Dr Doyle to Feature on Irish Radio Documentary, Ireland’s Secret Hangman

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 11:45

Dr David Doyle will feature on Irish radio documentary, Ireland’s Secret Hangman, by the award winning Radio 1 Documentary on One Unit at RTÉ this Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 1pm. Dr Doyle’s research on the death penalty in Ireland has been published in the Journal of Legal History (2012), New Hibernia Review (2014) and the Journal of British Studies (2015). He is currently in the process of completing a co-authored book (with Dr Liam O’Callaghan) on capital punishment in post-independence Ireland. 
 
You can listen to a podcast of the documentary online.
 
Dr Doyle is a lecturer in law at Maynooth University Department of Law where he lectures modules on Criminology and Criminal Justice. He was recently awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations Award to conduct an exploratory study of victim perspectives on forced labour and trafficking for criminal activities in Ireland and to seed a new ‘victim-centred’ study of trafficking in Ireland.