{"id":1133,"date":"2014-02-24T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2022-02-22T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:48:45","slug":"resource-statutes-of-ireland-to-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/2014\/02\/resource-statutes-of-ireland-to-1800\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource: Statutes of Ireland to 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update, 22\/02\/2022: A more comprehensive list of volumes of Irish statutes can be found at the Statutes Project<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a quick appendix to my previous post on English statutes<\/a>, here are the Statutes of Ireland from 1310 up to the Act of Union in 1800. I know little of Irish history, but as I’ve come across some very interesting material about debtors, prisons and even sanctuaries there, I’ve been drawn towards it, hence my sifting through the legislation.<\/p>\n

There were three collections of the Irish statutes published in the eighteenth century. I haven’t found the first, dating from 1734, anywhere on the open internet. The second was edited by one J.G. Butler, published in 1765, and is incomplete in Google’s holdings. It appears that this series was continued up to 1800; the last volume I have found is numbered 19 and dated 1799. The third set was published from 1794 to 1801, goes right up to the Act of Union, and all volumes are to be found in Google Books. To wit:<\/p>\n