IRA Press Conference 1972

IRA Press Conference in 1972 when the leadership of the Republican Movement layed out terms for a truce and engagement with the British government. The British initially agreed to a number of secret meetings in London but the truce eventually broke down. Those taking part in the Press Conference included Sean Mac Stiofáin, Martin McGuinness, Daithi Ó Conaill and Seamus Twomey.

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[Sh012222]

Which one is Daithi Ó Conaill

[Derektrotter08]

@Sh012222 imnear sure hes the cool looking bloke at 7 seconds

[Doco09]

@TerrySleeper Seán MacStíofán's mother was Irish therefore he was Irish!! he may have been born in London but he's Irish as proven by the actions he took in the PIRA

[TerrySleeper]

The birthplace of a man's mother does not determine his nationality.

Be serious.

[dccoulthard]

@Sh012222 I always say "the one that looks like John Cleese" :)

[mst3k4evur]

@TerrySleeper

Nothing wrong at all, since he was probably the best leader the IRA would have for some time. He was also non-sectarian (perhaps owing to his Protestant ancestry) unlike his successor Seamus Twomey.

[TerrySleeper]

@mossy121c - yes, he was Bolivian.

There's nothing wrong with Stephenson being English, it's just that a lot of people are not aware of it.

The assumption would be that he was Irish.

But he wasn't.

He was English.

Point of information, that's all.

Not a big deal . . . .

[mossy121c]

@TerrySleeper Che Guevara was not Cuban

[TerrySleeper]

@wallacepearse - er . . . . right.

I think.

[wallacepearse]

@TerrySleeper

No, its worse than that, all of MacStiofain's grandparents were English born! He wouldn't have even been eligible for the Irish soccer team! One of his great-grandparents may have been an Ulster Protestant and born in Ireland but there's no evidence. His Cockney mother was a crypto-Catholic High Church Anglican who sent him to an Catholic school in North London. He grew up with the London Irish, working with Irish on the building sites, and socialising with them in Irish clubs.

[TerrySleeper]

@22grena - his mother, born & bred in Bethnal Green, with only one Irish grandparent, was incontestably English.

However you slice it, the Provos top man in the early 70s was an Englishman.

What is so wrong with that?

[22grena]

@TerrySleeper But his mother was not English, that is the point and why he was what he was. You are being too English in your thinking. I often think the English people have a lower emphathy than others. I think its because of thereducation system which has been so very anglo centric.

[TerrySleeper]

@22grena - A cynical reply would be that if I have an emotional belief to be a Chinaman I would in fact be a Chinaman. But I doubt that anyone would take that line of argument seriously.

De Valera identified himself with his "Irish"-side as Bob Marley (half-white) did with his his Jamaican side. This is a moot point, I agree.

As for losing one's ID when one goes "abroad": Stepehnson never went "abroad". He was English, with an English father and an English mother.