Research Catalog

Title

The ideal diplomat? : women and Irish foreign affiars, 1946-90 / Anne-Marie O'Brien.

Author

O'Brien, Ann Marie

Publication

Dublin : Four Courts Press ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2020.

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Details

Description

176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book is the first full study to examine the appointment and experiences of women in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs from 1946 to 1990. Focusing on the appointment and careers of Irish female diplomats, it examines their experiences in a historically male-centred career. In 1946 Sheila Murphy, a twenty-year veteran of the department, received her first diplomatic appointment and this sparked the beginning of women entering the department and attaining diplomatic status. Their inclusion in the elite Irish diplomatic corps however was not without its challenges. Only a handful entered the department in these early years and for these women the marriage bar was in place within the civil service, equal pay for equal work did not exist and they had to fight against the internalized image of the diplomat as a male agent. This book tells the story of these women?s careers, from the pioneering women of the 1940s through to the trail blazers of the 1990s. Women were involved in and participated in Irish foreign affairs throughout the twentieth century and their contribution to Irish diplomacy deserves to be told.

Subject

• Ireland. Department of Foreign Affairs > Officials and employees
• Ireland. Department of Foreign Affairs
• Since 1922
• Women diplomats > Ireland
• Diplomatic relations
• Employees
• Women diplomats
• Ireland > Foreign relations > 1922-
• Ireland

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. New world, new opportunities, 1946 -- 54 -- 2. T̀oken' women and the international stage, 1955 -- 69 -- 3. M̀adam Ambassador' and the advancement of female diplomats, 1970 -- 9 -- 4. Women diplomats to the fore, 1980 -- 90.

Call Number

JFE 21-4459

ISBN

• 1846828511
• 9781846828515

OCLC

1128888415

Author

O'Brien, Ann Marie, author.

Title

The ideal diplomat? : women and Irish foreign affiars, 1946-90 / Anne-Marie O'Brien.

Publisher

Dublin : Four Courts Press ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1922

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4459