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Accidents, Americana, and Automobility: 1950s Irish Car Culture

The immediate postwar period represents something of a paradox to contemporary historians. J. J. Lee, following the tradition of his peers, uses the term “malaise” to describe postwar Ireland. Henry Patterson wrote that “Ireland’s postwar history contrasts with that of most Western European states, where the war proved to be a watershed in social, economic, and political terms. Neutrality and the isolation of the war years had served to consolidate a conservative nationalism based on protectionism, a strong Catholic moral community, and an irredentism in relation to Northern Ireland.” These views correlated with the recollections of powerful contemporaries who lived through the era, including the Irish minister for finance Frank Aiken. Aiken painted a particularly bleak image of Ireland’s prospects in the postwar era when he complained that Ireland was “a small country [with] a small population which is dwindling and limited national resources. . . . Our economic position was relatively stagnant for a long period before the war. It has not since improved.” The fact that in the decade proceeding 1951 approximately 412,000 people emigrated from the country in search of better opportunities only provides further verification for these views. Among others, Mary E. Daly has argued that such judgment fails to recognize the psychological shift that occurred during the Second