Joseph Walshe: Irelands's longest serving Diplomat

A long-overdue and fascinating examination of the career of Ireland's longest serving general secretary of Foreign Affairs. Joseph Walshe's initial involvement in Irish foreign affairs happened by chance. While on holiday in France in 1919, he met Sean T. O'Kelly who made a speculative offer to Walshe to join the cause of Irish nation building. Walshe's subsequent diplomatic apprenticeship in Par...