tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095270985170721876.post7887569470019948685..comments2024-03-24T23:22:43.753+00:00Comments on Tony's Musings: Dominic Sandbrook on the 1970sTonyTheProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486414706261508994noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095270985170721876.post-61307543197897018962012-04-24T15:33:56.442+00:002012-04-24T15:33:56.442+00:00"We underestimate how much funding came from ..."We underestimate how much funding came from Irish Americans, who saw the IRA as freedom fighters against British imperialist and Protestant designs."<br /><br />I once read an interview with a senior Army officer who claimed that were it not for that US funding the IRA would have been put out of business by the British before the 1970s ended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com