Patrick Hanafin Defying the female: the Irish constitutional text as phallocentric manifesto

The Irish constitutional text reflects a perceived notion of what Irish society is. A constitutional text is more than a mere source of rules but it is to a very real degree an expression of a national ethos. As Daniel Farber has written:

the Constitution plays a unique role in our culture, being not only a set of instructions but literally constitutive of our national identity.1