The IRA's War on London

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  @IMPERIALYT · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @nannesoar · 2 years ago

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

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  @Noreen_Ni_Riain · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvWft-dAp4&amp;t=1530">25:30</a> this happened to my dad! He learned not to wear a leather jacket when flying to London, or else he&apos;d get called &quot;paddy&quot;, 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.

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  @Flip-Galaxy · 2 years ago

  &quot;Maybe if the IRA had used Surfshark VPN&quot;<br>- This truly shows the state of Historical documentaries on Youtube. &nbsp;It&apos;s a shame that Youtube or other non-profit organisations don&apos;t financially help and support these amazing documentaries you produce.

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  @RealEngineering · 2 years ago

  Came in, heard the accent, and was fully ready to be pissed off with a one sided story.<br><br>Quite the opposite. Great job with this.

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  @Iclaimedyourhandle.Idared · 2 years ago

  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 &quot;skin of my teeth&quot;, but close enough for me!<br><br>When we were eventually allowed back it was quite surreal, like walking through &quot;28 Days Later&quot; and everything in the office, which was in Aldgate, was covered in a thick layer of dust.

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  @peterwilson5528 · 2 years ago

  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. &nbsp;I have no idea what ever happened to him.

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  @TheLiamster · 2 years ago

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

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  @briareos_hetaconchires · 2 years ago

  I was quite young (17) when the Baltic Exchange bombing happened. &nbsp;I had to travel through London on my way home from seeing friends the day after. &nbsp;Scary stuff seeing so much police presence everywhere, on the tube, the train stations, etc. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;Really enlightening.

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  @whatsahellhell · 2 years ago

  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

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  @Mike_Freeman1972 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Ah yes, it&apos;s weird looking back at how big a threat the IRA was when I was growing up. They nearly got me twice too, I was getting out of a cab in Leadenhall Street for the Baltic Exchange blast and working in South Quay in 1996 when the really big one went off, the windows of our office bulged inwards but held firm. We were told to stay in the office and away from the windows about 20 minutes before.<br><br>And yet, it never bothered me, it was a part of living in the capital back then. Nor did I ever feel any animosity towards the Irish people, having since learned our part in the Troubles, I&apos;m glad I showed empathy to our wonderful neighbours across the water. If you can visit Ireland, do, it&apos;s a beautiful country and the people there are so welcoming. <br><br>My friend who was with me in for the 1992 bomb was also next to the train that exploded at Edgware Road in 2005. We&apos;ve been rather lucky I think.

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  @simongiesen2664 · 2 years ago

  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. <br>Nowadays, my family talks about it in a sense of &quot;oh yeah, this village was carbombed once&quot; and not in a sense of a terrorist attack hitting them. I guess that&apos;s because they as the general Dutch public were never the (intended) targets, but still.

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