John Hume | Northern Ireland | Politics | SDLP - 1971 

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John Hume is the Irish MLK

Would help if they got off their arses and got a job rather than sponge off the state

How about the catholic men in that one house got off their ass got an education and got a job ?

@@ST-ur7oh the northern Ireland prime minister basil brooke openly supported religious discrimination so that is a huge reason why nationalists in Derry didn't have a job. this was confirmed in the Cameron commission. Catholics in northern Ireland did get an education. Most students of Queens university Belfast are now Catholic. During the 1940s the labour government made it easier for the working class to get to university. That had the effect of helping them out of poverty and into more senior positions. This meant there were enough Catholic intellectuals about in the 1960s to challenge the northern Ireland state and its support of religious discrimination. John Hume certainly did what he could to bring jobs to Derry.

@inspector morse the man who ended the violence in northern Ireland and won the Nobel peace prize for doing so was an appalling man? Consider this, there are thousands of English civilians, British soldiers and unionists who are now alive because John Hume used his influence to end the bloodshed. Without him they would have been killed.

kevin gallagher Sometimes I do admire the Nationalist PR spin.

The way he says "I'll go check." When all the Catholics assure him their street was on rent strike was so condescending.

Yeah Martin McGuinness being it's most famous Irish patriot!

Londonderry is a horrific place

@@ST-ur7oh If it was called Londonderry it would be horrific but thankfully its real name is Derry. Tiocfaidh ár lá.

Paul Dunne I think you may find horrific is one word to describe he cesspit otherwise known as the Bog Side. Call it what you want but the city lies in a british soil. No surrender. .

@@ST-ur7oh Whenever the British Secretary of State gives the go-ahead for the border referendum it will a United Ireland. But it's Irish soil with British occupation at the moment. But that will end with the border referendum. Tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

In the long run he will be vindicated

As soon as you take up violence you have lost the argument,you become as bad as the people that are oppressing you...

@Shane Gallagher except winning civil rights for nationalists, abolishing stormont, attracting investment into northern ireland, being the architect of the 1990s peace process, ending the violence, establishing a non sectarian government in the north with the good friday agreement and winning the nobel peace prize. Apart from all that john hume did nothing.

@@wonjubhoy absolutely brilliant comment!

@@adrianmccann6428 i felt shane's comment was unfair. There are thousands of irish and british people alive now because of john hume. It says a lot that both sinn fein and the dup, former enemies of his, paid glowing tributes to him when he died. They recognised his greatness. John hume is the greatest northern nationalist politician since partition and one of the greatest irish heroes ever. Everyone remembers parnell. Everyone will remember John hume too.

edmund184 Yes , one of the few sensible ones !! He realised armies , guns and bombs was not the solution to the Troubles !!!

edmund184 doesn’t sound it, he seems like a dose

More to the point, is the guy at 9:30 really Irish?

Yes through and through, John Hume was the founder member who started up the SDLP and civil rights march from the city he was born Derry, equality for the Catholics that lived there. He didn't take any nonsense from one side or the other he wanted peace in N.lreland and everyone to get along.Back then it was a very different place to live we don't want in any way to go back to those times it was horrifying and frightening as I was a very young child living in Belfast but not anymore.

If ye'd bothered to check out the timestamp the original commenter referred to, you'd see that he was asking about the 'poet' who opened for Hume at his meeting, not Hume himself.

sara ryan LONDONDERRY forever

🇮🇪🇮🇪Derry