Daniel Mulhall

Daniel Mulhall
Ambassador of Ireland to the United States
Assumed office
8 September 2017
Ambassador of Ireland to the United Kingdom
In office
September 2013 – 22 August 2017
Ambassador of Ireland to Germany
In office
November 2009 – August 2013
Ambassador of Ireland to Malaysia
In office
October 2001 – September 2005
Personal details
Born 8 April 1955
Waterford, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Alma mater University College Cork

Daniel Mulhall (born 8 April 1955) is an Irish diplomat who is the current Ambassador of Ireland to the United States. He has also been Ireland's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Germany and Malaysia.[1]

Education

Born in Waterford, Ireland, Mulhall studied at University College Cork and graduated in 1975 with a BA, and later in 1979 with a MA, specialising in modern Irish history.[1][2]

Career

Mulhall joined Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1978 as Third Secretary in the Economics Division. He then moved to the department's Development Cooperation Division and was later posted in 1980 to the embassy in New Delhi. In 1983, Mulhall moved back to Dublin to work in the Political Division.

Mulhall then became First Secretary at the Embassy of Ireland in Vienna, followed by a posting to the Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels in 1990. In 1995, he became Counsellor of the Press Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 1998, he was installed as the first Consul General of Ireland in Edinburgh.[1]

In October 2001, Mulhall was appointed to the post of Ambassador to Malaysia and was also accredited to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. He was the Irish government's representative during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and helped "get survivors home as part of the Irish emergency response efforts".[3][2] Mulhall returned to Dublin in 2005 as the Assistant Secretary of the European Union Division of the Department.

In November 2009, he became Ireland's Ambassador to Germany. His posting to Berlin coincided with the Irish financial crisis.

In 2013, he was posted to the Irish Embassy in London as the Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Mulhall was the Irish Ambassador when the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016. He campaigned against Brexit, as was Irish government policy, and later spoke of his "personal sadness" that Brexit is "threatening to reverse decades of improving relations since peace was established".[4] He said that Irish-British relations "had been neglected" in the referendum.[4] He called on the British government to remain in the Customs Union "to minimise the impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement".[5]

In March 2017, it was announced that Mulhall would become the 18th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States later that year.[6] He was subsequently awarded the Freedom of the City of London in July 2017.[6]

In August 2017, he arrived in Washington DC and presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump when he was officially installed as Ambassador to the US.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ambassador Daniel Mulhall - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade". www.dfa.ie. Irish Embassy USA. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Daniel Mulhall - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). dfa.ie.
  3. ↑ "Irish Ambassador: 'Ireland's recovery will benefit Irish in Britain'". Irish Post. 23 October 2013.
  4. 1 2 O'Carroll, Lisa (2 August 2017). "Ireland's departing UK ambassador shares 'sadness' over Brexit". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ "Ireland urges Britain to remain in Customs Union after Brexit". Sky News. 21 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Outgoing Irish Ambassador Dan Mulhall granted Freedom of the City of London". Irish Post. 17 July 2017.
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