Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe : : Combatting Hunger from Normandy to Tirana, 1945–1950 / / Jérôme Wiel.
Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid – mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. – that Ireland donated to continental Europe, inc...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Deciding and Organising Relief at Home
- Chapter One. Handshake Debacle amidst Humanitarian Crisis
- Chapter Two. ‘A drop in the ocean’: The Decision to send Relief
- Chapter Three. Reaction and Organisation
- Chapter Four. Archbishop McQuaid to the Rescue
- Chapter Five. 1946: Extending Postwar Relief
- Chapter Six. End of Relief
- Part II Distributing Irish Supplies Abroad
- Introduction: relief in the unfolding Cold War
- Chapter Seven. Irish Aid to Western Europe
- Chapter Eight Cooperation with the International Red Cross in Geneva
- Chapter Nine. The Western Allied-Occupied Zones in Germany
- Chapter Ten. Berlin, the Soviet-Occupied Zone, and Eastern Expellees
- Chapter Eleven. Ireland’s Aid to Central Europe: Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
- Chapter Twelve. Hungary
- Chapter Thirteen. Ireland’s Aid to the Balkans: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania
- Chapter Fourteen. Yugoslavia
- Chapter Fifteen. Thanking Ireland
- Conclusion
- Photos
- List of frequently used abbreviations
- Bibliography and sources
- Index