Confluences of Law and History

Barristers in Ireland

An evolving profession since 1921

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Barristers played significant roles in Irish public life in the twentieth century as lawmakers, politicians, civil servants, broadcasters, judges, academics and social reformers. This book is the first...
Author/Editor: Niamh Howlin

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

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

Changes in practice and law

A selection of essays by members of the legal profession to mark twenty-five years of the Irish Legal History Society

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Changes in practice and law is a selection of essays by members of the legal profession, including judges, counsel and solicitors, who explore a number of transformations...
Author/Editor: Daire Hogan & Colum Kenny editors

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 reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18

A life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster

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Ignatius O’Brien was the youngest son of a struggling Cork business family. After somewhat unhappy experiences at a Cork Vincentian school and the Catholic University of Ireland, he...
Author/Editor: Daire Hogan & Patrick Maume, editors

The life and times of Arthur Browne in Ireland and America, 1756–1805

Civil law and civil liberties

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Born in Rhode Island, Arthur Browne was a lawyer, a scholar, and a politician in the Ireland of the late eighteenth century and established a brilliant reputation...
Author/Editor: Joseph C. Sweeney

Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

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In October 1641, violence erupted in mid-Ulster that spread throughout the whole kingdom and lasted for more than a decade. The war was neither unpredictable nor was...
Author/Editor: Coleman A. Dennehy, editor

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