Why didn't Ireland Fight in World War 2 - Irish Girl Reacts
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This is Why didn't Ireland Fight in World War 2 - Irish Girl Reacts
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Countries like Switzerland and Sweden are famous for staying out of World War 2 but Ireland, a country which managed to avoid much of the wars damage. But how did Ireland do this given its position and the pressures placed on it? How did Ireland stay neutral in World War 2? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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My grandfather came to America from Ireland in 1929 with his 6 brothers and sisters when he was 10 years old. He joined the American army with his brothers during the war. He told me that Ireland shed enough blood for the crown over the years and was glad for the fact that he didn’t have to worry about family back home suffering the blitz.
What a nice surprise on this Saturday afternoon for me. I didn't realize that Ireland was neutral during WW2. It's nice to be entertained and educated at the same time. Thanks for the video!
Shoutout to ED for working OT recently! And you’re right about the History Matters channel having A+ content. I’ve been subscribed to them for a good while.
Ya welcome! Thanks for noticing 🥰
And we need to keep in mind another reason why Ireland didn't get involved was because approximately 8-10 years before which was still fairly recent in timing there was The Irish War of Independence which i'm not 100% sure could be part of the reason but i believe it was smart on Ireland's behalf to not get involved primarily because quite a few things were happening in the country at that time as well.
It should have United the country
Actually Some Irish people went to England illegally and signed up for the British army to fight then were shunned when they returned to Ireland the few that were able to return at least
They were deserters of course they were shunned they were lucky they weren't shot which was the punishment in most countries for desertion at the time.Thats different from irish men joining the british and not being previously in the irish army or honourably discharged though unfortunately these were also shunned.
That's something you won't hear from a channel that's always got an agenda like History Matters. Most history on TH-cam plays up to bigots.
Members of the Irish army who fought for the UK were deserters who had their pensions stripped from them on return to Ireland. Subsequently the Irish govt issued an apology for this. Ordinary Irish men and women were free to fight for either Britain or Germany.
I've gotten so used to the usual Monday/Friday post with the occasional DBD Wednesday post. Completely throwing off my week, Diane! "Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!”
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My favorite Ghostbusters line
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Mine is what Venkman said in part 2: "The bottom line is shit happens. Somebody has to deal with it. So who ya gonna call?"
History Matters is one of my favorite content producers on TH-cam. There is nothing but quality, while the snarky animations, such as the "Ignore the last 700 years" at 3:28 in this video, adds entertainment value to the history.
I always have to watch the videos at least twice, once for the main content and again for all the little hidden gems.
They just uploaded another video: "Why is Ireland divided?"
So you like his bigotry.
I love History Matters, I watch just about everything on TH-cam sped up, but HM is even cuter with all the characters a little bit faster and his dry "[situation you would assume]...but no". I also just love when some king/dictator/PM is happy so they "run" though a field of daises with a big smile on their face.
I love how many different ways he has come up with of saying a world leader has "come down with a case of death" and so on.
Here's a semi-related tidbit:
A lot of people ask why the US kept 76mm guns on their tanks when everybody else started putting bigger guns on theirs. The US military did actually send a general to tour several locations on the front lines to analyze and make a decision on whether the US should move to bigger guns or continue mass producing what they were making without interruption. He flew to Africa, Europe, etc. and witnessed the fighting first-hand. He survived all that, but as he was flying back to the US and preparing his report on the plane, it was shot down. He was rescued from the water by an Irish ship. Because of the neutrality, he was forbidden to leave Ireland or to even phone or write a letter until the war ended. His evaluation never reached the US. :(
Do you have the general's name, or a source for this story? A lot of that doesn't sound right...
@@jj48 I want to say I think I read it in one of The Chieftain's historical articles, but I'm not sure. I don't know where to find it. He likes to dig up obscure history.
@@Trifler500 You got it wrong. What happened was that one of the fairly high ups was in a plane that landed in Ireland in Jan 1943. Devers was pretty high up in armor (but the 76 wasn't even in the discussion at the time, they were trying to wedge the 3 inch into a Sherman and the Army wasn't liking it). Ireland interned most pilots until Oct 1943 (when the Germans were sent back if they wanted, and any Allied pilots who landed were shown to the border). In this case, Devers was shown to the border (on the lawyerly excuse that it was a mechanical issue that forced them to land), his flight crew had to stay until October.
This is Chieftan's bit on "The Emergency" and the interning of aircrew (including day passes to go to the pub or the movies). worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/chieftains-hatch-stinky-emergency/
He also notes that when the son of one the old aristocracy (who had stayed in Ireland, but was an officer in the Royal Navy), died when HMS Hood Blew up fighting the Bismark, that he was reported in the Irish papers to have died in "A boating accident" (cue Richard Dreyfus in "Jaws").
The other thing that Ireland eventually allowed was overflights down a "corridor" so that anti-submarine search planes didn't have to divert around the island, this took out some of the sting of not having the 3 ports, though not all.
Semi-related as in totally incorrect? You seem to have a jaundiced view of Ireland’s role in WWII but haven’t bothered to fact check anything it seems. Devers crash landed approximately 150km from the border and was across it the following day.
Remarkable how much made up detail you included about letters and phone calls though. You have quite the imagination.
The plane wasn't shot down, he wasn't rescued at sea, they left the next day and there was a lively get-together in the town while they were there. In fact, the Germans wanted to use their repatriation via Northern Ireland as an excuse to stop recognising the country's supposed neutrality and consider Ireland hostile You really must hate Ireland or just have something wrong with you to so casually make up lies like this.
Ireland was active behind the scenes providing spotting stations to the allies for submarine and aircraft sightings. Back then you set up a tent on a hill and radioed the info back to base. Also, many allied convoys seem to always like making return trips around the island to get back home. Simply put the political conditions wouldn't allow it, but the government did what it could.
During the "Battle of the Atlantic", Ireland was used by the Germans as a major source for information on Allied shipping.
@@allanlank Lie.
Mr. Ellis I doubt you could cite any legitimate historic record backing up that claim. It's a story the Irish and their diaspora like to tell themselves... "oh, sure and begorrah we were helping behind the scenes." No. A clearer look at Irish sympathies is required.
@@tarsxenomorph8845 My grandfather had several cousins in the Royal Canadian Navy with personal experience to my fact. However, with my own Canadian Armed Forces Security Clearance, I have personally seen the data.
@@gerry4b Would a British government report commission by their secretary of Defense suffice as evidence? The Cranborne Report
Love the password bit at the end , at one time I had 20 different passwords to remember, three of which had to be changed every two months
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Interesting video, Diane. Bite-sized history lessons! “Billy no mates”? Great adjective. 😁 Loved the sunlight streaming in behind you ✌️❤️
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As someone who spends alot of time learning history about WW2 I never looked into anything on Irelands involvement in WW2 so thank you for this video and your interjections. So keep up the great work and I will keep watching have great rest of your day.
History Matters is one of my favorite channels. I love his sense of humor. One thing he did not mention was the Ireland also got in trouble with the Germans. When one of the Northern Irish cities was bombed (Londonderry I think) was heavily bombed by the Germans, Ireland sent fire brigades to help out. Also, German submarines that sought refuge in Irish coastal waters were frequently ratted out to the British by the Irish.
My Grandfather, Albert Warner, was in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers for World War One, he was badly injured being an infantrymen, and after that he was released and lived out his life with some real injuries which affected him for the rest of his life.
Besides the recent Irish War for Independence against Britain in the 1920s, there also had been a so called "Economic War" between Ireland and Britain in the 1930s. The Irish government under De Valera had refused to pay certain sums to Britain arising out of earlier British outlays for land reform in Ireland prior to 1920. The British retaliated with a trade war that restricted certain exports to Ireland and the Irish followed with their own restrictions on cattle exports. There was a great deal of rationing Ireland starting in the 1930s. Plenty of bad blood.
Your videos are always a treat, regardless if they are scheduled or random surprises.
Ireland was in a real Catch-22 with the Second World War. On one hand, Ireland was not pro-fascist and did not lend its support to Franco during the Spanish Civil War, even though there was a stront right-wing Catholic lobby to do exactly that. On the other hand, Ireland had only just won hard-earned independence from the UK, and there was a lot of bad blood there. Churchill himself was one of the British leaders in the war against the Irish revolution, and fought a full dirty war against the Irish. The irony is that many of Britain's actions during this time (many of which were ordered by Churchill himself) could be called Nazi-like, and the Auxies and Black and Tans were as much death squads as the Einsatzgruppen. So they couldn't very well simply stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Churchill with that fresh wound. Neutrality was the obvious course, given that reality.
The Irish did help in quiet ways, as the video pointed out, such as watching German forces. As for invading Ireland, Churchill said many things in public that didn't quite jibe with his actual position. For example, until his death he stoutly denied there was any connection between leasing UK sea bases in the Caribbean to the US and receiving 50 mothballed US destroyers. He was also famous as an anti-Communist, but got along with Stalin far better than Labour did.
Awesome, History Matters is one of my favorite TH-cam channels, the ultimate TLDR history lesson. I thought of you when he posted this, thanks for reviewing. I'm Irish American and two of my Irish uncles served in the British Army during World War II.
Plenty of Irish fought in WW2, despite the efforts of the anti-English de Valera government. They crossed to Britain or into Northern Ireland and joined the UK armed forces. Good on them, and thanks for their great support! Quite apart from the Northern Irish themselves, of course! Interesting to note that de Valera prevented Jewish refugees from settling in Ireland after 1945 yet allowed lots of Nazi fugitives and war criminals to emigrate there.
I follow you both, and this is definitely a crossover episode I did not expect! The rest of the History Matters videos are equally great, informative, and funny.
You caught me off guard today! If I remember correctly, there were ground markers to help guide allied pilots to the UK.
In between WW1 and WW2, America had this thing called Prohibition going on when alcohol was illegal. Poor people turned their bathtubs into stills. Rich people got whiskey from Canada. Wealthy people (and a lot of members of the US goverment) got their whiskey shipped from Ireland. We wouldn't forget a little thing like that, so I promise "Billy" still had at least 1 mate. 😉
Watch out for a video coming up….
That’s how Joseph Kennedy got influence in the US government and his three sons did their things.
Prohibition ended more than 8 years before the U.S. officially entered WWII.
Yes but they did have it up to 1933 in the US they also got a lot from Newfoundland as it was a separate dominion then and some parts of Canada at regional levels had prohibition and generally smuggling was illegal in Canada
@@puremercury Correct. And it started 2 years after WW1 ended, hence "in between" WW1 and WW2. I was going for an oversimplified vibe.
A huge number of Irish citizens served in the British military during the Second World War. In fact many of those that served were treated poorly upon their return home.
I really enjoyed this video. It was very informative and interesting. Your comments were also enlightening. Excellent job.
At 5:09, sending condolences to Germany after Hitler's death seemed to be "Sorry your world domination plans didn't work out, better luck next time." I can see how that would tick off the rest of the world.
Also, many Irish laborers went to Britain during the war and helped fill gaps caused by so many men serving in British forces. I had several uncles and aunts who worked in Britain during the war.
Northern Ireland was actually exempted trom conscription in the war, although many did still volunteer. As did tens of thousands from Ireland.
Very well done. Your views on things are always entertaining. Thank you for randomly popping into my weekend.
What a special treat of Diane brilliance on a Saturday! Thank you so much! If I have a complaint, it's that I missed Editor Diane in this video.
Hello Diane! Ireland has nothing to apologize for, for staying out of the war and trying to keep as many of it's young men from losing their lives in that conflict as possible. As an American, I wish we'd gotten involved sooner, since Britain was (and is) our ally and was getting bombed by the Luftwaffe while we sat on our hands. I've always thought that was embarrassing. But Ireland might have brought ruin unto themselves if they got involved in the war. I had no idea that giving Northern Ireland back would have started a civil war, though? That's a topic for a future video, I guess. :-) Thank you Diane! P.S. Chewy is so cute, "guarding" your sofa in the background. :-)
Instead ruin was brought on Britain. Ireland got US money after the war anyway. As for 'allies', that's always defined by US politicians and media (neither of which are well trusted outside the US), as found out not just then, but the 1970s and 2020s too.
You could react without fear to Night of the Big Wind Jan 6, 1839 - Jan 7, 1839, which is an outstanding event in Irish history probably unknown to most of your audience.
Thank you for reviewing the video. I enjoyed your further explanations. Stay safe. :)
Whats kinda funny is that officers from Great Britain and Germany would take Holidays in Ireland at the same time during World War 2
It’s true!
My Graddad fought in WW2 and dead and Wexford was bombed by the Germans so wasn’t all safe it’s a very complex situation!
4:20 *”He Be Lyin’.”*
For generations of Irish men, the draw of a big fight has been irresistible
My father served in the An Chéad Chathlán Coisithe, the native Irish speaking battalion stationed in Renmore, Galway. He served from 1940 to 1946. The most serious action they saw was in 1940 when Churchill threatened to seize the ports in Cork and elsewhere. The Irish Army was on a war footing for 9 months fearing an invasion from Britain.
It's interesting that you chose this video because I just watched it earlier this morning and thought it was informative. Also loved the video you watched about Irish Wrestlers in WWE and other promotions. There is another video you might be interested in that explains the names of some of their signature moves based on Irish history such as Finn Balor's move called 1916 and others.
WHAT!!?! No Irish curse in this video?
Who knew Diane got so soft on the weekends. ;-)
Thanks!
There is another video by History Matters as of February 2022 about "Why is Ireland divided?". It would be nice to see your reaction to that one too 🙂
What did Hitler hope to gain by bombing Dublin? Was it a precursor to an invasion that never happened? Wasn't there a risk of convincing Ireland to join the Allies?
Spain and Portugal were also neutral in WW II. Spain was ideologically aligned with Germany, but Franco didn't want to get involved in the war. The result was that Hitler died in his bunker, while Franco died of old age ("This just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.")
Well, Franco did offer, in 1940. The Germans had helped him win the Civil War, with bombers. In the end, in order to not piss off the US, he sent a division to help Germany, but only fighting against the Russians.
Funny, I never used to get that Chevy Chase joke when I was a kid. I totally get it now
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@@davidblum7125 I tried to tell students about that now, but they don't get it, because they weren't alive when Chevy Chase was doing that shtick. The Dominican Republic went through something similar after Trujillo was assassinated
Operation Green was the Nazi war plan to conquer Ireland from the UK.
Great video & review Diane.
I always love when you react to Irish history. It's very enlightening to get an actual Irish person's perspective on these subjects!
Wow that was interesting! Looking great as always lady!
De Valera took a great deal of abuse for his formal visit to the German Embassy to offer condolences after Hitler's death in the bunker. Dev was a stickler for following strict rules of neutrality and felt that his earlier visit to the American embassy at the death of FDR required a similar visit to the German embassy. Britain and the USA were furious since the outcome of the war was clear. But Dev insisted that Ireland maintain strict neutrality.
I like watching videos on Ireland as my ancestors came from Ireland in the mid 1660's. My ancestors had land and a castle. Now what is left is small part of the castle and it is a bank.
"world war 2 oversimplified " or "fallen of world war 2" absolute awesome videos :)
That channel is fantastic. Great research, nice touches of humor, and plain reporting of facts.
Thank you, editor Diane, for including the last clip with Diane complaining about passwords.
you should react to The Front its a ww2 channel and he talks about Ireland and other nations during that time
As soon as I saw the History Matters video I wondered if Diane would review it.
This was very informative. I wasn’t aware Ireland was neutral during WWII. Never let any of my fellow Americans try to shame you for your neutrality after all America remained neutral right up until we were attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Like your countrymen who fought with Briton against Germany some Americans joined Canada to fight Germany before America entered the war.
America was Not neutral before Pearl Harbor. They had the 'Lend-Lease Act', which gave Britain the means to withstand the Nazis. Without America's help, Britain could not have stood for another year.
@@waynemarvin5661 Yes, but the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act was to maintain neutrality. FDR wanted to help the Allies, but much of the country was still isolationist and didn't want to get involved. The Lend-Lease Act was passed to allow the US to provide aid while still officially remaining neutral.
@@waynemarvin5661 Britain already had the biggest navy in the world. Even without Lend Lease the Nazis would not have been able to break through it. And we still would have defeated them in sea like we did with lend lease. Saying Britain would not have stood another year is just stupid. A country that would not have stood another year tho would be the Soviet Union if they didn't get the help from Britain and America who aided them so greatly that they still used food America gave them decades after the war.
Not talking politics is a great idea cause when you do as soon as you open your mouth your gonna piss off at least half the people watching if it more
Really good video Diane
thank you
David Gray was the American ambassador to Ireland during WW2. Gray believed the Irish government was secretly pro-Nazi. Gray consistently tried to get Ireland to join the war against the Nazis, and Ireland refused. Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were neutral, but that did not save them from invasion. Ireland was stuck in its own little bubble.
Never noticed/realized Ireland was neutral. Considering your situation - well played
I have been a history buff my whole life. Why in the hell didn't I realize that Ireland was neutral during WWII?! I feel so dumb. :(
My dad was 100% Irish (American) & fought in WW2 & the Korean War- also the late President Kennedy- 100% Irish- was a WW2 war hero
WOW, I never was taught this in the USA and is the first time l heard of it!
Military training in the U.S. during WWII wasn't nearly as adequate as it should have been; nor was it it anywhere near the level of training the U.S. military goes through today.
During WWII, for Non special forces (the majority of the military) American soldiers were put through 2 weeks of Boot Camp, then given uniforms and weapons / equipment and sent overseas. *That's ONLY 2 WEEKS OF TRAINING* total.
[Obviously the pilots & the sailers had to be trained on how to operate their machines after boot camp]
Today's U.S. military goes through 1 - 3 months of Boot Camp / Basic Training which is followed by an additional (roughly) 2 - 8 weeks of combat training (how long depending on which branch & MOS) which is followed by additional MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) training (the length of training depending on branch & MOS) which may be (depending on Branch & MOS) followed by additional weeks of survival training.
Thank you I learned a lot from this video my father was in World War II and it was New England I’m an American he was an American and he never told me the story
He’s 96 now he was tail gunner on a B17 flying Fortress bombing Germany
My uncle was a B-24 pilot in Europe, and like your dad, he didn't talk much about the war.
My dad was in Korea. Would only tell us the funny stories
I understand and respect the Irish leadership's decision to remain neutral, but I do think it's a certainty the Nazis would have crushed and annexed Ireland if the UK had fallen.
That is true. Ireland was fortunate freedom won.
We would have done the exact same thing with the germans that we did to the English. Fight no matter what
Well thankfully the Soviets were there to save the world from the Nazis. The Brits were merely a distraction from the real fighting on the Eastern front but you'd think they singlehandedly beat the Nazis by the way some of them go on about it now.
Anyway, Germany at the time had about twenty times the population of Ireland. So what exactly was your point?
@@glensargent647 That's exactly why the Brits and Germans never invaded even though they drew up plans to do so. They concluded that trying to take Ireland would essentially be opening up another front that they couldn't have kept supplied, against a hostile rural population with recent experience in expelling a much greater occupying force.
@@gavinhillick The Soviets? Well, I guess they were terribly important using all the stuff the US gave them to fight the war with.
I love that channel, it's very fun to watch. This video was very fun to watch and I enjoyed that you elaborated a little bit more on this in some spots.
I had no idea Ireland stayed out of WW2 nor did I ever know that their leader sent Germany their condolences for Hitlers suicide!! Wow. It is interesting how the Irish girl reacted with indifference when the Hitler fact was pointed out 🧐
Interesting you're not aware of the policy of neutrality 🧐
The video was very good Diane!💚
Not always looking 't fight, are we? But my mooooost favorite part was right at the Very Last Second!! Right when you finished with the last of the password instructions 🤭 Your face is impeccable!❤ That Look🤣
Thank You!
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Thanks for that! I never understood how my great grandfather was a career soldier with the Royal Dublin Fuseliers (sp?) but the only service records I could find were British!
Okay before this even starts, I was always under the understanding that Ireland was in neutral country. And besides if Ireland sent what small army they did have there probably wouldn't be any Irishmen left after D-Day was over
Neutrality is a fantasy. WW2 is evidence enough of that. Ask Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and Norway how great Neutrality is. The only reason we in Ireland haven’t abandoned Neutrality and the practice of having a small underfunded military is because the Nazis didn’t have the amphibious capabilities to attack us in WW2, so that 1930s pacifist naivety never died here like it did in other countries!
It is a sign of the times when a nation like Sweden is finally abandoning its Neutrality for the first time since the Napoleonic Era. This new Cold War is far more aggressive than the last, and we need friends fast!!
I just watch the original video yesterday haha
The video doesn't tell an important point. Ireland was extremely poor as a result of civil war and uprisings against the British for the first 30 years of the 20th century. Even if Devalera wanted to fight a war, he was in no position to fight. His population would have opposed him. And I don't think anyone would blame him for not trusting Churchill. Great video as always Diane.
"Allowed" is an interesting variation on couldn't stop them. The treatment of the Irish soldiers when they returned from the war was poor.
You seem to not understand the issue. The only people whose treatment was “poor” were active serving soldiers of the Irish defence forces who deserted. They were denied a state job and their pension on their return which was very much at the mild end of the what normally happens a soldier who deserts. Especially at a time of heightened tensions.
Anyone else could do as they please and join the British army with no input from the Irish state.
There’s been a cottage industry in shoddy historical books lately, conflating the two groups.
@@Dreyno they went to fight against the greatest evil of our time.
Perhaps they didn't want to be labelled cowards?
@@charlestaylor3027 Firstly, there was almost no knowledge of the depths of evil of the Nazis at that time.
And secondly, who’s labelling anyone as cowards? You? Some random muppet on the internet who clearly doesn’t even have a basic grasp of facts? I’m sure your gallantry is legendary.
Ireland's neutrality is understandable. Sending a "Sorry Hitler Killed Your Deranged Tyrant" card was in very bad taste, though.
woah... this was an unexpected surprise to my Saturday.
I simply wouldn't exist if it were not for 1 Irishman's passive help to the UK's war effort. My dad an Irishman came to the UK to work as a NAVVY to help repair Aerodrome runways etc. He meet my mum and they ended up getting married and dad never returned to Ireland.
The History Matters channel this video is from makes some outstanding, humorous short videos answering questions many people never even thought to ask about history, I highly recommend watching more of his stuff.
As an American in school the paragraph said Ireland was totally neutral in ww2.
During my various times in county Wexford in the 1970s and 1980s.
Foundations of homes that was filled in with dirt and lawns. When I asked about what happened the locals said they were playgrounds...didn't make sense.and they would change the subject. They were kids during ww2.
I also asked about a vacant row house at the end of my grandfather's street.
It had a hole in the side of the concrete wall. Shaped like the silhouette of a sideways bomb. My irish born father would not deny it , but changed the subject.
It was mentioned that Germany was selectively bombing Ireland. I.e. a food canning plant in camp pile.( not sure of the spelling)
My dad had some relatives who went into the Irish army in 1937.
When ww2 happened, they were sent to England to an airfield to fill in the bomb riddled runways.
My irish grandfather and his friends didn't speak kindly of their wartime president..
Ironically the cemetery closest to me has that irish presidents mother buried here in new york state.
My irish born relatives only said it was rough growing up during ww2.
P.s it was mentioned that English children were fostered in Ireland to prevent their demise during the blitz in England.
My grandfather asked an Irish farmer during the war why they didn't get involved and he said " It's not that we like the Germans, it just that we hate the English." 😂
Wasn’t just about the English Buddy.
Half the world was fighting the cause !
Random Diane video? Ready anytime for that! Laughing at the Lego-like animated figures.
I watch History Matters all the time. There short videos are really fun and educational. Better, and more educational then all those years spent in US schools.
Ireland's president, Éamon de Valera, said after the was was over, that America and the Soviet Union only entered the Second World War AFTER they were each attacked (by Japan & Germany, respectively), which is true. Ireland, he pointed out, was never attacked.
I found interesting how you can add more interesting information in your comments on top of a very informative video already
You are gorgeous by the way. I have never seen eyes like yours
Love from America
Fortune favors the participants. Staying out of it all means you will be rightly sidelined. Stand for what is right even if difficult.
I was from a "mixed marriage": Irish and Swedish. The joke I heard over and over, about WHY neither country participated in WWII: "The peace loving Irish and the cowardly Swedes".
There were a lot of Irish in the US Army, has been since the civil war, that served in WW2.
That's alright, Diane. The diaspora picked up your slack. Numbers are not entirely accurate, but estimates put the number of Irish-American soldiers in WWII to be somewhere over 250,000 troops with Irish surnames. My grandfather, Arthur Bryan Boyle, was a fighter pilot for the 8th Army Air Force in the Pacific theater. And one of the most decorated soldiers of WWII, Audie Murphy, won the medal of honor and killed over 250 Nazi soldiers and was wounded 3 times. De Valera did what he had to do, I suppose, but Ireland was nonetheless well represented by volunteers to the British Army and Irish Americans.
Wow i just watched this History Matters video and i was thinking what would Diane think about this?
Aww!! Thanks. A few ppl asked me to have a looksie
Thanks!
Ah Jim! 🙈 thank you
My grand uncle and his friend went to fight in ww2 at 16, he wrote a book about it, "A long way from tipperary". Maybe this girls information is more up to date and factual rather than first hand experience. Who knows?
I enjoyed this! very interesting!
Intriguing and educational!
Love your hair style! 😎❤️
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold, power, or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?" - Zapp Brannigan.
What a stunning video, beloved Diane!!
Diane! Nice to see you today!
Most often, being spitting distance from a major target of interest, will make taking sides a difficult an troublesome thing either way!
The look on your face, when the narrator said that De Valera did not trust Churchill, told me a great number of things. :-)
I would posit that the phrase "Perfidious Albion" might be a term that you are familiar with. :-) (Nope, no politicking here! ;-)
Or 'perfidious Ireland'
Hi, Diane: thanks for this interesting look at Irish involvement, or lack thereof, in WWII. If you delve much more deeply into this topic, I'd love to hear what you have to say. The Irish points of view are almost never touched on in international history tomes. I couldn't help but notice your happy glow -- care to share?