(Source: Four Courts Press)
Four Courts
Press is publishing a book on the influence of Magna Carta in Irish legal
history next month.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Crooks is a lecturer in medieval
history at TCD, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is co-editor
of The Geraldines and medieval Ireland: the making of a myth (Dublin,
2016). Thomas Mohr is a lecturer at the School of Law, UCD. He
is honorary secretary of the Irish Legal History Society and the author
of Guardian of the Treaty: the Privy Council appeal and Irish
sovereignty (Dublin, 2016).
More information
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