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Interview with Lawrence Hydle by Charles Kennedy for Frontline Diplomacy: the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training on 21 July 1994

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Text interview with Lawrence Hydle, former American diplomat in Northern Ireland, by Charles Kennedy for Frontline Diplomacy: the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training on 21 July 1994. Hydle served as an American diplomat in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1974. In this interview he discusses American policy on Northern Ireland during that period. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training is an independent, non-profit organisation which promotes knowledge of American international diplomacy. The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection consists of over 1,700 transcript interviews from those who shape American foreign policy.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 2000

Name of First Interviewee: Lawrence Hydle

Role at time of Interview: Former American diplomat in Northern Ireland

Interviewer: Charles Kennedy

Purpose: Research

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: Frontline Diplomacy: the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic St

Time Period covered: 1972-1974

Key Individuals: Lawrence Hydle, Richard Nixon, Ian Paisley, Gerry Adams, Bernadette Devlin, Mary Drum

Key Words: American government, religion, IRA, civil rights, British army, Bloody Sunday, Alliance Party, SDLP, Sinn Fein, British government, Irish government, partition, Sunningdale Agreement

 

 

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