Review
'That rare creature - an academically impeccable book that is also not just readable but positively inviting.' -- Books Ireland, May 1998
From the Back Cover
From December 1939 to May 1945, German Radio broadcast Nazi propaganda to neutral Ireland. From small beginnings featuring a weekly talk in Irish, the broadcasts from Berlin grew into a nightly bi-lingual service in Irish and English. The man behind the plan to target Irish listeners - as well as Irish groups in America and Australia - was Dr Adolf Mahr, the Austrian-born director of the National Museum in Dublin. A member of the Nazi Party, he was promoted to the top museum job in 1934. He returned to Berlin at the start of war and spent the war years running the Irish desk at the German Foreign Office, as well as creating German Radio's Irish service, known as Irland-Redaktion. Hitler's Irish Voices tells the story of Mahr and the rest of his crew who worked for Irland-Redaktion. It traces their backgrounds, the various paths that led them to wartime Berlin, and tells what became of them after the war. The book examines in detail the reasons for the establishment of the radio service, what it broadcast, and who listened to it. This incredible story - based on detailed research in Germany, Ireland and Britain - uncovers for the first time one of the most sensitive issues relating to Irish-German relations in the Second World War.
