'Crack of the Whip' World in Action 1969 - The Begining

[@roisinmangan5296]

I had forgotten about radio free Belfast...it was the best community network we had. Lot of nostalgia for me to see our wee streets as they were then. The wee one wearing the high heels and a handbag is priceless. Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories.

[@brettlaw9984]

Excellent channel, "A Troubled Land". Bringing us reminders of the poor victims & martyrs. These events should never be forgotten. Too many good & innocent lives lost. As well as all the patriots that sacrificed so much for the cause. God let them rest in peace & pride

[@davidmccann9811]

These old World in Action documentaries are great viewing. Hopefully you have some more to load up.

[@ATroubledLand]

Lots!

[@williammohan9784]

@@ATroubledLand great stuff, so keep them coming.

[@nickread2833]

Thanks for all the interesting documentaries

[@stephenholmes1036]

World in action a great programme sadly missed.

[@cheapy2006]

Tune gets me every time!!

[@RepublicofE]

I know it's somewhat outside the scope of your channel's focus, but do you have any contemporaneous documentaries or news programs about the "Old IRA" made during their existence (e.g. a documentary made during the 1950s about the IRA then, rather than a modern one looking back?)

[@carlodago8783]

Brilliant documentary thank you (and for all the others)

[@ATroubledLand]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@martinriley106]

To think I was an 11 years old boy when this was filmed and 10 years later I was a serving soldier in Crossmaglen, South Armagh. In time I came to realise just how wrong this whole conflict was and lives that were wasted on it. Ireland deserves its peace and reconcilliation?

[@flanagansrage7885]

Will you be uploading the provos episodes of provos, loyalists and brits series? Can't find them anywhere online

[@ATroubledLand]

Loyalists and Brits are already here on my channel. Provos is banned. You can watch it on my Patreon along with many other banned docs.

[@melissabyrne8749]

Thanks

[@Matt-Durham]

@ 12:30 those two lads really do look like a young Martin McGuniess and Gerry Adams, you can make out Martin's and Gerry's bearded face and Gerry's thick black glasses he worn back then.

[@trickstick84]

Not so - McGuiness didn't join the IRA (Official) until the end of 1970, and Adams has never allowed anyone to film or photograph him with a gun in his hand !

[@Towmas]

What should we do with Stormont is right then and now

[@brendanmaguire4134]

Stormount is a waste of time.. back then and still now..

[@trickstick84]

I believe the footage of IRA volunteers training was filmed on the very day the riots in Belfast broke out in August 1969. Cathal Goulding and Mick Ryan were in attendance (you can hear Goulding explaining the IRA non-sectarian view of that time. Is that Ryan conducting the training?). Goulding and Ryan only found out what was happening in Belfast when they got back to Dublin - the IRA had no effective quartermaster at that time (all the GHQ posts had lapsed), so Goulding appointed Ryan to the job on the spot and effectively told him to go and find a few guns.

[@joeybee1914]

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