Person: Joe Walshe

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

general

Book review: The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual

Daniel Binchy, Ireland’s ambassador to the Weimer Republic, once described Adolf Hitler as a ‘harmless lunatic’ but one of the country’s most perceptive and insightful intellectuals was not fooled for long, as Ryle Dwyer notes.

comment-analysis

Paranoia and the paranormal inside the US embassy

comment-analysis

Spies by proxy

So Dev was ‘England’s greatest spy’. Yes, and the devil in disguise too

How Irish diplomats were caught up in tangled web of wartime deceit

news

€175,000 award for garda overturned

Dev had good reason to be nice to Hitler’s envoy until the bitter end

NOT content with President Mary McAleese’s apology for her recent gaffe, people are now looking for an apology to Jewish people for Eamon de Valera’s condolence gesture to the German minister following the death of Hitler.

Sat, 26 Feb, 2005

British Embassy responds to fees

I read with interest Mr and Mrs Joe Walshe’s letter entitled “Going nowhere at the Embassy”, published in your August 22 edition.

Sat, 24 Aug, 2002

Agriculture Minister says BSE plan is going well

The Minister for Agriculture Joe Walshe insisted the mass slaughter of cattle to rid the country of BSE was progressing well, although he admitted farmers were reacting cautiously to the plan.

Wed, 10 Jan, 2001