John Crawley
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I don't know the number, but I know around the time of the hunger strikes and around the time I joined the IRA, there were 30,000 Crown forces in the North.
If you take regular British Army, UDR, RUC, in a six-county area, approximately 30,000.
And there would have been
at the most, maybe 300 active IRA men.
But there would have been a large amount of helpers and things like that.
But you find in areas, it was a very small number of IRA men really did the operations.
It was a very small number.
And I think people would like, again, I talk about South of Maui, but how shocked people would be if they knew how small a number of people was actually doing the main operations there.
It was just a handful of people, but they kept it tight.
They kept it quiet.
It was harder to do that in the cities.
You had more men, and I think the Brits had more opportunity to infiltrate.
But I mean, every area produced top caliber man.
I mean, Bobby Sands was from Belfast.
Francis used himself, Terry.
Every area produced very high caliber people.
But don't get me wrong.
I mean, there were people in the area who shouldn't have been in it.
As I said, there were people who were a complete waste of space.
Waste of space, you know, and...
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