Couldnt one say that about any organisation of pretty much any size we care to mention, did American troops in WW2 really join to rid the world of Nazis or was it a paying gig that promised adventure.hmm well he does say
"In his study of the IRA, for example, Robert White found that nearly half of the terrorists he interviewed were unaware of the discrimination in northern ireland against catholics, despite the salience of this issue in IRA communiques"
Presumably there have to be at least a few people who come up with the ideological stuff though. But their motivations not be what we might think either.
They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
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