Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, v. 9: 1948-1951

Description

'Volume IX' of 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' brings together for the first time the entire spectrum of Ireland's foreign relations between 1948 and 1951. It covers Ireland's role as a founder member of the Council of Europe in 1949 and the state's response to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950 - the origins of today's EU. It details Ireland's refusal to join NATO. The Korean War (1950-53) forms a large component of the volume which sees Ireland's foreign relations take a wider perspective and its network of overseas missions grow. This is despite the paradox that outside the UN, NATO and the Commonwealth, the avenues for multilateral action by Ireland in the international system were more limited in 1951 than they had been in 1948.

Sujets

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

Informations

• Publié par: Royal Irish Academy
• Date de parution: 03 novembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781908997272
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 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 IX
1948 ~ 1951
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 IX
1948 ~ 1951
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 978-1-908997-27-2
Publishing consultants Institute of Public Administration, Dublin
Design by Jan de Fouw Typeset by Carole Lynch Printed by Colour World Print Ltd, Kilkenny
Contents
Editors and Editorial Advisory Board
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
List of archival sources
Biographical details
List of documents reproduced
Documents
1948
1949
1950
1951
Appendices
1 Months of the year in Irish and English
2 Glossary of Irish words and phrases
3 List of Irish missions abroad: 1948-51
4 Calendars for years 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
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 and Assistant Editor)
Ms. Marianne Bolger (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
(June 2010-November 2013)
Mr. Eamon Hickey (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
(from November 2013)
Ms. Laura Mahoney (Executive Secretary, Royal Irish Academy)
Ms. Frances Kiernan (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
(from November 2013)
Mr. Tim Mawe (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
(December 2009-November 2013)
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. CEEC Conference on European Economic Co-operation DDA Dublin Diocesan Archives 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 ERP European Recovery Program (The Marshall Plan) FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation 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 OSS Office of Strategic Services TD Teachta D la (Member of D il ireann) TNA The National Archives, Kew, London UCDA University College Dublin, Archives Department 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 (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. 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 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 the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy 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 (DIFP) 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 IX being published in November 2014.
1 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was known as the Department of External Affairs from December 1922 to 1971, when it was then renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs. 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 ninth volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series covers the three years and four months of Ireland s first coalition government. Comprising five parties: Fine Gael, the Labour Party, Clann na Poblachta, Clann na Talmhan and the National Labour Party, it was known as the Inter-Party Government ; a term the government consciously chose in preference to that of Coalition . In office from 18 February 1948 to 13 June 1951, and led by John A. Costello of Fine Gael, the government suffered from the strains to be expected within a broad administration, many of whose members had not previously held ministerial office or had not done so since 1932.
The Clann na Poblachta leader and former Chief of Staff of the illegal Irish Republican Army, Se n MacBride, chose the External Affairs portfolio. For the first time in sixteen years control of Ireland s foreign policy was no longer in the hands of amon de Valera and the head of government was not also the Minister for External Affairs. MacBride dominated the foreign policy of the Inter-Party Government and his choice of External Affairs demonstrated his desire to follow in de Valera s footsteps. De Valera, when he took office in 1932, had prior experience of cabinet government, foreign relations and diplomacy, having headed the revolutionary government which won Ireland s independence from the United Kingdom. MacBride, however, was new to the conduct of international affairs when he arrived at Iveagh House in February 1948. This was reflected i