Catholic Church - The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937

PREFACE

• Denis Gwynn, , De Valera (Jarrolds, London, 1933); Sen OFaolin, Life Study of amon de Valera (Talbot Press, Dublin 1933); Sen OFaolin, De Valera: A New Biography (Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1939); Desmond Ryan, Unique Dictator: A Study of amon de Valera (London, 1936); M. J. MacManus, amon de Valera (Talbot Press, Dublin, 1944); Mary Bromage, De Valera and the march of a nation (Hutchinson, London, 1956); Earl of Longford and Thomas P. ONeill, amon de Valera (Hutchinson, London, 1970); John P. OCarroll and John A. Murphy, (eds) De Valera and his times (Cork University Press, Cork 1986); J. J. Lee, and G. Tuathaigh, (eds), The age of de Valera (Ward River Press in association with Radio Telefs ireann, Dublin, 1982); Tim Pat Coogan, De Valera : Long Fellow, Long Shadow (Hutchinson, London, 1993); T. Ryle Dwyer, De Valera : the man and the myths (Poolbeg, Dublin, 1991). (Only one volume of the official biography covering the period up to 1921, has appeared in Irish. See Toms ONeill agus Pdraig Fiannachta, De Valera (Clmorainn, Baile tha Cliath, 1968)
• Earl of Longford and Thomas P. ONeill, amon de Valera (Hutchinson, London, 1970).
• Dermot Keogh, The Irish Constitutional revolution: an analysis of the making of the Constitution, Administration , Vol. 35, No. 4, (1988), pp. 484; see also Dermot Keogh, The Jesuits and the 1937 Constitution, Studies , Vol. 78, No. 309 (Spring 1989), pp. 82 95; and Dermot Keogh, The Vatican, the Bishops and Irish Politics, 19191939 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986).
• This introduction has been adapted from a recent article of mine, De Valera, the Constitution and the Historians, The Irish Jurist , (2005) XL, 291, pp. 293320.
• Ibid, p. 294.
• Ibid., p. 293.
• See John Coakley, and Michael Gallagher, (eds.), Politics in the Republic of Ireland , (Routledge, London; New York, fourth edition, 2005).
• Gerard Hogan, De Valera, the Constitution and the Historians, p. 293.
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• Dermot Keogh, The Irish Constitutional revolution, see also Keogh, The Jesuits and the 1937 Constitution,.
• See Don OLeary, Vocationalism and Social Catholicism in twentieth-century Ireland: the search for a Christian social order (Dublin: Irish academic Press, 2000), Maurice Craig, Catholic action as an organised campaign in Ireland, 1921-1947 (PhD Thesis, UCD, 2000), Finn ODriscoll, The search for the Christian state : an analysis of Irish social catholicism, 1913-1939 (MA Thesis, UCC, 1994).
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• Dermot Keogh, The Jesuits and the 1937 Constitution, Studies , Vol. 78, No. 309 (Spring 1989), pp. 8295.

FOREWORD

• This has been a long-standing trend and it could be said of the almost ninety separate instances of declarations of unconstitutionality since 1937 that in the majority of these cases the judicial branch has forced the Oireachtas to come up with a fairer and better law than that which was invalidated. There are also instances of where a judicial decision which did not actually invalidate the law under challenge has effected important changes. Murphy v. Minister for Environment [2007] IEHC 185 is a contemporary example of this latter phenomenon. In this case J. Clarke construed the obligations imposed on the Oireachtas by Article 16 in such a fashion as will mean that, henceforth, revision of the constituencies in the wake of a census will have to be immediate and that the latitude for deviations of population ratios as between the constituencies will be far more limited than was previously the case.