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Fergal Lenehan
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Apl. Prof. Dr. Uni Jena. Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
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Book launch on 11 September. All are welcome.

More on the book here: www.orpenpress.com/books/grit-a...
September 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Booklaunch in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 17 September.
All welcome.
September 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Luisa Conti & myself were in the podcast studio yesterday. The new series of the ReDICo podcast will be available soon.
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The final resting place of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc & Una Watters in Creagh Cemetary, Ballinasloe, County Galway. @ronanhession.bsky.social @siobhraaiken.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#Stolpersteine for the Klarfeld family at Wittenberger/Schiebestrasse Leipzig, who Polish-born Jews. They fled to the Netherlands in 1938, but were sent to Auschwitz in 1942 & 1943. Lena was 17 when murdered, father Simon 45, mother Irma 41, while Thea and Georg were 16 & 11.
June 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Dresden.
April 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Bizarre #Leipzig #Connewitz street rubbish, complete with the German translation of Nuala O'Faolain's "Are You Somebody?"
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
March 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Upright Figure Number 5."
Renè Graetz.

From 1970.

Graetz was married to Belfast-born GDR children's author & artist Elizabeth Shaw, who sold the sculpture to the Neue Nationalgalerie in then West Berlin in 1987.
March 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"Dublin" by Sigmar Polke (1941-2010).
From 1968.
Oil on canvas.
At the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
March 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The AfD is the strongest party in the east & in some pockets in the west, such as the cities of Gelsenkirchen & Kaiserslautern (on second party vote, but the SPD have direct mandates). Die Linke is the strongest party in the state of Berlin.
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The BSW are on 4,97% now apparently. If the BSW fail to make it, the CDU-CSU & SPD will have enough for a coalition. If the BSW make it into parliament a black-red coalition would need a third party.
February 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is a great book. I flew through it last week. An Irish-European novel of real substance.
February 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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....
February 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This was where Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig.The building stood until 1886. There's a shopping centre here now.
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The first roofie on Bluesky!
January 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Theoretical article for the journal "Language and Intercultural Communication": "Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality". Open-access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14708477.2024.2419666?src=exp-la
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM