Interdisciplinary journal focusing primarily on sociological, political science and historical perspectives on the issue of long-term social processes and trends, modernization, globalization tendency and impacts.
The journal creates a broader platform for researches in the historical social sciences. Epistemological field is not strictly bounded, it is also meant to overlap with civilizationalism, cultural sociology and other related fields.
Historical Sociology is Open Access Journal and all published papers are available in the archive section. Open access journal means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, cooperated with Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.
Reviewed scientific journal issued twice a year (in June and December).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in CEEOL, CEJSH, DOAJ, EBSCO, Emerging Sources Citation Index, ERIH PLUS, OAJI, recensio.net, Scopus, SSOAR, Ulrichsweb.
The journal is archived in Portico.
HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, Vol 7 No 2 (2015), 97–106
Nazis on the State Payroll in 1930s Ireland
David O’Donoghue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2015.14
published online: 17. 12. 2015
abstract
The Austro-German population of Ireland in 1936 was 529. Approximately 25% of the adult male cohort were, or became, members of Hitler’s Nazi Party (NSDAP). A small cadre of senior figures in the party were active in recruiting new members as Nazi Germany’s fortunes rose from 1933 to 1939. Some 32 Germans and Austrians resident in pre-war Ireland have been identified as Nazi Party members, although a small number of these were exchange students rather than full-time residents. This paper examines the six NSDAP members who held senior positions in the Irish public service. As Irish state employees they were in a contradictory position: swearing loyalty to Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich while attempting to hold down important jobs on the Irish state payroll. Dr. David O’Donoghue’s article scrutinises the activities of these six men, as well as explaining how they tried, by varying degrees, to serve two masters. The paper also examines their wartime and post-war lives.
keywords: Germany; Third Reich; Ireland; Nazi party; public service
references (8)
1. Andrews, Christopher S. [2001]. Man of No Property. Dublin: Lilliput Press.
2. Carroll, Joseph T. [1975]. Ireland in the War Years, 1939–1945. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. De Valera, Eamon [1939]. de Valera papers, file no. 953. University College Dublin archives.
3. Duggan, John P. [1985]. Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich. Dublin: Lilliput Press.
4. O'Halpin, Eunan [1999]. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies since 1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Hull, Mark M. [2004]. Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland 1939–1945. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
6. O'Donoghue, David [1998]. Hitler's Irish Voices. Belfast: Beyond The Pale Press.
7. The Irish Times [1939]. 'Fifty Germans leave for Fatherland', 12 September 1939: 7.
8. Turpin, Jennifer [1995]. A School of Art in Dublin since the Eighteenth Century. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
Nazis on the State Payroll in 1930s Ireland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
230 x 157 mm
periodicity: 2 x per year
print price: 120 czk
ISSN: 1804-0616
E-ISSN: 2336-3525
