Ireland through European eyes [electronic resource] : Western Europe, the EEC and Ireland, 1945-1973 / edited by Mervyn O'Driscoll, Dermot Keogh, and Jerôme aan de Wiel.

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-455) and index.

Introduction / Mervyn O'Driscoll -- West Germany / Mervyn O'Driscoll -- France / Christophe Gillissen -- Italy and the Holy See / Aoife Keogh and Dermot Keogh -- The Netherlands / Jerôme aan de Wiel -- Belgium / Jerôme aan de Wiel -- Luxembourg / Jerôme aan de Wiel -- The Commission, the Council and the Irish application for the EEC, 1961-73 / Jerôme aan de Wiel -- Notes and references -- Index.

This novel collection draws together a European field of expertise and resources. It reveals how Belgian, French, Italian, Luxembourg, Dutch, and West German politicians, policymakers and commentators perceived independent Ireland from the end of the Second World War until Irish accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973. These six West European states initiated and sustained the integration process from the debris of the Second World War. They offered Ireland a developmental and international alternative to small nation state obscurity and vulnerability. Together with the EEC institutions of the Commission and the Council of Ministers principally, these states both transformed European relations and determined the fate of Ireland's application to enter the EEC after 1961.

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