Military Internees, Prisoners of War and the Irish State During the Second World War

Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, which strove to balance Ireland's international relationships with its obligations as a neutral.

Author: B. Kelly
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 04/29/2015
Pages: 125
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781137446015

About the Author

Bernard Kelly is an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests are British-Irish military history, post-conflict studies and twentieth-century migration. His first book Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen after the Second World War published in 2012.