Informative account of Ireland during WWII

Ireland During the Second World War: Farewell to Plato's Cave

**By** Bryce Evans

**Manchester University Press,** €88.20

**Reviewed by** Dermot Bolger

I live opposite a public park, bisected by the River Tolka. Strolling through the park you can still just about discern the amputated stumps of steel tram tracks protruding out two inches from the raised river bank. Fewer people recall that these bars once protruded half-way across the river.

Their purpose was ...