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My recollection of the campaign was a welsh English Professor from TCD saying the Irish were pro Nazi in WWII.

Neither of my war of independence veteran grandfathers were. My maternal grandfather had a jewish dentist and passed away in a protestant hospital.

That to one side, it used a British rather than an Irish Historiography, so was revisionist.

Take this guy . I met him and he is on record saying that he went for the excitement and money but of course he was disabused of that notion.

As marchdub2 says not being pro British didnt make people pro German.

My father told my daughter about being at the bombing in Wexford by the Germans as a child. The Germans used to drop bombs on the coast which may have been innocent or to intimidate. Nonetheless his family were anti German as were their neighbours.

This however is different. These guys deserted a vulnerable country getting used to independence . I think the decision made at the time not to prosecute was correct. They weren't allowed get employment by the state for 7 years under an exclusion order. Ireland was poor.

Now take this

An Irish puppeteer Eugene Lambert was wrongfully arrested in 1980 for deserting the British Army in 1946. Mistaken identity but it underlines that armies work on discipline. It is a given.

You have heard of the Sex Pistols, their Irish born singer has a biography . See the title. I am sure that lots of Irish people wouldn't want to go back to those days but they are not that distant.

And that is without getting into anything to do with Irish Nationalist politics or the North or British Army etc.

70,000 people from Southern Ireland fought for the British in World War II. So maybe we are due an aplology.