Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War / Simon Topping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Topping, Simon David, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Northern Ireland.

World War, 1939-1945.

Northern Ireland--History.

Northern Ireland.

Americans--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Americans.

Civil-military relations--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Civil-military relations.

United States--Relations--Northern Ireland.

United States.

Northern Ireland--Relations--United States.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Northern Ireland, The United States and the Second World War analyses the various responses to the American military presence in Northern Ireland during the Second World War, and its legacy in the years immediately thereafter. Simon Topping examines the political attitude of the Northern Irish government, as well as that of Irish Nationalists and the Americans themselves. He considers the internal political impact of America forces, hospitality provision for American troops, and the memorialization of the occupation in the war's aftermath, among other topics. This study draws attention to influential and understudied individuals such as David Gray, the American minister for Dublin who was recruited to the Unionist cause, and the Northern Irish Prime Minister Basil Brooke, who visited the USA in 1950. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of this largely overlooked aspect of the war, and the history of Northern Ireland more generally. This book is the first monograph-length political history of United States involvement in Northern Ireland, and is essential for students and scholars of Irish and American history, the Second World War, and political and diplomatic history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. `Cead Mile Failte': One hundred thousand welcomes!

2. `Uncle Sam's Stepping Stone to Berlin': The US military in Northern Ireland

3. `Absolute and executive jurisdiction': Policing and managing the Yanks

4. `If you can't see the hills': Occupying the occupiers

5. `My own country overrun': Irish nationalism and the American presence

6. `To clear this territory of such forces': The IRA and the Americans

7. `Developments in Northern Ireland': The Belfast consulate and the war

8. `Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland': Women and the Americans

9. "The Dusky Doughboys': Jim Crow racism in Northern Ireland

10. `A testy old gentleman': David Gray, hyphenated-Americans and partition

11. `Ulster Had a Hand in the First Independence Day': Ulster-American revivalism and the Second World War

12. `Letters from Ulster': Propaganda, memory and the Americans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Topping, Simon. Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

ISBN:

9781350037595

1350037591

OCLC:

1264173492