Walter Joseph Patrick Curley II (born September 17, 1922) was the 57th United States Ambassador to France

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 from 1989 to 1993 and the United States Ambassador to Ireland

United States Ambassador to Ireland

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 from 1975 to 1977. Curley was New York City

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's Commissioner of Public Events and Chief of Protocol from 1973 to 1974, during the administrations of John Lindsay

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 and Abraham Beame

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He has written two books on royalty. Curley is a graduate of Yale University

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 and Harvard Business School

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Vanishing Kingdoms http://books.google.com/books?id=uaNCNgAACAAJ&dq=walter+curley&hl=en