We have word of the launch of the newly established Research Centre for Legal History at the Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square East, Dublin, on Wednesday, September 16, 10 AM - 4 PM.
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
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Maynooth's Research Centre for Legal History Launch
