[2] By contrast, the Irish High Commission (now the Embassy of Ireland) in London was established as early as 1923.

[5] On 2 February of that year, it was burnt to the ground with petrol bombs during demonstrations by large crowds of people.

[6] This occurred following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on 30 January, where the British Army's Parachute Regiment shot and killed fourteen unarmed Catholic civilians during a civil rights demonstration.

[10] Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, accompanied by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney, attended the British Embassy in Dublin to sign their condolences.

[11] The British Ambassador's official residence in Dublin is Glencairn House, located on Murphystown Road.