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

I admired them.

I looked up to them.

It's only when I was there for a while and I saw certain weaknesses that could have been very easily fixed.

And I started to make my views known.

And then the next thing I know, I was told to go to America and buy guns because I had an American accent.

And I remember thinking at the time, this is very strange because

Well, you know, I'd been an instructor in a special operations unit, and I thought I had a lot more to offer the IRA than my accent, which at the time would have been, I'm sure my American accent there was much stronger back then, you know.

And no, I was called to a meeting and told to go to Boston and set up a new arms network.

But, you know, and I wasn't, you know, and I wasn't even told what to get, what to buy.

there was no strategy that I could see.

You know, I was even, I was, let me see, what's the best way to put this?

I was,

I was crestfallen for two reasons.

One was that they seem to think that for all the knowledge resources I had, the only real asset that I could provide the IRA was my accent.

And the other one was that I presume there was a strategy and they would tell me, you know, get this, get that, you know, so that we can carry out the strategy.

But no, I was just told go over there and get weapons.

It was that vague.

You know, I was given 9,000 Irish pounds, which is a derisory sum, and then sent off to Boston.

Do you then question your decision-making then?

How old were you then?

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