Ireland's helping hand to Europe : combatting hunger from Normandy to Tirana, 1945-1950 /
"Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid - mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. - that Ireland donated to continental Europ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest, Hungary :
Central European University Press,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Deciding and Organising Relief at Home
- Chapter One. Handshake Debacle amidst Humanitarian Crisis
- Chapter Two. 'A drop in the ocean': The Decision to send Relief
- Chapter Three. Reaction and Organisation
- Chapter Four. Archbishop McQuaid to the Rescue
- Chapter Five. 1946: Extending Postwar Relief
- Chapter Six. End of Relief
- Part II Distributing Irish Supplies Abroad
- Introduction: relief in the unfolding Cold War
- Chapter Seven. Irish Aid to Western Europe
- Chapter Eight Cooperation with the International Red Cross in Geneva
- Chapter Nine. The Western Allied-Occupied Zones in Germany
- Chapter Ten. Berlin, the Soviet-Occupied Zone, and Eastern Expellees
- Chapter Eleven. Ireland's Aid to Central Europe: Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
- Chapter Twelve. Hungary
- Chapter Thirteen. Ireland's Aid to the Balkans: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania
- Chapter Fourteen. Yugoslavia
- Chapter Fifteen. Thanking Ireland
- Conclusion
- Photos
- List of frequently used abbreviations
- Bibliography and sources
- Index