[Irish_Thatcherite]

:)

[CWOJackson]

In all fairness, there were many in Ireland who remembered the English promise to discuss a free Ireland in exchange for supporting them in WWI...then pretty much reneged as soon as the Armistice was signed.

Fortunately, De Valera WAS NOT Ireland. It is to their credit, and not through an fondness for England, that so many Irish volunteered to fight Nazi Germany.

I often wonder what would have been had Michael Collins not been murdered. I think Ireland would have played a significant role in the Nazi defeat...and the six counties would have returned to the nation.