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

But one of his men there, Patney, who was originally from Ireland, wasn't.

grew up in an Irish speaking house.

His parents spoke fluent Irish at home.

Uh, he'd been an ex Marine and we kind of clicked, we hit it off.

And Pat was very enthusiastic about helping us.

And so Whitey sort of gave the nod, but he wasn't really hands-on Whitey like Pat and he was, you know, Pat and he did, did almost, you know, the real work and, you know, in expanding the operation to where we ended up with seven and a half tons of weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, you know, but, um,

Then after some time, but I have to emphasize about Whitey, the Whitey thing was with all the books about him and all the movies about him and things like that now, and some of the nefarious activities he was at, like, we didn't know that.

We knew he was a criminal, obviously, because he was able to, you know, break the law, get fake licenses, get guns.

But we didn't know, like, the things he was doing that we later learned, you know, murdering people, pulling their teeth out, burying them in the basement, things like that.

You know, obviously he wasn't going to tell us that stuff, you know.

But so... Was he scared of him?

He was intimidating in a way.

He tried to build a rapport with me and other IRA guys.

But at the same time, he had a sort of...

barrier put up.

You couldn't get too close.

You couldn't get too friendly to him.

I remember a couple of times maybe engaging in a bit of banter, a bit of friendly banter, and he sort of pushed back a bit, you know, as if maybe you weren't respecting him, you know.

I think he wanted you always a little bit in awe of him.

I wasn't in awe of this guy, you know, but you sort of had to play the game a little bit, you know.

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