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, you know, one of the ironies of it is, is that Irish republicanism was founded by Protestants.

The United Irishmen were founded in 1791.

You see,

Through the long history of Irish resistance and Irish rebellions, the vast majority of the rebels and things like that wanted either to restore a Gaelic aristocracy to Ireland or have a Catholic king.

It was the United Irishmen, founded by Wulff Tone and people like that in 1791,

who were the first to come up with the concept of Ireland as a sovereign, independent republic in its own right.

They were the first.

And of the 28 founding members of the United Irishmen, 26 were Northern Presbyterians and two were Anglicans.

All were Protestants.

So the Irish Republican movement was founded exclusively by Protestants.

You know, one of the ironies of history.

But you see, they were Protestants of the Enlightenment.

and they saw themselves as Irishmen, and they didn't believe for one second that just because they were Protestant, they couldn't be Irish, right?

But then you have the Protestantism that comes from the plantation tradition that sees itself as colonial settlers, as a sort of garrison for England, and believe that that gives them unique rights because they were here on a civilizing mission to tame the Irish, tame the gale, you know, that type of thing.

And all this stuff's in the mix.

Do you think Ireland will ever be independent?

Fully independent?

Well, I don't know.

I don't know because while it might be united territorially, the thing about it is with the Good Friday Agreement, you see, the unity they're talking about under the Good Friday Agreement

is it maintains the sectarian dynamic.

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