0:15 One a Presbyterian, Ulster-Scot Planter; the other 7:53 a Catholic Irishman from Donegal.... yet they look like brothers. What strange creatures we Humans are.

The very fact that there was sufficient interest and motivation in 1964 to even make this excellent film was a warning of what was about to happen just a couple of years later.

As an English man I'm embarrassed our government didn't step in to stop this the sooner we give Ireland back to the irish the better.

Grandma was from Belfast, had her house burned down in the 30s by protestants and mud thrown on her dress during first communion. Bombed during the blitz. Immigrated to the US. Grew up in kentucky hearing these stories. Crazy, crazy times. Edited spelling

That man who was the head of the catholic association was such a wise and balanced representation of a human being. Would loved to have met him x

I was born in Derry in 1964. Saw the beginning and end of the Troubles, endured through them. This programme, with a kind of hopeful message, so sad, given that four years later we were plunged into hell.

You can only push people so far before they push back.

Impressively articulate men.

As a resident of Derry, it's strange watching this as It was broadcast 5 yrs before I was born. It is also Erie knowing what was coming...

Many tks for uploading a fascinating historical documentary.

Thank you for this. Thoughtful, articulate interviews. A slice of history from the people who lived it.

It's sad that so many lives were lost, and yet the Unionists now hand us a United Ireland via Brexit. God save the Irish Sea!

God Bless Éireann. ☘🇮🇪

True story here. I was raised in San Francisco. I came to California at 3 yrs old. I was born in Cork I now work at a US Veteran hospital. One day about 2 yrs ago, I had to go do some business with a patient in one room on a bed. Your man looks up at me and says "Are you Irish" I replied "Yes" He asks "born here (US) or there? I said "there". Next question "North or South?" Cork you know,South. He then proceeds to curse me out. Wow! We were 8,000 miles and 20 years beyond The Troubles but the vapor of hate spreads wide and far.

Thank you very much Lee - 1st time I've seen it. It is despairing that in this day and age , as of today 2nd December 2018, there are 48 individuals who choose to give the 'thumb down' to exposure of the grim reality of the time. Colonial bigotry and denial is still alive and well.

Great documentary, I really appreciate the opportunity to see this snapshot of a bygone age

Brilliant, informative video. Parallels could be drawn between the history of that area and the Deep South of the American states, where a similar rule and attitude seems to have been adopted by Protestant Irish settlers. Even the accent has been an influence.

1964....four years later it kicked off!

Enjoyed watching this prog.

Only a few years after this was filmed all hell would break loose.

Thank you for this extraordinary upload! Alot sounds the same now but I am thinking the extraordinary DUP calamity, embracing, endorsing Brexit, receiving tainted money for Brexit, their toxic conduct, the insults directed at Dublin who truly have been immense in trying to safeguard NI, ensure the rights of NI people to Irish/EU citizenship, maintain pro-Peace Process funding. Extraordinary restraint from Dublin as Dodds, Wilson, Arlene....spew hate,insults, invective at Dublin, some of it racist, homophobic as the Irish PM has an Indian father and is gay.

Je n'ai pas compris toutes les subtilités de la langue , car je suis française , mais connaissant assez bien l'histoire de Irlande , j'ai apprécié ce documentaire. De plus je progresse en anglais. Thank you very much !

"The Mayor John Anderson declined to be interviewed by the programme" I wonder why?

The men who were interviewed has great dignity

The most recent conflict more or less ended the Protestant community in Derry after three centuries. Amazing to see how much of a grip they hand on it in 1964, and how confident they were banging drums around the place.

Ah yes in the old pre 1969 days, Derry (Stroke City), despite having a majority nationalist population, was in the early 1920s, blatently gerrymandered in its electoral ward boundaries, to allow a permanent unionist majority. The then Stormont regime, having got rid of PR, cleverly designed the ward boundaries to ensure the unionists always had a majority of city seats. And with that, came discrimination by the old Derry Corporation in housing. No wonder the protest marches began there, the faeces hit the propeller then and it all started in Derry (they just wanted "one man one vote"). But of course the then NI govt, quickly stamped down on this with RUC batton charges etc and the footage went round the world...the Troubles had arrived...

Well they couldn't be persuaded and Derry is now the most Republican town in Ireland.thank God for that.up the republic.

I remember when we first learned about the troubles in the eighties... we grew up in East Texas... me and my Brothers grew up Baptist and our cousins are Catholic..... when we would talk about the end of times and the Book of Revelations, the apocalypse etc. ... it made us realize how lucky we were because people in Northern Ireland actually lived through a real Apocalypse

I hate violence and it is so tragic that so many people died in the troubles . However if the troubles had not have happened we would still be living as those of 1964. Still a long ways to go in terms of a true peace but Derry is a much less Problematic place for catholics to live in. A shared power is the only way forward. It respects both communities and allows for equality to thrive x

My old English teacher (Mr Mc.Auley) in my St.Columb's days in Derry,1960s.Memories!!!Mickey Joe O' Kane.

Wow. What a strange crowd we were/are. All the horror that was to follow a few years later. Have we learned anything? Derry/Londonderry looks a bit different now but have we moved forward? Nowt as strange as folk 😊.

At the time that this film was made, I was serving with the Royal Air Force at RAF Ballykelly, some 14 miles from Derry City centre. As a young and impressionable English chap, I was somewhat perplexed, confused even, by the religious divide that was so obvious for all to see. One of the most memorable facts that I have in the memory bank, with regard to my time N. Ireland, relates to that first question that each and every dance partner would pose as I took to the dance floor, at any dance hall in the region, and believe me, in those days there were many. The question ? “What religion are you?” To be honest it was something one became used to, but also something which was difficult to comprehend. Regardless, on one occasion during a night at one of Londonderry’s dance halls, I think it was the Memorial Hall, but I could be wrong, my mate came off the dance floor bent almost double in fits of laughter. When asked to explain, he said that having been subjected to the usual religious inquisition, he, being black, had replied that he was a Muhammadan, to which his partner had further enquired “But are you a Catholic Muhammedan or a Protestant Muhammedan?” There was no answer to that, but it sort of typified the times in which we lived back in ‘63/65. I do recall that we chuckled about it for some time. I was also glad not to have been stationed there later on in that decade, especially when one of our local drinking establishments was blown to smithereens in pursuance of the Irish Nationalist cause. I must add that I found the Irish folk, and especially the many young and attractive ladies, most friendly and welcoming.

I left this godforsaken hole in 1980 and visited 34 countries and lived and worked in 10.

Still going on, the university, no road network ,project Kelvin and other promised projects that never materialised. United Ireland is the only solution that will make this city prosper and grow for all of us.

A journey around the volcano's crater and a series of interviews with thoughtful men who wished for a positive change which seemed to be on the horizon. It is ironic that by attempting to improve relations, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland set off a counter reaction among the most hard line elements of the Unionist community which ultimately led to the eruption itself. In England, we saw the ever increasing and alarming news reports with absolute amazement- I was a teenager and it seemed completely unreal, what was going on. In fact most people thought the bellicose players were laughable but quickly the emerging Troubles engulfed not just NI but reverberated into the whole of the UK. There were people of good will on both sides but it was the "men of violence" who literally soon called the shots. Harold Wilson a politician's politician, for sure, who reckoned you "need to get your head tested" if you got involved was finally forced to send in the Army. Now there's yet another irony.

great journalism

The whole world knows what happened in Ireland and how the Catholic Irish were discriminated against.

We are coming full circle, not long now .

My dad left NI for England around this time as he had no prospects of work. He was protestant.

a very good documentary.

Little did they know or even suspect the Tempest that fell upon them in a few short years.

In time they too will fade away into history like so many other unwanted things. A Co. Antrim man. :-)

Scotland the only colony that voted to stay

Great document explaining the birth seeds of Bloodshed -discrimination.

How the tables have turned I hope that the catholics treat protestants nowhere near as bad as they were treated

Eddie McAteer, Jim McCabe and James Doherty were fathers of some of my childhood friends, but we were the lucky ones, the Doherty's house on Queen Street was quite sizable, but he was a successful businessman. It was the professional Catholic neighbourhood; my father, a dentist got too involved in politics for his own good, so we took off for Australia in 1970. I was five when this was made, and on holidays in Ballyliffin Donegal and in later years Greencastle, so I never got to see the Apprentice Boys' parade. 1969 was a doozie; I'd just come back from holidays in Greencastle and the Sunday evening before we started school, the late Dennis Heaney (look him up) and myself (both good Catholic Clarendon Street boys) went on a defenestration spree in the wreckage of The Battle of the Bogside. The next morning we had to navigate our way past two sets of barricades constructed from the rubble of the destroyed building to get to the Bogside where the Christian Bros School and the Tech were located. Happy Days, no wonder my family left, I'd probably have been killed by ENGLISH soldiers like Dennis if we hadn't.

It is a very sad and bad thing that people in power will do to their fellow brothers and sisters, some people will like you to believe that they are far better and more entitled than any others, they are the chosen few and others do not matter. They will use God, religion, color, nationality and other flawed reason to try and justify they injust beliefs. Some humans are not human. I find that after meeting a person I take very little or no notice their color, the sound of the accents or their different ways of living, I do not see a stranger, I do not make demands on those people to be like me and believe me,I am no saint. Remember none of us own this world, it is no big deal to get along with all other people of this world, you will find that you have less to worry about and your life will be more peaceful if you treat others as you would like to be treated.

Have you any films of Londonderry?

I love Derry!

Arguably two of the most destructive things to happen in NI was segregated housing and denying votes (at the time this video was filmed).

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"Food ceased from what was a starving country and dished out " what a joke, only if you were in the city or towns , countryfolk starved in the Ulster.

Sad to think what was to come.

An absolute disgrace, the British government and Dublin turned a blind eye to this for 40 years.😔

Both fascinating and disturbing.

Ironic that they don't realize that England don't give a damn about there loyalism, England will always look after England first and foremost how do you think the empire thrived,I should know being a English man, they still call them paddies over here whether orange or green

I'm speechless,what goes round comes round

And we thought this only happened in South Africa

Derry 🇮🇪

The strangest thing is that they see each other as different people...I bet their DNA is "ninety-nine point all the nines you'd care to mention" the same.

I agree with a previous commentator - the British need to stop their colonialism in Ireland once and for all. My father was a Republican from Co. Tyrone and I was aware of the injustice dealt out by Unionists from a young age.

Tragically prescient, and the blame needs to be laid primarily at the feet of Unionist politicians.

It's honestly weird about the 2 names, now I don't know what word to to use to foreigners when they ask what city do I live in without getting out a map lol

at 14:18, the tune they are playing is "What a friend I have in Jesus".....Jesus wept.

48.9% Tick Tock, Tick Tock! Not long now!

Its great that it says LOL on your drums. Every1 is derry laughs out loud when a soldier or orangeman is shot

Have to say I am amused and intrigued by Mr McAteer's wonderful comment at around 25.26 that 'I like a little salt with my meat'. Can he really mean this? I get a sense that at least 2/3 of the interviewees are being very gentle with the naive nice young man from the South and maybe even ribbing him a tad. McAteer is 50 years old here. To me, he comes across as old before his time, resigned and not very hopeful about the future.Then again,the last would prove to be justified. Within 5 to 6 years,he was superseded by younger men like John Hume and Martin McGuinness who.would set out with radically differing approaches to ' the fight.'

Imagine starting a religion just to get rid of the wife😁

You got it right sir

The division isn’t susceptible to the growth of both sides and is left subordinated to the monetary masses.

Seems to be a spelling mistake

Nine months!

No wonder trouble kicked off - so much oppression!

FREE DERRY

Every single Irish man and woman should acquaint themselves with the Kalergri plan to see what the EU has planned for them and their children. It might awake them from their slumber.

Written and directed by Samuel Beckett.

Time is running out !!! Ireland will prevail. Brits out.

why is this is my recommendations 🤔

We have known the days..

This nightmare should now be consigned to medieval history!

Since the early 1600 until now -still no trust.

There was no "discrimination" at all.

King James of England ?????? Do they mean Great Britain, to my knowledge James was King of Scotland - by unifying the crowns it made him King of Great Britain not England

Ill-gotten gains are no gains.... but after 500 + years , both traditions on the island are Irish (100%).

the british will go the first chance they get...

Anyone know the tune on the bagpipes at 3.00? Sounds class

As a Scot every time they say Ulster Scots I feel ashamed.

How life in the Northern part of Ireland has changed in the favour of the indigenous Irish people and the reverse has happened to the Pro-testant foreign planters. The next 10 years will establish Ireland's 32 counties as one Republic. Too much suffering to get there tho. However what an international event that is going to be.

Shows what Brexit Britain will be like after 5 years of Boris Johnson...

No unionists or any of the other side were interviewed .mmmm interesting.

Being from the Dublin I'm ashamed to admit I know little of the North but since no good news ever seems to come from the place I just dont see the reason to rehash any of it. It always seems like they are going on a trip on the Titanic. I hope things turn around for them.

Sorely disappointed to see Scottish pipers leading the Orangemen.

How Protestants and Catholics, two groups of people who worship the same god, same Jesus, and use the same bible, don’t get on, just baffles the mind

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It seems to me the real cuplrit is the British welfare state. If only productive, hardworking Southerners had settled there, the Ulstermen would have little to complain about.

Ffs will the Shit ever stop am a Scottish guy born a protestant not of choice my partner is of a catholic religion n wee love each other Jst as my mum n Dã did my dad was a protestant n mum a catholic What have I learned WeeAreOne Fk it it's Not the fkn 80§, Time 4 Change What Wee Seek Seeks Us LoveAndLight all >< I live n Dub- now n love it, in Glasgow Catholics an Protestants learn to live an let live JstDoIt ffs...

It penywise derry?!😦😧 No no nunca iré aya

This is instructive 1964 was a year that meant very little violence had been practised on the Island for 50 years , The Protestant population of the Free State had dwindled to insignificance since 1922 due to official hostility - In the Six Catholics had grown in Numbers and Influence ( which is obliquely conceded in this program ) But was still claiming victimhood after 30 years of Murder and Mayhem they are even better placed - Why does not the world see that the people in Ireland victimised and threatened with extinction are the prods

Planters the clock is ticking TICK TOCK 👽

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