Minister for External Affairs Patrick McGilligan (second from right) at the Irish Legation in Berlin, 1931. 
 

Seán Murphy (right), (Assistant Secretary, Dept. of External Affairs, 1925–38 and Minister to France, (1938– 1950) bids farewell at the Quai d’Orsay.

 Josephine McNeill, Irish Minister to Switzerland and Austria (1956).

[The above photographs come from the National Archives of Ireland ]