India and Ireland enjoy friendly and cordial relations as a result of the bonds established during their freedom struggles. These have been strengthened over the years. Formal diplomatic links were established in 1947. India opened an Embassy in Dublin in 1951. The Irish Embassy in New Delhi was set up in 1964 and the Honorary Consulates in Bombay and Bangalore in 1976 and 2000 respectively. Indo-Irish ties have been based on shared values and goodwill, going back to the understanding between Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and the late President Eamon De Valera. The national movements in India and Ireland against British rule brought leaders in the two countries into contact with each other, as evident from several references made by Pandit Nehru in his book “The Glimpses of World History”. There were contacts in other fields as well, most prominent among them being the close interaction between Rabindranath Tagore and W.B. Yeats, both winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Air India Kanishka’s flight from Canada crashed in the Atlantic near the Southern shores of Ireland on June 23rd 1985 as a result of a terrorist bomb planted in it. The bonds of friendship and solidarity forged between families of the victims and the people of Ahakista village in County Cork, who provided shelter and succour to them, added a new and glowing strand to the manifold links between the people of the two countries. A simple and elegant memorial at Ahakista stands testimony to this beautiful bond.
Four rounds of consultations between the Foreign Offices of the two countries have been held so far, the last in Dublin in January 2004 during the Irish Presidency of the EU.
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Like India, Ireland is a prominent contributor to UN Peace Keeping operations. The two countries…
Like India, Ireland is a prominent contributor to UN Peace Keeping operations. The two countries have also cooperated in international forums on a number of important global issues such as combating international terrorism and combating drug trafficking.
Major items of Indian exports to Ireland include garments and clothing accessories, textile yarn and medical and pharmaceutical products; major Irish exports include telecommunications and sound equipment, automatic data processing machines and miscellaneous manufactured articles.
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Indian companies in Ireland: Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals and Tata Consultancy Services have a presence in Ireland.…
Indian companies in Ireland: Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals and Tata Consultancy Services have a presence in Ireland. Perot Systems International (USA), which formerly had set up a joint venture with HCL India, maintain a subsidiary with a 70 (Indian) person unit in Ireland for providing IT services. Recently, TELCO launched two models of its commercial vehicles to Ireland in association with MG Rover of U;K.
Irish companies in India: CR2 and O’Briens Irish Sandwich Bars. Kindle Banking (Software) Systems (now name changed to International Financial Systems Pvt. Ltd.) and IONA Technologies had also set up their business in India for outsourcing their requirements from some Indian companies. Tullow Oil PLC, who have been active in India in oil exploration since 1998, had obtained three licenses in the onshore and offshore Gulf of Kutch/Cambay area of Gujarat. The Independent group of Newspapers & Media in Ireland has recently acquired a 26% share in the ‘Dainik Jagran’ newspaper.
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