Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932–1938

Donal K. Coffey is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

• 1. The Rise of Fianna Fáil and the Failure of the Constitution of the Irish Free State.- 2. Advancing the Republican Project.- 3. The Abdication of King Edward VIII.- 3. Constitutional Drafting and Contemporary Debates.- 5. The Reception of the Irish Constitution: May–July 1937.- 6. Aftermath.

“[Coffey] is almost unique in combining the skills of an expert historian and constitutional lawyer and with these two stunning books he takes this research to an entirely new level. … Coffey has produced two companion volumes which are likely to stand the test of time as the definitive accounts of the drafting of the Constitution. These two volumes combine the assiduous attention to detail of the historian with the lucid and crisp analysis of a profound constitutional scholar.” (Gerard Hogan,Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Vol. 40 (3), 2020)