Declan Kelly was the

Ambassador of Ireland to Malaysia The ambassador of Ireland to Malaysia is the head of Ireland's diplomatic mission to Malaysia, and the official representative of the government of Ireland to the government of Malaysia. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador ex ...

and Thailand from 2010 to 2015. Prior to that appointment he was the Ambassador of Ireland to Canada, succeeding Martin Burke. He was schooled at

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, Glasnevin, and is married to Anne Bernadette Kelly. He gave the 2007

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address at

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in New Brunswick. Prior to his placement as ambassador at the Irish embassy in Ottawa, Kelly was the ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.http://www.thegaelichour.ca/20060728.m3u Earlier, Kelly had been posted to Ottawa from 1985 to 1990 as the First Secretary and Charge d’Affairs at the Irish Embassy. Kelly was Republic of Ireland Consul General in San Francisco from 1992 to 1998.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Declan Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Ambassadors of Ireland to Canada Ambassadors of Ireland to Australia Ambassadors of Ireland to Malaysia Ambassadors of Ireland to Thailand Ambassadors of Ireland to New Zealand Ambassadors of Ireland to the Bahamas Ambassadors of Ireland to Fiji 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish civil servants 21st-century diplomats Irish diplomats People educated at St. Vincent's C.B.S., Glasnevin