The Story of an Irish IRA Guy

Among the Catholics, you have a culture that essentially is devoted to storytelling. I hung out with all these IRA guys and it's sort of weird because they are so charming but then you hear about why they were in Long Cash for five years. But my favorite IRA story is in the 40s, there's an IRA guy way up high in the IRA who... The other IRA guys become convinced as a British informer. So they kidnap him, take him to a remote cottage up in the mountains, and interrogate him until he confesses. He confesses in due course. And then they say, all right, we'd like you to write out your confession. And he says,