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The sixth volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy delivers a fascinating account of neutral Ireland during the war years. Volume VI demonstrates in gripping detail how Irish diplomats maintained neutrality despite Prime Minister Winston Churchill's attempt to lure Ireland to join the war in winter 1939. It sheds light on the security crisis of 1940, when both a Nazi and a British invasion were feared. Volume VI publishes, for the first time, complete transcripts of the British-Irish defence co-operation talks that took place in late May 1940. It includes full reports from Irish diplomats abroad on the progress of the war in Europe and deals with areas as vast as the Russo-Finnish Winter War, the invasion and fall of France, the invasion of Norway, Churchill's rise to power, the Blitz, daily life in Berlin during war and the Luftwaffe attacks on Ireland. It reveals, in material hitherto unseen, the increasingly complex and highly charged nature of wartime British-Irish relations. The volume is the most comprehensive account ever published of Ireland's foreign policy during the first years of the so-called 'Emergency'.

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Diplomacy

Ireland

International relations

Stephen Ireland

Diplomatie (homonymie)

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Publié par	Royal Irish Academy
Date de parution	26 novembre 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908997364
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	7 Mo

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Acadamh R oga na h ireann An Chartlann N isi nta An Roinn Gn tha Eachtracha

C ip is ar Pholasa Eachtrach na h ireann
Imleabhar VI
1939 ~ 1941
E AGARTH IR Catriona Crowe Ronan Fanning Michael Kennedy Dermot Keogh Eunan O Halpin
Royal Irish Academy National Archives Department of Foreign Affairs

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Volume VI
1939 ~ 1941
E DITORS Catriona Crowe Ronan Fanning Michael Kennedy Dermot Keogh Eunan O Halpin
First e-published in 2017 by Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson Street Dublin, Ireland
All rights reserved
A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-908997-36-4 EAN 9781904890515
Publishing consultants Institute of Public Administration, Dublin
Design by Jan de Fouw Typeset by Carole Lynch Printed by ColourBooks, Dublin
Contents
Editors and Editorial Advisory Board
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
List of archival sources
Biographical details
List of documents reproduced
Documents
1939
1940
1941
Appendices
1 Destruction of files and documents dating from 1938 to 1940 by the Department of External Affairs, 25 May 1940

2 Months of the year in Irish and English

3 Glossary of Irish words and phrases

4 List of Irish missions abroad 1939-1941

5 Calendars for years 1939, 1940, 1941
Editors
Ms Catriona Crowe (Senior Archivist, National Archives)
Professor Ronan Fanning MRIA (Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University College Dublin)
Dr Michael Kennedy (Executive Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Series, Royal Irish Academy)
Professor Dermot Keogh MRIA (Professor of History, University College Cork)
Professor Eunan O Halpin MRIA (Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin)
Assistant Editor Dr Kate O Malley (Royal Irish Academy)
Editorial Advisory Board
(In addition to the Editors)
Mr Patrick Buckley (Royal Irish Academy)
Ms Julie Connell (Department of Foreign Affairs) (from August 2007)
Mr Ciaran Madden (Department of Foreign Affairs) (from August 2007)
Mr Tony McCullagh (Department of Foreign Affairs) (from August 2006to August 2007)
Ms Jean McManus (Department of Foreign Affairs) (from August 2007)
Mr Adrian O Neill (Department of Foreign Affairs) (from September 2005to August 2007)
Mr Charles Sheehan (Department of Foreign Affairs) (from August 2006to August 2007)
Ms Maureen Sweeney (Department of Foreign Affairs)
Abbreviations
The following is a list of the most commonly used abbreviated terms and phrases in the volume, covering both documents and editorial matter. Other abbreviations have been spelt out in the text. DFA Department of Foreign Affairs collection, National Archives, Dublin DTS Department of the Taoiseach, S series files, National Archives, Dublin NAI National Archives, Dublin TD Teachta D la (Member of D il ireann) TNA The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), Kew, London UCDA University College Dublin, Archives Department
Preface
The National Archives Act, 1986, provides for the transfer of departmental records more than thirty years old to the National Archives of Ireland for inspection by the public, unless they are certified to be in regular use by a Department for administrative purposes, or unless they are certified as withheld from public inspection on one of the grounds specified in the Act. The bulk of the material consulted for this volume comes from the records of the Department of Foreign Affairs (previously the Department of External Affairs) and the Department of the Taoiseach, all of which are available for inspection at the National Archives of Ireland at Bishop Street in Dublin. Other material comes from the holdings of the University College Dublin Archives Department and The National Archives, Kew, London. The Department of Foreign Affairs documents in the National Archives of Ireland have been made available to researchers since January 1991. 1
The concept of a multi-volume series of documents on Irish foreign policy was put forward in 1994 by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr Ted Barrington, then the Political Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs, brought the proposal to a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy s National Committee for the Study of International Affairs of which he was then a member. The then T naiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Dick Spring, sanctioned the proposal, which was also welcomed by the Director of the National Archives of Ireland, Dr David Craig, whose permission was necessary for the publication of material in his care. The Royal Irish Academy agreed to become a partner in the project when Council approved its foundation document on 3 April 1995.
The main provisions of that document are:
that the project's basic aim is to make available, in an organised and accessible way, to people who may not be in a position easily to consult the National Archives, documents from the files of the Department which are considered important or useful for an understanding of Irish foreign policy ;
that an Editorial Advisory Board, comprising representatives of the Department, of the Academy and of the National Archives, in addition to senior Irish academics working in the fields of modern history and international relations, would oversee decisions on publication;
that the series would begin at the foundation of the State and publish volumes in chronological order and that the basic criterion for the selection of documents would be their use or importance in understanding the evolution of policies and decisions .
These arrangements found public expression in the 1996 White Paper on foreign policy, Challenges and Opportunities Abroad (16.48), which provided that-

As part of the Government s desire to encourage a greater interest in Irish foreign policy, it has been agreed that the Department of Foreign Affairs, in association with the Royal Irish Academy, will publish a series of foreign policy documents of historic interest. It is hoped that this initiative will encourage and assist greater academic interest in the study of Irish foreign policy.
Provision for the project was first included in the Department s Estimates for 1997 and a preliminary meeting of what became the Editorial Advisory Board, in Iveagh House on 10 April 1997, agreed that an assistant editor should be appointed in addition to the editors nominated by the National Committee for the Study of International Affairs: Professors Ronan Fanning, MRIA, Dermot Keogh MRIA and Eunan O Halpin MRIA. Dr Michael Kennedy was appointed in June 1997 when work began on the selection of documents. Dr Kennedy was in January 1998 designated as executive editor, and is responsible for the direction and day-to-day running of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) project. At the meeting of December 2003 of the DIFP Editorial Advisory Board the important contribution of the National Archives to the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project was officially recognised and the National Archives formally became a full partner to the DIFP project. Accordingly, Ms Catriona Crowe, Senior Archivist at the National Archives, who had attended meetings of the editors since June 1997 and who was de facto a fifth editor of DIFP, was formally appointed an editor of the DIFP series.
The first volume, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy I , covering the period 1919 to 1922, was published in November 1998 in the run-up to the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Foreign Affairs in January 1919. Subsequent volumes have been published at two-yearly intervals with volume VI being published in November 2008.

1 The Department of Foreign Affairs was known as the Department of External Affairs from December 1922 to 1971. From January 1919 to December 1922 the Department was known as the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (see DIFP Volume I for further details).
Introduction
This volume of selected documents, the sixth in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series, runs from September 1939 to January 1941. Commencing as war began in Europe, it covers seventeen months of grave crisis for Irish foreign policy makers, months in which an invasion of Ireland by either belligerent became a real possibility. Neutrality, hitherto aspirational, had to be implemented in practice. Ireland did not wish to be dragged unwillingly into war.
The execution of foreign policy in Dublin, particularly during the war years, was the product of the close working relationship between a small group of senior officials in the Department of External Affairs: Secretary of the Department, Joseph Walshe; Assistant Secretary, Frederick H. Boland; Legal Adviser, Michael Rynne and Private Secretary to Walshe and custodian of the Department s secret archives, Sheila Murphy. Under the political direction of the Taoiseach and Minister for External Affairs, Eamon de Valera, the four led Ireland s diplomatic service through the war. The Department of External Affairs sought to protect Ireland s sovereignty by emphasising the state s neutrality to the belligerent powers. Missions abroad - in particular those in London, Berlin, Washington and Ottawa - were central to this process. While Irish diplomats in these capitals were required to report on the events unfolding around them, their primary duty was to protect Ireland s national interests - in short, to protect Ireland s international sovereignty as expressed by neutrality. Preventing invasion, preserving neutrality and independence in wartime, became the overriding theme of Irish foreign policy in September 1939 and would remain so until May 1945.
The choice of documents for DIFP VI was challenging for the series editors. Research in 2005 and 2006 for DIFP V had for the first time shown the full extent of the May 1940 destruction of the records of the Department of External Affairs. The editors knew that many essential records central to the expl