A critical edition with introduction and notes Regarded as the most celebrated Irish political pamphlet published before 1801, William Molyneux’s Case of Irela…
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 …
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 reputati…
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 part o…
Nominated for Law Book of the Year by the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association “A defense of the basic principles of democracy ... This book is indispensable for…
Drama, opera, ballet, circuses, concerts and puppet-shows: down the years, all these species of live entertainment faced innumerable difficulties in Ireland. Th…
The Law School of UCD has been a key centre of legal education and research since its establishment as the Faculty of Law in 1909. The staff, students and alumn…
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 trans…
The fourteen essays in this book cover a wide range of topics within the field of legal history. Most are adaptations of discourses given at meetings of the Iri…
In its 25th anniversary year, the Irish Legal History Society republishes two bibliographical essays by its progenitor and former president, Professor W.N. Osbo…
Cases of breach of promise to marry were tried frequently in a variety of Irish courts from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Such cases provided …
In 1575 the Lord Admiral of England, Edward Clinton, appointed Ambrose Forth as the first judge of the Admiralty in Ireland. Between 1575 and 1893 an independen…
