Council of Europe
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Council of Europe. Established in 1949 as an intergovernmental forum covering the greater part of non‐communist Europe, the council was the most important international organization in which Ireland participated in the decade following the Second World War. Although Ireland joined the council at its inception, however, the opportunities of membership were never properly exploited in this most introverted phase of Irish politics and foreign policy. Sean
MacBride's attempts to use the council to provide an audience for the ‘sore thumb’ of partition proved wholly counter‐productive, merely mystifying—and ultimately alienating—other national delegations rather than winning them to the cause. In the mid‐1950s the council was superseded in importance in Europe by the establishment of the European Economic Community (see
european union), and in Irish foreign policy by admission to the
United Nations.
Norrie MacQueen
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Council of Europe
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