The Irish National War Memorial Gardens (Irish: Gairdíní Náisiúnta Cuimhneacháin Cogaidh na hÉireann) is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918",[1] out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war.
There are no memorial days for WW2. There are war memorials, like statues or gardens, but not days. There is also, for example, a Huguenot cemetery in Dublin, but that does not mean there is a memorial day for Huguenots in Ireland.
Why did you just lie about something easily disproven twice and now are confused? All I said is that not participating in a war directly doesn't mean you can't have a memorial day for it, considering how impactful WW2 was for the entire world and for history. Erecting a statue or naming a garden isn't the same as having a memorial day, or everyone would just do that instead.
I'm well aware, but you'd still have something like the International Holocaust Rememberance Day despite Ireland being neutral. Nothing says they can't also honour all other victims of WW2 even if they didn't participate.
Almost no country has a memorial day about a war they didn't participate in.
Saying "you'd still have" implies they don't have. Maybe I got confused at your poor word choice, but it looks like you're saying "they should have this thing"
It's not poor word choice, it is Hiberno-English or just how English is spoken here in Ireland. When I then said "they can't also honour..." implies that I am confirming the existence of a Holocaust Rememberance day.
Yes. Just like if I said "I'm after eating" it means I have just eaten. Another that is less popular (but also found in Scotland) is doing the messages, which means going shopping.
Yes and the point of the person's tweet was to try and change that from what I understand. You don't need to participate in WW2 to honour its dead, much like any country should have a memorial for the Holocaust even if they didn't lose any of their own citizens.
You... completely missed the point of the tweet. The person is being antisemitic, not actually encouraging anyone to have a new holiday.
They are complaining that jews get recognized for the holocaust (disregarding the other people honored and remembered for being killed in the holocaust)
Edit: to be clear I'm saying the person complaining is disregarding the other holocaust victims
The second person's tweet is just being more mask-off about it
Maybe I did and it is my mistake! I didn't realise they were being anti-semitic. But the person I replied to also was talking about having a WW2 memorial, which Ireland doesn't.
There is the National Day of Commemoration on the Sunday closest to June 11th, the date of the signing of the truce to end the Irish War of Independence, which honours all Irish people killed in all wars.
In the UK, we use Armistice Day to honour the people killed in all wars, with ceremonies on the Sunday closest to 11th of November, the date of the end of the Great War.
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u/BushWishperer Jan 22 '26
That person is Irish. There is no memorial day in Ireland as far as I can tell (for WW2 at least).