John Crawley

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Anything Goes with James English · US Marine Fighting for the IRA - John Crawley Tells His Story · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

You know, I think I'd shown those qualities in recon.

And it's like anything else.

If you really want to do something, you'll do it.

Well, the troubles to me meant...

I look on the British claim to jurisdiction in Ireland as an act of war.

I mean, the fact, you know, that they claim jurisdiction in Ireland to me is, you know, they have no right to be in Ireland.

And, uh,

So I looked at it as an act of war, as if anybody invaded Britain and claimed jurisdiction in part of Britain, I'm sure they would look at it as an act of war.

But there was an ongoing fight to resist that.

But it was very important to put things in perspective.

I wanted to fight the union, not unionists.

My war was with the union, with Britain, not against unionists.

I was never in a situation where I was involved in conflict with loyalists or unionists like there would have been maybe in Belfast and places like that.

I was never in a situation like that.

And also, I didn't join the provost to fight for the provost.

I joined the provost to fight for the Irish Republic, to build a 32-county national democracy within an all-Ireland republic.

And that was my goal and the goal of most Republicans.

And I thought the goal of our leadership.

Well, first of all, I wouldn't have attacked unionists for being unionists.

But I mean, you mean like unionist paramilitaries?

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