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Abstract
This paper explores how the broadcasts delivered by Winston Churchill on 13 May 1945 and Éamon de Valera on 17 May 1945 were portrayed in the Irish press between May and August of that year. Specifically, it analyses how Irish newspapers justified the policy of neutrality, which was considered morally questionable during the battle against totalitarianism; how they explained the Anglo-Irish relationship in a way that defended Ireland's position in the post-war world; and how they reported on small nations under threat of the USSR to legitimise Ireland's situation. By studying the media coverage of these broadcasts, this paper reveals how Irish newspapers imagined the course of the nation.
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Notes
1 Churchill, The World Crisis Volume IV.
2 Freeman, “Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera,” 156.
3 Coackly, “The foundations of statehood,” 23.
4 Lee, Ireland 1912–1985, 178.
5 Coackly, “The foundations of statehood,” 22–3.
6 Bew, Churchill and Ireland, 138–9.
7 Girvin, The Emergency, 107.
8 Ishikawa, Winston Churchill, 44–45.
9 The Times, 14 May 1945.
10 Irish Press, Taoiseach’s Broadcast, 7.
11 Girvin, The Emergency, 13.
12 Ishikawa, Winston Churchill.
13 O'Drisceoil, Censorship in Ireland, 284.
14 Brown, The Irish Times, 7–8.
15 McGarry, “Irish Newspapers,” 71.
16 Brown, The Irish Times, 111.
17 Ibid., 157–62.
18 Biagini, “The Irish Times,” 139.
19 Richardson, “Transforming Anglo-Ireland,” 25–7.
20 O’Brien, The Irish Times, 58.
21 Ibid., 107.
22 Curran, “The Irish Press,” 113.
23 Horgan, Irish Media, 29–30.
24 Ibid., 268–86.
25 Curran, “The Irish Press,” 236.
26 Horgan, Irish Media, 37.
27 O'Drisceoil, Censorship in Ireland, 169.
28 Ibid., 171.
29 The Irish Press, 22 May 1945.
30 Maume, “The Irish Independent,” 124–5.
31 Ibid., 127.
32 O’Drosceoil, “Independent Newspapers,” 95.
33 McGarry, “Irish Newspapers,” 69.
34 Curran, “The Irish Press,” 117–8.
35 O' Dorisceoil, Censorship in Ireland, 171.
36 Murphy, “The Politics of Despair,” 118.
37 Horgan, Irish Media, 37–8.
38 Cathcart and Muldoon, “The Mass Media,” 675.
39 As of 5 November 2022, Irish Newspaper Archives listed on its website “Evening Herald,” https://www.irishnewsarchive.com/irish-examiner-newspaper-archive.
40 As of 5 November 2022, Irish Newspaper Archives listed on its website “Irish Examiner,” https://www.irishnewsarchive.com/evening-herald-newspaper-archive.
41 Doughan, The Voice of the Provinces, 41–42; McMahon, “Irish Free State Newspapers,” 373.
42 Wills, That Neutral Ireland; O’Drisceoil, Censorship in Ireland.
43 O’Halpin, “35 The Second World War and Ireland”; Garner, Friends and Enemies.
44 The Irish Press, 16 May 1945.
45 The Donegal Democrat, 19 May 1945.
46 Ibid., 14 July 1945.
47 The Tipperary Star, 19 May 1945.
48 The Irish Times, 15 May 1945.
49 Ibid., 19 May 1945.
50 The Evening Echo, 19 May 1945.
51 The Irish Examiner, 17 May 1945.
52 The Sunday Independent, 20 May 1945.
53 The Longford Leader, 28 July 1945.
54 The Leinster Express, 26 May 1945.
55 O’Drisceoil, Censorship in Ireland, 3.
56 Ibid., 104.
57 Ibid., 101.
58 The Irish Independent, 17 May 1945.
59 The Sunday Independent, 1 July 1945.
60 The Western People, 26 May 1945.
61 The Irish Times, 18 May 1945.
62 The Sunday Independent, 20 May 1945.
63 The Limerick Leader, 16 May 1945.
64 The Nenagh Guardian, 26 May 1945.
65 The Kerryman, 19 May 1945.
66 Girvin, The Emergency, 321–3.
67 O’Halpin, “35 The Second World War and Ireland,” 715–6.
68 Garner, Friends and Enemies, 231.
69 The Nationalist and Leinster Times, 9 June 1945.
70 The Longford Leader, 27 July 1945.
71 Ibid., 21 May 1945.
72 The Evening Herald, 23 May 1945.
73 Healy, Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922, 1–2.
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Hanako Ishikawa
Hanako Ishikawa, Historical Institute for European Civilization, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]