 😍

Really should be called a civil war just like the famine which was a genocide underline genocide not famine by tg e English

@@miakeogh6844 How’s your potatoes 🥔 doing 🤣🤣🤣

@@britishempireno1fan851 Response to be expected from British Empire No 1 fan Did you not watch the documentary and learn anything?

IRA are cold blooded terrorists. Guess they only teach one side of the story

They really will be.

The majority are living in poverty with little available jobs. Boredom ignites big trouble!

Well said. I myself been battling PTSD and depression due what i went through having a father in the RUC. Its fact that since the troubles ended mental health issues have come to the surface.if i had the power i would put money used for enquiries from the past to help all those suffered including myself start living theirs lives and looking forward in both communities. To help get support and treatment for their mental health. If your suffering today know your not alone and help is available .i wish you well

@@waynerafferty1048 sorry to read this . Take care

I lived there in 1983 -1994

Mountains and the beach, what more could you want ?

Me to 72-89

@@lmccourt7588 Beautiful place but a job would’ve been nice 👍

My town rn lol

The children of Belfast are remarkably resilient.

Our children in america will see blood shed very soon, especially when the first quarter next year brings a modern great depression and our incompetent government makes it worse. My family fought the english in ireland for decades and still are, revolution and the willingness to resist is bred into me and the tree of liberty is ready to be hydrated with the blood of tryants 🇺🇲

I know it’s a year later but I grew up in Northern Ireland (later moved to Canada) I lived just under 20 minutes from Belfast and even in the 2000’s the tension was there, even though I lived in a much smaller town, It’s only now that I’m older and have access to all of this information that I realize how much I owe my parents for removing me from such a situation

Thank you!...Some of my family got accepted here as refugees and I came here when I was 3

@@kieransavage3835 That's why suicide is a issue . I think the adults need to wake up

Tiocfaidh ar la!!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

32TAL🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

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Its getting worse. The people in power and the media want a United Ireland and forget that the Protestants are at least 48% of the population while there are only 45% Catholic who support the BBC. The protestants won't go down without a fight. This documentary was ridiculously biased.

@@powerbite92 Catholics have every right to take about a united Ireland the same way unionists talk about wanting to strengthen the union.

@@powerbite92 they no longer really see themselves as Protestants and Catholics. That’s from a past era. It’s a struggle between two different national identities: those who see themselves as Irish and those who see themselves as British. I agree with you, however, that unionists will not simply lie down and accept living in a united ireland. But time is not on their side. Catholics are an outright majority in four of the six counties of Northern Ireland and throughout Northern Ireland Protestants are now a minority for the first time.

@@powerbite92 with attitude's like that no wonder northern Ireland is a political social and economic waste land I'm not saying northern Ireland should stay in the UK or join a United Ireland but if you don't get your acts together and start working togeather your in for a very very bleak future.

@@bensanderson7144 Yeah thanks, I suppose it depends who you talk to. For some its definitely religion, for some few they will tell you that they are just 'cleaner' than their oppos, 'our houses are cleaner!'. In Scotland now Catholic or Protestant is getting to be a much bigger issue: and the SNP are egging it on. The problem with this documentary and some other comments is that one side presumes that they have all the virtue and that giving in to them/the Republicans is the only humane choice. Seeing things differently is therefore denying everyone their human rights and failing to 'work together'. We see this level of 'virtuous' partsanship all over the Western media now. Protestants have been sold out badly by the UK govt - as have been many others down the years.

@Cian MacGana Maybe you think it is nonsense that I am trying to learn my own grandfathers language but you should see the number of South Koreans trying to learn it too. One planet one people.

@Cian MacGana lrish lad

Cian MacGana ba cheart duit foghlaim í fosta.

@Cian MacGana What's your problem?

ONE IRELAND 🇮🇪

Horrible city

Happiest of memories Belfast I love you.

Sounds like a wonderful place to live. The devil and All his followers seem to love it

@@ronaldswartz5512 I love it! The people there are real... I'm from a country full of chancers. People pretending to be something they're not.

So much poverty with few available jobs are the problem. Thousands of bored teens bored teens causing trouble.

There are too many walls in this world that divide a peoples from the each other, it’s always a political strategy, they cause the divisions, to the power that be its all about the money. The Pope and the Queen of England need to get together and sort this out,The Irish sea border, put into play by The Tories government in UK Headed by a puppet clown Johnson, just as Trump was, it’s part of the political game they play with our lives and livelihoods, We will never be better off under them, nor should we of left EU, that was another Tory. balls up. They are not in the least bit worried, they have armed the police to the teeth we can’t even peacefully protest, the police have power to stop us. How are the public going to unite, it seems impossible to me.

Whatever little peace Good Friday brought to the region, Brexit completely destroyed. The English have never given AF about the Irish, so it blows my mind that even in 2023, with all that we know about England’s crimes against Ireland (and the entire world, really), that loyalists even still exist in Northern Ireland. I can’t imagine hating my own heritage that much. 😒

Ulster is in Ireland mate

James is just commenting on everyone's post because he's insecure, it's OK pal

Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland which has 32 counties! 32 an out! 🇮🇪👍🏻

@@jackocallaghan9077 Ulster is in Northern Ireland 🤦‍♂️😂

@@jameskerr6632 same

It wasn't really about religion That was an excuse. It was and is the colonial experience and its messy aftermath.

@@roisinmalone3015 sure, I take your point on board 100%… I’m certain a lot of the animosity was based on things other than religion as I’m learning about… but religious identity definitely helped shaped the divide and adds some fuel to the fire… as it does with a lot of the conflicts we see in the world today, not just in Ireland… and regarding Northern Ireland… as we know, the two flags of the United Kindgom and the Republic of Ireland automatically carry with them a religious identity in the country… and even in Scotland, I’ll use Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic football clubs as prime example… the British against the Irish… the Protestants vs the Catholics…

@@JamesFoxx Nah It's Irish nationalist identity versus. British unionist identity For example When Catholics or nationalists were discriminated against in Northern Ireland for decades and couldn't get jobs, in interviews, they were never asked if they were catholics. It was what school did you go to. And being a non practising catholic or protestant made and makes no difference.

@@JamesFoxx Plenty of Irish Protestants have been Irish nationalists down the years, eg Wolf Tone.

Could everyone stop whining about the walls? Sean Flaherty Ryan Oneill Boyle, Owner, Walls-R-Us

That’s the thing though, protestants aren’t Irish, they’re British. They’re descendants of Scottish and English people who settled in Northern Ireland a few hundred years ago and have maintained their British identity, whilst the original Irish people have maintained theirs. The problem isn’t really about religion, it’s more about ethnicity.

I don’t buy any mainstream narrative. In America the signers of the Declaration of Independence weren’t Christian. They were may sonic. Our ONE dollar bill has G Washington on one side and the Illuminati pyramid on the other. They are both ONE and the same. Controlled opposition has deceived the masses for centuries.

TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK at what America has done to the native people and the countries they have invaded and enforced THEIR so called democracy!!!! Carpet bombing woman and children in Vietnam and else were, the hypocrisy in your post leaves most people speechless

So I move to England from the US. And now it’s part of America? Just because you settled there don’t mean it’s England

@@cocl6004 Islam is in london

From armagh now in Dublin 🍀🇵🇸

Looks grim…

@@jamesbyrom9346 its really not.

@@rebeccareilly6948 it fantastic our home

Hello from the west 🇮🇪

Why

@@micahritchie9179 coz the fight is till on and some of there souls are in much pain

You wouldn't say that about her other son Winston.

I’m all for moving forward and l just hate seeing people commenting the flags and some sectarian slur. It just shows people are still stuck back then.

@@jessicaburden64 Northern Ireland is a broken State and incapable of moving on. The two communities are as divided now as they were during the height of the troubles. Do you think unionism is best served and willing to move forward with Poots in charge of the DUP? He has already made disparaging remarks to the Irish Government last night, hardly the act of someone willing to work on North and South relations. So long as dinosaurs on both sides of the divide keep winning elections, they will never allow Northern Ireland to move forward.

Republic of Cyprus and Turkish Republic of North Cyprus

Best place on earth 😂

@@micahritchie9179 I think you meant to say Europe's IRAQ

The devide will never be over ever

@@markkenna3092 Unfortunately. This goes back hundreds of years

You should be more concerned about the divide between the North and South Korea, as an ethnic Korean.

@@waqasahmed939 try almost a thousand

Yeah you celebrate it drunk asf

After watching those lovely young ladies doing their dancing, I will be embracing myself, if you know what I mean.

Better war than swallowing & erasure by Anglo/America full spectrum hate-yourself/love your invader globalism

It is better than having to watch them kick a ball around for just over an hour and a half. Sorry, I was thinking of Scotland.

Yes we all know that

Lived in Finaghy for two years. Nice place.

Is the documentary accurate?

Just off the Ormeau Road! Sadly, I had to go back to Canada. Ugh.

@@ivorlongshot I miss the wee cross roads.

All my life

*Northern Ireland.. not the north!

@@stoff1980 Let's split the difference then, The annexed Six Counties!

@@georgebrowne5935 no I don't think I will.. I think I'll call my home the name it has, Northern Ireland.

@@stoff1980 Whatever floats your boat.

"The North of Ireland", yes that's showing your respect.

True and the loyalists will draw first blood within the next 5 years. Fact

I agree, as an English child I was treated terribly in a Northern Irish school.

@@roughhdiamond168 So was I ,and I’m Irish….and raised Catholic

The trick they use in America is "love/tolerance for all outsiders, hate/judgement for self n own people" . That'll be what theyll want in Ireland if its not already there

Tell them that scumbags

@@lomzaunfiltered9151 scumbags... Nice of you to place yourself higher than others 👍

@@oldgolfpunk not higher than others just some uneducated and bigoted people are scumbags fact

@@lomzaunfiltered9151 your still saying that in a way that you are more superior than others. What do you use for judgement of people that you don't know... If some one killed your parents or family , would you be OK with that and say, oh just part of life. As Heaven forbid if you fought back you mite just be one of those scumbags your claiming are bad people....

@@oldgolfpunk Watch scumbags?

The troubles would never have happened if Michael Collins had not agreed to the peace treaty he signed on behalf of Ireland. There never would have been a Northern Ireland.

💯 AGREE 👍🏻 ☘️🇮🇪☘️🙏🏻💚🇮🇪🧡 Unification is inevitable, it's gonna happen in our lifetime. Perhaps sooner than anyone could have ever imagined. Injustice & corruption implodes on itself. Eventually, the wrong doers outdo themselves. Ireland is Ireland. There would be no issues if it was the way it should be. "Peace walls", what an oxy moron!!!! Ireland should reclaim it's country. Those that whine can leave!!

Don’t talk nonsense the majority of the people of Northern Ireland want to remain British citizens so it’s the British government responsibility to make sure that’s what happens. 🇬🇧

@@trueblue3719 yea because they came from Britain And do u want to go into the history on how they got their? Cause it was because England simply said Ireland is theirs now English move in

@@charlesuplifted5216 the loyalist unionist people of Northern Ireland were born in Northern Ireland it doesn’t matter where their great great grandparents are from Scotland England what difference does it make they were born in Northern Ireland and if the majority of Northern Irish people want to remain part of Britain then that will be the case. 🇬🇧

@@trueblue3719 when did we hold the referendum to stay in the UK?

@@trueblue3719 Um well let’s do some history here shall we? When did the war start? 1916 (arguably all the back to 1200AD) that would be your great grandparents lol war never ended really till 1990s It’s your nations fault your grandparents are more to blame than yourself for the hatful thoughts of Irish people … and the brutal authorities of the Black and Tans and the unfair and down international crime of allowing British people. To overtake Irish land and settle their No different than the whites taking native lands in the USA

@Seosamh MacAoidh So sad but I get it though 😔

You want to replace security walls with trees and lights... How about making safe spaces for people also. Wise up and think before typing such utter nonsense 🙄

@@oldgolfpunk Lol. This whole youtube video is about taking down the walls. Not my idea 💡. Just commenting on what can be done with the space after the walls are taken down.

The barriers stop missiles being thrown at residents homes - on both sides.

One could only wish for🥺

I think you mean British not English ....

@@scottsound4711 I mean English men

@@veselinkakojicic9876 shut up

Agreed!! England has no business in Ireland. No country belongs in another, just worry about your own country and not invading others. This will lead to reunification, finally God will set it as it should be!! 🍀🇮🇪🍀🙋🏼‍♀️ England has no reason to be in Ireland, they left India and need to get out of Ireland. For anyone considering themselves English or loyal to Britain, GO to England!!!! Russia needs to get out of Ukraine. Everyone should focus on their own country and helping life grow & prosper on this planet. Imperial rule is not part of our modern society and Barbados made that clear to Prince & Princess Spoiled Brats!!!!

@@scottsound4711 We think of ourselves as English. Stop with the jerk stuff.

Schools, even though mine had cross education- when we went over we were like lepers!! Hockey and GAA - fire and water

Look at the irish rugby n football(soccer for the yanks) Plenty of norries have put on the green shirt.

Removing them could make people vulnerable no?

@@myview2543 yes, there's definitely a stalemate that isn't going to be fixed anytime soon. The best scenario in an ideal world would be to remove the housing from the area, make it some kind of living museum or something creative or practical (like they have done in several other cities worldwide Berlin etc) and rehouse the people in integrated areas. Easier said than done of course, but not much else happening by the looks of it.

Ya, destroy all history

@@jameskerr6632 then you'd get bate about 🤡

Clearly you know nothing about norn iron making such a claim about the walls... Would you take a zoo full of people and then open the cages to let the animals roam free...

clp Middleclass catholics and protestants are very separate aswell,the division is just more subtle.They are separated by there the church they go to ,schools even the sports they play Gaelic football for catholics and rugby for protestsnts.They say you can know who is protestant catholic and catholic by the way they pronounce the letter H because of different schools.

Ehhhh not really, economics don’t drive a unified front when compared to religion or politics

Not really. Working class people tend to have stronger sectarian views

@@adamender9092 Yes probably stronger views but that doesn't mean that there is not an undercurrent of it in the middleclass.Somebody who worked in the north reckoned that to be the case and i heard a similar story in glasgow.

@@galoglaich3281 actually more catholics in NI play rugby that Protestants because prods tend to play soccer/football more

Personally, as a person in northern ireland, i would like to stay part of the United Kingdom

@@ligma3645 absolutely fine although what about the natives

@Evan Scollan Heh.

@BossmanFromEnds I notice your ip address isn't hidden maybe you want to hide it before trolling

IRA killed more innocent Catholics than the Army and all Loyalist paramilitaries combined 🙈

Currently reading about the Catholic church and its genocide against the native population of Canada (mass graves in BC).....top of the morning to you

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Basically loyalists or protestants aren’t Irish down to their genetics. They’re descendants of Scottish and English people who settled in Northern Ireland on plantations a few hundred years ago. They’ve maintained their identity as British and are still loyal to that. Catholics or republicans are the native people of the land and would like to unite with Ireland as we still share a culture and identity, hope this helps!

@@cian434 fine bunch of lads republicans are! Can I ask my man I moved out of dingle when I was like 7 or so what’s up with the s drawing being so big there still in the states that was the thing in the mid 2000s

@@jimmymoriarty3679 Idk it’s just a thing people draw in school and stuff, people just think it’s cool

I was thinking the same

Totally agree. It’s heartbreaking how brainwashed people are to think that one side is better than the other. People are people and I pray we can start to love our neighbour as we love ourselves.

@@soundmind6477 I’m sure we can love our neighbour , the new generations of young ones will have a better attitude towards other religions and identity’s for the future

It's like how it is on the Korean Peninsula. One people, one language, one culture.

This is ulster United Kingdom

@@simosimpson4124 Ulster is a province of the island of Ireland. There are 6 counties in the United Kingdom and 3 counties in the Republic of Ireland. It’s funny how people forget about the other 3 counties just because James Craig did. Do they not get a say in what Ulster culture is?

@@harrypmay As a Monaghan man I salute you.

@@harrypmay the original idea during partition was that the anti-Homerule Unionists in the North were to demand the entire province of Ulster, but then they realised that it would be an Irish majority state, so to solve this problem the decided to only demand the counties of Ulster that had a Unioinist majority, those counties were Derry, Down, Antrim and Armagh. Tyrone and Fermanagh had a Irish catholic majority but the Unionists in Belfast Decided that if they Gerrymanderd these counties and kept the Old voting systems that gave Net contributers extra votes (usually Bussiness owners/large estate owners, who were overwhelmingly Unionists). This led to the Counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh being forced into the creation of "Northern Ireland" even with majority of the populus voting in favour of independence. All cities in Northern Ireland were majority Unionist bar Derry City up until the late 90s when things started to change rapidly, today Lisburn stands alone as the only unionist majority City in Northern Ireland, the rest are either Nationalist Majority or ~50/50. Nationalists parties have for the first time a Majority in Stormont, the Demographics are quickly turning and with it votes are shifting away from Unionism especially in the younger generations and an increase in voting for Nationalist parties is expected to keep climbing, the Alliance party is growing in votes within both communities also, mostly at the expense of Unionist Parties. Brexit has brought irish Unification to the mainstream again and if Unionist Politician's and political groups continue to disregard the livelihoods (and Majority vote of everyone in Northern Ireland who voted remain) in favour of Loyalist Ideology and against the prosperity of all in NI, then the downfall of unionism is imminent.....some might say their downfall is already in motion with unionism currently at odds with itself and its biggest party (DUP) literally purging their own party members.

Come two the rest of lreland you would x dublin lad

Go raibhimid saor ón foréigneamh/May we all be free from the violence 🇮🇪🇬🇧💪

Northern Ireland isn't a country

@@roisinmalone3015 Wrong and cope.

StevieG1872 Hi

Na czesc!

@@MichaelWilson-cx1hh :-))

@@jmcc4686 its nice to hear...but looks like my country soon might start building those...still looking for ultimate difference...

Thank you for your service and a happy 12th no surrender ✋🔴⚪🔵🇬🇧

@@micahritchie9179 never rule Britannia 🇬🇧🇮🇱

@@disgruntledvet4849 you not like the UK