Derry Girls S1 Ep1 REACTION!
Added 2025-02-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Haha yay the father Ted jingle I hope you guys do a re-reaction to father Ted I know you have so much on but maybe pencil something in for the 5 year anniversary!?! :)
Craig Jackson
2025-04-26 20:44:56 +0000 UTCYou’re doing well keeping up with these accents. I’m from North Yorkshire and I’m struggling to follow . I think I’m getting every other word.
Jason Major
2025-04-11 21:32:56 +0000 UTCBy the end of this you are going to be obsessed with the grandpa and the Sister. They both have 'malcolm' characteristics as the show goes on.. . And I'm here for it.
janepotsie
2025-03-03 20:13:16 +0000 UTCNot a war of religion was about a united Ireland and britain
Aiden Carolan
2025-02-23 18:31:44 +0000 UTCGreat intro ep! 😂💚🍀👍 The missus and I binged watched this show just a couple of years ago. Looking forward to the re-watch here.
Jason Scade
2025-02-20 23:47:57 +0000 UTCHe REALLY needs to heed this advice
Jamie
2025-02-20 14:52:23 +0000 UTCThere's a difference between a hotwife and a hot wife. Very different meanings.
SnakeYikes
2025-02-19 21:36:58 +0000 UTCI have been meaning to watch this show for years and never got round to it so am super stoked you are watching. BTW your understanding of why they are fight is funny AF, it's really got nothing to do with religion it's all about land and segregation, Catholics were 2nd class citizens and were actively discriminated against, not really because of religion but because of rejection of the British Crown. Ireland was invaded by the English in the 12th century and not returned until 1912 and they still never gave back northern Ireland. The Catholics are loyal to Ireland and want north Ireland returned while the prods are loyal to the crown, the UK and originate from Scotland although settle in the north hundreds of years ago. The prods had, or have majority power in council n' politics in the troubles thus catholic were treated very poorly. Much like the segregation in the Jim Crow deep south you you have a door for the catholic and one for the prods when going into buildings, much like one door for whites and another for blacks, that's how it was back in the 60's when my catholic mother used to date a catholic man from northern Ireland. its a war for independence.
452b
2025-02-19 15:33:51 +0000 UTCI'm English, and woah. yeah, you guys need to go onto youtube and watch a few videos explaining about the "troubles" because everyone knows you are both soft hearted and here for the fun and the laugh's but you really REALLY don't want to put your foot in it with the irish folk through innocent ignorance
Dave Jones
2025-02-19 01:51:56 +0000 UTCSuperb. Delighted with this choice. Get that next upside up! Haha.
Paul Archibald
2025-02-18 17:22:30 +0000 UTCI'd be open to that, but it's still up in the air if Aussies have a sense of humour😼. Derry Girls is as much UK as that show in Cardiff or Frankie Boyle but not English sure.
emu cat
2025-02-18 16:45:03 +0000 UTCooo, lucky stars! I parked right next to an IRA linked bomb in a car in '92 in my hometown Lancs, no explosion or anything, it had all been dealt with by the time I got my car in the evening, a lecturer from the local college 'poly' was arrested, I saw none of it, heh. Then again I've been to N Ireland a few times when young and a coupe of times as an adult and it has always been great, great people too. Depends where you are and when, tbf that applies most cities these days eh.
emu cat
2025-02-18 16:12:34 +0000 UTCFantastic so glad that you're starting this TV show I believe it is TV show that is worth all the praise it gets I think it does a fantastic job grounding the lived in experiences of people who have gone through the troubles and works fantastically as satire I would however suggest you in some research about the troubles and especially the sensitivity the is holds within Irish history and British history when it comes to it just a bit of a suggestion before anymore misunderstanding happens’ cause it really is a sensitive subject and needs to be sensitively navigated just a bit of a heads up and a tip before you put your foot in it properly in it’ cause yeah Cali not gonna lie… no but honestly as soon as I saw this post come up I was thinking that doing in the name of the father might be a really good idea and to have both of you watch it if you want to understand Britain and British history the troubles are really huge part of our culture and our society I mean it was a disgusting miscarriage of justice from the English judicial system and the Giuseppe’s does deserve and warrant justice but the IRA still did carry out those attacks so yes very sensitive subject a lot of pain lots of pride the principles of being oppressed and hopefully now a lot of healing
Nunabissess
2025-02-17 16:37:06 +0000 UTCIt is Ok not to know stuff but i do hope you do some research and learn a little . I love your reactions but , wow i was stunned at your perception of The Troubles . I am in The US fairly regularly ( been married to an American for over 30 years ) In Florida sometimes .and no matter the age of the people i converse with they all have had a base knowledge of the issues . I am not being critical here please believe that . I would in no way put myself forward as any kind of expert on anything . It's just as someone who has watched the channel for a long time i was kinda taken aback
Toast
2025-02-17 03:11:55 +0000 UTCMore people have been murdered in the name of Christianity over the last couple of thousand years than any other religion.. but all religion is 👎🏼
Ricky
2025-02-16 23:26:23 +0000 UTCYes. Was your comment necessary?
Kathryn Edwards
2025-02-16 10:58:14 +0000 UTCQB is a hotwife?
Sam
2025-02-16 07:09:32 +0000 UTCThey were fighting heat the land one side wanted Northern Ireland to stay part of the UK the other side wanted it to join the rest of Ireland the violence was always there but got a lot worse in the late 60s after civil rights marches were quashed by riot police.
Aodhán McCrudden
2025-02-15 17:23:29 +0000 UTCNice shirt, you guys married now then? 😄
Rob webber
2025-02-15 11:10:16 +0000 UTCAw please do a documentary about the history of the troubles and how it all began over a hundred years ago now. You would find the jokes so much funnier if understood certain bombs , the paramilitaries and just various real characters like Ian painsley, the twelfth etc I know it’s a lot to take in but there are some hour long documentaries that will explain most of it! Just don’t want u’s missing the humour
Sonia ferguson
2025-02-15 02:56:32 +0000 UTCLove watching this, I grew up in birmingham my family are from armagh originally so I understand everything also grew up going there as a kid in the 90s my family are just like this was staying in the Catholic areas too sounding like a little peaky blinder lol feel for james
Christy Hennessy
2025-02-14 22:16:15 +0000 UTCWow didnt expect this, its such a good show on many levels, just hard to understand what they're saying sometimes in the earlier episodes
J
2025-02-14 19:00:04 +0000 UTCthey managed to wipe out the irish language faster than the english, by messing up generations of kids in schools and initiations. lot of dark stuff in that box.
rtkeane
2025-02-14 16:14:07 +0000 UTCthey wrote the scripts
rtkeane
2025-02-14 16:12:33 +0000 UTCWait till QB gets to the end.... powerful comedy
rtkeane
2025-02-14 16:11:22 +0000 UTCWatch One Upon A Time in Northern Island. Gives views from both sides https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27837209/?ref_=ext_shr
Mark Jephson
2025-02-14 15:30:58 +0000 UTCSuch a great show!! :)
K Bruun Kristensen
2025-02-14 14:58:23 +0000 UTCI love the Northern Irish accent it’s my favourite 🤩 . Netflix are so cheeky , they did this will Peep Show, putting Netflix original at the start when it definitely wasn’t a Netflix original
Erica
2025-02-14 14:43:55 +0000 UTCYeah they banned Conkers too which is just crazy!
Mark Jones
2025-02-14 13:52:35 +0000 UTCClose call, glad he was safe!
jimmytwohand
2025-02-14 13:12:15 +0000 UTCOthers have probably explained this better, but the animosity between communities isn't just about protestant v Catholic (from my understanding). It's more to do with that there are some who want northern Ireland to be part of Ireland (by and large, the Catholic community) and others who want NI to remain part of the UK (generally the Protestant community, decended partly from English settlers/colonisers). The religious split has been oversimplified in this explanation and there are many exceptions to what I've just said, but from my understanding (I'm not irish) that's the gist of it.
Gus
2025-02-14 13:05:10 +0000 UTCIn the early 90's my Dad worked around Covent Garden, and was drinking in The Sussex Arms pub in Longacre the day the IRA bomb went off. He got there first thing at 11am for a swift pint (after working an all nighter) and left around 1ish, half an hour before the bomb went off.
Jay
2025-02-14 12:50:05 +0000 UTCThey tried to ban it when I was in the cadets. We changed the name but kept the game.
matthew lockyer
2025-02-14 12:44:34 +0000 UTCYeah, I was struggling a tad with Erin's Mum's accent.
Joe Thornhill
2025-02-14 10:12:20 +0000 UTCBlimey, you haven't even finished Dark Place, yet.
Joe Thornhill
2025-02-14 09:57:13 +0000 UTCOh dear that's the Troubles not explained at all
Louise Miller
2025-02-14 07:18:59 +0000 UTCCheck out the history of the troubles from 1968 onwards to get a proper appreciation of this show. In the meantime i'll explain why the guy can't go to the boys school: Schools are segregated between Male Catholic, Male Protestant, Female Catholic and Female Protestant. He is a male catholic therefore, He can't go to a male Protestant school as he will get beaten up for being catholic, even though he is English. He can't go to a male catholic school. He will get beaten up because he was born in England and therefore English. Therefore the safest option is a Catholic girls school. Being a weakling or not wouldn't have made a difference. Google the "Holy cross dispute Ardoyne" to see the horrific and violent abuse protestant adults subjected 4 year old catholic schoolgirls to for trying to get to their catholic school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeDcqvFz3l4
matthew lockyer
2025-02-14 06:12:50 +0000 UTCFantastic show, glad you guys have started it. Can I recommend you put Brassic on your list too. Another great show
Jarrod Platt
2025-02-14 02:14:53 +0000 UTCYESSS! this is such a good show but it's very rarely reacted to.
Jack Nicholas
2025-02-14 00:39:13 +0000 UTCThe Troubles weren't really about religion, Catholic and Protestant were sort of just code words for what each group was associated with, within Northern Ireland. The Troubles were very complex. Derry Girls is a great show though, one of my favourites.
ThatGuyStephen
2025-02-14 00:25:42 +0000 UTCI love Derry Girls! I grew up in the west of Scotland, a few years younger than the girls but a lot of the same cultural references and very similar way of speaking. It all feels very nostalgic for me.
Alex West
2025-02-14 00:14:28 +0000 UTC"It just so happened"...
Steve Moppett
2025-02-14 00:13:44 +0000 UTCGreat to see this drop! Very funny show
Stephen Giles
2025-02-13 23:57:02 +0000 UTCI didn't know British Bulldog 123 (as it was known in my school) was banned ?! I used to enjoy playing that in the playground. Your comments about corporal punishment in schools were spot on.
Gareth
2025-02-13 23:44:23 +0000 UTCI’m all for letting Americans know about what we’re up to over here, but it’s a brave man who’s going to take the bait to try to explain the Troubles and what the fuck Northern Ireland is in a comments section. I swear I felt a physical pang of historical anxiety at “wait, the Protestants and the Catholics are fighting?”
Robert Woodward
2025-02-13 23:40:14 +0000 UTCAnother Irish sitcom to consider is The Young Offenders. It's set in Cork, in the South.
Yaapsdad
2025-02-13 23:31:07 +0000 UTCPlease try not to keep comparing to the inbetweeners. It’s not the same. It’s very good and very funny just not inbetweeners funny.
alan orme
2025-02-13 23:29:49 +0000 UTCIt's okay but could have been great... It had all the ingredients but didn't quite pull it off... Well worth watching though.
BigChanChan
2025-02-13 23:27:07 +0000 UTCOne of the best sitcoms of the last 10 years
Spoingus
2025-02-13 23:09:15 +0000 UTC3 minutes in and trying to get to grips with the complexity of this conflict. :D I always remember being told 'If you think you understand The Troubles, you don't understand The Troubles.' Interestingly I walked past an IRA car bomb in England when I was a teenager. I was about 30 yards away when it exploded. Luckily only the detonator went off and not the main charge.... This has been on my watchlist for a while though, so happy to be watching it with you two.
jimmytwohand
2025-02-13 22:57:32 +0000 UTCHopefully Green Wing is being held back for a QB reaction.
Julian T
2025-02-13 22:55:55 +0000 UTCWe used to get the train to Fenchurch St, and we went up the weekend after the Bishopsgate bomb, the devastation was horrendous, what was called the NatWest Tower had ribbons of blinds blowing in the wind as most of the windows were blown out, I remember the Canary Wharf bomb too, our windows shook. And before the M25 was opened, we had to drive through the city if we wanted to get across London and there was what was known as the ring of steel, checkpoints but mostly vans and lorries were pulled over. It feels like another time now.
Jason Bonner
2025-02-13 22:48:39 +0000 UTCI think a reaction to an educational video about the Troubles would be a good idea. There are some good short videos that summarise it.
Julian T
2025-02-13 22:47:41 +0000 UTCMost schools have uniforms to help with bullying. It also means even if your rich or poor when your in school you are equal.
Adam
2025-02-13 22:41:41 +0000 UTCNever seen Derry Girls, loved this reaction video, might go ahead and watch it in full now
Will
2025-02-13 22:40:24 +0000 UTCErin the main one and Michelle the wild one are best friends in real life, there's a series here called 'The Worlds Most Dangerous Roads' where couples of comedians are sent all over the world to drive notoriously dangerous routes, they were sent to Romania and it was really funny, you'd love that series actually, Greg Davies and quite a few comics you know have been on it, actually the Greg Davies one was freaking terrifying! It would make a perfect replacement for the TopGear specials and this show concentrates more on the history of the area too.
Mark Jones
2025-02-13 22:39:15 +0000 UTCYou need to watch brassic
Lee Davis
2025-02-13 22:34:31 +0000 UTCNever seen this show, enjoyed the first episode, looking forward to more!
Steven Iceton
2025-02-13 22:29:43 +0000 UTCWe still had corporal punishment when I went to school, so getting a rap across the knuckles with a ruler was normal, wooden ones were fine, it's the shatterproof ones which hurt! But that was for minor stuff in the classroom, having a wooden board duster thrown at your head was normal too, but if you were sent to see the headmaster you could get the slipper or the cane which is when it started getting painful, but to be honest it wasn't a deterrent at all, we still played games like British Bulldog (now banned in UK schools) and rugby was our main sport in Wales anyway, so pain was no deterrent, we'd dare each other to try and get caned somedays just for a laugh.
Mark Jones
2025-02-13 22:15:06 +0000 UTCKing and Queen Boomer, there's plenty of documentaries out there going into 'The Troubles'. They'll really open your eyes, some downright horrific events you will find hard to believe. Don't think there's a relatively modern comparison to anything you would have encountered in the U.S. You'd have to go back to the Civil War or the persecution of the native Americans for any sort of comparison, the difference being the troubles were reported and shown on television, in the press and many of the participants and residents of Ireland and the UK are still around to tell you about them.
Fordy7169
2025-02-13 22:11:44 +0000 UTCWhen the Brits and Scots implemented plantations in Ireland in the 16th and 17th century they confiscated land from the native Irish Catholics and gave it to Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. This is essentially the root of the resentment, as landowning protestants essentially ruled over a catholic peasantry. As a result, Protestants favoured the continued union with Britain to protect their elite privileges and Catholics tended to favour independence and supported nationalist and republican movements. So it's a religious conflict only in a very indirect sense; it's far more about history, colonialism, power, culture and identity.
daniel shears
2025-02-13 22:11:00 +0000 UTCGreat choice. Now your doing another countries programmes. Irish. I believe you have some Australian members so you should consider some of their programmes. Kath and Kim would be a good start.
Yaapsdad
2025-02-13 22:06:27 +0000 UTCAn over simplified version is a protestants country decided to invade a mainly Catholic island and impose its language and version of religion 🤷 these days we get along, no one is forced to be one or the other.
Darren 23
2025-02-13 22:02:52 +0000 UTCExactly
rtkeane
2025-02-13 21:59:51 +0000 UTCGirls wrote it
rtkeane
2025-02-13 21:58:53 +0000 UTCYes fewer overt sexual profanities every minute like in The Inbetweeners and more dramatic due to the setting/environment.
Fordy7169
2025-02-13 21:57:45 +0000 UTCPerfect summary
rtkeane
2025-02-13 21:57:32 +0000 UTCI was small at the time but i remember reading there was an attack in my hometown too linked to ira
Tim Salt (Tim Salt Writes)
2025-02-13 21:44:39 +0000 UTCBasically the 'troubles' weren't motivated by religion as such, the conflict was whether they should remain part of the UK or become part of the Republic of Ireland, it just so happened it was mostly Protestants who wanted to remain and mostly Catholics who wanted to leave the UK.
Mark Jones
2025-02-13 21:42:37 +0000 UTCHoly Crap, HOLY CRAP, ok.... the last 3 shows you've started watching are inspired choices, absolutely fecking brilliant, this is going to be absolutely fecking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Jones
2025-02-13 21:30:39 +0000 UTCYassssss!!! So happy to see this!!!!
Ciara M
2025-02-13 21:27:30 +0000 UTCThe religion was just used it’s a land dispute/occupation/civil rights/governor collusion fucking mess
rtkeane
2025-02-13 21:27:16 +0000 UTCYour going to ball your eyes out as well as pissing yourself laughing
rtkeane
2025-02-13 21:20:53 +0000 UTCNice T-Shirt. Glad there’s a space between Hot and Wife, the other meaning is a bit risqué ;)
Dans_t16s
2025-02-13 21:19:06 +0000 UTCWas the same age living down south. You’re both going to love it. It hilarious and heartbreaking . Our music and the same but tragically different. This is why we watch you boomer your watching the shows of our youf
rtkeane
2025-02-13 21:18:27 +0000 UTCYes wonderful choice! I think these characters will really start to work their way into your affections. Lots of wacky humour, plenty of heart too, and a great 90s soundtrack!
Tim Mountford
2025-02-13 21:15:45 +0000 UTCGood choice. This is the weakest of the episodes from Season 1 and so it gets better as the season and show as a whole goes on.
Neil Jarvis
2025-02-13 20:54:59 +0000 UTCYou should watch the 1998 movie 'The General' with Brendan Gleeson and Jon Voight, it's great film and shows Northern Ireland back during this time. It's the true story of the Dublin thief Martin Cahill, I can't recommend it enough.
Jason Bonner
2025-02-13 20:54:07 +0000 UTCGreat choice! I love the mental stuff, but it can get a bit repetitive, so broadening the channel could attract more members. On the topic of school punishment, I left in '86, and just a year later, corporal punishment was banned, so no more cane, slipper, or 12" ruler. You should explore this era. Around the same time, Thatcher survived the IRA bombing at the Tory Party conference. If she hadn’t gotten up to use the bathroom, history might have played out very differently. They planted the bomb under a bath in a hotel room three months before Thatcher stayed there. I'm so pleased that John Kerry, Clinton, Blair and especially Mo Mowlam managed to help bring this time to an end.
Jason Bonner
2025-02-13 20:50:07 +0000 UTCYES! I've been hoping you'd watch Derry Girls with the Queen for over a year. I'm super excited!
R van Kuik
2025-02-13 20:45:52 +0000 UTCGreat choice KB, believe it or not Males can like mostly-female led shows as long as it's good, and this show is one of them IMO. In a nutshell the city of Derry is mostly Catholic and is close to the Republic of Ireland's border, but is governed by the protestant minority, it being part of the UK (I think that was/is the case, I'm sure our Northern Irish patreons will clarify that). Hence any English boy going to an all-boys Catholic school would not be a good idea, even if he was Catholic too, sadly. The conflict is to do with sovereignty as well as religion, Northern Irish Catholics would prefer to be part of the Republic and the Protestants want to stay part of The UK.
Fordy7169
2025-02-13 20:44:36 +0000 UTCGood choice, great little series.
emu cat
2025-02-13 20:25:38 +0000 UTCNot seen this before, defo gone watch along with you guys! :)
carrot
2025-02-13 20:22:42 +0000 UTCThis show is new to me and it looks pretty good tbh so it’s nice to watch something new with the king and queen.
Rob G
2025-02-13 20:20:00 +0000 UTCThe conflict in Ireland has also a lot to do with politics, not just religion. With Irish Republicans fighting the Royalists in the north. It's extremely complicated and goes a long way back to the British colonisation of Ireland.
Dubsox
2025-02-13 20:16:19 +0000 UTCExcellent choice of show
james moores
2025-02-13 20:04:58 +0000 UTCHope you enjoy this - I would have been the same age as the characters about 40 miles south of Derry. It’s a show with plenty of heart, plenty of insight on the shite that was going on at the time but outrageously funny. The only downside is that you’ll get conflicting views on the “troubles” here in the comments. History is always viewed from different perspectives no more so than here!
Richard A
2025-02-13 19:38:18 +0000 UTCLike someone else said, it's not so much the religion thing as a British versus Irish thing (Loyalist vs Republicans). After Partition (the dividing of Ireland) the protestants who's lineage originated from England and Scotland still wanted British rule while the Irish catholics wanted a reunification (you can tell by the flag they bear ). The NI state and police (RUC) persecuted the catholics with unfair laws and brutal policing. For future reference Fenian is a proud Irish person (close enough for this), Orange Men is protestants.
Sean Riley
2025-02-13 19:33:25 +0000 UTCNICCEEEE. Haven't seen this yet, but it was on the eternal list. Guess it's time!
Stu T
2025-02-13 19:16:13 +0000 UTCI was actually going to recommend this to you, can't wait for the next one
Darren F
2025-02-13 19:13:40 +0000 UTCNot seen this before but it looks entertaining
Waldemar
2025-02-13 19:06:12 +0000 UTCDerry man here, glad to finally see this reaction... Brilliant show and some parts hit deep The Dad is Tommy Tiernan a really famous Irish comedian... Fuck is my chisel is a brilliant bit by him
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-13 19:01:05 +0000 UTCif you can afford to home tutor, you always should. but maybe qb should learn a bit more about northern ireland and the religions before committing to that :XXX
James West
2025-02-13 19:00:21 +0000 UTCI understand that, the history is way way to long to get into, but you did summarise it without mentioning the other side involved in the conflict so it did come across as very one sided
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-13 19:00:16 +0000 UTC1000%
Kieran B
2025-02-13 18:50:44 +0000 UTCAs a uk prrson of northern irish catholic and protestant descent, the troubles were less about differences of religion per se than religion as a shorthanda denotion of tribeand politics and the settlement of ireland by protestants from britain, particularly scotland in what is now Northern Ireland in particular. It is a long and complicated history which did have its roots in the religious wars of previous centuries but by this time was more about politics tied to the formation if the independent republic in 1923. Northern ireland had a protestant majority who wanted to remain in britain which they did with the formation of Northern Ireland. The catholic minority wanted to be joined with the republic. There were also issues re discrimination against catholics. Ironically in the modern phase the british troops were initially sent in to protect the catholic minority who greeted them with cups of tea. However this soon changed and the army came to be part of the protestant loyalist pro uk side vs the catholic nationalist side (the minority in northern ireland at the time). Both sides spawned terrorist groups. As a side note the ira also bombed mainland britain and assassinated british figures like lord montbatten so nowhere in the uk was untouched by the troubles. Lots of civilians killed. No offence meant to anyone by this potted and very broadbrush mini history.
Kourga
2025-02-13 18:33:15 +0000 UTCAh damn, ah well, never mind,
Duncan
2025-02-13 18:28:47 +0000 UTCAs a Father Ted veteran there's one particular guest star later you'll spot. There's 2 even more famous people crop up too. One is right at the very end.
Graeme Robertson
2025-02-13 18:19:47 +0000 UTCNo, why would I do that? You've just said it wasn't accurate that the IRA are/were a political party so stop moving the goalposts. It looks like an attempt to delegitimise Sinn Fein. But happy to leave it there.
Joe Gardiner
2025-02-13 18:12:34 +0000 UTCi was just trying to sum it up quickly. No it wasn't fully accurate, bt I wasn't going to sit down and write a 10,000 word thesis on the subject. I still think religion was a bi-product of the whole thing. If the loyalists were/are also catholic, they would have found a reason to differentiate the two groups. I'm sticking with that.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-13 18:09:45 +0000 UTCFantastic show choice. An absolute modern classic.
Miller
2025-02-13 18:04:49 +0000 UTCGood choice of show for you guys to watch together, this should be a fun one. I would advise either actually learning about the troubles or not thinking/talking about it too much, going middle-ground on it will just be confusing and likely annoy people. Play it safe
Jon Burkitt
2025-02-13 18:04:09 +0000 UTCThat's not exactly accurate though. The IRA didn't bacome a political party. Sinn fein is the political party your thinking of. Your comment completely ignores loyalist terrorist groups like the UDA UVF etc that carried out many attacks but just because it didn't happen in England it probably didn't get reported or because of collusion with the police and army. Also lots of awful things happened 100% based on religion. The shankill butchers is probably one of the most notorious examples. Or the Kingsmill massacre. Growing up in Derry it definitely felt 100% like it was a religious thing. But Derry people are amazing and after the good Friday agreement we've had way less trouble here than in Belfast where peace walls are still a thing!
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-13 18:04:06 +0000 UTCSo you deny that Martin McGuiness was part of the IRA?
Dave Roberts
2025-02-13 18:03:42 +0000 UTCit really isn't. It's OK at best.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-13 18:01:58 +0000 UTCI missed the part where they went into the entire geopolitical history of The Troubles...
Jamie
2025-02-13 18:01:31 +0000 UTCit's more of a drama/comedy than the Inbetweeners, and frankly is better written.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-13 18:01:08 +0000 UTCSorry to be a pedant but the IRA were not and are not a political party. The political wing of the IRA was of course Sinn Fein who do indeed have power.
Joe Gardiner
2025-02-13 18:01:05 +0000 UTCGood show and reaction. I'm a bloke and enjoyed this series, I don't think it caters to one audience over the other, in terms of gender. Good comedy is good comedy.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-02-13 17:54:19 +0000 UTCSo happy to see this.. hope you both enjoy it 🇮🇪
Darren Seymour
2025-02-13 17:47:34 +0000 UTCyassssssss
Ross stewart
2025-02-13 17:41:11 +0000 UTCFucking YES!!!
mypetzebra
2025-02-13 17:38:39 +0000 UTCPerfect choice King & Queen Boomer!
SEAN
2025-02-13 17:37:27 +0000 UTCI haven't seen this but don't have any complaints as I know it's one of the more popular UK comedies to release in the last few years. Plus, from the 2-3 short clips I have seen in the past, as others have said it looks like an Irish / female version of the inbetweeners which isn't the worst thing in the world, and I know you mentioned ages ago you were desperate to watch this with QB so I half expected it! Can I also just say how much better it's been recently with only 5 shows in the rotation! Obvs Dark place is ending but 4-6 shows is perfect rather than the 8-9 I think you were watching at one stage haha
ryung246
2025-02-13 17:37:00 +0000 UTCI loved White Gold. Gutted they only made two series.
Joe Blakeley
2025-02-13 17:36:49 +0000 UTCyou should watch the movie called the wind that shakes the barley, it is a fantastic irish rebel movie
Leo Stewart-Smith
2025-02-13 17:24:27 +0000 UTCI'm sorry but that's a totally inaccurate description of the 'troubles'. Northern Ireland is governed by the UK, and is made up of catholics and protestant people. The Protestants want to remain part of the UK and see the Queen (now the King) as their leader. The Catholics (this is generalised of course) want Northern Ireland to return and be a part of Ireland. The IRA (Irish Republican Army) had huge bombing campaign on both the island of Ireland and here on the mainland. For example they almost killed Thatcher who with the rest of the Tory party were staying in a huge hotel in Brighton when the IRA detonated a huge bomb, killing a few but Thatcher survived. I lived in London in the eighties and the IRA bombed the huge store called Harrods in Knightsbridge, and the next day I went past on the bus and we could see blood and stains on the pavement outside. There is peace in Northern Ireland now. The IRA became a legitimate political party, and now they have representatives in government. Of course, I think Northern Ireland should return to Ireland, and one day it will, but until then it's still part of the UK. So to sum up, it was never really about religion, it just happened that the two opposing sides were of a different denomination. Derry Girls is superb, especially the first series.
Dave Roberts
2025-02-13 17:16:49 +0000 UTCIt's brilliant 👏
Rob webber
2025-02-13 17:14:08 +0000 UTCGirls inbetweeners, also check out 'some girls' it's also basically girls inbetweeners and one of them is just like neil! I'll let you guess which one 😏 😁 and it has a great intro song 🎵 👌
Rob webber
2025-02-13 17:09:30 +0000 UTCYou two should watch white gold especially after just doing the inbetweeners. It's basically a 80s version of Jay and Simon, so funny
John Prescott
2025-02-13 17:07:45 +0000 UTCYes yes yes! Was hoping for this! 😁😁👌🏼👌🏼
Martyn Dawson
2025-02-13 17:07:05 +0000 UTC
