Sinn Féin, Trails and litigation, etc, Criminal Justice, Administration, Ireland, History, 20th century, Political crimes and offenses, Cause lawyers, War of Independence, 1919-1921, Great Britain, Criminal Law, Legal History, Law and legislation 

"This book considers the use made by Irish Republicans of British and Irish courts in the struggle for independence, over the period between the Easter Rising and the Civil War. It examines the complex relationship between the Republican movement and the British legal order: Republican ideology demanded a boycott of British legal institutions in Ireland, and committed Republicans to refuse to recognize the authority of British courts. The Republican movement established its own rival court structure - yet Republicans were simultaneously able to make effective use of British courts to promote a separatist agenda. This book offers new insights, from original sources, into Sinn Féin's most celebrated use of British courts - the challenges to death sentences imposed by martial law courts in 1921 - as well as lesser-known aspects of Sinn Fein's legal strategy: the use of coroner's inquests and claims for compensation; legal challenges in the English courts to the policy of court-martial and internment; and the co-ordinated defence of those captured in the course of the Republican military campaign in Britain in 1920-1"--Unedited summary from book jacket. 

Content:
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations
1. The scene set
2. The Easter Rising
3. The Union in danger
4. 'No other law': the conflict for legal supremacy in Ireland
5. Through the Terror to the Truce
6. 'Operations abroad'
7. Green against green
Conclusion  

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-402) and index.
Item donated by Graham Price.
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