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Military Internees, Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War

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  1. Bernard Kelly

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-10

  3. Locking Them Up: Internment, Prisoners of War and International Law

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    Pages 11-26

  4. Keeping One Eye Abroad: Belligerent Internment and Diplomacy

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    Pages 27-53

  5. Settling in and Earning Their Keep: Life in K-Lines

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    Pages 54-84

  6. Breaking Out and Breaking In: Escape

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    Pages 85-107

  7. Conclusion: ‘Not Breaking but Making International Law’?

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    Pages 108-115

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 116-125
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Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, which strove to balance Ireland's international relationships with its obligations as a neutral.

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  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Bernard Kelly

About the author

Bernard Kelly is an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests are British-Irish military history, post-conflict studies and twentieth-century migration. His first book Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen after the Second World War published in 2012.

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