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An inquiry into the role of the credit system in the making of the 1937 Constitution’s economic provisions by Thomas Murray, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Politics and International Relations in University College Dublin.
This log book (courtesy of the Patrick Hillery Papers, UCD Archives) contains details of calls made to the President on the night when Garret FitzGerald’s Fine Gael-Labour coalition lost a Budget vote. The leader of the opposition, Charles Haughey, sought to contact Patrick Hillery to ask him not to dissolve the Dáil, but instead to ask Mr. Haughey to form a government.
In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series Prof Michael Laffan (UCD) explores the national and international circumstances of Ireland before Easter Week, 1916. He looks at the reasons for the Rising from the perspectives of public opinion, popularity and democracy.
Executive Secrecy and Access to Policy: Lessons from the Past in Irish Legal and Political History by Jennifer M. Kavanagh (Waterford Institute of Technology & Trinity College Dublin).
Writing the History of the Financial Crisis: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble by Dr Patrick Walsh.
