Ireland was one of the few places in the world not directly involved in the Second World War, though many Irishmen and women joined the Allies. She knew Switzerland had been neutral too, but geographically it had no choice but be in the middle of it. Portugal and Spain refused to take a side either, but again, people escaped through those countries so they weren’t ever truly neutral. But Ireland wasn’t in any sense a theatre of war. Of course her country had helped the Allies, rescuing downed airmen and things like that, but her little green island off the coast of that troubled, scarred and
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