Bernadette Whelan is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is the author of publications including Ireland and the Marshall Plan, 1947-57 (2000), American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the US Consular Service (2010) and joint editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, xi (2018).

• Part I. Soft Diplomacy and the Diplomat: 1. Introduction; 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Éamon de Valera and the foreign policy world; 3. The US diplomat's life in Ireland; 4. The Irish diplomat's life in the US; Part II. New Regimes Settle in: 5. Transatlantic migrant tide; 6. De Valera's Ireland; 7. Roosevelt's America; 8. Common worlds, 1939; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1. List of Irish officials in the US; Appendix 2. List of US officials in Ireland.

'This is a terrific book. Professor Whelan explains a formative decade in US-Irish diplomatic relations that has been largely ignored, despite the shattering international events of the 1930s. She gives a brilliant inside look at the personalities and skills of diplomats at work. Highly recommended.' Francis M. Carroll, University of Manitoba