@dkennytcd.bsky.social
Professor in Law and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, teaching constitutional law, law & lit, & why law is basically nonsense. he/him
I know, missed opportunity Alex!! Next time.
07.01.2026 22:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Diolch yn fawr iawn, Darryl!
30.12.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Paperback is here and, to judge by its cover, it’s great! It can be yours for €37.50 including shipping if you want 2026 to be your year of law and literature!
30.12.2025 12:51 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0New symposium issue of Comparative Constitutional Studies: “After the Referendum”. Includes analysis of referendum failures in Ireland (by me), Australia, Chile, and Taiwan, alongside other great papers and book discussion. Open access for a limited time!
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
Just in time for the Christmas, you can preorder the paperback copy of my book! It won’t arrive until after Christmas, which I know will disappoint many, but a printout of a preorder is often an even better stocking filler than a book. 20% off with code below!
www.routledge.com/Pragmatism-L...
The willingness is the most important thing, Scott, in a way!
26.11.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Got it! Thanks so much Paul
26.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much Paul!!
George Mayhew, 'Swift and the Tripos tradition', Philological quarterly xlv no 1 (January 1966)
Another obscure academic crowdsource request - does anyone have access to the Philological Quarterly from 1966 and a willingness to help me?
26.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Brilliant, thanks! I have been meaning to get in touch with Aileen in any event!
19.11.2025 09:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much for replying Cécile! Can I DM you those details?
19.11.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You’re the most qualified volunteer I’ve had so far
18.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0English handwriting from late 17th/early 18th century, for anyone curious!
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Rarely spotted job fairy alert! A specific public law senior lecturer/reader post (and a few other positions - including in environmental law - to boot). Please spread the word! Happy to discuss with anyone who is tempted to come join us in Newcastle:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM199/s...
Extremely niche request, very unlikely to work: does anyone know anyone who specialises in analysis of historical handwriting??
18.11.2025 20:25 — 👍 5 🔁 22 💬 9 📌 2Really looking forward to presenting to wonderful colleagues at Glasgow tomorrow on some recent work about Irish parliamentary culture and practice.
18.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Agree. My interest was first drawn to law&lit coming from literary theory and interpretive communities as of way of engaging postmodern ideas in a legal context. I think there’s huge potential in the discipline to explore big ideas. I think that’s why I find it very exciting to work in!
12.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I remember having the same realisation and it’s such great fun to dive in! I have also found scholars of literature quite wonderfully tolerant of lawyers’ incursions into their world!
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CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to Roisin.acostello@tcd.ie by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
05.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3Exciting news: the Law and Humanities Roundtables comes to Trinity College Dublin next summer!
05.11.2025 17:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction?
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
This is going to be an excellent event with speakers including @maireadenright.bsky.social @conorkelly.bsky.social
@dkennytcd.bsky.social @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social @aileenmcharg.bsky.social @danielwincott.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social 📢
Great seminar yesterday at @tricondublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social to mark the 10th anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum in Ireland.
Special thanks to Katherine Zappone for her fascinating talk and conversation with Profs @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social & @dkennytcd.bsky.social
Great to partner with the Irish Jurisprudence Society for an excellent constitutional theory seminar with Prof Lawrence Sager @utexaslaw.bsky.social, with comments by @dkennytcd.bsky.social & @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social, chaired by @conorcrummey.bsky.social
20.05.2025 08:19 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0On May 1st, @tricondublin.bsky.social members Prof @dkennytcd.bsky.social and Dr Róisín Costello will speak at this legal humanities symposium on Antigone and Ireland at the @abbeytheatre.bsky.social
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Wonderful, sunny Trinity Monday celebrating our newest Fellow Andrea Milligan FTCD and some of our terrific new scholars.
28.04.2025 11:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great thanks!
12.04.2025 10:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@blueprincegame.bsky.social hi! Cutscenes don’t play on steamdeck - just hang on a test screen until you slip them - any suggestions?
12.04.2025 10:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The legal humanities are a global phenomenon. Read why the IHA now has an established working group in this area from our WG Co-Chair @adamhanna.bsky.social @ucc.ie
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
Antigone and Ireland: A Symposium in the Legal Humanities
Details and tickets (free) at the Abbey Theatre link below. (Full programme at their embedded Eventbrite ticket link.)
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ant...
