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ISBN: 9780217400039
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General The-Transactions-of-the-Honourable-Society-of-Cymmrodorion~~Honour… More...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BREHON LAWS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE ANCIENT WELSH INSTITUTES.1 By Sir D. BRYNMOR-JONES, E.G., M.P. Introductory. When I was asked by your Committee to read a paper on some subject connected with our ancient Welsh polity, it occurred to me that the completion of the publication of the Brehon Laws was a fitting time for asking the question, Does this collection of old rules and customs throw any light upon the earlier conditions of Wales or on the vexed questions as to the early relations of the Irish and Cymric peoples? Accordingly, I am going to ask you to-night to listen to some observations on the character of these ancient laws and institutes of Ireland, to consider their juridical character, and to compare them in some aspects with the Welsh compilations which are called The Laws of Howel Dda. In the year 1852 a Royal Commission was appointed by the Government of Ireland for the purpose of transcribing, translating, and publishing the ancient laws of that part of the United Kingdom. That there was a body of ancient jurisprudence reflecting the customs, the methods of government, and the judicial procedure of the Irish people had never been forgotten by scholars interested inthings Celtic. Valuable manuscripts were known to be at the British Museum, at Trinity College, Dublin, and elsewhere, but so far very little was known about their contents, and the curious who looked at them were baffled by the difficulties of handwriting and language until that revival of interest in Irish or Gaelic antiquities and literature of which O'Curry became the competent exponent. 1 Read before the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion at 20, Hanover Square, on Thursday, 26 January 1905. Chairman, the Right Hon. Lord Justice Vaughan Williams. The creation of the Commission wa...
Details of the book - The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780217400039
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0217400035
Publisher: General Books LLC
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ISBN/EAN: 9780217400039
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