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To 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 India in 1970.
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Tuesday 7 October 2014 was the 90th anniversary of the formal commencement of Irish-American diplomatic relations, marking the day in 1924 when Prof Timothy A. Smiddy presented his credentials to President Coolidge in Washington DC.
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DIFP on Talking History
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To mark the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, our latest exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland explores how Ireland saw the start of the conflict.
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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) has been involved in developing the National Archives' forthcoming centenary exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, recently previewed at the British Academy in London
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Over the years DIFP has published some documents relating to Irish commemorations of the dead of the First World War from the 1920s onwards.
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For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an important seventeenth-century document from our collections.
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On 14 July Michael was guest speaker at the Air Corps Airmen’s and Airwomen’s 1916 Commemorative Dinner which was held at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell, Dublin.
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To mark the seventieth anniversary of Ireland becoming a republic, DIFP and UCD Archives have co-curated a new online exhibition on Irish sovereignty from 1919 to 1949.
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To 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.
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We completed the prelims to DIFP IX, checked the index and gave the text of the volume a final once over. By the end of September DIFP IX was almost ready for print.
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Kate was asked by the Scottish 1916 Rising Centenary Committee to be a keynote speaker at an event which looked at the impact that the 1916 Rising had on India.
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The RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) project has been centrally involved in developing the National Archives' forthcoming exhibition marking the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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The Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) website has had a make-over.
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The recent release of the latest in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series received a good deal of attention in the national media; read our round-up of coverage here.
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While working through the archives for what became DIFP Volume XII we came across the photograph pictured above.
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From September 2023 onwards the National Archives, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy and the Department of Foreign Affairs, will present an exhibition, with accompanying book, in Dublin, Laois, Geneva and New York to mark the centenary of Irish membership of the League of Nations
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A production company contacted the DIFP office recently looking for assistance with a project. Their call was nothing out of the ordinary.
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In April 1949 Ireland became a republic and left the Commonwealth. What did the Commonwealth think about it?
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After the Second World War Irish diplomats began to consider new ways of representing Ireland overseas; a conscious commitment to 'cultural diplomacy' was the outcome.
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We finally got the introduction and the prelims and endmatter of DIFP IX completed and off for copyediting in the first weeks of August. It was a very time-consuming period as there were a complicated series of amendments to implement.
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On 26 October Kate also gave a DIFP outreach workshop to Dr Jennifer Redmond’s students at Maynooth University who are studying Ireland and post-war Britain.
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On Monday 6 December 2021 the National Archives' centenary exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives , presented in partnership with the RIA, OPW and NLI, was opened by Taoiseach Michael Martin TD, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD, and Minister for...
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Michael took part in a History Ireland Hedge School and Kate gave the inaugural Spring Lecture for the Global Schoolroom.
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Read an Irish diplomat's accounts of Christmas (and New Year) in the German capital months after the outbreak of the Second World War.
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