A new book on the archaeological findings on the M3 motorway will be in the
shops in the next week or so. It's called 'Places Along the Way: first
findings on the M3' and is edicted by Mary B Deevy and Donald Murphy, and is
published by the NRA. It is supposed to be available in all bookshops, but
can be got directly from Wordwell Book Sales.

____________________________________________________________
Ellen Evert Hopman, author of "Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey"
"A Druids Herbal - Of Sacred Tree Medicine", "Walking the World in Wonder -
A Children's Herbal" and other volumes http://www.elleneverthopman.com

Visit the Virtual Shrine of Brighid ~
http://shrineofbrighid.com/


'The Order of the White Oak' - World Druid Council
Ord na Darach Gile - Comhairle Domhanda na nDraoí
www.whiteoakdruids.org

Is maith cech dál dia ticc síd.
Any meeting that produces peace is good.

Amazingly, the sequel to Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey is already
available for pre-order!
http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738719566

PLEASE REPOST TO CONTACTS

* Dec 23 deadline on public consultation for Tara UNESCO site *


Dear TaraWatch supporter,

Thank you for your continued support of the campaign to save Tara from the M3.
This week, a new Tentative List of Ireland's proposed World Heritage Sites was
published by the Department of the Environment, and it includes Tara.

The Hill of Tara landscape should be a World Heritage Site, but not with a
motorway being built through the middle of it. UNESCO must demand a re-routing
of the road, like they are at Stonehenge.

Please write letters to the editor at: independent.letters@...

Also make your views known to John Gormley, Minister for the Environment, at
minister@... and worldheritagetentativelist@...


IRISH INDEPENDENT ARTICLE:

Shortlist for world heritage status is drawn up

By Paul Melia - Monday November 02 2009
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shortlist--for-world-heritage-status-is-\
drawn-up-1930808.html

GEORGIAN Dublin and the Tara complex are among a list of potential world
heritage sites being prepared by Environment Minister John Gormley. Today, a
list of potential nominees to the World Heritage List will be published, which
also asks UNESCO to consider protecting the Burren and Ceide Fields and north
Mayo boglands.  But there's bad news for Killarney National Park and the bogs of
Clara, Co Offaly, which have been dropped from the list. Instead, an expert
group wants to honour Georgian Dublin and the capital's literary heritage, which
has seen Dubliners George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett garner two Nobel
Prizes for Literature. World Heritage sites are considered to be of 'outstanding
universal value' and are defined as being of "cultural and/or natural
significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries and to
be of common importance for present and future generations of all humanity".

Inscribed

Ireland currently has three sites -- The Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim, which
was inscribed in 1986, Bru na Boinne in Co Meath (1993), and Skellig Michael in
Co Kerry (1996).  The new list recommends the Burren, Ceide Fields and
north-west Mayo Boglands, Clonmacnoise, Dublin -- A Georgian City and its
Literary Tradition, Early Medieval Monastic Sites, the Royal Sites of Ireland
and Western Stone Forts. "It is now much more difficult to meet the UNESCO
requirements for inscription," Mr Gormley said. "I believe that the draft list
contains a list of those Irish properties which are of outstanding universal
value and which meet the UNESCO inscription requirements."

Public consultation - stakeholders - Deadline December 23.

There will be consultation with stakeholders and interested parties before any
region is formally nominated. Last October, the minister established an Expert
Advisory Group to carry out a review of Ireland's 1992 Tentative List of
potential sites for nomination. The next stage is that local authorities and
communities will be consulted in relation to potential sites in their areas and
there will be an opportunity to make observations on the draft new Tentative
List. The deadline for submissions on the current list is December 23. The World
Heritage List has almost 900 properties, including the Alhambra in Spain, Red
Square in Russia and Acropolis in Greece.


MORE INFORMATION:

TaraWatch UNESCO Consultation Site
http://www.hilloftara.info

TaraWatch home
http://www.tarawatch.org

Contact: info@...


UN MUST SAVE TARA PETITION
http://www.savetarapetition.net

> DÁIBHÍ Ó CRÓINÍN,
>
> Craughwell,
>
> Co Galway.


I could not agree with you more completely, especially in regards to the
buildings in Dublin!.
Amy

Failte,

The Tara Symposium at UCD School of Archaeology in Dublin will be available as a
Web Stream 23rd-26th October 2009.

http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/tarasymposium2009/livestream/

The full program is available as a PDF download

http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/s003_tara_symposium_provisional_programme_20_08_09.pdf


Facilities are available to overseas listeners to ask question via the symposium
email address tara.symposium@....  As the programme is compact, only a small
proportion of questions will be relayed to the symposium auditorium.

Featuring approximately forty papers by an international group of scholars, the
symposium promises to be the most extensive review of the archaeology of Tara
undertaken to date.  It focuses on the data from the two excavation volumes but
extends to a wider consideration of research undertaken at Tara over the past
twenty years.
Tara symposium overview (23rd-26th October 2009)

Following the publication by Wordwell of reports on Seán P. Ó Ríordáin’s
excavations at the Mound of the Hostages (Muiris O’Sullivan 2005) and Rath of
the Synods (Eoin Grogan 2008), the UCD School of Archaeology, in association
with the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, is hosting a symposium
entitled Tara – From the Past to the Future.

Featuring approximately forty papers by an international group of scholars, the
symposium promises to be the most extensive review of the archaeology of Tara
undertaken to date.  It focuses on the data from the two excavation volumes but
extends to a wider consideration of research undertaken at Tara over the past
twenty years.  Themes include:

The archaeology of Tara

    * Papers subjecting particular aspects of the archaeology of Tara to detailed
scrutiny
    * Underlying question: What more can be mined from the archaeological data?

Tara in its local and regional setting

    * Contributions examining the locality around Tara and exploring how Tara
interacted with its surroundings at various times in the past
    * Underlying question: What was the settlement history of the landscape
around the Hill of Tara?

Comparative perspectives on Tara

    * A variety of speakers examining Tara from the perspective of other iconic
places such as Stonehenge and Carnac
    * Underlying question: What is the international perspective on Tara?

The significance of Tara through time

    * Addressing the distinctive qualities that have set Tara apart from ancient
times to the present
    * Underlying question: What dynamics have influenced the emergence of the
Tara phenomenon?
UN MUST SAVE TARA PETITION
http://www.savetarapetition.net

Hi everyone,

We need your help in spreading the word about our new Save Tara petition,
directed at the UN, located at http://www.savetarapetition.net

Our goal is to get one million signatures by Dec 31 2009.

This petition will be handed in to the UN Headquarters in New York, by TaraWatch
USA.

It is critical that we get as many Irish cultural, historical and archaeological
groups as possible around the world to sign.

Please forward to your friends, contacts, local and national cultural and
heritage organisations, as well as political representatives.

Cheers,

Vincent Salafia


TaraWatch USA
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106715177095&ref=mf

Dear TaraWatch supporters,

Thank you for continuing to support the campaign to save the Hill of Tara from
the M3 motorway in Ireland.

A lot has happened recently, and we need your help, to keep the voice of
opposition to the desecration of Tara alive.

As you know, the Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, was supposed to
submit Tara to UNESCO at the Seville World Heritage Committee meeting in June.
This did not occur, but the Minister issued a statement on the matter yesterday,
stating he will do it by the end of the year:
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/Archaeology-NationalMonumentsService/News/Main\
Body,20782,en.htm

The Minister also announced the Tara Skryne Landscape conservation programme.
However, it still does not even define the area to be protected. It will have no
statutory basis, and it quite clearly going to have a motorway going through the
middle of it.

Coincidentally, the European Court of Justice is currently hearing arguments in
the case being brought against Ireland by the European Commission, over the
demolition of the Lismullin National Monument near Tara in 2007, which was
discovered in the pathway of the M3 during excavations. You can read an article
on the subject at:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0630/1224249783884.html

Two newspaper articles were published today, and we are asking you to write
letters to the editors, referencing the articles and making objections to
Minister Gormley's actions. TaraWatch is seeking a right of reply, and we hope
to reinforce that with your letters.

Here are the letters and below is a press release we sent out in response to the
Ministers statement.

-

New rules to protect Tara area

Saturday, July 18, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0718/1224250905249.html

OLIVIA KELLY

NEW PROTECTIONS for the Tara-Skryne Valley, which would prevent the construction
of retail parks and superstores along the route of the M3, have been announced
by Minister for the Environment John Gormley.

Mr Gormley said he could not prevent the construction of the motorway near the
Hill of Tara, which continues to be the subject of protests by environmental and
heritage groups, but he could protect the landscape to prevent inappropriate
development.

In conjunction with Meath County Council, Mr Gormley proposed to designate the
Tara-Skryne Valley a Special Conservation Area. This would protect the
archeological and historic landscape and make it difficult for any construction
to take place within the zone. However, Mr Gormley said it would in particular
stop the type of large-scale development, such as shopping centres, or retail
parks, which have been built along motorways in the past.

“This will ensure that the very negative sort of development associated with
motorways will not impinge on the area . . . the sort of motorway development
we’ve seen in the past, the BQs, that would not be acceptable.�

The plans for the designation, which has been allocated €50,000 funding from
the Department of the Environment and the Heritage Council, will have to be
submitted for public consultation and agreed by Meath county councillors before
the designation is confirmed. It is likely that the protection will be in place
by the middle of next year.

Mr Gormley said he also intended to increase the protection for national
monuments in the new National Monument’s Act, which is currently at draft
stage.

WRITE TO lettersed@...

--

Shops and malls to be banned at historic Tara site

By Paul Melia
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shops-and-malls-to-be-banned-at-historic\
-tara-site-1828754.html
Saturday July 18 2009

MAJOR developments including shopping centres and retail parks will not be
allowed to be built off the controversial M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara.

The Tara Skryne Valley, one of the most archaeologically rich areas in the
country, will be officially designated as a Landscape Conservation Area, which
will ban major developments and ensure the landscape is left intact, Environment
Minister John Gormley announced yesterday.

And he said he was fully committed to nominating the Hill of Tara as a UNESCO
World Heritage site when Ireland draws up its shortlist of sites at the end of
the year.

He added that a new National Monuments Act would mean that road developments
would not take place in areas rich with archaeology.

"I am pleased to announce details in relation to a proposed new landscape
management project which has been initiated to establish a Landscape
Conservation Area in the Tara-Skryne area," he said.

"The new landscape conservation zone for Tara Skryne will protect the area from
development damage . . . This is the first landscape conservation area ever. We
have to learn lessons from the past, there's no question mistakes have been made
and mistakes must be rectified."

The National Monuments Act will also see a single Register of Monuments
established instead of historic monuments being recorded on a number of lists,
and improved recognition of and protection for archaeology under planning
legislation.

Chairman of the Heritage Council, Conor Newman, added that the legislation would
close "serious weaknesses" in the law.

"For those of us who spent years trying to protect Tara, the work (M3) exposed
serious weaknesses in our legislation," he said. "Protecting the landscape is
something we want to see. No one wants to freeze the landscape, just manage
change."

The landscape conservation area status will be made next year when the exact
zone of protection will be identified.

WRITE TO independent.letters@...

--

PRESS RELEASE - TARAWATCH - 17 July 2009

'National Monuments Bill and Tara Landscape Conservation Area Contradict EU
Legal Action'

The Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, today announced a series of
measures, including a future National Monuments Bill, a future UNESCO nomination
for the Hill of Tara, and a new Landscape Conservation Area for Tara-Skryne.

However, these proposed measures directly contradict the Minister's actions over
the last two years in the European Court of Justice, where he is defending the
decision by the former Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche's decision to
demolish the Lismullin National Monument, near Tara, in 2007.

The Commission initiated a legal action against Ireland after Minister Gormley
refused the Commission's order to halt the demolition of Lismullin. The
Commission took legal action, on the basis that the current National Monuments
Act (2004), is in breach of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive.
Arguments were submitted by the Commission on 15 July, and Ireland has until
October to respond.

The National Monuments Bill announced today, was promised to be delivered last
summer. The UNESCO nomination of Tara announced today, was supposed to have been
completed already.

Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch said:

"Today's announcements are completely disingenuous. The reality is that the
Minister is actively defending the current Act and the M3 development in the
ECJ.

"Huge amounts of taxpapers' money is being spent defending the National
Monuments Act case in Europe, while even more money is being spent changing the
same law here.

"In reality, the Minister has spent two years actively prevented the European
Commission and UNESCO from protecting the Tara Skryne Landscape,  which he now
claims to be protecting.

"What kind of Landscape Conservation Area has a motorway being built in the
middle of it?

ENDS

Contact - Vincent Salafia 087-132-3365

--

TARAWATCH USA

The TaraWatch USA Facebook group already has 2,000 members, after only one week.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106715177095&ref=mf

The aim of the group is to hold a demonstration outside the UN building in New
York Sity, and to submit a petition to the UN, asking for intervention on the
Tara issue.

The proposal is to take an aerial photograph of a couple of thousand people in
front of the building, wearing green or spelling a slogan, such as was done at
Tara in 2007 with the human harp.

The date of the event is not confirmed, but we are aiming to do it during
Heritage Week in Ireland, part of European Heritage Days, 22nd to the 30th of
August 2009.
http://www.heritageweek.ie/


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

info@...

http://www.tarawatch.org
http://www.hilloftara.info

+353-87-132-3365

Greetings to all,

As a long time member of this list, please excuse me if I use it on this
occasion to promote a matter close to my heart: the topic of the deleterious
effects of usury finance and corresponding health-giving reality of a positive
non-usurious mode of transacting.

I would be interested if someone more knowledgeable about Brehon law could say
something about the standing of usury in the law (Vincent?). However, that may
be I think that there could be much fruitful discussion of this topic, and
hopefully there might be a few who would be interested in this book on the
topic.

The text below is the standard back page blurb. I hope the book might be of
interest, particularly the material on the significance of non-inflationary
money, gold and silver coins, and the importance of free open market places, and
imagine there might be even more interest now the banking system if collapsing
around our ears.

Banking: the root cause of the injustices of our time

The original 1987 Norwich conference Usury: root cause of the injustices of our
time whose proceedings form the core of this work, had an extraordinary effect.
After the endless analyses and altercations of left and right to which we were
accustomed, here was an argument that went to the core of the matter in one
bound, and yet did so with a degree of scholarship and indeed erudition that was
not cavalier. The result was electric. It was also well before its time.

This book contains the texts of the original lectures as well as some
contemporary material that updates it. The 80's material was remarkably
prescient, as the reader will discover. However, history has furnished us
another opportunity – the catastrophic bank collapses of 2008 and the impending
total systems shutdown of 2009 – to revisit this vital material and place it
before the reader.

Whatever the result of the signal events of 2008-9– a slide into depression,
cataclysmic upheaval or a rebound into dynamic activity – the argument in this
work still stands: Usury is demonstrably the motor of the injustices of our age.
That is the bad news, whose necessary corollary, a delineation of the way out of
our global predicament, this book explores.
A picture of the cover is at:
http://www.bogvaerker.dk/images/banking.jpg

It is published by Diwan Press:
http://www.diwanpress.com

It's been 6 weeks with no answer (and no other on-topic posts) - does anyone
still read this list? Any advice on where to read up on this aspect of ancient
Irish law would be appreciated.

A.


--- In fenechas@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jacob" <chameleonidae@...> wrote:
>
> It's been a while since I've seen active discussion of Fenechas on
> this list. In case there are enough of you still out there, I would
> like to raise a question that I can't seem to find a clear answer to.
>
> In early Irish society, a person's family bore legal responsibility
> for them - if they were found guilty of some insult or crime, the
> family had to pay the fine. My understanding is that, should a person
> be away from their home region for any reason, this legal
> responsibility fell to whatever family they were staying with (largely
> because their actual family couldn't be forced to appear before a
> brithim). So, for instance, a foster-parent was culpable for the
> actions of their apprentice, a hosteler was culpable for the actions
> of their guests, etc.
>
> So, what of a hostage?
>
> If a hostage committed some crime while acting as surety--say, damaged
> some property or broke someone's arm--would their captors be legally
> responsible for the fine? On the one hand it would stand to reason;
> the hostage's family is likely far away and presumably already
> hostile, so they won't be volunteering to appear before a brithim. On
> the other hand, if the captor is culpable for the hostage, it seems
> all too easy for the hostage to wreak revenge on their erstwhile "host".
>
> My hunch is that the captor would be culpable, since they are
> responsible for holding this (potentially dangerous) individual in the
> community, but that they would demand repayment of the fine from the
> hostage's family before giving the hostage back. But that is
> speculation on my part.
>
> Does any part of Fenechas address this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Jacob
>

[Please repost]

THE HILL OF TARA ROUND TABLE

Lectures hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD

Jonathan Swift Theatre - Trinity College Dublin

TUE 24 MARCH 7.30 - 9.00 pm

  ‘The Hill of Tara, UNESCO and the Human Right to Culture’

Meeting One of the Hill of Tara Round Table, with lectures focusing on the
UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination of the Hill of Tara and the human right to
culture – followed by a problem-solving panel discussion aimed at finding a
mutually beneficial solution to the Hill of Tara / M3 motorway problem

       SEAN GOGGINS    - NUI Galway, Irish Centre for Human Rights
       MEGHAN ABIGAIL  - University of Texas Law School
       SUE REDICAN     - Heritage campaigner for Great Blasket Islands
       VINCENT SALAFIA – Heritage campaigner with TaraWatch

http://www.tarawatch.org     087 132 3365     info@...

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Hill of Tara - Round Table - Meeting One

Jonathan Swift Theatre - Trinity College Dublin

Tues, 24 March 2009     7.30 pm - 9.00 pm.

Admission free - All welcome

This is the first meeting of the The Hill of Tara Round Table, a problem-solving
initiative, aimed at finding a mutually beneficial solution to the Hill of Tara
/ M3 motorway problem.

There will be a focus on the UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination of the Hill
of Tara, as well as the public consultation currently being conducted by the
Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, on Ireland's List
of Tentative UNESCO Sites.

There will also be lectures on the law of the human right to culture and the
protection of cultural heritage sites in Ireland, in order to stimulate debate
on the value of Tara, and cultural sites.

All stakeholders, such a heritage and environmental groups, community groups,
historians and archaeologists, political parties and others interested in the
Hill of Tara / M3 issue, are encouraged to participate in what will be a very
challenging process - to find a solution for the M3 problem at Tara.

Speakers

Sean Goggins (NUI Galway, Irish Centre for Human Rights) on human right to
culture;

Meghan Aibigail (NUI Galway/University of Texas Law School) on UNESCO and
protecting cultural heritage;

Sue Redican on the UNESCO nomination of the Great Blasket Islands;

Vincent Salafia, TaraWatch - The UNESCO nomination of the Hill of Tara and other
sites.


More information

http://www.tcd.ie/Medieval_Renaissance/

http://www.tarawatch.org

info@...

+353-87-132-3365

http://www.tarawatch.org/complaint-made-to-uk-universities-pensions-fund-uss-ove\
r-m3-motorway

PRESS RELEASE

TARAWATCH.org

11 March 2009

'Complaint Made to UK Universities Pensions Fund USS Over M3 Motorway at Tara'

TaraWatch wrote today to the UK universities pension fund, Universities
Superannuation Scheme (USS), who are institutional investors in Cintra, the
subsidiary of Ferrovial, who are building the M3 motorway, to inform them of the
ethical investment issues involved with the Hill of Tara and to ask for
stakeholder engagement.

The Universities Superannuation Scheme is a pension scheme in the United
Kingdom. Its members include academic and academic-related staff (including
senior administrative staff) in certain United Kingdom universities. It claims
to be "the second largest pension scheme in the UK by fund size."

The complaint was made to USS after the Financial Times today published an
article entitled, 'Ferrovial faces revolt over Cintra move', which revealed that
USS is among a groups of shareholders who are in revolt against plans by
Ferrovial to completely take over Cintra. The article states:

"In a letter to Cintra's board, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) of the
UK, together with the State of New Jersey and Australian infrastructure fund
managers CP2 and Magellan Asset Management, say the deal would give them
"unwanted exposure to operations in new sectors and geographic regions" and that
they want to be compensated for the "substantially greater risk profile of
Ferrovial shares [compared with] Cintra shares".

TaraWatch has informed USS that dozens of leading academics, from notable
institutions all around the UK and Northern Ireland have publicly denounced the
M3 route, and have sought to have it altered. USS was informed that TaraWatch
will be writing to these academics, to inform them that they may in fact be
investors in the M3.

Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch said:

"We have written to USS to ask for stakeholder engagement, and to inform them
that many of their pension-holders are opposed to the investment in the M3
companies.

"Many leading UK and Northern Ireland academics and institutions who protested
against the M3 route will be appalled to know that they are in fact investors in
the M3 tolling scheme.

"It is ironic that while pensions of Irish academics are being cut in order to
pay for the M3 motorway being built through Tara's landscape, the UK academics
pensions are being secured by investing in the same motorway's tolling scheme.

ENDS

Contact:

TARAWATCH - Vincent Salafia 087-132-3365

LINKS:

TaraWatch Letter to USS with all attachments:
http://www.tarawatch.org/complaint-made-to-uk-universities-pensions-fund-uss-ove\
\
r-m3-motorway

Financial Times - Ferrovial faces revolt over Cintra move
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7e766f6-0ddb-11de-8ea3-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check\
\=1

USS Web site
http://www.usshq.co.uk/

GES Investments: Investors urge Ferrovial to take the environmental lane in
Polish road conflict
http://www.ges-invest.com/pages/?ID=78



LETTER SENT TO USS

TARAWATCH
Suite 108
The Capel Building
Mary’s Abbey
Dublin 7
Republic of Ireland

Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited
2nd Floor Royal Liver Building
Liverpool
L3 1PY
United Kingdom

Andrew Fleming & Clare Murphy-McGreevey
Penrose Financial
2nd Floor
30-34 Moorgate
London EC2R 6DN
United Kingdom

11 March 2009

Re: The Hill of Tara and the M3 Motorway - Unethical Investment by
Cintra/Ferrovial in Ireland

Dear USS & Penrose Financial Limited,

I am writing to you on behalf of TaraWatch, an NGO campaigning for the
preservation of the Hill of Tara, Ireland's premier national monument, which is
threatened by the M3 motorway construction works. We have successfully lobbied
for Tara to be placed on the World Monuments Fund, 2008 List of 100 Most
Endangered Sites, and we have been invited to resubmit Tara for the 2010 List.
This month Smithsonian magazine listed Tara as one of ten must-see endangered
sites in the world.

During the course of our campaign, over the last six years, hundreds of
international academics, including dozens of British archaeologists, historians
and academics, from leading institutions all around Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, have publicly condemned the route of the motorway. Some statements are
attached below.

It has come to our attention that USS is an investor in the M3 motorway tolling
scheme, since you are shareholders in Cintra, a subsidiary of Ferrovial, the M3
construction company. The PPP Contract was awarded in April 2007 to the Eurolink
Consortium (SIAC Construction Ltd and Cintra - Concesiones de Infraestructuras
de Transport S.A.)

This project lies on the Monaghan to Dublin route and will involve the
construction of a 50 km stretch of motorway/dual carriageway, and 11 km of
single carriageway. The motorway passes within 1000 metres of the top of the
Hill of Tara, and dozens of archaeological sites, some of them national
monuments, have been demolished already.

The Financial times has a story today entitled, 'Ferrovial faces revolt over
Cintra move', which includes the following statements:

“Ferrovial faces a shareholder revolt over plans to buy out minority
investors in its separately listed Cintra toll road group. Institutions
representing about 13 per cent of the company's free float have clubbed together
to oppose the merger, which they say has 'extremely limited rationale� for
Cintra, with ‘all the benefits flowing to Ferrovial'."

"In a letter to Cintra's board, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) of
the UK, together with the State of New Jersey and Australian infrastructure fund
managers CP2 and Magellan Asset Management, say the deal would give them
'unwanted exposure to operations in new sectors and geographic regions' and that
they want to be compensated for the “substantially greater risk profile of
Ferrovial shares [compared with] Cintra shares'�.

"Since its initial public offering, Cintra has represented a logical
investment opportunity for specialist toll road investors," they say in the
letter. "However, the merger transaction that is currently being evaluated by
the respective boards would fundamentally change the nature of our investment."

We have been seeking stakeholder engagement with Ferrovial, in an effort to
negotiate an alternative route, but they have not responded to our request.
Ferrovial has been confirmed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. In 2002,
Ferrovial became a member of The Global Compact, an initiative involving UN
organizations, workers' associations, non-governmental organizations, and others
committed to promoting and respecting nine universal principles in the field of
human rights, labour and the environment. We have also signed the UN Global
Compact, and are currently making our reports there, in an effort to have the M3
project reviewed.

TaraWatch is also working closely with GES Investment Services, in attempting to
initiate stakeholder engagement. GES provides analyses and consultation for
institutional clients with an estimated amount of assets of more than e220
billion. In 2007, GES noted that "Grupo Ferrovial and its Polish subsidiary
Budimex are two of four new-comers to GES's latest list of companies to engage
with or exclude, according to the analysis model GES Global Ethical Standard
which is based on international norms for environment, human rights and business
ethics." This was due to a motorway in Poland being built through a protected
area, which was eventually halted by the European Court of Justice. The European
Commission has already condemned the M3 route near Tara, and was reported to be
taking legal action.

Currently, there is a public consultation under way, being administered by the
Department of the Environment, to review Ireland's list of UNESCO sites. Tara
has been nominated, and consultation continues. As you may be aware, UNESCO have
ordered the UK Government to move the roads at Stonehenge. At last years 32nd
World Heritage Committee Meeting in Quebec, the Committee asked the UK
Government why they had not initiated plans to move the roads, to which they
replied it would cost upwards of a billion pounds to do so. UNESCO was not
satisfied, and is still threatening sanctions. We are trying to avoid that
scenario from being repeated here in Ireland. Therefore it is critical that
engagement with Cintra and Ferroival is initiated immediately, and that they
participate in the UNESCO public consultation.

We are aware that USS was the first big pension fund in the United Kingdom to
adopt a socially responsible investment policy, in 1999, as a result of a
sustained two-year Ethics for USS campaign by university staff and the student
campaign organisation, People & Planet, led by the late Guy Hughes. Its genesis
lay with a handful of USS members outraged that their money was being used to
finance activities they found morally unacceptable.

Your web site states: "USS announced its commitment to a socially responsible
and sustainable investment (SRSI) approach in 1999 and further elaborated this
with a detailed SRSI strategy in 2000. At the time of the initial announcement
Professor Sir Graeme Davies, USS Ltd chairman, said: "Today no properly run
public company“ or fund managers “should be unaware of the importance of
public opinion and ethical issues."� We use our influence as a large £20
billion fund to encourage socially and environmentally responsible corporate
behaviour and good standards of corporate governance, and wherever appropriate,
we work with other powerful shareholders to achieve this objective."

"Our strategy is based on active engagement with the companies whose shares we
hold. This involves dialogue about acceptable standards of corporate governance,
environmental, ethical and social performance. This dialogue is professionally
planned and when needed, robust. Engagement also involves work to shape the
context in which company-specific discussions take place (for example, see below
for our work on climate change). Apart from the moral issues involved, proper
assessment of the reputational impact of the company's performance on these
wider fronts is increasingly material to investment considerations. That is why
we are working to fully integrate SRSI issues within USS's investment
methodology."

We are contacting People & Planet, in an effort the get this issue addressed. We
are also contacting all of the UK academics who objected to the M3, in order to
inform them that they may in fact be investors in the project.

However, it is crucial that we establish a constructive dialogue with you, in
order to move swiftly to have these critical issues addressed.

Kind regards,

Vincent Salafia
info@...
http://www.tarawatch.org



Please Sign the new Save Tara UNESCO petition
http://www.savetarapetition.net

Critical letter-writing campaign

[Please forward this to all your contacts, and place it on appropriate web sites
and notice boards]

SAVE TARA

You can make a difference in the campaign to save the Hill of Tara from the M3
motorway.

Here are stories from Irish papers, about the March 2009 Smithsonian magazine
article on the Hill of Tara and the M3 motorway, recognising Tara as one of the
worlds most important and most endangered cultural sites.

We are asking you to please write letters to the editors of Smithsonian magazine
and the Irish newspapers.

We also hope you will write to the various authorities, involved in the current
decision-making regarding the proposed Tara World Heritage Site, including the
Minister for the Environment, John Gormley; Green Party, UNESCO; ICOMOS; and
Lord Hankey, President of ICOMOS UK and Chair of Minister's Expert Advisory
Panel, reviewing Ireland's List of Tentative Sites.

Please sign our petition to UNESCO and ICOMOS at http://www.savetarapetition.net

--

Smithsonian Magazine: Endangered Site - The Hill of Tara, Ireland
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Endangered-Cultural-Treasures-The-Hill-of-T\
ara-Ireland.html
Make comments on the online article.

Write to LettersEd@...

NEWSPAPERS

Irish Times: Tara endangered, says Smithsonian
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0228/1224241986012.html

Write to lettersed@...

Irish Independent: Smithsonian puts Hill of Tara on list of endangered must-sees
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/smithsonian-puts-hill-of-tara-on-list-of\
-endangered-mustsees-1656949.html

Write to independent.letters@...

Irish  News:  Seat of kings included in must-see endangered list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hilloftara/message/13061

Write to letters@...

Irish Examiner: Top US museum names Tara 'must-see' site
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/ireland/eyauaugbqlmh/

Write to letters@...

Herald: Smithsonian joins fight to save the Hill of Tara
http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/smithsonian-joins-fight-to-save-the-hill-of-tara-\
1657139.html

Write to herald.letters@...

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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - JOHN GORMLEY (GREEN PARTY)

Minister's Statement on Tara and UNESCO
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/Archaeology-NationalMonumentsService/News/Main\
Body,17071,en.htm

Write to minister@...

Minister's Review of Ireland's List of UNESCO sites / Expert Advisory Panel
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/WorldHeritage/LatestNewsonWorldHeritage/MainBo\
dy,18980,en.htm

Write to worldheritagetentativelist@...

GREEN PARTY

http://www.greenparty.ie/
info@...

Trish Forde-Brennan, Chair
fordebren@...

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UNESCO

UNESCO - United Nations Educational and Scientific Organisation
http://whc.unesco.org/
wh-info@...

Francesco Bandarin - Director of the World Heritage Centre
F.Bandarin@...

Mechtild Rossler - Chief of Section Europe Unit
m.rossler@...

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ICOMOS

ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites
http://www.icomos.org/
secretariat@...

Gustavo ARAOZ - President of ICOMOS
garaoz@...

ICOMOS Ireland
http://www.icomos.ie/
info@...

Grellan D. Rourke - President
grellan.rourke@...

ICOMOS UK
http://blog.icomos-uk.org/
admin@...

Lord Donald Hankey - President
hankeyd@...

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SMITHSONIAN STORIES:

Endangered Site: The Hill of Tara, Ireland
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Endangered-Cultural-Treasures-The-Hill-of-T\
ara-Ireland.html#

Ireland Unleashed
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/unleashed.html

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TARAWATCH
http://www.tarawatch.org
info@...
+353-87-132-3365

Hill of Tara makes Smithsonian endangered list

Irish Times - Breaking News
Last Updated: Friday, February 27, 2009, 12:33
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0227/breaking35.htm

PATRICK LOGUE

One of the most respected educational and research institutes in the United
States, Smithsonian, has listed the Hill of Tara among the 15 must-see
endangered cultural treasures in the world.

The Co Meath site, which was the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland, has
been the subject of controversy with the nearby construction of the M3 road.
Campaigners say the road will cut through one of Ireland’s most important
historical sites, but the National Roads Authority says the new motorway will be
further away from the hill than the existing route.

The motorway is scheduled to be finished in the middle of next year, but may be
completed before that.

In its March edition of its magazine, Smithsonian says “the only music you're
likely to hear around Tara nowadays is the clang of construction equipment�.
The magazine is dominated by “14 other precious historic and artistic sites�
around the world which it says “can be visited today, but might be gone
tomorrow�.

“Each testifies to our urge to build and create; each reminds us of how much
we stand to lose,� the magazine says.

Other sites include the reputed birthplace of Jesus Christ, the Church of the
Nativity in Bethlehem, Chan Chan in Peru which was the largest city in the
Americas about 600 years ago, and the crumbling iconic Route 66 which starts in
Chicago and passes through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona before ending in Los Angeles.

Vincent Salafia, campaigner with the TaraWatch group, urged the Government to
take the Smithsonian’s advice.

“This should send a clear message to both the Irish Government, and Unesco,
that they cannot proceed with inscribing the Hill of Tara as a World Heritage
Site, unless the M3 is re-routed,� he said.

“Action must be taken now, to avoid the Stonehenge scenario, where the UK
Government is being told by Unesco to spend one billion pounds moving the roads
there.�

The Department of Environment and Minister John Gormley are drawing up a
shortlist of sites to be considered as Unesco world heritage sites.

Please Sign the new Save Tara UNESCO petition
http://www.savetarapetition.net

Endangered Site: The Hill of Tara, Ireland
A new tollway threatens the archaeologically rich complex that is the
spiritual heart of the country
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Endangered-Cultural-Treasures-The-Hill-of-T\
ara-Ireland.html.>

I wrote a comment but I have no idea why Tarawatch felt a need to slam
Druids in their public comments. It just makes you (not Druids) look petty.

thanks
Ellen

____________________________________________________________
Ellen Evert Hopman, author of “Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey”
"A Druids Herbal - Of Sacred Tree Medicine", "Walking the World in Wonder -
A Children's Herbal" and other volumes
http://www.celticheritage.co.uk/EllenEvertHopman/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Visit the Virtual Shrine of Brighid ~
http://www.celticheritage.co.uk/virtualshrine/
'The Order of the White Oak' - World Druid Council
Ord na Darach Gile - Comhairle Domhanda na nDraoí
www.whiteoakdruids.org

It's been a while since I've seen active discussion of Fenechas on
this list. In case there are enough of you still out there, I would
like to raise a question that I can't seem to find a clear answer to.

In early Irish society, a person's family bore legal responsibility
for them - if they were found guilty of some insult or crime, the
family had to pay the fine. My understanding is that, should a person
be away from their home region for any reason, this legal
responsibility fell to whatever family they were staying with (largely
because their actual family couldn't be forced to appear before a
brithim). So, for instance, a foster-parent was culpable for the
actions of their apprentice, a hosteler was culpable for the actions
of their guests, etc.

So, what of a hostage?

If a hostage committed some crime while acting as surety--say, damaged
some property or broke someone's arm--would their captors be legally
responsible for the fine? On the one hand it would stand to reason;
the hostage's family is likely far away and presumably already
hostile, so they won't be volunteering to appear before a brithim. On
the other hand, if the captor is culpable for the hostage, it seems
all too easy for the hostage to wreak revenge on their erstwhile "host".

My hunch is that the captor would be culpable, since they are
responsible for holding this (potentially dangerous) individual in the
community, but that they would demand repayment of the fine from the
hostage's family before giving the hostage back. But that is
speculation on my part.

Does any part of Fenechas address this situation?

Thanks,
Andrew Jacob

Endangered Site: The Hill of Tara, Ireland
A new tollway threatens the archaeologically rich complex that is the spiritual
heart of the country
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Endangered-Cultural-Treasures-The-Hill-of-T\
ara-Ireland.html

- The editors of Smithsonian have been in touch to say that they have been
getting a good response from readers, who want to know how they can help.

It is also possible to write letters to the magazine, for publication in next
month's issue:

email to LettersEd@... or by regular mail to the address below. Please
include your telephone number and address. Letters may be edited for clarity and
fit.

Smithsonian magazine
Letter to the Editor
MRC 513, P.O. Box 37012
Washington, D.C. 20013

I thought some might find this interesting...
Ellen

The Third International Conference on the Ulster Cycle

University of Ulster, Coleraine

22-25 June 2009

This international conference devoted to the Ulster Cycle of tales will be
held at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, from 22-25 June 2009. The
conference will be hosted by the University's Research Institute for Irish
and Celtic Studies. In addition to the academic programme, a number of
social events are planned, including a tour of some ancient and historic
sites in Ulster.

Paper Call

The conference will provide a forum for papers and discussion of all aspects
of the Ulster Cycle or related areas of early Irish or comparative
literature. Papers are invited on literature, language, history, mythology,
archaeology or other relevant areas of research.  Each paper should last no
longer than 30 minutes.

Those wishing to read a paper at the conference should submit a title and
brief summary (c.200 words) marked 'Ulster Cycle Conference' to the
Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies to

arrive no later than 2 March 2009.

For further information, or to register interest, contact:

The Secretary

Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies

University of Ulster

Cromore Road

Coleraine

BT52 1SA

Northern Ireland

Tel. +44 (0)28 7032 3394

Fax. +44 (0)28 7032 3395

t.patton@... <mailto:t.patton@...>

Registration forms available at:

www.ulster.ac.uk/ulstercycle <http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulstercycle>


____________________________________________________________
Ellen Evert Hopman, author of "Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey"
"A Druids Herbal - Of Sacred Tree Medicine", "Walking the World in Wonder -
A Children's Herbal"
and other volumes http://www.celticheritage.co.uk/EllenEvertHopman/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Visit the Virtual Shrine of Brighid ~
http://www.celticheritage.co.uk/virtualshrine/
'The Order of the White Oak' - World Druid Council
Ord na Darach Gile - Comhairle Domhanda na nDraoí
www.whiteoakdruids.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - HILL OF TARA / M3 MOTORWAY - UNESCO

Call for expert submissions on:

1. The proposed Tara UNESCO World Heritage site

2. Breach of the universal human right to culture, due to construction of the M3
motorway thorough the Hill of Tara archaeological complex and cultural
landscape.

3. Proposals for papers to be given at an academic conference in Spring 2009.

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"Tara is, because of its associations, probably the most consecrated spot in
Ireland, and its destruction will leave many bitter memories behind it".
[Douglas Hyde, George Moore and WB Yeats, Letter to the Editor, London Times,
1902]


The motorway literally desecrates an area - I mean the word means to
desacralise' and, for centuries, the Tara landscape and the Tara sites have been
regarded as part of the sacred gound".
[Seamus Heaney, BBC Interview, 2008]


The Hill of Tara – One of the 100 Most Endangered Sites, 2009

The native Irish culture or Gaelic culture, which existed in pre-colonial times,
is best exhibited and understood by its Celtic or Indo-European law, language
and literature, it's history, and its surviving archaeological and cultural
sites. The Hill of Tara stood at the epi-centre of this culture, as the legal,
political, mythical, legendary, religious and symbolic capital of ancient and
medieval Ireland.

There is no question in anyone's mind that the Hill of Tara archaeological
complex and cultural landscape is a site of outstanding universal value, and
should qualify as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The only controversy is over
where Tara begins and ends. The Irish Government limit the national monument to
the 100 acres of State-owned land on the top of the Hill. Most experts would
agree that Tara is much larger. The Hill stands at the centre of what is a
larger cultural landscape and archaeological complex, which is defined by its
outlying Iron Age defensive forts, such as Rath Lugh, Ringlestown Rath, and Rath
Miles, and primitive ceremonial sites, such as Ardsallagh and Skryne.

The M3 motorway route, due for completion in 2010, passes through the midst of
the cultural landscape and archaeological landscape of Tara, passing inside the
clearly visible defensive and ceremonial features. While various legal
challenges to the M3 in the past have focused on Irish and European planning
legislation and decision-making, the international agreements governing the
preservation of cultural sites, human rights to culture and the environment,
have not been exercised.

A proposal by Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, in May of 2008, to
make the Hill of Tara a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has opened the door to a
complaint regarding the decisions of both the Irish authorities, and the
multi-national corporation Ferrovial, along with the M3 finance banks, in
relation to construction of the M3 through an area that now sits on the World
Monuments Fund, 100 Most Endangered Sites List for 2009.

Currently, the Minister is holding a public consultation as part of a review of
Ireland's Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which has not been
updated since 1992, and which Tara was never included in. Submissions are to be
made to the Minister's newly appointed panel of experts, by January 30. 
Independent experts are being asked by TaraWatch to submit their opinions on the
Hill of Tara.
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/WorldHeritage/LatestNewsonWorldHeritage/MainBo\
dy,18980,en.htm

The Minister feels that the M3 motorway will not pose a problem with UNESCO
designation.
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/Archaeology-NationalMonumentsService/News/Main\
Body,17071,en.htm

TaraWatch takes the position that it would be a breach of the UNESCO World
Heritage Convention, for Ireland and UNESCO to make Tara a World Heritage Site,
with the M3 passing through the protected zones. We also allege that continuing
with the project, in light of the Minister's proposals to make Tara a World
Heritage Site, is a breach of human rights to culture and to a healthy
environment. Finally, we make these allegations against Ferrovial and the M3
finance banks, who have all signed the UN Global Compact, and committed
themselves to supporting human rights, the environment and anti-corruption.

TaraWatch also takes the postiton that what is happening at Tara is part of a
wider attack on native Irish culture, being made directly and indirectly by acts
and omissions on the part of the post-colonial Irish Government, since the early
1900's. Unchecked demolition of native sites, under-resourcing for education and
research into translation and study of native laws, literature and history, and
failure to respect indigenous rights to natural and cultural resources, shows a
discriminatory regime, which now unduly favours commercial development, over
preservation and promotion of native culture, in breach of human rights to
culture and the environment, and indigenous rights, as defined in international
law.


Breach of the human right to culture

"For without culture or holiness, which are always the gift of a very few, a man
may renounce wealth or any other external thing, but he cannot renounce hatred,
envy, jealousy, revenge. Culture is the sanctity of the intellect."
[William Butler Yeats]

The term “culture� is not clearly defined in human rights law. Culture (from
the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") generally refers
to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such
activities significance and importance. Every human being has the right to
culture, including the right to enjoy and develop cultural life and identity.
Dictionary definitions states that culture is “the total range of activities
and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions which are transmitted and
reinforced by members of a group� or “the artistic and social pursuits,
expression, and tastes valued by a society or class, as in the arts, manners,
dress etc.� (Collins English Dictionary)

All human beings have a universal and equal human right to culture, enshrined in
international law, but which up until now not been well defined, or often
exercised, in comparison to other human rights.  The protection of culture in
human rights law encompasses two concepts. Firstly, the right of peoples to
practice and continue shared traditions and activities. Secondly, the protection
of culture in international law covers the scientific, literary and artistic
pursuits of society. The  preservation of important archaeological sites is
supported by both of these concepts, and is clearly a fundamental human rights
issue.

Cultural rights are among the least understood and developed of the rights that
have been gauranteeed by human rights law. In part, the complexity arises from
the many definitions of “culture.�  Nonetheless the Universal Declaration,
the two Human Rights Covenants, and other human rights treaties recognize the
right to culture, including everyone's right to take part in cultural life, to
enjoy the benefits of scientific progress, and to develop international contacts
and cooperation in the area of science and culture.

	 - International Human Rights Law: An Introduction. By David S. Weissbrodt,
Connie de la Vega, Published by University of Pennsylvania Press (2007) - p.177

State parties have an obligation to take steps necessary for the conservation,
development and diffusion of science and culture in order to ensure the full
realisation of this right. The obligations of states to respect and protect
world cultural heritage sites have particularly been strengthened through
treaties adopted under the auspices of  UNESCO. Special provisions have been
adopted regarding the responsibilities of belligerant parties at times of war.
Such issues have been raised in recent conflicts in Afghanistan with the bombing
of world heritage sites and in Iraq with the failure to prevent the looting of
antiquities from museums.

The seriousness of the situation at Tara is shown by comments made by the
Director Jonathan Foyle, British chief executive of the World Monuments Fund,
which placed Tara on its endangered sites list last year, likened the motorway
to the destruction by Afghanistan's Taliban regime in 2001 of the Bamiyan
Buddhas.

"The World Monuments Fund watch list contains all sorts of endangered sites -
this one actually reminds me of the Bamiyan Buddhas which were destroyed by the
Taleban in 2001 against international uproar," said Dr Foyle. "It was a
government which decided that these monuments would be erased and cultural
erasure is part of the game of war and buildings very often suffer from that. 
It's scarcely more creditable to say we will destroy a building which is of
equal significance to the Bamiyan Buddhas - let's face it, this entire site is
the equivalent of Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey for its royal associations,
Canterbury for its Christian associations - all rolled into one."

Actions called for:

1.Written submissions to Minister for the Environment and UNESCO

We are calling for the public, including experts in  history, archaeology,
anthropology, literature, genetics, cultural studies, law, and political science
and planning, along with environmental, heritage and cultural NGOs, to make a
written submissions to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local
Government, John Gormley and UNESCO, regarding the placement of Tara onto
Ireland's Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.

Submissions should be emailed to both worldheritagetentativelist@... and
secretariat@...


2.Supporting statements for UN Complaints

We are also asking for expert statements, to support the legal arguments being
made by TaraWatch, in complaints to the United Nations, on breach of the UNESCO
Convention and breach of the human rights to culture and the environment.


3.Proposals for conference papers

We are asking for proposals for papers, to be presented at an academic
conference, to be held in early 2009.

Contact Vincent Salafia – info@...

==

Hill of Tara included in review of heritage sites

Meath Chronicle - Wednesday, 7th January, 2009
By John Donohoe

Campaign group TaraWatch is asking members of the public to participate in the
consultation process regarding possible UNESCO designation of the Hill of Tara
as a World Heritage Site. Submissions must be made to the Department of the
Environment by 30th January, following the announcement by the Minister for the
Environment on 1st December last that he is reviewing Ireland’s tentative list
of World Heritage Sites. The minister stated in May that he did not see the M3
motorway preventing UNESCO designation.

TaraWatch is asking the public to make its views known, and to support the
TaraWatch position, which is that the Hill of Tara is a site of outstanding
universal value to humanity, and should be a UNESCO site; that the M3 motorway
ruins the integrity of the site, because it passes through the complex of
monuments to be protected and should be re-routed before Tara is given UNESCO
status; and that it would be a breach of the UN World Heritage Convention for
Ireland and UNESCO to designate Tara a World Heritage Site with the M3 passing
through it.

Submissions should be emailed to both worldheritagetentativelist@... and
secretariat@...,



MORE INFORMATION :

http://www.tarawatch.org

TaraWatch is calling on the public, around the world, to make submissions to an
advisory group that has been set up by the Irish Minister for the Environment,
Heritage and Local Government, to review the current list of potential UNESCO
World Heritage Sites in Ireland, known as the Tentative List (of potential
nominees as World Heritage Sites).

The Irish Government is currently building the M3 motorway through the heart of
the archaeological complex associated with the Hill of Tara, in County Meath, at
the same time that it is proposing to nominate Tara to Ireland’s Tentative
List. We are asking members of the public to sign our petition and to make
submissions, before Friday, January 30th, 2009.

Email your submission to worldheritagetentativelist@...

Our position is that:

- The Hill of Tara complex qualifies for World Heritage status as a natural and
cultural landscape of outstanding universal value, due to its unique cultural
significance, and the extent of the surviving remains. Tara covers a much larger
area than that the 100 acres of State-owned land on the summit of the Hill,
which currently delimits the ‘national monument’. The M3 passes through the
middle of the area to be protected.

- The entire Tara archaeological complex and cultural/natural landscape should
be declared a World Heritage site. Expert bodies such as the World Monuments
Fund, the Heritage Council, have recognised Tara consists of the entire Hill of
Tara along with the Tara / Skryne valley, as well as the defensive forts that
encircle the hill, including national monuments such as the defensive forts of
Rath Lugh (to the east), Rath Miles (to the north) and Ringlestown Rath (to the
west), and have called for the re-routing of the M3.

-The M3 motorway, due to open in 2010, should be re-routed outside of the Tara
complex, before the site is given UNESCO World Heritage Protection. It would be
a breach of the World Heritage Convention for UNESCO to inscribe the site, with
the M3 passing through it. This is confirmed by the fact that Tara was placed on
the World Monuments Fund, 2008-2010 List of 100 Most Endangered Sites

For more information please visit http://www.tarawatch.org/?p=780
----------------

World Heritage Sites list to be reviewed

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1201/1227910421518.html

Monday, December 1, 2008


PATSY McGARRY

AN EXPERT advisory group has been set up by Minister for the Environment,
Heritage and Local Government John Gormley to review the current list of
potential World Heritage Sites in Ireland, known as the Tentative List (of
potential nominees as World Heritage Sites).

They are to submit a new Tentative List to him by spring of next year. The
existing Tentative List of proposed sites dates back to 1992.

At present Ireland has two World Heritage Sites inscribed on the prestigious
World Heritage List. Brú Na Bóinne in Co Meath was inscribed in 1993 and
Skellig Michael, Co Kerry in 1996.

Ireland ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1991 and undertook the
responsibility of protecting and conserving both national and international
world heritage sites, and of maintaining a Tentative List of potential sites for
World Heritage Site nomination.

It also undertook to nominate national heritage sites on this list to the World
Heritage Committee for World Heritage listing.

As part of the public consultation process prior to preparing the Tentative
List, interested parties and individuals are invited to request a copy of the
current Tentative List and World Heritage Status.

It is available from the department as guidance to people in making submissions
on proposed sites for inclusion on Ireland's Tentative List of potential
nominees as World Heritage Sites.

These must have unique outstanding universal value and not just be of value in
an Irish context.

Details www.environ.ie submissions by Friday January 30th.

---------------

Ireland’s World Heritage - Review of Tentative List

http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/WorldHeritage/LatestNewsonWorldHeritage/MainBo\
dy,18980,en.htm

01/12/08

Mr. John Gormley, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local
Government has today (1 December 2008) initiated a review of Ireland’s
Tentative List of potential sites for World Heritage Site nomination. He has
established an Expert Advisory Group to carry out a review of the current
Tentative List and to draw up a new draft list for submission to him in Spring
2009. The existing Tentative List dates back to 1992.

Ireland ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1991 and undertook the
responsibility of protecting and conserving both national and international
world heritage, of maintaining a Tentative List of potential sites for World
Heritage Site nomination and nominating national heritage sites cultural,
natural and mixed from this list to the World Heritage Committee for World
Heritage Listing.

At the present time Ireland has two World Heritage Sites inscribed on the
prestigious World Heritage List.  Brú Na Bóinne in County Meath was inscribed
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<I'm not a law student or a historian and I was really looking for a "Brehon
law for dummies" type book/website.  I am a scientist who is interested in
my Celtic roots.  Are there any lay books/websites on the subject?.>

The books that I recommend to beginners (and please forgive my spelling)
are;

A Guide to Early Irish Law, by Fergus Kelly  (this is the closest thing to
the Idiot's Guide to Early Irish Law)(but its not for idiots!)
Early Irish Farming, by Fergus Kelly
Uraichecht na Riar (laws pertaining to poets),  edited by Liam Breatnach
and Bechbretha (law of bees), edited by thomas Charles-Edwards and Fergus
Kelly.

On a slightly different tack but somewhat related because it gives an idea
of early kingship rules and expectations;
Audacht Morainn, Fergus Kelly translation.

happy reading!
Ellen
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Sorry my question made such a stink on the group.

I'm not a law student or a historian and I was really looking for a "Brehon law
for dummies" type book/website.  I am a scientist who is interested in my Celtic
roots.  Are there any lay books/websites on the subject?

Thank you very much Donnachadh (gaelic for "Duncan"?) for the long list of
citations.  And thank you C. Vermeers for your citations as well.

Both of you have a great day!

Sláinte!
Ben

  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "O'Corrain, Donnchadh" <d.ocorrain@...>
> Please do not bother me with any more. You do no understand what a scholarly
> list is when you see one, and you seem to dislike being corrected when in
error.
>
> No more communications please.
>
> Donnchadh Ó Corráin MA DLitt MRIA
> University College CORK
> Editor Peritia
> Telephone: 353-86-832 7202
>            353-21-454 5291
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fenechas@yahoogroups.com on behalf of C. L. Vermeers
> Sent: Thu 16-Oct-08 09:43
> To: fenechas@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Brehon Law] Re: Brehon law books
>
> --- In fenechas@yahoogroups.com, "O'Corrain, Donnchadh"
> <d.ocorrain@...> wrote:
> >
> > No. I did not. I gave you a bibliography from 1990 to the present. If
> > you want more, ask!
>
> i was actually being a little bit facetious, since your list was long,
> but not well-formatted, and seemed a little excessive for the original
> question. you also didn't mention that it was 1990-present (and it
> still didn't have the "Note" i mentioned).
>
> > Pádraig Ó Riain, no Killeenwrote the article on `Battle site and
> > territorial extent in early Ireland', Z Celt Philol 33 (1974), and it
> > has nothing to do with law.
>
> you're right. for some reason, i included the following article, "The
> Debility of the Ulstermen - A Suggestion", in the same packet. it also
> is from pp.67-80, not 86.
>
> i disagree, however, that it has nothing to do with law. it is about
> boundaries, hostings (and shall we note that section 3 "Hostings"
> starts: "It is recorded in the law-tract known as _Crith Gablach_ that
> a king was free to pledge his subjects to three types of
> hosting..."?), and so forth. these are the subject of law and legal texts.
>
> c. vermeers
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Are there any good books/website that have the Brehon laws on them?  I would
really like to be able to read them.

Sláinte!

Ben

Please do not bother me with any more. You do no understand what a scholarly
list is when you see one, and you seem to dislike being corrected when in error.

No more communications please.

Donnchadh Ó Corráin MA DLitt MRIA
University College CORK
Editor Peritia
Telephone: 353-86-832 7202
            353-21-454 5291



-----Original Message-----
From: fenechas@yahoogroups.com on behalf of C. L. Vermeers
Sent: Thu 16-Oct-08 09:43
To: fenechas@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Brehon Law] Re: Brehon law books

--- In fenechas@yahoogroups.com, "O'Corrain, Donnchadh"
<d.ocorrain@...> wrote:
>
> No. I did not. I gave you a bibliography from 1990 to the present. If
> you want more, ask!

i was actually being a little bit facetious, since your list was long,
but not well-formatted, and seemed a little excessive for the original
question. you also didn't mention that it was 1990-present (and it
still didn't have the "Note" i mentioned).

> Pádraig Ó Riain, no Killeenwrote the article on `Battle site and
> territorial extent in early Ireland', Z Celt Philol 33 (1974), and it
> has nothing to do with law.

you're right. for some reason, i included the following article, "The
Debility of the Ulstermen - A Suggestion", in the same packet. it also
is from pp.67-80, not 86.

i disagree, however, that it has nothing to do with law. it is about
boundaries, hostings (and shall we note that section 3 "Hostings"
starts: "It is recorded in the law-tract known as _Crith Gablach_ that
a king was free to pledge his subjects to three types of
hosting..."?), and so forth. these are the subject of law and legal texts.

c. vermeers




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Many thanks for the comprehensive book list, which I was delighted to find
in my inbox.

I will enjoy dipping into it, on wet winter days in the library.

Retirement is good!

annie g







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--- In fenechas@yahoogroups.com, "O'Corrain, Donnchadh"
<d.ocorrain@...> wrote:
>
> No. I did not. I gave you a bibliography from 1990 to the present. If
> you want more, ask!

i was actually being a little bit facetious, since your list was long,
but not well-formatted, and seemed a little excessive for the original
question. you also didn't mention that it was 1990-present (and it
still didn't have the "Note" i mentioned).

> Pádraig Ó Riain, no Killeenwrote the article on `Battle site and
> territorial extent in early Ireland', Z Celt Philol 33 (1974), and it
> has nothing to do with law.

you're right. for some reason, i included the following article, "The
Debility of the Ulstermen - A Suggestion", in the same packet. it also
is from pp.67-80, not 86.

i disagree, however, that it has nothing to do with law. it is about
boundaries, hostings (and shall we note that section 3 "Hostings"
starts: "It is recorded in the law-tract known as _Crith Gablach_ that
a king was free to pledge his subjects to three types of
hosting..."?), and so forth. these are the subject of law and legal texts.

c. vermeers

No. I did not. I gave you a bibliography from 1990 to the present. If you want
more, ask!

Pádraig Ó Riain, no Killeenwrote the article on ‘Battle site and territorial
extent in early Ireland’, Z Celt Philol 33 (1974), and it has nothing to do with
law.

Donnchadh Ó Corráin MA DLitt MRIA
University College CORK
Editor Peritia
Telephone: 353-86-832 7202
            353-21-454 5291



-----Original Message-----
From: fenechas@yahoogroups.com on behalf of C. L. Vermeers
Sent: Wed 15-Oct-08 09:55
To: fenechas@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Brehon Law] Re: Brehon law books

perhaps i just missed it, but i think that you missed:

Neil MacLeod, "Interpreting Early Irish Law: Status and Currency" Part
I in ZCP vol.41(1986), pp.47-65, Part II in ZCP vol.42(1987), pp.41-115.

Fredrik Otto Lindeman, "A Note on a Difficult Passage in <i>Bretha
Déin Chécht</i>", Celtica 21(1990), p.252

J.F. Killeen, "Battle-site and territorial extent in early Ireland",
ZCP vol.33(1974), pp.67-86

among others.

c. vermeers

--- In fenechas@yahoogroups.com, "O'Corrain, Donnchadh"
<d.ocorrain@...> wrote:
>
> This is the best introduction
>
> Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 3
(Dublin, 1988).
>
> You can order it from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10
Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
> There is a website.
>
> Here are some more references to literature going back to 1990
>
> Liam Breatnach, `Lawyers in early Ire­land', in Daire Hogan & W. N.
Osborough (eds.), Brehons, serjeants and attor­neys: studies in the
history of the Irish legal profession (Dublin, 1990), 1-13. -
Katharine Simms, `The brehon of later medieval Ireland', ibid.,
51-76.- K. R. McCone, Pagan past and christian present (May­nooth,
1990), 84-106. - Anders Ahlqvist, `Two notes on Audacht Morainn',
Celtica, 21 (1990), 1-2. - John Carey, `The two laws in Dubthach's
judgment', Cambr Mediev Celt Stud 19 (1990), 1-18.- Fredrik Otto
Lindeman, `A note on a difficult passage in Bretha Déin Chécht',
Celtica, 21 (1990), 252. - Robin Chapman Stacey, `Ties that bind:
immunities in Irish and Welsh law', Cambr Mediev Celt Stud 20 (1990),
39-60. - Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `An dlí agus an sean-tiomna', in P. Ó
Fiannachta (ed.), An bíobla in Éirinn, Léachtaí Cholm Cille, 20
(Maynooth, 1990), 32-48. - Nerys Patterson, `Patrilineal kinship in
early Irish society: the evidence from the Irish law-texts', Bull
Board Celtic Stud 37 (1990), 133-65. - Fergus Kelly, `A note on Old
Irish círmaire', Celtica, 21 (1990), 231-3. - Pádraig Ó Riain, `A
misunderstood annal: a hitherto unnoticed cáin', Celtica 21 (1990),
561-6. - Joseph Falaky Nagy, `Sword as audacht', in A. T. E. Matonis &
Daniel F. Melia (eds.), Celtic language, Celtic culture: a Festschrift
for Eric P. Hamp (Van Nuys CA, 1990), 131-6. - Liam Breatnach, `Varia
V', Ériu, 41 (1990), 139-41 [1. On the nazalisation of the pre­verb
to; 2. The flexion of ainb `ignorant'].  - W. N. Osborough, `Roman law
in Ireland', Ir Jurist, 25-7 (1990-2), 212-68; repr. in idem, Studies
in Irish legal history (Dub­lin, 1999), 11-63. - Bette-Jane Crigger,
`A man is better than his birth': identity and action in early Irish
law (unpubl. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1991). - Fergus Kelly,
`Celtic law', in Sabatino Moscati, Otto Her­mann Frey, Venceslas
Kruta, Barry Raftery & Miklós Szabó (eds.), The Celts (Milan, 1991),
657-8. - Robin Chapman Stacey, `Law and order in the very old west',
in Ben­jamin T. Hudson & Vickie Ziegler (eds.), Crossed paths:
methodo­logical ap­proaches to the Celtic aspect of the European
middle ages (Lanham MD & London, 1991) 39-60. - W. H. D. Sellar,
`Celtic law and Scots law: survival and in­te­gration', Scott Stud 29
(1991), 1-27. - Nerys Patterson, `Gaelic law and the Tudor conquest of
Ireland: the social background of the sixteenth-cen­tury recensions of
the pseudo-historical pro­logue to the Senchas már', Ir Hist Stud 27
(1991), 193-251.  - Liam Breatnach, `Zur Frage der "roscada" im
Irischen', in H. L. C. Tristram (ed.), Metrik und Medienwechsel?/
Metrics and media (Tübingen, 1991), 197-205. - Marilyn Gerriets,
`Theft, penitentials, and the compilation of the early Irish laws',
Celtica, 22 (1991), 18-32. - Colmán Etchingham, `The early Irish
church: some observations on pastoral care and dues', Ériu, 42 (1991),
99-118.
> John Carey, `The testimony of the dead', Éigse, 26 (1992), 1-12. -
T. M. Charles-Edwards, `The pastoral role of the church in the early
Irish laws', in John Blair & Richard Sharpe (eds.), Pastoral care
before the parish (Leicester, 1992) 63-80. - Fergus Kelly, `Early
Irish law: the present state of research', Études Celtiques, 29
(1992), 15-22. - K. R. McCone, `Varia I', Ériu, 43 (1992), 193-7 [the
etymology of Old Irish déis `client(s)']. - William Sayers, `Games,
sport, and para-military exercise in early Ireland', Aethlon: Journal
of Sport Literature 10/1 (1992), 105-23. - T. M. Charles-Edwards,
Early Irish and Welsh kinship (Oxford, 1993). - Liam Breatnach,
`Sedulius Scottus, St Gallen Stifts­biblio­­thek 73, and Latin in the
Irish laws', Proc Ir Bibl Assoc 16 (1993), 122-4.- Leni van
Strien-Gerritsen, `Orale poëzie in oudierse recht­boeken', in R. E. V.
Stuip & C. Vellekoop (eds.), Oraliteit en schriftcultuur (Hilversum,
1993), 135-43. - Bette-Jane Crigger, `Crazy like a fox: on
rehabilitating the Old Irish legal apparatus', Proc Harvard Celt
Colloq 13 (1993), 82-92. - Lisi Oliver, `Forced and un­forced rape in
early Irish law', ibid., 93-106. - Dorothy D. Swartz, `The legal
status of women in early and medieval Ireland and Wales in comparison
with western European and Mediterranean societies: environmental and
social correlations', ibid., 107-18. - T. M. Charles-Edwards, `A
contract between king and people in early medieval Ireland', Peritia,
8 (1994), 107-19. - Robin Chapman Stacey, The road to judgment: from
custom to court in medieval Ireland and Wales (Philadelphia PA, 1994).
- Nerys Patterson, Cattle lords and clansmen: the social structure of
early Ireland, 2nd ed. (Notre Dame IN & London, 1994). - Liam
Breatnach, `Varia II', Ériu, 45 (1994), 195-6 [1. Irish geined and
geinit, Gaulish geneta, Welsh geneth; 2. Prepositions with added vowel
in relative compound verbs]. - Peter J. Smith (ed. & trans.) `A
Middle-Irish poem on the authors and laws of Ire­land', Peritia, 8
(1994), 120-50. - Douglas Mac Lean, `The status of the sculp­tor in
Old-Irish law and the evidence of the crosses', Peritia, 9 (1995),
125-55. - Neil McLeod, `Irish law: significant numbers and the law of
status', ibid., 156-66.- Damian Bracken, `Immortality and punishment
in Irish law', ibid., 167-86. - Damian Bracken, `Latin passages in
Irish vernacular law: notes on sources', ibid., 187-96. - Donn­chadh Ó
Corráin, `Women and the law in early Ireland', in Mary O'Dowd & Sabine
Wichert (eds.), Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in church,
state and society, Historical Studies, 19 (Belfast, 1995), 45-57. -
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, `The Lex innocentium: Adomnán's law for women,
clerics and youths, 697 A.D.', ibid., 58-69. - Timothy E. Powell, `The
idea of the three orders of society and social stratification in early
medieval Ireland', Ir Hist Stud 29 (1995), 475-89.
> Liam Breatnach, `The original extent of the Senchas Már', Ériu, 47
(1996), 1-43. - Bart Jaski, `Marriage laws in Ireland and the
continent in the early middle ages', in Christine Meek & Katharine
Simms (eds.), `Fragility of her sex': medieval Irishwomen in their
European context (Dublin, 1996), 16-42. - Bart Jaski, `Vrowen in
vroeg-middeleeuws Ierland', in R. H. F. Hofman, B. Smelik & K.
Jongeling (eds.), Kelten van Spanje tot Ierland (Utrecht, 1996),
43-72. - Wendy Davies, `"Protected space" in Britain and Ireland in
the middle ages', in Barbara E. Crawford (ed.), Scotland in dark age
Britain, St John's House Papers, 6 (St Andrews, 1996), 1-19. - Liam
Breatnach, `Poets and poetry', in K. R. McCone & Katharine Simms
(eds.), Progress in medieval Irish studies (Maynooth, 1996), 65-77. -
Liam Breatnach, `Law', ibid., 107-21. - Neil McLeod, `Property and
honour price in Brehon law glosses and commentaries', Ir Jurist, 31
(1996), 280-95. - Liam Breatnach, `On the glossing of early Irish law
texts, fragmentary texts, and some aspects of laws relating to dogs',
in A. Ahlqvist, G. W. Banks, Riita Latvio, H. Nyberg, & T. Sjöblom
(eds.), Celtica helsingiensia: proceedings from a symposium in Celtic
Studies, Societas Scientiarum Fen­nica, Commentationes Huma­narum
Litterarum, 107 (Helsinki, 1996), 11-20. - Cathe­rine Swift, `Pagan
monuments and christian legal centres in early Meath', Ríocht na
Midhe, 9/2 (1996), 1-26. - Peter Schrijver, `OIr. gor "pious,
dutiful", meaning and etymology', Ériu, 47 (1996), 193-204. - Neil
McLeod, `Property and honour-price in the Brehon law glosses and
commentaries', Ir Jurist, 31 (1996), 280-95. - John Carey, `Obscure
styles in medieval Ireland', Mediaevalia, 19 (1996), 23-39. - Neil
McLeod, `The ól: standard drinks in medieval Irish law', Aust Celt J 5
(1996-7), 5-8. - Fergus Kelly, Early Irish farming: a study based
mainly on the law-texts of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, Early Irish
Law Series, 4 (Dublin, 1997).- Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, `Spuren
gemein­keltischer Kultur im Wort­schatz', Z Celt Philol 49-50 (1997),
92-103 [brigiu, áige fine]. - P. L. Henry, `A note on the brehon law
tracts of procedure and status, Cóic conara fugill and Uraicecht
becc', ibid., 311-9. - Gearóid S. Mac Eoin, `The brigiu in early Irish
society', ibid., 482-93. - Patricia Kelly, `Two relative clauses in
Críth gablach', ibid., 373-7. - John Carey, `The three things required
of a poet', Ériu, 48 (1997), 41-58. - W. N. Osborough, `The Irish
cus­tom of tracts', Ir Jurist, 32 (1997), 439-58. - Stephen N.
Tranter, `Ut dixit Cicero: a note on De dlighedh gotha', Studia
Celtica Japonica, 9 (1997), 11-7. - Joseph Falaky Nagy, Conversing
with angels and ancients: literary myths of medieval Ireland (Dublin &
Ithaca NY, 1997), 200-8 [Prologue to Senchus Már]. - Neil McLeod,
`Assault and attempted murder in brehon law', Ir Jurist, 33 (1998),
350-91. - Katharine Simms, `The contents of later commen­taries on the
brehon law tracts', Ériu, 49 (1998), 23-40. - T. M. Charles-Edwards,
`The construction of the Hiber­nensis', Peritia 12 (1998), 209-37.  -
T. M. Charles-Edwards, `The context and uses of literacy in early
christian Ireland', in Huw Pryce (ed.), Literacy in medieval Celtic
society (Cambridge, 1998), 62-82. - T. M. Charles-Edwards, The early
mediaeval Gaelic lawyer, Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval
Gaelic History, 4 (Cambridge, 1999). - Paul Russell, `Laws, glossaries
and legal glossaries in early Ireland', Z Celt Philol 51 (1999),
85-115. - Gearóid S. Mac Eoin, `Old Irish brigiu "hospitaller" and
connected words', Celtica 23 (1999) 169-73. - Neil McLeod, `The
not-so-exotic law of Dian Cécht', in Geraint Evans, Bernard Martin &
Jonathan Wooding (eds.), Origins and revivals: proceedings of the
first Australian conference of Celtic studies (Sydney, 1999), 383-99.
- Bette-Jane Crigger, `Amail arinchain fénechas: discourse
characteristics of early Irish law texts', ibid., 401-16. - Rowena
Finnane, `Reconciling the tension between sta­sis and change in the
late medieval Irish law manuscripts', ibid., 417-27. - Peter
Schrijver, `On henbane and early European narcotics', Z Celt Philol 51
(1999) 17-45: 36-7 [belletus cach réta, CIH 2198.26]. - Bronagh Ní
Chonaill, `Fostering', in S. J. Connolly (ed.), The Oxford companion
to Irish history (Oxford, 1999), 204. - William O'Sullivan, `The Book
of Domhnall Ó Duibh­dábhoireann, origin and codi­­cology', Celtica, 23
(1999), 276-99. - Marilyn Dunn, `Tánaise ríg: the ear­liest evidence',
Peritia, 13 (1999), 249-54. - Neil McLeod, Blood­shed and compensation
in ancient Ireland, Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series (Perth WA,
1999). - Fergus Kelly, `Medicine and early Irish law', in J. B. Lyons
(ed.), 2000 years of Irish medicine [Dublin, 1999], 15-9; repr. in Ir
J Med Sci 170 (2001), 73-7. - Colmán Etchingham, Church organisation
in Ireland A.D. 650-1000 (Maynooth, 1999; repr. 2002). - Bart Jaski,
`Cú Chulainn, gormac and dalta of the Ulstermen', Cambr Mediev Celt
Stud 37 (1999), 1-31. - Fergus Kelly, `Trees in early Ireland', Irish
Forestry: Journal of the Society of Irish Foresters, 56 (1999), 39-57.
> Neil McLeod, `Kinship', Ériu, 51 (2000), 1-22. - William O'Sullivan,
`The manu­­script collection of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh', in Alfred
P. Smyth (ed.), Seanchas: studies in early & medieval Irish
archaeology, history & literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne
(Dublin, 2000), 439-47. - T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early christian
Ireland (Cambridge, 2000), esp. 68-144, 518-69. - T. M.
Charles-Edwards, `Law in the western kingdoms between the fifth and
the seventh century', in Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, & Michael
Whitby (eds.), The Cambridge ancient history, xiv: Late antiquity:
empire and successors, AD 425-600, rev. ed. (Cambridge, 2000), 260-87.
- Neil McLeod, `900 years of mayhem: the Irish legal mate­rials', in
Pamela O'Neill & Jonathan Wooding (eds.), Lite­ra­ture and politics in
the Celtic world: papers from the third Australian conference of
Celtic studies (Sydney, 2000), 182-206. - Bart Jaski, Early Irish
kingship and succession (Dublin, 2000). - Huw Pryce, `Lawbooks and
literacy in medieval Wales', Speculum, 75 (2000), 29-67. - Maurizio
Lupoi, The origins of the European legal order (Cambridge, 2000), esp.
74-5, 124-32, 179-80, 193-4; first published as Alle radici del mondo
giuridico europeo: saggio storico-comparativo (Rome, 1994). -
Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `Hogan and early medieval Irish history', in idem
(ed.), James Hogan: revolutionary, historian & poli­tical scientist
(Dublin, 2001), 89-114. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `Some cruxes in Críth
gablach', Peritia, 15 (2001), 311-20. - D. S. Greer & N. M. Dawson
(eds.), Mysteries and solutions in Irish legal history: Irish Legal
History Society discourses and other papers, 1996-1999 (Dublin, 2001).
- Fergus Kelly, `Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodh­a­gáin: a thirteenth century
inno­vator', ibid., 1-14. - Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, `Birr and the Law
of the Inno­cents', in Tho­mas O'Loughlin (ed.), Adomnán at Birr, AD
697: essays in commemoration of the Law of the Innocents (Dublin,
2001), 53-68. - F. Fitzsimon, `Fosterage and gossipred in late
medieval Ireland: some new evidence', in P. Duffy, D. Edwards & E.
Fitzpatrick (eds.), Gaelic Ireland c.1250-1650: land, lordships and
settlement (Dublin, 2001), 138-49. - Damian Bracken, `The Fall and the
law in early Ireland', in Próinséas Ní Chatháin & Michael Richter
(eds.), Ireland and Europe in the early middle ages: texts and
transmission (Dublin, 2002), 147-69. - Fergus Kelly, `Texts and
transmissions: the law-texts', ibid., 230-42. - Patricia Kelly, `The
rule of Patrick: textual affinities', ibid., 284-95. - Robin Chapman
Stacey, `"Speak­ing in rid­dles"', ibid., 243-8 [on Gúbretha
Ca­rat­niad??]. -Carine Bruy, `Tánaise ríg: an alternative
interpretation', Études Irlandaises, 27 (2002), 77-105. - Donnchadh Ó
Corráin (ed.), `Early medieval law, c. 700-1200', in Angela Bourke,
Siobhán Kilfeather et al. (eds.), The Field Day anthology of Irish
writing, iv (Cork, 2002), 6-44. - F. Kelly, G. Mac Niocaill & P.
Brand, `Law', in S. J. Connolly (ed.) The Oxford companion to Irish
history, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2002), 320-4.
> Robin Chapman Stacey, `Divorce, medieval Welsh style', Speculum 77
(2002), 1107-27. - Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `Synodus II Patri­cii and
vernacular law', Peritia, 16 (2002), 335-43. - Neil McLeod,
`Compensation for fingers and teeth in early Irish law', ibid.,
344-59. - Thomas Mohr, `Salmon of knowledge', ibid., 360-95. - T. M.
Charles-Edwards, `Érlam: the patron saint of an Irish church', in Alan
Thacker & Richard Sharpe (eds.), Local saints and local churches in
the early medieval West (Oxford, 2002), 267-90. - Pierre-Yves Lambert,
`Les Differentiae dans la littérature irlan­daise ancienne', in Pierre
Lardet (ed.), La tradition vive: mélanges d'histoire des textes en
l'honneur de Louis Holtz (Paris & Turnhout, 2003), 107-18: 114-6
[O'Davo­ren's Glossary]. - T. M. Charles-Edwards, `Dliged: its native
and latinate usages', Celtica, 24 (2003), 65-78. - Kevin Murray,
`Lulgach "a milch cow"', Celtica, 24 (2003), 223-4. - R. Mark
Scowcroft, `Recht fáide and its gloss in the pseudo-historical
prologue to the Senchus már', Ériu, 53 (2003), 143-50. - Jacqueline
Borsje & Fergus Kelly, `"The evil eye" in early Irish literature and
law', Celtica, 24 (2003), 1-39. - Neil McLeod, `Brehon law' in Brian
Lalor (ed.), The encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin, 2003), 121-2. -
Mario dall Carbonare, `Clienti e signori nell'Irlanda alto­medievale
(secoli VI-IX)', Rivista Reti Medievali, IV 2 (2003). - Rolf
Baumgarten, `Co nómad n-ó: an early Irish socio-legal time­scale',
Peri­tia, 17-18 (2003-4), 338-56.- Megan McGowan, `Royal succession in
earlier medieval Ireland: the fiction of tanistry', ibid., 357-381. -
Liam Breatnach, `On satire and the poet's circuit', in Cathal G. Ó
hÁinle & Donald E. Meek (eds.), Unity in diversity: studies in Irish
and Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history (Dublin, 2004),
24-35. - Catherine Marie O'Sullivan, Hospitality in medieval Ireland,
900-1500 (Dublin, 2004). - Immo Warntjes, `Regnal suc­ces­sion in
early medie­val Ireland', J Mediev Hist 30 (2004), 377-410. - Clare
O'Halloran, Golden ages and barbarous nations: antiquarian debate and
cultural politics in Ireland, c.1750-1800 (Cork, 2004), 127-40 [`Irish
custom, law and lawlessness']. - Neil McLeod, `The metalworking
tradition in medieval Irish law', in Pamela O'Neill (ed.), Between
intrusions: Britain and Ireland between the Romans and the Normans:
papers from the 2003 Melbourne conference, Sydney Series in Celtic
Studies, 7 (Sydney, 2004), 103-13. - Colmán Etchingham & Catherine
Swift, `English and Pictish terms for brooch in an eighth-century
Irish law-text', Mediev Archaeol 48 (2004), 31-49. - Robin Chapman
Stacey, `Law and memory in early mediaeval Ireland', J Celt Stud 4
(2004), 43-69. - !!Fergus Kelly, `The use of Ireland's woodland in
medieval times', in Cara Doyle (ed.), Ireland's native woodlands
(Galway, 2004) 54-9 [reissued as CD, Dublin, 2005). - T. M.
Charles-Edwards, `Early Irish law', in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new
history of Ireland, i: Prehistoric and early Ireland (Oxford, 2005),
331-70. - Liam Breatnach, `Miscellanea hibernica', in Bernadette
Smelik, Rijklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans & David Cram (eds.), A companion
to linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist (Nijmegen, 2005),
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do-maisi and a detail of syncope]. - Liam Breatnach, A companion to
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Medieval Celtic literature and society (Dublin, 2005), 65-82. - Thomas
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163-82. - Neil McLeod, `A true companion to the Corpus iuris
hibernici', Peritia, 19 (2005), 136-63 [review of Liam Breatnach, A
com­­panion to the Corpus iuris hibernici]. - A. Cathcart, Kinship and
clientage: Highland clanship 1451-1609 (Leiden, 2006). - Peter Parkes,
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`Rewarding informers in Cáin domnaig and the Laws of Wihtred', Camb
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and its socio-legal rôle', in John T. Koch (ed.), Celtic culture: a
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> To: fenechas@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Brehon Law] Brehon law books
>
> Are there any good books/website that have the Brehon laws on them?
  I would
> really like to be able to read them.
>
> Sláinte!
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> Ben
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I realize that a budget is legislative document that calculates and
meet requirements at the same time, leading to bills and so on. While
I accept that the Brehon law would not have been capable of
constructing such concepts or rendering into technical executive form
the exact order, I see a possible sub-study regarding the operational
measurements and requirements embedded in the original project.

In other words, can anyone suggest an application that would've summed
correctly for the Fili? Is there a section of the Brehon Code that
would cover big budgets, financial engineering and the like?

Thanks,

Stephen

perhaps i just missed it, but i think that you missed:

Neil MacLeod, "Interpreting Early Irish Law: Status and Currency" Part
I in ZCP vol.41(1986), pp.47-65, Part II in ZCP vol.42(1987), pp.41-115.

Fredrik Otto Lindeman, "A Note on a Difficult Passage in <i>Bretha
Déin Chécht</i>", Celtica 21(1990), p.252

J.F. Killeen, "Battle-site and territorial extent in early Ireland",
ZCP vol.33(1974), pp.67-86

among others.

c. vermeers

--- In fenechas@yahoogroups.com, "O'Corrain, Donnchadh"
<d.ocorrain@...> wrote:
>
> This is the best introduction
>
> Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 3
(Dublin, 1988).
>
> You can order it from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10
Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
> There is a website.
>
> Here are some more references to literature going back to 1990
>
> Liam Breatnach, `Lawyers in early Ire­land', in Daire Hogan & W. N.
Osborough (eds.), Brehons, serjeants and attor­neys: studies in the
history of the Irish legal profession (Dublin, 1990), 1–13. —
Katharine Simms, `The brehon of later medieval Ireland', ibid.,
51–76.— K. R. McCone, Pagan past and christian present (May­nooth,
1990), 84–106. — Anders Ahlqvist, `Two notes on Audacht Morainn',
Celtica, 21 (1990), 1–2. — John Carey, `The two laws in Dubthach's
judgment', Cambr Mediev Celt Stud 19 (1990), 1–18.— Fredrik Otto
Lindeman, `A note on a difficult passage in Bretha Déin Chécht',
Celtica, 21 (1990), 252. — Robin Chapman Stacey, `Ties that bind:
immunities in Irish and Welsh law', Cambr Mediev Celt Stud 20 (1990),
39–60. — Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `An dlí agus an sean-tiomna', in P. Ó
Fiannachta (ed.), An bíobla in Éirinn, Léachtaí Cholm Cille, 20
(Maynooth, 1990), 32–48. — Nerys Patterson, `Patrilineal kinship in
early Irish society: the evidence from the Irish law-texts', Bull
Board Celtic Stud 37 (1990), 133–65. — Fergus Kelly, `A note on Old
Irish círmaire', Celtica, 21 (1990), 231–3. — Pádraig Ó Riain, `A
misunderstood annal: a hitherto unnoticed cáin', Celtica 21 (1990),
561–6. — Joseph Falaky Nagy, `Sword as audacht', in A. T. E. Matonis &
Daniel F. Melia (eds.), Celtic language, Celtic culture: a Festschrift
for Eric P. Hamp (Van Nuys CA, 1990), 131–6. — Liam Breatnach, `Varia
V', Ériu, 41 (1990), 139–41 [1. On the nazalisation of the pre­verb
to; 2. The flexion of ainb `ignorant'].  — W. N. Osborough, `Roman law
in Ireland', Ir Jurist, 25–7 (1990–2), 212–68; repr. in idem, Studies
in Irish legal history (Dub­lin, 1999), 11–63. — Bette-Jane Crigger,
`A man is better than his birth': identity and action in early Irish
law (unpubl. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1991). — Fergus Kelly,
`Celtic law', in Sabatino Moscati, Otto Her­mann Frey, Venceslas
Kruta, Barry Raftery & Miklós Szabó (eds.), The Celts (Milan, 1991),
657–8. — Robin Chapman Stacey, `Law and order in the very old west',
in Ben­jamin T. Hudson & Vickie Ziegler (eds.), Crossed paths:
methodo­logical ap­proaches to the Celtic aspect of the European
middle ages (Lanham MD & London, 1991) 39–60. — W. H. D. Sellar,
`Celtic law and Scots law: survival and in­te­gration', Scott Stud 29
(1991), 1–27. — Nerys Patterson, `Gaelic law and the Tudor conquest of
Ireland: the social background of the sixteenth-cen­tury recensions of
the pseudo-historical pro­logue to the Senchas már', Ir Hist Stud 27
(1991), 193–251.  — Liam Breatnach, `Zur Frage der "roscada" im
Irischen', in H. L. C. Tristram (ed.), Metrik und Medienwechsel?/
Metrics and media (Tübingen, 1991), 197–205. — Marilyn Gerriets,
`Theft, penitentials, and the compilation of the early Irish laws',
Celtica, 22 (1991), 18–32. — Colmán Etchingham, `The early Irish
church: some observations on pastoral care and dues', Ériu, 42 (1991),
99—118.
> John Carey, `The testimony of the dead', Éigse, 26 (1992), 1–12. —
T. M. Charles-Edwards, `The pastoral role of the church in the early
Irish laws', in John Blair & Richard Sharpe (eds.), Pastoral care
before the parish (Leicester, 1992) 63–80. — Fergus Kelly, `Early
Irish law: the present state of research', Études Celtiques, 29
(1992), 15–22. — K. R. McCone, `Varia I', Ériu, 43 (1992), 193–7 [the
etymology of Old Irish déis `client(s)']. — William Sayers, `Games,
sport, and para-military exercise in early Ireland', Aethlon: Journal
of Sport Literature 10/1 (1992), 105–23. — T. M. Charles-Edwards,
Early Irish and Welsh kinship (Oxford, 1993). — Liam Breatnach,
`Sedulius Scottus, St Gallen Stifts­biblio­­thek 73, and Latin in the
Irish laws', Proc Ir Bibl Assoc 16 (1993), 122–4.— Leni van
Strien-Gerritsen, `Orale poëzie in oudierse recht­boeken', in R. E. V.
Stuip & C. Vellekoop (eds.), Oraliteit en schriftcultuur (Hilversum,
1993), 135–43. — Bette-Jane Crigger, `Crazy like a fox: on
rehabilitating the Old Irish legal apparatus', Proc Harvard Celt
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early Irish law', ibid., 93–106. — Dorothy D. Swartz, `The legal
status of women in early and medieval Ireland and Wales in comparison
with western European and Mediterranean societies: environmental and
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contract between king and people in early medieval Ireland', Peritia,
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custom to court in medieval Ireland and Wales (Philadelphia PA, 1994).
— Nerys Patterson, Cattle lords and clansmen: the social structure of
early Ireland, 2nd ed. (Notre Dame IN & London, 1994). — Liam
Breatnach, `Varia II', Ériu, 45 (1994), 195–6 [1. Irish geined and
geinit, Gaulish geneta, Welsh geneth; 2. Prepositions with added vowel
in relative compound verbs]. — Peter J. Smith (ed. & trans.) `A
Middle-Irish poem on the authors and laws of Ire­land', Peritia, 8
(1994), 120–50. — Douglas Mac Lean, `The status of the sculp­tor in
Old-Irish law and the evidence of the crosses', Peritia, 9 (1995),
125–55. — Neil McLeod, `Irish law: significant numbers and the law of
status', ibid., 156–66.— Damian Bracken, `Immortality and punishment
in Irish law', ibid., 167–86. — Damian Bracken, `Latin passages in
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idea of the three orders of society and social stratification in early
medieval Ireland', Ir Hist Stud 29 (1995), 475–89.
> Liam Breatnach, `The original extent of the Senchas Már', Ériu, 47
(1996), 1–43. — Bart Jaski, `Marriage laws in Ireland and the
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the middle ages', in Barbara E. Crawford (ed.), Scotland in dark age
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(eds.), Progress in medieval Irish studies (Maynooth, 1996), 65–77. —
Liam Breatnach, `Law', ibid., 107–21. — Neil McLeod, `Property and
honour price in Brehon law glosses and commentaries', Ir Jurist, 31
(1996), 280–95. — Liam Breatnach, `On the glossing of early Irish law
texts, fragmentary texts, and some aspects of laws relating to dogs',
in A. Ahlqvist, G. W. Banks, Riita Latvio, H. Nyberg, & T. Sjöblom
(eds.), Celtica helsingiensia: proceedings from a symposium in Celtic
Studies, Societas Scientiarum Fen­nica, Commentationes Huma­narum
Litterarum, 107 (Helsinki, 1996), 11–20. — Cathe­rine Swift, `Pagan
monuments and christian legal centres in early Meath', Ríocht na
Midhe, 9/2 (1996), 1–26. — Peter Schrijver, `OIr. gor "pious,
dutiful", meaning and etymology', Ériu, 47 (1996), 193–204. — Neil
McLeod, `Property and honour-price in the Brehon law glosses and
commentaries', Ir Jurist, 31 (1996), 280–95. — John Carey, `Obscure
styles in medieval Ireland', Mediaevalia, 19 (1996), 23–39. — Neil
McLeod, `The ól: standard drinks in medieval Irish law', Aust Celt J 5
(1996–7), 5–8. — Fergus Kelly, Early Irish farming: a study based
mainly on the law-texts of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, Early Irish
Law Series, 4 (Dublin, 1997).— Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, `Spuren
gemein­keltischer Kultur im Wort­schatz', Z Celt Philol 49–50 (1997),
92–103 [brigiu, áige fine]. — P. L. Henry, `A note on the brehon law
tracts of procedure and status, Cóic conara fugill and Uraicecht
becc', ibid., 311–9. — Gearóid S. Mac Eoin, `The brigiu in early Irish
society', ibid., 482–93. — Patricia Kelly, `Two relative clauses in
Críth gablach', ibid., 373–7. — John Carey, `The three things required
of a poet', Ériu, 48 (1997), 41–58. — W. N. Osborough, `The Irish
cus­tom of tracts', Ir Jurist, 32 (1997), 439–58. — Stephen N.
Tranter, `Ut dixit Cicero: a note on De dlighedh gotha', Studia
Celtica Japonica, 9 (1997), 11–7. — Joseph Falaky Nagy, Conversing
with angels and ancients: literary myths of medieval Ireland (Dublin &
Ithaca NY, 1997), 200–8 [Prologue to Senchus Már]. — Neil McLeod,
`Assault and attempted murder in brehon law', Ir Jurist, 33 (1998),
350–91. — Katharine Simms, `The contents of later commen­taries on the
brehon law tracts', Ériu, 49 (1998), 23–40. — T. M. Charles-Edwards,
`The construction of the Hiber­nensis', Peritia 12 (1998), 209–37.  —
T. M. Charles-Edwards, `The context and uses of literacy in early
christian Ireland', in Huw Pryce (ed.), Literacy in medieval Celtic
society (Cambridge, 1998), 62–82. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, The early
mediaeval Gaelic lawyer, Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval
Gaelic History, 4 (Cambridge, 1999). — Paul Russell, `Laws, glossaries
and legal glossaries in early Ireland', Z Celt Philol 51 (1999),
85–115. — Gearóid S. Mac Eoin, `Old Irish brigiu "hospitaller" and
connected words', Celtica 23 (1999) 169–73. — Neil McLeod, `The
not-so-exotic law of Dian Cécht', in Geraint Evans, Bernard Martin &
Jonathan Wooding (eds.), Origins and revivals: proceedings of the
first Australian conference of Celtic studies (Sydney, 1999), 383–99.
— Bette-Jane Crigger, `Amail arinchain fénechas: discourse
characteristics of early Irish law texts', ibid., 401–16. — Rowena
Finnane, `Reconciling the tension between sta­sis and change in the
late medieval Irish law manuscripts', ibid., 417–27. — Peter
Schrijver, `On henbane and early European narcotics', Z Celt Philol 51
(1999) 17–45: 36–7 [belletus cach réta, CIH 2198.26]. — Bronagh Ní
Chonaill, `Fostering', in S. J. Connolly (ed.), The Oxford companion
to Irish history (Oxford, 1999), 204. — William O'Sullivan, `The Book
of Domhnall Ó Duibh­dábhoireann, origin and codi­­cology', Celtica, 23
(1999), 276–99. — Marilyn Dunn, `Tánaise ríg: the ear­liest evidence',
Peritia, 13 (1999), 249–54. — Neil McLeod, Blood­shed and compensation
in ancient Ireland, Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series (Perth WA,
1999). — Fergus Kelly, `Medicine and early Irish law', in J. B. Lyons
(ed.), 2000 years of Irish medicine [Dublin, 1999], 15–9; repr. in Ir
J Med Sci 170 (2001), 73–7. — Colmán Etchingham, Church organisation
in Ireland A.D. 650–1000 (Maynooth, 1999; repr. 2002). — Bart Jaski,
`Cú Chulainn, gormac and dalta of the Ulstermen', Cambr Mediev Celt
Stud 37 (1999), 1–31. — Fergus Kelly, `Trees in early Ireland', Irish
Forestry: Journal of the Society of Irish Foresters, 56 (1999), 39–57.
> Neil McLeod, `Kinship', Ériu, 51 (2000), 1–22. — William O'Sullivan,
`The manu­­script collection of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh', in Alfred
P. Smyth (ed.), Seanchas: studies in early & medieval Irish
archaeology, history & literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne
(Dublin, 2000), 439–47. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early christian
Ireland (Cambridge, 2000), esp. 68–144, 518–69. — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, `Law in the western kingdoms between the fifth and
the seventh century', in Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, & Michael
Whitby (eds.), The Cambridge ancient history, xiv: Late antiquity:
empire and successors, AD 425–600, rev. ed. (Cambridge, 2000), 260–87.
— Neil McLeod, `900 years of mayhem: the Irish legal mate­rials', in
Pamela O'Neill & Jonathan Wooding (eds.), Lite­ra­ture and politics in
the Celtic world: papers from the third Australian conference of
Celtic studies (Sydney, 2000), 182–206. — Bart Jaski, Early Irish
kingship and succession (Dublin, 2000). — Huw Pryce, `Lawbooks and
literacy in medieval Wales', Speculum, 75 (2000), 29–67. — Maurizio
Lupoi, The origins of the European legal order (Cambridge, 2000), esp.
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giuridico europeo: saggio storico-comparativo (Rome, 1994). —
Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `Hogan and early medieval Irish history', in idem
(ed.), James Hogan: revolutionary, historian & poli­tical scientist
(Dublin, 2001), 89–114. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `Some cruxes in Críth
gablach', Peritia, 15 (2001), 311–20. — D. S. Greer & N. M. Dawson
(eds.), Mysteries and solutions in Irish legal history: Irish Legal
History Society discourses and other papers, 1996–1999 (Dublin, 2001).
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inno­vator', ibid., 1–14. — Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, `Birr and the Law
of the Inno­cents', in Tho­mas O'Loughlin (ed.), Adomnán at Birr, AD
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medieval Ireland: some new evidence', in P. Duffy, D. Edwards & E.
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transmission (Dublin, 2002), 147–69. — Fergus Kelly, `Texts and
transmissions: the law-texts', ibid., 230–42. — Patricia Kelly, `The
rule of Patrick: textual affinities', ibid., 284–95. — Robin Chapman
Stacey, `"Speak­ing in rid­dles"', ibid., 243–8 [on Gúbretha
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interpretation', Études Irlandaises, 27 (2002), 77–105. — Donnchadh Ó
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history, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2002), 320–4.
> Robin Chapman Stacey, `Divorce, medieval Welsh style', Speculum 77
(2002), 1107–27. — Donnchadh Ó Corráin, `Synodus II Patri­cii and
vernacular law', Peritia, 16 (2002), 335–43. — Neil McLeod,
`Compensation for fingers and teeth in early Irish law', ibid.,
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Thacker & Richard Sharpe (eds.), Local saints and local churches in
the early medieval West (Oxford, 2002), 267–90. — Pierre-Yves Lambert,
`Les Differentiae dans la littérature irlan­daise ancienne', in Pierre
Lardet (ed.), La tradition vive: mélanges d'histoire des textes en
l'honneur de Louis Holtz (Paris & Turnhout, 2003), 107–18: 114–6
[O'Davo­ren's Glossary]. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, `Dliged: its native
and latinate usages', Celtica, 24 (2003), 65–78. — Kevin Murray,
`Lulgach "a milch cow"', Celtica, 24 (2003), 223–4. — R. Mark
Scowcroft, `Recht fáide and its gloss in the pseudo-historical
prologue to the Senchus már', Ériu, 53 (2003), 143–50. — Jacqueline
Borsje & Fergus Kelly, `"The evil eye" in early Irish literature and
law', Celtica, 24 (2003), 1–39. — Neil McLeod, `Brehon law' in Brian
Lalor (ed.), The encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin, 2003), 121–2. —
Mario dall Carbonare, `Clienti e signori nell'Irlanda alto­medievale
(secoli VI–IX)', Rivista Reti Medievali, IV 2 (2003). — Rolf
Baumgarten, `Co nómad n-ó: an early Irish socio-legal time­scale',
Peri­tia, 17–18 (2003–4), 338–56.— Megan McGowan, `Royal succession in
earlier medieval Ireland: the fiction of tanistry', ibid., 357–381. —
Liam Breatnach, `On satire and the poet's circuit', in Cathal G. Ó
hÁinle & Donald E. Meek (eds.), Unity in diversity: studies in Irish
and Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history (Dublin, 2004),
24–35. — Catherine Marie O'Sullivan, Hospitality in medieval Ireland,
900–1500 (Dublin, 2004). — Immo Warntjes, `Regnal suc­ces­sion in
early medie­val Ireland', J Mediev Hist 30 (2004), 377–410. — Clare
O'Halloran, Golden ages and barbarous nations: antiquarian debate and
cultural politics in Ireland, c.1750–1800 (Cork, 2004), 127–40 [`Irish
custom, law and lawlessness']. — Neil McLeod, `The metalworking
tradition in medieval Irish law', in Pamela O'Neill (ed.), Between
intrusions: Britain and Ireland between the Romans and the Normans:
papers from the 2003 Melbourne conference, Sydney Series in Celtic
Studies, 7 (Sydney, 2004), 103–13. — Colmán Etchingham & Catherine
Swift, `English and Pictish terms for brooch in an eighth-century
Irish law-text', Mediev Archaeol 48 (2004), 31–49. — Robin Chapman
Stacey, `Law and memory in early mediaeval Ireland', J Celt Stud 4
(2004), 43–69. — !!Fergus Kelly, `The use of Ireland's woodland in
medieval times', in Cara Doyle (ed.), Ireland's native woodlands
(Galway, 2004) 54–9 [reissued as CD, Dublin, 2005). — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, `Early Irish law', in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new
history of Ireland, i: Prehistoric and early Ireland (Oxford, 2005),
331–70. — Liam Breatnach, `Miscellanea hibernica', in Bernadette
Smelik, Rijklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans & David Cram (eds.), A companion
to linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist (Nijmegen, 2005),
141–51 [1 Old Irish tráigid (ebbs, recedes); 2 The simplex serbaid; 3
do-maisi and a detail of syncope]. — Liam Breatnach, A companion to
the Corpus iuris hibernici (Dublin, 2005). — T. M. Charles-Edwards,
`Early Irish law', in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of
Ireland i (Oxford, 2005), 331–70. — Robin Chapman Stacey, `Law and
literature in medieval Ireland and Wales', in Helen Fulton (ed.),
Medieval Celtic literature and society (Dublin, 2005), 65–82. — Thomas
Owen Clancy, `Court, king and justice in the Ulster cycle', ibid.,
163–82. — Neil McLeod, `A true companion to the Corpus iuris
hibernici', Peritia, 19 (2005), 136–63 [review of Liam Breatnach, A
com­­panion to the Corpus iuris hibernici]. — A. Cathcart, Kinship and
clientage: Highland clanship 1451–1609 (Leiden, 2006). — Peter Parkes,
`Celtic fosterage: adoptive kinship and clientage in northwest
Europe', Comp Stud Soc Hist 48 (2006), 359–95. — Charlene M. Eska,
`Rewarding informers in Cáin domnaig and the Laws of Wihtred', Camb
Mediev Celtic Stud 52 (2006), 1–11. — Robin Chapman Stacey, `Satire
and its socio-legal rôle', in John T. Koch (ed.), Celtic culture: a
historical encyclopedia, 5 vols. (Santa Barbara CA, 2006), iv 1560–6.
— Jennifer Ní Ghráda, `A legal perspective on the saer and workshop
practice in pre-Norman Ireland', in Rachel Moss (ed.), Making and
meaning in Insular art: Proceedings of the fifth international
conference on Insular art …Trinity College Dublin, 25–28 August 2005
(Dublin, 2007), 110–25 [includes text and translation of a text on the
refection of craftsmen, CIH 2107.36–2108.23]. — Robin Chapman Stacey,
Dark speech: the performance of law in early Ireland (Philadelphia
2007). — Christophe Archan, Les chemins du jugement: procédure et
science du droit dans l'Irlande médiévale, Romanité et Modernité du
Droit (Paris, 2007). — Joseph F. Eska (ed.), Law, literature and
society, CSANA Yearbook 7 (Dublin, 2008).
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This is the best introduction

Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 3 (Dublin,
1988).

You can order it from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road,
Dublin 4.
There is a website.

Here are some more references to literature going back to 1990

Liam Breatnach, ‘Lawyers in early Ire­land’, in Daire Hogan & W. N. Osborough
(eds.), Brehons, serjeants and attor­neys: studies in the history of the Irish
legal profession (Dublin, 1990), 1–13. — Katharine Simms, ‘The brehon of later
medieval Ireland’, ibid., 51–76.— K. R. McCone, Pagan past and christian present
(May­nooth, 1990), 84–106. — Anders Ahlqvist, ‘Two notes on Audacht Morainn’,
Celtica, 21 (1990), 1–2. — John Carey, ‘The two laws in Dubthach’s judgment’,
Cambr Mediev Celt Stud 19 (1990), 1–18.— Fredrik Otto Lindeman, ‘A note on a
difficult passage in Bretha Déin Chécht’, Celtica, 21 (1990), 252. — Robin
Chapman Stacey, ‘Ties that bind: immunities in Irish and Welsh law’, Cambr
Mediev Celt Stud 20 (1990), 39–60. — Donnchadh Ó Corráin, ‘An dlí agus an
sean-tiomna’, in P. Ó Fiannachta (ed.), An bíobla in Éirinn, Léachtaí Cholm
Cille, 20 (Maynooth, 1990), 32–48. — Nerys Patterson, ‘Patrilineal kinship in
early Irish society: the evidence from the Irish law-texts’, Bull Board Celtic
Stud 37 (1990), 133–65. — Fergus Kelly, ‘A note on Old Irish círmaire’, Celtica,
21 (1990), 231–3. — Pádraig Ó Riain, ‘A misunderstood annal: a hitherto
unnoticed cáin’, Celtica 21 (1990), 561–6. — Joseph Falaky Nagy, ‘Sword as
audacht’, in A. T. E. Matonis & Daniel F. Melia (eds.), Celtic language, Celtic
culture: a Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp (Van Nuys CA, 1990), 131–6. — Liam
Breatnach, ‘Varia V’, Ériu, 41 (1990), 139–41 [1. On the nazalisation of the
pre­verb to; 2. The flexion of ainb ‘ignorant’].  — W. N. Osborough, ‘Roman law
in Ireland’, Ir Jurist, 25–7 (1990–2), 212–68; repr. in idem, Studies in Irish
legal history (Dub­lin, 1999), 11–63. — Bette-Jane Crigger, ‘A man is better
than his birth’: identity and action in early Irish law (unpubl. PhD diss.,
University of Chicago, 1991). — Fergus Kelly, ‘Celtic law’, in Sabatino Moscati,
Otto Her­mann Frey, Venceslas Kruta, Barry Raftery & Miklós Szabó (eds.), The
Celts (Milan, 1991), 657–8. — Robin Chapman Stacey, ‘Law and order in the very
old west’, in Ben­jamin T. Hudson & Vickie Ziegler (eds.), Crossed paths:
methodo­logical ap­proaches to the Celtic aspect of the European middle ages
(Lanham MD & London, 1991) 39–60. — W. H. D. Sellar, ‘Celtic law and Scots law:
survival and in­te­gration’, Scott Stud 29 (1991), 1–27. — Nerys Patterson,
‘Gaelic law and the Tudor conquest of Ireland: the social background of the
sixteenth-cen­tury recensions of the pseudo-historical pro­logue to the Senchas
már’, Ir Hist Stud 27 (1991), 193–251.  — Liam Breatnach, ‘Zur Frage der
“roscada” im Irischen’, in H. L. C. Tristram (ed.), Metrik und Medienwechsel?/
Metrics and media (Tübingen, 1991), 197–205. — Marilyn Gerriets, ‘Theft,
penitentials, and the compilation of the early Irish laws’, Celtica, 22 (1991),
18–32. — Colmán Etchingham, ‘The early Irish church: some observations on
pastoral care and dues’, Ériu, 42 (1991), 99—118.
John Carey, ‘The testimony of the dead’, Éigse, 26 (1992), 1–12. — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, ‘The pastoral role of the church in the early Irish laws’, in
John Blair & Richard Sharpe (eds.), Pastoral care before the parish (Leicester,
1992) 63–80. — Fergus Kelly, ‘Early Irish law: the present state of research’,
Études Celtiques, 29 (1992), 15–22. — K. R. McCone, ‘Varia I’, Ériu, 43 (1992),
193–7 [the etymology of Old Irish déis ‘client(s)’]. — William Sayers, ‘Games,
sport, and para-military exercise in early Ireland’, Aethlon: Journal of Sport
Literature 10/1 (1992), 105–23. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early Irish and Welsh
kinship (Oxford, 1993). — Liam Breatnach, ‘Sedulius Scottus, St Gallen
Stifts­biblio­­thek 73, and Latin in the Irish laws’, Proc Ir Bibl Assoc 16
(1993), 122–4.— Leni van Strien-Gerritsen, ‘Orale poëzie in oudierse
recht­boeken’, in R. E. V. Stuip & C. Vellekoop (eds.), Oraliteit en
schriftcultuur (Hilversum, 1993), 135–43. — Bette-Jane Crigger, ‘Crazy like a
fox: on rehabilitating the Old Irish legal apparatus’, Proc Harvard Celt Colloq
13 (1993), 82–92. — Lisi Oliver, ‘Forced and un­forced rape in early Irish law’,
ibid., 93–106. — Dorothy D. Swartz, ‘The legal status of women in early and
medieval Ireland and Wales in comparison with western European and Mediterranean
societies: environmental and social correlations’, ibid., 107–18. — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, ‘A contract between king and people in early medieval Ireland’,
Peritia, 8 (1994), 107–19. — Robin Chapman Stacey, The road to judgment: from
custom to court in medieval Ireland and Wales (Philadelphia PA, 1994). — Nerys
Patterson, Cattle lords and clansmen: the social structure of early Ireland, 2nd
ed. (Notre Dame IN & London, 1994). — Liam Breatnach, ‘Varia II’, Ériu, 45
(1994), 195–6 [1. Irish geined and geinit, Gaulish geneta, Welsh geneth; 2.
Prepositions with added vowel in relative compound verbs]. — Peter J. Smith (ed.
& trans.) ‘A Middle-Irish poem on the authors and laws of Ire­land’, Peritia, 8
(1994), 120–50. — Douglas Mac Lean, ‘The status of the sculp­tor in Old-Irish
law and the evidence of the crosses’, Peritia, 9 (1995), 125–55. — Neil McLeod,
‘Irish law: significant numbers and the law of status’, ibid., 156–66.— Damian
Bracken, ‘Immortality and punishment in Irish law’, ibid., 167–86. — Damian
Bracken, ‘Latin passages in Irish vernacular law: notes on sources’, ibid.,
187–96. — Donn­chadh Ó Corráin, ‘Women and the law in early Ireland’, in Mary
O’Dowd & Sabine Wichert (eds.), Chattel, servant or citizen: women’s status in
church, state and society, Historical Studies, 19 (Belfast, 1995), 45–57. —
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, ‘The Lex innocentium: Adomnán’s law for women, clerics
and youths, 697 A.D.’, ibid., 58–69. — Timothy E. Powell, ‘The idea of the three
orders of society and social stratification in early medieval Ireland’, Ir Hist
Stud 29 (1995), 475–89.
Liam Breatnach, ‘The original extent of the Senchas Már’, Ériu, 47 (1996), 1–43.
— Bart Jaski, ‘Marriage laws in Ireland and the continent in the early middle
ages’, in Christine Meek & Katharine Simms (eds.), ‘Fragility of her sex’:
medieval Irishwomen in their European context (Dublin, 1996), 16–42. — Bart
Jaski, ‘Vrowen in vroeg-middeleeuws Ierland’, in R. H. F. Hofman, B. Smelik & K.
Jongeling (eds.), Kelten van Spanje tot Ierland (Utrecht, 1996), 43–72. — Wendy
Davies, ‘“Protected space” in Britain and Ireland in the middle ages’, in
Barbara E. Crawford (ed.), Scotland in dark age Britain, St John’s House Papers,
6 (St Andrews, 1996), 1–19. — Liam Breatnach, ‘Poets and poetry’, in K. R.
McCone & Katharine Simms (eds.), Progress in medieval Irish studies (Maynooth,
1996), 65–77. — Liam Breatnach, ‘Law’, ibid., 107–21. — Neil McLeod, ‘Property
and honour price in Brehon law glosses and commentaries’, Ir Jurist, 31 (1996),
280–95. — Liam Breatnach, ‘On the glossing of early Irish law texts, fragmentary
texts, and some aspects of laws relating to dogs’, in A. Ahlqvist, G. W. Banks,
Riita Latvio, H. Nyberg, & T. Sjöblom (eds.), Celtica helsingiensia: proceedings
from a symposium in Celtic Studies, Societas Scientiarum Fen­nica,
Commentationes Huma­narum Litterarum, 107 (Helsinki, 1996), 11–20. — Cathe­rine
Swift, ‘Pagan monuments and christian legal centres in early Meath’, Ríocht na
Midhe, 9/2 (1996), 1–26. — Peter Schrijver, ‘OIr. gor “pious, dutiful”, meaning
and etymology’, Ériu, 47 (1996), 193–204. — Neil McLeod, ‘Property and
honour-price in the Brehon law glosses and commentaries’, Ir Jurist, 31 (1996),
280–95. — John Carey, ‘Obscure styles in medieval Ireland’, Mediaevalia, 19
(1996), 23–39. — Neil McLeod, ‘The ól: standard drinks in medieval Irish law’,
Aust Celt J 5 (1996–7), 5–8. — Fergus Kelly, Early Irish farming: a study based
mainly on the law-texts of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, Early Irish Law Series,
4 (Dublin, 1997).— Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, ‘Spuren gemein­keltischer
Kultur im Wort­schatz’, Z Celt Philol 49–50 (1997), 92–103 [brigiu, áige fine].
— P. L. Henry, ‘A note on the brehon law tracts of procedure and status, Cóic
conara fugill and Uraicecht becc’, ibid., 311–9. — Gearóid S. Mac Eoin, ‘The
brigiu in early Irish society’, ibid., 482–93. — Patricia Kelly, ‘Two relative
clauses in Críth gablach’, ibid., 373–7. — John Carey, ‘The three things
required of a poet’, Ériu, 48 (1997), 41–58. — W. N. Osborough, ‘The Irish
cus­tom of tracts’, Ir Jurist, 32 (1997), 439–58. — Stephen N. Tranter, ‘Ut
dixit Cicero: a note on De dlighedh gotha’, Studia Celtica Japonica, 9 (1997),
11–7. — Joseph Falaky Nagy, Conversing with angels and ancients: literary myths
of medieval Ireland (Dublin & Ithaca NY, 1997), 200–8 [Prologue to Senchus Már].
— Neil McLeod, ‘Assault and attempted murder in brehon law’, Ir Jurist, 33
(1998), 350–91. — Katharine Simms, ‘The contents of later commen­taries on the
brehon law tracts’, Ériu, 49 (1998), 23–40. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, ‘The
construction of the Hiber­nensis’, Peritia 12 (1998), 209–37.  — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, ‘The context and uses of literacy in early christian Ireland’,
in Huw Pryce (ed.), Literacy in medieval Celtic society (Cambridge, 1998),
62–82. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, The early mediaeval Gaelic lawyer, Quiggin
Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History, 4 (Cambridge, 1999). —
Paul Russell, ‘Laws, glossaries and legal glossaries in early Ireland’, Z Celt
Philol 51 (1999), 85–115. — Gearóid S. Mac Eoin, ‘Old Irish brigiu “hospitaller”
and connected words’, Celtica 23 (1999) 169–73. — Neil McLeod, ‘The
not-so-exotic law of Dian Cécht’, in Geraint Evans, Bernard Martin & Jonathan
Wooding (eds.), Origins and revivals: proceedings of the first Australian
conference of Celtic studies (Sydney, 1999), 383–99. — Bette-Jane Crigger,
‘Amail arinchain fénechas: discourse characteristics of early Irish law texts’,
ibid., 401–16. — Rowena Finnane, ‘Reconciling the tension between sta­sis and
change in the late medieval Irish law manuscripts’, ibid., 417–27. — Peter
Schrijver, ‘On henbane and early European narcotics’, Z Celt Philol 51 (1999)
17–45: 36–7 [belletus cach réta, CIH 2198.26]. — Bronagh Ní Chonaill,
‘Fostering’, in S. J. Connolly (ed.), The Oxford companion to Irish history
(Oxford, 1999), 204. — William O’Sullivan, ‘The Book of Domhnall Ó
Duibh­dábhoireann, origin and codi­­cology’, Celtica, 23 (1999), 276–99. —
Marilyn Dunn, ‘Tánaise ríg: the ear­liest evidence’, Peritia, 13 (1999), 249–54.
— Neil McLeod, Blood­shed and compensation in ancient Ireland, Inaugural
Professorial Lecture Series (Perth WA, 1999). — Fergus Kelly, ‘Medicine and
early Irish law’, in J. B. Lyons (ed.), 2000 years of Irish medicine [Dublin,
1999], 15–9; repr. in Ir J Med Sci 170 (2001), 73–7. — Colmán Etchingham, Church
organisation in Ireland A.D. 650–1000 (Maynooth, 1999; repr. 2002). — Bart
Jaski, ‘Cú Chulainn, gormac and dalta of the Ulstermen’, Cambr Mediev Celt Stud
37 (1999), 1–31. — Fergus Kelly, ‘Trees in early Ireland’, Irish Forestry:
Journal of the Society of Irish Foresters, 56 (1999), 39–57.
Neil McLeod, ‘Kinship’, Ériu, 51 (2000), 1–22. — William O’Sullivan, ‘The
manu­­script collection of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh’, in Alfred P. Smyth
(ed.), Seanchas: studies in early & medieval Irish archaeology, history &
literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne (Dublin, 2000), 439–47. — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, Early christian Ireland (Cambridge, 2000), esp. 68–144, 518–69.
— T. M. Charles-Edwards, ‘Law in the western kingdoms between the fifth and the
seventh century’, in Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, & Michael Whitby
(eds.), The Cambridge ancient history, xiv: Late antiquity: empire and
successors, AD 425–600, rev. ed. (Cambridge, 2000), 260–87. — Neil McLeod, ‘900
years of mayhem: the Irish legal mate­rials’, in Pamela O’Neill & Jonathan
Wooding (eds.), Lite­ra­ture and politics in the Celtic world: papers from the
third Australian conference of Celtic studies (Sydney, 2000), 182–206. — Bart
Jaski, Early Irish kingship and succession (Dublin, 2000). — Huw Pryce,
‘Lawbooks and literacy in medieval Wales’, Speculum, 75 (2000), 29–67. —
Maurizio Lupoi, The origins of the European legal order (Cambridge, 2000), esp.
74–5, 124–32, 179–80, 193–4; first published as Alle radici del mondo giuridico
europeo: saggio storico-comparativo (Rome, 1994). — Donnchadh Ó Corráin, ‘Hogan
and early medieval Irish history’, in idem (ed.), James Hogan: revolutionary,
historian & poli­tical scientist (Dublin, 2001), 89–114. Donnchadh Ó Corráin,
‘Some cruxes in Críth gablach’, Peritia, 15 (2001), 311–20. — D. S. Greer & N.
M. Dawson (eds.), Mysteries and solutions in Irish legal history: Irish Legal
History Society discourses and other papers, 1996–1999 (Dublin, 2001). — Fergus
Kelly, ‘Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodh­a­gáin: a thirteenth century inno­vator’,
ibid., 1–14. — Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, ‘Birr and the Law of the Inno­cents’, in
Tho­mas O’Loughlin (ed.), Adomnán at Birr, AD 697: essays in commemoration of
the Law of the Innocents (Dublin, 2001), 53–68. — F. Fitzsimon, ‘Fosterage and
gossipred in late medieval Ireland: some new evidence’, in P. Duffy, D. Edwards
& E. Fitzpatrick (eds.), Gaelic Ireland c.1250–1650: land, lordships and
settlement (Dublin, 2001), 138–49. — Damian Bracken, ‘The Fall and the law in
early Ireland’, in Próinséas Ní Chatháin & Michael Richter (eds.), Ireland and
Europe in the early middle ages: texts and transmission (Dublin, 2002), 147–69.
— Fergus Kelly, ‘Texts and transmissions: the law-texts’, ibid., 230–42. —
Patricia Kelly, ‘The rule of Patrick: textual affinities’, ibid., 284–95. —
Robin Chapman Stacey, ‘“Speak­ing in rid­dles”’, ibid., 243–8 [on Gúbretha
Ca­rat­niad??]. —Carine Bruy, ‘Tánaise ríg: an alternative interpretation’,
Études Irlandaises, 27 (2002), 77–105. — Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.), ‘Early
medieval law, c. 700–1200’, in Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather et al. (eds.),
The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, iv (Cork, 2002), 6–44. — F. Kelly, G.
Mac Niocaill & P. Brand, ‘Law’, in S. J. Connolly (ed.) The Oxford companion to
Irish history, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2002), 320–4.
Robin Chapman Stacey, ‘Divorce, medieval Welsh style’, Speculum 77 (2002),
1107–27. — Donnchadh Ó Corráin, ‘Synodus II Patri­cii and vernacular law’,
Peritia, 16 (2002), 335–43. — Neil McLeod, ‘Compensation for fingers and teeth
in early Irish law’, ibid., 344–59. — Thomas Mohr, ‘Salmon of knowledge’, ibid.,
360–95. — T. M. Charles-Edwards, ‘Érlam: the patron saint of an Irish church’,
in Alan Thacker & Richard Sharpe (eds.), Local saints and local churches in the
early medieval West (Oxford, 2002), 267–90. — Pierre-Yves Lambert, ‘Les
Differentiae dans la littérature irlan­daise ancienne’, in Pierre Lardet (ed.),
La tradition vive: mélanges d’histoire des textes en l’honneur de Louis Holtz
(Paris & Turnhout, 2003), 107–18: 114–6 [O’Davo­ren’s Glossary]. — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, ‘Dliged: its native and latinate usages’, Celtica, 24 (2003),
65–78. — Kevin Murray, ‘Lulgach “a milch cow”’, Celtica, 24 (2003), 223–4. — R.
Mark Scowcroft, ‘Recht fáide and its gloss in the pseudo-historical prologue to
the Senchus már’, Ériu, 53 (2003), 143–50. — Jacqueline Borsje & Fergus Kelly,
‘“The evil eye” in early Irish literature and law’, Celtica, 24 (2003), 1–39. —
Neil McLeod, ‘Brehon law’ in Brian Lalor (ed.), The encyclopaedia of Ireland
(Dublin, 2003), 121–2. — Mario dall Carbonare, ‘Clienti e signori nell’Irlanda
alto­medievale (secoli VI–IX)’, Rivista Reti Medievali, IV 2 (2003). — Rolf
Baumgarten, ‘Co nómad n-ó: an early Irish socio-legal time­scale’, Peri­tia,
17–18 (2003–4), 338–56.— Megan McGowan, ‘Royal succession in earlier medieval
Ireland: the fiction of tanistry’, ibid., 357–381. — Liam Breatnach, ‘On satire
and the poet’s circuit’, in Cathal G. Ó hÁinle & Donald E. Meek (eds.), Unity in
diversity: studies in Irish and Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history
(Dublin, 2004), 24–35. — Catherine Marie O’Sullivan, Hospitality in medieval
Ireland, 900–1500 (Dublin, 2004). — Immo Warntjes, ‘Regnal suc­ces­sion in early
medie­val Ireland’, J Mediev Hist 30 (2004), 377–410. — Clare O’Halloran, Golden
ages and barbarous nations: antiquarian debate and cultural politics in Ireland,
c.1750–1800 (Cork, 2004), 127–40 [‘Irish custom, law and lawlessness’]. — Neil
McLeod, ‘The metalworking tradition in medieval Irish law’, in Pamela O’Neill
(ed.), Between intrusions: Britain and Ireland between the Romans and the
Normans: papers from the 2003 Melbourne conference, Sydney Series in Celtic
Studies, 7 (Sydney, 2004), 103–13. — Colmán Etchingham & Catherine Swift,
‘English and Pictish terms for brooch in an eighth-century Irish law-text’,
Mediev Archaeol 48 (2004), 31–49. — Robin Chapman Stacey, ‘Law and memory in
early mediaeval Ireland’, J Celt Stud 4 (2004), 43–69. — !!Fergus Kelly, ‘The
use of Ireland’s woodland in medieval times’, in Cara Doyle (ed.), Ireland’s
native woodlands (Galway, 2004) 54–9 [reissued as CD, Dublin, 2005). — T. M.
Charles-Edwards, ‘Early Irish law’, in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of
Ireland, i: Prehistoric and early Ireland (Oxford, 2005), 331–70. — Liam
Breatnach, ‘Miscellanea hibernica’, in Bernadette Smelik, Rijklof Hofman, Camiel
Hamans & David Cram (eds.), A companion to linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders
Ahlqvist (Nijmegen, 2005), 141–51 [1 Old Irish tráigid (ebbs, recedes); 2 The
simplex serbaid; 3 do-maisi and a detail of syncope]. — Liam Breatnach, A
companion to the Corpus iuris hibernici (Dublin, 2005). — T. M. Charles-Edwards,
‘Early Irish law’, in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of  Ireland i
(Oxford, 2005), 331–70. — Robin Chapman Stacey, ‘Law and literature in medieval
Ireland and Wales’, in Helen Fulton (ed.), Medieval Celtic literature and
society (Dublin, 2005), 65–82. — Thomas Owen Clancy, ‘Court, king and justice in
the Ulster cycle’, ibid., 163–82. — Neil McLeod, ‘A true companion to the Corpus
iuris hibernici’, Peritia, 19 (2005), 136–63 [review of Liam Breatnach, A
com­­panion to the Corpus iuris hibernici]. — A. Cathcart, Kinship and
clientage: Highland clanship 1451–1609 (Leiden, 2006). — Peter Parkes, ‘Celtic
fosterage: adoptive kinship and clientage in northwest Europe’, Comp Stud Soc
Hist 48 (2006), 359–95. — Charlene M. Eska, ‘Rewarding informers in Cáin domnaig
and the Laws of Wihtred’, Camb Mediev Celtic Stud 52 (2006), 1–11. — Robin
Chapman Stacey, ‘Satire and its socio-legal rôle’, in John T. Koch (ed.), Celtic
culture: a historical encyclopedia, 5 vols. (Santa Barbara CA, 2006), iv 1560–6.
— Jennifer Ní Ghráda, ‘A legal perspective on the saer and workshop practice in
pre-Norman Ireland’, in Rachel Moss (ed.), Making and meaning in Insular art:
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Insular art …Trinity
College Dublin, 25–28 August 2005 (Dublin, 2007), 110–25 [includes text and
translation of a text on the refection of craftsmen, CIH 2107.36–2108.23]. —
Robin Chapman Stacey, Dark speech: the performance of law in early Ireland
(Philadelphia 2007). — Christophe Archan, Les chemins du jugement: procédure et
science du droit dans l’Irlande médiévale, Romanité et Modernité du Droit
(Paris, 2007). — Joseph F. Eska (ed.), Law, literature and society, CSANA
Yearbook 7 (Dublin, 2008).

Donnchadh Ó Corráin MA DLitt MRIA
University College CORK
Editor Peritia
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-----Original Message-----
From: fenechas@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Benjamin Alexander
Sent: Mon 13-Oct-08 17:28
To: fenechas@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Brehon Law] Brehon law books

Are there any good books/website that have the Brehon laws on them?  I would
really like to be able to read them.

Sláinte!

Ben


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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Are there any good books/website that have the Brehon laws on them?  I would
really like to be able to read them.

Sláinte!

Ben


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]