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St Patrick's Day, Washington DC, 1965
Tuesday, 16 March 2021While working through the archives for what became DIFP Volume XII we came across the photograph pictured above.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume IX (1948–1951) now free to access online
Wednesday, 17 February 2021Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume IX, 1948–1951, originally published in 2014, is now available online in open-access format.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XII (1961-1965) in the news
Thursday, 10 December 2020The twelfth volume in the DIFP series is out now, and some of the coverage it has gotten gives a flavour of the contents

Just published: Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XII, 1961-1965
Thursday, 26 November 2020The twelfth volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, covering the years 1961 to 1965, is available now.

TCD webinar: 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol. XII: 1961-65: An assessment'
Tuesday, 3 November 2020The Trinity Long Room Hub recently hosted a webinar on the latest DIFP volume; listen back to the full recording.

DIFP second-level teaching resource on Ireland and World War Two
Tuesday, 29 September 2020This teaching resource for second-level history, based on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series, uses original documents to explore Ireland's experience of the Second World War; the 'Emergency'.

‘Bad girls’: Irish officialdom and female emigration to Britain after World War Two
Tuesday, 22 September 2020The diplomatic documents published by DIFP often reveal a lot about Ireland's social and cultural history; in this case, some official attitudes towards Irish women emigrating to Britain after the Second World War.

Educational resources for primary, second and third level students
Tuesday, 8 September 2020The Royal Irish Academy has developed teaching material that is of use in the classroom. Designed to be both stimulating to students and integral to the relevant school curriculum, the goal is to motivate and inspire...

‘The Coastwatchers – guarding Ireland’s Second World War frontline’
Wednesday, 12 August 2020Explore the history of Second World War Irish foreign policy for Heritage Week. In this piece, originally published in 2020, Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor of the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series...

'Mobilise the poets': the origins of Irish cultural diplomacy
Monday, 10 August 2020After the Second World War Irish diplomats began to consider new ways of representing Ireland overseas; a conscious commitment to 'cultural diplomacy' was the outcome.