Pro-war Iraqis unfurled American flags in Dublin yesterday and chanted "Bye-bye, Saddam" as they marched to the US and British embassies to express their gratitude for the removal of the dictator.
Spirits were high among the group of largely Kurdish Iraqis who waved placards and called for democracy for Iraq and a federation for Kurdistan.
"We are here to celebrate the removal of the worst dictator in the history of mankind," said the march organiser, Mr Khalid Ibrahim, a Kurd who fled the country in 1991. "There is no argument, he used chemicals to kill us," he added.
Ms Jhyan Sharif from Iraqi Kurdistan, who has lived in Ireland for 16 years, said she was thrilled and happy with the outcome of the war.
"I was so happy yesterday I didn't want to leave the house. I was watching on television how people were celebrating. I feel like I have the whole world in my hand," she said.
Up to 50 people took part in the march, which departed from the gates of Trinity College Dublin and made its way to the embassies.
However, while some native Iraqis in Ireland were celebrating, others were lamenting the US and UK invasion of their state.
Dr Nooh al-Kaddo from the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland in Clonskeagh, Dublin, is one of many prominent anti-war native Iraqis who are deeply sceptical about the country's future.
"Winning the peace will be the most difficult part of this," he said.
Dr al-Kaddo is convinced that the US plan is to occupy Iraq and replace Saddam with someone he regards as a "clone", the Iraqi opposition leader, Mr Ahmed Chalabi, who was convicted in absentia of embezzlement in neighbouring Jordan and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
"I've never been with Saddam, but we believe this is not the way to liberate Iraq. It is the duty of the Iraqi people, not America or anybody else.
"Iraq is entering now a new era, a return to the colonisation in a modern American style."
Dr al-Kaddo has relatives in both Baghdad and Mosul but has not been able to contact them in recent weeks. "It's very hard these days. I know nothing about them. I'm just praying to God that they will be safe," he said.
Ms Noriah Mustfa, a Galway-based anti-war campaigner, stood silently beside her fellow Iraqis, as they gathered outside Trinity, barely able to contain her tears.
"My heart goes out to those people who have been so suppressed that they think this is liberation," said Ms Mustfa, a member of the anti-war group Muslims 4 Peace and Justice.
She, too, has been unable to contact her relatives who had congregated in a Baghdad neighbourhood which has been bombed. "I spoke to my aunt on the fifth day of the war. We basically said goodbye. We really don't know how they are," she said.
Ms Mustfa, who did not join yesterday's march, said Iraqis felt bitter-sweet emotions, their jubilation at the removal of a tyrannical regime tempered by the reality that their country is occupied.