Professor in Law and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, teaching constitutional law, law & lit, & why law is basically nonsense. he/himhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3mkulgbybys2eOne 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! https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jonathan-swifts-last-joke02 May 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkulgbybys2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3mjjgwf5bi22lThe 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. https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=jb6V1Qaz9EWAZJ5bgvvlKzomFH-N-YtMhgvHVIfe87FUQ0lGR0JKNFJPOU9BNFdHQ1ZRTk5ZRUs0Ti4u&route=shorturlno15 Apr 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjgwf5bi22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3mitlnl2rsc2jHave 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.06 Apr 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitlnl2rsc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3mb7fcfpmqc2oPaperback 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Dec 2025 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb7fcfpmqc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3m7khn34m7c2hNew 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! https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/ccs/ccs-overview.xml?tab_body=current-issue-copy109 Dec 2025 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7khn34m7c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3m7aavxwcdk23Just 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! https://www.routledge.com/Pragmatism-Law-and-Literature/Kenny/p/book/978103237797105 Dec 2025 10:15 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7aavxwcdk23https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3m6jyszldlk2zAnother obscure academic crowdsource request - does anyone have access to the Philological Quarterly from 1966 and a willingness to help me?26 Nov 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6jyszldlk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3m5wl4ri6t226Extremely niche request, very unlikely to work: does anyone know anyone who specialises in analysis of historical handwriting??18 Nov 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wl4ri6t226https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3m5w5qupq7223Really looking forward to presenting to wonderful colleagues at Glasgow tomorrow on some recent work about Irish parliamentary culture and practice. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5w5qupq7223https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3m4vk7yqnxc2mExciting news: the Law and Humanities Roundtables comes to Trinity College Dublin next summer! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2025 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4vk7yqnxc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lnuoalwn5224Wonderful, sunny Trinity Monday celebrating our newest Fellow Andrea Milligan FTCD and some of our terrific new scholars.28 Apr 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnuoalwn5224https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lmmdh5dins22@blueprincegame.bsky.social hi! Cutscenes don’t play on steamdeck - just hang on a test screen until you slip them - any suggestions?12 Apr 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmmdh5dins22https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lljnwyta6k25@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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)29 Mar 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lljnwyta6k25https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lgtcewe5x225Crowdsource 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.28 Jan 2025 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtcewe5x225https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lfrhcbq72k2lI 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. https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/news/2024/mark-oconnell-fellow-in-focus/15 Jan 2025 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfrhcbq72k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lemmspikh22qThis 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”.31 Dec 2024 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lemmspikh22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3ldqwbotkxs23Last day at school for a while! (One photo is from last year but hopefully no one minds)20 Dec 2024 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqwbotkxs23https://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lckkkbn3gc2eSuch 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Dec 2024 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckkkbn3gc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lckbvkuqz22gExcited 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!05 Dec 2024 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckbvkuqz22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/dkennytcd.bsky.social/post/3lcfnt3pv7c2zVacancy 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!03 Dec 2024 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:h5pdgaafb2z3d4n2f4qgh34c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcfnt3pv7c2z