The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution

Constituting a Polity?
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-46180-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Palgrave Modern Legal History

This book deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State. After decades of relative neglect, the 1920s have been receiving increased attention from historians recently thanks to the centenary of the State’s foundation. This book continues this trend of re-examination of this period and looks at key themes, such as the establishment of institutions under the Irish Free State Constitution and the focus on the ideals of popular sovereignty and democracy. It does so from novel and cross-disciplinary perspectives, and it also looks at areas which have received little to no previous attention; from individual aspects like property rights, the Irish language and environmental rights to aspects such as opposition and partition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cahillane, Laura

K. Coffey, Donal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.      Introduction (and chapter abstracts) – Laura Cahillane and Donal Coffey

2.      The 1922 Constitution; Constituting a Polity – Laura Cahillane

3.      The Partition of Ireland and the 1922 Constitution – C.R.G. Murray

4.      ‘The Supreme Legislative Authority Speaking as The Mouthpiece of the People’: Constituent Power and the Irish Free State – Alan Greene

5.      Opposition to the Constitution of the Irish Free State in 1922 – Thomas Mohr

6.      The Representative of the Crown and the Governor-General of the Irish Free State: Text and Context – Graham Butler

7.      The National Language and Article 4 of the 1922 Constitution – Róisín Á Costello

8.      A new Constitution; a new language? How the new Courts talked about the Free State Constitution 1922 – Maurice Collins

9.      ‘Environmental Stewardship’ and Article 11 of the 1922 Constitution – Jamie McLoughlin

10.   The 1922 Constitution as a failed attempt to break with Westminster tradition – David Kenny

11.   Property Rights and Democratic Decision-Making: Lessons from the 1922 Constitution – Rachael Walsh

12.   The Civil War, the Constitution and the Collapse of the Rule of Law – Seán Enright

13.   Amending the 1922 Constitution: how the process shaped the politics of a new state – William Quill

14.   What the drafters learnt in 1937 from the 1922 experience – Gerard Hogan

     15. The Afterlife of the Constitution of the Irish Free State: Constitutional Echoes in South Asia – Donal Coffey

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Cahillane is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Limerick, Ireland. 
Donal Coffey is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.