@Heretic84 well, when poppy wreaths are laid each year at Lenny Murphys and other unionist paramilitary graves then yes, it has to do with the troubles!
Poor people, just heartbreaking. It must have been horrendous for the indigenous Irish people in those times and throughout the troubles, under siege constantly. Awful times, I'm just glad we have peace there now.
Our nearest and dears neighbor England/Britain/ UK repeatedly invaded and attacked in the most brutal and savage manner. For over 800 years, they stole the people's land, food stocks and they drove the people out of their homes on to the roadsides, they caused starvation and a famine to happen, the invaders built the finest mansions and called them their homes. They blamed all their murdering crimes on the people of Ireland. They also complained about the Irish fighting back. My next door neighbour who is a very large landowner and also a lord and some years ago when we were talking, he explained his great grandfather's mansion in Wexford was burnt to the ground and the family had to return back to live in England, some peole become immune to the great wrongs they inflicted on others and they appear to suffer no guilt or shame
Life Under Curfew on The Falls Road, Belfast City, Northern Ireland 1970 1922pm 19.8.24 and yet no one dare say that folk from eire who had come to settle in UK enjoyed to rush on over there and stick the boot in the name of blighty. this is an old piece of footage... as you know. and no one, well not in my home, would suggest they had an easy time of it. not at all!!!
I am not passing on any blame to any of the many millions of innocent British, UK English people and soldiers I am only fully the people in power who gave instruction, help and advice to their willing gangster soldiers and hitmen who willingly did wrong. In other words, I fully blame the guilt and no one else. This comes from an x x soldier
@@jamesbradshaw3389 Life Under Curfew on The Falls Road, Belfast City, Northern Ireland 1970 2023 19.8.24 as i was going to say or, rather, impart before - and it applies to many instances of varying degrees of kultur or society - i can't legislate for what people are. or what they do in their own name or another's. it's that simple.
@@jimcazador6057Comments on ‘Life Under Curfew on The Falls Road, Belfast City, Northern Ireland 1970’ 2050pm 19.8.24 maybe. and conversations seem to have a way of being twisted which leads to even more strife. i see where i laid my cards out on the proverbial table many decades ago. being prescient and sage enough to note that this eternal bull shit is just that. eternal and bullshit. the two missing dwarves of international diplomacy. who seem to have gone awol. sadly i aint forr repeating myself. which can also lead to strife...
My Mum had an old suitcase full of old postcards and letters she kept under her bed. The soldiers tore the corners off the postcards because the stamps may have been worth something they were that old. Idiots didn't realise the postcards were worth more intact.
So heartbreaking to see the pain these people were being put through, fear and anger escalating because of the violent reprisals taken out on innocent people just trying to live their lives by the British army. If only wiser heads had prevailed in the politics of the time. Tears me up inside because I am British of irish descent. Protestant and Catholic on both sides of my Irish relatives. And this was just the beginning of the long and awful period where hatred and injustice took sway. If it can make me feel this bad to watch this I can only imagine how it must have been to live there.
How's it lies? Hundreds of people with destroyed homes destroyed their own homes or what? Robbed themselves? Who killed the 5 civilians? It wasn't the people on camera anyway. Thousands also went to the Republic as refugees in the early 70s, no wonder why.
