The Battle of the Bogside - Derry City, Ireland: August 12-14 _ 1969 

I was born on the Waterside and am ashamed at how Catholics were treated . It doesn’t excuse the slaughter by the RA and the Protestant retaliation but the elite played both sides off against each other and kept us all downtrodden. I escaped to England but the scars only disappeared in recent years.

@@mikematthews2750 so very true Mike, i have been in London 38 years, so many kind and wonderful people who only wanted to live in peace, thank god in my life i have met so many people from all around the world, i just hope one day that old hate is gone and people see they have so much more in common.

This happened in August 1969, or about 55 years ago

Southern Ireland now belongs to the dark skinned immigrant. Northern Ireland remains British

and what would happen to the substantial proportion of the population of a "united" Ireland who aren't nationalists?

It's out of my hands, Eoghan. Someone has obviously complained to youtube and there is very little I can do about it. I've tried contacting someone at youtube but that is nearly impossible to do.

Actually, I've just found out that youtube has also age-restricted my Bloody Sunday video. After doing a bit of looking around, I've now lodged two appeals with youtube - let's see how they go?

Seems like these days on yt if you don't have a dick between your legs, but call yourself a woman you don't have the right to speak or think. And that's not intended to hate on anyone it's just an observation.

Off you go Muppet

Derry. Was, is and soon (very) please God will be 🇮🇪

Orphans from the great fire of London. Immigrants at best.

Absolutely 👏👍

The IRA didn’t use human shields on Bloody Sunday and that day was 3 years after this event

Both sides did wrong but the Good Friday Agreement should have drawn a line under IRA / UFF brutality and Army brutality.

@paintedman1000 you haven't a clue what you're talking about

Talking shit, the murderer's were the police and their loyalists proxies. Thankfully the truth is coming out. The loyalist carried out the first murder's of the " troubles". There was no IRA at this point.

From the British government's own report. We have concluded that the explanation for such firing by Support Company soldiers after they had gone into the Bogside was in most cases probably the mistaken belief among them that republican paramilitaries were responding in force to their arrival in the Bogside. This belief was initiated by the first shots fired by Lieutenant N and reinforced by the further shots that followed soon after. In this belief soldiers reacted by losing their self-control and firing themselves, forgetting or ignoring their instructions and training andfailing to satisfy themselves that they had identified targets posing a threat of causing death or serious injury. In the case of those soldiers who fired in either the knowledge or belief that no-one in the areas into which they fired was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury, or not caring whether or not anyone there was posing such a threat, it is at least possible that they did so in the indefensible belief that all the civilians they fired at were probably either members of the Provisional or Official IRA or were supporters of one or other of these paramilitary organisations; and so deserved to be shot notwithstanding that they were not armed or posing any threat of causing death or serious injury. Our overall conclusion is that there was a serious and widespread loss of fire discipline among the soldiers of Support Company.