1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482224003321

Autore

Manuzio Aldo <1449 or 1450-1515.>

Titolo

De constructione verborum, ... Aldus Manutius [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Deventer, : Theodoricus de Borne, 1510

Descrizione fisica

Online resource (72 p, 8')

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791258703321

Autore

Wood Ian S

Titolo

Britain, Ireland and the Second World War [[electronic resource] /] / Ian S. Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-7486-5141-1

0-7486-3001-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Societies at war

Disciplina

941.70822

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Ireland

World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Irish

Ireland Politics and government 1922-1949

Great Britain Foreign relations Ireland

Ireland Foreign relations Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - The Origins of Eire's Neutrality; 2 - Eire's Emergency, Britain's War; 3 - Eire: Crisis and Survival; 4 -



Security, Censorship and Propaganda; 5 - Fanatic Hearts: The IRA, 1939-45; 6 - Eire in the Emergency and the Irish in Britain; 7 - Northern Ireland at War; 8 - Emergency, War and their Aftermath; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remembered simply as 'the Emergency'. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chose not to stay out of the war but one of the few able to maintain its non-belligerency as a policy.How much this owed to Britain's military resolve or to the political skills of EĢamon de Valera is a key question which this new book will explore. It will also examine the tensions Eire's policy created in its relations with Winst