Winston Churchill is presented with a green hat and clay pipe by students during rag week at Queen's University, Belfast, in March 1926. Photograph: Topical Getty Images On this day 80 years ago, Winston Churchill broadcast to the world in the wake of Nazi Germany’s surrender ending the second World War in Europe. Having recounted proudly the heroic tale of Britain’s triumph after near defeat, he turned to Ireland, kept neutral by the De Valera government, which had denied Britain use of Irish ports as a base to protect from U-boats the convoys carrying essential supplies from America. “This,” Churchill...