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<blockquote data-quote="Ashtree" data-source="post: 7604402" data-attributes="member: 3254"><p>Officially DeValera could not possibly be seen to send Irish men to join the British army or fight alongside it, because of the depth of feeling in this country after Black and Tan waves of war crimes barely twenty years previously. That in turn after the potato famine, where British policy was “let them die”! No sir, aligning officially with Britain was not a deliverable policy. What was delivered was a blind eye, to the thousands of Irishmen who went to Britain and joined up. My village graveyard has a memorial to those from the locality who died in service in WW1 and WW2. The list of men on the memorial in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin is amazing.</p><p>Ar deis De go raibh a h-ainimheacha dills. (In the Queens own English, “May their souls lie in peace”!</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20350818.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashtree, post: 7604402, member: 3254"] Officially DeValera could not possibly be seen to send Irish men to join the British army or fight alongside it, because of the depth of feeling in this country after Black and Tan waves of war crimes barely twenty years previously. That in turn after the potato famine, where British policy was “let them die”! No sir, aligning officially with Britain was not a deliverable policy. What was delivered was a blind eye, to the thousands of Irishmen who went to Britain and joined up. My village graveyard has a memorial to those from the locality who died in service in WW1 and WW2. The list of men on the memorial in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin is amazing. Ar deis De go raibh a h-ainimheacha dills. (In the Queens own English, “May their souls lie in peace”! [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20350818.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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