Fellow in Focus: Dr Mark O'Connell

Recorded December 5, 2025. Trinity Long Room Hub Rooney Writer
Fellow Mark O'Connell in conversation with Professor David Kenny
(School of Law, TCD). Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of
Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was
awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for
Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
for Non-Fiction. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review
of Books. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York
Times Magazine, Slate, and The Guardian.  Professor David
Kenny is Professor in Law at the Law School, teaching and
researching Irish and comparative constitutional law, conflict of
laws, critical legal theory and law and literature. He is a
graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Harvard Law School, and the
Honourable Society of the King's Inns, and is an alumnus of the US
State Department's Fulbright programme. He was elected a Fellow of
Trinity College Dublin in 2021. Since June 2024, he has served as
Head of the Law School. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub