Guardian of the Treaty

The Irish Parliamentary Party and the third Home Rule crisis

James McConnel

But for the 1916 Rising, self-governing Ireland’s founding political generation would have been drawn not from Sinn Féin and the IRA, but from among the ranks o…

Revolutionary lawyers

Sinn Féin and crown courts in Ireland and Britain, 1916–23

David Foxton

This book considers the use made by Irish Republicans of British courts in the struggle for independence, over the period between the Easter Rising and the Civi…

Emergency law in independent Ireland, 1922–1948

Seosamh Ó Longaigh

Although the major political issues that plagued Ireland in the 19th century (land ownership and self-rule), were largely resolved by 1921, there remained persi…

Subversive law in Ireland, 1879–1920

From 'unwritten law' to the Dáil courts

Heather Laird

The primary focus of this book is subversive law from the Land War period to the establishment of the Dáil courts. More specifically, Subversive law in Ireland …