'There were rabid and almost uncontrolled objections by New Zealand, and some more temperate ones by Australia.' Stanley Bruce, remembering the 1926 Imperial Conference where he lead the Australian delegation as Prime Minister.

Great to get the hard copy 📗
Thanks again to Dr Laura Cahillane and Donal Coffey

Dropped a copy of the book into Kerry Library - www.kerrylibrary.ie on behalf of myself and Dr Laura Cahillane today. Once it's in the system, you can order it to your local library, in case the cost is prohibitive.

My hardcopy of The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution has arrived.
Huge congratulations again to Dr Laura Cahillane and Donal Coffey for bringing this together!

Never feels real til the book is in the hands! Thanks to Dr Laura Cahillane and Donal Coffey for shepherding this project through to such a handsome conclusion!

If anyone is interested in my contribution on the '22 constitution and partition, it's free here:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Back in Frankfurt at MPI Legal History and Legal Theory for the 'Conversing with Elders' workshop organised by Tamar Hertzog and Thomas Duve

The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution: a talk by Donal Coffey.

7pm, Thursday 9th May
Killarney Library.

Will be giving a talk at my old childhood haunt in Killarney library next week about the Free State Constitution.

Last day the public has access to this view of Front Square in Trinity College Dublin, as Early Printed Books moves next week.

We are really looking forward to having Donal Coffey MU School of Law & Criminology with us Cardiff Law CentreOfLaw&Society

Sharing his pathbreaking work on imperial history and legal education.

Seminar at 11am on Tuesday 30th April. Sign up⬇️

On Tuesday I'll be giving a talk in Cardiff as part of my visiting fellowship with CentreOfLaw&Society where I'll be talking a little bit about the South Asian students who studied in the metropole and went on to write their independence constitutions. Looking forward to it.

One for the criminologists...

Speech given by Lord Reed is available here:
cambridgeblog.org/2024/04/introd… (includes the reference to 'collaboration' Aileen Kavanagh )

The motion to establish the Society of Public Teachers of Law on 15 December 1908 (now The SLS ) was proposed by A.V. Dicey.

Dublin Bay looking as nice as I've seen it this morning.

When he was editor of the Law Quarterly Review, Frederick Pollock would sometimes insert little editorial notes in the footnotes of other people's articles.

I’m quite taken with this Burmese depiction of Éamon de Valera from Nagani Book Club late 1940s, brought to us here Republic 75 by Donal Coffey

Republic at 75 Conference being kicked off by Prof Bryce Evans at Liverpool Hope.

A typically erudite oversight of Sri Lankan constitutional history by Dr Asanga Welikala

Looking forward to hearing Donal Coffey speak at our conference commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Ireland officially becoming a Republic in six days time.
Tickets are still available, click here to register store.hope.ac.uk/product-catalo…
Prof Bryce Evans