![]() Since 1998 it has published archival documents on Irish foreign relations since 1919 every two years. If, as Fintan O’Toole has recently suggested in these pages, the Irish State does crisis management well, the war years and their aftermath amply illustrate the point.ĭIFP is a partnership between the Royal Irish Academy, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the National Archives of Ireland. If DIFP VIII has a central theme, it is how the postwar government of Éamon de Valera sought to pick up the pieces from the most devastating conflict in human history. ![]() Originally published in 2012, this instalment of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series runs from the end of the second World War in 1945 to the aftermath of the defeat of Fianna Fáil in the 1948 general election. ![]() Nazi gold, fugitive war criminals, rebuilding Europe, the threat of nuclear war and the growing dominance of Communism: these are among the themes explored in the eighth volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (1945-1948), the open-access version of which is now available online. Less well known is that Ireland also had to deal with its aftermath. We all know that Ireland had to deal with the Emergency.
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