was Ireland sympathetic to adolph hitler?

Answer 1

As a whole, I'd think not, but some of the more radical Irish nationalists probably hoped for help in their struggle, from Hitler. Similarly, some extremist Indians hoped the Germans and Japanese would defeat the Allies so that they could get their independence that much sooner -- not considering that the Nazis and Japs would probably be worse overlords than the Raj.

During the Napoleonic wars, some of the Irish planned to assist any French attempt at invasion of Great Britain. After the Civil War the Irish imigrents in America planed on invading Canda on holding it for ransom.

Answer 2

As a whole, I'd think not, but some of the more radical Irish nationalists probably hoped for help in their struggle, from Hitler. Similarly, some extremist Indians hoped the Germans and Japanese would defeat the Allies so that they could get their independence that much sooner -- not considering that the Nazis and Japs would probably be worse overlords than the Raj.

During the Napoleonic wars, some of the Irish planned to assist any French attempt at invasion of Great Britain.

Answer 3

Probably the greatest blunder every made by Devalera, the President of Eire at the time, was to send condolences to Germany upon learning of Hitler's suicide. No doubt he did it as a means of affronting Churchill and the Brits, but it raised the question put here, and in his personal instance, one must wonder what he would have been willing to do to gain Ulster for Dublin. But one must remember the suffering Ireland had endured at the hands of the Brits. The famine remains one of the greatest moral travesties in history, and only the Brits would have conceived of and used the "pitch cap." This practice involved dipping the head of some Irish transgressor in hot pitch, and the setting it alight.

Terror always has a history and a justification whether it's Irish of Palestinian.

Answer 4

As a whole no because the Irish were brainwashed with British media. The IRA wanted the Germans to win because means they could get control of N. Ireland. Previous war WW1 german submarines dropped weapons off at ports for the irish. That is why there support was for the Germans. English are pig dogs!

Answer 5

No. The Free State was neutral during this period. What the Irish nationalists wanted was assistance from anyone who would help them get the British out of the six counties of Northern Ireland in order to unify them with the Free State. Getting into bed with Hitler would have ultimately been counterproductive.