Ireland’s post-war humanitarian aid to Europe, 1945-1950: Catholic networking, remembrance and missionary tradition in action

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dc.contributor.authoraan de Wiel, Jérômeen
dc.contributor.editorMaclennan, Alexandraen
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-08T09:39:20Z
dc.date.available2023-11-08T09:39:20Z
dc.date.issued2022-12en
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explores Catholic Ireland’s aid to devastated post- war Europe between 1945 and 1950, an event quasi unknown in Ireland or continental Europe today. And yet, masses of unearthed archives show that Irish humanitarian aid extended from Normandy all the way to the streets of Tirana and the Greek islands. The memory of the Great Irish Famine of 1845 (the 100th anniversary was in 1945) played a role in the country’s collective response to the post- war catastrophe. The chapter throws light on the efforts of the Irish Catholic Church in organizing relief operations, using a transnational Catholic network in Europe and the United States. Relations between the Irish government and the Vatican are explored, notably concerning the government’s cooperation with the International Red Cross located in Protestant Geneva. There was relief competition between denominations in post- war Europe as some countries wished to return to their Christian roots after the horrors of Nazism and Fascism and were also now facing the Soviet atheistic threat in the emerging Cold War. Some continental clergymen believed that Ireland’s humanitarian aid was a reflection of its missionary efforts in past centuries.en
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dc.identifier.citationaan de Wiel, J. (2022) 'Ireland’s post-war humanitarian aid to Europe, 1945-1950: Catholic networking, remembrance and missionary tradition in action', in Maclennan, A. (ed.) The Irish Catholic Diaspora: Five centuries of global presence. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 181-197.en
dc.identifier.endpage197en
dc.identifier.isbn9781800795174en
dc.identifier.isbn9781800795181en
dc.identifier.isbn9781800795198en
dc.identifier.isbn9781800795167en
dc.identifier.startpage181en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15203
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPeter Langen
dc.relation.ispartofMaclennan, A. (ed.) The Irish Catholic Diaspora: Five centuries of global presence. Oxford: Peter Langen
dc.relation.ispartofReimagining Ireland Vol.118en
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.3726/b18486en
dc.rights© 2022, Peter Lang Group AG. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published in Maclennan, A. (ed.) The Irish Catholic Diaspora: Five centuries of global presence. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18486en
dc.subjectCatholic Irelanden
dc.subjectAiden
dc.subjectPost-war Europeen
dc.titleIreland’s post-war humanitarian aid to Europe, 1945-1950: Catholic networking, remembrance and missionary tradition in actionen
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