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: Lebanon Syria	[1][2]
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Embassy	1994	Countries: Djibouti South Sudan International Organizations: African Union Intergovernmental Authority on Development UNECA	[1][3]
Kenya	Nairobi	Embassy	1979[a]	Countries: Eritrea Somalia Sudan International Organizations: United Nations United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme	[1][4][5]
Liberia	Monrovia	Embassy	2018		[1][6]
Malawi	Lilongwe	Embassy	2007		[1][7]
Morocco	Rabat	Embassy	2021	Countries: Mauritania Tunisia	[1][8]
Mozambique	Maputo	Embassy	1996	Countries: Eswatini Madagascar	[1][9][10]
Nigeria	Abuja	Embassy	1961 [b]	Countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Gabon Ghana Ivory Coast Niger São Tomé and Principe Togo International Organizations: Economic Community of West African States[c]	[1][11]
Senegal	Dakar	Embassy	2023	Countries: Gambia Mali	[12][10]
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Embassy	2014	Countries: Guinea	[1][13]
South Africa	Pretoria	Embassy	1994	Countries: Botswana Lesotho Mauritius Zimbabwe International Organizations: Southern African Development Community[c]	[1][14]
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Embassy	1979	Countries: Burundi Comoros Congo-Kinshasa Seychelles	[1][15]
Uganda	Kampala	Embassy	1994	Countries: Rwanda	[1][16]
Zambia	Lusaka	Embassy	1980	Countries: Namibia International Organizations: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa	[1][17]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year Opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Embassy	1947	Countries: Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay	[1][18][10]
Brazil	Brasília	Embassy	2001	Countries: Guyana Suriname	[1][19]
	São Paulo	Consulate-General	2014		[1][20]
Canada	Ottawa	Embassy	1950	Countries: Bahamas Jamaica	[1][21]
	Toronto	Consulate-General	2022		[22]
	Vancouver	Consulate-General	2018		[23]
	St. John's	Honorary Consul	1999		[24]
Chile	Santiago	Embassy	2019	Countries: Ecuador Peru	[1][25]
Colombia	Bogotá	Embassy	2018	Countries: Dominican Republic Panama Venezuela	[1][26]
Mexico	Mexico City	Embassy	1998	Countries: Belize Costa Rica Cuba El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua	[1][27]
United States	Washington, D.C.	Embassy	1924	Countries: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines International Organizations: Organization of American States[c]	[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

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year Opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
China	Beijing	Embassy	1979	Countries: Mongolia	[1][37]
	Hong Kong	Consulate-General	2014		[1][38]
	Shanghai	Consulate-General	2000		[1][39]
India	New Delhi	Embassy	1964	Countries: Bangladesh Maldives   Nepal Sri Lanka	[1][40]
	Mumbai	Consulate-General	2019		[41]
Indonesia	Jakarta	Embassy	2014	Countries: East Timor International Organizations: Association of Southeast Asian Nations[c]	[1][42][43]
Israel	Tel Aviv	Embassy	1996		[1][44]
Japan	Tokyo	Embassy	1973		[1][45]
Jordan	Amman	Embassy	2019	Countries: Iraq	[1][46][10]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Embassy	1995		[1][47]
Pakistan	Islamabad	Embassy	2024		[1]
Palestine	Ramallah	Representative office	2000		[1][48]
Philippines	Manila	Embassy	2021	Countries: Marshall Islands Micronesia Palau	[1][49]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Embassy	1976	Countries: Bahrain Oman Yemen	[1][50][10]
Singapore	Singapore	Embassy	2000	Countries: Brunei	[1][51][10]
South Korea	Seoul	Embassy	1989	Countries: North Korea	[1][52][10]
Thailand	Bangkok	Embassy	2014	Countries: Myanmar	[1][53]
Turkey	Ankara	Embassy	1998	Countries: Azerbaijan	[1][54]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Embassy	2009	Countries: Afghanistan Kuwait Qatar	[1][55][10]
Vietnam	Hanoi	Embassy	2005	Countries: Cambodia Laos	[1][56]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year Opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Austria	Vienna	Embassy	1974	International Organizations: United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency UNIDO UNODC	[1][57][58]
Belgium	Brussels	Embassy	1950		[1]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Embassy (upcoming)	2025		[59]
Bulgaria	Sofia	Embassy	2005	Countries: Armenia Georgia	[1][60]
Croatia	Zagreb	Embassy	2014		[1][61]
Cyprus	Nicosia	Embassy	2001		[1][62]
Czech Republic	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: Monaco	[1][67]
	Lyon	Consulate-General	2022		[1][68]
Germany	Berlin	Embassy	1929 [d]		[1][69]
	Frankfurt	Consulate General	2019		[1][70]
	Munich	Consulate General	2024		[71]
Greece	Athens	Embassy	1977	Countries: Albania	[1][72]
Holy See[e]	Rome	Embassy	1929 [f]		[1][73]
Hungary	Budapest	Embassy	1995	Countries: Kosovo Montenegro	[1][74]
Italy	Rome	Embassy	1938	Countries: Libya San Marino International Organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization International Fund for Agricultural Development World Food Programme	[1][75]
	Milan	Consulate General	2024		[76]
Latvia	Riga	Embassy	2005		[1][77]
Lithuania	Vilnius	Embassy	2005	Countries: Belarus	[1][78]
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Embassy	1973		[1][79]
Malta	Valletta	Embassy	2005		[1][80]
Moldova	Chișinău	Embassy (upcoming)	2025		[81]
Netherlands	The Hague	Embassy	1950	International Organizations: International Criminal Court Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	[1][82][83]
Norway	Oslo	Embassy	2001	Countries: Iceland	[1][84]
Poland	Warsaw	Embassy	1990		[1][85]
Portugal	Lisbon	Embassy	1942	Countries: Angola Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau	[1][86]
Romania	Bucharest	Embassy	2005	Countries: North Macedonia	[1][87]
Russia	Moscow	Embassy	1974	Countries: Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan	[1][88]
Serbia	Belgrade	Embassy (upcoming)	2025		[89]
Slovakia	Bratislava	Embassy	2001		[1][90]
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Embassy	2001		[1][91][10]
Spain	Madrid	Embassy	1935	Countries: Andorra	[1][92]
Sweden	Stockholm	Embassy	1946		[1][93]
Switzerland	Bern	Embassy	1940	Countries: Algeria Liechtenstein	[1][94]
Ukraine	Kyiv	Embassy	2020		[1][95]
United Kingdom	London	Embassy	1923		[1][96]
	Cardiff	Consulate-General	2019		[1]
	Edinburgh	Consulate-General	1998		[1]
	Manchester	Consulate-General	2021		[1]

Northern Ireland

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	[97]
	North/South Ministerial Council	Armagh	Joint Secretariat	1999	[97]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year Opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Australia	Canberra	Embassy	1946	Countries: Fiji Nauru Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands	[1][98][99]
	Sydney	Consulate-General	2000		[100]
New Zealand	Wellington	Embassy	2018	Countries: Cook Islands Kiribati Samoa Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu	[1][101][102][10]

Multilateral organisations

Organization	Host city	Host country	Mission	Year Opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Council of Europe	Strasbourg	France	Permanent Mission			[1][103]
European Union	Brussels	Belgium	Permanent Representation	1999		[1][104]
OECD	Paris	France	Permanent Representation		International Organizations: UNESCO	[1]
OSCE	Vienna	Austria	Permanent Mission	1993		[1][105]
United Nations	New York City	United States	Permanent Mission	1956	Countries: Congo-Brazzaville Haiti Trinidad and Tobago	[1][106]
	Geneva	Switzerland	Permanent Mission	1965	International Organizations: Conference on Disarmament World Health Organization World Intellectual Property Organization World Trade Organization	[1][107]

Gallery

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  Building hosting the embassy in Ankara
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  Building hosting the embassy in Athens
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  Embassy in Beijing
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  Embassy in Berlin
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  Embassy in Bern
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  Embassy in Budapest
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  Embassy in Canberra
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  Embassy in Copenhagen
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  Building hosting the embassy in Helsinki
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  Building hosting the embassy in Jakarta
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  Building hosting the embassy in Kyiv
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  Building hosting the embassy in Lisbon
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  Embassy in Ljubljana
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  Embassy in London
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  Consulate-General in Edinburgh
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  Embassy in Luxembourg
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  Embassy in Madrid
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  Building hosting the embassy in Manila
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  Building hosting the embassy in Mexico City
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  Embassy in Moscow
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  Building hosting the embassy in Oslo
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  Embassy in Paris
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  Embassy in Prague
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  Building hosting the embassy in Riga
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  Embassy in Rome
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  Building hosting the Embassy in Santiago de Chile
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  Building hosting the embassy in Singapore
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  Building hosting the embassy in Sofia
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  Embassy in Stockholm
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  Embassy in Tallinn
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  Building hosting the embassy in Tel Aviv
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  Embassy in Tokyo
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  Embassy in Vienna
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  Embassy in Vilnius
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  Building hosting the embassy in Warsaw
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  Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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  Consulate-General in San Francisco
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  Building hosting the embassy in Zagreb

Closed missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Lesotho	Maseru	Embassy	1975	2014	[108][109][110]
South Africa	Cape Town	Liaison office	1994	Unknown	[111]
Sudan	Khartoum	Embassy	1999	2003	[108]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
East Timor	Dili	Representative office	2003	2011	[112]
Republic of China (Taiwan)	Taipei	Representative office	1989	2012	[113]
Iraq	Baghdad	Embassy	1977	1990	[114]
Iran	Tehran	Embassy	2025
Israel	Jerusalem	Consulate	1996	Unknown	[115]
Lebanon	Beirut	Embassy	1974, 1979	1977, 1989	[108]
Qatar	Doha	Embassy	1979	1995	[108]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission type	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
West Germany	Hamburg	Consulate-General	1962	1982	[116]

Missions 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^[117] In March 2024 Irish foreign minister want to open 5 more missions.^[118]

Missions announced in 2003

• Iraq
  • Baghdad (Embassy)

Missions announced in 2019

• Bangladesh
  • Dhaka (Embassy)

Missions announced in 2020

• Qatar
  • Doha (Embassy)

Missions announced in 2024

• Australia
  • Melbourne (Consulate-General)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Sarajevo (Embassy)
• Moldova
  • Chișinău (Embassy)
• Serbia
  • Belgrade (Embassy)
• Spain
  • Málaga (Consulate General)

See also

• Foreign relations of Ireland
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Ireland)
• List of diplomatic missions in Ireland
• Visa policy of Ireland
• Irish Aid

Notes

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