That Neutral Island

That Neutral Island

Author: Clair Wills

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780674026827

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Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.


Behind the Green Curtain

Behind the Green Curtain

Author: T. Ryle Dwyer

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan

Published: 2010-09-03

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780717146505

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Behind the Green Curtain goes beyond any previous book in examining the myth of Irish wartime neutrality.


Spying on Ireland

Spying on Ireland

Author: Eunan O'Halpin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0199253293

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Irish neutrality during the Second World War presented Britain with significant challenges to its security. Exploring how British agencies identified and addressed these problems, Eunan O'Halpin casts fresh light on the significance of both espionage and cooperation between agencies for developing wider relations between the two countries.


Friends and enemies

Friends and enemies

Author: Karen Garner

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1526157284

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This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland’s neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised, and gendered politics that underlay policymaking and alliance relations. Friends and enemies combines the methodologies of diplomatic history through its close reliance on archival documentation with attention to new theoretical understandings regarding the roles played by personal friendships and enmities and competing masculine ideologies among national leaders. Including, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Eamon de Valera, and their close foreign policy advisers in London, Washington DC and Dublin, as they constructed national identities and defined their nations’ special relationships in time of war.


Britain, Ireland and the Second World War

Britain, Ireland and the Second World War

Author: Ian S. Wood

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-02-28

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0748630015

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For Britain the Second World War exists in popularmemory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory overFascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remembered simplyas 'the Emergency'. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chosenot to stay out of the war but one of the few able to maintain itsnon-belligerency as a policy.How much this owed to Britain's militaryresolve or to the political skills of amon de Valera is a key questionwhich this new book will explore. It will also examine the tensions Eire'spolicy created in its relations with Winston Churchill and with the UnitedStates. The author also explores propaganda, censorship and Irish statesecurity and the degree to which it involves secret co-operation withBritain. Disturbing issues are also raised like the IRA's relationship toNazi Germany and ambivalent Irish attitudes to the Holocaust.Drawing uponboth published and unpublished sources, this book illustrates the war'simpact on people on both sides of the border and shows how it failed toresolve sectarian problems on Northern Ireland while raising higher thebarriers of misunderstanding between it and the Irish state across itsborder.


Ireland and the Second World War

Ireland and the Second World War

Author: Brian Girvin

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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This volume of essays on the social, political and military history of Ireland during the Second World War explores the Irish contribution to the Allied cause, in particular the role and experience of Irish men and women who served in the British armed forces during the war. Also covered is the history of Northern Ireland during the war period, as are apsects of the post-war historiography of Irish involvement in the Allied struggle.


Ireland During the Second World War

Ireland During the Second World War

Author: Ian S. Wood

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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The claustrophobic years of the Second World War were a crucial watershed for neutral Ireland and the Irish. Neutrality was the key to Irish Prime Minister de Valera's foreign and domestic policy. Enforced economic hardship and isolation were seen by many as a blessing in disguise, hastening the new states coming of age. Many long lasting developments, such as the creation of a Central Bank signaled the beginning of the end of economic dependence on Britain. Neutrality ensured Britain, and more specifically Churchill, viewed Ireland with suspicion and barely concealed anger. Threats and inducements were used to persuade Ireland to allow the reoccupation of the Treaty Ports. Fear of IRA activity lead to increasingly draconian legislation. German spies were rumored to be forging links with an increasingly well-armed and militant IRA. Increased tension between Northern Ireland and the bombings of Belfast and Dublin raised questions about the viability of Ireland Neutrality.


Churchill and Ireland

Churchill and Ireland

Author: Paul Bew

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 019875521X

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The full story of Winston Churchill's lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish. A long overdue book which at last addresses the most neglected part of Churchill's legacy, on both sides of the Irish Sea.