“Indeed, it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one's own family members might get blown to pieces on a trip to the grocery store. Some people in Ireland looked askance at the "plastic Paddies" who urged bloody war in Ulster from the safe distance of America.” WarPoliticsViolenceConflictIraThe Troubles Book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Source: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland