Irish Legal and Governmental Documents

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• The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. AD 1155

including commentary on the questionable authenticity of the papal bull.

(1155; English transcription).

• Lebor na Cert

Here begins the Book of Rights. It tells of the rents and stipends of Ireland which Benén son of Sescnén, Patrick's cantor, ordained, as related in the Book of Glendalough.

From the Corpus of Electronic Texts

(12th century; English translation)

• The Statutes at Large, Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland

Find Volume I here

(1310-1800; English; eBooks)

• Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws

Penal Statutes passed in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I, William and Mary, King William III, Queen Anne, King George I and II.

(1558-1759; English transcriptions).

• Extracts from the Penal Laws

The Penal Laws were several laws introduced in Ireland during the Protestant Ascendancy. They were designed to maintain Protestant control and dominance by denying Irish Catholics of religious freedom, education and political representation

(1695-1745; English transcription)

• Proclamation of the Irish Republic

(24 April 1916; English transcription)

• Faisnéis Neamhspleádhchuis

An Irish declaration of independence

(1918; Irish transcription)

• Anglo-Irish Treaty Online: Document Gallery

From a treaty exhibition of the National Archives of Ireland.

(December 6, 1921; document facsimiles, pictures and videos)

• Bunreacht na hÉireann -- Irish Constitution

(Sept. 2, 1939, as amended through May 27, 1999; English and Irish transcriptions)

Constitution in RTF or PDF file format available at the bottom of the web page.

• Irish Constitution and other legal documents

(English transcriptions)

• Government of Ireland

Connections to government branches and organizations for press releases, speeches and publications.

• World Law Guide: Legislation Ireland

Collection of Irish Laws.

• International Law Directory: Ireland

Statutes, criminal and civil codes, and other legal materials.

A portal of the BYU Law School.

• Guide to Law Online: Ireland

Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.

(Translations and transcriptions)

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute

Free access to legal decisions, legislation, and other legal materials.

(1996 - present; transcriptions)

• Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry

The so-called "Saville Inquiry," published in June, 2010.

(Full transcript of inquiry report for events of 30 January 1972)

• The Stormont Papers - 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online

Access to the Parliamentary Debates of the devolved government of Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament in March 28 1972.

(1921-1972; scanned images and transcriptions)

• DIFP - Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Essential source material on the development of Irish foreign policy since 1919.

Browse or search volumes.

(1919 - present; transcriptions)

• Proposed Northern Ireland Peace Agreement

(1998; transcription)

• Tony Blair to the Irish Parliament

(1998; transcript)

• A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland. The Report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (Patten Report)

(1999; transcript)

• Irish Legal Information Initiative

Decisions and judgments in various searchable categories.

(Database of transcriptions)

• International Civic Coats of Arms: Ireland

(Facsimiles)

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