Bernadette Whelan is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is the author of publications including Ireland and the Marshall Plan, 1947-57 (2000), American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the US Consular Service (2010) and joint editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, xi (2018).
Part I. Soft Diplomacy and the Diplomat: 1. Introduction
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Éamon de Valera and the foreign policy world
3. The US diplomat's life in Ireland
4. The Irish diplomat's life in the US
Part II. New Regimes Settle in: 5. Transatlantic migrant tide
6. De Valera's Ireland
7. Roosevelt's America
8. Common worlds, 1939
9. Conclusion
Appendix 1. List of Irish officials in the US
Appendix 2. List of US officials in Ireland.
