The Irish Army in the Congo, 1960-1964: The Far Battalions

This revealing book is based on the personal reminiscences of Irish Army veterans who served with the UN peacekeeping forces in the Congo from 1960 to 1964. In addition to tracking down foot soldiers, retired battalion commanders and journalists who covered the Congo, the author has also spoken to Belgians who were part of the pre-independence administration in the huge African colony, Swedish soldiers who played key roles as interpreters for Irish Army units, a Congolese clergyman and a Congolese journalist from Kinshasa. The book also takes a refreshing and controversial look at the Congo in the immediate wake of independence in mid-1960, after almost a century of Belgian rule. Here, published for the first time, are secret dossiers and previously unpublished photographs of military and civilian life in the newly independent Congo, which challenges the received understanding of such events as the Niemba massacre and the fighting to end the secession of Katanga, including the battle of Jadotville. The Irish Army in the Congo provides fascinating background to the development of UN peacekeeping missions around the world. This was the first major overseas mission in which Irish troops had ever been involved and the personal accounts gathered for this book shed valuable light on this chapter of Irish military history.

History

O'Donoghue, David

Africa

Irish Academic Press

This revealing book is based on the personal reminiscences of Irish Army veterans who served with the UN peacekeeping forces in the Congo from 1960 to 1964.  In addition to tracking down foot soldiers, retired battalion commanders and journalists who covered the Congo, the author has also spoken to Belgians who were part of the pre-independence administration in the huge African colony, Swedish soldiers who played key roles as interpreters for Irish Army units, a Congolese clergyman and a Congolese journalist from Kinshasa.  The book also takes a refreshing and controversial look at the Congo in the immediate wake of independence in mid-1960, after almost a century of Belgian rule. Here, published for the first time, are secret dossiers and previously unpublished photographs of military and civilian life in the newly independent Congo, which challenges the received understanding of such events as the Niemba massacre and the fighting to end the secession of Katanga, including the battle of Jadotville. The Irish Army in the Congo provides fascinating background to the development of UN peacekeeping missions around the world.  This was the first major overseas mission in which Irish troops had ever been involved and the personal accounts gathered for this book shed valuable light on this chapter of Irish military history.

Hitler's Irish Voices

This incredible story - based on detailed research in Germany, Ireland and Britain - uncovers for the first time one of the most sensitive issues concerning Irish-German relations in the Second World War. From December 1939 to May 1945, German Radio broadcast Nazi propaganda to neutral Ireland.  From small beginnings featuring a weekly talk in Irish, the broadcasts from Berlin grew into a nightly bi-lingual service in Irish and English.  The man behind the plan to target Irish listeners - as well as Irish groups in America and Australia - was Dr Adolf Mahr, the Austrian-born director of the National Museum in Dublin.  A member of the Nazi Party, he was promoted to the top museum job in 1934.  Mahr left Dublin in 1939, never to return.  Officially on leave of absence from his job with the Irish Civil Service, he spent the war years in Berlin working on the Irish desk at the German Foreign Office, as well as establishing and directing German Radio's nightly Irish Service, known as the Irland-Redaktion. Hitler's Irish Voices tells the story of Mahr and the rest of his colleagues who worked for the Irland-Redaktion.  It traces their backgrounds, the various paths that led them to wartime Berlin, and tells what became of them after the war.  The book examines in detail the reasons for the establishment of the radio service, what it broadcast, and who listened to it.

Europe

Irish Academic Pr

This incredible story - based on detailed research in Germany, Ireland and Britain - uncovers for the first time one of the most sensitive issues concerning Irish-German relations in the Second World War. From December 1939 to May 1945, German Radio broadcast Nazi propaganda to neutral Ireland. From small beginnings featuring a weekly talk in Irish, the broadcasts from Berlin grew into a nightly bi-lingual service in Irish and English. The man behind the plan to target Irish listeners - as well as Irish groups in America and Australia - was Dr Adolf Mahr, the Austrian-born director of the National Museum in Dublin. A member of the Nazi Party, he was promoted to the top museum job in 1934. Mahr left Dublin in 1939, never to return. Officially on leave of absence from his job with the Irish Civil Service, he spent the war years in Berlin working on the Irish desk at the German Foreign Office, as well as establishing and directing German Radio's nightly Irish Service, known as the Irland-Redaktion. Hitler's Irish Voices tells the story of Mahr and the rest of his colleagues who worked for the Irland-Redaktion. It traces their backgrounds, the various paths that led them to wartime Berlin, and tells what became of them after the war. The book examines in detail the reasons for the establishment of the radio service, what it broadcast, and who listened to it.

<p>It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics were chosen to bring Hitler's message into Irish homesteads - as much for their party loyalty as for their command of spoken Irish. The Germans knew that Irish was not widely spoken but, nonetheless, they wanted to target extreme nationalists with a hard hitting anti-English slant which included lurid tales of British Army brutality in pre- independence Ireland. In addition, the regime in Berlin wanted Dublin to stay out of the war. But a more sinister aspect of the propaganda beamed to Irish radio listeners was the fact that it contained coded messages for German sympathisers, including the IRA, in Ireland. Hitler's Irish Voices is the first detailed study of the Nazis' wartime propaganda message to neutral Ireland. It includes pen-pictures of the broadcasters, details of how the service began and how its message evolved as the war turned inexorably against the Third Reich. The book contains eye-witness accounts of what was going on behind the scenes in the Berlin radio centre as Hartmann's team of broadcasters sought to persuade the Irish public that a German victory was in their best interests.</p>

Hitler's Irish Voices: The Story of German Radio's Wartime Irish Service

Humor & Entertainment

Radio

Somerville Press

<p>Physical description; xviii, 236p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Irland-Redaktion - History. Deutscher Rundfunk. Irland-Redaktion.</p>

Military

Beyond the Pale

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The Irish Army in the Congo, 1960-1964: The Far Battalions

The Irish Army in the Congo, 1960-1964: The Far Battalions

Hitler's Irish Voices

Hitler's Irish Voices

Hitler's Irish Voices: The Story of German Radio's Wartime Irish Service

Hitler's Irish Voices: The Story of German Radio's Wartime Irish Service