How the Troubles became a bloody war 

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As someone who grew up on the Falls road during the Troubles I like this documentary, it doesn't take any sides, it just states the facts. No Angels or Heroes on any side, just bloodshed, death and total misery for many families. Even with it all there are no more friendly people than the ordinary non sectarian people of N. Ireland. And these people are the Majority despite what you hear on the News.

It's almost impossible to give an objective overview of The Troubles but this is probably one of the better efforts I've seen.

Éire go deo gan na Sasanaigh! 🎉

This is a pretty accurate telling of the events that took place during that time. I know, because I was there. I had just turned sixteen and was serving my first-year apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering when the Ulster Workers Council strike brought Northern Ireland to a standstill. Parents were talking about sending the young children over to Scotland for safety because many thought all out civil war was coming and it was going to be a blood bath.

I was born in 1995, my parents were both from the republican newlodge road, my girlfriends were from Divis flats. The stories they tell about their childhoods, not just the war, but the abject poverty, i find it genuinely unbelievable that anyone of that generation are functioning human beings. My generation would do a lot to listen to their parents and grandparents stories, we are the most privileged to ever have walked the island of Ireland.

I stayed in Dublin for two weeks last November and got quite a bit of education about history of Irish Independence movement, Sinn Fein, and Irish Republicanism in all the museums there, but the part about the Troubles and the Irish Republic's attitude towards the NI situation is a bit vague and hasty for me. Glad to see IWM publish this series at the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, will definitely continue watching

I traveled from California to London just to visit the Imperial War Museum. It's amazing.

The streets of Ireland , are Irish streets , they aren’t British streets . The colonizers are British , but the streets are Irish .

Great explanation of a complex issue. Thank you!

1st two videos in this series have been incredible, Can't wait for part 3

I watched another video about this (also made by yous - I THINK!!) & I just wanted to say that in all of my school years, and the many history classes that I attended, I was told of maybe (honestly) 2% about any of this. I went on to take further clases in history, & human geography, & other such things. It wasin't untill my 2nd yr I ever heard of "The Troubles", & even then, maybe 5-6% of what this video presents. This is incredible information, & I wanted to say thank you for putting this together SO WELL!! I learned more than a couple new things TODAY - & that's ALWAYS a good thing. Peace!!

Greetings from Ireland, great documentary from a great museum, thanks

Thanks so much for putting a lot of energy into this video and the others you've made. Really good job!

Wow that was actually very objective. A nice touch with having both Derry and Londonderry for the same place. Skeptical but very informative and even handed.

Dirty protest was because anytime they left the cells they were beaten and tortured by the guards... This documentary leaves out a lot of key details

A really powerful documentary film - thank you for all the work you do, bringing the history of conflict back in to focus for future generations.

Doing a great job with these videos lads, the best intro vids to the conflict that I've seen. An-mhaith ar fád says this Tague ;)

Excellent. From the outside, this seems as balanced and accessible as such a short presentation can be. Keep up the good work.

I wish all the people of the North and South a better future peace ✌️

Great to see such an objective series regarding Northern Irish history, really enjoying this series and is a refreshing take compared to what I was taught growing up in NI.

Really interesting. I am looking forward to learning more as i was a child living in London in the 70's and witnessed a bombing. What i think is hard to understand is that there appears to be such a simple solution which in reality is not so straight forward. Thanks for uploading.

I really appreciate that it does seem to take impartial reporting of the events. keep it up

I haven't even watched the video yet but already, judging from the comments, I can tell it'll be good. Thank you for the content

Great content. Thank you!

Look forward to watching this. Positive comments saying it’s not biased. Hard to do that these days

Hello from Ireland, my dad and grandfather were at the protest in Dublin outside the British embassy when it was burned down .. both of them told me the garda stood back and watched .. did nothing to stop it .. the idea going is that the then Irish government wanted to send a message to the then British government.

Had no clue it was so complex. In the US in school back when I was young, they basically cut it down to "Ireland vs. Britain end of story" and leave out the history and just how many different groups were involved and different reasons this all happened. Most informative documentary ive seen on this subject.

Love your work 👍

30.000 soldiers in Op. Motorman is the same numbers as dispatched to the South Atlantic to retake the Falklands.

Simply great history in 15 minutes! Nice to see that IWM can produce old-fashioned facts-based history in 21st century on such a harsh subject.

Amazing series

Some Americans with less Irish DNA than a box of lucky charms will be along shortly to tell you why you are all wrong.

You guys do a great job teaching moments of lesser known British history. I love learning through your videos!

Why are you showing the Provisional IRA moving across the border from the south in your graphics? The PIRA was not an invading force from the Irish Republic. It was very much a Northern Irish organisation with most of it’s leading members and active members also being Northern Irish.

I notice at 14:12 in the second row and second from right, Harry Breen , his TV interview after the Loughgall killings meant he would be having his very own day to be carried along in a box very very soon afterward .

Love Your Enemies. God Bless Our Motherland Éireann. ☘️✝️🇮🇪🕊️

The Troubles term was appropriated by the British press from the original real The Troubles in the 1920s - 30s Irish War of Independence

I was only in Junior school when the good Friday agreement was signed and can remember being evacuated a few times from shopping centres and the cinema because of bomb threats. My biggest hope is my son never has to be evacuated or have his life affected due to domestic terrorism.

A very interesting video.

😮 Interesting

They're also as of today announced they are attending the Kings coronation in May. Seems times have changed and they are playing a new type of politics. I gather the loyalist culture isn't best pleased about it. Sad to see really, they're leaving themselves in the past.

Ever wondered why there's no litter bins in underground stations? That's a hangover from this time.

I had remembered hearing about tension between Great Britain and Ireland that seemed to last for generations. Thank you for having this video as I do want to know more about it. Can you suggest some please that are at the same time frame?

I was at IWM London today and saw Craig Murray from these Troubles videos guiding some guests around. I recognised him but couldn’t quite place him and it’s only after he walked by that I realised. I’d have said well done for these videos.

I find it strang how people dont talk of this as a war, they call it the troubles. It was a war and ever one killed a lot of people and the reason it so well animated is because no one actually won or lost.

Bobby Sands & the other hunger-strikers earned a lot of respect for the Republicans, internationally. The word "martyr" is tossed around a lot these days, but these guys were the real-deal.

Ulsterization could be partially attributed to the Warrenpoint ambush where the provisional IRA killed 18 paratroopers and Lord Louis Mountbatten on August 27th 1979, I'm surprised the video didn't mention this since it was a significant incident during the period.

Fabulous explanation

The troubles caused by the UK as per history, still going.

My Father was in Dublin in 74 when the loyalist bombs went off, he was 50 yards away, he tended to the victims. I was living in Blackley, Manchester in 96, when the republican bomb went off, I heard the blast from 4 miles away and the glass in my bedroom window shook for about 5 seconds. Peace🔥

"a 14th man will day weeks later" It was a boy they killed and not the only child they killed that day

Wow cool amazing story man! No mention of Genocide - Context -

the IRA blew up a coach of Soldiers on the way to Catterick garrison which isn't all that far from where I live. Even a rural place like this was not immune to the fighting on the far side of the Irish Sea, depressing that the troubles don't seem to have finalized, rather they are simply on pause.

Why not talk about the murders by Paisley's crew in 1966. That was the trigger for the beginning of the troubles.

A Scotsman watching from Ireland

No Mountbatten assassination coverage from ‘79? A fairly egregious omission.

This Scottish guy has a very cool approach 😊

Remember Bloody Sunday.

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Hard not to get emotional.. Slainte.

Great video but I have to comment that the thumbnail looks like the IRA was launching 'hunger' missiles at England lmao

No one ever talks about how it even got to this point. For 1000 years the English have been trying to oppress the Irish. Even when the vikings ruled England.

My grandfather was a para and impossibly survived the aldershot parachute regiment HQ IRA bombing, despite being inside the building, only a few meters from the blast centre!

This all started around the time I was just getting to my teens, and it was baffling to me, because I hadn't learned much about Irish history yet--practically nothing. Oddly enough, my finding an Irish Rovers greatest hits album in a garage sale was what started me paying attention to what was going on, especially the song The Orange and the Green. I've always tended to side with the underdog, and that's what I saw the Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland as. Now, I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. I think I understand the POV of the PIRA, but I also see the violence as counterproductive. But I love rebel songs. Bobby Sands wrote Back Home in Derry, and Christy Moore put it to the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Oddly, the only copy I have of the song is the Tim Malloys' recording. I need Christy Moore's version, and there's another that I can't think of. Black 47 did a song called Bobby Sands MP...well worth a listen. I think that, if the protestants had treated the Catholics right in the first place, they wouldn't have feared being in the minority, so they would have been able to be part of Ireland and leave the UK...and the Troubles would have never been. But I'm no expert, and I'm sure some of my sources have spun things to suit their interests. As an atheist, people getting violent over religious differences disgusts me, but this wasn't just about religion, was it?

I expect exactly ZERO controversy and infighting in the comments section.

Those streets aren’t British.

Amazing to think that one side would launch attacks in an attempt to provoke the other when a peace that they didn't like threatened.

Im American and lived for a year in Ireland, and visited Belfast several times. I'm obviously not an expert, but to me what the Troubles really boiled down to was poverty. 🤷‍♀️

Museum of Free Derry is well worth a visit if you're ever in the city.

This is pretty good on the story of the UK military response to the violence in NI. Missing, though, is the root cause, context of the period, international events, and the growing assertiveness of Catholics in NI. Guerilla movements cannot survive in urban environments without tacit support from many in the population. NI had been governed explicitly to favor Protestants sin e its creation in 1921. This was true in the local government, jobs, and the police. Catholics, on the receiving end of this discrimination, were increasingly unwilling to be 2nd class citizens. The arrival of TV, seeing civil rights demonstrations in the US in the 60s growing educational levels, all led to peaceful civil rights marches. The demonstrations were unarmed and peaceful and focused on discrimination in public housing. This was the spark. The time was 1969. The local government controlled by Protestants felt threatened. They responded by banning the demonstrations. Marching continued, and the armed local police ( B Specials) violently suppressed peaceful protesters. The brutal behavior of the NI police enraged the Nationalists/Catholic population. The London government responded by sending in the British army. The great irony of the time was that Catholics initially welcomed the British troops' arrival, believing that the UK military would protect them from the brutal and discriminatory NI police. It became clear in a few months that the military were not there to protect the Nationalists/Catholics. Bloody Sunday in Derry/Londonderry where British troops shot 13 protesters, unarmed, was a seminal moment. The escalation from that point onwards is well described in the video. Quite remarkable is how little of this de facto civil war in the UK, is not taught in schools.

Peace was never an option

66 days without food. Incredible determination

The only way there could of been a united Ireland back then if the UK government/ military decided not to get involve like they didn't in Rhodesia in Africa.

Great video, I’m from Derry

Interesting video. Just a lot of information. All good though.

Warren point in 1979 was a major revenge for bloody Sunday.

Ulstersation sounds like the South Vietnamisation of the Americans

I was in the IWM London in 2010 and raised a ruckus at the Bloody Sunday exhibit, as it still stated that 1-Para had "returned fire," despite the Saville Inquiry having been published to the contrary months earlier. Thankfully, the museum promptly changed the info panel (I could see that at least one other person had vandalized it), and their response was very calm and respectful. Small steps by the UK establishment, and I can recognize and appreciate that British people are slowly coming to terms with their colonial legacy and becoming more aware of the "other side" of their history. A fair assessment in the video. Thank you - well done.

I went to grad school at UCD, studying early and Mediaeval Irish history.

You cannot take the Irish Catholic out of your soul ☘️♥️

The saddest part of the troubles is that unlike other wars no matter how much blood was shed it was all meaningless because it would never have been won in blood. It was only ever going to be won in peace.

The entire ‘Irish problem’, set in its broad context, stems from the stupidity of monarchs whose greed and arrogance started the ‘problem’ by assuming the authority to occupy part of Ireland. Everything that follows from that unconscionable decision sits squarely on the remnant feudal Westminster system and it’s ‘colonial’ attitude to control.

Fun Fact: The Northern-most part of Ireland is NOT actually in "Northern" Ireland at all. The most Northern part of Ireland is County Donegal, which is part of the Republic of Ireland, sometimes called "the South" by the geographically challenged.

Mountbatten? Narrow Water? Baltic Exchange? Jack, the Japan Alps Brit

I've been living in East Belfast my entire life, it's sorta creepy seeing the run down UVF/UDA murals, it's like a dark reminder of the past, same applies down in the short strand with IRA Murals.

My neighbor and a very good friend of mine's grandfather was a member of the IRA, and eventually refused a task due to his morals, and was than banned from Ireland, shipped to Canada, and was never allowed back. He later passed in Canada, and his family went back to spread his ashes.

I did my masters IN international human rights law in QUB brutal year tough and strong but nietzsche famously said what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

I got Remington 742 6mm that on wiki says served in this war

Maybe it's just me, but I feel as though Northern Ireland/UK did everything they could to keep escalating the conflict. It's almost as if they didn't want it to end. That's coming from an outsider, but I do side with Ireland on this one. It's their land, the Brits have no business there.

Peace without liberty is worthless.

What gun is that on the thumbnail?

"I can't believe the news today. I can't close my eyes and make it go away. How long? How long must we sing this song?" "I waited patiently for the Lord He inclined and heard my cry He lifts me up out of the pit Out of the miry clay I will sing, sing a new song. I will sing, sing a new song..." Thank God the Troubles are over. If we can have peace in Northern Ireland, we can have peace anywhere.

Margret was a trator to us brits shes hated in yorkshire for what she did to are coal miners

Looked like a sterling made AR18 to me. Good vid.

We always talk about the last five minutes of the Match. Who does this suit??

One problem for me here is the way the narrative was framed at the beginning of this piece. failing to mention that gerrymandering was legal . So to say that the IRA drew the British into the troubles is a bit misleading and a bit dishonest .

This seems kinda leaning towards the British

( 8:00 ~ Rowan Atkinson certainly led an interesting life. )

@imperial war museum. what ever happened the the VZ50 assault rifle that was an active exhibit from the Ormeau road bookies murders . As the RUC back then said it was destroyed but ended up as an exhibit in your museum but has since disappeared..