‘The will of the people’: putting the referendum in the Irish constitution
05 March 2024The latest DIB Monthly Blog.
In this month's blog with voters due at the polls on 8 March to vote on two proposed constitutional amendments, Eoin Kinsella looks at how the referendum - one of the core elements of our democratic system - was embedded in the constitution.
Article image: Committee members of the Constitution Commission, responsible for the drafting of the Constitution of the Irish Free State, 1922
Copyright: This image is reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland, Hugh Kennedy archive (KEN2)