Noel Dorr

Noel Dorr (born November 1, 1933, in Limerick, Ireland[1]) is a former Irish diplomat. He has been described as "the most universally admired Irish diplomat of his generation". [2]

Dorr attended St. Nathy's College in Ballaghaderreen[3] and studied at the National University of Ireland and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He received a Bachelor of Commerce(B.Comm) and a Master of Arts (MA). In 1960, he joined the diplomatic service of the Department of Foreign Affairs. During his diplomatic career, he was, inter alia, from 1960 to 1962 Third Secretary at the Irish Embassy in Brussels, 1962-1964 First Secretary at the Irish Embassy in Washington, DC. He was from 1980 to 1983, the Permanent Representative of Ireland at the United Nations in New York City.[4] During this time, from 1981 to 1982, he was Irish Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations and from April to May 1981 acted as President of the Security Council.[5] From 1983 to 1987, Dorr was the Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He then served as Secretary General of Ireland's Foreign Ministry from 1987 until his retirement in 1995.

He was persuaded out of retirement on two occasions, becoming the Irish foreign minister's personal representative for both the intergovernmental conferences which negotiated the Amsterdam Treaty(1997) and the Nice Treaty(2000).[6]

He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2008.[7]

In January, 2014 he was invited before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade to participate in the discussion on its Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Catholic Herald
  2. ↑ Irish Independent, August 22, 2010
  3. ↑ St. Nathy's College: Past Pupils
  4. ↑ Historical Archives of the European Union.
  5. ↑ The New York Times, April 30, 1981
  6. ↑ A discreet diplomat who keeps being wooed out of retirement, Irish Times, June 30, 2001.
  7. ↑ RIA
  8. ↑ Dorr presentation to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, January, 2014

Publications

  • Sunningdale: the Search for Peace in Northern Ireland,(2017).
  • A Small State at the Top Table,(2011)
  • Ireland and the United Nations: Memories of the Early Years, (2010)
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