Product Description: Sheds new light on Collins' role in the Irish Civil War, showing how in the weeks and months leading to the campaign he secretly persisted with guerrilla tactics in border areas. This involved not only assassination but also kidnapping and hostage taking...read more

Product Description: Irish diplomats spied for the United States during the course of the war. Irish diplomats in Europe carried messages and supplied information to the OSS the predecessor of the CIA with the full knowledge and consent of de Valera. Behind the Green Curtain is a comprehensive account of Irish neutrality, focusing strongly on the American and to a lesser extent the Canadian connection...read more

To Michael Collins, the signing of the treaty between Ireland and Britain in 1921 was a 'stepping stone'. This work examines the controversy surrounding the treaty and how it led to the Civil War of 1922-1923. It also takes a look at the characters and motivations of the two main Irish protaginaists.

This is the only comparative biography of Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins, and as such has established itself as a standard work. It is now re-issued in pocket paperback format for the first time. As fairly and as dispassionately as possible, Dwyer explores the stark differences in the background and personalities of his two subjects; the abandoned, probably illegitimate and essentially loveless childhood of de Valera sharply counterpoints the warm close environment into which Collins was born...Dwyer's assessment of the two characters is fair.--Diarmaid Ferriter, Evening Herald. ""This is an excellent book and goes far to giving a rounder picture of the relationship between the two men than some earlier works. In particular, Collins emerges as a pretty good schemer himself, being a brilliant networker through his control of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, his contacts in the police and civil bureaucracies in both Britain and Ireland and through his connections in the world of shipping and communications...one thing that comes out of Dwyer's analysis very starkly is de Valera's fantastic self-confidence or self-righteousness, depending on one's point of view...a well-written, competent and fair-minded book.""--Tom Garvin, Irish University Review.

Product Description: An up to date reassessment of the Irish politician whose name has always been synonymous with controversy.

Product Description: In 1943 Martin Quigley was one of three intelligence agents sent to Ireland to evaluate Ireland's neutrality during World War II, or "the Emergency" as it was euphemistically termed by the Irish. The only agent to retain his cover (as a representative of the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Strained Relations is a substantial account of Irish-USA relations during the Second World War. Much of the material is based on previously classified documents, and on personal interviews with the Americans sent to Ireland as spies...read more