Ben Tonra
@bentonra
Professor of International Relations at UCD Dublin; Dundrum Methodist Church; Royal Irish Academy; Azure Forum, IDSA and Gym Dad. Mix of Mayo, Kerry, West Virginia and suburban Maryland.
Tremendous presentation at the West Cork History Festival … soon to be a film!
Tomorrow at the West Cork History Festival —- Sonja Tiernan on Eva Gore-Booth; Leanne Calvert on Marital Disorder in 18th C Ulster; Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick on ‘Bad Bridget’; Hester Grant on Satire and Gulliver's Travels; and Adam Tomkins on Jonathan Swift and the Constitution. Joyous
Packed house for this event @ecprsgeu.bsky.social and terrific conversation surrounding role, import and impact of informal diplomacy within EU foreign policy. Honoured to chair, @mariannalovato.bsky.social book launch
If European governments haven’t been planning for this … they’re criminally irresponsible.
Terrific appointments at Italian Institute for International Affairs. Special comhghairdeas to Prof Sonia Lucarelli!!
Very excited to be attending @ecprsgeu.bsky.social conference in Sicily next week and to chair a phenomenal roundtable on @mariannalovato.bsky.social new book based on her PhD research @ucdpolitics.bsky.social looking at informal diplomacy within EU foreign policy security and defence policy.
Arundels on the pier, in Ahakista West Cork…. If you’re in the neighbourhood.
Au revoir to my @researchireland.ie Post Doctoral colleague Dr Giovanni Parente, who leaves @ucdpolitics.bsky.social for now to take up a Fulbright Schuman Visiting Scholar Fellowship at UT Austin. Fair winds and calm seas!!
Everyone in hospitality in Ireland currently out with their cameras taking pictures for websites, brochures and instagram posts for the next 6 months.
It’s genuinely difficult to conceive of a more erroneous and tone deaf headline than this.
Terrific seminar @ucdpolitics.bsky.social with Dr Maksym Skrypnyk (UCD), speaking on the topic of "The Functions of Russian Food Weaponisation in Ukraine.”
I really do appreciate @ryanairofficial.bsky.social efforts to keep costs and prices down… but couldn’t they lash out for a few apostrophes? Ah go on lads!
TACO baby Doesn’t diminish by one iota need for EU to up its game and be better prepared *next* time Only reinforces Carney 🇨🇦 arguments that the world has changed utterly and irreversibly. The American Century is over. And ‘no’ I’m not crediting Rutte with anything - a political prophylactic
Good to see this @irishdefenceforces.bsky.social public engagement with media. Universities only beginning to address these realities. Tensions with our traditions of open and free enquiry which are used against us.