Great Britain, Administrative Law, Law, Ireland, 19th century, 20th century 

Irish Legal History Society 

This is the third collection of papers read at meetings of the Irish Legal History Society during 2000-4, along with some other papers on Irish legal history. Contents: D.S. Greer (QUB), Truck in Donegal in the 1890s; James McGuire (UCD), Sir Richard Nagle; James Kelly (DCU, St Patrick's), The making of law in 18th-century Ireland; Frank Callanan (Barrister) , T.M. Healy; Hector MacQueen, Legal nationalism; W.N. Osborough (UCD), The quest for the last testament of Christopher Wandesford, lord deputy of Ireland; Felix Larkin, Judge Bodkin and the 1916 Rising: a letter to his son; Gerard O'Brien (UU, Coleraine) , Capital punishment in Ireland, 1924-64; D.S. Greer, The Irish court for crown cases reserved; Mark Finnane, Irish criminal justice statistics in the later 19th century; Desmond McCabe, Petty sessions in 19th-century Ireland; Brian Griffin (Bath College), Prevention and detection of crime, 1836- 1900; Concluding essay by Ronan Keane. 

Content:
Wills that go missing : the quest for the last testament of Christopher Wandesford, lord deputy of Ireland, 1640 / W. N. Osborough -- A lawyer in politics : the career of Sir Richard Nagle, c. 1636-1699 / James McGuire -- Dicey and the sovereignty of parliament : lessons from Irish legal history / John McEldowney -- T. M. Healy : the politics of advocacy / Frank Callanan -- Judge Bodkin and the 1916 rising : a letter to his son / Felix M. Larkin -- Legal nationalism : the case of Lord Cooper / Hector L. MacQueen -- Prevention and detection of crime in nineteenth-century Ireland / Brian Griffin -- Open court : law and the expansion of magisterial jurisdiction at petty sessions in nineteenth-century Ireland / Desmond McCabe -- A security against illegality? : the reservation of crown cases in nineteenth-century Ireland / Desmond Greer -- Irish crime without the outrage : the statistics of criminal justice in the later nineteenth century / Mark Finnane -- Capital punishment in Ireland, 1922-1964 / Gerard O'Brien -- The making of law in eighteenth-century Ireland : the significance and import of Poynings' law / James Kelly -- 'Middling hard on coin' : truck in Donegal in the 1890s / Desmond Greer -- The 'one judgment rule' in the supreme court / Ronan Keane.  

Includes bibliographical references and index
Item donated by Graham Price.
Categorized by organization (Irish Legal History Society (ILHS)), then author/editor, then year.