Book Launch: The Political Theory of the Irish Constitution, by Eoin Daly and Tom Hickey
Dr Eoin Daly (School of Law, NUI Galway) and Dr Tom Hickey (School of Law and Government, Dublin City Univeristy) will lauch their new book The Political Theory of the Irish Constitution: Republicanism and the Basic Law in September. Published by Manchester University Press, the book will be launched on 24 September by Gerard Hogan, Judge of the Court of Appeal.
Event Details:
The book will be launched by Gerard Hogan, Judge of the Court of Appeal
Date & Time: Thursday 24 September 2015, wine reception from 6.00 pm
Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
A word on the book: Recent decades have seen a revival of interest in republican political philosophy, with numerous scholars creatively reworking historical republican ideas for contemporary societies. In this vein, The Political Theory of the Irish Constitution aims to engage the republican dimensions and possibilities of the Irish constitutional order. While the republican character of the Constitution of 1937 is ambiguous and contestable, the book argues that it can nevertheless be understood in those terms and that republican themes and ideas might frame contemporary projects of constitutional reform. The book considers the Constitution’s treatment of themes such as popular sovereignty, fundamental rights, the separation of powers, and legal and political accountability in light of republican ideas around freedom, civic virtue and the common good.
Foreword by Professor Philip Pettit, Princeton University.