Mark William Jones
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Historian @ucddublin Author of 1923. The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup; Founding Weimar; Am Anfang war Gewalt. Published by @Basicbooks
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had a great time at the UK's intellectual Glastonbury talking about Hitler's 1923 Putsch & its lessons for our times.
Next talk is at
@ucddublin
@FestivalUCD
with
@DrSandraScanlon
Learn about what's going to happen next in Irish and American politics!
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I have studied antisemitism for most of my career as a historian; not listening to Jewish voices that sound the alarm, dismissing or silencing them is a constant feature. Rachel Moiselle's account should be a must follow for everyone who opposes anti-intellectualism, and racism.
I wish to publicly commend the bravery of Rachel Moiselle for all she has done since 7/10, as she continually points out the difference between support for resolving the crisis in Gaza (which she and all other decent human beings want!), and other things which have unfortunately
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when the Rector of Frankfurt University banned the Nazi Student Association in 1929, the Nazi newspaper headline claimed that they were "suppressing academic freedom" (while also being very anti-Semitic)
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I am still quite shocked. Prime time Irish television, on a Saturday night, on the most watched channel, just had an ARCHIVIST as a guest explaining the value of archives and the need to study documents. this would not happen in any other European country.
Brilliant
@Tommedian
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#twitterstorians
It's out! please retweet about it, buy, read, quote, or steal it, but please don't ignore it!!
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on the 85th anniversary of 9 Nov pogrom; and the 100th anniversary of the Hitler Putsch; both seminal milestones in the radicalization of Nazi violence towards Jews, I spent a part of my workday, trying to reassure Jewish Students at Irish Universities that they belong.
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Publication Day!
And it's a nice feeling to bring the book back to one of the many thinking spots that shaped how to write it.
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every facet of Hamas's 7 October operation was designed to facilitate the deaths of as many Israeli civilians as possible; that's why to suggest that it only 'included criminal acts' is intellectually bankrupt and morally repulsive: the entire operation was a horrendous crime.
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Six Stolpersteine were embedded in the pavement outside St. Catherine's School in Dublin yesterday. The first in Ireland. Ettie Gluck, who was murdered in Auschwitz in September 1942 was a pupil in the school
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A carneval parade in Neustadt Germany in spring 1939, which features a burning synagogue as a parade float.
A reminder that Nazi Germany did not just discriminate and later murder Jews. They laughed at them as they did it.
thanks to the excellent
@MiliMutz
for the link.
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#mehole
is trending in Ireland. It's a polite public response to a political elite that have spend nearly three days now treating 5 million people like they are just a bit thick.
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My son thinks that the images in my book are a little boring.
So here you go: the funeral of Walter Rathenau and the attempt to re-found Weimar democracy in the summer of 1922 with dinosaurs and pterodactyls saluting the murdered German Foreign Minister in Berlin's Tiergarten
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A student review of Peter Gay's Weimar Culture from the library copy held in UCD
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with
@LindseyEarner
leaving UCD, the largest school of History on the island of Ireland now only has 2 promoted female academics & zero senior female colleagues at professorial and full professorial level.
an entire generation of students are being educated to think that's ok
The School of History
@UCC
is delighted to welcome Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne
@LindseyEarner
as Professor of Irish Gender History. Lindsey's appointment is of major importance to the School and we look forward to exploring fresh thinking and advancing our interests together.
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@RichterHedwig
es ist auch erschuetternd wie viele Gewalt ging von seiten der Sozialdemokratie aus. Und beeindruckende wie SPD nahe Historikern dies immer noch vertuschen. 1000er Toten die nicht errinert werden kann wegen der Sehnsucht nach einer positiven national "Demokratiegeschichte"
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please spread the word:
@UCDHistory
is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to undertake research upon the Mexican Revolution from a global history perspective. Available from 1 February 2019; 12 month contract, no sneeky extras.
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this says *so* much about the politics of the people who have been placed in charge of our national broadcaster's news, current affairs, and analysis.
diversity = a man with glasses.
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just sharing this in case any
@SecondCaptains
listeners heard me and
@kenearlys
talking history and politics, and thought that guy needs to get out more ;-)
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the proofs of my new book arrived just as i tested for pos for covid. so now I'm checking proofs with brain fog.
Can all my German speaker friends please confirm that this bit is correct. other mistakes will be forgiven ;-)
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@abrahamson_ed
@tcd
@carlobrien
@IrishTimes
Thanks for doing this. The College leadership's tolerance for antisemitism from students and staff remains a disgrace. And their statement only worsens it: we provided a 'safe space' is not good enough
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what an amazing woman. confronting a gunman trying to commit mass murder and then being shot in the back by the coward.
RIP. I hope we will know your name soon.
#Halle
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€100,000 per year for one lectureship post. this is an appalling waste of resources - not a single Irish (ROI) University even has a single full time student recruitment officer in Northern Ireland.
Minister
@simoncoveney
announced today a grant of €300,000 over a 3-year period to
@Cambridge_Uni
in support of its Modern Irish History programmes.
The award, made through
@dfatirl
’s Reconciliation Fund, will fund a new full-time lectureship
@MIH_Cam
👇
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Not officially out until Friday, but this copy has made an early break for the wild and is now out there waiting to terrify a reader with the story of the year when Hitler became a thing and the obvious parallels between then and now
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@marteimer
@faznet
Danke
@Marteimer
Nur ein Hinweise aus der Sicht eines Historikers: Es waren weit mehr als 400 Menschen die ihr Leben verloren. Es waren zwischen 1,000 und 2,000.
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a hacker attack on the Staatbibliothek in Berlin means that its online collection of newspapers is unavailable.
May the world's historians' most evil curses land upon the people or machines responsible.
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wonder what Professor Hayden would think of the absence of a full female professor of history from
@ucddublin
in 2018.
Read more about great
#NUI
woman Professor Mary Hayden on our site!
@HerstoryIrelands
#IlluminateHerstory
Prof Hayden was our first female member of Senate, a
@ucddublin
@UCDHistory
Professor &
#suffragette
#twitterstorians
#votail100
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If it's remembered at all, most people think of 1923 as the year of German hyperinflation, and the Hitler Putsch, forgetting entirely that the year began with the Ruhr Occupation.
In this image a French soldier faces down a German civilian with his bayonet drawn
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Two weeks till publication day! Excited to share this endorsement from Alex Watson, one of the historians I look up to most.
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The
@GermanHistSoc
Postgraduate Essay Prize call is open.
The prize is £500 pounds sterling, and a chance to publish an article in the Journal German History; good entries will also be passed on to the
@OUPHistory
German History series editors.
details:
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covid cases per 100K in the last seven days. can you guess which country's head of government has a science phd and understands exponential growth?
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I dispute the claims made by another academic below.
The image of the octopus as a representative of Jewish 'world domination' is a well established form/trope of antisemitism.
In this cartoon from Nazi Germany, Churchill is represented as the octopus, controlled by Jews.
This is fascinating. We're witnessing the creation of an antisemitic trope in real time.
Octopuses, obviously, were never antisemitic tropes before now, but they will become so if these ghouls keep pointing them out as such
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@shanedbergin
this nails it: even now most people don't understand the basics of aerosol transmission and exponential growth and the people who have the platforms to inform them are telling them the wrong stuff because they are in the hands of politics & vested interests.
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things I've done in the last 24 hours.
submitted two rushed grant applications and bought my 3 year old a sand pit.
one of the three will be a success.
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More than twice as many Irish school children study German as in the UK.
higher level Ireland 2018: 6194 A level UK 2018: 2900
total population Ireland: 4.7 million UK: 65.6 million
lieber
@HeikoMaas
mehr Resourcen fuer
@GI_Irland
waere schon
@irlembberlin
@DLFBildung
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UCC has more than 20,000 students and over 3,000 staff.
It's creche has spaces for 85 children.
Students children have priority access over staff's children.
there is no separate creche for staff.
But yea, your new section on your website, that's amazing.
We’re delighted to launch a new section on our website, focusing on EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion).
▪️ Get to know our committee
▪️ Our School in numbers
▪️ Family friendly working
▪️ And more! 👇
#cheminclusion
@cheminclusion
@UCCEquality
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made an absolute balls of my unboxing video, but here it is anyway: 1923. The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Beerhall Putsch. first author copies out of the box!!
Looking forward to about it in the UK for the first time at
@Hayfestival
in 2 weeks!
#Hayfestival2023
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Three articles about the work of University College Dublin Historians in the 3 biggest German papers on one day last week. just sayin 😀
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Ireland has a major problem: we are sleepwalking into the age of disinformation democracy and can't even see it.
I hope this is finally the wake up call that the government and the Gardaí need - Dublin City has a major public order problem.
And it is being fuelled and exploited by far-right fascist activists, online and offline.
#DublinRiots
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Germans who say its their right to have fireworks. they're the same as Americans who say its their right to have guns.
good luck to the Rettungs Dienste and to all the parents worrying if their kids lose an eye or an ear or a finger (some of them will, some already have).
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my late mother would have been so chuffed to hear
@PresidentIRL
quote her daughter in his lecture today.
Then she would have written him a little letter asking why he didn't use her title when he kept calling the men professor.
You can read, watch, or listen to the President's speech at today's
#Machnamh100
seminar about commemorating events in Ireland's history, here:
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100 years after the Beerhall putsch, its most important lesson is obvious:
'If the institutions of liberal democracy are shaken and weakened, even a shambolic insurrection may not remain a failure for long.'
thanks to
@ProSyn
for the opportunity to write this piece
A century after Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch, historian
@MarkWillJones
, author of "1923" (
@BasicBooks
), walks us through the events leading up to that fateful day.
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the name of the girl who lost her life in the tram was Getrud Martha Komorowski. she was an apprentice and she lived in Berlin Lynarstrassse.
Thanks to
#TitelThesenTemperamente
@ARDde
for the chance to share her story.
#Novemberrevolution
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what a poor choice of words. if it was unimaginable, why do many synagogues have 24/7 police protection, why do Jewish schools have private security in addition to the police protection. denial is not the answer.
"In Halle ist passiert, was in Deutschland unvorstellbar schien", sagte Bundespräsident Steinmeier auf Leipziger
#Lichtfest
zu
#Halle
. "Es habe einen Angriff auf eine jüdische Synagoge gegeben, in einem Land mit dieser Geschichte."
#hal0910
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nice to see that academic work from University College Dublin is defining debate about November 1918 in Germany
@ucddublin
@IrishResearch
#LoveIrishResearch
(disclaimer, nobody likes bragging, but if we don't point them out, our
@HumanitiesUCD
achievements risk going missed)
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why not invite an Irish Jewish student to reply to the claim that there is no antisemitism on our campuses???
@RuadhanIT
@jenoconnell
We are always looking for fresh voices. Particularly from writers coming from backgrounds currently underrepresented on the oped page. How to write an opinion piece for The Irish Times
via
@IrishTimes
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training on his own in about -1 degrees when there was so much fog that you can't even see the ball or the goal.
give this commitment a like!
@officialgaa
@UCDGAA
@ucddublin
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@RSAIreland
kids don't control how many speed cameras are operated in the vicinity of schools; kids don't control our culture of zero enforcement.
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i wonder how many people beyond Germany are aware that today is
#Exzellenzstrategie
deliverance day. probably very few. And that probably says more about the whole thing than an awful lot of what will be said in Deutschland in the next 24-36 hours.
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Yes, you have understood that correctly. there isn't a single University president (Rektor) in Germany who is from the former East.
only 4 are not-Germans.
nothing to do with discrimination, of course.....
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AFD set the terms of the discourse; CDU/CSU appropriate them; AFD move the terms further to the right; CDU/CSU appropriate them...
this cycle will repeat until AFD no longer exists because it has colonized the CDU/CSU
RIP BRD - killed by same process as UKIP/Conservatives
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'An arts degree is the foundation of who I am, and where I am.'
lovely words from
@UCDHistory
graduate and RTE Director General
@deeforbes_dee
tonight
@HumanitiesUCD
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I wonder how many German university history departments have zero non-German professors?
Each circle is a German university. You see that tiny little black dot? That’s the number of non-German professors in *all* the faculties. There are unis with *none*. Terrifying.
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This picture of Hitler is from 4 November 1923. He is posing for the camera, putting on a determined face, just days before he will try to use force to take power in Munich, march on Berlin, and destroy Weimar democracy.
its the face of the woman gazing at him that is striking.
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Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of Hitler's 'Politics and Race. Why we are Antisemites speech in Munich.
It was also the start of the cult of the 'Fuehrer's Birthday.'
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2.5 million radio listeners will hear my voice today thanks to
@BBCInOurTime
just a historian, having an impact
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Great to share the results of my
@IrishResearch
funded research with the British Foreign Office Historians
@FCOHistorians
and academics from across the UK and wider world at Lancaster House this afternoon. 100 Years
#Versailles
@ucddublin
thanks for the picture
@KarineVarley
Mark Jones on German responses to Treaty of Versailles argues notions of violations of German honour key to discourse
#PeaceConf
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so this near accident is trending on German twitter and its only err 6 comments before someone says its a bit like Boris Johnson trying to achieve Brexit.... just saying.
Bist du gut angekommen? Ja, aber ich hätte beinah die Ausfahrt verpasst
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if you liked
@DavidMotadel
's great piece in the New York Review of books on the Hohenzollern, and you read German, you really should read this. it's where its at with right wing networks among German historians.
„Hohenzollern: Verschiebung wissenschaftlicher Diskurse“
👉starker Arikel von Niklas Weber über neurechte Nerzwerke in den Geschichtswissenschaften und den CDU-Sachverständigen in der
#Hohenzollern
-Debatte
via
@sz
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#Twitterstorians
#Weimar
modern Germany historians: the Weimar Republic at 100. Follow this. Don't know who is doing it, but its great so far. keep it up:
@RealTimeWeimar
The ships massed at Wilhemshaven have been given the order to proceed with the planned raid on the Belgian coast
#ww1
#ww1onthisday
#NovemberRevolution
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@1Hildegarde
@ciarancannon
can we get the portal to upload videos of dangerous drivers now please? or does a TD have to die on bike first?
here is what they have in the UK:
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the first day of responses to the terms of the Versailles Treaty in the German National Assembly, included a provision to allow 6 speakers representing areas that were to be lost to Germany to speak, but not for too long (see the instructions from the President).
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after testing the entire population of a town near Padua between 50 & 75% of people with the corona virus displayed no symptoms.
in the same town social distancing reduced the number of sick people by 10 times in 7-10 days
#FlattenTheCurve
source:
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I'm with
@wmarybeard
scholars (even non-tenured ones) have duty to reply to nonsense in their field, even if the reward is personal abuse.
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this is really excellent. I think possibly the best thing that I have recently read on how to think about Ireland and colonialism. Amazing what a publication can do when they let informed academics talk and don't platform wafflers, attention seekers, and apologists.
The Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green was built on land bought with money from Thomas Wilson, who owned hundreds of enslaved people on plantations in Trinidad. How best to remember and respond to this history? Members of the congregation reflect.
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I walked. he biked. And on the way, we both breathed in the fumes of the cars queued along the road leading to the polling station.
#GE2020
#ibikeivote
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yesterday's debate leaves me v. optimistic about future of Gender Equality
@ucddublin
organized by
@selenadaly
and I, thanks to all involved
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interesting criticism of Heiko Mass and Andreas Wirsching from Jan Grabowski.
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a 'vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative,' delighted with
@charlesemmerson
's review of 1923 in last weekend's
@FT
I'll be speaking
@HistFest
this weekend about Hitler's Breakthrough Year and its lessons for today
@ucddublin
details here
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a polite reminder that this week RTE apologized to a politician because a journalist asked him a question he did not like.
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Today is the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
@UCDHistory
we don't just remember, we analyze: first years learn as part of general European history; second years have the option of a specialist module on Nazi Germany; third years a comparative history of genocide.
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#Lola
rennt is 20 years old. someday I'll teach a course on it and tell the kids, I was there when it was like that, before avocados, smoothie and and and
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Come to my book launch this Tuesday 6pm K114 Arts Building UCD. Launched by
@RichardEvans36
#twitterstorians
#RT
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4 year old son: 'Daddy, what's the election?'
Me: 'it's when the people vote to chose a new leader.'
4 y old: 'will they chose SANTA'
so innocent, yet so profound
#GE2020
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an organization led by people who willingly and freely speak of the need for Gazans to die in millions to achieve freedom; that builds command centers under hospitals; that sets out to murder civilians; that holds human hostages right now, does not use human shields - 🤔
That Hamas uses civilians as human shields is nothing but IOF propaganda as
@PeruginiNic
and
@nevegordon
have shown and as
@hrw
has in the past determined. There’s no need to engage in racist tropes about Palestinians in order to address anti-semitism on campus. Do better
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in the context of Brexit, this tweet is cultural diplomacy at its finest.
Good news for Germany: we will host
#EURO2024
! Good news for
#Ireland
:
#Stuttgart
will be one of the 10 venues 😉 ☘️ ⚽
#COYBIG
#Germany2024
@FAIreland
@rayhoughton8
@dfatirl
@irlembberlin
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Eoin MacNeill approves as
@RichardEvans36
and I celebrate the launch of Founding Weimar
@CUPAcademic
in
@ucddublin
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@ProfPatOConnor
@ProfPatOConnor
please be aware your tweet suggests that Jewish Students at Irish Universities, who are distressed and scarred, don't have empathy and that they have a duty to have extra empathy - in my personal & academic opinion both are antisemitic statements. 1/2
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@Fionnuala88
@donalhassett1
or maybe a scholarship for some British kids to come to Ireland, or a lectureship in a UK university with no resources to teach Irish history, but not Cambridge.
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#BBC
Question Time = bullshit time: they just let someone say Merkel is a Communist. No fact check, no correction, non stop nonsense.
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Very much looking forward to welcoming
@DerekinBerlin
to
@UCDHistory
this coming Monday at 6 p.m.
All are welcome to this event which is jointly organized with the UCD History Student Society
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the view from backstage just before going live on the Wye Stage
@hayfestival
earlier today.
still buzzing from a brilliant audience to discuss 1923 and Weimar Britain
thanks to all who came and esp
@georginagodwin
for hosting and
@MishyGlenny
for the questions!
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#Twitterstorians
@HistorioBLOG
#Revolutions
check out this brilliant lecture by Professor Alan Knight on Mexican Revolution & global history
New podcast: 'The Mexican Revolution in Global Perspective', lecture by Alan Knight
@OxfordHistory
#twitterstorians
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me too. the oppressive monster left me with two poor EU-slave children. an indescribable fate. they will never hold blue passports or be monolingual. their little slave-minds are so twisted they may never understand the glorious great red-bus-rebellion of 2016
#OppressedByTheEU
The EU forced me to study in Germany, calling this dastardly programm Erasmus after a citizen of nowhere cosmopolitan. They even gave me some money to do this. As a result I am now married in German EU-land, & even have EU-ian bilingual slave children.
#OppressedByTheEU
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relieved that the first review of my book, doesn't say that its a load of rubbish ;-)
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'Dublin's anglophobic elite' 🤔🤔🤔
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when you dance with the devil, you will eventually get burnt.
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@PortalLISA
@VHDtweets
@historikertag
well done to the authors of this letter. It must be so disheartening to put so much effort into research, in a system with so little career opportunities, and then to be shunted to one side and ignored at the biggest forum of German historians. Coraggio.
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@newschambers
thanks for this: did anyone raise the possibility that for every week closed in January, schools would stay open a week longer in the summer holidays. Would seem to be a sensible solution that would balance children's right to education with teacher & student safety.
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this one is for
@globalirishrev
the Vossische Zeitung (newspaper of German liberalish political elites) reporting on the Irish conference in Philadelphia and the arrival of Irish rep at Paris Peace conference, all on 26 Feb. 1919.
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the difference between the Beer Hall Putsch and Today is in 1923 the Bavarian police opened fire. But this must not happen: they want martyrs, do not give them their martyrs, let them stay there, the longer they stay in the Capitol the more damming it becomes for Republicans
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