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 neutrality (Irish) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about neutrality (Irish)
From the 1960s Irish neutrality was usefully combined with a prominent ‘non-aligned’ role in Cold War diplomacy and United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations.
Neutrality became possible when control of the ‘treaty ports’ in southern Ireland, which Britain had retained after the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), was handed to Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil government in 1938.
Neutrality was adopted for reasons of pragmatism rather than morality.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /neutrality+(Irish)   (244 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He joined the nationalist Irish Volunteers on its creation in 1913, and commanded a Volunteer unit in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
Relations with the new Irish government, which was backed by most of the Dáil and the electorate, and the Anti-treatyites under the nominal leadership of deV, now descended into the Irish Civil War (June 1922), in which the pro-treaty Free State forces defeated de Valera's Republicans.
Whereas the neutrality of the USA was terminated with the attack on Pearl Harbour, Irish neutrality was maintained right through to the end of the war.
www.irelandsown.net /devalera.html   (2256 words)

  
 UCC Department of History : D. O'Drisceóil
Censorship in Ireland 1939-45: Neutrality, Politics and Society
'Censorship as Propaganda: the Neutralisation of Irish Public
'Neutrality in War'; 'Sean O'Faolain'; 'Ireland: Church and State';
www.ucc.ie /academic/history/people/42   (164 words)

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