Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

Dr Simon Topping (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-03759-5 (ISBN)

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In Northern Ireland, The United States and the Second World War, Simon Topping analyses the American military presence in Northern Ireland during the war, examining the role of the government at Stormont in managing this ‘friendly invasion’, the diplomatic and military rationales for the deployment, the attitude of Americans to their posting, and the effect of the US presence on local sectarian dynamics. He explores US military planning, the hospitality and entertainment provided for American troops, the renewal and reimagining of historic links between Ulster and the United States, the importation of ‘Jim Crow’ racism, ‘Johnny Doughboys’ marrying ‘Irish Roses’, and how all of this impacted upon internal, transatlantic and cross-border politics. This study also draws attention to influential and understudied individuals such as Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke and offers a reassessment of David Gray, America’s minister to Dublin. As a result, it provides a comprehensive examination of largely overlooked aspects of the war and Northern Ireland more generally, and fills important gaps in the history of both.

Northern Ireland, The United States and the Second World War is essential for students and scholars interested in the history of Northern Ireland, American-Irish relations, the Second World War on the UK home-front, and wartime transatlantic diplomacy.

Simon Topping is Associate Professor of United States History at Plymouth University, UK. He is the author of Lincoln’s Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928-1952 (2008) which was short-listed for the 2009 Neustadt prize. He has published a number of articles on the importation of American racism into Northern Ireland during the Second World War.

List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘The Ties of Kinship’
1. ‘Céad Míle Fáilte’: One Hundred Thousand Welcomes!
2. ‘Stepping Stone to Berlin’: The US military in Northern Ireland
3. ‘Absolute and Executive Jurisdiction’: Policing and Managing the Yanks
4. ‘If you can’t see the hills’: Occupying the Occupiers
5. ‘My own country overrun’: Irish Nationalism and the American presence
6. ‘To clear this territory of such forces’: The IRA and the Americans
7. ‘Developments in Northern Ireland’: The Belfast Consulate and the War
8. ‘Johnny Doughboy met a Rose in Ireland’: Women and the Americans
9. ‘Dusky Doughboys’: Jim Crow racism in Northern Ireland
10. ‘A Testy Old Gentleman’: David Gray, Hyphenated-Americans and Partition
11. ‘Ulster Had a Hand in the First Independence Day’: Ulster-American Revivalism and the Second World War
12. ‘Letters from Ulster’: Propaganda, Memory and the Americans

Conclusion: ‘Without Northern Ireland’
Epilogue: David Gray’s ‘Great Illusion’

Primary Sources
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2022
Zusatzinfo	23 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-03759-1 / 1350037591
ISBN-13	978-1-350-03759-5 / 9781350037595
Zustand	Neuware