Telegram from Joseph Walshe to the Department of External Affairs (Dublin)

Have had telegram from Rome.

Agreed final text as follows[:] government of Irish Free State have requested the Holy Father that diplomatic relations should be established between the Holy See and the Irish Free State. The Holy Father has graciously accepted this proposal and when the usual preliminaries have been concluded his Holiness will in due course send a representative to Dublin and will be glad to receive a Minister from the Irish Free State accredited to the Holy See.