Frederick Boland
Frederick Boland | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Frederick Henry Boland 11 January 1904 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 4 December 1985 Dublin, Ireland | (aged 81)
Spouse |
President of the General Assembly, Ambassador for Ireland to Britain and the United Nations |
Frederick Henry Boland (11 January 1904 – 4 December 1985) was an Irish diplomat who served as the first Irish Ambassador to both the United Kingdom and the United Nations.[1]
Family and education
Frederick Boland was born on 11 January 1904 at 32 Eden Vale Road, Ranelagh,[2] the second son of Henry Patrick ("H.P.") Boland (1876-1956), a civil servant in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (retiring as Senior Assistant Secretary to the Minister for Finance), and his wife Charlotte Nolan Taylor. H.P. Boland was son of the workhouse master at Clonmel.[3][4][5]
Boland was educated at
He married the painter Frances Kelly on 11 February 1935 in the Church of St Michael, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland.[6][7] They had a son, Fergal and four daughters; Jane, Nessa, Mella, and the poet Eavan Boland.[8][9][10]
Career
Boland was Assistant Secretary of the Department of External Affairs from 1939 to 1946, prior to becoming the Secretary, which position he held until 1950. In that role he led negotiations in 1949 that changed Ireland's status from a Dominion within the Commonwealth to a Republic outside it. He was privately critical of the manner in which the Taoiseach, John A. Costello, handled the matter, saying that "he has as much notion of diplomacy as I have of astrology."[11]
He served as the first Irish Ambassador to the
Boland served as the 21st Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin between 1963 and 1982.[13] He was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1983.[14]
References
- ^ "In Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries". credoreference.com. 15 March 2011.
- ^ Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, p. 244
- ^ Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, pp. 139, 179, 224
- ^ Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 13
- ^ The Annual Obituary, 85th edition, ed. Patricia Burgess, St James Press, 1985, p. 639
- ^ "Irish Genealogy" (PDF). civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Current Biography Yearbook, 1961, H. W. Wilson Co., 1962, p. 64
- ^ "Irish Press Releases - Press Release Ireland » Stamps mark 50 years of Ireland's UN membership". Archived from the original on 8 May 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
- ^ Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 16
- ^ Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, p. 183
- ^ McCullagh, David, The Reluctant Taoiseach, Gill and Macmillan, 2010, p. 197
- ^ McCullagh p.228
- ^ "Former Chancellors". Dublin: Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ISBN 1-871408-07-5.