Contents; 1 Britain and the Irish Question: An Overview; 2 The Impact of Eire's Neutrality and its Denial of the "Treaty Ports" to Britain; 3 The Economics of the Wartime Relationship between Britain and Ireland as a Whole; 4 The IRA - the Resumption of "Military" Operations in 1939; 5 Propaganda, Intelligence, Espionage, and the Media; 6 Overall Impact of the War Years on British/Irish Relationships; 7 Bibliographical Essay; Index.
Ian S. Wood has previously been a lecturer in History at Napier University, Edinburgh and also taught part-time for the Open University. For many years he has been a regular contributor to the press on the conflict in Northern Ireland. His most recent book was Britain, Ireland and the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). He is the author of Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and of two studies of Winston Churchill and a biography of the Scottish Socialist John Wheatley. He has also authored Ireland During the Second World War (2002) and God, Guns and Ulster (2003).
Britain, Ireland and the Second World War is an admirable introduction to the history of the topic. Wood makes no claim to have written a definitive history and his book has value for a general reader or for students in a course on Irish history.--Daniel C. Williamson "H-Albion (August, 2011)"
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