ANTISEMITIC AND SECTARIAN VANDALISM, and an underground wall segregating Catholics and Protestants! скачать в хорошем качестве

ANTISEMITIC AND SECTARIAN VANDALISM, and an underground wall segregating Catholics and Protestants!

It's unbelievable that people will desecrate graves and burial sites to vent their sectarian hatred. Also, an IRA leader is buried here as he wasn't welcome in the Miltown Cemetery Republican plot! A lot of work goes into these videos as you can well see! You can now buy me a pint as a means of appreciation for my work on Naked Ireland, no obligation, obviously - only if you can afford it... I appreciate it. Cheers. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nakedire... Now this is an interesting Cemetery for several reasons. It has a designated Jewish plot, within a separate walled area, which is worth seeing, and it’s also the resting place of many of Belfast’s ‘captains of industry’, people involved in the linen and tobacco industries, shipbuilding and ropemaking as well as some of Belfast’s Lord Mayors. In fact one of Belfast’s most well-known industrialists is buried here, Edward Harland, founder of the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, as is the tobacco merchant Tom Gallagher. I also learned that leading member of the IRA and Sinn Fein politician, Denis Donaldson, was buried here, which surprised me as the Republican plot is in the Miltown Cemetery futher up the Falls on the other side of the road. But then I learned that he was shot in 2005 as an MI5 informer, and then that explained why he ended up in here. Wherever you probe in Belfast, the legacy of the troubles is not far beneath the surface. In this film we walk along a path between gravestones that unbelievably follows the line of a 9 ft underground wall which was built to separate the Catholic and Protestant dead. It’s incredible that not content with our religious segregation in schools and in the areas we grew up, that we also need a wall underground to separate us when we’re dead. Does this sound a bit hard to believe? In fact it was the Catholic church who insisted that the Catholic section had to be physically separate from the protestant burial ground and because at the time this was a new cemetery and the council didn’t want an unsightly boundary along it, the decision was taken to build the wall underground. In fact this cemetery is mostly a protestant cemetery, with Belfast’s catholic population eventually purchasing the aforementioned Milltown Cemetery. We visit the vaults, which were the most prestigious burial places in the cemetery. They are built in sandstone in Gothic Style with a central set of steps, known as the Gallagher Steps, after the founder of Gallagher’s Tobacco factory, who is interred here. This place like many other parts of the cemetery has fallen victim to vandals. It’s shocking that sectarian acts are still perpetrated even after people are laid to rest. Since this largely protestant graveyard sits in Republican west Belfast, vandalism has been rife here. We look at what's left of the mortuary chapel, erected in 1874. It too fell victim to vandals with its tower now all that remains. Dispite the anti-social behaviour, City Cemetery is nevertheless a very beautiful place with gorgeous mature trees and seemingly an abundance of wildlife. We also visit the poor ground, where people who couldn’t afford a marked grave were interred. There are over 80,000 people buried there. The appalling sectarian attacks on graves and infrastructure in the cemetery isn’t confined to Protestant memorials either, The Jewish section of the cemetery has also been attacked with headstones being smashed there too. We look at an impressive monument is to Daniel Joseph Jaffa, whose son Otto was an important Linen exporter and another Lord Mayor of Belfast. He was instrumental in having this area designated as a Jewish burial ground. This part of the cemetery was set aside for Belfast’s Jewish residents in 1874. Nearly 300 people were buried here, the last burial taking place in 1964. There was once a small synagogue in the grounds here too, but it has since been demolished. And the Jewish cemetery sadly also has its own Poor Ground with a memorial in Hebrew to mark it. Outside the Jewish plot you can visit what’s called the Screen Wall, which is a memorial to soldiers, sailors and military personnel, buried in the graveyard, many in un-named plots. This burial area was established in 1916 for 296 servicemen who died in WW1, but in WW2 a further 274 graves were added.