Making Peace, I Have Found, Is Much

In The Past I Have Defended The Right Of The Ira To Engage In Armed Struggle. I Did So Because There Was No Alternative For Those Who Would Not Bend The Knee, Or Turn A Blind Eye To Oppression, Or For Those Who Wanted A National Republic.

We Can Be Revisionist, And That's A Good Thing To Be At Times, But We Shouldn't Airbrush Our History, So We Can Only Make Judgments In The Objective Conditions Of That Time.

I Was Leaving The Belfast Court, Where I Had Been Called To Answer A Very Flimsy Charge, Later Dismissed. You're Relatively Safe In Such Areas In The Irish Community, But To Go To Downtown Belfast For Me Is Dangerous. My Appearance In Court Had Been Well Advertised By The Police. I Think It Was Too Much Of A Coincidence That The People Who Shot Me Were Just Passing By.

The Way Forward Is By Building Political Support For Republican And Democratic Objectives Across Ireland And By Winning Support For These Goals Internationally.

The Days Of Humiliation, Of Second-class Citizens And Of Inequality Are Over And Gone Forever.