Taoiseach Micheál Martin welcomed Prime Minister Mark Carney at Government Buildings. They discussed trade and investment, security, and life sciences, and announced a new bilateral co-operation framework.
"Lemass was extraordinarily prescient that Europe’s dependence on the US security umbrella could lead to problems in the future. Ireland, he stressed, was militarily unaligned, not neutral. In any confrontation between “East and West, we will be on the side of the West. Ireland will side with democracy against any socialist or totalitarian system. But we consider we could give more service to the West outside a formal alliance.
“I, personally, would not at all disagree with de Gaulle that Europe must be capable of an independent defence, if this is feasible, because there is a great deal of sense in his contention that when the chips are down, America would not commit suicide for the sake of Europe.”
My article in @IrishCentral about Seán Lemass: The Lost Memoir.
https://t.co/T0u72cohDA
I was proud to host the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) @MichealMartinTD at Independence Hall & present to him a congressional award honoring the 3 Irish-born signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as all of the many Irish who fought in the American Revolution. 🇺🇸🇮🇪
@DarraghOBrienTD Good man Darragh. Proud to be married to a Brazilian in Ireland. The ties are strong and important between our countries. Great job Ambassador.
☘️ Absolutely beautiful, boiled bacon ribs, potatoes, cabbage and a little white sauce. Bacon Ribs are called bodice in some parts of Ireland. Very tasty indeed 😋☘️💚🇮🇪
#Traditional#Irish#Food#Ireland
Delighted to be at Cambridge University today to mark the establishment of the Childers Chair of Irish History in Trinity College.
In Prof Alvin Jackson, Cambridge has chosen a historian of the very highest rank for this professorship.
'This country of ours is no sand-bank thrown up by some caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour and its sufferings.'💚
~Irish writer Thomas Davis (1814-1845)
📍 Derrynane, Co. Kerry ☘️