Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026This sounds like a special book by @sallyhayd.bsky.social. There is some light in the darkness. 011
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This is a gem of a book by @ravoon.bsky.social, with poems that are sensitive & interesting & which ask the bigger questions. Well worth getting. 0132
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This image was all over #Connewitz today #le1701. 0194
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This Saturday's issue of The Currency has an extract from "Grit and Glory: A Decade at the Club" (written by me & my brother Aidan). Check out both the book and The Currency itself, which is a great online publication from Ireland. 030
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Book launch on 11 September. All are welcome. More on the book here: www.orpenpress.com/books/grit-a... 011
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Booklaunch in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 17 September. All welcome. 1101
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Luisa Conti & myself were in the podcast studio yesterday. The new series of the ReDICo podcast will be available soon. 010
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The final resting place of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc & Una Watters in Creagh Cemetary, Ballinasloe, County Galway. @ronanhession.bsky.social @siobhraaiken.bsky.social 091
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025#Stolpersteine for the Klarfeld family at Wittenberger/Schiebestrasse Leipzig, who Polish-born Jews. They fled to the Netherlands in 1938, but were sent to Auschwitz in 1942 & 1943. Lena was 17 when murdered, father Simon 45, mother Irma 41, while Thea and Georg were 16 & 11. 030
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Bizarre #Leipzig #Connewitz street rubbish, complete with the German translation of Nuala O'Faolain's "Are You Somebody?" 010
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025"Upright Figure Number 5." Renè Graetz. From 1970. Graetz was married to Belfast-born GDR children's author & artist Elizabeth Shaw, who sold the sculpture to the Neue Nationalgalerie in then West Berlin in 1987. 040
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025"Dublin" by Sigmar Polke (1941-2010). From 1968. Oil on canvas. At the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. 060
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The AfD is the strongest party in the east & in some pockets in the west, such as the cities of Gelsenkirchen & Kaiserslautern (on second party vote, but the SPD have direct mandates). Die Linke is the strongest party in the state of Berlin. 010
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The BSW are on 4,97% now apparently. If the BSW fail to make it, the CDU-CSU & SPD will have enough for a coalition. If the BSW make it into parliament a black-red coalition would need a third party. 001
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025This is a great book. I flew through it last week. An Irish-European novel of real substance. 060
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Check out my open access theoretical article for the journal "Language and Intercultural Communication": "Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality". Open-access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 0253
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This was where Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig.The building stood until 1886. There's a shopping centre here now. 040
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Theoretical article for the journal "Language and Intercultural Communication": "Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality". Open-access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14708477.2024.2419666?src=exp-la 0120