Ireland Since 1939

Author : Henry Patterson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1844881040
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland Since 1939 written by Henry Patterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative of contemporary Ireland from one of its most highly respected historians The Ireland of today is a place poised between the divisiveness of deep-seated conflict and the modernizing pull of material prosperity. Though each state's history is strikingly divergent, the mirroring ideologies that fuel them are remarkably symbiotic. With Ireland Since 1939, one of the most distinguished Irish historians working today casts a fresh and unpredictable eye to Ireland's history from World War II up through the present to show how-by putting aside its North/South conflict-Ireland can look forward to a prosperous economic future.

Author : Henry Patterson
Publisher : Penguin Global
ISBN 13 : 9780142196434
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland Since 1939 written by Henry Patterson and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative of contemporary Ireland from one of its most highly respected historians The Ireland of today is a place poised between the divisiveness of deep-seated conflict and the modernizing pull of material prosperity. Though each state's history is strikingly divergent, the mirroring ideologies that fuel them are remarkably symbiotic. With Ireland Since 1939, one of the most distinguished Irish historians working today casts a fresh and unpredictable eye to Ireland's history from World War II up through the present to show how-by putting aside its North/South conflict-Ireland can look forward to a prosperous economic future.

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026827
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Neutral Island written by Clair Wills and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kevin B. Nowlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland in the war years and after written by Kevin B. Nowlan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Ollerenshaw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111624
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern Ireland in the Second World War written by Philip Ollerenshaw and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and distinctive book surveys the political, economic and social history of Northern Ireland in the Second World War. Since its creation in 1920, Northern Ireland has been a deeply divided society and the book explores these divisions before and during the war. It examines rearmament, the relatively slow wartime mobilisation, the 1941 Blitz, labour and industrial relations, politics and social policy. Northern Ireland was the only part of the UK with a devolved government and no military conscription during the war. The absence of military conscription made the process of mobilisation, and the experience of men and women, very different from that in Britain. The book's conclusion considers how the government faced the domestic and international challenges of the postwar world. This study draws on a wide range of primary sources and will appeal to those interested in modern Irish and British history and in the Second World War.

Author : Tony Gray
Publisher : Little Brown Uk
ISBN 13 : 9780751523331
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Years written by Tony Gray and published by Little Brown Uk. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The curiously claustrophobic 'lost years' of the Second World War were a watershed for neutral Ireland and the Irish. While many Irishmen volunteered to serve in the British forces, others crowded into Ireland's own defence forces, and German spies were rumoured to be forging links with the IRA. Draconian emergency powers orders used the (often ludicrous) weapon of censorship to protect the nation's neutrality and the war came closer than the news reports from distant battlefields when bombs fell on Belfast and Dublin, raising questions about the viability of neutrality. ony Gray recreates the 'lost years' with wit and vigour and a comprehensive knowledge of the period. Drawing on personal recollections of his life in Ireland furing the war he brings to life a unique slice of history and a time of great change.

Author : Joseph Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844806075
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland in the War Years written by Joseph Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1975-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786610753079
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland Since 1939 written by Henry Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive history of Ireland, North and South, which traces the developments from World War II to the Belfast Agreement and the creation of a new inclusive government in Northern Ireland. It aims to avoid what is too often a partitional approach to the history of Ireland, which treats the North and South in isolation from one another.; Making extensive use of archival material from Belfast, Dublin, and London, "Ireland Since 1939" provides varying perspectives on a range of important episodes - from Irish neutrality to the 1970 Arms Crisis, and from Lord Brookeborough's failed attempt to modernize the Northern Ireland state to the disastrous events of Bloody Sunday in Derry.; Developments in Ireland are placed in an international context - from the period when World War II rescued Ulster Unionism from economic decline and social conflict to explaining how the end of the Cold War contributed to the IRA's 1994 ceasefire. The importance of economic developments on the political situation in both states is also emphasized, and Patterson argues that the Celtic Tiger was an important factor in the recent talks between North and South.

Author : Kevin B. Nowlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland in the war years and after, 1939-51, ed written by Kevin B. Nowlan and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donal Ó Drisceoil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Censorship in Ireland, 1939-1945 written by Donal Ó Drisceoil and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first major study of Ireland's Emergency censorship which was in place for the duration of the Second World War. Drawing largely on primary source material which has only recently come into the public domain. Donal O Drisceoil provides a comprehensive account and analysis of this hitherto unexplored episode of Irish history." "This political/security censorship covered all media and communications and was one of the harshest regimes of its kind, particularly in comparison to other neutrals. Its purpose was to contribute to the preservation of the state and its neutrality, to 'keep the temperature down' both within the state and between Ireland and the belligerents. To this end, war news was 'neutralised', including the suppression of reports of the Holocaust; newspapers were seized; newsreels and films such as Chaplin's The Great Dictator were banned; coverage of social, economic and political issues was severely restricted; and the expression of opinions on the war, neutrality and much else of importance was curtailed. Few escaped its net, including bishops and government ministers." "This book examines all aspects of the censorship and explains its relative extremism by placing it in the context of Irish political culture and the particular nature of the state's wartime neutrality. In the process it adds to our understanding of these subjects, while the story of the censorship provides a window of enquiry into the politics and society of wartime Ireland. This book is a valuable contribution to contemporary Irish history, but also has topical relevance to present-day debates concerning censorship, democracy and neutrality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved