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Martin O'Donoghue
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Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
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JE le 5 décembre à Sciences Po Lille organisée avec l’Institut pour la Photo, le CEAC et @cecille-ulille.bsky.social. Inscription: [email protected]
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November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
Cambridge Core - European Law - Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
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November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Dublin from the skies
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November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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REMINDER of this event on Irish and Indian Constitutions at DCU's St Pats campus at 4:30 this evening

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Join us at DCU's St Pats campus for an evening seminar comparing the Irish and Indian constitutions, hosted by the Ireland India Institute, next Wed 26 Nov.

Some leading constitutional lawyers and historians will explore shared influences and challenges between 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇪. All welcome
The DCU Ireland India Institute invited you for an evening of conversation. Historical Echoes – Constitutional Connections in Ireland and India. Speakers: Donal Coffey, Aoife O'Donoghue, Suryapratim Roy, and Martin O'Donoghue. Discussant: Seán Rainford.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"Nora Thornton and Joanne Carroll are @nlireland.bsky.social archivists who combine a personal interest in #food and #foodculture with their professional work..."

Learn more about our historic #cookbooks in this @irishexaminer.bsky.social article:
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Joe McNamee: How historic recipes can teach us so much about Ireland's past
Tracing the evolution of the Irish peasant’s diet over the centuries serves up the grievous impact of Ireland’s colonisation almost literally on a plate.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!

See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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In this forthcoming comparative paper, I argue that India's basic structure doctrine and the finality of referendums in Ireland both play an equivalent constitutional role of taking 'final say sovereignty' away from politicians.
Pre-publication draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Pre-publication draft, forthcoming in International Journal of Constitutional Law Constitutional Amendment and the Final Say in Ireland and India Seán Rainford Irish and Indian approaches to constitutional amendment would appear to be chalk and cheese: Irish courts insist that the people have an unfettered right to amend tbe Constitution through referendum in any way they wish; Indian courts have beld since 1973 that Parliament cannot amend the Constitution's 'basic structure'. They thus occupy opposite poles in the form, scope, and judicial oversight of constitutional amendment pomers. However, this paper argues that when the historical context of each amendment regime is understood, a functional equivalence can be observed between the finality of referendum results in Ireland and the Indian basic structure doctrine. Before these arrangements, 'final say sovereignty' - the position of unaccountability or finality within a constitution - was held by each country's parliament and often used for authoritarian ends. The finality of the referendum in Ireland and the Indian judiciary's basic structure review power both deny parliament final say sovereignty by bolding this power themselves; in both cases, the transference of this kind of sovereignty proved decisive for consolidating law-bound government. However, the essential diferences between a referendum process and a judicial power to review amendments cannot be overlooked, and these create distinct approaches to constitutional identity. The effects of final say sovereignty for a constitution will be different depending on who wields it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Dundalk IT to get university college status after agreeing merger with Queen’s of Belfast
Dundalk IT to get university college status after agreeing merger with Queen’s of Belfast
Students enrolling at the Louth campus in September 2026 will graduate with a Queen’s degree
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Join us at DCU's St Pats campus for an evening seminar comparing the Irish and Indian constitutions, hosted by the Ireland India Institute, next Wed 26 Nov.

Some leading constitutional lawyers and historians will explore shared influences and challenges between 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇪. All welcome
The DCU Ireland India Institute invited you for an evening of conversation. Historical Echoes – Constitutional Connections in Ireland and India. Speakers: Donal Coffey, Aoife O'Donoghue, Suryapratim Roy, and Martin O'Donoghue. Discussant: Seán Rainford.
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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TFW your extremely niche area of academic research is in the news! A 🧵 on some aspects of the building formerly known as the Pro-Cathedral (or the Metropolitan chapel as it was called first!) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral
Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Senior Curator - Programming, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council

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Senior Curator - Programming, Hugh Lane Gallery :Dublin
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November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025

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BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025),
(image source: Hart ) Abstract: This book analyses the informal decision making process in the EU against the background of a gradually em...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
Duncan Tanner Prize 2025
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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📣 REMINDER

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33

6.30pm, Tuesday
11 November 2025
Books Upstairs,
17 D’Olier Street
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06

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November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 NOV 2025)

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VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

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Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
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November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating.

My thoughts with all involved
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November 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Irish Politician Darrell Figgis Found Dead in London After Series of Personal Tragedies - On This Day in 1925
Tragic end in London of Mr Darrell Figgis, TD - October 28 1925
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Are you an early career researcher in law looking for new academic opportunities? Join the Max Planck Law Open House—an online info session and Q&A—on 2 December, 15:30 CET to learn about PhD and postdoc possibilities across our network: law.mpg.de/event/open-h... #OpenHouseEvent
Open House | Winter 2025 - Max Planck Law
An online information session plus Q&A.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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ALL WELCOME
to the Dublin launch of

From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33
by Owen O’Shea

6.30pm, Tuesday
11 November 2025
Books Upstairs,
17 D’Olier Street
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06

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October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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JOB

Childers Professorship of Irish History
University of Cambridge

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The Childers Professorship of Irish History
The Board of Electors to the Childers Professorship of Irish History invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up
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October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Shop local. Shop Irish.

#supporttheindies 📕👌
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Postdoc Opportunity!

University of Kiel - Postdoctoral Research Position in History of Knowledge of the Ancient World

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University of Kiel - Postdoctoral Research Position in History of Knowledge of the Ancient World | H-Net
Subproject A2 „Postdoctoral Research Position in History of Knowledge of the AncientWorld“
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October 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Today's most read on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Check out our new digital exhibition tracing the history of visual representations of the Irish revolution in France: @clairedubois.bsky.social
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How Irish revolutionaries used French language to secure support
The multilingual skills of the revolutionary generation helped them to amplify Ireland's cause on the world stage
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October 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM