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Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe
- Combatting Hunger from Normandy to Tirana, 1945–1950
Engelsk Hardback
Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe
- Combatting Hunger from Normandy to Tirana, 1945–1950
Engelsk Hardback

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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, including France, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, and zones of occupied Germany.

Starting with Ireland’s neutral wartime record, often wrongly presented as pro-German when Ireland in fact unofficially favoured the western Allies, Jerome aan de Wiel explains why Éamon de Valera’s government sent humanitarian aid to the devastated continent. His book analyses the logistics of collection and distribution of supplies sent abroad as far as the Greek islands.

Despite some alleged Cold-War hijacking of Irish relief – and this humanitarianism was not above the politics of that East-West confrontation – it became mostly a story of hope, generosity and European Christian solidarity. Rich archival records from Ireland and the European beneficiary countries, as well as contemporary local and national newspapers across Europe, allow the author to measure and describe not only the official but also the popular response to Irish relief schemes. This work is illustrated with contemporary photographs and some key graphs and tables that show the extent of the aid programme.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
572
ISBN-13:
9789633864098
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9633864097
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2021
Længde:
38mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
Central European University Press
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2021
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