Dr. Sullivan
historical figure · 1 work · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Scholar whose Introduction to O'Curry's Lectures argues for genuine legislative institutions in ancient Ireland.
Sullivan, on the other hand, whose learned and exhaustive Introduction to O’Curry’s Lectures forms the first volume of the ‘Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish,’ affirms, on the evidence of ancient records, that the institutions which in some communities undoubtedly developed into true legislatures had their counterparts in the Ireland to which the laws belonged, and he does not hesitate to d …
The first instructive fact which strikes us on the threshold of the Brehon law is, that the same word, ‘Fine,’ or Family, is applied to all the subdivisions of Irish society.
Sullivan, of whose Introduction to the lately published lectures of O’Curry I have already spoken, dwells with great emphasis on the existence of private property among the ancient Irish, and on the jealousy with which it was guarded.