Tom Barry - Guerilla days in Ireland TG4 

Such a lovely way to respect someone and carry on their memory!

Thank you. We are survived in blood by our sons and daughters but memorialised in our stories and the affects we leave for those to come after. Thank you for sharing this story.

Glad we won't forget Tom Barry or the 1million Irish starved to death by you know who.

Mmm

also think barry was a nationalist more than anything, not a hardline nationalist but dont think he really was too keen on some of SF's left leaning policies

@david gallagher Hughes was operational commander on Bloody Friday in 1972. Nine people were killed and 130 seriously injured. When the bombs started going off he said that he realised there were too many, but what a time for him to realise that! He suffered terribly after the Good Friday Agreement when all those deaths were on his conscience. Operationally he was a good commander but he wasn't smart enough to realise compromises would have to be made in the end.

How do you sell a book? Dream up some controversy that's how. Hart is full of shit and it's typical of TG4 that they would stab one of their own in the back and take the word of someone who is a proven liar.

Instantly seemed like horse shit to me

fair play.

He was just trying to hock his book and TG4 were probably getting its cut out of it.

Canadian

Aye. The B&Ts were animals; dogs of war, they'd use any trick or deception without pause for thought. We Real Cornish remember Michael Joseph; An Gof. Much English trash was written of him and us. And they called us 'Heathen Rebels'. FTA.

When he came back from the war he joined the veterans association and was active in it. He applied for a job with the British Civil service but was unsuccessful. Boy was he pissed off.

I would call it turning his coat and an act of betrayal.

I would say he woke up​@@desmondhull5778

He isn`t the only one who isn`t convinced . To be honest I can`t see why or how it would have happened given the nature of the war and the ambush. It was intense and quick I expect and unusually close up ,most were at a greater distance. They certainly killed the one Auxie that got away and was captured a few days later. So what`s the difference? What would he have done with prisoners anyway?

@freebeerfordworkers that's a lovely imagination you have there. A tremendous work if fiction.

I agree with you on that one, he seems to be almost like a troll, he seems to be someone who would argue if you said black he would say white, if you said left he would say right. I have to be honest and that is, the man is clearly out to discredit Tom Barry, and I do think that he is very much anti IRA. The fact is the IRA were right, the cause was right, now do I believe in the New IRA, no I don’t, they are the IRA their methods are sheer brutal and have no support of the majority if the Irish people North or South. Unfortunately on any organisation, especially such paramilitaries you will always find some extremists who use any method to a achieve the goals. I think that the majority the Irish Volunteers since 1916 to 1998 were fighting for a cause and most of them were decent in the way they conducted themselves. The Irish war if independence has never really finished, but now it must take on a political fight, guns and war allowed to the opening to use dialogue instead of bullets, and that is true, never would the British have come to terms or accepted power sharing on the North without the IRA resistance to British-orange rule. What people forget is that partition was wrong it allowed for a Protestant state for Protestant people, but in effect it was a loyalist state for loyalist people. Protestants are not and were not the enemy it was the tyranny of Loyalists who weee propped up and manipulated by the British government, because a people divided, is far better than a people United, because if they d allowed unification of all people to have a United Ireland they would lost it long ago !

​@freebeerfordworkers do you perform at Bar Mitzvahs and children's birthday parties also?

He was Canadian, i believe. He died of cancer a few years ago.

Prick.

Let his book die with him!

@@jimbobjimjim6500 two years after the interview.

@@martinlong2804 Thanks bud.