Bowen, Elizabeth. "Notes on Eire": Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940-2. Aubane, Ireland: Aubane Historical Society, 1999. Bowen, Elizabeth. "Notes on Eire": Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940-2. Aubane, Ireland: Aubane Historical Society, 1999.
Carter, Carolle J. The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1977.
Constantinides finds that the "absence of access to Irish and British files" makes this book "less than comprehensive." Carter is at her best when discussing "the failures and incredible ineptitude of the German intelligence services."
Duggan, John. Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin 1937-1945. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003.
From publisher: Dr Edward Hempel was German Minister in Dublin from 1937 to 1945. This book "throws new light on Third Reich diplomacy which lacked unity and was subject to inputs from a proliferation of competing ... agencies." It gives a "picture of the relationship between the Dublin Legation and Berlin and its effects on diplomatic intercourse between Germany and Ireland and consequently between Ireland and Britain."
Girvin, Brian.
1. The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45. London: Pan Macmillan, 2006.
From publisher: The author shows how Eamon de Valera's neutrality "policy went against the national interest, and far from being the only option for the Government, was simply the only one they would consider. This decision, Girvin concludes, cost de Valera his ultimate prize: a united Ireland."
2. And Geoffrey Roberts, eds. Ireland and the Second World War: Politics, Society and Remembrance. Dublin: Four Courts, 2000.
From publisher: "This volume of essays ... explores the Irish contribution to the Allied cause, in particular the role and experience of Irish men and women who served in the British armed forces.... The history of Northern Ireland during the war is covered, as are aspects of the post-war historiography of Irish involvement in the Allied struggle."
Hawkins, Richard. "'Bending the Beam': Myth and Reality in the Bombing of Coventry, Belfast and Dublin." Irish Sword 19 (1993-1994): 131-143.
Hull, Mark M.
1. "The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland, 1939-1943." Journal of Military History 66, no. 3 (Jul. 2002): 695-718.
From abstract: This article focuses on the efforts of the Abwehr and the SD "to use neutral Ireland as a base for wartime espionage directed against Great Britain. Though eleven agents were dispatched during a four-year period, a host of home-grown problems in the German system all but insured failure, and a brilliantly effective Irish army counterintelligence system mathematically eliminated any chance of German success. Because of the intelligence debacle in Ireland, German operations directed against England--including Operation Sea Lion--were hopelessly compromised."
2. Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939-1945. Dublin/Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003.
According to Kruh, Cryptologia 27.4, the author "graphically tells the little-known history of German military espionage activity in Ireland ... before and during" World War II. This is "a gripping account of the intelligence war and highlights the brilliant, creative success of Irish Military Intelligence in waging a counter-espionage campaign that effectively neutralized the German threat."
Erskine, I&NS 19.4 (Winter 2004), finds that the author "does not seem to be wholly comfortable with some of the fine detail of intelligence." Nevertheless, Hull "has researched his central subject painstakingly," and his work "will undoubtedly become the standard work on German intelligence in the Republic of Ireland."
3. "Werner Unland: The Abwehr's Man in Dublin." Irish Sword 21 (1999): 336-344.
Kennedy, Michael.
1. Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939-1945. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.
From publisher: "Using unique Irish military sources and newly available British and American material," this work tells the history of World War II "as it happened locally along the coast of Ireland and at national and international levels in Dublin, London, Berlin and Washington." The study details "the secret relationship between Irish military and diplomats and British Admiralty Intelligence, showing how coast watching service reports were passed on to the RAF and Royal Navy Britain in the hunt for German u-boats and aircraft in the Atlantic."
2. "'Men that Came in with the Sea': The Coast Watching Service and the Sinking of the Arandora Star." History Ireland 16, no. 3 (May/Jun. 2008): 26-29.
McMahon, Paul. British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2008.
O'Halpin, I&NS 23.5/fn.15 (Oct. 2008), says that this work "provides an admirably researched survey of Anglo-Irish and Belfast/London security relations up to 1945." In Dublin Review of Books 8 (Winter 2008-09), O'Halpin notes that his "conclusion on finishing this excellent study is that the most striking gap in British intelligence on Ireland, from the early twentieth century to the present day, is not on the republican movement or the Irish state, but on Ulster loyalism." For Deirdre McMahon, Irish Times, 23 Aug. 2008 [http://www.irishtimes.com], the author "writes lucidly and sensibly on a subject that often attracts fevered treatment, and he makes excellent use of recently released intelligence material in both Irish and British archives."
O'Donoghue, David. Hitler's Irish Voices: The Story of German Radio's Wartime Irish Service. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 1998.
From publisher: "From December 1939 to May 1945, German Radio broadcast Nazi propaganda to neutral Ireland." It was "a nightly bi-lingual service in Irish and English." The man behind the broadcasts was Dr. Adolf Mahr, former director of the Irish National Museum, who had "returned to Berlin at the start of war and spent the war years running the Irish desk at the German Foreign Office, as well as creating German Radio's Irish service, known as Irland-Redaktion."
See Gerry Mullins, Dublin Nazi No. 1: The Life of Adolf Mahr (Dublin: Liberties Press, 2007).
O'Donoghue, David. "Neutral Ireland's Secret War." Sunday Business Post, 31 Dec. 2006. [From friend in Ireland]
With the outbreak of war, the 50-strong Nazi group that had existed in pre-war Ireland approached Eamon de Valera "to seek safe passage through Britain to reach home." He "was only too happy to oblige, getting Westminster's permission for their return home." They "sailed aboard the mail boat Cambria … on September 11, 1939, and eventually made it across the channel. But their departure left a serious intelligence gap for the Nazis in neutral Ireland, one they would try to fill by dispatching no fewer than 12 agents here in the 1939-to-1943 period."
O'Drisceoil, Donal.
1. Censorship in Ireland, 1939-1945: Neutrality, Politics and Society. Cork: Cork University Press, 1996.
Clark comment: The Controller of Censorship was under the Army Chief of Staff (Intelligence) and worked with both Military Intelligence and the Security Section of the National Police Force of Ireland. The files for 1939-1945 are held by the Defence Forces' Military Archives Branch, Dublin.
2. "Censorship as Propaganda: The Neutralisation of Irish Public Opinion during the Second World War." In Ireland and the Second World War: Politics, Society and Remembrance, eds. Brian Girvin and Geoffrey Roberts, 151-164. Dublin: Four Courts, 2000.
3. "'Moral neutrality': Censorship in Emergency Ireland." History Ireland 4, no. 2 (1996): 46-50.
O'Halpin, Eunan [numerous publications].
Quigley, Martin S. A U.S. Spy in Ireland. Dublin: Marino, 1999.
From back cover: The author was sent undercover to Ireland by OSS in 1943. He expresses the view that the Irish government, rather than being pro-German, as has sometimes been portrayed, instead tacitly supported the Allies, while maintaining a semblance of neutrality.
Stephan, Enno. Geheimauftrag Irland. Deutsche Agenten im irischen Untergrundkampf 1939-1945. Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling Verlag, 1961. Spies in Ireland. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1965.
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