10 September 2014: Speech by Ambassador Daniel Mulhall at ‘Ireland, Wales and the First World War’ conference, Cardiff University, Wales

Ambassador Daniel Mulhall

On 10-12 September 2013 Cardiff University hosted a major international conference. organised by the Wales-Ireland Research Network, on ‘Ireland, Wales ad the First World War’. The conference sought to explore and compare the Irish and Welsh experiences of the First World War. Click here for full details of the conference programme and for abstracts of the papers delivered at the conference.

The conference opened with a plenary lecture by the Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom, Daniel Mulhall,  on the lives of the academic and poet Thomas Kettle (1880-1916), and the poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), who are perhaps the best-known Irish casualties of the First World War. Read the text of Ambassador Mulhall’s lecture, or download it here.