Dónal Hassett
@donalh.bsky.social
Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
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I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
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Amílcar Cabral: To Be Mountains, To Return to the Source of Power
Assassinated 20 January 1973. Yet still today we cry “Viva Cabral! Viva!”
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December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
"Love You to the Moon and Back", Sackville Avenue, Dublin 03
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Love You to the Moon and Back", Sackville Avenue, Dublin 03
Finished off my marathon of confernece trips at the Tate Modern for the wonderful exhibition on Nigerian Modernism. Recommend it. Now looking forward to getting into my own bed!
December 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Finished off my marathon of confernece trips at the Tate Modern for the wonderful exhibition on Nigerian Modernism. Recommend it. Now looking forward to getting into my own bed!
Not here for the weird tweeification of warfare. Spitfires were used by the French in Indochina and the Brits in Malaya. Santa's Spitfire Christmas, no thank you.
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Not here for the weird tweeification of warfare. Spitfires were used by the French in Indochina and the Brits in Malaya. Santa's Spitfire Christmas, no thank you.
A really wonderful keynote from Muriam Haleh Davis on the Fanon of decolonosation Vs the Fanon of decolonial theory through centring Algerian responses to Fanon's work.
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A really wonderful keynote from Muriam Haleh Davis on the Fanon of decolonosation Vs the Fanon of decolonial theory through centring Algerian responses to Fanon's work.
Former, longstanding and new colleagues of UCC French Department reunited at @sfps.bsky.social. happy times.
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Former, longstanding and new colleagues of UCC French Department reunited at @sfps.bsky.social. happy times.
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5. INTERVENTIONS: "Beyond the Tirailleur: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire," by @donalh.bsky.social that calls for a broader conception of the war in the colonies.
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Beyond the <em>Tirailleur</em>: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire
The Centenary of the First World War saw a new focus in official commemoration, cultural production and broader scholarly and public discourses on the figure of the colonial soldier, the tirailleur. I...
journals.publishing.umich.edu
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
5. INTERVENTIONS: "Beyond the Tirailleur: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire," by @donalh.bsky.social that calls for a broader conception of the war in the colonies.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
Given @erinktwohig.bsky.social would be too modest to share her own paper on the @sfps.bsky.social account, I'll do it for her. Great paper on Fanon and football through the FLN organised Algerian team.
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Given @erinktwohig.bsky.social would be too modest to share her own paper on the @sfps.bsky.social account, I'll do it for her. Great paper on Fanon and football through the FLN organised Algerian team.
Glad to see this short reflection piece I wrote on looking beyond the tirailleur to engage with other colonial experiences of the First World war is out. Thanks to @rpanchasi.bsky.social for being such a supportive editor doi.org/10.3998/wsfh...
Beyond the <em>Tirailleur</em>: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire
The Centenary of the First World War saw a new focus in official commemoration, cultural production and broader scholarly and public discourses on the figure of the colonial soldier, the tirailleur. I...
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Glad to see this short reflection piece I wrote on looking beyond the tirailleur to engage with other colonial experiences of the First World war is out. Thanks to @rpanchasi.bsky.social for being such a supportive editor doi.org/10.3998/wsfh...
Jessica Breakey giving an absolutely fascinating paper on Josie Fanon through an analysis of her library. Wonderful that Josie is getting the attention she deserves as an activist, journalist, feminist, radical thinker and woman who made history rather than just witnessing it. @sfps.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Jessica Breakey giving an absolutely fascinating paper on Josie Fanon through an analysis of her library. Wonderful that Josie is getting the attention she deserves as an activist, journalist, feminist, radical thinker and woman who made history rather than just witnessing it. @sfps.bsky.social
Beautiful piece writing as ever from Stephen. Can't wait for the book.
I finished my paper talking about my grandparents, and the ways that we talk about people as demographics or lost causes
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Beautiful piece writing as ever from Stephen. Can't wait for the book.
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I finished my paper talking about my grandparents, and the ways that we talk about people as demographics or lost causes
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I finished my paper talking about my grandparents, and the ways that we talk about people as demographics or lost causes
A great start to @sfps.bsky.social last night with the screening of Abdenour Zahzah's Chroniques de Blida. Looking forward now to two great days of discussion of Fanon.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A great start to @sfps.bsky.social last night with the screening of Abdenour Zahzah's Chroniques de Blida. Looking forward now to two great days of discussion of Fanon.
Epstein being a lover of Belgian colonial art is the least surprising thing I've learned this year.
So apparently Jeffrey Epstein had a taste for Belgian colonial art.
In the newly-released pictures of his estate we can see The Archer [Tireur à l'arc] by Arthur Dupagne (1895-1961).
In the newly-released pictures of his estate we can see The Archer [Tireur à l'arc] by Arthur Dupagne (1895-1961).
December 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Epstein being a lover of Belgian colonial art is the least surprising thing I've learned this year.
Full blown fascism on GB News. Absolutely grim how these ideas, which are, I suspect, completely at odds with how most ordinary British people understand their society, giving an airing like this.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Full blown fascism on GB News. Absolutely grim how these ideas, which are, I suspect, completely at odds with how most ordinary British people understand their society, giving an airing like this.
Had time for a quick visit of East Berlin before heading on to the next (and thankfully final) conference.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Had time for a quick visit of East Berlin before heading on to the next (and thankfully final) conference.
This looks great. Particularly looking forward to reading the brilliant Sneha Reddy's chapter.
Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This looks great. Particularly looking forward to reading the brilliant Sneha Reddy's chapter.
Had a blast in Erfurt. A really wonderful workshop with great work on the relationship between consent, coercion, displacement and mobility, migration and deportation in colonial and Postcolonial contexts across.
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Had a blast in Erfurt. A really wonderful workshop with great work on the relationship between consent, coercion, displacement and mobility, migration and deportation in colonial and Postcolonial contexts across.
The SED really did not do irony.
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The SED really did not do irony.
Fascinating presentation this morning on North African women in the Buchenwald camp system from Lena Engel.
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Fascinating presentation this morning on North African women in the Buchenwald camp system from Lena Engel.
Really interesting paper from Baijayanti Roy on the way certain Indian anticolonialists worked in and with Nazi Germany really. A nuanced and critical analysis of this often occluded history and its afterlives.
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Really interesting paper from Baijayanti Roy on the way certain Indian anticolonialists worked in and with Nazi Germany really. A nuanced and critical analysis of this often occluded history and its afterlives.
Erfurt is very pretty! Definitely worth a visit- lots of interesting history including one of the best preserved medieval towns in Germany, one of Europe's oldest still standing synagogues and the monastery where Luther studied. Nice Christmas markets too.
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Erfurt is very pretty! Definitely worth a visit- lots of interesting history including one of the best preserved medieval towns in Germany, one of Europe's oldest still standing synagogues and the monastery where Luther studied. Nice Christmas markets too.
A powerful visit to Topf and Söhne, a factory in Erfurt that is an example of the implication of German industry in the extermination of the Jews and other groups during the Holocaust. They supplied crematoria to the camps. Good exhibition on the first generation of Holocaust researchers too.
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A powerful visit to Topf and Söhne, a factory in Erfurt that is an example of the implication of German industry in the extermination of the Jews and other groups during the Holocaust. They supplied crematoria to the camps. Good exhibition on the first generation of Holocaust researchers too.
Excited to be heading to Erfurt with COLVET colleagues. for this great workshop. I'll be giving a keynote tomorrow evening on 'The Great War of Movement: Thinking Critically about Mobility, Displacement, Coercion and Consent in the French Empire's First World War'. Danke @florianwagner.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Excited to be heading to Erfurt with COLVET colleagues. for this great workshop. I'll be giving a keynote tomorrow evening on 'The Great War of Movement: Thinking Critically about Mobility, Displacement, Coercion and Consent in the French Empire's First World War'. Danke @florianwagner.bsky.social
