World Wars and Ireland

I was thinking of a TL with a Much more Worldwide World War II (perhaps not the WWII of OTL, because I don't want to make a Fascist Aussie or Nazi Chile), and I thought of Ireland as a Stage for some Battles.

Is there anyway to get the Nazi Germany to support the IRA or the Irish Government in general?

Don't flame me, I am simply asking a question.
 

Cook

Banned
The IRA yes, they did so in OTL to a very limited extent.

The government of the Irish Free State, not without some major changes, de Valera wasn’t silly enough to get tangled up in German schemes.

Perhaps if the British believed that Germany was on the verge of carrying out Case Green and pre-empted them as per Norway by re-occupying the South under Plan W.
 
The Irish were already being a nuisance to the British for not allowing the Brits to use their ports (something which cost many lives during the Battle of the Atlantic). If Germany supported the Irish, it might give the British an excuse to forcibly take Irish ports.
 

Thande

Donor
There's also the fact that the Irish's own fascist movement was actually associated with the more pro-British political parties.
 
Well if its not OTL WW2 how about we have the sterotypical reverse. Victorious stable Germany and fascist/communist Entenne. British Empire falls apart after WW1 due to internal problems, not military defeat, and Ireland rebels occupying Northern Ireland. Revanchist Britain thus seeks to reunite Ireland with the rest of Britannia, leading to a scanerio were Germany and Britain are fighting in the Emerald Island.

Cliche I know, but meh...
 
It's not that Hitler wouldn't have loved the idea of supporting Ireland against Britain. There were propaganda movies made about irish liberation, and efforts to convert Irish serving in the British military to the Nazi cause. Aside frrom practical questions (how does Germany support a country surrounded by hostile seas), though, I don't think anyone in Dublin was that dumb.

WWI could have worked out better for the Germans if their plans hadn't blown up, but it wouldn't likely have amounted to much.
 
lets test the sympathies of the Southern Irish shall we?
Joined the British forces and cause-in excess of 50,000 in active forces, several involved in propoganda and other activities on our behalf, all Nazi spies landing in Eire arrested, crashed pilots repatriated, SAR agreement
Joined the Nazi forces/supporting the cause- under 20 including Lord Haw Haw, some IRA pro Nazi (not all), telegram of sympathy from De Valera following Git-lers death....

But yes both Nazi's and UK had plans just in case, take in mind that the US had plans just in case to fight the UK as late as 1940 as well....
 
Even if Eire's government had harbored real sympathy for Hitler or Mussolini I doubt it would have met much echo amongst Irishmen, making the pro-Nazis' position rather fragile, methinks.
 
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