'Square One' World in Action 1971 - How it Began, The Troubles

[@johnathanryan2117]

World in Action was incredible. Nobody would have the bollocks to make telly like this now. Even as a youngster it hit you in the face, no punches pulled. Fantastic, already belongs to a different time.

[@rob5944]

Yes, journalism isn't what it was. We constantly seem to get a narrative pushed at us. Searching questions just aren't asked anymore, no matter what the subject matter.

[@robertwoods-dc4wo]

@@johnathanryan2117 brilliant mate

[@cheapy2006]

World in Action kicked ass back in the day. Pilger himself made a few for them. Best tune on TV at the time too.

[@michaeligoe3935]

Totally agree. Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain.

[@redginge4840]

They genuinely tried to be objective back then, unlike today.

[@mookie2637]

@@michaeligoe3935 You're thinking of Weekend World there.

[@RobCraig-wf3yi]

Pilger.yes. my hometown newspaper, the Otago daily times. The only independent paper in NZ and consequently only one that publishes pilger. Wonderful

[@Earhairy]

@@michaeligoe3935 "Totally agree. Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain." No. It's called "Jam for World in Action", and it was by Shawn Phillips and Mick Weaver.

[@01HILARYKEEGAN]

Thank you to the people doing the work behind this channel. Incredible content night after night!!

[@VCR390]

Thank you for this archive. it’s sad that a lot of knowledge these days is locked behind paywalls.

[@tedmac8049]

Thanks my Brother, keep them coming mate ❤

[@JimboBond71]

Thats our house the gable end in the background when they got the water cannons out, 40 Kashmir road, can see the old mans motorbike n side-cart and all haha. One of the three shotguns mentioned was his, he always had a permit. Someone did a film of us all at home, typical family doing normal things, kids getting up for school etc in 1971 too. But to our knowledge it was never shown, there was mention of america but maybe it will pop up on here sometime. Top Channel on the Tube this is like, so it is...

[@eibhlinnichrualoai]

I love your channel thank you xx

[@ATroubledLand]

Thank you

[@tommykavanagh1189]

Thanks for showing this . I have to say the reporter was very good .

[@davidmccann9811]

Another great documentary. Thanks for posting. 👍

[@michaelbarry8277]

Amazing how similar the language of the security committee is so similar to that of the Israeli government today. Plus ca change!

[@dorjon5334]

That theme tune👏👏👍💖 An Escherian musical staircase descending into Hell. We remember ‘World In Action’ and those grim times

[@johnburns7142]

We have come a long way, the cost has been high. We look forward to a normal peaceful life. Fair play for everyone.

[@corriesavage3096]

Again..brilliant channel

[@cbradioghosttalk1986]

Thank You and great channel

[@stephenholmes1036]

World in Action was a great programme

[@Zopf-international]

@ 3.25... The kid with the hockey stick. 'Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!'

[@glenndouglas8822]

Thank you " Troubled Land " , yet again an astonishing find 🙌

[@roisinmangan5296]

Another great documentary 👏

[@ryandewitt9315]

have been binge watching your remastered archive footage on NI for the last few days & as an irish american i thank you for your hard work, very sad that public schools here in america didn’t teach us about the 800 years of fighting for independence seeing as we had fought for our own.

[@ATroubledLand]

ATLmodK here, so glad you have found this channel. What I am learning is that few schools did teach the true history of the island of Ireland including the partition of the North. So glad that you enjoy the channel. 💚

[@DavidHarrison-js3ji]

Till we all muster for the last time , stay safe lads .

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

How many of the 32 searches were in protestant houses? - 6.

[@dinomader2211]

That's how the English said it began

[@seancurran6590]

This marks a critical point in the Troubles. In 69 when Labours Home Secretary, Callaghan, promised an even hand the Catholic population took him at his word. However when the Tories (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) came to power in 70 their local Unionist comrades used the Security Committee to direct the Army against the Catholic population...much as their B Special militia were the previous year. The IRA were practically non existent at the start of 69 but by end of 71 there were thousands. The Unionists and the ham fisted UK government begot the Provies

[@RJH1971]

08:04 this insult and what follows is so typical of the British army mentality in Ireland at the time

[@davidmccann9811]

He seemed like a right idiot.

[@LeggieGlasgow]

Yet tea and cakes awaited the British army when they saved catholics from refugee camps in the Republic in 69.The country has changed drug dealers in both community's run the show they work together now killing the youth.Just like the republic in the 70s,80s when the provos allowed irish youths to die of overdoses as they taxed the dealers or republican groups dealt drugs namely the Inla .

[@kw12784]

You can hear the sympathy in her voice when she calls the child "it".

[@robertwoods-dc4wo]

a never really watched any of these documentaries until about 4 months ago jeezo I never knew how bad it was it was a warzone ordinary people caught right in the middle fearing for their lives that's not normal

[@desmondhull5778]

Dont forget the free cups of tea and biscuits provided by the women on the Falls Road for the British soldiers.

[@desmondhull5778]

So it went from discrimination and victimisation to wanting a 32 county Ireland in a matter of months.

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

Those were some real women at the start of the doco.

[@roisinmangan5296]

💯. They didn't just search our homes, they wrecked them out of sheer hate.

[@michaeloconnor-km7wq]

It began in 68

[@dv86boom11]

It's fantastic to see how far the Catholic people of the north of Ireland have come in the last 50 years or so

[@georgeaye7535]

Just how far exactly do you mean? seeking to ban Marches they don't like etc?

[@dv86boom11]

@@georgeaye7535 no nothing to do with marches the fact that we weren't allowed one man one vote couldn't get jobs because of our religion treated like second class citizens everyone should be aloud to express their culture including marches

[@mentalmook206]

it is interesting how the catholic population have progressed and the protestants have regressed

[@georgeaye7535]

"aloud" to express their culture, I see your point . @@dv86boom11

[@dessy76]

@@georgeaye7535 Sectarian marches, yes.

[@1969JohnnyM]

As a youngster in the late 70's i remember the workers at Mackie's on the Nationalist Springfield rd in West Belfast going to or leaving work, pretty much all of them cut thru the peace line coming from or going to the Shankill despite it being in a major Catholic area the workforce was around 95 percent Protestant or Unionist.

[@trickstick84]

Is the battalion commander seen in silhouette near the end Billy Kelly?

[@derry3344ii]

This should be a lesson to Israel and their wholesale discrimination

[@ronan8834]

They are somehow worse than the british at this point

[@indigohammer5732]

Ever read the Hamas Charter and it's demand for the global murder of all Jews, not their Israeli neighbours, but all Jews? Or their claim that Martyrdom and Jihad is the duty of all Muslims? Or how any peace negotiations are to be avoided because they don't obey any instruction other than those in the Koran and Hadith?

[@koeman1873]

7.30 Great to hear the peace loving catholics, some things never change.

[@rob5944]

Thankfully there has been a lasting peace in Ireland where ordinary people can just get on with their lives, irrespective of which religion thay happen to subscribe to. Long may it continue.

[@TyronePatOne]

Brave soldiers beating women

[@paralogregt]

14.10 sums it up.

[@johnwalsh7806]

The Presbyterians in Northern Ireland were a nasty bloody crowd. There was no option as to what happened.

[@stephencampbell7922]

I am a catholic

[@Dublinireland5]

❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪. England a troubled land,,, if England hadn't invaded their neighbour ireland in the first place there wood have never been the Irish Republic army.. And thousands of people in England would, have not supported the Irish Republic army., England paid the price,,,,when England invaded India and many years later Gandhi stood for home rule thousands of people in England supported him.. England does not seem to be embarrassed what it has done to Ireland.. No more than England is embarrassed when it invaded the Caribbean islands and brought the people back on slave ships to England and sold them in the market place as slaves England conceited this to be normal behaviour.. England are temporary caretakers in the north of Ireland... Until England wakes up and do the right thing by ireland.. England is out of the European Union and it's special relationship with America does not seem to want to do a trade deal with England... Nothing would make me more happy than to see Jerry Adams as the first prime minister of a free and independent ireland... ❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪,

[@ATLmodK]

I would love to see that too.

[@Dublinireland5]

25,000 British soldiers in Northern Ireland only made things many times worse Mrs Thatcher must take responsibility for those soldiers that went back to England in body bags....

[@gerard394]

The way things are going in the south it will be a Muslim state before a all Ireland

[@patkearney9320]

@@gerard394many paddy’s in the south fought in the North and filled the prisons in Ireland and England, we will always control the island a 32 county is in the post. No new arrivals will hold power over Irish we are a different animal than other European peoples.

[@LeggieGlasgow]

​@@patkearney9320Have you missed the riots in the south pal sinn fein are despised in the south ,irish women cannot go out at night in dublin and other areas it's so unsafe would sinnfein allow that north of the border.Whats it called again a new plantation yet sinnfein say nothing calling them far right utter bollocks .

[@gerardshannon4441]

Thought i'd tuned in to a West Bank or Gaza video

[@dinomader2211]

Those Army Peelers were awful lucky there were no IRA Gunmen there!!

[@grahamr-oj3wf]

U know I'm ur no1 fan great BTW 👍

[@ATLmodK]

You have a little competition there, but so glad we both think we are ATL’s no 1 fan. The more the merrier!! I mean that 😊💚🇮🇪☘️

[@grahamr-oj3wf]

@@ATLmodK erin go braigh one day our day will come nice to av someone who thinks like me . Where from 🙂

[@ATLmodK]

@@grahamr-oj3wf It’s a long story but I live in Los Angeles. Mother and father both from Co Louth, but the ancestors were about 300 years apart. Always very connected to the Republican movement in the North of 🇮🇪

[@grahamr-oj3wf]

@@ATLmodK fair play to ye in from Dublin awh ur one of our own 💯

[@ATLmodK]

@@grahamr-oj3wf Go raibh maith agat !!

[@ProfileP246]

Now those Spanish from the falls run the place and they're still not happy

[@thomaspollock5709]

Ut qulk rise again mattee time Ireland will be united

[@patkearney9320]

Even as a young boy I knew I would grow to fight my forefathers enemy 3 decades later this documentary shocks me o fxxk.

[@KT-yk8mw]

Kid doing nazi salute @9:30.

[@jasongentle6446]

What shit hall 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@derekspence6994]

they are right not british

[@williambeck1574]

TIOCFAIDH AR LA 🇮🇪

[@daveferguson935]

Sucky our Da!

[@deeppurple883]

You outline description of the why's is fairly accurate. The war is over but criminality is now the earner. There's only one line that can put money in everyone's pocket on both sides. There's no incentive to stop, who's going to pay them of no one because they haven't got deep enough pockets. What's my line 👃, 💎💰💴💵💷💸💳🏖️🏝️🏬🗽🌉🌆🌅🏙️🌃⛲🏎️🏍️🛵🚲✈️🛫🛬🌈⛱️