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  • Dónal Hassett

    Maynooth University

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    Professor Dónal Hassett is a colonial historian at Maynooth University. His research focuses on two key interrelated fields of study: the history of the French Empire, in particular North Africa, and the legacies of conflict, especially veteran studies.

    This photograph shows a Kanak flag waving next to a burning vehicle at an independantist roadblock at La Tamoa, in the commune of Paita, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia on May 19, 2024. Photo: Getty Images

    What we can learn from New Caledonia about NI peace process

    Events in New Caledonia suggest any efforts to move the goalposts as set out in the Good Friday Agreement may put a still fragile peace at risk

    History • 24 May 24
    Graffiti in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre in support of Nahel M, the teenager shot dead by French police. Photo: Dónal Hassett

    Why France is in flames again

    The French government appear unwilling to examine how its police force operates and why it regularly acts with such violence

    France • 04 Jul 23
    The polls are saying Socialist Party candidate Anne Hidalgo has little chance of beating incumbent Emmanuel Macron in this year's French presidential election.

    Why left-wing parties are in a dire situation in France

    The collapse in popularity of the left in France has created a political crisis for once dominant parties

    Politics • 09 Feb 22
    Eric Zemmour: the man who is causing consternation across the French political spectrum. Photo: Chesnot/Getty Images

    How Éric Zemmour is shaking up the French presidential election

    While the journalist turned polemicist has yet to declare his candidacy, Zemmour has already turned the polls upside down

    Politics • 15 Oct 21
    Ahmad Tawfiq Al-Madani in 1950. Photo: Photo12/UIG/Getty Images

    How the War of Independence inspired an Algerian nationalist

    For Ahmad Tawfiq Al-Madan, Ireland was an inspirational story of a small nation that won its freedom from the world's most powerful empire

    History • 21 Aug 20
    The "Irish of Vincennes" Michael Plunkett, Mary Reid and Stephen King at a press conference in October 1983. Photo: Eric Bouvet/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

    The strange tale of the Irish republicans and François Mitterrand

    How the "Irish of Vincennes" affair in 1982 caused a major political scandal for the French president

    History • 25 Mar 20

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