Mervyn O'Driscoll

Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-73 (eBook, ePUB)

Best friend and ally?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526126061
• Artikelnr.: 57471678

Autorenporträt

Mervyn O'Driscoll is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at University College Cork

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ireland and Germany before 1949 2. Honeymoon 3. Emerging
dissonance 4. Trade and agriculture in the 1950s 5. Irish industrialisation
and the German 'economic miracle' 6. Germany, Lemass and foreign policy
adaptation 7. Germany and Ireland's application to the EEC, 1961-63 8. The
long road into Europe 9. Land wars, Nazis and the Troubles Epilogue:
Ireland, German reunification and remaking Europe Select bibliography Index