Envoy Extraordinary is the biography of Dr Timothy A. Smiddy, the first Irish envoy to the US following the creation of the Free State. This biography seeks to address the dearth of current literature surround ing public servants of the Free State and the contributions they made to the formation of Irish national policy. Envoy Extraordinary is researched and written by Eda Sagarra, grand daughter of Smiddy, who has published widely on German literature and social history and latterly on aspects of the early history of the Irish State. Sagarra’s familial perspective contributes recollections from Smiddy’s daughters and Sagarra’s own personal memories of an apparently very private man who left behind few autobiographical sources. Few personal papers of Smiddy’s have survived to be recorded, while his official correspondence and memoranda reflect little of his character. The familial recollections provide charming anecdotal evidence to the text, which is exhaustively researched and referenced. Sagarra examines records in local and national collections, including Cork City Archive records of the business affairs of Smiddy’s father, Academic Council minutes and office files from Smiddy’s career at University College Cork (UCC), and official correspondence and memoranda from Smiddy’s career as envoy extraordinary and later as unofficial advisor to Éamon de Valera. Also referenced is a substantial collection of family memorabilia collected by Smiddy’s eldest daughter, Pearl, including about 200 letters from over 50 years of family correspondence, press cuttings from the family’s time in Washington, D.C., and some family photos. The thorough research conducted by Sagarra was in pursuit of revealing ‘Smiddy’s motivation during his career and whether his

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特使特使：科克的斯密迪教授

Envoy Extraordinary 是 Timothy A. Smiddy 博士的传记，他是自由邦成立后第一位前往美国的爱尔兰特使。这本传记旨在解决围绕自由州公务员及其对爱尔兰国家政策形成所做贡献的当前文献的缺乏。《非凡特使》由 Smiddy 的孙女 Eda Sagarra 研究和撰写，她在德国文学和社会历史以及后来的爱尔兰早期历史方面发表了广泛的著作。Sagarra 的家庭视角有助于回忆 Smiddy 的女儿和 Sagarra 自己对一个显然非常私密的人的个人记忆，他几乎没有留下自传来源。斯密迪的几篇个人文件幸存下来并被记录下来，而他的官方信件和备忘录几乎没有反映他的性格。家庭回忆为文本提供了迷人的轶事证据，该文本经过详尽的研究和引用。Sagarra 检查了地方和国家收藏中的记录，包括 Smiddy 父亲商业事务的 Cork City Archive 记录、Smiddy 在科克大学 (UCC) 职业生涯中的学术委员会会议记录和办公室文件，以及 Smiddy 作为非凡特使的职业生涯中的官方信函和备忘录后来担任 Éamon de Valera 的非官方顾问。还参考了 Smiddy 的大女儿 Pearl 收集的大量家庭纪念品，包括来自 50 多年家庭通信的大约 200 封信件、家庭在华盛顿特区时的新闻剪报和一些家庭照片。