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What happened to Irish sailors after creation of IFS?

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  • 26-05-2012 10:32am
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    RGM
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    When the Free State was created, what happened to Irish sailors in the Royal Navy? Were they allowed to walk, or were they required to finish out terms? How was this handled?

    I apologize if this has been covered before, I did a brief search and didn't see anything.


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    dubhthach
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    RGM wrote: »
    When the Free State was created, what happened to Irish sailors in the Royal Navy? Were they allowed to walk, or were they required to finish out terms? How was this handled?

    I apologize if this has been covered before, I did a brief search and didn't see anything.

    As far as I know Irishmen still serve in the Royal Navy to this day, this was particularly the case during the Second World War.

    The British Army did abolish most of it's Irish regiments (those that had been based in what is now the Republic) but there was no such structure with regards to Royal Navy. That and Irish citizens born in Ireland before 1949 were and still are still technically regarded as having a right to British citizenship.


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