I’m missing your point there. What has the USSR to do with it?
But more than that, I wondered what you meant in your previous related post, where you said Ireland declaring war on the Axis powers along with GB would have put her in a strong negotiating position afterwards.
Negotiating for what?
I think people always overlook how utterly impoverished Ireland was after winning independence, not that she was so great even beforehand of course.
The population had not regained those huge losses caused by the Famine, emigration was rife, and as the counties constituting the new Republic had never been industrialised (unlike Belfast), there wasn't a great deal to build on as farms lost ‘spare’ sons to emigration, even to the British Army.
(The one great and essential programme accomplished was for electricity, with the building of the Shannon dam.
You imagine the country flung itself on tne ground after that, completely knackered)
Ireland didn’t inherit any useful social infrastructure from colonialism, except in the form of outline ( Law, civil service)
. In the crushing pressure of repeated lethal outbreaks of TB in the 20s, 30s and 40s, and high infant mortality irrespective of epidemics, the running of hospitals and related services was handed over wholesale to religious orders, with lingering side effects everyone knows about now.
What I’m saying is that Ireland, though not inherently keen to back Britain in most of her endeavours now they’d been ejected, was not in any position to declare war on anybody. There were not remotely sufficient resources for such an armed response.
As for supporting the British war effort, far more of this happened in practice than was admitted at the time ( for political and pragmatic reasons, Ireland having only barely got through the brutal Civil War, and feelings ran very high still)
But British and Allied aircraft were accorded all (or most) necessary facility, and the Navy was given whatever support was feasible when it was needed. Weather reports and shipping news were shared.
The huge bugbear is of course the fact that bloody De Valera expressed condolences where few others would have done.
This is woven into a huge imaginary tapestry depicting Ireland’s supposed thoroughgoing support for Nazi Germany.
This Dev blunder often appears to be the only thing many British people know about how Ireland spent ‘The Emergency’, and it has poisoned that well.
That's just WW2 of course. We’ve 1847, 1690, and a huge selection of other dates available!