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"Book
of Rights" (Brehon Law)by W. Finnerty. Sat Jun 23, 2007
18:25
"But these five large volumes do not by
any means contain the whole of
Irish law (Brehon Law) literature, which,
in its widest sense, that is, including such pieces as the
'Book of
Rights', would probably fill at least
TEN such
volumes."
As some will already know, the Magna Carta ("
The
Great Charter of Freedoms" produced in England in
1215 AD) is
surrounded by vague and tantalising myths which strongly suggest that the
"essentials" of this world-famous legal document came from a much, much earlier
period of human history - which is usually referred to as "
The Golden
Age", and which may embrace the days of "The Golden Fleece" possibly - in
the "time of
Homer" (eighth century BC or possibly
earlier).
Around
1700 AD, Samuel Johnson (for
instance) talked of the Magna Carta being "born with a grey
beard".
I wonder if by any chance the source of these myths might
be the
Brehon Law "Book of Rights" associated with the
"Great Feast of Tara"?
"There are many more valuable Brehon
documents still untranscribed in the library of
Trinity College (Dublin),
in the
British Museum, and in the
Bodleian Library (Oxford
University, England) and possibly some fragments in the
Royal Irish
Academy and other repositories." (From
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02753a.htm )
How
long is this priceless Brehon Law "Book of Rights" going to remain
"untranscribed" I wonder - having due regard for the fact that Brehon Law is
widely believed to be the
oldest and most compassionate set of
laws in Europe: and very likely just as old, or possibly older, as anything
connected with Homer?
The
Brehon Law "Book of Rights"
is a very large and comprehensive set of
"Golden Laws" from the
"Golden Age" maybe? - which, given the opportunity, might out-shine the
Magna Carta in a really big way perhaps?
Related Link:
http://www.kingollamhfodhla.com/ ============================================
The
above text has been copied from the following
Indymedia (Ireland)
location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82708&comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment198905 =====================
Information
on the
PPP (Public Private Partnership)
M3 Toll Road at present
scheduled to go through the
Hill of Tara
area can be found via the
following link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tara%2C+Brehon+Law%2C+PPP+&btnG=Search .
During
recent months, it appears that a number of extremely important ancient heritage
sites closely associated with the Hill of Tara have already been completely
destroyed as a direct result of this PPP project (or the "
Plunder Plunder
Plunder" project as some people have now come to think of
it).
A number of other important heritage sites in the area
have also been badly damaged apparently.
Unless something of
significance is done soon to prevent it, the same fate awaits many more of the
ancient heritage sites which form an integral part of the overall set of sites
connected with the
Hill of Tara,
Brehon Law, and
King Ollamh
Fodhla.
Information on King Ollamh Fodhla can be found at
http://www.kingollamhfodhla.com/
.
According to the
Annals of Ireland by
the Four Masters (written in Donegal between 1632-36
AD), King Ollamh Fodhla reigned over Ireland for a forty year
period between 1317 and 1277 BC. A scanned copy of the actual text
containing this statement can be found at the following address: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/name/annals.htm
.
As can be seen at the address just above, the text of
the
Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters
also states very clearly that:
"
He
(King Ollamh Fodhla)
was the first king by whom the Feis-Teamhrach
(The Great Feast of Tara)
was established."
The
main purpose of the regularly held "
Great Feast of Tara" appears to have
been the nationwide installation, policing, and maintenance of
Brehon
Law.
It seems Brehon Law was used throughout the whole
Island of Ireland for a period of around
2,500 years, and right up
to the time of the
Anglo-Norman Invasion in
1169 AD. Following
that, it began to gradually get stamped out - and replaced by
English
Law.
By around the mid
1600s AD, Brehon Law - which was
very, very different in several respects to English Law - had completely
vanished from everyday life in
Ireland.
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"Government of the
people, by the people, for the people" "
Lincoln's Last
Warning" to the despots of his time - which appeared a few months before he
issued his great
Emancipation Proclamation (declaring all slaves in the
United States forever free) on the 1st of January, 1863:
"Now, if you don't come down, I'll cut the tree
from under you."
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Related web site:
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/
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