Friends and Enemies: The Allies and Neutral Ireland in the Second World War

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.

Author: Karen Garner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781526172037
ISBN10: 1526172038
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Europe | Ireland
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General

About the Author
Karen Garner is Professor of Historical Studies at SUNY Empire State College, USA. She is a Fulbright Scholar and author of five academic books including Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925-85, published by MUP in 2010