6 April 2022

Join Director Justin Reash in conversation with the Ambassador of Ireland to the U.S. Daniel Mulhall to discuss the centenary of 1922.

Join Us Online or In-Person at the National Churchill Leadership Center
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 6:00 PM EDT

About this event

1922 was possibly the most influential year in Irish history. To understand its impact and to mark the centenary, Ambassador Daniel Mulhall will be speaking at the National Leadership Center.

Mulhall took up duty as Ireland’s 18th Ambassador to the United States in August 2017. He was born and brought up in Waterford and undertook his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at University College Cork where he specialised in modern Irish history.

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Before coming to Washington, he served as Ireland’s Ambassador in London (2013-17). Ambassador Mulhall joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1978 and had his early diplomatic assignments in New Delhi, Vienna (OSCE), Brussels (European Union) and Edinburgh where he was Ireland’s first Consul General, 1998-2001. He served as Ireland’s Ambassador to Malaysia (2001-05), where he was also accredited to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.

Ambassador Mulhall maintains a keen interest in Irish history and literature. He is the author of A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900 (Cork, 1999) and co-editor of The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment (Dublin, 2016) and has made numerous contributions to books, newspapers and journals published in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Britain.

In-person and online tickets are available. This event is free of charge. Registration is required.