There's a mention of Bryan's visit to see the U-Boat surrender in Michael Kennedy's-- Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939-1945.
From memory, he simply caught the train north and went in his civvies. I'll check to see if the book provides a reference.
Despite all of the evidence from both Irish and British archives, not to mention German, it's sad there's still a lot of bollocksology out there, to the effect that the German's had their own U-Boat Abbeyshrule on the west coast, filled with fuel, food and torpedos.
The story is usually, but not always, spun by anti-Irish types.
From memory, he simply caught the train north and went in his civvies. I'll check to see if the book provides a reference.
Despite all of the evidence from both Irish and British archives, not to mention German, it's sad there's still a lot of bollocksology out there, to the effect that the German's had their own U-Boat Abbeyshrule on the west coast, filled with fuel, food and torpedos.
The story is usually, but not always, spun by anti-Irish types.
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