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Book review: The Emergency: A nation caught between neutrality, nationalism and the Nazis
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The Emergency
Brian Girvin
Macmillan, GBP 25
IRISH history knows no sell-by date. In its annals, Cuchulain and
Deirdre of the Sorrows are recent figures, the Battle of the Boyne
remains a noise heard loudly and clearly each July, and the 20th
century is but yesterday. Viewed in this context, Brian Girvin's
tenacious study of Ireland's policy of neutrality during the span of
the Second World War treads boldly and trenchantly through an era of
living memory.
His is the story of a country locked into censorship, deeply
conservative, in thrall to the powerful voice of the Irish Roman
Catholic ...
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