Indeed, and it is only been in recent years that the Irish government has sought to put right the appalling treatment it meted out to those of its citizens, and there were many, who joined the allied forces in their fight against the Nazis, preferring that to staying home in safety. Members of the Irish armed forces who joined the British Army, Royal Navy or RAF were treated as deserters, and were punished on their return to Ireland after the war. One of those punishments was that they were barred from any employment in the public service for a period of seven years. It was as late as 2013 that the Irish Government enacted an amnesty which admitted that those so called "deserters" had been harshly treated" Thankfully now the general Irish attitude to WW2 is far removed from that of the DeValera government, which sought to appease those of its citizens whose hatred of the British led them to support the German cause. I speak as someone of Irish ancestry who sees that country's actions during and after WW2 as a stain on its history.