(Source: Four Courts Press)
Four Courts Press is publishing a book on law
and revolution in 17th century Ireland.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In October 1641, violence erupted in mid-Ulster
that spread throughout the whole kingdom and lasted for more than a decade. The
war was neither unpredictable nor was it out of step with the rest of the
Stuart kingdoms, or indeed Europe generally. As with all wars, particularly the
multi-national and multi-denominational, the Irish wars of the 1640s and 1650s
had many complex and interrelated causes. Law, the legal system and the legal
community played a vital role in the origins and the development of the conflict
in Ireland that took it from a dependent kingdom to becoming part of a
republican commonwealth. Lawyers also played a fundamental part in the return
of the legal and political ‘normality’ in the 1660s. This collection of essays
considers how the law was part of this process and to what extent it was shaped
by the revolutionary developments of the period. These essays arise from a
conference held in 2014 in the House of Lords at the Bank of Ireland, Dublin,
under the auspices of the Irish Legal History Society.
Contributors: Andrew Carpenter, Stephen Carroll, John
Cunningham, Coleman A. Dennehy, Neil Johnston, Colum Kenny, Neasa Malone, Aran
McArdle, Bríd McGrath, Jess Velona, Philip Walsh and Jennifer Wells.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Coleman A.
Dennehy is a Humanities Institute (University
College Dublin) research associate and a former IRC Marie Skłodowska-Curie
fellow, having taught at University College London and University of Vienna. In
addition to many articles and chapters, he published an edited collection, Restoration
Ireland (London, 2008) and also a monograph The Irish
parliament, 1613–89 (Manchester, forthcoming).
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