Barristers in Ireland

Juries in Ireland

Laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century

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*Shortlisted for the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association Law Book of the Year Award 2018* In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a wide range of legal issues were decided,...
Author/Editor: Niamh Howlin

Confluences of Law and History

Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021

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This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Contributors to the volume...
Author/Editor: Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin

Palles

The Legal Legacy of the last Lord Chief Baron

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Marking the 2020 centenary of his death, this book explores the judicial legacy of chief baron Christopher Palles, the last chief baron of the Court of Exchequer...
Author/Editor: Oonagh B. Breen & Noel McGrath, editors

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

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Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive and unjust...
Author/Editor: Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr, editors

Guardian of the Treaty

The Privy Council Appeal and Irish sovereignty

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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the final appellate court of the British Empire. In 1935 the Irish Free State was recognized as the first...
Author/Editor: Thomas Mohr

Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921

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The extent and duration of interpreter provision for Irish speakers appearing in court in the long nineteenth century have long been a conundrum. In 1737 the Administration...
Author/Editor: Mary Phelan

The Irish stage

A legal history

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Drama, opera, ballet, circuses, concerts and puppet-shows: down the years, all these species of live entertainment faced innumerable difficulties in Ireland. The challenges that are the focus in...
Author/Editor: W.N. Osborough