SEMINAR: Launch of the Research Centre for Legal History (Maynooth: Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology, 16 SEP 2026)

(image source: Wikimedia Commons)

Program:

10am 

Registration

10:10 

Introductory remarks by the Chief Justice of Ireland, Donal O’Donnell

10:30-11:50

David Doyle, Maynooth University, ‘Revolting that police officers and Irishmen have to be employed in detecting such crimes': Sexual Offences against Young Boys, 1923-35’

Lynsey Black, Maynooth University, ‘Constructing Evil – The Trial of Mamie Cadden’

12:00-13:20

Sarah Hamill, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Rent Control in the 1970s and the origins of Blake v Attorney General’

Niamh Howlin, University College Dublin, ‘Legal History as a Tool for Righting Historic Wrongs?’

12:30-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45

Norma Dawson, Queen’s University Belfast, ‘Lord Talbot de Malahide (1805-1883) and the first treasure trove bill in the common law world’

Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki, ‘Writing national legal histories: why and how?’

15:45-16:00 Concluding remarks

(source: Legal History Blog)