The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937

, by Keogh, Dermot

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ISBN: 9781856355612 | 1856355616
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/15/2008

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The definitive account of how de Valera's 1937 constitution evolved.

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
Foreword	p. 13
	p. 38
The Irish Constitutional Revolution 1932-1936 - historical and political overview	p. 38
Number of houses built under state-aided schemes, 1931-7	p. 60
	p. 64
The Constitutional Options, 1934-1936	p. 64
Comparison of the 1934 Constitution Committee Recommendations with Bunreacht na hÉireann, 1937	p. 72
	p. 94
Fr Edward Cahill, the Irish Jesuit province and the order's submission on the Constitution	p. 94
	p. 106
Fr John Charles McQuaid and the Draft Constitution, autumn 1936 to March 1937	p. 106
Personal Rights	p. 111
The Family	p. 112
Education	p. 115
Personal Property and Directive of Social Policy	p. 117
Comparison of the Papal Encyclicals with the First Printed Draft of the Constitution	p. 117
	p. 123
Responses to the First Printed Draft of Constitution	p. 123
Chronology of Events, 1937	p. 123
Observations of the Department of Finance	p. 124
Observations of the Attorney General on the first Draft of the Constitution	p. 136
Observations of the Department of Local Government and Public Health	p. 137
Observations of the Department of Defence	p. 138
Observations of the Department of Agriculture	p. 139
Observations of the Parliamentary Draftsman, Mr. Arthur V. Matheson	p. 140
Observations by the Ceann Comhairle	p. 140
Observations by the Department of Lands	p. 142
Observations of the Department of the President on the Constitution	p. 142
Observations of the Department of Justice	p. 147
	p. 150
The Drafting of the Religious Article - Article 441	p. 150
De Valera's Negotiations with the Churches, 1937	p. 154
	p. 174
The Passing of Bunreacht na hÉireann: Debate and Reaction	p. 174
The Dáil Debate on Bunreacht na hÉireann:	p. 176
The Presidency	p. 180
Women's Rights	p. 183
Press Reaction to the Constitution	p. 189
The Reaction of Northern Ireland to the New Constitution	p. 199
Final Matters	p. 204
Appendix to Chapter 7	p. 208
Notes	p. 212
Bibliography	p. 248
The Constitution Committee, 1934 [Source NAI D/T S2979]	p. 253
Draft Heads of a Constitution, May 1935 [Source UCDA P150/2370]	p. 296
The 'Squared Paper Draft' [Source UCDA P150/2370]	p. 324
Draft Constitution Considered at Cabinet, October 1936 [Source UCDA P150/2373]	p. 337
First Draft, Undated late 1936, [Source UCDA P150/2385]	p. 352
King Edward Crisis: Summary of Events [Source NAI DFA S57]	p. 402
Jesuit Constitution Committee Minutes, 1936 [Source Jesuit Archive - Cahill Papers]	p. 413
Jesuit Submission, October 1936 [Source UCDA P150/2393]	p. 424
First Official Draft of Constitution [Source NAI D/T S9715]	p. 451
Index of Articles of the Constitution	p. 505
Index	p. 506
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