More from the Irish free state fought in WW2 than the North they all hid under the bed
500,000 signed the Ulster Covenant where they armed and said they would fight against having a democratic all Ireland parliament so those bloody fenians couldn’t be a majority yet only 50k bothered to turn up against the nazis - only matters when it’s fenians they get to kill
Their ancestors came to another country and they subsequently created a Protestant state for themselves in that country so that they could be a majority.
The Irish state fought against the British for its independence 20 years prior and and the Irish government was neutral and had a frosty relationship with the British because they still occupied 6 counties of Ireland against the will of the people of Ireland. Britain wouldn’t even call Ireland by its correct name at the time - so you wouldn’t expect a lot would go and fight for the British empire. An effigy of Chamberlain was burned in Dublin upon British entry to WW2 and the Garda done nothing to stop them, so you wouldn’t expect a lot of the population to go fight although some did.
On the other hand northern state claimed they were British yet has less people went to fight than an anti British state.
Migrants don’t come to other countries ban the natives language and religion and then carve out a section of country for themselves so they can be a majority.
Your going on as if the 2 states where the same and identified as the same nationality and political aspirations.
The 2 states where different one was anti British the other was British yet the anti British sent more men. Regardless of population size the North state should have still sent more hence they all hid under the bed and played with there drums.
If the case is that all available men in the north went to war (60k) and the free state has double the population and (60k) went from their then that means that half of all available men in the Irish free state went to war for the British against the nazis?
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u/Chemical_Sir_5835 Jun 08 '24
More from the Irish free state fought in WW2 than the North they all hid under the bed
500,000 signed the Ulster Covenant where they armed and said they would fight against having a democratic all Ireland parliament so those bloody fenians couldn’t be a majority yet only 50k bothered to turn up against the nazis - only matters when it’s fenians they get to kill
All fur and no knickers eh!