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In this episode we\\u2019re looking at the peculiar situation the Republic of Ireland, Eire, found itself during the second world war.

Along with countries such as Sweden, Switzerland and Spain, Eire trod the difficult path of remaining neutral. With all that entailed one question that needed to be dealt with was what to do with those servicemen from the belligerent nations who found themselves in Ireland by way of crashed planes or naval personnel rescued from the sunk shipping.

I\\u2019m joined by Bernard Kelly. Bernard is a Irish historian whose book \\u201cMilitary Internees, Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War\\u201d looks at these issues.