The Editors

Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland

Ronan Fanning MRIA is Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin. He is an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and a founder-member of the Royal Irish Academy's National Committee for the Study of International Affairs. He was joint-editor of Irish Historical Studies from 1976 to 1987. He is the author of The Irish Department of Finance and Independent Ireland and co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume I, 1919-22, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume II, 1923 – 1926 and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume III, 1926 – 1932. He has published scholarly articles in journals throughout Europe and North America and is a regular political columnist for the Irish Sunday Independent.

Michael Kennedy is Executive Editor of the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. Previously, he lectured in Modern and Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. He received a PhD from University College Dublin. Dr Kennedy is the author of Division and Consensus: the politics of cross-border relations in Ireland 1921 -- 1969 (Dublin, 2000) and of Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-46 (Dublin, 1996), co author of Ireland and the Council of Europe: From isolation towards integration (with Eunan O'Halpin) (Strasbourg, 2000) and joint editor of Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan (with Till Geiger) (Dublin, 2004) and Irish Foreign Policy 1919 -- 1966 from independence to internationalism (Dublin, 2000) (with J.M. Skelly). He is co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, volumes I to V. He has also published numerous articles on Irish diplomatic and political history. Michael Kennedy's most recent publication is Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations, 1955-2005 (co-edited with Deirdre McMahon) (Dublin, 2005) a collection of essays marking fifty years of Ireland's membership of the United Nations. His 'Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939-1945' will be published in 2008 by Four Courts Press.

Dr Kennedy is a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy's Committee for International Affairs and an adjunct Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin.

Dermot Keogh MRIA is Professor of History at University College Cork and an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. He has been a Fulbright Professor in California, Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at University College Cork. He is the co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume I, 1919-22, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume II, 1923 – 1926 and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume III, 1926 – 1932. He is the author of numerous books on Irish diplomatic and political history, including Ireland and Europe, 1919-1989, Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church and State, 1922-1960, Twentieth-Century Ireland: Nation and State and Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.

Eunan O'Halpin MRIA is the Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also an editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. His most recent publications are: Head of the Civil Service: A Study of Sir Warren Fisher, Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies since 1922 and MI5 and Ireland, 1939 – 1935. He is a co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume I, 1919-22, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume II, 1923 – 1926 and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume III, 1926 – 1932. He is currently co-editing a study of Anglo-American security co-operation between 1914 and 1949.

Assistant Editor

Kate O'Malley is the assistant editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. She is a research associate with the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin. She was awarded her PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2005. Her book, Ireland, India and empire: Indo-Irish radical connections, 1919-64, was published by Manchester University Press in April 2008. She has also published chapters in (Foley and O'Connor, eds) Ireland and India. Colonies, Culture and Empire (Dublin, 2006) and (Ohlmeyer, O'Halpin and Armstrong, eds) Intelliegence, Statecraft and International Power. (Dublin, 2006).