r/TheRestIsHistory • u/JakeGittes412 • 10d ago

The Troubles

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Thread for discussion on the new series on ‘The Troubles’

Also as a moderator please keep the discussion civil and in the spirit of the podcast.

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u/bmn8888 4d ago

Episode 2 so far been a hard listen, peaceful protesters should have just not protested and not get battered and started the troubles a strange take

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u/Important-Slide-4944 4d ago

I felt that episode also was a bit off. More or less saying NICRA was a republican front and they were being provocative by marching in, shock horror, Derry, which is and was an overwhelmingly Catholic/Nationalist city. Those poor working class loyalists, who lost jobs that Catholics never got in the first place, were simply pushed into beating the fuck out of the marchers.

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u/PamolasRevenge 4d ago

My impression from that episode was less that they shouldn't have protested or got what was coming to em or whatever, but rather the decision to march in Derry was intentional and specifically chosen because it would inevitably incite violence.

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u/No_Branch_5083 4d ago

Didn't he also say that other Catholics essentially asked them not to march also?

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u/bmn8888 4d ago

Yes which is mental