There had to be a moment when he was compromised. He would have had to make a choice between living with the consequences of what they were going to expose about him or deciding to enter into a pact with people who had inflicted so much suffering on his own community, his friends, himself.
Danny Morrison
It was a big win for us. We wanted a quick start to put them away early.
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He was affable, humorous, unassuming, intelligent. He didn't lead a lavish lifestyle - I doubt if he even owned his own house. He didn't drink too much. He didn't gamble. He didn't drive a flashy car. His wife never wore fur.
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In the early days [the 1920s] individual IRA commanders used to sign statements. I'm fairly sure that the name S O'Neill was used in Belfast in the 1940s, but I don't think we know the exact provenance of P O'Neill.
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He had to make up his mind: fleeing into the arms of his handlers or throwing himself on the mercy of the Republican community.
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If we're sitting here at this time next year with the same record, we are in a BCS game. The program is positioned well for that.
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Will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in this hand, and an armalite in this hand, we take power in Ireland?
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