Dr. Michael M. O'Connor
Lawyer-Independent Researcher-Author
Dr. Michael M. O'Connor
Dr. Michael M. O'Connor is a lawyer, independent researcher, and author. He holds First Class Honours Degrees in Law from Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University, He also has a Doctorate in Philosophy (Law) from Trinity College Dublin. He has practised as a lawyer for almost thirty years in Ireland and internationally, including several years in the Middle East. His research interests include social history, crime & punishment, women & the law, 18th & 19th-century public institutions, and slavery.
Criminal Conversation with My Wife
Spring 2022
Criminal Conversation with My Wife is a collection of essays set in pre-independence County Mayo in the West of Ireland. Themes explored include the legal status and rights of women; the emergence of a free press; community acceptance of policing; abuses in public institutions; famine; religious conflict; and connections with the outside world including trade, emigration, military conflict, and the slave plantations of the Caribbean.
Emily Dickinson
'A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day'
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