#AncientWorld_UCD Exploring early Irish law

Medieval texts provide evidence that #AncientWorld_UCD Exploring early Irish law

Medieval texts provide evidence that Brehon Law survived for at least 800 years in Ireland, with early legal annals indicating a unified legal culture and standardised literary language across the island. A world expert in Celtic historical linguistics, Dr Fangzhe Qiu examines the development of Irish language, literature and law from earliest times. His European Research Council (ERC)-funded #FLEXI project explores how medieval scribes preserved Early Irish Law by reinterpreting legal digests across centuries, and is shedding light on their identities, education, and motivations.

UCD houses a treasured collection of medieval manuscripts, written in both Irish and Latin. Our researchers are examining these complex sources with a fresh lens, to decipher their meaning, uncover intertextual networks, and reveal more about the people who created them. #TheStoriesThatShapeUs

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UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, UCD School of HistoryUCD College of Arts and Humanities, UCD Library, University College Dublin, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, Research Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, UCD Global, UCD Alumni A world expert in Celtic historical linguistics, Dr Fangzhe Qiu examines the development of Irish language, literature and law from earliest times. His European Research Council (ERC)-funded #FLEXI project explores how medieval scribes preserved Early Irish Law by reinterpreting legal digests across centuries, and is shedding light on their identities, education, and motivations.

UCD houses a treasured collection of medieval manuscripts, written in both Irish and Latin. Our researchers are examining these complex sources with a fresh lens, to decipher their meaning, uncover intertextual networks, and reveal more about the people who created them. #TheStoriesThatShapeUs

Learn more: https://lnkd.in/duCa3kpA

Explore research on The Ancient World at UCD: https://lnkd.in/dX9GaP9i

A closer look at the Irish concept of ‘place’ in c12th century manuscripts known as the Dindsenchas

https://specialcollections.ul.ie/tag/dinnseanchas

Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’

Professor Thadeus O’Mahony (1822-1903), Ballineen, West Cork, Church of Ireland Minister, Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin (1861-79), Botanist and the Brehon Law Commission in the 1850s with Dr. John O’Donovan. His father was Cornelius O’Mahony Gentleman. He married Annabella Geoghegan of Rathmines, daughter of Henry in 1856. The same year he was Treasurer of the Ossianic Society in TCD and the O’Donovan Rossa/James Stephens Connection.

He was elected to the Kilkenny Historical Society in 1854 on the recommendation of R. Hitchcock Esq., being at that time Professor of Irish at St. Colomba’s College, Rathfarnham.

The Royal Irish Academy has a collection Graves of the papers between Doctor John O’Donovan and Rev Thadeus O’Mahony re the Brehon Law Commission. The eventual editions are now not hugely well regarded but were most important for the commencement os serious study into the topic. There is a Rev. Thadeus O’Mahony prize in TCD.

O’Donovan Rossa refers to his brother:

James O’Mahony of Bandon wrote to me that he wished to meet me to have a talk over Irish national affairs. He suggested that St. John’s Eve in Ross would be a good place, as crowds of people would be there, and we would escape any prying notice. We met there that day. We had our talk, and then we walked toward the Abbey field. The blind and the halt and the lame were there, in every path and passage way, appealing for alms — appealing mostly in the Irish language. We stood behind one man who was sitting down, his bare ulcerated legs stretched out from him. His voice was strong, and his language was beautiful.

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• With No Children: The surviving spouse or civil partner receives one-half of the estate if there is a will, or the entire estate if there is no will. [1]
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• Intestacy: If there is no will, the remaining one-third of the estate goes to the children. [1]
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