A return visit by Lord O'Neill, whom we last met on Firing Line (#159) just after he resigned as PM ("What defeated me was something so typically Irish. That was that in 1966 it happened to be the 50th anniversary of what the British call the Dublin Rebellion and what the Irish call the Rising ... This gave [extreme Protestant Ian] Paisley his platform of protest... and from that moment on, things became very, very difficult"). The discussion ranges back to Cromwell and forward to the likely outcome of the current situation, in which Britain had suspended Stormont (Northern Ireland's parliament) and imposed direct rule from London. There is a fascinating and moving detour on World War II-the part that Northern Ireland played in the Allies' effort, and the difference it might have made had the Irish Republic done the same.