@@eoinosullivan5674 and most people don’t really practice religion. Like they say about non-practicing Jews, they are Jew “ish” so many people are Catholish or Protestantish.
at 7:20 the woman says 'they're going to breed us out at the finish' - even then the conversation about the constitutional question was wrapped up in how many catholics and how many Protestants
When I visited Belfast in August 2004 (I'm from the US), I saw the murals. I saw the "peace walls." It made me embarrassed to be a Protestant. I have no animosity towards Catholics, Methodists, Lutherans, or any other denomination. This trip in 2004 was a huge eye-opener for me.
"All the rivers, seas and oceans all have different names but all contains water. Religion all has different names but all contains truth." Muhammad Ali.
At 8:08, there's one of the biggest root of this tragic episode. How the Irish and the British can see themselves as different races of people is incompressible. A great tragedy!
The song is about the battle of Dolly's Brae 12th July 1849 Dolly's Brae It being the twelfth day of July in the year of forty-nine, Five hundred of our Orange men together did combine In memory of King William on that bright and glorious day To march around Lord Roden's park and over Dolly's Brae To march around Lord Roden's park and over Dolly's Brae. And when we got to Weirsbridge sure it was a glorious sight To see so many Orangemen all ready for to fight To march around the ould remains our music sweet to play And the tune we played was the Protestant Boys right on to Dolly's Brae And the Tune we played was the Protestant Boys right on to Dolly's Brae Just then two priests came up to us and to Mr Biers did say: "Come turn your men the other road and never cross Dolly's Brae." "Begone, begone, you papish dogs, you've hardly time to pray Before we throw your carcasses right over Dolly's Brae Before we throw your carcasses right over Dolly's Brae." And when we came to that great hill they were ranked on every side And offering up their papish prayers for help to stem the tide But we loosed our guns upon them and we quickly won the day And we knocked five hundred papishes right over Dolly's Brae And we knocked five hundred papishes right over Dolly's Brae So now my song at last I'll end, my pen I will throw down, And wish success to every man supports the British Crown And generations yet unborn will mind this place of yore For we named the spot King William's Ridge and Dolly's Brae no more. For we named the spot King William's Ridge and Dolly's Brae no more.
NI was truly a sick society back then. Nobody had the moral high ground as far as I’m concerned. The belligerents were all wrong no matter what side they came from.
Nice to see that bigotry doesn’t change, folk still use the same old lines today, it’s just the target changes! “THEY are dirty and don’t wash”, “THEY don’t wanna work, they’re lazy”, etc etc etc 💩
The fanaticism of the Protestants in the documentary comes from, in my view, that they have the nagging feeling, deep down, that Protestantism isn’t true. You don’t hear that from the Catholic side, not in any great numbers anyway, in these documentaries.
Not going to say the IRA were angels but how much violence did paisley cause.Never forget seeing him on t.v on the news nearly every night when I was a kid here in Australia when things were real bad in the early 70,s in the north and I detested the man then.Holy man my arse,he just incited violence.
He was an absolutely vile human being,he stirred up hatred and violence on both sides , he came to his senses in later years and engaged in the peace process and for that we have to be thankful, the northern planters will never acknowledge the land they live on is Irish land,and they are settlers only.
Everybody in Ireland cane from settlers,most of the Celts came from Britain after the Roman conquest. Everyone,where ever they live,is descended from people who came from somewhere else,Nationalism,to any country,division on religious,ethnic or tribal grounds us really a ridiculous concept,just one planet,room for everybody and forget the man made difference @@Shelldrake489
During the civil rights movement paisley didn’t want reform he stated the civil rights movement was a conspiracy which would drag the six counties into a united ireland. Edward Carson in later life stated at London's Carlton Club, confided to the Anglo-Irish (and Catholic) historian Sir Charles Petrie his disillusionment with Belfast politics: "I fought to keep Ulster part of the United Kingdom, but Stormont is turning her into a second-class Dominion."
Ah the good old days when the unionists lorded it in the basket case that was Northern Ireland! Long gone days thankfully and most of those old bigots are long gone too!
