Research Catalog

Title

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present / Peter Crooks and Thomas Mohr, editors.

Publication

• Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, in association with the Irish Legal History Society, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crooks, Peter
• Mohr, Thomas, 1975-
• Irish Legal History Society, issuing body.
• Law and the idea of liberty : from Magna Carta to the present (2016 : Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland)

Description

xiv, 228 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 and unjust rule in a word, on tyranny. The fame of Magna Carta spread as England, and later Britain, came to girdle the globe in its power. This volume is the first to examine the importance of Ireland in the story of Magna Carta's dissemination. Four centuries before Magna Carta crossed the Atlantic, it had already been implanted across the Irish Sea. A version of the charter, issued in November 1216 in the name of the boy-king Henry III, was sent to Ireland, where it became fundamental to the English common law tradition in Ireland that survives to the present. This volume -- the proceedings of a conference marking the 800th anniversary of the transmission of Magna Carta to Ireland -- explores the paradoxes presented by the reception of Magna Carta into Irish law, above all the contested idea of "liberty" that developed in Ireland. Contributors examine the legal, political and polemical uses to which Magna Carta was put from the thirteenth century onwards, as well as its twentieth- and twentieth-first century invocations as a living presence in contemporary Irish law. The volume also includes a new edition and translation of the Magna Carta Hibernie ('The Great Charter of Ireland') -- an adaptation of the 1216 issue of Magna Carta found in the Red Book of the Irish Exchequer, which was destroyed in 1922"--

Series Statement

Irish Legal History Society ; 32

Uniform Title

Irish Legal History Society (Series) ; 32.

Subject

• Magna Carta
• Constitutional history > Ireland
• Law > Ireland > History
• Constitutional history
• Law
• Ireland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Includes text of the Magna Carta Hiberniae in Latin with English translation.

Contents

Taking liberties : law and the idea of liberty in Ireland / Peter Crooks and Thomas Mohr -- Magna Carta in Ireland, 1215-1320 / Paul Brand -- Conquest and common law / Adrian Empey -- The charter reforged : the Red Book, materiality and Ireland's Magna Carta / Peter Crooks -- Magna Carta and political theory in seventeenth-century Ireland / Ian Campbell -- Nisi per legale judicium parium suorum : trial by peer in the criminal trial in early modern Ireland / Coleman A. Dennehy -- Audley Mervyn, the 'Irish Magna Carta' of 1662, and other myths / Colum Kenny -- 'Our civil rights and liberties' : the politics of Protestant liberty in the eighteenth century / James Kelly -- Daniel O'Connell v. the Chartists / Patrick M. Geoghegan -- Law and Liberty in an Irish Free State / Thomas Mohr -- Magna Carta Hiberniae and the Irish statute books / John Larkin -- Magna Carta's Influence in modern Irish constitutionalism since 1937 / Bláthna Ruane -- 'Magna Carta Hiberniae' : the destroyed manuscript witness from the Red Book of the Irish exchequer : text and translation / Peter Crooks.

Call Number

JFE 23-2667

ISBN

• 9781846827402
• 184682740X

OCLC

1031450437

Title

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present / Peter Crooks and Thomas Mohr, editors.

Publisher

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, in association with the Irish Legal History Society, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Irish Legal History Society ; 32

Irish Legal History Society (Series) ; 32.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Includes text of the Magna Carta Hiberniae in Latin with English translation.

Added Author

Crooks, Peter, editor.

Mohr, Thomas, 1975- editor.

Irish Legal History Society, issuing body.

Law and the idea of liberty : from Magna Carta to the present (2016 : Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland)

Other Form:

Online version: Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present. Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, in association with the Irish Legal History Society, [2023] 9781801511049 (OCoLC)1372397738

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2667