Michael MacWhite

MacWhite was closely involved in preparing the Irish Free State for membership of the League of Nations.

Having an office at 7, Place Claparède in Geneva, he served as the communication link between the League and the nascent State.

In 1938 he was posted to Rome where, as a representative of the renamed Irish state, Ireland, he encountered the hostility of a Fascist government distrustful of foreign diplomats.

When World War II broke out, MacWhite was responsible for looking after the Irish citizens living in Rome.

Eoin MacWhite was born on the same day that the Irish Free State's application for League of Nations membership was approved.

Michael MacWhite at the handing out of Trans-Atlantic flight permits in Washington in 1937