CONFERENCE: Law and Revolution in Ireland: Law & Lawyers before, during, and after the Cromwellian Interregnum

 

Law and Revolution in Ireland:

Law & Lawyers before, during, and

after the Cromwellian Interregnum

 CONFERENCE 27-28 NOVEMBER 2014

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Session I

Dr Stephen Carroll (Trinity College Dublin)

Competing authorities: the clash of martial and common law in early seventeenth-century Ireland

Dr Aran McArdle (Trinity College Dublin)

‘Necessarye to keepe Irelande in Order’: Martial law and the 1641 rebellion 

Session II

Dr Bríd McGrath (Trinity College Dublin)

Electoral law in Ireland in the early seventeenth century

Dr John Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin / University of Exeter)

Lawyers and the law in the writings of Sir William Parsons

Session III

Dr Neil Johnston (Department of Culture, Media & Sport, Westminster)

Charles II’s legal officers and their influence on the Restoration land settlement in Ireland, 1660-65

Prof. James McGuire, MRIA (Irish Manuscripts Commission)

Governing Restoration Ireland: the evidence of the proclamations, 1660–70

Friday, 28 November 2014

Session IV

Jennifer Wells, JD (Brown University / Institute of Historical Research)

‘Don’t Kill All the Lawyers!’ – Judges and lawyers in the Interregnum and the making of the British Empire

Dr Andrew Robinson (Northern Ireland Policing Board)

‘Twixt Treason and Convenience’: Protestant Ireland and the trial of the earl of Strafford

Session V

Dr Danielle McCormack (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

The rhetoric of law and the Restoration settlement, c. 1660-2                  

Prof. Andrew Carpenter, MRIA (University College Dublin)

Lawyers and the circulation of scurrilous verse in Restoration Dublin

Session VI

Dr John J. Cronin (University College Dublin)

Countering a revolution with law: the role of the Irish royalist elite in the law courts of the exiled Charles II: 1649-1660

Prof. Colum Kenny (Dublin City University)

Shooting stars and survivors: King's Inns revisited 1648-1661

Irish Legal History Society AGM

Irish Legal History Society Winter Discourse

Dr Coleman A. Dennehy (University College Dublin / University College London)

Appointments to the Irish bench in the early Restoration period

For registration, please email Dr Coleman Dennehy (c.dennehy@ucl.ac.uk)