Life In Bomb Threatened Belfast, 1972
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A look at what everyday life has become for the people of Belfast during conflict in Northern Ireland.
The ‘Report’ team visit Belfast in Northern Ireland to document the mood in the city and to discover what The Troubles mean to the men, women and children involved.
Producer Joe Mulholland decided to let the people and the pictures speak for themselves so the film has no commentary. Rather than interviewing public figures, members of the public and people from all political opinions and religious beliefs give their views on the situation.
One woman thinks it is the working class people who are really involved in the confrontation as unemployment is rife and they have nothing to do. People live in fear of bombs being thrown into buildings or being bombed while they are out driving, with one woman saying she feels
Terrified, you always feel as if a bomb is going to go off.
Shopkeepers and business owners are bearing the brunt of the bombing. As well as shops being destroyed, trade has also dropped off. One woman says she is afraid to go into big stores such as Woolworths or Littlewoods in case a bomb goes off.
Antiques dealer Leonard Kaitcer’s shop on the Dublin Road was decimated by a 20lb gelignite bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Six employees escaped with their lives, but the three-storey building collapsed, causing severe damage to adjacent buildings. Leonard Kaitcer is shocked how a business that took him a lifetime to build can be taken away in an instant.
Words can’t express how I feel. I’m thankful that I wasn’t in the shop at the time and that all my staff have not been hurt.
Other people refuse to live in fear as life has to go on.
If they’re going to blow you up, they’re just going to blow you up, and if you stopped your life because of it, you know, you just couldn’t live.
‘Report: Belfast 1972’ was broadcast on 13 April 1972. The reporter is Patrick Gallagher.
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Checking in..love you ALL of you....
Lovely, lovely people.
A very sad, dark period in history ☮️
belfast is fine city now ,
They sound posher in 1970s
This is the kind of thing people in Syria and Palestine might say if someone asked.. surreal to hear stories like that on this island
@folksurvival
3 жыл бұрын
and all three groups victims of the same self proclaimed "chosen people".
@ManannanmacLir69
2 жыл бұрын
@@folksurvival You clearly know sweet fk all about Islam or Christianity who also claim to CHOSEN. Islam proclaims they will rule the world as well.
@folksurvival
2 жыл бұрын
@@ManannanmacLir69 Christianity and Islam both have the same roots.
@ManannanmacLir69
2 жыл бұрын
@@folksurvival No they don't Islam is made up mumbo jumbo stolen from judaism and christianity which are also made up bs if you ask me. Check out Apostate Prophet an ex muslim who will show you de way.
@smallfeet4581
Жыл бұрын
@@folksurvival didn't they all put the js out of Canaan many centuries ago ?
If they’d played more of these then the real views of the people may have been heard and the war would not have lasted so long.
@rharleymusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@philipgage4143 Bloody Sunday ring a bell ya thick 🙄
@whatthefrickbro
3 жыл бұрын
@@rharleymusic the IRA scum terrorising their own Irish people, Bobby sands was so “oppressed” he won a seat in Westminster
@rharleymusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@whatthefrickbro what does that even mean? You'd swear there was only one side to the conflict according to you and the other guy, there is now a peace process is in place, I wonder how that happened 🤔
@o-o2399
3 жыл бұрын
@@whatthefrickbro You don't represent Ireland, Bobby Sands was oppressed by the British government(if he wasn't I'm sure they would I've treated him like a human but they never did) he was a better man than you will ever be.
@peadarmurray7994
3 жыл бұрын
@@philipgage4143 The British Army where pretty much terrorised also 😂 just ask the families of the dead brit soldiers 😆 If they hadn't attacked and oppressed Catholics none of this conflict would've happened
My heroes, patriots against Satantic Red Shields Khabbalist island.
Jimmy Young Legend😅😊😂
👍 bit dodgy at moment up there with scumbags on streets
Sounds English what she doing in Northern Ireland 🤣
01:07 I thought that was Jimmy Young taking the piss for a second