Professor in Law and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, teaching constitutional law, law & lit, & why law is basically nonsense. he/him
David Kenny
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A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The New Yorker
Anyone in Belfast: the Jaipur Literature Festival Island of Ireland kicks off in Ulster University tomorrow evening! I’m chatting with Shashi Tharoor about Living Constitutions on Saturday afternoon. Free to attend, all welcome! Full programme and registration available here:
jlflitfest.org/ireland
David Kenny
Oh what a night of ancient Indian Irish musical dialogue at the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival ...
Soumik Datta on sarod alongside the piano/ voice of Michael Gallen & bodhrán virtuoso Cormac Byrne layered with delicious tales of Jonathan Swift from @dkennytcd.bsky.social
Paperback 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!
David Kenny
One of the most fun things that has happened to me: @edcaesar.bsky.social, one of my favourite writers, wrote for the @newyorker.com about my long-running quest to find a hidden meaning in Jonathan Swift’s epitaph. Thanks to Ed’s narrative skills, it’s a great read!
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The great Cass Sunstein delivering a public lecture on campus free speech at Trinity next Thursday. Should be hugely worthwhile. All welcome, booking essential at the form below.
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Nicola Horgan
David Kenny
David Kenny
A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it.
New 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...
David Kenny
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A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it.
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...
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...
Another obscure academic crowdsource request - does anyone have access to the Philological Quarterly from 1966 and a willingness to help me?
Have any legal practitioner friends in Ireland had courtroom encounters (criminal or civil) with people using the methods of the Freemen on the Land? Would love to chat quickly at some stage if so.
