The ancient Irish laws were recorded in manuscripts by the Brehons (judges). While much of this knowledge has been lost due to the brutal British colonisation of Ireland, what remains reveals an interesting keyhole glimpse into the everyday life, aspirations, and order...

Who were this mysterious class of 'eminent jurists' - the keepers of the laws? What was their role in society?

Why were their judgments respected so highly?

How do they relate to the druids and poets of old Ireland?

In this video, we'll be introduced to the famous yet mys...

Here's a fresh new interview I gave on Luke Tatum's Culture of Peace Podcast where we discuss early Irish society with an anarchic twist.

There's a lot of info packed into this segment.

We discuss family life, kingship, the role of women, and warriors in this short 45 mi...

In this video we will discuss the custom of troscud, or fasting, found in the early Irish brehon laws.

Troscud was a form of distress that carried strong social pressure, and which had legal support as an act of due process.

It was a principle which sought to e...

How the old ways of the Brehon Laws could improve modern society

It is one of the world’s oldest systems of verifiable jurisprudence next to the Vedic laws. And these native Irish laws bear striking resemblance to the laws of other pre-colonial or non-colonial societies. 

Much of the Brehon Laws were codified into books at a later da...

For thousands of years Ireland lived under a native set of laws and customs, known today as the Brehon Law.

During this time, Ireland was ‘stateless’, there was no central authority making laws, issuing decrees or collecting taxes, there were no police force or prisons,...