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Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France - New Perspectives (Paperback, New edition)
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Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France - New Perspectives (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Reimagining Ireland, 33
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This collection of essays sets out to correct an injustice to
citizens of the Irish Free State, or Twenty-Six Counties, whose
contribution to the victory against Nazi Germany in the Second
World War has thus far been obscured. The historical facts reveal a
divided island of Ireland, in which the volunteers from the South
were obliged to fight in a foreign (that is, British) army, navy
and air force. Recent research has now placed this contribution on
a secure basis of historical and statistical fact for the first
time, showing that the total number of Irish dead (more than nine
thousand) was divided more or less equally between the two parts of
Ireland. The writers in this volume establish that the contribution
by Ireland to the eventual liberation of France was not only during
the fighting at Dunkirk in 1940 and in Normandy in 1944, but
throughout the conflict, as revealed by the list of the dead of
Trinity College Dublin, which is examined in one chapter. Respect
for human values in the midst of war is shown to have been alive in
Ireland, with chapters examining the treatment of shipwreck
casualties on Irish shores and the Irish hospital at Saint Lo in
France. Other essays in the volume place these events within the
complex diplomatic network of a neutral Irish Free State and
examine the nature and necessity of memorial in the context of a
divided Ireland.
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