The first contemporary and authoritative textbook presenting major themes and analysis of Irish foreign policy within a contextual framework of history, political science, economics and international relations. 

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this acclaimed text

Presents the major historical turning points in the development of Irish public services, with a particular focus on the civil service; and covers the mid-nineteenth-century reforms, the foundations of the State, and the Lemass-Whittaker economic initiative.