- Operation Green - Hitler's plan for the Nazi invasion of Ireland.
- Plan Kathleen / The Artus Plan - The IRA-supported plan for the Nazi invasion of Northern Ireland. The IRA supported the Nazis, and the Nazis supported the IRA. The IRA helped the Luftwaffe bomb Belfast and Derry.
- Hitler would of course have done to Ireland what he did to every other country. In the Wannsee Conference notes of Jan 1942, Ireland's 4,000 Jews were listed for extermination. No doubt Irish quislings would have helped in this, as quislings helped in every other country.
- Luckily, the IRA failed in their plans, and the Jews of Ireland were not exterminated.
- The IRA has still not apologised for this.
- "I helped Hitler bomb Belfast", says IRA man, Jacqui Thornton, Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1997.
- "in July 1940 the IRA leadership issued a statement [which] made clear that if "German forces should land in Ireland, they will land ... as friends and liberators of the Irish people". The public was assured that Germany desired neither "territory nor ... economic penetration" in Ireland but only that it should play its part in the "reconstruction" of a "free and progressive Europe". The Third Reich was also praised as the "energising force" of European politics and the "guardian" of national freedom. ... In August [1940] the IRA confidently predicted that with the assistance of "our victorious European allies" Ireland would "achieve absolute independence within the next few months"."
- In the illegal War News, the IRA's main publication, "Satisfaction was expressed that the "cleansing fire" of the German armies was driving the Jews from Europe. ... War News condemned the arrival in Ireland of "so-called Jewish refugees", along with unspecified numbers of "Albanian, Abyssinian, Mongolian [and] Tartars"."
- Cumann na mBan saw the Nazis as "fighting Ireland's battle and the battle of all oppressed nations within the empire".
- Nazis "planned NI invasion" with IRA help, BBC, 14 November, 2003.
- Secret files shine light on IRA/Nazi contacts, Reuters, 14 Nov 2003.
- Hitler and the IRA, Gary Gratton, Belfast Telegraph, 14 Nov 2003.
- As Frank McGahon says about the IRA's support for the Germans: "England's difficulty would certainly have been Ireland's opportunity: Ireland's opportunity to live under the Nazi jackboot."
- A past we'd rather forget by Henry McDonald sums it up: "In the 1940s, the IRA was allied to one of the most evil regimes in human history. Had they succeeded in their goal of uniting Ireland on the back of a Nazi victory, every man, woman and child would have become vassals of the Nazi empire. And, as Micheal Burleigh emphasises .. Hitler planned to eliminate the Jews of Ireland as part of his maniacal project to destroy entirely the Jewish people. Yet this collaboration with Nazism is rarely mentioned in the traditional nationalist narratives of the twentieth century."
- 1,000 people - IRA, Sinn Fein and Cumann na mBan - marched to the unveiling of the statue in 1951. The ceremony to honour the Nazi collaborator began with a decade of the Rosary in Irish. The IRA man and playwright Brendan Behan was one of the attendees.
- A cruel forgetfulness: No-one raises an eyebrow as we celebrate an Nazi sympathiser
- SF Euro-hopeful commemorates Nazi collaborator
- Heroes' return by Henry McDonald - "Dublin remains the only city in democratic Europe where a figurine still stands in homage to a man who openly collaborated with the Nazis."
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Fianna Fail's Eoin Ryan
calls on Dublin City Council to demolish the Fairview Park statue of Russell.
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Anti-fascists behead statue of Russell,
Sunday Independent, 2 Jan 2005.
Also here.
I don't approve of action outside the law like this.
The statue should have been demolished by proper legal means.
- Nazi IRA man's statue beheaded by David Lister - The Simon Wiesenthal Centre called for it to be left unrestored as a symbol of Ireland's "shame". They said: "It's a blot on the history of Ireland, but blots have to see the public light." They described the incident as "an opportunity for Ireland to confront its past". They said: "We're not iconoclasts but I think the destruction of something like this has a meaning, and we would ask for it to be left there as a lesson of what Irish neutrality was all about."
- Andrija Artukovic, Nazi war criminal given refuge in Ireland after the war.
- Norman Baillie-Stewart, wartime Nazi propagandist who settled in Ireland after the war.
- Dan Breen, extremist republican, and Nazi spy and collaborator.
- Helmut Clissmann, Nazi spy.
- John Codd, Irishman who fought for the Nazis.
- Hermann Goertz, Nazi spy.
- Stephen Hayes, Chief-of-Staff of the IRA 1940-41, and Nazi collaborator.
- Stephen Held, Nazi collaborator.
- Eduard Hempel, Nazi Germany ambassador to Ireland in WW2.
- William Joyce, wartime Nazi propagandist.
- Célestin Lainé, Nazi war criminal given refuge in Ireland after the war.
- Adolf Mahr, pre-war director of the National Museum of Ireland, wartime Nazi propagandist.
- Pieter Menten, Nazi war criminal who lived in Ireland after the war.
- Seamus O'Donovan, IRA man and Nazi collaborator.
- Sean Russell, Chief-of-Staff of the IRA 1938-40, and Nazi collaborator.
- Frank Ryan, the "anti-fascist" turned Nazi collaborator.
- Francis Stuart, author, Nazi collaborator and propagandist.
