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Dónal Hassett

8 months

Delighted and daunted that I’ll be spending my next four years on this @ERC_Research Starting Grant project on a comparative history of colonial veterancy in the interwar period. So many people helped me get this application over the line and I am really grateful to them all.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

Evergreen James Connolly quote: ‘We will not blame her for the crimes of her ancestors if she relinquished the rights of her ancestors; but as long as she claims their rights by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, she must shoulder responsibility or their crimes’

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Belgium's Princess Esmeralda says it should "apologize" for colonial atrocities, but said: "We are not responsible for our ancestors." Her ancestor Leopold II killed an est. 10 million people in the Congo with famine or forced labor and imprisoned 267 people in a "human zoo."

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Dónal Hassett

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1 month

I was no fan of the overbearing influence of the Catholic Church in Ireland, but you’d miss the devastated faces of English stag parties roaming Dublin in a vain attempt to get a pint on Good Friday.

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5 months

Very moving act of protest from a town whose name is synonymous with the horrors of indiscriminate aerial bombing.

Kepadi

@Kepadi

5 months

Gernika-Palestina

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Dónal Hassett

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6 months

It is striking that the words spoken here by a leading politician of the centre-right in Ireland would likely see him suspended from the British Labour Party, censured by the American House of Representatives and "cancelled" by the German media.

Gavan Reilly

@gavreilly

6 months

Wow. Simon Harris says Israel is now engaged in a “war on children” and seems, to him; to be “blinded by rage”. “You cannot build peace on the graves of children,” he tells the Dáil. @virginmedianews

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Dónal Hassett

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5 months

I used to work in Hodges Figgis and Shane McGowan was the nicest celebrity customer . A deep passion for and knowledge of Irish history and politics. Used to buy piles of books, hand over a wad of 50s and ask for change to go in the poor box. A man of great talent and humanity.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

Nice and festive in the South Parish 🎅🧑‍🎄🎄

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1 year

No mention of why it was Ireland that was the setting 'for the world's first large-scale mapping of an entire country' and why it was British Army engineers who conducted it.

BBC News NI

@BBCNewsNI

1 year

"We're retracing how Ireland’s maps made world history" Two centuries ago the island of Ireland was the setting for the world's first large-scale mapping of an entire country:

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3 years

I will never forget the time I met a German at the pub during a conference in Italy when I was an MA student and casually said oh if you’re ever in Dublin you can stay with me and then they booked flights and I had to host them for three days in my tiny room😬😬

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Irish and German people offering things

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4 months

Among South Africa's legal team for its case against Israel at the ICJ, Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh. She has, among many other achievements, successfully represented the Colston Four and served as a legal observer at Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

Lawyer of the Month: Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh

Barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh of Matrix Chambers in London is no stranger to high-profile or controversial cases. And one of her most recent trials is no exception. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh was the sole woman...

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4 months

Very embarrassing to see Ireland classed as critical of the South African case and likely very out of step with popular opinion here.

Alonso Gurmendi

@Alonso_GD

4 months

As we approach tomorrow's hearings, this is how states have thus far reacted to South Africa's ICJ application. I expect more reactions to come as of tomorrow, though, so I will continue to update this as events progress.

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Dónal Hassett

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5 years

Incredible video from #Algiers of protesters singing their own version of the Italian partisan classic Bella Ciao. Police efforts to repress the protests do not seem to have dampened spirits in #Algeria /

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Dónal Hassett

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7 months

President Higgins rightly laying into Ursula von der Leyen here and pointing out that ‘she is not speaking for the people of Ireland’. Hope we will be spared the usual bout of pearl-clutching his interventions provoke this time

President criticises von der Leyen over Israel comments

President Michael D Higgins has strongly criticised the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for comments on the Middle East conflict which she made on a visit to Israel last Friday.

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Dónal Hassett

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7 months

Something particularly powerful about marching against collective punishment for Palestinians on a street that was burned down as a collective punishment for the people of Cork.🇵🇸

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3 years

Love this little festive lane in the South Parish in #Cork . Nice bit of cheer on a lovely crisp evening.

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Dónal Hassett

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6 months

To give an example of how deeply the anguish of the people of Gaza is resonating in Ireland, my Mam ran a last-minute coffee morning for UNICEF in my village with some local women from the ICA and raised over €1800. People see the horror of what is unfolding before our eyes.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

Just went to the dentist in Paris and he spent 45 minutes fixing something fairly complicated. Total cost without french medical insurance €20! Also discovered that a basic root canal on a molar costs €80 (that’s compared to €600 at home in Ireland!).

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

2 months

Leo Varadkar should also be remembered for giving historians this immortal line on the story of Michael Collins: ‘It kind of proves to me that even revolutionaries need the confidence of the markets’.

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@gaysparjambon

2 years

I cannot believe this is real

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

This two minute video captures the brilliance of a scholar who could explain in the clearest terms possible the way race functions across time and space. What a legacy he leaves.

Prof Folúkẹ́ Adébísí

@folukeifejola

3 years

Charles Mills as always is exceptionally succinct. Here he explains what 'race' is. His work has been exceptionally important to me. He leaves behind him a legacy of brilliance and compassion. The world will miss him.

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Dónal Hassett

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1 month

It does feel like an April Fool’s Day prank, but today is my first official day as Professor of History at @MaynoothUni . I’m really looking forward to working with fantastic colleagues in @MaynoothHist and beyond, especially in developing my ERC project on colonial veterans.

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Dónal Hassett

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8 months

The Romans never made it to Ireland so over here we don’t think about the Roman Empire every day- instead we are constantly thinking about the hijacking of Aer along us flight EI 164 in 1981 by an Australian monk who demanded the release of the Third Secret of Fatima.

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

It is really telling how large USSR and China loom in imaginaires of mass confinement in the West while the carceral policies of Western imperial powers in colonies are ignored. 2 million Algerians (of a population of circa 10 million) lived in ‘regroupment camps’ in 1961.

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

I know I am biased but the city of Constantine in Algeria has to be one of the most spectacularly located cities in the world, perched on rocky plateau high above a gorge and looking out on a fertile plain. Here's some fairly rubbish pictures I took when I visited. 🇩🇿

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

Finally got caught by COVID, in Ireland not France, so instead of isolating surrounded by books in my flat in Paris like some 19th century Bohemian consumptive, I’m in my childhood bedroom watching reality tv with my Mam leaving my dinners outside my door. Could be much worse!

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

Log onto Facebook to see my local Independent Councillor Paudie Dineen making this comment on story about UCC Students' Union reopening the food bank. Such contempt for students, such ignorance of the cost of living here, and such inaction on the problems facing his constituents.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 months

March 17th is a day not only to honour our national patron saint in Ireland but also our local icon and hero in Fingal, the wheelie-mad Big Bird of Rush.

Robbie

@Robbie__Farrell

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They may have closed the pubs, they may have closed the schools, but nothing is stopping Big Bird doing wheelies up Rush main street on Paddy's Day

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1 year

My hot take on the Biden visit is that it’s not Biden’s seemingly quite sincere excitement about being in Ireland that is cringe but rather the open giddiness about his presence from some people whose jobs it is to think critically about politics.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

5 years

Today is the day my book is finally published with @OUPHistory . Thanks to all the friends, family and colleagues who helped me along the way. If you want to read about the legacies of the #FirstWorldWar in colonial #Algeria 🇩🇿, you can pick up a copy here:

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Dónal Hassett

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4 years

Can't figure out why any school in Dublin would bring their kids on a skiing trip when they could just as easily bring them up the road to Drogheda to see Oliver Plunkett's shrunken head. Truly, the greatest of all school trips.

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3 years

That opening to #ReelingInTheYears reminds me of the best Repeal poster I ever saw.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

Heading to Paris tomorrow for next 5 months for sabbatical. Feel free to mute me if you are not up for a full series of Dónal in Paris, like Emily in Paris but with less berets and more anticolonialism and brutalism. Live in hope that @ArthurAsseraf will do a thread dissing me!

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

A big fan of the new commemorative murals in #Cork . As well as supporting local artists, this form of commemoration embeds memory into the living texture of the city.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

I remember being naively shocked in a previous controversy around the singing of (the admittedly quite different) Come Out Ye Black and Tans at how so many, especially in political and cultural elites, were horrified at the hint of a public display of old republican culture. 1/3

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Dónal Hassett

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6 months

Vigil for a Ceasefire in Dublin.

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2 years

One of the most detailed maps of the French Empire I’ve ever seen, from the interwar period.

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Dónal Hassett

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4 years

An anti-imperialist Irish republicanism that does not recognise the way whiteness has made the Irish experience different to those of other colonial peoples is not truly anti-imperialist.

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

Genuine question- how much of the litter problem in Irish cities is connected to privatisation of waste collection? In continental cities I have lived in, the big bins on streets for residents also serve as public bins and are emptied regularly. Means less litter.

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

Mick Lynch confirming that his political hero is James Connolly. ✊

Louth For Ever 🇵🇸🇺🇳

@ForLouth

2 years

@Ciara87C ✊🏼🕊 He’s the boy.

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3 years

I think we could all do with less Zemmour and more Zemoura. Beautiful Algeria😍🇩🇿

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Dónal Hassett

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6 years

Activists in Bristol have attached this blood-red ball and chain to the statue of slave trader Edward Colston. A powerful symbol of the city's failure to really engage with its dark past. #Bristol #CounteringColston

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

Rounding out the week (and the semester) with a thread about Annie Fiorio-Steiner, the moudjahida (veteran of Algerian War of Independence) who died this week and whose life story has much to tell us about gender, race, memory and national liberation. 🇩🇿♀️

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3 years

Commentators who are obsessed with Higgins’ decision not to attend the Armagh ceremony but have nothing to say about the British government’s proposed amnesty, denounced by victims on all sides, don’t care about reconciliation in any real sense. It’s all so transparent.

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Dónal Hassett

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4 months

Germany will be supporting Israel here but it will also be opposing Namibia, the successor state to a colony that experienced genocide at the hands of German Empire and which has supported South Africa’s case.

Steffen Hebestreit

@RegSprecher

4 months

Die Bundesregierung weist den gegen Israel erhobenen Vorwurf des Völkermordes entschieden zurück. Er entbehrt jeder Grundlage. Wir werden uns daher in der Hauptverhandlung vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof als Drittpartei äußern:

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2 years

Really excited to to share details of this upcoming festival 'Resistance Cultures: Algeria and Ireland', 16-18 September, The Sugar Club. We have an amazing combination of musical performances, including a concert from Asian Dub foundation, film screenings and panel discussions

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

I get why families impacted by Republican violence were upset and why an apology was offered but it once more highlights the double standard around the normalised imperial violence embedded in songs like Rule Britannia. Ps We should all read Stephen’s book

Sounding Dissent

The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public overwhelmingly rejected a return to the...

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Dónal Hassett

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2 months

After 5 and a half wonderful years, today is my last day at @FrenchDeptUCC . I have loved working with the best colleagues you could ask for in the dept, the school and across the university. It’s been a joy teaching our students. Part of me will always be an adoptive Corkonian.

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3 years

Me when I hear Pat Kenny or any other well off person with a large private garden pontificating about the plebs and 'students' using the public space to enjoy the sun.

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1 month

So striking that Simon Harris refers to adults who are forced to live with their parents as ‘children’ here. Clear who his target demographic are. Also confirms my longstanding opinion that Harris embodies an old person’s idea of a young person.

Gavan Reilly

@gavreilly

1 month

New FG leader Simon Harris tells party Ardfheis in Galway that the government “will move mountains to get the children out of the box room and into a home of their own”

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

I understand the urge to respect a grieving family and many people who had an attachment to the Queen but this kind pf propaganda must be critiqued. No mention of the violence and racism of colonial rule. 🇬🇧 and its royalty presented as guarantor of human rights. It’s just wrong

BBC News Africa

@BBCAfrica

2 years

We take a look back at Queen Elizabeth II's longstanding relationship with Africa.

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6 years

In 1631 pirates from Algiers and Salé sacked the Irish coastal village of Baltimore, kidnapping many of its inhabitants. The raid is commemorated in true Irish style with a pub named The Algiers Inn!

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3 years

Establishing a fully free at the point of us, single-tiered health system is far more likely to make Unionists a little more comfortable in a United Ireland than joining the Commonwealth but funnily enough you never really hear Fine Gaelers talking about that...

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Dónal Hassett

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1 year

Late to the table but this but can’t get my head around all the praise for Banshees of Inisheerin. It’s not terrible or anything and both the photography and performances are v good but it was all a bit too diddly dee for me. Also the civil war subtext was heavy handed nonsense.

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4 years

The only #EmilyInParis I care about is a young woman from a working-class family in Lorraine who falls in love with a charismatic Algerian migrant and builds with him a family, a movement and a life dedicated to ending French colonialism in Algeria. Emilie Busquant😍

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Dónal Hassett

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2 years

If a wry Dominic Behan song specifically set during the revolutionary period outrages those people, it suggests that the presence of Northern republicans, not Unionists, is going to the biggest challenge for them in a New Ireland. I’m sure class plays a key role here too. 2/3

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3 years

Ahmed Ben Bella, President of newly independent Algeria meeting with #MartinLutherKingJr in New York October 1962. King wrote in his account of the meeting: 'The battle of the Algerians against colonialism and the battle of the Negro against segregation is a common struggle'.

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

Worth pointing out that many historians of Algeria (including myself) are deeply critical of scope and framing of this statement from President Macron. The emphasis on the individual, Papon, obscures the functioning of a coercive and racist colonial state.

Macron calls 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris an ‘unforgivable crime’

French president attends commemoration event for victims of mass killing by police

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Dónal Hassett

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10 months

Elected at 21, aged 24 when she delivered proletarian protest to the Home Secretary Reginald Maudling for lying about Bloody Sunday by crossing the floor of the House and slapping him in face.

Jeremy Vine On 5

@JeremyVineOn5

10 months

Should there be a minimum age for MPs? Last night Keir Mather became the youngest MP in the House of Commons, aged just 25. Is that too young? @JJAnisiobi | @toryboypierce | @StormHuntley | #StormHuntley

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3 years

It’s good to see a public figure push back against the notion that all commemoration is inherently conciliatory and suggest we need more critical interrogation of the how, who and why of commemorative politics on this island.

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2 years

For what’s it worthy, I was chatting to a woman from Lebanon this weekend who, when she discovered I was Irish, she talked unprompted about Irish peacekeepers, specifically mentioning Irish neutrality.

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

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Senan Molony: As a neutral country, Ireland is now more isolated internationally than ever before

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5 years

Want to read about demands for reform, popular protests, historical legitimacy and the power of men in wheelchairs in #Algeria (albeit in 1919, not 2019)? Well you can now pre-order my book here😀🇩🇿:

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4 months

Interesting to see Namibia, the successor state to a colonial territory that experienced a genocide at the hands of the German Empire, support South Africa’s case. Has this had any impact on debate in Germany?

Adil Haque

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@Alonso_GD Namibia: "By intent and by number, the actions carried out by Israel are tantamount to genocide... "For this reason, we welcome the ... action of South Africa at the [ICJ] "Namibia both identifies and aligns with the arguments put forward by the government of South Africa."

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Palestinian flag flying in the centre of Cork, a city that knows the brutality of colonial violence and the price of resistance, albeit with a different temporality and and intensity. 🇮🇪🇵🇸 #FreePalaestine

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11 months

Lots of people in this response struggling with the fact that it would be almost impossible to write a history of the revolutionary period in Ireland without queer revolutionaries. They are the ones who want to twist history. Great to see Kilmainham continuing its pioneering work

KilmainhamGaolMuseum

@KilmainhamOPW

11 months

We still have a few places available for our Pride Month Queer History tours of the Gaol on Saturday, 17 June at 1pm and 4pm. Booking is via Eventbrite. #DublinPride #LGBT #PrideMonth #Pride2023 #PrideMonth2023

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When I was a PhD student I was once told by an English Oxbridge graduate, at a seminar on colonial history and postcolonial theory, that I would need to work on 'moderating my accent' if I ever wanted to get a job in academia. I did not take his advice and have managed fine...

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@DrJamesConnolly

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It's time for me to retell the story of how, after my first ever seminar paper as a PhD student, attendees went to Carluccio's for dinner. I ordered carpaccio not knowing it was raw beef, and when I left it after one mouthful a posh senior academic openly laughed at my ignorance.

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3 months

Your annual reminder to be wary of men bearing flowers lest they enroll you in the global Bolshevik revolution.

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6 months

Classism is the worst way to fight racism- it obscures both deprivation in inner-city communities and deeply-rooted racism in leafy suburbs, while also giving the far right and those who have failed to tackle them a free pass.

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Huge crowd in Dublin today, the biggest solidarity march with Palestine in the country ever. Time for a ceasefire and an end to the Occupation.

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3 years

I don’t know how Northerners put up the absolute drivel on here from people in the South and across the water who only evoke the North for political point scoring and seem to have little actual interest in the lives of the people who live there. I know ye are well used to it...

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2 years

Really excited to launch the programme for this online event on Fanon and Ireland on Monday December 6th. Should be a fascinating discussion of the relevance of Fanonian theory to understanding Ireland, past and present. Supported by @CASiLaC_UCC .

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2 years

Just a reminder of how gigantic Algeria, the largest country in Africa, is.

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4 months

The eradication of Gaza’s universities should outrage scholars everywhere. And yet ICHS is currently promoting its conference in Jerusalem, whose organisers affirm recognises ‘the centrality of the State of Israel as a world leader in the field of historical + academic research’

Nicola Perugini

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The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.

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Delighted to see my piece on the Shelbourne controversy in today's @IrishTimes . Now that tempers have cooled, we have a chance to have an informed and respectful debate on the decolonisation our our public heritage:

Shelbourne statues row a missed chance to debate decolonisation of public heritage

Orientalist school of art, of which the statues are an example, was key to project of imperialism

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4 years

Start your week with this thread on the destruction of monuments in Algeria post-independence. Fanon famously described colonial 🇩🇿as 'A world compartmentalized, Manichaean and petrified, a world of statues'. Monuments had been used to project colonial power on the public space.

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3 years

Martinican philosopher and activist Frantz Fanon died 59 years ago today. Fanon is one of the great theorists of race and anti-colonialism. His most famous work, The Wretched of the Earth, was translated into English by 🇮🇪radical Constance Farrington.😍 the Arabic version's cover

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2 years

If I can ask for just one thing, let it be that Irish commentators accept that a monarch saying one sentence in a language which the state she represents historically repressed and still, at the time, did not legally protect, is not worthy of effusive uncritical praise…

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Striking how little connection is made in much of commentary in Britain on the reasons why people were marching and the violence perpetrated against them. When the state denied the rights, even the personhood of people, it opened the path for this violence. It was not an anomaly

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By age 36 you should have participated in resistance against Nazi collaborators, written 2 separate theses on psychiatry, produced 1 of the greatest analysis of anti-Black racism, set up a radical psychiatric clinic and become a key theorist + promoter of anti-colonial revolution

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3 years

Tóibín further confirming that for many self styled intellectuals and indeed for parts of broader population in the South, the Border served to confine ‘irrationality’ + ‘violence’ to the troublesome North + border counties. No empathy for those for whom partition was a disaster.

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@donalhassett1

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This should be a central issue in the upcoming European election. A vote for EPP candidates, including Fine Gael in Ireland, is a vote to support her reappointment to the Presidency of the Commission.

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

@DonnachaDCU

3 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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Dónal Hassett

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Was proud to sign this letter alongside over 600 colleagues in Ireland and to support a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, a call for collective action at a time when Palestinian universities are being destroyed and strangled by the Israeli state.

Academics call for ties with Israeli institutions to be cut

International law lecturer at Maynooth University John Reynolds said Irish third-level partnerships with Israeli institutions include research on technologies, and "there are technologies that are...

www.irishexaminer.com

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

2 years

Exactly 132 years to the day since French forces invaded and begin their brutal campaign of conquest, dispossession and oppression, on this day 60 years ago the Algerian people secured their freedom, transforming their country into a beacon for all fighting against colonialism🇩🇿

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Dónal Hassett

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If the senior management team of Trinity were serious about the institution’s colonial legacies, they would listen to the students and divest. Decolonisation is neither a metaphor nor a PR exercise.

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Dónal Hassett

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3 years

We have now seen the idea of ‘decolonisation’ derisively dismissed in the pages of the Irish Times twice in the space of a couple of weeks and yet the paper has never engaged in anyway with what decolonisation of knowledge means and the history of the theories underpinning it.

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Dónal Hassett

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6 months

I have been re-reading Said's Out of Place. What a beautiful piece of writing. A searingly honest portrayal of the entanglement of the personal and the political. Striking parallels with Ernaux, who is, of course, an outspoken defender of the Palestinians and their cause.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

7 months

One of guiding principles of this job is showing respect and support for students. If you can’t bring yourself to use a student’s desired pronoun, you are failing to do this. If you’re happy to write to colleagues using their desired academic titles, why not do same for students?

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

2 years

Forget the Long Room, this brutalist beauty is the best Trinity has to offer😍

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

11 months

Given that members of the Forum have (as is their right) taken to Twitter to rebuff critiques here are my main criticisms: 1. We have yet to see a clear account of how this forum was constituted. Who decided who got to participate and why? Expertise is not a neutral category.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

5 years

Love this from yesterday's protests in #Algeria . I know I and other historians have been focused on the historical references in the protesters' signs, but there is also such a wealth of creative pop culture references.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

3 years

Am I reading this right? Is the 🇮🇪 government giving €300000 to Cambridge, one of the wealthiest universities in world, while history departments and institutions in this state are chronically underfunded (not a criticism of person who will get the job)

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

4 years

A reminder that the bigotry of John Taylor (Lord Kilclooney) has often gone beyond the rhetorical. Here he is telling a student activist in 1968 that his Irish name meant that the government in Northern Ireland had no duty to provide a grant to him.

Sheilds

@sheilds4

4 years

@columeastwood An example ...

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

2 years

Eoghan Harris, the man who described Mary McAleese as a ‘tribal timebomb’ because she was a Northern Catholic, has done coms work for Labour, Fine Gael as well as being a prominent member of the WP and later a Senator and adviser for Fianna Fáil and working for RTÉ and Sindo…

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Dónal Hassett

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7 months

There is so little attention to asymmetries of power and so much focus on spectacular over structural violence in discussions of Israel and Palestine in ways that fundamentally misrepresent the lived realities of conflict.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

6 months

No greater threat to academic freedom than this.

Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

@MuhammadSmiry

6 months

No universities left in Gaza

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

3 years

Really excited to share a the programme and registration link for our 'Decolonising Irish Public Heritage' online event on May 14th, co-organised with @jevershed01 and @AnaisNony and supported by @IrishResearch and @CASiLaC_UCC . You can register here:

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

6 months

I am willing to admit I’ve never read Ulysses but I have read extensively on the history of the Middle East and of colonialism and I think that is somewhat more relevant to commentary on the conflict in Israel/Palestine.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

4 years

Michael McDowell suddenly horrified at the underfunding of healthcare services... I don’t remember him being vocal about this in the seven years that his party leader was Minister of Health. 🙄🙄🙄

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

4 months

👇👇 the onslaught is not only against universities but also museums and archives. An attempt to erase the Palestinian past as well a Palestinian present and future.

Birzeit University

@BirzeitU

4 months

The attack wasn't only on the campus, but it was also against the national museum established by the university, containing more than 3 thousand rare artifacts which the Israeli occupation stole, and then bombed the museum to cover up for the crime.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

4 years

I don’t see how some think sneering at people celebrating Biden and especially Harris win is left wing. This election is the result of a mass movement involving many marginalised groups. As Angela Davis put it, this admin can be pressured into progressive policies. Focus on that.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

2 years

'Many people will have heard of the Troubles that took place between North and South Ireland...She helped see the end of the Troubles. One of the things she did was to bow when she went to Northern Ireland'. Top level spoofing here from a royal commentator. Almost admirable.

CNN Early Start with Kasie Hunt

@EarlyStart

2 years

Today, King Charles III and Queen consort will visit Northern Ireland and his mother Queen Elizabeth's casket will head to Buckingham Palace. Hilary Fordwich explains the significance of these historical moments.

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Dónal Hassett

@donalhassett1

1 year

I am not in the least surprised by this attitude. The unspoken assumption here is that postgrads have the familial wealth and support to get them through, with universities functioning primarily as a means of social reproduction. Also undermines the value of the work postgrads do

brian lucey https://mastodon.social/@brianlucey

@brianmlucey

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@NathanCAGray @GaRoDean My honest to take is that postgraduate students aren't employees. I worry about stipends that are overly generous because in my view a hungry hunter is the best hunter. I also think a lot of this as being driven by reasonable envy of industry linked stem stipends

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