CC2006: Reading List

A Hand-List of Publications on Irish Law Since 1988

(subsequent to bibliography in F. Kelly, Early Irish Law)

Bracken, D., ‘Immortality and capital punishment: patristic concepts in Irish law’, Peritia 9 (1995) 167-186.

Bracken, D., ‘Latin passages in Irish vernacular law: notes on sources’, Peritia 9 (1995) 187-196.

Breatnach, L. ‘On the Original Extent of the Senchas Már’, Ériu 47 (1996) 1-43.

Breatnach, L., ‘Chapter VI: Law’, Progress in Medieval Irish Studies, ed. K. McCone & K. Simms (Maynooth, 1995) 107-21.

Breatnach, L., ‘Lawyers in early Ireland’, in Brehons, serjeants, and attorneys. Studies in the history of the Irish legal profession, ed. D. Hogan and W.N. Osborough (Dublin, 1990) 1-13.

Breatnach, L., ‘On the Glossing of Early Irish Law-Texts, Fragmentary Texts, and Some Aspects of the Laws Relating to Dogs,’ Celtica Helsingiensia: Proceedings from a Symposium on Celtic Studies, ed. A. Ahlqvist et al., Societas Scientarum Fennica, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 107 (Helsinki, 1996) 11-20.

Breatnach, L., ‘The First Third of Bretha Nemed Toísech’, Ériu 40 (1989) 1-40.

Breatnach, L., A Companion to the Corpus Iuris Hibernici (Dublin, 2005) [further bibliography here].

Carey, J., ‘An Edition of the Pseudo-Historical Prologue to the Senchas Már’, Ériu 45 (1994) 1-32.

Carey, J., ‘The Testimony of the Dead’, Éigse 26 (1992) 1-12.

Carey, J., ‘The Two Laws in Dubthach’s Judgement’, CMCS 19 (Summer 1990) 1 -18.

Charles-Edward, T.M., ‘A Contract Between King and People in Early Medieval Ireland? Críth Gablach on Kingship’, Peritia 8 (1994) 107-119.

Charles-Edwards, T.M., The Early Mediaeval Gaelic Lawyer, Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History 4 (Cambridge, 1999).

Charles-Edwards, T.M., Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford, 1993).

Charles-Edwards, T.M., The Welsh Laws (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1989).

Charles-Edwards, T.M., ‘Early Irish Law’, in D. Ó Cróinín (ed.), A New History of Ireland, vol. 1 (OUP, 2005) 331-70.

Corthals, J., ‘Affiliation of children: Immathchor nAilella ₇ Airt’, Peritia 9 (1995) 92-124.

Crigger, B.-J., ‘Crazy like a Fox: On Rehabilitating the Old Irish Legal Apparatus,’ PHCC 13 (1993) 82-92.

Gerriets, M., ‘Theft, Penitentials, and the Compilation of the Early Irish Laws’, Celtica 22 (1991) 18-32.

Herbert, M., ‘Dlíthe an Domhnaigh in Éirinn, 600-750 AD’, Cothú an Dúchais: Aistí in ómós don Athair Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire S.J., eag. M. Mac Conmara ₇ É. Ní Thiarnaigh (BÁC, 1997) 60-9.

Ireland, C.A., Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria: An Edition of Bríathra Flainn Fhína maic Ossu (Tempe, Arizona, 1999).

Kelly, F., ‘Early Irish Law: The Present State of Research’, ÉC 29 (1992) 15-22.

Kelly, F., ‘Text and Transmissions: The Law Texts,’ Irland und Europa: Text und Überlieferung / Ireland and Europe: Texts and Transmission, eds P. Ní Chatháin and M. Richter (Dublin, 2002) 230-42.

Kelly, F., Early Irish Farming (Dublin, 1997) [further bibliography here].

Kelly, P., ‘The Rule of Patrick: Textual Affinities’ in Ní Chatháin and Richter, Irland und Europa, 284-95.

McLeod, N. ‘Crólige mBáis,’ Féilscríbhinn Ghearóid Mhic Eoin, eds D. Ó hAodha and D. Ó Baoill (Dublin, forthcoming).

McLeod, N. ‘Di Ércib Fola,’ Ériu 52 (2002) 123-216.

McLeod, N. ‘The not-so-Exotic Law of Dian Cécht,’ Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, eds G. Evans, B. Martin and J. Wooding (Sydney, 2000) 381-99.

McLeod, N. Early Irish Contract Law (Sydney, 1994).

McLeod, N., ‘Irish Law: significant numbers and the law of status’, Peritia 9 (1995) 156-166.

Murray, K., ‘A Middle Irish Tract on Cró and Díbad’, Seanchas: Essays in Early and Medieval Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne, ed. A. F. Smyth (Dublin, 1999) 251-60.

Ní Dhonnchadha, M., ‘An Address to a Student of Law’, in Sages, Saints and Storytellers. Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney, ed. D. Ó Corráin, L. Breatnach and K. McCone (Maynooth, 1989) 159-177.

Ó Corráin, D. ‘Medieval Irish Law’, Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing iv-v (Cork, 2002).

Ó Riain, P., ‘A Misunderstood Annal: a Hitherto Unnoticed Cáin, Celtica 21 (1990) 561–6.

Oliver, L., ‘Forced and Unforced Rape in Early Irish Society’, PHCC 13 (1993) 93-106.

Patterson, N., ‘Brehon Law in Late Medieval Ireland: ‘Antiquarian and Obsolete’ or ‘Traditional and Functional’?’, CMCS 17 (Summer, 1989) 43-63, at 63.

Patterson, N., ‘Patrilineal Kinship in Early Irish Society: The Evidence from the Irish Law Texts’, BBCS 37 (1990) 133-165.

Poppe, E., ‘The list of sureties in Cáin Éimíne’, Celtica 21 (1990) 588-592.

Simms, K., ‘The brehons of later medieval Ireland’, in Brehons, serjeants, and attorneys. Studies in the history of the Irish legal profession, ed. D. Hogan and W.N. Osborough (Dublin, 1990) 51-76.

Simms, K., ‘The Contents of Later Commentaries on the Brehon Law Tracts,’ Ériu 49 (1998) 23-40.

Stacey, R. Chapman, ‘Ties that Bind: Immunities in Irish and Welsh Law’, CMCS 20 (Winter 1990) 39-60.

Stacey, R. Chapman, The Road to Judgement: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).

Swartz, D. Dilts, ‘The Legal Status of Women in Early and Medieval Ireland and Wales in Comparison with Western European and Mediterranean Societies: Environmental and Social Correlations’, PHCC 13 (1993) 107-18.