Have you seen what he said on rattle and hum? He was making his commentary a few hours after the Remembrance Day Bombing in Ireland in and what he says about the troubles. It’s really poignant.
“Now lemme tell you somethin'. I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistence, the revolution back home. And the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dyin' for the revolution. F*** the revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory in takin' a man from his bed and gunnin' him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory in bombing a Rememberance Day parade of old-aged pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day. Where's the glory in that? To leave them dyin', or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble…of a revolution… that the majority of the people of my country don't want. Sing no more!”
It’s interesting because a lot of Americans (including me) support full Irish independence. But the price that was being paid was certainly unnecessary.
