Prof David Murphy, ‘Lamine Senghor: From Servant of Empire to Anti-Colonial Radical’.

by Donal Hassett | Mar 24, 2025 | Veterans' Stories

On the evening of 11 February 1927, the tall, gaunt figure of Lamine Senghor strode to the podium at the inaugural meeting of the League against Imperialism (LAI). The LAI was one of the interwar communist movement’s most significant attempts to forge an anti-colonial...

Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army

by Donal Hassett | Feb 18, 2025 | Veterans' Stories

In 2022, the film Tirailleurs premiered to rave reviews in France. Starring the highly regarded actor Omar Sy, the film follows a father and son from the Senegalese interior who are forcibly enrolled in the French Army in 1917 and sent to fight on the Western Front....

Invited Talk, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, 13/02/2025

by Donal Hassett | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized

Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

by Donal Hassett | Feb 11, 2025 | News

Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

by Donal Hassett | Aug 26, 2024 | Presentations

Prof Hassett presented a paper on ‘Rethinking the French Model of Military Welfare from the Colonies’. He discussed how the conditionality of rights and the devolution of services to paternalist and authoritarian philanthropic organisations in the French...