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Frederick Henry Boland (
January 16,
1904 -
December 4,
1985) was the first
Irish ambassador to
Britain and to the
United Nations.
Boland was born in
Dublin on
January 16, 1904. He was educated at
Clongowes Wood College,
Trinity College, and
King's Inns, Dublin, where he received his
B.A. and
LL.B. degrees. He also did a degree in Classics at Trinity. He did graduate work at
Harvard,
University of Chicago, and
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1926-28 as a Rockefeller Research Fellow. He received an Honorary
LLD degree from the
University of Dublin.
He was Assistant Secretary of the Department of External Affairs from 1939-1946, before becoming the Secretary, a post he held until 1950. In this role he led negotiations in 1949 which changed Ireland's status from membership of the Commonwealth to that of a Republic.
He served as his country’s Ambassador in London from 1950 to 1956. In 1956 he became Ireland's Ambassador to the United Nations. Boland was married to the painter the late
Frances Kelly. Their daughter
Eavan Boland is a leading Irish poet.
Boland was the president of the General Assembly of the United Nations on
October 12,
1960, when
Nikita Khrushchev took off his shoe and pounded it on his desk.
Boland served as the twenty first Chancellor of
Trinity College, Dublin between
1963 and
1982.
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