Consul General

Welcome to the website of the Consulate General of Ireland in Munich.

The Consulate was established in 2024 under the Global Ireland initiative to represent Ireland in in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Our main objective is to serve Irish citizens and promote Ireland’s interests, values and relationships in our consular area.

Ireland has a strong, dynamic and longstanding relationship with Germany that extends across the areas of trade and business, education and research, and culture and tourism. 

The Consulate team works closely with our colleagues in Embassy Berlin and Ireland’s economic state agencies – Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, Tourism Ireland and Bord Bia – to support and strengthen these links.  

The relationship between Ireland and Germany is underpinned by people-to-people ties and there is a strong and vibrant Irish community in Munich and our wider consular area. Newly arrived Irish people in Germany will receive a warm welcome from the Consulate and clubs and associations in Munich and the region, including the GAA, the Irish Business Network and Irish cultural organisations. You can find further information on our New to Germany page.

This website contains lots of information on the work of the Consulate and our colleagues in Embassy Berlin, including how to apply for Irish passports and visas, which I hope you will find useful. I’d also encourage you to follow our social media channels for the latest news and updates.

Le gach dea-ghuí/ With best wishes

James C. O'Shea

Ard-Chonsal/ Consul General

James C. O’Shea took up duty in August 2024 as Ireland’s first Consul General in Munich, with responsibility for the German federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Before his assignment in Munich, James C. served as Deputy Director of the United Nations and International Financial Institutions Unit in the Development Cooperation and Africa Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Prior to that, James C. was Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Ireland in Tel Aviv. He has also served at Ireland’s Embassy in Moscow and at its multilateral missions to the United Nations in Geneva (working on disarmament and on human rights) and to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, where he was lead official on conflicts during Ireland’s 2012 OSCE Chairmanship. In earlier assignments at Headquarters, he has worked on Asia/Oceania, human rights, United Nations reform and international security policy. He has also worked for the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna as head of the Caucasus desk, and has undertaken a secondment to Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

James C. is a graduate of University College Cork (B.C.L., LL.M.) and of the Honourable Society of the King’s Inns, Dublin (Barrister-at-Law).