List of diplomatic missions of Ireland

Ireland has diplomatic relations with 161 other governments. Ireland has numerous embassies and consulates abroad.

Countries with Irish diplomatic missions

Honorary consulates and the overseas offices of Irish state agencies, namely Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, and Tourism Ireland, are omitted from this listing.

Current missions

Africa
Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Egypt Cairo Embassy 1975
Countries:
 [1][2]
 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Embassy 1994
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [3][4]
 Kenya Nairobi Embassy 1979[lower-alpha 1]
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [3][5]
 Liberia[lower-alpha 2] Monrovia Embassy 2018
Countries:
 [3][6]
 Malawi Lilongwe Embassy 2007 [3][7]
 Morocco Rabat Embassy 2021
Countries:
 [8]
 Mozambique Maputo Embassy 1996
Countries:
 [3][9][10]
 Nigeria Abuja Embassy 1961 [lower-alpha 3]
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [3]
 Senegal Dakar Embassy 2023
Countries:
 [10][11]
 Sierra Leone Freetown Embassy 2014
Countries:
 [3][12]
 South Africa Pretoria Embassy 1994
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [3][13]
 Tanzania Dar es Salaam Embassy 1979
Countries:
 [3]
 Uganda Kampala Embassy 1994
Countries:
 [3][14]
 Zambia Lusaka Embassy 1980
Countries:
 [3][15]

Americas
Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy 1947
Countries:
 [16][10]
 Brazil Brasília Embassy 2001
Countries:
 [16]
São Paulo Consulate-General 2014 [16]
 Canada Ottawa Embassy 1950
Countries:
 [17][18]
Toronto Consulate-General 2022 [17][19]
Vancouver Consulate-General 2018 [17]
 Chile Santiago Embassy 2019
Countries:
 [16]
 Colombia Bogotá Embassy 2018
Countries:
 [17][16]
 Mexico Mexico City Embassy 1998
Countries:
 [17][20]
 United States Washington, D.C. Embassy 1924
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [17][21]
Atlanta Consulate-General 2011 [17]
Austin Consulate-General 2014 [17]
Boston Consulate-General 1929 [17]
Chicago Consulate-General 1933 [17]
Los Angeles Consulate-General 2019 [17]
Miami Consulate-General 2022 [17][22]
New York City Consulate-General 1930 [17]
San Francisco Consulate-General 1933 [17]

Asia
Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 China Beijing Embassy 1979
Countries:
 [23]
Hong Kong Consulate-General 2014 [23]
Shanghai Consulate-General 2000 [23][24]
 India New Delhi Embassy 1964
Countries:
 [23]
Mumbai Consulate-General 2019 [23][25]
 Indonesia Jakarta Embassy 2014
International Organizations:
 [23][26]
 Israel Tel Aviv Embassy 1996 [1]
 Japan Tokyo Embassy 1973 [23]
 Jordan Amman Embassy 2019
Countries:
 [1][10]
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Embassy 1995 [1]
 Palestine Ramallah Representative office 2000 [1]
 Philippines Manila Embassy 2021
Countries:
 [23][27]
 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Embassy 1976
Countries:
 [1][10]
 Singapore Singapore Embassy 2000
Countries:
 [23][10]
 South Korea Seoul Embassy 1989
Countries:
 [23][10]
 Thailand Bangkok Embassy 2014
Countries:
 [23]
 Turkey Ankara Embassy 1998
Countries:
 [23][28]
 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Embassy 2009
Countries:
 [23][1][10]
 Vietnam Hanoi Embassy 2005
Countries:
 [23]

Europe
Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Austria Vienna Embassy 1974
International Organizations:
 [28][29][30]
 Belgium Brussels Embassy 1950 [28]
 Bulgaria Sofia Embassy 2005
Countries:
 [28]
 Croatia Zagreb Embassy 2014 [28]
 Cyprus Nicosia Embassy 2001 [28]
 Czechia Prague Embassy 1995 [28]
 Denmark Copenhagen Embassy 1962 [28]
 Estonia Tallinn Embassy 2001 [28]
 Finland Helsinki Embassy 1993 [28]
 France Paris Embassy 1929
Countries:
 [28]
Lyon Consulate-General 2022 [28][31]
 Germany Berlin Embassy 1929 [lower-alpha 8] [28]
Frankfurt Consulate General 2019 [28][32]
 Greece Athens Embassy 1977
Countries:
 [28]
 Holy See[lower-alpha 9] Rome Embassy 1929 [lower-alpha 10] [28][33]
 Hungary Budapest Embassy 1995
Countries:
 [28]
 Italy Rome Embassy 1938
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [28][1]
 Latvia Riga Embassy 2005 [28]
 Lithuania Vilnius Embassy 2005
Countries:
 [28]
 Luxembourg Luxembourg City Embassy 1973 [28]
 Malta Valletta Embassy 2005 [28]
 Netherlands The Hague Embassy 1950
International Organizations:
 [28][34]
 Norway Oslo Embassy 2001
Countries:
 [28]
 Poland Warsaw Embassy 1990 [28]
 Portugal Lisbon Embassy 1942
Countries:
 [28][1][3]
 Romania Bucharest Embassy 2005
Countries:
 [28]
 Russia Moscow Embassy 1974
Countries:
 [28]
 Slovakia Bratislava Embassy 2001 [28]
 Slovenia Ljubljana Embassy 2001
Countries:
 [28][10]
 Spain Madrid Embassy 1935
Countries:
 [28]
 Sweden Stockholm Embassy 1946 [28]
  Switzerland Bern Embassy 1940
Countries:
 [28][1]
 Ukraine Kyiv Embassy 2020
Countries:
 [28]
 United Kingdom London Embassy 1923 [28]
Cardiff Consulate-General 2019 [28]
Edinburgh Consulate-General 1998 [28]
Manchester Consulate-General 2021 [28][35]

Oceania
Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Australia Canberra Embassy 1946
Countries:
 [23][36]
Sydney Consulate-General 2000 [23]
 New Zealand Wellington Embassy 2018
Countries:
 [23][37][10]

Multilateral organisations
Organization Host city Host country Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Council of Europe Strasbourg France Permanent Mission [38]
 European Union Brussels Belgium Permanent Representation 1999 [38]
OECD Paris France Permanent Representation
International Organizations:
 [38]
OSCE Vienna Austria Permanent Mission 1993 [38]
 United Nations New York City United States Permanent Mission 1956
Countries:
 [17][38]
Geneva Switzerland Permanent Mission 1965
International Organizations:
 [38][39]
  • Embassy in Ankara
    Embassy in Ankara
  • Building hosting the embassy in Athens
    Building hosting the embassy in Athens
  • Embassy in Beijing
    Embassy in Beijing
  • Embassy in Berlin
    Embassy in Berlin
  • Embassy in Bern
    Embassy in Bern
  • Embassy in Budapest
    Embassy in Budapest
  • Embassy in Canberra
    Embassy in Canberra
  • Embassy in Copenhagen
    Embassy in Copenhagen
  • Building hosting the embassy in Helsinki
    Building hosting the embassy in Helsinki
  • World Trade Center Jakarta hosting the embassy in Jakarta
    World Trade Center Jakarta hosting the embassy in Jakarta
  • Building hosting the embassy in Kyiv
    Building hosting the embassy in Kyiv
  • Building hosting the embassy in Lisbon
    Building hosting the embassy in Lisbon
  • Embassy in Ljubljana
    Embassy in Ljubljana
  • Embassy in London
    Embassy in London
  • Embassy in Madrid
    Embassy in Madrid
  • Building hosting the embassy in Mexico City
    Building hosting the embassy in Mexico City
  • Embassy in Moscow
    Embassy in Moscow
  • Building hosting the embassy in Oslo
    Building hosting the embassy in Oslo
  • Embassy in Paris
    Embassy in Paris
  • Embassy in Prague
    Embassy in Prague
  • Building hosting the embassy in Riga
    Building hosting the embassy in Riga
  • Embassy in Rome
    Embassy in Rome
  • Building hosting the embassy in Sofia
    Building hosting the embassy in Sofia
  • Building hosting the embassy in Singapore
    Building hosting the embassy in Singapore
  • Embassy in Stockholm
    Embassy in Stockholm
  • Embassy in Tallinn
    Embassy in Tallinn
  • Building hosting the embassy in Tel Aviv
    Building hosting the embassy in Tel Aviv
  • Embassy in Tokyo
    Embassy in Tokyo
  • Building hosting the embassy in Valletta
    Building hosting the embassy in Valletta
  • Embassy in Vienna
    Embassy in Vienna
  • Embassy in Vilnius
    Embassy in Vilnius
  • Building hosting the embassy in Warsaw
    Building hosting the embassy in Warsaw
  • Embassy in Washington, D.C.
    Embassy in Washington, D.C.
  • Consulate General in San Francisco
    Consulate General in San Francisco
  • Building hosting the embassy in Zagreb
    Building hosting the embassy in Zagreb

Closed missions

Africa
Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
 Lesotho Maseru Embassy 2014 [40][41]
 South Africa Cape Town Liaison office Unknown [13]
 Sudan Khartoum Embassy 2003

Asia
Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
 East Timor Dili Representative office 2011 [42]
 Republic of China (Taiwan) Taipei Representative office 2012 [43]
 Iran Tehran Embassy 2012 [42][44]
 Iraq Baghdad Embassy 1990
 Lebanon Beirut Embassy 1977

Europe
Host country Host city Mission type Year closed
 West Germany Hamburg Consulate-General 1982

Embassies to open

In September 2022, Minister for Foreign affairs Simon Coveney announced the creation the last 8 missions out of 26 in Global Ireland 2025[45]


See also

Notes
  1. Closed in 1989. Reopened in 2015.
  2. Although Ireland has a embassy in Monrovia, it is the resident ambassador in Sierra Leone that is accredited to Liberia. The embassy in Monrovia is led by a Chargé d'affaires.
  3. was moved from Lagos to Abuja in 1992
  4. Accredited as an observer mission
  5. Accredited as an observer mission.
  6. Accredited as an observer mission.
  7. Accredited as an observer mission.
  8. Closed in 1945 reopened in 1951 in Bonn was moved back to Berlin in 2000
  9. The Irish Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory, in Rome.
  10. Closed in 2011 reopened in 2014

References
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  2. "Embassy of Ireland, Egypt". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  3. "Diplomatic and Consular Information for Sub-Saharan Africa". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. "Embassy of Ireland, Ethiopia". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  5. "Committee of Permanent Representatives to the UN Environment Programme" (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  6. "Embassy of Ireland, Liberia". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  7. "Embassy of Ireland, Malawi". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  8. "Embassy of Ireland, Morocco". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  9. "Embassy of Ireland, Mozambique". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  10. "Government approves the nomination of 22 Ambassadorial and senior-level international appointments". gov.ie. Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  11. Seán Mac an tSíthigh (24 January 2023). "President Higgins discusses climate, food security with Senegal's President". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  12. "Embassy of Ireland, Sierra Leone". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  13. "Embassy of Ireland, South Africa". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  14. "Embassy of Ireland, Uganda". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  15. "Embassy of Ireland, Zambia". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  16. "Diplomatic and Consular Information for South America". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  17. "Diplomatic and Consular Information for North & Central America". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  18. "Diplomatic and Consular Information for the Caribbean". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  19. "Consulate General of Ireland, Toronto". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  20. "Embassy of Ireland, Mexico". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  21. "OAS - Organization of American States: Democracy for peace, security, and development". August 2009.
  22. "Consulate General of Ireland, Miami". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  23. "Diplomatic and Consular Information for Asia and Oceania". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  24. "Consulate General of Ireland, Shanghai". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  25. "Consulate General of Ireland, Mumbai". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  26. "Ambassador of Ireland to ASEAN presents credentials". Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  27. "Embassy of Ireland, Philippines". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  28. "Diplomatic and Consular Information for Europe". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  29. "Embassy of Ireland, Austria". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  30. "Permanent Missions to the United Nations (Vienna)".
  31. "Consulate General of Ireland, Lyon". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  32. "Consulate General of Ireland, Frankfurt". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  33. "Embassy of Ireland, Holy See". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  34. "Ireland". 7 September 2022.
  35. "Consulate General of Ireland, Manchester". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  36. "President receives Ireland Ambassador-designate Ó Caollaí". Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  37. "First Irish Ambassador welcomed by Head of State".
  38. "International organisations". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  39. "Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in Geneva". Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  40. Foxe, Ken. "No place like Rome: €64,000 a year home for ambassador".
  41. "Downloads - Embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho in Ireland".
  42. "Irish embassy to the Vatican to be closed". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  43. "Taipei Representative Office in Ireland". Taipei Representative Office in Ireland. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  44. "Ireland set to reopen embassy in Iran by 2023". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  45. "Stories - Government agrees initiatives to further eneland's global influenhance Irce - this is Ireland". ireland.ie. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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