Fergal Lenehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6584072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fergal Lenehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fergal |
| FAMILY NAME | Lenehan |
| SIGNATURE | LENEHAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3016-7760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representing the Irish Civil War (1922–23) in Nazi-Era German ‘Ireland Books’
This article examines representations of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) in Nazi Germany, centring specifically on Hermann Harder's episodic work Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home), published originally in 1937. This is read in relation to all of the other ‘Ireland books' published in this period which also depict the civil war, as part of an Irish-German cultural transfer history. Nazi-era representations of the Irish Civil War invariably vie…
Examining realised and unrealised contacts
Tweeting the World a Better Place
While the reputation of the platform Twitter was severely dented during the presidency of President Donald Trump, who often retweeted far-right content, this article engages from the argumentative assumption that Twitter is an inherently cosmopolitan online space, both in terms of statements found there and of the lived experience of users on the platform itself. Cosmopolitanism is understood as a normative concept and as a descriptive term for i…
Depicting European federalists in fiction
This article analyses the representation of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021). This discussion is situated in a number of wider contexts, including literary European Studies within German and Irish Literary Studies; existing representations of European federalists/Europeanists; the actual European thought of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Heinrich …
Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse
This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to the discourse of wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital Europeanism that examines digital texts, in the widest sense, contextualised within the norms of digital culture. The texts emanating on the platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and one largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope…
Propaganda, Literature and a Television Mini-Series
A fairly extensive German-language tradition of depicting Roger Casement exists that has, until now, not been surveyed by cultural historians. Three distinct strands of Casement representation dominate, and often intertwine: 1) Casement as an international humanitarian, 2) Casement as an extreme Irish nationalist, and 3) Casement as a gay martyr. These narratives have been highly dependent on the socio-political context and the needs of the creat…
A Land and a People of Extremes – Ireland and the Irish in German Cinema
Irish film history has often been seen as a pragmatic “creative bricolage” that draws almost exclusively on images of Ireland and Irishness that have emanated from the cinema industries of the USA and the United Kingdom. Yet, Ireland has also featured in the film industries of other non-Anglophone countries and the images produced in these contexts also represent an element within the vast and extensive archive of Irish filmic images. This articl…
A Land and a People of Extremes – Ireland and the Irish in German Cinema
Irish film history has often been seen as a pragmatic “creative bricolage” that draws almost exclusively on images of Ireland and Irishness that have emanated from the cinema industries of the USA and the United Kingdom. Yet, Ireland has also featured in the film industries of other non-Anglophone countries and the images produced in these contexts also represent an element within the vast and extensive archive of Irish filmic images. This articl…
Propaganda, Literature and a Television Mini-Series
A fairly extensive German-language tradition of depicting Roger Casement exists that has, until now, not been surveyed by cultural historians. Three distinct strands of Casement representation dominate, and often intertwine: 1) Casement as an international humanitarian, 2) Casement as an extreme Irish nationalist, and 3) Casement as a gay martyr. These narratives have been highly dependent on the socio-political context and the needs of the creat…
Tweeting the World a Better Place
While the reputation of the platform Twitter was severely dented during the presidency of President Donald Trump, who often retweeted far-right content, this article engages from the argumentative assumption that Twitter is an inherently cosmopolitan online space, both in terms of statements found there and of the lived experience of users on the platform itself. Cosmopolitanism is understood as a normative concept and as a descriptive term for i…
Depicting European federalists in fiction
This article analyses the representation of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021). This discussion is situated in a number of wider contexts, including literary European Studies within German and Irish Literary Studies; existing representations of European federalists/Europeanists; the actual European thought of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Heinrich …
Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse
This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to the discourse of wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital Europeanism that examines digital texts, in the widest sense, contextualised within the norms of digital culture. The texts emanating on the platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and one largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope…
Examining realised and unrealised contacts
Representing the Irish Civil War (1922–23) in Nazi-Era German ‘Ireland Books’
This article examines representations of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) in Nazi Germany, centring specifically on Hermann Harder's episodic work Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home), published originally in 1937. This is read in relation to all of the other ‘Ireland books' published in this period which also depict the civil war, as part of an Irish-German cultural transfer history. Nazi-era representations of the Irish Civil War invariably vie…
German (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Irish (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)