Philip McDonagh

This was in the period after Bloody Sunday ( January 1972) when talks were taking place between the Irish and British which eventually culminated in the Sunningdale Agreement.

McDonagh's father was at the time head of the Anglo-Irish division at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and was among the officials who accompanied Lynch to Britain on that occasion.

[2] As Political Counsellor in London McDonagh played a part in the Northern Ireland peace process in the build-up to the Belfast Agreement.

[4] In May 2020 he was appointed Director of the newly-founded Centre for Religion, Human Values and International Relations at Dublin City University.

[5] He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney), the Advisory Council of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (Barcelona) and a member of the Steering Committee of the OSCE Academic Network (Hamburg),[5][3] McDonagh's first poetry collection, Carraroe in Saxony, was published in 2003.