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Fergal Lenehan

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Dad. Uni Jena. @DigInterculture . Books: Eur idea & Ger images of Irl. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Occasional contributor The Currency.

Leipzig/Jena

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Joined March 2013

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Delighted to get a large project confirmed this week by the German Ministry for Education & Research. It will finance my research & that of 3 colleagues for 4 yrs, including some linked secondary projects. "ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively" is born.

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2 years

The cover of German weekly magazine Der Spiegel from 7 February 1972. #BloodySunday50

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"Grand stretch in the evenings".

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The EU forced me to study in Germany, calling this dastardly programm Erasmus after a citizen of nowhere cosmopolitan. They even gave me some money to do this. As a result I am now married in German EU-land, & even have EU-ian bilingual slave children. #OppressedByTheEU

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Was in Lidl in Leipzig today. They had both British and Irish cheddar cheese on the shelves. Turn the packages over & you can see they're the same cheese, from Cookstown in county Tyrone. Northern Irish identities in action, dominating British & Irish branding?

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Christiano Ronaldo is renting a bedsit in Rathmines by the looks of things.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

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You always make me feel so special 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

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Disappointing that Sarah Mcinerney hasn't gotten the 10-12 am radio slot. Seemed a natural and wonderfully incisive interviewer. Great radio voice and a Galway accent too. What more could you want?

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The 10 year-old, who has had great difficulty in learning to read because of epilepsy & dyslexia, has just written 3 short poems. A bit of positive news.

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"Geraniums instead of Germania. Love flowers. Hate fascism". Antifascist gardening sticker.

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Burning bonfires of flags & posters is not 'culture'. "Kill all Taigs" is incitement to genocide, which is an extreme hate crime under international law.

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Me (reading the title of a children's storybook): "Angelina and the Princess". 5 year-old (annoyed): " Princesses, princesses, princesses. I don't like princesses. Or queens. Or kings." Does anyone know any anarchist children's books, in which the mice build a co-operative?

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Why does Richard Bruton have to bodyshame us all so? Was it not enough for him to marry Elizabeth Taylor?

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4 years

Irish Twitter is very confrontational at the moment, dividing everyone into IRA Army Council-obeying Sinners, Fascist/Tory Blue shirts and corrupt power-hungry FFers. This maybe isn't the site for nuance, but there is surely a good deal in between?

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So, uppity Paddies & nasty bullying Krauts are stopping Britain from unicorning with the rest of the world as a sort of Singaporean neo-Empire, high on Dunkirk spirit? That's basically the Brexiteer narrative at the moment, right?

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1 year

Just out of "The Banshees of Inisherin". Will never get this 2 hours and 15 minutes of my life back. It was a comedy apparently.

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4 years

I see that Brexiteers are fighting WW 2 again. A version in which Ireland was especially treacherous, ignoring the circa 40,000 Irish men in the British Army & G2's close links with British Intelligence. Also liking Germans is a crime now. (I'm very guilty. Even made my own.)

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Fungie the dolphin, the holder of a double first in history from Oxford, is Ireland's most celebrated military historian. He is also a very dedicated hobby swimmer. #HannanIrishHistory

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Fergal Lenehan

2 years

The Latvian Prime Minister obviously learned his English in Ireland!

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Naomi O'Leary

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Fascinated with the response to the idea of a gap cap of Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš

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Shameful stuff. People should annoyed at this & not a picture. & I'm the son of a Guard.

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RTÉ News

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"We were devastated because we knew there was nothing available at the moment". 85-year-old Tom Browne says he was 'devastated' when he was given notice to leave the rented home he shares with his wife in Co Westmeath I Read more:

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This is an amazing clip in fairness.

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RTÉ Radio 1

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"How do you think it's immoral to bring a child with Down Syndrome into the world?" @RadioBrendanRTE spoke with Professor Richard Dawkins who believes children with Down Syndrome can potentially increase the amount of suffering in the world. Listen back:

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

The priest turned people away from my aunt's funeral last week because there had to be no more than 25 in the church.

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Suzanne Breen

4 years

This is SF's Dominic Cummings' moment. It's the politically powerful breaking the rules they themselves have made & expect ordinary folk to follow. Equality is meant to be a central tenet of republicanism. But it seems that, even in death, some are more equal than others.

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Had some time in Dublin & went to the NGI to see Una Watters' painting "Girl going by Trinity in the rain".

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3 years

At the Áras last night.

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3 years

Ballinasloe is now the largest English-speaking east Galway town in the EU.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

It just might be better to have a scientist rather than a reality tv star to head government.

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Benjamin Alvarez

4 years

This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country's health system. This part of today's press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers. #flattenthecurve

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The cover of "Der Spiegel" 7 February 1972. "Massaker in Irland". #BloodySunday51

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2 years

Just back in Germany. Potential war, and Germany's position in relation to this, seems to be dominating the papers. In Ireland it was all about the pubs opening again.

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

Into the second year of not being home, everything starts to look like Ireland.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

So, my wife was let go twice for having a baby. Once for each of our children. And today she also became one of the Corona Virus unemployed statistics.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Startling revelations in the Guardian.

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The Guardian

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Despite what some say, Britain is not always on the right side of history

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Going to Ireland in 10 days & the kids are very excited. I asked them what they looking forward to most. Seeing their grandparents, aunties, uncles & cousins maybe? The 8 year-old: “The suasages. And the white pudding. And Nappa“. (Nappa is my sister's dog.)

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Fergal Lenehan

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I am the same. My contract is up in September. It is deeply stressful for myself & my family. I've had a rolling contract for 10 years. This will be the last. In this time I've also published 2 books, more than 20 academic articles & loads of review essays. #precaritystories

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Rory Hearne

@RoryHearneGaffs

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I feel embarrassed & ashamed to admit that I'm still on a temporary contract (up in July). I've had two temp lecturing contracts & two post-docs. Causes me & my family huge stress & insecurity. Irish academics pls share your #PrecarityStory #UCUstrikes

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Got the second vaccine today. The doctor went out of his way to give me a plaster with a shamrock on it (!) & wanted to talk about Ireland! This, quite common & maybe unearned (?), sense of instant interest & likeability is amazing at times. And maybe a bit embarassing too.

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Ireland has never really been neutral & depends on its neighbours for defence, while being lightyears away from having the capacity to join a military alliance. I don't understand the emotionality of the supposed 'neutralty-NATO' dichotomy.

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Olympic opening ceremony. Me: "There's Egypt". 10 year-old (shocked): "There's a country called eejit?"

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36 degrees yesterday, 37 degrees today. Attic apartment. I'm already at the "dreaming of showers & 15 degrees in Ireland" stage of summer. This usually happens much later.

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The summer flights home to Ireland, for the family to see my parents and brothers and sisters, are now officially cancelled. Feck. It will be 2 years now, at least, before we can grace the bogs and the lanes of east county Galway and south county Roscommon again.

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The Irish-German 5 year-old is now the Irish-German 6 year-old!

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3 years

Rooftops. #Leipzig #lockdown

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This is simply not true. I'm just in from the Konsum in Leipzig.

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Andrew Pierce

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Food shortages have now hit German supermarkets with warnings Christmas will be affected. Will the Labour party blame that on brexit too?

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5 years

Did Gove just compare the EU to the GDR dictatorship?!

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7 years

A German colleague spent 20 mins explaining Ireland to me this week, after a short holiday there. I think I understand mansplaining now.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Yes, the real problem is Johnson is a fun-loving, freedom-loving libertine & Merkel is a Lutheran. From East Germany. East Germans famously don't know what 'freedom' means.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Christ, a British strain of Covid 19. Presumably it's been negotiating to leave the other strain for 4 years now.

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Robert Peston

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I understand the new British Covid-19 strain is more transmissible between children than the older strain. So there is a big question around whether schools should re-open in January?

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4 years

Most of us have a large residue of internalised & unthinking racism, learned in childhood from various sources. We need to recognise that. & engage with it critically. Anyone who sang "Eeny meany miny mo" as a child in the 1980s knows what I mean.

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3 years

Brexiteer re-negotiating the crossing.

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4 years

The emotional attachment of some Irish people to clubs/football franchises across the water is bizarre, imo.

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Adam Moynihan

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Liverpool fans just staged a victory parade through the streets of Killarney #LFC #LFCchampions

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

The MEP from Wexford is worryingly ambivalent about democracy.

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‘China’s communist party deserves a lot of credit’ Mick Wallace tells party newspaper

MEP tells Global Times Chinese system of government is ‘serving interest of people’

www.irishtimes.com

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These pupils came to Germany in 2015 from war-torn Syria. They're now getting their Abitur (Leaving Cert - it wasn't cancelled), can speak perfect German & many seem to want to study medicine.

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New book on the terrible murder by the IRA of German Grundig manager in Belfast Thomas Niedermayer. He was kidnapped in 1973, probably also by one of his employees, but his body wasn't found till 1980. His wife & 2 daughters later all committed suicide.

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IRA murder of businessman Thomas Niedermayer set off tragic chain of events

THE IRA abduction and murder of Thomas Niedermayer, the German manager of the Grundig electronics plant on the outskirts of Belfast in 1973, set off a tragic chain of events that would see his entire...

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3 years

Leipzig. Rooftops.

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5 years

Philosopher Jürgen Habermas, 'retired' & 90 years of age, has just published a 1,700 page history of (western) philosophy. Sure, I suppose, what else would he be doing?

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"He said academics all over the world "should weep for the destruction of the concept of the university that has occurred, which has led to little less than the degradation of learning"." Higgins critical of universities' focus on markets via @rte

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Higgins critical of universities' focus on markets

The president has criticised "many universities" who he says now produce graduates who are "professionals" rather than "critically engaged citizens".

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

#MeAt20 with my cool Erasmus girlfriend, now wife. Yes, that's a weird pony tail. And a goatee. And side locks, like Amos from Emmerdale Farm.

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4 years

"Do you like face masks or normal faces?" the 5 year-old asks me. The most 2020 question ever.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

The DUP: Always on the right side of history.

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Seán Murray

4 years

This aged well

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

There's now an "Irland Krimi" on German tv, with a mixture of German & Irish actors & set in Galway, which is a bit full on with the old gothic-Catholic Irish imagery.

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1 year

This is terribly sad. If the University of Galway doesn't want it, it could surely be turned into a small museum?

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Neil Jackman

1 year

Sad to see Tim & Máiréad Robinson's home at the pier in Roundstone still empty. They had bequeathed the house and Tim's archive to the University of Galway, but UG refused the house. Now, it looks like it's falling into dilapidation and their generosity is unfulfilled.

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4 years

My brother scored 3 goals in a match last night! He's 49 & still playing Junior F hurling for the absolute love of it. Now that's what sport is about. Not driving around & celebrating because your favoured collection of multimillionaires have finally won something.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

It's like as if there's one rule for those who plan elaborate bank robberies & prison breaks, & another rule for everyone else.

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Áine McMahon

4 years

Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy defends the crowds that turned out in west Belfast for Bobby Storey's funeral. “I think in this instance you let people grieve and don’t turn it into political point scoring.”

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"The failure by British sociology (...) to take seriously the experiences of the Irish as predominantly white migrants, meant that recent white, European migrants in Britain (..) have tended to be regarded as an entirely new and unprecedented phenomenon."

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Why do British people know so little about Ireland?

From politics to academia, ignorance in British society about Ireland has profound implications for relations between the two nations

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I was trying to explain to the two girls that my secondary school only had boys & no girls, & that this was not unusual in Ireland in the 1990s. They found it hilarious & unbelievable.

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4 years

1888 cough medicine, containing alcohol, cannabis, chloroform & morphium. You'd take it & forget about the cough, I suppose.

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

The sectarian intimidation of small children on their way to school was a "dispute", apparently.

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BBC News NI

3 years

Twenty years on from the Holy Cross dispute, BBC News NI has been speaking to three central figures caught up in the events

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Fergal Lenehan

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10,000 people marching against the far-right deportation fantasies in Leipzig.

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Leipzig nimmt Platz

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Wir sind heute mit über 10.000 Menschen in Leipzig auf der Straße! Wir stellen uns klar gegen die faschistischen Deportationspläne von AfD und Werteunion und gegen den gesellschaftlichen Rechtsruck! Alle zusammen gegen den Faschismus! #le1501 #zusammengegenrechts #fckafd

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Disconcerting to see the far-right marching in Dublin - recently in Berlin & London too - against an imaginary dictatorship while in Belarus actual brave & intelligent people are marching against an actual dictatorship.

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Franak Viačorka

@franakviacorka

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Belarus women are fighters ✊

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The Irish-German 9 year-old tells me in English class this week they practised saying "how do you do?" & "I'm fine". Do people really say "how do you do?"

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Definitely. I have also met a lot of German academics who get their reliable Brexit news chiefly from RTE & Irish Times. That Irish sources frame the Brexit-interested discussion at European-level is a substantial achievement for the journalists involved.

@Donal_OKeeffe

Donal O’Keeffe

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Presumably the Irish public being fully informed on Brexit by a world-class journalist like @tconnellyRTE - who manages to boil down arcane detail so even a thick like me can understand it, while never losing sight of complexity or nuance - is all just a Blueshirt plot. #GE2020

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Disgraceful Tweet by Politico's Europe correspondent.

@MKarnitschnig

matthew karnitschnig

4 years

@k2twoi Here’s what I think: The United States of America doesn’t need any advice on how to run a democracy from a country we defeated in two world wars, crushed, rebuilt and returned to polite society. But thanks for asking! Cc @ARDWashington

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

The Trumpian politics of coming up with nicknames for opponents. Not a good look.

@oconnellhugh

Hugh O'Connell

4 years

In his interview with Pat Kenny, Leo Varadkar coins a new term for Sinn Féin: "Spin Féin"

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Fergal Lenehan

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The fault of wider society? Wider society was pervaded by a thoughtless & internalised authoritarian anti-female ideology. But this was initiated, perpetrated & instutionalised by church & state. We didn't all party.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Four months left.

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Meriel

4 years

Can you write a happy or positive story about 2020 in just 3 words?

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Fergal Lenehan

2 years

Why would you include a neighbouring republic in a list like this?

@TheTimesBooks

Times Books

2 years

In honour of the Queen's Jubilee, we've chosen 👑 our favourite 50 novels of the past 70 years 👑 Her Majesty may not be much of a reader, Racing Post aside, but her reign has produced truckloads of brilliant British, Irish and Commonwealth fiction. Here's a snapshot 👇👇

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

So, basically DUP politicians can say anything & never have to fear consequences. To them anyway.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Could this young fella write to Trump around November?

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Richard Chambers

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Liverpool have now lost to Atletico, Watford and Chelsea since the young fella in Donegal wrote to Jürgen Klopp.

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Fergal Lenehan

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Finally, Mayo have won something. #JOEBIDEN2020

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Fergal Lenehan

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Waiting while the 9 year-old has a check-up EEG for her Epilepsy is the most panicky type of waiting that I know.

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Fergal Lenehan

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Heartbreaking piece on the #flooding #Hochwasser in Germany on tv. Reporter speaking on a bridge over a lake. But it's actually a flyover over 4 lanes of road. Reporter says they expect numerous cars to be in the 'lake'. Unlikely to be empty. #Klimakatastrophe We have to act.

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Fergal Lenehan

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One positive of the Covid era, prob the only positive element, is the inclusivity of online events. Not many of us could have gone to Oxford to hear these lectures. This is something that needs to be retained. All future events should be hybrid, with inclusive online elements.

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Jane Ohlmeyer

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Excited and honoured to give the 2021 Ford Lectures on Ireland, empire, and the early modern world @OxfordHistory @tcddublin #FordLectures2021 If you are free, do join me today, Friday, 22 Jan. 2021 at 5pm for 'Making History'

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Fergal Lenehan

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"Alternatives against the Right". Rolf Sotscheck on the Irish election in the Taz. The German commentary has been very well-informed & nuanced. Also makes the point that the election was largely devoid of hatred against immigrants; unusual now in Europe.

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Wahl in Irland: Alternativen gegen rechts

Die irischen WählerInnen haben dem konservativen Pateiensystem eine Absage erteilt. Mit Sinn Féin rücken endlich soziale Themen auf die Agenda.

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Fergal Lenehan

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I got my copy now too! It was a joy to work on this with @PresidentIRL @Joachim33039009 & @LilliputPress .

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Fergal Lenehan

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Those "Irish summer, Staycation, it rains at times, they said" Tweets are tiresome. There's a pandemic. Thousands have died. You are privileged to be on holidays.

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"And now for the traditional booing of the foreign anthem".

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

Thinking about my First Communion. If I remember rightly there was no real party, but we went in the afternoon to Birr Castle and walked around. I remember being very excited. Not a hint of a bouncy castle anyway.

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3 years

One bedroom with an outside door for those who enjoy a "minimalist lifestyle" (?) for 175,000 € in Cork. Also called a "studio house", apparently.

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Fergal Lenehan

5 years

The Irish-German 8 year-old: "Mr. Cutter was telling me at school daddy". Me: "Who?" The Irish-German 8 year-old (after thinking for a second): "Herr Schneider daddy. Schneiden is to cut".

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

You'd wonder about some of the mystical stuff surrounding German teas.This is nettle-green tea. It detoxs your feelings, apparently.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

"Only for us you'd be speaking German".

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Simon Doherty

4 years

What's the most quintessentially British phrase? I say, "I'll pop the kettle on.'

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Fergal Lenehan

5 years

Very important to recognise Irish colonial agency, Irish colonial guilt.

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Martin Doyle

5 years

Amritsar villain turned victim: Tipperary’s Michael O’Dwyer, then governor of Punjab, enthusiastically supported the massacre. The day after it he ordered the bombing of men, women and children. An Indian assassinated him in London in 1940. @tweeter_anita

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

Singaporean-based Hoover-maker with record number of falsehoods in 49 seconds.

@BBCBreakfast

BBC Breakfast

3 years

“It gives us an independence of spirit” Inventor and entrepreneur Sir James Dyson speaks to #BBCBreakfast about Brexit ⬇️

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

Then leave the EU & all of the funding you get. It's voluntary sovereignty-sharing, not dictatorship.

@JuditVarga_EU

Judit Varga

3 years

We remember the Hungarian freedom fighters who faced Soviet tanks on the streets in Budapest. We said no to the Soviet empire & we say no to the #imperial ambitions of #Brussels .

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Fergal Lenehan

5 years

What a difference a year makes. This time last year the now 8 year-old was having constant epileptic absence seizures & no medication was working. 12 months later she has a medication that's working, hasn't had a seizure since April & is now in an understanding & patient school.

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Daniel O'Connell died on this day in 1847. In Nazi Germany in 1943 his story was used by a largely unknown writer Annemarie von Auerswald in an anti-British propaganda novel. He is portrayed as a good man whose dedication to pacifism results in British cruelty and famine.

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

The contradictions of the Quiet- Man-millionaire-Gombeenism of certain TDs being called out directly is refreshing.

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

Happy Christmas!

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

Deutsche Bahn.

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Dr. Ajayita

4 years

What's stopping you from doing this?

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Fergal Lenehan

2 years

30 % voting for the far-right in France is extremely sobering. We can't take liberal democracy for granted anymore.

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Fergal Lenehan

3 years

"Is lighthouse der, die or das daddy?" the Irish-German 7 year-old asks me. "The. Just the".

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Fergal Lenehan

4 years

It's almost like as if leaving the EU means you're not in the EU anymore.

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The Sun

4 years

EU to ban UK from using e-gates next year

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