Máirín Óscanlon
Máirín Aodhagáin Óscanlon | |
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| Ambassador to the LOTA | |
| Assumed office 12 Íoðilús, 21207 | |
| Chancellor | Ilham Haydar |
| Preceded by | Éamon K.C.E. Trinian |
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| Born | Escarda, Devahoma |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Alisdair Óscanlon |
| Residence | Inveralgin, Devahoma |
Máirín Aodhagáin Óscanlon is a Kiravian diplomat currently representing the Federacy to the Levantia and Odoneru Treaty Association. She previously served as the Kiravian delegate to the Ixnay League of Nations.
Early Life
Born Máirín Nessa Gráinne Aodhagáin in Escarda and raised in the prosperous Escarda suburb of Ætiverditren, Máirín was born into a family of considerable historical prestiege. The Aodhagáins had been a royal family in Æredan during the 20700s, tracing their surname and ancestry to the earliest Gaelic missionary-settlers. Arriving in Kiravia in 21047, the Aodhagáins settled in Intravia and over successive generations distinguished themselves in the politics of that state and also neighbouring Devahoma. Máirín's father, Cinead D.A.A. Aodhagáin, was a former Attorney-General of Devahoma and her mother Nessa had once served as a countyship commissioner. Though members of the Æran ethnosocial community, the family had intermarried extensively with Kiravian Gaels and Féinem.
Diplomatic Career
Máirín Óscanlon began her career in the State Executive's Cross-Cultural Relations Directorate, which was responsible for public diplomacy, cultural exchange, and propaganda programs in foreign countries. After working as a staffer at the Kiravian Embassy in Urceopolis and later communications director for the Kiravian-sponsored Commonwealth Development Network, Óscanlon was appointed as chief-of-staff at the Kiravian World Assembly Observer Mission.
League of Nations
After demonstrating a long history of national sovereingtist sentiment and activism to assuage Coscivian Nationalist Stanora delegates seeking to obstruct Kiravian participation in the Ixnay League of Nations, Óscanlon was confirmed as Delegate-Major to that organisation. As ambassador, she opposed many liberal internationalist initiatives proposed to the League, such as decolonisation. While this earned her substantial praise and political confidence in Kiravia, it stoked existing fears that the Federacy intended to handicap the organisation from the inside.
Óscanlon's impassioned defences of Kiravian sovereignty before plenary sessions of the League of Nations General Assembly were widely circulated on Kiravian media networks, earning her a certain celebrity status, particularly among Coscivian nationalists. During her service at the League of Nations, Óscanlon was approached by operatives of the Order & Justice Party of her home state of Devahoma seeking to recruit her as a candidate for the 21206 Stanora election. She ultimately declined to stand in the election, but continued to take frequent calls from OJP politicians and staffers.
Activity at the League of Nations ground to a halt later in 21206 due to political gridlock and widespread apathy, and the Kiravian government scaled back its already limited involvement with the organisation, recalling most staff to Kartika. Though not recalled herself, Óscanlon delegated most of her day-to-day responsibilities to the skeleton staff remaining in Farpoint and returned to Great Kirav, spending the rest of the year in Kartika and in the Escarda area, where she is rumoured to have been laying foundations for a political career in the state.
Levantia & Odoneru Treaty Association
In early 21207, Prime Executive Candrin issued executive orders reschuffling his top foreign service personnel. Ambassador Éamon Trinian was recalled to Kartika to serve as Chief Security Executive, replacing Stradivarius Veritan. On the advice of Chief State Executive Larimar, Óscanlon was appointed as his successor and departed immediately for Castellum.
Political Views
Óscanlon has known sympathies for the Coscivian National Congress caucus, and was a registered member of the CNC-affiliated Order & Justice Party of Devahoma until she joined the Foreign Service. She has described herself as âsoliberarisur, âsoempritêrnarisur ("antiliberal, anti-internationalist"), and opposes both cultural and political Westernisation. A convinced realist, she "has no delusions as to the ability of international institutions like the League of Nations to subvert the balance of power," and believes that international issues are better addressed on a voluntary, plurilateral basis that acknowledges the sovereignty of states and recognises state power as the key determinant of policy outcomes.
Personal Life
Óscanlon is the wife of Alisdair Óscanlon of Dunmoran, Irovasdra whom she met while both were undertaking basic training for the Kiravian Foreign Service. Alisdair Óscanlon is the chief-of-staff to Chief State Executive Serapion Larimar, with whom both have reprotedly become close friends.
The Ambassador is a fluent speaker of Æran Coscivian, Kiravic Coscivian, English, and Lebhan, and has a strong command of High Coscivian, Gaelic, and Latin.
Óscanlon and her husband are legally domiciled in the Escarda suburb of Inveralgin where they were married and hold Devahoman passports, but reside primarily in the Tyderian Waterfront neighbourhood of Kartika. They are parishoners at St. Colmán of Dromore Apostolic Church in Arþodun.