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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ธ.ค. 2023
- This Loopline documentary investigates the life and death of Mairéad Farrell who, in 1988, was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar along with two other unarmed members of the IRA.
The violent killing of the three was one of the most controversial incidents during the Northern Ireland Troubles and provoked an international outcry. Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, who was writing a book about Farrell at the time of her death, now attempts to contextualise and make sense of her friend’s life and death. She visits Armagh Prison where Farrell was incarcerated and explores her legacy through rare audio interviews, personal memories and conversations with historians, politicians and peers. Due to her youth, her gender and her stature within the IRA, Farrell was quickly subsumed into the pantheon of Irish republican martyrs. However, behind the mythologising and demonisation of Farrell, there was also a real person who was prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.
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“A young woman that was full of life” Bull, the evil witch was prepared to slaughter innocents.
Adams gave them up.
terrible terrible times, Wasted lives on all sides ,right or wrong
Mairead Farrell chose her side and stood her ground .
Thinking of Mairéad today on her death 36 years ago! A true Patriot! ❤️🇮🇪👊
A true murderer.
@@matthewjones9565Who did she murder ?
@@khiggins7231 Are you under the impression that they were in Gibralter on holiday? Are you trying to say that these people are all saints? Idiot.
well done the SAS.
And yet you're here. "You may kill the revolutionary but not the revolution". If you set out kill a person, you succeeded. But you failed to kill or even stall the ideas.
I wonder what Mairead would think of sinn fein today?
especially their stance on women - fair to say she wouldnt want any part of them
I am sure she and all the other s, who gave up their lifes for Ireland, wouldn't be happy, but then like Shenna Campbell maybe that's why they are dead!!!!????
What is her party's view on mass immigration into Ireland
Republican justices for all…now piss off west Brit
Their view is brits out everybody else in
Mairead didn't die for the WORLD.
Gibraltar was a huge operation so I never understood why someone of Maireads stature was used there she was a very well known republican as were her comrades so could easily be spotted by the British. RIP Mairead Dan and Sean. 🇮🇪TAL🇮🇪
She likes the rest off those who died for Ireland, Were given up by Thier own, we all see that now.
God bless 🙏 you mariead Danny and Sean rip
Lol what a terrible life u must lead
&Gerry too ...Glorified Murderous Merchant intents each & everyone from A2Z ...
I can’t explain how much I adore Mairéad! She is the embodiment of what a True Patriot is! I visit her grave at Milltown Cemetery every week! ❤️👍👊🇮🇪
That's probably the saddest comment on you tube mate
Would you rather she had survived and killed innocent people in Gibraltar??
@@markyinbelfastxx9088 you must lead a sheltered life if you think that my comment is probably one of the saddest comments on TH-cam! I am guessing you are not a believer in freedom fighters!
@@PK-fk7bm it shows what kind of human being you are
@@markyinbelfastxx9088 I will always stand with my Republican friends!
@@PK-fk7bm sad
Seen this on rte when came out
I read a book, years ago, written by a soldier having a romantic relationship with her.
Bell End
Violent delights . Fiction genre.
@@rassawhelan6045 Yeah, looking back after 26 years, does seem far fetched.
@@petesoneone very much so..
Live by the sword die by the sword.
Maybe but given that the British government treated IRA activities simply as criminal activities at the time, it'd be reasonable that they be given a legitimate trail one they put their hands up. Even without that, shooting if you view them as enemy combatants who put their hands up to try to surrender, then it's pretty sketchy.
@@joeblow9657 You are assuming they put their hands up which is very unlikely.
I remember that on the news, my thoughts at the time were that she and the other two knew the risks and accepted them, she also accepted that civilians might be killed in the operation. The SAS were known not to take prisoners, i never understood why the three of them raised their hands in surrender. I wonder in their last few moments on earth, did they regret their decision to be terrorists? Shame anyone had to die that day, though.. 🙏
She identified as a soldier. And, she died on her version of a battlefield. Why the sympathy? One minute, IRA people want to be treated like soldiers when it comes to prison/capture but the moment a gun is pointed at them... They're just civilians on a nice holiday.
Lovely person lovely family, RIP Mairead.
👏👏
A brave devoted volunteer.
Imagine the Carnage had they Succeeded.. Security Forces had no choice..
Nothing to imagine, the target was military. Two armies at war.
I hated the hunger strike too 😢
What sh*t language is this
Na bi ag caint caicmais
It's gibberish, the native language of Fenian bastards of Ireland. 😅
Our language
If your family were born here generations ago I am sure they talked like that back then, if not then your one off the planters. Ask yer dad. Find your roots
40:50 you're not very convincing, old Tom.
There is never any mention of her dating a British soldier. Wonder if many people know that. She got what was coming to her playing the game.
Stop reading stupid books like violent delights.
If it was true or not dating a British solider is an ideal way to get intel on you're enemy
She was unarmed
@@Hipit55 Going just for a pint of milk?
Regardless she was unarmed.
What stopped Irish people speaking Irish? Why do all the PIRA representatives speak English as a main language in so many film recordings & not Irish? In my land, Scotland, the highland Gaelic (we pronounce Galik) language was proscribed for 30 years after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion & it did huge damage, that didn't happen in Ireland, not that I know off, I could be wrong? This young woman set out to kill people & in a foreign land Gibraltar, it is a risk she took & it was fatal for her & her comrades. PIRA killed 100% of their security captives, that is a better record than ISIS, worth remembering when some on here & elsewhere eulogise this young lady & her comrades. Not many of these captives had an independent jury, never mind a defence counsel, pretty far from it in reality. That doesn't mean it was right, but it is a risk you have to accept without complaint if you are part of a team of volunteers out to kill people. I am a Scottish nationalist from a long time nationalist family, we couldn't move to work in England in our tens of thousands, never mind the hundred's of thousands Irish people did if we were in a conflict with England, not a chance & neither would we want to. Alba gu bràth!
They didn't speak Irish because hardly anybody would know what the fuck they were wittering on about if they did.
The language was indirectly forbidden under the Penal Laws, as were our customs, games and religion. We were forbidden to buy land, send our kids to school, engage in trade, you know, the usual list of laws a parasite nation like the UK imposed on indigenous people.The Famine then beggared us - English was the Lingua Franca of the ruling class so the natives adopted it, purely for practical reasons, just to get fed I guess. Hope this clears things up. Actually, seeing as an an education is NOT forbidden to you , how about you get one 👍
Simple really very few can speak or understand it.
@@stevecostello4278You know why you earned the Penal laws don't you Steve? You were given much more freedom before you decided to murder half the Protestant population in 1641. Cromwell repaid you in kind for the brutal tortures you Irish did. Sir Phelim O'Neill of Dungannon was the Butcher in chief and boasted of killing 215,000 protestants by many varied means so as to save on ammunition. All planned in collaboration with the Roman Catholic church. So that is why the church was banned. You lost your lands and your language wained. You know the truth, but you won't say it, because you don't want the world to know what you Irish rebels did to deserve the harsh punishment. Your rebels would have killed every protestant soul if they had been able to take Belfast, Lisburn, Enniskillen, Coleraine, Londonderry and Dublin. That was their plan, a full blown war of genocide. Fortunately they failed in this endeavour due to early warning and robust defences. Unfortunately they took out their frustrations on the poor families that could not get to safety in time.
Sorry to break it to you Keith but you are an Irish invader of Britain. A descendant of the of the Gaelic Scotti that colonised West Scotland from the 5th century when your kin travelled across the North Channel from County Antrim. You see you Gaels invaded Britain 700 years before any English/Norman set foot in Ireland. History is interesting and often quite a surprising thing is it not?
Never understood the dirty protest it was gross why torture themselves
If you've never understood then you never will.
For the love of ones Country. We are a indigenous people who,with our own language,music, dance. We go back to the year 300.
You wouldn't understand,if you are of plantation stock.
A good operation for the SAS
Like Narrow water 💥
she wasn't the first woman the sas cowards murdered
@@user-ux4km9uy8vSo, leaving a car with a bomb in it, where there are going to be civilians including kiddies probably, when it goes off, when you're miles away, isnt cowardly?
@@thepub245 the British army have just spent the last few years blowing the shit out of Afghanistan and Iraqi children.
How many children have been killed and maimed by plastic bullets in the north of Ireland?
Also, wouldn't children have been at school given that the device was to be set off the next day during the changing of the guard?
@@thepub245 don't forget bloody sunday
Well done SAS
Utter madness.all those people dead injured during the troubles.and it took till 1994 to get a ceasefire.no one could of got around a table and negotiated years earlier.and even after the ceasefire omagh was bombed.what utter evil.
Blame the English
@@dv86boom11 Blame the gangsters on both sides.
@@pooooornopigeon aye both sides ya mean ruc and loyalists
@@dv86boom11 A puerile reply.
I love all the brave fighters and defenders of the land. Long live Ireland and a free Palestine, too.
Are you aware of the concept of self-determination?
@@acme181169 Pertaining to what?
@@Marius_vanderLubbeReally!!!!!!
@@acme181169 More than three exclamation points is excessive, acme. Get to your real point.
@Marius_vanderLubbe it pertains to the purchasing of eggs, usually hen's eggs, but can also cover any wild fowl.
Mairead was a beautiful republican legend 🇮🇪💚
She was a very attractive woman and spoke with a lovely accent.
12:35 Terrible to see her as a little girl knowing what lay ahead of her
chose her path her choice her End.
At the end off the day it was all for nothing !
I dunno. It saw the end of mountpedo.
The insanity of 'The Troubles', professing Christians on both sides.
Nations to their respective people's.
Greedy Unionists would rather kill than share power with Catholics but have no choice today.
I love the respect she mariread gets she was the poster child of the war.
Rest easy brave Volunteers..
Rest in pieces 😢😢
@@Smokemeakipper41 wee child you are...
Dose s f let people speak BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HERO❤
For a united republican socialist ireland!
So far away!!
There will be no real Irish there the way you are letting them flood in.
NOT THE ONE THEY WANT TODAY. The republic has sold Thier SOVEREIGNTY. Fecking shame.
Always remembered with pride. A true soldier of Ireland 🇮🇪