Echobeat (29 page)
Authors: Joe Joyce
This is a work of fiction set against a background of real events although some liberties have been taken with the timeline of those events, like the sequence of German bombings of Ireland during the first three days of 1941. All the documents and newspaper reports quoted are genuine but the main characters are all fictional and their knowledge of these are not necessarily representative of what anyone in Ireland knew at the time.
Once again, I'm indebted to a number of people for their advice about military matters and comments on the first draft, notably Maurice Byrne. I have also relied on the series of documents about Irish foreign policy during the Second World War published by the Royal Irish Academy to get a flavour of the political and diplomatic issues of the time.
Special thanks to my editor Dan Bolger for his support and insightful comments and to all at Liberties Press.
First published in 2014 by
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