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Ireland during the Second World War : farewell to Plato's cave / Bryce Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526111319
  • 1526111314
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ireland during the Second World War.DDC classification:
  • 941.50822 23
LOC classification:
  • DA964.A2
Online resources:
Contents:
Farewell to "Plato's Cave" -- Anglo-Irish trade and business relations -- Moral policemen of the domestic economy -- Conditions in town and country -- Smuggling -- Church and state -- Coercion in the countryside -- The state and the small man.
Summary: In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the hidden story of the Irish Emergency. If the diplomatic history of Irish neutrality is familiar, the realities of everyday life are much less so. This work provides a clear summary of Ireland's economic survival at the time as well as an indispensable overview of every published work on Ireland during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book provides a slice of real life during a pivotal episode in Irish and world history.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 13, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the hidden story of the Irish Emergency. If the diplomatic history of Irish neutrality is familiar, the realities of everyday life are much less so. This work provides a clear summary of Ireland's economic survival at the time as well as an indispensable overview of every published work on Ireland during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book provides a slice of real life during a pivotal episode in Irish and world history.

Farewell to "Plato's Cave" -- Anglo-Irish trade and business relations -- Moral policemen of the domestic economy -- Conditions in town and country -- Smuggling -- Church and state -- Coercion in the countryside -- The state and the small man.

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