Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 14: 1969-1973

Dr Michael Kennedy has for almost three decades written and published widely on modern Irish history, in particular on Irish military and diplomatic history and on Irish foreign policy. He has been the executive editor of the RIA's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and head of the DIFP series since 1997. Previously he lectured in Irish and European history at Queen's University, Belfast and received his doctorate from the NUI in 1994 on the early history of Ireland's relationship with the League of Nations.  Michael appears regularly on television and radio discussing aspects of Irish history ranging from lighthouses to embassies to the history of curry houses in Dublin. Michael is a former member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, a Research Associate of the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin and was a Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University from 2009 to 2018. He was also formerly an adjunct Professor of History at University College Dublin. He is the co-author (with John Gibney and Kate O'Malley) of Ireland: a voice among the nations (Royal Irish Academy, 2019), and (with Daniel Ayiotis and John Gibney) of The Emergency: A visual history of the Irish Defence Forces during the Second World War, 1939-1945 (Eastwood, 2019).

Eunan O'Halpin MRIA is the Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. His most recent publications are: Head of the Civil Service: A Study of Sir Warren Fisher, Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies since 1922 and MI5 and Ireland, 1939 ? 1935. He is a co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume I, 1919-22, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume II, 1923 ? 1926 and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume III, 1926 ? 1932. He is currently co-editing a study of Anglo-American security co-operation between 1914 and 1949.

Dr Kate O'Malley is Assistant Editor with the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin (BA, PhD). Her book Ireland, India and Empire was published by Manchester University Press in 2008. She is co-author (with Michael Kennedy and John Gibney) of Ireland: a voice among the nations (Royal Irish Academy, 2019), and, with John Gibney, of The Handover: Dublin Castle and the British withdrawal from Ireland, 1922 (Royal Irish Academy, 2022). She has lectured at Trinity College, Dublin, University College Dublin and Queen's University, Belfast. 

Bernadette Whelan MRIA is professor emeritus in the Department of History, University of Limerick. She is a co- editor of the Document of Irish Foreign Policy series. She publishes extensively on American Irish diplomatic relations. Among her publications are De Valera and Roosevelt. Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) awarded the American Conference of Irish Studies Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America; 'A real revolution': Ireland and the Oxford Group/Moral Re-Armament movement, 1933-2001', Irish Historical Studies, November 2021; with Mary O'Dowd and Gerardine Meaney, Reading the Irishwoman: Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960 (Liverpool University Press, 2013); American government in Ireland, a history of the US consular Service 1790-1913 (Manchester University Press/Palgrave, 2013). She is currently completing a study of the evolution of the role of first lady and first gentleman in Ireland between 1919 and 2011.

Kevin O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. He has written extensively on issues of aid, development, human rights, global justice, and Western encounters with the Global South, including the books, The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small State Identity in the Cold War (Manchester University Press, 2012). He is also a co-editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents in Irish Foreign Policy
project (www.difp.ie). His current research project, titled 'Green Futures', explores how people in the past understood the future of the environment, and what this means for present day climate change adaptation strategies.

Jennifer Redmond, PhD is Assistant Professor in Twentieth Century Irish History in the Department of History at Maynooth University. She has served as Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academic Historical Studies Committee and as President of the Women's History Association of Ireland and is on the executive committee of the Irish Historical Society. She sits on the Editorial Boards for Women's History Review and the Documents in Irish Foreign Policy series. Her publications include the edited collection (with Elaine Farrell) Irish Women in the First World War Era: Irish Women's Lives 1914-18 (Routledge: 2020) and Moving Histories: Irish Women's Migration to Britain, from Independence to Republic (Liverpool University Press, 2018). She has a particular interest in the Second World War and the Irish in Britain and teaches and researches in the area of modern Ireland with a focus on women and gender histories.

John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series. His books include The shadow of a year: the 1641 rebellion in Irish history and memory (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) and A short history of Ireland, 1500-2000 (Yale University Press, 2017). He is the co-author, with Michael Kennedy and Kate O'Malley, of Ireland: a voice among the nations (Royal Irish Academy, 2019), and, with Kate O'Malley, of The Handover: Dublin Castle and the British withdrawal from Ireland, 1922 (Royal Irish Academy, 2022).

Melissa Baird is Assistant Editor with the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series at the Royal Irish Academy. She is an historian of modern Irish and American history. Melissa received her PhD in 2023 from Queen’s University Belfast, which examined the relationship between the Irish diaspora in the United States and the Northern Irish civil rights movement. Melissa has lectured on Irish and American history at Queen's University Belfast, and managed several public history projects at the Linen Hall library.