John Crawley
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I can't get my head around it.
But I know it's there.
It exists.
MARK BLYTH What's the worst thing you've seen while involved in an IRA?
Well, I couldn't really go into that, James.
No, I struggle with the future, James.
I struggle that what we fought for, our goals aren't there, that we're not on the trajectory for this all-Ireland republic.
We're on a trajectory that brings us to a further division, a so-called United Ireland, where you can be British or Irish.
So...
This so-called shared island, right, that they're talking about now instead of the United Ireland, a shared island where we share in Britain's analysis of the nature of the conflict.
We share in the colonial legacy of sectarian apartheid, and we share in the imperial project of divide and rule.
I didn't, we didn't fight to share it in that way.
We fought to unite our country and to unite it in the only way that matters, united as citizens, you know, Protestant Catholic together as citizens.
And I know, you know, you know, there's, there's a tradition there and I'm not blind to it.
I know unionists don't want to be part of it.
And I know that on the 12th of July every year,
many unionists celebrate the defeat of Ireland, they celebrate the start of the Protestant ascendancy, and all that flowed from that, the land wars, the famine, and they celebrate and rejoice in everything that went wrong in Ireland because they just celebrate that, right?
But on the other hand, there is that DNA in the Protestant culture
that were the founding fathers of Irish republicanism.
And so you have that dichotomy.
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