Dr Michael Kennedy is executive editor, documents on Irish foreign policy project, Royal Irish Academy.
Education: Marion College, Dublin; UCD, BA in history and economics, PhD The Irish Free State and League of Nations: 1922-1932.
Employment history: 1993-97 QUB school of modern history, temporary lecturer Irish/European history; UCD Combined departments of history, 1993-2001 assistant examiner, occasional lecturer.
Books include: Ireland and the Council of Europe: from isolation towards integration (with Eunan O'Halpin) (Council of Europe, 2000); Division and Consensus: the politics of cross-border relations in Ireland 1925-1969 (IPA, 2000); Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-1946 (Irish Academic Press, 1996).
Edited works: Documents on Irish Foreign Policy vols one and two (RIA); From Independence to Internationalism: essays on Irish foreign policy, 1919-1969 (with JM Skelly, Four Courts Press). Forthcoming publications include: Documents on Irish Foreign Policy vol 111: 1926-1932, autumn 2002; Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan.