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By Rogelio Alonso
ROGELIO ALONSO'S ebook is a really great addition to the various books released at the IRA in contemporary decades.
Its power is in letting us see how person volunteers now view their stories from either a private in addition to political point and Alonso's use of the interview layout presents clean insights right into a very complicated interval in Irish heritage - one who continues to be unfolding.
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It depends on what circumstances or what position you are put into. I never hung about with rioters. I never was in trouble in my life. I just lived a normal childhood, just similar maybe to what you lived. Alright, there was trouble going on round me but I was well sheltered from it. I wasn’t allowed out at night. My parents had a good control of me. It’s absolute bull shit [that] it’s inevitable: if you stay in the gutter or the sewer you’re going to get covered in shit. It’s up to you to get out of it.
So that was my education on the streets and at that time by 1972 we were also starting to lose people ourselves in terms of losing volunteers from the area who were killed either in premature explosions, where they were trying to make the bomb. And in March 1972 we lost four IRA 29 APPRENTICESHIP volunteers. So therefore then you had to go to the funerals. You were meeting the families. You were doing the guard of honour beside the coffin, for the three days of the wake and stuff. So all these experiences was what sort of motivated you and then by November 1974, well, technically you were supposed to be seventeen years of age before you could join the IRA, but because we had a good long introduction if you like from 1972 to 1974, myself and another volunteer we were actually inducted, or brought into the IRA about November 1974.
66 ‘A reaction to the brutality of the forces of the state’ One of the reasons many republicans give for joining the IRA was the need to defend a section of the nationalist community against the attacks that it suffered between the late 1960s and the early 1970s. On 14 July 1969, Francis McCloskey was found dead at a spot where the police had charged a group of people who had been throwing stones. Some sources consider that the police were responsible for his death, although others deny this. Two days later, Samuel Devenney died in Derry after having been beaten by the police some months earlier at the door of his house, when various youngsters who were being chased by the RUC had sought refuge.