The first Commander of the British Army recommended to the Westminster government that the best way to bring about peace was to remove the ‘artificial border’ in Ireland. The troubles were a huge tragedy. Many many young lives wasted needlessly. Never again.
Benjamin Pickett it’s amazing - I was raised an Irish Catholic and always thought wow the Troubles were one sided but these kind of tours bring a human element into it...you learn that many of the problems weren’t the problems of the current / modern populations and instead started with old conflicts. We have so much more in common than we think. Many of us are Celts, Bretons or Germanics, it doesn’t make a difference we are so alike in the long run.
You should never hold a grudge for someone else. Growing up on a road which is no more than 500 yards long there have been at least 15 bombings and several hundred gun attacks and random beatings resulting in hundreds of innocent deaths. Does that give me the right to go out and do the same to others? No.
Tomas Mac Curtain (son)... "violence may not be the most convenient way or the most comfortable way or the most comforting way but it's the only way"... "they say times have changed - have they? Who brought this violence & bloodshed to Ireland 🇮🇪... resistance is indeed the result of oppression through occupation.....
@@bellascott6478 your in denial because you refuse to accept fault I’m from the USA and I bet you believe the Black and Tans of the 1920s is lie as well don’t you?
@Conor Fields your telling him to search for info to push your side of the view , one could say look at the Enniskillen ect to get them to be sympathetic to their side stop trying to push your agenda both side done wrong and people want it left behind
@Conor Fields Both sides were low and did horrid things in a time of instability and turmoil. Its just not worth pushing your views about The Troubles, its a fool's folly.
I take it geography wasn't your best subject in school! Ulster is in Ireland the Irish are home. Magee is a good Irish Catholic surname... your ancestors must've took the soup during the 'famine'
