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De Valera really let his hatred of the English affect his judgment. If he ever could, he can no longer claim ignorance of Nazism as the news has been screaming out of Germany what was going on in the camps.

It's not like Ireland found itself in the same sort of pickle Finland was in early in the war.

[Hebrews 11:6]

De Valera really let his hatred of the English affect his judgment.

By ancestry I'm 1/4 Irish (Early/Kane/McDonald/Mead/Sheehan), and I was aware of Ireland's official neutrality during WW2, but lazily I've never bothered to learn the reason(s) for it. Ultimately, was it simply "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?