Dónal Hassett
@donalh.bsky.social
Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
Cambridge Core - European Law - Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
The grim reality is that there is a direct line between those 'respectable' voices in media and academia who have ridiculed trans people and sought to whip up a moral panic and this grotesque behaviour towards a young girl who is a talented sports player.
www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
www.independent.ie
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The grim reality is that there is a direct line between those 'respectable' voices in media and academia who have ridiculed trans people and sought to whip up a moral panic and this grotesque behaviour towards a young girl who is a talented sports player.
www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
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‘Plucky Little Belgium’ in 1914…
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
‘Plucky Little Belgium’ in 1914…
Does the adjective 'plucky' only ever apply to British people? Can't think of it ever being used for others. It's always either a channel 4 ad for some programme about "plucky Brits" setting up a business somewhere where they can't speak the language or some Kiplingesque figure of empire.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Does the adjective 'plucky' only ever apply to British people? Can't think of it ever being used for others. It's always either a channel 4 ad for some programme about "plucky Brits" setting up a business somewhere where they can't speak the language or some Kiplingesque figure of empire.
Hard to see through all the bluster, cynicism and bloated rhetoric of Trump et al but is this potentially positive? Hoping against hope that there will be a peace deal that can actually provide a sustainable peace for Ukraine and bring an end to this horrible war.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hard to see through all the bluster, cynicism and bloated rhetoric of Trump et al but is this potentially positive? Hoping against hope that there will be a peace deal that can actually provide a sustainable peace for Ukraine and bring an end to this horrible war.
Honoured to have been featured in tonight's DJ Carey documentary scoffing down a Snickers at the Walsh Cup final back in my youth. I was not aware of his crimes at the time and Dublin won on the day!
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Honoured to have been featured in tonight's DJ Carey documentary scoffing down a Snickers at the Walsh Cup final back in my youth. I was not aware of his crimes at the time and Dublin won on the day!
Today I learned that a group of Somalis who had been recruited in Djibouti and served in French forces during World War I were killed protesting the refusal to grant them pensions before they were expelled from the colony on demobilisation. A kind of mini-Thiaroye avant la lettre.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today I learned that a group of Somalis who had been recruited in Djibouti and served in French forces during World War I were killed protesting the refusal to grant them pensions before they were expelled from the colony on demobilisation. A kind of mini-Thiaroye avant la lettre.
I have three conferences in the next two weeks- Potsdam, Erfurt and London. Busy but exciting times- great to get some of the project research out there and to present alongside project team members. Currently writing my keynote for this workshop. www.voluntariness.org/workshop-bet...
"Between Choice and Command" - Workshop and Keynote Lecture - voluntariness.org
Two-day Conference in Erfurt on colonial (return)migration dynamics on December 1-2, 2ß25 - Organized by Florian Wagner
www.voluntariness.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I have three conferences in the next two weeks- Potsdam, Erfurt and London. Busy but exciting times- great to get some of the project research out there and to present alongside project team members. Currently writing my keynote for this workshop. www.voluntariness.org/workshop-bet...
My former colleagues at French in Bristol are hosting the wonderful Prof Soulemayne Bachir Diagne, one of the most interesting contemporary philosophers thinking critically about the limits and potential of universalism.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My former colleagues at French in Bristol are hosting the wonderful Prof Soulemayne Bachir Diagne, one of the most interesting contemporary philosophers thinking critically about the limits and potential of universalism.
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"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
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One of the most important voices of the Arab world's reaction to Mamdani
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One of the most important voices of the Arab world's reaction to Mamdani
Having to spend this Saturday writing but I treated myself to a relisten of the Eoghan Harris- Sarah McInerney interview to cheer myself up. Truly one of the greatest interviews of all time. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Eoghan Harris interview
Sarah McInerney spoke to journalist, Eoghan Harris, after his contract with the Sunday Independent was terminated, because of his involvement with an anonymous Twitter account.
www.rte.ie
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Having to spend this Saturday writing but I treated myself to a relisten of the Eoghan Harris- Sarah McInerney interview to cheer myself up. Truly one of the greatest interviews of all time. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
If you liked Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, your going to love Nicolas Sarkozy's book about his 11 days in prison... and it'll be out just in time for Christmas.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you liked Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, your going to love Nicolas Sarkozy's book about his 11 days in prison... and it'll be out just in time for Christmas.
Compulsory stop in Roti King to fuel up for my IHR seminar later.
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Compulsory stop in Roti King to fuel up for my IHR seminar later.
This gobshite once told me to "f**k off" and shoved a phone camera in my face because I told him he didn't speak for me or for most Irish people when he was ranting about immigrants and great replacement in Shandon a few years ago. Good to see him charged.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Anti-immigration activist Derek Blighe to be tried on harassment charge
The court heard the alleged offence was ‘a ten month campaign of harassment’
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This gobshite once told me to "f**k off" and shoved a phone camera in my face because I told him he didn't speak for me or for most Irish people when he was ranting about immigrants and great replacement in Shandon a few years ago. Good to see him charged.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Spending International Men's Day writing about how Britain culturally represented men who returned from the First World War across the 20th century. Given there were over 4 million of them, the story is a bit more complicated than 'forgotten heroes' and 'cheerful cripples'. #fww #ww1 #amwriting
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Spending International Men's Day writing about how Britain culturally represented men who returned from the First World War across the 20th century. Given there were over 4 million of them, the story is a bit more complicated than 'forgotten heroes' and 'cheerful cripples'. #fww #ww1 #amwriting
Colleagues have done great work creating this resource with short but detailed and peer reviewed biographies of central figures and accounts of key events in the history of labour and of anticolonial movements in 20th century Africa. maitron.fr/presentation...
Présentation du Maitron Afrique (en français et en anglais) – Maitron
maitron.fr
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Colleagues have done great work creating this resource with short but detailed and peer reviewed biographies of central figures and accounts of key events in the history of labour and of anticolonial movements in 20th century Africa. maitron.fr/presentation...
Looking forward ward to travelling to London tomorrow to present some tentative research from the COLVET project on how veterans in the interwar French Empire shifting the contours of citizenship. Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-v...
Colonial Veterans and Citizenship in the French Empire
Presenting research from the project, Ex-Soldiers of Empire; Towards a Comparative History of Colonial Veterancy in the Interwar Period.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Looking forward ward to travelling to London tomorrow to present some tentative research from the COLVET project on how veterans in the interwar French Empire shifting the contours of citizenship. Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-v...
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This is the "mature debate" they keep banging on about btw. What level of cruelty we should aspire to, with the claimed fear of being seen as less cruel than a country rapidly sliding towards fascism. An ivory tower scumbag
Justice and Migration Minister Jim O'Callaghan said he's committed to ensuring Ireland is 'not viewed more favourably than the UK by those seeking to claim asylum'.
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
O'Callaghan 'committed' to ensuring Ireland not viewed 'more favourably' than the UK by asylum seekers
A new International Protection Bill to reform Ireland’s asylum system will be published later this year.
jrnl.ie
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the "mature debate" they keep banging on about btw. What level of cruelty we should aspire to, with the claimed fear of being seen as less cruel than a country rapidly sliding towards fascism. An ivory tower scumbag
Lady LondonKerry suggesting indentured servitude and Mahmood saying she'll consider it. Bleak times.
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Lady LondonKerry suggesting indentured servitude and Mahmood saying she'll consider it. Bleak times.
Did @rpanchasi.bsky.social's Xtreme Endnoting exercise with a group of postgrads this afternoon and it was so good. They got really engaged and enjoyed it. @siobhraaiken.bsky.social Spiritual Wounds was one of our mystery texts. Strongly recommend giving it a go:
www.historians.org/perspectives...
www.historians.org/perspectives...
Cite Specific – AHA
It all started with a desire to have a different kind of conversation with my students about citation, one that wouldn’t be consumed by the details of formatting or the penalties for plagiarism. These...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Did @rpanchasi.bsky.social's Xtreme Endnoting exercise with a group of postgrads this afternoon and it was so good. They got really engaged and enjoyed it. @siobhraaiken.bsky.social Spiritual Wounds was one of our mystery texts. Strongly recommend giving it a go:
www.historians.org/perspectives...
www.historians.org/perspectives...
It is so grim to see this happening and under a Labour government. When I lived in Bristol, one of the things I appreciated most was how, in spite of the state's hostile policies, the city and the vast majority of its residents seemed to genuinely celebrate its diversity and the welcome to refugees.
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It is so grim to see this happening and under a Labour government. When I lived in Bristol, one of the things I appreciated most was how, in spite of the state's hostile policies, the city and the vast majority of its residents seemed to genuinely celebrate its diversity and the welcome to refugees.