This website has been created to parallel the launch of ‘Roman imbroglio: Italy and the Irish during World War Two’. The book explores Ireland’s links to Italy in the period 1939-1945—in part using the rich, fascinating material left by the Irish minister to Rome, Michael MacWhite, but also by the Irish minister to the Vatican, TJ Kiernan, and the Italian minister in Dublin, Vincenzo Berardis.

Beyond diplomatic relations, the book relates how the hundreds of Irish citizens in Italy experienced the momentous events of 1939-1945, relying for the most part on primary material sourced in the archives of the main Irish religious orders and institutions in Rome and elsewhere.