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@toonmag50 ireland was heavily involved in the First World War, the Boer wars, and the Zulu campaigns as british subjects, not having any choice in the matter, after a bloody war of independence followed by a just as bloody civil war Ireland took the position of strict neutrality, the second world war was known in Ireland as the emergency, a period when Ireland was as much concerned of the treat of British invasion as much as a German one, furthermore during World War 1 Germany provided arms to the Irish Republican Army to help secure its independence from Britain. Even then, during the war Allied pilots who were forced to land on Irsh soil were quickly repatriated to britian and theyre planes played for by the Irish government, while german pilots who were forced to land were interned for the duration of the war, and while the State was officially neutral, between 80,000-130,000 Irish nationals volunteered in the US, British, and Soviet armies in the conflict against fascism.
(Addendum to Irish volunteers in the Red Army, this was one of the smallest grouping of Irish foreign volunteers made up of Irish Communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War that had sought refuge in the USSR following Franco's victory)
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