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Commentaries with regard to Ireland

• http://www.libertarian.ie/polycentric_restitutional.html: Legal Theory, Polycentric Law, Restitutional and Restorative Justice. 
• http://www.libertarian.ie/historical_cases.html: Historical Cases.

Irish Current Affairs

Legal

• http://www.llrx.com/features/irish.htm
  Guide to Irish Law
  By Dr. Darius Whelan
  Dr Darius Whelan is a lecturer in law at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland. He established the Irish Law discussion list and the Irish Law web site (now at www.irish-law.org) in 1994. He has written articles on electronic access to Irish law for the Irish Law Times, the Bar Review, the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and the Irish Times. He has previously held lecturing posts at University College Cork and Waterford Institute of Technology.
  Published August 1, 2001

Historical

• http://www.grundskyld.dk/2-modest.html
  A MODEST PROPOSAL
  by JONATHAN SWIFT (1729)
  FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND FROM BEING A BURTHEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC.
• http://www.grundskyld.dk/2-Nulty.html
  BACK TO THE LAND
  by Most Rev. Dr. Thomas Nulty
  Bishop of Meath Mullingar, 2nd. April, 1881
  The practical approval, therefore, which the world has bestowed on a social institution that has lasted for centuries is no proof that it ought to be allowed to live on longer, if, on close examination, it be found to be intrinsically unjust and cruel, and mischievous and injurious besides to the general good of mankind. No amount of sanction or approval that the world can give to a social institution can alter its intrinsic constitution and nature; and the fact of the world's having thus approved of an institution which was essentially unjust, cruel and degrading to human nature, only proves that the world was wrong: it furnishes no arguments or justification for allowing it to live on a moment longer.
• http://www.grundskyld.dk/1-LandQuestion.html
  THE IRISH LAND QUESTION
  Henry George
  First published 1881.
  LibertyŴthe full freedom of each bounded only by the equal freedom of every other!
  EqualityŴthe equal right of each to the use and enjoyment of all natural opportunities, to all the essentials of happy, healthful, human life!
  FraternityŴthat sympathy which links together those who struggle in a noble cause; that would live and let live; that would help as well as be helped; that, in seeking the good of all, finds the highest good of each!
• http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker34.html
  Refusal to Pay Rent
  Excerpted from the book; Individual Liberty: Selections From the Writings of Benjamin R. Tucker
  Vanguard Press, New York, 1926; Kraus Reprint Co., Millwood, NY, 1973.
  In the matter of freeing the land, no less than in the other aspects of liberty, has there been a constant clamor for an explanation of the means to be adopted to secure the ends aimed at. It is notorious that, at one time, the Irish Land League had the landlords whipped if the League had had but sense and courage enough to follow up its advantage. It was not difficult, therefore, for the editor of Liberty to find conspicuous instances of an effective method of securing results, as he here pointed out:...
• http://www.mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/3_3/3_3_1.pdf
  Left and Right
  EDITORIAL
  The Irish Revolution
  Fifty years ago, on Easter Monday, April 25, 1916, began the glorious Irish Revolution, a revolution that was to end by sweeping away a monstrous record of brutality and oppression that had been foisted for centuries upon the long-suffering Irish people. In defeat- ing the mighty armies of the greatest and most ruth- less empire on the face of the earth, the Irish were the first people to have the courage and the stamina to follow through on the promise of the American Revolu- tion against the same imperial oppressors: a Revolution that had been the first successful war of national liberation in modern history. The Irish Revolution was the second such successful war. For other wars of national liberation prompted by the American Revolu- tion (e. g. Belgium, the Netherlands. Geneva, and later the revolutions of 1848) had been beaten back by the forces of armed international counter-revolution.
• http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/richards-david_ireland-and-rent-privatization.html
  How Ireland Became Victim of Private Rent Possession
  David Richards
  [Reprinted from Land & Liberty, May-June 1986]
  The incentive to invest lay with the tenants because of the long leases. The potential funds -- the agricultural surplus represented by rents, and whatever loans were available -- were in the hands of the landowners. But the landowners had a notoriously low "marginal propensity to save":
  Irish landlords, whether they lived in Ireland or not. adopted the lifestyles and English consumption pattern; of English gentlemen ... Contemporaries tended to think that the source of Irish troubles was that the absentee landlords spent income abroad. The real problem was that they spent their income at all, and that even those who saved some portion of it did not invest it in their (or anybody else's) estates. Nol only did Irish landlords save little and invest even less: many of them actually saved negative amounts for decades prior to the Famine É
  The colonial legacy exacerbated their behaviour:
  Far more than their English counter parts ... they were alienated from their tenants, from the land, and from agriculture in all its technical and economic aspects. The root of the failure of the Irish landlords was a failure of entrepreneurship as well as one of savings behaviour.
• http://www.zetetics.com/mac/articles/socialboycott.html
  Social Boycott
  by Wendy McElroy
  The term "boycott" was coined in 1880 by the Irish Home Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell to describe a campaign being waged against Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott by his Irish neighbors. The strategy quickly became a standard tactic used in the struggle against English landlords whose property titles were the result of conquest and sustained by legal privilege. In 1879, Parnell and Michael Davitt founded the Irish Land League in order to achieve what they called the three "Fs": fair rent, free sale, and fixity of tensure. The League evolved into a widespread and successful peasant rebellion -- the first peaceful mass uprising in Irish history.
• The Colonial Venture of Ireland, Part 1 (May 2004)
  http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0405e.asp
  Future of Freedom Foundation
  Freedom Daily
  The Colonial Venture of Ireland, Part 1
  Wendy McElroy
  Irish history has been likened to the cry of wind through a ruined house because so much of it deals with destruction and the breaking of a whole into parts. Centuries of conflict between Catholic and Protestant, Irish rebel and British authority offer a dramatic narrative of the pitfalls that accompany colonization by conquest. They provide a cautionary tale of how events put into motion can became a defining aspect not only of the conquered but of the conquerors for centuries into the future ... whether anyone wants that burden of history or not.
• The Colonial Venture of Ireland, Part 2 (June 2004)
  http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0406e.asp
  Wendy McElroy
• The Colonial Venture of Ireland, Part 3 (July 2004)
  http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0407e.asp
  Wendy McElroy
• The Colonial Venture of Ireland, Part 4 (August 2004)
  http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0408d.asp
  Wendy McElroy
• http://struggle.ws/ws/ws50_jack.html
  Anarchism's Greatest Hits No.4
  Jack White
  Captain Jack White is known as the man who drilled the Irish Citizen Army during the 1913 lock-out.
  His later anarchism has been hidden from history by the writers of history books.
• http://ua_tuathal.tripod.com/ellis1.html
  Untilled Fields of Irish History
  By Peter Beresford Ellis
  This is an edited version of a lecture given at the annual Desmond Greaves Summer School on 29 August 1998, originally published in An Phoblacht/Republican News
  The Roman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, once wrote that to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. I continually feel like a child, for I have discovered, in the maturity of my years, that the more I discover about Irish history the less I appear to know. The discovery of a gem here and another there leads one into all sorts of historical wonderlands.
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/warindx.html
  Andrew Flood
  The War in Ireland , a detailed history from an anarchist persective of why there is a war in Ireland and how it can be ended.