Britain, Ireland and the Second World War /

Britain, Ireland and the Second World War / / Ian S. Wood.

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For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remembered simply as 'the Emergency'. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chose not to stay out...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Wood, Ian S.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Societies at War : SOWA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The Origins of Eire’s Neutrality
  • 2. Eire’s Emergency, Britain’s War
  • 3. Eire: Crisis and Survival
  • 4. Security, Censorship and Propaganda
  • 5. Fanatic Hearts: the IRA, 1939–45
  • 6. Eire in the Emergency and the Irish in Britain
  • 7. Northern Ireland at War
  • 8. Emergency, War and their Aftermath
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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