Charles Fifield

Eamon de Valera, in a response to Winston Churchills disgraceful slander against Ireland at wars end in 1945, posed a powerful hypothetical question Despite 9% of Irelands population going to the UK war effort, 0 to Germany, and enormous Irish efforts to aid the allies, Churchill falsely accused Ireland of ‘frolicking with the Germans’ at war end This was a lie. This didn’t happen. Churchill knew this. He had an agenda. He had told an American luncheon in 1943, he saw ‘little but an ineffective and inglorious role for Mr. De Valera”. He took his shot at wars end, his intention to diminish Irish aims at ending the undemocratic partition of Ireland. This slander outraged the hundred of thousands of Irish in Britains armies, factories and fields On the point of Irish neutrality, which was no different to American, Belgian, Danish or any other neutrality, de Valera posed a question. He invoked the extraordinary, exceptional circumstances that led to Irish neutrality. The history of Britain in Ireland. The ongoing occupation of the six counties of the north of Ireland, which finally may end soon. These are his words… rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/…

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