My father was murdered by loyalists during the troubles in the early 90's and my girlfriend is protestant, love conquers all and good always wins.

I'm from Denmark and I visited Belfast and Londonderry/Derry this summer. I must say it was kind of a shock to see how far the peace process is ahead of the people living in the area. I hope that future generations can overcome the problems from the past and live in peace and harmony, and please fight on the political battlefield, not the real one. English and Irish people are some of the nicest, funny and caring people I have ever met.

One of the best and most unbiased documentaries on KZfaq about Northern Ireland. Thank you!

This Dubliner is very impressed with the maturity and decency expressed by both of these young people. Your elders could learn from you

Being from Northern Ireland watching this I would like to point out to outsiders that not every one in NI has a peace wall I live 55 miles outside of Belfast in a medium sized town that is mainly unionist but most people live along side each other peacefully, is there sectarianism? yes but its not visible and to be honest outside of Belfast most people do not care, I am from a Unionist background but i have catholic nationalist friends who i love and whilst i disagree with their aspiration to a United Ireland, i respect them as people and human beings so the line of all unionists and nationalists hate each other is a grey area their are many examples of the two communities living together in NI

Great video - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana

Much respect to thst young man for embracing his Irish heritage while stating his unionist heritage. Common sense...its people like him that lead the way From John in Dublin.

My mate left England to move back to Ireland with his parents in 1980, he was crying so much ( we were only kids ) because he didn’t want to go back. Can’t imagine how terrible it must have been during the troubles, so happy things are better now. Still think of my friend from my childhood and hope things were ok for him

I love Belfast and the folks from NI. I am from Dublin and my wife and I love travelling to Belfast as it's a beautiful place to travel to. People thee are fabulous too.

Born 1969. Spent the first 20 years of my life and a lost childhood in the heart of Belfast.

Being born here in 71 I'm a Unionist I've nationalist friends I don't have republican friends. It was never a religious war . It was a political war .

A lot of unionists have zero problem calling ourselves Irish. We view ourselves as Irish and British the same way an English guy might say he’s English and British.

Unfortunately, I was 18 when the violence started. I was working in the RVH, and the majority of my friends at work were Catholic. I was born but not practicing Protestant. We socialized together after work at the Falls Road bars and the town center bars. We all witnessed the carnage of the troubles and it had nothing to do with religion, it had to do with political beliefs and other outside bodies fueling ancient so-called troubles. Unfortunately, the young people of Ireland didn't see the violence and carnage of all the recent troubled years. It's not the hundred-year war it's the thousand-year war.

It was informative watching those two 'peace grandchildren' and their understandings of the past/hopes for the future. I would gladly sit down for a pint with either, or both!

The Good Friday Agreement didn't end the troubles, it just put them on pause. The irreconcilable issue over whether there should be a united Ireland has and will never go away. Not without a return to some form of trouble. The girl who thinks that the IRA no longer exists, is absolutely kidding herself on.

Good to see the attitudes of these young people. Not forgetting their past, but looking to the future. Kudos🎉

"all the opportunities and support that was promised to us...where is it?" Excellent question from the young woman interviewed.

The victim complex on “British” unionists cannot be believed, and I was born and raised in a loyalist household. Literally colonised our country, committed both cultural and actual genocide, they killed millions of us and yet the IRA kill a few thousand and unionists act as if it’s the worst thing to happen on this island. Really just links back to Brits not being able to recognise their country was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people from Belfast to Bengal, because it would hurt their feelings too much to actually grapple with that guilt.

The one fact that everyone on this Island needs to understand is....... This Is Ireland... The Island Of Ireland. You can be Catholic and you can be Protestant . You're Irish.

The British have done this all over the world they just started with Ireland

I've never heard such a strange pronunciation of the word "Protestant"

The term peace babies seems to be use to create a generation gap to split the communities generationally. War babies are judged harshly by some peace babies, as well they should be, but to judge without understanding is wrong. We grew up in different times and acted according to those times. Friends being killed shaped are judgement and the decisions we made on both sides of the conflict.

Joel is a very wise guy. I hope he does well in his life regarding politics. We need someone to stop the divide, no matter if it is ‘unseen’ it’s still there

brave young man... I hope he doesn't get in trouble for openly speaking about paramilitary still being active (and basically the bad guys) in the community

I live in a nationalist rural area. Even during the troubles I lived peacefully beside my protestant neighbours and still do to this day. But my neighbours mother was a hardcore William mc crae DUP supporter. Betty was a nice lady but she lived with an element of fear . This story I will never forget. Over 30 Years ago myself and a friend were walking up The road one summer evening to go for a beer at our local bar. Betty’s house was on a bad blind corner. Someone stole our other neighbours wheelie bin and left lying in the middle of the road on a tight blind corner. It was dangerous so I stood the bin upright and set it on the grass verge. I came home from work the next day and my mother said. You missed the commotion here today. Betty didn’t know how the bin got there. She thought it was a suspect device. She called 999. Cops closed the road helicopter and the British army were flown in then the bomb squad. To defuse an empty wheelie bin. I just laughed 😂 . The road was closed for nearly 6 hours. Think of how much the logistics of this operation would have cost because some idiot stole a bin and left it in the middle of the road. I had to move as it would have caused an accident. But i couldn’t say it was me for fear of being prosecuted for doing it on purpose. Which could have happened easily. So i am responsible for indirectly causing a bomb scare because of a paranoid neighbour. That’s how it affected some elderly people.

Peace and Prosperity will never be fully achieved until the Island of Ireland is united, as it rightfully should be.

As an American with dual citizenship in Ireland (family from Limerick and Cork) I find these two young people very refreshing in their attitudes, but found it incredibly sad when she spoke of how when she walks alongside the Peace Walls she can only walk on one side as a Catholic and never the other where the Protestants walk. I guess I find it hard to understand why one Island cannot unite together as a unique bonded culture yet still maintaining the cultural differences that the North want to make sure are preserved. One island, one people yet with differences! That's not so bad, is it? I feel like being Catholic or Protestant shouldn't have anything to do with peace or fighting or how you walk down the street.

Went too England once for a weekend asked one off those part ps police man for directions gentleman said I am going that way walked with me. Another man asked me were was I from I said Derry Ireland he said were is that I said beside Londonderry Ireland I will let work out his next question. They wouldn’t take my bank off Ireland notes either but I had a good weekend but we Irish understand each other we are a rare breed 😊

I've know loads of people from the North of ireland some are protestant and catholic great people I hoping for peace to continue and good communication by everyone for a better future 🙏

🇮🇪☘️Erin Go Bragh☘️🇮🇪

My first love was from northern Ireland Portadown,Armagh , Sharon was her name and she would come down to Kildare every summer and where the best days of my life, I didn't know anything about religion because to me every one was the same ,well one time me and Sharon was walking around my town and she told me her father was a protestant & her mom Catholic, A long story short she told me her father was a Orange man and was in a band marching season in northern Ireland and me like a tick asked her why does your father paint himself orange and March around northern Ireland well the laugh on her face when I said that I can still see it because she was beautiful and wonderful my first love nobody has ever come close to the love I had for her, well as I got older I learned about everything about northern Ireland , just thought I would share that little story with ya guys, we are all Irish, religion means nothing to me, 🇮🇪☘️❤️❓🕊️💯

The chaos of the troubles divided communities so sadly I am still scared to walk through my town in a Celtic or GAA top however I feel safer now as of the peace we live in.

This helped me because my ... Grandad who was 18 we called him Mick died and l just can't get over it

No yet some factions still trying to create situations but id say its mostly over dugs power struggles between there own factions both sides with the mindset of the young will come change for the better united ireland

This is the Northern Ireland that is never talked about, the real one, the one that the vast number of Northern Irish citizens live in. The Northern Ireland that looks after its citizens, that cares. It's not perfect, we still have our share of religious intolerance, but it’s fast disappearing with each generation. This is the foundation stone for the Northern Irish, to build a new country for a prosperous future.

So insightful. It’s hard to move forward where 1 half sees itself as it’s own country within the UK or even on its own one day and the other vehemently will never see it as a country either on its own or part of the UK but as part of a island that was once Ireland and should be still. I reckon they hold a lot of resentment for south if the border and the Irish government for not in the years since the republic was created not to have fought for the inclusion of the remaining north counties.

My advice to all the Children of the Six Counties is to get on with life, and respect democracy and equality. If any adult don't agree with these two most important life factors, they are telling you Lies, and leading you on the Wrong Path of Life.

As a person who has lived in Northern Ireland for37 years we have moved forward in peace away from the days of the troubles. It was not just Belfadt it was the whole country of Northern Ireland that was involved. Our only problem is in political circles mostly caused by the DUP acting like spoiled children cause they don’t get what they want politically & we have a few small groups around who think they can drag us backwards to them dark days but they all fail.

What is happening ? The chief constable police service resigned. Brexit situation is concerning

Peace walls built by British contractors, all the way to the bank, micro borders.

Ireland is great🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Loyalist working class young people have fallen behind nationalist young people in so many ways, demographics rapidly changing throughout " Northern Ireland " Donegal further north unionism has lead their supporters up a cul de sac on protocol/ Brexit politically but not business which thives under new arrangements. The future is a united Ireland part of a progressive EU not a fixation on past wars and an empire gone with the tide of history!

stop treating everything equally, the orange went crazy , simple as that

Catherine’s absolutely delusional if she thinks there no republican paramilitaries 😂😂

Well done young people, you are the future. Your like will never allow fear and hate to prevail again. The practical needs, reasons and justifications for a united Ireland no longer apply nor exist, the former injustice, discrimination, apartheid, ethnic cleansing by one community over another have ceased to exist. The economic difference no longer exists as ROI is an economic power house, and the religious grounds no longer apply as ROI is largely secular and liberal. Ironically it is now NI that is ultra conservative.Why do some focus on only the binary option of a the status quo or a united Ireland, why not consider a union of Ireland, a sort of economic federal union between and independent NI and ROI, with NI remaining in the commonwealth and retaining Charles III as head of state. What's needed now even with this imperfect peace, is genuine and proper reconciliation between both communities, hope one day both communities can blend into one northern Irish identity be that British, Irish, Irish/British, English/Irish, Scottish/Irish, or northern Irish. For what its worth, I doubt a referendum on Irish unity would pass now in ROI, people there seem more concerned about economic stability, crime and social stability than romantic notions of historic wrongs or historically redundant ideologies. ROI folks don't want to risk unsetting the golden goose that lays the golden egg of quality of life and economic prosperity ROI has become blessed with, now ranked the 5th wealthiest nation on earth crazily ahead of countries like switzerland, qatar, Luxembourg, etc. Income per capita is three times higher than on GB. Hopefully time will bring genuine and a more complete reconciliation. And the bad old days shall never return. Respect the past but don't allow it to imprison us hindering social innovation and friendship.

The underlying grievances still remain even if it appears peaceful. I remember hearing what my parents and grandparents described life as being like before the Troubles and it sounds much as it is now. Brexit had the possibility of reigniting the violence. This can’t be forgotten.

At the time of the GFA 1998 it was estimated then at least 50 years before a semi normality would exist in Northern Ireland. In other words all or the vast majority of the people involved in the Troubles would really have to have to have died off.

I'm a 22 yr old young person.

Unionists talking about Northern Ireland becoming the best version of itself and they vote for DUP? Can any of them explain how that will help?

What would these 2 know about the war?

It's young people like this that are more in favour of an untied Ireland. Perhaps not out of any idealistic reasons, but because ROI enjoys higher standards of living, longer life expectancy, better paid jobs, access to the EU etc etc. If I was there age, regardless of my family lineage, I would be voting for whatever gives me the brightest future, and after the Brexit self harm the UK committed on itself, it's easy to see what that would be.

You've made a fundamental mistake at the start of the video in explaining the origins of the Troubles. You have said "between the Irish and the English". Northern Irish Unionists consider themselves "British", not "English", and want to stay part of the "British" state. The majority of Northern Irish Protestant Unionists are descended from Scottish settlers, not English. "English" and "British" are not interchangable words.

Coming from Scotland, and knowing some of the issues from Scotland, I feel like I could make friends or enemies on both side. Scottish, Gaelic speaking, Pro independence and for a Scottish Republic and Presbyterian / Church of Scotland (non practising) I don't support Rangers or Celtic, the sectarianism scared me off

How Is situation now in northern Ireland? I think now situation Is Better but peace Is illusion

The Irish question is not answered but thankfully nowadays it has the opportunity to be solved by peaceful democratic means unlike in the past.

A Scotsman watching from mount alto Inistioge Ireland

Ira doesnt exsist she said thats the funniest thing ive heard in a while

A different country is like calling Paris a country different from France.

Honestly every single young person within the Republican community must be Sinn Fein trained. Does the IRA or paramilitaries exist in your community? Nope, disbanded. Yet police, intelligence etc all state the Ira army council runs Sinn Fein lol

The north of Ireland was a member of the European Union until England the British Prime Minister had a vote and taken the north of Ireland out of the, Union the north of Ireland has lost all the benefits of a member of the European Union,, the north of Ireland is without a doubt worse off because of this.. When you look at the south of Ireland the European Union side they are doing very well.. Reunite ireland and bring the north of Ireland back into the European Union.. ❤❤❤❤

Living about an hour away from Belfast I don’t see much violence 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Britain one of the most diverse countries in the world 🇬🇧

I`m a Republican and i`m Australian mate

Well I lived for 10 years off the Ormeau Road in the 2000s, coming from the Republic of Ireland and I'll tell you this: got some odd reactions to my accent and the occasional piss-take but basically, it was fine. There was a excellent Indian takeaway on the Ormeau Road and a very good vegetable shop. Its been years since I've been back but I remember a very good old-fashioned eatery that served a superb fry-up that I enjoyed on occasion: sausages, black pudding, fried bread, eggs, bacon and toast. I'm not really sure what these young people are moaning about. I hear that the Ormeau Road is full of fancy coffee-shops now and Belfast is definitely a lot safer than parts of Dublin at night on the weekends, completely overrun now with people from all parts of the world.

The girl seems disillusioned on the Ira. She’s forgotten our Leary McKee

Both of these people werent even born during the troubles. You would need to speak to people twice their age to know whats changed Saying that, both of these young people are dignified and reasonable and im proud to call them fellow irish men.

We need peace walls in US

“What would you like the north to know about ROI?” “IT’S NOT CALLED THE SOUTH!!!”

Working class people will never be allowed to have a education they deserve. The powers will never allow it. If it did happen the ordinary jo will be free .

British colonialism in its many forms and guises created so many lasting problems and damaged or destroyed so many cultures, a legacy that endures to this day and beyond.

It’s not Northern Ireland anymore, it’s Northern Romania.

If all the Peace Babies have to worry about is that moniker, they are blessed, no bombs in bars or squaddies toting guns around the streets. In my part of the World, sectarianism thrived as a boy growing up but has disappeared now. My old mates, from both sides, bring up the old sectarian taunts then we all laugh. I hope the folk in NI get to be something like that.

Never, Never, never, Never!

Britain being a Net Contributor to the EU, to the tune of some £12 BILLION per year clearly means “funded by the EU” ACTUALLY means “funded by the British Taxpayer. As usual.

The six countries of Northern Ireland isn’t a Country separated from The Republic of Ireland. It’s a dominion of the old british empire. Please get your facts right.

The troubles only ever seem to happen in Belfast in these documentaries. 🙄

Wasnt this man done for rioting a year ago

is it safe to live in NI as a foriegner?

the northern irish accent is easier to understand than western scottish so why dont they have more bank call centres there than in bloody glasgow?

NI needs to get out of the Tory/Starmer UK.

very nice, what price was paid? no nothing and an enviromental mess, remember holding hands this winter when weve no electric and the toilets are over flowing in our houses, DEVOLUTION WAS A MESS

If your a unionist your not irish

Maybe as a German European I don't have the necessary background, but the name Northern Ireland already says where the country belongs.

When will they give people in northern ireland a vote on weather to join the rest of ireland or remaine part of the UK?

Haven’t been there in 47 years don’t message it🤘

Northern Ireland isn't a country it's a Province

I'm a West brit

Ask them anonymously

Is Belfast over its Troubles? No, is the answer. The very fact that we are introduced in this video to a Unionist and a Republican is proof that there are still two sides and two distinct cultures. And despite all the fudging and creative ambiguity that allowed both sides to declare victory over the Belfast Agreement, the fact remains that six of the nine counties in Ulster are still under British occupation.

I'm from county meath hello belfast

Why don't we accept that we are all rowing the same boat? Working men with working class families fought and died. Religion killed most. Ignorance killed all !!

A sad situation! Coming from Dublin i would like to see Ireland a united country!

The Protestant unionists should create a city in England and move there... problem solved...

We have to go back to the beginning of the statelet NI. Catholics were denied the right to vote. Where there were Catholics that could vote it was gerrymandered. and there was job and housing discrimination. 40 years of being a second class citizen is what triggered it. Yes, there was republicanism in unionism, but we had to go back to what happen when the state was created. I think one of the biggest fears is the protestants think if there’s a United Airlines and they will be treated as badly as the Catholics were. Most people in the republic cultural Catholicism, the Catholic Church, think God has lost its hold on the republic. The republic is a thriving democratic state which has issues

The battle is over the English won along time ago.

そうかね？紛争何て知らない新しい君たちが未来を築く頼むよ

its not a country thou

Belfist

I'm an Ulster Loyalist, I'm British Irish, I'm an Irish Unionist 🇬🇧☘️