Oral history interview with Conor Cruise O'Brien, 2001.

Biographical Note

Economist

Scope and Contents

Born in Ireland; worked in Irish civil service after graduating from Trinity College; permanent representative to the UN and head of the International Organizations Section of the Irish Government; 1961-1962: UN Security Council in Katanga on the behest of UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld; resigned from civil service and UN position to write United Nations: Sacred Drama book about UN and Kantaga; served as professor, politician, and government minister; against Northern Ireland joining the Republic of Ireland; supported Ireland joining the EC (European Commission); views UN speeches as performance

Subjects

• Africa--Economic integration.
• Ambassadors--Ireland--Interviews.
• European Economic Community--Ireland.
• Interviews.
• Katanga (Congo)
• Northern Ireland--Foreign relations--Ireland.
• O'Brien, Conor Cruise, 1917-2008--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations--Congo (Democratic Republic)
• United Nations--History.
• United Nations--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2002