Commandant Daniel Ayiotis
Daniel is the Officer-in-Charge of the Military Archives, based at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, Dublin. He joined the Army as a Cadet in 2002 and was commissioned to the 27th Infantry Battalion, based between Dundalk and Monaghan, in 2004. During this time he served in several locations and appointments at home and abroad including Lebanon and Kosovo.
Daniel joined the Military Archives in 2015 as a Staff Officer and undertook the MA in Archives and Records Management in UCD that same year. His dissertation was on ‘The Developing Archival Heritage of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Republic of Ireland’, which is reflective of his general areas of interest within the archival research and practice. In 2017 he was appointed Officer-in-Charge of the Military Archives.
Daniel joined the Committee as an ICA representative in 2018.