This is the third collection of papers read at meetings of the Irish Legal History Society during 2000-4, along with some other papers on Irish legal history.

Contributors: D.S. Greer (QUB), James McGuire (UCD), James Kelly (DCU, St Patrick's), Frank Callanan (Barrister), Hector MacQueen, W.N. Osborough (UCD), Felix Larkin, Gerard O'Brien (UU, Coleraine), D.S. Greer, Mark Finnane, Desmond McCabe, Brian Griffin (Bath College), Ronan Keane.

N.M. Dawson is professor of law, Queen's University Belfast, and a vice-president of the Irish Legal History Society.