1972: Caught On Camera - IRA Hotel Bomb

'On This Day 1972: Caught On Camera - IRA Hotel Bomb'
The Europe Hotel in Belfast was attacked by the IRA, who detonated a bomb in a hijacked van.
It endured 36 attacks during The Troubles - making it the most bombed hotel in the world at that time.
#Belfast #EuropaHotel #IRA #Troubles #Interview #History #Short
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[@killerkitten7534]

Bombed 36 times and still open for business? Those hotel clerks are really dedicated lol

[@mikehunt8968]

Yup, I stayed there a few years ago....

[@iIdentifyAsKing]

​@@mikehunt8968Hos was that?

[@boxxytrolley]

I work here, great place!

[@u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e]

Irish people 🥱

[@kmg474]

​@@u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_eYou feeling sleepy old chap?

[@Weinerdogs69]

Least violent day in Northern Ireland:

[@Eoin_stuff]

So true

[@MrDannMann]

No, thank you.

[@variaxi935]

tip: thanking people for likes will only reduce the number of likes you receive bonus tip: keeping an eye on the number of likes you receive can only have negative effects on you and never positive- the public opinion is almost always wrong, thus should not be considered of any value to you

[@Weinerdogs69]

@@variaxi935 Thanks

[@roachitane]

@@variaxi935it’s also just embarrassing and reflects how your perception of self value derives from how people think about ur words. In conclusion, just cringe…

Props to the cameraman. That guy has balls of steel.

[@kyloren3693]

Before steady-cams were big. It was probably a mounted camera, and he was behind the frame.

[@859hunter]

​@@kyloren3693 you can tell it's being held

[@thedrifter9814]

That’s because he’s Irish

[@vonbeedle554]

@@thedrifter9814 he's a brit

[@mezzuna]

Camera man never dies

[@MD-ty1kc]

When you ask for an 8am wake up call from the hotel we take is seriously in belfast 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dkbt1]

Still wouldn’t have woken my 16 year old son. That inanimate urchin would sleep through anything! 😂

[@ETHANALLEN-zd1pf]

😂

[@bigmanted9864]

Casually having my volume up to hear the interview AND THEN

[@pacermanthefan]

bro i see u everywhere wtf

[@bigmanted9864]

@@pacermanthefan mr pacer why are you here

[@pacermanthefan]

none of your fucking buisness

[@sceneshootergirl88]

ong rip

[@bigmanted9864]

@@sceneshootergirl88 Oi why do you like the molotov rippentrop pact

[@ATLmodK]

Most bombed hotel in Europe still offering rooms at exorbitant rates.

[@rambles2727]

Definitely not getting that security deposit

[@isaacschmitt4803]

* Dresden has entered the chat

[@cathedralImages]

If your mate was selling his car and it was rough looking they would say " ffs its been hit more times than the europa hotel " lol

[@aidanafshar8744]

"Half the fookin armys out here Franky"

[@christopherbrown6523]

The Devil's Own?

[@aidanafshar8744]

@@christopherbrown6523 Yep!!!

[@user-od7ym3df5m]

Two things 1. Never anger the irish. 2. never think you can corner a scotsman.The crown really did not learn that through the years.

[@petebondurant58]

Scotland has been a part of the Crown for over three hundred years.

[@user-od7ym3df5m]

@@petebondurant58 agreed but they have always retained their identity.

[@petebondurant58]

@@user-od7ym3df5mTheir outgoing First Minister is a Pakistani who hates Scottish people. 🤣

[@frasermckevitt2417]

Man the Irish are so nice to me despite being a Brit they even bought me a car

[@Rushexe]

*knock knock* Who is it? Car service Car service? We're in a hotel, don't you mean room service? ... Ah yeah sure whatever, open the door please.

[@whyamisad5740]

"Oh Ireland is a very funny place, sir, it's a strange and a troubeled land"

[@sunuvliberty_III]

The daily mail is still full of shite. Some things never change.

[@Marion-uc2uq]

Me and my mates were in the town centre when this hotel was blown up it was manic the ground moved under our feet we fell to the ground I was 17 at the time too close for comfort I left Ireland at 18 couldn't take it no more I go back to see family still love my beautiful Ireland and the people I'm proud to be irsh,

[@InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb]

That’s a shame 🥺 sorry that happened to you and you had to witness such destruction to your beautiful Ireland…. 😔

[@hush3956]

My great aunt was blown up by the IRA. Was a catholic too Story goes: An ira man stole her next door apartment neighbors ID, robbed a nearby store then dropped it to frame him In his apartment (they had already kidnapped and murdered the man) they rigged bombs that would go off upon opening the door My great aunt decided "I havent seen him in a while, im gonna go check on him" so she went with another neighbor, knocked on the door and didnt get a response Eventually she just tried entering, turned the handle and was immediately blown to bits, only my granny was allowed to see the body to identify it and said it was beyond words, and that there was so so little left of her yet it was so clear who it was

[@wiccanwarrior9]

So sorry to hear that mate. Other than that words fail me.

[@garydavid1788]

'Most bombed hotel in Europe ' is a phrase I've heard countless times, as if hotels in Europe were constantly being blown up !

[@pikemaster1972]

Well built hotel …. They don’t build them like that anymore

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

More likely it was targeting someone in the hotel not the hotel itself

[@keithhumphries3707]

@@AppalachianMountaineer1863no they were targeting the hotel. Hence why it was bombed so many times.

[@eastridingbusspotter]

POV: most peaceful day in a tv soap

[@ninmachine109]

The IRA tried recruiting the stoic cameraman the next day

[@RobertK1993]

He said I stick to filming the conflict until it's resolved it be High Definition

[@cybertronian2005]

I don't think 'stoic' and IRA go together

[@hugostiglitz6914]

The cameraman barely flinched and the person being interviewed dived behind the cameraman!!😂😂

[@LightingMouse]

"Hey kids do you want to live forever?"

[@GDNotMe]

Reddit

[@LightingMouse]

@@GDNotMe yep

[@drp5146]

Same

[@timkerkhof5621]

No

[@jefflinton]

I think you're getting your countries,religions and political allegiances confused pal

[@montyzumazoom1337]

We stayed in this hotel. It was a present for my wife, a few days in Belfast. As we went to bed , I asked her what she thought of the Hotel. "Lovely" she said... I then told her it was the most bombed hotel during the troubles....

[@Anrirua]

And did the floor and bed shake much ❤

[@michaeldaly9984]

So you're divorced now? 🤪

[@Baha88]

If that was my alarm clock I'd still sleep in

[@btlcreativemedia3038]

Lucky the whole building didn’t completely collapse in on its own footprint like a controlled demolition type of thing hey! 🤔🤔

[@AnonAnonAnon]

I served in Belfast in the 90s and when off duty on a Sunday I used to go to the nightclub that was in the basement of this hotel. On one side of the night club was Loyalists, the other Republican. Never seen any fights. Great nights in there.

[@RandomHuman1103]

Wow thats crazy

[@MikeHunt-zy3cn]

That must've been tense.

[@garethmccartan3636]

I'd say in my 50 years on this earth I've been on a night out in Belfast at least 100 times, I'm yet to see a fight break out.

[@duckymakesvideos816]

Meanwhile maggie thatcher is having dinner on ground floor

[@xtraspecialmango]

Anorak with Hoods Up was the go word! Doh!

[@grahamunderwood9353]

sad times for everyone and belfast is a changed place ,too many innocents on both sides got killed

[@cavanbond6359]

*come out ye Black and Tans intensifies*

[@theprodigalson4690]

There is nothing beautiful in war except its end

[@rambles2727]

Holy hell that's fire

[@vudu2822]

The boys didn't mess about back in the day Jesus

[@shaun6099]

Jesus the Irish knew how to make bomb's, nearly dropped my phone with the fright i got,

[@The-Top-Gorilla]

Brings a tear to my eye

[@marke4576]

So those straving and murdering a whole nation of people.

[@davebrayfb]

Why?

[@chazwalker7156]

​@@davebrayfb Conjunctivitis

[@JaredAnderson422]

Loyalist

[@averagejoe8358]

​@@Captain_hadley_49Waa waa waa famine that happened centuries ago, cry me a fucking river,

[@TheTitanIslandMilitary]

I aint Irish, but i suddenly feel extremely patriotic for Ireland. Tiocfaidh ar la!

[@peterainsworth8026]

Why you tit? Thousands died for nothing.

[@maryparis576]

They told folks to leave the building first

[@user-nb7co9hs3g]

In the 70s, a terrorist was portayed a pale white man with an Irish accent and ginger hair. In the 2000s, a terrorist was a tanned man with an Arab accent and black hair. I wonder what the next terrorist staple will be. Edit: It seems most of you have completely missed my point. My point that I was trying to make is the stereotype on TV and in Movies. Not what they actually are. Again. Stereotype. Not Reality. Jesus Christ, I can't believe I had to come back and explain this to many of you.

[@TheSubpremeState]

Ginger hair has nothing to do with Irish people ffs. Theres ginger knuts in Russia

[@WestDublin]

has everything to do with Ireland and Scotland@@TheSubpremeState

[@daisybelle1025]

Wow, yet all my Irish family are Jet black haired ..what a generalisation to make

[@user-nb7co9hs3g]

@@daisybelle1025 yes... daisy. That is precisely the point I am making. People stereotyping what a terrorist looks like.

[@motorcitycobra2009]

It’ll be white women

[@hamstreak5591]

COME OUT, YE BLACK N' TANS!!

[@johnrider5701]

I remember seeing this news report I can't believe it's over fifty years ago now.

[@HeaphyGaming]

Maybe leave our country if you wanted that to stop 😂

[@SteabhanMac3]

Seems like the cameraman was expecting it.

[@dumbo21]

"am I a good demoman, well if I weren't i wouldn't be sitting here talking to ya now would"

[@amyytyler9040]

Ireland unfree will never be at peace

[@hyzigyh]

ireland united also wont be peaceful would it now, loyalists would "reverse IRA" it.

[@kallumcoekin3401]

@@hyzigyh 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@kallumcoekin3401]

@chill boi the Republic of Ireland are the ones making a scene, NI wants to stay as part of the U.K. and they can’t accept that.

[@user-my8zo8uh3n]

Erin go bragh

[@SunTzu561]

@@kallumcoekin3401 shut up! Dirty Brit’s holding your tail between your legs! -Sun Tzu

[@CycIic]

Im learning about IRA history, and this, this is scary.

[@HerzogVonMartian]

the translation of a bomb blast "applause"

[@daddysfatsausageinyourbumb4419]

Most bombed hotel in Belfast. Probably the world during that time. I worked in it once as a trainee chef

[@Ricardo-yt7fg]

reddit got me here.

[@TheLonelyX]

I thought i was the only one, i assume you read the one post of the BHS elevator incident?

[@tggatsby3501]

@@TheLonelyX word

[@marysartr]

@@TheLonelyX yep

[@EduardXssX]

@@TheLonelyX i did, this is what u found

[@EduardXssX]

@@TheLonelyX i couldn't find

[@Stargreened]

“Hello and welcome to the Europa hotel. Here is your room key. You’ll find your room on the third floor with a ticking noise coming from under the bath. That’s just normal sir. Will you be wanting breakfast?”

[@telx4u]

I was there a year earlier before it opened as a contract Electrician (for Rotary Electrical) & the on site Shop Steward when it was being built, the angle of the building was a few degrees out of line, so our multi-way ceiling Trunking was out of line too, terrible winter conditions as I remember it, but I was young then.

[@TheSubpremeState]

I bet the wages were better back then. Adjusted for inflation

[@Cupid_AJ]

irish people such pure heart and nice people, im very sad that they faced alot of heartbreaking eras 🥺

[@Irish-Gael-sg4lv]

No surprise that centuries of war and violence ended when the Brits were kicked out

[@Andy7907]

Northern Irish**

[@Irish-Gael-sg4lv]

@@Andy7907 thus was happening in the North and South during this eara and for generations before. Hence Irish people

[@liketheroman]

Eras?! I blame Taylor Swift for the casual stupidity on the internet.

[@OffGridInvestor]

And the Irish not in the north ARE NOW. And they're ALSO taking matters into their own hands

[@NxDoyle]

Cameraman hardly moved.

[@Freebird409]

The result of an empire that was too selfish to give up a whole island and just had to keep a tiny bit.

[@RobertK1993]

Ulster Scots were crying in 1912 threatening terrorist violence including killing Roman Catholics Irish Republicans should play the Rains of Castamere at Ulster Unionists

[@NPC_28621]

Give Texas back to Mexico. Stop being selfish.

[@wingnut71]

The result of selfish assholes who signed a peace treaty in 1921 that gave them 4 fifths of the island, but they continued to break said peace treaty killing thousands so they could get the last 6 counties that wanted to stay British. The Palestinians would be more than happy to have just half of the Irish got.

[@chimpana]

It's quite a bit more complicated than that funnily enough.

[@robert6106]

Yet when they held a referendum on the issue republicans force a boycott under threat of death as they knew they had no chance of winning. Even today that fact remains

[@shanesoleilscb4250]

“Hey kids do you want to live forever?” Ya’ll know why you’re here

[@connorcraig1598]

Where is that quote from ?

[@redactedagentdataexpunged9431]

​@@connorcraig1598a guy and his gran went into a elevator at BHS (British Home Stores), what followed next was the entire store being blown up by a Fenian bomb Note to rememebr he was in Belfast when it happened

[@burnttree08]

​@@redactedagentdataexpunged9431fenian 😭

[@Zorn76]

You're gonna need a bigger hotel.

[@user-vs3cm9jo5d]

Long live free Ireland. Long live the Irish people. Freedom! United Ireland. Greetings from Serbia.

[@keithrose6931]

Free from Irish men blowing up Irish women and children .

[@KawaiiKasai]

The guy they were interviewing had seen this play before Dude was out of there

[@marcushinton772]

Awful days at the hands of coward's

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

This was just how we grew up. None of us realised how savage it was til we left Thankfully today we have peace at home, albeit still tainted with historical differences, but as a u ited Ireland grows closer, I fear more trouble in future as the orange men will resist a united Ireland til death. Sadly, our politicians are erasing our culture, and the enemy is now the hostile invaders

[@petebondurant58]

You won't have to worry about Orangemen, when Ireland is filled with Africans and Middle Easterners.

[@gearoftones8585]

I stayed in a hotel just up the road from that recently.

[@foodfordudes]

Camera Man didn’t flinch ❤

[@Crystal-mm8sb]

Was his da blew it up he was on countdown

[@GG-kf8ox]

And up she goes ! Derry gold !

[@Snackcracklepop]

Year I was born.🎉

[@WanKin581]

Amazing

[@sniperreddragon2782]

Knock knock Whos there? Tick tick Tick tick who? Tick tick BOOOOOOOOM

[@badpiggies988]

Average day in northern ireland

[@richfelandrea7028]

FREEDOM FOR IRELAND!

[@Markosbourne24]

Clown

[@Mt24855]

Happened in 92ish aswell i was just a baby at the time in the pram and the window smashed in on top of me apparently

[@vampiricagorist6979]

It’s a shame these things happened, but all the Brits ever had to do was leave.

[@wingnut71]

You want me to leave my home? Go feck yerself pal. The Irish signed a peace treaty in 1921 and have been breaking it every year since then. You break the treaty then you are the guilty party.

[@petebondurant58]

A majority of people in Northern Ireland ARE BRITISH.

[@vampiricagorist6979]

@@petebondurant58 If they’re from Ireland, North or South, then they’re Irish. It doesn’t matter what they’re brainwashed to believe.

[@petebondurant58]

@@vampiricagorist6979 It really is up to them to decide what they are, not you.

[@jmx415]

-So you were here when they bombed the hotel , how does it looked like ? -Well uh they arrived masked and *sudden explosion*

[@BeeRich33]

Ya thanks for explaining it to me.

[@leonardsolis9876]

I'm Mexican, go Ireland!!

[@andreasallin2616]

​@msmissy6888Did you know that many Brits have settled there? The Irish should decide. This area belongs to the Irish not English, Welsh and so on. 🤷‍♂️

[@leonardsolis9876]

@@andreasallin2616 it should and must .

[@claretblue2509]

So your tyrant?

[@BENKYism]

Becoming independent meant absolutely nothing. "independent" countries, even the US, are beholden to multinational organizations.

[@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621]

Cheering the bombing of hotels is crazy

[@JamieLamb-ft6io]

AND FOR WHAT, AT THE END OF THE DAY WHAT DID THIS TYPE OF ACTION GET US . 😮

[@KieranMckean]

tiocfaidh ár lá🇮🇪

[@BeeRich33]

Allah is apparently already there.

[@doberman194]

Will do the interview just over here please face us while we get you in the shot 😆

[@intergalacticbobcat6185]

I was born on a Dublin street Where the royal drums they beat

[@untitledartist1350]

And those loving English peep, They walked all over us

[@howarddowling3849]

The man from the daily mail

[@wfdix1]

Looks like a Chicago crack house.

[@allison_everywhere]

i was born in a dublin street

[@robinwells8879]

Used to go to school just down the road from here and the Europa was an almost weekly occurrence. Once watched everyone file out of the cinema nearby after a bomb scare. Then got the all clear and all filled back in and the bomb went off! Remember that the slates where flying off the roof. Not sure anyone was hurt though. 😂

[@rogermellie8068]

You'd think after it was bombed once people might be tempted not to stay there again 🤔

[@Kori2Fly]

Watch out headphones viewers 😅 This is a loud one

[@sammidwood404]

My girlfriend's dad was blown up by the IRA....twice.

[@yoshikay9844]

Oh no! Our table.. ITS BROKEN!

[@bigdaveo397]

Deliveroo hit different in Belfast....

[@turbowank16v]

Would love to see the trivago reviews. 'I had a really lovely stay here at the

[@belfastbhoy5679]

Every english person that has been to belfast, and hears that im from there, proudly tells me that they stayed in the europa, and that it was the most bombed hotel in western europe And each and every time i have to put on my best surprised face and act like i didnt know

[@brandaoz]

Richard Burton interviewing? That voice..

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

I knew I shouldn't have had that curry last night.

[@hharlington7156]

I'm just curious what the previous most bombed hotel in the world was

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

The Cambodiana in Phnom Penh.

[@jackeilhigh]

That was crazy

[@lefkytheshin]

Wonder where they got the idea for this? Perhaps The Day After (1983)?

[@JohnCooper-gm6mn]

How's that crack pipe working out for you?

[@Dressagevids]

The Wopa part of my 23 pub - pub crawl, used to do Robinsons the Crown and the Wopa and then do them again in the middle of the pub crawl, that was called the "Bermuda Triangle" as by that stage people would start to disappear

[@darthlegolas9155]

Tiocfaidh ár lá - Our Day Will Come in Irish ☘️

[@harryburrows2112]

Taco Fart Allah 🇮🇪

[@GreoGreo]

@@harryburrows2112 Ironically your country is full of Allahs (Englandistan)

[@deusmachinima1189]

​@@harryburrows2112mad brit

[@garymac5571]

​@@msmissy6888if only the DUP respected democracy...

[@BeeRich33]

Leave Northern Ireland alone. They voted for this.

[@rogerdaltry9531]

Chicken vindaloo hits different in Northern Ireland

[@stalker4474]

26+6=1

[@windowman929]

Could i get an upgrade 😂

[@DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es]

My word what’s that spell mr camera man it’s no me it’s him 😂😂😂

[@welsh_person]

"We were unlucky today but remember we only have to be lucky once you have to lucky everytime"

[@Lovielie]

What were these people like? Were they masked? Anoraks with there hoods up🙄 They had there hoods up? They had there hoods..... EXPLOSION!!! Had me rolling on the ground 😂🤣🤣

[@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant]

That building literally shook.

[@johnners911]

There was a bmb in it apparently

[@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant]

@@johnners911 do you think?

[@johnners911]

@@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant I could be wrong but it looked that way

[@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant]

@@johnners911 noooo! 🫢

[@johnners911]

@@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant maybe we should alert the authorities to our discovery???

[@bobbyleglocks1992]

Damn, I'm looking up IRA and 401k strategies and this comes up. Haha. Wrong IRA

[@happymark1668]

They hired Demoman

[@ARROCK10]

Our tour guide in belfast said as a joke if security didnt find a bomb on you when you go to the europa they would give you one