We were really speaking a different language coming from here [New York] in trying to understand where they were coming from. These were men (and women) who had lived in a situation for 25 years where every day could be their last. They were coming from a place where, whatever demonisation had occurred, they had survived everything. They had survived the second most powerful army in the world throwing everything at them. They had survived total indifference and disdain from Dublin. They had survived large sections of their support being eaten away by the SDLP. They had survived death squads
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