Ambassador Mulhall joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1978 and had his early diplomatic assignments in New Delhi, Vienna (OSCE), Brussels (European Union), and Edinburgh where he was Ireland's first Consul General, 1998-2001. He served as Ireland's Ambassador to Malaysia (2001-05), where he was also accredited to Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. From 2009 to 2013, he was Ireland's Ambassador to Germany and then served as Ireland's Ambassador in London (2013-17). He maintains a keen interest in Irish history and literature. He is the author of A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900 (Cork, 1999) and co-editor of The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment (Dublin, 2016).

The Irish Influence is made possible by the generous support of the Irish Consulate in Boston, as well as Boston College and Boston College Ireland.