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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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John Gibney, Michael Kennedy and Kate O'Malley recently appeared on Newstalk's Talking History to discuss their recent history of Irish foreign policy, Ireland: a voice among the 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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The Trinity Long Room Hub recently hosted a webinar on the latest DIFP volume; listen back to the full recording.
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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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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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Our November exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Irish responses to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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New RIA/DFA exhibition on fifty years of Irish EEC/EU membership launched by Tánaiste Micheál Martin
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The Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) website has had a make-over.
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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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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) now has a dedicated collection in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).
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At the request of DFAT Michael and Kate researched, wrote and curated an exhibition celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of Ireland joining the United Nations (UN).
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Our May exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at the history of Iveagh House, the home of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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The twelfth volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, covering the years 1961 to 1965, is available now.
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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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2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of formal diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan. Over the last year DIFP has been exploring the sixty years since 1957.
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On Wednesday 27 November the RIA's new illustrated history of Irish foreign affairs was launched by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney TD.
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The latest volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series was launched by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin on 21 February 2023.
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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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In conjunction with our colleagues in the National Archives of Ireland we are curating a series of monthly exhibitions on the history of Irish foreign policy in the NAI throughout 2019.
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John Gibney of the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign policy project on the importance of images in 'Ireland: a voice among the nations'.
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Kate was interviewed and appeared in the landmark three-part television series ‘1916 The Irish Rebellion’ which was broadcast on RTÉ in February/March 2016.
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To mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, our June exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at how the Irish government provided meteorological information to Britain and the Allies in the Second World War
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The twelfth volume in the DIFP series is out now, and some of the coverage it has gotten gives a flavour of the contents
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