The Constitution of Ireland
Subtitle: perspectives and prospects
By: edited by Eoin Carolan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9781780431383
Subjects: Constitutional law; Congresses; Constitutional history; Ireland
Description: Based on a selection of the papers originally presented at a conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the current Constitution of Ireland, the collection touches on many of the challenges facing Ireland today. These include: the possibilities for political and constitutional reform; the state of Ireland's democratic structures; national sovereignty in an era of international organisations; the role and conduct of referenda; questions of national identity and values; the meaning of modern Irish republicanism; and the place of religion in Irish society and government.
Notes: Papers presented at a conference organized by the Constitutional Studies Group at University College Dublin in June 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The republican Constitution  -- Philip Pettit; title: National identity as a constitutional issue : the case of the Preamble to the Irish Constitution of 1937  -- Mark Tushnet; title: Rhetoric, choices and the Constitution  -- Ronan McCrea; title: The Irish influence on the Israeli Constitution proposal, 1948  -- Amihai Radzyner; title: Public philosophy and constitutional interpretation after natural law : republican horizons  -- Eoin Daly; title: God, the natural law and the 1937 Constitution  -- Declan O'Keeffe; title: Judicial conceptions of sovereignty  -- Maria Cahill; title: Constitutional amendment and judicial restraint : how restrained should an Irish court be?  -- Conor O'Mahony; title: The limits of constitutionalism  -- Paul Gallagher; title: The separation of powers and remedies : the legislative power and remedies for unconstitutional legislation in comparative perspective  -- David Kenny; title: Seanad Éireann : an opportunity for real political reform  -- Jim O'Callaghan; title: The Doherty case and issues regarding the provision of information and funding for constitutional referenda  -- Bláthna Ruane; title: Direct democracy by judges? : The Irish Constitution and the approach of the courts to the referendum as a model in comparative perspective  -- Gaetano Marzulli; title: Popular sovereignty and the use of the referendum : comparative perspectives with reference to France -- Marie-Luce Paris.; title: Constitutional principles and restitution of unlawfully exacted tax  -- Niamh Cleary; title: Unconstitutional constitutional amendments from Irish Free State to Irish Republic  -- Aileen Kavanagh; title: Article 28.3.3 : terrorism, democracy, supra-legality and the 'state of emergency' in the Irish Constitution  -- Fergal Davis and Christopher Thornhill; title: Declaring a state of emergency under Article 28.3.3 of the Irish Constitution : a purely political question?  -- Alan Greene; title: Crotty's long shadow : the European Union, the United Nations and the changing framework of Ireland's international relations  -- David Fennelly; title: Are two Irish mammies (even) better than one? : Heteronormativity, homosexuality and the 1937 Constitution  -- Fergus Ryan; title: Prospects for constitutional democracy in Ireland  -- Séamus Ó Tuama; title: A constitutional moment : taking advantage of a confluence of events  -- Jane Suiter; title: The Constitutional Convention : a comment -- John O'Dowd.