Law and Religion in Ireland, 1700-1970

This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes in the legal history of religion in Ireland: the anti-Catholic penal laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century; the shift towards the removal of disabilities from Catholics and dissenters; the dis-establishment of the Church of Ireland; and the place of religion, and the Catholic Church, under the Constitutions of 1922 and 1937.

Kevin Costello is Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously published Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800-1950 (Palgrave, 2017).

Niamh Howlin is Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland. She has previously published Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800-1950 (Palgrave, 2017).

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Kevin Costello is Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously published Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800-1950 (Palgrave, 2017).

Niamh Howlin is Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland. She has previously published Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800-1950 (Palgrave, 2017).

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Kevin Costello and Niamh Howlin: The Legal History of Religion in Ireland

Chapter 2

Charles Ivar McGrath: The Penal Laws: Origins, Purpose, Enforcement and Impact

Chapter 3

Emma Lyons: To "Elude the Design and Intention" of the Penal Laws: Collusion and Discovery in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: A Case Study

Chapter 4

James Kelly: Repealing the Penal Laws, 1760-95

Chapter 5

Kevin Costello: "Inoperative But Insulting:" Residues of the Penal Laws, 1829-1920

Chapter 6

Oliver P. Rafferty: The Legal and Constitutional Organization of the Catholic Church in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Chapter 7

Robert Whan: Irish Presbyterians and the Quest for Toleration, c.1692-1733

Chapter 8

Leanne Calvert: "I Am Friends Wt You & Do Entertain No Malice": Discord, Disputes and Defamation in Ulster Presbyterian Church Courts, c. 1700-1838.

Chapter 9

W.N. Osborough: Church Briefs And Charitable Relief: Reparations For Two Early 18th Century Fire-Damaged Ulster Towns

Chapter 10

Keith Robbins: The Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland

Chapter 11

N.M Dawson: Disendowment Under The Irish Church Act 1869

Chapter 12

Robert Marshall: The Constitution of the Church of Ireland in Action: Ritualist Litigation in a Disestablished Church 1871-1937

Chapter 13

Thomas Mohr: Religion and the Constitution of the Irish Free State

Chapter 14

Niamh Ní Leathlobhair * and Donal K. Coffey: Article 44.1 and the "Special Position" of the Catholic Church in the Irish Constitution, 1937 - 1972.