[Rovernet] Rover espionage!!!!!

[geffandjulie at comcast.net]

Not unusual, savage story of the IRA campaign for total control of the 6
counties in the northeast that still remain British. 

An Poblacht means the Republic in Irish. Reading it gives a sense of the
fervor, often murderous, of the independence movement. To this day, the
Irish call it the Revolution, which finally achieved a nation after conquest
of Eire in the 13-1400s. 

My 4 grandparents were all Irish and immigrated here in the 1890s.  I was
raised to hate the "Brits" because they "dragged my father's cousin to death
behind a van". IRA cousin, it seemed. 

However, when we visited the charming village of Dingle, where a monument to
"Bobby Mac" exists even today, the story was a bit different:  Bobby Mac was
on the wrong side of the short, fortunately not too nasty, Civil war, and
came down from the hills to "visit his mother, or go to Mass". And was shot
by Irish. The civil war was fought after  the truce, and pitted those who
wanted complete independence, vs those who would still swear allegiance to
the King, and become effectively a Commonwealth country. We know who won. 

Ironically, in our many visits to Eire, distaste for Brits is little more
than a joke. Only once did we encounter real antipathy, and that family's
kids were.in school in UK! The 2 nations have almost no borders, Irish can
still vote in local elections in UK< etc.

The Palestinian Israeli tragedy could learn from the Irish. After
independence there was a Land Commission to fairly distribute the lordly
estates. Many British owners left, many stayed, with less land. The same
process took place in South Africa after apartheid ended. 

Ireland was a poor, agricultural nation when we first visited in the 60s .
The Irish were always highly educated, literate, witty, social. It was EU
money that transformed the nation into the prosperous, dynamic republic. 

 

Geoffrey W. McCarthy MD MBA DipAvMed Col USAFMC (ret)

677 NW Melinda Ave

Portland OR 97210

503-799-3809 (m)

 

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Subject: [Rovernet] Rover espionage!!!!!

 

Was in Washington DC last weekend and visited the fabulous Spy Musuem, just
off the National Mall (if you haven't been, it is a MUST).

 

As we were working our way through, I was caught off guard by a photo and
story of an undercover soldier working for the British government who was
killed by the IRA.

 

Pretty as you please, Telford Stuart, was leaning against a Series 1 P6

 

Here ya go!  (this is a very detailed article which was not part of the
museum's display).

 

https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370


 <https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370> 

 <https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/26370> MRF soldier-spy's family wins
first battle against British Arm...

Strabane-born soldier was killed when an IRA counter-intelligence unit
ambushed him on 2 October 1972 during a 'Four Square Laundry' collection in
west Belfast

www.anphoblacht.com <http://www.anphoblacht.com> 

 

 

 

Lance 

 

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