http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/The_BlitzBelfast_during_the_second_World_War

At the time of the Battle of Britain Churchill summed it up by saying that if Britain lost this battle the world would be plunged into a new dark age. With Britain gone the Nazis would have Europe under their control. They would likely have succeded in their campaign against Russia because they would have been fighting a one front war. Even if the US had intervened at this point they probably would not have been able to turn the tide because without Britain they would not have had a territory close to Nazi occupied Europe from which to mount a counteroffensive.

Once Britain was in Nazi hands Ireland would have been next. The Irish rant about the Black and Tans and admittiedly they may have been a bunch of bastards. However, they would have looked like nursemaids when placed beside Hitler's Waffen SS, Gestapo and Einsatzgrupen. In their diatribe against the English the Irish always bring up Cromwell and the potato famine. Under Nazi occupation they certainly they would have experienced all of the drepadations they claim the English had visited on them over the centuries in a few short years - and then some.

What is even more enraging is that if the Irish had joined WWII on the Allied side they really would not have had to do much. The British and the other allies were most interested in having access to Irish territory in order to establish airfields, port facilities and naval installations. Such Irish based facilities would have proven very beneficial to the allied war effort because air patrols could have been projected further into the Atlantic, Transatlantic convoys could have docked and had their cargos unloaded sooner - thus enhancing the flow of material to all theatres of war, and a greater amount of ocean could have been denied to the Nazis. The battle of the Atlantic and indeed the entire European war would have been over sooner. The Irish just simply had to make their country available; it would have been the armed forces of other countries who would be doing the actual fighting and having to get in harms way. On top of that the cost of building and maintianing these facilities would have been borne entirely by the countries using them - the Irish might even have been able to charge them rent and make a profit from it all! Historical research now shows the battle of the Atlantic to have been a close run thing and the Irish helped make it so. The net effect of the behaviour of the Irish in WWII was greater loss of life among allied service personal and merchant seamen and also among those living under Nazi occupation because the European war was lengthened.

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What p***** me off most about the Irish was their lack of participation in WWII - especially their little P**** of a leader deValera. What were these morons thinking! Did they think that just because they declared themselves to be neutral that the Nazis would leave them alone? Belgium & Norway declared themselves to be neutral and look what happened to them. Admittedly the Irish may well have had grievances against the English but when faced with the Nazis and their agression could they not take temporary leave form them? Could they not pull their heads out of their assess just momentarily and bring themselves to realize that the Nazis with their program of conquest, subjugation and genocide were the greatest threat to civilization in modern history if not all time?

At the time of the Battle of Britain Churchill summed it up by saying that if Britain lost this battle the world would be plunged into a new dark age. With Britain gone the Nazis would have Europe under their control. They would likely have succeded in their campaign against Russia because they would have been fighting a one front war. Even if the US had intervened at this point they probably would not have been able to turn the tide because without Britain they would not have had a territory close to Nazi occupied Europe from which to mount a counteroffensive.

Once Britain was in Nazi hands Ireland would have been next. The Irish rant about the Black and Tans and admittiedly they may have been a bunch of bastards. However, they would have looked like nursemaids when placed beside Hitler's Waffen SS, Gestapo and Einsatzgrupen. In their diatribe against the English the Irish always bring up Cromwell and the potato famine. Under Nazi occupation they certainly they would have experienced all of the drepadations they claim the English had visited on them over the centuries in a few short years - and then some.

What is even more enraging is that if the Irish had joined WWII on the Allied side they really would not have had to do much. The British and the other allies were most interested in having access to Irish territory in order to establish airfields, port facilities and naval installations. Such Irish based facilities would have proven very beneficial to the allied war effort because air patrols could have been projected further into the Atlantic, Transatlantic convoys could have docked and had their cargos unloaded sooner - thus enhancing the flow of material to all theatres of war, and a greater amount of ocean could have been denied to the Nazis. The battle of the Atlantic and indeed the entire European war would have been over sooner. The Irish just simply had to make their country available; it would have been the armed forces of other countries who would be doing the actual fighting and having to get in harms way. On top of that the cost of building and maintianing these facilities would have been borne entirely by the countries using them - the Irish might even have been able to charge them rent and make a profit from it all! Historical research now shows the battle of the Atlantic to have been a close run thing and the Irish helped make it so. The net effect of the behaviour of the Irish in WWII was greater loss of life among allied service personal and merchant seamen and also among those living under Nazi occupation because the European war was lengthened.

I had it on video one time a programe which was presented by Peter Taylor showing the situatio when American troops were stationed in Ulster. One of the things mentioned was that Britain and America were thinking of launching an invasion of Eire becaue of the stance they had taken. I think (not sure) that it was the Irish-American lobby which asked them not to take this course.

Think we have to recognise that numbers do count and the Irish certainly wern't long in making their presence felt when they went to America in the 1800s.

The destruction the Belfast blitz had on the town was terrible and our Unionist government had to take some responsibility for the mishandling of the situation and the consequences. The civil defence authorities weren’t fully prepared for it, some anti-aircraft guns had been sent over to the mainland instead of strategically positioned to defend the City, especially at that time with Belfast being a prime target with the heavy industry and the docks being a vital part of the British war effort.

Did they put bombs on the mainland too while the war was going on. I'm not sure but I think I read tt somewhere.

Just thinkin Gen Robert E. Lee was asked by some of his own men to continue the war after the surrender in a guerilla/terrorist way. But he wouldn't hear tell of it. I think sometmes that the Protestant prefer open fighting and not resorting to terrorist tactics. Though sometimes you may have to descend into hell to fight the devil. But I'm thinking of Scottish and Welsh nationalists too who have never launched a terrorist campaign like the Irish have. Why is this? Well the only thing I can think of is that the Scots and Welsh (like Gen Lee)are Protestants.

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Done a google search there. seems the Coventry bomb was a bad one.

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/articles/s-shaw.php

Fathers James Chesney, Patrick Fell, John Burns all terrorist scum and priests, were any of them threw out of the church?

Father Patrick Ryan went around the whole World fundraising for the IRA and openly admitting to buying parts for bombs for the IRA, yet he done his work openly as a Roman Catholic priest.

They buy homes in Protestant areas, move in their own people, fuelling sectarianism and the geographical take-over once staunchly Protestant areas.

January 21 1942
Armed bandits,after wounding an ARP (air raid prevention) official who refused to hand over the money with a short burst of a Tommy-gun,escaped in a motorcar with £4,750 in Belfast yesterday. The bandits parked themselves in a car in front of the Air Raid Prevention headquarters in Academy Street and waited for the chief wages clerk to return from the bank with the payroll.
The clerk,Mr Scott McLeod of Deerpark Road,is critically ill in the Royal Victoria Hospital with three bullet wounds in the wrist and thigh. The affair occurred about 10.30 yesterday morning. A light blue Austin saloon car was observed parked in Academy Street. Mr McLeod accompied by another offical,drove up to the headquarters. The Austin coming from Donegall Street,moved up as he got out and the men in it confronted him with a Thompson sub-machinegun.
A bag,containing some of the money,was snatched from him by one of the men but, as he tried to regain possession of it,they opened up with the Tommy-gun,firing a short burst. Three of the bullets found a mark in the official's body.
The City Commissioner of the RUC (Mr R,D, Harrision) and his deputy,County Inspector DCB Jennings,arrived some time after the ambulance which brought Mr Mcleod to hospital. It was learned later that,as in former raids,men had hired a taxi and detained the driver at a house on the Falls Road while they used the car in the hold-up.

SHOOTING OF AIR RAID WARDEN RECALLED
The shooting of an ARP warden in Rockmount Street,Falls Road on the night of June 4,1941 was the subject of a claim for compensation by his widow and two children at the Belfast Recorder's Court yesterday. The dead man was Daniel Connolly,aged 40, Rodney Drive,Donegall Road and the claimant Mrs Maria Connolly and their children Patrick Joseph,aged 16 and Philomena,aged 14.
His Honour reserved judgement. Mr Issac Copeland was for the claimant and Mr CL Shell (instructed bt the Town Clerk) for BelfastCorporation. Constable NJ Nolan said that about 11.30pm on June 4th,when he and another policeman entered Rockmount Street,they saw a man had been shot. The decease was lying on his left side and there was a pool of blood on the ground under his head.
Road,he heard noises like shots and,afterwards,four or five men dashed past him and ran down Donegall Road at top speed. He went to the ARP post. The light was full on and the telephone was lying on the floor,Subsequently he saw Connolly lying on a piece of waste ground.
Mr Copeland - is this a difficult district?
Mr Shell - I object.
His Honour - There are several districts in Belfast that might be called difficullt. That question will not carry any further.
The judge reserved his decision.
IN Friday January 21 2011

On the article itself its very interestinhe g that they murdered a Roman Catholic air raid warden during the war, a little fact not widly known.

You'd be well aware of my thinking about this and the way to counter it,but nobody on our side appears to be interested. If Ulster was well established and Ulster for the Ullish had applied then I think it would be a different story. A small country being assailed by a larger country to its south but fighting valiantly on determined to resist.

There was a bitter aul bitch on Nolan (didn't hear it all). It was about the bomb on the Antrim Rd and she was saying I don't care what happens to the police and if the loyalists here like it so much (being British) why dont they get out and live there and take the Union Jack with them. We're Irish and get out and leave us in peace. Not the exact words but that was the gist ot her tirade. She seemed like she was a foreigner herself....from Eire,and thats the line we should be taking that they are foreigners. When they eventually forced Herbie Ditty to meet the Mayor of Dublin and he was sorta made to accept it he still let them know how he felt when he said...yes I have met him in the Lord Mayor's parlour as I would any dignitary from a foreign country. Well said Herbie. Could you imagine any of the present crap we have doing that. They are to busy now licking their arses.

On a side note, these free-state fenians who move to Ulster, are worse in their rhetoric than the taigs from here, they are completely brainwashed morons, who must be educated from the republican news. What gets me about the Irish is that they live in their own big bubble and they totally pick and choose their own actual ethnic identity, forgetting and erasing anything that doesn’t fit into their version of the Irish Gaels.