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DIFP is now in a ‘research year’ for DIFP volume X. This volume will run from 1951 to 1957 and so take in the 1951-4 Fianna Fáil government with Frank Aiken in his first term as Minister and the 1954-7 Second Inter-Party Government when Liam...
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On 1 December Kate gave a talk to the members of the Chester Beatty Library.
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Our October exhibtion co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Irish-Japanese relations and Taoiseach Jack Lynch's visit to Japan in 1968.
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Join us on 4 October to learn more about our research projects, library and publications
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DIFP IX really began to take shape through February as the typescript of the first hundred or so documents in the volume came in. Kate and Michael checked these against the originals and the editing process kicked-in in earnest. Each day we read through the...
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The latest instalment of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, covering 1957-1961, has just been published.
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Patrick Geoghegan interviews John Gibney, Micheal Kennedy and Kate O'Malley this Sunday, 26 April.
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Michael Kennedy of DIFP assisted Director Richie Smith build up the characters of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O’Brien.
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At midnight on 17 April 1949 Ireland officially became a republic, and it is often forgotten that enormous crowds came out to celebrate the occasion.
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The 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 primary, second level and third level students on the...
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In preparation for work on DIFP X, which will run from 1951 to 1957, Kate and Michael reviewed Cabinet minutes for the period and began to set the forthcoming research year for the volume in motion.
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DIFP on Talking History
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Read an extract from our new centenary history of Irish foreign policy, Ireland: a voice among the nations .
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If you missed our first Research Open Day, you can watch it back now
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The major event for the project this month was the selection of 835 documents that have become the core of DIFP IX. Over the coming months these documents will be typed up and Kate and Michael will check, edit and footnote them. Some will be...
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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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We recently placed DIFP Vol. VIII, covering the immediate postwar years (1945-48), online on an open access basis. We've also put together a short guide to some complementary online resources.
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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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The 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.
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On 5 November we received the first copies of DIFP IX and through the month we set in place and rolled out a major publicity campaign on the new volume.
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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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Sean O'Rourke interviews Dr John Gibney on our latest book Ireland: a voice among the nations
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The latest volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy covers 1965 to 1969 and is out now. Here is some of the advance coverage exploring its contents.
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On 27 September 2015 the UN60 exhibition was officially launched by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Mr Charles Flanagan TD at the American Irish Historical Society, 5th Avenue, New York.
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