An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain … - Eamon de Valera

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Eamon de Valera

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

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