Seán Patrick Donlan
@spdonlan.bsky.social
Peripatetic Professor (Law/History/Film). Not dead, just very still.
Contributor: Film Ireland, History Ireland, Law on Film, Scannain.
Contributor: Film Ireland, History Ireland, Law on Film, Scannain.
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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...
'Train Dreams is a powerfully cinematic portrait of an everyman and his times.... Skilfully orchestrated and well-acted, the film centres on the critical, sacramental junctures in a largely hidden life.'
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/01/a...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
'Train Dreams is a powerfully cinematic portrait of an everyman and his times.... Skilfully orchestrated and well-acted, the film centres on the critical, sacramental junctures in a largely hidden life.'
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/01/a...
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/01/a...
'An Cailín Ciuín, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Small Things Like These, with their sources, present significantly different pictures of the early eighties in Ireland.... Each suggests something about us, now.'
Me, at newsagents everywhere or historyireland.com/quiet-people...
Me, at newsagents everywhere or historyireland.com/quiet-people...
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
'An Cailín Ciuín, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Small Things Like These, with their sources, present significantly different pictures of the early eighties in Ireland.... Each suggests something about us, now.'
Me, at newsagents everywhere or historyireland.com/quiet-people...
Me, at newsagents everywhere or historyireland.com/quiet-people...
Disappointing. This a crass political perspective, not a principled one and would be aggressively, appropriately, attacked if the positions were reversed. We'll have to see how the new President, and her followers, responds. The signs aren't good.
analysis.irelandthinks.ie/polling-day-...
analysis.irelandthinks.ie/polling-day-...
October 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Disappointing. This a crass political perspective, not a principled one and would be aggressively, appropriately, attacked if the positions were reversed. We'll have to see how the new President, and her followers, responds. The signs aren't good.
analysis.irelandthinks.ie/polling-day-...
analysis.irelandthinks.ie/polling-day-...
'Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid'
September 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
'Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid'
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
The film 'tells this rich and fascinating story of film censorship in Ireland, explicitly discussing those things the Censors had believed best kept from an impressionable Irish public.'
My full Film Ireland essay ('In the Name of the Censor') is available at filmireland.net/2025/08/27/e...
My full Film Ireland essay ('In the Name of the Censor') is available at filmireland.net/2025/08/27/e...
August 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The film 'tells this rich and fascinating story of film censorship in Ireland, explicitly discussing those things the Censors had believed best kept from an impressionable Irish public.'
My full Film Ireland essay ('In the Name of the Censor') is available at filmireland.net/2025/08/27/e...
My full Film Ireland essay ('In the Name of the Censor') is available at filmireland.net/2025/08/27/e...
A student once mentioned, unnecessarily in their law exam, the Liberator Daniel O'Donnell.
August 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A student once mentioned, unnecessarily in their law exam, the Liberator Daniel O'Donnell.
Law on Film: The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
'The film describes the historical case of Martin Guerre ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/return-of-ma...
'The film describes the historical case of Martin Guerre ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/return-of-ma...
July 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Law on Film: The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
'The film describes the historical case of Martin Guerre ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/return-of-ma...
'The film describes the historical case of Martin Guerre ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/return-of-ma...
LAW ON FILM - Episode 45: The Conformist (1970)
'[P]rovides powerful and chilling insights into the psychology of conformism and fascism.... [It's] as timely today as it was when it was released, as the world witnesses a resurgence of authoritarianism ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/chinatown-8f...
'[P]rovides powerful and chilling insights into the psychology of conformism and fascism.... [It's] as timely today as it was when it was released, as the world witnesses a resurgence of authoritarianism ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/chinatown-8f...
July 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LAW ON FILM - Episode 45: The Conformist (1970)
'[P]rovides powerful and chilling insights into the psychology of conformism and fascism.... [It's] as timely today as it was when it was released, as the world witnesses a resurgence of authoritarianism ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/chinatown-8f...
'[P]rovides powerful and chilling insights into the psychology of conformism and fascism.... [It's] as timely today as it was when it was released, as the world witnesses a resurgence of authoritarianism ....'
See www.lawonfilm.com/chinatown-8f...
Happy Father's Day!
June 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Father's Day!
A little pre-Fleadh fun.
June 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A little pre-Fleadh fun.
Will we leave Martin Sheen out of this biopic?
May 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Will we leave Martin Sheen out of this biopic?
Re-Creation, a fictitious trial based on the 1996 murder, in Ireland, of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, has its Irish premiere at the 37th Galway Film Fleadh (8 July).
May 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Re-Creation, a fictitious trial based on the 1996 murder, in Ireland, of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, has its Irish premiere at the 37th Galway Film Fleadh (8 July).
I appreciate that most of you can't make it ...
May 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I appreciate that most of you can't make it ...
