Dáithí Ó Conaill speaks to the BBC

Dáithí Ó Conaill, then a member of the IRA's Army Council, gave a rare interview to the BBC while on the run in the summer of 1974.

[@teresareddy3538]

BBC interviewer taken to shreds by a very clever and highly intelligent man

[@stephencoyle345]

Dáithí Ó Conaill had a great mind and was the chief architect of the Éire Nua policy of the Republican Movement. It is such a tragedy that he died so young.

[@Westvave]

What a great man he was.

[@patrickwalsh6873]

Interesting interview. It must have been maddening and confusing for the Brits to realise, despite their well-rehearsed prejudices, that they were dealing with people at least as intelligent and eloquent as themselves.

[@seanohare5488]

True

[@seanohare5488]

Well said and true

[@censedfear]

Thanks for posting 🇮🇪

[@eireannachaontaithe4265]

Unscrupulous tactics from the interviewer here. Very few politicians would be able to withstand such hostile scrutiny, but Ó Conaill kept his composure and spoke well.

[@PatrickAhern-qb6xb]

True in what he said that dublin never came up with constructive solutions in the six counties if anything they enforced the British presence with the manning of a British border here and their censorship policy also the intimidation of republicans by thier heavy gang in the garda special branch they played right into the British hands

[@Spook2431NYC]

🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚💚💚🇮🇪

[@sisi2484]

Dáithí Ó Conaill was Chief of the Southern Command at this time?

[@kevinohiggins3868]

homie really popped one out after a year. sigma

[@rassawhelan6045]

whaaaat

[@sean8736]

I beg your pardon?

[@seanohare5488]

This British interviewer has obvious contempt and disrespect of 0 connell why bother to interview him

[@greatest7391]

Can't blame him..

[@maltesetony9030]

The interviewer's attempts to goad O'Connell - the usual style of interviewing IRA leaders during the 1970s - is hopeless; O'Connell simply isn't taking the bait. And note the false politeness - the repetition of "Mr O'Connell". The interviewee is having none of it.

[@DA-og4px]

His accent is strange to me, quite muddled. Not like most Cork accents I’ve encountered...

[@gerard1965able]

could,nt stand him,loud mouthed,always angry,one of his "friends"was a British military officer,un-trust worthy.