Daniel Mulhall (born 8 April 1955) is a retired Irish

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and a former Ambassador of

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to the United States. He has also been Ireland's Ambassador to the

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and

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Education

Born in

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, Ireland, Mulhall studied at

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. He received a BA degree degree in 1975, a Higher Diploma in Education in 1978, and an MA in history in 1979.

Career

Mulhall joined Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs in 1978 as Third Secretary in the Economics Division. He then moved to the department's Development Cooperation Division, and was later posted in 1980 to the embassy in

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. In 1983, Mulhall moved back to Dublin to work in the Political Division. Mulhall then became First Secretary at the Embassy of Ireland in

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, followed by a posting to the Permanent Representation to the European Union in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

in 1990. In 1995, he became Counsellor of the Press Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1998, he was installed as the first Consul General of Ireland in

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. In October 2001, Mulhall was appointed to the post of Ambassador to Malaysia and was also accredited to

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

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and

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. He was the Irish government's representative during the

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and helped "get survivors home as part of the Irish emergency response efforts". Mulhall returned to Dublin in 2005 as the Assistant Secretary of the European Union Division of the Department. In November 2009, he became Ireland's Ambassador to

. His posting to Berlin coincided with the Irish financial crisis. In 2013, he was posted to the Irish Embassy in London as the Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Mulhall was the Irish Ambassador when the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016. He campaigned against

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, as was Irish government policy, and later spoke of his "personal sadness" that Brexit is "threatening to reverse decades of improving relations since peace was established". He said that Irish-British relations "had been neglected" in the referendum. He called on the British government to remain in the Customs Union "to minimise the impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement". In March 2017, it was announced that Mulhall would become the 18th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States later that year. In August 2017, he arrived in

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and presented his credentials to

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when he was officially installed as Ambassador to the US. In March 2022 New York University announced that after his retirement from the Department of Foreign Affairs in August 2022 Mulhall would become global distinguished professor in Irish studies, teaching an undergraduate seminar, "Literature as History: Ireland 1880-1940". Mulhall is Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge for 2022-23.

Awards and honours

In July 2017, Mulhall was awarded the

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. On 4 March 2019, he was made a freeman of his native city of Waterford. In November 2019, he was named Honorary President of the Yeats Society.

Publications

*Mulhall, Daniel, Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey, New Island Press, 2022. * Biagini, Eugenio and Mulhall, Daniel (eds.), The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment, Irish Academic Press 2016. * Mulhall, Daniel, A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900, The Collins Press, Cork, 1999.

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