About Bernard Davenport
Lived 1939 – 2018 (aged 78–79). Bernard Davenport was a diplomat.
Bernard Davenport (19 August 1939 – 11 June 2018) was an Irish Ambassador.
Davenport was born in Dublin. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin, in 1963 in economics and politics, followed by an MA in economics. He joined the Dublin section of The Economist's Economic Intelligence Unit under Garret FitzGerald.
In 1968 he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs as 3rd secretary. From 1978 to 1983 he served as counsellor at the U.N.
He became ambassador to Argentina in 1989. During his tenure, on St. Patrick's Day 1992, an hour and a half after he had left the embassy to attend St. Patrick's day functions, a bomb exploded at the nearby Israeli Embassy. The Irish Embassy was empty, but the interior was wrecked.
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Irish ambassador
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Bernard Davenport was born in 1939.
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Bernard Davenport died on 11 June 2018.
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Bernard Davenport was a diplomat.
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