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A pioneering study of the seminal period from the declaration of the Republic of Ireland, and the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), in 1949 until Ireland and Britain entered the EEC in 1973. Draws on unexploited original sources from Ireland and Germany. Dramatically re-envisions the foundations of contemporary Ireland.
List of contents
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
About the author
Mervyn O'Driscoll is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at University College Cork
Summary
A pioneering study of the seminal period from the declaration of the Republic of Ireland, and the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), in 1949 until Ireland and Britain entered the EEC in 1973. Draws on unexploited original sources from Ireland and Germany. Dramatically re-envisions the foundations of contemporary Ireland. -- .
