EAN: 9783034301909

SOUTHERN IRELAND AND THE LIBERATION OF FRANCE K...

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 Lô 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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