Bernadette Whelan

Irish foreign policy, American-Irish diplomacy, Irish women's history,

US History, 1913-83 Ireland and America: A special relationship, 1790-1980 Ireland and the wider world, 1919-80 US foreign relations in the twentieth century

Dr Bernadette Whelan is professor emeritus in the University of Limerick and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She publishes extensively on American Irish diplomatic relations. Her publication De Valera and Roosevelt. Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) was awarded the American Conference of Irish Studies Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America. She is co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy published bi-annually by the Royal Irish Academy, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Archives of Ireland. Currently, she is completing a manuscript titled 'First ladies and first gentlemen: The evolution of a role, Ireland, 1919-2011'.