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

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Africa

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Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
  Egypt Cairo Embassy 1975
Countries:
[1][2]
  Ethiopia Addis Ababa Embassy 1994
Countries:
[1][3]
  Kenya Nairobi Embassy 1979[a]
Countries:
[1][4][5]
  Liberia Monrovia Embassy 2018 [1][6]
  Malawi Lilongwe Embassy 2007 [1][7]
  Morocco Rabat Embassy 2021
Countries:
[1][8]
  Mozambique Maputo Embassy 1996
Countries:
[1][9][10]
  Nigeria Abuja Embassy 1961 [b]
Countries:
International Organizations:
[1][11]
  Senegal Dakar Embassy 2023
Countries:
[12][10]
  Sierra Leone Freetown Embassy 2014
Countries:
[1][13]
  South Africa Pretoria Embassy 1994
Countries:
International Organizations:
[1][14]
  Tanzania Dar es Salaam Embassy 1979
Countries:
[1][15]
  Uganda Kampala Embassy 1994
Countries:
[1][16]
  Zambia Lusaka Embassy 1980
Countries:
International Organizations:
[1][17]

Americas

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Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
  Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy 1947
Countries:
[1][18][10]
  Brazil Brasília Embassy 2001
Countries:
[1][19]
São Paulo Consulate-General 2014 [1][20]
  Canada Ottawa Embassy 1950
Countries:
[1][21]
Toronto Consulate-General 2022 [22]
Vancouver Consulate-General 2018 [23]
St. John's Honorary Consul 1999 [24]
  Chile Santiago Embassy 2019
Countries:
[1][25]
  Colombia Bogotá Embassy 2018
Countries:
[1][26]
  Mexico Mexico City Embassy 1998
Countries:
[1][27]
  United States Washington, D.C. Embassy 1924
International Organizations:
[1][28]
Atlanta Consulate-General 2011 [29]
Austin Consulate-General 2014 [30]
Boston Consulate-General 1929 [31]
Chicago Consulate-General 1933 [32]
Los Angeles Consulate-General 2019 [33]
Miami Consulate-General 2022 [34]
New York City Consulate-General 1930 [35]
San Francisco Consulate-General 1933 [36]

Asia

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Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
  China Beijing Embassy 1979
Countries:
[1][37]
Hong Kong Consulate-General 2014 [1][38]
Shanghai Consulate-General 2000 [1][39]
  India New Delhi Embassy 1964
Countries:
[1][40]
Mumbai Consulate-General 2019 [41]
  Indonesia Jakarta Embassy 2014
Countries:
International Organizations:
[1][42][43]
  Iran Tehran Embassy [1]
  Israel Tel Aviv Embassy 1996 [1][44]
  Japan Tokyo Embassy 1973 [1][45]
  Jordan Amman Embassy 2019
Countries:
[1][46][10]
  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Embassy 1995 [1][47]
  Pakistan Islamabad Embassy 2024 [48]
  Palestine Ramallah Representative office 2000 [1][49]
  Philippines Manila Embassy 2021
Countries:
[1][50]
  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Embassy 1976
Countries:
[1][51][10]
  Singapore Singapore Embassy 2000
Countries:
[1][52][10]
  South Korea Seoul Embassy 1989
Countries:
[1][53][10]
  Thailand Bangkok Embassy 2014
Countries:
[1][54]
  Turkey Ankara Embassy 1998
Countries:
[1][55]
  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Embassy 2009
Countries:
[1][56][10]
  Vietnam Hanoi Embassy 2005
Countries:
[1][57]

Europe

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Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
  Austria Vienna Embassy 1974 [1][58][59]
  Belgium Brussels Embassy 1950 [1]
  Bulgaria Sofia Embassy 2005
Countries:
[1][60]
  Croatia Zagreb Embassy 2014 [1][61]
  Cyprus Nicosia Embassy 2001 [1][62]
  Czechia Prague Embassy 1995 [1][63]
  Denmark Copenhagen Embassy 1962 [1][64]
  Estonia Tallinn Embassy 2001 [1][65]
  Finland Helsinki Embassy 1993 [1][66]
  France Paris Embassy 1929
Countries:
[1][67]
Lyon Consulate-General 2022 [1][68]
  Germany Berlin Embassy 1929 [g] [1][69]
Frankfurt Consulate General 2019 [1][70]
Munich Consulate General 2024 [71]
  Greece Athens Embassy 1977
Countries:
[1][72]
  Holy See[h] Rome Embassy 1929 [i] [1][73]
  Hungary Budapest Embassy 1995
Countries:
[1][74]
  Italy Rome Embassy 1938
Countries:
[1][75]
Milan Consulate General 2024 [76]
  Latvia Riga Embassy 2005 [1][77]
  Lithuania Vilnius Embassy 2005
Countries:
[1][78]
  Luxembourg Luxembourg Embassy 1973 [1][79]
  Malta Valletta Embassy 2005 [1][80]
  Netherlands The Hague Embassy 1950 [1][81][82]
  Norway Oslo Embassy 2001
Countries:
[1][83]
  Poland Warsaw Embassy 1990 [1][84]
  Portugal Lisbon Embassy 1942
Countries:
[1][85]
  Romania Bucharest Embassy 2005
Countries:
[1][86]
  Russia Moscow Embassy 1974
Countries:
[1][87]
  Slovakia Bratislava Embassy 2001 [1][88]
  Slovenia Ljubljana Embassy 2001
Countries:
[1][89][10]
  Spain Madrid Embassy 1935
Countries:
[1][90]
  Sweden Stockholm Embassy 1946 [1][91]
   Switzerland Bern Embassy 1940
Countries:
[1][92]
  Ukraine Kyiv Embassy 2020 [1][93]
  United Kingdom London Embassy 1923 [1][94]
Cardiff Consulate-General 2019 [1]
Edinburgh Consulate-General 1998 [1]
Manchester Consulate-General 2021 [1]

Northern Ireland

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Non-consular Department of Foreign Affairs missions to represent the Republic of Ireland in the Good Friday Agreement institutions.

Location Institution Host city Mission Year Opened Ref.
 Northern Ireland British–Irish Intergovernmental Conference Belfast Government Secretariat 1999 [95]
North/South Ministerial Council Armagh Joint Secretariat 1999 [95]

Oceania

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Host country Host city Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
  Australia Canberra Embassy 1946
Countries:
[1][96][97]
Sydney Consulate-General 2000 [98]
  New Zealand Wellington Embassy 2018
Countries:
[1][99][100][10]

Multilateral organisations

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Organization Host city Host country Mission Year Opened Concurrent accreditation Ref.
  Council of Europe Strasbourg France Permanent Mission [1][101]
  European Union Brussels Belgium Permanent Representation 1999 [1][102]
  OECD Paris France Permanent Representation
International Organizations:
[1]
  OSCE Vienna Austria Permanent Mission 1993 [1][103]
  United Nations New York City United States Permanent Mission 1956
Countries:
[1][104]
Geneva Switzerland Permanent Mission 1965 [1][105]
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Closed missions

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Africa

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
  Lesotho Maseru Embassy 2014 [106][107]
  Libya Tripoli Embassy 2011 [108]
  South Africa Cape Town Liaison office Unknown [109]
  Sudan Khartoum Embassy 2003 [108]

Asia

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
  East Timor Dili Representative office 2011 [110]
  Republic of China (Taiwan) Taipei Representative office 2012 [111]
  Iraq Baghdad Embassy 1990 [112]
  Lebanon Beirut Embassy 1977 [108]
  Qatar Doha Embassy 1995 [108]

Europe

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Host country Host city Mission type Year closed Ref.
  West Germany Hamburg Consulate-General 1982 [113]

Missions to open

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In September 2022, Minister for Foreign affairs Simon Coveney announced the creation the last 8 missions out of 26 in Global Ireland 2025[114] In March 2024 Irish foreign minister want to open 5 more missions.[115]

Embassies announced in 2003

Embassies announced in 2019

Embassies announced in 2020

Embassies announced in 2021

Embassies announced in 2024

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Closed in 1989. Reopened in 2015.
  2. ^ was moved from Lagos to Abuja in 1992
  3. ^ Accredited as an observer mission
  4. ^ Accredited as an observer mission.
  5. ^ Accredited as an observer mission.
  6. ^ Accredited as an observer mission.
  7. ^ Closed in 1945; reopened in 1951 in Bonn; removed to Berlin in 2000
  8. ^ The Irish Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory, in Rome.
  9. ^ Closed in 2011 reopened in 2014

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