Emergency

See also: emergency

English

Proper noun

the Emergency

  1. (historical, Ireland) World War II as experienced in Ireland.
    • 2017, John Gibney, “Two Irelands”, in A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN:
      Indeed, Northern Ireland held a substantial U.S. military presence for much of the war; American soldiers were by no means uncommon on the streets of some Irish towns and cities during the Emergency.
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