90 YEARS – THE IRISH FREE STATE CONSTITUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN IRISH STATE
CONSTITUTION PROJECT @ UCC invites you to a free public event on
Thursday 6th December at 6pm in G30 Aras na Laoi, UCC
to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution.
Programme:
6.00: Welcome by Dr Andrew McCarthy (School of History)
6.05: Professor David Gwynn Morgan (Faculty of Law) “The Separation of powers in the Irish Free State Constitution – Real or Imaginary?”
6.25: Dr Neil Buttimer (Department of Modern Irish) “The Irish Version of the 1922 Constitution: Beginning a Linguistic Tradition”
6.45: Dr Laura Cahillane (Faculty of Law) “Appreciating the Irish Free State Constitution – Novelties and Experiments”
7.05: Tim Pat Coogan “Revisiting the 1922 Constitution after 90 years”.
7.30: Questions and discussion
Further details on www.constitutionproject.ie
This event has been kindly sponsored by the College of Business and Law, Invited Speaker Series
