Mervyn O’Driscoll
Biographic Data
| ID | 5825002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mervyn O’Driscoll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mervyn |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Driscoll |
| SIGNATURE | O’DRISCOLL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3160-4849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A real bell ringer in international politics’
“It’s the economy, stupid”
Ireland was Europeanised as part of a pragmatic top-down policy of modernisation. The national bargain with regional integration was built on soft Europeanism and rudimentary knowledge about the “ever closer union”. By the 21st century the vir‐ tuous Irish-EU narrative was weakening. Multiple domestic factors contributed. They included political fragmentation, affluence, and constitutional constrictions on the government’s conduct during referend…
Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949– 73
West Germany played a pivotal role in encouraging the Republic of Ireland's adaptation to a 'European' path. This book contends that Ireland recognised that the post- war German economic miracle offered trade openings. It analyses approximately 25 years of Irish-West German affairs, allowing a measured examination of the fluctuating relationship, and terminates in 1973, when Ireland joined the European Communities (EC). The general historical lit…
A ‘German Invasion’? Irish Rural Radicalism, European Integration, and Irish Modernisation, 1958–73
Land hunger was a pervasive feature of Irish rural society which had not disappeared with the attainment of national independence. Rural agitation for land redistribution was conducted by many small indigenous farmers and it acquired an extraordinary anti-German tone after 1960. This was partially fuelled by a wave of international media speculation about Ireland as a base for Nazis eluding justice, but it was also driven by the notable success o…
Explosive Challenge
France's first nuclear tests in Algeria in 1960 occurred at a critical moment in the Cold War. The United States, Great Britain, and the USSR had suspended their tests in 1958 and had been holding test ban talks in Geneva. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced a vociferous anti-nuclear movement at home and wanted to foster East-West détente. The U.S. State Department wished to prevent Soviet propaganda in the Third World, including the ne…
Britain's Policy Towards the European Community
Britain's doomed second application to enter the EEC in 1967 has received far less attention than the original application of 1961. This situation is impressively rectified by Dr. Helen Parr who ha
To Bring Light Unto the Germans
Missing the nuclear boat? British policy and French military nuclear ambitions during the Euratom foundation negotiations, 1955–56
This paper examines the neglected nuclear dimension of the ‘relaunch’ of Europe at Messina. France favoured British membership of EURATOM and some interests in Britain saw the commercial and diplomatic advantages of Britain's leadership of the European nuclear industry. However, the possibility of a French military nuclear programme and European nuclear proliferation compounded Britain's established reluctance either to participate in European in…
Irish‐German relations 1929–39
Explosive Challenge
France's first nuclear tests in Algeria in 1960 occurred at a critical moment in the Cold War. The United States, Great Britain, and the USSR had suspended their tests in 1958 and had been holding test ban talks in Geneva. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced a vociferous anti-nuclear movement at home and wanted to foster East-West détente. The U.S. State Department wished to prevent Soviet propaganda in the Third World, including the ne…
Missing the nuclear boat? British policy and French military nuclear ambitions during the Euratom foundation negotiations, 1955–56
This paper examines the neglected nuclear dimension of the ‘relaunch’ of Europe at Messina. France favoured British membership of EURATOM and some interests in Britain saw the commercial and diplomatic advantages of Britain's leadership of the European nuclear industry. However, the possibility of a French military nuclear programme and European nuclear proliferation compounded Britain's established reluctance either to participate in European in…
Irish‐German relations 1929–39
Missing the nuclear boat? British policy and French military nuclear ambitions during the Euratom foundation negotiations, 1955–56
This paper examines the neglected nuclear dimension of the ‘relaunch’ of Europe at Messina. France favoured British membership of EURATOM and some interests in Britain saw the commercial and diplomatic advantages of Britain's leadership of the European nuclear industry. However, the possibility of a French military nuclear programme and European nuclear proliferation compounded Britain's established reluctance either to participate in European in…
To Bring Light Unto the Germans
Explosive Challenge
France's first nuclear tests in Algeria in 1960 occurred at a critical moment in the Cold War. The United States, Great Britain, and the USSR had suspended their tests in 1958 and had been holding test ban talks in Geneva. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced a vociferous anti-nuclear movement at home and wanted to foster East-West détente. The U.S. State Department wished to prevent Soviet propaganda in the Third World, including the ne…
Britain's Policy Towards the European Community
Britain's doomed second application to enter the EEC in 1967 has received far less attention than the original application of 1961. This situation is impressively rectified by Dr. Helen Parr who ha
A ‘German Invasion’? Irish Rural Radicalism, European Integration, and Irish Modernisation, 1958–73
Land hunger was a pervasive feature of Irish rural society which had not disappeared with the attainment of national independence. Rural agitation for land redistribution was conducted by many small indigenous farmers and it acquired an extraordinary anti-German tone after 1960. This was partially fuelled by a wave of international media speculation about Ireland as a base for Nazis eluding justice, but it was also driven by the notable success o…
Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949– 73
West Germany played a pivotal role in encouraging the Republic of Ireland's adaptation to a 'European' path. This book contends that Ireland recognised that the post- war German economic miracle offered trade openings. It analyses approximately 25 years of Irish-West German affairs, allowing a measured examination of the fluctuating relationship, and terminates in 1973, when Ireland joined the European Communities (EC). The general historical lit…
“It’s the economy, stupid”
Ireland was Europeanised as part of a pragmatic top-down policy of modernisation. The national bargain with regional integration was built on soft Europeanism and rudimentary knowledge about the “ever closer union”. By the 21st century the vir‐ tuous Irish-EU narrative was weakening. Multiple domestic factors contributed. They included political fragmentation, affluence, and constitutional constrictions on the government’s conduct during referend…
A real bell ringer in international politics’
Political science (8 works) · Economic history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Irish (5 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Economy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)