Neither friend nor foe? Irish neutrality in the Second World War [Book Review]

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Reviewed works: Robert Brennan, Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington and Eamon de Valera – A Memoir, ed. Richard H. Rupp (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2002), 182 pp., $20.00 (pb), ISBN 1900621681. / John P. Duggan, Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin, 1937–1945 (Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 328 pp.,$45.00 (hb), ISBN 0716527464. / Mark Hull, Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939–1945 (Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 383 pp., $55.00 (hb), ISBN 0716527561. / MI5 and Ireland, 1939–1945: The Official History, ed. and introduced by Eunan O'Halpin (Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 130 pp.,$55.00 (hb), ISBN 0716527545