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"'Revelatory.' Irish Times"
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A groundbreaking study of neutrality and how it fundamentally shaped Ireland's modern identity.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
My late parents were both from "The Free State" but spent the majority of WWII working in Britain and Northern Ireland, as did many of their generation. Anyone who wants a flavour of the lives of "ordinary" people in extraordinary times would find this of interest.
I would agree with some comments from another Amazon user on the author dwelling for too long and with too much emphasis on the writers of the period.
However, I would take issue with his comments about the other aspects of this book. I am not an historian, and perhaps there are better books than this about the "Emergency" - but I learnt a lot about Ireland's attitudes and politics in this period of history; and the effects of the war and de Valera's policies on Irish people at home and abroad.
I would agree with some comments from another Amazon user on the author dwelling for too long and with too much emphasis on the writers of the period.
However, I would take issue with his comments about the other aspects of this book. I am not an historian, and perhaps there are better books than this about the "Emergency" - but I learnt a lot about Ireland's attitudes and politics in this period of history; and the effects of the war and de Valera's policies on Irish people at home and abroad.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful
The authoress is dishonest in having the subtitle "A history of Ireland during the second world war". It is in part history but for the most part is a critique of Irish literature during the period mixed with potted biographies of Irish writers and their less than fascinating experiences of the war. In doing so, she blows out of all proportion the importance of some pretty minor literary figures - Elizabeth Bowen for example is mentioned frequently while the bombing of Dublin by the Luftwaffe merits scant mention. Read Robert Fisk's book instead, Clair Wills should stick to writing about literature and leave history to the experts.
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