High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Joseph Patrick Curley II (born September 17, 1922) was the 57th United States Ambassador to France from 1989 to 1993 and the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1975 to 1977. Curley was New York City`s Commissioner of Public Events and Chief of Protocol from 1973 to 1974, during the administrations of John Lindsay and Abraham Beame.