Ireland The United Nations And The Congo

Author : Michael Kennedy,Art Magennis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Irish
ISBN : 184682656X

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Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo by Michael Kennedy,Art Magennis Pdf

Now available in paperback! In 1961, Irish UN peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defense Forces' first experience of active service since 1923. Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien headed the UN mission in Katanga. Former chief of staff of the defense forces, Lt.Gen. Sean MacEoin, was in overall command of UN troops in the Congo. When Irish units suffered casualties and men were taken prisoner as the fighting in Katanga continued, the crisis facing Taoiseach Sean Lemass became the most delicate and dangerous chapter in Ireland's foreign relations since 1945. Based on a first-hand account of the fighting by an Irish cavalry officer, previously unseen UN archives, and the papers of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, this book covers 18 critical months, from July 1960 to December 1961, which almost tore the UN apart and which brought the realities of UN membership to Ireland. This book is an Irish diplomatic and military perspective on a defining moment in the history of the United Nations, the Cold War, and modern Africa. Author Commandant (ret.) Art Magennis served with the Irish Defence Forces from 1940 to 1979. He undertook two tours of duty in Congo and was second-in-command of the 35th Battalion's Armoured Car Group in Elisabethville, Katanga, in 1961. [Subject: History, Military History, United Nations, Irish Studies, African Studies]

Author : Archie Raeside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : 0863350569

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The Congo - 1960 by Archie Raeside Pdf

Author : David O'Donoghue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : UOM:39015064943353

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The Irish Army in the Congo, 1960-1964 by David O'Donoghue Pdf

This revealing book is based on the personal reminiscences of Irish Army veterans who served with the UN peacekeeping forces in the Congo from 1960 to 1964. In addition to tracking down foot soldiers, retired battalion commanders and journalists who covered the Congo, the author has also spoken to Belgians who were part of the pre-independence administration in the huge African colony, Swedish soldiers who played key roles as interpreters for Irish Army units, a Congolese clergyman and a Congolese journalist from Kinshasa. The book also takes a refreshing and controversial look at the Congo in the immediate wake of independence in mid-1960, after almost a century of Belgian rule. Here, published for the first time, are secret dossiers and previously unpublished photographs of military and civilian life in the newly independent Congo, which challenges the received understanding of such events as the Niemba massacre and the fighting to end the secession of Katanga, including the battle of Jadotville. The Irish Army in the Congo provides fascinating background to the development of UN peacekeeping missions around the world. This was the first major overseas mission in which Irish troops had ever been involved and the personal accounts gathered for this book shed valuable light on this chapter of Irish military history.

Author : Eimear D. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : OCLC:1418916969

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Was Ireland's Participation in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operation in the Congo (ONUC) 1960-64 Less a Strategic Strand of Overall Foreign Policy Than a Series of Pragmatic Decisions Taken in the Context of Its Recent Membership of the UN and of National Considerations?. by Eimear D. Coleman Pdf

Author : Noel Dorr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ireland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215513289

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Ireland at the United Nations by Noel Dorr Pdf

This is a lively account of the first 15 years of Ireland's UN membership, by a former Irish diplomat who worked with prominent figures of the period.

Author : Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571323340

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To Katanga and Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien Pdf

July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moïse Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Britain. June 1961: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien arrives in Katanga as Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, his task (under a UN resolution) to arrest and repatriate the mercenaries and foreign interests propping up Tshombe. The consequences of this mission will prove fateful for all parties. This is the story of how a brilliant Irish diplomat found himself in Africa amid one of history's maelstroms. O'Brien reconstructs the complex, tragic, sometimes comic events of a drama in which he found himself controversially at centre stage. The result is history from the inside: a valuable study of 'the game of nations', and of the UN's unique functioning and malfunctioning.

Author : James Dobbins,Seth G. Jones,Keith Crane,Andrew Rathmell,Brett Steele
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833037565

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The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq by James Dobbins,Seth G. Jones,Keith Crane,Andrew Rathmell,Brett Steele Pdf

Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compares those missions with U.S. nation-building operations. The UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men-one with a comparatively low cost structure, a comparatively high success rate, and the greatest degree of international legitimacy.

Author : Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015031647830

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The United Nations: Sacred Drama by Conor Cruise O'Brien Pdf

Reflections, extensively interspersed with etchings, on the role of the UN in international relations. Annotated bibliography pp. 311 to 328.

Author : Declan Power
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504758888

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Siege at Jadotville by Declan Power Pdf

The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years. The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived in the Congo as a United Nations contingent to help keep the peace. For many it would be their first trip outside their native shores. Some of the troops were teenage boys, their army-issue hobnailed boots still unbroken. They had never heard a shot fired in anger. Others were experienced professional soldiers but were still not prepared for the action that was to take place. Led by Commandant Pat Quinlan, A Company found themselves tasked with protecting the European population at Jadotville, a small mining town in the southern Congolese province of Katanga. It fell to A Company to protect those who would later turn against them. On September 13th, 1961, the bright morning air of Jadotville was shattered by the sound of automatic gunfire. The men of A Company found their morning mass parade interrupted, and within minutes they went from holding rosaries to rifles as they entered the world of combat. This was to be no Srebrenica; though cut off and surrounded, the men of Jadotville held their ground and fought. This is their story.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : New York : United Nations
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111574625

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The United Nations and the Congo by United Nations Pdf

Author : Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571324309

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States of Ireland by Conor Cruise O'Brien Pdf

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise O'Brien's searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, part-history, part-polemic. 'If The Great Melody (1992) is O'Brien's major academic work, States of Ireland is the one that will endure as a vital moment in Irish intellectual and political history.' Roy Foster, Standpoint ' States of Ireland [is] a book which influenced a generation. [O'Brien] saw that partition, while scarcely desirable in itself, recognized the reality of two different communities in the island, and that the Dublin state's formal irredentist claim on Northern Ireland was undemocratic and even imperialistic, as well as insincere. The republican ideology to which most Irish people paid lip service was a shirt of Nessus, he later wrote: "it clings to us and burns".' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Author : Joseph Morrison Skelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041317556

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Irish Diplomacy at the United Nations, 1945-1965 by Joseph Morrison Skelly Pdf

Irish diplomacy at the United Nations in the post-war era constitutes a compelling chapter in the history of Irish foreign policy. In this period the Irish delegation played a highly visible, constructive role in the General Assembly. Memorable figures like Frank Aiken, Freddy Boland, Eamon Kennedy, Conor Cruise OÃ?Â?Ã?Â-Brien and Maire MacEntee pursued IrelandÃ?Â?Ã?Â-s interests and, simultaneously, contributed to the international order. They mitigated Cold War tensions; fostered decolonization efforts in Africa and Asia; supported the UN when the Soviet Union launched a vicious assault on the world body; facilitated Irish participation in the Congo peacekeeping operation; and sponsored several initiatives to do with troop withdrawal from Central Europe, the defence of human rights in Tibet, and the nuclear non-proliferation.

Author : Esref Aksu
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0719067480

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The United Nations, Intra-State Peacekeeping and Normative Change by Esref Aksu Pdf

The UN and Intra-State Conflict: Problematising the Normative Connection * Rethinking the UN Through Intra-State Peacekeeping: the Analytical Framework * The UN's Role in Historical Context: Impact of Structural Tensions and Thresholds * UN Peacekeeping in Intra-State Conflicts: Evolution of the Normative Basis * The UN in the Congo Conflict: ONUC * The UN On the Cyprus Conflict: UNFICYP * The UN in the Angola Conflict: UNAVEM * The UN in the Cambodia Conflict: UNTAC * Reflections on International Normative Change.

Author : Esref Aksu
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847795960

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The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change by Esref Aksu Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This study explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance. What is dealt with here is both the UN's changing raison d'être and the wider normative context within which the organisation is located. The study looks at the UN through the window of one of its most contentious, yet least understood, practices: active involvement in intra-state conflicts as epitomised by UN peacekeeping. Drawing on the conceptual tools provided by the 'historical structural' approach, this study seeks to understand how and why the international community continuously reinterprets or redefines the UN's role with regard to intra-state conflicts. The study concentrates on intra-states 'peacekeeping environments', and examines what changes, if any, have occurred to the normative basis of UN peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. One of the original aspects of the study is its analytical framework, where the conceptualisation of 'normative basis' revolves around objectives, functions and authority, and is closely connected with the institutionalised values in the UN Charter such as state sovereignty, human rights and socio-economic development. This book is essential reading for postgraduate students of IR and international peacekeeping organisations.

Author : Michael Kennedy,Eunana O'Halpin,Bernadette Whelan
Publisher : Documents on Irish Foreign Pol
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1911479253

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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XII, 1961-1965 by Michael Kennedy,Eunana O'Halpin,Bernadette Whelan Pdf

From 1961 to 1965 Irish foreign policy embarked on new directions. Under Taoiseach Seán Lemass Ireland sought membership of the EEC, a process which stalled temporarily in 1963 when French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application for EEC membership and Ireland's application, along with applications of Denmark and Norway, was halted a result. Away from Europe the first half of the 1960s saw Irish diplomats at the United Nations develop Ireland's position as an independent-minded member of the organisation and Ireland took steps to promote nuclear non-proliferation, decolonisation and the effective financing of peacekeeping operations. In 1962 Ireland sat on the Security Council for a temporary term which coincided with the Cuban Missile crisis. Ireland's Defence Forces continued to serve with United Nations peacekeeping missions. With the end of the UN's mandate in the Congo in 1963 Irish soldiers joined the first units of UN peacekeepers deployed to Cyprus with UNFICYP in 1964. DIFP XII covers these major themes, but it also includes significant documents on the June 1963 visit of President John F Kennedy to Ireland, early steps taken to create Ireland's development aid policy and the opening of Irish missions in Nigeria and India. British-Irish relations and North-South relations receive considerable attention as Dublin and London took steps to establish a free trade area in the aftermath of the failure of Britain's EEC entry talks and on the island of Ireland Seán Lemass and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill met to seek common ground between Dublin and Belfast in areas of cross-border co-operation. One area of interest the volume reveals for the first time is the extent to which Seán Lemass controlled the exercise of Ireland's foreign policy, often instructing Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken as to the direction Irish foreign policy should take.