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Niamh Howlin & Felix M. Larkin, editors
ISBN 9781801510851
Hardback
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 to the volume include leading historians, legal historians and legal practitioners. They make use of archival sources, personal papers, reported cases, parliamentary papers, newspapers and other sources to explore themes such as the role of litigants, perceptions of the law, women and the law, and the impact of social and constitutional change on the law.
Contents include: Niamh Howlin and Felix Larkin, A decade of legal history scholarship; Jane Ohlmeyer, Lords, the law and litigation in early modern Ireland; Patrick Hyde Kelly, Ambivalent patriot: William Molyneux and the art of rhetoric; Kevin Costello, Imprisonment for debt in early nineteenth century Ireland; Donnell Deeny, The trials of Arthur Donnelly; L. Perry Curtis, Jr., Exploring the dynamic of the Irish land war; Paul Bew, Parnell and the Law;
Patrick Geoghegan, Investigating Jack the Ripper and Parnellite crime; Robert D. Marshall, Lisnafana: a townland in crisis on the Headfort Cavan estate; Anthony Hart, The law in action in Ulster in July 1898
Niamh Howlin is an associate professor at the Sutherland School of Law, UCD, and has published widely on aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish legal history. Felix M. Larkin is a historian and retired public servant. He has published extensively on the history of the Irish press. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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