Fergal Lenehan

Check out my open access theoretical article for the journal "Language and Intercultural Communication": "Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality". Open-access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Also one of the few literary works to feature a version of Galway club hurling. A part of the book is inspired by a famous Castlegar-Liam Mellows match. The first Irish-language book to top the bestseller list www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A number of prominent Irish figures from film, television and music, including Kneecap, Hozier, Aisling Bea, Siobhán McSweeney and Christy Moore, have urged Taoiseach Micheal Martin to intervene on behalf of 55 Gazan students who have been refused study visas

Trump's latest attack on US democracy. This is dangerous ⬇️ "The administration seems intent on stripping the congresswoman of her US citizenship and deporting her. It’s a terrible abuse of power."

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Colin Sheridan

The Berlin memorial of Otto & Elise Hampel, a working class couple who wrote postcards denouncing Hitler and the Nazis between 1940 and 1942. They were caught, tried, and beheaded in 1943. The memorial is by by Ingeborg Lockenmann, a replica of one of the Hampel’s postcards and was set up in 2020.

“Now Andy Burnham appears keen for more powers to be devolved to the far south-west of Britain and the idea of Cornwall becoming formally recognised as the fifth UK nation is not far-fetched. Interest in Kernewek, the Cornish language, is surging.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Gaza has exposed how Europe’s supposedly universal commitment to human rights is now conditional on whose suffering is recognized, whose resistance is considered legitimate and whose demands for justice are considered worthy of attention." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Sacked workers at the computer games company behind Grand Theft Auto have been demonstrating in Glasgow.." Union busting at a company expected to make billions from its latest game.

Beautiful and poignant analysis by @historyned.bsky.social - and one of the few that explains what is happening/has happened without treating it as the only possible outcome or conjuring the spectre of the incurable ‘Eastern German patient’

This is a brilliant novel. I read in three days.

Im Land, welches sich gerne als Erinnerungsweltmeister imaginiert, wird gegen Jüdinnen und Juden ermittelt, die gegen den aufziehenden Faschismus sich stellen. Es ist beschämend.

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“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

It’s a tricky divorce but at some point the British foreign and defence establishment is going to have to recognise that the US is no longer an ally and best seen as a security threat

Guess which Irish writer this post is about without checking the thread.

Respect: Today, on the day of a 2019 shooting near a Synagogue in Halle, Germany, a Jewish youth organisation made a human chain around the Synagogue, and stopped people from entering who wanted to use the shooting commemoration for "political theatre", including the state AfD member of parliament.

Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.

From @jungle.world. A fairly good piece. The antisemitism of the title refers directly to the proposed renaming of Herzog Park. jungle.world/artikel/2026...

Over the past two days, aside from reporting on it, I’ve had to sit with two pieces of horrific news. The first came from Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, where Russia killed 22 people, including five children, in a strike on a residential building. 1/

I said to someone that more than half of the year in Ireland is at least 20 degrees. They laughed. It happened last year (from April). It has happened again this year.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

Would-be Galway mosque bombers made video warning they would carry out further attacks, court hears www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Russlandfreunde, Ex-Pornodarsteller, Abiturfälscher, völkische Ideologen, Vetternwirtschafter, Sellner-Fangirl, Ex-Stasioffizier, rechter Kampfsportler, gerade von Ermittlern Durchsuchte. Das ist die AfD-Fraktion in Sachsen-Anhalt - die jetzt Regierungsfraktion sein will. taz.de/Sachsen-Anha...

In the age of nation-states, a Diaspora. My study to be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social in May 2027. Check it out and pre-order: hurstpublishers.com/book/diaspora/

"Funeral prayers were held at Gaza City’s Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church for a Palestinian mother and daughter who were among five killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment."

35 years ago, on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified. Just two months later, voters in the former GDR went to the polls in the first free federal election since the Weimar era. Despite decades of socialist dictatorship, East German voting behavior displayed marked regional differences. Thread🧵

Threads suspended my account again minutes after i called out trump's hypocrisy on calling for the death penalty for for Black and Latino boys but worried that the Cornell 7 won't get a 'fair shake'.

The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".

This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...

Ich war bei Uwe Steimles erstem Auftritt in Sachsen-Anhalt nach der Landtagswahl. Dort bin ich eingetaucht in eine erschreckende Parallelgesellschaft, deren Brutalität und Kälte mir Angst macht. (🎁-Link)

🇦🇲 Die extra dicke Jungle World aus und über Armenien ist da! Es geht um Vertriebene aus Bergkarabach, Demokratie, russische Exilierte, die Drag- und Punkszene und vieles mehr! Ab heute online, morgen am Kiosk. Zum Inhalt 👉 jungle.world/inhalt/2026/40

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Apropos Stolpersteine (1): Ich musste im Winter an das Foto des Mannes denken, der mit verschränkten Armen, beim Hitler-Besuch 1936 in Hamburg in der Menge steht, umgeben von den Lemmingen. Es soll sich um August Landmesser gehandelt haben. Auch er hat in seiner Heimat Hamburg einen Stolperstein.

Bin heute an Heidenau vorbeigekommen und hab gestoppt. Damit das auch noch mal Bilder ergibt. Die fünf bisherigen Stolpersteine (die auch bleiben sollen) sind sehr zentral gelegen. Einer für den früheren BM Paul Gröger ist direkt vor dem Rathaus. gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/p...

Die Welt brennt. Die menschengemachte Klimakatastrophe verursacht immenses Leid, unbezahlbare Schäden, Wirtschaftseinbrüche, droht den Lebensraum Erde für viele dauerhaft unbewohnbar zu machen. Und wir fördern nun ausgerechnet jene Industrie, deren Geschäftsmodell es ist, unsere Welt anzuzünden?

Niedrigste Wasserstände, trockene Böden und schwindende Wasservorräte mit negativen Folgen für Natur und Wirtschaft. Jetzt nicht nur im Hochsommer sondern auch Ende September. Wir müssen das Wasser in der Landschaft halten, Entwässerung zurückbauen, Auen und Flüsse renaturieren. Es eilt!!!

Aber Hauptsache, Klimaschutz geht nicht auf Kosten der Wirtschaft.

🌐 Wem gehört das Web – und wer entscheidet, welche Informationen sichtbar werden? Webdaten sind zentral für KI. Doch ihre Erfassung liegt zu großen Teilen bei wenigen außereuropäischen Unternehmen. Was bedeutet das für Europas digitale Souveränität? Diskussion am 8.10. in Berlin. ➡️ t1p.de/t902b

Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad