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Profile of Richard E. Doherty
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Richard E. Doherty |
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7th April 1965 |
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Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Richard Doherty is a County Londonderry-born military historian and author, whose last book (co-authored by David Truesdale) Irish Men and Women in the Second World War, tells a great deal about the Irish neutrality during World War II that is not widely known. Though hardly an admirer of Eamon de Valera, Doherty gives him credit as his due for favoring Britain over Germany during the War in "a behind the scenes" sort of way, in particular by interning downed German soldiers, while surreptitiously allowing Allied soldiers to cross the border back into Northern Ireland, which, of course, as a part of the United Kingdom, was actively prosecuting the war effort.
Doherty's father, J.J. Doherty, although a Catholic from County Tyrone (where there is little pro-British sentiment amongst the nationalist majority), died of wounds suffered during the war. Doherty's mother, the late Anna Coyle, came from a nationalist/republican background, but her husband appears to have turned her over to the other side.
Doherty himself lived in danger for almost 30 years, given that he was an RUC reservist and given his staunch Unionism (despite being an Irish Catholic), because of his residence in one of the "hot spots" during the "Troubles", Derry City, famous for its "Bloody Sunday" in 1972, in which 14 unarmed men were killed by British paratroopers, which escalated the guerrilla warfare considerably and attracted new IRA recruits.
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