United States Foreign Policy and Ireland From Empire to Independence, 1913-1929

by Whelan, Bernadette

• ISBN13: 9781846820106
• ISBN10: 1846820103
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-20
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

This book deals with United States policy towards Ireland between 1913 and 1929. Focusing on Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, it examines their ties with Ireland and the development of the relationship between their administrations and Ireland. The formulation of US policy towards Ireland was influenced by the US public and politicians, the State Department, British politicians and officials, and nationalists and unionists in the US and Ireland. The author examines the implementation of foreign policy by US representatives in Ireland and Britain. Set in the context of three US administrations, it treats the Irish issues of selfdetermination, legitimacy, state-building, immigration and commerce as well as the Irish dimension to US policy in waging war and making peace, debt recovery, rearmament and economic growth. It offers a pioneering perspective on the views of key policy-makers in Washington and the policy enforcers in far off Dublin, Belfast, Cork and London.

Table of Contents

Tables	9	(2)
Abbreviations	11	(2)
Acknowledgments	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(5)
The Wilson presidency, foreign policy and Ireland, November 1913--June 1914	20	(39)
Path to the presidency	20	(2)
Wilson and foreign policy	22	(6)
Wilson, Ireland and foreign policy	28	(31)
Wilson, neutrality and Ireland, 1914--1917	59	(64)
Wilson's response to the outbreak of world war one	60	(6)
The State Department and formulation of neutrality	66	(7)
The state of preparedness in US foreign service offices in Ireland in 1914	73	(7)
Implementing neutrality and protecting US citizens in Ireland and elsewhere	80	(9)
Ireland and protecting neutrality in the US	89	(34)
Wilson, war and Ireland, 1917--18	123	(55)
The United States theatre	123	(4)
Wilson acts on the Irish question	127	(12)
The Wilson administration and Irish--American `loyalism'	139	(20)
The Irish theatre	159	(19)
Wilson, peace and Ireland, 1918--March 1920	178	(55)
Ireland and self-determination	179	(25)
American Commission on Irish Independence	204	(13)
Irish-America and the fate of the peace settlement	217	(16)
The final challenges to Wilson's Irish policy, March 1920--January 1921	233	(47)
Party conventions and presidential election	233	(12)
US representatives report on the Anglo-Irish war of independence	245	(12)
The MacSwiney case	257	(6)
American Commission on conditions in Ireland	263	(7)
A US consul mediates in Ireland	270	(6)
Wilson and Ireland: an overview	276	(4)
The Harding presidency, foreign policy and Ireland, March 1921	280	(30)
Path to the presidency	280	(4)
Harding and foreign policy	284	(11)
Harding, Ireland and foreign policy	295	(15)
Harding, Irish relief aid and recognition, spring 1921	310	(40)
American Committee for Relief in Ireland	310	(11)
The American Committee for Relief in Ireland proposal to the State Department	321	(8)
The wider context to the ACRI proposal	329	(20)
Official US interest in Ireland: recognition and treaty making, July 1921--August 1923	349	(1)
The impact of the truce on the republicans' agenda	350	(53)
War debts and Ireland	354	(2)
The Washington disarmament conference and recognition of the Irish republic	356	(15)
The treaties and making of peace in the US and Ireland	371	(7)
Economic opportunities in the emerging new state	378	(4)
`Poacher turned game-keeper': defeating the irregulars in the US	382	(15)
The fight for recognition of the Irish Free State	397	(4)
Harding and Ireland: an overview	401	(2)
The Coolidge presidency, foreign policy, and Ireland, August 1923	403	(24)
Path to the presidency	404	(6)
Coolidge and foreign policy	410	(9)
Coolidge, Ireland and foreign policy	419	(8)
The Coolidge administration and Ireland: releases, recognition and representation, 1923--6	427	(42)
Releasing IRA prisoners	428	(12)
Recognition and representation	440	(29)
The US foreign service in the Irish Free State: upgrading and work, August 1923--March 1929	469	(58)
Up-grading the status of US representation	469	(16)
Routine bureaucracy: assisting US citizens, residents, workers and tourists	485	(4)
Immigration work	489	(14)
Economic work	503	(24)
The US foreign service in the Irish Free State: political reporting and promoting US foreign policy, August 1923--March 1929	527	(38)
Consular commentary on domestic politics	527	(12)
Implementing US foreign policy	539	(21)
Coolidge and Ireland: an overview	560	(5)
Conclusion	565	(2)
Appendix	567	(2)
Bibliography	569	(16)
Index	585