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From 1961 to 1965 Irish foreign policy embarked on new directions. Under Taoiseach Sean Lemass Ireland sought membership of the EEC, a process which stalled temporarily in 1963 when French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application for EEC membership and Ireland's application, along with applications of Denmark and Norway, was halted a result. Away from Europe the first half of the 1960s saw Irish diplomats at the United Nations develop Ireland's position as an independent-minded member of the organisation and Ireland took steps to promote nuclear non-proliferation, decolonisation and the effective financing of peacekeeping operations. In 1962 Ireland sat on the Security Council for a temporary term which coincided with the Cuban Missile crisis. Ireland's Defence Forces continued to serve with United Nations peacekeeping missions. With the end of the UN's mandate in the Congo in 1963 Irish soldiers joined the first units of UN peacekeepers deployed to Cyprus with UNFICYP in 1964. DIFP XII covers these major themes, but it also includes significant documents on the June 1963 visit of President John F Kennedy to Ireland, early steps taken to create Ireland's development aid policy and the opening of Irish missions in Nigeria and India. British-Irish relations and North-South relations receive considerable attention as Dublin and London took steps to establish a free trade area in the aftermath of the failure of Britain's EEC entry talks and on the island of Ireland Sen Lemass and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill met to seek common ground between Dublin and Belfast in areas of cross-border co-operation. One area of interest the volume reveals for the first time is the extent to which Sen Lemass controlled the exercise of Ireland's foreign policy, often instructing Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken as to the direction Irish foreign policy should take.

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Histoire

Diplomacy

Ireland

International relations

Stephen Ireland

Diplomatie (homonymie)

History

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Publié par	Royal Irish Academy
Date de parution	23 novembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781911479277
Langue	English
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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 XII
1961 ~ 1965
E AGARTH IR Michael Kennedy Eunan O Halpin Bernadette Whelan
Royal Irish Academy National Archives Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Volume XII
1961 ~ 1965
E DITORS Michael Kennedy Eunan O Halpin Bernadette Whelan
First published in 2020 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: 978-1-911479-25-3 (HB) 978-1-911479-26-0 (pdf) 978-1-911479-27-7 (epub) 978-1-911479-28-4 (mobi)
Publishing consultants Institute of Public Administration
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
1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

Appendices
1 Months of the year in Irish and English
2 Glossary of Irish words and phrases
3 List of Irish missions abroad: 1961-65
4 Calendars for the years 1961 to 1965
5 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1665 (XVI). Prevention of the wider dissemination of nuclear weapons (the Irish Resolution )
Editors
Dr Michael Kennedy (Executive Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy)
Professor Eunan O Halpin MRIA (Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Bernadette Whelan MRIA (Professor Emerita, University of Limerick)
Assistant Editors
Dr John Gibney (Royal Irish Academy)
Dr Eoin Kinsella (Royal Irish Academy) (since 2019)
Dr Kate O'Malley (Royal Irish Academy) (to 2019)
Editorial Advisory Board
(In addition to the Editors and Assistant Editors)
Ms Fiona Flood (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (to 2020) Dr Tony Gaynor (Executive Secretary, Royal Irish Academy) (since 2019) Mr John McDonough (Director, National Archives of Ireland) (to 2019) Mr Tom Quinlan (Keeper, Collection Care and Public Services, National Archives of Ireland) (since 2019) Mr Mark Sheridan (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (since 2020)
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. ANC Arm e Nationale Congolaise (Congo National Army) CAP Common Agricultural Policy CIO Commission on Industrial Organisation CRO Commonwealth Relations Office (British) CTT C ras Tr cht la Teo DFA Department of Foreign Affairs collection, National Archives, Dublin ECOSOC United Nations Economic and Social Council ECSC European Coal and Steel Community EEC European Economic Community EFTA European Free Trade Association FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GIB Government Information Bureau IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation IDA Industrial Development Authority ILO International Labour Organisation IMF International Monetary Fund IRA Irish Republican Army MFN Most Favoured Nation MP Member of Parliament (UK) NAI National Archives, Dublin NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OEEC Organisation for European Economic Co-operation ONUC Organisation des Nations Unies au Congo PMUN Permanent Mission to the United Nations PRUN Permanent Representative to the United Nations PS Private Secretary PSM Private Secretary to the Minister for External Affairs PSS Private Secretary to the Secretary of the Department of External Affairs TCD Trinity College Dublin TD Teachta D la (Member of D il ireann) TSCH/3/S Department of the Taoiseach, S series files, National Archives, Dublin UCD University College Dublin UCDA University College Dublin Archives UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNEF United Nations Emergency Force UNESCO United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation UNFICYP United Nations Force in Cyprus UNICEF United Nations International Children s Emergency Fund WEU Western European Union
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 DIFP 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 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-to-day running of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP).
At the meeting of December 2003 of the DIFP Editorial Advisory Board the important contribution of the National Archives to the DIFP project was officially recognised and the National Archives formally became a full partner to the project. 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 was an editor of the DIFP series from 2014 until taking over as managing editor of the Royal Irish Academy s Dictionary of Irish Biography in spring 2019.
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. Professor Dermot Keogh stepped down as an editor in December 2019.
In 2017 Professor Bernadette Whelan became an editor of DIFP following her nomination and approval by the Executive Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.
Dr John Gibney was appointed an assistant editor of DIFP in 2018 with Dr Eoin Kinsella being likewise appointed assistant editor in 2019.
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 and Trade in January 1919. Subsequent volumes have been published at two-yearly intervals, with volume XII being published in November 2020.

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 twelfth volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Po