Prospect of Albert Reynolds lecture met with ‘deep gloom’ by British
UK state papers: Senior diplomat feared ex-taoiseach could damage British interests
After he resigned as taoiseach in 1994, Albert Reynolds signed up to the Harry Walker Agency of New York. Photograph: Paddy Whelan
An announcement that former taoiseach Albert Reynolds was to start a lecture tour after he left office was met with “deep gloom” by a British diplomat who told a colleague that the politician should be watched closely.
The Irish Times reported in December 1994 that Reynolds, who had recently resigned as taoiseach, had been signed up to the Harry Walker Agency of New York and was about to be launched on the lecture circuit in the United States in the following March or April.