Irish
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the Irish · Irish people · Irish woollen trade · Irishmen · Irishry
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The Irish, cited as a comparative example of shared early kinship ideas.
There are signs that, according to the early ideas of many communities—communities, for example, so far removed from one another as the Hindus and the Irish—a man living as a member of a Joint Household or Family could at most expect to see at some time during life three generations above him and three generations below him.
In fact, it may be said to have been the usages of the Australians and American Indians which respectively suggested the theories of McLennan and Morgan, and it is singular how often, wherever a dim glimpse of similar institutions is caught elsewhere, it is amid societies originally settled, like the Irish, by wanderers over the sea.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The people of Ireland whose native law of distress is the subject of extended comparison.
He suggests that the Irish population outside was led in this way to suppose it lawful to distrain the property of the townspeople.
The virtual identity of the Irish law of Distress with the Teutonic law is best brought out by comparing it with the Teutonic systems of procedure collectively.
Under an Act of the twelfth year of Queen Elizabeth the Lord Deputy was empowered to take surrenders and regrant estates to the Irishry.
Law in a Free State
Group whose woollen trade was suppressed as an unintended consequence of an English statute against machine-made cloth.
there are the old sumptuary laws, the fish laws, the cloth laws, the Tippling Acts, the Lord's Day Observance Act, the Act against making cloth by machinery, which, by its prohibition of the “divers devilish contrivances,” drove trade to Holland and to Ireland, and thus made it needful to suppress the Irish woollen trade.