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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.
Centenary of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 1920
Sunday, 28 June 2020To mark the centenary of the 1920 Connaught Rangers Mutiny, John Gibney of DIFP and Kate O'Malley of DIB both took part in a recent History Ireland Hedge School podcast.
The second funeral of James Daly, Connaught Rangers’ mutineer, 1 November 1970
Friday, 26 June 2020To mark the centenary of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny of 28 June 1920, read this account by DIFP's John Gibney of how the remains of the only soldier executed for his role in the mutiny were returned to Ireland from...
How Ireland dealt with the aftermath of the Second World War
Thursday, 28 May 2020Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Vol. VIII, 1945-1948, now freely available online, reveals how the Irish state dealt with the aftermath of the Second World War
An illustrated history of Irish foreign policy?
Thursday, 21 May 2020John Gibney of the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign policy project on the importance of images in 'Ireland: a voice among the nations'.