Irish law and lawyers in modern folk tradition / Éanna Hickey.

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Dublin : Four Courts Press, 1999.

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23691

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Irish Legal History Society ; 8.

Subject:

Law -- Ireland -- History.

Contents:

1. Introduction to the sources

2. Law, justice and the Irish

3. Tilting the scales of justice

4. The personnel of the courts

5. Appearing in court

6. Law and the supernatural

7. The church and the law

8. Alternatives to law

9. A kind of conclusion

Appendices

1. Index to the folk sources

2. Transcript of an IFC MS excerpt

3. James McAllister's story

4. Padraic Ó Súilleabháin's story

The Irish Legal History Society.

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Includes bibliography and index.

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185182460x

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xv, 198p. : ill.