Seán Patrick Donlan
@spdonlan.bsky.social
Peripatetic Professor (Law/History/Film). Not dead, just very still.
Contributor: Film in Dublin, Film Ireland, History Ireland, Law on Film, Scannain.
Contributor: Film in Dublin, Film Ireland, History Ireland, Law on Film, Scannain.
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Seán Patrick Donlan
@spdonlan.bsky.social
· Jan 19
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Seán Patrick uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 3,774 films watched. Favorites: Round Midnight (1986), Hud (1963), The Leopard (1963), Days of Heaven (1978). Bio: Chair, Board of Directo...
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On Irish cinema, law and film, etc.
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Very exciting news!!
I'm delighted to say we have set up a Research Centre for Legal History @maynoothlaw.bsky.social It promises to be interesting and a lot of fun.
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/law/research...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/law/research...
Research Centre for Legal History
Legal history concerns the study of the law as a social phenomenon over time. It encompasses not only the development of law as a scientific field of study, but also how law organises and effects,
www.maynoothuniversity.ie
January 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Very exciting news!!
Call for Papers: American Society for Legal History
Banff, CANADA. 12 November 2026
Deadline for Submissions: 24 March 2026
See aslh.net/2026-annual-...
Banff, CANADA. 12 November 2026
Deadline for Submissions: 24 March 2026
See aslh.net/2026-annual-...
January 19, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Call for Papers: American Society for Legal History
Banff, CANADA. 12 November 2026
Deadline for Submissions: 24 March 2026
See aslh.net/2026-annual-...
Banff, CANADA. 12 November 2026
Deadline for Submissions: 24 March 2026
See aslh.net/2026-annual-...
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December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by Seán Patrick Donlan
Registration and the programme for the upcoming British Legal History Conference in Nottingham are now live: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...
British Legal History Conference 2026 - The University of Nottingham
www.nottingham.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Registration and the programme for the upcoming British Legal History Conference in Nottingham are now live: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...
Call for Positions on the Editorial Board:
Comparative Legal History is seeking (i) an articles editor and (ii) a reviews editor. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with the discipline's leading journal.
For more details, see esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...
Comparative Legal History is seeking (i) an articles editor and (ii) a reviews editor. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with the discipline's leading journal.
For more details, see esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...
January 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Call for Positions on the Editorial Board:
Comparative Legal History is seeking (i) an articles editor and (ii) a reviews editor. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with the discipline's leading journal.
For more details, see esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...
Comparative Legal History is seeking (i) an articles editor and (ii) a reviews editor. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with the discipline's leading journal.
For more details, see esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...
Reposted by Seán Patrick Donlan
❤️❤️❤️ RENEE NICOLE GOOD ❤️❤️❤️
January 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
❤️❤️❤️ RENEE NICOLE GOOD ❤️❤️❤️
Beginning Sunday, through the Kamloops Film Society (lnkd.in/gtyxkmQb). Spread the word!
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Beginning Sunday, through the Kamloops Film Society (lnkd.in/gtyxkmQb). Spread the word!
Reposted by Seán Patrick Donlan
For anyone who gets their podcasts on Acast - we've just switched over. Be sure and give us a follow.... shows.acast.com/film-ireland
January 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
For anyone who gets their podcasts on Acast - we've just switched over. Be sure and give us a follow.... shows.acast.com/film-ireland
My full, unedited comments ...
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January 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
My full, unedited comments ...
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'As 2025 closes its curtain, Film Ireland contributors take a look back at some of their favourite films from the year.'
www.filmireland.net/our-favourit...
www.filmireland.net/our-favourit...
Article: Our Favourite Films of 2025
As 2025 closes its curtain, Film Ireland contributors take a look back at some of their favourite films from the year.
www.filmireland.net
January 1, 2026 at 6:40 PM
'As 2025 closes its curtain, Film Ireland contributors take a look back at some of their favourite films from the year.'
www.filmireland.net/our-favourit...
www.filmireland.net/our-favourit...
Law on Film Podcast: I'm Still Here (2024)
'I’m Still Here provides a harrowing account of Brazil's military dictatorship and a moving story of a woman’s struggle to overcome adversity and obtain justice.'
See www.lawonfilm.com/still-here
'I’m Still Here provides a harrowing account of Brazil's military dictatorship and a moving story of a woman’s struggle to overcome adversity and obtain justice.'
See www.lawonfilm.com/still-here
December 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Law on Film Podcast: I'm Still Here (2024)
'I’m Still Here provides a harrowing account of Brazil's military dictatorship and a moving story of a woman’s struggle to overcome adversity and obtain justice.'
See www.lawonfilm.com/still-here
'I’m Still Here provides a harrowing account of Brazil's military dictatorship and a moving story of a woman’s struggle to overcome adversity and obtain justice.'
See www.lawonfilm.com/still-here
January Sunday Classics: In the Frame of the Law
Looking at legal actors, ideas, and institutions, this series engages with questions of truth, justice, class, race, and gender. January films include 12 Angry Men, Legally Blonde, and Anatomy of a Murder
See thekfs.ca/sunday-class...
Looking at legal actors, ideas, and institutions, this series engages with questions of truth, justice, class, race, and gender. January films include 12 Angry Men, Legally Blonde, and Anatomy of a Murder
See thekfs.ca/sunday-class...
December 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
January Sunday Classics: In the Frame of the Law
Looking at legal actors, ideas, and institutions, this series engages with questions of truth, justice, class, race, and gender. January films include 12 Angry Men, Legally Blonde, and Anatomy of a Murder
See thekfs.ca/sunday-class...
Looking at legal actors, ideas, and institutions, this series engages with questions of truth, justice, class, race, and gender. January films include 12 Angry Men, Legally Blonde, and Anatomy of a Murder
See thekfs.ca/sunday-class...
'Everyone assumes they don’t need to bother watching Westerns, but every time I watch a Western—any Western, not even a particularly good one—it feels like cinema as a whole cracks open anew.'
Another excellent piece from @ciaramoloney.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
Another excellent piece from @ciaramoloney.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western
Not every film about “cowboys and Indians” is as reactionary as the genre’s reputation might suggest.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
'Everyone assumes they don’t need to bother watching Westerns, but every time I watch a Western—any Western, not even a particularly good one—it feels like cinema as a whole cracks open anew.'
Another excellent piece from @ciaramoloney.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
Another excellent piece from @ciaramoloney.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
Happy Christmas and Best Wishes in the New Year
From Us and Our Traditions to You and Yours!!
From Us and Our Traditions to You and Yours!!
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Happy Christmas and Best Wishes in the New Year
From Us and Our Traditions to You and Yours!!
From Us and Our Traditions to You and Yours!!
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A brand new 2k restoration of John Huston’s adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead will be screening at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social early next year, proudly supported by the Screen Ireland Digital Restoration Project. 📽️ 💚
📅 Tuesday 6th January 2026
⏰ 6.30pm
🎟️ ifi.ie/film/the-dea...
📅 Tuesday 6th January 2026
⏰ 6.30pm
🎟️ ifi.ie/film/the-dea...
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A brand new 2k restoration of John Huston’s adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead will be screening at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social early next year, proudly supported by the Screen Ireland Digital Restoration Project. 📽️ 💚
📅 Tuesday 6th January 2026
⏰ 6.30pm
🎟️ ifi.ie/film/the-dea...
📅 Tuesday 6th January 2026
⏰ 6.30pm
🎟️ ifi.ie/film/the-dea...
Highly recommended. I was so fortunate to know and work with Osborough, on the Executive of the Irish Legal History Society and on my The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850 (2011, with Michael Brown).
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/a...
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/a...
Four Courts Press | A Sense of Place
Studies in British and Irish legal history in memory of W.N. Osborough by Sparky Booker and Kevin Costello, editors
www.fourcourtspress.ie
December 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Highly recommended. I was so fortunate to know and work with Osborough, on the Executive of the Irish Legal History Society and on my The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850 (2011, with Michael Brown).
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/a...
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/a...
This feels more than a little ginned-up. Obviously 'Americana' is an invented genre. All of our musical categories are, a way to capture the lightning, music produced without any anxiety about labels. Remember Billboard once referred to Hillbilly Hits and Race Records.
www.spin.com/2025/12/what...
www.spin.com/2025/12/what...
AMERICANA
A flame-haired, dirty white-suited Tyler Childers strides with intent through a standing, whooping, exultant ovation in Nashville and takes the stage to give hi
www.spin.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This feels more than a little ginned-up. Obviously 'Americana' is an invented genre. All of our musical categories are, a way to capture the lightning, music produced without any anxiety about labels. Remember Billboard once referred to Hillbilly Hits and Race Records.
www.spin.com/2025/12/what...
www.spin.com/2025/12/what...
'Galway Film Fleadh is seeking to recruit a dynamic, experienced, and highly motivated professional to fulfil a full-time one-year contract role as Festival Programmer, commencing January 2026.'
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/job-vacancy-...
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/job-vacancy-...
Job Vacancy: Festival Programmer - Galway Film Fleadh
Join Ireland’s leading film festival as Festival Programmer — shape the artistic vision, curate films, and drive the Galway Film Fleadh’s creative growth. Apply by Jan 5, 2026
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
'Galway Film Fleadh is seeking to recruit a dynamic, experienced, and highly motivated professional to fulfil a full-time one-year contract role as Festival Programmer, commencing January 2026.'
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/job-vacancy-...
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/job-vacancy-...
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THE DEAD 🌨️ January 6th.
The IFI has partnered with @screenireland on a unique five-year archiving project to catalogue, digitise and exhibit Ireland's film heritage. We are proud to present this brand-new restoration of John Huston's THE DEAD as part of this initiative.
🎫 https://bit.ly/4oLITAl
The IFI has partnered with @screenireland on a unique five-year archiving project to catalogue, digitise and exhibit Ireland's film heritage. We are proud to present this brand-new restoration of John Huston's THE DEAD as part of this initiative.
🎫 https://bit.ly/4oLITAl
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
THE DEAD 🌨️ January 6th.
The IFI has partnered with @screenireland on a unique five-year archiving project to catalogue, digitise and exhibit Ireland's film heritage. We are proud to present this brand-new restoration of John Huston's THE DEAD as part of this initiative.
🎫 https://bit.ly/4oLITAl
The IFI has partnered with @screenireland on a unique five-year archiving project to catalogue, digitise and exhibit Ireland's film heritage. We are proud to present this brand-new restoration of John Huston's THE DEAD as part of this initiative.
🎫 https://bit.ly/4oLITAl
'Netflix and its competitors have clearly identified mainlining their products straight to 56-inch plasmas in subscribers’ living rooms as the route to bigger profits and audiences.'
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
Frank Coughlan: Why Netflix’s planned takeover of Warner Bros is bad news for anyone who loves the magic of cinema
That anticipation of magic might diminish a bit when you begin to grow older, but it’s still essentially there the moment the lights go down, and the film begins.
www.independent.ie
December 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
'Netflix and its competitors have clearly identified mainlining their products straight to 56-inch plasmas in subscribers’ living rooms as the route to bigger profits and audiences.'
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
Editorial Board Members wanted!! Pass it on.
Comparative Legal History is an elite legal history publication, the standard for its subject, and the flagship publication of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
For additional information, see esclh.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...
Comparative Legal History is an elite legal history publication, the standard for its subject, and the flagship publication of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
For additional information, see esclh.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Editorial Board Members wanted!! Pass it on.
Comparative Legal History is an elite legal history publication, the standard for its subject, and the flagship publication of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
For additional information, see esclh.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...
Comparative Legal History is an elite legal history publication, the standard for its subject, and the flagship publication of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
For additional information, see esclh.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...
'What we too rarely notice is how our legal education shapes the very categories through which we think. The result is not only that we produce different answers to similar questions, but that we often do not ask the same questions at all.'
british-association-comparative-law.org/2025/11/28/r...
british-association-comparative-law.org/2025/11/28/r...
Reading Lists and Legal Traditions: Mapping How Legal Scholars Think Across Jurisdictions
A striking feature of legal education lies in the way it comes to feel natural to us. We easily forget that our training is rooted in a particular time and place. We know that law differs across th…
british-association-comparative-law.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'What we too rarely notice is how our legal education shapes the very categories through which we think. The result is not only that we produce different answers to similar questions, but that we often do not ask the same questions at all.'
british-association-comparative-law.org/2025/11/28/r...
british-association-comparative-law.org/2025/11/28/r...