Well Bernadette Devlin was elected under the banner civil rights, which most people at the time, seemed to think was a sort of peacenik label

Sinn Fein was not really open to that sort of misinterpretation.

You can't defeat an enemy that fights that sort of fight, when a fair number of its supporters choose who is going to be the next American president.

In quiet out of the way places, just such insurgents have met many a sticky end at the hands of the forces of the crown.