The IRA's War on London

This video intends to shed light on the complicated history of the Troubles. It looks at the origins of the conflict, how it manifested in Northern Ireland, and how it evolved to encompass mainland Great Britain, and specifically, London.

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Chapters:

0:00 The Baltic Bomb
2:38 A Deadly Mixture
5:41 A Fraught History
11:35 The Troubles
14:19 Striking at the Heart
22:49 The Societal Cost
22:26 The Bayonet

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[nannesoar]

Not only is the animation outstanding, I instantly noticed the unusually high quality of the audio.

[Noreen_Ni_Riain]

25:30 this happened to my dad! He learned not to wear a leather jacket when flying to London, or else he'd get called "paddy", pulled out of line, patted down, have the sniffer dogs called on him, have his bags searched, etc... he learned to wear a suit and not speak to the officers, and the targeting stopped.

[whatsahellhell]

This video is absolutely brilliant. I was ready for the video to start in the 70s-90s, but going back to understand the roots is crucial. Thanks for not ignoring this, as most do

[kcnmsepognln]

There was a Royal Bank of Scotland cashpoint in the entrance to the Exchange: I had time to draw some money and get my train at Liverpool Street, before the bomb went off, so not quite "skin of my teeth", but close enough for me!

When we were eventually allowed back it was quite surreal, like walking through "28 Days Later" and everything in the office, which was in Aldgate, was covered in a thick layer of dust.

[RealEngineering]

Came in, heard the accent, and was fully ready to be pissed off with a one sided story.

Quite the opposite. Great job with this.

[rpcheesman]

I was quite young (17) when the Baltic Exchange bombing happened. I had to travel through London on my way home from seeing friends the day after. Scary stuff seeing so much police presence everywhere, on the tube, the train stations, etc. I also had little understanding of the social, economic and political impacts that event had and this video really helped explain so much that media at the time failed to convey to me. Really enlightening.

[flipgalaxy]

"Maybe if the IRA had used Surfshark VPN"
- This truly shows the state of Historical documentaries on Youtube. It's a shame that Youtube or other non-profit organisations don't financially help and support these amazing documentaries you produce.

[peterwilson]

When the troubles began my History teacher Mr Devlin left my UK Catholic school in Kent to go back to Northern Ireland to fight he said. He explained to us the terrible persecution and slave-like way Catholics were treated in Northern Ireland and how they lived in slums struggling to find work when the Protestants owned all the land and lived on the fat of it. The thing I do remember when I was about 11 years old was the anger in him and his determination. I have no idea what ever happened to him.

[DeaghlanFinn-Kelly]

I came to England as a young boy in the 70s. At school, an older boy threw me against a wall and kicked me in the stomach, this left me very unwell. After a few days of moaning, I felt sick, the doctor came, and I was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. My appendix was rupturing as well as some other things. I was aged 7 years The boy, who was about 11, said I was an Irish bar-steward, But I never told his name. I just said I do not know what happened. I have a large scar on my stomach from that day, I used to get a bus home, and I was called bomb boy by the older children in the secondary school. This was again when I was young. One day a boy said feck off bomb boy and pushed me off the bus. I bounced down the road and my head had swollen due to the fall. Once more, I said nothing. What can you say, do you tell your Mammy no one likes you because you are Irish? No, you just keep quiet. In the 70s life was not good for many Irish here in England.

[QuebecCitadelleCPL]

My grandpa was born in Donegal a catholic in 1959 from a Northern Irish catholic mom from Derry and a French dad from Le Havre, as the troubles got out of hand they fled to Canada where I live today

[ayyfte]

Hope YouTube won't demonetize this great vid again...

[markedis]

I was a service engineer in London during this time. I was working in the building next door when they bombed the army careers centre in Wembley. My van was destroyed. I was near Bishopsgate and Aldgate when they were bombed and I should have been in docklands at the time it was bombed. It was only the fact I got stuck on a job that delayed me otherwise I would have been in that car park when the bomb went off.

[affa_lol]

I was waiting all night for this video. I'm happy it didn't get cancelled till monday!

[simongiesen]

The spillover from the attacks by the Provisional IRA was not just confined to England. My mom is from a tiny village in the Netherlands, on the border with Germany. There was a RAF base just across the border. The Provisional IRA carbombed airmen returning from a night out in the late 80s, as a show of force to indicate the British were safe nowhere. I find it weird to think how little effect attacks like these have had on Dutch popular psyche, all of it seems to have been forgotten. Even a lot more attacks occurred in Germany.
Nowadays, my family talks about it in a sense of "oh yeah, this village was carbombed once" and not in a sense of a terrorist attack hitting them. I guess that's because they as the general Dutch public were never the (intended) targets, but still.

[froyotastic]

took a class on the history and politics of ireland and northern ireland last year and i learned way more in this video than the entire class

[deputyofsomething]

My dad went down to the van explosion and took photos of the aftermath! Back in 1992 you could just walk all over the area as a citizen. He’d only moved to London about a month prior - an uneasy first impression lol…

[TheLiamster]

Not just London but Brighton too. I remember when the IRA tried to assassinate Thatcher by bombing the Grand hotel

[StarhangerYT]

Does this even belong on YouTube?! This is so good! No kidding. From the narration to the visuals, you can tell there's a TON of effort going into this. Keep up the amazing work!

[lawontrial]

The anti terrorism act is interesting 👍🏻 Restrictions on Irish Catholics were far more sweeping than you mention - under the Penal laws Irish Catholics were not permitted to speak Irish, to be educated, to practice their religion, to study law or be a lawyer, or to hold property over a certain value. There is a song - they’re hanging men and women for the wearing of the green. It was colonisation and apartheid. You also forgot to mention the genocide.

[garrkell]

Not an easy topic to tackle but you have succeeded amicably. My heasrt gors out to everyone who has died as a result of the Troubles