Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 10: 1951-57 Volume X, 1951-1957

by Kennedy, Michael; Crowe, Catriona; Fanning, Ronan; Keogh, Dermot; O'Halpin, Eunan; O'Malley, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781908996862
• ISBN10: 1908996862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-01
• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy

Summary

DIFP X marks a major turning point in 20th century Irish foreign policy. It covers Ireland’s 1955 admission to the United Nations. This massive change to Irish foreign policy, revealed for the first time in the original documents of the 1950s in DIFP X, is the point from which Ireland’s global place amongst the nations in the 21st century originates.The volume covers the key themes of 1950s Irish foreign policy – UN membership, the renewed IRA campaign in Northern Ireland, the Suez Crisis, the Soviet Invasion of Hungary and the threat of a nuclear war. For the first time light is shed on the preparation of ‘the War Book’, the state manual through which Ireland would make its transition to World War Three.The high sensitive issue of the overseas adoption of Irish children is covered in detail, providing a documentary source like no other available into this difficult chapter of Irish history

Author Biography

Michael Kennedy is the Executive Editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series.Catriona Crowe was Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. She is an Editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy and of Dublin 1911, both published by the Royal Irish Academy.Ronan Fanning MRIA was Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin. He was an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and a founder-member of the Royal Irish Academy's National Committee for the Study of International Affairs.Dermot Keogh MRIA is Professor of History at University College Cork and an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. Eunan O'Halpin MRIA is the Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series.Dr Kate O'Malley is an Editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. She is Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy’s International Affairs Committee and a Research Associate of the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, TCD.