One IRA organizer who visited the US during the Vietnam war era remarked that he had to carefully conceal from conservative Irish Americans that the US organization most similar to the IRA was the Black Panthers.
The author of a book on the IRA said you could not distinguish Catholics from Protestants by what they believed their religion asked them to do, but could tell their neighborhoods apart from the air.
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