John Crawley
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In other words, under the Goodfred Agreement, it says, if Ireland is united, you can stay British or you can stay Irish.
You know, the whole point, and the whole, well, you can stay British, you can stay Irish, and it retains institutional links with the crown that the unionists can be seen at what I would call as some sort of post-colonial rump, you know.
The whole point of Irish republicanism was to break the connection with England and to develop a joint civic identity.
Like in America, when I grew up,
Italians, Irish, blacks, every culture, every religion, every imaginable diverse group you can have, but you have one overriding loyalty to the American Republic.
India, 2.1 billion people, right?
2,000 ethnic groups and 15 official languages, and they're one united republic.
Ireland, right?
Half the population of London, right?
Catholic tradition, nationalist tradition, unionist tradition, and we can't be one united republic.
And the reason we can't is because there is a foreign government in the mix underwriting the supremacy of one section of our people.
And it's breaking that connection with England, that wolf tone that the Protestant founders of republicanism
was the only way to eventually build a national identity.
And I believe that still.
I mean, the first Italian prime minister, Adorno, when Italy used to be just a bunch of different city-states, he says, first we have to make Italy.
then we can make Italians.
You know what I mean?
Same situation in Ireland.
We have a partitionist mindset in the south because of partition.
We have a unionist mindset in the north because of the union.
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