Thank you for uploading this footage. It was my family who immigrated to Australia. I’m the little girls in dads arms while he’s being interviewed. We have had a great life in Australia and I thank my parents for the decision to move but I still miss all my family in Ireland and Ireland will always be home.
@thebadloser5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic to hear after watching this documentary - I don't know how anyone who lived in those parts of the city then coped with the constant stress they were living under every day. Your dad looked after his family and took them to a safe place - a strong man.
@ricdavid74765 жыл бұрын
wow that must be very sentimental looking at the film your dad looked like a really nice bloke glad that it all worked out well for you. was your dad a catholic or a protestant? Did your faith in Christ as your saviour survive the move to Oz?
@arfer5 жыл бұрын
Great to hear you're doing well Ann....You're Da made the right decision.
@ricdavid74765 жыл бұрын
@@paulduffy4585 Sorry to hear that . Could you not go back now that things have calmed down a little. There are some lovely rural bits of NI
@BrendyNew5 жыл бұрын
Glad it worked out for yas. I was actually wondering how he ever got on. My dad was a bus driver, had his 25 years service throughout the troubles. Your dad seems like a good guy
@StopDropandLOL6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Gunn's story broke my heart. You could hear the sheer terror in his voice. I really hope he did well in New Zealand.
@stephensmith44805 жыл бұрын
Hear Hear. That poor mans story is heartbreaking,i hope he went on to live a long and happy life with his family away from it all.
@monkeybubblessupperdude10165 жыл бұрын
Is the irony lost on anyone that his name is Mr GUNn.. considering the situation.
@monkeybubblessupperdude10165 жыл бұрын
@Mark Kenny 😎😃
@TICTACMANTIPS5 жыл бұрын
I can assure you nothing has changed
@dulls84754 жыл бұрын
@@stevegreen9460 I have lived in New Zealand and they have the same problems we do.
@neilanblomee19225 жыл бұрын
He was not political and was hard working but was a catholic, so he was run out of a protestant area...really fell sorry for Mr Gunn and his family. I am an ex-soldier and a generally a unionist, but I am ashamed that he was chased out of the area...and the country...
@paulclarke1715 жыл бұрын
Are you from Ireland or Britain?
@whitewolfo27155 жыл бұрын
@@torquemada3273 The I.R.A. are Marxist you numbty they are your enemy now they support your replacement through its support of the Globalist agenda.
@torquemada32735 жыл бұрын
@@whitewolfo2715 Was in the Falls Rd a few weeks back...didn't hear any Marxist keech and definitely no enemies...you are thinking of the so called officials with that marxist tosser at the helm...Cathal Goulding in the 60's/70's...but it's 2019 now so peace and love everywhere😄😄😄 You must be from Glasgow using that word numpty😉
@torquemada32735 жыл бұрын
@@whitewolfo2715 Who the fuck are you??? by the sound of ur user name you sound like a member of the UK...explain bud😉
@torquemada32735 жыл бұрын
Typo error...meant KKK ya numpty😆😆😆
@bustertypsy5 жыл бұрын
Full respect to Edward Gunn. A shortage of men like him in this world.
@nervesinapattern72614 жыл бұрын
Agreed, hard working and honest. I hope he got that peace he was looking for.
@chrismccann91644 жыл бұрын
Great little video.... My parents were also one of the families that ran away to NZ and Australia. I was always a wee bit resentful, I felt like an outsider over here growing up and always wished we were back in Belfast. Watching these films makes it ever so clear that there was no other option at the time. I can understand my parents fears and why they felt they needed to leave their homes and other family and friends behind. My mother and father are both still alive and loving life down under... we can all be truly grateful for this when so many lost their lives during the troubles
@svukusic34324 жыл бұрын
Did you go return to Belfast?
@chrismccann91644 жыл бұрын
@@svukusic3432 Yes just recently. I ended up living and working in Belfast for a year... I admit it was tough to live there and a little crazy. I rented a house right near my parents old neighbourhood. The money was shite and my children missed Australia so we came back down under. was the best experience for me and I plan to go back ! Belfast today is awesome even with all its flaws and social issues. The people in Northern Ireland can be hard but I love them all.
@svukusic34324 жыл бұрын
Thanks @@chrismccann9164. Good to hear things worked out for you. I was born in Belfast in '69. Moved away in '72. Great to visit every year or so. Interesting to see this video, how it was back then.
@iamsoldierf83164 жыл бұрын
You’ve a lot to thank your parents for, fair play returning and working back in Belfast. ONLY the dinosaurs holding it back.
@OhEidirsceoil3 жыл бұрын
Why didnt ye move to Donegal, Dundalk or Monaghan?
@yitzaklieberstein81264 жыл бұрын
Edward Gunn seems like a legend , New Zealand gained a great guy.
@tomweldon76083 жыл бұрын
Well said, many a men like him from that part of Ireland, good hardworking men
@goalltheway-pm8xs3 жыл бұрын
Should have shot a couple off the bastards before he left.
@jacquiewalton13553 жыл бұрын
Yitzak Lieberstein Is this one taking a rest micky ?
@RobertK1993 Жыл бұрын
Edward Gunn make good Irish Nationalist politician in SDLP he stop the violence
@subscriberswithnoVideos-yx3jf6 жыл бұрын
The man at the end,You can see the pain in his eyes and hear it in his voice. I hope he made it to NZ and the other families at the start who said the were going to Australia went, stayed and had a good life, for I too left for Australia and have never looked back! Protestant or Catholic god bless every single one of them !!!!!!
@rabby777775 жыл бұрын
The guy you are talking about when him and his family were going to get the boat . The taxi they were travelling in to the harbour crashed and the man was left paralysed. Talk about bad luck
@Puppy-ew4be5 жыл бұрын
I hope they made a great life for themselves too. Well done to you too for making the break.
@rabby777775 жыл бұрын
@l g of course its bullshit I'm just fucking about
@vonny100965 жыл бұрын
I was hoping that it all went well for them too
@peteschneider73695 жыл бұрын
@@rabby77777 don't be that fuckwit !
@tomceltic55025 жыл бұрын
Alot of comments for mr gunn. A hard working family man. The worst about it is there was so many like him and his family this happened too. I hope he found peace
@danielr47746 жыл бұрын
19:05 Such a nice man. Respect.
@W.A.T.P...555 жыл бұрын
These old news reports from the troubles are great to watch..very educational..they should be shown in schools
@tuxitalk1World5 жыл бұрын
Agreed, and here in the US as well. Growing up we heard of the conflict in Northern Ireland but we didn’t understand everything. I have now been going back and reading books and watching videos to learn more about that time.
@ericskillen19144 жыл бұрын
Agreed, might put off some of the wee arseholes in Scotland trying to emulate them, let them see what the troubles really meant
@chrisroger87744 жыл бұрын
Yes I born IN the UK part of Northern Ireland through Troubles was part of Norm BK IN 60s 70s 80s Until 1998 Ulster Agreement
@chrisroger87744 жыл бұрын
@@ericskillen1914 who IS
@steveperry80315 жыл бұрын
An example of an innocent person , irrelevant of religion , who just wants a decent life but had his home attacked and his family terrified . The silent majority who suffered . Very sad.
@davekiernan15 жыл бұрын
Mr Edward Gunn. A fine man and true community person. God has not made enough people like this. An insperation.All of the Belfast and more Love you sir.
@OrdinaryJoe124 жыл бұрын
davekiernan1 perhaps his religion and second name led to some confusion among the dysfunctional low intelligence youth of the opposing side. ‘that guys ira i heard hes got a gun’
@That_Random_Bloke6 жыл бұрын
I’d love to know what happened to Edward Gunn after he left for New Zealand. I hope it went well for him and his family
@chrisconnollyofficial5 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same thing myself mucker
@RobertK19935 жыл бұрын
Became rich in the USA after leaving NZ and forgot all about failed backward Northern Ireland.
@chrisconnollyofficial5 жыл бұрын
Is that a fact or fiction?
@gerry51345 жыл бұрын
Which area in belfast did Mr Gunn live??
@RobertK19935 жыл бұрын
TORQUE MADA What?
@surbon5145 жыл бұрын
I hope Mr Gunn had a happy life in NZ, I'll bet he did. Nobody could put up with all the nonsense he suffered, I would have done the same thing if I were in his shoes!
@gomey704 жыл бұрын
It's all these individual stories that break your heart. Just normal people trying to live their lives.
@glenmiller2725 жыл бұрын
Truly felt sorry for Mr Gunn, just a working jack trying to live his life, hope things worked out for him and his family...
@eboyle37975 жыл бұрын
Like most people
@monkeybubblessupperdude10165 жыл бұрын
Considering this is about the trouble on the streets it's ironic that his name is Mr GUNn
@torquemada32735 жыл бұрын
@@monkeybubblessupperdude1016 Thanks to YT a lot of people will now see how feckin horrendous these times were....long long overdue that Britain's involvement in Ireland is on the history curriculum in all British schools.
@monkeybubblessupperdude10165 жыл бұрын
@@torquemada3273 I'm Irish and one day the island will be United
@torquemada32735 жыл бұрын
@@monkeybubblessupperdude1016 Genuinely don't know if the RA's guns gave the Nationalist's equality or if the SDLP would have got there just as quickly re Sunningdale but my instinct tell's me it was the BON JOVIES fearsome response which has led to EQUALITY...fuck what is equality with those inbred dark ages doolally willie Frazer types...we are so much better than that....Billy Hutchinson their bonfire leader 😆😆😆
@davekiernan14 жыл бұрын
Mr Gunn is a treasure. God bless Mr Gunn and family. It makes me very proud , when I hear this man.
@sansoucci53945 жыл бұрын
It was heartbreaking having to see a decent man and his family get chased out of a place he liked living in.We cannot go back to times like that.I hope everything worked out better for them.
@RobertK1993 Жыл бұрын
Ulster Unionists Loyalists do the windows so this how supposed to convince Irish Roman Catholics into staying part of the UK 9:48
@paulbrowne60875 жыл бұрын
Edward Gunn's house looks pretty much the same as it did 40 years ago. It's 80 Ardoyne Rd, Glenbryn. Definitely no catholics living around that district to this day.
@keithkeegan97765 жыл бұрын
Bad dat a man born and bredd in Belfast and works hard doesn't botther any one has to leave his country. Hope he made a good go of it in New Zealand.
@davidsmith23564 жыл бұрын
Soldiers knew these people personally, we felt sorry for those we were unable to help.. We tried!
@markmay1844 жыл бұрын
Very sad story, and I hope Edward Gunn and his family are doing well in NZ. Like Edward Gunn, my grandfather (except a Protestant) “cut his losses” and left Belfast. Only he emigrated to Australia - in 1914. Where he met and married my grandmother (a Catholic).
@iamsoldierf83164 жыл бұрын
I married a nice lady from the Ballymurphy area. Prod, proud and paratrooper. 😎
@RobertK1993 Жыл бұрын
@@iamsoldierf8316 Sure you did solider F a lost cause his banged to rights Ulster Loyalists need stop defending British Security Forces disgrace themselves
@steveperry80315 жыл бұрын
Sad story of Edward Gunn , hard working man .....and subjected to that , and no protection from the army or police ...
@spm363 жыл бұрын
What should they have done? Sat outside his door 24/7? Blame the cretins who do this to a decent man instead of blaming others
@RobertK1993 Жыл бұрын
@@spm36 Bigoted Ulster Scots Presbyterians
@shirleyannex4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this documentary, I hope all the people that left have done well for themselves, I wish they would teach our troubles in our schools as younger generations haven't a clue, it's so they don't make the same mistakes and learn from our past and treat everyone with the same respect they deserve themselves, I remember these times thankfully my children haven't to a certain extent, many thanks ☺
@paulphilipempey16 жыл бұрын
Interesting documentary on Belfast. I am a firm believer that the majority of people during 'the Troubles' simply wished to go about their own lives, work hard and look after their family, like any other family in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Only a very small minority of people created the divide on both sides. I was particularly perturbed by the circumstances of the hardworking man nearing the end of the documentary, who had been forced to emigrate to New Zealand as a direct result of youths stoning and damaging his home. How helpless he must have felt for having committed the 'crime' of 'being from the other side'. How very sad! Belfast is a very different place now. However, will it last? Only time will tell.
@ChristopherSobieniak6 жыл бұрын
Always takes one bad apple to spoil it for the bunch.
@StopDropandLOL6 жыл бұрын
They all just slag each other off on Facebook now. The root of the problem really hasn't changed.
@geedee12645 жыл бұрын
No the terrible political situation created the divide, ands it is different thankfully, but not as different as you like to think. My girlfriend lives in an estate controlled by the UVF and since I have an Irish name that could put my life in danger.
@edmund1845 жыл бұрын
@@geedee1264 I had heard the paramilitary groups still control their communities. Very bad thing indeed but sadly predictable. Situation far from solved.
@Krass.Estranged5 жыл бұрын
@@geedee1264 Not really your life in danger. Your jaw maybe, but thats standard NI.
@David-nm4yc4 жыл бұрын
"an average day in Belfast" well that would send you to the other side of the world.
@RobertK19935 жыл бұрын
Sickening behaviour by both sides the youth should have been kept on leech.
@endzm055 жыл бұрын
That would just suck the life out of them
@davidhynes18053 жыл бұрын
My dad was brought up in East Belfast and lived in Scotland the rest of his life when he married my mum, we all went 'back home' to visit and I always remember he would have a year in his eye, when he seen how his beloved city had been ruined by hatred and bigotry , we cannot ever go back to those dark days ever again!!!
@ravenhill_theAnglo-celt-19685 жыл бұрын
good old thames tv giving us clips of yesteryear, so long ago now.
@georgebrowne59352 жыл бұрын
The Partitioning of the Six Counties from Ireland in 1921 was a disastrous Mistake from the British Government, it placed a Land Border on Land, and in the Mindset of both People's living there. Catholics and Protestants live side by side in the Republic of Ireland as Equals with no violence.
@donnataylor56735 жыл бұрын
Read many books on the troubles!!! Done a lotta research too it was a horrible time where many innocent lives were lost through catholic and Protestant fight 😭😭😭 I love coming ova to Belfast from Scotland beautiful country fave place in the world
@paulcarolan86465 жыл бұрын
Hello from royal hill of Tara county Meath Ireland☺
@Normalguy16905 жыл бұрын
donna taylor ahh a good Scots man always friend to us loyalists in Northern Ireland
@careyscates55045 жыл бұрын
Scottish love to party in Belfast
@iamsoldierf83164 жыл бұрын
liam mellows1916 Lolol. If you can’t beat ‘em, JOIN ‘em.
@LurganGoon915 жыл бұрын
The bus driver, what a legend 😂
@mindfixer4you6 жыл бұрын
I see from Google maps that this area has been redeveloped and Thistle Street is now a Court but with Union Jack's still flying! Would love to know what happened to those interviewed all those years ago.
@polmacdhomhnaill30215 жыл бұрын
*Union flags :)
@David-mb7zw5 жыл бұрын
@@polmacdhomhnaill3021 common mistake made by ignorant republicans
@dunneincrewgear5 жыл бұрын
Snidle And ignorant unionists...
@chrisconnollyofficial5 жыл бұрын
Butchers aprons
@iamsoldierf83164 жыл бұрын
Only a Union Jack if flying on a ship.
@dvrn864 жыл бұрын
Absolutely shameful the way that hardworking Mr Gunn was treated. No doubt in my mind he done well in New Zealand.
@eboyle37975 жыл бұрын
To think it could go back to this because our precious peace process isn't being looked after 😞😠
@Normalguy16905 жыл бұрын
E Boyle because of the scum IRA and this brexit shite and the failure of our government
@decclaws5 жыл бұрын
@@Normalguy1690 and the drug dealing loyalists poisoning the youth
@Normalguy16905 жыл бұрын
decclaws fuck off more drugs come in on the Catholic side than the loyalist side. But why even mention either side they both deal to kids moron.
@zezet0ni5942 жыл бұрын
Brave Bus drivers, who were often targeted and many killed or injured. The elderly gentleman boarding his windows . My heart melted when he was talking. Throughout ALL the years of The Troubles, the innocent communities, shoppers, children, workmen, they were all targeted by cowards on either side, and paid the ultimate price. God Bless them one and all, and bless this great island. I am an Irish descendant and I am, and always have been, proud to say that 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇬🇧
@cocksure8430 Жыл бұрын
Why? I'm Irish/English myself. I know why I'm proud of my English heritage, but Irish? Nah, not proud of stories about victimhood and death cults..... (The knowledge saved and shared by priests throughout history , fantastic....but the vatican has other historical habits that aren't so positive... .🤦🏻♂️)
@zezet0ni594 Жыл бұрын
@@cocksure8430 I share your anger. They were hideous atrocities. That notwithstanding, I'm proud of my Irish ancestry for many reasons. I'm proud of the strength each and every Irish person had. To stand strong and believe that one day the awful nightmare of The Troubles they were living through would end, and that peace would come to Ireland. I am in my late 60s, and remember clearly the stories my grandfather told me of the struggles he and his family had, just to eek out a meal from the land in Ireland and to fight just to stave off hunger and illness. I am a proud English person. But I will always be proud of my Irish heritage.
@cocksure8430 Жыл бұрын
See? Youre proud of what great victims the Irish are, never giving up not winning...over the body of the last revolutionary (whos death they sing about with glee)...who also lost. Not the best I'm afraid.
@zezet0ni594 Жыл бұрын
@@cocksure8430You're wrong. I disagree. I acknowledge the strength and bravery of the Irish who have long suffered. If not from religious bigotry then from political crimes carried out by both sides, which blighted that land with blood for decades. Now peace is surviving there, I don't understand why you're happy to make sweeping statements about 95% of honest, hard working people, as if they don't deserve it? I'd be interested to know what you're views are of 'your own' Irish family and their struggles. Hopefully, you have studied their lives and know something of your Irish genealogy. But, anyway. Let's just agree to disagree here. My feelings for the land of my fore fathers is strong and I AM proud. Always will be. Have a nice day.
@cocksure8430 Жыл бұрын
@@zezet0ni594 No, I asked you what youre proud of, and all you can come up with is being proud of being victims. Thats exactly what I said is their identity. Also, folk like you who know nothing about Ireland (you couldnt even give me one single achievement to be proud of) but for some reason love the idea of being Irish, like a child who wants his life to be a little more interesting than it really is. Lip service. So no, we wont agree on anything. I said what you were going to say about pride in victimhood, and then you said it....exactly. If you wish to be proud of something then at least have the courtesy to know something about a place before you steal an identity for yourself. Or you could find some pride in who you actually are rather than some mythical freedom fighting ancestry....its really fukin lame.
@JerzyFeliksKlein4 жыл бұрын
That last interview was the most touching all of I've seen in those Thames documentaries about Belfast. I knew a guy who left a protestant area even though he was a protestant, simply because he didn't want to get entangled in the conflict in the early 80s. He spent 10 years in RSA and eventually returned.
@petergreen25525 жыл бұрын
Where I lived back then,there was little or none of this. I pitied the poor people of Belfast having to endure that shit for over 30 years. Thankfully,those times are passed.
@dowling19815 жыл бұрын
They haven't gone away
@petergreen25525 жыл бұрын
@@dowling1981 ok,there's still a little bit of internal feuding over territory and possible drug distribution,but the bombs that paralysed Belfast at one time aren't going off anymore. Police and Army aren't being shot at. It's just the never ending marches and flags nonsense that won't go away
@darraghwalsh85345 жыл бұрын
14.10 is the problem. Protestant feels better because no Catholics nearby. She wasn't scared was she.... just didn't want them near her. That smile on her face when she quotes her husband saying it hasn't started yet.
@Harley.Davidson Жыл бұрын
My Mother's family left this insanity and took the entire family to the United States. My Father's family got the entire family out if Poland and also emigrated to the United States for obvious reasons. I graduated from High School in 1976 and wanted to go to Belfast to help. My Irish Mother stopped me. 😶
@robertplatt13794 жыл бұрын
what a real man and gentleman that farther was .......
@jamesoneill10875 жыл бұрын
@1.44 “you see with me being on holiday I forgot all about it. Lol
@johnboy33775 жыл бұрын
would love to know what happend to the fella at the end said he was moving to NZ, did he and his family make it and a good life for them selfs??
@s871-c1q6 жыл бұрын
thank youuu! tough topic, love it from a historical not political POV
@1969sdh5 жыл бұрын
Bless mr Gunn
@tomratican63453 жыл бұрын
I hope Edward Gunn and his family are doing well and are happy that they got away from those idiots. What a nice man
@sarapatricius84736 жыл бұрын
Thank-you for uploading this video
@lesliestobbart13864 жыл бұрын
Good for him he’s a hard working man wanting a normal life
@juliemcleod98695 жыл бұрын
Thank god things have changed.. I went to Belfast about 3 years ago . I found it to be a modern vibrant city..which was busseling. The people were kind and helpful. It's worth a visit. Lots of history!
@johndillinger84244 жыл бұрын
Yes everyone goes to Belfast these days. So much night life I'm still amazed any time I go.
@patrickcrowther91954 жыл бұрын
I honestly think this type of clear, factual programming is way superior to the over loud, frenetic nonsense that so often fills TV screens. The early ‘70s was a golden age for television in many ways.
@paulallaway36904 жыл бұрын
Strange to see Beechfield St in East Belfast opened up the way it used to be, now split to divide the communities.
@mactoirdealbhaigh76245 жыл бұрын
Charles Stewart Parnell, Wolfe Tone, Erskine Childers, Billy Leonard, Ernest Blythe, Robert Barton, Ivan Cooper, Kathleen Lynn, Issac Butt, William Smith O Brien, Darrel Figgis, Stephan Gwynn, Horace Plunkett, Thomas Addis Emmet, Thomas Davis, James Napper Tandy, John Gray, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, all Irish Protestant IRA members. It's an Irish, British thing not Catholic, Protestant as a lot of arseholes would have you think.
@merseydave15 жыл бұрын
Its a Nationalist issue, the vast majority of catholics have that outlook ... On the other hand, its a Unionist issue ... the vast majority of protestants have that outlook . So regrettably its a political-religious issue.
@mactoirdealbhaigh76245 жыл бұрын
@@merseydave1 Your talking about the black boxes in the north, that's not true for Ireland as a whole.
@merseydave15 жыл бұрын
@@mactoirdealbhaigh7624 You are talking nonsense
@mactoirdealbhaigh76245 жыл бұрын
@@merseydave1 Right I just live here, what the fuck would I know?
@wingnut713 ай бұрын
Didn't know Ivan Cooper was an IRA member. I think his family might have something to say about that.
@killakristian70846 жыл бұрын
my god,,i grew up in Belfast,, memories , fuck ,,,we were a crazy bunch in west Belfast back in the day.
@decclaws5 жыл бұрын
@@adrenalinpump7601 the billy bum boys are worse
@a817585 ай бұрын
20.55 This man Mr Gunn. He was too good for the area as it was at that time. Moving was a blessing in disguise. New Zealand is a lovely place.
@monkofmayhem13734 жыл бұрын
15th feb '71 decimilization was introduced, this film was 30th sep '71 so when I see a house @£20000 which in todays money would well north of £1M it makes me think that these house prices have not inflated in line with currency.
@doloresfisher5965 жыл бұрын
How sad that a man born and bred in the city of Belfast with both sad and happy memories felt he could no longer stay had to move to other side of the world.and fact he said he would rather not see it again sad to have to be made to feel that way.yes we have come on to some degree but there is a long way to go.the vast majority of people here are great and feel exactly as Mr.Gunn did back then it is only a handful of people on both sides now that want to keep this nonsense alive cos they don't know any other day to live but I am confident with next few generations it will eventually die off because people are travelling more outside of northern Ireland they are widening their horizons more and educating themselves more so we will get there it's just going to take but longer than we had anticipated because future generations are not going to be put in a box Catholics.protestants.dissenter will all mix together and become more integrated with one another and if two people come together in love no one is going to worry where you were christened or indeed even if you were because love and mutual respect will always win the day in the end and I firmly believe it will here too.
@stephenholmes10364 ай бұрын
Mr Gunn , I hope you all had a good life.
@georgedeathe46835 жыл бұрын
My best friend 42 yrs ago NI Catholic married an English protestant they moved over to Craigavon and we run out by both sides, they settled back in England.
@thornbird67684 жыл бұрын
george de'athe How childish !!!!
@RobertK1993 Жыл бұрын
Ulster Unionists hate English Protestants for selling them out who could blame English Protestant they are Anglicans think Presbyterians are freaks weirdos😂
@mabbrey4 жыл бұрын
heart breaking
@stephenholmes10364 ай бұрын
Some of our relatives left the North in December 1971 they came down to us around Midleton and Waterville Co Kerry. They came for the children sake due to the breakdown in behaviour at schools. It was the best thing they did the children settled well. They have never been back, They never wanted to got back. I hope it worked out for the other emigraes too
@afroliciouspresents36032 жыл бұрын
Mr. Edward Gunn is a true man, protecting his family. His face is very similar to that of the actor Daniel Day Lewis.
@MrBettyfisher5 жыл бұрын
Heartbreaking
@dellahicks72312 жыл бұрын
I've watched several documentaries on The Troubles etc, as I grew up in Canada in the 70s, and remember seeing fighting on the nightly news every day. I was too young to understand it at the time, and frankly, (And I am ashamed to admit this) it was so far removed from us, most adults just ignored it. This brings up some interesting perspectives I actually have considered while watching the turmoil. Like how did the buses keep running, civic facilities, or shops? The take from the suburbs was fascinating, very informative!
@michaelbritton97785 жыл бұрын
It's just a shame that the whole population of northern Ireland can't get together and forget about their religious beliefs and remember that they are all decent human beings and get on with one another it must be awful I feel sorry for them all.
@gordonseales32784 жыл бұрын
I don't care that I'm a prod but what that gentleman said makes him a diamond and I respect him and he and his family shouldn't have to leave Belfast's nice places,that is what wee need more of and so feckin what I don't care wee need feckin peace because I grew up up there then so don't try and tell me because you are either English or member of my familie so I'm not bloody interested.
@demolik20035 жыл бұрын
23:30 What a brave man
@NeilVanceNeilVance6 жыл бұрын
Very good footage of our old town and folk ... thank you!
@jimmcferran62135 жыл бұрын
If only we all lived our lives like this man and hurt no one .true family man
@matty6848 Жыл бұрын
So in 1971 you could buy a mansion out in the posh suburbs for 20K. 20k won’t even buy you a bed sit now. Crazy how house prices have exploded. Even though people earned less back then it wasn’t relevant to todays house prices and peoples wages. No wonder so many live in rented accommodation or have 30 year plus mortgages.
@polmacdhomhnaill30215 жыл бұрын
24:45 The words of those in the Clann MacDonald's of Glencoe back in late 1690's.
@edifiedreader3 жыл бұрын
Northern Ireland fell into chaos and terror (from both sides) because there weren’t enough men like Mr. Gunn. Moral of the Troubles: Be like Mr. Gunn.
@monkeybubblessupperdude10165 жыл бұрын
Who the fuck in their right mind would want to live in that environment.
@billiardball96503 жыл бұрын
the wee man with the windows godbless him and in the end of the day its only innocent decent people that suffered and continue to suffer
@kevinlynch94384 жыл бұрын
I hope that man & his family had a great life in New Zealand !! I'm sure he did as he was obviously a hard working man!! And I hope the young lads who chased him out of Ireland (just like my own parents were , for the crime of being Catholic's) are still alive when Ireland is united once again (or if they are dead, almost as good) because a United Ireland is now as inevitable as the sun coming up in the morning!! God Bless The UNDEFEATED P. IRA 🇮🇪✊🏻🇵🇸
@Judgementday-qp1ol5 ай бұрын
The Only thing British in the Colony, is the Mindset. Colonialism has left some damage in its path in Ireland.
@BreakerBreakerYeo4 жыл бұрын
Can a good honest Catholic and a good honest protestant tell me how the troubles started? I would like to hear from the 2 different sides ? houses don't get burnt like that for nothing so tell the truth, please.
@Chubbstain4 жыл бұрын
Garry Creighton NI was made after the rebellion in South of Ireland by Protestants that wanted to stay British and feared repercussions from staying in the South, I know various friends who’s families were from the South but moved North due to violence against them. Naturally that turned a lot of Protestants sour to Catholics in the North and made them restrict their lives unfairly with it only getting more so as IRA activity ramped up, a positive feedback in a way. The divides were small things from the past, Ethno-Religious became Ethno-Political in the modern era, this divide was only increased as more events happened.
@grettajoyce32044 жыл бұрын
The Civil Rights movement gives a clue. It was seeking one man one vote and was beaten, bullied and defeated by Unionist intransigence.
@meyou-gi8xq2 жыл бұрын
@@grettajoyce3204 just about sums it up in one sentence. Catholics treated unequally in all aspects of society pre 1969 i.e housing, employment, education, etc. and then 'given the stick' when they protested. NI government created the circumstances for what happened.
@seanbarrett2629 Жыл бұрын
If the protestents who migrated to the north of lreland in the 16 th and 17 th centuries educated their children that they lived in a different country, and had some sympathy for all the wrongs perpatrated on the lrish people maby they might have intergrated more over time, education is the key.
@iano2392 ай бұрын
The Gunn experience is not unusual. My brothers father in law was told by the RUC he was on a list. He was helping people (Catholics) fill out compensation forms. Moved to Dublin. The Police were not there to protect our sort. My father-in-law bought a shotgun and showed he could use it. That stopped the shooting into his house. The RUC "couldn't help." The same boys were out on the 12th marching. I know everyone suffered. It's a bit like like the Palestinians now. Some people left, some people fought, and everyone suffered. My perspective is that partition was unnecessary, and it made the violence inevitable. Sectarian states are just not stable.
@emoryking52784 жыл бұрын
Partition has failed, past time to end British rule in Ulster.
@caleb47904 жыл бұрын
Partition is there for a reason
@RobertK19934 жыл бұрын
Caleb Emerson To keep sectarian tensions going 400 years and on
@wynty2003 жыл бұрын
@@caleb4790 To create a gerrymandered, artificial state with a manufactured Unionist majority. Couldn’t even keep all of Ulster in Britain..
@caleb47903 жыл бұрын
@@wynty200 that’s Caz Ulster voted against staying, fool
@BenDover-tj8vf Жыл бұрын
It breaks my heart to see such nice desent ordinary people who just want a simple peaceful way of life be tortured that way . Sad world . Northern Ireland is such a beautiful country with genuinely nice folk .
@dennisbaker59845 жыл бұрын
All this due to the biggest serial killers........RELIGEON.
@johnny450gf5 жыл бұрын
i hope the man at the end got his wish
@mcp12283 жыл бұрын
the fact the troubles started over a civil right campaign is crazy
@donaldstewart98275 жыл бұрын
The loyalist thugs and layabouts drove that hard working man and his family out of their home and it was all for "God and Ulster" LOL!
@ToldAlthea4 жыл бұрын
@ Donald Stewart. no matter which side utters “ X drove Catholics/Protestants out of their homes” --- you will always have the Catherine Teszke’s of the world ready to pounce. I am an American who has NO place in the centuries old battles in Ireland. I am the son of a mixed Catholic/Protestant marriage. We were raised Protestant. But what the loyalists perpetrated in Northern Ireland , especially from 1969 to 2000, needs to be FULLY REVEALED AND NEVER FORGOTTEN. Serial killing sanctioned by government. The Republicans are guilty of same crap.... but it was the brutal repression of the centuries which created them as a unit. Much like Germans under Hitler, these people who perpetrated (post the war) must come out and f’n apologize for what they have done. Now let those who disagree speak...🙂
@jdcoffey64 жыл бұрын
Dirty prods
@hiddenknowledge20124 жыл бұрын
@Jadey Xx That's utter lies. Everyone knows it was the protestant majority government oppressing fuck out of civil rights marches and catholics which forced people to fight back. Proddie bastards have the same arrogant attitude as the British establishment, forgetting that Ireland as a whole was once united until British forces occupied the north and then claimed it as their own.
@jordanhicks51314 жыл бұрын
@Jadey Xx yeah that's a bunch of lies.
@hilarioushen41643 жыл бұрын
wuss81 🎱⚽️⚾️🏀🎱⚽️s
@Alex-gn2rb Жыл бұрын
Wasn't this a major factor that moderates on all sides fled with their families leaving behind those who could not or would not therefore entrenching sectarianism even deeper and into the open arms of the paramilitary ideologies.
@IrishTechnicalThinker6 жыл бұрын
Remember the Ballymurphy massacre. British forces murdered 11 innocent people including a mother of 4 children, they shot her 12 times and once in the face trying to help the wounded.
@joeoreilly14795 жыл бұрын
Strange white stupid protestant person more like it and get rid of your hatred and maybe you will some sense
@liammellows-hz3pf5 жыл бұрын
You are very one-sided.I think your off a very low I.Q..You spout hatred on a load of videos without evidence..Where you even born when the "Ballymurphy Massacre" happened.? Do you know anyone that was shot dead?.Never discredit if you know nothing about it.
@peterkirk1235 жыл бұрын
@Straight White British Protestant Straight Black Irish Republican They were as innocent as Lee Rigby , and none had ever joined an army .
@edwardtanner63935 жыл бұрын
Did u remember bloody friday, la mon , enniskillen .Or have u sellected memory ?
@rock078795 жыл бұрын
Load of bollocks. Ballymurphy residents/IRA were shooting into Protestant houses. You just whine when someone shoots back at you.
@keeperlit.leterrip77222 жыл бұрын
A typical day indeed. I remember the news reports on tv were similar every day for years.
@sineadnichoirbin72325 жыл бұрын
"The children are defying the British army". 😂🤣😂🤣
@rock078795 жыл бұрын
Interesting point - these houses were burned out by rampaging catholic mobs venting their sectarian hatred. But then that is how you spread your equality and kkkulture isn't it.
@Kitiwake5 жыл бұрын
@Paul Nolan that's what the reporter said
@pauladee35065 жыл бұрын
@@rock07879 That is completely untrue. Tell me this, how's that bitter wee Frazer bastard doing the day, any word of him fucking off yet, surely he can't have much longer. *SATAN'S WAITING*
@caleb47904 жыл бұрын
Sinéad Ní Choirbín they cant take authority that’s what’s wrong with the world, they should be hit a smack like any bad child
@PiarasMcGroggan80703 жыл бұрын
@@rock07879 your a header mate 😂
@amanb86985 жыл бұрын
Religion is so ridiculous. The fact they harassed him over being Catholic is so stupid. Heck, I'm an American who is the product of a Protestant father and a Roman Catholic mother. I'm Secular and Socialist. We as Socialists don't care about organized religion. We don't discriminate based on your religion. We just want a strong secular state. We also don't discriminate based on race or ethnicity or gender. We actually view all religion as a distraction ultimately. Protestant or Catholic it doesn't matter. Both are to be kept in private domains and out of government. Socialism is about equality.
@greglyons25265 жыл бұрын
Has nothing to do with religion. Its nationalism. Catholics want to be part of the republic as they see themselves Irish and protestants seeing themselves as British want to stay part of the UK. There have been protestants in the IRA and INLA. It's a war over land and not something eing fought on theological grounds.Im from Ireland by the way.
@Super2419464 жыл бұрын
Secular and socialist.......worse than being either Catholic or Protestant. You sir are very dangerous!!!
@amanb86984 жыл бұрын
@@Super241946 Dangerous to Capitalists, Imperialists, Fascists, and Racists
@polmacdhomhnaill30215 жыл бұрын
15:20 three years later at the Mulberry Bush Birmingham. Support for the UDA spread across the Midland's, even today 2019 you'll see the link on football pins to the UDA.
@saaversteen3 жыл бұрын
interesting to hear folk were actively segregating themselves before the walls went up. the footage from bryson street and thistle street was obviously pre wall yet folk were saying they felt safer by moving just a street along. i felt bad for mr gunn and equally bad for others that must've tried to hold on and refused to be intimidated by the mob. how many found themselves on the 'wrong' side post partition? i'm not from there so have no idea but can surmise not many. nobody could expect to live like that for any length of time.
@demoror5585 Жыл бұрын
“20.000 pound house” then shows a big ass house
@poloflaith99939 ай бұрын
Another example of British intransigence on issues that lie solely at their door.
@Micker3753 жыл бұрын
Edward seems to be the smartest person in Belfast. If only they all had his cop on.
@mlindsey29564 жыл бұрын
15:16 Her husband was 100% right.
@gremlinuk19682 жыл бұрын
Born 23rd May 1968, from northern Ireland UK, ♥️🇬🇧🤝 , have family from both sides, & we all want to stay in the UK, ♥️🇬🇧🤝
@GottliebGoltz4 жыл бұрын
-look at that unholy mess !!! Semper Fi.?
@chrisroger87744 жыл бұрын
I am preparing for next place
@Nonnachella5 жыл бұрын
What a mess and for what?
@johndouglas57125 жыл бұрын
Because Ulster will always be British
@johndouglas57125 жыл бұрын
@Paul Nolan The DUP stood for Brexit . Good enough for me
@johndouglas57125 жыл бұрын
@Paul Nolan We did'nt bloody fight to stay British to be ruled by useless cunts in Brussels
@corkboy45235 жыл бұрын
john douglas you’d rather destroy your economy and your children’s future
@johndouglas57125 жыл бұрын
John Mulcahy sheep
@billlyspencer31184 жыл бұрын
We good all English are responsible for all the problems that happen politically in Ireland!! We go to countries and state we are here to educate the natives!
@RUDI-UK4 жыл бұрын
Mr Gunn's story is my family story multiplied by three. We were put out of the Glen, Gobnascale and Strathfoyle in Londonderry, for being British citizens.
@jacquiewalton19963 жыл бұрын
'Rudi' I'm SO sorry to hear that !
@RUDI-UK3 жыл бұрын
@@jacquiewalton1996 I'm sure you are you dirty taig bitch
@jacquiewalton833 жыл бұрын
@@RUDI-UK Temper, temper 'Rudi' ...are you a little bit miffed ?
@meyou-gi8xq2 жыл бұрын
When did you emigrate to Ireland from GB?
@RobertK1993 Жыл бұрын
All about Ulster Scots Presbyterians Unionists and Loyalists not about Mr Gunn story isn't bigot