Law library for members & current students of @KingsInns. Current legal collection, legal history & heritage collection, archive collection
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Note headed 'Sessions Decisions' at Ballymena 1826. The defendant lost yams he was looking after for the plaintiff, a yam dealer. The court failed the case, as 'it does not come with the common law liability of an innkeeper...' #Decisions @explorearchives @ARAIreland
ALT From the notebook of Judge Perrin.
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New public procurement book now in the library
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New edition of Keane on Company Law now in the library
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New edition of EU Law : Text, Cases, and Materials / Paul Craig & Gráinne de Búrca
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New City Law School Bar manuals now in the library
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New edition of Protected Disclosures Act 2014 / annotated by Anthony Kerr and Lauren Kierans
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New edition of Coroners : Practice and Procedure by Brian Farrell added to the library's collection
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New edition of Criminal Legislation in Ireland / Lynn O'Sullivan now in the library
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New book on legal reasoning
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New book on the treatment of immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights
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General exam in real property for law students @KingsInns 150 years ago #ExamPrep #LegalHistory #IrishArchives
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New edition of EU Environmental Law added to the library collection
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New European Union law book now in the library
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Isaac Butt was born #OnThisDay 6 September 1813.
Isaac Butt, barrister and leader of the Home Rule League, died #OTD 5 May 1879. He received his Bachelor in Law from @tcddublin in 1836. Most of the parchment certificate text was printed, with variable text (name and date) handwritten in #Calligraphy #archives
ALT Degree certificate of Isaac Butt from Trinity College Dublin, 1836.
ALT By John Butler Yeats - National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37710961
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Leabharlann Óstaí an Rí | King's Inns Library retweeted
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📢 NEW IHO WEBSITE LAUNCHED 📢
The Library is delighted to share the updated IHO website: an essential bibliographical resource for anyone researching Irish history. Learn more about the resource, the new website & search the new interface at this link!
shorturl.at/78kNY
ALT IHO logo with a search bar icon and documents flowing from the search bar
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John Philpot Curran b. #OTD 1750 attended @tcddublin. Admitted to degree of BL 1775 @KingsInns. He defended Archibald H Rowan, and prisoners after 1798. His daughter was Sarah Curran, sweetheart of Robert Emmet. JPC resigned as Master of the Rolls 1813. #LegalHistory #IrishLaw
ALT Portrait of John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), likely painted by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, according to Wanda Ryan-Smolin, "King's Inns Portraits" (1992). Owned by King's Inns.
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1/3 #OTD 23 July 1803, Robert Emmet led rebellion against British rulership in Ireland. Entered @KingsInns 1795 as a student. After the rebellion failed, barrister Leonard McNally, a former United Irishman, officially defended Emmet at his trial, while secretly ...
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2/3 working as a spy for the British government to make sure Emmet’s defence would fail. This led to Emmet’s execution on 20 September 1803. You can see Robert Emmet’s bond on admission to the King’s Inns, as well as McNally’s Middle Temple certificate stating that ...
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3/3 McNally had completed adequate terms in London by 1776 to become a barrister. He was called to the Irish Bar the same year. He informed on others as well, all of which only came out after his death #LegalHistory #IrishHistory #Rebellion1803 #RobertEmmet
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