It was a 3,500 lb bomb by the PIRA that lifted you off your feet...

It was supposed to lift britain off its feet. Specifically it was targeted according to a well published I R A doctrine , and that was to hit both military and economic targets. Hitting the economic targets curbed British and international investment in N.I. thereby making it too expensive on the British corporations, government and tax-payers. It was well known that "one bomb in Britain was worth 100 in Ireland". So, after 2 years of watching Major stall on peace talks , the P.IRA decided to hit economic investment in the dead centre of the Empire. The bomb which ended 35 years of conflict was in Canary Wharf. 2 dead. Multiple 90 minute warnings. The British Establishments reaction was (quote) " *Two more bombs of this magnitude will cause ALL financial and Real Estate investment to flee London City* " If you consider how significant that is. The London Square Mile losing its Real Estate and Banks would be like a small country going bankrupt. So , the "Peace Process" started in earnest, and instead of the I R A being told "NEVORR ! NEVOOR , NEVOOR! ......they were told "Ok, thats fair I suppose". So, Id consider Canary Wharf (same campaign) to arguably the most effective bomb in history. It ended 35 years of conflict and Britain's oldest War and longest Operation in its history.

@@olliephelan The British Government were demanding an immediate decommissioning of all weapons by the PIRA that had been stalling the peace talks.... if memory serves me right... yes you are 100% correct the British Government knew that the economic fallout would have been catastrophic if one more huge devastating 💣 bomb had gone off.... PIRA had stepped up the size of their bombing attacks.... Canary Wharf was huge but Manchester made that look like a fire cracker... Brits knew they wouldn't be able to stop these bombing attacks on their mainland by PIRA so the strategy worked it forced the Brits to the table...

@@ogrebattle22763 Major was maddening. If you watch the Long Good Friday, it gets a touch spooky. Canary Wharf was where The Long Good Friday was filmed. GFA ? And the plot was International investment in the Docklands being blown up by the I R A. And thats what leds to the Good Friday Agreement. The Good Friday Agreement was 75 years to the day of the end of the Civil War. There seems to be a thing about Good Fridays. Better than Mondays maybe

A cousin of mine was shot dead by British soldiers in derry . If I had a nuclear bomb ye tan filth would get no warning. Sçum

David Rieckhof it's. shithole

@Christopher Teasdale where are you from dickhead?

@@outsidethepyramid The guy can’t even string a coherent sentence together, I wouldn’t bother with him.

@Christopher Teasdale - you are clearly from Grimsby or Skegness. Jealous of Manchester much?

It's a dump like most big cities in England,. Old decrepit and dysfunctional.. Most beautiful cities in Europe exist on the continent like Brugge Utrecht Antwerp Luxembourg Barcelona isAntwerp Luxembourg Barcelona ,Bamberg, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Innsbruck, Rome, Bologna, Naples, ,Milan, some parts of Paris and the list goes on and on Not saying that it's all bad because we have Lincoln York and some other examples but definitely the big cities are just dysfunctional dumps

That's because the Provisional I.R.A blew the dirt away.

Demographic changes

I remember going back the following Saturday couldn't get anywhere near the vinyl shops I wanted to get to vinyl exchange on Oldham Street and Manchester underground in the corn exchange left if for weeks till I went back

day after

you serious?

Not really. Most decent people would comdemn this in a heartbeat. Time to take a long, hard look at yourself.

@@Puppy-ew4be I mean Manchester has a large irish population so it never made sense to me why they chose Manchester out of everywhere

Takes even more guts by the British Army of "mucs" to gun down & murder unarmed innocent Irish men women & children shoot them in the back & then lie about it like cowards by claiming they were under attack...

the IRA killed the largest number of civilians in the northern Ireland troubles,most of IRA, s victims were from the nationalist community...

@@61505 The clueless American is at it again. Tom Barry must be turning in his grave at your nonsense.

@@ogrebattle22763 dumby paddy lol the irish man is always the butt of all jokes

@@stevecampbell7589 Yeah just like you are you fat fucking pig...

If you love manchester which there is nothing wrong with that but it means you haven't really seen the world really is beautiful if you know what I mean

That's right, say the first thing that comes into your head. What's your name, Roger Irrelevant?

What time in the video can you see it?

Go on the, name all the different ways they are remodelers.

Any relation to Bobby Sands?

but they didn't they give a total of 50 warnings they even give a warning to say your not clearing the area fast enough

@@best349, why didn't they do that in Omagh and Warrington?

@@clairefrier2353 Omagh??? = different organisation, Warrinton is diputed with heavy links to the Red Action

@@best349, 3 different locations were given for the Omagh bomb, so how could the police do their job properly?

@@clairefrier2353 as stated previously THEY WERE A DIFFERENT GROUP

Actually, damage totaled hundreds of millions penis breath

Irishmen who joined the British army are not Irish. Irishmen who became freedom fighters of the Provisional I.R.A are Irish.

Weird how they chose Manchester tho, Manchester it’s self has irish heritage or is Irish and I’m saying this as an Irish Mancunian

Its not confusing, the video was uploaded in 2011. This was the ira bomb.

That's because the bomb was in 1996 Brent

Nice try...

Retarded comment.

Glad my comrades did all the dirty work to clean up that mess giving Irish builders years of work.

@@liamkiiid, but they killed people in Warrington, Omagh and London Docklands, then tried to blame the authorities.

@@clairefrier2353 that was a different organisation

I was there that day and I can assure you, it happened.

Manchester did no wrong, u targeted the wrong city🤣