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

How did you get the explosives into prison?

Well, I couldn't.

You know, that's the secret has to remain, you know, to protect the guilty.

We got 13 gates.

We got through 14 of them.

Yeah, we had keys and everything.

We had screws, uniforms.

It was an ingenious escape attempt.

We had, um, see the Irish army were on the roof and they were told to shoot anybody, not in a screws uniform running across, but we had Lycra, uh, sewn up Lycra.

And, uh, and if you put on a sports jacket and you put it over, uh, the sports jacket, it looked like a screws.

We had wooden buttons and a little paper, uh, tie.

Now for me to you, it was bullshit, but for the guy on the roof and the tower, he couldn't quite make out.

You know what I mean?

So we were running across the yard.

That's the only thing that saved our lives from being riddled by them, you know?

But, uh, no, it was, it was, it was a good attempt.

Uh, yeah, I, I suppose that was 1985 and I think probably my, well, I have a lot of regrets, I mean, from losing friends and things, but, but I think my greatest personal regret as an IRA volunteer was that escape didn't work because I was 28.

Uh, and, uh, uh, you know, uh,

I'd only been a year in prison and we'd have got out, you know, at the height of things, you know what I mean?

And, you know, you don't want to be sitting in prison when you're a motivated young fella, you know, you want to, and you're motivated to fight for your country.

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