Donnacha Ó Beacháin @DonnachaDCU Twitter profile

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

3 years

#Ukrainians are fighting for their families, their communities, their futures We must ensure #Ukraine escapes forever the abusive cycle of Kremlin aggression My op-ed in today's Irish Times.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

The #Georgian restaurant in #Tbilisi where I'm eating leaves customers in no doubt about their sympathies

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

6 months

Remarkable rebuke from EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell #Gaza "Von der Leyen's trip, with such an absolutely pro-Israeli position, without representing anyone but herself in a matter of international politics, has had a high geopolitical cost for Europe."

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 months

It's worth noting that on Twitter, Barry Andrews has 9,000 followers and topped the poll in the EU parliament elections in Dublin. Clare Daly has 426,000 followers and was eliminated in the same election, finishing 7th. #EP24

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Some wicked trolling of Russian MFA by the Polish Embassy in Ukraine

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

This is a remarkable attempt to undermine academic freedom in #Ireland and on the flimsiest of pretexts Attempts by emissaries of #Georgia and #Ukraine to dictate how we teach/research @DCU have been and will continually to be firmly rebuffed

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

For the record, the Irish Government did NOT decline to join #NATO in 1950 because of #Neutrality . It would have been happy to join NATO were Britain not a member. As a substitute, #Ireland offered the US a bilateral military alliance, which the Americans turned down. 👀👇

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

The graves of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins today. #treaty21

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

This is the Faculty of Sociology at Karazin National University, #Kharkiv , #Ukraine , today after Russian shelling. @DCU @UCC @ucddublin @UL @nuigalway @QUBelfast @MaynoothUni @RCSI_Irl @WeAreTUDublin @UlsterUni

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

A year before becoming President of #Ukraine , Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Ireland (pictured here in Drogheda, third from left) We can only hope he returns soon as leader of a free and peaceful Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

2 years

Talked to 🇮🇪 Prime Minister @MichealMartinTD . Discussed countering aggression & horrific crimes of Russia against civilians. Expressed condolences over the murder of 🇮🇪 journalist Pierre Zakrzewski by Russian soldiers. Thanked for helping the people of 🇺🇦. #StopRussia

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@DonnachaDCU

2 years

It would be very interesting to know the communications which took place that led to this page being removed from the @PresidentIRL website.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

I admired @DaireKeogh 's Ukrainian coloured tie so much today that he took it off and insisted on giving it to me, saying I could return it to him when #Ukraine is fully liberated. Even though I very much like the tie I hope to to give it back to him ASAP. #ZelenskyyIre

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Incredibly honoured to speak with President @ZelenskyyUa today and to introduce him to the students of Ireland before moderating an engaging Q&A. We hope President Zelenskyy will visit #Ireland in person soon when #Ukraine is fully free, united and at peace. #ZelenskyyIre

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

It's a building I've visited many times as I've a good friend who studied and later taught sociology there. Hard to describe my emotions at this point.

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

This is the Faculty of Sociology at Karazin National University, #Kharkiv , #Ukraine , today after Russian shelling. @DCU @UCC @ucddublin @UL @nuigalway @QUBelfast @MaynoothUni @RCSI_Irl @WeAreTUDublin @UlsterUni

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

1 year

This “Galway Alliance Against War” sponsoring a "people's forum" tonight is not against war nor is it neutral. It parrots Kremlin talking points ("Russia was provoked", "Ukrainian Nazis, “Kiev regime”, “NATO’s proxy war”) Disappointing to see Sinn Féin participating.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

11 months

A few hundred people live in the village of Hroza, #Ukraine Russians slaughtered at least 51 of them today, attacking a cafe and grocery store This is what Russian "liberation" look like. It's why Ukrainians are resisting with everything they have and must be helped

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

I'll be speaking soon to @morningireland from @DCU in advance of today's historic virtual meeting between President Zelenskyy and Ireland's university students.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

1 year

Powerful documentary tonight on RTE - #InTheNameofGerryConlon I met Gerry Conlon in 1989 shortly after he was released from prison He’d already thrown himself into the campaign to free the Birmingham 6 and Maguire 7 (eventually achieved in 1991)

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Well done Minister @SimonHarrisTD for standing up for the very important principles at stake here. Such a robust defence of academic independence will be very much appreciated by lecturers and researchers throughout Ireland.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

As Putin turns 70 today it's worth remembering how he celebrated the 70th birthday of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder in a St Petersburg palace The celebration took place one month after Russia's annexation of Crimea The reception was organised by Nord Stream AG

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Huge congratulations to @niallodoc who tonight was announced as winner of the Brian Farrell book of the year award by @psaitweets for his groundbreaking work "Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland", published by @OxUniPress .

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Since May free English classes at all levels have been delivered 3 times a week @DCU by the IRIN () to refugees and asylum seekers A new programme starts today, with classes on campus and online Please pass on the info to anyone who might be interested

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

8 years

Says it all really. #EUref #Brexit #VoteRemain #VotedLeave

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

It's not #Ukraine that needs liberating but #Russia itself, from its distorted understanding of its totalitarian past, its infatuation with messianic dictators, and its inability to feel secure without subordinating its neighbours My piece in this weekend's @Independent_ie

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

In an ideal world there would be more toilets like this one I discovered today in Wexford ...

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@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Amazing heroism captured on this amateur footage as Sabit Shontakbaev from #Kazakhstan saves the life of a toddler as she hangs from a high-rise apartment window

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Irish contribution to the defence of Ukraine

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

This is just too funny not to share ... Confusion at yesterday's Remembrance Day in #Uzbekistan

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@juli_anh

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Verwirrung beim Gedenktag in Usbekistan

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@DonnachaDCU

2 years

The Estonian PM providing one of the best explanations of Kremlin's approach to "negotiations" ...

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

BREAKING: Man who considers mass murder of #Ukrainians a "special operation" says embassy protests in Dublin are "really aggressive". #Ukraine

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

11 months

In case people think mad tweets about Ireland emanating from the Israeli embassy is a new thing, this is from my report on Ireland's foreign relations in 2014 ...

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

This week our family raised 7,000 zloties (€1,465) which we sent to Poland to help refugees from Ukraine Our 8yo daughter made Ukrainian flags, which were kindly bought by colleagues @HumanitiesDCU and neighbours in Glasnevin Thanks so much! #StandWithUkraine

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

6 months

More details here: "EU foreign policy chief criticizes European Commission president’s ‘pro-Israel stance"

EU foreign policy chief criticizes European Commission president’s ‘pro-Israel stance’

Josep Borrell told El Pais that her trip to Israel had ‘high geopolitical cost for Europe’ - Anadolu Ajansı

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

10 months

In latest edition of @HistIreHedge I've a special feature devoted to historical connections between #Ireland and #Ukraine Between 1914-21 #Irish and #Ukrainians tried to break free from their respective empires and there was mutual interest in each other's independence struggles

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

1 year

Profoundly moving performance @AbbeyTheatre of Brian Friel's play "Translations" in Ukrainian. Imperial impositions on language, identity, place names are common experiences in Ireland and Ukraine.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

The casual acceptance of imperialism / genocide here: Crimea might have been annexed by Russia in 1783 but it was not until 1959 that an ethnic Russian majority was first recorded. And that was a result of settler colonialism and genocidal attacks on Crimean Tatars

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

It follows this notable tweet from former Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski MEP.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

4 years

Finally have copies of the new book I've put together with @MurfBrian and a host of stellar contributors including @codykeenan @taddevine @felixmlarkin @KerryKennedyRFK @LarryPDonnelly and many more. Watch this space for details of (virtual) book launch soon.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

6 years

It's easy to forget how John Hume was routinely rubbished in Ireland's largest selling newspaper. In this typical article, written 25 years ago today, the SDLP leader was described as a "political bomber flying over unionist heads trying to kill them" #johnhumeinamerica

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Today @Bentonra and I addressed the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs about developments in our Eastern neighbourhood The issues at stake, while affecting Ukrainians acutely, are not confined to #Ukraine , but are central to the future of Europe.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

4 years

Seen in Dublin #Navalny

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

7 years

My contribution to @RTEBrainstorm 'Continued recognition of a failed state like Somalia while denying it to stable Somaliland is testimony to the international community’s innate conservatism. In short, state failure is easier to forgive than secession'

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

5 years

Every day this week in @IrishTimes I'll be describing the outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland as they unfolded 50 years ago. Today, I recount the dramatic events of 12 August 1969 ... #Troubles50

On this day 50 years ago: Derry erupts in flames

August 13th, 1969: Drawing on contemporaneous reports, Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

1/ My response began “There’s no place for diplomacy right now – Vladimir Putin has made that clear”. I was not expressing an aspiration but describing a horrible reality. I gave concrete reasons why many people incl. Ukrainians believe Putin is seeking only a military conquest

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3 years

“There’s no place for diplomacy” in the Ukraine crisis says @DonnachaDCU . Unbelievable war mongering nonsense! Is this the type of nihilistic rubbish being taught in DCU these days? Good God. @TonightVMTV #TonightVMTV

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

I'm very grateful to @SIPTU for this clear statement rejecting attempts to exert political pressure on how modules are taught @DCU and defending the very important principles at stake. The call on the Georgian and Ukrainian diplomats to withdraw their letter should be heeded.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

4 years

#RTEInvestigates documentary on Belturbet bomb speaks to Reverend Ivan Foster. Foster is on record advocating nuclear strikes on the Republic

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

On the eve of crucial local elections, ex-President Saakashvili (long married to Sandra Roelofs) announces he's starting "new family" with a 30-year old Ukrainian MP and then flies off to Georgia to get arrested. How's your mid-life crisis going? #Gvote21

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

10 months

JFK was assassinated 60 years ago today After defecting to the USSR, Lee Harvey Oswald spent 2 years in Minsk The man assigned to teach him Russian was Stanislav Shushkevich who 30 years later would be Belarus's first head of state Picture following our long interview in 2009

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

#Ukraine will survive this war and will prosper; the same cannot be said of Vladimir #Putin . My piece in this weekend's Irish Independent

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

10 months

The UN overwhelmingly passed a wide-ranging resolution reaffirming illegality of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian lands and condemning violations of international law The US and Israel could only muster support of 5 members, 3 are micro-states like Nauru (pop. 10k)

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Many thanks to @NoelRock for coming into our @LawGovDCU students today, fielding such a wide range of questions and offering superb insights about the Oireachtas and the work of a TD.

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

On @RTE_PrimeTime I said the war in #Ukraine is a struggle between democracy and autocracy and that democracy will ultimately prevail. #Putin can conquer a territory by force but he will not be able to control what people think of his regime

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Congratulations to @egharji who defended his PhD dissertation today at the University of Coimbra, a @DCU partner in the €3.8million @EuCaspian program As external examiner it was a pleasure to read Dr Gharji's work In #Coimbra , vivas are public and so it was live on Youtube!

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

5 years

Is this Ireland's only Lenin statue? #MyBackGarden

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

The virtual launch of our new book was quite an occasion. Couldn't have asked for a better panel!!!! A big thanks to all!

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

1 year

Many thanks to Brigadier General Brian Cleary who engaged with our @LawGovDCU students today on matters of common security and defence BG Cleary has extensive service with UN, EU and NATO missions to Lebanon, Western Sahara, East Timor, Cote D’Ivoire, Chad, and Afghanistan

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

A tale of two polls today... Only 32% of people favour Ireland supplying weapons to Ukrainians but 81% favour the EU doing it. ⚡️Newsflash: Ireland is part of the EU!

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

4 years

Many thanks to Ambassador @DanMulhall for sharing his insights gleaned from a lifetime in diplomacy with our @LawGovDCU MA students of Irish foreign policy.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

On 6-1 @rtenews I spoke about the extraordinary case of Sergey #Cherkasov who spent years in #Ireland , Brazil and the US building up a fake identity and was exposed while trying to take up a position at the International Criminal Court as it investigates #Russia for war crimes.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

6 years

Theresa May's plans in Salzburg shattered as they collided again with the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone. Someone please buy her a copy of my new book, which will be in the shops just in time for next month's vital EU summit. #SalzburgSummit18 #Brexit

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Opened our front door and found a box outside. A wonderful gesture from @DaireKeogh and @DCU ! Along with the sunshine it lifts the spirts.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

#Ukraine 's President @ZelenskyyUa wrote on social media about his meeting today with the students of Ireland at a special event hosted @DCU His Facebook post includes a 25 minute video clip from the event in Ukrainian.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

7 months

At the UN Security Council, Poland's FM Radek Sikorski provided a masterclass rebuttal of Russian ambassador's nonsense on #Ukraine

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

In response to @rtenews the Ukrainian embassy dismiss suggestions they tried to attack academic freedom as "emotional" and "groundless" So let me post some extracts from the letter sent to DCU and Department of Foreign Affairs Judge for yourself

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Many thanks to Deputy @nealerichmond for highlighting attempts by foreign diplomats to influence teaching and research @DCU Minister @simoncoveney 's robust defence of academic freedom will be much appreciated by lecturers and researchers throughout #Ireland

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

I'm quoted in this weekend's @Independent_ie big read devoted to Mick Wallace & Clare Daly's support for dictatorships in #Russia and #China In sum, backing imperialism while blaming victims #Kremlin interests must be respected, small neighbouring democracies must suck it up

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Delighted that our stellar @LawGovDCU candidates, @yvonnedaly and @aislingdepaor , were elected to five-year terms on @DCU 's Governing Authority. Congratulations both!

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

6 years

Whether you like your #Brexit hard or soft, or your @BorderIrish frictionless or fortified, my forthcoming book is just the thing! Delighted to announce that we finally have a cover and the book is available for pre-order at

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

This is truly remarkable! The #Ukrainian staff at the British embassy in #Ukraine are not being offered refuge in the UK, say diplomats.

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@DonnachaDCU

1 year

Illuminating reflections on #Ireland 's term on the United Nations Security Council ... @HylandSonja speaking with @KennethMcDonagh today at special event co-organised by @dfatirl and @psaitweets

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Looks like I wasn't the only one who thought of coming to @chaptersbooks today. HUGE queue.

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

"no matter how powerful the company or country, we will protect academic freedom in our universities" I’m immensely grateful to @malcolmbyrne for this powerful defence of academic freedom Lecturers and researchers throughout #Ireland will take great heart. Bravo Senator!

Malcolm Byrne 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@malcolmbyrne

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Academic freedom is a cornerstone of our higher education and research system. Recent attacks on academics including @RPMaher and @DonnachaDCU show the importance of govt defending this principle. @SimonHarrisTD @IUAofficial @THEA_Irl

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

1 year

Inspiring to be at the presentation of the #Tipperary International Peace Prize to #Belarusian leader @Tsihanouskaya , who has done so much to highlight her country's plight I hope to visit #Belarus again soon when it is free and its people are at liberty to choose their own path

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

6 years

This is what @BorderIrish looks like today. I am standing in Northern Ireland. The road continues for another 30 metres before becoming the Republic of Ireland. The road to my left is in both jurisdictions. #BrexitSummit

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

2/ Despite all I said exposing Putin’s brutality in Ukraine this person’s solitary tweet about the show was to call me and not Putin a warmonger. That says far more about this individual than it does about me.

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

A century ago Irish newspapers identified commonalities between the #Irish and #Ukrainians as they struggled against imperial rule. This 1918 edition of "Nationality" (edited by Arthur Griffith) notes how Ukrainians have been described as "the Irishmen of #Russia "

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

7 years

106 years ago, republican suffragette Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, broke a Dublin Castle window and was arrested. Delighted to see her granddaughter @MichelineShSk reenact the scene just now, a century to the day after women attained the right to vote in the UK.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

During WW2 the Kremlin conspired with the Nazis to divide and occupy Europe with Soviet troops invading Poland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Lithuania Russian ambassador: Ireland in no position to lecture others on morality after WWII neutrality

Russian ambassador: Ireland in no position to lecture others on morality after WWII neutrality

Yuri Filatov accuses Irish and other governments of supporting an ‘ultranationalist' regime in Ukraine

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

The European Parliament has voted by 507 votes to 12 to recognise the #Holodomor in #Ukraine as genocide. It says #Russia 's current crimes are reminiscent of the past. Of #Ireland 's MEPs, only Clare Daly voted against the resolution.

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@DonnachaDCU

3 years

And this is Taoiseach Seán Lemass addressing the Dáil in February 1962 ...

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3 years

The IRA's "Green Book" has been translated into #Ukrainian for the Armed Forces of #Ukraine to better understand guerrilla warfare.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Congratulations to @GezimVisoka on his monumental works with Oliver Richmond on peace and conflict studies! Nothing like a good book launch to start the semester and end the week @LawGovDCU

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Sorry to learn of death of Stanislau #Shushkevich , #Belarus 's first post-Soviet head of state, whom Lukashenko defeated in 1994 He was also Lee Harvey Oswald's Russian language teacher after he defected to USSR When I interviewed him he was receiving a €1 a month state pension

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Our @LawGovDCU students of Irish foreign policy were joined today from NY by a special guest Eoghan McSwiney, Dep. Spokesperson & Political Coordinator for @IrishMissionUN at the Security Council, gave us a fascinating glimpse of what it's like to represent #Ireland at the UN

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@DonnachaDCU

4 years

Delighted to be part of this exciting new project investigating unrecognised (de facto) states and funded to the tune of €1 million by the Research Council of Norway.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Got the proofs of my chapter devoted to #Ireland and #Ukraine . The book will be published very soon. Unfortunately, so much has changed for the worse since I presented the draft in #Kyiv .

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Delighted to catch up with @YPYurchenko who delivered an inspirational talk on Ukraine's fight for freedom. Yuliya and I both contributed to the new book " #Ireland and #Ukraine " which compares the national and imperial histories of both countries.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

On @AJEnglish I told #Putin 's former advisor, Sergei Markov, that to conflate Russian speakers in #Ukraine with being pro-Russia, as he does, was as ridiculous as saying that English speakers in #Ireland are pro-English and seek to be annexed by Britain

Is Russia raising the stakes in the war in Ukraine? | Inside Story

Up to 300,000 Russian reservists are being called up to join the war in Ukraine.President Vladimir Putin announced the 'partial mobilisation' during a rare n...

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

Looking forward to the Galway launch today of this groundbreaking book, which results from a conference held in Kyiv almost 3 years ago. My own contribution is a chapter devoted to the intersections of modern #Irish and #Ukrainian history

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

I should add that at the University of Coimbra there are three possible grades for a PhD and @egharji received the highest possible - summa cumme laude - for his stellar research and exceptional performance during his 3 hour defence.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Our @LawGovDCU MA students of Irish foreign policy were joined today by a very special guest H.E. Eimear Friel, Ambassador of #Ireland to #Latvia provided a wealth of fascinating insights into the responsibilities, challenges and rewards associated with international diplomacy.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

The Irish Refugee Integration Network @DCU is now online at Today Agnès Maillot and Veronica Crosbie of @DcuSalis outlined the many initiatives helping forcibly displaced persons they and @HumanitiesDCU colleagues are working on. Fantastic initiative!

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

If automatic transcription is to be credited, @DaireKeogh is a shady character, @JohnDoyleDCU is a plain "John Doe" whereas @muirtheimhne is a Ghanaian fish combatting some underground conspiracy. 😂

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

4 years

Delighted to be a part of the €1million research project (DE FACTO) devoted to unrecognised states and funded by the Research Council of Norway. COVID-19 restrictions meant that our kick-off meetings took place online rather than in Oslo.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

2 years

@BrigidLaffan Very strange decision @RadioBrendanRTE to have 1 hour discussion on #Ukraine with 4 person panel, none of whom, irrespective of other talents, are known for expertise on Ukraine. This is far too serious. Ukraine experts didn’t comment on immunology during COVID for good reason

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

On @trtworld today I emphasised how #Ukrainians ' incredibly strong and brave defence of their country has slowed the momentum of the #Russian invasion. Ukrainians are fighting for their homes, their neighbourhoods, their futures and are highly motivated.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

My latest contribution for @DCU_Brexit_Inst ... “Don’t Mention the Poll”: The Good Friday Agreement and À la Carte Consent One cannot credibly present oneself as a supporter of @BelfastAgmt while rejecting one of its basic tenets – the border poll.

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 years

Despite public funding academic research has been hidden behind paywalls guarded by private companies. The current dysfunctional system can't be reformed, @Abiquitous argues, and so he's calling for a revolution. via @researchwhisper

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

10 months

#Palestine "Ireland has a longstanding policy of empathising with victims of injustice,” says Ó Beacháin, citing Ireland’s protests against apartheid-era South Africa "that goes to our own history, which is marked by imperialism and settler-colonialism”

What explains diplomatic accusations of antisemitism against Ireland?

While events in Gaza have intensified such rhetoric, this tension between Ireland and Israel is not new.

www.thejournal.ie

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