Abstract
Ireland’s policy towards Vichy France broadly conformed to prevailing international legal practice among neutrals and Allies, challenging the notion that Irish wartime diplomacy was an anomalous “exception.” Using comparative and legal analysis of recognition policy, it shows that the key to Seán Murphy’s retention as minister in 1944 lay less in some unique Irish dispensation and more in French diplomatic dynamics, particularly the interventions of René Massigli and the internal deliberations of the GPRF.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 73-94 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Études Irlandaises |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Irish neutrality
- Second World War
- France – Ireland relations
- Diplomatic recognition
- Free France / Free French
- International law
- Charles de Gaulle
- Joseph Walshe
- Seán Murphy
- Small states diplomacy
- Irish Commonwealth status
- Government Provisional de la République Française (GPRF) / Provisional Government of the French Republic
- Department of External Affairs (Ireland)
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