Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 10: 1951-57

Description

DIFP X marks a major turning point in 20th century Irish foreign policy. It covers Ireland's 1955 admission to the United Nations. This massive change to Irish foreign policy, revealed for the first time in the original documents of the 1950s in DIFP X, is the point from which Ireland's global place amongst the nations in the 21st century originates. The volume covers the key themes of 1950s Irish foreign policy - UN membership, the renewed IRA campaign in Northern Ireland, the Suez Crisis, the Soviet Invasion of Hungary and the threat of a nuclear war. For the first time light is shed on the preparation of 'the War Book', the state manual through which Ireland would make its transition to World War Three. The high sensitive issue of the overseas adoption of Irish children is covered in detail, providing a documentary source like no other available into this difficult chapter of Irish history

Sujets

• Histoire
• Diplomacy
• Ireland
• International relations
• Stephen Ireland
• Diplomatie (homonymie)
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Royal Irish Academy
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781908997241
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 18 Mo

Extrait

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 X
1951 ~ 1957
E AGARTH IR Catriona Crowe Ronan Fanning Michael Kennedy Dermot Keogh Eunan O Halpin Kate O Malley
Royal Irish Academy National Archives Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Volume X
1951 ~ 1957
E DITORS Catriona Crowe Ronan Fanning Michael Kennedy Dermot Keogh Eunan O Halpin Kate O Malley
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: 978-1-908997-24-1
Publishing consultants Institute of Public Administration
Design by Jan de Fouw Typeset by Carole Lynch Printed by W&G Baird
Contents
Editors and Editorial Advisory Board
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
List of archival sources
Biographical details
List of documents reproduced
Documents
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
Appendices
1 Months of the year in Irish and English
2 Glossary of Irish words and phrases
3 List of Irish missions abroad: 1951-7
4 Calendars for the years 1951 to 1957
Editors

Ms. Catriona Crowe MRIA (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, 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)
Editorial Advisory Board

(In addition to the Editors)
Mr. Eamon Hickey (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (2013-2014) Ms. Laura Mahoney (Executive Secretary, Royal Irish Academy) Ms. Frances Kiernan (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Mr. Breand n Caollai (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (2015-2016) Ms. Orla Tunney (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (2014-2015)
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. ALUI American League for an Undivided Ireland CRO Commonwealth Relations Office (London) DFA Department of Foreign Affairs collection, National Archives, Dublin TSCH/3/S Department of the Taoiseach, S series files, National Archives, Dublin ECA European Co-operation Administration EPU European Payments Union ERP European Recovery Program (The Marshall Plan) FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation GNR Great Northern Railway 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) MSA Mutual Security Act (United States) NAI National Archives, Dublin NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation OEEC Organisation for European Economic Co-operation PMUN Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York TD Teachta D la (Member of D il ireann) UCDA University College Dublin, Archives Department UNEF United Nations Emergency Force UNESCO United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation UNO United Nations Organisation
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.
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 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 Documents on Irish Foreign Policy. At the meeting of December 2003 of the DIFP Editorial Advisory Board the important contribution of the National Archives to Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) 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. 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.
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 X being published in November 2016.
Introduction

This tenth volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series covers the five years and nine months from June 1951 to March 1957. Unlike previous volumes in the series, it encompasses two administrations: the June 1951 to June 1954 Fianna F il government of amon de Valera, and the June 1954 to March 1957 Second Inter-Party government of Fine Gael, Labour and Clann na Talmhan, led by Fine Gael s John A. Costello.
The foreign policies of the two governments form one distinct period in Irish diplomatic history. The early- to mid-1950s was an uncertain time for Ireland s foreign policy makers. A growing international isolation pervaded both governments foreign relations. That isolation, achieved both by accident and by design, as a result of the foreign policy of the First Inter-Party government of 1948 to 1951, cut off avenues of diplomatic activity and brought an increasingly limited scope to Ireland s foreign policy. The four years from 1951 to 1955 were the nadir of Ireland s post-war international isolation. Outside the main international bodies of the post-war world, Ireland lacked a strong international voice. Membership of the Council of Europe was the state s main international platform. By the mid-point of this volume, foreign policy had shrunk to core interests surrounding Anglo-Irish relations and Northern Ireland. Admission to the United Nations in December 1955, as part of a Cold War package deal, brought Ireland back into the mainstream of international affairs. After December 1955 a new focus and a wider direction, centred on the United Nations General Assembly, entered Irish foreign policy. The volume thus covers a significant turning point in Ireland s foreign relations.
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