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

So it's one of the mysteries of my life.

Who gave me that order and why?

Not sleepless, but hardly a day goes by when I don't think about it, you know.

So it's just, O'Callaghan told us, you know, coming into Kenmare Bay, but he didn't, he wasn't the one that gave that order.

After we were arrested, of course, the IRA set up an investigation into how we were arrested.

And the initial suspicion would have come on a mistake I made, because I was told before I left that only six or seven men in Ireland knew about this operation.

So if it went pear-shaped,

it had to be me for either trusting the wrong person or doing the wrong thing.

It's basically told that, right?

So I was getting messages in, you know, asking me, what did you do?

Who did you talk to?

And all this implication being, it was our end.

And I remember thinking, now, hold on a wee second, right?

We were given a longitude and latitude where it'd be in the Atlantic.

But I didn't know we were going to Kenmare Bay.

I had no idea the boat coming out to meet us was the Merida Anne.

I didn't know anybody on the Merida Anne.

I didn't know where the boat in Ireland was based.

We could have been going to Donegal, Sligo, Waterford, anywhere.

No idea.

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