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'Tis All Lies, Your Worship...'
Tales from the District Court, which is part history and part memoir, traces the development of the Irish District Court in the life of the community and the country. Mary Kotsonouris, the historian of the Dil Courts (Irish Parliament Courts) and district judge for nine years, gathered information from interviews, the Irish National Archives, and court reports in contemporary newspapers. What emerges is a fascinating and often amusing picture of what actually goes on in the district courts throughout Ireland.
Retreat from Revolution
In the spring of 1920, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in Ireland: the people took over the administration of law and order in their own communities and turned their backs on the enforced British judicial system. It became international news. Small tribunals adjudicated in local disputes about land, the local Volunteer companies abducted and punished thieves and petty criminals, directed public order at race meetings and fair days, and in parts of the country burnt down the existing court houses. Retreat from Revolution is the first in-depth account of the courts system established by a Dáil decree in June 1920. Presided over by locally elected justices and attached to virtually every parish in the country for ready access, these Dáil courts soon displaced the largely abandoned British court system, on which people turned their backs. This is the true story of the Dáil Courts as told by the people involved – the litigants, the officials and the judges. Mary Kotsonouris vividly portrays the self-confidence of these men and women, their ability to create structure that answered their needs, and their keen appreciation of their place in the emerging democracy.
Retreat from Revolution
This book tells of how the Dail courts began and developed into a mirror of the Crown courts applying all the laws of the oppressor. It is told by the people involved, local people, the litigants, the officials and the judges. The book vividly portrays the self-confidence of these men and women as they created structures that answered their needs and their keen appreciation of their place in the emerging democracy.
The Winding-up of the Dáil Courts, 1922-1925
In 1923 the Irish Free State government established a judicial commission with extraordinary powers to revive the jurisdiction of the court system which had flourished under the authority of the First D���¡il, so that the 5000 civil cases current when the D���¡il courts were abruptly closed down at the outbreak of the Civil War, could be brought to a conclusion. Its registry and principal court were at Dublin Castle, but the commissioners also went out on circuit. After two years, their jurisdiction was transferred to the High Court where it remains. All its records are in the National Archives. This book describes not only the origins and progress of the commission and its importance in the early years of the Irish Free State, but its role at the centre of a power struggle between the shrewd mandarins then at the helms of the nascent departments of justice and finance. Figures such as Kevin O'Higgins, Hugh Kennedy, O'Friel, Meredith and Mathieson are prominent in the story.
Retreat from Revolution
"This is the first in-depth account of the courts established by a Dail decree in June 1920. Presided over by locally elected justices and attached to virtually every parish for ready accessibility, these Dail Courts soon displaced the now largely abandoned British court system, on which people turned their backs."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Century of Endeavour
This work is the study of a family's century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913. He then published his anti-Carson book Civil War in Ulster, attacking the process which culminated in the 1914 Larne gun-running. He contributed significantly to the emergent national movement. He wrote critically about ...
