 I was born into a Protestant family, actually, and all my grandfathers and onwardsmen. But he met a woman down in Cork, and she was a Catholic. And when they got married, she demanded that their children be brought up Catholic. Otherwise, my life would be different from what it would be now, you know? I'll put your name down. I'll get you up here with me, Shia. It's all brilliant. Two days later, he was shot dead. Not too far from here. Shot six times in the face and ahead by Loilis, murdered, just from being a Catholic. Up here at the time. So with Bloody Sunday and the murder of my friend James, I was me finished with her. And I decided what my brothers were trying to do all the time, make me join the Republican movement. You know, I decided that was the only way to change things here, to join the IRA. After a few months of training and learning things, I started to change. You know, I didn't want revenge as such, but I wanted no longer to be treated like a dog in my own country, in my own city. Didn't want to be treated like a second class citizen. And this was Ireland, yeah, it was occupied by Britain. Didn't think I had any right to be here. You know, I wouldn't have, Ireland wouldn't have a right to be in Britain, occupied England, London. So it was the same here. For me, my attitude was, there shouldn't be any British here whatsoever, you know? When I got out, I got out in 1976. And about eight months later, I was captured in Belfast in a van with a load of bombs and machine guns. Myself and five other comrades. But the time in the hits blocks was horrendous. I was there for eight years. I was naked. I was stripped of all my clothes. Soon as I came into reception the day I was sat in, they brought me into reception. So it's like a room like this. Six or seven screws waiting for you, you have your battens. And the first thing you do is you start ripping all your clothes off till you're naked, to try to humiliate you, because you refuse to put on the prison uniform, because you're not a criminal. And the political prisoners, I told them, I'm not wearing it. So they just kept beating and beating and beating me, you know? During the hunger strikes, we shot 30 of its screws dead. And I thought we should have shot more. I wanted as many, up 100, 200 of them dead. Even today, I check their names to see who's died. Who's died of cancer or whatever, you know? I hit them so much, they got away, brutalized us and tortured us for years, got away with it. They got big bounty money. And they loved doing what they did, you know? And these are war criminals. My father couldn't be brutal. By anybody or anything, you know? But the sight of me, that's what I'm looking at.