Our window on the world
The book, which runs to over 600 pages, is unlikely to get the general publicity it deserves, because it does not provide a continuous story. Yet it does offer some fascinating insights into Ireland’s involvement in the troubled international scene.
Frank Aiken was sent to the United States to purchase arms, basically so that Ireland could defend itself against either a British or a German invasion. All the Congressmen that Aiken met indicated that if Britain invaded Ireland it would be greatly resented by Irish-Americans. President Franklin Roosevelt ridiculed the idea that Churchill would ever invade Ireland.
