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A young Vietnamese man working in a London hotel as a dishwasher watching events in Ireland unfold, as rebels made their bid for freedom in what became the War of Independence following the rising, was moved to remark on the death of Republican hunger striker Terence MacSwiney that ‘a country with a citizen like this will never surrender’.1 His name was Ho Chi Minh, and he would go on to emulate the guerrilla warfare tactics developed in Ireland as he took on the might of the United States’ war machine in the Vietnam War.
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Kevin Meagher (A United Ireland: Why Unification Is Inevitable and How It Will Come About)