Feature History - The Troubles (1/2)

[@FeatureHistory]

I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of correction suggestions, but let me make it clear this is for things that are actually wrong in the video, not "You should've said X" or your opinion. Corrections/Disclaimers 0:34 - Yeah I used the St. Patrick Saltire, sue me, but while not being official, it's the only good neutral flag for Northern Ireland. 5:54 - As said in the video, those aren't official flags, because there aren't any official flags for the IRA. Just a bunch and bunch of different unofficial designs that have many different meanings and variants and I had to settle on one. 1:28 - That's modern day Northern Ireland, which is actually ONLY 6 of the 9 counties of the region known as Ulster. I meant to fix that when I realised one late night, but clearly forgot. 2:15 - The bill passed in 1914, not 1912

[@padraigpearse1551]

Feature History thank you for showing this to the masses. I live in Derry and my family along with many other families were affected by the troubles and i know lots of people that still duck and put their hands on their heads when they hear a loud bang. Thank you again

[@aryanchauhan510]

Feature History feature me lol

[@annoloki]

For those with short attention spans - so which side are the goodies and which side are the baddies? *runs and hides* hehe sorry :-p

[@samuelphanoto4565]

Feature History nice video, look forward to see the second part

[@teddyboragina6437]

omg. a picture of northern ireland. calling it ulster? rip. you are done.

[@brianholmes1812]

I'd like to add that WWII was called the emergency in Ireland. We tend to understate things a bit

[@pivotkid85]

LOL WHAT

[@Realkeepa-et9vo]

Let me guess, the Irish Famine is called 'The bad havest'?

[@josepheiffe8493]

@@Realkeepa-et9voactually it was called the great hunger :L

[@Sk0lzky]

Was that pacification when 42nd shot dead like a 100 families considered to be a 'friendly gaelic brawl between?'

[@bruhmomentmaker4979]

@@Realkeepa-et9vo no it's called the super mega the scale of which the world has never seen holocaust

[@Vollification]

This intro is basically why The Troubles started in the first place.

[@urma3137]

The Troubles started because Loyalists were beating and raping Catholic children so the IRA decided to protect their people after the British Army took the violence to a whole new level. Don't try and be a smartass in front of people who lived through it big man.

[@ohwellwhateverr]

Ur Ma What Loyalists are you talking about? Catholic priests have more than their fair share of child rapists, if you want to go down that argument. The IRA tortured and murdered innocent civilians. The methods they used were completely barbaric, and were a complete waste of lives. I sympathise with the nationalist, anti-colonialist impulse, but the IRA was/is a disgusting organisation that brought shame on Irish Nationalism. The British army and loyalist paramilitaries are not morally clean either, but have some self-awareness. There’s blood on both sides and that’s why this conflict is so stagnated

[@urma3137]

@@ohwellwhateverr "Some self awareness"??? When THE FUCK did the IRA toss grenades at little fucking girls and when THE FUCK did the IRA walk into a city and gun down FOURTEEN innocent kids? Where are these civillians you talk about? What "barbaric" tactics? Interrogating? British Army done that. Torturing? UVF done that and A LOT more extreme than anything the IRA did. "Self Awareness" Holy good fuck. You're definitely not from this country and if you are then check yourself out lad. You're clearly a bitter Hun who dislikes the Republican cause. The fact that you said Loyalist Terrorists had self awareness is fucking disgusting. The UVF were basically serial killers. The IRA targeted Paramilitaries and the armed forces. The UVF drove about, picked up Catholic teens and tortured them for weeks. Do you know what the UVF's answer was for Warrenpoint? A tactic military operation carried out by the IRA? Their answer was to find a young Catholic civillian and shoot them dead. "Self Awareness"... Honestly, fuck off. What a deluded comment.

[@feudela4357]

Ur Ma An off duty soldier and his daughter were killed by the IRA. One of many incidents showcasing that needless whining about which side was worse is useless.

[@manicallydepressedclown]

@@feudela4357 70s even if that was true. The IRA made great strides to protect innocents. Compared to the british who opened fjre on civillians

[@ColonizerChan]

Pro tip: don’t go to somebody else’s country, try to/end up replacing the original inhabitants, and expect anything good to come in the long run

[@stalker5299]

Worked for the Americans

[@noco7243]

Worked for us. And the brits in the Falkland islands.

[@stalker5299]

@@noco7243 yeah but the Falklands have nearly always been British though

[@noco7243]

@@stalker5299 Nah, son. Before it was taken over and occupied by you wingless, bipeds. Pinguins ran the island empire. Then the humans came and took it over, destroying all the evidence of the emperor pinguin's rule. When you see a pinguin coming you better cross to the other side of the road if you know what's good for you fleshie.

[@walsh9080]

The irony is when you actually look into the earliest known English and Irish cultures the beaker civilisation as they are called. English and Irish have the same common ancestors; who are likely to have come from the Spanish Iberian peninsula first, settling the Netherlands, before eventually coming to the British isles. All this trouble was fought by people who are essentially the same people but developed very differently due to being separated by a sea and migrations into England such as the Romans, Anglo-saxons and Vikings.

[@lucillebluth2616]

My mother was born in 1912 in Derry and died in the late 2000s, most of her life was filled with conflict and she was so happy that she got to finally see peace in her lifetime 🥰🥰🇮🇪

[@gumballgtr1478]

Londonderry

[@lucillebluth2616]

@@gumballgtr1478 To each their own! 🫠

[@mEmory______]

​@@gumballgtr1478it's wartime

[@Sigmawolf_78]

Be glad she departed before this day and age , cuz from what I've heard , a lot of violence is starting back up thanks to Mr Johnson and his Brexit policies

[@jonsweeney3845]

@@gumballgtr1478 as a derry man. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@historywithhilbert]

You know it's a good day when Feature History releases a banger like this in the morning

[@killr1234567]

History With Hilbert hiiii !!!!! Hilbert

[@epicharpseal9828]

Yeah !

[@kenichi-bk6bz]

History With Hilbert k

[@kenichi-bk6bz]

History With Hilbert k

[@119winters5]

K

[@alexandreprince8254]

I'm pretty sure the "british mismanagement" during the famine was fully intentional.

[@averylividmoose3599]

I'm just going to admit this as a Brit myself. Yes, yes it was. They don't even hide it, were taught that it was fully intentional.

[@seamusbyrne8259]

As an Irish man I'll say they just said F U to Wire.

[@godlovesyou1995]

Why do u think that?

[@konstantinosnikolakakis8125]

Democracy is the worst form of government-Winston Churchill.

[@mansamusa1743]

Alexandre Prince no.Peele was just an incompetent moron who tried to help and the it's we're just a bunch of brainless who couldn't grasp the concept of famine it seems.

[@chairdolfsitler8673]

Part 2 is in the comments.

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Chairdolf Shitler thanks for no spoiler alert

[@moonbug7252]

Part 2 is way too confusing.

[@brendandwyer208]

Part 2 is the comments

[@__sm1441]

"British mismanagement" is an awfully understated way of saying "intentionally letting millions of people starve to death" which is an awfully understated way of saying "genocide"

[@dstblj5222]

It wasn't intentional IE the government didn't care if they lived or died but it was certainly mismanagement.

[@10908070605040302]

Haha yeah he's like echoing the bullshit that the British said at the time it happened , "oops I accidentally exported tons of grain" , mismanagement haha fucksake

[@10908070605040302]

@@HerewardWake Man , stop sugar coating it , when the man in charge of Famine aid , calls the famine a "gift from God" , that tells you all you need to know about their intentions ! Grain was exported by the Tonne man , landlords profits had to be mantained at all times , just stap sugar coating it man ha

[@10908070605040302]

Man it's very simple , if a blight strikes then all other available food sources should be diverted to keep people alive , not continued to export for profit , tonnes of grain left the country , as pure greed landlords couldn't fathom losing profits , and watched as valleys fell silent except for the cries of the last starving child , stop dressing it up any other way , if a famine strikes , and the only available food source is continued to be exported , for profit , which could have easily saved millions , then that is intent , and intent is genocide !

[@10908070605040302]

Bahhhhh you call them "Irish merchants" , ok man let me explain something to you , while England dominated ireland , there were basically no Catholic landowners, and certainly none exporting grain !!! They were planted English landlords , perhaps their family had been running the land for generations yes , but they saw Ireland as a means of profit , and spent most of their time in London etc , occasionally visiting Ireland to check up on their profits ! They were English landed gentry ! Not "Irish merchants" , stop re-framing shit haha fucksake And this man , (the video also mis-stated how many died / left, during the famine , 2 million died and 2 million left , feature history must have read an English history source for this video , whatever ) when that level of destruction is happening , all "market values" should be dropped ! If an entire nation is starving , everyone should be coming together , and every single possible course of action should be taken to keep people alive ! NOT exporting tonnes of grain, protecting the market , if everyone fucking dies , there is no market , Jesus man just consider how fucked your argument is Just stop defending shit you know nothing about man , you're obviously googling policy from the time, but man if England ever really cared about Ireland , and wanted us to be a harmonious member of the Union , like Scotland for e.g , they would have done much much more to help us , but they accelerated the problem and called it a blessing , just fuck off with your dumb shit man, "they had to protect the market", jeeeesus you are talking shit you are fooling yourself , I wonder why ? Are you trying to make yourself feel better ? Look man personally I don't hold England to its past , the way is to move on , BUT , I believe historical events should be told truthfully too ! Not sugar coated to help comfort English people reading back on it

[@seanybo777]

Ireland : Exists Britain : Mine Ireland : But its mine? Britain : TERRRORISSSSTSSS!!!!

[@finmckim3890]

They wouldn’t be called terrorists if they didn’t kill innocent civilians

[@Asd-tk2if]

@@finmckim3890 Then why arent british called t.(youtube likes to censor me)

[@seanybo777]

Ireland kill innocent civilians? Think that’s the UK who have been pillaging sovereign land since nation states were conceived and the US who have been bombing Shepards and children for decades to feed their military industrial complex, us Irish we just want back what is rightfully ours. We don’t invade lands and try genocide never have and never will up the workers up the republic and equality for all TAL x

[@seanybo777]

@BossmanFromEnds Yes I am a fenian, and I'm proud of it. 900 years you lot have been trying to erode our existence and it didn't work and it never will, because we are a strong people and we are closer than ever to taking what is rightfully ours, A 32 county Irish Republic. You'd need to surrender to a healthy diet and an education you idiot, can't even spell correctly.

[@okyes5671]

@@seanybo777you blew up children. No amount of whatiboutisam and racist anti-British racism will change that

[@milos1967]

Only the English could describe a brutal sectarian conflict involving terrorism, military violence, political suppression and the reshaping of Ireland as "The Troubles"

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

Milo S *Northern Ireland

[@okok72277]

We're not English we're Irish

[@milos1967]

@@okok72277 Yeah I know, I was saying that it was the English who called the whole time period "The Troubles"

[@Konoronn]

@@okok72277 Nah you're English paddy. English.

[@okok72277]

@@Konoronn Lmao racist but ok

[@cetologist]

Haha, background music is "The Rocky Road to Dublin"

[@charles_2444]

Invalid Numeral wtf is your profile pic? It’s great

[@olympusxi8436]

@@charles_2444 ngl I was about to ask the same thing lmao

[@Slenderman12342]

Would have preferred come out ye black and tans but still tune

[@jorenprins5947]

On the end it is house in New orleans ain't it?

[@bryanthardin8481]

" climax in 69 "

[@justaamateur6533]

Irish history in 5 words: "And then the troubles began..."

[@Slenderman12342]

It was all the English

[@justaamateur6533]

@@Slenderman12342 yeah, that too

[@swag_8884]

“...again.”

[@mizbaig1804]

@@swag_8884 "...And again"

[@bigjuicypotato1482]

@@Slenderman12342 Always has been

[@moonman2423]

“See’s intro” “See’s number of comments” Oh this is gonna be great

[@nooodont8105]

"I've..... seen things"

[@r.m.ocinneide6935]

"who saw them as oppressive and tyrannical" I suppose systemic discrimination keeping Catholics from getting good jobs or holding political office is just seen as oppressive and tyrannical then as opposed to being oppressive and tyrannical.

[@ladywaffle2210]

Yes, you would be correct? It is, in fact, oppressive and tyrannical?

[@mearchy3570]

you have given the literal textbook definition of oppressive and tyrannical lmfao. not sure how else you expected it to be seen

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@mearchy3570 I think they mean that it's more than that? But I'm not sure. This is a strange, strange comment.

[@r.m.ocinneide6935]

I mean it’s certainly oppressive and tyrannical. I’m being sarcastic and trying to point out how ridiculous the idea that it was merely perception on the part of the Catholics is. Northern Ireland’s gerrymandering and housing council policies turned it into a one party state that prided itself on oppressing a third of its population. Not that I sympathize with the IRA - but there’s a reason NICRA campaigned so hard for basic civil rights and this is it.

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@r.m.ocinneide6935 Ah, gotcha. Thank you for explaining!

[@X988F]

1:07 “and the majority of Ireland became catholic” *shows a Serbian orthodox cross*

[@kyrollos7287]

It does look like an orthodox cross used the the Coptic orthodox and Serbian orthodox the Catholics used the same cross

[@leaderunith4l324]

Yutlo Ireland’s Catholic cross is pretty distinctive

[@costaroumeliotis4639]

православие ☦️☦️☦️

[@Sharkmac42]

@Slavic Celtic Don't forget, they're also the ones who put those protestants there in the first place. It's like sending your cousin to live in your neighbor's basement, and then building a wall in the middle of his kitchen and shooting his kids because your cousin punched him in the face. Then you convince everyone on the block that your neighbor is a terrorist for wanting you to leave his house, and eventually you settle on a compromise where you continue to own his basement. And all the while everybody seems to forget the time that you took all the food out of his house and his wife starved to death, and instead it just turns into a meme about how much he likes potatoes.

[@MrBiggiefuckinsmalls]

​@@Sharkmac42 Large numbers of protestants have been living in Northern Ireland from hundreds of years before The US existed and from times when Europes borders looked completely different. Protestants had freely moved around the kingdom of Dalriada which comprised of The north of ireland and western scotland for hundreds of years before even then. Your analogy is painfully simplistic and just plain wrong.

[@Mito383]

Man, calling this “The Troubles” is more of an understatement than I thought.

[@99999bomb]

I guess calling this series of, uhh events anything else would make everyone in uk and Ireland mad

[@Paul_Lucas]

...”leading to the unfortunate death of four civilians”. Obviously this is a very brief “light touch” video designed to give the uninitiated some background to the poorly-understood Troubles of 69-98. However I’d really encourage people to read much more about the conflict, the people who died and the motivations of various people who became involved. There’s a danger that if people just watch these bite size videos and do nothing else, the conflict will seem glib or inconsequential. The people killed during the Falls Curfew (from Wiki with a couple of notes from me): Charles O'Neill, a 36-year-old Catholic civilian, died on 3 July after being knocked down by a British Saracen APC on the Falls Road during the initial rioting.According to eyewitnesses, he walked out on to the road and attempted to flag down the APCs, but the lead vehicle sped up and "deliberately" ran him down. One eyewitness said that soldiers prodded O'Neill in the ribs and that one of them remarked: "Move on you Irish bastard - there are not enough of you dead". O'Neill was an invalided ex-serviceman. (note: this means he was actually a former British soldier/sailor/airman retired on health grounds!) William Burns, a 54-year-old Catholic civilian, was shot dead, likely from a ricochet, at the front door of his home on the Falls Road on 3 July. He had just finished chatting to a neighbour when he was shot in the chest. The shooting took place at about 8:20pm, almost two hours before the curfew was announced. A pathologist said that the bullet had likely been a ricochet. Patrick Elliman, a 62-year-old Catholic civilian, was shot in the head on Marchioness Street on the night of 3 July and died of his wounds on 10 July. He had walked to the end of the street in his night clothes "for a breath of fresh air". Elliman was taken away in an ambulance. However, it was searched and re-routed by the British Army, which meant that it took thirty minutes to reach the Royal Victoria Hospital a few hundred yards away. That night, British soldiers broke into Elliman's home and quartered themselves there for the night. Zbigniew Uglik, a 23-year-old of Polish heritage who lived in England, was shot dead at the rear of a house on 4 July. He was an amateur photographer and had been taking photographs of the riots. Uglik was in a house at Albert Street, at the edge of the curfew zone, and decided to fetch another camera from the hotel where he was staying. A British Army sniper shot him as he climbed over the back wall of the house, shortly after midnight. Another 60 civilians suffered gunshot wounds. It’s important to emphasise that Northern Ireland had, almost since its inception, operated under a law which enabled the authorities to stop an inquest from happening if it were thought not conducive to the good of the state. Most civilian deaths at the hands of the army were not investigated with any rigour and even today, some inquests from the early 1970s are only just happening. I hope that people read more into the deaths of people during the Troubles to highlight some of the human costs of the conflict, whether they were British Army soldiers, loyalists, republicans or civilians. Everyone was someone’s loved one.

[@Peter-200]

Wingin’ It! Paul Lucas it appears you did some research however you seem to have missed the part where it said the IRA killed MORE catholic civilians than the army did. You must be quite a biased person who is only capable on condemning one side, I’d go as far to say that you seem to be justifying murders carried out by the IRA. Of course you would disagree but that is what your comment suggests.

[@thatirishgamer1815]

Thank you for this ❤🇮🇪

[@JustAGooseman]

@@Peter-200 Eye for an eye, a Protestant for a Catholic.

[@irishrepublican3739]

Peter let’s not forget that over all out of everyone killed by the IRA it’s estimated that 34% were civilians and out of everyone killed by the UVF 84% were civilians (roughly) The IRA targeted loyalists, police and army, whereas loyalists drove around and picked out the first catholic they could find and shot them dead. John Bingham ran a UVF gang that killed 5 innocent Catholics, the provies killed him and they responded by killing an arcade owner, 2 church goers, and petrol bombed two young catholic families out of their homes. Johnny Adair wore Celtic shirts/ patches in his car when driving in catholic areas when he was choosing what innocent catholic he wanted to kill. Michael Stone chucked hand grenades into a crowd killing one volunteer and 2 civilians with a blatant disregard for the men, women, and children mourning there. And he only done it after learning that the army wasn’t there and that the PIRA weren’t doing a show of strength. The IRA done horrible things but nothing compared to what loyalists had done, the IRA were an army with a cause, loyalists were murdering drug gangs, just ask Jim gray and his son, oh wait... ;) Tiocfaidh ár lá mo chara

[@Sharkmac42]

@@andrulifts The possibility can be considered, but without substantial evidence it can also be dismissed, as it doesn't make much sense.

[@doggosarus7139]

Why didn’t you bring up the fact that the people who were shot on Bloody Sunday weren’t doing anything that would warrant getting shot

[@kevinhickey7616]

Christopher Smart they weren’t attacking soldiers?

[@padraig5335]

@@Amoore-vv9wx Why did the Brits apologize then?

[@dan812]

@@Amoore-vv9wx Oh the bomb that was planted on him when he was dead, as admitted by the British Army news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/2266750.stm Read a book ya flog

[@censoreverything8072]

​@@Amoore-vv9wx "affiliating" as justification for deadly force? That's literally not how that works, although I'm sure an apologist like you would like that to be the case. In any case, your entire argument now hinges on your own conspiracy theory that flies in the face of the official story from both sides of the situation. Have fun with that.

[@censoreverything8072]

@@Amoore-vv9wx And they were wrong for it, as admitted. Because yes, you can't kill someone for "affiliating" and you certainly can't open fire into a crowd of other unarmed individuals. Like it or not, they were wrong. Sorry your identity seems to be wrapped up in justifying war crimes. lol. Pathetic.

[@TwistedThor187]

Lol, English mismanagement during the famine. The Brits knew exactly what they were doing during the blight.

[@godlovesyou1995]

What did they do?

[@Bkh0498]

Hoplite 898 exported all grain and other crops for profit while us poor Irish couldn’t buy any of it due to the British owning most of the land and we subsequently lost half of our population and to this day hasn’t fully recovered.

[@carwyngriffiths]

British extreme incompetence along with Irish incompetence

[@Bkh0498]

Carywn Griffiths how does Irish incompetence come into question ?

[@blob22201]

@@Bkh0498 They were shit at farming potatoes

[@TheRealShovel]

The footage of Bloody Sunday was filmed by my Uncle who was a cameraman for RTE

[@liquid-jesus8193]

@Aidan Mone that the funniest thing I’ve Read all day

[@ReySchultz121]

@Aidan Mone Jesus what happened?

[@crabyman3555]

only people in British Isles would name something like a goddamn civil war as ''Troubles''

[@paullytle246]

craby man it more complex than a civil war it has elements of a revolution elements of a peaceful civil rights struggle and elements of a civil war

[@thornimation5492]

The British probably called that (my family included because I'm British), because it was the only war to occur within the United Kingdom since the Irish Revolution in the 1910s and early 1920s. And most the UK wasn't directly involved in it and thus people would probably just sit and think, when reading about in the Newspaper "Ahh bother, Northern Ireland really does have lots of Troubles, doesn't it? ".

[@seanmacuaiteir437]

And a good chunk of us don't agree with the name British isles. Ireland is not British.

[@emilykeane9544]

Crabby man everyone calls it the Troubles? If you haven't noticed there's been quite a lot of conflict in Irish history. That's why people commonly refer to them as the troubles, so their easily discernable from other periods of fighting in Ireland. Get over yourslef

[@chereadnine]

emily keane my old man has always called it "the troubles". being Irish and a pretty staunch Republican I'm happy to go with his nomenclature..

[@Paul_Lucas]

Bloody Sunday is also not given proper prominence or explanation in this video. It was the marquee atrocity of the 1970s by some distance. Not only in its execution, or brazenness, but by the fact the people who committed murder were able to lie, and actively encouraged and enabled to lie by the state. The deceased were blamed for their own deaths and slandered beyond any comprehension. The real legacy of Bloody Sunday wasn’t the 13 dead (it was not 14; the Savile Tribunal accepted at its outset a submission from John Johnston’s own family that his injuries on the day could not be linked to his death some months later - be careful when using Wiki as a source!). The real tragedy was the lies and blackening of Derry’s people. Nobody who died had done anything wrong. Substantial evidence points to individual Paras wanting to let loose some live rounds regardless of the events of the day, and it’s too simple to say “well stones were thrown and this provoked the Army”. Stone throwing was a performative and ritualised act by 1972. Stones would be thrown, the Army would bring in water cannon or rubber bullets and chase you up the street - rinse and repeat. It is not pleasant to have missiles thrown at you but equally it is not a defence to murder. The people killed on Bloody Sunday posed absolutely no threat whatsoever to the soldiers who killed them and it is wrong to omit this from the explanation in the video. That is a fact borne out by the most expensive tribunal in British history and it ought to have been included.

[@Callum-gz8jt]

Wya car bomb

[@Alfietgardiner]

I mean there are reports that they attacked the guards and one of them was confirmed ira and the troops where prosecuted unlike in bloody Friday where after that Martin McGuire was made first minister

[@Alfietgardiner]

I meant Martin mcguiness it's was autocorrect

[@PJ-vh6jr]

oh jesus that mug

[@lordcharles9786]

The civilians were trying to steal the weapons out of the hands of the Army, it’s actually that exact reason that the British military sling is designed they way it is

[@irishrepublicanautist8565]

Britain: I hate terrorism!! UVF: *exists* Britain: ... I hate some forms of terrorism!

[@Official_Happy_]

I don't remember the UFV being supported by UK politics

[@user-ys5yv2nz6w]

@@Official_Happy_ Look up the Monaghan and Dublin bombings.

[@Official_Happy_]

@Daniel Neville what's that

[@columosborne1496]

Dundalk bombings aswell

[@ДушанПавловић-о2я]

"The majority of Ireland became Catholic" *shows Orthodox cross*

[@arandomyorkshireman9678]

I think it’s used by catholic’s sometimes. My German( I think catholic I’m not completely sure though but she was from a catholic area) great grandmother had a necklace with that cross

[@icemanire5467]

@@arandomyorkshireman9678 there's a number of Orthodox churches in communion with Catholicism. An Orthodox couple I knew attended a Catholic Church.

[@blackacidgaming5672]

This comment section is more troubled than the troubles

[@thornimation5492]

+ The Troubles nearly 20 Years ago anyway. Most people have moved on from this conflict and I am glad that Northern Ireland has now, for nearly 20 years had the devolved Government it has and should have been given on. It is worth noting that Northern Ireland did have its own parliament from 1921, until 1972, when it was disbanded by the UK Government. They transferred the nation to direct control from London, England. The office of Governor of Northern Ireland was also abolished. I don't know why though! And it was another 26 years, before the current incarnation the Northern Ireland Assembly was first elected on 25 June 1998 and first met on 1 July 1998.

[@blackacidgaming5672]

just making a joke lad calm down.

[@Daneclaw]

I can understand why they would disband the parliament in Northern Ireland, giving that they couldn't control the people killing each other.

[@averylividmoose3599]

You made a good joke and someone still managed to turn it political *sigh* Gosh darnit Obama

[@moonbug7252]

@@averylividmoose3599 WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT OBAMA?

[@Skunkapeliberationunion1312]

"Mismanagement" is a funny way to describe genocide.

[@notoriousdor]

Alex Moss In the worst year of the famine irish exports was at its highest explain that

[@brosefmcman8264]

Has there ever been a genocide that worked? They are all failures 🤷‍♂️

[@geckosgaeilge1503]

Brosef McMan uh yeah bro the holocaust

[@seanderoiste4661]

Alex Moss it was genocide

[@Sirzan540]

@@notoriousdor Britain by that point had Ireland. Explain that.

[@papermind4010]

Taking a break from binge watching Peaky Blinders at 3 am to re-watch this

[@danielmckinney1305]

Wow! As a man from Northern Ireland I'd really like to thank and commend you for this video. This has surely got to be one of the most objective and fair videos on this topic on KZbin. Thank you for sticking your head over the parapet to address this issue and for bringing this awful period to people's attention. If I met you personally, I'd buy you a pint!

[@Croiisssant]

Do you know any good, objective, documentaries on "the Troubles"? I want to learn more about it. I watched this video and learned a bit but he talks a little fast so it can be hard to follow and process everything.

[@danielmckinney1305]

Hard to say off the top of my head. I seem to remember that the BBC doing a good series on it a number of years back. The troubles is such a nuanced issue so it's often tricky to find something objective. Whilst it's a bit of a cop out, the Wikipedia article is a great starting point to learn more.

[@tyroneisaacs9671]

Ireland needs a Pepsi

[@darthhoovy8332]

Help us Pepsi Man!

[@chicknorton8839]

N o Nah, we have coke

[@tunclegingercunt9696]

Rogue Element (Ravager) the bullet needs a diet dr pepper

[@garrettallen7427]

Darth Hoovy PEPSI MAN!

[@MattyD579]

N o Ireland needs the north back #unitedIreland

[@alanfike]

"This is all wrong because I said it's wrong." Well he makes a good point. He did say it's wrong.

[@marcuslaffey1637]

"Oh diddle-lee dee, a leprechaun put a bomb in me potato" As someone of Irish heritage, that's hilarious

[@marcuslaffey1637]

@@Obs23456 I know there's a difference. I'm just saying that I don't find it offensive

[@GazM85]

I'm still laughing half way through the video and I'm from Ireland

[@Ancienregime8090]

*Ireland:* Can you give up the feckin' land? *Britain:* cAn yOu gIvE uP tHe fEcKiN' LAnD mAte?

[@GreenCocanix]

😂😂 FTP and THE IRA 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@GreenCocanix]

@@user-go3jv8rw7i No surrender 🇬🇧Give me a home wheres there no POPE of rome 🇬🇧✋🏻

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

CITY LOYAL MCFC a home where there’s no pope of Rome is Scotland, where you’re rightfully from. You can say fuck off to the south to us but at the end of the day it’s still the island of Ireland, you’re still Northern IRISH. One island one nation. You’re welcome to stay all you want but if you don’t like it you can get the ferry home

[@Jay_Sori]

I love that the image used as a British Paratrooper is smoking a cigarette. I had a buddy who was a British Para, and he smoked like a chimney

[@DarkHallwayz]

There’s more conflict in this comment section, than there was across 30 years of the Troubles

[@Valencetheshireman927]

The Irish nationalists get triggered by the British especially the English . Expect nothing but idiocy from them

[@danielhalliday9237]

J 19 republicans all of them

[@felix776rt]

@@Valencetheshireman927 you are quite clearly trying to provoke them though by using words like idiocy which isn't fair

[@liampower4631]

Alot dont hv a clue what there on about m8

[@liampower4631]

Only border is the sea

[@justanobadi6655]

What's the difference between an apple and an orange? I've never heard of an apple bastard before

[@dermotlillis6180]

Haha I love it, nicely said!!!

[@Dylan-zf5wy]

That makes no sense

[@eoing4315]

Ah yes, the RUC were only "accusedly" biased

[@dan-860]

If the RUC was biased, there would’ve been a lot more dead IRA men.

[@britishmeme6874]

Dan - fact man

[@Stevenbfg]

@@dan-860 The RUC literally assisted the loyalists in burning Catholics out of their homes during the 1969 riots. Save us the excuses for their inability to defeat the IRA.

[@dan-860]

Scuba Steve obviously you know very little about the conflict. Seeing how it was the USC, that “helped loyalists burn down catholic houses”. Also the IRA surrendered in 1998 to the British state, and in turn the RUC. Which is apart of the British state.

[@Stevenbfg]

"Surrendered" after getting what they wanted in the GFA. Not much of a surrender when you're given terms is it? That's called a compromise.

[@apax2901]

A-one, two, three, four, five Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the ways to Dublin, whack, follol de-dah!!

[@xatarseingold3289]

You are gay

[@tomyt2083]

Rocky road to dublin

[@dazagib94]

Casually playing "The Rocky Road to Dublin" in the background was a lovely touch

[@shootie1158]

Nothing gets you going in the morning like a pipe bomb trough your letterbox

[@223Drone]

The Good Friday Agreement: We finally achieve peace in Northern Ireland. Brexit: I'm gonna do what's called a pro-gamer move.

[@killthebums]

"otherwise known as Ulster" Cavan and Monaghan have entered the chat

[@nooodont8105]

@Smelly Bender there just kind of.......there

[@Siopc]

Donegal for the Sam and Mayo for the sandwiches.

[@UBCLachlan]

keep doing what you doing man, the worlds history is so important

[@not_a_frog]

surprise, surprise: the little british edgelord instantly resorts to potato jokes 🥱

[@helilivesmatter1075]

Cope

[@not_a_frog]

@@helilivesmatter1075 haha yep, thats what im doing. still gonna call out you n him for being little shits lol. ✨cope bitch✨

[@coolmansawesome]

are you stupid? he isn't British, he is Aussie

[@sosak4mi]

Dumbass he’s Australian lol

[@ab-wx3or]

"Potato famine" It was a genocide.

[@BlueZeroThree]

a b How?

[@bingbongbongbing5932]

True

[@bingbongbongbing5932]

​@Johnon please do some research. You say that we shouldn't have rely on potato though you convienaintly forgot the seizure of irish chieftain lands which directly violated a official treaty. which then led to the irish having limited land as the English owned most of it and rent was too high for very poor land. Due to the high rent only small parts of land were bought by irish peasants. there was not a lot of land to grow for example corn. so the irish were basicly FORCED to use potatoes as there was not enough land to feed a family using corn but potatoes grow more densely so the small amount of land would be more efficient. Do some fucking research please as this spreads misinformation

[@bingbongbongbing5932]

A is chosing lumpers and B is chosing kirpinks

[@bingbongbongbing5932]

@Johnon did u not read what I wrote... Lumpers grew more densly which was benificail as we Irish had very little land compared to Europe

[@jennyquigley7630]

I keep getting my plantations and rebellions mixed up "Well if your lot would stop invading us for five flipping minutes there wouldn't be so much would there" Derry Girls. Also ik thats not the quote word to word but you get the jist

[@cliodhna03]

Say a wee prayer for my gcse cause this is the most I’ll be doing😂😭

[@theanglo-lithuanian1768]

Imagine actually doing GCSEs and not having them cancelled due to Corona, cant relate 😥

[@harryenglish2172]

Got an a level exam on this soon so gl me ahaha

[@PeferG17]

If a group of people invaded my country, mistreated my people, and started telling me what to do... I'd never stop fighting, so I can't blame them.

[@bosnia7429]

So you mistreat them back?

[@PeferG17]

@@bosnia7429 Just saw your comment now, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

[@dankmatter3068]

@@bosnia7429 Well yeah lmao 🤣

[@breandank3026]

I would like to make the point that this was a pretty good video. But the rebellion that the French supported, was not solely a Protestant rebellion, but was both catholic and Protestant.

[@RobertK1993]

MacTire Tiogair United Irishmen was mostly lead by Protestants but not all Protestants supported it it has more Catholic members.

[@foraustralia2558]

Still mostly Protestant .. AND REMARkABLE.. that a minority who lead a rebellion where a majority would get freedom of religion if they won

[@Twistycheese]

I love how they are just called "the troubles". Like we could of just called WW1 and WW2 "the troubles" as well Please don't kill me qwq

[@cisco8257]

Yes but i don't think thousands of people died daily during the troubles

[@blackacidgaming5672]

We called the second world war "the emergency"

[@brosefmcman8264]

They call WW2 The BIG troubles 😂😂

[@eimhinlynch1517]

@lolsean never heard it called "the hunger" only ever the famine

[@leoblaney8040]

Eimhin Lynch or holocaust

[@johnkearns2942]

Comments on Bloody Sunday were disgusting there pal, even the British government apologised for this. Something along the lines of unjust and unjustifiable

[@memoryaccessviolation]

Yesss

[@graysonfrank8015]

potato eaters mad

[@memoryaccessviolation]

@@graysonfrank8015 Tea drinkers mad

[@memoryaccessviolation]

@@user-ez9is7lb9p I know, I was just trying to make a comeback

[@leod-sigefast]

Well when you are getting shot at and bombs set off against you everyday, I'd like to see how you would react, whatever the historic rights or wrongs for northern Ireland's existence.

[@ThestuffthatSaralikes]

SUUUper late- but “Derry Girls” brought me here. The show takes place towards the end of The Troubles and considering all I know of this time in Irish history is “Bloody Sunday” by U2, I wanted- no needed- to know more! So thanks man, can’t wait to watch it all and learn some new shite! Lol!!

[@MrJerryrigged1]

"They're hanging women and children for wearin' of the green!"

[@confessiochannel6504]

great quality video content, i do have one small comment if it hasn't been mentioned already, the term "Ulster" refers to an older region including 9 counties, you show the current outline of Northern Ireland when you use the term Ulster, which only included 6 of the 9 counties

[@shawnfinnegan64]

It’s not “an older region” it is a current region of Ireland. Ireland is 4 provinces including ulster which is 9 counties including the 6 currently under uk jurisdication (a gerrymandered state to ensure a loyalist majority)

[@Racc988]

Great video, as a Republican Irish descent lad the Republican catholics and IRA are often portrayed as the obvious bad guys but you’ve done a great job of showing the segregation they faced and the Protestant/ British aggression

[@milkmanlolzyo8658]

free dairy? thank god I was about to run out of milk

[@gremlinuk1968]

😂 ya,, back in 1984 I was 16 , just lift school , and got a job on a milk round,,! Worked on the round for 10 +years, delivered milk to both sides,! Was great times as a milkman,! Through it was working 7 days a week,! I was born 23rd May 1968 from northern Ireland UK, 🤝♥️🇬🇧

[@Not_A_Cop-e7h]

How troubling

[@yikes328]

I love how you tell us history in a funny way

[@mikeyob4271]

God bless Ireland. ! All of IT !

[@highvalueproductions7655]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Toffees1878]

@@highvalueproductions7655 fuck off robert

[@davidraffo707]

Robert big man will you fuck up

[@mikeyob4271]

@@davidraffo707 Freedom is priceless. Meny take it for granted. Especially now with covid 19. Nothing open. Stay at home order.

[@davidraffo707]

@@mikeyob4271 I was talking to Robert Hillis there mate, but what you said is true. Stay safe Mike

[@davidcardenas3315]

From a Mexican American 🇲🇽🇺🇸, I have a tremendous love & respect for the 🇮🇪 people and culture.

[@bellissimo999]

absolutely disgusting

[@irishduck2826]

​@@bellissimo999 disgusting? What's disgusting?

[@Gallowglass7]

San Patricio battalion. Mexicans never forgot.

[@-vanman88-82]

Me watching this outside in my surplus gear and hugging my AR is comfy af

[@medicolkie3606]

"oh diddly dee, a leprechaun put a bomb in me potato"

[@LJ-wm1bl]

😂😂

[@brycu1474]

a h

[@ranger4881]

my grandad was in belfast then and he doesn't like to talk about it much and i can see why

[@ranger4881]

he was a soldier

[@skeptic781]

Ranger mine too.

[@Prodrentjet]

Ranger probably killed a child or two

[@seantheguy1391]

Paddlez-is-king fuck off loyalist

[@theabsolutecat915]

>Leaving out Bloody Sunday >Brushing over the Falls Curfew >Calling the Potato Famine "British Mismanagement" >Thatcher is in the intro Yeah, I can tell where this is going

[@coolmansawesome]

>Mentions Bloody Sunday >Falls Curfew was necessary >Calling the Potato Famine "British Mismanagement", which it was >Thatcher is in the intro, is there an issue? Yeah, I can tell you are dense

[@Zones33]

What do you expect from a Pommy?

[@Rhinee]

That was the most accurate impression of an Irish person I've ever heard

[@divaybishnoi2773]

A feature history video? Hang on i will get some pepsi and nachos. EDIT- i am supposed to study... But who cares right?

[@fnordh9467]

history is a study

[@noco7243]

Divay Pratap I'm in the hospital

[@gmoralesmorales9212]

I'm in Sociology class

[@thomasemond2173]

bepis and chonases

[@thomasemond2173]

bepis and chonases

[@waxeater112]

Uh, it's called a *spud* thank you very much.

[@macewol326]

"British Mismanagement" that's a funny way of saying genocide

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Good job in copying another top commenter's comment

[@fergxson1650]

You did this so right.....Thank you for not being completely oblivious to one side because honestly it happens a lot here.

[@JackRackam]

I feel like I can see every pixel... Feature History Guy, you fell into the classic Hammond trap. Science has finally gone too far.

[@weaslecookie7361]

What is a Hammond trap? I don't remember that appearing in the novels or the movies. (Jurassic Park???)

[@JackRackam]

+Weaslecookie7 that is to say, he was so preoccupied with whether or not he could he didn't stop to think if he should

[@elias_xp95]

Hamood habibi*

[@RichardCranium69420]

Nice bot conversation

[@Jay_Kay_Redpill]

Go on home British soldiers go on home have you got no f'ing homes of yer own?

[@derfuher5394]

I hear whiskey in the jar playing in the background good choice😂👌

[@fakenamejones4254]

Love your videos! The topics, the visuals and your trademark wit that permeates your scripts! If I made history videos I would try to emulate you.

[@calumwatts7597]

As someone from Derry this is a really good video

[@starshipfantastica]

Catch him Derry!! Catch him 🦇

[@griffblack1175]

starshipfantastica its spelt londonderry

[@Kriegter]

"The IRA were bad guys in rainbow six so yeah" - kid

[@gone8913]

Would you agree that both the IRA and the British Army did horrendous acts? and should both be blamed and criticized for them?

[@Kriegter]

@@gone8913 well, same as the chechen war, both sides are evil

[@joshuarichards4681]

Yeah the entire thing was just shite Kinda reminds me of the decolonization of kenya where both sides where shite

[@nooodont8105]

Just a shite time all together

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

@@gone8913 the issue with the "both sides are just as bad" argument is that one sides is actively imposing its regime on the other. The Taliban are also really fucking bad, as was the Viet cong, but both are products of western involement and their continued existence is dependant on continued western involvement. unsurprisingly when you have a people desperately trying to fight off foreign powers things get really ugly real bad, especially when said foreign powers have little legitimate basis to be there in the first place.

[@OMurchadha]

I just feel that the tone of this video is almost...dismissive in parts...as though to make fun of the entire thing ever happening, or of the Republicans ever being angry. English...essentially, atrocities... being described as "not a good look". A little light, don't you think?

[@mephistophelesfussli819]

I think it is better to preserve the neutral tone. It is up to you to consider how brutal the actions were.

[@okay618]

Mephistopheles Füssli You can be neutral on the subject altogether but not on people dying. If he can make jokes abt it he can also say what happened was wrong. He’s already biased against the Irish in this video and you can tell by the tone.

[@joebrown5813]

Philip Murphy the “Londonderry, Derry, what you call it so you don’t get mad” line especially

[@bgs1707]

"Irish! I'm the captain now."

[@slamacat9866]

My mum tells me her stories of the troubles since she was raised in the tail end of it, the worst she told was when she watched a man she knew getting shot in the kneecaps when she was a kid. She told stories of how her, my aunt and my uncle would cuss out paramilitaries or how my uncle even bounced one when he worked security somewhere, I believe what she tells me but I know that they were very stupid things to pull in the long run considering how dangerous they were. My granny had to deal with a good bit of it but doesn't really talk to us about it, which might be understandable and my great-granddad ran a rather profitable business at the ship yard so he had to deal with paramilitaries and those sorts a lot. The troubles is one of my favourite topics to discuss because of how close it is to me and my family. Sorry, I'll leave now

[@baneoftheundead8064]

Everyone: Making videos about any topic makes them easier to understand. "The Troubles": Hold my whiskey...

[@holloww_dwella]

I'm worried this isn't taken serious enough but appreciate the well made video nonetheless. God bless

[@feliciaAlvarado]

I paused “The crown” show on Netflix to educate myself 🙂

[@freakkiller89]

Bumflap Willy.

[@San_Jose69]

'But it would climax in '69.' Comedy gold. All that aside though, great to get a deeper understanding of how the IRA and the Irish independence movements operated and began.

[@phetproductions5818]

Can you do the Philippine Revolution or the Philippine American War.

[@Kriskazam]

Your Typical Pinoy why do you as a pinoy care about Rhodesia?

[@citus333]

Why do you care ob what we care

[@marvinbanzuela6336]

While we're commenting on The Troubles isnt this quite similar in the Philippines too? Decades of sectarian violence from the 60s to the 90s instead of Protestants and Catholics we got Christians and Muslims

[@citus333]

30 years? More like 400 years

[@wisnuandre2038]

P I N O Y R I D E W O R L D I D E

[@biptyb5561]

Thank you for not calling the Provos "terrorists" and allowing people to form opinions for themselves. There were some notable mistakes, but it was accurate for the most part, which is more than you can say for most videos on the Troubles.

[@_HONK]

if they killed they were terrorists or the british army end of

[@paulsbunionkream9932]

Hello Feature History: I bent time and space to comment on your video before it was uploaded. It's a shame none of your other suscribers are as dedicated to watching your videos as me. -Yours sincerely, --Pauls Bunion kream

[@matthiaszammit2435]

Pauls Bunion Kream oof

[@ArvosCrusader]

Pauls Bunion Kream that's not even a lie

[@alexiel4406]

Pauls Bunion Kream if you "bent" time and space you would have noticed you spelling errors and grammar mistakes

[@matiasmakinen5028]

He's actually right chaps, wtf is happening

[@BromiskoTB]

Is Paul's Bunion Cream the most soothing formula?

[@midorisheepo2.186]

I watched this and the part two for project ideas 10/10 would reccomend. It made it interesting and fun.

[@dhdhhd9647]

Northern irish when the car starts makin bomb noises "just another tuesday"

[@wizardpig02]

dh dhhd when the car smell like a gardening store

[@joseph8057]

*chewsday

[@JohnJohnson-do1uc]

I am scared to watch this video. Not because of the video but because of the comments

[@JohnJohnson-do1uc]

Aro Man not Irish though

[@Crazed-oi3bs]

Aro Man He's got a picture of a German colonised Britain so that makes him just as bad.

[@JohnJohnson-do1uc]

CrazedOnline it's a random pic from a game I was proud of. I hate Nazis.

[@Crazed-oi3bs]

John Johnson Hearts of iron?

[@JohnJohnson-do1uc]

CrazedOnline No some shitty mobile game but I do like HOI4

[@seanmcauley5268]

At the beginning you call that area "Ulster" that is not Ulster that is 6 counties out of Ulster

[@FeatureHistory]

Added to the corrections

[@lovablesnowman]

Feature History I think you glossed over how important internment was. You also reduced the civil rights violations the Catholics endured to merely "segregation" not really a fair analysis

[@FeatureHistory]

The video as a whole is already 21 minutes long, there's only so much I can talk about

[@lovablesnowman]

Feature History Still though you probably should have spent more time on some of the more important elements. Such as the civil rights violations,bombay burnings and internment

[@sudocreme5080]

lovablesnowman I agree, talking about the Norman invasions wasn't ass important or influential in the outbreak of violence as the Bombay burnings, internment or the 5 demands

[@Ingens_Scherz]

When I was a very young second lieutenant in the TA (about 22), I worked for a bit alongside a 30-year veteran RSM. He was very tough and a crack shot who taught me how to shoot straight. I looked up to him more than anyone I'd ever met. Then one day, when Bloody Sunday was in the news again (this must have been the mid-90s), I naively said to him while we were in a four tonner going somewhere or other that in my highly informed opinion it might not be a bad idea to have the enquiry to "clear it up once and for all." You know what he said, after a heavy pause? "My squad claimed three." And that was it. He didn't say another word. I subsequently learned that he had indeed been a Para at the time, and had indeed been there. Their orders? To take back British sovereign territory. That was it. So I guess that's exactly what they did. I never spoke to him much after that for one reason or another. But the truth is that he'd scared the shit out of me and I didn't really know how I felt about what he'd (we'd) done. I said goodbye to the TA a few years later.

[@Crowborn]

Great work! You should do the Liberian war too, that was the most bizarre and sad conflict i ever saw

[@jafco1650]

british mismanagment is a weird way of saying hypocritical deliberate genocide

[@leuropaische]

it was not a genocide. genocide implies intention. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHrMcnxnpLenbpo

[@gone8913]

I hope you have the same opinions on immigration from Africa and the middle east ethnically taking over the Irish in Ireland? because if you don't then you're a hypocrite. When the native Irish is 5 per cent of the country's population will that change your view or is it racism?

[@leuropaische]

@@gone8913 what does that have to do with the Irish troubles?

[@gone8913]

@@leuropaische It is due to one of the main reasons for all the hatred is the English and Scottish are said to have wanted to racially take over and due to that the Irish hate the British, so all I was saying is it should be the same for any other racial group that takes over ethnically because either way it is a genocide.

[@niceone550]

It wasn't a deliberate genocide

[@antikoerper256]

Great couple of educational clips who really well sum up the whys hows whats and whens. Good job!

[@Jim54_]

When talking about modern Ireland, one thing that needs to be mentioned was how a Protestant Irish Parliament successfully gained independence for Ireland between 1782 and 1800, during which time Catholics got most of their rights back, with most Irish people of different faiths uniting under the ideologies of either constitutionalism or Republicanism, with both in favour of varying degrees of Irish sovereignty/autonomy and increased personal rights. This independence ended when a failed Republican Revolution in 1798 led British prime minister William Pitt to intimidate and bribe the Irish Parliament into merging the Kingdom Ireland into the UK after an initial Union vote failed. Ireland’s Parliament was forced to merge with The British one (though the courts and civil service of Ireland remained separate, but nominally subject to Westminster from now on). People on both sides seem to have completely forgotten this chapter in Irish history, because Protestants and Catholics fighting together for an independent Irish Kingdom doesn’t fit anyone’s narrative, and yet it had a major impact on the island. Unionism, Republicanism and Constitutionalism all originate from the original Irish volunteers that used the opportunity of the American Revolution distracting Britain to revolt in 1782. This heralded the independence and has shaped all aspects of Irish politics ever since

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Do one about the conquest of Algeria by restoration French Kingdom.

[@manfred473]

younes jorge and also then on the algerian indipendece

[@---uf2zl]

I did a study on the conquest of Algeria, can't help but find it boring :/

[@johnpark8727]

British Mismanagement? What a funny thing to call an intentional genocide.

[@LeviForWaifu]

Well the Irish are a very funny race, sir Every woman's in Cuman Um Bahn

[@OK-yy6qz]

Who TF causes a borderline civil war "the Troubles"

[@andrewberrocal2281]

My pastor was a kid during the troubles and his constabulary father worked late most nights trying to maintain order, he told us he could have died from IRA retaliation because the front door was directly in front of his room and where he rested his head at night.