Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932-1938 National, Commonwealth, and International Perspectives /

• Main Author: Coffey, Donal K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Modern Legal History
• Subjects: Law-History.; Great Britain-History.; Imperialism.; Legal History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

The first of two volumes, this book examines constitutionalism in Ireland in the 1930s. Donal K. Coffey places the document and its drafters in the context of a turbulent decade for the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and Europe. He considers a series of key issues leading up to its drafting, incl...

Table of Contents:

• 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.