Welcome to the first instalment of our IrelandEU50 podcast series.

In this episode Brian Milne discusses the idea of European cosmopolitanism with our guest Fergal Lenehan @FergalLenehan.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xI1q4DqzHRLqCovVcEthn

Read Fergal's article here: https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-an-ethical-cosmopolitan-turn/

The IrelandEU50 series is in partnership with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs' Communicating Europe Initiative.

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We are launching our new podcast series which celebrates 50 years of Ireland in the EU, in partnership with the Irish Foreign Ministry for the #CommunicatingEurope initiative.

Featuring interviews with our contributing writers, the Ireland EU50 podcast takes an in-depth look at Ireland's path in Europe.

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Over the past 18 months we have run a series of articles celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union. The first set by Irish contributors, the second set by non-Irish contributors.

Would you like to contribute to our IrelandEU50 series?

Contact us at info@theeuropeannetwork.eu for more information and remuneration details.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/category/ireland-eu-50/
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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Seán Defoe is the Political Correspondent for national Irish radio stations Newstalk and Today FM. For The European Network he writes how Ireland is now dramatically different in so many ways, not all of them as obvious.

“Well, they did give us the roads.”

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/what-has-the-eu-ever-done-for-us/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Daniela Vincenti is the former Editor-in-chief of EURACTIV. For The European Network she writes about how Ireland impressed her in the way it turned challenge into opportunity.

Ireland played its cards well and, from its splendid isolation, turned itself into a modern and open country.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/the-celtic-phoenix-after-50-years-of-transformative-eu-membership

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Patrick Sharkey is a Donegal based student passionate about politics and sport. For The European Network he writes about how EU membership has brought many benefits to Ireland's sporting landscape and its athletes.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/it-will-probably-work-both-ways/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Andy Scollick (@Andy_Scollick) has been a policy adviser to government, military and civil society actors in Ukraine since 2014. For The European Network he writes about how Ireland and Ukraine used to be worlds apart. Not any more. Two countries with similarities and differences, including its EU status.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-ireland-made-its-own-luck/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Joan O’Flynn teaches social policy and is an independent consultant.

For The European Network she describes how Ireland's EU membership expanded her identity from a local and national to a much wider frame, shaped by European geography, politics, culture and history. A cultural change that Ireland as a whole went through.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/do-you-remember-the-first-time-you-ate-spaghetti/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Brian Finnegan was the editor of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ magazine and website GCN, and is currently the Director of Communications for ILGA-Europe.

For The European Network he writes about how some of the biggest wins for the Irish LGBTQ+ community were rooted in EU legislation and the European Convention on Human Rights.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-and-the-eu-50-years-on-the-power-to-change-lives/‎

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

John O'Shea is a Greek-English legal translator and translation researcher. For The European Network he writes how translation has played a role in Ireland across the ages.

But, since joining the EU, the position of Irish has shifted slowly, it's becoming cool to learn.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/shifting-meanings-translation-irish-ireland/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

John O'Shea is a Greek-English legal translator and translation researcher. For The European Network he writes how translation has played a role in Ireland across the ages.

But, since joining the EU, the position of Irish has shifted slowly, it's becoming cool to learn.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/shifting-meanings-translation-irish-ireland/

#IrelandEU50 #Ireland #EU #EuropeanUnion #English #Irish #Translation #Language

From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Kirsty Hughes is a writer and commentator on EU politics and EU affairs. For The European Network she writes about how comfortable Ireland is in the European Union, unlike the UK. And that, notwithstanding the periodic rejections of EU treaties: that was Irish democracy at work.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-a-strong-eu-player/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' archives, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the EU.

Fergal Lenehan teaches at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, and is a member of the Centre for German-Irish Studies at the University of Limerick.

He used the anniversary to compare expectations before Ireland joined the EU with what followed and focuses on the concept of cosmopolitanism being Ireland's natural state.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-an-ethical-cosmopolitan-turn/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the EU.

Dieter Reinisch is a historian and journalist contributing to European media from Belfast and Vienna. For The European Network he writes how Northern Ireland became a stumbling block in the Brexit negotiations and how the EU could play a role in carving out a positive place for Unionists in the future of Ireland.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/northern-ireland-what-pays-the-journalists-bills/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' archives, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Fergal Lenehan (@FergalLenehan) teaches at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, and is a member of the Centre for German-Irish Studies at the University of Limerick. He used the anniversary to compare the expectations before Ireland joined the EU with what followed.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-an-ethical-cosmopolitan-turn/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' archives, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

Veteran RTÉ broadcaster Valerie Cox uses the anniversary to describe her experiences of Ireland joining the EU. How it pushed Ireland forward, how it opened up a continent for her, and how it made her feel part of a European family.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-opening-new-doors/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' archives, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the EU.

Brendan McKee argues that for Ireland, joining the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 played a role far beyond just an economic one.

Giving up market protectionism for European economic multilateralism also involved abandoning the isolated state of mind, forming the basis for social progress.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-a-template-for-a-progressive-member/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' archives, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the EU:

Kevin Meagher compares Ireland's 50 year membership of the European Union to the UK's membership and argues that both countries had a very different approach to EU membership from the start.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-has-always-had-the-temperament-to-make-a-go-of-europe-unlike-the-british/

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From our 'Ireland EU 50' archives celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the EU.

Dr Andrew Forde uses the anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on the partnership between the European Union and the Council of Europe and to emphasise the importance of strengthening it for the benefit of all. For the benefit of human rights, rule of law and democracy in Europe.

https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/ireland-eu-50-european-union-and-the-council-of-europe-a-strategic-human-rights-alliance/

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RT @florNEWS
Really @rtenews? An interview with Ray Bassett for your coverage of the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s membership of the EEC/EU? Just, why? If this is some sort of box-ticking exercise in ‘balance’ it’s disproportionate. Look at the stats. #EU50 #IRELANDEU50