Why wouldn’t a country built on terrorism (and which sought to expand using communist terrorists) honor a fellow terrorist?
And the commies were among the first terrorists of the last century too.
The normal Irish (of the time) merely wanted home rule, which they were getting as soon as the First World War came to an endbut the communists pushed for full independence, and ended up prolonging the war with their stupid 1916 rebellion, basically siding with the Axis by doing that.
Vast majority of Irish forget that they had full representation in the Westminster parliament. Irish politicians had power to direct the course of the British Empire. Sadly, their ideology led it into the proverbial “dustbin of history”, along with English, Scottish and Welsh politicians who were sympathetic to that left-wing garbage.
And the “Republic” of Ireland has not been independent since 1972; the Third Amendment to Ireland’s constitution puts European Union law supreme above Irish law.
Ouch. Some of them even conspired with the Nazis, they have been so unbounded by their hate for Britain.