12th July Celebrations 1958 The Good Old Days Belfast NI

[@jackiedunbar3459]

Wow fantastic video will love to go back in time and see that for myself ✅

[@ossieclarke6207]

Wonderful footage from over half a century- thank you

[@robertperrella4194]

excellent vintage video from many different angles !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@triestodrum2215]

Amazing

[@thomasadams3082]

Amazing footage

[@fergusalex]

absolutely brilliant...….thank you

[@fergusalex]

You couldnt beat it with a big stick

[@robdubz1510]

Great footage, I'm Catholic but have respect for people upholding their traditions ,it's a shame most of the UK worships shopping and materialism and has mainly forgotten similar tradtions.

[@jbomurchu7272]

T D he must be a Catholic from outside of Ireland otherwise he would know the orange order was set up as an anti-Catholic anti Irish organization and that’s what the celebration is about hating tags !

[@adambrown1654]

Hahaha you are taking the piss haha if ya like them so much join them , actually I forgot no catholic’s aloud

[@mickmc3832]

not all traditions are good!

[@Drifty40]

@@jbomurchu7272 Parasite !

[@RichardDragon234]

I get that this is a four year old comment, but thankyou: that sort of sentiment means a lot. I hope one day both of our traditions - Orange and Green - will be able to live in mutual respect, without the bitterness we've come to accept as typical.

[@Glenn036]

Brilliant video once again thank you.

[@Garngadblue1]

I wasn't born to 1959, What a great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@belfastjack]

Jim your very welcome come back anytime

[@claireirwin9489]

so many memories, thank you

[@jvmcallister6043]

Thanks for the memory's love watching old footage great to see would die a happy man if only we could have this many orange men on parade now

[@neil5568]

Stunning.

[@shankill178]

Brilliant video.

[@jamesmccullough4169]

Brilliant footage, thank you from loyal Kent IN GOD OUR TRUST

[@davymcg3718]

Fantastic massive parade big Lodges and big crowds. A great day for everyone. As an orangeman of 52years in co antrim im really impressed. We need to get back to days like this again no boose to destroy it. Thanks for posting.

[@edcarson3113]

@tear drop says you who's banging on about the potatoe famine and Cromwell.

[@teresaryan4242]

@@edcarson3113 You mean genocide and ethnic cleansing. Both are a Pr old tradition in Ireland.

[@johnhiggins779]

You mean when the drunken scum took over and the loyalist sectarian murder gangs were glorified?

[@johndouglas5712]

Born in America but so proud of my Ulster loyalist heritage

[@adambrown1654]

Well your the odd one out most Americans who claim ancestry from the isle of Ireland are proud Irish American who hate loyalists , I’ll ask you a question what comes first being an American or being a loyalist because historically their on opposing sides were as Irish republicans always sided with America , u choose

[@johndouglas5712]

@@adambrown1654 Rubbish

[@pedclarkemobile]

@@johndouglas5712 your choice is: "rubbish" so- Loyalism? Your Loyal cousins would call you a daft yank either way so don't meet your heroes if you want to maintain being "so proud" 😢

[@johndouglas5712]

@@pedclarkemobile When you have never worked....

[@pedclarkemobile]

@@johndouglas5712 I don’t follow you. Who hasn’t worked? Catholics denied work by prods in the US? I’m in Ireland. The imaginary place you’re proud of destroying. Edit: its 06:25 (6 in the morning in ummerican) Im just back from jogging the liffey quayside with my dogs. Youre a yank on YT after midnight 🤔

[@jmcci2069]

Great,Thank You from The Very Loyal Shankill Road 👌👍👍

[@Glenn036]

@T P Again bitter through & through.. LMFAO

[@Ground_Control01]

Wow unreal footage, brilliant

[@norndev]

Great video, wish there was sound.

[@belfastjack]

Hi Me to but no sound in those days unfortunately many thanks for your comments

[@Glenn036]

@T P Then why are you commenting on this channel? Duh!! LMFAO

[@andybrown223]

Absolutely amazing! Cracking video, especially 10 min in and the girls singing the sash.would love to have heard this video,but awesome footage.👍👏🇬🇧

[@adilalami1419]

RESPECT FROM MOROCCO

[@pedclarkemobile]

Do Moroccans worship monarchy and do adult cosplay in public?

[@johnhiggins779]

LOL! Away and feed yer camel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@andyhandy1]

Great to see how it was in the good old days.

[@margaretdalton3541]

I was there watching it with my mother and sister {my dad was in a flute band }along side our catholic next door neighbours...a great family day out for everyone...

[@johnhiggins779]

@@margaretdalton3541 Until your |Catholic neighbours started to look for their civil rights and then all the cosy chats turned to hate against your Catholic neighbours.

[@eamonnleyden7040]

It’s strange to see sober people at a 12 parade

[@belfastjack]

Weren't allowed to drink then.. It was a good day out for all

[@Drifty40]

More false information..... Band members are prohibited from drinking alcohol whilst on parade, or face fines or expulsion....contrary to your belief and misinformation.....its been like that for the last two decades. 🙄

[@donaldstewart9827]

@@Drifty40 No it hasn't, even the "temperance " lodges are full of sectarian drunks.

[@seanycage2610]

Amazing video

[@Flyingscotsman93]

During the 12th celebrations and the many parades all over the six county's (it ain't just Belfast)it's reckoned around a quarter of a million people either take part or are in the bands or watch it.Tens of thousands travel from Scotland and England to take part or just visit to watch. To them who say its not as big that's fair comment but it still draws massive amounts of people from all over.

[@Agnes135]

Tens of thousands DO NOT travel for the 12th. Maybe a few hundred or a thousand at best

[@TheGiantKillers]

@@Agnes135 I'd have to agree. There's a lot of reasons for this but I think primarily it just boils down to nothing more than NI being more affluent as a society in general. People who have money in their pockets have more options open to them and so opt to go on holiday instead or visit a tourist attraction, or just shop with the day off. The twelfth also carries undercurrents of anti social behaviour which puts off the more affluent from attending. Finally we are in general a more liberal society, many people from a Unionist background no longer even identify as Protestant and state 'of no religion' in the census. They also don't rate the orange vs green question as importantly than their ancestors did, or those from more deprived areas still do. Indeed a 2021 survey of A Level students found that 72% placed the sovereignty question of Northern Ireland as being of low importance to them, placing it well below climate change and gender, sexuality and race issues. The bottom line is that as more and more young people grow up outside the Unionist and Nationalist confines, they care less about Britishness and Irishness. Many are opting to seek out the advantages in being both. This suggests the gradual creation of a new melding of green and orange politics into a shade of brown that gradually erodes both traditional stances over the remainder of this century. This will be something that is probably recognisable to many who find themselves living in more affluent NI, it will be totally unrecognisable to those who live in staunchly Unionist of Nationalist areas and will probably be something they find shocking and hard to believe.

[@Flyingscotsman93]

@P Holmes A 1000 or less lol you have the bands and lodges from the west of scotland,central scotland,lothian and borders at the very least around 30 thousand scots take part or go over to watch the 17 different parades held all over the 6 counties. That's not including people from England as i said a quarter of a million take part or go to watch the 12th July demonstration,feel free to check it out its regarded as one of the biggest religious festivals in Europe.

[@LondonBrit]

@@Flyingscotsman93 Exactly. I travel from England every year to watch, and I know at least 50 guys locally around my area of West London who also do, and we are not even in any lodges or bands...! I am pretty sure its tens of thousands.

[@Drifty40]

@@Agnes135 The 12th of July generates over £20 million to the Northern Ireland economy, through tourism,.........if you use your search you'll discover for yourself. People travel from around the world to watch or participate. You're another republican parasite, crawling all over unionist/loyalist/British vids on KZbin......spreading your misinformation, poisonous bigotry and sectarianism. However....we've become accustomed to that from your ilk. To click.....watch...and...comment, requires a special kind of sectarian bigotry. 🤡 Parasite !

[@IansOddInterests]

So well disciplined..large lodges..I assume lots of ex soldiers... great crowds and super support..

[@johnhiggins779]

Aye, ex soldiers who helped to kill your Catholic neighbours. Shame on you.

[@IansOddInterests]

@@johnhiggins779 dont be such a bigot... 1958 , large lodges full of WW1 veterans.....shame on you.

[@Flyingscotsman93]

More respect then as protestants and catholics had came through 2 wws together fighting side by side all this is forgotten due to the modern troubles.

[@Flyingscotsman93]

@T D 😂 😂 😂 it was a shame for Irish servicemen protestant and Catholic on return from ww1 and ww2 when they went to the mainland for work and lodgings the signs put up by the owners of the house said no blacks no dogs and no Irish due to the IRA's support for nazi Germany. They bombed Coventry days before GB declared war they had spy networks all over GB watching troop movements including the navy and Raf giving all the info to the German handlers.Sean Russel of the IRA died on a UBoat off the coast of Ireland as he had been to Berlin getting his orders they have a statue of him in Dublin which is regularly attacked by anti fascists. In a nutshell the IRA gave most Irish men a bad name on return from war.

[@mickmc3832]

Dont think it was down to the war, Catholics of that generation modeled themselves on protestants in order to get ahead, they had no other choice. After the welfare state and other social reforms people could finally afford to raise questions about equality.

[@johnross7344]

And the troubles started to simmer

[@fergusalex]

just realised 1958 the year my dad was born

[@Whizzy-jx3qe]

After the partition of Ireland, Edward Carson repeatedly warned Ulster Unionist leaders not to alienate northern Catholics, as he foresaw this would make Northern Ireland unstable. In old age, while at London’s Carlton Club, he 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. Why did the unionists at that time ignore his words,shame on them.

[@johnhouldingloyal]

You might or might not be right but RCs were treated better in NI than Protestants were in the Republic. That's why the RC population in NI grew and the Protestant population in the Republic shrank.

[@stuartkelly3106]

@@johnhouldingloyal v untrue statement. Southern prods remained in many elite positions and held large swathes of land undisturbed went to private schools lived in the best areas. Southern prods very different from Northern ones.

[@edcarson3113]

Stuart Kelly you’re way of chum. Look at the numbers, look where the children went to school and church.

[@stuartkelly3106]

@@edcarson3113 im a southern prod, father catholic hence the surname. Dwindling numbers do not equate to discrimination numbers more likely due to prods wishing to be with their own and intermarriage. Southern prods more wealthy than northern prods their wealth held intact protected by the southern government. Thats not to say that catholics hated prods they did in so many cases especially by the ignorant bead rattling taliban type catholics for sure and a lot of the working class.

[@teresaryan4242]

@@edcarson3113 over 100,000 Presbyterians fled Ireland in the 1700s. Over 90,000 Protestants fled Ireland between 1838 and 1832, and their numbers continued to decline to 1911. All under English/British. After independence 60,000 British troops left Ireland together with thousands of retirees and civil service. These people were recorded in the 1911 census but were absent in the 1926 census. The fall in the Protestant population is minicule compared to the fall of the Irish population from 1845 to 1911 which was 10 million. Go figure

[@davidbeggs7330]

was in belfast for the 300 parade and there were native canadian indians there,in their native dresses, colleretes and all. and a lodge from ghana if i mind right .

[@geraldmontague5391]

The marchers and band, so well dressed and dignified; the onlookers, so many, so well dressed and dignified: so when did the lager-can clutching torn-jean wearing ones appear? And the ridiculous 'flag parties' at the head?

[@wutang6020]

The way my ma told me how it really was back then growing up in sailors town living with all sorts of neighbours, it should never be forgotten what a truly lovely place this was before Sinn Fein & the IRA blew it to bits.

[@donnasmyth45]

My mother grew up in Sailortown too.

[@paulbrowne6087]

Great footage. Isn't there more catholics than protestants in Northern Ireland now? Probably won't see these matches for much longer.

[@paulcarolan8646]

How many of you have been at battle of Boyne site probably none helio from royal hill e county Meath Ireland☺me father he was orange and my mother she was green☺

[@teresaryan4242]

Bit odd celebrating a battle held in a foreign country. The OO are oddballs to say the least.

[@paulcarolan8646]

@@teresaryan4242 there celebrating 12 July Battle of Boyne 1690 look it up☺

[@johncherry2205]

16: 34 Ballymacarrett Defenders, still going strong

[@johncherry2205]

@Terence devlin LOL, There's loads of other parades for you to watch, inside every taig, there's a Protestant trying to get out 🇬🇧

[@Cold_1995]

T D “at least i’m English you’re only British” aye go ahead brains hahahahah

[@johnhiggins779]

@@johncherry2205 Lots of ministers in the church of Ireland now being investigated and also the church of Scotland in the dock. What about the Kincora boy's home eh??????????Orange bigots up to their b*lls. Neely Dunne at Ibrox, Eh???????????????

[@chinstrapx]

Is that the Falls Highland Lassies Pipe Band? Couldn't see the bass drum skin.

[@belfastjack]

Hi Howard I Believe so Best Regards

[@chinstrapx]

Thanks Jack, I thought so. There couldn't have been too many all girl pipe bands in Belfast. But I do remember them. Very smart looking band.

[@GaraGambini]

Howard Walker Falls Orange Lodge is still on the go.

[@VictorLepanto]

Far fewer flags in evidence then.

[@MrNoelball]

These days are over and not before time, onwards to a united Ireland

[@rayjacques8850]

Perhaps we need new flags and traditions that can include everyone and not just half the population

[@leonlevinsky8194]

Great footage but I had to mute the Beethoven. Totally out of place.

[@rabwtf9325]

Wher was the field they went to then

[@belfastjack]

As far as I can remember it was Finaghy, both Catholic and Protestant went then it was a celebration for everyone

[@rabwtf9325]

Was wondering that had herd that was the field they used

[@johnmorrison1448]

In IRELAND 😆

[@johnross7344]

They dont have the same confidence or bottle now as there grandfathers did, shame.

[@pedclarkemobile]

Spelling & basic punctuation not looking too good either.

[@robertmckittrick9033]

Anywhere is can see old glasgow footage ✌️

[@JamesCassidy1959]

Thank god we have moved on

[@punkrock1989]

Respect and decency, absolute disgrace now with drunks and druggies in the bands.

[@specialforces101]

A wet 12th.

[@fergusalex]

sorry I was born lol

[@fergusalex]

the year i was born lol

[@andrewa1337]

These marches usually proceeded without any significant problems in those days. Now they often precipitate riots, so is there a place for sectarian marches in the 21st century?

[@pedclarkemobile]

Aye there just might be a place for British Loyalist cosplay... And it can be reached by ferry from Belfast & Larne.

[@Drifty40]

The riots were instigated by Irish Republicans. Furthermore your comment is only three years old......there have been no riots in over a decade and all pass off peacefully today. The 12th of July generates over £20 million to the NI economy through tourism, as people travel from around the world to either watch or participate. You'll see for yourself with a simple google search. Do you have the same opinion of Irish Republican parades also, or does your bigotry only apply to protestants. 🤡

[@Drifty40]

Is there a place for sectarian murders in the 21st century ? Lyra McKee Adrian Ismay David Black Bomb hides in Carnfunnock country park Attempted murder of female police officer and 7 year old daughter in Dungiven Beer keg bombs in Camlough Attempted shooting of police officers on Crumlin Rd. Away and bury your head ! Another hypocrite and parasite !

[@paulc3749]

God will judge these blatant sinful bigots ✝️ , the victims of this evil will suffer no more in the Promised Land

[@eamonnleyden7040]

It’s funny that’s there is a inter grated school at the field at finaghy now so the dinosaurs have to on by.

[@GaraGambini]

You know what’s really funny? The 12th parade in Belfast is as big as ever and you’ve still no United Ireland. I’m laughing.

[@pedclarkemobile]

@@GaraGambini Boris is laughing at you lot. Only thing holding up proper moves on border poll is how to pay for the unemployment up there. You lot really let the place go. GB been spoonfeeding their long lost cousins too long now. I hear Rangers are on the up, Glasgow might suit you better than UI. Yiz can rub yerselves off to pictures of Lizzy. Or her German/ Greek kids when she croaks. Well the ginger lad might be half British.

[@GaraGambini]

@@pedclarkemobile Dream on kid. Boris will come and go like the rest of them. But STILL no United Ireland. I’m laughing at you.

[@desmondhull5778]

No surrender 2024.

[@jamesmullan8590]

the good old day's?there over now .and will never return and those bigots have nobody but them selves.to blame!

[@sansoucci5394]

Really? The Orange Parades are shown all over the world now with the marching the singing,the sound of the drums. the colour These marches attract tourists by the hundreds of thousands every year and more and more people are coming out to see them. Republicans and Nationalists are not bigots?You seem to have a very old fashioned and cliched view of things . get rid of your hate and enjoy the spectacle. The Republican and Nationalists march too .Do you want to ban them also?

[@teresaryan4242]

@@sansoucci5394 and hundreds of thousands flee NI every year and head for Ireland.

[@sansoucci5394]

@@teresaryan4242 ?? and ..Im not following you Teresa." head for ireland" Who?to do what?

[@wutang6020]

James Mullan there's your logic and your bigotry, you don't even have the sense to know that you have both lost! The brainwashed Sinn Fein disciples still don't seem to realise they have lost there home country culture and way of life also lol Together your population was over a million divided it's around 500.000 so your both minority's compared to the numbers that will flood in, let alone all the new taxes that will be coming either from Europe or the Republic of Ireland, how much dose it cost you in Belfast to see a doctor? Now how much is it down south? No one is a winner in this anymore weather Irish or British catholic or Protestant you have both lost your true wealth your real treasure your COUNTY!

[@fcb9950]

@@teresaryan4242 northern Ireland is in Ireland so how could they flee?

[@baukebaljeu8636]

‘Das Herrenvolk’ on the march. Silly tradition

[@Jenny-jk5gk]

That's class

[@baukebaljeu8636]

@@Jenny-jk5gk I thought Presbyterians didn’t do class?

[@sasmcdade8685]

Biggets

[@edcarson3113]

Perhaps English is not your first language ; it's spelt b i g o t s Bigots. Meaning a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.. So that is in fact you Sas. Ooh how ironic.

[@adambrown1654]

Ed Carson hahahah it’s sad that you’ve named your KZbin name after Edward Carson hahaha he was born in the south btw , it’s actually not ironic at all really look at what the orange order stand for , catholic’s arnt allowed to join that’s just says it all , how can you expect catholic’s to like these fascists like how

[@punkrock1989]

Learn to spell before you try and insult people, 🤣

[@conorfields506]

Your missing the footage of where they attack catholic homes