(Source: Four Courts Press)
Four Courts Press has published an edited
volume on the importance of the Magna Carta’s dissemination in Ireland.
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.
Contributors: Sparky Booker (QUB), Paul Brand (U
Oxford), Ian Campbell (QUB), Coleman Dennehy (UCL/UCD), Seán Duffy (TCD),
Adrian Empey (Church of Ireland Historical Society), Patrick Geoghegan (TCD),
James Kelly (DCU), Colum Kenny (DCU), John Larkin (Attorney General
for Northern Ireland), Bláthna Ruane SC.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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).
All information
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