David Kenny
@dkennytcd.bsky.social
Professor in Law and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, teaching constitutional law, law & lit, & why law is basically nonsense. he/him
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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...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM199/s...
Senior Lecturer/Reader in Public Law at Newcastle University
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November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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...
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??
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Extremely niche request, very unlikely to work: does anyone know anyone who specialises in analysis of historical handwriting??
Really looking forward to presenting to wonderful colleagues at Glasgow tomorrow on some recent work about Irish parliamentary culture and practice.
Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon's @uofglaw.bsky.social Public Law Research Cluster seminar, when David Kenny (@dkennytcd.bsky.social) of @tcddublin.bsky.social will present his paper 'Ireland, Westminster, and Political Constitutionalism'.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Really looking forward to presenting to wonderful colleagues at Glasgow tomorrow on some recent work about Irish parliamentary culture and practice.
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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 [email protected] by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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 [email protected] by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
Exciting news: the Law and Humanities Roundtables comes to Trinity College Dublin next summer!
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 [email protected] by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Exciting news: the Law and Humanities Roundtables comes to Trinity College Dublin next summer!
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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...
@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...
Pragmatism, Law, and Literature
This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.
For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against...
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July 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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...
@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...
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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 📢
@dkennytcd.bsky.social @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social @aileenmcharg.bsky.social @danielwincott.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social 📢
📢ICON GBIE, TRICON, QUB Webinar:
Familiarity, Culture & Expertise: The Future of Referendums in Ireland & the UK
Oct 17th 10:00-13:00 Online
To register follow the link below:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0d55a0...
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Familiarity, Culture & Expertise: The Future of Referendums in Ireland & the UK
Oct 17th 10:00-13:00 Online
To register follow the link below:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0d55a0...
1/3 👇
September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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 📢
@dkennytcd.bsky.social @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social @aileenmcharg.bsky.social @danielwincott.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social 📢
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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
Special thanks to Katherine Zappone for her fascinating talk and conversation with Profs @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social & @dkennytcd.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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
Special thanks to Katherine Zappone for her fascinating talk and conversation with Profs @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social & @dkennytcd.bsky.social
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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
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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
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On 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
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...
Details and tickets (free) at the Abbey Theatre link below. (Full programme at their embedded Eventbrite ticket link.)
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ant...
April 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On 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
Wonderful, sunny Trinity Monday celebrating our newest Fellow Andrea Milligan FTCD and some of our terrific new scholars.
April 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Wonderful, sunny Trinity Monday celebrating our newest Fellow Andrea Milligan FTCD and some of our terrific new scholars.
@blueprincegame.bsky.social hi! Cutscenes don’t play on steamdeck - just hang on a test screen until you slip them - any suggestions?
April 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
@blueprincegame.bsky.social hi! Cutscenes don’t play on steamdeck - just hang on a test screen until you slip them - any suggestions?
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The 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...
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
The Legal Humanities Working Group: An Introduction | Irish Humanities Alliance
The legal humanities are a global phenomenon; the newly-established Legal Humanities Working Group in the Irish Humanities Alliance is interested in the ways in which they have been, and continue to b...
www.irishhumanities.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The 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...
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
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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...
Details and tickets (free) at the Abbey Theatre link below. (Full programme at their embedded Eventbrite ticket link.)
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ant...
April 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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...
Details and tickets (free) at the Abbey Theatre link below. (Full programme at their embedded Eventbrite ticket link.)
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ant...
@cado.bsky.social I was just listening to this week’s episode and when you mentioned the banana game, I yelled “GORRILAS.BAS”! Is this it? My sisters and I used to play it constantly on our pre-windows DOS machine.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla...
Gorillas (video game) - Wikipedia
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March 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@cado.bsky.social I was just listening to this week’s episode and when you mentioned the banana game, I yelled “GORRILAS.BAS”! Is this it? My sisters and I used to play it constantly on our pre-windows DOS machine.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla...
Crowdsource request - does anyone have access to a document known as “The Blank of Ireland”, apparently an Irish Freeman on the Land legal manual (like The Freeman Guide, which I have) of the early 2010s? I cannot find a copy, several links I found were dead.
January 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Crowdsource request - does anyone have access to a document known as “The Blank of Ireland”, apparently an Irish Freeman on the Land legal manual (like The Freeman Guide, which I have) of the early 2010s? I cannot find a copy, several links I found were dead.
I spoke to @mrkocnnll.bsky.social at @tlrhub.bsky.social last month about difficult men, big second acts, the spectre of the author in non-fiction writing, and his very exciting new book project. Recording available at the link below.
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
Mark O'Connell Fellow in Focus - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
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Speaking with David Kenny from Trinity’s School of Law, Rooney Writer Fellow Mark O’Connell discussed the “villains” in his books and other reccurring themes that preoccupy him.
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January 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I spoke to @mrkocnnll.bsky.social at @tlrhub.bsky.social last month about difficult men, big second acts, the spectre of the author in non-fiction writing, and his very exciting new book project. Recording available at the link below.
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
This year I’m channelling Samuel Beckett when, in 1984, the Times asked him for his new year hopes and resolutions and he responded with the following telegram: “RESOLUTIONS: ZERO. HOPES: ZERO. BECKETT”.
December 31, 2024 at 5:59 PM
This year I’m channelling Samuel Beckett when, in 1984, the Times asked him for his new year hopes and resolutions and he responded with the following telegram: “RESOLUTIONS: ZERO. HOPES: ZERO. BECKETT”.
Last day at school for a while! (One photo is from last year but hopefully no one minds)
December 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Last day at school for a while! (One photo is from last year but hopefully no one minds)
Such a pleasure to get to comment on a fascinating research project on citizens’ assemblies being conducted by two of my former classmates from different institutions!
It was such a treat to be back in Dublin and to present this work in progress with @seanaglennon.bsky.social. Thank you to the Irish Jurisprudence Society for hosting and to @dkennytcd.bsky.social for expert comments!
A fantastic Irish Jurisprudence Society workshop today @tcddublin.bsky.social. @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social & I presented our paper ‘The Public Law Dimensions of Novel Citizen Innovations’.
December 5, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Such a pleasure to get to comment on a fascinating research project on citizens’ assemblies being conducted by two of my former classmates from different institutions!
Excited to talk with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social about his work later today at @tlrhub.bsky.social. There is no real reason that I am doing this—rather than someone more qualified—other than I really enjoy conversation with Mark, so I asked if I could. Come along and enjoy conversation with him too!
December 5, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Excited to talk with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social about his work later today at @tlrhub.bsky.social. There is no real reason that I am doing this—rather than someone more qualified—other than I really enjoy conversation with Mark, so I asked if I could. Come along and enjoy conversation with him too!
Vacancy with us at TCD Law School for Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law - applications open until noon, Thursday, 5 December. Details available from jobs.tcd.ie. Happy to field any informal queries!
December 3, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Vacancy with us at TCD Law School for Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law - applications open until noon, Thursday, 5 December. Details available from jobs.tcd.ie. Happy to field any informal queries!
An honour to speak to Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC—who delivered one of the most powerful pieces of advocacy I have ever heard in the ICJ case between South Africa and Israel—about law, human rights, and, when you see injustice in the world, deciding to do something about it. Thanks Gavin for the photo!
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC in conversation with @dkennytcd.bsky.social (Professor in Law and Fellow at Trinity College
December 1, 2024 at 7:58 PM
An honour to speak to Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC—who delivered one of the most powerful pieces of advocacy I have ever heard in the ICJ case between South Africa and Israel—about law, human rights, and, when you see injustice in the world, deciding to do something about it. Thanks Gavin for the photo!
Just finished presenting a new draft paper about Ireland’s two failed referendums on family & care in March 2024 and what they might mean. It will change following great comments from @democracytalk.bsky.social and others, but draft here—all thoughts are welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 27, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Just finished presenting a new draft paper about Ireland’s two failed referendums on family & care in March 2024 and what they might mean. It will change following great comments from @democracytalk.bsky.social and others, but draft here—all thoughts are welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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@tricondublin.bsky.social has arrived on Bluesky!
Follow us for updates about TriCON events and scholarship.
Good to see some TriCON members already here incl
@aileenkavanagh.bsky.social
@mikebecker.bsky.social
@dkennytcd.bsky.social
@suryaroy.bsky.social &
@orandoyle.bsky.social
Follow us for updates about TriCON events and scholarship.
Good to see some TriCON members already here incl
@aileenkavanagh.bsky.social
@mikebecker.bsky.social
@dkennytcd.bsky.social
@suryaroy.bsky.social &
@orandoyle.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 1:08 PM
@tricondublin.bsky.social has arrived on Bluesky!
Follow us for updates about TriCON events and scholarship.
Good to see some TriCON members already here incl
@aileenkavanagh.bsky.social
@mikebecker.bsky.social
@dkennytcd.bsky.social
@suryaroy.bsky.social &
@orandoyle.bsky.social
Follow us for updates about TriCON events and scholarship.
Good to see some TriCON members already here incl
@aileenkavanagh.bsky.social
@mikebecker.bsky.social
@dkennytcd.bsky.social
@suryaroy.bsky.social &
@orandoyle.bsky.social