Battle of the Bogside Rare Footage - First Major Clash of the Troubles Captured Up Close (1969)

[@declanwolfgang5775]

Thank you for posting this.

[@MrEverthere]

About 4 seconds in the documentary had its first mistake getting the name of Derry wrong

[@wingnut71]

The city is called Londonderry. Built by British settlers, funded by the City of London. They built it, they named it.

[@MrEverthere]

@ settlers lol u mean invaders

[@the_local_bigamist]

@@wingnut71 'The earliest Irish name for the site of the modern city was Daire Calgaich, Old Irish for "oak wood of Calgach", after an unknown pagan.' - Eire existed long before English colonizers decided to put their name on it. Similar to how what is now Zimbabwe existed long before the colonizers decided to name the occupied lands "Rhodesia" after Cecil Rhodes...

[@wingnut71]

@the_local_bigamist There was no city before the settlers built it. The locality was known as Daire, (oak grove), we all know that. The CITY is Londonderry because it was LONDON that paid for it to be built. 95% of the Catholics that live there are all blow-ins from Donegal FFS.

[@johndavison5989]

that what happens when one political party and one religon are bigoted.The down trodden will always rise up against a corrupt system...Good for them

[@jaymack8182]

0:39 There they go, marching off into history. They won't be missed.

[@Wulfyr]

To be honest we don't really know what to do with 'em either. I know Scotland has minor issues of this kind but sectarianism has been totally absent in England for so long that it's alien to us. When I was a child in the 70s Protestants and Catholics married all the time and it wasn't commented upon. Northern Ireland has been a cross to bear and the Republic is welcome to it if they like the idea of everything that comes along with it. I'm just glad no kids and mothers are being blown up either side of the Irish Sea anymore. Long may the peace and democratic transition gather pace.

[@Dublin12158]

Correction it’s “Derry”

[@stephenroche5107]

👍

[@wingnut71]

Londonderry. Built and named by the City of London, hence the name. No Irish involvement.

[@the_local_bigamist]

The only city in the world with 6 silent letters.

[@the_local_bigamist]

@@wingnut71 'The earliest Irish name for the site of the modern city was Daire Calgaich, Old Irish for "oak wood of Calgach", after an unknown pagan.'. Similar in a way to how Zimbabwe was named "Rhodesia" after Cecil Rhodes. Colonizers like to put their stamp on things.

[@Towmas]

British coverage so it’s L. Derry to them…

[@stephen7571]

So much division, so much hate, so much anger, it’s just so sad when you think what they could actually have.

[@stephenholmes1036]

That's us Irish for you

[@whitetroutchannel]

the messed up audio makes it seem like bullets are zippin by lol 😂😂

[@eugenemurtagh2085]

The sounds of the riot are scary, apocalyptic nearly

[@michaelcolton4593]

It’s not Londonderry It is called DERRY.

[@jockstrap]

The RUC went from splitting skulls, to going down holes within a couple of years , not so big men then.

[@the_local_bigamist]

Then aided the loyalist "paramilitaries" in their campaign of terror.

[@wingnut71]

@@the_local_bigamist Boo hoo. If you voted for Sinn Fein then you get what you you deserve.

[@sirvingo3336]

@@the_local_bigamist While you lot murdered more of your own kind than anyone else. Not forgetting the war crimes of the disappeared.

[@michaelmeiers3639]

When Keith Hatfield talks about the police, it should be pointed out that this was the Protestant government's Royal Ulster Constabulary! Depending on your point of view, they were either a normal police force or thugs in uniform!

[@stephenholmes1036]

The B specials were far worse, They got beaten here and tne British army was then brought in. Bernadette Devlin talking to Keith Hatfield

[@木村義雄-f9b]

If you live in the country where a riot break out.，dont people who get arrested lose job？

[@seanmccann8368]

Irish catholics were denied jobs in the north

[@lukasalej5710]

@@木村義雄-f9b 90% no, except if you are a public figure and they want to silence you. regular people dont lose their job.

[@木村義雄-f9b]

Why？ Are not there property damage and bodily harm in your country？

[@jamiemawer4865]

quite right to demonstrate for civil rights under the circumstances of Northern Ireland in 1969

[@vinspizz]

Free Derry 💚

[@GaryGeezer-l2s]

By dumping all our new arrivals there. I hope you lot get properly culturally enriched

[@Buginman1]

A quarter of a mile in😂😂😂 idiot. Police were ruthlessly defeated by local youths (fact)

[@MP-po6fj]

We dont even fathom what our parents and grandparents had to endure. Tough times. They never talked much about.. Now I know why seeing this. RUC civilans mistreated that badly seen volunteers join in their 100s after this day for sure.. Anyone else would do the same. Severe injustices.. Shooting unarmed civilians on a civil rights march.

[@stickeyyyy]

Watching after the UK riots today

[@Towmas]

At 0:22 the police are shown throwing rocks back; the reporter states they only returned throws at 3:40…multiple hours later. Bias much?

[@t24mack]

This is Derry

[@anthonymichaelwilson8401]

Times when there was no Social. Media lol 😂

[@susanmoriarty7533]

No need just genuine hate for everyone to see

[@frankstippel5988]

The police throwing back stones is just hilarious.

[@jonsweeney3845]

They burnt Catholics out of their homes.

[@jboyle4832]

Hilarious you muppet

[@seanmcmanamon3773]

The marches were provocative. By throwing the stones back at the teenagers, the RUC showed it was not about “Law and Order.”

[@thelaughingphilosopher2421]

Thanks Henry VIII !!!

[@NotraceOfRay]

1960s police were so stylish

[@7Moonbeam6]

I wonder what the Pubs were like that day 👊🏻

[@truthplease4868]

Now nobody wants them London or Dublin

[@auldscouse]

Correct. Scots Irish? No such thing. You can't have it both ways. These bigots set up the KKK in America, and cause division and violence where ever they plant their Union Jack. Backward morons who worship a country that does not even like them. Nobody does.

[@Jonathan-qo1ir]

And who’s fault is that

[@tonygargan]

@@Jonathan-qo1ir Their own

[@Jonathan-qo1ir]

@@tonygargan Yeah ok. Definitely not the British who created the whole problem

[@ProfileP246]

You know it was Irish republicans doing the rioting

[@KevinLawlor-n5z]

the end of Britain's orange state

[@susanmoriarty7533]

Bigger problems now

[@friotaiocht101]

Indeed...

[@alexanderv7702]

​@@friotaiocht101with immigrants flooding into Ireland 🇮🇪; invitation only, by Sinn Féin President 😮

[@petersmith4202]

The price of an empire

[@leaedt7614]

Happy days.

[@manusdeburca]

A police force throwing stones. Lol

[@cindycain3301]

Charles shouldn't allow this .these people are willing to fight for their country. Chary is a fool to let that go.

[@jammyscouser2583]

Tiocfaidh ár lá

[@Verfassers]

Grüße

[@sirvingo3336]

The new Irish saying is "Free Palestine" now. Our day will come is past its sell by date. Another plastic paddy.

[@gibsons7057]

Now thats a proper riot....u poms are soft at it lately..

[@immers2410]

Gaza, that’s a proper riot…in every sense of the word

[@alanparker4845]

And still marching vvv

[@the_local_bigamist]

aye and everyone laughs at ya as you do lol. absolute muppets.

[@joanne26]

Has anything really changed in 25 years? The Good Friday Agreement Joe Biden is coming to Belfast on Tuesday What for as there is no Parliament at Storemont In 14 months 🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😗😗

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

25?

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

A bit of a provocator Biden tho.

[@stephenholmes1036]

Yes a hell of alot has changed thankfully

[@mrsixiesrock2274]

Math is off there

[@mudmen3]

ENGLAND CONTINUES ITS GRIP ON CONQURED PEOPLES IN ITS "EMPIRE" FREE SCOTLAND

[@Azog150]

I know there is little point in replying to this, but Scotland was a key part of the Empire. 3/4s of Northern Irish Protestants trace their heritage to Scottish colonial settlers, not English (and a large number of them were from before Scotland even joined the United Kingdom). By the time of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, a full 1/4 of British Empire slaves were owned by Scots (despite Scots forming only 1/10 of the population). Scotland wasn't just a coloniser, it was a prolific coloniser. It joined the Union voluntarily to cash in on the rewards of Empre, after bankrupting itself during its own failed colonial experiment in Panama.

[@mudmen3]

@@Azog150 we never wanted to be part of your "empire" we were betrayed by our leaders and sold out to the English... Irish settlers have nothing to do with it, your just dragging in whatever nonsense about the Irish and the confederation... even dragging in that Scots "owned slaves" NONE OF IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MODERN ISSUE OF independence, REFERENDUMS FOR independence ARE NOW BLOCKED BY ENGLISH LAW, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT WE WILL BE FREE, WHETHER YOU WANT US TO BE OR NOT.... so much for your lie-filled rant

[@jackbadger8176]

You do realise the good folk of Scotland TURNED DOWN independence in the referendum of 2014??

[@neilwhite3421]

We'd love you to go mate... see ya.

[@fyrdman2185]

@@mudmen3 Actually the Scots did want to be part of the Union, they were the ones who initiated it. Even wrote the song "Rule Britannia". And you're a Yank, why are you larping as a Scot?

[@MrMauriceOByrne]

The I the I

[@alexanderv7702]

Quid pro quo: the Brits out of the island of Ireland; the Irish out of Great Britain; seems fair.