1. Introduction
2. The 1922 Constitution; Constituting a Polity
3. The Partition of Ireland and the 1922 Constitution
4. 'The Supreme Legislative Authority Speaking as The Mouthpiece of the People': Constituent Power and the Irish Free State
5. Opposition to the Constitution of the Irish Free State in 1922
6. The Representative of the Crown and the Governor-General of the Irish Free State: Text and Context
7. The National Language and Article 4 of the 1922 Constitution
8. A new Constitution; a new language? How the new Courts talked about the Free State Constitution 1922
9. 'Environmental Stewardship' and Article 11 of the 1922 Constitution
10. The 1922 Constitution as a failed attempt to break with Westminster tradition
11. Property Rights and Democratic Decision-Making: Lessons from the 1922 Constitution
12. The Civil War, the Constitution and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
13. Amending the 1922Constitution: how the process shaped the politics of a new state
14. What the drafters learnt in 1937 from the 1922 experience
15. The Afterlife of the Constitution of the Irish Free State: Constitutional Echoes in South Asia.