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Spoke last night at the AGM of the European Movement about the EU as a perpetual work in progress, and facing significant economic, political & security headwinds at present.

Spoke last night at the AGM of the European Movement about the EU as a perpetual work in progress, and facing significant economic, political & security headwinds at present.

My review of the #Trump visit for @rte.ie’s Morning Ireland. 👇 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Trump visit: "There will be huge relief and satisfaction"

Dan Mulhall, former Irish Ambassador to the United States, looks back at US President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland.

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My interview this morning with @cnnipr.bsky.social on President Trump’s visit to Ireland & his comments on a United Ireland. video.snapstream.net/Play/4H3qKqR...

CNN Newsroom - Trump in Ireland

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If you want to check out the historical background to Donald Trump’s Irish visit this week, here is a podcast recorded at the Electric Picnic last month in which I was part of a panel discussing the Irish-American relationship since the foundation of our state. historyireland.com/hedge-schools/

Hedge Schools - History Ireland

Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting a series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities. In addition podcasts of previous events are...

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And this dust survives through the death of ages. It sleeps in deep layers of mud — black, red & umber; it sleeps under the wet pelt of a November hill where long grass is the colour of fox; it sleeps deep under lakes; twelve metres down it survives, old & tough as love. Moya Cannon ‘Pollen’

If you want to check out the historical background to Donald Trump’s Irish visit this week, here is a podcast recorded at the Electric Picnic last month in which I was part of a panel discussing the Irish-American relationship since the foundation of our state. historyireland.com/hedge-schools/

Hedge Schools - History Ireland

Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting a series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities. In addition podcasts of previous events are...

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Alex Pigot@alexpigotireland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is what I actually wrote, which is quite different from the headline: 👇 “In the grand scheme of guarding Ireland’s interests in a troubled world, the truth, whatever it may be, probably doesn’t matter all that much. An even par round will be a respectable result in such blustery conditions.”

@danmulhall.bsky.social - it may be a diplomat’s advice, but it lacks courage and moral backbone. ‘In the grand scheme of things’, THE TRUTH DOES MATTER. If we want the US to change then the American people who are sick of Trump need to know we too dislike Trump, intensely, and we support them.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2mo ago

Dan Mulhall: A diplomat’s advice on how Ireland should approach Trump’s visit

There will be relief if Trump leaves Clare with the impression that ‘the Irish really like me’. In the grand scheme of things, the truth doesn’t matter

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What happens next Is undiminished for having happened once, Twice, ten, a thousand times before. Who cares if all the music that transpires Is the fall of grit or dry seeds through a cactus? You are like a rich man entering heaven Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again. Seamus Heaney

I will be at the @electricpicnic.bsky.social on 28 August at 3.30 pm discussing Irish-US relations. Levisthan tent in the Mindfield. Details below. See you there.

I will be at the @electricpicnic.bsky.social on 28 August at 3.30 pm discussing Irish-US relations. Levisthan tent in the Mindfield. Details below. See you there.

been on the radar since it came out and finally found a copy in the UK a few weeks ago. I’ve read a lot of Ulysses books, academic/non, doubted this could add much. (Also been reading the novel itself on/off for 40 years). It’s a belter — absolutely worth your time. Yes @danmulhall.bsky.social

Thank you for this endorsement of #Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey. 👇It means a lot to get feedback from those who have read my book which is available from @newislandbooks.bsky.social

been on the radar since it came out and finally found a copy in the UK a few weeks ago. I’ve read a lot of Ulysses books, academic/non, doubted this could add much. (Also been reading the novel itself on/off for 40 years). It’s a belter — absolutely worth your time. Yes @danmulhall.bsky.social

Thank you for this endorsement of #Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey. 👇It means a lot to get feedback from those who have read my book which is available from @newislandbooks.bsky.social

Some things can’t be caught in words, starlings over an October river, for instance — the way they lift from a roof-ridge in a cloud directed by a hidden choreographer; the way they rise, bank and fall, tugging at some uncharted artery of the human heart; Moya Cannon ‘Starlings’

Some things can’t be caught in words, starlings over an October river, for instance — the way they lift from a roof-ridge in a cloud directed by a hidden choreographer; the way they rise, bank and fall, tugging at some uncharted artery of the human heart; Moya Cannon ‘Starlings’

Here is a link to yesterday’s Newspaper Panel on @rte.ie radio’s Brendan O’Connor programme to which I contributed. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The Newspaper Panel

Joining Dearbhail to discuss the top stories in Sunday’s newspapers are: Caoilfhionn Gallagher, Barrister and International Human Rights Lawyer; Cuan Ó Seireadáin, Political Correspondent, RTÉ Raidió ...

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Here is a link to yesterday’s Newspaper Panel on @rte.ie radio’s Brendan O’Connor programme to which I contributed. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The Newspaper Panel

Joining Dearbhail to discuss the top stories in Sunday’s newspapers are: Caoilfhionn Gallagher, Barrister and International Human Rights Lawyer; Cuan Ó Seireadáin, Political Correspondent, RTÉ Raidió ...

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The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3mo ago

What I like about sport is that I know the result doesn’t really matter to me but when I am watching a favourite player or team, it feels like it really matters.

Mark O'Connell: Nothing in my adult life can match the visceral joy and ecstatic anxiety of sport

Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And through these things a wood-way dim, And waters dim, and slow sheep seen On uphill paths that wind away Through summer sounds and harvest green. This is a song a robin sang This morning on a broken tree, It was about the little fields That call across the world to me. Francis Ledwidge ‘Home’

An image of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), an Irish nationalist who died on the Somme in 1917. Seamus Heaney wrote a powerful poem about him, describing him as ‘our dead enigma.’

A 5-minute listen on the Irish-Argentinian diaspora. I once heard some of them on the radio, and the Spanish-Irish hybrid accent is amazing.

Daniel Mulhall@danmulhall.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On the night that’s in it, and without any hint of bias, here is something I wrote a while ago about the Irish community in Argentina. #EngvsArg www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Cork University Press @corkup.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And through these things a wood-way dim, And waters dim, and slow sheep seen On uphill paths that wind away Through summer sounds and harvest green. This is a song a robin sang This morning on a broken tree, It was about the little fields That call across the world to me. Francis Ledwidge ‘Home’

The 'Atlas of Irish Sport' is an upcoming landmark publication for readers interested in sports history and the history of Ireland and its people. It will be released on 11 September 2026 and can be pre-ordered on the CUP website bit.ly/4f299DM Thank you to our endorsers for their comments.

Daniel Mulhall @danmulhall.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More, though, than all of this, It’s the architecture of the spirit; The old thin ache you thought you’d forgotten - More smoke, admittedly, than flame; Less tears than rain. And the whole business Neither here nor there, and therefore home. Bernard O’Donoghue ‘Westering Home’ #Poetry

On the night that’s in it, and without any hint of bias, here is something I wrote a while ago about the Irish community in Argentina. #EngvsArg www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The Man from County Buenos Aires, by Daniel Mulhall

Irish connections and history in an Argentinian hurling club

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