Citizen of nowhere or climate-friendly digital nomad? Meet Lasse Stolley, the teenager living on Germany's high-speed train network irishtimes.com/world/europe/2… Man In Seat61 Deutsche Bahn Personenverkehr The Irish Times The Irish TimesWorld

Holy Ground: German church embraces Taylor Swift’s music to lure young people to booked-out services irishtimes.com/world/europe/2… via Irish Times World

The Best Catholics under the Sun? Thanks to everyone at WydawnictwoCzarne in Poland for helping me spread the gospel of Catholic Ireland's rise and fall. Available now in handsome hardback at your local bookstore and online here czarne.com.pl/katalog/ksiazk… The Irish Catholic Tygodnik Powszechny

As NATO marks its 75th birthday, here outtakes of Bing Crosby singing the first unofficial alliance anthem. 'When free men ceased to yield, we live again in peace and strength behind the Nato shield.' youtube.com/watch?v=7WJIB8… The Irish Times The Irish TimesWorld

German historian Wolfgang Benz, one of the country's leading expert on anti-Semitism, fees increasingly ostracised for having the 'wrong' views and not sharing what he calls post-Oct 7 alarmism in his homeland The Irish Times The Irish TimesWorld

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A bleak DER SPIEGEL take on Dublin's housing 'market': 'Full employment and 3900 homeless families, more than at the time of the Great Famine in the 19th century'. @irishtimes spiegel.de/ausland/irland…

Imogen Stuart changed how Irish people viewed their Christian legacy - and left traces of beauty all over the island. And, in answer to the question she was asked for 75 years in Ireland: yes she did like it over here. Obituary:
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Berlin doesn't need to fear Moscow's disinformation trolls: it has Gerhard Schröder, soon to turn 80th and still pushing Germans' buttons on Russia -- to the alarm of leading historians irishtimes.com/world/europe/2… Irish Times World

Poles or Irish: who were/are the best Catholics in the world? Watch Marta Abramowicz and me debate the issue in Warsaw on April 9 at the Czarne bookshop, al. Jana Pawła II 45a/56. facebook.com/events/1061580… Ireland in Poland

Imogen Stuart, Ireland's last living Prussian, left us on Sunday aged 96. My @irishtimes tribute to her on her 95th birthday irishtimes.com/opinion/in-the… @rhag President of Ireland

Philosopher Susan Neiman says the intellectual climate in Germany has deteriorated since October 7th, and her criticism of Israel’s extremist government has led to her being viewed as ‘not genuinely Jewish’ irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…

From Brooklyn to Berlin, DeborahFeldman takes on Germany's 'Jew Fetish', post-Oct 7 narratives and the conservative Jewish establishment - with unorthodox methods Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland Jüdische Rundschau Jüdische Allgemeine Irish Times World

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Happy Publication Day - Pomyślności z okazji publikacji - as The Best Catholics in the World comes to Poland. Strong competition for the somewhat battered Best Catholics crown! Marta Abramowicz Ireland in Poland Bartek Kiełbowicz Marcin Antosiewicz Wydawnictwo Czarne Penguin Books Ireland

Vielleicht sollte der #Vatikan mal dieses Buch von Derek Scally ins Lateinische übersetzen lassen. Damit sie es in der Kurie lesen können

Cillian Murphy, Enda Walsh, Matt Damon and the rest of the 'Small Things Like These' team in Berlin ahead of tonight's world premiere, opening the Berlinale Screen Ireland Ireland Embassy Berlin The Irish Times

Broadway legend Chita Rivera - the first Anita in West Side Story - has died after a short illness. Last June we talked about her career, her Portugese-Irish roots and her Catholic girl guilt Playbill BroadwayWorld Merle Frimark Malcolm Prince Petroc Trelawny
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Most Germans have yet to notice, but a 2020 court ruling gave them Europe's most liberal assisted dying regime, with - as yet - no legislative limits @irishtimesworld irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

As Ireland's Zeitgeist Irland 24 promises a year of fresh Irish culture in Germany, what do established artists here say about making it #bigingermany ? Wallis Bird Candice Gordon Ireland Embassy Berlin Eugene Downes Irish Times Culture

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'It has been a wonderful, deepening time' - poet Alice Lyons talks to Derek Scally Irish Times Books about being the first recipient of the Heaney-Milosz Residency, an initiative we have been proud to partner on with Ireland in Poland and KRK Literature
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Michael Gambon, an impish gent, telling me in 2014 after a searing 'Eh Joe' why Beckett is 'great fun' and the time he witnessed Bertolt Brecht's widow telling East Berlin border guards to f**k off. Another of his interview inventions? 🤷🏼irishtimes.com/culture/gate-t… Irish Times Culture