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Thread #77806 Message #1392660
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
29-Jan-05 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Oh Mary Mary!!
Subject: RE: BS: Oh Mary Mary!!
If she'd dotted every eye she'd have actually said that there's bigotry on both sides. It seems pretty obvious that not saying that was an oversight on her part, not a deliberate distortion of any kind.
Staying neutral in World War II, and acting formally that way, was necessary and inevitable in the context of the time.
As has been pointed out, there was a pretty major contribution made to the war effort by Irish soldiers. For example, my own father - and he'd been in the IRA back in the 20s, and imprisoned for it. (Asked why he still felt it right to join up in the British Army in 1940 he once said "I always felt it right to defend the rights of small nations. Even my own.")