A young man by the name of Jack Buckley fought the British as an Irish Republican Army volunteer during Ireland’s war of independence. At one point an aide-de-camp to Republican leader Eamon de Valera in the rebel stronghold of County Cork, Buckley was later decorated for his military service. Fast-forward a century to 2020, and Richard Moore was appointed chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6. Moore was Buckley’s grandson. No one in Whitehall’s corridors of power gave a thought to his Irish ancestry.
一位名叫杰克?巴克利(Jack Buckley)的年輕人，在愛爾蘭獨立戰爭期間以愛爾蘭共和軍(Irish Republican Army, IRA)志愿者的身份對英作戰。他一度在叛軍據點科克郡(County Cork)擔任共和派領袖埃蒙?德瓦拉(Eamon de Valera)的副官，隨后因軍功受勛。時間快進到一個世紀后的2020年，理查德?摩爾(Richard Moore)被任命為英國軍情六處（Secret Intelligence Service，又稱MI6）局長。摩爾是巴克利的外孫。白廳的權力走廊里，沒有人會在意他的愛爾蘭血統。