Frederick Henry Boland (January 16, 1904 - December 4, 1985) was an Irish diplomat, who served as ambassador to Britain and the first Irish Ambassador to the United Nations. Boland was born in Dublin on January 16, 1904. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, St Olave's Grammar School, Trinity College, and King's Inns, Dublin, where he received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees. He also did a degree in Classics at Trinity.

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  • Frederick Henry Boland (January 16, 1904 - December 4, 1985) was an Irish diplomat, who served as ambassador to Britain and the first Irish Ambassador to the United Nations. Boland was born in Dublin on January 16, 1904. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, St Olave's Grammar School, Trinity College, and King's Inns, Dublin, where he received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees. He also did a degree in Classics at Trinity. He did graduate work at Harvard, University of Chicago, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1926-28 as a Rockefeller Research Fellow. He received an Honorary LLD degree from the University of Dublin. He was Assistant Secretary of the Department of External Affairs from 1939-1946, before becoming the Secretary, a post he held until 1950. In this role he led negotiations in 1949 which changed Ireland's status from membership of the Commonwealth to that of a Republic. He served as the first Irish Ambassador to the Court of St James in London from 1950 to 1956. In 1956 he became Ireland's Ambassador to the United Nations. Boland was married to the painter the late Frances Kelly. Their daughter Eavan Boland is a leading Irish poet. Boland was the president of the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 12, 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev took off his shoe and pounded it on his desk. Boland served as the twenty first Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin between 1963 and 1982.
  • Frederick Henry Boland war ein irischer Diplomat und Politiker. Nach dem Studium in Irland und den USA trat Boland 1929 in den diplomatischen Dienst seines Landes ein. Von 1932 bis 1934 war er Erster Sekretär an der irischen Vertretung in Paris. Von 1936 bis 1950 war er Abteilungsleiter in verschiedenen Ministerien, bis er schließlich der erste Vertreter der irischen Republik im Rang eines Botschafters in London wurde. Von 1956 bis 1961 war er ebenfalls der erste Ständige Vertreter Irlands bei den Vereinten Nationen in New York City. 1960 wurde er zum Präsidenten der UN-Generalversammlung für die Wahlperiode 1960/1961 gewählt. Während seiner Präsidentschaft musste er Chruschtschow bei dessen legendären „Schuh-Rede“ vor der Generalversammlung zur Ruhe rufen. 1963 zog er sich aus dem diplomatischen Dienst zurück. Boland wurde zuerst Kanzler der Universität von Dublin und später Vorstand bei der irischen Tochter von IBM. Frederick H. Boland war verheiratet und hatte fünf Kinder, eines davon ist der irische Dichterin Eavan Boland (* 1944).
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  • Frederick Henry Boland war ein irischer Diplomat und Politiker. Nach dem Studium in Irland und den USA trat Boland 1929 in den diplomatischen Dienst seines Landes ein. Von 1932 bis 1934 war er Erster Sekretär an der irischen Vertretung in Paris. Von 1936 bis 1950 war er Abteilungsleiter in verschiedenen Ministerien, bis er schließlich der erste Vertreter der irischen Republik im Rang eines Botschafters in London wurde.
  • Frederick Henry Boland (January 16, 1904 - December 4, 1985) was an Irish diplomat, who served as ambassador to Britain and the first Irish Ambassador to the United Nations. Boland was born in Dublin on January 16, 1904. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, St Olave's Grammar School, Trinity College, and King's Inns, Dublin, where he received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees. He also did a degree in Classics at Trinity.
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