The History of Irish Foreign Policy & Diplomacy

Conference Programme, 7-8 January

Boole II Lecture Theatre, University College Cork

Friday, 7 January 2011

2.30pm

Hiram Morgan Project Leader of the UCC Humanities Platform

Opening Address

3pm                

Mervyn O'Driscoll    

'Special Feelings for the "Children of Éire"?  How Bonn saw Dublin, 1949-1973'

4pm                

Niall Keogh                

'Franco-Irish Relations 1950-1956'

Christophe Gillissen   

'Franco-Irish Relations from the 1950s to 1973: the renewal of an old friendship'

5pm                 Coffee

5.30pm           

Paul Loftus                

'Lessons in Networking: Conference Diplomacy andthe Evolution of Irish Foreign Policy, 1947-1959'

6.30pm            Break

7pm                

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin            

Keynote Address

Saturday, 8 January 2011

9.30am            

Michael Kennedy       

'"Questioning F.S.L. Lyons: Plato’s Cave revisited": The Department of External Affairs’ understanding of the Second World War.'

10.30am           Coffee

11am              

Sir John Holmes         

'Anglo-Irish Relations'

12pm               

Garret FitzGerald       

'Reflections on Irish Foreign Policy'

1pm                 Lunch

2.30pm           

Joe Lee                       

'Reflections on the history of American-Irish relations'

3.30pm           

Noel Dorr                   

'Ireland & the United Nations'

4.30pm            

Kate O'Malley            

'Ireland & India'

Dermot Keogh           

'The Origins of Irish-Argentinian Diplomatic Relations'

5.30pm            Conference Ends