Cornelius Christopher Cremin

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Cornelius Christopher Cremin (commonly called Con Cremin by friends ; * December 6, 1908 , † April 18, 1987 ) was an Irish diplomat .

Life

Cornelius Christopher Cremin was the second son of Ann Singleton (Kenmare, Co. Kerry) and DJ Cremin. He graduated from the National University of Ireland's University College Cork , where he received a Bachelor of Economics and a Masters in Classical Studies . Thanks to a three-year travel grant, he was able to continue his studies in Classical Studies from 1931 to 1934 at the British School at Athens , the British School at Rome , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Oxford . In 1934 he graduated from Oxford with a degree in Classical Archeology .

In 1935 Cremin joined the foreign service as a third-class delegation secretary. From 1937 to 1943 he was secretary of the legation in Paris. From 1943 to 1945 he was charge d'affaires in Berlin. (The diplomatic missions of the Republic of Ireland did not have the status of embassies until the Republic of Ireland Act came into force in 1949, since the King of the United Kingdom was formally Irish head of state by then.) On November 22, 1943, the building became the Irish legation Completely destroyed in the bombing raid on the embassy district of Berlin (as well as the Swedish, Portuguese and Turkish embassies and the nunciature ). Cremin moved to the Staffelde Castle near Kremmen .

From 1945 to 1946 Cremin was Chargé d'Affaires in Lisbon , then he worked in the Irish Foreign Ministry, from 1948 to 1950 as Secretary of State . From 1950 to 1954 he was ambassador to Paris. During this time he also headed the Irish delegation to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); from 1952 to 1954 he was Deputy Chairman of the OECD Upper Council . From 1954 to 1956 he was ambassador to the Holy See .

Cremin was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from 1956 to 1958, Secretary of State for the second time in the State Department from 1958 to 1962 and again Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from 1963 to 1964. From 1964 was permanent representative of the Irish government at the UN headquarters in New York City.

From 1973 to 1979 he headed the Irish delegation to the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea . This task continued (until 1979) after he was retired as ambassador on February 7, 1974 .

family

Cornelius Christopher Cremin married Patricia Josephine O'Mahony in 1935, the Killarney-born daughter of a senior Irish health officer. The marriage resulted in three daughters and one son. After the death of his wife, he married Mary Eta Murphy in 1974.

Honors

Fonts

  • The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea . In: Irish Studies in International Affairs , Vol. 1 (1979), pp. 49-60.
  • Northern Ireland at the United Nations, August / September 1969 . In: Irish Studies in International Affairs , Vol. 2 (1980), pp. 67-73.
  • United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations: An Irish Initiative 1961-1968 . In: Irish Studies in International Affairs , Vol. 4 (1984), pp. 79-84.

literature

  • Niall Keogh: Con Cremin. Ireland's wartime diplomat . Mercier Press, Dublin 2006, ISBN 1-85635-497-0 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Niall Keogh: Con Cremin. Ireland's wartime diplomat . Mercier Press, Dublin 2006, p. 8.
  2. ^ Mark M. Hull: Perdition's Guests: Irish in Germany during World War II . In: Clarie O'Reilly, Veronica O'Regan (eds.): Ireland and the Irish in Germany - reception and perception . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0800-0 , pp. 45-62.
  3. ^ Niall Keogh: Con Cremin. Ireland's wartime diplomat . Mercier Press, Dublin 2006, p. 63.
  4. ^ Niall Keogh: Con Cremin. Ireland's wartime diplomat . Mercier Press, Dublin 2006, p. 9.
predecessor Office successor
William Warnock Irish charge d'affaires in the German Reich
1943–1945 		John Aloysius Belton
Irish Chargé d'Affaires in Lisbon
1945–1946 		Thomas Vincent Commins
Sean Murphy Irish ambassador to France
1950–1954 		William P. Fay
Joseph P. Walshe Irish Ambassador to the Holy See
1954–1956 		Leo Thomas McCauley
Frederick H. Boland Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1956–1958 		Hugh McCann
Hugh McCann Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1963–1964 		Donal O'Sullivan
Frederick H. Boland Permanent Representative of the Irish Government in New York City
1964–1974 		Eamonn L. Kennedy
personal data
SURNAME Cremin, Cornelius Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1908
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1987