Readers Blog: Myers alone highlighted role of Irish in May-June ‘40

In 2010, a journalist wrote: “If I don’t write about Irish involvement in one of the most seismic events in the 20th century — the continental defeats of France and Britain in May-June, 1940 — who, pray, will?”

The journalist was Kevin Myers, and his article, and views, were published in an Irish daily newspaper.

In Myers’ view, there has been no reflection in the Irish media on the calamities of 1940. He looked at the records of Irish citizens, who fought with the British, then in conflict with a greater enemy.