Book review: The thread of neutrality between US and Irish diplomats in the 1930s

The author, Bernadette Whelan, is professor emeritus in history at the University of Limerick, and no stranger to Irish foreign policy

Éamon de Valera making a radio broadcast to America as part of the ‘Salute Of The Nations’ programme on January 9, 1939. Picture: Keystone/Getty Images

• De Valera and Roosevelt - Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932 - 1939
• Bernadette Whelan 
• Cambridge University Press
• £75.00