FROM BALLYCROY TO BUCHENWALD—THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PATRICK SWEENEY

How doubts about his identity led to an Irishman’s internment in France and his deportation to one of the Nazis’ most notorious concentration camps. By Isadore Ryan On 28 July 1941, the Irish legation to Vichy France received a two-page handwritten letter from an internment camp at Le Vernet, 55km south of Toulouse. The letter ... Read more

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