Why are they neutral? Why didn't they side with Britain/Germany in WW2? Why do they take neutrality so seriously?
I think their neutrality in WW2 was bitter and petty, they obviously had reason to hate Britain but the moral implications of not helping the allies were too great.
Too many Irishmen already died fighting Britain’s wars for her.
Camden Williams
Because if they side with Germany, the UK will stomp them into paste. And if there's too much domestic resistance to the idea of actually siding with the UK. So they stayed neutral. That's usually what weak countries try to do when there are much stronger countries going at it.
Isaiah Cook
So you answer your own questions and then bring in moral implications like the good vs evil mindset we have on the war wasn't cemented with post war discoveries of the camps? What a shitty thread.
Andrew Cook
Cowardice
Alexander Hughes
>the moral implications of not helping the allies
What moral implication is this exactly?
Cameron Bailey
Why the fuck would we have helped our enemies that we had just fought a war against only a couple of decades prior? Don't give me any of that moral implications bullshit.
Henry Butler
What could they have done? All it would do is make them a target for the Germans and contribute next to nothing to the war effort
Dylan Edwards
If anything the real cowardice was in not helping Germany.
Andrew Miller
Ireland contributed the greatest numbers of Allied volunteers of any neutral nation.
Camden Taylor
To our great shame
Asher Williams
Source?
Xavier Gutierrez
Because letting the Brits put troops back on Irish soil would have undermined a still new and fragile sovereignty. Imagine the United States allowing massive numbers of redcoats back in their country, an amount that could easily overpower their own forces, within just a few years of becoming fully independent.
The Brits earned the distrust of the Irish a thousand times over. Additionally, any Irish person compelled by their conscience to fight the nazis could join the British Army
Chase Davis
It was democracy verses fascism,Ireland was obviously on the side of fascism, which was a catholic club
Ian Sanders
Oh because democracy is so perfect isn't it
Justin Adams
The potatoniggers still hated the British for a century of subjegation but still had enough brain cells to realize German autism wasn't going to lead nowhere good.
Camden Harris
>le Ireland was neutral meme
Ireland was as pro-allies as a country could possibly be while still calling itself neutral, for fuck's sake. The reason they were neutral was for sake of internal stability more than any feelings toward the Allies/Axis.
Kayden Rodriguez
>"what!? a small country with a small population remained neutral during a war which they had nothing to do with? fucking cowards!"
Kevin Evans
Well it comes down weather you agree with the fascist invasion of other countries for the sake of conquest or not.
Democracy has checks and ballances
Landon Rivera
(You)
Julian Morris
The potatoniggers still hated the British for a century of subjugation but still had enough brain cells to realize German autism wasn't going to lead nowhere good.
Also the Irish don't have much of a history of anti-Semitism so that was going to get in the way of any alliance with Germany as it did with Finland.
Ryder Hughes
They refused to join the war and let the Allies operate on their territory because it was more convenient than saying no.