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book provides the full text of the history of MI's Irish section BIH, a secret document prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
Declassified only in, the history gives a detailed account of the establishment and work of BIH, including its crucial liaison with Irish army intelligence, In addition to providing much fresh material on German espionage involving Ireland before and during the war, the history casts much new light on the counterintelligence and codebreaking activities of other British secret agencies MI, RSS and GCHQ as they sought to track down and to thwart Axis espionage and subversive operations conducted against Britain through neutral Ireland.
It also provides fresh information about the organisation of British intelligence in both parts of Ireland before and immediately after the war, and it includes frank appraisals of Irish security and counterintelligence methods, personalities and policies.
This book is actually a bound version of a declassified endofwar internal review of MI's operations inside the new Irish Republic betweenand, written by Cecil Liddell, chief of the agency's Irish Section.
While it's better written than many agency afteraction reports, it's still a bureaucratic document, Forget setting, characterization, dialog, any of that: this is a justthefactsma'am effort written by civil servants for other civil servants,

Still, it has an interesting story to tell, The Irish Section came about once the Irish Constitution ofmade thecounties of southern Ireland a sovereign nation in fact as well as spirit, With war on the horizon, German functionaries sniffing around the place, and prickly Irish nationalists wary at best of any further British involvement in their affairs, securocrats on both sides of the Irish Sea decided they needed to find a way to cooperate against common enemies.
Much of the report is spent outlining the intramural turf battles between Britain's MIthe internal Security Service and MIthe outwardfacing Secret Intelligence Service for who would get to spy on Ireland MIwon, as well as the backstage political maneuverings between Britain, Eire, and Northern Ireland still a part of the U.
K. over who would talk to whom about what, That everyone eventually figured out how to play nicely seems a minor miracle,

One of the great sticking points was Irish neutrality, Éamon de Valera, the first Taoiseach prime minister of independent Eire, jealously guarded his nation's sovereignty and had no interest

in throwing in with the British as long as they still occupied the six northern counties.
However, the Eire government also realized that a their nation couldn't defend itself against German meddling or invasion, and b publicly appealing to Britain for protection would cause the IRA to rise up and set Eire aflame.
For their part, the British despite all their public grumbling understood that a neutral Ireland was a more valuable asset than a combatant one, This state of affairs led all the parties involved to devise semicovert ways of cooperating against persistent German attempts to land spies and saboteurs and to aid the IRA.


While the reports mentions some of the more prominent instances of Germaninspired infiltration in Eire, there's no covert daringdo or car chases down Dublin streets, Remember, civil servants wrote this, For that, you'll have to go to one of the many other books about the Emergency, as the Irish call their wartime experience,

You can look at MIand Ireland as an extended Wikipedia entry on the subject, an outline rather than a fullblown story, In that the authors were actually there and actually did this stuff, it's as close to primary sources as you're likely to get at this late date, Set your expectations accordingly and you won't be disappointed, Eunan OHalpin is Bank of Ireland Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, He received his BA and MA from University College Dublin and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Eunan O'Halpin is Bank of Ireland Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, He received his BA and MA from University College Dublin and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, sitelink.