delirium clemens

Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false?

About the ongoing debate re: Ireland’s neutrality in World War Two: Dublin-based historian Prof Diarmaid Ferriter calls for understanding, whereas the Irish Minister of Justice & Defence, Alan Shatter (whom I personally appreciate very much) calls the Island’s policy particularly vis-à-vis Hitler & the Shoa “a principle of moral bankruptcy” >full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 11.5.2013

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