Clodagh Finn on untold stories of Irish WWII heroes who fought in the Resistance

Clodagh Finn and John Morgan trawled through archives to share the untold stories of the Irish who fought in the Resistance

Clodagh Finn and John Morgan with their new book, The Irish in the Resistance. Picture: Gareth Chaney

Sometimes the smallest details reveal volumes. Such as the story of Catherine Crean, a woman from Moore Street in Dublin, who asked her friend to comb her hair during her final days in one of Hitler’s most brutal concentration camps.

That friend, Andrée Dumon, was herself too weak to do so but the memory of her attempt to give a fellow resistance member a shred of human comfort in a barbarous place stayed with her for the rest of her life.