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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'. Encompassing an exhaustive account, it traces the relationship between Ireland and FRG by drawing on original material from both. It critiques depictions of Irish-German relations as peculiarly affable and explores the problems presented by trade, Britain, neutrality, NATO, Northern Ireland and the Cold War. The work contends the German 'economic miracle' was a vital stimulus for Ireland's tardy retreat from protectionism. It maintains that Ireland's reorientation was informed by lessons gleaned from Irish-German trade relations as well as a budding recognition of the potential offered by German industrial investment. This granted Germany weighty influence over the shape and direction of Ireland. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; 1 Ireland and Germany before 1949; Pre-independence1; Interwar; Neutrality, 1939â#x80;#x93;45; Post-war; Notes; 2 Honeymoon; Recognition and diplomatic relations; German goodwill; German gratitude; Sports and cultural diplomacy; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Emerging dissonance; Westpolitik, 1951â#x80;#x93;55; The contrast; The equivalency thesis; Anglo-Irish relations, neutrality and NATO; Perceptions of the Irish state and nation; German criticisms; Notes. |
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4 Trade and agriculture in the 1950sAnglo-Irish trade; Reopening trade, 1949; Rising tensions, 1949â#x80;#x93;55; Bargaining shortcomings; Desperate measures; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Irish industrialisation and the German â#x80;#x98;economic miracleâ#x80;#x99;; Neglected opportunities?; Unwelcoming; Faber-Castell; Second Inter-Party Government, 1954â#x80;#x93;57; A sensation; Unfulfilled promise, 1955â#x80;#x93;56; Accumulating change, 1957â#x80;#x93;59; Travel and tourism; Watershed; Aikenâ#x80;#x99;s visit; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Germany, Lemass and foreign policy adaptation. |
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Â#x80;#x98;Badly needed challengeâ#x80;#x99; to Ireland, but Ireland can respond, 1959â#x80;#x93;601Adapting to European foreign preferences; Brentanoâ#x80;#x99;s visit; Notes; 7 Germany and Irelandâ#x80;#x99;s application to the EEC, 1961â#x80;#x93;63; A false start; Qualified support; The Adenauer and Erhard equation; A trial balloon?; Progress; â#x80;#x98;Best friend and allyâ#x80;#x99;; Conclusion; Notes; 8 The long road into Europe; EEC application, 1963â#x80;#x93;65; Investment and trade, 1963â#x80;#x93;66; Another veto; The Gaullist impediment; Home run; Notes; 9 Land wars, Nazis and the Troubles; Land wars; Nazi histories; The 1965 Land Act. |
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Â#x80;#x98;Fire over Irelandâ#x80;#x99;65The EEC dimension; Troubling times; Notes; Epilogue: Ireland, German reunification and remaking Europe; Made in Germany; East Germany; Unifying Germany and Europe, 1989â#x80;#x93;90; Irishâ#x80;#x93;German relations, 1990â#x80;#x93;2016; Notes; Select bibliography; Institutional archives and public records; AuswÃÞrtiges Amt-Politisches Archiv (AA-PA), Berlin (Archives of German Foreign Office); Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Sankt Augustin; National Archives of Ireland (NAI); The National Archives, Kew Gardens, London (TNA); National Library of Ireland (NLI); Newspapers. |
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Online resourcesPublished sources; Documents on Irish foreign policy; Books and articles; Unpublished theses; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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European Economic Community -- Ireland.
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European Economic Community. |
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International relations. |
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Ireland. |
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European Economic Community countries. |
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Ireland -- Foreign relations -- European Economic Community countries.
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European Economic Community countries -- Foreign relations -- Ireland.
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Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Politics and government. |
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20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Driscoll, Mervyn. Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-73. Best Friend and Ally? Manchester : Manchester University Press 2018 9780719089831 (OCoLC)1019654898 |
| ISBN |
9781526126054 (electronic book) |
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1526126052 (electronic book) |
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9780719089831 |
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0719089832 |
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9781526126061 (ePub ebook) |
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1526126060 |
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