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Description of  Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe: Combatting Hunger from Normandy to Tirana, 1945 1950

Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. that Ireland donated to continental Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, and zones of occupied Germany. Read more