Ireland during the Second World War : farewell to Plato's cave / Bryce Evans.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Evans, Bryce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ireland--History--1922-.
• Ireland.
• History.
• Ireland--Economic conditions--1918-1949.
• Economic conditions.
• World War, 1939-1945--Ireland.

Physical Description:

201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Summary:

In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the hidden story of the Irish Emergency. If the diplomatic history of Irish neutrality is familiar, the realities of every day life are much less so This work provides a clear summary of Ireland's economic survival at the time as well as an indispensable overview of every published work on Ireland during the Second World War. The book contributes a new and enlightening take on popular material and spiritual existence as global conflict impacted the country. It compares economic and social conditions in Ireland to those of the other European neutral states: Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal and explores how the government coped with the crisis, and how ordinary Irish people reacted to emergency state control of the marketplace. With their government wounded by British economic warfare, the Irish people engaged in the black market, cross-border smuggling and popular resistance. Exploring how notions of morality intersected with state-regulated production consumption and distribution, this study reveals a colourful history detailing exploitation, deprivation, deviance and intolerance amidst the state's shaky survival. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book provides a slice of real life during a pivotal episode in Irish and world history, It will be essential reading to the informed general reader students and academics alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Introduction: Farewell to Plato's cave
• Anglo-Irish trade and business relations
• Moral policemen of the domestic economy
• Conditions in town and country
• Smuggling
• Church and state
• Coercion in the countryside
• The state and the small man
• Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780719089510
• 0719089514

OCLC:

858353514

Publisher Number:

60001897728