Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

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.

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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’

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Index