Irish Manuscripts: The Senchus Mór
The Senchus Mór (pronounced: shen-kus moor) is one of the most important legal texts from early Ireland and it means the ‘Great Ancient Tradition’. However, the most all-encompassing word for this body…
Brehon law
Is Ferr Fera Chiniud – A Man Is Better Than His Birth
A maxim of Irish Law first recorded in the eight century. It is a precept which underlies the phrase “All men are created equal” which appears in the American Declaration…
Kevin Flanagan – Rethinking Crime and Punishment, Trinity College 2012
Kevin Flanagan puts forward a case for penal reform based on principles of jurisprudence found under the Brehon laws.