Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-73 Best friend and ally?

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Author

Driscoll, Mervyn.

Title

Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-73 [electronic resource] : Best friend and ally? / Mervyn Driscoll.

ISBN

1526126052

9781526126054

1526126060

9781526126061

Published

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Physical Description

1 online resource (288 pages))

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Summary

This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'. Encompassing an exhaustive account, it traces the relationship between Ireland and FRG by drawing on original material from both. It critiques depictions of Irish-German relations as peculiarly affable and explores the problems presented by trade, Britain, neutrality, NATO, Northern Ireland and the Cold War. The work contends the German 'economic miracle' was a vital stimulus for Ireland's tardy retreat from protectionism. It maintains that Ireland's reorientation was informed by lessons gleaned from Irish-German trade relations as well as a budding recognition of the potential offered by German industrial investment. This granted Germany weighty influence over the shape and direction of Ireland.

Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

January 15, 2020

Series

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; 1 Ireland and Germany before 1949; Pre-independence1; Interwar; Neutrality, 1939â#x80;#x93;45; Post-war; Notes; 2 Honeymoon; Recognition and diplomatic relations; German goodwill; German gratitude; Sports and cultural diplomacy; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Emerging dissonance; Westpolitik, 1951â#x80;#x93;55; The contrast; The equivalency thesis; Anglo-Irish relations, neutrality and NATO; Perceptions of the Irish state and nation; German criticisms; Notes.

4 Trade and agriculture in the 1950sAnglo-Irish trade; Reopening trade, 1949; Rising tensions, 1949â#x80;#x93;55; Bargaining shortcomings; Desperate measures; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Irish industrialisation and the German â#x80;#x98;economic miracleâ#x80;#x99;; Neglected opportunities?; Unwelcoming; Faber-Castell; Second Inter-Party Government, 1954â#x80;#x93;57; A sensation; Unfulfilled promise, 1955â#x80;#x93;56; Accumulating change, 1957â#x80;#x93;59; Travel and tourism; Watershed; Aikenâ#x80;#x99;s visit; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Germany, Lemass and foreign policy adaptation.

Â#x80;#x98;Badly needed challengeâ#x80;#x99; to Ireland, but Ireland can respond, 1959â#x80;#x93;601Adapting to European foreign preferences; Brentanoâ#x80;#x99;s visit; Notes; 7 Germany and Irelandâ#x80;#x99;s application to the EEC, 1961â#x80;#x93;63; A false start; Qualified support; The Adenauer and Erhard equation; A trial balloon?; Progress; â#x80;#x98;Best friend and allyâ#x80;#x99;; Conclusion; Notes; 8 The long road into Europe; EEC application, 1963â#x80;#x93;65; Investment and trade, 1963â#x80;#x93;66; Another veto; The Gaullist impediment; Home run; Notes; 9 Land wars, Nazis and the Troubles; Land wars; Nazi histories; The 1965 Land Act.

Â#x80;#x98;Fire over Irelandâ#x80;#x99;65The EEC dimension; Troubling times; Notes; Epilogue: Ireland, German reunification and remaking Europe; Made in Germany; East Germany; Unifying Germany and Europe, 1989â#x80;#x93;90; Irishâ#x80;#x93;German relations, 1990â#x80;#x93;2016; Notes; Select bibliography; Institutional archives and public records; AuswÃÞrtiges Amt-Politisches Archiv (AA-PA), Berlin (Archives of German Foreign Office); Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Sankt Augustin; National Archives of Ireland (NAI); The National Archives, Kew Gardens, London (TNA); National Library of Ireland (NLI); Newspapers.

Online resourcesPublished sources; Documents on Irish foreign policy; Books and articles; Unpublished theses; Index.

Subjects

European Economic Community > Ireland.

European Economic Community.

Diplomatic relations.

Politics and government.

European Economic Community countries > Foreign relations > Ireland.

Ireland > Foreign relations > European Economic Community countries.

Ireland > Politics and government > 20th century.

Europe > European Economic Community countries.

Ireland.

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