RTE news : Protesters removed from memorial while President speaks. I was standing a few feet away from these protesters. I do not understand why they were manhandled out of the event. All they did was stand up and turn their back to Michael D Higgins. rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

#OnThisDay in 1978 the IRA murdered 12 Protestant civilians and injured others, attending a Collie (dog) Club dinner dance, by no warning fire bombs at La Mon Hotel, SE of Belfast, igniting a rapid inferno after dark. Some bodies difficult to identify belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/… #OTD

A question for the @socdems. If the election has gone the way you wanted it to, how would you deal with your coalition partner and Taoiseach writing eulogies and carrying coffins for IRA terrorists. Cian O'Callaghan T.D. Holly Cairns TD Rory Hearne Gary Gannon TD Sinéad Gibney

Merz: „Absolutely no illusions“ about Trump. Goal needs to be step by step independence from a US who „pretty much no longer cares about fate of 🇪🇺“. „Unclear whether we will still speak of NATO in present shape“ by time of June summit or we need to come up with 🇪🇺alternative.

SPD-Fehlerkultur der vergangenen 20 Jahre in einem Tweet

Why the Government Should Pay For University Research Costs | TIME time.com/7259548/why-go…

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It's quite telling that being a professional driver when one catastrophically injures or kills someone with their work vehicle Is viewed by Irish courts as a mitigating rather than significantly aggravating factor jrnl.ie/6647535

Is there a single book published in the last 5 years that’s aged worse than this?

On the podcast | Mark Jones (Mark William Jones) discusses the revolutionary life of Rosa Luxemburg – the socialist firebrand whose convictions put her on a collision course with the jingoism of her age: bit.ly/4htubM5

Panel discussion on Russia's War against Ukraine: European Security at Crossroads this Thursday 10.04 at 4 pm in UCD, Newman Building, Theatre M. All Welcome!

Rosa Luxemburg: @markwilljones speaks to Danny Bird about her extraordinary biography – from rebellious youth and opposition to #WWI to her brutal execution in 1919 • @historyextra podcast, listen for pre and inter-war Germany buff.ly/TLXnOO0 her #history #edchatie

'Self-portrait.' (c1930) Lotte Laserstein studied painting under Erich Wolfsfeld at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and for the final two years of her tuition was his star pupil, an honour which brought with it her own studio at the Academy in which to paint.

I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book with Cambridge University Press. Drawing on archives & interviews conducted in Russia, the book sheds light on the ideological competition within the Russian state & its central role in the transformation of the country’s foreign policy.

Thinking today, on the tenth anniversary of the Berkeley tragedy, of Aoife Beary, Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Ashley Donohoe, Lorcán Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eimear Walsh, and of their family and friends. They will always be remembered as part of the University College Dublin community.

Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge University Press. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

I was, in fact, highly anxious about posting this for three distinct reasons. Firstly, the Irish language community, which leans nationalist, has proven to have a vicious antisemitism problem since October 7th. I knew there would be backlash and that it would be nasty. So it

I don't think she is talking about how the men of violence turned their backs on violence, decommissioned their weapons and embraced the politics of democracy.