The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850

Michael Brown is a lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen, and acting director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. Seán Patrick Donlan is a lecturer in law at the University of Limerick.

Contents: The laws in Ireland, 1689-1850: a brief introduction, Michael Brown and Seán Patrick Donlan; Local courts in later 17th- and 18th-century Ireland, T.C. Barnard; The Privy Council of Ireland and the making of Irish law, 1692-1800, James Kelly; 18th-century Ireland's legislative deficit, W.N. Osborough; The limits of English influence on the Irish criminal law and the boundaries of discretion in the 18th-century Irish criminal justice system, Neal Garnham; English and Irish jury laws: a growing divergence 1825-1833, Niamh Howlin; 'Let the law take its course': punishment and the exercise of the prerogative of mercy in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland, Richard McMahon; The Ouzel Galley Society in the 18th century: arbitration body or drinking club?, Lisa Marie Griffith; Dublin Corporation and the levying of tolls and customs, c.1720-c.1820, Jacqueline Hill; Regulating the market: Parliament, corn and bread in 18th-century Ireland, Eoin Magennis; Ireland's urban houghers: moral economy and popular protest in the late 18th century, Martyn J. Powell; 'Regular obedience to the laws': Arthur Browne's prelude to union, Seán Patrick Donlan; Daniel O'Connell and the Magee trials, 1813, Patrick M. Geoghegan; Farmer and fool: Henry Brooke and the late Irish Enlightenment, Michael Brown; The legal system in Ireland and the Irish language 1700-c.1843, Lesa Ni Mhunghaile; A court 'for the determination of causes civil and maritime only': Article 8 of the Act of Union 1800 and the Court of Admiralty in Ireland, Kevin Costello; Index.