A century of courts

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...
Author/Editor: Niamh Howlin

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...
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...
Author/Editor: Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin

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...
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...
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...
Author/Editor: Daire Hogan & Patrick Maume, editors

Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970–94

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Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for...
Author/Editor: Robert Collins