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Selected Publications

2022

  • Thomas Mohr, Law and the Idea of Liberty in Ireland - From Magna Carta to the Present (Four Courts Press 2023)
  • Thomas Mohr ‘The Strange Fate of the Dail Decrees of Revolutionary Ireland’ (2022) Statute Law Review 1-18
  • ‘The Anglo Irish Treaty – Legal Interpretation, 1921-1925’ 66 (2021) Irish Jurist 1-4
  • M.Coen ‘Through a Narrow Window: Women's Jury Service in Ireland, 1921-1927' (2022) 9 Law & History 34-63
  • Niamh Howlin ‘Compensation for Malicious Injuries’ in O Breen & N McGgrath eds Palles: The Legal Legacy of the last Lord Chief Baron (Four Courts Press, 2022)
  • Niamh Howlin, ‘The Prehistory of the Offences Against the State Act’ in M. Coen ed The Offences Against the State Act 1939 at 80 A Model Counter-Terrorism Act? (Hart 2021)
  • M.Coen, ‘Safeguarding against 'evil results': the Lord Chief Baron and Contempt of Court’ in in O Breen & N McGgrath eds Palles: The Legal Legacy of the last Lord Chief Baron (Four Courts Press, 2022)
  • K.Costello, ‘Palles’ contribution to administrative law’ in O Breen & N McGgrath eds Palles: The Legal Legacy of the last Lord Chief Baron (Four Courts Press, 2022)
  • M.Coen, A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland (Bloomsbury 2023)

2021

  • Niamh Howlin (2021), ‘The Prehistory of the Offences against the State Act' in: Mark Coen (ed), The Offences Against the State Act 1939 at 80. 
  • Thomas Mohr (2021), ‘Emergency Law in the Irish Free State’ in: Mark Coen (ed), The Offences Against the State Act 1939 at 80. 
  • Kevin Costello (2021), ‘Mandamus and borough political life, 1600 to 1800’, Journal of Legal History.

2020

  • Kevin Costello (2020), ‘“Wrenched from its context”: The Interpretation of Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation’, Law Quarterly Review.
  • Mark Coen (2020), ‘The Work of Some Irresponsible Women: Jurors, Ghosts, and Embracery in the Irish Free State’ Law and History Review.
  • Niamh Howlin (2020), ‘The Trials of Peter Barrett: A Microhistory of Dysfunction in the Irish Criminal Justice System’. Chapter.
  • Thomas Mohr (2020), ‘The Influence of Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy on Irish Legal Scholarship and Publishing’, Irish Jurist.
  • Thomas Mohr (2020), ‘The Strange Fate of the Dáil Decrees of Revolutionary Ireland, 1919–22’, Statute Law Review.

2019

  • Thomas Mohr (2019), ‘Law Journals and Irish History, 1922-1939’, Comparative Legal History.
  • Thomas Mohr (2019), ‘Irish Home Rule and Constitutional Reform in the British Empire’, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique.
  • Thomas Mohr (2019), ‘Leo Kohn and the Law of the British Empire’, Irish Jurist.
  • Niamh Howlin (2019) ‘A Typical Collection of Lower Middle Class Londoners’.
  • Thomas Mohr (2019), ‘The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833–1939’. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

2018

  • Kevin Costello (2018) 'Drink and the Development of Administrative Law 1820-1910'. Public Law, 2018 (April).
  • Thomas Mohr (2018), ‘Law and the Foundation of the State on 6 December 1922’, Irish Jurist.
  • Mark Coen (2018), 'The Jury Speaks: Jury Riders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, American Journal of Legal History.
  • Niamh Howlin (2018), ‘The Jury Speaks. Jury Riders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’. American Journal of Legal History.

2017

  • Kevin Costello (2017), 'Married Women's Property in Ireland 1800-1900' In: Niamh Howlin and Kevin Costello (eds). Law and the Family in Ireland 1800-1950. London: Palgrave, pp.66-86.
  • Niamh Howlin (2017), ‘Juries in Ireland: Laypersons and Law in the Long Nineteenth Century' Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • Niamh Howlin & Kevin Costello (eds.), (2017) ‘Law and the Family in Ireland 1800-1950’. London: Palgrave Modern Legal History Series.
  • Niamh Howlin (2017), ‘Adultery in the Courts: Damages for Criminal Conversation in Ireland’ In: N Howlin and K Costello (eds). Law and the Family in Ireland 1800-1950. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.44-64.
  • Niamh Howlin & Kevin Costello (2017), ‘Introduction’ In: N Howlin and K Costello (eds). Law and the Family in Ireland 1800-1950. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-6.
  • Thomas Mohr (2017), ‘Embedding the Family in the Irish Constitution’ In: N. Howlin and K. Costello (eds). Law and the Irish Family. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.214-237.
  • Thomas Mohr (2017), ‘The Impact of Canadian Confederation in Ireland’ In: M. Martel, J. Krikorian and A. Shubert (eds). Globalizing Confederation - Canada and the World in 1867. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.178-193.
  • Ian O'Donnell (2017), ‘Justice, Mercy, and Caprice: Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland’. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016

  • Thomas Mohr (2016), ‘Guardian of the Treaty - The Privy Council Appeal and Irish Sovereignty’. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • Thomas Mohr (2016), ‘Legal Material and Historical Research’ In: Laura Cahillane and Jennifer Schweppe (eds). ‘Legal Research Methods: Principles and Practicalities’. Dublin: Clarus Press, pp.71-87.
  • Thomas Mohr (2016), ‘The United Kingdom and Imperial federation, 1900 to 1939: a precedent for British legal relations with the European Union?’ Comparative Legal History, 4 (2):1-31.
  • Thomas Mohr (2016), ‘The Irish question and the evolution of British Imperial Law, 1916-1922’. The Dublin University Law Journal, 39 (2):405-427.
  • Kevin Costello (2016), ‘The Irish Shopkeeper and the Law of Bankruptcy 1860-1930’. The Irish Jurist, 56.
  • Kevin Costello (2016) ,‘The Habeas Corpus Act 1816 at Two Hundred’. Public Law, pp. 183-189.
  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2016), ‘Banks, Paper Currency and the Fiscal State: The Case of Ireland, Stated, 1660-1783’ In: Aaron Graham and Patrick Walsh (eds). The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660- c.1783. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, pp.35-60.
  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2016), ‘The Grand Question Debated: Jonathan Swift, Army Barracks, Parliament and Money’. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 31: 117-136.

2015

  • Kevin Costello (2015), ‘Labour Law in Ireland’. The Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer.
  • Kevin Costello (2015), ‘The Scope of Application of the rule against fettering in administrative law’. Law Quarterly Review.
  • Niamh Howlin (2015), ‘The Politics of Jury Trials in Ireland’. Comparative Legal History, 3 (2), pp. 272-292.
  • Thomas Mohr (2015), ‘The Political Significance of the Coinage of the Irish Free State’. Irish Studies Review, 23 (4):1-29.
  • Charles Ivar McGrath, Walsh, P. A. & Forbes, S. (2015) Mapping State and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Electronic Publication.

2014

  • Niamh Howlin (2014), ‘Irish Jurors: Passive Observers or Active Participants?’ Journal of Legal History, 35 (2).
  • Thomas Mohr (2014), ‘Preserving Legal Memory 62’, The Parchment Magazine. Dublin: Articles (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Kevin Costello (2014), ‘More equitable than the judgment of the justices of the peace. The King's Bench, judicial review and the poor law, 1630-1790’. Journal of Legal History, 35 (1):1-26.
  • Ian O'Donnell and David Doyle (2014), ‘A Family Affair? English Hangmen and a Dublin jail, 1923-54’. New Hibernia Review, 18 (4):101-118. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.

2013

2012

  • David M. Doyle and Ian O'Donnell (2012), ‘The Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland’. Journal of Legal History, 33 (1):65-91. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2012), ‘Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Governance and the Viceroyalty’ In: Gray, Peter, and Purdue, Olwen (eds). The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c. 1541-1922. Dublin: UCD Press, pp.43-65.
  • Kevin Costello (2012), ‘The writ of certiorari and review of summary criminal convictions, 1660-1848’. Law Quarterly Review, 128 :443-465. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Eoin O'Sullivan & Ian O'Donnell (2012), ‘Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents’. UK: MUP. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Thomas Mohr (2012), ‘The Privy Council appeal as a minority safeguard for the Protestant community of the Irish Free State, 1922-1935’. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 63 (3):365-395. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.

2011

  • Thomas Mohr (2011), ‘A British Empire Court - An Appraisal of the History of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’ In: Anthony McElligott et al (eds). Power in History - Historical Studies XXVII. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, pp.125-145 (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Kevin Costello (2011), The Court of Admiralty of Ireland 1575 to 1893. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • Niamh Howlin (2011), ‘The Terror of Their Lives: Irish Jurors Experiences’. Law and History Review, 29 (3):703-761. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Thomas Mohr (2011), 'British Imperial Statutes and Irish Sovereignty: Statutes Passed After the Creation of the Irish Free State' Journal of Legal History, 32 (1):61-85. (opens in a new window)[DOI] (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Kevin Costello (2011), ‘A Court for the Determination of causes civil and maritime only' Article Eight of the Act of Union and the Court of Admiralty of Ireland' In: Brown and Donlan (eds). The Law and other Legalities of Ireland 1689-1850. England: Ashgate, pp. 359-378.
  • Niamh Howlin (2011), 'English and Irish Jury Laws: the Growing Divergence 1825-1833' In: Brown and Donlan (eds). The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850. England: Ashgate.

2010

  • Thomas Mohr (2010), ‘British Imperial Statutes and Irish Law: Statutes Passed Before the Creation of the Irish Free State’ Journal of Legal History, 31 (3):299-321. (opens in a new window)[DOI] (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Ian O'Donnell (2010), ‘Killing in Ireland at the turn of the centuries: contexts, consequences and civilizing processes’. Irish Economic and Social History, 37 :53-74. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Niamh Howlin (2010), ‘Fenians, Foreigners and Jury Trials in Ireland 1865-69’. Irish Jurist 45:51-81. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Coleman A. Dennehy (2010), ‘Surviving sources for Irish parliamentary history in the seventeenth century’. Parliaments, Estates and Representation.
  • Kevin Costello (2010), ‘The Court of Admiralty of Ireland, 1745-1756’. American Journal of Legal History, 50 :23-49.

2009

  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2009), ‘The Parliament of Ireland to 1800’ In: Jones, Clyve (eds). A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland. Woodbridge: Boydell, pp. 320-337.
  • Thomas Mohr (2009), ‘The Colonial Laws Validity Act and the Irish Free State’. Irish Jurist, 43: 21-44. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Niamh Howlin (2009), ‘Controlling Jury Composition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’. Journal of Legal History, 29 (3):227-261. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.

2008

  • Thomas Mohr (2008), ‘British Involvement in the Creation of the Constitution of the Irish Free State’. Dublin University Law Journal, 30 :166-186. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Ian O'Donnell (2008), ‘The Fall and Rise of Homicide in Ireland’ In: Sophie Body-Gendrot, Pieter Spierenburg (eds). Violence in Europe Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. UK: Springer, pp.79-92.
  • Thomas Mohr (2008), ‘The Rights of Women under the Constitution of the Irish Free State’. Irish Jurist, 41:20-59. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.
  • Niamh Howlin (2008), ‘Merchants and Esquires: Special Juries in Dublin 1725-1833’ In: O’Kane and Sullivan (eds). Georgian Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • Kevin Costello (2008), ‘Habeas Corpus and Military and Naval Impressment, 1756-1816’. Journal of Legal History, 29 :215-251.(opens in a new window)[DOI] (opens in a new window)Link to full text.

2007

  • Eoin O'Sullivan and Ian O'Donnell (2007), ‘Coercive confinement in the Republic of Ireland: The waning of a culture of control Punishment and Society’. Punishment and Society, 9 (1):27-48. (opens in a new window)[DOI]
  • Thomas Mohr (2007), ‘Law in a Gaelic Utopia: Perceptions of Brehon Law in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ireland’, in: O. Brupbacher et al (eds). Remembering and Forgetting: Yearbook of Young Legal History. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer, pp.247-276.

2006

  • Kevin Costello (2006), ‘The Law of Habeas Corpus in Ireland Dublin’, Four Courts Press.
  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2006), ‘Government, parliament and the constitution: the reinterpretation of Poynings' Law, 1692-1714’ Irish Historical Studies, xxxv :160-172.
  • Kevin Costello (2006), ‘R. (Martin) v. Mahony; The history of a classical certiorari authority’. Journal of Legal History, 27:267-287. (opens in a new window)Link to full text.

2005

  • Ian O'Donnell (2005), ‘Lethal violence in Ireland, 1841 to 2003: Famine, celibacy and parental pacification’. British Journal of Criminology, 45 (5):671-695. (opens in a new window)[DOI]
  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2005), ‘The provisions for conversion in the penal laws, 1695-1750’ In: McGrath, C. I., Brown, M. & Power, T. P (eds). Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp.35-59.
  • Charles Ivar McGrath, Brown, M., and Power, T. P (eds.) (2005), ‘Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850’. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

2002

  • Ian ODonnell (2002), ‘Unlawful killing past and present’. Irish Jurist, 37 :56-90.

2001

  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2001), ‘Central Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Framework in Ireland: The Government Supply Bill and Biennial Parliamentary Sessions, 1715-82’. Eighteenth Century Ireland, 16 :9-34.

2000

  • Charles Ivar McGrath (2000), ‘The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714’. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

1996

  • Charles Ivar McGrath (1996), ‘Securing the Protestant Interest: The Origins and Purpose of the Penal Laws of 1695’. Irish Historical Studies, xxx :25-46.

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