Derek Scally
Journalist at Irish Times
Irish Times Berlin correspondent and author of #1 Bestseller "The Best Catholics in the World". Order from Dubray Books here: https://t.co/Jmsrby0jmf
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Thomas Mann and James Joyce never met in life but, especially in death, found much in common. Both were writers of challenging fiction who ended their days in self-imposed exile in Zürich. Both are buried there, at opposite ends of town. During their lifetimes their respective homelands rejected them first with mockery, then hatred – Joyce’s works were banned, Mann’s burned. After decades of posthumous apathy, both were resurrected by their homelands for praise and monetisation purposes.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Donald Trump cherishes his German heritage so much that, for years, he claimed his father’s roots were in Sweden. That was a big personal reason – ahead of Ukraine or trade uncertainty – why Friedrich Merz was on high alert for his inaugural visit with the US president in the Oval Office. And that is why he ramped up the personal, and dispelled those Sweden rumours for good, by presenting the president with the calligraphic birth certificate of his grandfather.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar was greeted by protest chants of “blood on your hands” during a tense Berlin visit on Thursday. Amid a shifting political and public mood in Germany on Gaza, Mr Sa’ar held talks and laid a wreath at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial alongside his German counterpart Johann Wadephul.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
During the first Donald Trump presidency, the easiest way to annoy Angela Merkel’s inner circle was to ask them about a state visit for the German-American president to his ancestral homeland. Trump’s grandfather left the wine-growing town of Kallstadt, near Frankfurt, for good in 1905, but repeated Merkel invitations for Trump to return fell on deaf ears.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Derek Scally
Germany’s tough new migration approach, which involves turning asylum seekers back at the border, has been described as unlawful by Berlin’s federal administrative court. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, undercuts a pledge by Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his government, sworn in last month, to cut immigration numbers.
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