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DIFP XI covers five critical years in Irish foreign policy when, at the height of the Cold War, Ireland played a central role between East and West at the United Nations General Assembly on issues ranging from nuclear disarmament to apartheid to the admission of Communist China. Significantly, it also covers the years that Irish Defence Forces personnel first participated in peacekeeping missions with the United Nations. The volume pays particular attention to the reaction of Iveagh House to UN operations in Congo's Katanga province and includes documents on the Niemba Ambush (November 1960), and the fighting at Jadotville and Elisabethville (September 1961). A constant theme through the volume is European integration and the volume includes the high-level diplomacy surrounding Ireland first application for membership of the European Economic Community in 1961. Using original declassified documents from the Department of Foreign Affairs' archive, the volume pieces together as no other source can, the secret top-level decision making by Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken, Taoiseach Sen Lemass and Irish diplomats, including household names Conor Cruise O'Brien and Ireland's Ambassador to the UN Frederick Boland that saw 1960s Ireland play a central role on the world stage.

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Histoire

Diplomacy

Ireland

International relations

Stephen Ireland

Diplomatie (homonymie)

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Publié par	Royal Irish Academy
Date de parution	13 novembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908997906
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	12 Mo

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Acadamh R oga na h ireann An Chartlann N isi nta An Roinn Gn tha Eachtracha agus Tr d la

C ip is ar Pholasa Eachtrach na h ireann
Imleabhar XI
1957 ~ 1961
E AGARTH IR Michael Kennedy Dermot Keogh Eunan O Halpin Kate O Malley Bernadette Whelan
Royal Irish Academy National Archives Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Volume XI
1957 ~ 1961
E DITORS Michael Kennedy Dermot Keogh Eunan O Halpin Kate O Malley Bernadette Whelan
First published in 2018 by Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson Street Dublin, Ireland
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A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-908997-88-3 (HB) ISBN: 978-1-908997-89-0 (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-908997-90-6 (epub) ISBN: 978-1-908997-91-3 (mobi)
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Design by Jan de Fouw Typeset by Carole Lynch Printed by W&G Baird Copy-edited by Brendan O Brien Indexed by Julitta Clancy
Contents
Editors and Editorial Advisory Board
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
List of archival sources
Biographical details
List of documents reproduced
Documents
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
Appendices
1 Months of the year in Irish and English
2 Glossary of Irish words and phrases
3 List of Irish missions abroad: 1957-1961
4 Calendars for the years 1957 to 1961
Editors
Dr Michael Kennedy (Executive Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy)
Professor Dermot Keogh MRIA (Professor Emeritus of History, University College Cork)
Professor Eunan O Halpin MRIA (Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Kate O Malley (Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy)
Professor Bernadette Whelan MRIA (Professor Emerita, University of Limerick)
Editorial Advisory Board
(In addition to the Editors)
Ms Fiona Flood (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (since 2016)
Ms Laura Mahoney (Executive Secretary, Royal Irish Academy) (to 2018)
Mr John McDonough (Director, National Archives of Ireland) (since 2017)
In memoriam Ronan Fanning (1941-2017)
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 TSCH/3/S Department of the Taoiseach, S series files, National Archives, Dublin EEC European Economic Community EFTA European Free Trade Association FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation ILO International Labour Organisation IMF International Monetary Fund IRA Irish Republican Army MP Member of Parliament (UK) NAI National Archives, Dublin NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation OEEC Organisation for European Economic Co-operation ONUC Organisation des Nations Unies au Congo TD Teachta D la (Member of D il ireann) UCDA University College Dublin, Archives Department UNESCO United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation UNOGIL United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
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 and Trade 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. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 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 then Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr Ted Barrington, then the Political Director of the Department, 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 then 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 venture when Council approved its foundation document on 3 April 1995.
The main provisions of that document are:
that the basic aim of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy ( DIFP ) 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 DIFP 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 DIFP 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-today running of DIFP . At the meeting of December 2003 of the DIFP Editorial Advisory Board the important contribution of the National Archives to DIFP was officially recognised and the National Archives formally became a full partner to DIFP . Accordingly, Ms Catriona Crowe, Senior Archivist at the National Archives, who had attended meetings of the editors since June 1997 was formally appointed an editor of the DIFP series. Having joined DIFP in 2005, Dr Kate O Malley was appointed Assistant Editor in 2008 and has been an editor of the DIFP series since 2014. Professor Ronan Fanning stepped down as an editor in 2016, as did Ms Catriona Crowe on her retirement from the National Archives in the same year. In 2017 Professor Bernadette Whelan MRIA became an editor of DIFP following her nomination and approval by Council of the Royal Irish Academy.
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 XI being published in November 2018.

1 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 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 I for further details).
Introduction
This eleventh volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy ( DIFP ) series covers the four years and six months from April 1957 to October 1961. It encompasses two Fianna F il administrations: the April 1957 to June 1959 government of amon de Valera, his final term as Taoiseach, and the first government of Se n Lemass, which ran from June 1959 to October 1961.
The volume concentrates largely, though not exclusively, on two major themes in post-war Irish foreign policy: an active and independent-minded engagement with the United Nations (UN) and the quest for membership of the European Economic Community (EEC). The British-Irish relationship, traditionally the central theme of Irish foreign policy and always its most important long-term focus, was, despite the ongoing Irish Republican Army (IRA) Border Campaign , somewhat eclipsed by engagement with the UN and the EEC as the 1950s gave way to the 1960s. A gradual warming in relations between Dublin and London commenced following Lemass appointment as Taoiseach in June 1959. British-Irish economic relations and London s intentions regarding EEC membership provided a significant strategic dimension to Dublin s considerations behind Ireland s 1961 application for membership of the EEC.
A consistent figure through DIFP XI is the Minister for External Affairs, Frank Aiken. April 1957 saw Aiken return to Iveagh House to begin an unbroken 12-year tenure as foreign minister. Mirroring amon de Valera s e