Bonus Episode: Back To The Future

Brexit Republic

RTÉ

News, Politics

4.8 • 199 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anglo-Irish complexities affect Ireland's relations with Europe, it's a busy year at the UN, there are racial tensions in the US & cross border trade is foremost in Irish minds. It's all very 2020, but the period is 1962-65. Dr Michael Kennedy & Dr John Gibney from the RIA's Documents On Irish Foreign Policy look at the themes that keep on giving.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Colamo Mungain, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor here, flying solo for one episode only of Brexit Republic to bring you some bonus material.
0:11.0	Ireland's complicated relationship with the UK comes into sharp focus in its relations with Europe.
0:17.0	The country's diplomats are taking note of rising racial tensions in the US.
0:21.6	Ireland is playing an increasing role in the UN and the state is looking outwards to extend its global reach.
0:28.6	They're all themes we saw in 2020 and they're also recurring themes in the latest collection of documents in Irish foreign policy edited by the Royal Irish Academy and covering
0:38.6	the period from 1962 to 1965. So, given the resonance of the matters discussed, not least with
0:46.2	the ongoing Brexit toing and froing, and Ireland about to take up its role in the Security Council
0:51.7	from January 2021, in this bonus episode of Brexit Republic, I've been talking to two of the people behind the project,
0:59.3	Michael Kennedy and John Gibney, for a run through the archives.
1:03.3	Let's hear from them now.
1:04.9	My name is Michael Kennedy.
1:06.0	I'm the executive editor of the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Series.
1:10.0	My name is John Gibney. I'm one of the assistant editors of the documents in Irish foreign policy
1:14.5	series. And what documents in Irish foreign policy does is it's a partnership between the
1:19.4	Academy, the National Archives, Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs to make available
1:24.1	the records of the Department of External Affairs over 30 years old. We now call it the
1:28.6	Department of Foreign Affairs. And to show really to anyone who wants to read our volumes on our
1:34.6	website, d-iFP. how Ireland makes its foreign policy and to show the primary source material,
1:40.7	the documents, the telegrams, the secret dispatches, the code messages about how
1:45.1	Irish diplomats conduct our foreign policy overseas, how Ireland acts internationally, and how over,
1:53.6	really, the last 100 years, because we've 100 years of foreign policy now, how Ireland has
1:57.9	taken its place amongst the nations of the world and projected its interest.
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