Factfile: Dr Michael Kennedy

Dr Michael Kennedy is executive editor, documents on Irish foreign policy project, Royal Irish Academy.

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).

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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.