I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle until I achieve liberation of my country, until Ireland becomes a sovereign, independent socialist republic.
“...Terrorist Bobby Sands...”
Ah, yes, Bobby Sands. I lived in Portadown, Northern Ireland when he went on his hunger strike in the ‘Maze’ and after some weeks starved himself to death.
One of the engineers who worked for me there, a Catholic, knew Bobby Sands. We had an interesting discussion or two during the time of the hunger strikes.
Ireland is a socialist republic (though not completely free yet). Most of Europe is socialist, though Ireland managed it well in comparison (they didn’t stop reproducing to pay for it, as other European countries did, and their tax rates could still attract business and retain wealthy people).