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That Neutral Island
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That Neutral Island (2007) (edit title/settings)

A Cultural History of Ireland during the Second World War

by Clair Wills (Author) (edit contributors)

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When the world descended into war in 1939, a few European countries were able to remain neutral. Of the neutral states, none was more controversial than Ireland.

The Irish premier Eamon de Valera stuck determinedly to Ireland’s right to remain outside a conflict in which it had no... read more

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Some months before the war began, in January 1939, three major wireless networks in the United States relayed a broadcast by de Valera from the Radio Éireann studios in Dublin.

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Map of Ireland
Introduction: An Irish Theatre of War

1 This Emergent Ireland
2 Talk of Escapism
3 Mobilisation
4 War at Sea
5 Invisible Enemies
6 War in the Air
7 Immobilisation
8 The Static Generation
9 The Vanished Generation
10 Sacred Egoism
11 Paying for Neutrality

Afterword
Bibliographical Essay
Acknowledgements
Index

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  1. Clair Wills (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: Ireland
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780571221059
Page Count: 512
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