What did Ireland call world war II?

Ireland did not join the war, but declared neutrality. Indeed the world war, in Ireland, was not referred to as a war at all, but as ‘The Emergency’. In staying neutral, despite British and latterly American pleas to join the war, Ireland, under Eamon de Valera, successfully asserted the independence of the new state.

What started the Irish war of independence?

It began because of the 1916 Easter Rising. The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) men who fought the British soldiers that day wanted Ireland to be its own country and wanted Britain to move its army out of Ireland. 6 IRB members were killed including 3 who were executed.

Did Churchill offer Northern Ireland to Ireland in WW2?

I remember hearing that sometime in WW2 that the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill made an offer to Irish Taoiseach (= Prime Minister) Éamon de Valera that the UK would give Northern Ireland to Ireland in exchange for Ireland joining the war on the allies side.

Why did de Valera reject Churchill’s offer to settle Northern Ireland?

This is true but disingenuous. De Valera rejected the offer because he knew it wasn’t Churchill’s offer to make: as Prime Minister Churchill couldn’t unilaterally kick Northern Ireland out of the UK against the (dominant) wishes of the Unionist community in Northern Ireland.

Could a united Ireland be guaranteed by the British government?

New documentary evidence detailing a British plan to guarantee a united Ireland if the government agreed to enter the second World War on the British side is released at the Public Record Office in London today.

What were Churchill’s fears about the German invasion?

It expressed Churchill’s fears that the Germans would invade Ireland, that de Valera thought the Germans would win, and that the Irish were “throwing in their lot” with Hitler. The PM warned that Britain might have to act to prevent a German “descent” on the Treaty Ports.