During the twentieth century, Ireland, north and south, was infiltrated to varying degrees by a transnational quasi-religious and political movement, Moral Re-Armament (M.R.A.). From its founding in the early 1920s by an American evangelist and former Lutheran pastor, Frank Buchman, through the peak of moral revivalism in the 1930s, its Cold War work after 1945 and its reinvention as a secular, multi-faith, reconciliation organisation in the 1960s, this article examines M.R.A.'s structural and ideological origins and its evolution in Ireland, the U.S. and Britain. Based on primary source materials, it argues that Ireland, characterised by two ideologically narrow cultural and political monoliths, was not immune to external spiritual and quasi-political influences and that M.R.A.'s activities in Ireland confirm these distinctive religious and political cultures while also revealing similarities. Moreover, it reveals that non-governmental M.R.A. adherents were in advance of governments in their desire for peaceful solutions to the Irish partition issue and the Cold War more generally. The article, therefore, examines an international movement which had personal, national and global significance within the context of transnational religious, political and foreign policy studies as well as the national narratives of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

在 20 世纪，北爱尔兰和南爱尔兰都不同程度地被跨国准宗教和政治运动——道德重整军备（MRA）所渗透。从 1920 年代初由一位美国福音传教士和前路德教会牧师弗兰克·布赫曼创立，到 1930 年代道德复兴主义的顶峰，到 1945 年之后的冷战工作，以及在美国重新塑造成一个世俗的、多信仰的和解组织1960 年代，本文探讨了 MRA 的结构和意识形态起源及其在爱尔兰、美国和英国的演变。基于原始资料，它认为爱尔兰以两种意识形态狭隘的文化和政治巨石为特征，不能免受外部精神和准政治影响，而且 MRA' 他在爱尔兰的活动证实了这些独特的宗教和政治文化，同时也揭示了相似之处。此外，它还揭示了非政府互助协议的拥护者在和平解决爱尔兰分治问题和更普遍的冷战的愿望方面领先于政府。因此，本文在跨国宗教、政治和外交政策研究以及北爱尔兰和爱尔兰的民族叙事背景下，考察了一场具有个人、国家和全球意义的国际运动。