Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

The operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48

Bríd McGrath

This is the first operational account of the Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when the parli…

Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921

Mary Phelan

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 Ad…

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

Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr, editors

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 an…

William Molyneux's The Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated

Patrick Hyde Kelly, editor

A critical edition with introduction and notes

Regarded as the most celebrated Irish political pamphlet published before 1801, William Molyneux’s Case of Irela…

Juries in Ireland

Laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century

Niamh Howlin

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 …

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

Civil law and civil liberties

Joseph C. Sweeney

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…

Guardian of the Treaty

The Privy Council Appeal and Irish sovereignty

Thomas Mohr

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…