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

Nobody in the American then knew either.

But the Irish Navy knew.

And they were waiting for us.

And I know I didn't tell them.

Now, we learned later that Sean O'Callaghan told them that we were coming to Kenmare Bay.

But, like, he wasn't the one that told them.

You know, he wasn't the one that told me to come now, bring everything, and you be on the boat.

So it's one of the mysteries of my life, you know.

Where were you getting the weapons from?

Well, mostly gun stores.

You know, we were...

We were going around buying weapons.

There was some IRA weapons over there from previous purchases that were there.

Liam Ryan, like I said, my friend who was later killed, had some stuff stored.

He gave it to us.

And then Whitey Bulger had some stuff.

But it was mostly – it wasn't – see, my goal was to standardize the weaponry, standard military weaponry that would –

you know, uh, smooth our logistical problems.

Like for example, you know, you could have, um, you could have, uh, eight IRA volunteers in operation, everybody with a different rifle, everybody with a different caliber, you know, it was a logistical nightmare and a training nightmare, you know?

So standardizing that was, uh, I thought an important step, uh,

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