The Irish who fought for Hitler

Hitler’s Irishmen. By Terence O’Reilly, Mercier Press, €17

If the Nazi Party was not a thoroughly malign and evil scar across the moral landscape of the 20th century, its encounters with those few Irishmen willing to serve its cause would make for a comic novel.

Terence O’Reilly’s interesting new study of this period is entitled Hitler’s Irishmen, but could easily be called Hitler’s Handful, because so few were involved and because Irish recruits ...