{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6538ccdabc6f900012695107/68836fc12a38d6f5cb9e333f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 1121: The Yank - My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA (extract)","description":"<p>In April 1975, a young Irish-American from Long Island headed on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive and rigorous military training possible, and then move to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end British occupation of the north.</p><p>John Crawley has lived an extraordinary life – working with notorious American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger before working with the IRA in an attempt to knock out England’s power supply in a bomb plot gone wrong.</p><p>Here’s an extract from his memoir The Yank: My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA, published by Merrion Press.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Crime World"}