The Brehon Laws of Ireland - April 14th
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 the guest speaker is Patricia Herron and the title of her talk is:-
. . there is no nation of people under the sunne that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish”
The Brehon Laws of Ireland
Patricia Herron was born and reared in Glasgow, Scotland after her parents emigrated there from Ulster in the wake of the Second World War. She returned to her Irish roots in 1982, to rear her own children in Ireland.
For over twenty years she has worked here as a voluntary paralegal, helping people to sort out their legal problems where legal professionals, or the legal system, have failed them. She was responsible for the successful steering of the F v The Legal Aid Board case through the High Court and Supreme Court, resulting, in the mid-1990s, in a major national expansion of the Scheme for Civil Legal Aid, especially in family law cases.
In 1998 she returned to full-time education. At UCC she obtained the BCL and LLB law degrees. She went on to successfully complete a Masters in European and Comparative Law (LLM) degree at the University of Limerick, where she is currently in the final year of her research for a PhD degree in Law. Her research focuses on aspects of the Brehon Law of Ireland, a rich legal and cultural legacy which, she claims, has been neglected and ignored by legal practitioners and academics alike.
Other employment, both in Britain and Ireland, has included secondary school teaching, cooperative development and training and publishing. She is currently lecturing Administrative Law at the University of Limerick.
Her academic publications include:
“Two Thousand Years of Legal Education in Ireland” (2006, article published by The Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, UK);
“The FE1s: Level Playing Field or Barrier to Entry?” (2006 keynote speech delivered at Symposium On Legal Education, TCD, published as a web voice file);
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“Eugene O’Curry, John O’Donovan and The Brehon Law Commission” (2007 conference presentation due to be published soon by the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland, UK and Ireland);
Co-ops Work: a Handbook for Co-op Enterprises (1983, published by the Youth Employment Agency, Ireland).
She has also edited many books focusing on Irish poetry, folklore and personal
The talk takes place at Bob's Upstairs Bar, Percival Street, Kanturk and commences at 8.30 sharp. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be available and your support is requested.
